00:00 Introduction and Listener's Question

00:19 Understanding Corporate Identity in the Old Testament

01:22 Clarifying the Concept with an Analogy

02:49 Corporate and Individual Responsibility in the Bible

05:03 Conscience vs. Conviction

08:24 Ezekiel's Prophecies and Jerusalem's Judgment

14:03 God's Wrath and Holiness

19:48 The Temple Vision and Idolatry

22:24 Conclusion and Prayer

23:11 Outro and Podcast Information

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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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And we've got a question.

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We've got some deep questions from one

of our listeners who wrote in some pretty

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thorough reasoning and arguments here.

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Not arguments in the pejorative sense

of like combative, but just laying

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out his thoughts and processes.

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And I, I think.

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What it comes down to if we're

understanding it correctly, is the

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concept of the corporate identity

of the nation in the Old Testament.

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And would God conceive of Israel,

in other words, more as the sum of

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the parts than the parts themselves.

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And some of the thought process here

is as we've been reading, even in the

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Old Testament, we've seen that God

has judged the nation and even the

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concept of punishing the children for

the inequities of their fathers, which

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the law does talk about visiting.

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The iniquity of the fathers

on future generations.

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And is there something to the idea

of the corporate judgment of God

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over the individual judgment of God?

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In other words, is God seeing Israel

as a whole rather than as the parts?

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And so as the parts are being punished

and judged, really it's more the

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nation or the national entity that's

being judged than the individual

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parts that are made up therein.

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And I do think there's

something to that question.

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This is hard to track with, man.

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I'm struggling already.

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It is hard to track with, do

you wanna clarify it for me?

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I don't know if I could do much better,

but I just feel like, man, okay.

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I don't know who's gonna

track with what we're saying.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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I don't know if I could do any better.

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I was gonna say that the,

so you take a family right?

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And you've got all your kids, let's

say you've got a crazy family, like

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you've got five kids at home, right?

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Some insane family would have,

and you said it's still personal.

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The kids are all upstairs

and they're making noise.

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And you say from downstairs, Hey, you

guys need to quiet down, otherwise

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there's gonna be consequences.

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And so upstairs you've got all

five kids up there and they're.

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Is maybe one or two of them that are going

to heed the words of dad and listen, and

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they're gonna say, okay I'm gonna listen.

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Because dad said, Hey, you guys

need to calm down, otherwise

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there's gonna be consequences.

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But from my perspective as dad

or from this random person's

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perspective as dad calling up,

this is dealing with corporate.

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This is dealing with them as my

children, and there's a responsibility

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that all of them share towards the

peace in the house in that moment.

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And so those other three that aren't

going to heed my words, are going

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to continue to be rambunctious

and loud and cause a ruckus.

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Okay?

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And so at that point, that is

gonna say, okay, that's it.

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You guys have lost dessert tonight.

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We're not gonna do dessert tonight.

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We told you to calm down.

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We told you to be quiet multiple times.

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No dessert for anyone up there tonight.

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Now, two of them that listened

are gonna come and protest and

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say, but Dad, I wasn't doing it.

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I wasn't the one being loud.

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And yet they were part of the shared

corporate responsibility because all

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five of my children are in view when I

give the command upstairs to say, Hey,

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you guys need to quiet down up there,

otherwise there's gonna be consequences.

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Does that help?

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Yeah, that makes a lot more sense.

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Okay.

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Does God treat Israel that way?

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Pr what are your thoughts?

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Yes and no.

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I think it's both.

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So obviously Israel has a corporate.

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Identity and responsibility to God.

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In fact, God covenanted

with the nation of Israel.

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It wasn't just with Abraham, although

Abraham is obviously the figurehead,

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but he covenanted with all of them, and

so they do have a shared purpose and a

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shared destiny, which God set up for them.

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However, you start getting into a

text like this in Ezekiel where God's

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saying, I'm gonna judge all of you guys.

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I'm going to.

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Do the thing that I promised I would do.

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And so what you have then is a problem

where you think this isn't the same

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generation that has heard all these

warnings and all of these potentialities.

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So why do they get the brunt end of the

stick when everyone else got a free pass?

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And the answer is that they didn't.

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No one's getting a free pass.

