Chapter 10

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Yeah, there it is. I can hear it now. I did it. In a few minutes, if it seems like, uh, she's probably not gonna be here, then we'll just shut the door. That probably will help, too. Well, right now, the hallway is warmer, which is not usually... It's not usually the case, right? Are we already we're already recording all this? Here we go. Something a little different. huh? Yeah. Yeah, it's like the spring line. Even, yeah. By the way, I did want to mention to you guys, um, just because we were on the topic, uh, 2 weeks ago, remember when we talked about pronouns and one of the uses of out toss being the same, it can, you know, you remember that? Well, the passage we read last week, um, from Hebrews for Shane's ordination, Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today, and forever. That's the use of outas right there. Yeah. Yeah. So anyway, I wish I had been more on the ball to mention it 2 weeks ago, but when we were doing the, uh, or should I say when I was preparing the homily for Shane's thing, um, I noticed that. So, okay, here we are. I think we're settled in at this point. Hey, Jay, how you doing, bro? Um, I think for now, I'm just gonna leave my coat on. 9.30. We doing all right. Okay, chapter 10. So up to chapter 10, page 107. Hey, man. Bert's like, what are you...? Everyone's gonna be like, what are they doing in there? Oh, we're in kids' journey. Yeah. All right? We're junior church ended up today. Foundations. That's it. So, um, okay, we are talking chapter 10 today. Future indicative verbs. So we're going to mentally shift back because we've kind of been doing a little bouncing back and forth. Last week in our in our minds, we were thinking nouns again, remember those endings for the personal pronouns? We were, our mind was, was in the noun mindset, phone, cardia, uh, Technon, Theos. Well, today we're gonna we got to shift back to thinking about verbs because we're talking about future indicative verbs. Um, let's have a little reminder here when we think about verbs in Greek, we, um, have these tenses. Or, I think, in the book, sometimes he calls them tense forms, maybe? something like that. But tensis, and in English, when we think about tents, we always think about time. But the Greeks didn't think that way. Remember, for them, Um... Verbal aspect was primary. Time is a consideration only in which mood, the only mood we've talked about so far, the indicative, right? And time is certainly a consideration for what we're talking about today because we're talking about the future tense. So time is a consideration, but time is also a much smaller consideration, verbal aspect is, Was there emphasis? They thought about it, time, and, uh, language differently. So remember when we're talking about verbal aspect, are we talking about, um, The action as it's happening with no consideration of what happened before or what happened after. Are we viewing the action as a whole? Or are we viewing the action as something that happened in the past and the ongoing result or consequences, right? These are kind of like the three, um, 3 aspects of viewing action. Um, we have, uh, what, this is called the imperfective aspect or progressive as it's progressing, uh, this is kind of like holistic, uh, or what's called perfective, and, um, this is like stative, you know, the state, uh, of an ongoing result. So, with all that being said, as we think about it in terms of time, I feel like Doc Brown right now, talking about time and drawn all over a whiteboard. Space time continuum. As we think about it, because as English speakers, we like, our minds like to think about time. So we have past tense, present tense, and future, past, present, and future. As we think about what we've learned so far, in the indicative, we have the imperfect, that we learned. And the present, the president indicative. Remember, the present has two paradigms, the active paradigm, which is, which would be, like, for Luo. Um, or the middle, or passive paradigm, um, which is Lou O Mai. Everyone's tracking so far? You remember this what we did? The imperfect, um, Eluan, and that's the active, and the, um, Middle passive paradigm is, um, Eluamatha. Right. Clicking, clicking with everybody. So today, we're gonna talk about the future. And we'll just keep this up here right now, so we can reference it. The future tents, still indicative. We're staying indicative. We're not learning any other moods yet. So don't even have to think about that. We don't need that in our minds. Um, But the tents is going to change, and then as we think about the voice, um, something that's unique about the future that we haven't seen yet, is the future has 3 different paradigms. The middle and the passive have their own paradigms. each, okay? So