00:00 Introduction and Greetings

00:12 High School Language Experiences

00:52 Cultural Identity and Language

01:33 Dining Experiences and Food Talk

02:48 Theological Discussions and Personal Anecdotes

05:02 Introduction to the Book of Ezekiel

08:23 Ezekiel's Vision of God's Glory

11:54 Commentary Recommendations for Ezekiel

13:10 Exploring Tyndale's Commentaries

13:28 Ezekiel's Vision and Response

13:54 The Call of the Prophet Ezekiel

15:42 Ezekiel's Scroll: A Bitter-Sweet Message

20:30 Ezekiel's Symbolic Actions

27:07 Concluding Reflections and Prayer

Hi, everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the daily Bible podcast.

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Ola.

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Oh, oh, oh, LA.

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Hold on.

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Hold on.

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Yeah, you're fluent.

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Yeah, neither are mine.

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So, no.

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We're on the same page that you

take languages in high school?

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I did.

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I got to a Spanish three, I think.

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It was almost fluid.

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I did practice it, but at the time,

I realized that the Spanish that

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you've learned in school is not.

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It's foremost functions.

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Very specific dialect of Spanish.

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So it didn't really

translate with my family.

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Or people that I lived with or nearby.

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So I ended up not using it as much

because I was like this isn't.

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And they really wish I would've kept

at it because I'm sure at some point

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something would have collected that would.

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It would have been helpful, like.

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Walking into the somebodies

house and being like, hello?

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Good, sir.

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Do you know where the laboratory is?

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Exactly.

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Uh, people looked at the bike.

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Of course.

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You know, the Mexican,

trying to learn Spanish and.

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I wonder what it is now.

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I asked someone who did.

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Look, thanks again.

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And they're like, well,

yeah, yeah, you do.

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And I'm like, well, I don't know.

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Okay.

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One time.

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One time my hair was longer.

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So maybe that contributed to it.

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But what types of would

confuse me for a Filipino.

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Could you see that?

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No.

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Yeah.

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But they did.

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If I was Filipino.

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I guess no one's ever confused

me for anything else besides the

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Mexican, but I am parked right

in park, a very small part.

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You can do you know that.

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Whereas you did tell me that, but

I just want you to remember that.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So I'm pretty sure I'm going to be.

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I had a pretty higher tier when

it comes to the new kingdom, but

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new heavens and the new earth.

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I'm going to be on a good block.

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At least part of you will be.

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To present.

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It's a very small member.

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Yeah.

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I took French in high school.

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Oh, we, yeah.

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Tell me about that.

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Have any of that memorized?

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Uh, a little bit, a little bit really.

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That's interesting because

there's not a lot of French

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speakers around that I know of.

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No, I mean, I couldn't use it here, but

if I found myself, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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I do.

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They do play French music in there.

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And so, and they speak French.

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Yeah, they don't speak it fluently,

but they'll use French terms, right.

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Just because I guess part

of their experience, right.

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Madeline we're off.

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I hate man.

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They do make a good

Caesar sandwich chicken.

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Sandwich it's tasty.

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Yeah.

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They do have decent food.

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I'll give them that.

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Yeah.

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Speaking of girly food.

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The Walnut and the light and test scores.

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That's the one that Kristen and

I went there recently, and that

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was actually a really good.

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Yeah, I enjoyed that.

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It has dwellings and curtains.

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I can't go with the bro.

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But go with the girlfriend or your

wife, and you'll have a great time.

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Okay.

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I enjoyed it.

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I got the, uh, the Wagyu.

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Burger and nips delicious.

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Whatever I.

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I don't know.

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Japanese Steve yang.

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Steve yang would know because

he's an excellent chef.

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He does that mean he knows how

to pronounce all the dishes.

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Yes.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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Well, then we should ask Steve.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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It was good food though.

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You all should go.

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Steve would approve.

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Yeah.

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You, you know, you, you protest that

people mistake you for being Mexican

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or, or say that you should know Spanish.

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And I'm protested.

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I just, I'm just kind

of upset about it, but.

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I feel ashamed anytime I

can't speak Spanish, but.

