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Welcome to the Potter's House Salmon Arm Podcast. We are a Bible-Believing Church located in

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beautiful British Columbia, Canada. We are proudly part of the Christian Fellowship Ministries

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with 3,000 churches around the world. We are a church focused on world evangelism, discipleship

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and church planting. Here we will share recent sermons from P.H.S.A. Church and other sermons

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from throughout our fellowship. I am Pastor David Bickford and I will be your host for this

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podcast. I thank you for listening today and we hope these messages are a blessing to you and

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bring you closer to God. Welcome back to the Potter's House Salmon Arm Podcast. Today the

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message I have put together is, A Watchman Named You and Will You Sound the Alarm? If you are going

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to follow along in your Bible this morning, the scripture that I am going to use as a jumping off

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point is Ezekiel 33, 1-8. You can go ahead and turn there if you are going to. As we jump in,

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I just want to thank those that listen to the podcast and I hope that as we grow over time,

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we bring more people in. If I can ask a favor that if you are listening, if you do regularly

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download the podcast or listen to it, if you could share it, just so that we can get the gospel out

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there as far and wide as possible. Thank you for that. An illustration I put together is I have a

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story of a vigilant light keeper. This occurred in Cape de Rosaires, which is literally Rosebush

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Cape. It is the easternmost tip of the Gaspé Peninsula, which was named after the abundance

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of wild roses that were spotted there by Samuel de Champlain during his visit in 1632. This lighthouse

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was built between 1853 and 1858 and after several major shipwrecks happened in this area. No expense

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was spared building the lighthouse. It cost $115,000 and its lights could be seen up to 26 km away or

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16 miles today at sea. Today, it is the only imperial tower-style lighthouse still standing

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in the province of Quebec up here in Canada. Life at the lighthouse was pleasant because of its

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location in the village. Unlike many others that were isolated or on islands or on points,

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the proximity enabled the light keeper and his family to have a social life and attend school

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and church and belong to the community. During the Second World War, Joseph Ferguson was the

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light keeper at Cape de Rosaires and on September 15, 1942, while scanning the waters, he spotted

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a German U-boat and the submarines that had been lurking in the estuaries for a few months. The

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light keeper knew that they had sunk several ships. He sounded the alarm to the civil defense,

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but was seemingly not taken seriously. Two ships were sunk that day, the SS Saturnus from Netherlands

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and the SS Ingur Elizabeth from Norway. Let's jump into our text in Ezekiel 33, 1-8.

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The subheading for this portion of scripture is Ezekiel is Israel's watchman. In verse 1, it says,

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The word of the Lord came to me, Son of man, speak to your people and say to them,

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If I bring the sword upon the land and the people of the land take a man from among them

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and make him their watchman, and if he sees the sword coming upon the land and blows the trumpet

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and warns the people, then if anyone who hears the sound of the trumpet does not take warning

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and the sword comes and takes him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. He heard the sound of

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the trumpet and did not take warning, his blood shall be upon himself, but if he had taken warning,

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he would have saved his life. But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the

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trumpet so that the people are not warned and the sword comes and takes any one of them,

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that person is taking away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman's hand.

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So you, Son of man, I am made a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from my

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mouth, you shall give them warning from me. And if I say to the wicked, O wicked, you shall surely die.

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You do not speak to warn the wicked to turn from his way, that the wicked person shall die in his

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iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand. But if you warn the wicked to turn away from

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his way, and he does not turn away from his way, that person shall die in his iniquity,

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but you will have delivered your soul. So what is a watchman? In our society today,

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we are told by the world that it is wrong to judge. We're constantly being told how wrong

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our beliefs are and how wrong our faith is as Christians. While we're being scolded for

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upholding the word of God, they, the world, is also telling others to be on the watch for the dangers

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of conservatism or religiosity or whatever kind of phobic idea that is in vogue at the moment.

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They want to silence all dissent to the world's secular humanistic faith, and they place watchmen

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in the media, in the government, and in our schools. This reality alone should prove the need to hold

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the line to biblical truth, but unfortunately for many, it doesn't sound any alarm bells.

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No warning goes off in the hearts, minds, or souls of many who call upon the name of the Lord.

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Many of these people will be, you know, gladly or solemnly go along with the currents of the world,

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and this is a sad situation because in Christ we are called to be bold and even at times defiant

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to the ungodliness that we see in our time. This does not mean we are to take up arms against our

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fellow man, not at all. It means that we are to preach the gospel with power, authority, zeal.

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We are called to be watchmen, the sentries, the heralds for the coming kingdom of Jesus Christ.