we're gonna talk about that. Remember with the imperfect and the present, we had the same paradigm for the middle and the passive, and we would know whether it's middle or passive based on whether or not the lexical form, the dictionary form of the word, ends in 0 my, right? That's ringing a bell. So, for example, Luo, if we if we see Luo Mai, our brains are going to assume it's passive. Um, unless context tells us otherwise, because it's a verb that ends in omega. But if there's a verb that ends in 0 my, erkomai, peru, o my, et cetera, it's always middle. Always middle. Same with the imperfect. The future is going to have a specific middle only paradigm and a specific passive, uh, paradigm. Any questions so far or anything, anybody? No, we're all good We're tracking. Uh, he does know, the book also notes on page 108, um, that as we talk about the future and the green and the Greek language, there's kind of 3 basic, um, meanings that the future tense can hold. When we think of the future tense, a lot of times our minds will think of, you know, like kind of predictive future. If someone's is someone predicting what's gonna happen in the future, uh, you know, prophetic or predictive kind of in, uh, you know, 20, 28, so-and-so will win the presidential election, right? But there are other forms of the future, even the way we use, even the way we use it in English, like the imperatival future, the imperative future. Like if I say to my son, when you get home from church today, you're going to clean your room. Um, that's an imperative, right? We can understand from the context, from the way that I say it, that I'm not guessing at what's going to happen. I'm telling him you're going to clean your room, right? So we would use the future tents for that. And then so that those 2 are both true in the New Testament as well. The example from Matthew 121, you shall call his name Jesus, and he will save his people from their sins. The angel wasn't predicting that Joseph was going to name him Jesus. He was saying, the Lord says, you will name him Jesus, right? It's an imperative. And then we also have the deliberative future in the New Testament, John 668. Um, when Peter responds, Lord, to whom, to whom shall we go? To whom will we go? Uh, he's, it's, it's like a question. There's a, the future is used in that deliberating sense. So those are 3 kind of basic examples of how the future tense is used in the New Testament, and you can see them there in the actual verses, the passages. Page 108 and page 109. So if everyone's good so far, we're good. Any questions or anything on that? No? So if you look at page 110, we see these 3 paradigms. Now, let's notice, let's take note of what we already know. What looks familiar to us? Because I think, if I remember back to my Bible college and seminary days to kind of put myself in your shoes here, the future is a good one. We like the future tense, because it's pretty easy. There's a lot of things that we already know, that we've already learned. Notice in the 1st paradigm, top of 100. We see the stem here, Lou, Lou, it's all the same. Lou, there's no, we don't have that augment like we do for the past tense. Remember, nothing new there. starting with Lou. And we look at these endings here on the 1st paradigm, the active paradigm, O-A-A, Amen, Eta, Usi, or Usi. It's the same as the uh, present active, right? The only difference is that sigma, right there in the middle of the word. Do you notice that? Lousseau, I will loose, lousse, you will loose, lousse, he, she, it will loose. Loussamen, we will loose, lousetta, uulus, loususi, or loususin, they will loose. That sigma there in the middle is indicating to us future tense. And that's the only difference in the active paradigm. It's exactly the same as the present active indicative with the addition of the sigma in the middle of the word. You can see the same thing for the future middle. Luso Mai, Lusay, Lusitai, Lusamatha, Lusesta, Lusantai. Same, same as the present, middle passive paradigm, with the addition of the sigma in the middle. And this is a middle only paradigm. This middle one here, on page 110, which means, uh, a word that is middle only always, a word that always ends in O my, in its lexical form, and its dictionary form, Peru, O my, Eric O my. Um, is is going to take this, if a word that doesn't, luo, then we know it's middle. When we're translating it. Right? Here is the one difference. for the future. And I don't think it's that big of a deal, but you look at it and decide for yourself, that future passive paradigm. You can see the the beginning and the end are the same as the middle, that that same middle paradigm. Oh my, a, a, a, a, a, the, anti. And the only difference is there's, in the middle, just, instead of just a sigma, there's face, theta