00:00 Intro

00:12 The Importance of Communion

01:54 Judgment on the Nations: Ezekiel 25

03:31 God's Displeasure with Pride and Gloating

06:29 Road Rage and Church Reviews

08:42 Prophecies Against Tyre: Ezekiel 26-27

12:14 Theological Pride and Humility

18:54 Concluding Prayer and Encouragement

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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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It is Thursday, September 4th that it is.

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Yep.

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2025.

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That's right.

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Yes it is.

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What do we got going on this weekend?

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I think we've got communion

this weekend, which.

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We don't always put out there to prep, but

that's important for us to think about.

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It's something that's good for us

to be intentional about when we

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gather together to observe community.

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And so make sure that you're mindful

of that, aware of that, parents, I know

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some of you have your kids sitting in

service with you more and more these days.

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That's great.

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We're fine with that.

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We just wanna make sure with something

like communion, that you're also

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using it as a time for instruction.

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And so we are firmly in the

camp that communion is for

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Christians and for believers.

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And so we wanna make sure that

our kids understand that as well.

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And it's okay for them to ask questions

after service or even right in that

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moment, Hey why don't I get to have that?

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Why don't I get to.

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To enjoy that.

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And that's an opportunity for that

gospel conversation to take place.

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But we wanna be sure that we fence the

table wisely because God is clear in one

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Corinthians 11, he says that if we eat

the Lord's table the communion elements

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in an unworthy manner, that we can

eat and drink judgment upon ourselves.

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So we wanna be careful not to

treat it flippantly or casually.

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And we could probably do a better, I

could do a better job of making sure

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people know when communion's coming up.

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But it is gonna be the Sunday.

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And so make sure that your

heart is ready even as you come.

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Come repent and come confess up.

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Come prayed up and come ready to

observe commun together as the church.

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It's such a good thing.

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It's such a sweet remembrance

of the death of Christ for us.

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One of our sending pastor actually.

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Compared it to the engagement ring

for the church that it's every time

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we do it, it's like remembering

that promise that he's coming back.

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And that's how Paul's words end there.

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In one Corinthians 11.

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He says, we're gonna do

this until the Lord returns.

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We're gonna proclaim his

death until the Lord returns.

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It's that engagement ring that

he's promised to come back for

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the church and he will do that.

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Such a good thing for us to gather

together as the church and remember

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their Christ's death together.

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What do we got today?

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We've got Ezekiel 25, 26,

and 27 media chapters.

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As much of Ezekiel has been chapter 25

is really dealing with the nations and

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he's going to address Amman and then

he's also gonna address Moab and Seer.

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You can see Edem there, Philistia.

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And these are all nations that in, at one

point in time or another, were standing

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against the people of God and I think

the indictment against the Ammonites

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is perhaps most helpful in this regard

as to why he's doing what he's doing.

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He says, thus says the Lord, because

you said Aha over my sanctuary when

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it was profaned and over the land

of Israel when it was made desolate

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and over the house of Judah when

they went into exile, therefore, so

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that's verse three of chapter 25.

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Aha is not, a flippant.

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Comment there, but it's a gloating.

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It's a conceit.

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It's an arrogance there that

the Ammonites had, and they're

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celebrating the downfall of Israel.

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And so whether it's the Ammonites

or the Moabites, or the Edomites

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or the Philistines, that's why God

is judging them here in Chapter 25.

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He's judging them saying,

you Gloated wrongfully.

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Instead of mourning over Israel's

downfall, you celebrated the

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downfall of Israel and the

judgment that they were receiving.

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He's not excusing Israel's sin here.

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He is not excusing Judas

sin or saying that.

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That Judah didn't get what they deserved.

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We've already covered that.

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They did get what they deserved.

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Rather, he's going to the nations

around saying, this is not okay for

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you to gloat and celebrate, because

in, in essence, they were also gloating

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and celebrating and flexing over him

because these were the people of God.