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Those those things that Costco used

to sell, that they've discontinued,

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that were covered in cinnamon that

were in the drawers that you would

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pull out, you get the long tube with

cinnamon sugar on the outside of it,

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and then hand it to you in a wrapper.

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Yeah.

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But you've said it

differently just recently.

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You've rolled your art.

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Yeah, exactly.

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The only reason I don't do it is

because I can't do the double law.

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I can roll my R's.

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And in fact.

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But back in high school,

I played this white guy.

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In a show.

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That did say he spoke, he spoke Spanish.

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I'm using air quotes here.

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Okay.

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He spoke big Spanish in one part

of his, I guess it was illegal.

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The monologue.

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Yeah.

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And so I used my accent, my Hispanic

accent, which sounds pretty authentic

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because I am authentically Mexican.

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Right.

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And so everyone's after the show

was like, oh, that was so funny.

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Or so Ebony, you spoke Spanish and the.

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Spanish.

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So I can use the accent as it needs.

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And I feel like sometimes,

like I should use it right.

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It's appropriate.

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Right.

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Um, but, but most of the time

I'll default to the standard.

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He does a two man.

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Like whenever you guys, like

you're talking about pizza, it's.

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You know, you don't let that pizza.

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But when you get out of

the same thing, Italian.

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But when you're going to run Mexican food,

like immediately the accent comes out.

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It's like, well, you know what?

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Here's the thing.

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Here's the thing.

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If you're a Mexican and

you go to a Mexican, right.

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You're talking about Mexican food.

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If you don't talk it out the

right way, people look at you.

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Funny, man.

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They're shamed.

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There, there is shame.

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No.

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There's not there.

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If you don't know it, you're not an ex.

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You don't know what it's like.

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I have intersections that you

don't even know about brokers.

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Come on man.

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My British.

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I don't, I don't say like Brock worse,

like some fancy way, like a German.

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Not the same thing.

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people will look at you different.

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I'm telling you when people would speak

Spanish to me and I don't speak it back.

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They were confused.

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They're unsure.

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At all people speaking English

to me and I don't speak it back.

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They're like, what?

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And I don't understand you look

like that's what, you know, French.

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It's weird.

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Yeah.

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Well, I got in trouble.

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Last time I talked about the English

and German German roots in my family.

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So.

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I'll not do that anymore.

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That's true.

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That's true.

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Yeah.

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Get.

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All of us.

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Yeah.

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Well, let's get into his Akil.

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That's a good call.

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ZQ oh, Kim.

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Maybe that was his last night

and we don't, I doubt it.

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Did he have a last name?

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I think the nobodies bar someone.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Sort of set of somebody.

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Yeah.

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So yeah, when you read Simon

Barjona, that means that he was

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the Simon, the son of Jonah.

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Right?

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So.

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There you got bar.

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Yeah.

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Uh, Barabis who was released instead

of Jesus and Jesus was crucified.

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Ironically, the son of

the father was freed.

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So that the son of the

father would be crucified.

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Oh, that'll preach spring pretzel.

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Yup.

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All right.

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Is he cool.

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He is a contemporary

with Jeremiah and Daniel.

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The server on the same time

here, this is during the XL.

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So that's where we pick up the

book of his ego is in exile.

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We're not starting before the Exxon,

when I started back, the Jerusalem

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has not yet fallen, but he's in exile.

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So he's, he got taken during

the second deportation, right?

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97, 5 97.

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Totally.

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And so he's there already.

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Uh, while the.

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Whoever wrote meditations,

Jeremiah or whoever it is, is

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limiting the downfall of the city.

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86, right?

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Is, he goes already doing this

thing he's in, in doing this

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thing in, in, uh, In Babylon.

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Uh, but contemporary again with

your mind Daniel and others, but

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those are two that the key wants

something unique about his ego.

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He was both prophet and priest.

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And so he was, he had a dual

role there as a, as both.

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And that comes into play in the opening

of the book here, but he was also married.

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Uh, by the way.

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So it was Peter.

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I was talking to somebody recently,

they were like, wait, what?

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Peter was married.

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I was like, yeah, Peter was bingo.

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You get a mother-in-law.

