00:00 Introduction and Welcome

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01:55 Local Pastors' Challenges

02:58 Prayers for Pastors

04:39 Second Chronicles 32: Hezekiah's Leadership

10:55 Second Chronicles 33: Manasseh's Reign

15:21 Closing Prayer and Final Thoughts

Hey, everybody.

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Uh, something that, uh, wanted to,

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it's something that, that unfortunately.

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And Pesa rod and I have kind of

traded texts over the last few weeks.

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Every time we see an article, but.

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And there just seems to be a rash of

pastors who are falling locally here.

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Uh, and I wanted to just let you know

that, that we are aware of this and

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it's, it's something that's heavy on

our hearts, real heavy on our hearts.

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In fact, This morning.

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I was looking at, I think the, the Dallas

morning news article that has reading

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listed off at least seven pastors just

within the last year who had fallen.

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Um, some have stepped down willingly.

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Others have been exposed in Cod

and, uh, it's just a really horrific

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scene right now for the church so

much so that even the secular news

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is picking up on this as a pattern.

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In calling attention to it.

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And that should grievous Christian.

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That should cause us to mourn.

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Uh, that this is a thing that

this area in, in our area, in our

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backyard, that this is something that

is becoming common and it's going

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to hurt the witness of the church.

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And so I say that to say this,

please pray for your pastors.

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Uh, pray for us.

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Pray for our marriages.

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Pray that God would just keep us.

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Uh, on the straight and narrow, not to

use a cliche, but honestly just pray

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that we would be men who are increasing

in godliness, in devotion to our Lord.

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Pray for our families, pray that our

marriages would stay strong and, and

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pray for protection for us against

the enemy, because we want to be.

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Uh, just on guard against that constantly.

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I mean, but for the grace

of God go, we, right.

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So, uh, pray for your pastors

because this is something that, that,

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uh, is, it seems to be a growing

epidemic amongst the church today.

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Especially in this area.

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And that is something that we

want to guard against that we

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want to protect ourselves against.

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We want to protect our flock against

that, because this would do damage.

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In, in so many ways to the church

of GoDaddy is doing damage to the

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church of God and all, I mean,

seven churches that are now.

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Having to deal with this.

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And there have been some of the

massively sidetracked from the

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mission at hand because of, of

the Senator they're leaders.

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And so pray that, that

we would remain faithful.

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That we would continue to be men of

God who are patterning our lives.

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After the qualifications of an elder

that we find in first, Timothy chapter

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three and in Titus chapter one.

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Uh, pray for your pastors,

all that say, please.

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I just, I hope you already are just

a further admonition that you would

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pray for us because, um, again, this

is something that is so tragic to

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see happening, and I'm thankful for

pastor, rod, as my associate here,

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that he is such a man of integrity and.

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Uh, I know that he and I both are

involved in each other's lives.

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We know what's going on in our

families and in everything else.

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And so we just invite you to

support us in that, in pray

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for us in that regard as well.

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That said let's jump

into second Chronicles.

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32 through 33 second

Chronicles, 32 through 33.

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remember who is, as it says right there

in verse one, the king of a serious.

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And now we're shifting scenes yesterday.

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We were talking about the impending.

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Doom that was coming upon Jerusalem.

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That was not going to be from Sineck room.

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Spoiler alert, not gonna be from

snacker, but that was going to be.

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Uh, at the end of the Babylonians,

but snacker is still here.

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And in the snack ribbon, the Assyrians,

and they're still going to be a thorn

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in the side all the way, even through

Josiah's rain, believe it or not.

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Um, not snacker per se,

but, but, uh, the Assyrians.

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And the Egyptians and

there's an Alliance there.

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We'll get to that when we get there,

but the Assyrians aren't going

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away, all that to say right now.

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And so in chapter 32, Uh, verses one

through eight, we open up with the

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siege of Jerusalem from Sennacherib.

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So we're coming back to the

present time with Hezekiah.

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Uh, and so Sennacherib comes in

and he lay siege to Jerusalem and

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Hezekiah is the king at this time.

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So we're backing up before Manasseh.

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Now we're during Hass rain.

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And so has he, is the king

Sennacherib there he lay siege.