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And so they're celebrating the

downfall of the people of God, and

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in essence, they're attacking God

in God's character in that too.

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And so God is gonna judge them

for their rebellion against him.

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I think what's important.

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Yeah.

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Among many things, let me just

qualify that, is to notice that

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God doesn't like when we celebrate

the downfall of our enemies.

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Yeah.

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There's something interesting about that.

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'cause it's not only true for Amon

doing that against Israel God's people,

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and that's important in and of itself.

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But we also have a proverb

that says that you're not to

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rejoice when you're enemy falls.

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Unless God see it and be displeased at it.

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There's something about

this that God despises.

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What would you say, or what

would you guess maybe you

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have a great answer to this.

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What would you guess is behind the

heart that God really hates when

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you celebrate your enemy's downfall?

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I think it's just that the

pride in, in, in our own.

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Human self-glorification.

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'cause oftentimes it's like when

you're on the road and somebody

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blows by you, they've been

tailgating you the whole time.

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They blow by you and then a mile or

two, two down the road, like electric

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Hyundai with the Compass Bible sticker.

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That's very specific.

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It's right next to you.

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It's very specific.

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Cuts you off and you almost

do a donut on the freeway.

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Yeah, so let's just say that.

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Let's just say that's

very specific though.

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Like Tuesday, last week, let's say.

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And then three miles down the

road you see them pulled over by.

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Police officer and you're

saying, yes, you're fist pump,

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you drive by, thank you Lord.

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There is a God.

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He's good, but you're rejoicing

because you're vindicated, not

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because God has vindicated.

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And so I think it's the wrong

focus because David, in his imp

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purgatory psalms, he's praying

that God would judge the enemy,

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smite the enemy, destroy the enemy.

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We've talked about that.

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And that's okay because he's jealous for

God's righteousness to be done there.

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Yeah that's what I would say.

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Yours.

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Yeah.

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I absolutely I would

agree with that entirely.

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I think there is a sense in which there

are videos that are all about this.

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When I forget what it's something karma.

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Something that happens

where karma takes place.

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Instant karma.

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Instant karma.

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That's the one.

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Yeah.

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Where they catch it on video.

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Yep.

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Someone gets cut off, something like

that or some, something bad happens to

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someone and the person that committed

the crime is immediately judged in

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some way, at least on in our eyes.

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That's what happens And.

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I think all of us secretly are like,

yes, we're glad that it happened.

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But I think you're right.

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What it conveys is a sense that we don't

deserve the very thing that they get.

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Just the, just because we're not

often caught doesn't change the

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fact that God doesn't like that he

shows grace upon lots of people.

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The rain falls on the just, and

the unjust and the rain also falls.

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And or so does the thunder

the mudslide that also falls

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in the just and the unjust.

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And we ought not to be thankful or

celebratory when our enemies fall, but.

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Let me offer you a challenge though.

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What about the fact that at the end

of the ages, Jesus is gonna come,

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he's gonna rule with the rod of iron,

Psalm chapter two, kiss the sun, lest

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he be offended or angry with you.

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Angry with you.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So he's gonna come and

we are gonna celebrate.

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And vindicate his righteousness.

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And his justice.

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Yes.

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How is that any different?

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Because we're celebrating

him we're rejoicing in him.

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And at that point in our redeemed

bodies, we don't have the presence

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of the sinful flesh staining our

human emotions at that point.

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We don't have the old man

lingering around with some.

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Vestige of wanting some pound of flesh

for our own glory that's left behind.

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It's really gonna be at that

point, all about the glory of God.

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So it's because we won't have the same

kind of, we won't have the sin tendency,

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which will allow us to celebrate

that with purity and perfection.

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Yeah, that sounds great.

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By the way.

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Just a sidebar here.

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I was every once in a

while I check Google.

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He is literally standing

next to his desk right now.

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I will check Google to see how our

reviews are doing as the church

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just to, 'cause I'm curious.

