{"id":371,"date":"2019-07-17T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/041-mike-livermore-classic-lessons-for-modern-challenges\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T00:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T00:00:24","slug":"041-mike-livermore-classic-lessons-for-modern-challenges","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/041-mike-livermore-classic-lessons-for-modern-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"041: Mike Livermore – Classic Lessons for Modern Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, with Sam Taylor guest hosting, we are listening to a talk by Bro. Mike Livermore that was given at the Livonia, MI Study Day in 2019, this class is \u00a0the first untitled class in the series “Classic Lessons for Modern Challenges.”<\/p>\n

Thank you for listening, God bless, and talk to you next week.<\/p>\n

Send talk suggestions or comments to: GoodChristadelphianTalks@gmail.com<\/a><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

For Show Notes, visit our website: Anchor.fm\/GCT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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\nWelcome to the good Christian
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\nThank you so much for joining us<\/p>\n

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\neach one of us get the Bible in
\nour daily news feed. <\/p>\n

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\nweek for you to listen. <\/p>\n

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\nWith a short intro before hand
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\nYou’re about to hear and now <\/p>\n

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\nlet’s hear more about this
\nweek’s talk. <\/p>\n

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\nHello, and thank you for joining
\nme on the good christadelphians <\/p>\n

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\ntalks podcast.
\nMy name is Sam Taylor. <\/p>\n

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\nYou might know me as the host of
\npause to consider a <\/p>\n

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\nchristadelphians devotions
\npodcast. <\/p>\n

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\nI’ll be filling in once again
\nthis week for Levi and Chris. <\/p>\n

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\nFor this week.
\nWe’re going to consider the <\/p>\n

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\nfirst in a series by brother
\nMike Livermore given at the <\/p>\n

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\nLivonia study day in 2019 and
\ntitled classic lessons for <\/p>\n

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\nmodern challenges.
\nWhen brother Mike presented <\/p>\n

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\nthese series The Livonia
\nCollegiate had a bit of a <\/p>\n

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\nstruggle because he provided no
\nsubject title and no titles for <\/p>\n

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\nthe classes.
\nThey were just entitled <\/p>\n

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\nnumerically 1 through 5, but
\nbrother Mike did is for great <\/p>\n

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\nreason because he wanted
\neverybody attending to go in <\/p>\n

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\nwith open minds and Open Hearts
\nand open ears to hear what he’s <\/p>\n

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\ngoing to teach them and what
\nfollowed was a fantastic look at<\/p>\n

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\nthe things that we endure the
\nthings that we go through in our<\/p>\n

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\ndaily lives that if you were to
\nlook at them through his ritual <\/p>\n

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\nlens we might look at a lot more
\nuncomfortably and that was <\/p>\n

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\nexactly the intent of it because
\nif you told you what it was <\/p>\n

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\ngoing to be about you’d probably
\neither not attend the class <\/p>\n

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\narrays shut your mind towards it
\nbut it offered a very candid <\/p>\n

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\nvery open look with well sourced
\nmaterial both biblical and <\/p>\n

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\nscientific about how the human
\nattention span is decreasing <\/p>\n

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\nabout how we’re becoming less
\ndependent upon our own intellect<\/p>\n

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\nand our own thinking and we’re
\njust going through autopilot <\/p>\n

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\nthroughout our lives and when
\nwe’re dealing with Having to <\/p>\n

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\nlive as disciples in this age
\nwhere we always have to be with <\/p>\n

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\nour spirit.
\nWe have to be living with our <\/p>\n

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\nspiritual Minds living an active
\nat all times be able to combat <\/p>\n

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\nthings which might enter our
\nmind and pollute our thinking <\/p>\n

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\nit’s a really fantastic study to
\ntake a look at one other facet <\/p>\n

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\nof this series, which I greatly
\nappreciated was that instead of <\/p>\n

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\nhaving one 45-minute a one-hour
\nseries when our class rather. <\/p>\n

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\nYou would just give two classes
\nin that timeframe and offer <\/p>\n

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\nabout a five-minute discussion
\nwindow in between them this gave<\/p>\n

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\npeople a chance to breathe
\nchance have some dialogue a <\/p>\n

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\nchance to process their thoughts
\nis something that could really <\/p>\n

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\nbe helpful in other classes and
\nother material that the <\/p>\n

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\nchristadelphians community gives
\nbecause as we will get <\/p>\n

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\ndecreasing attention spans and
\nsociety and within our own <\/p>\n

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\nCommunity, it might be helpful
\nto do what we can to be more <\/p>\n

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\nengaging and more direct with
\nthose who are listening so that <\/p>\n

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\nthe word of God might be able to
\nsink in their minds more fully. <\/p>\n

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\nSo without further Ado, let’s
\ntake a listen to this first <\/p>\n

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\nclass and next week.
\nYou’ll be back to your regularly<\/p>\n

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\nscheduled programming with Levi
\nand Chris leading the charge. <\/p>\n

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\nSo it was a pleasure being with
\nyou and enjoy this series. <\/p>\n

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\nGod bless.
\nWell, good morning everyone and <\/p>\n

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\nit’s really good to be here with
\nyou all. <\/p>\n

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\nI’ll just say at the outset that
\nhaving done this study and <\/p>\n

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\npreparation for the classes.
\nIt really caused me to <\/p>\n

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\nre-examine some of the practices
\nand things that I do in my life,<\/p>\n

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\nand hopefully it has the same
\neffect for all of you. <\/p>\n

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\nAround 760 BC in the reign of
\nKing Uzziah also called Azariah <\/p>\n

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\nthe nation of Judah lived
\nprosperously Uzziah did what was<\/p>\n

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\nright in the eyes of the Lord
\nand he listened to the prophets <\/p>\n

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\nthe people love to God at that
\npoint in time and they fought <\/p>\n

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\nagainst his enemies the
\nPhilistines, for example, they <\/p>\n

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\nbuilt many things the nation
\nthrived and was pin prospered. <\/p>\n

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\nDespite the oncoming threats in
\nthe distance of the Assyrians <\/p>\n

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\nthe nation of Judah increased.
\nBut to these people the prophet <\/p>\n

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\nAmos wrote.
\nWoe to you who are at ease in <\/p>\n

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\nZion and Trust in bounce Samaria
\nnotable persons in the chief <\/p>\n

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\nNation to whom the house of
\nIsrael comes woe to you who put <\/p>\n

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\na far-off the day of Doom who
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\ncome near who lie on beds of
\nivory stretch out. <\/p>\n

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\nYour couches eat lamb from the
\nflock and calves from the stall <\/p>\n

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\nwho sing idly to the sound of
\nstring instruments and invent <\/p>\n

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\nfor yourselves musical
\ninstruments like David, Who <\/p>\n

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\ndrink wine from bulls and anoint
\nyourselves with the best <\/p>\n

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\nointments?
\nBut are not grieve for the <\/p>\n

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\nAffliction of Joseph.
\nA prosperous happy people did <\/p>\n

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\nnot see or did not care about
\nthe oncoming threats because <\/p>\n

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\nthey were too busy living lives
\nof luxury. <\/p>\n

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\nThey were to content to enjoy
\nhow good things were to see that<\/p>\n

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\nthere were problems headed their
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\nThe Returned Exiles having
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\ncaptivity to Jerusalem under
\nJoshua and zerubbabel fell <\/p>\n

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\nvictim to Encouragement from the
\nNations around them and <\/p>\n

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\ncomplacency set in and so when
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\nfor 12 years the nation of
\nIsrael did nothing in there <\/p>\n

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\nEcclesia.
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\nfoundation.
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\ntook over and the Ecclesia was
\nneglected. <\/p>\n

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\nThey stopped concerning
\nthemselves with the Ecclesia and<\/p>\n

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\njust live their lives and to
\nthis people the message of the <\/p>\n

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\nProphet.
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\nfor you to dwell on your paneled
\nhouses while this Temple lie in <\/p>\n

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\nRuins and the overall message of
\nthe Prophet was to consider your<\/p>\n

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\nways that people did not
\nconsider the state of the <\/p>\n

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\nEcclesia.
\nThey cared for their homes their<\/p>\n

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\npossessions their personal goals
\nand meanwhile the Ecclesia <\/p>\n

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\ndecayed. 600 years later and
\nEcclesia New Testament times <\/p>\n

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\nexisted in a prosperous town
\nwith lovely hillsides and their <\/p>\n

