00:00 Introduction and Weekend Plans

00:11 Discussion on Labor Day and Church Attendance

01:27 Tragic News and the Power of Prayer

02:33 Debate on the Efficacy of Prayer

10:56 Daily Bible Reading: Ezekiel 9-12

11:35 Ezekiel's Vision and God's Judgment

20:49 The Importance of Prayer and Understanding Scripture

23:14 Conclusion and Farewell

Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hello and good morning.

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Yeah, what is it today?

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It's Friday.

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Friday.

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It's the end of the week, so congrats.

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You made it through

another week and, good job.

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Hopefully you've got planes for

the weekend that include church.

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It's also Labor Day weekend.

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I know my kids have Monday and Tuesday off

of school because Monday wasn't enough.

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So they threw Tuesday out there as well.

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Might as well, yeah.

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And get a bonus.

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Yeah, why not?

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Let's just do that because it's

not like we're coming off of

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summer or anything like that.

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So didn't you just tell the staff that

we're getting a couple days off too?

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Yeah.

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Five days actually.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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It's about five.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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It's a seven day weekend.

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Great.

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It's actually gonna be

fantastic for everybody.

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Yeah.

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Count me in.

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You going anywhere for Liberty?

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Are you doing anything?

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You barbecuing?

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No.

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No and no.

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Okay.

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I didn't even know it

was Labor Day on Monday.

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Yeah, I just found out right now.

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So there you go.

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It's, Hey, it's Labor Day on Monday.

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Thanks for letting me know.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Labor Day's an interesting one 'cause

school has already started back up

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and the whole year's in front of

us versus the one that's in May.

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What's in May, Memorial Day.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, I think so.

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That one is is different.

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That one feels a little bit different

'cause the school year's winded down.

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You got summer on the horizon.

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This one's Hey man, summer's getting,

it's getting long in the tooth.

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It's time to move on from summer.

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So hopefully we'll still see

people show up at church on Sunday.

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That'd be great.

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Don't take a break from church.

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Be at church on Sunday.

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As we will be continuing first

Peter, if not our church.

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At least a church.

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A church, yeah.

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A good church.

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Yeah.

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You're traveling.

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Let me just clarify, make sure

you're choosing a good church.

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Yes.

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Go to that church.

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Yeah.

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Speaking of a church something

that was in the news tragically

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this week, on Wednesday, there

was a shooting at a Catholic

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church and school up in Minnesota.

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And it was revealed that the

shooter, was struggling with

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their, not struggling with, but.

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Had a deranged view of their own

identity when it comes to gender.

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Had a lot of evil and wicked

things to say in their manifesto,

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as well as other places as well.

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But the point I wanna bring

up is people responded to that

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tragedy as they typically do.

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And said things like, we're praying

for the families, we're praying for

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the families of the victims we're

praying for the families of these

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other kids we're praying for the law

enforcement up there that had responded.

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The scene we're praying and the former

press secretary of the White House under

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Joe Biden, Jim Psaki, she came out and

she said, basically, take your prayers.

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And keep 'em because they're

not gonna do any good.

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Why bother praying?

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Prayer doesn't work?

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Why would you say pray?

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Pray You need to actually show up.

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It's time to start doing

something, not just praying.

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And so all of your thoughts

and prayers, why don't you

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just keep them to yourselves?

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Nobody needs them anymore.

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So I guess the thing I wanted to throw

out there, pastor Rod is our response as

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Christians to that what do we do with that

when the world, and it seems increasingly

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is vehement and even vitriolic

against Christians who say, Hey, we're

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praying when a bad situation happens.

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Seems like the hostility

of the world is growing.

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It wasn't like that.

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15, 20 years ago as much, at

least not as much publicly.

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So what do we do in response to that?

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And then what's the wrong thinking

from the world when they're saying

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you need to do more than just pray.

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Prayer doesn't do anything.

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I can understand how an unbeliever would.

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See a response, whether by a

Christian or Muslim, who knows?

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I know mostly Christians are the ones most

likely to say something like that, to put

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that on public, some kind of public forum.

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And so I can understand

for them, it feels trite.

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It feels like you're just putting a

bandaid on a gaping wound and saying, Hey,

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go be at peace and go on your merry way.

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And James tells us that's a mistake

on our part too to tell your brother

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if you see a brother in need and

to say, Hey, go be filled, be

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warmed without meeting his needs.

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You truly don't understand

what the gospel is.

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Effectively is what he's saying.

