Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is the Theology Central Podcast, making theology central. Good evening, everyone. It is Thursday, January the 9th, 2025. I almost did it. I knew sooner or later I was going to do that. I knew sooner or later I was going to say 2024. I almost did it, but I caught myself. So let me do that again. Good evening, everyone. It is Thursday, January the 9th, 2025. It is currently 7.49 p.m. Central Time, and I am coming to you live from the Theology Central studio located right here in Abilene, Texas. Well, for this episode, we're going to once again turn back to the subject of artificial intelligence, but we're going to talk about it as it connects to a boiling pot? What is the connection between AI and a boiling pot? How about, what is the connection between, maybe we shouldn't even say the connection. This is gonna be AI versus a sermon about a boiling pot. Here's what happened. Today, I kept thinking, well, I'm going to get a chance to broadcast. I'm going to get a chance to broadcast. And the chance never really happened. It never arrived. It never materialized. So I was like, OK. And I kept, you know, it's one of those things where you keep coming back to the microphone thinking, OK, now, OK, now it's not going to happen. Now it's not going to happen. And a lot of that time, then I wasn't really accomplishing anything. So I opened up the Sermons 2.0 app, was going through it, and saw a sermon. In fact, it was the newest sermon at that moment, entitled, Danger of the Boiling Pot. Danger of the Boiling Pot. And I'm like, oh, that looks interesting. So I started playing it, realized immediately that the volume was way too low, then there's singing at the beginning. So I'm like, you know what? I know what I'll do. I'll just go ahead and download this, increase the volume, amplify it, then load it to my studio software, queue it up, and at some point when I can go live, I'll have it ready to go, and what we're going to do is listen to this sermon about a boiling pot, At the same time, we will see how AI will handle the text. Now the text in question appears to be, from what I can tell, at least what is listed, Ezekiel chapter 24. Ezekiel chapter 24. So here's what we're going to do. I'm going to be utilizing two artificial intelligence programs, right? I'm going to be using chat GPT on Ezekiel 24. I'm also going to be using the Bible Memory app, but they now have an artificial intelligence thing that you can subscribe to for like $5 or $6 a month. So I'm going to be utilizing the Bible Memory artificial intelligence, chatGPT, and then we're going to be listening to this sermon and we're going to see which one wins. Does the sermon win or does artificial intelligence win? In fact, in some ways, I think maybe, I told you that 2025, we don't really have a direction, but artificial intelligence is going to be discussed constantly throughout in everything that we do. I think what we may need to do is we may want to create a series. Now that I'm thinking about, I keep thinking, where do I put all the sermons? Maybe one of the things we do is we just have a series entitled artificial intelligence versus sermons or artificial intelligence, yeah, AI versus sermons. And we will compare sermons to AI and see which one wins, right? I mean, I think that's, to me, that's really the issue here. I said, we've been talking about artificial intelligence all of 2025 so far, over and over and over again. And I keep, in my hypotheses, my thesis is that AI is making the church completely and utterly irrelevant because AI can do anything better than a church can do when it comes to preaching and teaching. Now, again, if you are a sacramental church, you need the church. AI can't help you there, right? If you are looking for a church for community, friendship, activities, fellowships, potlucks, all of those types of things, well then the church is going to still be valuable. But if you see the church as a place that is supposed to equip saints so there are no longer children being tossed to and fro with every wind of doctrine, and they do this equipping by the preaching and teaching of God's Word. If the church is supposed to be the place that is teaching, that is preaching, that is expounding Scripture, breaking it down, well, ladies and gentlemen, I'm just going to say it, and I know not everyone agrees with this, but AI makes the church irrelevant. AI can do better than any sermon. And I'm going to stand by that. And I guess this, in some ways, 2025 is going to be me testing the concept, right? I guess in some ways it's going to be me testing the concept, because we're going to continue to put AI versus sermons. So in this case, when we do sermon reviews, We'll review the sermon, but I will be constantly challenging the sermon with artificial intelligence, and we will see where we get. Now, we can do this different ways. Now, I could go look for this sermon, I could do this, and I could go ahead and offer it to AI and say, analyze it and find all of the mistakes. We've already done, we did that with two sermons already on the podcast in 2025. And in both cases, AI pointed out all kinds of problems with those sermons. geographical errors, this kind of error, logical errors, all kinds of things. So in this