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In fact, Ezekiel actually tackles this,

at least par partially, and in chapter

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18, we're not gonna get there yet.

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But Ezekiel says something to the effect

of the soul that sins will die You.

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You can't say the fathers

have eaten sour grapes and the

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children's teeth are set on edge.

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In other words, their children are

suffering for the father's sins.

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Ezekiel says, you're not gonna say

that because the soul that sins will

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die, not just the one who I promise

judgment to, but everybody who sins.

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And of course, the whole nation

could say that's all of us,

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and that's absolutely right.

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So yes, there is a shared

responsibility and a shared destiny.

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However, there's also individual personal

responsibility and God knows how to manage

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both of those things at the same time.

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What would you say PPJ, is this

true for the New Testament as well?

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Yeah I was just about to say, I think

we see the same thing in the church.

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It's a diff different dispensation,

and so on the one hand.

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One of the unique things about the

church today is we have the Holy

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Spirit indwelling us as individual

believers, and that's gonna result

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in a lot of individual conviction.

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And we're gonna have a responsibility

before the Lord based on how

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we respond to the spirit's

conviction and so forth and so on.

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But then there's also

corporate responsibility.

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You brought up, as we were talking

offline, the series that I did right

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way back at the beginning of our

church launch on the seven churches

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of Revelation that Jesus is assessing

the church, he's assessing the.

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Corporate entity there.

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And for example, the church in Ephesus,

he says, look, if you guys don't come

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back to your first love corporately,

then I'm gonna come and remove the

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lampstand the corporate church is gonna

suffer, not just the individuals that

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maybe were out of line there or had

specifically neglected their first love.

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So it is a both and still in

the New Testament era as well.

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So he also asked a question

about the conscience.

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What's the difference between conscience.

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And conviction?

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Are they the same?

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Are they different?

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Can they be used interchangeably?

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How would you approach

answering something like that?

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I think the conscience can be used by God

in bringing conviction, and our conscience

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is going to be unique to each person.

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We've talked about not singing

sinning against your conscience.

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Your conscience may be sensitive to one.

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Area over another.

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And so it's not necessarily

a universal truth.

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Conviction though is not always related

to the conscience because there are

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universal things that are declared by

God, this is right and this is wrong.

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And if you transgress, those

conviction should come and

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conviction will come by the spirit.

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And so sometimes the conviction

is not brought by the conscience,

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by the Holy Spirit more directly.

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In that essence it's not a matter of,

this is my personal conviction over this.

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No, this is God's conviction revealed in

his word that now I need to abide by, as

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I see it laid out for me in scripture,

I don't have the opportunity to say

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you are free to do what you wanna do in

your conscience on that, I'm gonna do

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what my conscience wants to do on this.

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There's a conviction that can transcend

conscience and say, no, this is

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what's true regardless of what you

feel like you want to do about it.

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Yeah, it's interesting how the soul

works and sometimes we do use those

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words may maybe in a non-technical sense.

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Sure.

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We use the word conviction to speak

about a few different realities.

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One of those being like, I feel

strongly about this particular thing.

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We talk about a conviction about

the superiority of scripture and

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its position within the church.

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We have convictions that mean a

dogged belief about something,

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things that we would die for.

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We can also speak about conviction

as though as a state, a legal state.

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In fact, that's what he mentions here.

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There is a state of someone

being convicted by the law you.

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You are judged, you're sentenced, all

those things because you are convicted.

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But there's also another way

that Christians tend to use the

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word, and it means that we feel

the paying of our conscience.

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Here you go, interacting with these

two things together that causes

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us to say, I'm in the wrong, I

need to do something about it.

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So there's a potential technical usage

that I think you might be referring to.

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That I don't think we're saying

here, we're talking about the

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conviction of a, we, you can't talk

about the conviction of the spirit.

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That's part of his job.

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He comes to, to convict the world of

sin or righteousness and judgment.

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Right now, and again, there is a legal

sense that you're referring to, but I

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think the spiritual sense that we're

referring to speaks more to the the

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personal response to the word, the

personal response to that sense of,

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oh no, I'm in the wrong before God.

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So can it be improperly trained?

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Yes, there can be nature, there can

be nurture, but the spirit does use.

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Things like friends who stab us

in the face because they love us.

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Proverbs 27, 5 and six.