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So I can understand how someone from the

outside would see that as an unkind act of

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callousness as opposed to what Christian

intends, which is an act of love.

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Man, I'm praying for you.

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I gotta admit, man I understand

it because I feel that when I put

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something online, if I'm gonna

say, man, I'm praying for you.

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I'm praying for this tragedy, it

doesn't feel like it says enough.

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It's almost like we're gonna say

that 'cause it's an appropriate

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thing to say that feels like it.

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It fits.

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It's one of the most helpful

things we think we can say.

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And I think what we're seeing here is

that the world is saying, there's more

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than one thing that they're saying.

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Number one, I do think you're right.

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They do not like religion in a public

forum like that because in their mind

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it does nothing little to nothing.

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Perhaps and number two, because what

they understand is that most Christians

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or people that are speaking like

that are people that are supporting a

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certain kind of president with certain

kind of gun laws or lack thereof.

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And so the response is in part saying,

look, if you really cared about people,

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you would support our saying or our

stands that we restrict the use of

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guns and that we clamp down on that.

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You can't love people and still

cling to your first amendment rights

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essentially is what they're getting at.

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So I think that's what's happening here.

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I don't think that they're as antagonistic

toward their prayers as much as they're

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antagonistic toward what they think is

a lack of real concern, which is if you

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really cared, you would enact gun laws.

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What's your take on that?

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Yeah.

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I think your read, especially in

this situation is right on that.

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And I hear you too, when you say

sometimes when rewrite, hey, praying for

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you, it doesn't feel like enough even.

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Amongst one another, we'll

send texts as a staff.

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Something's going on and sometimes

the response is Hey, praying for you.

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And then when you're the fourth person to

get to the text thread and you're like,

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oh yeah, me too I'm praying for you too.

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It feels like it's like an add-on.

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And, but I think that the problem

is less with prayer and more with.

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With our appreciation of the power

of prayer and our appreciation

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of what prayer really does.

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I often quote it because it was so

impactful to me when I first read

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it, but Ra Tory who says prayer has

access to the omnipotence of God.

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And for a, for us, in a situation like

what's taking place up in Minnesota,

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really all we can do is pray.

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Unless you're going to hop in a plane.

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Jump in your car, make your way up to

Minnesota and be on the ground there

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to somehow try to counsel families or

help in whatever way that you can there.

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And some people do that in the wake

of tragedy and great, you're going and

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being the hands and feet and you're doing

what James is talking about there too.

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But for the rest who may not be able to

do that or have the means or schedule

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to be able to make that happen.

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Prayer is immensely powerful and for

you to be able to pray, not only for.

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Comfort, but also that God would be

glorified through making this a catalyst

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for salvation in the lives of some people

that God would bring good out of what is

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otherwise a very dark and tragic situation

that God would help us comprehend

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and understand some of these things,

because even on the outside, we're not.

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We're not victims by any stretch of

the imagination in this, but it's gonna

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impact us because we're gonna see things

that are thrown out there pataki's come,

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or like somebody else that might say

where was God when these kids were shot?

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Where was God when this took place?

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And that's gonna, if we're not anchored

and rooted in a deep understanding

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of who God is, that's gonna hurt

and impact us in our own faith too.

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So prayer is, yes it feels like I wanna do

more, but that I think just reveals how.

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Little, we think of prayer more

often than it does reveal a problem

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about prayer in and of itself.

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Yeah you're probably right, or

you're probably right about that.

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Wouldn't deny that most Christians.

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Struggle under the impression

that they have a prayer.

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If we really believed in it,

we would pray more obviously.

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And I think for most of us, that would

probably kinda hurt to, to say that.

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But it's true.

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It is absolutely true.

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So I agree with you there, but I

also understand that for most people,

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and because it's so easy to say it.

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Especially in a forum like Twitter,

Facebook, whatever it can feel like,

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yeah, maybe that even auto-filled for you.

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Yeah.

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Because you say that so frequently, you

could just easily press one button and

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boom it says, oh, I'm praying for you.

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Sending hearts and thoughts

and loves and things like that.

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I understand words are so cheap

right now that to make them

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feel expensive and heavy, you

have to go against the grain of.

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Just saying the expected thing it

would be like someone saying, man,

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my, my heart is with you guys.

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And then just pressing the like

button on that or the heart

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button and saying, yeah, me too.

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I get it.

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I get it.

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I don't agree with Jen.

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I obviously, let's just say that I

do agree though that Christians have

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to work harder to communicate genuine

warmth and affection for people in

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an age where words are so cheap.