case, I have not given this sermon to AI. I'm going to just try to deal with it in real time. Now, I did ask AI to break down Ezekiel 24. So I may, what I'm going to do, I have the Bible memory app, I have its Bible intelligence program operating, and it's already broken down Ezekiel 24 for me. So I have that, and I have chat GPT's breakdown of Ezekiel 24. So I'm gonna use that kind of as, we'll go through the sermon, and then I'll compare what the sermon is doing with what AI has done with the text. And we're going to just try lots of different things like this to continue. I know some of you, look, I already know there's been pushback. Don't waste your time doing that. It doesn't matter. Who cares? Just preach Scripture. You may say it doesn't matter. You may say, who cares? you're going to care when you wake up and realize that, you know, while we were ignoring it, while all of this had happened and AI, I'm telling you, I don't know how we can ignore it. We can't ignore it. So that's what we're going to do. So I don't know if this is going to be, I still haven't figured out the perfect way to do this. Haven't figured out the perfect way to address it. So there's going to, but that's the fun thing of this podcast. No, again, no, No notebook, it's empty. No GPS in our car. We don't know where we're going. We're just trying to figure it out. And I think that's the fun part of this is we're trying to figure it out in real time. How do I address this? So we're going to try it this way. Because the other way is I just turn on the microphone and go, here's the sermon, right? Here's what AI says about the sermon. But you're not really hearing the sermon. Now, if we try to review the sermon, then I read to you what AI said about the sermon. I guess we could do that, but I don't know. I haven't quite figured it out. But this time, what we're going to do is I've got AI's breakdown of the passage of scripture. I do not have AI's breakdown of the sermon. So I'm going into the sermon just as blind as you are, but I'll immediately contrast what it's doing with what AI did. So in that sense, we're going to compare and contrast that way. So are you ready? Here we go. I hope the audio is loud enough. I boosted this thing like crazy. So I'm hoping it's loud enough. It's called The Danger of the Boiling Pot. It was uploaded earlier today. It was like the first sermon in the new sermon tab. And so I grabbed it then because the title caught my attention. So here we go. Take your Bibles and turn to the book of Ezekiel. Ezekiel chapter 24. Okay, he's coming in very, very calm, very somber. Not like I do. I come in almost yelling at everyone, okay? So this is much, so for those who hate my style because people say, you're overdramatic, you're, it's fake, you're, okay, just whatever people, I hate when people say it's fake, because that means they don't know me, but, because that's just the way I am. But yeah, it's hard, I listen to this, I'm like, are you okay? Annie, are you okay? Annie, are you okay? Because are we about to study the Bible or what's happening here? But that's okay. Everyone has different styles. Some people love this more calm, peaceful approach. Let's see how he handles it. I'm gonna read the first 14 verses there today. Ezekiel chapter 24. Verses 1 to 14, we'll stand please for the reading of God's word. Verse 1, it says, Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, write thee the name of the day, even of this same day. The king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this same day. and utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto them, thus saith the Lord God, set on a pot, set it on, and also pour water into it. Gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder, fill it with the choice bones. take the choice of the flock, and burn also the bones under it, and make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of it therein. Wherefore, thus saith the Lord God, woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it, bring it out piece by piece, let no lot fall upon it. For her blood is in the midst of her. She set it upon the top of a rock. She poured it not upon the ground to cover it with dust, that it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance. I have set her blood upon the top of a rock that it should not be covered. Therefore, thus sayeth the Lord God, Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great. Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned. Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn. and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed. She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her. Her scum shall be in the fire. In thy filthiness is lewdness, because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged. Thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee. I, the Lord, have spoken it, it shall come to pass, and I will do it, I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent. According to thy ways and according to thy doings shall they judge thee, saith the Lord God. Our Heavenly Father, we're thankful again that we have thy word, thankful again that we can look at the history of the nation of Israel, we can understand why they're in such trouble today, We can understand why they were in such