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\nRich history.
\nThey thought things were going <\/p>\n

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\njust fine.
\nThe Ecclesia had been founded by<\/p>\n

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\nthe Apostle Paul himself and
\nthey were cruising along just <\/p>\n

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\nfine without a need in the world
\nand to these people Christ said <\/p>\n

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\nThen because you are lukewarm
\nand neither cold nor hot. <\/p>\n

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\nI will vomit you out of my mouth
\nbecause you say I am rich F <\/p>\n

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\nbecome wealthy and have need of
\nnothing and do not know that you<\/p>\n

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\nare wretched miserable poor
\nblind and naked I counsel you to<\/p>\n

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\nbuy from me gold refined in the
\nfire that you may be rich and <\/p>\n

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\nwhite maybe a rich it with white
\ngarments you baby clothes at the<\/p>\n

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\nshame of your nakedness may not
\nbe revealed and anoint your eyes<\/p>\n

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\nwith eye Salve that you may see.
\nThis Ecclesia had everything <\/p>\n

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\nthey wanted but despite this
\napparent success. <\/p>\n

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\nThey couldn’t see the problems
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\nfront of them.
\nAll three of these occlusal <\/p>\n

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\nscenarios were Ecclesia is that
\ndidn’t seem to have any <\/p>\n

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\nexcessive wickedness or overall,
\ngross immorality. <\/p>\n

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\nThey weren’t stooped and very
\nclearly evil Wicked practices. <\/p>\n

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\nBut yet they all were stuck in
\nspiritual apathy and could not <\/p>\n

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\nsee or chose not to see the
\nproblems that their lifestyle <\/p>\n

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\nhad brought upon them.
\nAll three Ecclesia as well lay <\/p>\n

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\nit out here on our slides.
\nThey were at ease enjoys enjoyed<\/p>\n

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\nluxuries, but put off the coming
\nwarning signs. <\/p>\n

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\nThey focused on their homes, you
\nlook at the Ecclesia and did not<\/p>\n

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\nconsider where they were going.
\nThey were wealth with need of <\/p>\n

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\nnothing but could not see their
\nproblems and didn’t see the <\/p>\n

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\nchallenges had Arisen and their
\nLifestyles all three if I boiled<\/p>\n

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\ndown to this they put off did
\nnot consider or could not see <\/p>\n

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\nand these Please just stand to
\nus as a testament that is a <\/p>\n

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\nclassic scriptural lesson that
\nwe all should always be watching<\/p>\n

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\nand looking out for problems
\nthat arise in our in our society<\/p>\n

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\naround us and in our Ecclesia,
\nwe should never just assume that<\/p>\n

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\nwe’re cruising that we’re doing
\nokay because we’re living <\/p>\n

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\nprosperously and things are good
\nat that means our spiritual <\/p>\n

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\nhealth is also good.
\nThese Ecclesia stand as a <\/p>\n

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\ntestament to us of the words
\nwritten for us in 1st <\/p>\n

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\nCorinthians chapter 10.
\nLet him who thinks he stands <\/p>\n

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\ntake heed lest he fall.
\nAnd so now let’s come to the <\/p>\n

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\nyear 2019 to our society and we
\nalso live prosperously and we’re<\/p>\n

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\ncruising along and you could say
\nof our Ecclesia and of the <\/p>\n

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\nchristadelphians body worldwide
\nthat were not necessarily <\/p>\n

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\nsteeped in Gross immorality.
\nWe’re not cut off an excessive <\/p>\n

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\nwickedness.
\nWe could say what’s the harm <\/p>\n

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\nwe’re doing.
\nOkay, but do we see that there <\/p>\n

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\nreally are challenges arising
\nfrom how we live in 2019 and all<\/p>\n

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\nthe luxuries?
\nAnd great things of this life <\/p>\n

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\nbring challenges that perhaps we
\njust choose not to see or have <\/p>\n

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\nignored or not given the proper
\ntime to consider their harm or <\/p>\n

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\nthreat to our spiritual health
\nand in the challenges, we’ll <\/p>\n

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\nlook at today.
\nThey all really stem from <\/p>\n

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\nSamantha’s that’s developed
\nuniquely in our time. <\/p>\n

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\nNow, you probably can’t really
\nsee this graphic all that. <\/p>\n

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\nWell, it’s a little chart of the
\ngrowth and adaption and changes <\/p>\n

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\nand Web Internet computer
\ntechnology. <\/p>\n

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\nHow since the 80s this charts
\nwere to map for us how things <\/p>\n

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\nhave grown and changed and I’ve
\nbroken it down into this <\/p>\n

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\nsomewhat intimidating little
\nbreakdown of the evolution of <\/p>\n

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\ncomputer science, and I actually
\nbring this up because there is <\/p>\n

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\ngoing to be a Connecting Point
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\nAnd so we have here what’s often
\nsort of considered by computer <\/p>\n

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\nscientists the four eras of the
\nweb web 1.0 being like going <\/p>\n

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\nback to the 90s when we all had
\na little piece. <\/p>\n

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\nSee you in the corner.
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\ndominant trait was then which I
\nsaid website just head <\/p>\n

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\ninformation.
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\naol.com went to Altavista and
\nyou could go to a various <\/p>\n

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\ndot-coms to get information and
\nthe internet began to replace <\/p>\n

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\nlibraries and this saved
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\nwas a really sort of a very new
\nand kind of fresh change that <\/p>\n

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\nwas very valued by a lot of us
\nand the only spiritual threat at<\/p>\n

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\nthat time that we could see was.
\nWell, you know what it’s kind of<\/p>\n

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\na waste of time you go on your
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\ntrack of time the spiritual
\nthreat at that time was minimal,<\/p>\n

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\nbut then you come to the 2000s
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\nwebsites online are not just
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\nnow interactive and you have
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\nand Twitter where now people
\ngather together for the Social <\/p>\n

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\nPower of the internet and things
\nlike Facebook and Twitter really<\/p>\n

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\nchanged our social structure and
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\nin person because you couldn’t
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\nit became addictive and this is
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\nbegin to see there is a danger.
\nThere is a problem that can <\/p>\n

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\narise from where the internet is
\ntaking us because that <\/p>\n

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\ninteraction online is very
\npowerful and addictive and it <\/p>\n

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\ncan begin to suck Us in it can
\nalso to expose us to a lot of <\/p>\n

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\nthings you didn’t necessarily
\nwould have chosen to see if we <\/p>\n

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\nadjust live our lives regularly
\nwithout the internet. <\/p>\n

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\nBut now in today’s day and age
\nin the year 2019. <\/p>\n

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\nWe’re now entering what’s called
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\nthe computers are beginning to
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\nartificial intelligence is
\ntaking over and technology is <\/p>\n

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\njust grabbed a hold of us and
\nnow refuses to let go now things<\/p>\n

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\nare being curated for you.
\nAnd all you have to do is just <\/p>\n

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\nopen up youtube.com and YouTube
\nhas an algorithm. <\/p>\n

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\nWe’re at knows your search
\nhistory get Knows What You Do <\/p>\n

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\nonline and it presents to you
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\nknows you would want to see so
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\ninside of us and you often would
\nsee if the maybe you’re having a<\/p>\n

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\nyou send a message an email to a
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\ngood strollers for my kids?
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\nonline are ads for strollers.
\nSo the computers the machines <\/p>\n

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\nknow us as well as we know
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\nAnd web technology now is
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\nsteal us into their market share
\nand not let us go and the danger<\/p>\n

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\nnow in the intelligent web is
\nthat this level of immersion <\/p>\n

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\nonline is consuming and it will
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\nThere’s the social component now
\nat notice better than those <\/p>\n

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\nourselves and it refuses to let
\nus go and they can really change<\/p>\n

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\nhow our society functions and
\nthe way this is going is that in<\/p>\n

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\nweb 4.0 the predictions are it
\nwill be the symbiotic. <\/p>\n

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\nWhere humans and computers will
\nhave an inextricable <\/p>\n

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\nrelationship to each other and
\nthe machines will just decide <\/p>\n

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\nthings for us.
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\nand take you where you need to
\ngo ahead even asking you where <\/p>\n

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\nyou need to go.
\nIt just knows I get in my car in<\/p>\n

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\nthe morning.
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\nwill adjust make decisions for
\nus and how can Faith survive in <\/p>\n

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\nthat environment?
\nIf we’re not even going to be <\/p>\n