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Right.

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And the only way you get

a mother-in-law's, you.

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I get married.

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If you get married.

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Yeah.

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Which is such a big deal because Peter.

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Was with Jesus for a large amount

of time away from his family.

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Right?

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That's a pretzel.

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Talking about theological pretzels.

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Oh, interesting.

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I worked out well, it, depending on,

unless they follow them for a season.

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That's possible.

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But if he had a wife, I mean, it's

not a big stretch to say he had kids,

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which did the whole family go then I

guess there's there's questions there.

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It creates more questions

for me than it answers.

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An RV being towed behind the donkey.

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That would be a way I prefer to

do it lamping my way to do it.

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Well.

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Not all of us can be.

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Yeah.

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Glamour's.

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Yeah, no, I was thinking

real mad, but oh, okay.

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Wow.

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Uh, some of the themes of the

book, the glory of God is obviously

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going to be a massive one.

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And that comes from right off.

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The very beginning of, of the book,

the holiness of God is significant.

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The sovereignty of God, these

are all things that come out in.

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The book he's name means.

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Nobody's names.

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That's right.

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L is God.

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As is he K L I don't

know, strengthened by God.

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Strengthened.

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Okay.

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Uh, maybe we don't know the word.

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Strengthened by God.

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Makes sense.

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Yeah.

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The L tells me that's got for sure.

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Yup.

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So it opens up in chapter

one in the 30th year.

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Now you might be thinking

of who, of what, which king?

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Well, it's not, it's the 30th year of

his, he kills life because it was the

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30th year of the prophet or the priest

life, rather that began his ministry.

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Well, is he killed, doesn't

have a priestly ministry to step

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into because they're in exile.

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The Temple's not there.

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They don't have.

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There were to serve, but

God was still gonna use him.

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And he was going to use him as a prophet.

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And so in his equals 30th years, what we

think most likely this is referring to.

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Uh, he began his surface.

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This would have been as the

book opens about 5 93 BC.

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So he's taking cap to take an XL 5 97.

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Launches his ministry here about 5

93 BCS, who he had been in captivity

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for four years before this began.

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Th the first chapter here is all about

this witness of the glory of God.

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And it's, it's amazing.

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It's it's quite the scene.

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Now.

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He has a vision.

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And his ego is going to have these

visions where he's, he's caught up

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in allowed to see what's going on.

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Back in Jerusalem and see things that

are happening back in the temple.

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Uh, and so these are not as though

he's actually being transported

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there and his physical person,

but he's able to, uh, to see these

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visions as God gives him the vision.

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So he gives him the vision of

the glory of God outside the

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temple here in chapter one.

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And this glory of God

involves the four cherubim.

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It involves these chairmen who have

these, these four faces that look

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in every direction or any direction.

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Uh, the chairman, they have human hands,

which speaks to their ability to serve.

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Uh, their faces are that of the man

and the lion and the ox and the Eagle,

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which were majestic and powerful.

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Uh, creatures and powerful beings.

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Th this is a picture of, of, uh, of

this vessel that is going to be the,

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the, the foundation for the platform,

with a throne upon which the Lord

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is going to be sitting in this.

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This vessel is going to be just

communicating supernatural mobility.

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Uh, these wheels that show up here,

they've got eyes on the wheels

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that the wheels are within wheels.

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And so it's like a gyroscopic

kind of situation where they

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can go in any direction.

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They want to go.

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There's going to be these eyes on the

wheels, which implies the emissions of

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the Lord, perhaps that he's all seeing

the news, everything going on all at once.

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That.

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That the thing can move in any direction.

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So there's no escaping from this.

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And then there's this platform.

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And on top of the platform is just, uh,

an overwhelming sight of the person of

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what I think is the second member of the

Trinity, because he has a bodily form.

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And so because God is spirit

and the father is spirit.

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According to John

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if the figure on the throne.

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This I think is a

pre-incarnate form of Jesus.

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Just like an Isaiah chapter six.

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I would say the same thing that

the one sitting on the throne is

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a pre-incarnate form of Jesus.

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That he's beholding there, but the whole

thing is meant to leave us overwhelmed.