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And so in the process, what has a Chi

does, uh, knowing that this is coming

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is he gets to work and he goes out

and heat divert some of the streams

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and the water sources and the, uh,

dams them up so that the Assyrians

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won't have any water for their armies.

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And he builds up the wall, especially

in the areas where it was weak.

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And he increased the production of shields

and weapons in the city and organize

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the people under military commanders.

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And, and finally, after gathering the

people together, he reminded them.

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Of who is really in charge and that's

verses seven through eight when he

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says be strong and courageous, don't be

afraid or dismayed before the king of

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Assyria and the horde that's with him.

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For they're more with

us than with him now.

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Numerically speaking.

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That probably wasn't true.

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The Assyrians were massive

and their armies were massive.

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So, uh, I think what he's, he's clearly

saying here, because look at verse eight.

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Is, is he saying this with

him as an arm of flesh?

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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They may have hundreds

of thousands of people.

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But.

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But with us is the Lord our God to

help us and to fight our battles.

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Some trust in chariots, we trust in

the name of the Lord, our God, and

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the people took confidence from the

words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

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And so it has a Chi is kind

of undoing what the rap Shakka

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and the others had done.

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He's strengthening the people he's

leading them and he's devoting their

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focus and their attention to the Lord

and reminding them of the strength of

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God over the strength of the nations.

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And so there's has a kind of.

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He's doing a lot of

really good things here.

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What you see here in these first

eight verses is such a good picture

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of human responsibility and God's

sovereignty at work together.

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It has a key.

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I didn't just go, oh, don't

worry about the, the Assyrians.

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God said they weren't

going to do anything.

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Who cares about the water sources,

who cares about the holes in our wall?

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Who cares about whether or not

we've got shields and Spears?

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Eh, God's going to take

care of all of this.

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We can kick back and just chill.

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Uh, no, he, he, this is him

saying, okay, I'm going to do what

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I need to do to defend the city.

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This is something that I'm called to do.

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This is a responsibility that I have.

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But in doing this, I'm going to

trust that God is the one that's

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ultimately going to deliver us.

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So there you go.

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Human responsibility.

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God's sovereignty at work together

in Hezekiah's leadership of the

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people now verses nine through 19.

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Snacker proceeds with

his propaganda campaign.

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Uh, slandering the Lord still.

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So he's trying to undermine

Hezekiah's leadership.

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You're questioning his ability to

deliver the people, any blasts themes

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by taking the load and making him like

all the other gods of the nations.

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Blasphemy is a word that means to

take that, which is high and to

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bring it low it, to degrade it.

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And that's what he does with God.

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He takes God who is the exalted sovereign

one, and he makes God like, he's the

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God of any other nation that, that

sacrum has rolled over with his armies.

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And so he is blaspheming the Lord

here in verses nine through 19.

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Verses 20 through 23, though, uh,

the load would not be blasting.

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The load would not be mocked in

resolution is swift has a CA and

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Isaiah pray and God sends an angel

whom we learned from parallel

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accounts was the angel of the Lord.

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This is the incarnate Christ, right?

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And he, or the pre-incarnate Christ

in this angel of the Lord destroys

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all the mighty warriors and the

commanders and the officers.

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And that number alone was 185,000.

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Uh, and in that number comes from the

accounts provided in, in Kings and Isaiah.

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So 185,000 justice of all

the mighty warriors and the

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commanders and the officers.

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That's why there were hundreds

of thousands of people.

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And camped outside the city and

in the Lord takes care of them.

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Through the angel of the Lord.

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There's not a shot fired from the city.

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And this is reminiscent of an ane.

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It's a foreshadowing of the final battle

that's coming in the future because

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we're going to come behind Christ

and gathered against Jesus is going

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to be, the enemy is going to be the.

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The devil in all of his

forces in all of his hordes.

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And there's not going to be a single

shot fired from the ranks behind

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Christ, but as the great hymn says,

one little word shall fell him.

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Right?

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So we get a precursor of that here with

the defeat of the Assyrians, as the angel

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of the Lord goes out and takes care of all

of the, the backbone of the Assyrian army.

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Such that they eventually have to turn

and they have to flee for their lives.

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Versus 24 through 33,

then has a Kai's end.

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Uh, again was a mixed bag.

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We talked about this in yesterday's

episode, he battled that pride.

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In the closing stretch of his life,

which draws the ire of the Lord.

