Have you ever wondered
how some pastors are able
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to draw so many profound
points from the Word of God?
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Have you ever asked
yourself how do they have
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the whole Bible
practically memorized?
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Well, stay tuned to find
out about a unique system
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that you can
implement that will help you see
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the Bible like never before.
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My name is Jason Bradley,
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and you're
watching Urban Report.
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Hello and
welcome to Urban Report.
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My guest today is
Pastor Ivor Myers,
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speaker and director of
Power of the Lamb Ministries,
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and he is also the co-host
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of Dare to Dream
Network's Salvation
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in Symbols and Signs.
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Welcome to Urban
Report, Pastor Myers.
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Thank you. It's good to be on.
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And thank you for having me.
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You're welcome. And
it's great to have you on.
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I wish you were actually
here with me in the studio,
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but you know with
all his social distancing
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and stuff here,
out there in Cali.
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Yes. Yep.
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Yes. Yep.
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We're living in
a different world.
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That's right.
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Living the quarantine
dream as they call it.
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Yeah.
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You know, a lot of people
see you as Pastor Ivor Myers,
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but they don't
know your history,
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like have you
always been a theologian?
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No.
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You know, before I
became a Christian,
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actually, I was in
the music industry.
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And on my way...
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Well, actually, we
had signed a multi-album,
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eight album
contract with EMI Records.
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I had begun
recording our first album.
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It was on Soul Train, MTV,
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all of that
doing the whole thing.
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And that's when I was
introduced to the gospel.
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And it just made a
profound impact on my life.
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And I left it all
behind and basically entered.
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Didn't think I was
going to become a pastor,
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but gave my life to
the Lord and decided,
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"Lord, whatever You want me
to do that I'll do for You."
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And there is passion,
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there is burning
desire in my heart, excuse me,
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to share the
gospel just, you know,
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could not be quenched
and that's how I ended up,
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you know, in the ministry.
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Got you.
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So that's kind of the
long and short of the story.
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Yeah, the juice
down version if you will.
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The juice down version.
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Yes.
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Now how were you
introduced to the gospel?
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So we were...
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When we got our record deal,
we were all living in New York,
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it's four-man group,
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but we had a
whole group of friends
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and entourage with us,
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and we had an
interest in things like
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the New World Order.
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And our unique
angle was we were coming
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from the Bible as
conscience as rappers,
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but we didn't even
really know what the Bible said
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that was just our
angle that we were using,
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you know, our
gimmick if you will.
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I don't want to
call it a gimmick,
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but we, you know,
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kind of like that's
going to be our unique thing.
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And so a friend
of a friend of ours
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came to our house one night,
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this friend
invited him to our house.
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We didn't know who he was,
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didn't know that he happened
to be a Seventh-day Adventist.
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And he invited us to his home.
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I'm sorry, he invited us.
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I'm sorry.
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He was invited to our home.
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Got you, got you, got you!
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That's what happens when
you are on lockdown, man.
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That's all right.
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Yeah.
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But anyway, so he
came to our house,
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so we were all hanging
out, you know, doing our thing.
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And we ended up getting
into this religious discussion,
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specifically about
the mark of the beast.
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And we had no real
clue about what that was,
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and this guy just
started to break down.
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And it was really an
impromptu discussion.
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Wow.
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He begins to break
down the Bible to us
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and break down
Daniel 2 and Daniel 7.
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The prophecies
speaking about the end times,
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we had never
heard anything like it.
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It just kind of revolutionized
everything for me,
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particularly in that one night.
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Wow. Wow.
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So on that one it just changed.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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That's incredible.
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So now you've been
walking with the Lord
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for how many years?
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It's been 25 years now.
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Wow.
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Wow! And...
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Twenty-five years.
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And you've implemented a program
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or a system
called Photo-Theology.
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Right. What is Photo-Theology?
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So, Photo-Theology is...
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It's a term that I have coined.
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And it basically means
the study of God or the study
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of the Bible through the
use of images or pictures.
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Okay.
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So you've heard the saying a
picture is worth 1,000 words.
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I take that principle and
applied to the scriptures.