Ada sigma. For the future passive indicative. And there will be some paradigms moving forward where we see this pattern, but this is the 1st time we're noticing it. Lufesomine. I will be loosed. Lou, they say, you will be loosed. Luthesitai, he, she, it will be loosed. We will be loose. This is a harder one. Luthe, stay, Luthe, stay. You will be loosed. Luthe Santai, they will be loosed. Um, Plumber, if you watch his lecture, I've heard him do this a 1000000 times. Um, in all the different classes that I've had and everything, but he says, if you look at that theta, there, in the, in the middle of the word, um, just imagine that... your, um, you're just laying in a, in a big beanbag chair, and you're being passive. And you can remember the theta indicates the passive. So if that helps you, then Cheerio. Um, here's the other thing though. With the future passive, because the middle, the reason why there's so much confusion over the whole middle passive thing and it having the same paradigm, you know, in like for the present. We've seen him for the imperfect, they've had the same paradigm. I told you that when I was 1st in college, learning this, that what they call them deponent, verbs, and they were kind of like, I don't know, these just look weird, right? There's been more, um, study and research and thought put to it, um, to where we talk middle only verbs now. But in the coin A period, the middle and the passive were kind of becoming interchangeable with each other. And that's the reason why all these paradigms are same and just the evolution of language and the way people talk and slang and things change. And so as we think about the future, We have this passive only paradigm. If there is a word that is middle only, Perumai, erkomai, et cetera. In the future, it may take either one of these forms. But it will always still be middle only. It will never be passive. If you ever see a word that that the dictionary form ends in 0 my, it's never, ever, ever passive. It's only ever middle. But it may take this future passive paradigm in a text. Because to them, it was interchangeable. They knew those words meant that, that middle only. If you see a word that ends in omega, luo, the these paradigms are going to indicate to us whether it's middle or passive. It's not just the context. Here for the future, we have an actual paradigm that's letting us know. So even though there's an extra paradigm for us to be familiar with or to memorize, it's actually more clear. We don't have to rely just on the context, like we do for the present or the imperfect. Does that make sense? Am I am I, is there, you know, do I need, is there clarity, more clarity needed? No? Okay. Everyone's good. All right, cool. So, yeah, those are the 3 paradigms, same as we've done before, how, you know, with the president, with the imperfect, if you're, if you're trying to be a good student and learn some Greek, then you'll want to memorize those or at least, at least familiarize yourself to where you're not, when you see that sigma or that theta, you're not like, what the heck is this word, right? We, uh, that's gonna indicate the future to us. Now, um, let's flip over to 112 and 113. What we, uh, we'll see as we have with already with uh, contract verbs or with, um, trying to think, when else have we seen this? Definitely with contract verbs. Maybe that was it so far. But there's going to be some, um, there's going to be some, uh, differentiation or some change. in some of these words, because we're adding the sigma. So the sigma is going to affect, just like it did with contract verbs. It's going to change some of these words. And, uh, for example, the 1st example that, um, they use here is... So we have, we have luo, and we know that, for it's in the future, that, um, we get luso, right? Because we're adding that sigma. So if we take the word... pimpo... are assumption is that, um, the future is going to look like that, right? Because we're just adding the sigma. But what we know, because we know our alphabet, is that... there's this letter psi, and for them, they're not, you know, this is just natural evolution, right? So, or natural changing of language, um, So, uh, What we actually get, that is so scribbled. I know you can see it in your book, but just write it up here. We get Pempsil. That's something that might throw us off at first if we're not thinking about it, but if we're thinking about it, we're like, Oh, yeah, that's just, of course, that's what you would do, right? So that happens. Not all of them are so easy as this. This word, Pemso, we can see that. We can connect the dots on that, but some of them aren't so clear or obvious. And that's why we have what, uh, what, uh, Bill Mounts 1st published called The Square of Stops at the top of page 113. So we have these