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There's also the sense of the word as

you read the word, you feel like, oh

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no, I'm not doing what this word says.

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You can hear a good sermon and the

sermon convicts us and those sense

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that sense of conviction is working

in tandem with or in cooperation with

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your conscience, which can be shaped

and informed in much of the same way.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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That's good, man.

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That's helpful as we've been

known to say this is the same guy

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that's noticed us saying that too.

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Yeah, that's funny.

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Hey, Ezekiel, hold up.

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If we can answer your

question if we missed it.

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Send us another email, send us follow

up because we were trying to, we're

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saying, okay, is this what he's saying?

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And so your email,

obviously lots of content.

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In fact I counted the words.

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Correction.

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I had GPT count your words.

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You wrote in 1,299 words.

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Dude, that's a lot of words.

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That's a lot of words I'm just saying.

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So we might have missed it.

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If we did, please send us a follow

up, we'd be happy to answer it.

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Yeah.

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For the rest of you listening, if

you've got questions after all this

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tough man, where were you best?

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And now we're expecting our

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At least going forward, at least.

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Hey Ezekiel five through

eight is our DBR today.

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So let's get in chapter five.

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Things are not gonna

go well for Jerusalem.

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In fact, the indictment here that Ezekiel

is commanded to do is really to enter into

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the state of mourning by shaving his head.

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But then God is gonna use the hair that

he shaves off to this word picture here.

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And it's gonna be, a third

of it is going to be burned.

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A third of it is gonna be struck.

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With the sword, a third of it is gonna

be scattered to the wind, and this is

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gonna be picked up over in verse 12, as

God is gonna lay out what he's gonna do

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with the population there in Jerusalem.

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And remember, this is those that

are still remaining in Jerusalem

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after this deportation of 5 97.

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This, these are those that are

waiting for the siege of Jerusalem.

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That's gonna happen in 5 86

and the downfall of Jerusalem.

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But the reason being is Jerusalem

has become worse than the nations.

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The Jerusalem had.

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Done things he's gonna

say verse what is it?

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Verse seven, I believe.

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Yeah, verse seven.

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He says that you've not even acted

according to the rules of the

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nations that are all around you.

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You're even breaking

the laws of the lawless.

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You're doing things that not

even the gentiles would do.

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And so God says that I am against you.

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And the wrath that he's gonna be poured

out or that is gonna be poured out as

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we've already seen in other readings.

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So we see here is going to be a.

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Pless wrath of Yahweh.

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And it is terrifying to read about

his judgment against the inhabitants

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there in the city of Jerusalem.

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Yeah.

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Here's one of the times that the

word shows up, and it's a word that

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feels threatening to me, and it's in

chapter five, starting at verse 11.

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He says this multiple times

in the book of Ezekiel.

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My eye will not spare and I will have.

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No pity.

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That's terrifying.

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And it also strikes me as

being is that entirely true?

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Did God show no pity?

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I guess in a sense, yes.

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Because he delivered exactly

the judgment that he promised.

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And on the other hand, it's almost

as you read in, in the Book of

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Lamentations, we just finished that one.

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He'll show compassion again to his people.

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He has faithfulness endures,

and so there's something

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interesting happening here.

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What is Ezekiel saying?

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I think Ezekiel's communicating

exactly what God wants.

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The judgment is coming and the judgment

will be exactly what I'm saying.

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It's gonna be, it's not

gonna be less than that.

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And so God is saying, I'm showing no pity.

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When in reality, I think there's a

lot more happening here, but at least

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one aspect of the reality is that

God is going to come out full force

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because his threats are never empty.

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And you wonder too, if there is, because

we've talked about it before, for example,

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hell is not gonna be the same experience

for every single person that's in hell.

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There are levels of God's wrath

that are being administered in hell.

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For instance, Jesus says it's gonna

be more tolerable for Sodom and

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Gomorrah than for the regions of

Capernaum on the day of judgment.

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And so you wonder here if maybe this

is an allusion to that reality, that

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even in God's temporal judgment against

the city of Jerusalem, there are those,

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and perhaps even thinking back to

the law, the high handed sins versus

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the other sins there, there are those

that God is going to show no pity to.

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He's going to smite them, and

they are going to be brought

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under the full wrath without pity.

