This sermon deals with the fate of kings of Israel & Judah. Ezekiel prophecied details of the retribution that would come upon them because of their ignoring the life-rules that God had decreed. It also describes the abhorent worship of other … things … instead of The One True God, particularly by the leadership.
Pastor Barry began with a quick summary of the previous chapters / teachings before delving into the details of Chapters 11 and 12.
The main body of the teaching examined the two distinct group of Israelites: those who stayed in Jerusalem and those who were taken away. Their beliefs and behaviours were contrasted (who were the favoured people?!). Warnings of retribution were contrasted with promises of – the opposite. “Peace and Safety” was a recurring theme, and the renewal of that cry in modern day politics was noted!
Pastor Barry pointed out – stressed – that “being born again” is by no means a New Testament concept, being illustrated in this section of Ezekiel.
<<< More will be added in due course – {publication has been delayed long enough!} >>>
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PS1: ::: NEW FORMAT of the transcript.
To ease the processing and preparation of the transcript, and we hope improve the readability of the text, a new format was been adopted in mid October. This breaks the text into sentences instead of arbitrarily-sized “paragraphs”. When the reader opens the file in a program such as Notepad (in MS Windows), then the appearance can be just like a newspaper column. The format is such that the user has many options available, depending on preferences and what software they like to use.
Any feedback on usefulness, improvement suggestions, or whatever, would be most welcome.
PS2 ::::: TRANSCRIPT OF THE SERMON
There is a “button” labelled “Save Video” (or “Download Video” sometimes). This actually links to a text-file to download. It is a transcript of the sermon. At present it is at an experimental stage: it is an aid to getting the most out of the sermon audio. There is no substitute for listening to the verbal delivery of a sermon. However, searching through an audio file lasting the best part of an hour can be somewhat difficult. When you approach the search knowing that you’re sure there is something about “redemption”, for example, then a transcript text-search can take you right there and show you the time in the recording where you will find it! The file is simple “text” rather than a more sophisticated form so that you can edit or reformat as you prefer. This transcript is in 2 forms (in the one file). One half consists of normal text arrangement. These ‘blocks’ were at purely arbitrary boundaries (boundaries were inserted at about 800 character intervals, purely to avoid having one huge unbroken deluge of text, i.e. no attempt at grammatical accuracy). The format has now been changed as described above in PS1. The other section is short bunches of words (8 to 12 nomally) beneath the TIMES at which they occur (for the whole sermon).
This facility is in development (“experimental” as mentioned above) so any feedback on usefulness, improvement suggestions, or whatever, would be most welcome.