letters. Uh, Delta, and theta, and Zeta, and, um, Uh, My brain's saying Tao. Is that right or am I doing Hebrew again? How's your? Yeah, Tao. Yeah. Gamma, kappa, Sigma and kappa together, 2 sigmas together, kai together, pie, beta, pie, and tau together, and phi. All of these letters, when combined with the sigma, are going to change. Because, just like we do in English, um, we contract, or we change words if they, if they're too difficult to pronounce. So much of language, the change of language happens with whether or not it's easy for the tongue to pronounce. And this is what happens here. So we have this square of stops. We have letters that are, um, that are categorized as dentals, palatals and labials. This is not something you need to memorize, by the way. This is just showing us why the word's gonna look weird. Um, Because we're not we're not doing, we're not doing this, right? We're not creating. We're reading and translating. So we, what we need to do is see this and be good detectives and need to work backwards and know why. Right? So we have this, what's called the square of stops. The dentals are letters that you use your teeth when you pronounce, right? Uh, Delta, Zeta, theta, Tao, uh, the palatals are um, letters that your, the back of your tongue touches the roof of your mouth when you pronounce them, your palate. So, kappa, gamma, kai, uh, ksai. And the labials are letters that you use your lips. When you pronounce pie, beta, phi. Um, and whether or not they are voiced, unvoiced, or aspirated, is basically whether or not your voice box, you use your voice box, the degree to which you use your voice box. Um, when you say them. So, uh, for example, Let's try and exercise together. Okay? Um, say, let's say Tao. Everyone say tao. Okay? or, uh, Delta. Yeah, you can, and you can feel with your teeth, right? Okay, now put your hand on your throat. and say tao. Delta. Delta. Uh, theta. Theta. Okay, so can you feel, when you said theta, 1st of all, the breath coming out of your mouth? Feta coming out in a way that Tao and Delta did not. And then, um, Tao, Delta. Can you feel the stronger, it's stronger in your in your throat? Delta stronger than Tao? Same with kappa, gamma. Pi, beta. Uh, so that's what all that means. The, the unvoiced versus the voice is the strength of your, like voice box and the aspirated means, you know, there's air coming out when you say it. And this is what happens when these letters combine. So all of that was just a little lesson in why these are labeled the way that they are. When combined with sigma, the dentals just become a sigma. When combined with the palatolls, the letters become a kasai, and when combined with the labials, it becomes pasai. The reason why, uh, these these groupings of letters do that is because they're all cousin letters. They all function in this way. of the way, did the 1st century Greco-Roman people label them all this way, you know, no, the common man wasn't thinking about it like that, but it was just, it's naturally how they spoke because of the nature of the sounds, right? And what your voice and your tongue and all these kinds of things are doing when you're making these sounds. And so, um, We're going to see, uh, when we come up, we come across these words, we just don't want to be like, this, this isn't a word. This wasn't a vocabulary word. Why is this like this, right? So Dak Sazo, if you look in that 1st line of dentals, Dak Sazo becomes Dak Sazo. Um, uh, Dioko becomes Dioxo, Bleppo becomes Blepso in the future, and it's because of uh, the combination with the sigma. And, um, why they happen that way. So, that, uh, That makes sense. They're going to look weird, you know? No, it's like we, you know, going to becomes gonna. Yeah. Right. Exactly. It's just easier to say. Yeah. It's easier to say. And so that's what they were doing. So that's um, that's the future. Those are the paradigms. That's kind of the reasoning behind why all that change happens. The only other paradigm we have here is the future of Amy. If you look on page 113, this is not something I would say you need to memorize, but again, just familiarity, something if we come across, if you come across it, you don't want to be thrown off. The one difference I'll point out to you is the 3rd person singular. Every other form of Amy here is, um, the the present middle endings with uh, Epsilon and a sigma beforehand. SOMI, SA. The one difference is the 3rd person singular. It's simply S Thai. And we would expect Setai. Uh, but it's just S Thai. But everything else is the same. Asamatha, SS, the, Esantai. I will be, you will be, he, she, it will be, we will be, you will be, or y'all will be, and they will be. So that's the future, future indicative paradigm for Amy. And I think, I mean, that's that's all of the future, unless