00:00 Intro

00:08 Sound Effects and Editing Challenges

00:34 Call for Volunteers

02:14 Identity Theft and Data Security

03:07 Google Yourself and Data Scrubbing

05:40 Daily Bible Reading: Ezekiel 31-33

09:45 Humorous Corrections and Dark Web Warnings

10:03 One-Star Review Drama

10:39 Tech-Savvy Church Members

12:50 Driving Habits and Improvements

13:39 Ezekiel's Prophecies and Interpretations

15:05 The Role of the Watchman

17:10 God's Justice and Mercy

20:15 Applying Sermons to Daily Life

22:19 Final Prayers and Podcast Conclusion

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hello.

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That's it.

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No, no effects.

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I said, hello.

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No applause.

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I, I can't keep the effects and not,

and so you, if you listen to the

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podcast yesterday, you'll notice that.

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There was a lot more left in

than what's normally there.

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That's 'cause I couldn't edit it, right?

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To keep the sound effects, I had to

keep the file pretty straight up.

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So I don't like that.

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I wanna make it edited and nice

and clean and make it as compact

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as possible for our listeners.

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So today, no sound effects, so somebody

needs to add in post-production

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sound effects at some point.

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That would be fantastic if we had

somebody, by the way, if you're out there

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to that point and you're listening to

these and you enjoy them and you want to.

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Improve them.

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Say, Hey, how can I be of service to

the church and service to our pastors?

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If you want to take these

and clone our voices.

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Nope.

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And then prompt AI to comment

on the Bible passages.

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Nope.

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Like we do.

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Fantastic.

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Not what I was gonna say.

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We would love to have you do that.

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Not at all.

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We invite you to do that

even without our permission.

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No.

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Start today, Don, with Pastor pj.

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I don't, Nope.

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I do not give you permission.

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That's a great campaigns slogan.

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No, this is like the Facebook

thing that all the people

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copy and paste on their wall.

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I do not give you permission to clone

my voice, and that's not a real thing.

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It's a real thing that people

do it, but you should know that

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doesn't do anything to Facebook.

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No.

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Facebook's not gonna

honor your status post.

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No.

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And nobody's out there being

like, oh, we're gonna take all

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the photos from Facebook and.

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Sell them to China.

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They probably use it for their training.

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Regardless of whether or not you think

by right of you using it, you are

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allowing them to use your data, I'm sure.

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Yeah, I'm sure.

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For all sorts of purposes.

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Nefarious or otherwise.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So you posting it doesn't do anything.

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Also, the other thing that doesn't do

anything is when you're like, I didn't

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know I had all of these friends on

Facebook, and then all of a sudden I

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looked at my friend list and I copied

and pasted this, and now I'm seeing all

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of my friends posts back on my timeline.

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Yeah.

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That doesn't do anything either.

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Doesn't work.

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No.

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But.

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If you wanna serve the church and you

wanna help us with the podcast production

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and you wanna do some editing for us?

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We wouldn't complain.

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We wouldn't argue.

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No.

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And we will let you clone

our voices as a bonus.

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No, we won't.

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You can clone Pastor Rod's

voice and Pastor PJ's.

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We will we can send you the audio files.

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We've got a program.

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It's pretty straightforward.

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And I can get you pp j's driver's

license, birth certificate.

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You let me know what you need.

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It's the dark web I'll supply.

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It's on.

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I was notified about that yesterday.

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Really?

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Hey, your driver's license

number is on the dark web.

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Great.

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Thanks.

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You know why?

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'cause T-Mobile.

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T-Mobile did it.

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Is it a T-Mobile League?

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Really?

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It was, yeah, but not recent.

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10 years ago, but I, so I have

identity theft protection and I pay

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a company to, to monitor things.

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And so I added my driver's license

number in 'cause it still had

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my California driver's license.

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Oh.

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But it, my driver's license

number in Texas is the same one.

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It was when I was here,

when I used to live here.

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Oh wow.

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Like you, they give it, they

kept it, they keep it and they

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just issue it to you again.

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So I added that back in and it

let me know that there was a data

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leak from T-Mobile at some point.

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Wow.

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Which we haven't had T-Mobile

in probably 15 years, but Yeah.

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That's rough.

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Yeah, but all of our

stuff is on the dark web.

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It's crazy.

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And it's okay.

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Wow.

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Do you use anything that scrubs

your information off of Google?

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Incog me or whatever?

