041: Mike Livermore – Classic Lessons for Modern Challenges

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Welcome to the good Christian
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I’m Levi and I’m Chris.
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With a short intro before hand
to kind of set the stage for the

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talk.
You’re about to hear and now

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let’s hear more about this
week’s talk.

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Hello, and thank you for joining
me on the good christadelphians

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talks podcast.
My name is Sam Taylor.

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You might know me as the host of
pause to consider a

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christadelphians devotions
podcast.

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I’ll be filling in once again
this week for Levi and Chris.

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For this week.
We’re going to consider the

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first in a series by brother
Mike Livermore given at the

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Livonia study day in 2019 and
titled classic lessons for

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modern challenges.
When brother Mike presented

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these series The Livonia
Collegiate had a bit of a

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struggle because he provided no
subject title and no titles for

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the classes.
They were just entitled

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numerically 1 through 5, but
brother Mike did is for great

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reason because he wanted
everybody attending to go in

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with open minds and Open Hearts
and open ears to hear what he’s

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going to teach them and what
followed was a fantastic look at

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the things that we endure the
things that we go through in our

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daily lives that if you were to
look at them through his ritual

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lens we might look at a lot more
uncomfortably and that was

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exactly the intent of it because
if you told you what it was

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going to be about you’d probably
either not attend the class

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arrays shut your mind towards it
but it offered a very candid

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very open look with well sourced
material both biblical and

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scientific about how the human
attention span is decreasing

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about how we’re becoming less
dependent upon our own intellect

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and our own thinking and we’re
just going through autopilot

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throughout our lives and when
we’re dealing with Having to

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live as disciples in this age
where we always have to be with

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our spirit.
We have to be living with our

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spiritual Minds living an active
at all times be able to combat

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things which might enter our
mind and pollute our thinking

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it’s a really fantastic study to
take a look at one other facet

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of this series, which I greatly
appreciated was that instead of

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having one 45-minute a one-hour
series when our class rather.

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You would just give two classes
in that timeframe and offer

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about a five-minute discussion
window in between them this gave

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people a chance to breathe
chance have some dialogue a

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chance to process their thoughts
is something that could really

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be helpful in other classes and
other material that the

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christadelphians community gives
because as we will get

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decreasing attention spans and
society and within our own

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Community, it might be helpful
to do what we can to be more

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engaging and more direct with
those who are listening so that

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the word of God might be able to
sink in their minds more fully.

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So without further Ado, let’s
take a listen to this first

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class and next week.
You’ll be back to your regularly

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scheduled programming with Levi
and Chris leading the charge.

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So it was a pleasure being with
you and enjoy this series.

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God bless.
Well, good morning everyone and

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it’s really good to be here with
you all.

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I’ll just say at the outset that
having done this study and

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preparation for the classes.
It really caused me to

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re-examine some of the practices
and things that I do in my life,

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and hopefully it has the same
effect for all of you.

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Around 760 BC in the reign of
King Uzziah also called Azariah

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the nation of Judah lived
prosperously Uzziah did what was

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right in the eyes of the Lord
and he listened to the prophets

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the people love to God at that
point in time and they fought

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against his enemies the
Philistines, for example, they

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built many things the nation
thrived and was pin prospered.

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Despite the oncoming threats in
the distance of the Assyrians

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the nation of Judah increased.
But to these people the prophet

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Amos wrote.
Woe to you who are at ease in

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Zion and Trust in bounce Samaria
notable persons in the chief

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Nation to whom the house of
Israel comes woe to you who put

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a far-off the day of Doom who
caused the seat of violence to

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come near who lie on beds of
ivory stretch out.

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Your couches eat lamb from the
flock and calves from the stall

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who sing idly to the sound of
string instruments and invent

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for yourselves musical
instruments like David, Who

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drink wine from bulls and anoint
yourselves with the best

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ointments?
But are not grieve for the

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Affliction of Joseph.
A prosperous happy people did

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not see or did not care about
the oncoming threats because

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they were too busy living lives
of luxury.

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They were to content to enjoy
how good things were to see that

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there were problems headed their
way a hundred fifty years later

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The Returned Exiles having
succeeded in their move from

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captivity to Jerusalem under
Joshua and zerubbabel fell

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victim to Encouragement from the
Nations around them and

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complacency set in and so when
the time before Nehemiah arrived

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for 12 years the nation of
Israel did nothing in there

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Ecclesia.
They did not build on the

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foundation.
They had previously laid apathy

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took over and the Ecclesia was
neglected.

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They stopped concerning
themselves with the Ecclesia and

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just live their lives and to
this people the message of the

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Prophet.
Haggai arrived saying is it time

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for you to dwell on your paneled
houses while this Temple lie in

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Ruins and the overall message of
the Prophet was to consider your

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ways that people did not
consider the state of the

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Ecclesia.
They cared for their homes their

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possessions their personal goals
and meanwhile the Ecclesia

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decayed. 600 years later and
Ecclesia New Testament times

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existed in a prosperous town
with lovely hillsides and their

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Rich history.
They thought things were going

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just fine.
The Ecclesia had been founded by

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the Apostle Paul himself and
they were cruising along just

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fine without a need in the world
and to these people Christ said

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Then because you are lukewarm
and neither cold nor hot.

