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Apples and Drill Instructors · Bible Tract Echoes Podcast

• 0:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: Hey, friend.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Welcome back to Bible Track Decos.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm Mike McCurrier, host.
• 0:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you so much for joining me once again on the Broadcast.
• 0:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: I want to talk to you for a moment about the importance of counsel and getting counsel from the right sources.
• 0:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's like choosing to drink from a dirty stream or a clean stream.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Question is, do you want to get sick or not?
• 0:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: Do you want to be helped in the future or not?
• 0:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm so thankful for this series of messages.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I preached them at my home church not long ago and some folks and dear folks told me they were helping.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I thought I might share them on the radio broadcast here on Bible Track Deco's.
• 0:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yesterday we spoke about the happy man says no today.
• 0:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: We're gonna talk about bad apples, good apples, and drill instructors.
• 0:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: I wanna point out the fact that council is so very important.
• 0:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: Getting council is important.
• 0:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, no matter how great a televangelist may be, no matter how powerful a radio personality may speak, he, someone like me, will never replace what your home church.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The place you can actually attend, a pastor cares about you, a personal connection like that.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: a radio personality, even Bible track decos, can never replace that.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So we encourage you to tune in today as we talk about apples and drilling structures.
• 1:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: As we continue this thought in Psalm 1, my prayer is that it's a blessing to you.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Listen now as I share this recording of a message I preached not long ago, I hope it's
• 1:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: thought their blessed is the man that walketh not in the Council of Young Godly.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, Council!
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  [SPEAKER_01]: is the advice says the world view of others.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We know Proverbs 11, 14 where no council is the people fall, but in the multitude of counselors, there is safety and Proverbs 12, 15 you're gonna see here.
• 2:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: A lot of this is gonna come from Proverbs with a wave of a fool who's right in his own eyes, but he that harkin' if under council is wise.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Proverbs 25 when my favorite verse is, council in the heart of man is like deep water.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But a man of understanding will draw it out.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Matt Telly-Fren, especially young men, young women, but I also realize that these devices are not just addictive for my generation.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Scrolling is not seeking counsel.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But you don't understand.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm learning how to rebuild a car.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm learning how to, whatever it may be.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Friend, you know as well as I, there's a lot more
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  [SPEAKER_01]: then there is good.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And the algorithm does a really good job of feeding you exactly what your flesh wants.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Walk is not in the counsel of the ungod in or stand it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: in the way of sinners nor Sith in the seat of the scornful.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You could, you could say, walk, it's a casual agreement.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We're just walking along beside each other, a stand, a considerate alignment.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Like you chose to be there and Sith.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe that's a committed allegiance.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You could say that there's a downward spiral that we see here in Psalm 1.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Nor stand it in the way of sinners.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: See, this is no longer casual exposure.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: you've stopped moving.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You're giving ear.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They have your interest.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Proverbs 414 says, enter not into the path of the wicked and go not in the way of evil men avoided, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You think of Joseph and Scripture.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He didn't stand with Paulifer's wife too long, did he?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He didn't have a choice in the fact that he had to occupy that house in some form of fashion.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He had to walk, he was the major domo, he was the manager of the place, he was a chief administrator.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He had to walk through there on occasion.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: There were things he had to do.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But when she threw herself at him, he didn't stand around to see where this was going.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He ran the other direction.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We see your north-standard in the way of sinners.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's worth noting the man that we're talking about here would not be just walking past and he's now standing in it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He's luring, he's lingering.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But be careful not to misapply this.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: When we think about the happy man says, no, evangelism versus influence.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You ever heard someone try to make excuse for why they do what they do?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I'm just gonna go down to the bar,
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  [SPEAKER_01]: because I'm going to witness to the guys there.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, you've had a history of problems with alcohol, maybe witnessing in the bars in the best place for you, right?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But let's talk about the man's was the first influence for just a moment here.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: If you are witnessing to others, what this church does, Saturday after Saturday and Tuesdays with the ladies and in a big day outreach, all that, all that.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: When you go to a neighborhood and you knock on a door and you can smell the skunk inside.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Are you walking with the ungodly, are you standing the way of sinners?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, you think about, we talked about, you know, you put a good apple in with a bunch of bad apples, the good apple doesn't make the bad apples good, right?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We understand that.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But that application applies to a passive interaction.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: If you are just going with the flow, you're absolutely right.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: One bad apple in a bunch is going to make the rest of them bad.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But let's flip that.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But Todd, you were in boot camp some years ago.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They had a bunch of gentlemen, maybe some of them were knuckleheads, poured off of a bus, standing out of as a marine thing or an army thing, standing on yellow footprints, whatever it may be.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And there were some drill instructors.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And I don't know what the ratio was, but there's probably one drilling structure for every 5, 10, 15, 20, however many it was, but there were definitely more recruits than the word drilling structures.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And you know what the army does not anticipate, the Marine Corps does not anticipate that the recruits are going to drag the drilling structures down to their level of incompetence, do they?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They're not too worried about those guys and the flat brands and the loud voices, making fatal hares and becoming just like those raw recruits, no.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Those drill instructors, the DI, drill instructor, they by force of persuasion and or corporal punishment.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not sure which.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They drag those recruits up to a standard,