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Yeah.

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No I've considered it.

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I just am too cheap to pull the trigger.

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Have you ever Googled yourself?

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Yes.

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And so there's not a lot

of stuff out there then.

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'cause as soon as I did that, I'm

like, I need to do this right away.

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So there's way more information out

there about, my name's unique too,

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so if you put my name out there

you're gonna find me or my dad.

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And I don't like what's out there.

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So I paid a company to scrub all

the data and apparently the way

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that their service works is that.

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They'll stay on top of it because new

data brokers continue to emerge and find

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information from all sorts of places.

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Yeah, no, if you google my name like

PJ Burner, like you're just gonna

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find a bunch of videos of sermons.

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Okay.

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That's I see you and Pastor

Mike you're wearing some kinda

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wedding gown or something.

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Yeah, that's it.

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It's a wedding gown or

it's a graduation, yeah.

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Gown.

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Yeah.

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Is it a gown?

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Is that what they call that cap and gown?

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Yeah.

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Oh, okay.

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It's a gown.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So you're wearing a gown

regalia, if you will.

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I'm gonna call it a gown.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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I see lots of see, here's the thing.

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My, this is my Google, so it's using

all of my data to look for you.

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Yeah I see Compass Bible

Church, north Texas.

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I wonder why that came up first.

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Compass Bible Church near Texas.

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Yeah.

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I don't know.

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Strange.

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I have no idea.

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That's very strange.

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I see you on the Compass Bible

Institute website, which I know

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is where we used to come from.

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Yeah.

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It is where we used to come from.

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Yeah, it is.

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Absolutely.

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That's it.

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That's it.

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Yep.

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That still see you here?

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Yeah.

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It says your professor of theology.

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Did you know that I.

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Am a practicer of theology

and I have been a professor.

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You are a professor of theology?

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Yes.

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You profess theology.

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You don't necessarily practice

it, but you do profess it.

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I don't practice theology.

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Practice theology.

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No, it says you profess

it though, oh, okay.

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I'm also a practicer of theology.

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Okay.

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It doesn't say that.

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I'm gonna create my own website.

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You should have Pastor Mark update.

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Update your description here to showcase

that you're a professor and practice rep.

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We should clarify Pastor Mark

Kelly, not Pastor Mark Hogan.

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That's true.

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Not our pastor.

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Mark.

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You know it's funny.

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People here who are listening.

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Who don't attend our church?

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We know Pastor Mark.

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MARC as pm.

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Yep.

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We call 'em PM here.

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Yep.

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So if Pastor Mike ever shows

up in our neck of the woods,

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there's gonna be great confusion.

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I think the PMs will have to fight to

the death and only one will emerge.

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Oh anyway.

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Yeah.

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So no, all that to say I've looked

at it and I've considered the

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service, but I, again, I just am

too cheap to pull the trigger out.

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It is well worth it.

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I put myself on there and

Kristen, so Kristen and I both

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have almost no data on Google.

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If you Google me, only Compass

Bible Church stuff will show up.

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You know what, which I like,

I'm gonna populate stuff on

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my own website about you.

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That's fantastic.

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And they're not gonna be able

to scrub it and we'll see.

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We'll see if they do it.

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Alright.

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Let's jump into our DBR today.

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Something a little bit more positive than

identity theft and without sound effects,

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scrubbing data that's positive now.

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Hey, we're in chapter 31 through 33

today, and like I said yesterday, we're

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shifting from Egypt as a nation to

Pharaoh, the head of the nation of Egypt.

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So he is in Target here, 5 86 bc

5 87 BC is our timeframe still.

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And what chapter 31 basically is it's an

extended metaphor that the majority of

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this, even though Pharaoh is the one that

is I guess the subject of it, the main.

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Thrust of the chapter is about Assyria

and God through the prophet, Ezekiel uses

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this prolonged metaphor about Assyria as

a large tree, a cedar and le in Lebanon.

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Lebanon was known for its cedars and

Assyria was, is compared to this.

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And it's similar to Nebuchadnezzar's

Dream about himself in in Daniel chapter

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two, no, chapter two is the chapter one.

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No.

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It's similar to, to chapter one,

I believe it is The gigantic tree.

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It's in the book of Daniel.

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Chapter two is the statue.

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Yeah.

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Anyways, and yeah.

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The birds of the air, all of these

things living in the street, and

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it points to the power and the

splendor and the majesty of Assyria.