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I will vomit you out of my mouth
because you say I am rich F

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become wealthy and have need of
nothing and do not know that you

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are wretched miserable poor
blind and naked I counsel you to

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buy from me gold refined in the
fire that you may be rich and

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white maybe a rich it with white
garments you baby clothes at the

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shame of your nakedness may not
be revealed and anoint your eyes

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with eye Salve that you may see.
This Ecclesia had everything

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they wanted but despite this
apparent success.

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They couldn’t see the problems
that were so blatantly right in

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front of them.
All three of these occlusal

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scenarios were Ecclesia is that
didn’t seem to have any

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excessive wickedness or overall,
gross immorality.

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They weren’t stooped and very
clearly evil Wicked practices.

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But yet they all were stuck in
spiritual apathy and could not

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see or chose not to see the
problems that their lifestyle

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had brought upon them.
All three Ecclesia as well lay

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it out here on our slides.
They were at ease enjoys enjoyed

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luxuries, but put off the coming
warning signs.

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They focused on their homes, you
look at the Ecclesia and did not

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consider where they were going.
They were wealth with need of

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nothing but could not see their
problems and didn’t see the

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challenges had Arisen and their
Lifestyles all three if I boiled

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down to this they put off did
not consider or could not see

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and these Please just stand to
us as a testament that is a

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classic scriptural lesson that
we all should always be watching

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and looking out for problems
that arise in our in our society

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around us and in our Ecclesia,
we should never just assume that

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we’re cruising that we’re doing
okay because we’re living

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prosperously and things are good
at that means our spiritual

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health is also good.
These Ecclesia stand as a

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testament to us of the words
written for us in 1st

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Corinthians chapter 10.
Let him who thinks he stands

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take heed lest he fall.
And so now let’s come to the

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year 2019 to our society and we
also live prosperously and we’re

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cruising along and you could say
of our Ecclesia and of the

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christadelphians body worldwide
that were not necessarily

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steeped in Gross immorality.
We’re not cut off an excessive

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wickedness.
We could say what’s the harm

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we’re doing.
Okay, but do we see that there

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really are challenges arising
from how we live in 2019 and all

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the luxuries?
And great things of this life

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bring challenges that perhaps we
just choose not to see or have

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ignored or not given the proper
time to consider their harm or

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threat to our spiritual health
and in the challenges, we’ll

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look at today.
They all really stem from

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Samantha’s that’s developed
uniquely in our time.

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Now, you probably can’t really
see this graphic all that.

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Well, it’s a little chart of the
growth and adaption and changes

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and Web Internet computer
technology.

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How since the 80s this charts
were to map for us how things

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have grown and changed and I’ve
broken it down into this

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somewhat intimidating little
breakdown of the evolution of

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computer science, and I actually
bring this up because there is

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going to be a Connecting Point
to scripture in this chart.

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And so we have here what’s often
sort of considered by computer

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scientists the four eras of the
web web 1.0 being like going

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back to the 90s when we all had
a little piece.

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See you in the corner.
Had our dial-up connections the

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dominant trait was then which I
said website just head

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information.
You went out and you log into

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aol.com went to Altavista and
you could go to a various

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dot-coms to get information and
the internet began to replace

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libraries and this saved
companies lots of time and it

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was a really sort of a very new
and kind of fresh change that

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was very valued by a lot of us
and the only spiritual threat at

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that time that we could see was.
Well, you know what it’s kind of

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a waste of time you go on your
computer and you cannot lose

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track of time the spiritual
threat at that time was minimal,

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but then you come to the 2000s
and Web 2.0 began where now

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websites online are not just
there for our information there

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now interactive and you have
things like Facebook and Myspace

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and Twitter where now people
gather together for the Social

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Power of the internet and things
like Facebook and Twitter really

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changed our social structure and
began to replace meeting people

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in person because you couldn’t
be Shop with people online and

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it became addictive and this is
where the research is really not

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begin to see there is a danger.
There is a problem that can

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arise from where the internet is
taking us because that

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interaction online is very
powerful and addictive and it

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can begin to suck Us in it can
also to expose us to a lot of

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things you didn’t necessarily
would have chosen to see if we

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adjust live our lives regularly
without the internet.

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But now in today’s day and age
in the year 2019.

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We’re now entering what’s called
Web 3.0 where now the machines

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the computers are beginning to
run things for us and now

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artificial intelligence is
taking over and technology is

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just grabbed a hold of us and
now refuses to let go now things

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are being curated for you.
And all you have to do is just

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open up youtube.com and YouTube
has an algorithm.

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We’re at knows your search
history get Knows What You Do

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online and it presents to you
recommendations of videos that

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knows you would want to see so
now technology has the hook

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inside of us and you often would
see if the maybe you’re having a

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you send a message an email to a
friend saying a are there any

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good strollers for my kids?
The very next ads you’ll see

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online are ads for strollers.
So the computers the machines

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know us as well as we know
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And web technology now is
designed to capture us and to

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steal us into their market share
and not let us go and the danger

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now in the intelligent web is
that this level of immersion

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online is consuming and it will
not refuses to let us go.

