Mike Livermore – Class 3

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Thank you, Nate.
We’re going to begin our

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thoughts in First Kings chapter
12, the story of Rio bones

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mistake and we’re going to read
verses 1 through 16 of First

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Kings chapter 12.
But before we do, I’m going to

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suggest that for those that know
that this term there is a chiasm

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in the structure of how the
narrative is laid out for us in

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verses 1 through 16 of First,
Kings chapter 12 and very

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briefly if you’re not familiar
with the term.

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Ah, but the Hi, as mmm.
It’s where the way that the the

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word is written.
And the story is told in such a

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way that there is a focal point
in the middle of the story and

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everything from beginning to end
Works in parallel and matches to

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bring us progressively to the
middle.

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And there’s an important point
or lesson or there is some value

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in identifying, the central
point of the chiasm and the

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analogy, I like to use for what
this is, It’s like a, it’s like

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a sandwich where you have your
bread layer on the outside, then

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you have here, your condiment
life.

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Layer underneath that.
Then there’s a cure vegetable,

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lettuce tomato layer.
And finally, you get to the very

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middle, the center of the
sandwich, for the chiasm, and

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it’s a bit turkey, your the ham,
and so you refer to the

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sandwich, not as a lettuce and
mustard sandwich, or not, as a

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bread and mayonnaise sandwich,
you call it a turkey sandwich,

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the goal of the whole sandwich
is to get that turkey inside of

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you.
And so, the point of the Bible

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chasms is to get us to that
focal point to have something be

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taught for us from the
narrative.

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So I’m going to suggest as you
read verses 1 through 16, see if

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you can spot a little bit of a
structure here and there will be

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a lesson when I when I learned
of this chiasm it changed my

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perception of the lesson of
rehoboam.

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So First Kings chapter 12,
verses 1 through 16 says, in

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rehoboam went to shechem for
all, Israel had gone to shechem

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to make him King.
So what happened?

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When jeroboam the son of nebat
heard it?

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He was still in the presence of
King Solomon and have been

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drawing in Egypt that they And
called him.

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Then jeroboam in the whole
assembly of Israel, came and

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spoke to rehoboam saying your
father made our yoke heavy now.

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Therefore lighten the burden
some service of your father and

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his heavy yoke which he put on
us and we will serve you.

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So he said to them depart for me
from three days, then come back

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to me.
And the people departed, then

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King rehoboam consulted the
elders, who stood before his

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father Solomon while he still
lived.

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And he said, how do you advise
me?

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Me to answer these people and
they spoke to him saying, if you

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will be a servant to these
people today and serve them and

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answer them and speak.
Good words to them, then they

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will be your servants forever.
But he rejected the advice,

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which the elders had given him
and consulted, the young men who

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had grown up with him, who stood
before him and he said to them,

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what advice do you give, how
should be answer this?

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People who have spoken to me
saying, lighten the Yoke which

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your father put on us.
And the young man who had grown

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up with him spoke to him saying,
thus you shall speak to these

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people who have spoken to.
You saying your father made our

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yoke heavy but you make it
lighter on us.

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Thus you shall say to them.
My little finger shall be

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thicker than my father’s waist.
And now we’re as my father, put

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a heavy yoke on you, I will add
to your yoke, my father,

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chastise you with whips but I
will chastise you with scourges

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So jeroboam, and all the people
came to riobamba third day, as

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the king of directed saying,
come back to me the third day.

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Then the king answered, the
people roughly and rejected the

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advice, which the elders had
given him and he spoke to them.

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According to the advice of the
young men, saying my father,

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made your yoke heavy but I will
add to your yoke, my father,

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chastised you with whips, but I
will chastise you with scourges.

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So the king did not listen to
the people.

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For the turn of events was from
the law.

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That he might fulfill his word,
which the Lord has spoken by a

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Hydra the shamonite to jeroboam
the son of nebat.

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Now when all Israel saw at the
king, did not listen to them.

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The people answered the king
saying what share have we and

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David we have no inheritance in
the son of Jesse to your tents o

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Israel.
Now, see to your own house.

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Oh, David Okay, so a story, were
all very familiar with and have

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heard this lesson before about
Rio bones mistaken, his decision

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and some of you may be aware of
the structure already of this

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chapter.
But when I, when I encountered

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it, it really sort of rearrange
how I viewed this lesson.

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And so I’ll suggest that this is
the chiastic structure of this

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story that it begins in verse 1
and ends in verse 16 with all

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Israel being assembled to begin
with to consult, Rio bone.

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And then in verse 16, when they
decide to really Rebel and

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they’re upset with, All Israel
is referred to in verses 1 and

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16.
Then in verses 2 and verse 15.

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We have the presence of jeroboam
the son of nebat, as the leader,

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who brought the people against
riobamba in verse 2.

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And then, as sort of the
beginning of the rebellion, in

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verse 3, is a person who would
lead them away from rehoboam.

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In verses 3 and 4 and also in
verses 13 and 14 is the

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presentation of the problem
where the people in verses 3 and

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4 told rehoboam hey will be your
father put this heavy yoke upon

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us and in verses 13 and 14.
The king repeats that this was

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done to them when he gives them
their answer.

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In verses 5 and 12 is sort of
the set up of the story.

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Howry Obama says I’m going to
take three days, come back to me

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in three days and then verse 12
is after the third day then come

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back and they speak with
rehoboam.

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And so then we have on either
side of what really is the

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center of the chiasm is on one
hand rehoboam Consulting the

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elders first in verses 6 through
7.

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He consults the old man for
their advice and likewise in

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verses 9 through 11.
Consults the young men and

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consults his friends.
But what’s in the middle?

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What is the central point of
this story?

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Is that really boehm rejected,
the elders advice.

