00:00 Introduction and Audio Quality Discussion

00:25 Dallas Cowboys Stadium Experience

02:29 Reflections on the Game and Worship Parallels

05:10 Christian Perspective on Enjoying Entertainment

07:41 Biblical Insights from Ezekiel

10:16 Exploring the Cherubim Imagery

11:02 The Departure of the Glory of the Lord

11:47 Understanding the Cherub and Ox Connection

12:45 The Pot and the Meat Metaphor

14:16 God's Judgment and the Remnant

16:14 The Prophet's Object Lesson

16:53 The Exiles and Jerusalem's Fate

20:37 The Last Person to be Saved

21:52 Concluding Thoughts and Prayer

Hey, so we think the audio worked

yesterday, so that's a win.

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I mean, it sounded good to me.

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It did.

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I.

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I was stoked.

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We spot checked it and it checked.

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Check out the.

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The spots were checked.

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They were there.

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Yeah.

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The good audio.

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I realize how much of a

difference, good audio mix.

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It can take a podcast for me and just

like, oh, that's really hard to hear on.

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If I want to listen to it

to, oh, that's enjoyable.

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I can.

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Audio a good audio gets out of the way.

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Yep.

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But that wasn't the case at

the Dallas cowboy stadium.

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Okay.

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The audio was very loud and very

clear, and it was in fact, the

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subwoofer, whatever they're using

to generate base in that thing.

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I was amazing.

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Yeah.

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And I remember walking

away with a lot of things.

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I'm like, you know what we need

at compass north Texas, we need

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walk up music for pastor PJ.

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When he's on his third

point, we say compass nation.

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It's third.

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Dude, we got a debrief, just a few quick

notes take, I mean, you talked about it

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on the Sunday during the sermon, we kind

of talked about it on the way back to

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the car, but some of your thoughts about.

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This wasn't your first time

at the at and T stadium?

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No, but this was the first time we

went together, which was a lot of fun.

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Thank you for taking me

by the way, for sure.

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So, So some takeaways.

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Yeah.

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Number one, uh, we went

to a preseason game.

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So just in case you're

out there going, man.

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They went to the Cowboys game

or we Saturday at 3:00 PM.

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Wow.

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That's great.

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It was, it was awesome.

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And tickets were a lot cheaper

because it was a preseason game.

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But it didn't help.

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It helped that we were in the nosebleeds.

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Oh yeah.

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Like one row behind us.

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And then the way.

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Then the walls basically on the sea.

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Basically on the ceiling of the stadium.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, but no, we went in great seats.

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It's I mean, just the, the,

the magnitude of the edifice.

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I mean, you walk up to it

in this thing is just huge.

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It just rises up out of the

ground because Texas is flat.

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And so you drive up to it and it's

like, whoa, this thing is massive.

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And it's imposing.

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It is.

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And I think, you know, there's

words that come to mind.

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It's it's fitting that we're

talking about the temple and it's

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equal right now, because there are

those words that come to mind, like

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majestic and inspiring and yeah.

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Temple ESC.

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Yeah.

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Th there's a, like, you are

overwhelmed when you walk in there.

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You're like, okay, this is not about me.

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Like that's larger than life.

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Right.

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Right.

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And nobody walks into cowboy

stadium except for maybe the players

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and says, this is here for me.

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Yeah.

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You say I'm here for somebody else.

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I don't even think they do because they

realize they're part of an organization

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that's bigger than themselves.

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They realize that they have a

lineage and there's a legacy.

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I mean, they really worked hard.

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Yeah.

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And I think they successfully achieve

their, their purpose of making it feel

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like you're part of something huge.

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It's a big deal.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And then, I mean, we were talking about

the parallels between that and worship.

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And that's, it's hard to argue that

it's not, what's taking place there.

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Man.

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I was so.

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So I like people watching.

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And when I went to the beach or lax,

whenever I, other than just enjoy watching

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people and see how they interact and

what they do, it's, it's hard to not see

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the parallels of this is worship, right?

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This is exactly that

people are so enthusiastic.

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I mean, they're excited

beyond belief for their team.

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They, they, I mean, even that sense of.

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Uh, we won.

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When we scored, right.

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Or we lost.

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That sense of unity with the team

is interesting in and of itself.

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I mean, Christians feel that way when

the church succeeds and when she's, you

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know, highlighted for this or that reason

or when she falls and she gets a black

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guy because of a pastor doing something

stupid, I feel the sting of that.

