Amen, amen.

Good evening.

Oh, no, no, don't do that.

Don't do that.

Oh, good evening.

You guys are just too kind.

Thank you.

Actually, I do want to thank you because you guys have been very gracious to me and

patient with me during my extended time off. I know it was a little bit longer this time.

But, and I do want to apologize too for not being clear that I was not planning to be back on

Sunday July 9th this last Sunday I could have probably worded it better when I made the

announcement but actually Sunday July 9th and you weren't supposed to know this was my 61st no 21st

oh no 60 first birthday and I want it's a typo yeah yeah anyway I wanted to add that last Sunday to my time off.

And actually, I'm so glad I did because my family really needed me during that time.

And for those weeks that you were so gracious to let me have off with my family. So, but I'm back.

And you're, you're not getting rid of me that easy. You're stuck with me. So I'm back and we're back

in Ezekiel. So we left off last time, chapter 14.

We're going to pick it up chapters 15 and 16.

And for those of you that read ahead to stay ahead, you know what's ahead.

And a very interesting couple of chapters before tonight the first chapter chapter

15 that we're going to study is short and chapter 16 is not in fact it's the longest chapter in the

book and it is rather graphic i suppose it would be appropriate

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