Amen. Amen. Good evening. Welcome. Hey, before you're seated, if you haven't got the elements,

you might want to come up at this time and get them so they're ready at the conclusion of the Bible study.

We're going to partate together of communion. And then those of you online, if you want to partake with us,

you might want to have the elements ready as well. While you're doing that, I want to mention that this upcoming Tuesday, June 6th, our prayer meeting

from 7 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. We're going to do something just a little bit different, uh, for this prayer meeting.

Uh, I'm just going to briefly share concerning prayer. We'll still have the prayer lists for those

that want to pray and intercede for those that have asked us to pray for them. So those

prayer lists will be available.

But what I'd like to do after a time of just sharing a little bit about prayer

is then just open it up so we can pray.

Imagine that, pray at a prayer meeting.

And so just as the Holy Spirit leads, so just want to encourage you to make

plans to come and join with us on Tuesday night for our prayer meeting. Ezekiel chapter 14 tonight.

One chapter and an interesting chapter at that.

You know, before I even kind of by way of an introduction, this is one of those chapters again in God's Word where we really would do well to understand God's heart.

Otherwise, we're going to misunderstand God's heart in this matter.

And that's really what this is about,

because God, through the prophet,

Ezekiel, gets to the heart of the matter concerning the matter of the heart.

That was pretty clever, wasn't it? It came out really well, actually, I was quite impressed with that myself.

But what's the heart of the matter?

The heart of the matter is concerning that which distances one's heart from the Lord.

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