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It used to be that you had to

spend time writing a letter.

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You have to think about

every word and every phrase.

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And then you couldn't use the

eraser 'cause this thing was an ink.

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It took you a lot longer to forge

a thought that meant what you felt.

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Today.

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It's so easy that words can be so cheap,

and that's the problem with having a

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pro proliferation of devices like we

have where you can write and delete

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and you can edit after you send it.

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So I feel some of that, I don't agree

with Jen, but I do agree that we need

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to work hard to make sure that our

words carry the weight that we intend.

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Yeah.

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Even at church.

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On Sundays right after service,

you're talking with somebody standing

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right there and they're saying, Hey

man, this week was a rough week.

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This is what was going on.

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We can be quick to say in that

context, man I'll be praying for you.

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Yeah.

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And then it's I'm gonna go get my

donut now 'cause I've I'm hungry.

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And that can feel.

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Empty.

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That can feel vacuous,

that can feel like trite.

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Minimizing, right?

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Dismissing right.

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And it's will you?

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And that's where, I appreciate people

that either stop and pray right there, or

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the person that pulls out their phone and

updates their prayer list right there.

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'cause I know there's more

intentionality behind that.

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So I think there's ways that we

can overcome that as a church.

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But yeah, you're right there, there are

times that it is just the easy thing

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to say, the appropriate thing to say.

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And it's the thing that we can say

that's not gonna cause us to stand

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out one way or the other and we

can move on with what's going on.

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I think that's where you

agree with Jen Psaki there.

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I think Jen is saying the same thing.

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If you really cared, you'd

do something about it.

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And prayer in her mind is

not doing something about it.

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It's just adding a

bandaid to a gaping wound.

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And you're saying the same thing.

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You guys both agree that if you really

care, you'll do something about it.

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If you're gonna, and

prayer is something, right?

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We would agree.

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Prayer is something right?

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It's a big something.

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It's a meaningful something.

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So you just said it.

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If they pray with me there,

they're doing something.

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If they write it in their

phone, they're doing something.

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And I think that's her point.

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I didn't even read what

I was just assuming.

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I'm assuming, I think what she's

saying, putting my mind into the.

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Pans of a liberal woman.

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I think that's what she's getting at.

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What should you say?

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Putting your mind?

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Putting myself in the pans and

the shoes of a liberal woman.

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I think that's what they're trying to say.

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Yeah.

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And to that extent, I would say

yes, there is something lacking if

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you say the right thing, but don't

have the right after response.

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She said prayer is not.

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Bad word enough.

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Prayer, prayers.

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Yeah, I heard grammar.

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Prayer does not end school shootings.

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Prayer does not make parents feel

safe sending their kids to school.

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Prayer does not bring these kids back

enough with the thoughts and prayers.

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Okay.

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So that I think I'm affirmed to my

understanding of what she's saying.

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Yeah.

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Prayer is a good starting

place is what she's saying.

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But the response has to

be greater than that.

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I wouldn't give her the credit of

saying prayer is a good starting place.

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Okay, let's just, fine.

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Yeah.

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And that's where her, is she Catholic?

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I have no idea if she's, I thought

she was I know, maybe I'm wrong.

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Vance is, and Vance took her

to task big time on Twitter.

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Yeah, I, that's where I take issue

with what she said and with what a lot

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of 'em say is, stop with the prayers.

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Stop telling us you're praying for us.

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I'm saying I think I, I

understand the sentiment that

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there needs to be more done.

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We may disagree in what more looks like

politically speaking, so forth and so on,

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but I understand the sentiment from those.

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I don't agree with the thought

that your prayers are useless.

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They're meaningless.

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Stop with the prayers.

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We don't need the prayers 100.

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Yeah, we agree.

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Yeah.

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Cool.

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Hey, let's get into our DBR today.

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We are in Ezekiel nine through 12.

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So chapter nine opens with these

idolaters, and so you remember, we've had

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the scene in the vision of the temple.

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You had the people, as you were

talking about yesterday, that are

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showing that their backsides to God.

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You've got the elders that are

worshiping these creatures.

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You've got the women

that are worshiping Tamo.

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You've got.

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All of these horrific things taking

place within the temple there.

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All of these people worshiping false gods.

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You've got the image the image of

jealousy that we don't exactly know

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what it is, but that's set up there.

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So we've got all of this going on,

and in chapter nine, here comes the

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execution of justice, at least in part.

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And there are these these

individuals that are called forward.