trouble when thy son, the Lord Jesus Christ, came to this earth and why they were in such trouble in Ezekiel's day. And we need to pay attention to what we have read here and understand that we as Gentiles also need to know the true God. We need to walk with thee, those of us that are saved. We cannot play games with thee. We need to understand that walking in thy way is the right way to walk. It is the way of blessing and it is the way that we can be a help to others to know thy peace and truth. So we pray for each Christian that's listening today that each one would see the importance of walking humbly and truthfully with thee and allowing thee to direct our steps that we would want to please thee and be a blessing to others. We pray for any lost person that's listening that they might understand the importance of repentance toward Thee and trusting in Thy Son, the Lord Jesus Christ alone for their salvation. May Thy will be accomplished as we look into these verses. May we allow Thee to direct us in our thoughts and may we take away anything that would distract us so that we can receive that blessing that the Holy Spirit has for us in this study. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen. I'm already happy about that, considering all the horrible things we've encountered listening to sermons on Isaiah 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, because I think everyone forgot Israel even existed in the preaching of all of those sermons. So that's a good thing. We've got a sermon that at least acknowledges Israel somehow is connected with this. Now, you do know my frustration with sermons saying, God, lead us, direct us, help us, anything along those lines, because if God is leading, directing, and helping us in understanding the Bible after 2,000 years, you think there would be some agreement. But after 2,000 years, there is no agreement. So that only means that, to me, the only thing you can take from that is God is not leading, guiding, and directing us in understanding Scripture. The Bible is God's written word. It's God's revelation. And he has given it to us to try to understand and interpret using all the things we know about interpreting anything in a written form. If he's guiding and directing, Again, you already know the problem with that, right? Because if I say, well, I'm praying for God to guide and direct me and I come to this interpretation. Well, if God is the one guiding and directing me to that interpretation, then you can't challenge that interpretation because it came from God. Well, then here comes the problem. That person over there prayed and God led them to that interpretation. And I guarantee you, he just prayed for God to guide and lead them basically in their interpreting of Ezekiel 24. I guarantee you, He's going to come to a conclusion that I could go find another sermon in probably 10 seconds where they pray for God to guide and lead them, and they're going to come to an opposite direction. So who is God guiding? He's not guiding both into opposite directions and different interpretations that contradict one another. So the whole thing No! Clearly God is not doing that. If he was, then there would not be 50 bazillion—I know that's a hyperbole big time—50 bazillion different groups. But it's not hyperbole to say 50 bazillion different interpretations, because the interpretations are endless when it comes to Christians reading the Bible, all claiming God is guiding them and directing them and opening their eyes. So you know my problem with all of that, because it's just I'm so tired of hearing it. Because if that's the case, then, hey, don't challenge my interpretation. It came from God. Well, see, you won't accept that. The minute you disagree with my interpretation, you will immediately throw out that God is guiding and leading me. So it's all a game anyway, all right? So let's see where this goes, all right? So there's the prayer. Those are my typical issues with opening prayer, but that's okay. And a lot of times the opening prayer, I kind of feel like he's already kind of started kind of giving his introduction to the sermon, which is what preachers typically do. That's why, can we just open the Bible? And if you need to pray for the sermon, pray before you even stand in the pulpit. And because once you stand there, you have a tendency in your prayer to basically start preaching the sermon. God doesn't need to hear you preach the sermon. He already knows everything about it. It's his word. But all right, here we go. The title of the message is, The Danger of the Boiling Pot. The Danger of the Boiling Pot. Now, as we have mentioned many times before, that it is important to keep our eyes on what's going on in the Middle East, and we can see that there's still a boiling pot in the Middle East right now. Israel is continuing to go into Gaza. They have been in there for quite some time. They have destroyed some of the tunnels. They have killed a number of the terrorists. But when they go back in, they find that the terrorist Hamas is still going back into some of the areas that Israel has already defeated in the past, but they're We're in Ezekiel 24, and next thing you know, we're talking about Israel today going into Gaza. How in the world did that just happen, all right? So