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Now, you might be saying Mike,
we already knew that, but if you

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picture, now, the reason for
this being the center of the

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story and I think I have two
more arrows in him, is that if

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this is the focal point, if this
is the fulcrum on, which the

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whole story hinges, and
oscillates is his rejection of

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the elders.
It means that everything on the

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first half matches the second
half and what happened in the

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first half, obviously happened
before the second half, which

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means that rehoboam is a
rejection of the elders came

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before he consulted, with the
young men.

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And I always sort of thought
that Rio boehm this has made me

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a misperception My part, he
talked to the elders, talk to

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the young man.
Wait out the pros and cons and

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he unfortunately, chose the old
matter, did not choose the old

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man’s idea.
He went with his friends, the

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young man.
But this chiasm shows us that

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the problem where you bone made
was not that he made the wrong

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decision in choosing one over
the other.

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But that he really didn’t make a
decision at all.

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He just reject it outright the
elders advice.

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He did not really fully consider
it because if you look at verse

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8, it says here, Rejected the
advice which the elders had

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given him and then consulted,
the young men, what other choice

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of that point?
Would he have?

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He rejected the old man’s advice
and so therefore whatever, the

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young man would say was going to
be his answer.

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The problem with rehoboam was
not that he made a bad choice

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between two options was that he
only gave himself one option and

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he rejected the wrong course and
the chiasm shows this for us and

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this is the classic lesson of
the Old Testament of how

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critical Go.
It is for us to heed the advice

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of Elders, and if anyone who
outright rejects the wisdom of

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an older person in their life,
they’ve made a mistake.

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If they do not put weight and
Care into it and the New

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Testament picks up this lesson
for us. 1st Timothy 5:17 says,

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let the elders who rule well be
counted worthy of double honor.

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Especially those who labor in
word and Doctrine, and

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Deuteronomy chapter 32 verse 7
says.

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Says, remember the days of old
consider the years of many

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generations, ask your father and
he will show you your elders and

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they will tell you.
And so, the advice year in the

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law of Moses, even as far back
in the Bible, is that we can’t

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make the mistake of Rhea boehm.
We’ve got to go out of our way

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to consult elders and get the
advice from our fathers from our

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grandfathers.
First Peter 5:5.

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It’s Peter writes likewise you
younger people submit yourselves

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to your elders?
Yes.

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All of you be submissive to one
another and be clothed with

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humility and so in the Ecclesia
it’s obviously it’s one thing

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that the wrong choice is to just
reject what others have to say.

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But the message of this verse
here is that quite the opposite,

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we re actually really should
value and embrace and Elevate

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the wisdom of Others, not simply
not dismiss it, but actually

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give it priority and make it
important.

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And this really is a huge
challenge for us now.

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Gave it away too soon.
A huge challenge for us now

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entering the year 2019, and the
day in which we live, where we

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see in the Bible, that we need
to prioritize the wisdom of our

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elders and not reject it.
But yet there’s a real challenge

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that I think is specific to this
generation obviously throughout

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the course of time.
It’s always been a difficult

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thing for wisdom to diffuse and
sort of spread from Older to

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younger.
I’m not saying it’s ever really

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been easy for wisdom to be
passed down, and I’m sure every

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generation would say all, you
know, those old people they’re

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out of touch.
What did they have to offer us?

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It’s been a challenge for
everyone as far back in biblical

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times, but for us in our day and
age, there is an additional

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barrier.
There is an additional wrinkle

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that makes this critical lesson
even more difficult to apply in

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our lives.
And I would suggest we can See

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it in this survey done by
Nielsen two years ago in 2017,

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asking the question does
technology make my life easier

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and Millennials and if you’re
not quite sure that the terms

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here, Millennials be people
about about my age and down to

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see, maybe age, 20 or so, they
overwhelmingly said, yes, 3/4 of

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Millennials Embrace technology
as part of their lives Gen X,

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which would be people sort of in
their 40s and 50s.

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If you will, they said
One-third.

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Yes.
You know Technologies, okay. 1/3

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embrace it but then the baby
boomer sort of my parents age

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the sort of the grandparents
right now under 20 percent said

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yes.
And so the additional wrinkle.

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Our Generation has an article
Isha at this point in time.

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Is that there is a different
world in which young people

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operate and conduct their
business from the world in which

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older folks and grandparents
operate and Conduct their

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business and technology makes it
even harder for us to bridge the

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gap and allow wisdom to be
passed down from grandparent to

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parent the child to grandchild.
Now I’ll speak anecdotally and

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I’m sure a lot of you will
probably resonate and you can

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think of in your own lives of
where some of these gaps are and

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some of these barriers are and
one of the big ones is, how

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we’re living more and more in a
paperless world and we use our

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devices and tablets and
computers to store information

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and files and data and records
and intellectual property.

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And it’s all now being put out
in the cloud and at work, like

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we’re paperless and I don’t use
paper at me.

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Work hardly at all.
But in the Ecclesia, you might

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go to a Bible class and the
speaker gives you a printout

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packet of 18 pages.
And I say what, what is this

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Ikea?
I have no place for this.

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I don’t read these papers
anymore, and I’m not saying one

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is, is it good or evil?
I’m not saying that the young

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people are wrong and the old
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Or they’ll people have it wrong
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right?
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It’s just they’re different and
so a generation that grew up

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printing things out and have
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Full of paper.
They that’s how they function.

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And it’s so different from young
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phone’s over there.
They have everything.

