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The Family Teams Podcast

Ep. 334 | Reciting Your Family Story

The Family Teams Podcast

Jeff Bethke

Kids & Family, Religion, Fatherhood, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Parenting

4.8707 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2020

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Jeremy and Jeff discuss your family story.

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0:00.0

For every father to recite this before the Lord, what an incredible rhythm.

0:08.6

What's up, guys, welcome back to five-minute fatherhood.

0:10.7

So I've been reading through, just finished, read through the Torah.

0:14.0

And at the end of Deuteronomy, I got to a chapter, and Jeff, I'm curious, I'd never seen this, you know, one of those things,

0:19.1

different things jump out at you every time you read through the scripture. And man, I was so, I have not been able to get this

0:23.9

out of my head. So this is a festival, this is in Deuteronomy 26, at the festival of first fruits,

0:31.1

God gave everyone in Israel, all the fathers who were coming before the Lord to give their first fruits

0:38.4

a speech, like a memorized speech that they were supposed to tell, that they were supposed

0:45.6

to recite as they handed over that offering. And I was, I've just been reading this speech

0:52.4

over and over again and just thinking about what,

0:54.6

what God was trying to form. I was to read the first couple of lines of this speech. So imagine,

1:00.6

Father, you're traveling all the way to Jerusalem. You got your first fruits offering. You come to

1:04.8

the priest and you give them. And as you're handing it over, you have to say these words. And he says,

1:10.1

and this is Geronomy 24, verse 5. And you shall make a response before the Lord your God, quote,

1:16.3

A wandering Aramean was my father, and he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number,

1:22.0

and there he became a nation great, mighty, and populous. And the Egyptian treated us harshly and humiliated us and laid on us hard labor.

1:31.1

Then we cried to the Lord, the God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our voice and saw our

1:35.2

affliction, our toil and our oppression. And the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and

1:39.8

abstract arm and great deeds of terror with signs and wonders. And he brought us into this place

1:44.7

and gave us this land, a land flowing of milk and honey. It goes on from there. Okay. I love this speech

1:50.6

so much. This is the family story of redemption and that every father had to have it memorized

1:56.6

and every year he had to recite it. And I just, the first, the first line, a wandering, a wandering, a

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