anyone has any questions. We can read through the vocabulary. If you guys want to hear that, on page 115. Vocabulary for chapter 10. Anoigo is eye open. Appoluo is I set free or dismiss or divorce. Uh, and if you if you can notice the kind of the etymology there, we know luo means I loose. Appa is, um, you know, from or apart from. So from loosed from or apart from is kind of like how that word came together. But I set free or dismiss or divorce. Arco is a rule, I begin, like the word oligarchy. Um, Prostyucomise, I pray, Proscuneo is I worship. Sunago is, I gather or bring together, like the word synagogue. Hey, RK is beginning, in the beginning was the word, NRK, and halagas. Uh, demonion is demon. Didosculos, teacher, like didactic, thronos, throne, that one. We like that one right? Our English word thrown from the Greek thranas? Uh, Himatian is clothing or garment, carpas is fruit or crop. Ployon is ship or boat. Um, soonagog is synagogue or assembly, and kara is joy, like the word charity. It's so this vocabulary list, I was thinking about this when I looked over it the other day. It reminded me of, uh, there is a, um, passage from one of C.S. Lewis's books, and I think it's surprised by joy, but I can't remember for sure Andrew would know, where he's talking about when he was learning Greek, uh, when he was under the tutelage of the great knock, was the name of his tutor. And he was learning Greek, and the professor, the tutor would basically, what he would do is he gave him a Greek text, and it wasn't just New Testament, Coine Greek. He was learning classical Greek, you know, classically educated. And he would give him the Greek text and he would give him, like, a lexicon or dictionary or whatever, and that was it. and say, you know, read it, translate for a while, and then come back, and they talk about it. And that was how he learned Greek. Uh, so that sounds way harder to me than like what we've been doing. So we can all be grateful for textbooks such, such as this, and online lectures, et cetera. But C.S. Lewis talked about how he knew that he was really understanding Greek at the point where he would be reading. And I think this was the word, if not, then it was a different word, but ployon for ship or boat was what made me think of it. Because he said he would read, you know, the Odyssey and all these Greek classical Greek stuff. And when he read the word ployon, or whatever word he used, I think it was that. His mind didn't think ship or boat in English. His mind pictured a ship when he read this word. And he was like, this is how, when you're learning any language, he was speaking specifically of Greek, when you're, when you're seeing the image, and in your mind, that's, that's a ship that's a ploy on, that's, like, it's, you're seeing the same thing when you read the word. that's when I knew that I was really understanding Greek. So that's pretty good. Um, I don't know if I don't think I've gotten to that level yet, but sometimes I, if things that I'm really, really familiar with, that can kind of happen. I've heard other people say if you can dream in other languages, that's when you really know the language. So if anyone's having any Greek dreams, then you're doing pretty good, I think. It's what they would say. So, yeah, any any questions, any thoughts, anything about not only the future, but anything else, maybe how you've been studying or how it's going with Greek or anything? No? Everyone's good. Yeah? What time are we at? 10 o'clock. We did pretty good today. I told you the future's not too bad. The future is bright. The future is bright, y'all. We believe, of course, we believe in the resurrection, so the future is bright for us. But yeah, this is, it's not, uh, it's not bad. It's not bad. Okay. Well, I just had that plan for us today, so. That's okay. Yeah, that's all right. Anything else? Anything else we want to talk about? I suppose we can, but today was a pretty good one or pretty quick one. I think you should preach that short. Free choice. No. I, uh, last... At least an hour 40. Last last week, you know, the plan was got to be shorter because we're doing two, right? So, you know, I mean, shorter than instead of going an hour, which I can do from time to time or all the time, I don't know. And so I thought in my head, it's like, I'm going to shoot for 20 minutes. Because, I mean, Kev's gonna get up and do his, and then we're doing the ordination stuff, right? So it's like, uh, and I don't know. I sat down and I asked her how long it was and she was like, I don't know, I think that might have been like 30 or so. But what did it end up being? Like 25? We did we did go back and check. So all that to say, that's, I feel like that was, I was pretty on target with that. I forgot we started super late last week. We did. We