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Now in the palm of their hand at
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I still have the printer.
I had 20 years ago because I

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only ever print out a few pages
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year.
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just printing, it is only one
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there’s different mediums and
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All the more difficult.
One of the survey respondents to

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Nielsen, this was a part of the
further pages of the report she

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was referencing how she does
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older people.
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really revealing.
She said, I communicate with my

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parents on Facebook.
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is that you would think that
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Your grandparents got on
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your world isn’t that the way it
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now, Viewed as the old and out
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people.
They’re so far ahead of even my

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generation and how they interact
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And I’m not saying it’s good or
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So, we got the older folks, the
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A lot of traditional phone calls
things printed out, they

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exchanged phone numbers and read
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It’s all now texting and apps
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At and Instagram, and back in
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were interested in someone of
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their number.
Now young, people ask for their

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other person’s Snapchat or
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This is just the world in which
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grew up with books and reading
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Now, everything is on a screen,
everything’s digital and out in

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the cloud.
So how do we deal with this?

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How do we overcome this?
Where the message of the Bible

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is that we should not only not
just sort of put off and discard

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our elders advice because it’s
valuable but we really should

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embrace it and enhance it.
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If young people aren’t even
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because they’re in a totally
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Think it’s a real challenge for
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I’ve got a few suggestions one,
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And I’m going to sort of let
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need to try our best to see past
technology and look at all the

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other aspects of life in which
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to share the problem.
I need to overcome in the

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example of the printed out,
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Is that the teacher for that
class had a great message to

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share it.
Really, really good class.

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But in my own mind, I was sort
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beginning because of the paper
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I need to view the wisdom of
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if the medium on which it comes
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And likewise we should try to
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get-togethers or whatever.
This looks like, where the

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medium no longer is important.
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We need to try to develop
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and Elders to actually get
together and talk where it isn’t

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online.
And it, maybe it isn’t an old

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way either, where it’s something
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old-fashioned presentation.
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We don’t need to have old people
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we also don’t need to have young
people saying, you have to meet

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me online.
There has to be places in our

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Ecclesia.
We’re all generations can gather

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and share.
Discuss.

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And perhaps a study day like
this where we’re all together in

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one room and we’re all eating
the same meal and sharing the

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same breaks.
Perhaps now is a great

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opportunity to let some of that.
Wisdom diffuse down from an

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older generation, a few more
suggestions this one with with

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the most care and love and
proper rich but I can give If an

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the Ecclesia is going to have a
technology as part of its basic

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functioning Elders, should try
as best they can and maybe some

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can’t, and that’s okay.
We should try to develop some

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competency if the Ecclesia is
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And so this is a sort of a very
real discussion about how we use

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PowerPoint and how we use
computers and laptops to record

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and present and share content in
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And we have Respect.
If some, if some brothers or

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sisters, they say I’m just not
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I need to do it the old way and
I’m just going to speak from

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notes or I’m just going to share
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conversation.
We should as young people

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Embrace that and see that, even
though it isn’t our preferred

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medium, there’s incredible value
and benefit to interfacing with

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our elders in that way, but if
our elders are going to try to

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use PowerPoints or two, To use
slides, please try to be

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somewhat minimally competent
with it because nothing throws

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off a young person more than
just seeing a brutal, sloppy

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PowerPoint presentation, where
it’s just ugly and you can’t pay

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attention to it.
The standard has been raised at

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our schools and in our
workplaces that presentations

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have to be crisp and we can’t
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because it’s a different world
and our young people are going

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to struggle with it.
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nonetheless, this really is a
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We need to go out of our way and
try to find ways to interact

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with our elders.
That might mean, you’re not

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going to find them on Snapchat
and Instagram, maybe you use

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Facebook for this.
I wouldn’t suggest it.

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We may actually actually have to
actually have a conversation and

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talk with an elder and once
again I’m going to speak

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anecdotally.
I look back at when I was a

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young person.
So go back to the 90s back when

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I was Say age 17 through 24 and
such critical Faith formation in

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my life took place as a dip for
a lot of other young people at

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Uncle.
Roy Styles is house for Mutual

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improvement classes on Monday
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And that was such an immensely
valuable time for the wisdom of

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this particular brother.
And those that were there.

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It’s a pass on advice and
counsel and wisdom to us who

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were the young people back then,
and we need to try to develop

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opportunities like that.
Now, I’m trying to think and I’m

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not sure if it exists, I know
there is an effort coming this

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fall for like a Saturday
morning, like bible discussion

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session for people in the cyc
and four others in the Ecclesia

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to get together and discuss.
These are the kind of events

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that I suggest are currently
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And that we need to bring back
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Because right now, technology is
separating us and we should go

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out of our way to make those
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were so critical for me as a
young man to have Uncle Roy and

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you know in Grandpa Ray and
Grandpa John you can name all

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the names they were a part of
our lives and we learn so much

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from them, but is that happening
now in our current Ecclesia

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environment?
And if it isn’t, we really

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should bring it back because it
was so huge for the people now,

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who are like Gen X and
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Z needs it more than ever.
So as we enter our five-minute

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Discussion.
These are two questions to think

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about what prevents young people
from respecting, and valuing the

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wisdom of Elders.
And how do we overcome that?

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And how do we Bridge the
communication gap caused by

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technology and before I sit down
these two questions, I would

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suggest really should be
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It’s a people my age and younger
to the the young people in the

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are collegial environment.
I think it’s really up to us to

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go out of our way as best we can
to reach out and discuss with

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their Elders.
These two questions are

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questions for us to take away in
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But let’s spend 5 minutes and
I’ll talk about it right now.

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Thank you.
Alright, welcome back everyone

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and by the way, thank you for
such Lively discussion during

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the chat so I was a little bit
worried that wouldn’t work out

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but I think it was a good thing
that it to try.