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There’s the social component now
at notice better than those

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ourselves and it refuses to let
us go and they can really change

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how our society functions and
the way this is going is that in

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web 4.0 the predictions are it
will be the symbiotic.

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Where humans and computers will
have an inextricable

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relationship to each other and
the machines will just decide

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things for us.
Your car will just drive itself

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and take you where you need to
go ahead even asking you where

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you need to go.
It just knows I get in my car in

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the morning.
It takes me to work machines

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will adjust make decisions for
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that environment?
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using our brains 20 years in the
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This is where technology is
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Now the point of this little
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little bit of edge.
Education on how the web has

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grown but I found this history
of the internet to connect with

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the classic scriptural lesson
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be the overall theme for our
study today, which is that each

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of those iterations of web
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of lots back in Genesis.
Do you recall when Abraham and

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lots herds and their group were
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and Abraham chose the less
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area by Sodom how at that point
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He didn’t just say, you know
what I’m going to go live inside

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them, but he slowly
progressively gradually inch

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that way and he eventually wound
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tied to the city.
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chapter 13 verse 10 going to try
using my Like yet their Genesis

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chapter 13 verse 10 lot first.
Saw Sodom.

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He saw the plane east of the
Jordan how it was fertile.

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And he said, you know what
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cool the spiritual threat at

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that time was minimal.
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the options available to him
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sarlat, then was sort of hooked.
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in the next verse and he began
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Sharon and at that point his
course was set he wasn’t fully

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trapped there.
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He was heading and that was us
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2.0.
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our lives where technology would
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We do every single day and
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web 3.0 begins we are now lot
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chapter 13 verse 12, he and his
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They Were a part of its culture
and the conflict the Conformity

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the shaping of his family was
now beginning and that’s us

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right now with technology.
Is it not how children that grow

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up today all they know as a
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their gadgets?
It’s not going to change and of

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course the Doom of web 4.0 if
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later when Abraham comes to
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the gate in Genesis chapter 19.
He had become an elder a wise

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man who was amongst Leaders, he
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leadership.
He had fully Now put on the

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mantle of the city of Sodom.
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He was absolutely a part of the
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There was no difference between
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the future.
We’re headed to ours with

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technology where the online
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now going to be just a part of
our lives and will be nothing

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that we nothing different about
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functioning online and that’s
the danger is that That we’re in

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the case of Sodom heat shows of
his own accord to proactively

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move towards Sodom in defense of
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We’ve been stationary and
technology has progressively

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moved into our lives.
So we have a necessarily gone

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out of our way to go chase after
it like lat but we’ve

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nonetheless accepted it in our
lives and embraced it and we’ve

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accepted this Progressive
gradual invasion of technology

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and the spiritual threats that
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Here’s one quick headline that
Gmail will do even more thinking

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for you with these six new
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So already the computers are
thinking for us and conforming

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our minds to Modern sort of
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thinking to conform us with how
the rest of the world thinks and

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I found this screenshot sort of
really interesting because look

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at the ads that popped up for me
this Oracle database adhere see

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Sit back relax and let Oracle do
the driving for you.

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We got you covered.
The computers will run your life

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for you.
Just conform to how we think and

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even this adhere IBM data takes
you where you need to go faster

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all of these a wonderful
Services which are great in some

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respects and the less I think
I’ll have spiritual downside for

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us and there’s more here’s a
really interesting article

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Google a I create its own Child
AI That’s more advanced than

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system.
Built by humans.

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So already computers are better
at developing their own AI then

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we are and making the AI that
made them so they’re already

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ahead of us.
Google is Alpha 0 alien chest

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shows the power and the
peculiarity of AI that this is

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an article about how Google uses
its Alpha 0 artificial

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intelligence and it programmed
it to get good at chess and it

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got so good that the best Chess
Masters in the world can’t even

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compete in any way and they
described it as a different game

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played by aliens computers are
so good at doing things that we

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do that it’s like a it’s like a
whole different type of person

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doing it.
It’s not even a human playing.

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It’s a Only in playing chess and
lastly Google’s AI created its

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own universal language.
So again Google had its Ai and

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it said try to create for us an
algorithm that will be a

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universal translator to help
translate English to French to

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Spanish.
And so forth that Google would

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use for its translation
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And what the a I did was create
its own inter lingua, its own

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universal language that ties all
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Now we’re obviously remember
what happened the last time the

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planet Earth had a universal
language it didn’t end so well

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and only eight people were saved
and this is the path that our

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world is now back on.
And now it’s a part of our Lives

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as well and Google and other
companies like this impact us on

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a daily basis.
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It’s wonderful and Technology
really does make our lives

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better in so many ways.
I work in it.