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Somebody put a one star review up about

a week ago, ah, and the one star review

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said, oh no, that they were driving and

they witnessed somebody with a Compass

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Bible Church, north Texas sticker on their

car commit road rage so bad that they

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said, I will never attend your church.

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One star What?

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No lie.

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No lie.

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Did they describe the vehicle?

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They did not.

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Was it an electric Hyundai?

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It was not.

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It was not because that one cut me off

too and I was really upset about it.

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I'm never gonna that church.

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No, but you guys hear us joke all the time

about, hey, if you put a pumper sticker

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on the back of your car, it should be

a sanctifying effect on your driving.

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Wow.

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Let you know who it was.

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I have no idea who it was.

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Come on.

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I'm glad I don't know who it was.

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I really, I'm gonna do

some digging right now.

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I have no idea.

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I'm gonna look at her Yelp page

and see if that says anything.

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Yeah, just be mindful of that.

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I honestly, I have no idea who it was.

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I'm not trying to dig to find out

who it is, but if you've got a

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sticker on the back of your car,

and we hope you do, it's great.

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We, we know of, in our, at our sending

church, a lot of people would say,

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Hey, I found the church because I

saw these bumper stickers on cars.

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They're like, what is this church?

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People love their church

and they showed up.

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But if that's you, just

be careful how you drive.

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Because you are representing the

bride of Christ, the church, you're

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representing us as your pastors, you're

representing Christ most importantly.

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And so that, that should impact

whether or not you're wanting your

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pound of flesh, you, your conceit,

your glory in the situation there.

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So looking for that one star.

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It's on the, it's on Google.

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I'm looking, it's on Yelp.

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I'm looking for a

description of the vehicle.

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Oh, okay.

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I don't know if you're gonna find it

unless you engage with the person.

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I wouldn't really en encourage

to engage this person because

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I'm worried about what else?

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Oh, they're gonna post on

our Google Review page.

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Wow.

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But did you find it.

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I'm looking at it.

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Yeah.

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There you go.

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So Ally jumped on, ally Trinidad,

jumped on this morning on our Google

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page and left us a five star review.

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'cause she was like, I don't

want that to be the one that

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people see first and foremost.

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All right.

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So if you haven't reviewed

us on Google, jump on Google.

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Leave us a good review.

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We would love that.

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A five star.

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Listen, I know we're not a perfect church.

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We're looking at one person when we

say this, you don't have to give us a

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four, four star review just 'cause we

know we're not a good, perfect church.

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We, we get that.

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Leave us the five star.

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It's gonna, it is gonna be good.

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It's gonna be helpful for us.

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That's right.

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Amen.

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Hey chapter 26.

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Let's get back into our

DBR here, chapter 26.

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I'm not standing next to my desk anymore.

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I sat down again, sidebar's over

we're talking about tire and tire's

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gonna be the subject here for 26,

27, and in 28 at least, if I'm not

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mistaken, I don't think it keeps going.

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No, he goes to Egypt in 29.

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Yeah, this whole section 25 to 32 is.

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Prophecies against the gentile nations.

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The gentile nations.

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Yeah.

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So 25 to 32 is a whole unit.

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Yeah.

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So the reason Ty gives us pause is

because, and we've seen this before

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and it's really chapter 28, so

we'll save the main discussion till

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tomorrow that some people believe

that Ty represents the fall of Satan.

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And we'll get to that tomorrow

and tomorrow's episode.

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But for now.

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He's talking about tire as a very

profitable and wealthy nation.

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And tire really was, they were one of

the most wealthy nations that existed.

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And the reason being is they

had access to the waters, they

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had access to the trade routes.

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And so they were a hub where a lot of

people wanted to do business with tire

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because tire had their ships and they

had their routes and they could bring

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in and import all kinds of things.

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So tire had a lot of wealth.

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And so with.