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So basically, in this system,
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you are learning to study
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the Bible by studying
it in pictures, in images.
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Okay.
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When I was younger,
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there was a card
game that I used to play
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called Concentration.
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And you may be
familiar with that game?
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You had all the
cards facing downward,
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and you had to
basically remember,
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where that you flip the
card and then you'd have
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to remember where
the matching card was.
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Yes.
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So it was a memory game.
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But that principle is basically
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what I took into the scriptures.
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Now I didn't know that I
was doing this at the time.
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Right?
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I didn't understand...
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When I came into the church,
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I didn't necessarily
have anyone teaching me
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how to study the Bible.
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So I had to learn
on my own basically.
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Yes.
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I learned through reading books,
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I learned by
listening to other preachers,
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and I was always
interested in, you know,
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I guess I was interested in
how you put this thing together.
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So another thing
is as a former rapper,
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right, you are always
trying to find a unique way
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of saying the same thing.
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Yes.
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You didn't want to
say something the way
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someone else said it.
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So I think subconsciously
I kind of took that principle
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into my Bible study.
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Got you.
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I would, you know,
see a truth and my mind
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would just automatically
kind of ask, "Well,
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how else can I look at this?
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How else can I present this?"
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And so all of that kind of
led to this system which...
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What would happen is
people would ask me, "Hey,
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how do you study
the Bible like that?
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How did you come up with that?
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How did you find that
'cause I've been looking
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at the Bible for, you know,
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this long and I
didn't see that?"
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I'd ask you that.
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And I actually like kind of...
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So I kind of had to,
like stop from it and say,
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"Okay, what am I doing?"
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Right?
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How am I doing this?
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And in studying
the way that I studied,
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that is how
Photo-Theology came about.
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Wow! Okay.
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Right, it was okay.
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This is how I'm studying.
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This is how I'm
breaking it down.
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So then I took that principle
and basically began to share
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with others and
so Photo-Theology
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has evolved into
an entire system.
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So I think we've
done an interview
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on this once before,
a couple of years back.
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It has evolved since then,
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and I'll share a
little bit more about that,
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you know, later
on in the program,
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but in a nutshell
that's Photo-Theology.
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Got you.
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Right?
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It's learning to study
the Bible through images
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because we remember pictures
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a lot easier than
we remember words.
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Yes.
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So that's kind of
the idea behind it.
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And so is that how you teach
how to memorize the themes?
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So one of the things that
I've just started teaching
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to my students
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is how to memorize the Bible.
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So when I say that how to
memorize the Bible, people,
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you know, typically
like, "Memorize the Bible?
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What are you talking about?"
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Yeah.
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You need to have
like a photographic memory
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to do that.
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And what I share
with people is that you do
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have a photographic memory.
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They're like, "No."
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So I've given a challenge,
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and I'm actually taking
my students through this now.
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And it is to memorize
the themes of the Bible.
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So instead of memorizing words,
we're memorizing pictures.
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Okay.
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And basically,
I'm saying, "Listen,
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you can have the whole
book of Genesis memorized
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so that if I asked
you what's in Genesis 5,
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you should be able to tell me,
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'Oh, Genesis 5 is
the genealogy of Adam.'"
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Got you!
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Right? That's the goal.
So people are like, "No.
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How is that even possible?"
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I'm like, "You can do
this in a week or less."
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And so that's kind
of what we have been...
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Some of the things I've
been teaching my students
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is we're going
through 24 chapters at a time.
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And, Jason, I've decided
that we're on this program,
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I'm going to take you
through this challenge
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and show you
that you can memorize
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the first 24
chapters of Genesis.
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Oh, boy!
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You look nervous.
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Yeah, I'm nervous
'cause you try and give me
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pop quizzes on
Salvation in Symbols
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and Signs and
stuff all the time.
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So yeah...
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Yeah.
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All right, well, take
me through the system.
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All right. So
basically what we...
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And I'm gonna
explain a little bit more
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about this a
little bit later on,
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but let me just
start with this now.
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I want you to imagine.
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Let me go back
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to the
Photo-Theology for a second.