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I work for hours at a time every
day on a computer and I fully

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admit.
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I embrace it and it’s brought a
lot of wonderful things into our

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lives, but it also has side
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And dangers that we should
consider and really I would make

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a comparison to driving that
driving your car is a great

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thing driving a vehicle has
opened up travel and ways for us

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to meet people and go places
driving enables us to do so many

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things in life and we wouldn’t
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driving comes with dangers there
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And so what we do is we put our
young people people that

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haven’t.
Driven through driver’s training

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and we prepare them and they
have to get a permit and spend

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many hours with an adult
supervising their initial

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driving before as adults.
We unleash them as Independent

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Drivers on the road, so too, it
should be with us with

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technology.
It’s so wonderful and great

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thing.
We’re not going to go back.

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It’s absolutely a part of our
lives but are we preparing

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ourselves and our young people
for all the hazards and

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potential setbacks and dangers
that technology brings.

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Are we?
League training ourselves and

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our young people to deal with
those threats so for our classes

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today, what I’d like for us to
do is in each session will

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address a different Potential
Threat and the advice or lessons

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from the Bible to help us and
prepare us to face those threats

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and to be able to integrate
technology in our lives while

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managing these harmful spiritual
possibilities.

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And in each class we’re hoping
to do is actually have two

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sessions or sort of too.
Jurors, if you will address then

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each class with the short little
I’m not going to use the word

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break, but maybe it sort of like
chat meditation session a brief

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pause.
If you will between classes, you

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know, both due to our shortening
attention span in today’s

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society and my own inability to
talk for an hour straight.

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We’re going to actually kind of
briefly pause for five minutes

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in the middle of each class and
let everyone in the audience

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chat and discuss about questions
that I’ll pose after Each

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potential topic we discuss and
so we’re hoping to now begin as

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we come to the end of our first
first session of our first class

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with these quote two questions.
Do you agree that the influx of

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technology and the web are
inevitable or is there more that

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we could do as an Ecclesia,
especially like Abraham to avoid

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it to get away from Sodom or is
it too late as Sodom is some

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just around us and I know
nothing you can do to avoid it

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is to do our best to deal with
it or is there more we could do

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to avoid it and lastly If
Abraham could see the threat of

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Sodom but lot could not why why
was a lot not able to perceive

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what Abraham did and why is it
all so hard for us to see the

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problems in the things that we
love today?

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So take five minutes.
I’m really hoping it’s a new

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thing.
I’m hoping this won’t be five

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minutes of awkward silence.
I’m hoping there will be Some

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chatting and you can just sit
and think and meditate if you

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like, but we’ll see how it goes.
And so everyone please take five

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minutes and I’ll see you then.
So I hope that went well, and

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hopefully you find it beneficial
and we can shrink or adjust that

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time in future classes.
If need be coming to session to

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now the second half of our first
class if you will we often

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Marvel looking back at the
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At how almost pathetic it was
the nation of Israel.

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Thanks, Uncle Joe.
Perfect.

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Yeah, but all right there
dangerous new we often Marvel at

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how I wouldn’t use the word
pathetic.

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It was the nation of Israel for
Century after Century could not

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remove itself from idolatry.
You look back at there were some

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good Kings, but they were just
so many more bad kings.

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How did the people not see After
Prophet how they had to get rid

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of this.
You also Marvel at things like,

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you know, how come the disciples
couldn’t see that that Christ

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had to be crucified.
It’s easy for us in hindsight to

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look back and say why couldn’t
they just fix it?

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Why couldn’t they just get over
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And that’s the power of
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But in that time for whatever
reason the people of Israel

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despite many faithful
individuals coming through they

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could not fix this problem the
failures that they had for so

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many generations of their
history.

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They couldn’t shake it.
And this is the danger of

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idolatry for the people of
Israel that for 700 years from

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the golden calf to King
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They just couldn’t get over it
and it’s baffling even the king

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that was the rebels rate of the
times of Amos six are opening

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passage in the first-class how
the people were doing

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prosperously and the nation was
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It said of King Uzziah and
second Kings chapter 15 verses 2

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through for me.
I just read verse 3 it can use

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the ayat says that he did.
I was right in the sight of the

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Lord according to all that his
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Amaziah had done.
He was one of those rare good

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Kings, but in verse 4 except
that the high places were not

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removed the people sacrificed
and burned incense on the high

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places.
And it’s this sort of classic

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dilemma.
We see in the Bible of a good

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faithful person one of the rare
good Kings and yet he likes so

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many could not Shake idols, and
he wasn’t the only He won King

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ASA really one of the best Kings
Judah ever had it said of ASA

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when he heard the words of the
Prophet o bad.

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He took courage and remove the
Abominable Idols from the land

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of Judah and Benjamin and from
the cities, which he had taken

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from Mount Ephraim.
He was a really really good King

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and he removed idols.
What’s the high places were not

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removed from Israel?
Nevertheless?

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The heart of Asa was good loyal
all his days even King ASA

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couldn’t completely shake the
idols out of his life.

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He couldn’t fully remove this
thing from his life.