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Now I put in there on purpose the fact that, you know, taking up arms because oftentimes today

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what we see is some people saying it's time to rebel, it's time to take up arms, but the reality

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is is that we are heralds of the kingdom of heaven, and what we should do first before anything were

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to come to that level is we should be speaking the words of God. We should be standing firm with the

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words of Christ. Just like Paul went before, you know, the kings and the and Caesar with the gospel

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of Jesus Christ, he went all the way to Rome with the gospel of Jesus Christ in chains. We have to

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be willing to stand up for the purpose of the gospel as watchmen's for the kingdom of heaven.

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That is our duty, and that is what we should be looking to do as Christians today. So what are the

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duties of a watchman? If you define a watchman, it's a person who keeps guard over a building at night

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to protect it from fire vandals or thieves, or a person who guards or patrols the streets at night.

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It could be, you know, you could use the term caretaker, custodian, patrolman, policeman, or warden.

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A watchman has come to mean many things to us today, but I was able to find this job description

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from a watchman position in New York. Now bear with me, it's a little lengthy, but I think it's

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important for us to highlight the critical role that a watchman plays in our society today and why

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it is so important for us to take this mantle onto ourselves because we deal with even higher

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responsibility to Jesus Christ. So a watchman, this is the from from the job posting.

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Watchman distinguishing features of the class. This position involves responsibility for

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safeguarding personnel buildings, properties, supplies. Work is performed 24 hours per day,

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does related work as required. Examples of work, illustration use only, check windows, doors,

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entrances to the building, make certain they're secure, detour admittance of unauthorized persons

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on premises, investigate unusual conditions or disturbances, prevent damage to the building,

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check the conditions of fire hazards, punches watchman's time clock at regular intervals,

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check elevator lights, operate elevators when required, give directions to public,

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contact fire, ambulance, maintenance personnel and warranted, silence alarms when given written

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instruction, identify hazards such as tripping, slipping, take corrective actions, so fix it,

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check disturbances, check lobbies, building entrances, hallways for debris, required knowledge,

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skills and abilities for the role, general knowledge of duties and responsibilities of a watchman,

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ability to think and act quickly in emergencies, ability to write accurate reports of an incident,

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willingness to work nights or on unusual shifts, integrity, reliability, courage, sobriety,

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good vision and hearing, good physical condition, minimum safety,

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physical condition, minimal acceptable experience and training, three months of satisfactory

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experiences of watchman or labor, satisfactory completion of background check will be required

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during the probationary appointment. This comes from chapter 336 of the New York state laws of

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1992, requires that individuals who perform security guard duties must complete a pre-assignment

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training program and must be registered with New York State Department of State. Training and

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registration are required prior to the employment and employees must maintain their registered

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status during the entire time of employment. So this is obviously an earthly view of the importance

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of a watchman and it's kind of a funny thing for me to like read here but the reality is is when

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you think about this, when you think about all those details, all those things that I just spoke

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about, all the stuff that I kind of emphasize, you get the picture that as a watchman you're being

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held to a higher standard and the watchman of the Lord, there's an expectation for those of us to

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also know the the truth of Jesus Christ and use that in our duties day to day. So even though as

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we're going around and working our jobs, we're raising families, we're going to school,

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we're supposed to be watchmen for the kingdom of God. We're supposed to be doing this 24 hours a

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day. Now this isn't something that you know we're saved by grace, it is not by works, but we also

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understand that in salvation you have a changed heart and you desire to serve the Lord. So that's

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what this purpose is all about. In service of the Lord we're going to want to you know prevent damage

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to others. We're going to want to you know give people direction on how they can be saved. We're

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going to want to identify hazards that are around us that might lead others astray. These are all

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things that we should want to be doing as new creations in Jesus Christ because if you truly

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been saved and set free and you've had that personal you know experience where where you've

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come face to face with Jesus Christ in your own life and he saved you and set you free from the

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bondage of your sin, why wouldn't we want to be looking for opportunities to warn others

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so that they can too be saved or that we can warn them so that they won't fall into

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the temptation that comes from Satan. These are all things we should want to do. So it brings me to

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my next point which is God's watchman and we continue on in Ezekiel with chapter 3 verses 16

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through 21 and it says at the end of seven days the word of the Lord came to me, son of man I have

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made you a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from my mouth you hear

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from my mouth you shall give them a warning from me. If I say to the wicked you shall surely die

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and you give him no warning nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way in order to save his

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life. That wicked person shall die for his iniquity but his blood I will require at your hand. But if

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you warn the wicked and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his wicked way he shall die

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for his iniquity but you shall be delivered or you will have delivered your soul. Again if a righteous

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person turns from his righteousness it commits a justice and I lay a stumbling block before him he