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I mean, we got a black

guy when that guy fell.

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Uh, that's the kind of unit

that people feel with the team.

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And it's interesting

to see that on display.

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I, sometimes we talk about that,

but seeing it in person is a

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whole different experience.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And, and on top of it, that, that was a

game that doesn't matter in the standings.

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And does it still that worked up over it.

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I was here.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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I didn't even think about

that, but you're right.

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People were so pumped.

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I was just all in.

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Yup.

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And I mean, Texas is a football.

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Place.

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Yep.

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Uh, far more than California, for sure.

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Like the head and shoulders above that.

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Although I heard so far as bigger.

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Yep.

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So if I, as a bigger stadium yeah.

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I'm sure.

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I'm sure Jerry Jones is already

planning how he can expand the

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stadium and build another one.

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You have to build a bigger one.

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Yeah.

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But it was so fascinating.

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I really enjoyed the experience.

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I mean, the, the mega the mega

screens in front of you too.

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That was pretty cool.

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But just to watch people and to, to

interact with them, I sat next to

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a guy who was probably intoxicated

when he showed up burped in my ear.

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Right.

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And there was that, and it was

really passionate about the chargers.

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He was really passionate about them.

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Yeah.

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Well, and then the other crazy thing too,

we talk about it as a worship experience.

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Again, this preseason game.

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So those tickets were, you know, under

20 bucks a piece sitting way up there.

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Regular season.

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Those tickets are your pants.

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200 bucks, hundreds of those seats.

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And so people not only go and give

their emotion and their, but they're,

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they're giving their money to this.

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Giving your resources, right?

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And it's, it's crazy.

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And.

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In the end.

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None of it matters in the end.

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I mean, when we're talking about

the judgment day, Here in ZKO.

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We alluded to that yesterday

and it's certainly on the scene

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in our Texas, we continue.

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The Cowboys record doesn't

matter who wins the Superbowl?

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That doesn't matter.

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Yeah.

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And I'm saying that as

a guy that loves sports.

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Yeah.

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And I'm telling you, it does not matter.

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It's all it's talking about.

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Vanity king Solomon it's vanity.

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If Solomon was writing today,

he'd say I had season tickets to

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all the greatest sports teams.

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Box seats.

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Right?

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And it's vanity.

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Well, talk to the Christian

who goes to these things.

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I mean, obviously we're, we're, we're

reflecting as pastors who are kind of

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observing it somewhat dispassionately.

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Um, talk to the Christian who goes.

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Honestly, nothing wrong with this.

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This is, this is the way that we, me

and my family, we enjoy entertainment.

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Right.

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I think it's a gift of

God to enjoy football.

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It is, it is in the right place.

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And in the right perspective, um,

there was, uh, a good friend of mine.

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At my mentor back when

I was in seminary who?

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John MacArthur?

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Yep.

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John MacArthur.

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Yep.

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No somebody else.

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Um, but there was a friend of ours

who's going on the mission field, who

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was talking to him and, and this guy

was, was well off and he said, Hey,

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you need to sell everything you have.

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And come on the mission field.

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And his response to this guy was okay,

but who's going to hold the rope then.

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Right.

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In other words, there

needs to be people here.

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So all this goes back to this

concept of, is it wrong to have

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resources it wrong to have wealth?

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Is it wrong to live in a nice

house and drive a nice car?

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And that's why I say it or go to the

Cowboys game and spend money on that.

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No, in its, in its right place.

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If you're doing that at the cost

of doing what God has called you

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to do and giving your time and

talent and treasures to the church.

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And investing in the church and you're not

doing those things because this is taking

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so much of your time and your effort, and

you're focusing your energy away from it.

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Well then it's yeah, it's

an idol in your heart.

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But man, if, if you're pouring yourself

out for the Lord and you're given.

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To to him.

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And you're invested in your

serving the bride of Christ and

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you're doing all these things.

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And then on the side, you've got

the resources and you're being a

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wise steward of your resources.

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And you want to go watch a game with

your family, and that's a way that

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you recharge and recoup and, and.

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You rest to work, so to speak.

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You don't work to rest, but you rest to

work and that's a way for you to do that.

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Great.

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Go do it.

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Enjoy it.

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But kind of like Solomon says in

Ecclesiastes, he's no better, no, that for

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all these things will be, will be judged.

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And so we need to make sure

that we can enjoy those things

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as a gift from the Lord.

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But in the end, we're going to have to

also give an account for the way that we

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spend our time and the things that we did.