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And these six executioners are summit

along with one who appears to be an

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angelic scribe and the executioners.

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We think all of these are angelic

beings are told to go and bring justice

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to execute those that are worshiping

these faults, images, these false

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gods, these, the sun, God, timus, all

of these things go and kill them all.

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And yet there are some that are.

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With abstaining from this and

they're gonna be preserved.

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And so it says there that in verse

four, put a mark on the foreheads of

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the men who sigh and groan over all the

abominations that are committed in it.

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This is a callback, I think, to the

Passover when the blood prevents the

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angel of death from attacking the

Israelites families there in Egypt.

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I think it's a foreshadowing of the.

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Tribulation period, when there

are gonna be those that are sealed

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during the tribulation period.

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Those saints, those that are

repentant as Zachariah is gonna say.

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And so this is a similar situation here.

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There are some that are still

faithful, but by and large, those

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that are not, this is their end,

these angelic beings, including this

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one that is dressed in linen like

a scribe who some have suggested

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this could even be the pre-incarnate

Christ, the angel of the Lord.

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Here, we're not sure for on the identity

of this one, per se but in chapter nine.

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The justice is gonna be brought

against those that are committing

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the idolatry in the temple of God.

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I wanna bring to your attention

the fact that with great privilege

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comes great responsibility.

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I think that's Spider-Man's

uncle who said that first.

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Yes.

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But you hear, you see it here in

chapter nine of Ezekiel, where

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he says begin at my sanctuary,

begin judgment at the sanctuary.

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So he began with the elders who

were before the house, and then

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he said to them, yada, yada, yada.

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On and on, he says, so I think it's

important for you to recognize that

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because more, you're held responsible for.

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A greater a greater and more appropriate

response to what God has said.

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And the danger with going to a church like

ours, which values the word and values

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the exposition of what God's word says,

is that we are now accountable for more.

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The more you know, the more

accountable you are for what you know.

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And that's something that you

see here in Ezekiel chapter nine.

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The original audience that heard

this recognized that they were

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more guilty, or at least Ezekiel

recognizes that they're more guilty

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because of what they're rejecting,

which is a scary place for us to be.

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Yeah.

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In fact, Peter's gonna bring this up.

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He's gonna say, if judgment's gonna

begin at the household of God.

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Then how much worse is it

gonna be for those that are

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outside the household of God?

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He's talking about how sometimes we

suffer because of God's discipline in

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our lives, because those who know much

are gonna be required much in the end.

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But yeah, and I think that passage

in, in one Peter is a callback

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here as well to this same concept.

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Chapter 10 this one in the linen

suit or linen clothes, he he goes

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in and the glory chair is back.

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And so he's gonna go in and

under the wheels, amongst the

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wheels of these angelic beings.

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And he's gonna take these coals

and he's gonna bring the coals out.

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And this is a much different situation

than you remember with Isaiah.

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Isaiah was in the presence of God, and

the angel was dispatched with a coal

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from the altar to a tone for his sin.

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This is a, a, a.

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A symbol of judgment.

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So the coals that are gonna be scattered

a across the city are representative

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of the flames of God's judgment, the

burning wrath of God that's gonna

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depend upon descend upon the city.

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So this is not a, an atoning

situation like it was in Isaiah.

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These coals that are coming from

the presence of God, these are meant

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to represent his wrath as his wrath

is gonna be poured out on the city.

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In chapter 10, then you get more

about the glory chariot the glory

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of the Lord is going to go up

from the threshold of the house.

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And the house is filled with the cloud.

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This is the beginning of the transition

of the glory of God departing from

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his temple there in Jerusalem.

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You've got more on the angelic beings,

more on their wheels, their wings.

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All of the things that the wheels within

wheels, the eyes around the wheels.

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This is eScribing for us what Ezekiel

saw back in Ezekiel chapter one.

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I mentioned that the departing of the

Lord, verse 18, the glory of the Lord

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went out from the threshold of the

house and stood over the Cher and they

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stood at the entrance of the east gate

of the House of the Lord, and the glory

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of the Lord of Israel was over them.

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So the Lord is leaving his temple.

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The glory is departing and this is.

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Perhaps more tragic than anything

else we've read at this point, because

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this is God removing his presence from

there amongst his people, and we're not

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gonna find it again there in Jerusalem

until Jesus walks into Jerusalem.

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This is this is something that

is, is a blow to to the people of

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Israel both the exilic community

and the post exilic community.

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And it won't be that we're gonna see the

glory until we see the Glorias of the

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one begotten from the father in John one

when he steps foot on the scene again.