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And yet then God says, and

here's what I did to Assyria.

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I took Assyria out.

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I destroyed it.

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I wiped it out completely.

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And what's left is a sh.

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A shadow of what used to be there.

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And the pivot is then when he says in

verse 18, whom are you thus like in glory

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and in greatness among the trees of Eden?

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In other words, are you Pharaoh greater

than what Assyria was in its power?

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And the answer is no, because Assyria

was a greater empire, a greater power.

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At its height than Egypt

was, especially at this time.

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And so God's judgment on them is you

shall lie among the uncircumcised

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with those who are slain by the sort.

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This is the judgment coming upon

Pharaoh here in chapter 31, the leader

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of Egypt, and he uses Assyria as an

example to say, this is what I did

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to Assyria, so I will do to you too.

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Chapter 32.

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Then we, again, follow the

pattern of judgment with Lament.

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And so we did this with

the situation with Tire.

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We did it with Egypt.

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Now we're doing it here with Pharaoh.

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And so the Lament, the Song of

Lamentation is offered here for Pharaoh.

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And the more I think about it the

lamentation I don't think is as much.

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Of, Hey, we're grieving for these nations.

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We're grieving for the people.

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I think it's more of we're grieving the

opportunity missed that had to bring

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the judgment of God that they made such

foolish decisions to go and worship idols

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or to put themselves in the place of God.

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And as a result, they

suffer the wrath of gout.

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And so the lamentation is more over the.

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The sin and the rejection of God than it

is over the judgment that God is bringing

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against these people, if that makes sense.

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The distinct distinction there, so

it's not Hey, this is a limitation.

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Feel bad for Pharaoh, but more,

Hey, this is a sorry situation

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because of what happened because

his sin was so egregious that God

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had to judge and punish in this way.

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Which does shape the way that we lament,

at least in, in the sense that when

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God judges we're not fist pumping and

saying, this is the greatest thing ever.

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I think even in our redeemed

nature, our understanding of

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judgment will necessarily be fooler.

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It will be more righteous than it

is now, but I don't think we're ever

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gonna be like yes, you destroyed them.

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I'm so grateful.

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I'm so glad.

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I think it'll be a subdued.

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Rejoicing, if there is such a thing

I think we'll have to respond to God

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with a certain sense of this was right.

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Yeah.

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This was just, and I praise you for

that, even with what would you, what

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you would call in our current nature

a heavy heart, but it would still be a

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redeemed heart that says, this was good.

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Yeah.

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This was a good thing.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And that re requires somebody who

is, has the heart of the Lord and

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the affections for the Lord to

have that mentality that isn't.

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The sinful rejoicing, but

that is the rejoicing because

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of God's name and his glory.

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Was it Susanna Wesley that told her

kids something to the effect of, if I

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find you on the other side of the Lord

that day, I'll rejoice at his justice.

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Something like that.

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Like hardcore?

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Yeah.

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Man, moms are different back then.

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Yeah.

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They're, that's not

gentle parenting, Susanna.

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No, that is not.

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That is not.

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Indeed.

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And by the way, Daniel chapter four

was the chapter I was looking for you.

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That's why I couldn't find it.

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I told you it was in Daniel.

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Yeah.

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Thank you.

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I.

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I appreciate all of that.

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And so those of you that were writing

the email to correct me, don't have to

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correct me anymore, you could text him.

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It's Daniel four.

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I know what it is.

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9 4 9.

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It's on the dark.

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Web X.

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You just look it up.

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Dark web.com.

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Don't go there.

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I have no idea what that is.

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Do not go there.

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Yikes.

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Just fool this Glen,

just go to Compass cx.

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I don't know who that is.

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Org org comp.

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Hey, s speaking of reviews, we got

our one star review taken down.

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What?

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Yeah, I was letting that sit

there for conviction, bro.

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I didn't suggest, Hey,

we need to pull it down.

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But it's an unfair review though.

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It is because it's not about our church.

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It's not about, it is.

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But it's not because they

visited and sat in our service.

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And that's the fairest

way to do it, I think.

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Yeah.

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You can't hold a church

responsible for the action of

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one of its members on a bad day.

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I would bet.

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Yeah.

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No one's looking out to go and be road

rage, we're trying to, we're trying to

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cooperate here with each other on the

road, so I think that's a good move.

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Yeah.

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I'm glad they did that.

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Yeah.