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So now we’re going to come to
our last session for today

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session.
Six, I’d like us to begin in

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Judges chapter 2 for this
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Judges chapter 2.
I’m going to read verses 7

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through 10.
This being about the, the end

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of, of Joshua’s life and the
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verses 7 through 10.
So the people serve the Lord,

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all the days of Joshua and all
the days of the elders, who

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outlived, Joshua, who had seen
all the great works of the Lord,

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which he had done for Israel.
Now, Joshua, the son of nun, the

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servant of the Lord died when he
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And they buried him within the
border of his inheritance at

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Timnath here, is in the
mountains of Ephraim on the

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north side of Mount geish, when
all that generation have been

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gathered to their fathers,
another generation arose after

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them, who did not know the Lord,
nor the work, which he had done

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for Israel.
How could this be?

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Joshua was such a faithful
Warrior for the Lord and led the

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people and such a fantastic
manner for so many years and the

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generation with him seem to have
done a lot of really good things

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and while they were alive, the
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But how is it even possible at
the very next Generation?

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Not just made some mistakes or
fell off a little bit but did

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not know the Lord.
They did not know him or his

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works.
How could that have possibly

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been?
Well, for whatever reasons, for

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whatever reason why the next
generation was not taught about

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God and did not know God.
We all know what happened in the

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rest of the Book of Judges where
what precedes is a series of

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Follies and mistakes and ups and
downs, where it’s all sort of

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categorized as the people doing
what was right in their own

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eyes.
They all thought, what they were

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doing was right, but we look
back in hindsight and it was

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just a colossal debacle.
Because they weren’t taught

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about God.
They did not know him.

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How could this possibly be?
And so, as the story of the

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Bible continues on and a few
Generations later and the Psalms

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are being put together, perhaps
the people of Israel,

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collectively, learn this lesson
and saw the mistakes because the

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sums actually has a bit of a
side note, the book of Psalms by

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far uses the word generation.
More than any other book 35

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times in second place as an even
close.

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So the words of the Psalms have
a very clear Focus for us

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amongst many things.
But one being about teaching the

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Next Generation, Asian.
And so Psalm 48 verse 13 says,

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Marquel her bulwarks, consider
her palaces that you may tell it

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to the generation following.
Some 70 1 verse 18.

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Now, also when I am old and gray
head at grey-headed, oh God, do

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not forsake me until I declare
your strength to this

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generation, your power to
everyone who was to come.

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So in this verse here, the
psalmist asks for strength, not

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for any other reason, but to
enable him to teach the Next

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Generation and to those who are
to come that he could pass on

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the knowledge of God, to the
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And Psalm 102 verse 18.
This will be written to the for

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the generation to come that.
I people yet to be created, May

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praise the Lord.
So the Psalms what it, for

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whatever primary purpose, it had
and praising God.

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In this particular Psalm a
secondary benefit was that it

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could be passed on to the next
wave of your generation of those

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to come.
Come with me, please to Psalm

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78, I’m going to put it up on
the overhead here but I also

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just want to read it out of my
Bible.

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Psalm 78.
Verses 1 through 7.

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Really sort of hammers, the
point home here, repeatedly for

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us.
Some 78.

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00:31:16,300 –> 00:31:20,800
Give ear o my people to my law
incline, your ears to the words

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00:31:20,800 –> 00:31:23,400
of my mouth.
I will open my mouth in

436
00:31:23,400 –> 00:31:25,900
Parables.
I will utter dark sayings of old

437
00:31:26,100 –> 00:31:29,800
which we have heard and known
and our fathers have told us.

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00:31:30,400 –> 00:31:33,700
We will not hide them from their
children, telling to the

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00:31:33,700 –> 00:31:37,600
generation to come the Praises
of the Lord and his strength and

440
00:31:37,600 –> 00:31:41,300
his wonderful works that he is
done for he established a

441
00:31:41,300 –> 00:31:44,600
testimony and Jacob and
appointed a lot on Israel which

442
00:31:44,800 –> 00:31:48,400
He commanded our fathers that
they should make them known to

443
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their children that the
generation to come might know

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00:31:51,700 –> 00:31:56,200
them the children who would be
born that they may arise and

445
00:31:56,200 –> 00:31:59,900
declare them to their children
that they may set their hope in

446
00:31:59,900 –> 00:32:04,500
God and not forget the works of
God, but keep his commandments.

447
00:32:05,400 –> 00:32:09,100
So this song describes for us
how there’s this chain of

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00:32:09,100 –> 00:32:14,700
knowledge and praise of God
passed on from Father’s to the A

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00:32:14,708 –> 00:32:17,200
generation.
And the hope of this Psalm is to

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00:32:17,200 –> 00:32:20,000
pass it on to the next
Generation that they can then

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00:32:20,000 –> 00:32:23,000
teach it to their children.
And so, the point is really

452
00:32:23,000 –> 00:32:27,500
hammered home for us that we
have a responsibility to pass

453
00:32:27,500 –> 00:32:30,000
the torch on to the next
Generation.

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00:32:30,500 –> 00:32:34,700
We can’t make the mistake that
was made in Joshua’s generation.

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00:32:35,300 –> 00:32:37,900
Amongst all the great works of
Faith being done.

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Somehow, the children were not
taught to know, God, we can’t

457
00:32:42,400 –> 00:32:45,100
make the same mistake and even
in the New Testament, The name,

458
00:32:46,100 –> 00:32:50,200
second Timothy 2:2.
This first describes the group

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00:32:50,200 –> 00:32:53,900
effort needed to teach and the
things that you have heard from

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00:32:53,900 –> 00:32:56,000
me.
This is Paul writing to Timothy

461
00:32:56,600 –> 00:33:00,200
among many witnesses.
Commit, these to Faithful Men

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00:33:00,600 –> 00:33:02,800
Who will be able to teach others
also.