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What do you make of the fact that Ezekiel

one describes the Cher Beam different

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than what we see here in Ezekiel 10.

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Everything is the same minus the cherub.

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In verse 14, it says that the one

of the faces was the face of a

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cherub, but in chapter one, verse

10, it says, an ox instead of acher.

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Any thoughts or ideas about that?

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I hadn't noticed that I, other than just

the sheer magnitude and overwhelming

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splendor of this vision, I could

probably afford Ezekiel a little bit

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of of grace in looking and going Okay.

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Did I see a chair or did see Anox?

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Was this a chair?

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Was this an ox?

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And I don't think something like that

undermines my confidence in the inherency

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and infallibility of God's word.

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I don't know what the

Hebrew words there are.

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I don't know if there's similarities

enough to say that this could have been

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a scribble error that took place there.

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But that would be my initial take on it.

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Yours, yeah.

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I.

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There's, I've looked up some

answers and none of them are great.

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Yeah.

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The best answer in my estimation,

and you could do your own homework if

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you're reading through it and you've

noticed that as I did is that the ox

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and the cherub are actually verbally

related and that the ox actually

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in some cases represented a chair.

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Okay.

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How, why?

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I don't know.

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That, that was new to,

that was new for me.

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In fact, I looked at this

last year and I revisited it.

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But that's the idea.

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In short I noticed that

there's a difference.

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I don't have a great answer for why it's

a cher as opposed to an ox in chapter

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one, but maybe the ox represents the

Cher and so he's saying the same thing.

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Yeah.

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When we get to heaven,

we'll be able to ask him.

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I will say, Hey, Ezekiel, what was it?

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How long is that line gonna be though?

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I don't know that I wanna spend my

first 400 years a wedding in line.

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Maybe it'll just be there.

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Maybe we'll be able to

see this vision there.

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Maybe and be able to be like, oh look

it's an ox chair, it's a chair box.

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That would be fun.

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Yeah.

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Alright, chapter 11.

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In chapter 11, we get to some

of, some more of the judgment.

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So God has already judged the idolatrous

worshipers, but now he's going to turn

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and judge those that are responsible

for the guidance of the people.

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Those that had been entrusted

with the direction, the wisdom

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the advising of the people.

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They're referred to as

counselors in here and.

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Verse two, he says, son of man these

are the men who devise iniquity and

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give wicked counsel in this city.

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And then there's an

interesting metaphor here.

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We talked about this last year.

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I still don't know that I feel

great about it one way or the

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other, but it says the time is near.

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This is what the wicked men are saying.

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The time is ne not near to build houses.

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The city is the cauldron

and we are the meat.

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So this could be taken

one way, one of two ways.

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First, it's possible that they're

saying to the people there, Hey,

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it's time to prepare for war In.

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In that sense, the cauldron

is a negative illustration.

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They're saying, 'cause

remember, God has said, you know

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what's gonna go well for you?

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It's gonna go well for you to surrender.

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It's gonna go well for you to.

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Surrender to Nebuchadnezzar because

that's what's going to happen here.

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Nebuchadnezzar is going to win.

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So it's possible that the wicked

advisors are the ones arguing against

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God's counsel in that and saying,

no, it's time to prepare for war.

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We need to get ready.

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We're the meat inside the cauldron.

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Let's arm up.

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The other potential is that this

could be them saying, giving

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a false sense of security.

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They may be saying it here rather than

the time is not near, but saying, Hey.

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Isn't it time that we should build houses?

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That could be how it's read

there it's, isn't it time?

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Shouldn't we just go ahead and let's

start building our houses again?

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We're the meat inside the

cauldron in that sense.

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They're looking at the cauldron

as we're protected from the fires.

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The fires are outside.

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We're inside and we're okay.

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We're not gonna have any harm

or danger brought against us.

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Either way, they're giving bad

counsel, that's clear, and God is

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gonna hold them accountable for that.

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And that's something that is, is sobering

for anyone who is in a position of

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leadership in the church to think about

the fact that as we are giving advice,

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giving counsel, meeting with people

or discipling whatever we may be, or

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preaching, certainly, we are gonna be

held to a standard because the things

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that we say are informing people's

understanding of God and his will.

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And God is gonna hold

people accountable for that.

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And here we see an example

of that in chapter 11.

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Yeah, whatever it means,

it's not a good thing.

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Verse 11, God says directly to them,

this city shall not be your cadre, nor

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shall you be the meat in the midst of it.