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\nusing our brains 20 years in the
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\nThis is where technology is
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\nNow the point of this little
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\nlittle bit of edge.
\nEducation on how the web has <\/p>\n

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\ngrown but I found this history
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\nthe classic scriptural lesson
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\nbe the overall theme for our
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\nof those iterations of web
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\nof lots back in Genesis.
\nDo you recall when Abraham and <\/p>\n

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\nlots herds and their group were
\ntoo big and they had to split up<\/p>\n

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\nand Abraham chose the less
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\narea by Sodom how at that point
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\nHe didn’t just say, you know
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\nthem, but he slowly
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\nthat way and he eventually wound
\nhimself trapped in extinct oubli<\/p>\n

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\ntied to the city.
\nAnd so we have in Genesis <\/p>\n

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\nchapter 13 verse 10 going to try
\nusing my Like yet their Genesis <\/p>\n

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\nchapter 13 verse 10 lot first.
\nSaw Sodom. <\/p>\n

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\nHe saw the plane east of the
\nJordan how it was fertile. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd he said, you know what
\nthat’s it. <\/p>\n

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\nLooks like it could be kind of
\ncool the spiritual threat at <\/p>\n

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\nthat time was minimal.
\nHe just saw the fertility and <\/p>\n

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\nthe options available to him
\nmuch like us with web 1.0 <\/p>\n

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\nsarlat, then was sort of hooked.
\nHe then chose to go live there <\/p>\n

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\nin the next verse and he began
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\nSharon and at that point his
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\ntrapped there.
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\nHe was heading and that was us
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\n2.0.
\nWe were headed to this point in <\/p>\n

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\nour lives where technology would
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\nWe do every single day and
\nthat’s where we are right now as<\/p>\n

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\nweb 3.0 begins we are now lot
\nwho was dwelling in Sodom and <\/p>\n

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\nchapter 13 verse 12, he and his
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\nThey Were a part of its culture
\nand the conflict the Conformity <\/p>\n

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\nthe shaping of his family was
\nnow beginning and that’s us <\/p>\n

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\nright now with technology.
\nIs it not how children that grow<\/p>\n

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\nup today all they know as a
\nWorld online where everyone has <\/p>\n

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\ntheir gadgets?
\nIt’s not going to change and of <\/p>\n

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\ncourse the Doom of web 4.0 if
\nyou will, is that a few chapters<\/p>\n

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\nlater when Abraham comes to
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\nthe gate in Genesis chapter 19.
\nHe had become an elder a wise <\/p>\n

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\nman who was amongst Leaders, he
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\nleadership.
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\nmantle of the city of Sodom.
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\nHe was absolutely a part of the
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\nThere was no difference between
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\nthe future.
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\ntechnology where the online
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\nnow going to be just a part of
\nour lives and will be nothing <\/p>\n

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\nthat we nothing different about
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\nfunctioning online and that’s
\nthe danger is that That we’re in<\/p>\n

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\nthe case of Sodom heat shows of
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\nmove towards Sodom in defense of
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\nWe’ve been stationary and
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\nmoved into our lives.
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\nout of our way to go chase after
\nit like lat but we’ve <\/p>\n

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\nnonetheless accepted it in our
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\naccepted this Progressive
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\nHere’s one quick headline that
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\nfor you with these six new
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\nSo already the computers are
\nthinking for us and conforming <\/p>\n

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\nour minds to Modern sort of
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\nthinking to conform us with how
\nthe rest of the world thinks and<\/p>\n

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\nI found this screenshot sort of
\nreally interesting because look <\/p>\n

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\nat the ads that popped up for me
\nthis Oracle database adhere see <\/p>\n

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\nSit back relax and let Oracle do
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\nWe got you covered.
\nThe computers will run your life<\/p>\n

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\nfor you.
\nJust conform to how we think and<\/p>\n

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\neven this adhere IBM data takes
\nyou where you need to go faster <\/p>\n

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\nall of these a wonderful
\nServices which are great in some<\/p>\n

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\nrespects and the less I think
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\nus and there’s more here’s a
\nreally interesting article <\/p>\n

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\nGoogle a I create its own Child
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\nsystem.
\nBuilt by humans. <\/p>\n

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\nSo already computers are better
\nat developing their own AI then <\/p>\n

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\nwe are and making the AI that
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\nshows the power and the
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\nan article about how Google uses
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\nintelligence and it programmed
\nit to get good at chess and it <\/p>\n

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\ngot so good that the best Chess
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\ncompete in any way and they
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\nplayed by aliens computers are
\nso good at doing things that we <\/p>\n

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\ndo that it’s like a it’s like a
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\ndoing it.
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\nIt’s a Only in playing chess and
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\nown universal language.
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\nit said try to create for us an
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\nuniversal translator to help
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\nSpanish.
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\nuse for its translation
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\nAnd what the a I did was create
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\nuniversal language that ties all
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\nNow we’re obviously remember
\nwhat happened the last time the <\/p>\n

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\nplanet Earth had a universal
\nlanguage it didn’t end so well <\/p>\n

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\nand only eight people were saved
\nand this is the path that our <\/p>\n

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\nworld is now back on.
\nAnd now it’s a part of our Lives<\/p>\n

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\nas well and Google and other
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\na daily basis.
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\nIt’s wonderful and Technology
\nreally does make our lives <\/p>\n

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\nbetter in so many ways.
\nI work in it. <\/p>\n

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\nI work for hours at a time every
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\nadmit.
\nI love technology. <\/p>\n

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\nI embrace it and it’s brought a
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\nlives, but it also has side
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\ndriving your car is a great <\/p>\n

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\n00:20:17,200 –> 00:20:21,400
\nthing driving a vehicle has
\nopened up travel and ways for us<\/p>\n

331
\n00:20:21,400 –> 00:20:25,500
\nto meet people and go places
\ndriving enables us to do so many<\/p>\n

332
\n00:20:25,500 –> 00:20:28,600
\nthings in life and we wouldn’t
\nhave it any other way but <\/p>\n

333
\n00:20:28,600 –> 00:20:32,300
\ndriving comes with dangers there
\ncan be setbacks and accidents. <\/p>\n

334
\n00:20:32,300 –> 00:20:35,800
\nThere are real threats to
\ndriving a car on the highway. <\/p>\n

335
\n00:20:36,400 –> 00:20:38,800
\nAnd so what we do is we put our
\nyoung people people that <\/p>\n

336
\n00:20:38,800 –> 00:20:41,000
\nhaven’t.
\nDriven through driver’s training<\/p>\n

337
\n00:20:41,200 –> 00:20:44,000
\nand we prepare them and they
\nhave to get a permit and spend <\/p>\n

338
\n00:20:44,000 –> 00:20:46,700
\nmany hours with an adult
\nsupervising their initial <\/p>\n

339
\n00:20:46,700 –> 00:20:50,200
\ndriving before as adults.
\nWe unleash them as Independent <\/p>\n

340
\n00:20:50,200 –> 00:20:53,500
\nDrivers on the road, so too, it
\nshould be with us with <\/p>\n

341
\n00:20:53,500 –> 00:20:55,500
\ntechnology.
\nIt’s so wonderful and great <\/p>\n

342
\n00:20:55,500 –> 00:20:57,100
\nthing.
\nWe’re not going to go back. <\/p>\n

343
\n00:20:57,200 –> 00:21:00,800
\nIt’s absolutely a part of our
\nlives but are we preparing <\/p>\n

344
\n00:21:00,800 –> 00:21:04,300
\nourselves and our young people
\nfor all the hazards and <\/p>\n

345
\n00:21:04,300 –> 00:21:08,400
\npotential setbacks and dangers
\nthat technology brings. <\/p>\n

346
\n00:21:08,500 –> 00:21:10,800
\nAre we?
\nLeague training ourselves and <\/p>\n

347
\n00:21:10,800 –> 00:21:15,200
\nour young people to deal with
\nthose threats so for our classes<\/p>\n

348
\n00:21:15,200 –> 00:21:18,000
\ntoday, what I’d like for us to
\ndo is in each session will <\/p>\n

349
\n00:21:18,000 –> 00:21:22,100
\naddress a different Potential
\nThreat and the advice or lessons<\/p>\n

350
\n00:21:22,100 –> 00:21:26,000
\nfrom the Bible to help us and
\nprepare us to face those threats<\/p>\n

351
\n00:21:26,000 –> 00:21:29,300
\nand to be able to integrate
\ntechnology in our lives while <\/p>\n