were just trying to give everyone a chance to get in from the snowstorm. So, yeah, it was uh, no. They all end up being like an hour and a half service somewhere in there anyway, so... Yeah, yeah. Buckle up. Buckle in. I'm not preaching today. Kev's preaching today, so to take that up with him. But we're back to Genesis. Starts with Abraham today. Yeah. Are we gonna go back to Romans at some point? We will. Yeah. The plan, the plan when we started Genesis was to go between Genesis and Romans, section by section, so that we're doing Old Testament and New Testament. So, yeah, we'll go back. We'll probably get through, I don't know, either through 2 Isaac's birth or to Abraham's death, because those do overlap, because the original thought was like, do Abraham and then go back to Romans. But again, Abraham and Isaac kind of overlap with each other. So, you know, Genesis 21 or 25 somewhere in there. and then go back to Romans. But a lot of the Genesis ones, because they're narrative, right, the Old Testament narrative, is you really, you can cover longer sections because if you break it up too much, you're not getting the whole story and you need the whole story kind of for the point. So a lot of them are actually going to be like when we were in Exodus, what was some of the other longer ones we did? Like Axe, you know, you do with narrative, you got to do longer sections. Then you go to Romans, which is a letter, and it's like, you could do half a verse. some of them and spend multiple weeks on it, right? Because the teaching is so contained, you know? But with the with the narratives, if you want to see the whole thing to get the main point, you gotta, you know, do longer. Do you ever listen on the radio to Jay Vernon McGee? Jay Vernon McGee? I have. Remember Dan Sullivan loved Jay Vernon McGee? Me too. Yeah. He's a California guy, right? Uh, yes. Yeah. Yeah. And I remember he could, his entire hour program could be on half a burst. Yeah. sometimes. Yeah. Yep. Yeah, he, uh, I think he, he might have even been in LA. Was it? Yeah. He was in the LA. Yeah, I thought so. Church of the open door. Yeah, in fact, that's when I discovered him was when we lived that way in California and there were multiple Christian stations. there that featured preaching. Not so much music like it is today. Yeah. And when I discovered him, I thought, this is the most exciting droll person I've ever heard of. Yeah, that's hilarious. Yeah, I do. I do. Kev's got a bunch of his books from back in the day. I think he was, were they Presbyterian? can't remember. Started Presbyterian, but then he went off on his own. Independent? Yeah, disconnected from the Presbyterian church. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, he would, he could, he could really slow it down. Oh, big time, you know? Like I said, he would present it so slow. and a lot of people might think, you know, I can't handle this. This is too slow. But for him, it worked. Yeah, yeah. John MacArthur is like that too. He'd take real small chunks. And that's, you know, when you're, when, when, whenever you get to the point, if and when you get to the point where you're trying to translate through, you know, that's it, that forces you to slow down in a way that, I haven't. These days, they have all of his recordings online now, and if you might recall, what he does, he goes through the Bible in 5 years. Yeah. With a daily program. Right. I mean, he literally goes through it slow. Yeah, big time. Yeah. It was called Through the Bible with... Yeah, it was called... Yeah, right, yeah, yeah, that's right. It took 5 years to do it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. No doubt. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And again, it just depends on what the text is, right? Because, you know, you do half a verse in a narrative and it's like, you may get some stuff, but you're really not getting the intention, right, of what they wrote a whole story or a whole, you know, pericope or whatever with a certain point or a certain angle. So, yeah. Yeah, that's I think I told you guys how that 1st clicked with me in terms of like thinking about it, how reading Greek or Hebrew would be like this too, but just how slow you have to be, because we're not so unfamiliar with the language, right? And so we're parsing, we're translating, we have to look words up, whatever, and you're noticing things you wouldn't, in English, because you're reading it so fast or you're so used to the passage or whatever. And, uh, I remember, well, I was good. I think I was going to say Annabelle, but Lena's kind of learning to lead read right now too. You know, she's in kindergarten, and so she's like learning different words. And so you got to read real slow and they're trying to like sound it out and figure it