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So in this system
of photo theology,
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we have a palace where I
call it a photo-theology palace.
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Okay.
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Your photo-theology
palace has 24 rooms.
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Okay.
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So imagine a palace in your mind
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and in this
palace, there are 24 rooms.
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These 24 rooms represent
24 different principles
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in photo-theology.
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Okay.
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Right? So each room is
a different study room.
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Okay.
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So for example,
here's the dimensions room.
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In the dimensions room,
there are five dimensions.
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The literal
dimension, the Christ dimension,
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the me dimension,
the church dimension,
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and the heavenly dimension.
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These five
dimensions are different ways
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in which you can read the Bible.
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I'm coming back
to the memory thing,
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so just hold that thought.
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Okay.
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Most people...
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So let me give an
example, the sanctuary.
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In the literal
dimension, God said,
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"Let them make me a sanctuary
that I may dwell among them."
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That's the literal dimension,
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a literal sanctuary was
made in the presence of God
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was in the sanctuary.
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In the second
dimension, Christ said,
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"Destroy this temple,
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and I'll raise it
again in three days."
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That's the second dimension.
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Christ is the temple
and the presence of God
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dwelled in him.
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Amen.
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The third dimension
is the me dimension.
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No, you're not that you
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are the temple
of the Holy Ghost.
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Wow.
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And the presence or the
Spirit of God dwells in you.
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So in the third dimension,
the temple is pointing to me.
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Wow.
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In the fourth
dimension, it's the church.
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Right?
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We are all lively stones
that are brought together
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to form the house of
God or the body of Christ
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and the presence of
God dwells in the church.
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The fifth dimension is
the heavenly dimension.
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Okay.
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There is a literal
sanctuary in heaven,
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and the presence of
God is literally there.
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Wow.
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Okay?
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That's just 1 rule out of 24.
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I could spend an
eternity in this palace.
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You can spend.
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Most people when they read
the Bible are only reading it
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in two dimensions,
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the literal dimension
what is just literally mean,
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and the me dimension,
how does it relate to me.
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Yeah, that's very true.
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By doing that
you're missing out.
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In other words,
this is what I say.
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You can read
through the entire Bible
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through the first dimension
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and then go
back and read through
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the entire Bible in
the second dimension.
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How do these
stories relate to Christ?
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Then the third dimension,
how does it relate to me?
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Then the fourth dimension,
how does it relate to church?
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And then the fifth dimension,
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how does this
story relate to heaven?
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Okay?
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Again, most people
are only reading the Bible
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in two dimensions out of five.
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Wow!
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That's just one room.
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Yeah.
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That's just one room.
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Yeah.
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If you only had that room,
you have everything you need.
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Wow.
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But we have 23 more to go.
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We have 23 more
rooms to go through.
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We have 23...
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Absolutely.
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So you can take a text,
go into the dimensions room,
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come up with five different ways
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you can look at that text
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and then take that
text over to the next room.
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All right, let's go to
the concentration room.
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Okay.
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Or let's go to connect room
or let's go to the time room.
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And now you're being able to...
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You get what I'm saying?
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Yeah.
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You're able to funnel this
one text to 24 different rooms
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if you want to.
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Now what's the questions room?
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All right.
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Okay, so there's
the questions room.
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The questions room,
and I think we may have...
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I don't know if we
talked about this before,
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but the questions
room is very profound,
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and it is very simple.
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Okay.
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The questions room,
you're basically learning
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to ask the text questions.
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Most of us read the Bible,
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and the only question we
ask when we get to a text
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is what does this mean?
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Answer, I don't know.
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And we keep moving.
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Right? That's not we want to do.
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We want to learn how
to investigate the text.
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So I challenge my students
when you get to a verse,
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you want to try
to ask that verse
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as many questions as possible.
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So I've challenged my students
to try to come up with 50
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to 100 questions
on any given text.
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Okay, so let me reverse
this little quiz thing here.
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So Jesus wept,
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give me some
questions for Jesus wept.
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All right.
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So I'm gonna
share a story with you.
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Okay.