352
\n00:21:29,300 –> 00:21:32,000
\nmanaging these harmful spiritual
\npossibilities. <\/p>\n

353
\n00:21:32,000 –> 00:21:36,800
\nAnd in each class we’re hoping
\nto do is actually have two <\/p>\n

354
\n00:21:36,800 –> 00:21:40,300
\nsessions or sort of too.
\nJurors, if you will address then<\/p>\n

355
\n00:21:40,300 –> 00:21:44,000
\neach class with the short little
\nI’m not going to use the word <\/p>\n

356
\n00:21:44,000 –> 00:21:48,600
\nbreak, but maybe it sort of like
\nchat meditation session a brief <\/p>\n

357
\n00:21:48,600 –> 00:21:51,700
\npause.
\nIf you will between classes, you<\/p>\n

358
\n00:21:51,700 –> 00:21:54,500
\nknow, both due to our shortening
\nattention span in today’s <\/p>\n

359
\n00:21:54,500 –> 00:21:57,600
\nsociety and my own inability to
\ntalk for an hour straight. <\/p>\n

360
\n00:21:57,600 –> 00:22:01,300
\nWe’re going to actually kind of
\nbriefly pause for five minutes <\/p>\n

361
\n00:22:01,300 –> 00:22:04,900
\nin the middle of each class and
\nlet everyone in the audience <\/p>\n

362
\n00:22:04,900 –> 00:22:09,600
\nchat and discuss about questions
\nthat I’ll pose after Each <\/p>\n

363
\n00:22:09,600 –> 00:22:14,300
\npotential topic we discuss and
\nso we’re hoping to now begin as <\/p>\n

364
\n00:22:14,300 –> 00:22:17,300
\nwe come to the end of our first
\nfirst session of our first class<\/p>\n

365
\n00:22:17,700 –> 00:22:22,800
\nwith these quote two questions.
\nDo you agree that the influx of <\/p>\n

366
\n00:22:22,800 –> 00:22:27,900
\ntechnology and the web are
\ninevitable or is there more that<\/p>\n

367
\n00:22:27,900 –> 00:22:32,700
\nwe could do as an Ecclesia,
\nespecially like Abraham to avoid<\/p>\n

368
\n00:22:32,700 –> 00:22:37,500
\nit to get away from Sodom or is
\nit too late as Sodom is some <\/p>\n

369
\n00:22:37,500 –> 00:22:40,200
\njust around us and I know
\nnothing you can do to avoid it <\/p>\n

370
\n00:22:40,400 –> 00:22:43,500
\nis to do our best to deal with
\nit or is there more we could do <\/p>\n

371
\n00:22:43,500 –> 00:22:47,400
\nto avoid it and lastly If
\nAbraham could see the threat of <\/p>\n

372
\n00:22:47,400 –> 00:22:53,900
\nSodom but lot could not why why
\nwas a lot not able to perceive <\/p>\n

373
\n00:22:53,900 –> 00:22:57,800
\nwhat Abraham did and why is it
\nall so hard for us to see the <\/p>\n

374
\n00:22:57,800 –> 00:23:00,500
\nproblems in the things that we
\nlove today? <\/p>\n

375
\n00:23:01,400 –> 00:23:04,000
\nSo take five minutes.
\nI’m really hoping it’s a new <\/p>\n

376
\n00:23:04,000 –> 00:23:06,300
\nthing.
\nI’m hoping this won’t be five <\/p>\n

377
\n00:23:06,300 –> 00:23:10,000
\nminutes of awkward silence.
\nI’m hoping there will be Some <\/p>\n

378
\n00:23:10,000 –> 00:23:12,600
\nchatting and you can just sit
\nand think and meditate if you <\/p>\n

379
\n00:23:12,600 –> 00:23:16,400
\nlike, but we’ll see how it goes.
\nAnd so everyone please take five<\/p>\n

380
\n00:23:16,400 –> 00:23:32,900
\nminutes and I’ll see you then.
\nSo I hope that went well, and <\/p>\n

381
\n00:23:32,900 –> 00:23:36,200
\nhopefully you find it beneficial
\nand we can shrink or adjust that<\/p>\n

382
\n00:23:36,200 –> 00:23:40,300
\ntime in future classes.
\nIf need be coming to session to <\/p>\n

383
\n00:23:40,300 –> 00:23:44,400
\nnow the second half of our first
\nclass if you will we often <\/p>\n

384
\n00:23:44,400 –> 00:23:46,500
\nMarvel looking back at the
\nBible. <\/p>\n

385
\n00:23:47,700 –> 00:23:51,400
\nAt how almost pathetic it was
\nthe nation of Israel. <\/p>\n

386
\n00:23:51,400 –> 00:23:53,000
\nThanks, Uncle Joe.
\nPerfect. <\/p>\n

387
\n00:23:53,000 –> 00:23:59,800
\nYeah, but all right there
\ndangerous new we often Marvel at<\/p>\n

388
\n00:23:59,800 –> 00:24:01,800
\nhow I wouldn’t use the word
\npathetic. <\/p>\n

389
\n00:24:01,800 –> 00:24:07,300
\nIt was the nation of Israel for
\nCentury after Century could not <\/p>\n

390
\n00:24:07,400 –> 00:24:11,500
\nremove itself from idolatry.
\nYou look back at there were some<\/p>\n

391
\n00:24:11,500 –> 00:24:14,400
\ngood Kings, but they were just
\nso many more bad kings. <\/p>\n

392
\n00:24:14,600 –> 00:24:19,600
\nHow did the people not see After
\nProphet how they had to get rid <\/p>\n

393
\n00:24:19,600 –> 00:24:22,100
\nof this.
\nYou also Marvel at things like, <\/p>\n

394
\n00:24:22,100 –> 00:24:24,900
\nyou know, how come the disciples
\ncouldn’t see that that Christ <\/p>\n

395
\n00:24:24,900 –> 00:24:27,800
\nhad to be crucified.
\nIt’s easy for us in hindsight to<\/p>\n

396
\n00:24:27,800 –> 00:24:31,300
\nlook back and say why couldn’t
\nthey just fix it? <\/p>\n

397
\n00:24:31,300 –> 00:24:32,900
\nWhy couldn’t they just get over
\nit? <\/p>\n

398
\n00:24:33,200 –> 00:24:35,100
\nAnd that’s the power of
\nhindsight. <\/p>\n

399
\n00:24:36,100 –> 00:24:39,800
\nBut in that time for whatever
\nreason the people of Israel <\/p>\n

400
\n00:24:39,800 –> 00:24:43,700
\ndespite many faithful
\nindividuals coming through they <\/p>\n

401
\n00:24:43,700 –> 00:24:48,500
\ncould not fix this problem the
\nfailures that they had for so <\/p>\n

402
\n00:24:48,500 –> 00:24:50,000
\nmany generations of their
\nhistory. <\/p>\n

403
\n00:24:50,400 –> 00:24:53,900
\nThey couldn’t shake it.
\nAnd this is the danger of <\/p>\n

404
\n00:24:53,900 –> 00:24:58,000
\nidolatry for the people of
\nIsrael that for 700 years from <\/p>\n

405
\n00:24:58,000 –> 00:25:00,700
\nthe golden calf to King
\nzedekiah. <\/p>\n

406
\n00:25:01,200 –> 00:25:05,900
\nThey just couldn’t get over it
\nand it’s baffling even the king <\/p>\n

407
\n00:25:05,900 –> 00:25:08,800
\nthat was the rebels rate of the
\ntimes of Amos six are opening <\/p>\n

408
\n00:25:08,800 –> 00:25:11,700
\npassage in the first-class how
\nthe people were doing <\/p>\n

409
\n00:25:11,700 –> 00:25:13,900
\nprosperously and the nation was
\nokay. <\/p>\n

410
\n00:25:14,400 –> 00:25:18,600
\nIt said of King Uzziah and
\nsecond Kings chapter 15 verses 2<\/p>\n

411
\n00:25:18,600 –> 00:25:20,400
\nthrough for me.
\nI just read verse 3 it can use <\/p>\n

412
\n00:25:20,400 –> 00:25:24,400
\nthe ayat says that he did.
\nI was right in the sight of the <\/p>\n

413
\n00:25:24,400 –> 00:25:27,000
\nLord according to all that his
\nfather. <\/p>\n

414
\n00:25:27,000 –> 00:25:29,800
\nAmaziah had done.
\nHe was one of those rare good <\/p>\n