I'm gonna let him go a little further because obviously, I guess what he's going to attempt to do is look at what's going on in Israel in the present, connect that somehow to Ezekiel 24. Oh, I've got questions, I've got questions. Let's see, I know this, AI did not do that, okay? AI did not say, hey, consider Israel and Gaza right now. No, let's look at Ezekiel 24. AI did not do that. All right, let's see what he does with this because maybe it actually is brilliant and maybe I'm missing something here, but immediately I'm a little bit confused. I'm like, don't we need to establish the historical context and the textual context for Ezekiel 24 before we proceed? But okay, Maybe this is just a way to kind of grab your attention. It's kind of that opening illustration because you start talking about something everyone is familiar with because it's been in the news non-stop. So maybe that's the idea here. This is kind of like grab the attention in a sermon. Okay, let's see. Because remember, when it comes to sermons, I hate to say it, sermons are typically structured kind of like a speech, right? It's not really structured to get you necessarily to the text. It's about the techniques used to keep you interested and to throw out the hook. some of my problems with the sermon structure. But let's see if this may actually work. So I'm not criticizing it yet. It's just immediately, I'm just like, wait, how did we get there? I thought we were in Ezekiel 24. Obviously, he's going to use this to get us to Ezekiel 24. At least that's my thinking. Going back in there and continuing to set up their weapons, to use against Israel. And there's even a hospital that they recently attacked. They took the patients out, of course. Israel is not into killing innocent people unnecessarily. But Hamas had used that hospital as a headquarters for their weapons and for their terrorist activities. And they did that on purpose because they assumed or they thought that they'd be safe there because Israel wouldn't attack a hospital. But then they also figured if Israel did attack, then they could cry war crimes to the media. And of course, the media is more than ready to entertain attacks against Israel. Most of the media today is anti-Semite. Oh boy. Okay, so here we go. Now this is a problem in a sermon. He starts making all these claims. Most of the media today is anti-Semite. It's anti-Semitic. Like, how are you going to quantify that? How are you qualifying that? He makes a claim about Israel in this hospital. I know all the reports, but I guarantee you, I bet you there's conflicting reports. Is he going to report both sides? Is he going to state the sources from which he's... He's just making it dogmatic that this is what Israel did and this is what Israel did not do. Dogma—based off what? See, this is now—the sermon already now is becoming a problem, right? See, this is the problem with the sermon. So now, you know what I need? I almost want to take this sermon right now and give it to artificial intelligence and say, can you verify some of these claims? I mean, how do you claim most of the media is anti-Semitic? Remember, this is a sermon being preached. This is about the preaching of God's Word, right? And now you just made a claim where you said most. That's judging. That's making an accusation. It may even border on bearing false witness. Which media are you referring to? Media in the UK? Media in the Middle East? Media in North Korea? South Korea? Or just media in the United States? Well, if it comes to media in the United States, then we would have to take all the media groups that you're referring to I guess ABC, CBS, NBC, all of them. And then we just immediately just claim, hey, most of you are anti-Semitic, and we're not even going to bother to qualify, quantify. Is that not a borderline bearing false witness, which is a sin? Now, if you can prove that, if you have some conclusive study, then I'm more than happy to state that. But if he had a conclusive study, I'm assuming he would be reciting the source. Maybe he's getting ready to. We already have a problem beginning here. See, we haven't even gotten to the text. But now, you see how sermons in many cases distract you from the text? And they are promoting the lies of Hamas and Hezbollah and other groups like that. And so, it's a constant challenge for the nation of Israel in the Middle East right now. But part of that is their own, in fact, much of that is of their own making. Just as we see in our text here today, Israel still has not seen the importance of turning back to the true God and following him. In our own country, we have In Mississauga this month, I don't remember the date, but this month they are having an Islamic Caliphate conference in Mississauga, Ontario. Now, it's interesting that when that was first announced that there was no politician speaking out against it, but in the last few days, a few have expressed alarm at this conference being held in this country. But the thing of it is that this country is promoting and protecting terrorists and they're doing that in Toronto, they're doing it in Montreal, they're doing it in Victoria. There was a report given out. He may be referring to Canada. He may be referring to Canada here and referring to that most of the Canadian media is