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00:33:03,000 –> 00:33:06,800
So, Paul taught Timothy and now
suggest that Timothy, will you

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00:33:06,800 –> 00:33:09,600
teach others?
And then those people, they can

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00:33:09,600 –> 00:33:13,500
also teach and that’s really a
model for Ecclesia life that we

466
00:33:13,500 –> 00:33:17,200
really all Should be trying to
teach and passing on through

467
00:33:17,200 –> 00:33:21,000
whatever abilities that we have.
The Next Generation we should

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00:33:21,000 –> 00:33:24,300
assemble groups and have
somebody School teachers and

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00:33:24,300 –> 00:33:26,900
exhort errs, and everyone with
capabilities.

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Should be trying to teach and
pass on the knowledge of God.

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00:33:32,500 –> 00:33:36,300
Now, why is this particularly
challenging in 2019?

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00:33:37,700 –> 00:33:40,700
Well, we all know how our
attention spans are shortening

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00:33:41,200 –> 00:33:44,600
and how there’s just so much
that’s out there as we discussed

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00:33:44,600 –> 00:33:49,100
in previous classes, and there’s
just so much digital content.

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00:33:49,100 –> 00:33:53,300
Now that has constantly vying
for and competing to grab our

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00:33:53,300 –> 00:33:57,300
attention and the difficulty and
challenge that we have in the

477
00:33:57,300 –> 00:34:01,000
modern world is that for every
opportunity that we have to

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00:34:01,000 –> 00:34:06,200
teach, there’s just so many
other Temptations to learn and

479
00:34:06,200 –> 00:34:08,100
have entertainment from other.
Avenues.

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00:34:09,500 –> 00:34:12,000
It’s never been more difficult
to capture a Young Person’s

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00:34:12,000 –> 00:34:16,699
attention.
And I’m, as guilty as any of

482
00:34:16,699 –> 00:34:19,199
that, there’s these media
companies out there.

483
00:34:19,800 –> 00:34:22,500
And as we speak right now, I’m
not going to give a commercial

484
00:34:22,500 –> 00:34:27,000
for them but they are all right.
Now in an extremely intense

485
00:34:27,199 –> 00:34:30,199
industry War, they are all
fighting for market.

486
00:34:30,199 –> 00:34:34,199
Share their all spending way
above their incoming Revenue to

487
00:34:34,199 –> 00:34:36,699
try to fight each other out of
this online.

488
00:34:36,699 –> 00:34:41,400
Streaming digital content space
to become the dominant champion

489
00:34:41,500 –> 00:34:46,500
of online entertainment, And the
budgets that these companies are

490
00:34:46,500 –> 00:34:50,199
spending just in one particular
year to generate more digital

491
00:34:50,199 –> 00:34:54,600
content, is staggering, Netflix
is spending 13 billion dollars,

492
00:34:55,400 –> 00:34:57,600
Amazon Prime five billion
dollars.

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00:34:57,900 –> 00:35:01,500
And right now, Hulu is only
spending two billion dollars,

494
00:35:01,800 –> 00:35:05,600
but with the coming a Joint
Force of Disney plus plus Hulu,

495
00:35:05,900 –> 00:35:08,800
they are projecting to spend
over 20 billion dollars to in

496
00:35:08,800 –> 00:35:12,900
future years on content and how
could you even consider what the

497
00:35:12,908 –> 00:35:17,200
monetary value of?
Is and just how much in 1000

498
00:35:17,200 –> 00:35:21,200
lifetimes, you couldn’t watch
all the videos posted on YouTube

499
00:35:21,900 –> 00:35:25,200
and these content Avenues if you
will.

500
00:35:25,900 –> 00:35:29,700
These streaming services are now
available 24/7.

501
00:35:30,100 –> 00:35:34,000
They’re available all the time
and they are in a life-and-death

502
00:35:34,000 –> 00:35:37,800
struggle with each other for our
attention and our viewership.

503
00:35:38,900 –> 00:35:43,000
And how much more difficult is
that make it for us to teach and

504
00:35:43,000 –> 00:35:46,600
find our ways of sharing the
knowledge of God with the Next

505
00:35:46,600 –> 00:35:49,500
Generation because they’re going
up with this, as children and

506
00:35:49,500 –> 00:35:52,200
teenagers.
We as adults are facing, it’s

507
00:35:52,200 –> 00:35:53,800
difficult for gossip as well,
isn’t it?

508
00:35:54,100 –> 00:35:56,100
But this is the only world that
they are.

509
00:35:56,100 –> 00:35:59,800
Next generation will have known
the rare opportunities that we

510
00:35:59,800 –> 00:36:03,100
have to teach.
We have to capitalize on because

511
00:36:03,100 –> 00:36:07,300
we are now just one of many.
Many very resource blessed

512
00:36:07,300 –> 00:36:13,500
players that We are just just
trying so hard fighting for Our

513
00:36:13,500 –> 00:36:16,200
Generations attention.
Now, as I mentioned in a

514
00:36:16,200 –> 00:36:20,400
previous class what we have, as
Believers as those who possess

515
00:36:20,400 –> 00:36:25,500
the word of God is a Priceless
pearl of great price for

516
00:36:25,500 –> 00:36:29,100
billions and billions of
dollars, you could not buy the

517
00:36:29,100 –> 00:36:33,100
hope of God’s coming Kingdom.
The Bible is powerful and

518
00:36:33,100 –> 00:36:37,200
sharper than any two-edged sword
and it’s a resource that no one

519
00:36:37,200 –> 00:36:41,100
could replace or overcome. um,
or find a better alternative to

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00:36:41,900 –> 00:36:44,500
what the problem is now is that
for, as powerful as the Bible

521
00:36:44,500 –> 00:36:48,100
is, and as as absolutely
valuable as it is to us and we

522
00:36:48,100 –> 00:36:53,200
treasure, it is difficult for us
in this day and age to get the

523
00:36:53,200 –> 00:36:57,700
Bible printed on paper and in
text out there into the mines

524
00:36:57,700 –> 00:37:03,200
and into the learning areas of
the next Generations bring this

525
00:37:03,200 –> 00:37:07,200
is a an interesting series of
slides to come here about a new

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00:37:07,200 –> 00:37:10,600
form of entertainment or Say, of
digital consumption called

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00:37:10,600 –> 00:37:13,000
podcast, which I’m sure you’ve
probably all heard of are aware

528
00:37:13,000 –> 00:37:14,800
of.
And this chart here shows the

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progression of podcast, use over
the past, you know, fifth 10, 15

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00:37:18,900 –> 00:37:22,200
years or so.
We jumped over a threshold.