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Google came through for us.

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Yeah, actually that's fair.

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One of our own came through for

us who helps us with our backend,

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our search engine optimization

and all that stuff oh, thanks Dan.

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He could probably scrub the

internet of all of our stuff.

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He probably could.

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Yeah.

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I had one, one church I was at, there

was a guy who was really good with

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the innerwebs and an email went to

somebody that wasn't supposed to go to

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them, and we called the guy thinking,

Hey, maybe you can help us with this.

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Hey we sent this email, we really would

like for them not to see this thing.

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And he's wait, guys I can't do that.

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This is really illegal.

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But gimme 15 minutes.

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And he did it.

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He did it.

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He took, that's crazy.

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He took it from the server on the, I don't

even know if he could still do that today.

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I'm sure it's gotten a lot harder.

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That's crazy.

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But he was good and we were thankful for,

I forget what the email was even about.

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I was just so amazed that he

knew how to do this, that I've

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never forgotten it ever since.

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You know who would know Daniel Mayer ii?

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Daniel Mayer ii.

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Yeah.

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He would know.

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'cause he does all that.

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He does.

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I think he's a white hat

hacker and things like that.

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We should ask.

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Yeah, you're right.

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You're absolutely, he's totally the guy.

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We should ask about that.

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We should have him try it.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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If I send a loom to the whole church,

then he could, he might have been

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able to return and bell maybe.

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Yeah.

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We should have asked Will.

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Hopefully we won't have that

problem present itself anymore.

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I think there are laws against it though.

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I'm not sure if it's technically legal.

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I think so.

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And if you did it like with the whole

church, it would, you'd probably run a

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valve of some felonious laws, probably

a couple people in our church where they

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might, it might be illegal more so to

hack their email than other people spies.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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That's exactly, I agree.

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Chinese spies is what I was thinking.

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We won't call that person out.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Anyways.

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Now that our podcast has been

flagged, because we've been talking

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about the dark web and Chinese

spies, you told 'em where to go too.

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Yikes.

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The the, whoever the director of the

NSA is listening to us right now.

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You should come to church.

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By the way, if you are come to

church, we'd love to have you.

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We've got great drivers and you won't

find any, anything else, anywhere

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else that says anything different.

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I hope so.

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Alright, going forward.

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That was just free googly right in the

middle of the podcast for, but if that

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reviewer is listening to this podcast,

we would love to know who it was.

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If you recall that kind of car, what

kind of car was, what car it was.

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Yeah.

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If it was a spaceship, we'd love

to know, especially that dude, why

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do you keep wanting this to be me?

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Because it would be so funny.

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It would just be, I

would be tickled by it.

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I don't.

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I, but that's not who I am.

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You're not an aggressive driver.

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I'm not an aggressive driver.

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You know what?

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That's true.

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I have driven with you on multiple

different occasions and I could tell you

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that you are less aggressive today than

the first time I got in the car with you.

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When was the first time

you got in the car with me?

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That was a long time ago.

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Well, lemme tell you.

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Okay.

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So there, there are times when

you've driven and I feel like

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I'm on a rollercoaster and I

don't feel like that anymore.

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I feel like you're far more

subdued and you're driving today.

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Oh wow.

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Thanks, man.

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I appreciate, that's the truth.

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Yeah.

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Sorry about the roller coasters.

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I don't remember that, but yeah.

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Yeah.

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Is it just because Texas is

flat and California had hills?

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No, it actually wasn't that I, it was

probably, it's probably in Texas, so it

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had to be two and a half, three years

ago, whenever it was on our way down

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to Hill Country, a realtor down there.

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That maybe part, maybe partly, yeah.

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Glad.

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There you go.

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You heard it right here, folks.

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I'm a better driver.

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You're growing San vacation.

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Yeah.

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Thanks man.

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Hey, Ezekiel 33 then.

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Ezekiel 33 shifts I guess

we should finish 32.

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It the latter part of this chapter.

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He begins to just tick off these various

nations that God is also bringing.

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Judgment against and already

has brought judgment.

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'cause he's talking about Pharaoh's

downfall, that Pharaoh's gonna go to Shol

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and then he goes through and list all

of these other nations and the leaders

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of these nations that are already there.

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And I think the implication there that

one takeaway that we can have is there's

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a little bit of a glimpse into Ezekiel's

understanding and the Old Testament

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Saints understanding of the afterlife.

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That there's a persistence.

