The first short section is a review of Chapters 1 to 12. Pastor Barry then dealt with the false prophets that abounded in Ezekiel’s day, describing the two classes of those people. The concept of “blotting out the names of the ungodly” and the severe consequences was described. The appearance of the word “many” was stressed (and the fact that it appeared in both positive and negative contexts).
The existence of Prophetesses is covered, with several examples given.
Hypocrisy is illustrated (“hearts given over to idols” despite people appearing to follow God)
Pastor Barry reminded us that people are always calling out for “Signs for God” but stressed that God HAS provided many signs over the centuries!
A substantial section stresses that intercession is valuable (and there’s reference to Wrath vs Intercession) but prayer must always be according to God’s Word – praying in other directions is futile!
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PS1: ::: RECENTLY INTRODUCED 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 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 normally) 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.