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And here’s really I would say
what’s wrong with idolatry and

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why it’s wrong and why it’s so
powerful and hard to remove the

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real reason the primary reason
God condemns idolatry is that

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it’s a threat to him that Idols
for believers back then for the

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Israelites.
They took the place of God.

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The Ten Commandments.
God said you shall have no other

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gods before me and that’s what
Idols represented to the people.

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They were worshipping and
following and praying to other

439
00:26:58,400 –> 00:27:01,800
fake Gods.
It was really an affront to

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God’s presence in existence But
what was a secondary problem

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with Idols that Idols themselves
were associated with practices

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00:27:11,200 –> 00:27:13,400
from the Nations around them the
other nations that were

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idolatrous their sinful ways
would creep in Via idolatry to

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the nation.
And so here’s a verse from 2nd

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Kings chapter 17.
They followed Idols.

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00:27:23,700 –> 00:27:26,700
This is the people of Israel by
the way became idolaters.

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And when after the nation’s who
were all around them concerning

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whom the Lord had charged them
that they should not do like

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that.
God wanted his people Israel to

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be special and set apart and to
not practice the same things as

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the Nations around them and that
really sort of began with Idols

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00:27:45,000 –> 00:27:46,800
first.
It was the idols and then with

453
00:27:46,800 –> 00:27:50,300
it all of the practices and
lifestyle and things that

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00:27:50,300 –> 00:27:54,400
idolatry brought along with it.
And why was it so hard?

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Why even when the idols were
taken away and you got rid of

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the overwhelming majority of
Idols, why couldn’t they just

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00:28:02,400 –> 00:28:05,800
get rid of it for good?
Because these things were

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everywhere there were Idols all
over the place and it was so

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difficult to extract something
that has constantly around you

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00:28:14,200 –> 00:28:16,700
and so Ezekiel chapter 6 verse
13.

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It says their Idols all around
their altars on every high hill

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on all the mountaintops under
every Green Tree in under every

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00:28:25,300 –> 00:28:29,400
thick Oak wherever they offered
sweet incense to all their Idols

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these things were on the highest
peaks the highest mountains and

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Hills they were buried The Earth
under trees Idols were

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inescapable.
And even if you got rid of most

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of them, your neighbor might
still have one, you know down

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the street there were some Idols
there.

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There was always this constant
Temptation.

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The people of Israel couldn’t
just get up and leave they

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couldn’t move somewhere else.
They were stuck where they were

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in the land and if Idols were
there somewhere in the land that

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Temptation and influence was
always going to be there.

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And of course even after the
Captivity and the nation of

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Israel finally stopped with the
physical Idols, finally quit

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00:29:07,900 –> 00:29:12,000
with the actual images to calves
or whatever the the statues were

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00:29:12,008 –> 00:29:15,000
finally put away.
There’s still was in the New

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00:29:15,000 –> 00:29:19,500
Testament idolatry in a
different form and Colossians

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chapter 3 verse 5 says therefore
put to death your members which

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are on the earth fornication
uncleanness passion evil desire

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00:29:25,900 –> 00:29:29,300
and covetousness, which is
idolatry.

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00:29:29,900 –> 00:29:33,400
And so even in the New Testament
the Believers the people of God

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00:29:33,400 –> 00:29:38,000
in the New Testament times, they
still had idolatry in a more

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00:29:38,000 –> 00:29:41,500
sort of abstract sense that if
there was something you really

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00:29:41,500 –> 00:29:44,800
wanted in life.
If there was a possession a

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00:29:44,800 –> 00:29:49,500
person a lifestyle something a
career that you wanted and you

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00:29:49,500 –> 00:29:54,100
coveted it it began to take the
place of God in the lives of

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00:29:54,100 –> 00:29:58,000
Believers back then and those
things that they wanted so much

489
00:29:58,200 –> 00:30:01,400
now began to replace God as a a
focus in the goal and the

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passion of their life and they
began to also be exposed to

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00:30:05,700 –> 00:30:10,300
other people in their society
who also loved these things and

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00:30:10,300 –> 00:30:13,000
the ways of the world if you
will like the fornication

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00:30:13,000 –> 00:30:16,900
uncleanness and evil desires
would also creep in Via sort of

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00:30:16,900 –> 00:30:20,900
spiritual more absurd idolatry
and even in New Testament times,

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00:30:20,900 –> 00:30:25,100
they could not Shake how they
were things through covetousness

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00:30:25,500 –> 00:30:28,000
that were their idols and took
the place of God.

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00:30:28,000 –> 00:30:31,400
They couldn’t get rid of them
and brought them into bad places

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00:30:33,000 –> 00:30:38,200
So now it’s 2019 for us and a
lot of you may be kind of seeing

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where this is going and in
today’s society we of course

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don’t have you know statues and
things built out of bronze that

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00:30:46,300 –> 00:30:51,600
are calves or goats or whatever.
We don’t have these silly Idols,

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00:30:52,200 –> 00:30:56,700
but nonetheless do we have
man-made objects create out of

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00:30:56,700 –> 00:30:59,800
precious metals.
That can sometimes take the

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00:30:59,800 –> 00:31:03,600
place of God in our lives that
are everywhere and very

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00:31:03,600 –> 00:31:08,700
difficult to fully remove and
are a gateway to worldliness now

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00:31:08,700 –> 00:31:12,500
just to be clear.
I’m not going to say that by

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Nature your cell phone is an
idol or that your computer by

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00:31:17,300 –> 00:31:22,200
definition is an idol.
It’s really how we use it.

