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Shmoop in the bible If easy ins and colossians

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elsie...Cecil B. DeShmoop with another edition

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of sure major in religious studies that's a great idea

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and other things that people never ever say Well today

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we're going to be learning about paul's letters to the [Cecil talking]

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ephesians and Colossians When we last heard from paul

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he was in prison and presumably is a pretty comfy

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cell because he's still there But paul's had some time

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to get the whole letter writing thing out of his [Paul in jail]

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system Yep no more pen and paper for good old

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paul Now he spends his time making origami figures of

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the prison guards which inmates collect and trade it's like [Paul with origami figures]

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biblical baseball cards Just kidding He's still writing letters though

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come on paul get a new hobby So paul starts

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out with his usual spiel he's thankful for the christians

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in if easiest he tells him to keep loving god

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and follow the teachings of jesus and he tells them [Man hugging god]

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that good things are coming their way And he also

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includes some anecdotes about prison life that eventually becomes the

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inspiration for the shawshank redemption Yeah great movie The animated

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musical they're making of it with the animals instead going

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to be awesome all right Paul reminds them that because

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they're gentle gentiles they weren't going to be safe but

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luckily jesus came along and open up God loved everyone

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not just the jews So remember if you ever have [Woman struggling to open jar]

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a jar you can't open try asking jesus you super

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good at opening things well paul also make sure that

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the fees ian's know how important it is that they

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love each other and stay out of trouble Anger fighting

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lies bitterness They all lied down a bad path They

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also sound like key ingredients of our last thanksgiving dinner [People throwing thanksgiving dinner]

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That's a separate story Anyway Paul also reminds them to

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forgive each other just like god has forgiven them And

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maybe that's the lesson my brother in law bill should

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keep in mind next thanksgiving before he brings up how

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i broke his lawn mower for the billionth time moving

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on all also lays down a few ground rules for

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marriage I hope one of them was don't invite your

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wife's side of the family that thanksgiving dinner learned that [Woman hits Cecil with turkey leg]

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one the hard way there bill so paul's like ladies

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Listen to your husbands and obey them too Which ladies

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were hopefully like you want to rethink that last part

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there pal Well then paul's like guys all you have

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to do is love your wives To which the lady's

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are like well jake ali liquors lucky us We're the

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only ones who give you obey part so yeah not

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exactly a fifty fifty split there thousands of years ago

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Paul goes under a mind kids to listen to their [Paul reminding kids to listen to parents]

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parents but tells father is not to abuse their power

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over their kids So hey next time your pops is

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being totally unfair about taking out the trash just whip

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out your bible and find Ephesians it'll work 0 percent

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of the time guaranteed On a slightly more depressing note

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paul writes that while everyone is equal in the eyes [Paul writing letters]

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of god and he means everyone slaves included they're well

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they're still slaves and masters should be good to their

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slaves but they should all know their roles basically in

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life Yeah it was a while ago people paul signs

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off with this typical exes and oh's then decides to

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take a break Get some fresh air Heck maybe even [Paul walking]

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a friend or two Just getting come on This is

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paul not saying he was secretly a well programmed letter

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writing robot but i'm not not saying that either So

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robo paul does what paul does vast he starts another

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letter paul's letter to the Colossians is pretty much

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similar to his letter to the ephesians it's not always

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easy to be original writer's block and happen even to

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the best apostle bots So paul starts out with a

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reminder about how great jesus was and then tells the [Paul holding puppet jesus]

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kalash ins about his stay in prison He says it's

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not too bad Just the other day the warden threw

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a party in the county jail prison band was there

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and they all began to wail but mostly he's just [Paul and Elvis dancing]

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sad he can't see any of his fellow christians because

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he loves hanging out with him Maybe you should write

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him all letters Well paul goes on to tell the

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cautions not to listen to false teachers and that they

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don't have to be circumcised or follow jewish dietary restrictions

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like being a kosher and stuff Putting your faith in

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jesus and following his teachings is enough it's okay to

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eat pig and just to be sure they really get [Woman with fork beside pig]

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it paul runs over the basics with them again The

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compassionate kind humble and meek help each other out Don't

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be a jerk in park inaccessible parking spots it's all

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in there somewhere and if it's not i'm sure paul will

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cover it in another letter Well paul goes over the

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same stuff concerning husbands wives children and slaves before signing

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off and that's the end of that And yeah there's [Paul kisses letter]

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actually a lot of disagreement over whether or not paul

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wrote these letters pretty unclear that they're in the same

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vein is his other letters so well discuss amongst yourselves

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You have absolutely nothing else to do and that about

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wraps it up I'll be covering the pastoral eh pistols

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next Come on who let bill in here uh this [Paul laying on couch as Cecil talks]

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is a nightmare until next time i'm cecil b de

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