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That their identity is,

that they are present there.

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Not that they have already gone there,

past tense is done and over with.

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But that there is some sort of

continuing presence there in Sheel.

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Now she all means grave.

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It doesn't necessarily equate to the idea

of hell, but it would seem that there is a

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concept here of an ongoing punishment that

Pharaoh is going to join the ranks of them

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in the latter part here of chapter 32.

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Yeah.

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I'm interested in one of the final verses

where it says that he'll be comforted by

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the people that are judged along with him.

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I found that interesting.

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That's a hard one, huh?

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Yeah, because we've all heard the people

that say, I don't wanna go to Heaven.

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I wanna go to hell because all my

greatest friends are gonna be there.

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All my there.

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Yeah.

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I think to your point, I don't

think this is the same thing.

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It clearly isn't, but it is interesting

that there's something about the fact

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that others are judged along with

him, that he's comforted by that idea.

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Misery loves company as the saying goes.

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Yeah.

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Chapter 33, we get to a

subject of the watchman.

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And we've already seen this

once before, but it's developed

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even more so here in chapter 33.

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And that is the job that Ezekiel

had to warn the Israelites.

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And if he didn't do his job,

then he would be considered a

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watchman who is derelict duty.

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And in that case, those that he

didn't warn, they would suffer.

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They remember, we've already talked about

this, Ezekiel 18, I think it is, that each

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one is gonna die for their own sin, but.

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If Ezekiel didn't warn them, he would also

be held accountable for their rejection

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as well, their sinfulness as well, which

is in some ways what we find in the book

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of Hebrews about our job as pastors,

we are gonna have to give a, an account

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for the souls that are under our charge.

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And I think that the main thrust

there is more positively in how

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we shepherded believers, but.

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There's an element too that I think

that we will be held accountable to.

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Did you the unbelievers in

your midst, did you warn them?

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Did you present the gospel faithfully?

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Did you present what was hanging in

the balance in a way that was that was

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honoring to the Lord in that context?

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And so God is laying out.

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Ezekiel's charge here, and then reminding

the people that he desires that they would

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repent, that the response that he wants

from them is not that they would reject

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his Ezekiel's message, the Watchman's

message, but that they would hear it and

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that they would live, that they would

respond, that they would turn back.

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He says in verse 11, turn back.

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Turn back from your evil ways

for why will you die, O Israel.

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And he says therein goes on and

explains that the unrighteous

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person who repents and pursues

righteousness will be forgiven.

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The righteous person who sins and

doesn't repent will not be forgiven.

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And in therein we see even an Old

Testament glimpse of some of the

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gospel principles there in chapter 32.

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But Ezekiel the watchman is the main

idea here in the first half of the book.

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And then the or first half of chapter

32, 33 chapter 33 following the

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rest of it is the end of Jerusalem.

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It's the destruction of the city under

Nebuchadnezzar at that point that

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we've seen a couple times now already.

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So we have a passage here, and I don't

think we talked about it in chapter 18.

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God says something very similar

in both chapter 18 and here in

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chapter 33, where he says, I have no

pleasure in the death of the wicked.

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How do we fit that together

with what we might've recalled

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reading back in Deuteronomy 28

and Deuteronomy 28, it says this.

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And as the Lord took delight in doing

you good in multiplying you, so the

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Lord will take delight in bringing ruin

upon you and destroying you, and you

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shall be plucked off the land that you

are entering to take possession of.

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So this is God telling them when

he has to judge them, he says, the

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Lord will take delight in bringing

ruin upon you and destroying you.

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And yet here in chapter 33 and in

chapter 18, Ezekiel says they have no

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pleasure in the death of the wicked.

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So are we seeing a contradiction?

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Are we seeing a shade of nuance

here that we're not able to easily

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see on the surface of the text?

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How might you handle this or

how might you encourage us to

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handle a passage like this?

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This is challenging.

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It is challenging.

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I think in Deuteronomy, in other

passages that we see similar concepts,

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I think God is taking delight in the.

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Execution of justice because it's a

displaying of his holiness and his wrath.

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And it's the necessary outcome of

who he is as a God who is holy.

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So he takes delight in his justice

being meted out, and that is where

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he finds delight, not necessarily

in the objects of his wrath.

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Is he delighting in their punishment?

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Is he delighting in their perishing?

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And I think there's room

for that bifurcation.

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Bifurcation to take place.