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  [SPEAKER_01]: with a great illustration of what the Bible does to us.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But the difference is those drill instructors aren't very passive, are they?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We have an opportunity to go into a lost and dying world.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And you're not misapplying this verse right here.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Blessed is men that walk and not in the council of the and Galilee, nor stand in the way of sinners.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The fact that you stand across some someone that smells so strongly of whatever the substance may be, and stumbles out at a loved and clock on a Saturday morning, and they went to sleep at three o'clock in the morning from a bender on Friday night, that doesn't mean you're standing in the way of sinners.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You're trying to pull them away from the way of sinners.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: This is an offensive purpose that we talk about this more.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And this is not defensive.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: This is offensive.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Proverbs 12, I must say Romans 12, 21, being not overcome a evil, but overcome evil with good.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And then James for 17, therefore to end that noise to do good and do with it not to him and his sin.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: God doesn't just bless separation.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He bless his obedience.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And sometimes we have to be in the world but not of the world to obey God.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Nor siteth in the sea of the scornful.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Now we see the third and final descent, not waiting, not even standing, settled, sitting, settled, stationary, so rendered.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: See, this is, there's a difference between peer pressure and peer participation.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You ever been there?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: When you feel the eyes of all the other people look at you like, are you gonna go with us?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You gonna do this thing?
• 8:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: I had the chance to spend some time with Avery and his dear wife, Harmony, and a big mic was there.
• 8:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: I realized on Wednesday not to get there, long story short, we got there 20 minutes after the service started on Wednesday night.
• 8:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: I was supposed to get there in the early afternoon, and I walked in, and the AV was, was, past your AV was, it was just holding up, just a little while taking some prayer requests and things so I had to have time to get there.
• 9:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: There's a three hour drive from the airport.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It was a quite a thing.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'd get there and off we go, and I said, it's so good to see friends and big mic.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And then my wife gives me this look, and afterwards she's like, they don't call him big mic here.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: All right.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, he's my friend.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'll call him when I want to call him.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So I was very I was very honoring and I didn't call him.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I just brother him like brother Mike.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Not big Mike anymore.
• 9:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: But he was telling me some stories about by one college.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I, as a married off-campus student, did not have the same experience at Bible College, as Big Mike did.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He got everything in.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He had a grand old time for the Matt Payne in Bible College.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And I don't know if the statute of limitations has run out on everything he's done.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And so I'm not going to tell his stories for him.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'll let him tell his stories, but what is a seat?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: commentators is very, but one said, the squirtful of those who mock at religion, who derived the truths of God, who make get this light of sin, sitting indicates a settled condition.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He's at home with them, this man who sits with the squirtful.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Matthew Henry said to see that the squirtful denotes a proud and presuming spirit.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They're not just sinners.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They're scoffers.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Another commentator said, a progression from indecision to complete apostasy is what we see in this verse here.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But we're going to come back to that thought about making the light of sin.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Historically, the seat or gate of a city after referred to positions of influence or governance or teaching and Ruth Wahn and Providence 3123.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So this man, potentially, has not just accepted sin, he's adopted its worldview.
• 11:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: But let's talk about something where maybe the enemy's greatest tool to get us to adopt the world view of the world.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: What's more scornful than the average doom scroll session that we spend on social media?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You want to talk about making the light of sin.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Now, for one, one in four reels or TikToks you come across are ads, and you know what you're doing?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You're filling someone's piggy bank when you watch those, even if you scroll by past them.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But you know as well as I, that we, amen our past, are standing behind this pulpit,
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  [SPEAKER_01]: CCM, and of course it goes without saying Christian rock, harder, otherwise, no chance.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Christian rap, get out of your Christian pop, all that, come on now.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But instead of that, the computer that we have, the God's Guinness, this ozone-credible machine,
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  [SPEAKER_01]: in 15 second intervals.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: How much sense does that make?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And the vast majority of them, what do they do?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Make a mock at sin.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We've got to be careful about that phone.
• 12:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: We've got to be careful about the screen usage.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We've got to be careful about what we allow into our eye date.
• 12:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's so very vital that we are very particular.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That we are very careful with every instance of what we allow to, in fact, or lift us up.
• 13:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: A prayer is always, is that you have a great day for his glory.
• 13:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: We're going to continue to talk tomorrow about maybe, ask the question, why am I so, or why are you so depressed?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Listen to Bible tractors, God bless.
• 13:18
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• 13:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks again for listening.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: May the Lord richly bless you as you live for him.