anti-semitic. Now I do listen to a lot of Canadian news. I subscribe to a number of Canadian news sources. I don't know if I would go there. So I, yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. All right. We'll just, we'll just let him go. We'll just let him continue with it. See, he did, he's got to quantify what he's, qualify what, who he's referring to, right? But okay. today from Victoria, and the Hamas terrorists, they go into an intersection, they block the traffic in the intersection, and then they have their speech there and their protest, and they move on to another intersection, do the same thing. And the police are there, they have their vehicles there, and they're on foot there, but they're not doing anything to stop the protests. They're there and they have their vehicles sitting there. In one place, they even had a police car across the intersection, blocking the intersection so the protesters could do their devious deed. And so we see that our country of Canada is living in defiance of the true God. We've known that for a long time. And they are trying hard to get rid of the Jews. Now, I did ask AI about some of the claims made in this. Here's immediately what AI said. I asked AI about factual claims in this, and AI said, the uploaded transcript contains claims about current events that require scrutiny, and some may lack evidence or reflect personal opinion rather than verifiable facts. Here are the observations regarding potential errors or false claims about current events. Now, again, As someone listening to a sermon, you're supposed to determine if it's true or false. See how this has kept us—I've said this a million times. Sermons literally take you away from the text. I've said this so many times. Look what we're doing. Are we talking Ezekiel 24? No, now we've got to go verify all of this. Claims about Israel and Gaza. This is the claim in the sermon. Israel is not into killing innocent people unnecessarily. Hamas had used that hospital as a headquarters for their weapons and for their terrorist activities. That's the claim made in the sermon. It's a direct quote from the sermon. because AI took it from the transcript that I provided it. Here's AI's analysis. This reflects a specific perspective on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. While it is widely reported that Hamas has used civilian infrastructure for military purposes, claims about specific hospitals being used as headquarters needs verification from reliable sources. Additionally, terms like unnecessarily introduced subjectivity as civilian casualties in conflict are highly contentious and often debated in international media and human rights reports. In other words, once you start making these claims, things can become subjective. You may not be giving all the facts. That's the problem. Because if you're wrong just a little bit in your sermon, if you mischaracterize, if you misrepresent, if you accuse and it's not 1000% correct, then from the pulpit, while holding a Bible, you start bearing false witness. Now, I know nobody cares in the pew. Nobody could care, as long as you're bearing false witness against people you don't like. If it's against this group, or this group, or this group, oh, we hate the media. Say whatever you want. Oh, we don't like the homosexual movement. Say what you want. Nobody cares. No pastor's going to get in trouble for bearing false witness from the pulpit. Nobody's going to be excommunicated. Nobody's going to be church disciplined. No one's going to be disqualified. Nobody cares. But right there, I'm not saying that there weren't factual statements about what happened there, but there's a lot to go through. There's a lot of, you've got to cite your sources. Number two, media bias. The claim and the sermon. Most of the media today is anti-Semite and they are promoting the lies of Hamas and Hezbollah. analysis. This is a sweeping generalization. While media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict varies by outlet and region, labeling most of the media as anti-Semitic is a serious accusation that lacks supporting evidence in the transcript. Accusations of bias should be substantiated with specific examples and credible analysis. As Christians, if we're going to make sweeping accusations, we should be the one who provides carefully detailed example and analysis showing that's the case. You just can't accuse people. You're accusing human beings, those human beings who work for those media companies, and you're accusing them of being anti-Semitic. Are you going to name the individuals? You may be accusing people who, I don't know, are Jewish. I mean, that's all. Okay, number three. He goes on to claim, our country of Canada, we just listened to it, is promoting and protecting terrorists in Toronto and Montreal and Victoria. Analysis, this is a strong accusation that lacks concrete evidence and the transcript. While protests and public demonstrations, including those by groups sympathetic to Palestinian causes, have occurred in Canada, labeling these actions as promoting and protecting terrorists requires substantiation through official reports or investigations. you Another claim in the sermon, the prime minister has said he's going to resign, but his parliament is not a legal