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That came a lot of pride, and

that's one of the things that

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they're going to be judged for.

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But tire, like the other nations tire

con said, concerning J Jerusalem, aha.

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Again, they're gloating, they're,

there's got concede here.

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The gate of the peoples is broken.

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It's swung open to me.

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I shall be replenished.

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So they're looking to get rich

off of the downfall of Jerusalem,

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off the downfall of God's people.

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God's not gonna have it.

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And so in chapter 26, he's

going to lay out for them what

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he's going to do against them.

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And he says in verse 14, you shall

never be rebuilt for I am the Lord.

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I have spoken, declares the Lord God.

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What's interesting is and we'll find

this out later, even in our reading

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and Ezekiel is, Nebuchadnezzar is

gonna come against tire, but tire's

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not gonna fall to Nebuchadnezzar.

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And so tire's downfall isn't

gonna come until much later.

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I think under the.

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When the Greeks are ruling is when

Tyra is eventually gonna fall and

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be defeated, but for Nebuchadnezzar,

they're gonna withstand Nebuchadnezzar.

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And so God's judgment here is looking

beyond Nebuchadnezzar to the future and

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what's gonna take place when they are

finally judged under that final downfall.

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Chapter 27 then gets into

a lament for tire, which we

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talked about a couple days ago.

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The lament being a song of mourning a

dirge for them, which is interesting

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to think about lamenting for tire

because you think about that.

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Why would you lament for tire?

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And I think my best read

on it is because of the.

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From a human perspective, again, tire

represented a lot of good things,

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a lot of success, a lot of glory.

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And it's as though the irony is there

to lament for tires tires, downfall.

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They had risen to prominence, and

yet because of the way they treated

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God's people, the nation would fail.

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The nation would descend, they would sink.

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They were known for their wealth

and their ships and everything

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else, and yet they were gonna

make a shipwreck of their nation.

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And so I think it's.

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It's lamenting the human tragedy of a

nation that had so much potential, and

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yet because they rejected God, they

rejected and glu it over God's people.

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They were gonna reach their own downfall.

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So everybody knows pride's a bad

thing and we have Tyre in the Bible.

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I think just to prove that.

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And in larger, large respect

here, God hates pride.

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He's going to take the

exalted and pull them down.

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So what are some areas that you

think people might not notice?

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Pride.

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Maybe one of them is the road rage

incidents you talked about sometimes

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there's this guy that cuts me off who

has an electric Hyundai that happens.

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You stop.

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I'm tempted to get mad at that.

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Are you?

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I'm not gonna let that, it sounds like

you've got I no repressed anger issues.

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Nope.

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Nope.

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I have.

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I'm completely over it.

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I'm not upset about it at all, but

let's suppose that there are areas

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in our lives where we're more or

less aware of our pride, right?

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That's one of them.

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What are some areas that you

think people may not think about?

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Yeah.

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Where pride's evident and God

hates it, man, I think theological

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pride is a big area for us.

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I think we can fall prey to

thinking that we're better

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because we believe a certain way.

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We're better because we go to a

certain church and maybe it's not even

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that we're better, but we'll look at

these other churches and we'll look

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down with condescension at them and

think they're not as good as they.

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Could be or that they should be, or

here's everything wrong with them.

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When we listen to sermons, we can listen

to sermons, pridefully, and think to

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ourselves this sermon's not for me.

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It's for my neighbor, this

sermon's for somebody else.

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Or we can sit there and think this,

I wouldn't have gone that direction.

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I you should do this.

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You should do this instead.

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And it's not that there's

not room for feedback.

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You give me super helpful feedback

after I preach and so do some

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of the other guys on our team.

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And that's good for me.

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I need that.

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But there's a prideful way we can also

do that when we listen to sermons.

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I've been guilty of that

myself in the past as well.

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And so I think theological pride would

be a major area that I think creeps

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into our peripheral without us really

knowing that we're committing that sin.