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00:31:23,000 –> 00:31:28,200
And if our phones take over our
lives and if technology rules

510
00:31:28,400 –> 00:31:32,800
Over us the way that Idols who
ruled over the Israelites back

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00:31:32,800 –> 00:31:35,900
in those days only then is it an
idol?

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00:31:36,700 –> 00:31:41,600
So come to today’s society and a
survey done by the Pew research

513
00:31:41,600 –> 00:31:43,800
Group, which actually has a lot
of really good data.

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00:31:44,500 –> 00:31:49,500
They took a survey of teenagers
and found that 39 percent of

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00:31:49,500 –> 00:31:53,400
teenagers every day spent time
talking in person to another

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00:31:53,400 –> 00:31:58,200
human, but right below it was
text messaging and right below.

517
00:31:58,300 –> 00:32:01,600
That was to cellphone and their
social networking sites.

518
00:32:01,800 –> 00:32:05,200
And so there’s these alternative
methods that are beginning to

519
00:32:05,200 –> 00:32:08,600
take over and really dominate
how we and especially our young

520
00:32:08,600 –> 00:32:10,400
people communicate.
Now, if you’re saying, you know,

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00:32:10,400 –> 00:32:15,700
what like that data doesn’t seem
that bad like the dominant trait

522
00:32:15,700 –> 00:32:20,700
is that people are still talking
in person most of the time that

523
00:32:20,700 –> 00:32:24,100
isn’t the worst thing in the
world, but maybe you were clever

524
00:32:24,100 –> 00:32:26,700
and saw this at this survey was
done in 2007.

525
00:32:27,800 –> 00:32:32,200
And now it’s 2019 and it’s a
game over and ninety-five

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00:32:32,200 –> 00:32:36,400
percent of teenagers now have
smartphones and I’ll wager that

527
00:32:36,400 –> 00:32:40,300
every single adult in this room
has a cellphone either on them

528
00:32:40,300 –> 00:32:44,200
or they they possess it in some
form and the same group The Pew

529
00:32:44,200 –> 00:32:49,100
Research Center found that now
45 percent of teenagers are

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00:32:49,100 –> 00:32:53,900
almost constantly online via the
device or tablet cell phone,

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00:32:53,900 –> 00:32:58,200
whatever it is that they have.
So we absolutely are living in a

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00:32:58,200 –> 00:33:02,700
time where something that
everyone has and is so difficult

533
00:33:02,700 –> 00:33:06,800
to remove and take out of our
Lives now can easily dominate us

534
00:33:07,200 –> 00:33:10,800
and become an idol.
If we let it I’m not saying that

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00:33:10,800 –> 00:33:12,900
a cell phone is an idol of
itself.

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00:33:13,500 –> 00:33:19,100
But if we choose to live that
way it can be so these three

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00:33:19,100 –> 00:33:23,300
aspects the first being does it
take the place of God in our

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00:33:23,300 –> 00:33:25,500
life ask yourself these
questions.

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00:33:26,300 –> 00:33:28,600
What is the first thing we do in
the morning?

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00:33:29,800 –> 00:33:32,300
What is the last thing we do at
night?

541
00:33:32,300 –> 00:33:36,700
Is it a prayer meditation of
some sort or is it checking the

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00:33:36,700 –> 00:33:39,600
phone?
What is it that we check the

543
00:33:39,600 –> 00:33:44,000
most throughout the day what
grabs our attention the most as

544
00:33:44,000 –> 00:33:46,400
we do things from morning till
evening?

545
00:33:47,500 –> 00:33:51,100
What is the first place that we
go when we’re bored or

546
00:33:51,100 –> 00:33:54,400
distressed or upset sad
Restless?

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00:33:54,800 –> 00:34:00,500
Is it prayer or seek out a
friend or we open a verse or do

548
00:34:00,500 –> 00:34:04,500
we go to our phone?
And where do we go when we’re

549
00:34:04,500 –> 00:34:08,000
unsure when we have a question
and we’re not sure what choice

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00:34:08,000 –> 00:34:12,199
to make do we Google it or do we
pray about it?

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00:34:12,900 –> 00:34:17,199
Maybe these phones are taking
the place of God in our life.

552
00:34:18,800 –> 00:34:22,900
The second area.
These phones are absolutely a

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00:34:22,900 –> 00:34:26,600
gateway to worldliness.
And of course, I’m on Instagram.

554
00:34:26,600 –> 00:34:29,300
I’m on Facebook.
It isn’t all bad.

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00:34:29,400 –> 00:34:33,600
It isn’t necessarily evil to
enjoy social media with your

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00:34:33,600 –> 00:34:36,699
friends.
But those same things which can

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00:34:36,699 –> 00:34:40,800
be good are also a potential
gateway to things that are very

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00:34:40,800 –> 00:34:43,000
bad and we’re not going to go
through examples of that.