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Spend a resources on that

was a great reflections.

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Also parking was $75.

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So besides that it was insane.

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Yeah.

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That was a big deal.

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Yeah.

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Parking was more than the

tickets and we still walked

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some distance to, yeah, we did.

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We walked by some apartments.

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Don't really like, oh man, that'd be nice.

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You don't have to pay for parking.

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You can just walk on over.

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Only $2,000 for their lowest.

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Their lowest entry, which I mean, and

for California, Yeah, that's a deal.

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That's.

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That's a steal, right?

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Yeah.

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Come to Texas people value.

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Right.

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I've always been amazed when you

go by the apartment complexes and

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somebody drives like a G wagon and

they're living in a studio apartment.

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I've never understood that that's where

your that's where your treasuries.

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That's what you value.

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Yeah, you would rather that

I'd want to put it in a garage.

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If I have the option, I'm just saying.

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The G wagon.

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Yeah.

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Garage.

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All right.

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Let's jump into our text.

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Uh, speaking of idolatry.

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We're talking about that.

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Right.

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It's almost like we planned.

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Is he killed nine one through two.

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Uh, six executioners are summoned

along with one who appears to be this

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angelic scribe wearing linen could be

a priest, could be an angel either way.

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Both are, would, would

wear this kind of garb.

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Uh, and there's instructions then

given in verses four through six to

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mark some in the city who demonstrated

this remorse over the wickedness.

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We talked about that yesterday, that

there were some that hated their sin.

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And even load themselves over their sin.

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And so they're told, Hey, this

describes, still go through.

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And mark, those that are truly repentant

basically is what he's talking about.

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And that mark, that they're going to

receive is going to spare them from

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the charges that he gives to the

others, which is to go throughout

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the whole city and kill all the rest.

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And so here we see a foreshadowing

of what's going to take place again.

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In the end times, during the

tribulation, there are going to be

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those that are marked, that are sealed.

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And the Lord is going to spare

them from his ultimate wrath

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and judgment in the end times.

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And so in the short term, this is talking

about the Babylonian invasion and this

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is going to be the, the execution is

not going to be carried out by these

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six literal angelic beings, but they're

representing the judgment of God.

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That's going to come at the hands

of napkin as are in the Chaldeans.

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Uh, but in the end, this is going

to be the wrath of God that's

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being poured out and he's going

to spare people by marking them.

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So there's some parallels here.

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And the, that.

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Not only that the tribulation, but

in, in spiritually speaking, we've all

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been marked by the blood of Christ.

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We've all received that to be

spared from the wrath of God in

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the end, his blood covers us.

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So that we will be, if we truly are

repenting and have put our trust in

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Christ, that we will be spared from

the wrath and the at times as well.

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So we see that here in the

opening part of his ego mind.

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And I think it remains

a permanent fixture.

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Uh, permanent characteristic

of the remnant to hits in.

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Uh, to, to grown and

to feel that sense of.

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Ah, that weightiness.

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I mean, some of the things that I

hear and read about it still caused

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me to grow in this way and cause me at

least internally to have great angsty.

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And I think this is a, a, a

definitive mark of God's people.

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We always hate sin because we

know what it leads to and we

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know what it did to our savior.

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So if that doesn't mark you, perhaps

it's time for some soul searching,

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but if it does, and you're, you're,

you're you have consternation

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about what you see around you.

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Take heart.

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This is a good sign for,

for what God has done in us.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, it's interesting.

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In verses eight through 10

is EQL seems to ask for.

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More mercy from God, more of a

remnant from God, but God responds

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by pointing out the great guilt

and injustice effectively says no.

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Here.

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He says there's a remnant already

in those that had previously.

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Previously been exiled and some that

would escape this judgment, but judgment

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was coming in for, for the others.

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There was no escape.

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There was not going to be.

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Uh, any more mercy extended there.

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Chapter 10.

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Uh, verses one through five.

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Again, here's the image from chapter

one is back here in chapter 10 more.

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Uh, more parallels are seen here with

the cherubim and in the glory of the

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Lord here in, in the glory of the Lord.

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Um, it says, went up from the cherub

to the threshold of the house and the

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house was filled with the cloud, this

being the temple, the house of the Lord.

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Versus 67.

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The scribe from chapter nine has given

some fire here from among the cherubim.

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And then, uh, in verses eight

through 17 that these cherubim

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had four wheels beside them.

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Uh, wheels within wheels and they

have the eyes all around them.