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shall die because you've not warned him he shall die for his sin and his righteous deeds that he

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has done shall not be remembered but his blood I will require at your hand. But if you warn the

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righteous person not to sin and he does not sin he shall surely live because he took warning

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and you will have delivered your soul. So even from this this text of scripture we see you know

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exactly what I was talking about before. We can warn people who are living in a life of wickedness

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so they hopefully turn from their wickedness but we can also warn the righteous who who might be

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headed down a wrong path about the stumbling block that's placed before them so they can

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you know recognize the error of their ways and turn from that and both can save their lives if they

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heed the warning. So this might sound remarkably similar to that earlier text that I read and it

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should since it's a basically a restating in that same message. It is the responsibility aspect of

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what it means to be a watchman. We are called to be heralds of the kingdom and guardians to our

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fellow believers and the results of the alarm is not the concern it's it's what we need to make

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clear is it's our duty to give the alarm. If we are diligent about our duties that is the expectation

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the outcome is still up to the individual. We still believe in free choice it is that pesky

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thing that we call free will right so we we understand that people aren't going to listen

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all the time you know sinners are going to sin people might even backslide but it's our it's

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our purpose to give the warning to give the alarm so that they hopefully will turn back to or turn

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to Christ or turn back to Christ. We're not absolved from our duty just because we don't think it

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matters it is because we think it does not matter that we have to exercise faith and sound the alarm.

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The illustration that I started with was the one of the lighthouse the purpose of the lighthouse

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is to warn others of impending danger once the message has been made we know that it it has still

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been received it's still up to the recipient to accept the message and act upon it or else they

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might end in calamity and Jeremiah 6 17 it says I set a watchman over you saying pay attention to

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the sound of the trumpet but they said we will not pay attention this is the day and age that

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we're living in this piece of scripture from Jeremiah is exactly kind of you know what we're

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experiencing today where you could give a warning you could sound the alarm and people are going to

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say you know keep it down we don't want to hear it and amos 3 6 is a trumpet blown in the city and

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the people are not afraid does disaster come to the city unless the lord has done it we have this

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idea today of it's your truth is the only thing that matters right it's this relative truth idea

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so we could sound the alarm and people be like I don't believe in that I believe in this I believe

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in my own thing and it's so relative to each individual that people will you know wander

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headlong into danger because they don't they don't want to believe what's right in front of their

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face you with all the issues we have in our in our western societies today you you give people

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warning and say you're heading down a path of destruction and people go no no this is not a

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path of destruction this is a path to prosperity when in reality it's a path right off the cliff

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but that's why we you know we have to be a diligent watchman and that's this brings me back final point

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being a diligent watchman it is not only for those whom you might save that you act faithfully in

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your duties it is also for your own sake that you exercise faith and perform your duties diligently

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in our illustration we see that the watchman is oftentimes part of the community in ancient israel

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this was also true that means the watchman was not only responsible for signal but also

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signaling the alarm but he was bringing attention to the danger that will affect his life and his

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love ones and we are called to diligence because it keeps us right with the lord and first timothy

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416 it says keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching persist in this for by doing so

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you will save both yourself and your hears we are called to persist persist in keeping the watch

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to look for those who can be saved to protect others and to protect ourselves from harm as well

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and hebers 1317 says obey your leaders and submit to them for they are keeping watch over your souls

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and those who will have to give an account as those who will have to give an account let them

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do this with joy and not with groaning for that would be of no advantage to you this is why we

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have leaders in our church this the ministry is meant to be a position of service to the brothers

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and sisters in christ we expect our leaders to hold themselves to a higher standard and to fulfill

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the duties of a watchman this can be difficult when people being watched are ungrateful or don't

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want to understand the danger that is present we could see this with ezekiel and with jeremiah

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the people of israel were in no mood to hear the ravings of these two godly watchmen this is why

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jeremiah is known as the weeping prophet he felt so strongly for his people and with the knowledge

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of the impending doom that was about to fall in jerusalem it was hard for him to cry out warnings

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that were going to fall on deaf ears he was abused and mocked but he was right he preached the truth

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let us not be like the people of israel denying the dangers of our time let us take up the mantle

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of the watchman and let us also carry the message of the cross to the world it is a message of hope

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but if but it is also a message of warning all who have salvation in jesus christ are now on the

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lookout we are all searching for those whom we can bring into the lifeboat of salvation

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our world is sinking into chaos and is moving ever closer to destruction let us band together

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to get as many people as possible into the boat jeremiah 29 11 through 13 says for i know the plans

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that i have for you declares the lord plans for welfare and not for evil to give you a future and

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hope then you will call upon me and come and pray to me and i will hear you you will seek me and

