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you move to Louisville and take on-campus classes. Absolutely. Move to Louisville, take on-campus

classes if that's available to you. We would love that. Join Third Avenue. I've got an internship

program that I run, join. Hunter-Let Baptist Church. Sam. We also have an internship and a preaching

class. You told me you had too many boys students. So actually, or in Southern students. So

don't join. I never made that comment about Southern students. Or join Kenwood Baptist. And you can

go through the Kenwood Institute and learn, you know,

how to do ministry from one of my favorite people in the world, Jim Hamilton. Or you can visit

many other churches here in town. So I haven't said my name yet. My name's Alex Duke and

with me are my two friends. Sam Lomadi. Jim Hamilton. And we haven't changed closed between episodes. Can you believe it? Um, so last week we discussed Josiah. We talked

about how he was the best king, but he wasn't good enough. And, and though we intended to kind

to end 23, I sort of stopped as short because what I want to do today is, is hopefully

close the book on

Second Kings. Now, you both have warned me that you don't think it's possible. We'll see.

So what we're going to do is we're going to read the end of 23, 24, and 25. And this is the

final, final, final, I mean, I've been using this very strained metaphor for a while,

the plane is descending and it is about to crash, and we will perhaps witness its crash this

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