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00:37:22,200 –> 00:37:26,000
Now, in the year, 2019, we’re
now over half the population of

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00:37:26,000 –> 00:37:28,900
America.
Now, consume listen, view

533
00:37:28,900 –> 00:37:31,600
podcasts.
It’s believed by this Media

534
00:37:31,600 –> 00:37:35,500
Group, infinite, dial at 144
million Americans.

535
00:37:35,500 –> 00:37:39,900
Now, consume podcasts, or will
in the year, 18 and another

536
00:37:39,900 –> 00:37:41,300
piece of interesting
information.

537
00:37:42,400 –> 00:37:45,600
Came out of the same research
group, they found that the

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00:37:45,600 –> 00:37:49,100
average amount of podcast being
viewed per week by a typical

539
00:37:49,100 –> 00:37:52,900
person has five some do 11 or
more somebody’s just one or two.

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00:37:53,200 –> 00:37:58,000
But the point is people tend to
view a lot of podcasts and I

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00:37:58,000 –> 00:38:01,200
think this data shows for us
that there’s really sort of in

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00:38:01,200 –> 00:38:04,600
our modern world two, kinds of
people, you’re probably either

543
00:38:04,600 –> 00:38:09,000
someone who doesn’t listen to
podcasts at all or you’re

544
00:38:09,000 –> 00:38:11,900
someone who listens to a bunch
of podcasts there.

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00:38:12,100 –> 00:38:16,100
Seem to be sort of two extremes.
And so it asks the question for

546
00:38:16,100 –> 00:38:21,100
us if there’s just all of this
attention and effort being put

547
00:38:21,100 –> 00:38:24,400
into putting out entertainment
and education and things in

548
00:38:24,400 –> 00:38:29,200
other forms online.
How do we as a faith-based

549
00:38:29,200 –> 00:38:34,300
community based on the Bible?
How do we still find ways to

550
00:38:34,300 –> 00:38:37,300
reach the next Generation when
there is just so much

551
00:38:37,300 –> 00:38:41,900
competition for their time.
Now, I’m going to suggest three

552
00:38:42,000 –> 00:38:44,000
the things.
This was just just my own

553
00:38:44,000 –> 00:38:46,900
opinion and taken feel free to
discuss this in our chat

554
00:38:46,900 –> 00:38:48,800
sessions.
I can see that we’re at a

555
00:38:48,800 –> 00:38:53,600
Crossroads here as a society and
I think there’s three paths that

556
00:38:53,600 –> 00:38:58,200
are really worth discussing and
thinking about Oh, I forgot this

557
00:38:58,200 –> 00:39:00,100
slide here.
Yeah, so interesting information

558
00:39:00,100 –> 00:39:04,200
that two-thirds of podcast
viewers are under age 45, and

559
00:39:04,200 –> 00:39:07,500
really about half are in their
mid 30s and under.

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00:39:07,500 –> 00:39:10,100
So it’s really also a
generational thing how it tends

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00:39:10,100 –> 00:39:13,400
to be that the young people and
from like Millennials down.

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00:39:13,400 –> 00:39:16,400
We’re the ones that are really
sort of podcast hungry and

563
00:39:16,400 –> 00:39:21,800
really listen to a lot, okay?
So I have three suggestions and

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00:39:22,000 –> 00:39:25,800
here’s the first one and this is
one that I think there’s a lot

565
00:39:25,800 –> 00:39:29,400
of Merit to That we need to try
as best we can.

566
00:39:29,400 –> 00:39:32,200
And this is going to sort of
Mission Impossible and pricing

567
00:39:32,200 –> 00:39:33,700
them.
Parents are already trying their

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00:39:33,700 –> 00:39:36,600
best.
To achieve, is to try our best.

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00:39:36,600 –> 00:39:41,200
To minimize the exposure of our
young people to such online

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00:39:41,200 –> 00:39:44,600
content.
Particularly at younger ages to

571
00:39:44,600 –> 00:39:49,100
try our best, to get the screens
off, get the online content,

572
00:39:49,100 –> 00:39:52,800
shut down as best, we can
minimize it and manage it.

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00:39:53,100 –> 00:39:56,200
You might site versus like you
know, if the eye offend thee

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00:39:56,600 –> 00:40:00,500
pluck, Get out.
Maybe a family has to find some

575
00:40:00,500 –> 00:40:05,400
way to pluck out the otherwise,
Unstoppable stream of online

576
00:40:05,400 –> 00:40:07,300
content.
This is going to be very

577
00:40:07,300 –> 00:40:11,100
difficult one, but I think it’s
worth discussing as a family or

578
00:40:11,100 –> 00:40:12,900
as Believers, discussing this
option.

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00:40:14,000 –> 00:40:16,600
The second one though and I
think this is going to be very

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00:40:16,600 –> 00:40:21,400
true, no matter what, no matter
what you decide is that when we

581
00:40:21,400 –> 00:40:23,800
do have the young, people’s
attention.