step. Analysis, this statement about the Canadian prime minister contains inaccuracies. No evidence or record exists as of the transcripts context that Justin Trudeau announced his resignation. Now in the transcript, because I guess this sermon happened before it happened, but he has announced it since then. So there was no evidence offered there, but ultimately in time it has happened. I don't know the date of when the sermon was preached. And what are they referring to the parliament as pro-roguing? Parliament is a legal procedure within the Canadian parliamentary system. While it can be politically controversial, claiming it is not a legal step is incorrect. So this is something in Canadian politics. So claiming something is not is not a legal step is incorrect. So AI is like, hey, you can't say that because that's incorrect. So there's a lot there about the resignation. So he did, but at the time of the sermon, and of course there was no information offered in the transcript. AI here is simply analyzing the transcript, not digging out other information from there. So there's already problems here. He's making factual errors. and wild accusations. Now he's going to say something else about the California wildfires that are continuing going on. Let's see what he has to say here. And they're also trying hard to get rid of Christians. So our country, as we've mentioned before, is under the judgment of God and it's just going to get worse. We are currently without a have been for quite some time, but since Monday, our prime minister has said he's going to resign. He hasn't resigned yet, but he is thinking that he is thinking that he can get away with something by proging parliament and calling a leadership race but according to some people his proging parliament is not a legal step that he has taken and they're fighting it in court right now. Proging. Proging. Okay, that's an interesting word, proging. I'm not familiar with that term, proging, proging, I guess, P-R-O-R-O-G-U-I-N-G, proging parliament. And he says that it's not a legal step, or at least some is saying it's not a legal step. AI is saying, well, it can be politically controversial, claiming that it's not a legal step is incorrect. So AI is arguing that's not even correct. So again, but please know what's happening here. We're getting a million miles away from Ezekiel 24. We're nowhere even close to Ezekiel 24 at this point. And again, I'm having to use AI to verify and check all of this. We probably have already crossed the line into bearing false witness in this sermon. We're nowhere near Ezekiel 24. And here in a minute, I'll show you what AI did with Ezekiel 24. And once again, it's going to demonstrate, you know, the church is actually detrimental to the learning of God's word. So it's very interesting to watch what's going on both in our country as well as in the United States and then also what's going on in the Middle East. We need to keep our eyes open and we need to be sure that we know the true God and we're living for him so that we can help others in these days of grace to know the truth. Looking at our text, Ezekiel was a prophet chosen by God to speak mainly to Judah. He did also speak to Israel, warning them of the danger that they were in because of their rebellion in the first several chapters. There was the first several chapters of the book, Ezekiel was taken back to Judah in spirit and he was shown the abominations that the priests and others were committing in the temple and in Jerusalem in general. And then in the following chapters after that, then Ezekiel was in person in Babylon and speaking and writing to his fellow Jews back in Jerusalem and in Judah. So here we see in this passage that God gives us some dates again. So God's timing is important. He puts us in here for a reason. So he tells us here in verse one again, in the ninth year, Okay, at least now we've gotten to the text. Okay, so he kind of went back to the early chapters and then he's now going to the dating here. There's no real offering any contextual context, I guess. So this is how AI began. Here's AI, and I'm using ChatGPT for this. This is how I asked AI to just basically break down Ezekiel 24. AI says, here's your contextual overview. Ezekiel 24, 1 through 14, is a pivotal passage in Ezekiel's ministry. It marks the announcement of the final siege of Jerusalem by Babylon, and uses a parable of a boiling pot to depict the judgment of Jerusalem. This chapter concludes a significant section of Ezekiel's prophecies against Jerusalem and Judah before shifting to oracles against foreign nations in the subsequent chapters. So AI has let me know that, hey, this is a pivotal passage in Ezekiel's ministry, that it marks the announcement of the final siege of Jerusalem by Babylon, that it uses a parable of a boiling pot to depict the judgment of Jerusalem. This chapter concludes a significant section of the prophecies against Jerusalem. Judah, and it's now in the next few chapters or in the chapters coming, is gonna shift to foreign nations in the subsequent chapters coming. after this. So it kind of tells a little bit of where we are, what's going, and what is happening. So it gives us an overview. Now, if I go to the Bible Memory app, utilizing its artificial intelligence, here's how it