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00:34:43,600 –> 00:34:47,100
But as a fact the the CEO of
Twitter on an interview I

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00:34:47,100 –> 00:34:53,100
listened to he described Product
Twitter as a Public Square a

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00:34:53,100 –> 00:34:56,600
Gateway for the world to come
together and for the world to

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00:34:56,600 –> 00:34:59,900
talk together.
This is his goal for the product

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00:35:00,600 –> 00:35:03,900
and isn’t that what Idols were
for the nation of Israel and it

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00:35:03,900 –> 00:35:06,500
can be for us if we abuse it and
misuse it.

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00:35:08,200 –> 00:35:13,900
And third as we all know it’s so
difficult to quit the addiction

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00:35:13,900 –> 00:35:17,500
of electronics, isn’t it?
So in an article published in

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00:35:17,500 –> 00:35:20,800
Psychology today, dr.
Victoria dunkley.

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00:35:21,000 –> 00:35:23,900
This was her conclusion.
She said screen time

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00:35:23,900 –> 00:35:27,400
particularly the interactive
kind acts like a stimulant.

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00:35:27,800 –> 00:35:31,700
I don’t like caffeine and feta
means our cocaine and that

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00:35:31,700 –> 00:35:34,500
dopamine release by the
stimulation of electronics hits

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00:35:34,500 –> 00:35:39,000
children, especially virally
because there’s People cortex is

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00:35:39,000 –> 00:35:42,300
simply aren’t developed enough
for them to feel satisfied with

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00:35:42,300 –> 00:35:46,900
small doses or to self-regulate
and so children are most

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00:35:46,900 –> 00:35:51,100
susceptible to electronic
addiction and me as an adult.

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00:35:51,100 –> 00:35:53,600
I absolutely am as well.
I’ve been in this situation

577
00:35:54,000 –> 00:35:57,400
playing civilization at 2 a.m.
And you wake up and realize what

578
00:35:57,400 –> 00:35:59,700
am I doing?
Where have I been and we’ve all

579
00:35:59,700 –> 00:36:03,400
been sort of addicts like this
to do electronics in some form

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00:36:03,400 –> 00:36:06,600
or another and it really begs
the question.

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00:36:07,100 –> 00:36:10,100
Why should this be?
So and should we be doing

582
00:36:10,100 –> 00:36:16,200
something about this?
So on the subject of how it

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00:36:16,200 –> 00:36:18,500
affects our younger children,
and I’m certainly there’s a lot

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00:36:18,500 –> 00:36:21,800
of experts here on young
childhood education and there’s

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00:36:21,800 –> 00:36:24,100
there’s doctors and nurses your
so you probably better know the

586
00:36:24,100 –> 00:36:28,800
exact details and science of
this but here was a study done a

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00:36:28,800 –> 00:36:32,700
joint study at Florida State and
San Diego State don’t want or

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00:36:32,700 –> 00:36:35,900
published in 2018.
They surveyed half a million

589
00:36:35,900 –> 00:36:39,800
teenagers and they found this
sort of really sort of visited.

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00:36:39,800 –> 00:36:44,000
We probably would know anyways,
we’ve see it but the more hours

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00:36:44,600 –> 00:36:49,700
Day spent with electronic device
by a teenager led to a really

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00:36:49,700 –> 00:36:53,300
exponential growth in the
percentage that teenager has at

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00:36:53,300 –> 00:36:56,900
least one suicide risk factor,
which doesn’t mean that they

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00:36:57,100 –> 00:37:00,600
attempted suicide necessarily
they develop a risk factor for

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00:37:00,600 –> 00:37:03,800
it such as depression or
addiction or other mental

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00:37:03,800 –> 00:37:08,200
illness and there is an absolute
correlation between those risk

597
00:37:08,200 –> 00:37:12,200
factors and the hours spent with
electronic device amongst

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00:37:12,200 –> 00:37:14,900
teenagers.
So this is really just

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00:37:14,900 –> 00:37:19,700
confirmation of what we probably
already would guess or know and

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00:37:19,700 –> 00:37:23,400
the world around us is getting
wise to the fact that even in a

601
00:37:23,400 –> 00:37:27,100
purely secular sense.
This addiction to electronics is

602
00:37:27,100 –> 00:37:30,400
bad for us and it’s especially
bad for young people.

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00:37:31,500 –> 00:37:36,400
But isn’t this really the wisdom
of God already given to us so

604
00:37:36,400 –> 00:37:39,500
long ago.
We’re in Deuteronomy chapter 4

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00:37:39,500 –> 00:37:43,500
God said when you beget children
and grandchildren and have grown

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00:37:43,500 –> 00:37:47,500
old in the land and act
corruptly and make a carved

607
00:37:47,500 –> 00:37:51,900
image and the form of anything
and do evil in the sight of the

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00:37:51,900 –> 00:37:53,700
Lord your God to provoke him to
anger.