415
\n00:25:29,800 –> 00:25:34,300
\nKings, but in verse 4 except
\nthat the high places were not <\/p>\n

416
\n00:25:34,300 –> 00:25:38,800
\nremoved the people sacrificed
\nand burned incense on the high <\/p>\n

417
\n00:25:38,800 –> 00:25:41,500
\nplaces.
\nAnd it’s this sort of classic <\/p>\n

418
\n00:25:41,500 –> 00:25:44,400
\ndilemma.
\nWe see in the Bible of a good <\/p>\n

419
\n00:25:44,400 –> 00:25:49,200
\nfaithful person one of the rare
\ngood Kings and yet he likes so <\/p>\n

420
\n00:25:49,200 –> 00:25:53,400
\nmany could not Shake idols, and
\nhe wasn’t the only He won King <\/p>\n

421
\n00:25:53,400 –> 00:25:58,000
\nASA really one of the best Kings
\nJudah ever had it said of ASA <\/p>\n

422
\n00:25:58,200 –> 00:26:00,500
\nwhen he heard the words of the
\nProphet o bad. <\/p>\n

423
\n00:26:00,600 –> 00:26:03,900
\nHe took courage and remove the
\nAbominable Idols from the land <\/p>\n

424
\n00:26:03,900 –> 00:26:07,100
\nof Judah and Benjamin and from
\nthe cities, which he had taken <\/p>\n

425
\n00:26:07,100 –> 00:26:09,800
\nfrom Mount Ephraim.
\nHe was a really really good King<\/p>\n

426
\n00:26:09,800 –> 00:26:14,000
\nand he removed idols.
\nWhat’s the high places were not <\/p>\n

427
\n00:26:14,000 –> 00:26:16,700
\nremoved from Israel?
\nNevertheless? <\/p>\n

428
\n00:26:16,700 –> 00:26:21,700
\nThe heart of Asa was good loyal
\nall his days even King ASA <\/p>\n

429
\n00:26:21,700 –> 00:26:25,500
\ncouldn’t completely shake the
\nidols out of his life. <\/p>\n

430
\n00:26:25,500 –> 00:26:29,700
\nHe couldn’t fully remove this
\nthing from his life. <\/p>\n

431
\n00:26:31,300 –> 00:26:34,400
\nAnd here’s really I would say
\nwhat’s wrong with idolatry and <\/p>\n

432
\n00:26:34,400 –> 00:26:37,700
\nwhy it’s wrong and why it’s so
\npowerful and hard to remove the <\/p>\n

433
\n00:26:37,700 –> 00:26:41,900
\nreal reason the primary reason
\nGod condemns idolatry is that <\/p>\n

434
\n00:26:42,200 –> 00:26:46,200
\nit’s a threat to him that Idols
\nfor believers back then for the <\/p>\n

435
\n00:26:46,200 –> 00:26:48,100
\nIsraelites.
\nThey took the place of God. <\/p>\n

436
\n00:26:48,100 –> 00:26:51,100
\nThe Ten Commandments.
\nGod said you shall have no other<\/p>\n

437
\n00:26:51,100 –> 00:26:54,700
\ngods before me and that’s what
\nIdols represented to the people.<\/p>\n

438
\n00:26:54,900 –> 00:26:58,400
\nThey were worshipping and
\nfollowing and praying to other <\/p>\n

439
\n00:26:58,400 –> 00:27:01,800
\nfake Gods.
\nIt was really an affront to <\/p>\n

440
\n00:27:01,800 –> 00:27:05,800
\nGod’s presence in existence But
\nwhat was a secondary problem <\/p>\n

441
\n00:27:05,800 –> 00:27:11,000
\nwith Idols that Idols themselves
\nwere associated with practices <\/p>\n

442
\n00:27:11,200 –> 00:27:13,400
\nfrom the Nations around them the
\nother nations that were <\/p>\n

443
\n00:27:13,400 –> 00:27:18,000
\nidolatrous their sinful ways
\nwould creep in Via idolatry to <\/p>\n

444
\n00:27:18,000 –> 00:27:20,400
\nthe nation.
\nAnd so here’s a verse from 2nd <\/p>\n

445
\n00:27:20,400 –> 00:27:23,500
\nKings chapter 17.
\nThey followed Idols. <\/p>\n

446
\n00:27:23,700 –> 00:27:26,700
\nThis is the people of Israel by
\nthe way became idolaters. <\/p>\n

447
\n00:27:27,100 –> 00:27:30,700
\nAnd when after the nation’s who
\nwere all around them concerning <\/p>\n

448
\n00:27:30,700 –> 00:27:33,900
\nwhom the Lord had charged them
\nthat they should not do like <\/p>\n

449
\n00:27:33,900 –> 00:27:36,100
\nthat.
\nGod wanted his people Israel to <\/p>\n

450
\n00:27:36,100 –> 00:27:40,900
\nbe special and set apart and to
\nnot practice the same things as <\/p>\n

451
\n00:27:40,900 –> 00:27:45,000
\nthe Nations around them and that
\nreally sort of began with Idols <\/p>\n

452
\n00:27:45,000 –> 00:27:46,800
\nfirst.
\nIt was the idols and then with <\/p>\n

453
\n00:27:46,800 –> 00:27:50,300
\nit all of the practices and
\nlifestyle and things that <\/p>\n

454
\n00:27:50,300 –> 00:27:54,400
\nidolatry brought along with it.
\nAnd why was it so hard? <\/p>\n

455
\n00:27:54,400 –> 00:27:58,200
\nWhy even when the idols were
\ntaken away and you got rid of <\/p>\n

456
\n00:27:58,700 –> 00:28:02,400
\nthe overwhelming majority of
\nIdols, why couldn’t they just <\/p>\n

457
\n00:28:02,400 –> 00:28:05,800
\nget rid of it for good?
\nBecause these things were <\/p>\n

458
\n00:28:05,800 –> 00:28:09,300
\neverywhere there were Idols all
\nover the place and it was so <\/p>\n

459
\n00:28:09,300 –> 00:28:13,800
\ndifficult to extract something
\nthat has constantly around you <\/p>\n

460
\n00:28:14,200 –> 00:28:16,700
\nand so Ezekiel chapter 6 verse
\n13. <\/p>\n

461
\n00:28:16,900 –> 00:28:21,400
\nIt says their Idols all around
\ntheir altars on every high hill <\/p>\n

462
\n00:28:21,400 –> 00:28:25,300
\non all the mountaintops under
\nevery Green Tree in under every <\/p>\n

463
\n00:28:25,300 –> 00:28:29,400
\nthick Oak wherever they offered
\nsweet incense to all their Idols<\/p>\n

464
\n00:28:29,400 –> 00:28:32,400
\nthese things were on the highest
\npeaks the highest mountains and <\/p>\n

465
\n00:28:32,400 –> 00:28:36,800
\nHills they were buried The Earth
\nunder trees Idols were <\/p>\n

466
\n00:28:36,800 –> 00:28:39,700
\ninescapable.
\nAnd even if you got rid of most <\/p>\n

467
\n00:28:39,700 –> 00:28:42,700
\nof them, your neighbor might
\nstill have one, you know down <\/p>\n

468
\n00:28:42,700 –> 00:28:44,300
\nthe street there were some Idols
\nthere. <\/p>\n

469
\n00:28:44,300 –> 00:28:46,900
\nThere was always this constant
\nTemptation. <\/p>\n

470
\n00:28:47,200 –> 00:28:49,300
\nThe people of Israel couldn’t
\njust get up and leave they <\/p>\n

471
\n00:28:49,300 –> 00:28:52,300
\ncouldn’t move somewhere else.
\nThey were stuck where they were <\/p>\n

472
\n00:28:52,300 –> 00:28:55,500
\nin the land and if Idols were
\nthere somewhere in the land that<\/p>\n

473
\n00:28:55,500 –> 00:28:59,100
\nTemptation and influence was
\nalways going to be there. <\/p>\n

474
\n00:28:59,900 –> 00:29:03,700
\nAnd of course even after the
\nCaptivity and the nation of <\/p>\n

475
\n00:29:03,708 –> 00:29:07,900
\nIsrael finally stopped with the
\nphysical Idols, finally quit <\/p>\n

476
\n00:29:07,900 –> 00:29:12,000
\nwith the actual images to calves
\nor whatever the the statues were<\/p>\n