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So again, this is that chapter one scene

and these wheels and the angels here.

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I think that the point is they're

serving at the will of God, and

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they're all moving in, in unison

with his will and his direction.

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And so there, they're doing all of this.

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And then in verses 18 through 19, uh, the

glory of the Lord departs from the temple.

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So it's, it's an object lesson.

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It's an illustration.

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The glory of the Lord goes to the temple,

goes to the threshold, goes to the house.

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And then begins to move

away from the house.

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So this is a staged process and

another step in the ultimate departure.

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Of the glory of the Lord from

the temple there in Jerusalem.

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And interesting facts here that you may

want to be aware of is I, I'm pretty sure.

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I just did a quick check to, to

check my, my thinking on this, but

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pretty sure this is the first time

that you find out that what you read

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about in chapter one is a cherub.

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A chair, a beam.

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Um, that's a plural way of

talking about the chair up.

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So cherub as a, as a kind of angel.

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Sure.

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A beam refers to.

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Plural angels.

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Plural cherubs.

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So this is the first time

you find out what they are.

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No cherubs.

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Uh, another interesting fact here is if

you're looking at verse 14 to figure out

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what the differences may be between this

and chapter one, you'll notice that.

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Uh, among the differences is that

you have, instead of an ox, you

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have a chair up there in verse 14.

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And we think they, some of the,

some of the, the writers and some

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of the commentators about this

would suggest that the reason that

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there's a difference is because the

word for cherub and the word for ox.

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Um, actually had a connection.

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There was a relationship there so maybe

they were somewhat interchangeable.

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The cherub and the ox image,

at least they're related,

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they're connected in some way.

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So just a heads up on that.

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This is the first time you find

out what they are in chapter one.

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They're cherubs chair,

beam, referring to plural.

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And that's what you're seeing here.

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Yeah.

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If you're reading this

going, man, this, this is a.

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This is hard.

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Um, Join the club.

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It is hard.

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This is hard stuff.

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This is, this can be confusing.

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This can be, uh, Just different

than what we're used to.

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We're not used to reading stuff like this.

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And so this is ease hard and that's

why, again, a good commentary is

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good and helpful to keep next to you.

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Uh, as you go through and as you

read all of these things, Chapter

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11, then verses one through three,

you've got the pot in the meat

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and then there's some interesting.

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The imagery going on here in the pot

and the meat is initially intended

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to represent, I think security.

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The pot, even though you think

okay, me inside of a cauldron, I

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mean, the meat is being cooked.

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I don't really want to be that.

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And yet it seems to be that the culture

is providing protection from the fires

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on the outside, that the culture is

seen as something that is good and

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is, uh, Uh, source of safety there.

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Uh, in fact, they even say in

verse three, that the time is not

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near as how the ESV translates.

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It translates it.

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The time is not near to build houses.

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The city is the culture

and we are the meat.

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It may be that the ESV is miss.

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Miss represented.

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This, this may have been a

rhetorical question and him

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saying, isn't now the time to build

houses, like you're talking about.

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Exhale.

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You're talking about going away.

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You're talking about all of these things.

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No.

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Now's the time to build houses.

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Haven't we just built houses and look.

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The culture is all around us.

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The city is there.

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It's protecting us.

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We're the meat inside the city.

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We're protected from any of

the sources on the outside.

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Uh, and so it's, it's them kind of

boasting in this security there,

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at least that's how I've, I've

understood that I would echo that.

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I somewhat, from what I read.

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Um, in fact, I liked the way

that I really liked the way

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that we, as B talks about it.

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He says they made the error

of thinking that they were the

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choice of meat and that the people

they had slain were only scraps.

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So he talks about being of

pride and false confidence.

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That, that makes sense to me.

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Uh, there are some questions about the

translation as you alluded to there, but

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I think that's a, that's a fair approach.

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And that makes the most sense to me.

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And, and then in verses five through

12, God seizes upon their own metaphor

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here, but changes the players.

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The good mean as you were just

alluding to that, that we're, as

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we talked about the good meat.

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Protected by the culture and where

those that had already died under

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the oppression of the wicked and the

evil people in Jerusalem and those

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remaining, they were going to be

removed from the pot by forest, taken

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away from its protection either.

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Through death themselves or through exile

or through the, whatever the judgment

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of doubt was going to come upon them.

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And so we see that there in verses five

to 12, God says, no, don't post in your

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security because you're actually going to.

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You're going to forfeit that

security in the long run.