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I'm not even gonna
give you the questions.
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Let me just share a story.
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Got you.
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Now you brought
this up just randomly?
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Yes.
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Okay.
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When I first...
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This is about 21 years ago.
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I met a guy who asked me,
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he wanted to know
how to study the Bible.
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So the first
principle that I ever applied
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was a question principle.
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At that time, I wasn't
calling it the "question room."
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I just said, "Hey,
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one of the key
things you want to do
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is ask the text questions.
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So I'm gonna give
you an assignment.
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And your assignment is to take
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the shortest text in the Bible."
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Oh, wow!
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Jesus wept.
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I want you to ask that
text as many questions as...
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I'm just laughing
that you brought that up.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Ask as many
questions as you can.
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Wow!
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This brother, this brother...
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I'm not gonna mention his name.
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But he's...
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Now he's known in
Adventist circles.
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Yeah.
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This brother came up
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with three pages of questions...
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For Jesus wept?
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From Jesus wept.
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Wow!
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Yeah, why was He weeping?
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Who was He weeping for?
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And he just kept
going, kept going.
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Yeah.
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What does it mean to me?
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Why does one weep?
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I mean, he just kept.
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And what happened
is one question would
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kind of lead to
another question.
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Yeah.
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It'll kind of lead
to another question,
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it'll lead to another question.
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So when you learn...
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Now when I
challenge my students,
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and I'm pushing
them, I'm like, "Ask more."
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More? Yes, ask more.
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And they'll get to
like 50 or 60 questions.
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And then I say to them,
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"Now the
questions you're asking,
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you were only asking
them in the first dimension."
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Wow.
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Wow.
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Wow.
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And there's five dimensions.
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So...
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And there are five dimensions.
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Yes, yes.
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So now you can ask five times
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as many of the
questions that you...
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You thought 50 was
like, "Whoa, that's a lot."
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Now I want you to ask
that text questions now
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in the second dimension,
now in the third dimension,
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now in the fourth dimension,
now in the fifth dimension,
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so that's just
the question room.
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Okay.
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So let's go to one of
the rooms is the memory room.
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Okay.
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And that's where we
are right now, all right?
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Got you.
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So I kind of
diverge a little bit,
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but I'm coming
back to the memory room.
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Okay.
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Let me mention this as well.
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So the photo-theology
palace has six floors.
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Okay?
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Each floor, these six floors,
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the 24 rooms are
divided among these six floors.
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Okay.
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The first floor that's
where the memory room is.
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And the reason
why this is important
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to understand is
because you have to have a deck
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of cards if you're
gonna play the game.
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Come on, now...
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You don't have...
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Do you know what I'm saying?
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Yeah.
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If you don't have
the stories, right,
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at a foundational level if
you don't have the story...
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So one of my
favorite ones, you know,
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playing the concentration game.
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Yeah.
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Moses goes on top of
the mountain, he stretches.
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I've shared this with
you before many times on...
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He stretches out his hands.
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Yeah.
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When his hands are
lifted up, there's victory,
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when they come down, no victory.
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His hands go up,
they begin to get tired.
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Aaron stands on one side,
her stands on the other side.
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They're holding up his hands.
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That is a picture.
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That's a match.
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Yeah.
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Right? We flip that card.
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How does it start
remind me of Jesus?
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Oh, Jesus on the cross.
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His hands extended
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with two thieves
on either side of Him.
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Yeah.
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It's the sinner that held
his hands up, not the nails.
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Wow!
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Okay. Yeah, yeah.
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In order me to have
made that connection,
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I would have had to have
that picture on ground level.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Yeah.
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So the first floor is all
about furnishing your palace.
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Furnishing. Okay.
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If you don't have stories
popped in your mind, right?
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If you don't have like,
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and I say how are you
gonna get these stories?
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Read the Bible.
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Yeah.
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Listen to your story hour,
like whatever you need to do.
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Watch Dare to Dreams.
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Get stories...
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That's right.
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Absolutely.
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You might not
understand the stories.
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You know, Samson and David...
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I mean, Samson... I'm sorry.