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But that is not necessarily indicative of.

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The way that he will treat

everyone there in the city.

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Yeah, that's a great point.

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Chapter six, then we get into

some of the specifics here.

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And a lot of it again comes back

to idolatry, and that's gonna be

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what is in the cross hairs for God.

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He says, I'm gonna bring a sword upon you.

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I will destroy your high places, your

altars your incense altars, and I will

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cast down your slain before your idols.

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So God is saying the ones that

you worship, the ones that you

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love, your idols, I'm gonna cast

you down as dead before them.

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In their presence as though

you are he is shaming them.

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On top of that, even though again

we know the statues aren't anything

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we've talked before that there may be

demonic beings behind these statues.

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And so God is going to flex

over them by casting down their

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worshipers as dead before them.

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And yet you talked about his

faithfulness and his mercy.

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Verse eight.

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I will leave some of you alive.

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And so I think this is the remnant

and they're the ones in verse

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nine who are gonna remember.

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Him and remember their sinfulness,

and they're gonna hate their

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sin and feel sorrow over it.

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And I think this is a, this is

that Second Corinthians chapter

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seven godly grief that we see here.

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It's not just, I'm

sorry that I was caught.

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It's not just that I'm sorry that

I'm undergoing the judgment, but.

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He says they will be loathsome in

their own sight for the evils they have

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committed for all their abominations.

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You can't get to that place unless you are

understanding your sin in the eyes of God.

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You won't get to that place where

you say, a wretched man that I am

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like Paul does, unless you understand

your sin in the eyes of a holy God.

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And I think that's what's being

alluded to here in, in this

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middle part of chapter six.

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As chapter six con continues, though

the judgment is still going to come,

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and there's a phrase that we see here.

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I think it's the first

time that we see it here.

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I guess back up in verse seven,

he says, you shall know that I

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am the Lord down in verse 13.

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You shall know that I am the Lord.

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Verse 14.

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And then they will know that.

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I am the Lord.

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This is gonna pick up in verse

chapter seven again, verse eight.

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You will know that I'm the Lord.

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Verse nine.

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You will know that I'm

the Lord of chapter seven.

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This is something that continues the

end of verse seven, the final verse.

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They shall know that I'm the Lord.

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This struck me this time

that, that God's wrath is a.

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Self-disclosure of himself.

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That's redundant.

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God's wrath reveals

something about himself.

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The part of the purpose of God's

wrath is to reveal himself to those

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with eyes to see, and ears to hear.

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And that's what he's saying here, even

in chapter seven, as the day of the

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wrath is laid out here, the judgment

is imminent, is what he's saying here.

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This judgment is meant to show the

nations and to show those that are.

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Paying attention who I am, that my

wrath reveals something about me.

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And that's the purpose as he goes through

and says, this is what I'm going to do.

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It's not for nothing.

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Not that his wrath ever would be

for nothing, but a huge part of his

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wrath is announcing his presence,

announcing his holiness, announcing

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his godliness for those that are there

with eyes to see and ears to hear.

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Talk about God's wrath as it relates to

his character, his essence, his being.

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You've been reading a

lot about God lately.

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You've been reading a

book about God called.

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The deep things of God may think the

wrath would be one of those deep things

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that Christians might struggle with.

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We often talk about God, and even

in your questions for last week,

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you talk about the difference

between the Old Testament God and

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the conception of the New Testament.

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God, how do we put the pieces

together when it feels like

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the Old Testament, God is mean.

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Yeah.

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And spiteful.

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And spiteful and the New Testament

God, gentle Jesus, meek and mild,

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as some people say, is so different.

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How do we.

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Make heads and tails outta this.

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Yeah.

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Lemme start with Jesus's own words.

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When Jesus says in John's gospel,

which we studied recently, he

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says, you know what my words come

from God, and so do my works.

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And Jesus says, if you're not

gonna believe my words, then at

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least believe my works, because

both of them come from the Father.

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So Jesus right there undermines

the argument that somehow

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there's a difference between him.

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And Yahweh or him and the father as

we might classify the God of the Old

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Testament because Jesus says, I am doing

only the things that he wants me to do.

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And so what we see in Jesus is

the Father acting through the

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works and words of the Son.