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You talk about saying our theology's

better, our church is better, et cetera.

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What if you think that's

really true though?

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Is it wrong to think that at all?

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No it's not wrong to think

that it's the response to that.

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Do you then look down on somebody

else and despise them because

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they don't go to our church?

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Do you look down on somebody else

and despise them because they don't

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have the same theology we have?

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Or do you say, you know what, God.

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I've, I truly feel like what we believe

is right over here and I feel like they're

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an error and so I'm gonna pray for you for

them that, that you might come and bring

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correction to that error that you might

teach them in the things that are right.

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But then there's other issues too.

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Like we are dispensationalist and

we've made that abundantly clear

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time and time again on the podcast.

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We believe convictionally that

is right, that is the correct

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interpretation of scripture and

what the end times are gonna be.

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But I also know that there are

covenant theologians out there

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that, that are amillennialists that.

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Believe differently than we believe.

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And they're brothers in Christ,

and they're intelligent and they're

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smart, and they're not stupid.

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And so I'm not gonna sit here

and say we believe this is right.

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And I do convictionally 100%

believe that it's right.

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And yet I'm gonna look at them and be

able to respect who they are and what

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their conclusions are, even though

I may not agree with the right that

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their conclusions are right in the end.

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So when scripture says things like

this, and I'm gonna quote from James

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chapter one, this is verse nine.

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It says, let the lowly brother.

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Boast in his exaltation and the rich

boast implied in his humiliation

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because like the flower of the

grass, he'll pass away yada, yada.

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The sun rises with it scorching heat where

there's when scripture calls us to boast.

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Then in this particular

instance, the lowly brothers ex.

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Boasting in his exaltation.

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How does someone boast as God

calls us to without pride?

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Because we're boasting in what God did.

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Not what we did.

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And so the gospel is the key

that it's, that's what exalts us.

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And that's what the Apostle Paul says.

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I'm not gonna boast in anything

other than Jesus Christ.

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I'm gonna boast that I know him.

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In his righteousness.

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And so what exalts the

lowly person is Christ.

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And that's where our boast

and our confidence is.

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Look what God has done in my life.

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Any good that you see in me,

anything that you see that I've

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accomplished anything else.

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God is doing this.

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Even as we think about

God growing our church.

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Man, that's awesome to see God

growing our church and bringing

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more and more people to the church.

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And yet we wanna say, man, God

is the one that's doing this.

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It's his work at hand.

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And we're excited to, to see that happen.

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But.

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The problem is when we begin to grab the

glory and the spotlight for ourselves,

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rather than making sure that God gets

the credit and the glory that he's due,

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how then do we receive a compliment

without being boastful or proud?

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I know lots of people are concerned

when someone gets compliment.

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Oh yeah they're quick to

say, oh, it wasn't me.

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It was all the Lord.

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It was a, it wasn't me.

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It was all the Lord.

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Something like that.

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Would you suggest something like that?

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Is there a different tack or approach?

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Was there anything in the sermon

that you preached that speak,

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spoke to this in particular that

said that exact same thing maybe?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Any good that you see in

me is only because of God.

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Yeah and I said that in the sermon.

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Really almost hyperbolically

to, to drive home the point

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that needs to be our mentality.

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Like we need to have that mentality.

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That is true, and I stand

by that, that's true.

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But I think practically,

that's a mouthful.

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Every time somebody comes up and

says, Hey, this was good, or, I really

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appreciate this, I think it's appropriate

and good for you to say, Hey, thank you.

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I really appreciate your encouragement.

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Hey, thank you for that.

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That was a word, rightly spoken.

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The writer of progress says a word

fitly spoken is apple and silver,

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apple gold in a set, setting a silver.

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That's a good thing.

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And you can commend them for that and say,

Hey, I really, that was super encouraging.

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I thank you for that and leave it there.

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And then, you can move on.

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And I think the problem

is when we go, yeah.

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Yeah.