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Even the sound that accompanies this

vision, his mental Leavis floored

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and overwhelmed at what he sees.

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This is such an incredible site

and a such incredible scene

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in the life of Izzy gilts.

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Interesting that we start here because.

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Uh, this is kind of like jumping in.

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It's like one of those movies where

the movie brings you into right

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away, because there's explosions and

there's a guy running away from these

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guys and there's gunshots firing.

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And.

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All of this activity taking place.

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I think that's to your point,

PBJ, the whole purpose of Zika.

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He's trying to engage you and envelop you

in this big gigantic scene of God's glory.

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Now what's interesting about

this is that easy Akil.

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Cool.

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Isn't Babylon.

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God's glory is in Babylon.

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He's not where he supposed to be.

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He's not in Jerusalem as one would expect.

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So that's what makes this particularly

fascinating because he's not where he's.

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It's supposed to be on top of that.

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He's got this chariot throwing it.

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That is kind of the Tons of

his glory, just kind of the

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manifestation of it is, is incredible.

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And I think all of the things

that you mentioned are there's at

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least that much being displayed.

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If not far more, you can take a piece,

take apart all his chariot throne.

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And really make a lot of, probably

pretty educated guesses about their sip.

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If symbolic nature, right.

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But he's here.

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God's glory has now gone from Jerusalem.

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It's now visiting ZQ in Babylon.

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And it's, it's essentially to say

God's glory is not, is not relegated

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to a specific time to place he's

hypermobile he's everywhere in anywhere.

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His glory is not bound, which is a

really encouraging and incredible part.

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Uh, a credible way for us to

start the book and he's equal.

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So it's a really powerful starting place.

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It's a way for easy.

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You got to get prepared for his ministry

and his call, which I think this qualifies

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as part of his call, but it's a really

exciting introduction as he killed.

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It's by the way, if you're somebody that

wants to go deep on as EQL I commentary

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is going to be helpful because it is

a difficult book in a lot of ways.

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Daniel block has a great one.

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It's in the NIC.

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Oh T the new international commentary

in the old Testament dichotomies.

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Yep.

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Daniel block his volume on his

ego is a great one for you.

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If you're looking to

have something to do to.

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To dive in now it's going to be meaty.

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It's not something that is going to be

a light and fluffy and an easy read.

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It's not going to be something that

you're gonna pick up at night in Chicago.

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Let me page through a

few, few chapters of this.

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Uh, it's, it's going to be work,

but, uh, if you got something

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easier than if you give yourself to.

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It'll be, it'll be helpful.

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Anything lower, like lower tiers.

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Well, I mean, we've recommended

a couple of times here.

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The Bible knowledge commentary.

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It's always going to be helpful.

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One of my favorites.

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Let me go to MacArthur's commentary

on the whole Bible is helpful.

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That's very similar to a study Bible.

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And so a lot of that in

our study Bible notes.

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So if you have that.

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And you've probably got that.

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I haven't.

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Interacted much with it on.

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ZQ but the Tyndale commentary

series is usually pretty safe.

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Um, and so that's another one that

he's going to be more readable,

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probably a bridge between.

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Daniel block.

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And I'd recommend that with.

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Yeah.

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That may go to you.

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I read that one, I think at seminary.

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Yeah.

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It's part of my.

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I studies in Ezekiel.

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And I liked it.

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It's really easy.

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Quick, you can get a lot of good

insights back to a lot of Tyndale's

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commentaries are pretty helpful.

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They're short.

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They're pithy.

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It's a great series, really.

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Edible, like has a really quickly useful.

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So if you're looking to.

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Accident.

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You're reading here.

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Yeah.

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And Joe commentary.

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John Taylor is the guy's

name who wrote that one.

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So I commend them to.

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Yeah, well, the end of chapter

one is EQL has the right

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response to the glory of God.

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It says when I heard the voice, I saw it.

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I fell on my face and I, as

I heard the voice of the one

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speaking, so he just collapses.

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He can not stand before this vision.

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And before what he's seen

here, he hits the ground.

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I think he even had a choice.

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No.

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Thank you.

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You, you see the glory?

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God, no, one's gonna

like the last cool man.