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I will judge you at the border of Israel

and you shall know that I am the Lord.

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So whatever it meant for them,

clearly it's the opposite of

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what God intended for them.

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So that's a great take.

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I love the fact that we're reminding

people that what we say really

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matters and the fact that we are held

accountable for how we teach and how

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we tell people to obey the word of the

Lord, which is why it's so important

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that you know your word inside and out.

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Ultimately, God is wanting them by his

judgment, by his example to know him.

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That's the whole point.

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Look at verse 10.

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You shall know that I'm the Lord.

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Look at verse 12.

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You shall know that I'm the Lord.

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God says this over and over again.

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His desire is to be known, and so

we are foolish to not take advantage

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of the opportunities that he

affords us in His word, even through

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a difficult book like Ezekiel.

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And I don't know about you, bro.

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This is the now the umpteen time.

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I read through this, but every

time I come back to it, I'm like,

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oh I know a little more now.

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Yeah, I know a little more.

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It's a little better.

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It's a little fresher.

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It takes time though.

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Don't be don't be hasty in the process.

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You cannot microwave your Christianity.

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It is far better as a crockpot.

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It takes time to let it simmer into your

body and to become part of who you are.

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Give it the time that it deserves.

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Let Ezekiel do his work on you.

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Yeah, we were talking about that on

Tuesday night at our community group

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about just the benefit of reading

through the Bible in a year as it

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stacks up year over year after year.

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And that's one of the benefits

right there is the individual.

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Books.

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The more you come back to it

year after year, you're gonna

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have a better understanding.

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I've felt the same way with

Ezekiel specifically this year.

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But then the other thing that you're

gonna find is the more you read the Bible

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through in its entirety every year, the

more you're gonna have an understanding

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of the meta-narrative of scripture.

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You're gonna understand the

big picture the transcendent.

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Themes of the Bible that

show up over and over again.

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So you're gonna read Ezekiel and

you're gonna have an understanding

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that's informed, not just by your

understanding of Ezekiel, but by

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your understanding of Ezekiel within

the context of the Bible as a whole.

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So that's why we do the DBR, one of

the reasons why we do the dbr R and

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why we say, Hey, join with us, and

why we make it a year long program.

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Because it's so good for us

to take the Bible in, like

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Ezekiel, the prophet did right?

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Eat the words of God.

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And to do that year after year is

only gonna increase our understanding.

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The rest of chapter 11 right before

right at the end of this indictment

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that you were just referring to,

pastor Robin, verse 13, Ezekiel says,

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are you gonna make a full end, Lord?

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Is this the end completely?

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And that leads into the

promise of the restoration.

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And that restoration is going to come.

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Yahweh's protection is gonna

be there for them in exile.

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We find that there in verse 16, he

says, yet I've been a sanctuary.

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To them for a while.

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In the countries where they have gone,

God is saying, I've protected them where

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they are in the cities where they've gone.

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Why?

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Because he plans to bring them back.

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And this is one of those situations

where there is the near fulfillment

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and the long fulfillment.

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There is a fulfillment that is, is

short term and that is that they

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are going to return from exile

and then there's the fulfillment.

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That's long term.

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Which is going to be in the very

future in the millennial kingdom.

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There's new covenant

language here in chapter 11.

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There is a reference to

Revelation 21, even in chapter 11.

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So there's a lot going on.

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That's chapter 11.

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Chapter 12.

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Then as we transition in

here, we get one one more.

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Not the last necessarily, but one

more of these living parables.

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As Ezekiel said, Hey, I

want you to pack your bags.

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God tells him, and you're gonna

leave the city and reenter the

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city each night, and this is.

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Demonstrating in a tangible

way that exile is coming.

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So yes, there's gonna be a future

return, but before that God is clear,

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judgment is coming and so he's going

to bring that judgment upon them.

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Even at the end of chapter 12, he says,

it will no longer be delayed, but in your

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days of rebellious house, I will speak the

word and perform it, declares the Lord.

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Judgment is coming and it's coming soon.

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Let's pray and then we'll be done with

this episode of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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God, we thank you for what we were just

talking about, that there is just joy

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in knowing that we know the book better

because we've spent more time in it.

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We know the Bible better because

we've spent more time in it.

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So give us a Lord, fruit of our labors

towards that end, and help us to

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understand more and more of it as we

go, and we pray this in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Keep in your Bibles, tune in

again tomorrow for another edition

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of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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See you.

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Bye.

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listening to another episode of

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said