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00:37:54,300 –> 00:37:56,800
I call Heaven and Earth to
witness against you this day

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00:37:57,000 –> 00:37:59,900
that you will soon utterly
perish from the land which you

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00:37:59,900 –> 00:38:03,500
cross over the Jordan to Yes,
and you will not prolong your

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00:38:03,500 –> 00:38:09,300
days in it, but will be utterly
destroyed idolatry is bad for us

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00:38:09,300 –> 00:38:12,000
obviously in a spiritual sense
for our faith.

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00:38:12,000 –> 00:38:16,300
But even now in this life
idolatry is bad for our lives

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00:38:16,300 –> 00:38:20,800
now and the counter in
Deuteronomy chapter 4 was that

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00:38:20,800 –> 00:38:23,800
if we keep his statutes and obey
his Commandments, which I

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00:38:23,808 –> 00:38:27,400
command you today that it may go
well with you and with your

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00:38:27,400 –> 00:38:31,000
children after you that you may
prolong your days in the land.

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00:38:31,200 –> 00:38:34,400
Land which the Lord your God is
giving you for all time.

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00:38:35,400 –> 00:38:39,400
Our lives are better off when we
put away.

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00:38:39,700 –> 00:38:44,800
Our devices will be minimize the
grip and addiction that

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00:38:44,800 –> 00:38:48,900
Electronics have over us.
It can improve our lives.

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00:38:49,300 –> 00:38:53,500
There has to be a healthy
balance that on one hand

624
00:38:53,500 –> 00:38:59,400
technology is great and it has
benefits and it helps us but

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00:38:59,400 –> 00:39:03,700
after a certain quotient or
threshold of hours on a daily

626
00:39:03,700 –> 00:39:09,200
basis is spent With these things
that can be harmful and bad and

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00:39:09,200 –> 00:39:14,400
we can’t let them rule over us.
And so while this seems to

628
00:39:14,400 –> 00:39:18,200
really be a problem that hits
children the hardest and the

629
00:39:18,200 –> 00:39:21,800
classic sort of note in today’s
society is we just we can’t get

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00:39:21,800 –> 00:39:26,800
our teenagers off our phones.
We as adults have to set an

631
00:39:26,800 –> 00:39:29,700
example.
And so the people here who are

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00:39:29,700 –> 00:39:33,600
aged 25 and up.
Let’s say the teenagers and

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00:39:33,600 –> 00:39:39,000
children they look up to us and
if they see us also a ticket to

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00:39:39,000 –> 00:39:43,700
our phones and constantly having
our phones out in Tween times

635
00:39:43,700 –> 00:39:46,500
and when we should be discussing
and talking you have our phone

636
00:39:46,500 –> 00:39:49,500
out.
They see that and they’ll take

637
00:39:49,500 –> 00:39:52,900
note of it and how can we ask
our teenagers to put their

638
00:39:52,900 –> 00:39:57,200
phones away if we as adults are
stuck in the same pattern of

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00:39:57,200 –> 00:40:01,800
Behavior now don’t raise your
hands, but think to yourself how

640
00:40:01,800 –> 00:40:06,200
many of you in our five minute
chat session check your phone.

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00:40:07,600 –> 00:40:10,400
I myself probably would have if
I had been in the audience

642
00:40:10,400 –> 00:40:15,200
during during this time, if we
did maybe it’s an indication

643
00:40:15,700 –> 00:40:20,000
that we should try our best to
minimize the impact that this

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00:40:20,000 –> 00:40:25,300
phone has in our lives.
Once again, I’ll say our devices

645
00:40:25,300 –> 00:40:29,300
are not necessarily Idols.
They can be very useful and

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00:40:29,300 –> 00:40:32,600
Powerful for good.
But if we look at ourselves and

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00:40:32,600 –> 00:40:36,300
this is where the lesson of the
first session needs to apply if

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00:40:36,300 –> 00:40:40,800
we stop and try to See if we
consider our lives and choose

649
00:40:40,800 –> 00:40:44,900
not to be willfully ignorant and
take a look at our lives if we

650
00:40:44,900 –> 00:40:50,500
can honestly say that our phone
is overwhelming us and we’re

651
00:40:50,500 –> 00:40:54,400
addicted to these electronics
and tablets and computers than

652
00:40:54,400 –> 00:40:56,100
what we should do is call it
what it is.

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We should call it idolatry.
And that’s the beginning of how

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we can begin to deal with it.
We can then apply the message of

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scripture.
If we first admit that there is

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a problem.
Adults need to set the example.

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And so now as we are going to
end our class our first class

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here, but I think I’d like to do
is again leave like 5 minutes

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for discussion before we hand it
back to TJ to actually dismiss

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and close the class.
But here are some questions for

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us to take into our break as we
discuss this topic what has

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worked for you to minimize or
reduce or balance, whatever word

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you want to use the addictive
power of Technology.

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And how do we help our young
people?

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Avoid idolatry via technology in
a world, which is absolutely

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unavoidably heading in that
direction.

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The online world is taking over.
How do we show young people to

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avoid it and manage it?
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