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Uh, and, and it seems here though.

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The glimpse that we get here.

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And this is why reading, uh, the,

the parallel accounts all the

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way through is, is so helpful.

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And not just assuming, well, I

already know the story because

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I read it in second Kings.

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It seems that there, there is a.

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A bit of a repentance

look at verse 26 here.

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But Hezekiah humbled himself

for the pride of his heart.

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Both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem

so that the wrath of the Lord did not

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come upon them in the days of Hezekiah.

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And so, yeah, the, the Lord

said that has occurred.

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This isn't gonna happen in your days.

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Uh, but it doesn't change the fact that,

uh, that, that God's wrath was kindled

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against his pride and has a kind of,

does it seem to, it seems here repent.

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And so the Lord uses that as.

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As a means of staying as hand of wrath

against has a Chi, because it seems

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that if Hezekiah had just continued.

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And his arrogance and his pride

that, that maybe the Lord would

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have changed his mind, so to speak

in human terms and brought that

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judgment, but Hezekiah humbles himself.

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And that's a glimpse that we get in

Chronicles that we don't get in Kings.

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And that's my point in all

of that is just to say, it's.

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Good to be thorough in your reading,

don't assume, oh, I've already

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read this before and skip over it.

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Keep reading because these accounts give

us so much helpful information that helps

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us understand a fuller picture than what

we get from just one over the other one.

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All right.

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Chapter 33.

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All right.

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Chapter 33 Manasseh again.

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And remember from yesterday's app

episode, Manasseh is a bad dude.

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Uh, he's a bad, bad, bad dude

verses one through nine recaps.

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So much of what we read about.

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And yesterday in second Kings chapter

20 and 21, uh, Manasseh was an evil man.

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He rebuilt the high places,

the altars to the bales.

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He made the Asher Roth and.

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He built altars in the house of the

Lord and for all the hosts of heaven.

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We didn't talk about this yesterday,

but offered his sons in the

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valley of, of the son of Hinnom.

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And we've alluded to that before

on the podcast, you can go back and

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perhaps listen to that, but just He

was an evil, horrible, wicked man.

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There's there's no way around it.

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I mean, he just was an evil man.

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Uh, but in verse 11, the load responds

to Manassas evil by bringing a series of

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back and giving Manasseh into their hands.

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Notice that.

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In verse 10 and 11, the Lord

spoke to Manasseh and through his

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people, but they paid no attention.

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Therefore verse 11, the Lord brought

upon them, the commanders of the

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army of the king of a serious.

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So he had just defeated the Assyrians

under Hezekiah, but now because of the

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NASA's wickedness and evil, and remember

time-frame Vanessa rain for 55 years.

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So at some point here, he

brings the Syrians back and

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they actually capture Manasseh.

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And they lead him bound

with hooks and chains.

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In bronze and they bring him

to, to Babylon because at that

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point, the Syrians had had catch.

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Had conquered Babylon.

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Th, this is an interesting, because this

is a prelude to the eventual exile of the

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entire people, of Judah to Babylon under

the Babylonians though, not the Assyrians.

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Uh, but, but notice what happens here.

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Uh there's this is the silver lining

that I talked about yesterday in

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Manassas life that we don't get in

Kings that we do get here in Chronicles.

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Again, read the whole thing.

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Don't assume, oh, this

is the same account.

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I can just skip through

this, read the whole thing.

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Verses 12 through 13 here.

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In second Chronicles, 33.

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Uh, when he was in distress, he

and treated the favor of the Lord,

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his God and humbled himself greatly

before the God of his fathers.

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This has Manasseh, this

is this evil wicked king.

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And he parades a God and God

was moved by his entreaty.

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So it's a genuine confession.

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Otherwise God would not have been fooled.

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God is not mocked.

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Right.

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And he prayed to him.

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God was moved by his and Trudy

heard his plea and brought them

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again to Jerusalem, to his kingdom.

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Then Manasseh knew that the Lord

was God it's it's, uh, Manasseh

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humbles himself and God responds.

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And so Manasseh.

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It seems has a bit of a, of a

revival towards the end of his life.

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He takes away the foreign gods

and the idol out of the house of

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the Lord and the altars verse 15.

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He restores the altar of the Lord

and offer sacrifices verse 16.

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So this is, is him bearing

fruit in his repentance.

