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Ezekiel chapter 27, verse 27, your riches, your wares, your merchandise, your mariners and your pilots,

your caulkers, your dealers in merchandise, and all your men of war who were in you,

with all your crew that is in your midst, sink into the

heart of the seas on the day of your fall. What a picture very similar to what we see in

Ezekiel chapter 26 and prayed about according to the previous podcast episode, that

all these things in the world, riches, wears, merchandise, mariner's, pilots,

men of war, the whole crew, just like that one day in a day, they're all going to fall. Oh,

does this verse not shout to you and me? Don't be intoxicated by all you see in this world. I think about

children, teenagers who are listening to this, who can be so consumed with what others think about

you, with pleasing this person or that person, achieving this or that, living for

this or that in the world, don't do it. Don't do it. It doesn't matter in the end. Similarly,

college students, as you think about degree and career and what lies ahead, what are you going to live

for that's going to matter forever, for every adult listening

to this? How intoxicated are you right now with the pleasures or possessions or pursuits of this world,

the prizes of this world? The whole picture here in Ezekiel chapter 27 is there are so many riches, there

is so much prestige and pride and all these things, and in a day it's all going to sink

into the heart of the sea. So God, we pray for each other. Please help us not to be taken in

by the things of this world, by the pursuits of this world. God help us to hold

fast to you, to seek you, to follow you with radical obedience going against the grain of this

world. God, not just for the sake of going against the grain of this world, but because we want to

follow you. We want to live for what you we want to follow you. We want to live for

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