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Right.

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You're going to fall down that new phase.

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Right.

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Even John, before the

angels in revelation.

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And they're like, dude, get up.

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I'm just an angel and he's.

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Yeah, but, but I'm going to die.

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Yeah.

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Well, chapter two is

the call of the prophet.

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And, uh, you see that.

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The SPS title with that, it's

appropriate that they called it that

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because that's, what's happening.

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He's being called and empowered here.

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Uh, no.

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And, uh, he first is, is

referred to here as some man.

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And this is a title

that is given to the ZQ.

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I've said a man is also the title

that Jesus ploys for himself.

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Uh, for, for different reasons here.

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So a man Jesus embracing that

from a Daniel chapter seven.

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Uh, fulfillment point of view.

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That's not what's going on here.

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This is just a reference

to the humanity of CQ.

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I think in contrast in God's glory.

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And here is, is this human

being who is the servant?

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But this is going to happen.

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93 times in the book, he's

going to be called son of man.

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And so it's a significant, uh,

title for the, the prophet here.

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Uh, but in this chapter, he's going to be

equipped by the spirits, um, to, to go and

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take a message to a people who are not.

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Similar to Isaiah, not going to want

the message that you can deliver.

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And what's what's even more tragic is

he's taken this to a people in captivity.

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He's taken this to a people who

are facing God's judgment, and yet

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they're still sitting there with

their fingers in their ears saying,

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lah, I don't want to hear this.

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And so chapter two is, is God telling

them this is what's gonna happen.

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You're gonna speak my words to them.

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Whether they hear or refuse to hear

for they are a rebellious house.

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That's going to be, the charge was Zeke.

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You go and do it.

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Dave debts.

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That's a hard call.

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Yes.

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It's one thing to be called it too.

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To preach the gospel to people and to

be a pastor you're called a win, win

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souls to Christ and to Edify the same.

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But when God says, Hey, by the way,

the work that you're called to do,

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you're not going to succeed in it.

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Yeah.

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That's rough.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And I say, I mean, those two

probably going to have in our life.

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Can you believe what God had us do?

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I'm sure guys would

work in handsomely for.

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What a tough call that is then

I guess that's something new

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emerging for us that will work.

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We're called to give a message.

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It may not always be favorably

responded to, but our job is to

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put that message out there to do so

graciously and kindly right to know.

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That God's using us.

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God's using Israel.

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Right.

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Racially pursuits lost in dining centers.

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What a privilege.

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Yeah.

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Well in chapter three.

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This message is, uh, is.

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Given a depiction here because the

prophet is told to eat a scroll.

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And so he takes the scroll.

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I opened my mouth, he gave me the

scroll to eat and he said to me,

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Feed your belly with the scroll.

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I give it to fill your stomach with.

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And then I ate it and its

mouth was it's tastes.

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My mouth was sweet as honey.

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Pastor rod, did he actually eat a scroll?

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I'm going to say yes.

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Okay.

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I.

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Not part of a vision.

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This was not a vision or

trance that he had, that he.

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And I do, but I feel like I, I want

to say he, he H he put something.

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There's an actual health.

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There's an actuality happening here.

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It felt real to him, no matter

what it was, it was right.

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There's something happening.

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Yes.

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And maybe it was maybe I wasn't

actually physically something

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that you put into stuff.

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I don't know.

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Pardon me?

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He says yes, because of the

physical sensation that he has

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afterward, that, that sense of,

oh, I feel sick to my stomach down.

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So I think there's, I think there's

something physically happening, right.

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Well, he initially says I ate it in.

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It was in my mouth as sweet as honey

sweet, because it was the word.

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So my team talks about that, that

it's sweeter than a honeycomb.

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Um, that there's something good there,

but the problem is verse seven, the house

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of Israel will not be willing to listen

to you for, they're not willing to listen

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to me because the house of Israel have

a hard forehead and a stubborn heart.

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So that goes back to

what we're talking about.

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Chapter two, that they're

going to reject the word that

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you're going to bring to them.

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I'm giving you my message

in, in, by the eat.

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It.

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Uh, digest it so that you have it.