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I think God can delight in his wrath

being meted out because that is a

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satisfaction of his justice and yet

at the same time not to delight in the

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death of the one that he is punishing.

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And that's some of what we get to in

the New Testament when God says, I don't

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wish that anyone should perish, but

that all should come to eternal life.

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I think it's the same heart.

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That we see from God there in

second Peter that we see here when

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Ezekiel says, God doesn't take

delight in the death of the wicked.

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Yeah, that's a helpful framing of this.

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Sticky situation here.

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So it superficially, it looks like it

contradicts, but I think what you're

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bringing up is a really helpful point

and a really helpful way to look at this.

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The delight that God has is

the expression of his justice.

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The no pleasure portion is an expression

of his reluctance to destroy the

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wicked, because that's what's necessary.

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So there is a sense in which God

does delight in bringing destruction

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upon them, and there is a sense

in which God does not delight.

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And I think we have to

hold that tension too.

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There is a sense in which we long

for God's justice and there's also

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a sense in us in which we long

for his mercy and we want him to

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save as many people as possible.

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This is why the gospel shines so brightly.

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Even in Ezekiel, we need God

to be just and righteous.

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We don't want a different kind of God.

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We might think that, but in reality we

really want a just God because there's

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so much evil, and it really isn't

until that evil's on our doorstep.

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Affecting our family and our closest

loved ones that we begin to feel that

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sense of God bring justice please.

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So we really do want a God who is just,

but at the same time, we want a God

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who's gonna forgive and show mercy,

and that's where Christ comes in.

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He takes the justice that we deserve.

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And that's why passages like

this are still so potent, but

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they're not potent against us.

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They're potent against Christ

because we are found in.

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Yeah.

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One final warning that we find at the

very end of chapter 33 that I think

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is particularly relevant for us.

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He says in verse 31, they come to you

as my people come and they sit before

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you as my people and they hear what you

say, but they will not do it for, with

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lustful talk in their mouths, they act.

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Their heart is set on their gain and

behold you are to them like one who sings

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lustful songs with a beautiful voice and

plays well on an instrument for they hear

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what you say, but they will not do it.

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This is.

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Indicative of a lot of.

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Professing Christians, I would say today

who will show up and they will hear a

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sermon and agree with it and sit there and

nod along with it and say Yes and amen.

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And yeah, they go out and

they don't want to apply it.

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And so they want to sit there

and hear the good theology, but

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they don't necessarily want to.

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Put the good theology into practice,

and that's what Israel was doing.

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They were willing to listen to it and

not along and say, yes, this is good.

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This is right, this is, this just

may be but then they were going out

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and they were denying the things

that they were affirming by the

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way that they lived their lives.

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We'll talk a little bit more about

that tomorrow at church Together too.

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Yeah, I think that's a really

great point and the fact that

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you're not there if this is you.

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I think it's important that

you look at that as evidence

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of God's grace at work in you.

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What we are and who we are becoming in

Christ is still an act of his grace.

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What good in you is God at work in you.

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This is Philippians chapter two.

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Paul says, to work out your own salvation

because God's the one at work in you.

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And so if you are making progress in

the faith, if you are listening to the

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sermons and you're deriving benefit from

them and you're applying them and you're

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seeking to grow up in your faith, notice.

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God is the one who gets

the credit for that.

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You're cooperating and

praise God for that.

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That's amazing.

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That's a great thing, but

don't take that for granted.

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As you see here, there is a kind

of person that we can become where

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we're listening and we're nodding

along and saying Amen to that pastor.

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You get those sinners, and at the

same time, we're totally missing it

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because it's supposed to hit us in the

heart and not the person next to you.

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So pray for a soft and tender heart.

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Don't let yourself become deceived by sin.

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It's very tricky and it longs

to harden you against yourself,

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against the Lord against.

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Your brothers and sisters, if you have a

tender heart, don't take it for granted.

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Pray that you keep it.

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Yeah, let's do that right now.

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Again we want to be a

church with tender hearts.

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We soft hearts towards your word and

not just to hear it and to agree with

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it in in a context of a sermon or

reading it, but we also want to then

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take it and apply it and live it out.

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And so give us that we pray.

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Keep us humble.

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Lord, guard us against self-deception

and may we be a fruitful congregation.

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We pray in Jesus' name, amen.

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Keep in your Bibles tuning again

tomorrow for another edition

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of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Bye bye.

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said