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Rob Higdon

Rob Higdon

Healthcare businessperson and ORU alumnus; guest on "The Moral of the Story" podcast discussing giving, expectations, and biblical principles

Jul 28, 2026

41:40
Right
41:40
... and how the, the, the Romans had really perfected this, this form of death, right? And how torturous it is.
41:50
And to know that God gave his Son for us so that we could have a restored relationship with him, right? Because before that it was all, gotta go to the priest, and I gotta, you know, bring a bull and a ram and a grain offering, and I gotta do this.
42:05
And I mean, it was a very, you know, complicated thing, you know, to be, um, to serve Yahweh in, in, under the Old Testament.
42:16
Um, and then it also reminds me of, of Abraham.
42:19
You know, when he, uh- God said, "I want you to make a sacrifice.
42:25
You know, take your son Isaac," right? Your, Abraham was like 100 years old, 90 years old, something like that, when he had him, right? So l- well past child-bearing years, and miraculously they have this kid, right? And, and God had said to him, "I'm gonna, I'm gonna bless you through your descendants." We, in this culture, don't so much think...
43:05
Sure.
25:37
Right.
25:38
What are your thoughts on that? So I try to I try to remind myself that.
25:47
Number one, everything is temporary.
25:50
Everything in life is temporary.
25:52
I don't care, you know, if you're Jeff Bezos and Amazon or, you know, Elon and you put your name on a building at some point, some other donor is going to come along and put their name on the like T-Bone building.
26:05
Pickens Stadium or whatever is going to be that until some other big donors like I want my name on that building.
26:12
Right.

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39:33
And then the kind of the follow up to that is, how and if so, do you think it would impact your relationships?
42:20
Mm-hmm.
42:20
And how the, the, the Romans had really perfected this, this form of death, right? And how torturous it is.
42:30
And to know that- God gave His Son for us so that we could have a restored relationship with Him, right? Because before that, it was all, got to go to the priest, and I got to, you know, bring a bull and a ram and a grain offering, and I got to do this.
42:45
And I mean, it was a very, you know, complicated thing, you know, to be, um, to serve Yahweh in, in, under the Old Testament.
42:55
Um, and then it also reminds me of, of Abraham.
42:59
You know, when he...
43:02
God said, "I want you to make a sacrifice.
43:45
Sure.

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