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But no, when you go and deliver it to

them, they're not going to want it there.

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They're going to hate it instead.

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Well, I really appreciated the

fact that God made is he killed

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for this role because he says on

top of that, like, yeah, they're

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going to be really hard headed, but

you're going to be harder, buddy.

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They're going to be hardheaded and

hard-hearted, but I'm going to make

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you so resilient because of my word.

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I find it so fascinating that he

strengthens easy to deal with his word

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to make him ready and fit for the task.

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It sounds a whole lot like something

we memorize in the new Testament.

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The word, making us complete and.

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Fit for service.

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That's what you see here.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Well, verse 14.

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It's it's not all sweetness right now

because here comes the bitterness.

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The spirit lifted me up and took me away.

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And I went in bitterness in the

heat of my spirit and the hand

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of the Lord being strong upon me.

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I came to the exiles at Televiv.

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Who are dwelling by the Kebar canal.

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And I sat there where they

were dwelling and I sat there

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overwhelmed for seven days.

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So, what you have is, is that, is it.

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Uh, what we think is at least the

profit identifying with the people.

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The period of seven days was the

traditional period of of morning.

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And so I think the profit is mourning

for the state of the people of God

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and the people of Israel right now.

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And he's identifying with them

in that state as, as they are.

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Uh, suffering their exile and he's

getting ready to deliver this message.

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And, and there's a bitterness about

the task at hand that he has to face.

579

Yeah, it's a, it's a really

tough and heavy task.

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And again, there's a, there's a

little bit of similarity to us.

581

We have a heavy message to carry as well.

582

Right.

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Ours is as important.

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And in chapter the rest of chapter three,

talk about similarities, not just for us,

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but I want us to think about this for.

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All of you listening to this.

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If you are a Christian

and a believer there.

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Chapter the rest of chapter

three, starting in verse 16.

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Let's pay attention to this.

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Because basically what God tells

us, he go here is if you warn the

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people and the people reject you.

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Then that's on them.

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But if you fail to warn the people.

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And the people die in their

sense without you delivering the

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message of giving you this escape.

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And that's on you.

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Like, yes, they're going to suffer.

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But so are you, because you

will have neglected to do the

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job that I've called you to do.

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And so in a sense, In a very real sense.

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Yes, pastor on that both have a unique

calling on our life in fulfillment

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of this as pastors, uh, shepherds.

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Right?

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But don't think that you don't

have that calling on you in your

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neighborhood with your neighbors, right?

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They got put there next to

you and said, be my Watchman.

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Be my prophet.

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Go and take the message.

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Take the, the message that I've given

you the sweet message of the gospel.

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Take it to them.

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What if they don't listen to me?

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That's not on you.

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That's on me.

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What if they hate me, that's not on you.

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That's not on me.

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What if they're a hard forehead?

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I will make you harder, right?

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I mean, We have this obligation and we

don't know how long it's going to be.

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And so that's why we've made such a, an,

uh, a point of emphasis in our sermons and

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our community groups and everything else.

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No, the gospel take the gospel.

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Preach the gospel it's, it's so

important because that's why we're here.

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We are a lampstand.

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To be here to, to, to be visible

with the light of the gospel,

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to the dark world around us.

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We don't want to play church.

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We're not here to do

church light and to do.

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Could it be another culturally

Christian Church and to have culturally

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Christian friends and to have

culturally Christian barbecues and to

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do quilts quarterly Christian events.

631

Uh, we wanna make a difference and that's

going to mean that we have to be salt

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and light, like Jesus called it too.

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And that's going to cost us something.

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That's okay.

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That's a kind of cost you should

be willing to pay because it's

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going to result in far better life,

number one, but a far better reach.

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Number two, you're reaching people with

the truth and that's going to make a

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bigger difference than any kind of house

or car or anything else you might enjoy.

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This is better.

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Chapter four.

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We get into another situation where

we have the profit as the medium.

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And, uh, here in the profits going

to be told to lie on his side.

643

Yeah.

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His left side for 390 days equal to the

number of years of their punishment.

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Uh, and then he's going to turn

it over and he's going to lie down

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a second time in his right side.