477
\n00:29:12,008 –> 00:29:15,000
\nfinally put away.
\nThere’s still was in the New <\/p>\n

478
\n00:29:15,000 –> 00:29:19,500
\nTestament idolatry in a
\ndifferent form and Colossians <\/p>\n

479
\n00:29:19,500 –> 00:29:23,200
\nchapter 3 verse 5 says therefore
\nput to death your members which <\/p>\n

480
\n00:29:23,200 –> 00:29:25,900
\nare on the earth fornication
\nuncleanness passion evil desire <\/p>\n

481
\n00:29:25,900 –> 00:29:29,300
\nand covetousness, which is
\nidolatry. <\/p>\n

482
\n00:29:29,900 –> 00:29:33,400
\nAnd so even in the New Testament
\nthe Believers the people of God <\/p>\n

483
\n00:29:33,400 –> 00:29:38,000
\nin the New Testament times, they
\nstill had idolatry in a more <\/p>\n

484
\n00:29:38,000 –> 00:29:41,500
\nsort of abstract sense that if
\nthere was something you really <\/p>\n

485
\n00:29:41,500 –> 00:29:44,800
\nwanted in life.
\nIf there was a possession a <\/p>\n

486
\n00:29:44,800 –> 00:29:49,500
\nperson a lifestyle something a
\ncareer that you wanted and you <\/p>\n

487
\n00:29:49,500 –> 00:29:54,100
\ncoveted it it began to take the
\nplace of God in the lives of <\/p>\n

488
\n00:29:54,100 –> 00:29:58,000
\nBelievers back then and those
\nthings that they wanted so much <\/p>\n

489
\n00:29:58,200 –> 00:30:01,400
\nnow began to replace God as a a
\nfocus in the goal and the <\/p>\n

490
\n00:30:01,400 –> 00:30:05,700
\npassion of their life and they
\nbegan to also be exposed to <\/p>\n

491
\n00:30:05,700 –> 00:30:10,300
\nother people in their society
\nwho also loved these things and <\/p>\n

492
\n00:30:10,300 –> 00:30:13,000
\nthe ways of the world if you
\nwill like the fornication <\/p>\n

493
\n00:30:13,000 –> 00:30:16,900
\nuncleanness and evil desires
\nwould also creep in Via sort of <\/p>\n

494
\n00:30:16,900 –> 00:30:20,900
\nspiritual more absurd idolatry
\nand even in New Testament times,<\/p>\n

495
\n00:30:20,900 –> 00:30:25,100
\nthey could not Shake how they
\nwere things through covetousness<\/p>\n

496
\n00:30:25,500 –> 00:30:28,000
\nthat were their idols and took
\nthe place of God. <\/p>\n

497
\n00:30:28,000 –> 00:30:31,400
\nThey couldn’t get rid of them
\nand brought them into bad places<\/p>\n

498
\n00:30:33,000 –> 00:30:38,200
\nSo now it’s 2019 for us and a
\nlot of you may be kind of seeing<\/p>\n

499
\n00:30:38,200 –> 00:30:42,300
\nwhere this is going and in
\ntoday’s society we of course <\/p>\n

500
\n00:30:42,300 –> 00:30:46,300
\ndon’t have you know statues and
\nthings built out of bronze that <\/p>\n

501
\n00:30:46,300 –> 00:30:51,600
\nare calves or goats or whatever.
\nWe don’t have these silly Idols,<\/p>\n

502
\n00:30:52,200 –> 00:30:56,700
\nbut nonetheless do we have
\nman-made objects create out of <\/p>\n

503
\n00:30:56,700 –> 00:30:59,800
\nprecious metals.
\nThat can sometimes take the <\/p>\n

504
\n00:30:59,800 –> 00:31:03,600
\nplace of God in our lives that
\nare everywhere and very <\/p>\n

505
\n00:31:03,600 –> 00:31:08,700
\ndifficult to fully remove and
\nare a gateway to worldliness now<\/p>\n

506
\n00:31:08,700 –> 00:31:12,500
\njust to be clear.
\nI’m not going to say that by <\/p>\n

507
\n00:31:12,500 –> 00:31:17,300
\nNature your cell phone is an
\nidol or that your computer by <\/p>\n

508
\n00:31:17,300 –> 00:31:22,200
\ndefinition is an idol.
\nIt’s really how we use it. <\/p>\n

509
\n00:31:23,000 –> 00:31:28,200
\nAnd if our phones take over our
\nlives and if technology rules <\/p>\n

510
\n00:31:28,400 –> 00:31:32,800
\nOver us the way that Idols who
\nruled over the Israelites back <\/p>\n

511
\n00:31:32,800 –> 00:31:35,900
\nin those days only then is it an
\nidol? <\/p>\n

512
\n00:31:36,700 –> 00:31:41,600
\nSo come to today’s society and a
\nsurvey done by the Pew research <\/p>\n

513
\n00:31:41,600 –> 00:31:43,800
\nGroup, which actually has a lot
\nof really good data. <\/p>\n

514
\n00:31:44,500 –> 00:31:49,500
\nThey took a survey of teenagers
\nand found that 39 percent of <\/p>\n

515
\n00:31:49,500 –> 00:31:53,400
\nteenagers every day spent time
\ntalking in person to another <\/p>\n

516
\n00:31:53,400 –> 00:31:58,200
\nhuman, but right below it was
\ntext messaging and right below. <\/p>\n

517
\n00:31:58,300 –> 00:32:01,600
\nThat was to cellphone and their
\nsocial networking sites. <\/p>\n

518
\n00:32:01,800 –> 00:32:05,200
\nAnd so there’s these alternative
\nmethods that are beginning to <\/p>\n

519
\n00:32:05,200 –> 00:32:08,600
\ntake over and really dominate
\nhow we and especially our young <\/p>\n

520
\n00:32:08,600 –> 00:32:10,400
\npeople communicate.
\nNow, if you’re saying, you know,<\/p>\n

521
\n00:32:10,400 –> 00:32:15,700
\nwhat like that data doesn’t seem
\nthat bad like the dominant trait<\/p>\n

522
\n00:32:15,700 –> 00:32:20,700
\nis that people are still talking
\nin person most of the time that <\/p>\n

523
\n00:32:20,700 –> 00:32:24,100
\nisn’t the worst thing in the
\nworld, but maybe you were clever<\/p>\n

524
\n00:32:24,100 –> 00:32:26,700
\nand saw this at this survey was
\ndone in 2007. <\/p>\n

525
\n00:32:27,800 –> 00:32:32,200
\nAnd now it’s 2019 and it’s a
\ngame over and ninety-five <\/p>\n

526
\n00:32:32,200 –> 00:32:36,400
\npercent of teenagers now have
\nsmartphones and I’ll wager that <\/p>\n

527
\n00:32:36,400 –> 00:32:40,300
\nevery single adult in this room
\nhas a cellphone either on them <\/p>\n

528
\n00:32:40,300 –> 00:32:44,200
\nor they they possess it in some
\nform and the same group The Pew <\/p>\n

529
\n00:32:44,200 –> 00:32:49,100
\nResearch Center found that now
\n45 percent of teenagers are <\/p>\n

530
\n00:32:49,100 –> 00:32:53,900
\nalmost constantly online via the
\ndevice or tablet cell phone, <\/p>\n

531
\n00:32:53,900 –> 00:32:58,200
\nwhatever it is that they have.
\nSo we absolutely are living in a<\/p>\n

532
\n00:32:58,200 –> 00:33:02,700
\ntime where something that
\neveryone has and is so difficult<\/p>\n

533
\n00:33:02,700 –> 00:33:06,800
\nto remove and take out of our
\nLives now can easily dominate us<\/p>\n

534
\n00:33:07,200 –> 00:33:10,800
\nand become an idol.
\nIf we let it I’m not saying that<\/p>\n

535
\n00:33:10,800 –> 00:33:12,900
\na cell phone is an idol of
\nitself. <\/p>\n

536
\n00:33:13,500 –> 00:33:19,100
\nBut if we choose to live that
\nway it can be so these three <\/p>\n

537
\n00:33:19,100 –> 00:33:23,300
\naspects the first being does it
\ntake the place of God in our <\/p>\n

538
\n00:33:23,300 –> 00:33:25,500
\nlife ask yourself these
\nquestions. <\/p>\n

539
\n00:33:26,300 –> 00:33:28,600
\nWhat is the first thing we do in
\nthe morning? <\/p>\n

