00:00 Introduction and Saturday Morning Nostalgia

01:32 Discussion on K-Pop Demon Hunters

03:23 Parental Guidance and Media Evaluation

07:54 Clarification on Women's Preaching

09:53 Nehemiah's Leadership and Wall Construction

15:01 Conclusion and Prayer

Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible podcast.

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Happy Saturday.

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Hopefully everybody's

enjoying your Saturday today.

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Some eggs and bacon, maybe some pancakes.

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Yeah, with some blueberries inside.

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Yep.

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That's a good Saturday.

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Yep.

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Do you remember Saturday morning cartoons?

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Very much, man.

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Wasn't that the best time ever?

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Absolutely.

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I think the world is lesser for not

having Saturday morning cartoons.

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I agree.

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Yeah.

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'cause the cartoons that exist now just

aren't the same as they used to be.

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They might.

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You could stream them all like one

season in your living room on a.

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Thursday afternoon if you want.

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Yeah.

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The specialness of waking up on

Saturday and watching one of your

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favorite X-Men shows or whatever.

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Teenage Meat Ninja Turtles.

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TMNT.

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Yeah.

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That's, those are the good old days, man.

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And you had to wait a whole week not

to find out what was gonna happen.

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You could not stream them

and if you missed them.

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Yeah.

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That's the beauty of

old school television.

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Yeah.

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The kids these days,

they'll never know that.

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And I feel bad for my kids about that.

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And the commercials after these

messages, we'll be right back.

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The commercials were

some of the best parts.

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Yep.

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They were entertaining.

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And the theme songs, crossfire?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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That was good days.

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Oh yeah.

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That thing with the

little guns and the sil.

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Wow.

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You remember that nostalgia.

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See, yeah.

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I had that.

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That was fun.

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Cartoons are crazy nowadays.

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In fact.

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So different.

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There's one that's gaining popularity.

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I, full transparency, I haven't watched it

more than once or twice the whole season.

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A few a hundred times.

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You haven't watched the

season more than three times?

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See, I in one city.

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I think it's a movie.

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I think it's a movie.

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I thought it was a.

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Cartoon TV series.

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I looked it up online.

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I think it's a movie.

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Anyways, now that we've completely

undermined our authority to be

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able to speak to this issue well,

we don't have to know the show

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to answer the question though.

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That's true.

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So let's go to the question,

'cause this is really relevant.

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Speaking of Saturday morning cartoons,

the question is this, how should

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Christians think through the K-pop

demon hunters, K-pop, demon hunters.

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All right.

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K-Pop demon hunters.

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Yeah, I'm gonna answer.

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Carefully on this.

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Number one, this is there, there

is freedom in Christ on this.

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And there's no verse that

says, thou shalt not.

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And this goes back to, I, I remember

when I was in college, one of my wife's

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friends had a Harry Potter book in

her dorm room on her shelf, and she

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was accused of being a witch because

she had a Harry Potter on her shelf.

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I understand that.

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Spoiler alert she wasn't a witch actually.

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She was just an a person and

she likes to read the story.

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And so this is not new to,

to look at something in.

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Pop culture and media and say, Hey,

what is the, what do we do with this?

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It seems to be, there's some

dark images, dark themes in here.

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Should we be okay with this?

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Should we not be okay with this?

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Parents listening to this is where

your discernment has to come into play,

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and you have to be involved in this.

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You have to make a decision

one way or another.

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Don't let.

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Entertainment happen to your kids.

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That's not a good job.

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You are abdicating your role.

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If you give your kids the iPad, give your

kids access to the tv, and then you walk

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away and you're not actively involved

in what they're watching, say it again.

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Even if they're on Disney Junior

or they're on something like that

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you can't abdicate that role.

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That's your role.

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You can't let them be the guard of

what is coming into your kids' minds.

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So that said.

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You need to do research on this and

figure out what, this is what I've read.

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For me and my household we haven't

watched this, I don't think we will.

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I read online it talked about

engagement in the demonic.

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They're literally fighting demons in here.

