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Welcome to Middays.

I'm Susie Larson so honored to get to spend this time with you.

In fact, I look forward to bringing you conversations every single day

that hopefully inspire you in your faith walk,

the deep in your understanding of God's word,

and that heightens your awareness of his very real presence in your life. Well, this morning I spent some time in Luke chapter 12 and was hit afresh with the whole idea of hypocrisy. That's not what the show is about today, but just let me set this up. The Pharisees, you know, they said one thing and they did another. They love the seats of honor, the positions of power. They shrug their shoulders at the needy. They looked down their noses at those who couldn't live up to standards that they themselves would never hold. Then I thought of the passage from Ezekiel that talks about the sins of Sodom. Now, we think of Sodom and we think of sexual sin, and that was the reality for sure, but Ezekiel says that

Sodom's sins were pride, gluttony, and apathy while the poor and needy suffered outside her

door. Isn't that us too, don't you think? Don't we at times think more highly of ourselves than we

ought? Don't we at times consume more than we should? Don't we at times hoard blessings for ourselves when there are just desperate needs all around us?

You know, Jesus was humble. He was generous. He was engaged. He deserves radical faith and obedience from us because that's what he gave to the Father for us.

You know, it's hard to do that, isn't it, in a decadent culture? But what if we each lived more wholeheartedly for him? What if we dare to ask, what does radical obedience look like, Lord? I'm excited to welcome Nick Ripkin to the show in a moment. But I want to get my producer on here because she and I were talking and praying before the show. And, you know, like yeah I always ask each other all day every day how you doing how you doing well I'm like

on the verge of tears because my time with the Lord just hit me between the eyes because I just

really think there's a Pharisee in all of us you know there's seeds of hypocrisy in all of us if we're not

careful and yet God so loves us in process and calls so much more out of us if we're not careful and yet God so loves us in process and calls so much

more out of us if we're willing to go there with him and Kim you were talking about a video that

you saw just reminded me of how much we take for granted in our nation but to share about that

video if you would yeah it's a it's an older video it's not a great quality video it was taken

with a cell phone in a cell church in

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