540
\n00:33:29,800 –> 00:33:32,300
\nWhat is the last thing we do at
\nnight? <\/p>\n

541
\n00:33:32,300 –> 00:33:36,700
\nIs it a prayer meditation of
\nsome sort or is it checking the <\/p>\n

542
\n00:33:36,700 –> 00:33:39,600
\nphone?
\nWhat is it that we check the <\/p>\n

543
\n00:33:39,600 –> 00:33:44,000
\nmost throughout the day what
\ngrabs our attention the most as <\/p>\n

544
\n00:33:44,000 –> 00:33:46,400
\nwe do things from morning till
\nevening? <\/p>\n

545
\n00:33:47,500 –> 00:33:51,100
\nWhat is the first place that we
\ngo when we’re bored or <\/p>\n

546
\n00:33:51,100 –> 00:33:54,400
\ndistressed or upset sad
\nRestless? <\/p>\n

547
\n00:33:54,800 –> 00:34:00,500
\nIs it prayer or seek out a
\nfriend or we open a verse or do <\/p>\n

548
\n00:34:00,500 –> 00:34:04,500
\nwe go to our phone?
\nAnd where do we go when we’re <\/p>\n

549
\n00:34:04,500 –> 00:34:08,000
\nunsure when we have a question
\nand we’re not sure what choice <\/p>\n

550
\n00:34:08,000 –> 00:34:12,199
\nto make do we Google it or do we
\npray about it? <\/p>\n

551
\n00:34:12,900 –> 00:34:17,199
\nMaybe these phones are taking
\nthe place of God in our life. <\/p>\n

552
\n00:34:18,800 –> 00:34:22,900
\nThe second area.
\nThese phones are absolutely a <\/p>\n

553
\n00:34:22,900 –> 00:34:26,600
\ngateway to worldliness.
\nAnd of course, I’m on Instagram.<\/p>\n

554
\n00:34:26,600 –> 00:34:29,300
\nI’m on Facebook.
\nIt isn’t all bad. <\/p>\n

555
\n00:34:29,400 –> 00:34:33,600
\nIt isn’t necessarily evil to
\nenjoy social media with your <\/p>\n

556
\n00:34:33,600 –> 00:34:36,699
\nfriends.
\nBut those same things which can <\/p>\n

557
\n00:34:36,699 –> 00:34:40,800
\nbe good are also a potential
\ngateway to things that are very <\/p>\n

558
\n00:34:40,800 –> 00:34:43,000
\nbad and we’re not going to go
\nthrough examples of that. <\/p>\n

559
\n00:34:43,600 –> 00:34:47,100
\nBut as a fact the the CEO of
\nTwitter on an interview I <\/p>\n

560
\n00:34:47,100 –> 00:34:53,100
\nlistened to he described Product
\nTwitter as a Public Square a <\/p>\n

561
\n00:34:53,100 –> 00:34:56,600
\nGateway for the world to come
\ntogether and for the world to <\/p>\n

562
\n00:34:56,600 –> 00:34:59,900
\ntalk together.
\nThis is his goal for the product<\/p>\n

563
\n00:35:00,600 –> 00:35:03,900
\nand isn’t that what Idols were
\nfor the nation of Israel and it <\/p>\n

564
\n00:35:03,900 –> 00:35:06,500
\ncan be for us if we abuse it and
\nmisuse it. <\/p>\n

565
\n00:35:08,200 –> 00:35:13,900
\nAnd third as we all know it’s so
\ndifficult to quit the addiction <\/p>\n

566
\n00:35:13,900 –> 00:35:17,500
\nof electronics, isn’t it?
\nSo in an article published in <\/p>\n

567
\n00:35:17,500 –> 00:35:20,800
\nPsychology today, dr.
\nVictoria dunkley. <\/p>\n

568
\n00:35:21,000 –> 00:35:23,900
\nThis was her conclusion.
\nShe said screen time <\/p>\n

569
\n00:35:23,900 –> 00:35:27,400
\nparticularly the interactive
\nkind acts like a stimulant. <\/p>\n

570
\n00:35:27,800 –> 00:35:31,700
\nI don’t like caffeine and feta
\nmeans our cocaine and that <\/p>\n

571
\n00:35:31,700 –> 00:35:34,500
\ndopamine release by the
\nstimulation of electronics hits <\/p>\n

572
\n00:35:34,500 –> 00:35:39,000
\nchildren, especially virally
\nbecause there’s People cortex is<\/p>\n

573
\n00:35:39,000 –> 00:35:42,300
\nsimply aren’t developed enough
\nfor them to feel satisfied with <\/p>\n

574
\n00:35:42,300 –> 00:35:46,900
\nsmall doses or to self-regulate
\nand so children are most <\/p>\n

575
\n00:35:46,900 –> 00:35:51,100
\nsusceptible to electronic
\naddiction and me as an adult. <\/p>\n

576
\n00:35:51,100 –> 00:35:53,600
\nI absolutely am as well.
\nI’ve been in this situation <\/p>\n

577
\n00:35:54,000 –> 00:35:57,400
\nplaying civilization at 2 a.m.
\nAnd you wake up and realize what<\/p>\n

578
\n00:35:57,400 –> 00:35:59,700
\nam I doing?
\nWhere have I been and we’ve all <\/p>\n

579
\n00:35:59,700 –> 00:36:03,400
\nbeen sort of addicts like this
\nto do electronics in some form <\/p>\n

580
\n00:36:03,400 –> 00:36:06,600
\nor another and it really begs
\nthe question. <\/p>\n

581
\n00:36:07,100 –> 00:36:10,100
\nWhy should this be?
\nSo and should we be doing <\/p>\n

582
\n00:36:10,100 –> 00:36:16,200
\nsomething about this?
\nSo on the subject of how it <\/p>\n

583
\n00:36:16,200 –> 00:36:18,500
\naffects our younger children,
\nand I’m certainly there’s a lot <\/p>\n

584
\n00:36:18,500 –> 00:36:21,800
\nof experts here on young
\nchildhood education and there’s <\/p>\n

585
\n00:36:21,800 –> 00:36:24,100
\nthere’s doctors and nurses your
\nso you probably better know the <\/p>\n

586
\n00:36:24,100 –> 00:36:28,800
\nexact details and science of
\nthis but here was a study done a<\/p>\n

587
\n00:36:28,800 –> 00:36:32,700
\njoint study at Florida State and
\nSan Diego State don’t want or <\/p>\n

588
\n00:36:32,700 –> 00:36:35,900
\npublished in 2018.
\nThey surveyed half a million <\/p>\n

589
\n00:36:35,900 –> 00:36:39,800
\nteenagers and they found this
\nsort of really sort of visited. <\/p>\n

590
\n00:36:39,800 –> 00:36:44,000
\nWe probably would know anyways,
\nwe’ve see it but the more hours <\/p>\n

591
\n00:36:44,600 –> 00:36:49,700
\nDay spent with electronic device
\nby a teenager led to a really <\/p>\n

592
\n00:36:49,700 –> 00:36:53,300
\nexponential growth in the
\npercentage that teenager has at <\/p>\n

593
\n00:36:53,300 –> 00:36:56,900
\nleast one suicide risk factor,
\nwhich doesn’t mean that they <\/p>\n

594
\n00:36:57,100 –> 00:37:00,600
\nattempted suicide necessarily
\nthey develop a risk factor for <\/p>\n

595
\n00:37:00,600 –> 00:37:03,800
\nit such as depression or
\naddiction or other mental <\/p>\n

596
\n00:37:03,800 –> 00:37:08,200
\nillness and there is an absolute
\ncorrelation between those risk <\/p>\n

597
\n00:37:08,200 –> 00:37:12,200
\nfactors and the hours spent with
\nelectronic device amongst <\/p>\n

598
\n00:37:12,200 –> 00:37:14,900
\nteenagers.
\nSo this is really just <\/p>\n

599
\n00:37:14,900 –> 00:37:19,700
\nconfirmation of what we probably
\nalready would guess or know and <\/p>\n

600
\n00:37:19,700 –> 00:37:23,400
\nthe world around us is getting
\nwise to the fact that even in a <\/p>\n

601
\n00:37:23,400 –> 00:37:27,100
\npurely secular sense.
\nThis addiction to electronics is<\/p>\n

602
\n00:37:27,100 –> 00:37:30,400
\nbad for us and it’s especially
\nbad for young people. <\/p>\n