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There's scenes where demons are

sucking the souls, out of some

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of the people in this, they're

fighting demons though, right?

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They're fighting.

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The heroes are fighting the demons.

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The heroes aren't the demons.

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Okay.

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You sound like good, the good people then.

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Yeah.

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It's just for me it's, do I wanna

open the door into the darkness

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of these themes into my home?

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Yeah.

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And so for me, we've said no.

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I'm not saying that has to be the

conclusion for everybody across the

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board, that's just where we are.

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But I think that the

principle that I wanna stress.

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Behind this is regardless of what it

is, whether it's this or bluey, right?

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You as parents need to have an active

role into what you are letting into

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your home and understand that you are

by turning on the TV or giving them

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that app on the iPad, you are allowing

voices into your home and you need to

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know what those voices are talking about.

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That's my take on it.

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Pr that's a great take.

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Let me preface everything I'm about

to say with one Corinthians 10.

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All things are lawful.

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But not all things are helpful.

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All things are lawful, but

not all things build up.

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Let no one seek his own good,

but the good of his neighbor.

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Paul's talking about food here,

and of course this section ends

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with the famous phrase that most

people know if you're a Christian.

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So what?

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Whether you eat or drink or whatever

you do all to the glory of God.

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So that's the general basic operating

principle that I'm working from.

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That's my starting place, but I have a few

resources that I go to when I'm evaluating

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whether or not I want to watch a TV show.

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And if I'm being.

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Especially prudent about it, and I don't

always do this, but I would recommend

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if you're concerned about a show, these

are three places you should go in.

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The first place might be Kids in mind.com.

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This is where you can see a

movie usually broken down in

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categories of a sex, an nudity, B,

violence, and gore and C language.

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It'll give you a number between

one and 10 as to how much of each

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of these things you're gonna find.

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So kids in mind.com

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is a great place usually for movies.

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Second place is plugged in.com.

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If you pop this one in.

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This is also gonna show you a

breakdown of how the movie fares.

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It doesn't use a rating system, but it

will tell you what's in the movie and

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they'll give you their take on whether

the content is worth you diving into.

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So they're gonna help you try

to make a decision for yourself.

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They don't really give

you a recommendation.

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They're just gonna help you evaluate it.

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Plugged in.com

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is a ministry of focus on the family.

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So if you've any experience

with those guys, you kinda

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know what you're getting into.

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So they have a couple small ratings

in there, but mostly it's just content

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about how they've evaluated it.

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The third resource is

common sense media.org.

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This one also has a rating system.

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They'll give you a number at

how, what age they think your

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kid would be able to watch it.

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Where it's semi appropriate.

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Of course it's subjective.

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You have to make a decision yourself.

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But they'll, they're gonna give

you reasons why they think what

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they do, and so they're gonna refer

to specific parts of the movie.

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Okay.

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So those are three places that I

could look and perhaps would look

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when I'm trying to evaluate whether

or not I want to enjoy something.

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And of course, you're gonna

wanna look at the rating.

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The rating is pg, pastor

pj, you said it was a movie.

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I think you're right.

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It looks like it's an

hour and a half long.

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Okay.

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All of that is preamble before I

come to the decision making criteria.

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And I think your principle is

right, PPJ, is it something

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I wanna expose my family to?

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Ultimately, I have

responsibility for that.

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So if I am gonna watch it, I'm gonna watch

it with my family, and then I wanna be

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able to watch everything that's happening.

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And if at some point I find

it objectionable, it's.

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Crossing a line that I don't see fit,

I have no problem turning it off.

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I remember we did this with

one of the TV shows on Netflix.

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I forget what it was called,

but it was a family flick.

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It was something about

family, something or other.

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Anyway, we were watching it and

they introduced a character that

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I said, oh, that's not happening.

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We're turning this off.

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My kids are disappointed, of course.

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But I felt no sorrow

about that whatsoever.

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In fact, I felt.

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A little bit tinged on the inside.

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'cause I'm thinking, I wish I wouldn't

have showed them that in the first place.