582
00:40:23,900 –> 00:40:27,100
And the next generation is
focused on us when we were there

583
00:40:27,300 –> 00:40:31,100
on a Sunday morning and the
parents of got the device is off

584
00:40:31,100 –> 00:40:34,000
and you’re in your seat and the
young people are listening to an

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00:40:34,000 –> 00:40:37,100
exhortation, it’s got to be
worth their time.

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00:40:37,400 –> 00:40:41,200
It really has got to be good and
crisp, they have to learn

587
00:40:41,200 –> 00:40:43,100
something.
There has to be a valuable

588
00:40:43,100 –> 00:40:45,500
lesson.
They can’t not off.

589
00:40:45,500 –> 00:40:48,700
We’ve got to make art, our
classes are talks or

590
00:40:48,700 –> 00:40:53,600
exhortations worthwhile, it’s no
longer, okay, to sit back and

591
00:40:53,600 –> 00:40:57,700
just get by with a mediocre
exhortation and have a lost

592
00:40:57,700 –> 00:41:01,500
opportunity, because the
attention span now is so quick

593
00:41:01,800 –> 00:41:06,400
that teenagers will not listen.
If it’s a brutal exhortation, we

594
00:41:06,400 –> 00:41:09,800
have to make it good, we have to
Value their time.

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00:41:11,500 –> 00:41:13,300
Bible Clashers must be
worthwhile.

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00:41:13,900 –> 00:41:15,400
And this is an important one, as
well.

597
00:41:15,900 –> 00:41:19,100
Regular teaching at home is very
important.

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00:41:19,100 –> 00:41:23,300
I think would be unrealistic to
ask a young person or ask a

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00:41:23,300 –> 00:41:25,600
child to be sure to pay
attention.

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00:41:25,600 –> 00:41:28,100
Now, put your cell phone away
and put your tablet away and pay

601
00:41:28,100 –> 00:41:31,100
attention.
Now, on Sunday, if they are not

602
00:41:31,100 –> 00:41:35,600
practicing that all the other
days of the week, if the family

603
00:41:35,600 –> 00:41:39,500
is not coming together and
turning things off and learning

604
00:41:39,500 –> 00:41:41,200
from the readings or from
whatever.

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00:41:41,300 –> 00:41:45,800
The Bible class or discussion
might be in the family, how is

606
00:41:45,800 –> 00:41:48,500
it going to then all of a sudden
be different on Sunday?

607
00:41:50,400 –> 00:41:54,600
And also, we also need to
address how nowadays there is.

608
00:41:54,600 –> 00:41:57,500
So much more attention on online
content being paid to the

609
00:41:57,500 –> 00:42:00,000
different ways that people
learn.

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00:42:00,000 –> 00:42:03,700
Some people are great at
auditory learning and that’s

611
00:42:03,700 –> 00:42:06,800
typically that the usual
strength of a christadelphians

612
00:42:06,800 –> 00:42:10,700
talk is its somebody at the
front talking and lecturing and

613
00:42:10,700 –> 00:42:13,500
auditory Learners thrive in that
in that mode.

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00:42:13,800 –> 00:42:17,100
But now, there’s so many online
videos and you can think of

615
00:42:17,107 –> 00:42:20,100
videos of where I got.
You see a person’s hands crack

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00:42:20,300 –> 00:42:23,100
Being a recipe and you can
actually see it in picture your

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00:42:23,100 –> 00:42:26,100
own hands doing it.
These are powerful ways that the

618
00:42:26,100 –> 00:42:29,200
internet is really taking
advantage of kinesthetic

619
00:42:29,200 –> 00:42:32,300
Learners or people who learn
through actually thinking

620
00:42:32,300 –> 00:42:34,900
visualizing or doing it with
their hands.

621
00:42:35,500 –> 00:42:38,700
And we as Christians delphine’s,
we should be trying to embrace

622
00:42:38,900 –> 00:42:42,900
these new methods of reaching a
person’s mind and perhaps

623
00:42:42,900 –> 00:42:48,000
involving more visuals, to grab
our attention and also find ways

624
00:42:48,000 –> 00:42:50,000
to actually get people busy and
active.

625
00:42:50,200 –> 00:42:53,400
Of this might be more workshops
or discussion sessions or

626
00:42:53,400 –> 00:42:57,300
practic practical discussions.
There must be ways for us to

627
00:42:57,300 –> 00:43:01,800
achieve or to reach the mines of
kinesthetic Learners people who

628
00:43:01,800 –> 00:43:05,000
learn in different ways, besides
just listening to someone

629
00:43:05,000 –> 00:43:08,700
talking and third.
And I realized this is going to

630
00:43:08,700 –> 00:43:11,200
be sort of a difficult
contradiction.

631
00:43:11,900 –> 00:43:16,200
But I do wonder if we, as
christadelphians also, if

632
00:43:16,200 –> 00:43:19,700
there’s all of this content,
digital content out there, and

633
00:43:19,700 –> 00:43:22,700
it’s going to Consume it’s there
for us if we should actually

634
00:43:22,700 –> 00:43:28,000
have more of our discussions and
talks and message be put online.

635
00:43:28,000 –> 00:43:31,400
I realize that number one, and
number three, sort of stand

636
00:43:31,400 –> 00:43:34,600
juxtaposed to each other and how
can you pursue both at the same

637
00:43:34,600 –> 00:43:36,400
time?
Maybe different people in

638
00:43:36,400 –> 00:43:39,300
different situations.
Need one of these two things may

639
00:43:39,300 –> 00:43:43,200
be as as a family, you need to
pursue item number one and just

640
00:43:43,200 –> 00:43:47,700
try to reduce the online
Temptation or maybe certain

641
00:43:47,700 –> 00:43:50,000
adults are single.
People are older folks.

