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And no, this isn't the wonderful voice of Emma Daughter.

She's out for a few days and she's left me here to tackle these passages unsupervised.

She might be trying to tell me something having me talked about false profits, but I'm

going to assume pause of intent.

If you haven't met me, my name is Ben Creachie, and for almost a year now, I've been

helping and serving the Join the podcast team, specifically around editing the content

of the podcast.

And it's been one of my favorite ways I've gotten to spend my time.

It's been such a sweet area of personal growth for me,

learning how to teach the Bible chapter by chapter.

But if I can get honest with you for a second,

it's been really difficult.

Passages like these, 2, 2

really makes the teacher stop and think,

and the listener take a second to interpret what we're hearing.

Is it true? Is it from the Lord, or is it from me? When we talk about false prophets and false

teachers, what do you think of? Do you think of politics, the news? Just today I saw an ad talking

about using Google to fact check for the sake of truth.

Truth is something that's valued like gold, yet just as it is with gold, it seems so hard

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