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When we get to the Old

Testament, we think about wrath.

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Wrath as we've talked about,

I think before, is a byproduct

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of the holiness of God.

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So God is not wrath, God is holy.

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God is just.

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And because God is holy and because

God is just wrath, is necessitated

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wrath is a necessary response from

a holy God to the presence of sin.

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God cannot be or demonstrate anything

other than judgment in response to

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that which deserves judgment or sin

Otherwise, his character's impugned

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and for sin to remain unpunished.

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He is then tolerating in permit.

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Permissive of sin, which would cause

again, his character to be impugned

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and he would cease to be God.

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He would cease to be who

he is at his character.

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So God has to judge.

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He has to show his wrath

because he is a God who is holy.

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Go to the New Testament.

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The reason why we don't see it as much in

the New Testament is because of the cross.

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He did show his wrath.

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The wrath is there in the New Testament.

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It's just there.

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Through Christ on the cross, and now we

have the good news that hey, you don't

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have to experience the wrath of God.

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If you repent and believe in Jesus for

the forgiveness of your sins, then that

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wrath was poured out on him on the cross

and it's not yours to bear in the future.

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Some would say, can't God,

just say, I forgive you.

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Why does he have to execute wrath?

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In other words a Muslim can

say, Allah just forgive.

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He just chooses to forgive who he chooses

to forgive and not who he chooses not to.

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Why does God need to, it

seems like someone would even

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accuse God of a weakness.

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There's a moral weakness on God's

part to demand that someone be judged

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for their sin when he could just say.

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I'm not gonna hold it against you

because none of us really want

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that, that, number one, and number

two, that's not justice, right?

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It's the old courtroom analogy.

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If the defendant is in court, and that

defendant has murdered one of your

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loved ones, and the judge looks down at

the defendant and says, you know what?

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Because I'm such a magnanimous person and

so gracious, I'm not gonna sentence you.

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I'm not gonna condemn you.

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You're clearly guilty.

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All the evidence stacks up against you.

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You deserve to die.

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But because I love you so much and

because I'm such a God of grace

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and mercy I'm not gonna judge you.

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I'm gonna say you can go free.

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Okay.

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For the person that's pardoned,

that feels great for them.

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But for the person who lost their family

member for the sin that this person

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committed, justice hasn't been done,

justice has been perverted on top of that.

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And that's not a loving act from

that judge to pardon this person

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that, that did such a heinous

crime against the other family.

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And so in light of

that, God can't be just.

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And let our sins go because

the sin has to be punished.

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It has to be judged.

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That's what's right.

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That's what just, and that's

demanded by his character, by

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the fact that he is a holy God.

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And I dunno if that makes sense,

but that's what I would say.

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That's why sin has to be punished.

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That's why he can't just snap his

fingers and say Everybody's forgiven

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because the payment has to be paid.

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Otherwise, justice hasn't been done.

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So God's character is what constricts or

constraints his desire to execute justice.

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You talked about earlier

the fact that he's holy.

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Can you elaborate on that just a tad more?

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What is holiness and how does that

connect with his desire for justice?

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Yeah, so holiness is the

standard of absolute perfection.

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It is something without blemish,

without flaw, and he is the standard.

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He is that standard.

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He is, he's holy and

there is no imperfection.

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Sin is.

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Imperfection by definition,

it's falling short of the mark.

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It is failing, right?

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And to live up to that standard of

holiness, of absolute perfection.

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And so when sin exists,

then holiness doesn't exist.

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And so the holiness of God in his

wrath has to consume sin in judgment so

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that there is the purity left behind.

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It's is the reason why I think

the New Testament uses, and so

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does the Old Testament, the image.

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The imagery of metal

being refined by fire.

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The fire burns up theros.

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And what you're left behind

with is the pure or the holy,

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we could put it that way, metal.

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It's the unadulterated, pure

metal that's left behind.

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And that's why it's put

through the crucible.

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The crucible is the wrath of God and

the wrath of God is gonna burn up the

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sin that would otherwise diminish or

devalue his character and his holiness.

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And it has to be that way.

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Otherwise you don't have the pure

holy God on the outside right on.

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Good questions, hard

things to think through.

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For sure.

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Yeah.