begins. Ezekiel 24 records a significant moment in the ministry of the prophet Ezekiel during the Babylonian exile of Israel. This chapter opens with a date reference that situates the message within a historical framework occurring during the siege of Jerusalem. Now, according to this, this is happening during the siege. The verses began with a direct proclamation from the Lord to Ezekiel, marking it as a pivotal moment. This chronological detail in the 9th year and the 10th month on the 10th day emphasizes the specific timing of God's message, establishing a connection to the unfolding events in Jerusalem. All right, so there, AI gives us all kinds of background here and context here that hasn't been provided in the sermon. In the sermon, we kind of went back to, well, at one point, Ezekiel was taken, I guess, in spirit to a place to see the apostasy. Then he was, I guess, in Babylon speaking. I don't think he really established where Ezekiel is in Ezekiel 24, but okay. And now he immediately goes to the date, right? So we didn't really get much, anything. Now maybe he's going to flesh it out here in a minute. We will see. In the 10th month, in the 10th day of the month. So what's that in reference to? Well, it's in reference to the fall of Jehoiakim. If we go to 2 Kings chapter 25 and verse 1, 2 Kings 25 verse 1, and it says there, And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his hosts against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and they built forts against it round about. So Ezekiel here is speaking of that same time. Jeremiah chapter 39 and verse one. Jeremiah 39 and verse one. There it also talks about the ninth year and it says, in the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah in the 10th month came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem and they besieged it. So we have the fall of Jehoiakim and we have also the besieging because we need to remember that there were three different waves of attack against Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar. And so it tells us in our text here that in the ninth year, in the 10th month, in the 10th day of the month, the word of the Lord came unto me saying, the word Lord there is all capitalized, speaking of Jehovah God. And so we see that again here. So this is again, speaking of the inspiration of the scriptures. And then in verse two, Ezekiel is reminded again that he is a man, son of man. He's not a God. He's a prophet, but God sees the importance here of continually reminding him. All right, so he does some things with the dates. AI does this, and this is chat GPT. It refers to this as the prophetic timestamp. In the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month. According to AI, this precise date corresponds to January 15, 588 B.C., the beginning of the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem. It connects it to 2 Kings 25.1 and Jeremiah 52.4. Son of man, write down the name of this day." The command emphasizes the historic and theological significance of the siege as God's judgment. Now, according to AI, the synchronization of this date with other biblical records, 2 Kings 25.1 and ancient Babylonian records raises questions about the systems used, the calendar systems, and exact historical dating. So there may be some issue with that. I could ask AI for clarification to go into more, but it seems that he does kind of connect this to around that date, to that event. Okay. All right. We probably could do a little bit more work on it. All right. So, so far, at least he's covering the basic part here. He didn't really give us much background and much context. AI did a better job at that. He did pretty good with the date. So much with this. Okay, we'll see how these two, we're gonna keep track of how these two move forward. All right, here we go. of his place. Ezekiel is not someone who's trying to usurp his place, trying to get a higher standing, but God saw the importance here of reminding him of who he was and the importance of taking his place properly in humility and being that witness for God to his own people. So in verse two it says, son of man, write thee the name of the day, even this same day. The king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this same day. So here we are told that the day given in verse one, This was actually coming to pass now on the same day. There was no more delaying. God is reminding the people of that. There's no further delaying. Israel had had many years to reconsider their rebellion. The North had always been rebellion. The South had some good kings, but they were also going further and further into rebellion. And God sent them prophets. like Jeremiah, but the nation of Judah failed to heed the warnings given to them by God's prophets. And so in verse three, Ezekiel is told to utter a parable unto the rebellious house and say unto them, thus saith the Lord God. So again, Ezekiel is told by God that the nation of Israel, Judah in particular, was a rebellious house. They were rebelling against God, and here God speaks of himself as the Lord God. The word Lord there, Adonai, is a term that is used, a name that is used in reverence for God and sometimes used in place of Jehovah. But here we have the word Lord, but we also have the word God, all