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Verses 14 through 20, then the Lord's

going to leave a remnant though and

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bring them back and give them a heart of

flesh in causing the walk-in obedience.

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Isn't.

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And this has got to be fully

realized when, uh, this is gonna

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be fully realized in the new earth.

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This is the new covenant language and

even new earth, new Jerusalem language

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in, in revelation 21, he talks about.

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That idea of, they will be my people

and I will be with them as their God.

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That fulfillment doesn't come until then.

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Uh, until that time we're,

we're waiting for that.

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We're still waiting for that reality.

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And Israel is still

waiting for that reality.

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And so in verses 14, through 20 here,

you get some language alluding to in, in

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reminiscent of the new covenant, but that

ultimate fulfillment is not going to come

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until the new earth in the new Jerusalem.

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Versus 22 through 25.

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Then the vision concludes here with

the, again, the turbine, these, these

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angelic beings and the glory of the

Lord departing and standing on the

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Mount of olives before the prophet was

returned to Babylon to count everything

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that he had seen to the exiles.

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And so it goes up, it leaves.

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And it stands there on

the Mount of olives.

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Uh, by the way, which is, I believe to

the east of the temple, which is the

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direction that you were talking about the

temple facing and that the people facing.

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Um, and it remains there and

then it departs and it goes away.

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The glory of the Lord does

from the temple there.

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At kabod Zico chapter 12, then.

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Uh, verses one through seven, thus

ends the temple vision, by the way.

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Yes, chapters eight through 11.

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So that's a section

that has just finished.

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So that's yeah, the

template version there.

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Uh, chapter 12, then

verses one through seven.

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The prophet here is given another

object lesson for him too.

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Uh, provide for the people there.

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And this is going to provide there.

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There are image.

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There, there.

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Captivity there.

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Uh, and this time the exiles were

going to be informed that there

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would be another round of XL and

Judah would be left without king or

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prince there in the capital city.

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And so this baggage that he's carrying the

suitcases out is carrying the luggage out.

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And he's digging through the wall.

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All of this has meant to symbolize.

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They are leaving the, their Homeland.

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They are leaving their city.

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They're, they're making a

journey away from there.

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And this is a reminder that that even

to the exile is already there, that more

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exiles were going to be coming, that there

would be an ultimate fall, and Jerusalem

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was going to be left with no one behind.

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Yeah, this chapter is interesting

because it again is adding more to that

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sense of, okay, who's he talking to?

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Who's the audience, right?

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The most immediate audience is the

exiles who are presently there.

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And yet it's about Jerusalem.

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So I'm guessing that even though he's

got two audiences in mind, The Jerusalem

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audience, it must be getting word

from somebody there's some messenger.

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There's some element.

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Or the people there are saying, Hey,

by the way, here's what he's, EQL

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said about your upcoming plight.

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I just, I have a hard time saying,

okay, what does this really

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do for the immediate audience?

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How does it apply to them?

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What would they, what would

they think about this?

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What would they, they would say, okay.

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Zico.

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Preaching about this coming XL.

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So, so what do I do with that?

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Do you have any thoughts about that?

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For me it's while they're there in exile.

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There, they don't have Twitter to be

able to open up and be like, okay, what's

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what's going on on the world headlines.

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What's going on in, in, in, back in

Jerusalem, what's happening back home.

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They must have runners there.

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Right?

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Messengers.

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I mean, maybe there were a lot of

them, but there had to be somebody,

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someone making a back and forth.

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What standing did they have to be

able to re even receive messengers?

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I mean, they're, they're

political military, captives

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and exiles at this time.

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And.

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I, you know, I don't know for.

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For me, the way I looked at this as God

was continuing to inform the exiles of

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what his plan for their time and exile

was that this was not something that was

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going to come to an end anytime soon, that

they were going to have to continue to.

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To be there that more were coming

on the way, which to me signifies.

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Oh yeah, this is not

going to end anytime soon.

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We're not going back.

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In fact, we're going to

see more people from there.

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Come to us.

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Right.

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Cause, cause Jeremiah is functioning

at the same time as EQL is he,

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but he's just there in Jerusalem.

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Right.

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He's operating with that audience.

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So, yeah, it's an interesting.

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Interplay between.

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Okay.

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This is the exiles is

talking about Jerusalem.

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How does this interact?

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Just interesting thought.

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I don't know if I have a firm answer yet.

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I think, I think your, your

answer is as good as any, not if

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I have it record reconciled in

my mind about what strategically

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this would do for these people.