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I would've liked to have avoided that.

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So again, going back to these

websites here that are gonna

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help you make the decision.

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All that said, your job dad, if you

are dad, is to make the call for

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your family to know what's coming

into your house, to guard it and to

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safeguard your family's eyes and ears.

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Now you've of course remember times

and you've seen things, I'm sure, or

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heard things and you wish you never

would've seen them or heard them.

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Would you say that's true for you PPJ?

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Absolutely.

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I could say the same.

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There's things that I've seen and

heard that I wish I never had the

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exposure to in the very first place.

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What a terrible thing it would

be for your kids to say that.

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And it's something that you allowed

into the gates of your home.

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All that said your job

is to be responsible.

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Your job is to make a good decision.

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And if you could do it to the glory

of God, then I'd say, Hey, enjoy it.

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If you can't.

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Then don't violate your conscience.

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And certainly if your conscience is

even on the edge for the sake of your

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family, I would say just don't do it.

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If you can do it freely without

condemnation in your soul, then hey,

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maybe it's a great thing for you to do.

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But again, go back to one

Corinthians chapter 10.

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All things are lawful.

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Not all things are beneficial.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Common sense.

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Media, by the way, has an app for your

phone, so you can even download that

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and get that right there and check

on things there for Android still

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I those people too, I don't know.

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Okay.

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Which it really doesn't matter, so it's

really the iPhones that we care about.

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Yeah.

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So good question that's our answer there.

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So it's not a hard and fast,

like anathema or blessing.

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It's use your discretion, discernment.

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Not just neither one of us have seen it.

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Correct.

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Neither one of us have seen

the show, just so you know.

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So if there's anything in it that's oh

obviously you should say no to this,

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for this reason we haven't seen it yet.

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Or ever, I guess to answer

that we may never see it.

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Correct.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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One other point of clarification and

then we'll get into our text for today.

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This is not dealing with

K-Pop demon hunters.

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This goes back to the concept of

our ladies and the ladies retreat.

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You mentioned, I think during that

time I had said, Hey, men shouldn't

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listen to the women preachers.

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That's right.

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And then you said, Hey, I

listened to Amanda's sermon and.

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You were complimentary of that, which was

great, and she was encouraged by that.

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We as pastors do know what the ladies

are preaching in our ministries.

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Whether that's Amanda preaching

or one of the preachers I know.

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One of the preachers, I live with her.

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That's true.

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You live with your preacher too.

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Yeah, if I'm not mistaken.

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In fact, we're gonna also have

Pastor Mark's wife preach in

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women's Bible study coming up.

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In a couple weeks here.

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And he lives with her.

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And he lives with her.

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Yeah.

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That's amazing.

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And all three of us as pastors,

are heavily involved in the message

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prep process with our wives.

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And so we know what they're preparing,

what we know, what they're delivering.

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And so this is not a hands-off approach.

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We're not saying whatever they're

doing, just, let's hope it's good.

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We care about that.

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And that's part of our role as of

shepherding the flock to make sure that we

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are guarding the flock on that front too.

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So you can trust that as pastors,

we know what is being preached.

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We know what is being taught there.

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And as pastors, we do.

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Listen, and we do survey and we do know

what's being preached there because of

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that shepherding role in that capacity.

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Amen to that.

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And we don't let anyone occupy

the pulpit that we don't trust.

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So there's always gonna be that tacit

understanding that if someone is in the

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pulpit, opening a Bible with a group of

people that are our people, our church,

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that they have our approval and our

encouragement because we trust them.

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We don't need to look

at every jot and tittle.

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In fact, at one church that we were at,

there was accusations that the pastors

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didn't have enough oversight over the

pulpits because one of those pastors was

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lifting information off of other people's

sermons and using it in their sermon.

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Yep.

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And people were saying, why

didn't you guys know that?

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You should have known that.

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And the reason why is

because we don't do that.

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We trust each other.

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There's that.

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There's an underlying necessary

trust that comes with the pulpits.

