Dead Men Walking Podcast: Greg goes on a rant why living off the grid is biblical

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Because of the convenience of our society, we have lost how much sweeter that vegetable tastes that you harvested from a seed all summer long.

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And Proverbs talks about it. Deuteronomy talks about the sweetness of the harvest, right?

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Meaning not just the fact that the actual tomato is sweet or the actual apple that you grew from your apple tree tastes good, but it's the fact that you put the work and time into it.

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You ripped what you sowed. You put the blood, sweat, and tears, well, the sweat and tears, maybe not blood into it. Well, maybe blood if you cut your fingers.

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Into that fruit or that animal that you raised or whatever it is, we've lost the proverb satisfaction of actually reaping what we sow.

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There's a biblical principle in that. You self -raise meat or a vegetable or work for something, it's that much sweeter when you eat it or share it.

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Think about, hey, I raised this with my own two hands. I put my blood, sweat, and tears into it. Jason, I want to have your family over and we want to have a community dinner.

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And this is everything that I've worked for. And I'm sharing my labor with you. There's something there that is so sweet and so biblical.

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And we've lost that now that we walk down the aisle of a grocery store, like an 18th century king,

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I'll have some lamb, I'll have some salmon, I'll have some grapes, I'll have some cheese, some crab legs.

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We don't work for it anymore. And there's something that's lost in that. And I think there's something biblical, a biblical principle that's lost there, but it's like when you toil for something.

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And I'm getting so drawn to that idea again. I just keep thinking about it over the last six months, like, gosh,

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I would love to go, I raised that. I grew that. I can share that with my friends and family, my brothers and sisters in the

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Lord. When they come over for the Lord's day supper and we partake in it together. There's something there that's like kind of enticing about that.