out. And reading with them, I was like, man, them reading English feels like how I would read Greek. you know? It's like, it's, it's exactly what it is. And it's so, it's so fascinating because they're, they're slowing down, the, the pace which with, with which they're reading English, you know, is like you're, you're gonna notice things. You're gonna think about things differently because you're not just flying over it and kind of collect, you know, information you already have. And so it's it's slow, but you're like, man, when people say like they're discovering things they've never discovered and, you know, like, uh, I guess that this can happen if you're reading at a normal pace too. You're like, oh, I've never, I feel like I've never read that before. Thought about that before. But man, I'm telling you when you're moving that slow, that really happens like all the time, you know? So it's cool. It's slow, but it's edifying and it's cool. remind me of the 1st time I stuck with a Bible reading plan to read the Bible in a year. Most awful thing ever. Yeah. Because I felt like I was rushing. Yeah, it's a lot. It's a lot, yeah. through it. And even it took a whole year. Yeah. And yet I still felt like I was rushing through it. Yeah. Then I understood Chamber and McGee. Yeah. At that point. This should be a five-year play. Yeah, that exactly. The Bible plan we use, which goes through the whole Bible and the New Testament twice, right? Yeah, it's the whole Bible September through May. Yeah. And taking Sundays off. Right. So, like, you're only reading 6 days a week and there are some catch-up days in there too. Yeah. And then the summer is New Testing. The New Testament, yeah. So you're reading Old Testament once, a New Testament twice in a calendar. Yeah. So you do feel like if... That plans a lot. Yeah, I mean, it's like, you get 4 or 5 big... Yeah, chunks. Yeah. So it's what's the goal, right? Is the goal to read it all in a year? Is the goal something else? Like, it's all, that's, but yeah, that does feel good. I like to understand it. And when you go in with that thought, it's too fast. Well, some people, again, some people, their goal is they want to read through the whole thing. Which is still good. In a year. Yeah, it's good. And so, yeah, different strokes. as they say. My favorite quote, though, is, like, an infinite mindro of every word of scripture. So it's like you could spend your whole life on even a verse and never plumb the entire depths of it, you know? So it's like, I don't know, it's just more of like it's shaping your heart rather than fully internalizing and understanding it because we never can, even if you spend your whole life. every single day. Like all your waking hours, studying it, you can never plumb the entire depth of anything. Right. Which is why every time you read it, something new comes to life. Totally, yeah. Every time. I know. I'm like, there's so many times I tell Alex, I'm like, I've read this at least 10 to 15 times in my life, at least in, like, I don't ever remember seeing that before. you know? Yeah. God slipped in some new verses since the last time I read it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's true. Not only, like you said, God, an Infinite Mind wrote it, but also, scripture says of itself that it's alive, right? It's living and active. So it's like not only did God write it and he's eternal, but his word is active at all times. You know, his his word can't help but be active or creative because that's what it is. You know, Genesis one, God created through his word. You know, Christ is the word. And so, yeah, it's good. It's good stuff. Well, it's 10, 10. And I think we've, I think we've covered what we need for today. So we get a little extra bathroom time. Um, let me uh, say a prayer. and then we'll go get ready for church. Holy Father, we give you thanks for who you are, that you are the one true and living God. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, you are holy, holy, holy, you are love. God, you are the creator of all things and the sustainer of all things and the redeemer of your people. And we praise you. We gather this Sunday morning to start our week, to celebrate and remember your son, the Lord Jesus, who rose again on the 3rd day for our justification. We pray for our church this morning as we gather, Lord, that you would sanctify us in the truth. We pray for the word as Pastor Kevin brings it to us from Genesis 12, one through three, that your word would shape us as we see Christ in your word. We pray for your people as we gather around your table that you would fellowship with us, uh, that you would knit us closer together with each other in Christ, uh, through the worship, uh, this morning. We pray in the name of Jesus and by the power of the Holy Spirit. Amen.