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If you're in it, there's already

a lot of barriers that you've

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crossed because you possess the

trustworthiness to be in that position.

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Now, if there's ever a reason why you

break that trust, then things change.

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For sure.

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Yeah.

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But that said, there's always an

inherent trust with the pulpit.

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If they're in the pulpit,

that means we trust them.

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We don't need to examine every jot

and tittle to feel like they're gonna

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bring it clearly and articulately.

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Yeah.

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Let's get into our DVR today.

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We are in Nehemiah six and seven.

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Nehemiah chapter six and chapter seven.

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And sorry, parents, those of you with.

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Junior hires and high

schoolers in the car.

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We just set them all off

saying six, seven, because

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that is something that they do.

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So Nehemiah, how do they do it though?

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They just do it.

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How do they do it?

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I, you're gonna have to

find one and ask them.

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I'm sure they will be more than

happy to do tj, the san, the

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hand motions and everything.

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Pj, come on.

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I can't bring myself.

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Do it.

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You could do it.

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I can't.

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Six, seven.

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Come on.

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Come on.

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You could do it.

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You could do it.

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Oh man.

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Anyways, Nehemiah chapter six.

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We've got Tobi and Sin Ball who are

back on the scene, and they're gonna

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come after Nehemiah and they're

gonna come after Nehemiah and

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they're gonna try to stop him still.

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And Nehemiah, I love Nehemiah's response.

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He said I'm too busy doing God's work

to come down and bother with you guys.

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Just go away.

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I don't have time for this.

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And so when they're not able to get him.

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In before them.

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Then they slander him.

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They say we heard that, you were

trying to rally the Jewish people and

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that this is all an effort to regain

power in the area and everything else.

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And Nehemiah, I love his response again

in verse eight, he says, no such things,

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as you say, have been done for your,

inventing them out of your own mind.

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He says, for they wanted to frighten

us, thinking their hands will drop

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from the work and it will not be done.

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But now, oh God, strengthen my hands.

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I love that you're inventing

them out of your mind.

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And then the response, which

is such a good response, again,

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modeling good leadership here.

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He says, God, strengthen our hands.

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He turns to the Lord in the

face of opposition, and that's

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where his trust is going to be.

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And so from there, he went on and there's

another person that shows up that poses in

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a different way by trying to lure him into

disobedience to God by saying to Nehemiah,

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why don't you come and stay in the temple?

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Why don't you take shelter in the temple?

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And Nehemiah knew that was not his,

that was only a role for the priests.

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And so he says, I'm not gonna do this.

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I'm not gonna disobey the Lord.

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And God is going to honor this because

the rest of chapter six shows us that

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the wall ends up being completed and

it be, it's completed in 52 days.

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And so that's amazing.

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When you think of the fact that

this wall had been broken down.

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If you look in the maps of the back of

your Bible, you may even have a map back

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there that shows you Nehemiah's wall.

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It's a pretty amazing feat in today's

standards to get a wall built in 52 days.

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That's to this degree,

this strength, this height.

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But in Nehemiah's Day, this is

a symbol of the fact that the

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people really bought into this.

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And there was the desperation too

of a city without walls, right?

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The Proverbs talks about, that

talks about a man without self

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controls, like a city without walls.

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In other words, he's vulnerable.

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And so the people had the

desire to get these walls up.

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But it's still amazing that

they got it done in 52 days.

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Amen to that.

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And that goes to show

that God is behind it.

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I can't help but see the connection

between the walls being built quickly

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and Nehemiah being a man who's peripheral

throughout the whole situation here, it

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seems like he just can't stop praying.

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And I think that's why God blesses

the work as you just said here, this

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is incredibly important for us to

see that God is supporting what he

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wants to see done with his people.

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When you comply with what God wants

to do in your life and you're praying

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for what God's will is in your

life, man he's inclined to obey.

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He's inclined to not obey

like you're commanding him.

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He's inclined to indulge you

and say, yes, I wanna do that.

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You're praying for more godliness.

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Fantastic.

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I can support that.