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Part of the judgment notice in verse

seven, we've seen this before, but they,

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it says in chapter seven, I keep saying

verse seven, chapter seven, verse 26.

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They seek a vision from the prophet

while the law perishes from the priest

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and the council from the elders.

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Again, God is gonna reveal

his or remove rather.

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His word, his revelation.

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There's not, they're not gonna be

able to hear anything else from him.

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We're about to see that in,

in detail over in chapter 10.

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But until we get there God is

setting the stage for that.

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And that includes chapter eight,

which is our last chapter for today.

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And this is where the prophet

is going to be caught up.

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So now we're about 5 92 bc so we're

about 14 months or so after the first

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vision in chapters one through three.

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So 5 92 bc He's gonna be caught

up, remember he's in exile.

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He's gonna be caught up in a vision, it

says by the spirit and taken to Jerusalem.

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And he's gonna be shown.

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The temple there in Jerusalem and

all of these various abominations

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that are taking place in the temple.

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So in the outset, he sees

this image of jealousy.

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We don't know exactly what this

was, but it was an idol that was

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set up somewhere in the temple.

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And this is something that the people are

worshiping, and I think it's intentionally

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vague here, because the point is the

fact that they're worshiping idols, not

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exactly which idol it is, but God has

been replaced by the people in the temple.

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Later on, he's gonna see people

worshiping the creatures, these images.

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That have been etched into

the walls of the temple.

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That's Paul and Romans one they've

worshiped the creature rather than

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the creator who's blessed forever.

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And then they, the reasoning is

they say they're in verse 12.

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Yahweh doesn't see these things.

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The Lord doesn't see us.

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The Lord has forsaken the land.

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And so we're gonna do these things.

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'cause what does it matter?

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God's not paying attention and that is.

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That's a mindset that can

creep into the church too.

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That's a mindset that

can creep into our lives.

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We can think I'm getting

away with this sin.

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God doesn't see this.

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No one knows about this, so I'm fine.

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And it's a revelatory of a

heart of idolatry, which is

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what we see in these people.

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And yet what the prophet keeps

saying is, or hearing is you're

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gonna see greater abominations.

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Greater abominations.

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And then he sees these 25 men he sees

the women before that worshiping Tam

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Timus with a was a god of fertility.

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And then he sees these 25 men

that are worshiping the sun to

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the east of the temple there.

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And so God is setting up for Ezekiel

an understanding of why he is

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about to do what he's about to do.

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This is the state of things there.

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If Ezekiel hadn't seen these things before

exile, he's seen them now, and now he's

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gonna understand the wrath that's coming.

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This whole section here

is called the temple.

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Sermon or the temple vision.

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This chapters eight through 11,

so we're not done with this yet.

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This is just the beginning and this is

what God is showing Ezekiel in order

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to say, look doesn't my response make

sense given what we're seeing here.

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And one thing that I continue to

point out to people as we read this,

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especially in chapter eight here,

these 25 people, what their backs to

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the temple basically are giving the

Lord their backside, their dairy air.

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This is the height.

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The height of disrespect to the Lord.

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They're worshiping the sun with their

rear ends pointed toward the Lord.

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I do not blame the Lord one bit

for responding in wrath to all the

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things that he's done in kindness.

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This is so egregious in their sin that it

makes perfect sense, and that's the way

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that you should feel as you read this.

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You should be able to say, what?

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I can't believe this.

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There's a, there should be a

righteous indignation inside

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of you that agrees to the Lord.

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This is injust.

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This needs to be dealt with swiftly.

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With that, let's let's pray and then

we'll be done with this episode.

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God we pray that you'd keep

us from such presumption.

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We pray that you would keep us,

that we would think to ourselves

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as we read passages like this, but

for the grace of God, go, I Lord,

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that we would not be so pri proud.

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Prideful as to think that we are

above this, that we are beyond

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this, that we could never fall

prey to anything like this.

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But instead, Lord, by your spirit and with

the impact of other people in our lives,

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I pray that you'd keep us close to you.

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Keep us worshiping you, keep us from

drifting use those warning passages

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that we find in scripture like

Hebrews, and even passages like this

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as the guardrails to remind us of the

danger that exists if we drift away

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from you and keep us close to you.

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We pray this in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Keep bringing your Bibles.

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edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said