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Yeah.

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Well, even verse 16, he says, I'm going

to let a few of them escape from the

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sword and from famine and from pestilence.

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That they may declare their.

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All their abominations among

the nations where they go and

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may know that I am the Lord.

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So there it's like, okay, those that

do escape, I'm going to have them

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escape so that they can go in and

declare their repentance essentially.

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Right.

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Everywhere they go.

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Hey, this happened to us because

of God's judgment upon us.

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Um, yeah, verses 22 through 25,

then the Lord will act and enact in.

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You know, acting, he's going to

put an end to the speculation,

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that judgment wasn't coming.

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And that was the whole idea.

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Hey.

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Uh, where is this judgment?

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You're saying that the days were long

and every vision comes to nothing.

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And so they're challenging

and they're protesting.

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And is he going to say no, it's it's

coming in this false peace being

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promoted by false prophets is going

to come to an end along with it.

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This is something that we

read in the new Testament too.

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I think it's second.

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Peter who quotes that, you

know, some people say, where

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is the day of his coming?

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Right?

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Everything has been the

same since the beginning.

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And he's not here.

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And Peter tells us to count

his delay as his patients.

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It's his salvation.

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He says, so.

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And what way do we tend

to think about this?

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I think it's been almost what, 2024 now.

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So we're going in 2025.

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It's been 2000 years since

Jesus was on the scene.

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Yeah.

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I think a lot of people are probably

feel something similar to St.

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Man.

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Jesus promised to come back.

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He hasn't come back yet or maybe he did.

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And it was a secret return.

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Like some of the cults have said.

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Uh, I think for us Christians, we

need to be patient just like Ezekiel

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tells them like, Hey, this has delay.

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It's not his denial of his promises.

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It's just a he's coming.

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When he's coming to be patient.

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He knows the time he knows the hour.

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You stay ready?

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In fact, that's what scripture

tells us what Jesus tells us.

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Be ready, be on watch.

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He's going to come at a moment.

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You don't expect.

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So therefore be ready always, right?

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Because the time of the

is the Bible describes it.

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The time of the fullness of

the Gentiles has not yet been.

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Brought to completion, right.

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That there are more people to be saved.

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And when the last person is saved, then.

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His patients runs out and there is

no more patients at that point, which

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you have, you have a habit of talking

about, if you want to expedite the

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Lord's return, what should we do?

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Share the gospel.

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Yeah, that's the only way we can

speed up his return is seeing

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more people come to faith.

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And are we actually

speeding up his return?

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No.

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Because we believe that God is sovereign

over the salvation of the lost.

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And so he has that, that

date, that date and his.

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His calendar has date book with

each individual soul that is going

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to be saved to be saved from before

the foundations of the earth.

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But from our perspective, If you

want to hasten the coming day of the

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Lord, get busy sharing the gospel.

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And wouldn't it be interesting for

God to say I'm going to use a podcast

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to expedite my people, to cause them

to pursue more people for the gospel

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and consequently to save those people.

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And then I'd be pastor Mike

used to talk about, this are

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sending pastor from California.

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He would say, you know, one day

there's going to be that last person

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who gets on the bus and then Jesus is

going to say, okay, it's time to go.

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That's a really cool thought.

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There's there's going to be a last

person to be entered into the kingdom.

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And I'm excited for that day.

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Pardon me?

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Trembles.

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Because I there's a lot

of people on my list.

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I don't know about yours, but people.

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I need all these people.

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Save Lord, please say these people.

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But there's going to be a last person.

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And when that day comes.

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That's time.

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Yep.

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Yeah, it is.

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It is, and that's our task.

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That's our task that we

need to be busy about.

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That's right.

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Yep.

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What's prey towards that end.

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And then we'll finish up this episode.

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God, we do ask that you would make us

fruitful as a church evangelistically.

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We pray that you would allow us to see

more and more people come to faith in

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Christ and to repent from their sins

and to see their need for salvation.

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We want to be a fruitful church.

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We don't want to just be a church that

turns itself inward and, and focuses on

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what we want to do in our comfort zones.

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Lord, bring us out of our

comfort zones and into.

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Uh, these interactions with people

that need to hear the gospel.

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And I pray that they would

respond in faith to that message.

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And so we ask that, we ask for that

favor from you and we pray in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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A.

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Hey, Ben.

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We'll keep it in your Bibles

and tune in again tomorrow.

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For another episode of the daily

Bible podcast, we shall see you then.

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Bye.