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David and Goliath,
you know, Samson, Elijah,
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what are these stories about?
00:21:01.22\00:21:02.56
I may not
understand it, just get it.
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When you moving into a house,
00:21:04.86\00:21:06.19
you kind of have
stuff all over, right?
00:21:06.23\00:21:08.56
Yeah. Nothing's organized.
00:21:08.60\00:21:10.20
First level, just
get the stories in there.
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Right?
00:21:15.47\00:21:16.81
So that's one of the
reasons why I take people
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through this memory challenge.
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Okay.
00:21:19.57\00:21:20.91
So now let's get to
the memory challenge.
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In the memory
challenge what we want to do
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is we want to
learn how to memorize
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the Bible 24 chapters at a time.
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Oh, wow!
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Okay, let me...
Let me break that down.
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Twenty-four chapters at a time?
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Yeah.
00:21:37.46\00:21:38.79
So, Jason, you might know this.
00:21:38.83\00:21:40.16
Have you heard the
term 24 frames per second?
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Oh, yeah.
00:21:43.70\00:21:45.03
Yeah. Yeah.
00:21:45.07\00:21:46.40
The 24 frames per second
means that when you're watching
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a movie, right,
00:21:49.10\00:21:50.81
your mind is actually processing
00:21:50.84\00:21:53.78
24 still images every second.
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Those 24 images
make up one motion.
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Right?
00:22:04.12\00:22:05.45
Yeah.
00:22:05.49\00:22:06.82
That's the motion, right?
00:22:06.86\00:22:08.19
So 24...
00:22:08.22\00:22:09.56
Like take a
book, a coloring book,
00:22:09.59\00:22:10.93
you draw pictures, right?
00:22:10.96\00:22:12.89
And then you start flipping
and the picture starts moving.
00:22:12.93\00:22:15.20
Yes.
00:22:15.23\00:22:16.56
Twenty four frames a second.
00:22:16.60\00:22:17.93
That's what's happening.
00:22:17.97\00:22:19.30
So what I'm suggesting is that
00:22:19.33\00:22:22.94
if we take 24
chapters at a time...
00:22:22.97\00:22:26.68
Right? Yeah.
00:22:29.68\00:22:31.01
And for each chapter,
00:22:31.05\00:22:32.38
we simply take a
picture, all right?
00:22:32.41\00:22:34.48
What's Genesis 1 about?
00:22:34.52\00:22:35.92
Creation.
00:22:35.95\00:22:37.29
Genesis 2, Adam and Eve.
00:22:37.32\00:22:39.49
Genesis 3, Cain and Abel.
00:22:39.52\00:22:41.82
I'm sorry, Genesis
3, the fall of man.
00:22:41.86\00:22:43.86
Genesis 4, Cain and Abel.
00:22:43.89\00:22:45.63
Genesis 5, the
genealogy of Adam.
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What happens is if
I take a still image
00:22:47.83\00:22:52.03
of the summary of
each chapter, right?
00:22:52.07\00:22:57.24
And I do this 24
chapters at a time what ends up
00:22:57.27\00:23:01.14
happening is
that I should be able
00:23:01.18\00:23:04.31
to scan these
chapters so rapidly.
00:23:04.35\00:23:07.25
I hope you are
following this, right?
00:23:10.29\00:23:11.62
I'm following.
00:23:11.65\00:23:12.99
You're scanning
these chapters into a place
00:23:13.02\00:23:14.46
where you can now juice down
00:23:14.49\00:23:17.69
what's happening
in those 24 chapters
00:23:17.73\00:23:19.86
in one second.
00:23:19.89\00:23:21.50
Wow.
00:23:21.53\00:23:22.86
Wow.
00:23:22.90\00:23:24.23
Now... Yeah, yeah.
00:23:24.27\00:23:25.60
If you do that, right?
00:23:25.63\00:23:26.97
So watch this,
the first 24 chapters
00:23:27.00\00:23:28.94
of Genesis if you juice it down,
00:23:28.97\00:23:32.47
it's about division.
00:23:32.51\00:23:36.01
One word, division.
00:23:36.04\00:23:37.38
Okay, division.