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So pray for what God's

will is and watch God work.

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This is amazing by the way.

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I had a question.

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You brought it up as you were talking

about the wall being built in 52 days.

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Who built the pyramids?

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Everybody wants to know the

Israelites built the payments.

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Is that right?

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Do you believe that?

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Really though?

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I think they built some of them.

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I think that was part of the their

job to build the tombs of Kings.

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How did they do that?

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I don't know.

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How did they build that?

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Those things are amazing.

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They're amazing.

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How did they do it?

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They used levers and pulley

and logs to They excel, huh?

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Move the pieces.

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Yes.

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We don't know.

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We, I guess we're guessing We

don't know how they did it.

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No, we don't because it's precise.

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It's amazing.

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I'm amazed.

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Yeah.

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They use their laser levels and they

used probably their, all the technology

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that they had that we lost for eons.

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And so we guess we

discovered it just recently.

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Really.

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They had to have something.

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We are flabbergasted.

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We have no idea how

they did what they did.

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Yeah.

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Which is what makes it all the more

remarkable because we, even with

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our current technology, we would

struggle to do something like that.

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For sure.

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Yeah chapter seven what we find here

is Nehemiah's leadership is not done.

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Now that the walls are built, he's

gonna continue to make sure that he's

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providing for the people, and he's gonna

do that through appointing gatekeepers.

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We have gatekeepers in our church who help

keep us safe on Sunday mornings and make

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sure, and other days too when we've got

ministry going on, make sure that nothing.

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Onward is happening with

any threats from outside.

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And that's what Nehemiah does here.

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And these people are not just

gonna just trust in the wall.

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They're gonna do more than that.

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They're gonna use the

wall as it should be used.

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And so they're gonna open the gates,

but then they're gonna make sure that

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they shut the gates before the darkness

comes because they don't want to run

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into a situation where somebody with.

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With nefarious intentions, we'd be

able to come in and attack them or

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hurt them or anything like that.

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So that's what they're doing here

in the first part of chapter seven.

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And then after this, Nehemiah is going

to, because God, it says in chapter

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seven, verse five place it upon his heart.

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Nehemiah is going to call for a census

and the people are counted and God

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is going to use this, not like David

called for a census and wanted to trust

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in the men and trust in the numbers.

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But.

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This is this is God showing Nehemiah his

faithfulness to bring the people back

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into the city and to repopulate the city.

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And so Nehemiah is gonna do this, and

it's also a way, I think, of showing

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honor to those that labored so faithfully

and endured the opposition for the Lord.

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Let's wrap up this episode

then, and then we'll be done

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with this, with Nehemiah six.

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And 7, 6, 7.

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Alright, let's pray.

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God, thanks for the resources

that we even talked about at

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the beginning of this episode.

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Things like common sense media and

these others that allow us to to,

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to consult these things and to be.

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Mindful as parents of what it is

that we're allowing into our home.

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And so I pray that we would be good

stewards of our children, that we'd

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be careful to guard their minds,

to guard their eyes Lord against

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things that they shouldn't see.

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We don't want to, as Pastor

Rod was saying, be those that

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are the source of things that

they'll never be able to forget.

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And so give us as parents the wisdom to

know when to turn something off or when

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to not even turn it on in the first place.

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And help us to teach our children

that sometimes following the Lord.

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It means saying no to things that

other people get to say yes to.

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But it's worth it in the end.

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Lord, we want to have God honoring homes.

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Help us Lord, in the midst of

a culture that is attacking

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that to remain faithful to you.

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Even as we see with Nehemiah

in the midst of opposition.

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Lord, we want to continue to do what

you desire, what your will is, and

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not just fall prey to the easy way

out or to what the world wants for us.

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And guard our families.

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We pray, Lord, in Jesus name, amen.

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Amen.

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Keep reading your Bibles and

tuning again tomorrow for another

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edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Okay, I'll come back now.

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Bye.

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listening on, and we hope to see

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you again tomorrow for another

episode of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Ya'll come back now, ya hear?

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said