642
00:43:50,300 –> 00:43:53,100
Where they don’t have children
around and they’re online and

643
00:43:53,100 –> 00:43:55,300
they have their phones.
And there’s a lot of good stuff

644
00:43:55,300 –> 00:43:57,200
that actually is out there in
podcast.

645
00:43:57,200 –> 00:43:59,300
It isn’t all bad or evil or
Wicked.

646
00:43:59,700 –> 00:44:01,200
Maybe we should be trying
though.

647
00:44:01,200 –> 00:44:04,400
To put faith-based things out
there, speak about the Krista,

648
00:44:04,400 –> 00:44:06,600
delphine’s, our beliefs, what
our lives are like,

649
00:44:06,800 –> 00:44:10,500
encouragement to each other.
Maybe there should also be more

650
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christadelphians work and
content online.

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So it isn’t just YouTube and
Netflix.

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It can also be things for good
things that help us.

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And so with that, Like actually
going to be a little bit real

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here and address how this is
already happening and to some

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degree.
The toothpaste is out of the

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tube and I think it’s a really
good thing that there are

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successful christadelphians
podcasts.

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And the numbers are perhaps not
what you might have think

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there’s a lot of people
listening to these good

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christadelphians talks.
Think they posted.

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They’ve had over 10,000 people,
download, or listen to a

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particular class or podcast.
They’ve posted and some of you

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may not know all of these but
this is one I listened to you

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from Two Brothers up in
Kingston.

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Ontario, this is Sam.
Taylor’s podcast, this is Tim

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00:44:55,800 –> 00:44:58,500
Young’s podcast.
He talks about first, principles

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00:44:58,500 –> 00:45:01,800
and life in the truth with other
brothers from book Road, and

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this is the podcast.
That’s on peeing Carly’s site.

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We’ll find him together.com and
they have end of the week

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encouragement, podcasts, and
people are really listening to

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this.
And in an online space, that is

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so crowded with other things
that are out there for us, to

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view and watch.
And listen to, if the numbers

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are there that this is
happening, we maybe should

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produce more of our own online
content, perhaps the days of

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pamphlets, and flyers is over.
And the days for podcasts is now

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here.
And we should be producing this

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and putting this out there in
the world.

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I realize this is a difficult
subject for all of us and some

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of you might be saying Mike I
disagree.

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We should be trying to fight
this.

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We should resist all of this
online content out there and so

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you might suggest or support
number one and there’s a lot of

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validity to that and I
completely agree.

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But the reality of 2019 is that
it’s all around us all the time

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and it’s a part of our Lives.
We should at least try.

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To make it faith-based to make
it Crystal Delphia, some of you

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may say Mike, this is a great
thing we should do this.

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Others might say it’s a
compromise.

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Its this just for us to discuss
and to would take some time to

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think about how do we teach the
Next Generation.

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How do we avoid the mistake of
Joshua?

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00:46:25,200 –> 00:46:27,300
How do we follow the words of
the Psalms?

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I think it’s going to be a
combination of all three of

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these things.
And so for our discussion of

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meditation, Ins as we conclude
our study for the day.

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Is what things should our
Ecclesia do to take advantage of

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the precious time that we have
with an audience of young people

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00:46:47,300 –> 00:46:49,100
and there’s some sub questions
here.

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Should our best teachers and
exhort errs speak more and

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00:46:54,300 –> 00:46:57,300
perhaps even publish their
studies online.

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Should we have an all-ages
Mutual Improvement class?

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00:47:01,600 –> 00:47:06,100
So all exhorter is all teachers,
all speakers were constantly

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00:47:06,100 –> 00:47:09,900
trying to improve the quality of
our talks because the level of

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competition around us has risen,
so dramatically and see are

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00:47:15,200 –> 00:47:17,200
there.
Other ways for us to improve the

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00:47:17,200 –> 00:47:20,300
quality of our teaching, and
involve new techniques and new

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00:47:20,300 –> 00:47:24,100
methods to reach different kinds
of Learners and different people

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00:47:24,100 –> 00:47:27,400
who in a digital age are so used
to visualizing things and seeing

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00:47:27,400 –> 00:47:30,200
things.
Screen, whereas listening now

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00:47:30,200 –> 00:47:35,100
can become a bit of a chore.
And finally, if you subscribe to

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suggestion number three, would
you consider producing online

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00:47:39,300 –> 00:47:42,900
spiritual content?
Like a podcast or an online

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00:47:42,900 –> 00:47:46,100
journal or artwork, or just
consult, Magnify Him

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00:47:46,100 –> 00:47:50,100
together.com, and all these ways
that christadelphians in a

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00:47:50,107 –> 00:47:53,100
digital world are helping to
share things and encourage each

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00:47:53,100 –> 00:47:55,000
other.
If this is the world that we

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have to live in until Christ
returns.

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So There’s definitely, I think
some really serious things for

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us to discuss here.
And so we’ll take five minutes

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and we’ll see you at the end of
that.

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Three Brothers during that
period up with Reverend and the

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UK here and drop the hose and
going through that, I actually

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need to check my probably pretty
high because I run into people

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00:49:17,700 –> 00:49:33,400
wherever I know that.
I need to sign in to 19.

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Alright, welcome back, everyone.
Just before I hand things back

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over to Nader, brother,
Billington from Branford also

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00:52:29,300 –> 00:52:31,500
share with me that there’s
another podcast called Bible in

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00:52:31,500 –> 00:52:34,400
the news, available on Bible,
the news.com or on iTunes.

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00:52:34,400 –> 00:52:37,000
So there’s a lot of good
prophecy up to share through

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that podcast as well.
So it’s I think it’s an Avenue

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00:52:39,500 –> 00:52:42,400
Worth exploring, but with that,
I’ll hand it over to Nato now to

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close things out.