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Uh, in the end of his life here.

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So.

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Maybe the question you have

is, is a question that I

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probably have two, and that is.

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W where is Manasseh today?

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I mean, it was this

salvation from Manasseh.

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Did Manasseh return is, is

Manasseh going to be in the new

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heavens and the new earth with us?

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Are we going to see him there?

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I don't know.

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I don't know.

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What I do know is his repentance

seems genuine because the Lord

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responded and it also seems genuine

because he bore fruit in keeping with

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repentance in verses 15 through 16.

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So as evil and wicked as

Manasseh was, he finishes strong.

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And it's possible.

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As a result of that, that we

might see him in eternity.

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I don't know he was a wicked man.

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Like I said, we're going to read in

the future that, that he was kind of

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the straw that broke the camel's back.

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God's going to say.

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In one of the passages that we're

going to read in the next few days.

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Hey.

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Uh, I, I'm still gonna judge

Judah for the sins of Manasseh.

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So.

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I don't know at the end of the day where

he is, but this repentance does seem to

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be a bright spot in the, in his life.

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And it's a bright spot

towards the end of his life.

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So we'll see.

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I guess eventually when we're,

uh, all there ourselves.

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Following Manasseh again, as we talked

about yesterday, he comes AME on in

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Avon, only rains for two years, and

he does what is evil in the sight

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of the Lord as Manasseh had done.

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Uh, sacrifices to all the images.

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He undoes the repentance of

Manasseh and he ends up dying

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being assassinated by his servants.

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So, um, man, Verse 23.

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He did.

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He did not humble himself

before the Lord asthma NASA.

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His father had humbled himself

towards the end of his life, but this

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eMAR incurred guilt more and more.

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What a horrible.

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Uh, epitaph that is that no, that's the

one that nobody wants on their headstone.

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And yet that's the epitaph of amen.

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Amen is not a, we don't read a

lot about Avon in the Bible, but

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what we read is, is not good.

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It's not good.

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Well, there you go.

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There's another episode of the daily

Bible podcast in the books for us.

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And as we wrap up this

episode, let me pray for us.

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And then we'll be done.

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Oh, God, we thank you for, uh,

just the example that we see here.

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Even from Hezekiah, the hard work,

working together with your sovereignty.

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Uh, it's something that admittedly is

a difficult thing for us at times to

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think about, like in Philippians two,

when you say that we are to work out

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our salvation with fear and trembling,

but we all are also to know that you

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are the one who works in wills in us

to, to work for your good pleasure.

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So.

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That, that relationship between how

you operate sovereignly in our lives.

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And yet we have a

responsibility to obey you.

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Uh, we see a picture of

this and has a kayak.

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And we thank you for things like that.

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I pray for the wisdom that we would

know how to do that in our own lives.

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What does it look like for us

to, to take care of the defenses?

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What it look, what does it look like for

us to shore up the walls in our lives?

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What does it look like for us

to, to obey you and to trust that

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ultimately you're the one that's

sovereign in this situation.

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I pray that you'd give us the wisdom to

know how to live our lives like that,

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and to be faithful towards that end.

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God, I pray that we would finish strong,

even as I'm reminded of Hezekiah's.

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Uh, his pride towards the end of his life.

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God, I just pray that we would be

faithful to finish strong in our

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lives that we would not grow prideful

or arrogant down the stretch,

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but that we would remain humble.

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And stay faithful to you and

God, I do pray if there's any

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listening to this right now who

are living lives like Manasseh.

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They they've lived a life

of, of evil and weakness.

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I pray that they would

hear that today's the day.

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Uh, for salvation, today's

the day that they can repent.

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And if they will repent genuinely that you

will hear that you will respond and, and

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just like Manasseh, they can bear fruit

in keeping with repentance and stave off

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your hand of judgment in their lives.

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And so w we would pray that for any

who need to be saved that today,

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they would make that decision today

would be the day of salvation.

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We thank you.

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For Christ.

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And that, that is possible because of him.

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And we thank you for your word.

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And we pray this in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Everybody, keep her in your Bibles and

make sure you tune in again tomorrow

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for another episode of the daily Bible

podcast, as well as join us at church.

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For the celebration of one year of God's

faithfulness at campus Bible church.

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We'll see you guys then.

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Bye.