00:23:37.41\00:23:38.75
Separation between man and God.
00:23:38.78\00:23:42.02
Yeah, yeah.
00:23:42.05\00:23:43.49
Adam and Eve.
00:23:43.52\00:23:44.85
Adam and Eve. Yeah.
00:23:44.89\00:23:46.22
Cain and Abel.
00:23:46.25\00:23:47.59
The flood.
00:23:47.62\00:23:49.72
The Tower of Babel.
00:23:49.76\00:23:53.06
Abraham coming out of Earth.
00:23:53.09\00:23:56.13
Wow!
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Hagar and Ishmael,
00:23:57.53\00:24:00.44
Ishmael and Isaac,
all of it is separation.
00:24:00.47\00:24:03.51
So I've just juice down
the first 24 sets of chapters,
00:24:03.54\00:24:07.54
the first 24 frames
into one word, division.
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Now if I follow that
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there are 1,189
chapters in the Bible.
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If I break those down
by 24, I come up with 50,
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24-frame per second sets.
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Wow, okay.
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Fifty.
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Which means if I can
juice the first 24 set down
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into one second,
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then I should be able
to scan the entire theme
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of the Bible in 50 seconds.
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Wow.
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That's incredible.
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Yeah.
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I mean, that's incredible.
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And listen, I'm not
just talking this, right?
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I have students in my
class that in a matter
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of three weeks they
have already done this.
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In three weeks?
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Look...
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In three weeks.
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We need to talk
about how to even get
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to where the course is.
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We only about two minutes,
two and a half minutes left.
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Are you serious?
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Yeah, time is...
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You mean we never got
to the memory challenge?
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No, we didn't even
get to the pictures.
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This is juicy, man.
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This is really good.
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This is really good.
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How do people
even get to the course?
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What website can they go to?
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So if they go to
PowerOfTheLamb.com,
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and look for the Photo-Theology
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online course,
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that's how they're
gonna find the course.
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Got you.
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If I can just share this,
Jason, 'cause I'm really...
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I'm just like I can't believe
we didn't get to the images,
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but if you
connect, like Genesis 1,
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imagine if you could
show that picture real quick,
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Earth with a big one on it.
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Okay, let's go to that picture.
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There we go.
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Yeah.
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So that image,
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if you Imagine a
high-rise building
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and on each
floor there's an image,
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you connect the
image, so Genesis 1,
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you see a big earth
with a number one in it.
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You're always going to
remember on the first floor,
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Genesis 1.
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Let me jump to Genesis 5.
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When I get to floor
five in my Genesis high-rise,
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the elevator door opens.
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I see Adam in a pair of jeans.
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What?
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Because Genesis 5 is
about the "genealogy" of Adam.
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Got you. Got you.
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So I'm using photos really
kind of like out there photos
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to remember and what people
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are seeing is
that in doing this,
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they're actually seeing that
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they have photographic memories.
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Yes.
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They remember the
image and they're like,
00:26:46.74\00:26:48.07
"Oh, Genesis 5,
genealogy of Adam."
00:26:48.10\00:26:49.70
Yeah, yeah, that's...
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Genesis 11, you got,
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the two ones are the
size of the Tower of Babel.
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And so I'll never
forget that Genesis 11
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is the Tower of Babel.
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Yeah.
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And it just goes on like that.
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Wow!
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That is incredible.
00:27:03.52\00:27:04.85
I wish we had a lot more time.
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If somebody is just...
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We have like 40 seconds.
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If somebody is just studying
the Bible for the first time,
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where should they start?
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Well, I would say
start on the first floor.
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Okay.
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I would say,
just get these stories
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into your mind
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because that's
where the Holy Spirit
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is going to begin.
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If you're earnest in
your desire for truth,
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the Holy Spirit will
begin to take these stories
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and bring them to life for you.
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So it doesn't matter
really where you start, start.
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Yeah, just get
started, just get started.
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Thank you so much, Pastor Myers.
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Thank you for
your wonderful insight
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and what you're doing to teach
those how to study the Bible.
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Till next time, God bless.
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