603
\n00:37:31,500 –> 00:37:36,400
\nBut isn’t this really the wisdom
\nof God already given to us so <\/p>\n

604
\n00:37:36,400 –> 00:37:39,500
\nlong ago.
\nWe’re in Deuteronomy chapter 4 <\/p>\n

605
\n00:37:39,500 –> 00:37:43,500
\nGod said when you beget children
\nand grandchildren and have grown<\/p>\n

606
\n00:37:43,500 –> 00:37:47,500
\nold in the land and act
\ncorruptly and make a carved <\/p>\n

607
\n00:37:47,500 –> 00:37:51,900
\nimage and the form of anything
\nand do evil in the sight of the <\/p>\n

608
\n00:37:51,900 –> 00:37:53,700
\nLord your God to provoke him to
\nanger. <\/p>\n

609
\n00:37:54,300 –> 00:37:56,800
\nI call Heaven and Earth to
\nwitness against you this day <\/p>\n

610
\n00:37:57,000 –> 00:37:59,900
\nthat you will soon utterly
\nperish from the land which you <\/p>\n

611
\n00:37:59,900 –> 00:38:03,500
\ncross over the Jordan to Yes,
\nand you will not prolong your <\/p>\n

612
\n00:38:03,500 –> 00:38:09,300
\ndays in it, but will be utterly
\ndestroyed idolatry is bad for us<\/p>\n

613
\n00:38:09,300 –> 00:38:12,000
\nobviously in a spiritual sense
\nfor our faith. <\/p>\n

614
\n00:38:12,000 –> 00:38:16,300
\nBut even now in this life
\nidolatry is bad for our lives <\/p>\n

615
\n00:38:16,300 –> 00:38:20,800
\nnow and the counter in
\nDeuteronomy chapter 4 was that <\/p>\n

616
\n00:38:20,800 –> 00:38:23,800
\nif we keep his statutes and obey
\nhis Commandments, which I <\/p>\n

617
\n00:38:23,808 –> 00:38:27,400
\ncommand you today that it may go
\nwell with you and with your <\/p>\n

618
\n00:38:27,400 –> 00:38:31,000
\nchildren after you that you may
\nprolong your days in the land. <\/p>\n

619
\n00:38:31,200 –> 00:38:34,400
\nLand which the Lord your God is
\ngiving you for all time. <\/p>\n

620
\n00:38:35,400 –> 00:38:39,400
\nOur lives are better off when we
\nput away. <\/p>\n

621
\n00:38:39,700 –> 00:38:44,800
\nOur devices will be minimize the
\ngrip and addiction that <\/p>\n

622
\n00:38:44,800 –> 00:38:48,900
\nElectronics have over us.
\nIt can improve our lives. <\/p>\n

623
\n00:38:49,300 –> 00:38:53,500
\nThere has to be a healthy
\nbalance that on one hand <\/p>\n

624
\n00:38:53,500 –> 00:38:59,400
\ntechnology is great and it has
\nbenefits and it helps us but <\/p>\n

625
\n00:38:59,400 –> 00:39:03,700
\nafter a certain quotient or
\nthreshold of hours on a daily <\/p>\n

626
\n00:39:03,700 –> 00:39:09,200
\nbasis is spent With these things
\nthat can be harmful and bad and <\/p>\n

627
\n00:39:09,200 –> 00:39:14,400
\nwe can’t let them rule over us.
\nAnd so while this seems to <\/p>\n

628
\n00:39:14,400 –> 00:39:18,200
\nreally be a problem that hits
\nchildren the hardest and the <\/p>\n

629
\n00:39:18,200 –> 00:39:21,800
\nclassic sort of note in today’s
\nsociety is we just we can’t get <\/p>\n

630
\n00:39:21,800 –> 00:39:26,800
\nour teenagers off our phones.
\nWe as adults have to set an <\/p>\n

631
\n00:39:26,800 –> 00:39:29,700
\nexample.
\nAnd so the people here who are <\/p>\n

632
\n00:39:29,700 –> 00:39:33,600
\naged 25 and up.
\nLet’s say the teenagers and <\/p>\n

633
\n00:39:33,600 –> 00:39:39,000
\nchildren they look up to us and
\nif they see us also a ticket to <\/p>\n

634
\n00:39:39,000 –> 00:39:43,700
\nour phones and constantly having
\nour phones out in Tween times <\/p>\n

635
\n00:39:43,700 –> 00:39:46,500
\nand when we should be discussing
\nand talking you have our phone <\/p>\n

636
\n00:39:46,500 –> 00:39:49,500
\nout.
\nThey see that and they’ll take <\/p>\n

637
\n00:39:49,500 –> 00:39:52,900
\nnote of it and how can we ask
\nour teenagers to put their <\/p>\n

638
\n00:39:52,900 –> 00:39:57,200
\nphones away if we as adults are
\nstuck in the same pattern of <\/p>\n

639
\n00:39:57,200 –> 00:40:01,800
\nBehavior now don’t raise your
\nhands, but think to yourself how<\/p>\n

640
\n00:40:01,800 –> 00:40:06,200
\nmany of you in our five minute
\nchat session check your phone. <\/p>\n

641
\n00:40:07,600 –> 00:40:10,400
\nI myself probably would have if
\nI had been in the audience <\/p>\n

642
\n00:40:10,400 –> 00:40:15,200
\nduring during this time, if we
\ndid maybe it’s an indication <\/p>\n

643
\n00:40:15,700 –> 00:40:20,000
\nthat we should try our best to
\nminimize the impact that this <\/p>\n

644
\n00:40:20,000 –> 00:40:25,300
\nphone has in our lives.
\nOnce again, I’ll say our devices<\/p>\n

645
\n00:40:25,300 –> 00:40:29,300
\nare not necessarily Idols.
\nThey can be very useful and <\/p>\n

646
\n00:40:29,300 –> 00:40:32,600
\nPowerful for good.
\nBut if we look at ourselves and <\/p>\n

647
\n00:40:32,600 –> 00:40:36,300
\nthis is where the lesson of the
\nfirst session needs to apply if <\/p>\n

648
\n00:40:36,300 –> 00:40:40,800
\nwe stop and try to See if we
\nconsider our lives and choose <\/p>\n

649
\n00:40:40,800 –> 00:40:44,900
\nnot to be willfully ignorant and
\ntake a look at our lives if we <\/p>\n

650
\n00:40:44,900 –> 00:40:50,500
\ncan honestly say that our phone
\nis overwhelming us and we’re <\/p>\n

651
\n00:40:50,500 –> 00:40:54,400
\naddicted to these electronics
\nand tablets and computers than <\/p>\n

652
\n00:40:54,400 –> 00:40:56,100
\nwhat we should do is call it
\nwhat it is. <\/p>\n

653
\n00:40:56,500 –> 00:41:00,800
\nWe should call it idolatry.
\nAnd that’s the beginning of how <\/p>\n

654
\n00:41:00,800 –> 00:41:03,700
\nwe can begin to deal with it.
\nWe can then apply the message of<\/p>\n

655
\n00:41:03,700 –> 00:41:06,100
\nscripture.
\nIf we first admit that there is <\/p>\n

656
\n00:41:06,100 –> 00:41:09,800
\na problem.
\nAdults need to set the example. <\/p>\n

657
\n00:41:10,900 –> 00:41:14,800
\nAnd so now as we are going to
\nend our class our first class <\/p>\n

658
\n00:41:14,800 –> 00:41:19,000
\nhere, but I think I’d like to do
\nis again leave like 5 minutes <\/p>\n

659
\n00:41:19,100 –> 00:41:22,900
\nfor discussion before we hand it
\nback to TJ to actually dismiss <\/p>\n

660
\n00:41:22,900 –> 00:41:25,800
\nand close the class.
\nBut here are some questions for <\/p>\n

661
\n00:41:25,800 –> 00:41:31,000
\nus to take into our break as we
\ndiscuss this topic what has <\/p>\n

662
\n00:41:31,000 –> 00:41:35,500
\nworked for you to minimize or
\nreduce or balance, whatever word<\/p>\n

663
\n00:41:35,500 –> 00:41:39,000
\nyou want to use the addictive
\npower of Technology. <\/p>\n

664
\n00:41:40,200 –> 00:41:42,400
\nAnd how do we help our young
\npeople? <\/p>\n

665
\n00:41:43,500 –> 00:41:47,500
\nAvoid idolatry via technology in
\na world, which is absolutely <\/p>\n

666
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