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Actually, you're right.

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That was a good sermon.

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I did make a really good illustration

there that, that was awesome.

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Yeah.

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And you break your arm,

pat yourself on the back.

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But we can be grateful for how God uses

other people to bring encouragement into

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our life and take it for what it is.

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So it's okay to be thankful.

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It's okay to even say,

yeah, that was good.

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Is that, are you saying that there's never

a time that we should acknowledge that?

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If if someone's man you crushed it,

and you're like, yeah, thank you.

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I feel like I did too.

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I think you can say, Hey, yeah,

I felt like God was kind in

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that I felt like that was good.

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I felt like I communicated

what I wanted to communicate.

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What's interesting is I found more

often than not in my ministry, it's the

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times that I feel like I totally failed.

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That people come up to me the most and

are like, Hey God, that was powerful.

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I really appreciate what you had to say.

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And God used that.

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Yeah.

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So it's not that I stand up every

Sunday and try to preach one that's

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just a bomb that doesn't land.

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'cause that's not true either.

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But, yeah, I think I'm hesitant

to say, yeah, I felt like I, I

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knocked that out of the park.

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In the times that I've felt

that way, God has humbled me by,

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radio, silence after the sermon.

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Which I'm grateful for as well.

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I take that loud and clear.

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It's okay, God.

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All right.

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Not.

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So I think the point and I'm asking all

these nuanced questions 'cause I know

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we, everyone has questions about that.

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I don't wanna be proud, I don't

wanna sound like an arrogant

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jerk if I accepted a compliment.

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The scripture calls us to,

to be humble people, right?

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And I think I, that's what you're

getting at when we say thank you.

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When someone compliments us or encourages

us, there's nothing wrong with that.

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There's everything, right?

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And to say, man, thank you for taking

the time to honor me and to encourage me.

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Someone once said, don't believe

everything people say about you

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because sometimes it's gonna

really hurt something like that.

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I forget it exact, but the point is that

we're careful to guard against pride.

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And pride is insidious.

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It's sneaky Sometimes you don't know if

your response is a proud response, and

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that's where a good friend will come in

and say, Hey man I think you're getting

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on the side of arrogance or pride that's

really helpful, but we need that feedback.

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But the ultimate goal here is that

we're humble and God says he opposes the

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proud, but he gives grace to the humble.

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We never wanna be opposed by

God as he opposes tire here.

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And this is a good example of the

way he treats those who are proud,

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who are arrogant, who don't think

that they need God or his gifts.

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Let that not be you.

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Examine yourself test to see whether

you are in the faith to ensure that

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your heart is not proud and boastful

against God and your fellow man.

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Ensure that you're humble before God.

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I think that's the point.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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My one of my mentors back in seminary

said to me before I left to go into

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full-time ministry after graduating, he

said, pj, just remember, you're never as

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good as people say you are, and you're

never as bad as people say you are.

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You're, yeah, there's

some middle ground there.

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Yeah.

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So I appreciated that.

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Yeah, that's good.

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Let's pray and then we will

be done with this episode.

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Lord, it's a scary prayer to say,

God, please keep us humble, but we do

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want that because that's what's right.

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We want to be those that are

relying upon you and giving you

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all the glory that you're due.

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And yet, God we are so grateful

for those in our lives that are.

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Apt to give us that encouraging word when

we need it, that our apt to come alongside

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and speak that word that is, is fitting

for the occasion for us when we need it.

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And so we pray that not only you

would bring those people into our

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lives, but we would be such people

in the lives of others as well.

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We love you.

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We thank you for this time.

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Thanks for your word.

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We pray this in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Keep reading your bible, tuning

again tomorrow for another edition

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of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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We'll see you.

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Bye.

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Bernard: Well, thank you for

listening to another episode of

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the Daily Bible Podcast, folks!

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We're honored to have you join us.

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Bible Church in north Texas.

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Ya'll come back now, ya hear?

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said