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And he's going to bear the house of the

punishment of the house of Judah 40 days.

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The day for each year.

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Uh, there that.

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Most of them there for, for the

40 days, the 40 years there.

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In such a face toward the siege of

Jerusalem when there aren't buried and

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you shall prophesied against the city.

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Uh, is this actually happening?

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390 days in 40 days.

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I think so.

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I don't have any reason

to doubt that I know.

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Taking place.

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What it represents.

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I have a hard time answering.

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Yeah.

661

Yeah.

662

That's fair.

663

Do you think this is, he's not

getting up for 390 straight days?

664

Well, yeah, I guess to answer.

665

More literally.

666

I think he's doing this for 390 days.

667

I don't know if he's actually laying

down for the whole day for 380 days.

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I think it's very possible that he got up

took breaks, went to the bathroom, a did

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his thing, went to bed, woke up the next

day, did that for another couple of hours.

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And then another 40.

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That's my that's my best guess on that.

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What do you think.

673

Yeah, I'm with you.

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I think this was, this is

what his task was for the day.

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This was his nine to five.

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It was to go out and do this

in front of the people to

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demonstrate this as a, as a model.

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And I think he probably got up

and went back home and, and.

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Take care of business.

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Aside from that.

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Which is interesting because

he's still in Babylon.

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So this message.

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If it's for Jerusalem.

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Would have to be newsworthy in

Babylon and then travel from.

685

Hey, by the way guys,

is he killing our area?

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You're.

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I just told us, you guys are in trouble.

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Unless you repent.

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Yeah.

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Interesting.

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Isn't it.

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Yeah, it is.

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It is.

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The 390 days though, the

390 years, the 40 years.

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Th th that's where we're.

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Scratching your head and

scratching our heads.

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Yeah.

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And it's it's, it's not, it's

not easy to come up with this.

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The idea there being Israel to the

north and then Judah to the south.

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Uh, it's, it's difficult to say,

this is why this is the way it is or

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what the years represent their, um,

In verse six, the 40 years MacArthur

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says here, Judah was also guilty, but

the 40 cannot represent less guilt.

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It may extend the time beyond the

390 days or years to 430 days or

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years, or they may run concurrently,

but the exact duration is uncertain.

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So.

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Somehow.

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What do we do with this?

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Well, it meant something

to them at that time.

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And we can rest in that.

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This is not random.

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This is not.

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Pointless.

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This is not something that is not there,

but, but this is where we even have

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the old Testament of your scripture,

where Peter says some of the writings

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of Paul are difficult to understand.

716

Right.

717

Well, we can apply that backwards

too to the Bible and say, there's

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some things in the scripture that the

secret things belong to the Lord that

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we read this where we're at today.

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And we have trouble.

721

Understanding what this is.

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And it's a reminder that it was written

to a certain group of people in a

723

certain context at a certain time.

724

For a certain reason and yes,

there's a transcendent theological

725

truth that applies no matter what.

726

And there, we can pull that out and it

got us judging his people for their sin.

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And there's a definite plan and

there's a definite amount of

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time that they're going to suffer

under his, his righteous judgment.

729

But exactly what do those numbers mean?

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And how does those do those relate?

731

I think there's a point that we have

to throw up our hands along with

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these commentators and say, Here's

a couple of ideas of ideas, but, but

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that's, as far as we can press it.

734

One of my Hebrew profs or.

735

My Hebrew prophets who taught

me through this book said it

736

is likely that the numbers are

entirely symbolic and artificial.

737

Not referring to anything or any

specific datable events at all.

738

So that was his conclusion after

laying out, like here's all the

739

options, here's the way that

you can calculate these years.

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Potential resolutions to these

quandary about what this refresh.

741

Presents.

742

And when it refers to.

743

So at the end of it, he got it.

744

Throw up his hands in the air, so to speak

and said, I just think these are symbolic.

745

They're.

746

To convey the gravity of sin, the

weight of it, which is interesting

747

because Israel has a much greater

degree of sin to deal with in Judah,

748

which makes sense, because they were

exiled first, they had more sings.

749

Since the beginning of their,

their, uh, their monarchy or

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Judah has comparatively less.