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find me when you seek me with all your heart matthew chapter 7 verses 7 through 8 ask and it

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will be given to you seek and you will find knock and the door will be open for everyone who asks

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receives the one who seeks defines and to the one who knocks the door will be open and hebers 11 6

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says and without faith it is impossible to please god because anyone who comes to him must believe

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that he exists that he rewards those who earnestly seek him so in closing i have to wonder

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how amazingly bad were things before the flood because we know that the bible tells us in genesis

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6 5 that the lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth and

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that every inclination and of the thoughts of human of the human heart was only evil all the time

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man had become so wicked that their that they were wicked all the time his thought life was

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continually wicked no one alone was righteous only himself and his family were to be saved

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the story stands as a testament to both god's righteous judgment and his mercy

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i wonder if any of the souls that died in the flood repented before the end

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we know then there is another judgment coming jesus refers to this in matthew and luke

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and matthew 24 38 39 it says for us in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking

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marrying and giving into marriage until the day when noah entered the ark and then they were

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unaware until the flood came and swept them all away and so will be the coming of the son of man

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and then in loop 17 26 through 27 just as it was written in the days of noah so it will be in the

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days of the son of man they were eating and drinking marrying and giving into marriage until

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the day when noah answered the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all this picture of the

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flood and the reality that noah would have been building this ark for a long time he was a watchman

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and he was giving warning but nobody was willing to listen let us not let down our guard let us not

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leave behind our post we need to be vigilant and sober minded we are watchmen and we are seeking

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those who god means to save let us not grow weary but lord help us to continue on this path to bring

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others face to face with the revelation of jesus christ so they might be saved i pray today that we

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grow in our faith and our love for christ so that we will have the zeal necessary to build an ark in

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our own lives even if no one else sees the purpose i pray that we believe or that we as believers

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will grow in faith enough to act on god's will alone just like noah abraham moses and the apostles

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i believe that we can be watchmen for jesus today in our time i believe it's our duty to do so

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because we are looking to to you know bring more people into that life boat of salvation so if i

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could have every head bowed every eye closed real quick as we close this this message

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i just want to give an invitation that maybe you recognize from this message that you are headed

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down a path that's going to lead to your destruction you're you're headed somewhere you don't want to go

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and maybe this message has been effective in in in highlighting the fact that you need to turn

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your course around and head to christ well you can do that you can come to christ all you have to do

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is is accept him as your lord and savior and turn from your sin and it's a simple prayer you can

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repeat after me and just say dear lord god i know that i'm a sinner but i know that you sent your

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son jesus christ he died for my sins i turned from my sin i repent and i accept jesus to be my lord

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and savior i thank you for salvation that comes through grace in jesus name we pray amen if you

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send that prayer and you meant it in your heart then you've been written into the lamb's book of

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life you are saved and it's and it's a powerful thing and i know that you you would have felt the

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change and praying that prayer with with true you know humbleness but what's next what's next is that

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you need to get a bible you need to start washing yourself in the word of god you can download

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you know the u-version app it's got all sorts of different bibles and so it's free

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if you need help finding a bible you know reach out to us here

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be more than happy to help you out and then on top of that you want to pray to god start having

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those conversations with god start crying out to him and say lord help me give me wisdom understanding

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and then find a bible believing church to lock into what i mean by lock into is what i is i mean

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you go there you find someone who's preaching the gospel and you become a part of that church a

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and you become a part of that church a member of that church that and then you work towards seeing

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others grow in their relationship with jesus christ become an active member not just a uh you

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know someone who comes sits in a in a pew for a day and then they go back to their normal you know

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life during the week no become a member lock in grow with the with your with the church body

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both in your salvation and helping others to grow in theirs if you need help finding a church we

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have 300 or 3500 plus churches worldwide i'd be more than happy to help you find a church

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but if you're in the salmon arm area if you're in the seminar british columbia please you know

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reach out visit us on sunday mornings we also do bible study on on wednesday evenings and we do

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outreach on saturdays and so we we're constantly trying to push forward with our duties as a

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watchman to bring more people into the into the boat of salvation so partner with us if you're

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around i want to thank you for listening to this message and again if this message touched you

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i pray that you know that god will move this message far beyond the boundaries of salmon arm

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or canada or united states or the you know any you know any country i pray they would go everywhere

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and that people would be able to hear the gospel message and turn to jesus christ but i i hope that

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if this message did affect you that you would share it so that others can hear the message and

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that the podcast can grow because the whole point of this is to get the gospel of jesus christ as far

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as wide as possible so i want to thank you uh for coming back again and i can't you know i can't

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wait for you to come back next time thank you god bless thank you for listening to the phsa potter's

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