751

So you can see something there.

752

It's really difficult to know,

and that we're also going to come

753

back and we get to Gog and Magog,

we're going to say, well, yeah.

754

There are some potential options.

755

We're not entirely sure where.

756

Well, and that's, that's, what's

crazy because then they're going.

757

Again, this is why this is so

difficult because like I just read from

758

MacArthur MacArthur would say, it's,

it's not indicative of less guilt for

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Judah than in more guilt for Israel.

760

Yeah.

761

I think he's running.

762

Yeah, right.

763

Somebody is right.

764

And we have to throw up our hands and go.

765

If there's things that

are above our pay grades.

766

And he does.

767

But we're not done with the object

lessons here in chapter four,

768

because here comes another one.

769

And if you've bought these EQL

bread at Costco, you better

770

hope that that's just the name.

771

According to the recipe.

772

Right.

773

Especially not the original recipe.

774

Right.

775

Either one we don't want, but

that's the how to smell grill.

776

Oh, that's got.

777

Yes horribly.

778

Here's what happens?

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He is told to bake some bread.

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And during this time that he is, is

doing all this lying on the side and

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everything he's going to eat this

bread and this bread is going to

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be made and it gives them a recipe.

783

And so there's recipe.

784

Is given.

785

And then he said, and you need to bake

it and you're going to bake it over.

786

Uh, dung and not just any dung,

but human dumb human excrement.

787

And the province says.

788

Verse 14, Lord God behold.

789

I've never defiled myself.

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From my youth up until now, I've

never eaten with diet itself or was

791

talking about beast or anything.

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Unclean.

793

Well, to bake the spread

over human excrement.

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Certainly render it.

795

Good qualified.

796

Yeah.

797

So the Lord gives him a, an

exception and a provision.

798

He says, okay, use calc excrement.

799

Instead of DQ.

800

We've been done.

801

Maybe that is a step up.

802

I don't care what you say.

803

That is a step up from what

the initial offering was.

804

Yeah.

805

And the Lord's point is, Hey, I'm

going to cut off the supply of bread

806

to the people they're going to suffer.

807

And we read about that and limitations.

808

The famine in the results that the famine

had on the people there and what they did.

809

Even the extent that that they

went to, to try to escape the

810

consequences of the famine.

811

And so the Lord is prophesying that.

812

No, we've never been so desperate to

have to do anything even close to that.

813

I mean, I think that alone is

something remarkable that God

814

has blessed us some abundantly.

815

Yeah.

816

I don't think anyone listening to this

podcast, certainly not you, or I think.

817

Have ever been to the patient.

818

Am I gonna, I'm just gonna eat anything.

819

From the garbage I'll cook it over.

820

Whatever.

821

Now, praise God.

822

Yeah, we never have

that kind of experience.

823

And that's purely God's grace.

824

Yes.

825

Yes.

826

And yet not guaranteed.

827

Yeah, absolutely.

828

Absolutely.

829

That's exactly right.

830

Yeah.

831

Well, let's pray.

832

And then we'll be done with this episode.

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Can we do thank you for your

common grace in our life.

834

A grace that you provided for us that

to live in a nation that we can go to a

835

grocery store and buy bread off the shelf.

836

And eat that and enjoy that

and have food for our families.

837

We pray that you would continue

that we know that that's not the

838

case everywhere in the world.

839

We do.

840

Uh, I want to give you thanks for that

in return gratitude for those things.

841

And we don't want to

take them for granted.

842

And so we are thankful for your provision.

843

Use that to cost us to be.

844

All the more zealous with that,

not a concern for us to go out and

845

be concerned with the things that

you've called us to be concerned with

846

the reaching the loss of taking the

gospel to those that need to hear it.

847

If serving the church of serving

the bride of Christ, uh, let us be

848

zealous for those things, because

we don't have to worry about where

849

am I going to eat my next meal.

850

And that's a, that's an

example of your favorite.

851

We don't want to waste it.

852

So we pray this in Jesus name.

853

Amen.

854

Amen.

855

Keeping your Bibles to tune

in again, tomorrow as we

856

continue the book of the CQ.

857

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