capitalized speaking of Jehovah God, the self-existent God. So Ezekiel is told to remind the nation of Judah who is speaking, and his authority to speak to them and not just speak to them, but the authority that he has to judge them. And of course, with that judgment comes the sentence, comes the punishment. So the second thing we see here is the details of the parable. So Ezekiel is told to utter a parable unto the rebellious house. Now, what is the parable? So he starts out in verse three and he says, set on a pot, set it on and also pour water into it. Now this is not a small pot. This would be a larger pot. But he's told to set this pot and as we read in this passage, he sets it on the fire. And he puts water into the pot, and then in verse four it says, gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder, fill it with the choice bones. Take the choice of the flock and burn also the bones under it, and make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of it therein. So, The picture that Ezekiel is told to present before the nation here is that he's not to take an animal that is scrawny, an animal that is sick. He's to take the best of the animals, take a choice of the flock. Okay, so now we have a parable. So that means if it's using – if it's a parable, it's using this type of language, then that means there's a – we have a couple of options here. What does each thing represent? Sometimes you can do that in a parable. Sometimes that can be counterintuitive and actually hurt the parable. But sometimes you're not supposed to sit there and say, well, this represents this and this represents this. You're supposed to just look for the overarching meaning of the parable. So this is a hermeneutical issue. In preaching, you could bring this up. All right, ladies and gentlemen, we have a parable. Do we look to see what each part represents? Or do we simply look for the overall meaning of the parable itself? And does it matter if we know what each part represents? Or maybe each part doesn't represent something different. There's a lot of different ways you could approach this. He's not obviously having any discussion about this or explaining this. And he kind of just went from the pot to all the pieces being gathered. He kind of went to that. Now, AI took a different approach. AI, at least ChatGPT, said, okay, it breaks it down. Here we go. Set on the pot, set it on. According to artificial intelligence, the pot represents Jerusalem. put in the pieces of meat. The pieces of meat symbolizes the inhabitants of the city. Choice bones likely refers to the leaders and elite of Jerusalem. That's how AI breaks it down. AI breaks it down. The pot is Jerusalem, the pieces are the people, and the choice bones are the leaders. Now, AI says there is a textual challenge here. The imagery of the pot and meat is symbolic, yet its exact interpretation varies. Does the meat signify all inhabitants or only the leaders? The metaphor has overlaps with Ezekiel 11 verses 3-12, complicating its precise meaning. So AI acknowledges, There's a lot of different interpretations here, which would tell me, as someone who would be preaching or teaching, I'd be like, all right, guys, first, there's a lot of different ways to handle these different elements of the parable. Since there's a lot of different ways, maybe we should just look at what's the basic meaning of the parable. Now, I don't know if he's going to address any of this at all. I'm gonna go back to the Bible memory app. It says here, the Lord commands Ezekiel to convey a parable, speak a parable to the rebellious house and say unto them, thus says the Lord God, set on a pot, set it on and also pour water into it. The act of setting a pot on fire serves as a symbolic representation of impending judgment. The use of a parable is an essential prophetic tool. It allows the message to engage the audience visually and mentally, making the seriousness of the impending events more palpable. palpable. Yeah. Okay. Hang on. Let's see here. I'm going to go deeper analysis. All right, because it does offer a deeper analysis here, okay? Okay, here we go. AI for the Bible memory app. In Ezekiel 24 three, the imagery of the pot being set on fire is far more than a simple visual. The pot represents Jerusalem, the supposed secure and protected city. In ancient Middle Eastern culture, a pot was a household item used to prepare meals, often symbolizing nourishment, security, and provision. However, as the parable develops throughout this chapter, the pot becomes a place of destruction. It will not preserve its contents, but will instead cook them to ruin. The pot, once a source of comfort, is now an instrument of judgment, symbolizing how the city's perceived strength and protection fell under God's righteous judgment. So, Bible Memory AI and ChatGPT all seem to agree the pot represents Jerusalem. Both seem to agree with that. Now, I don't think either one really talks about the water, and he didn't talk about the water. Let's see if he goes back and breaks these parts down, or if he just goes for what's the overall message here, right? Let's see what happens here. But you already notice AI is providing great detail, great detail breaking it down little almost every part of this and so he's to take and burn also the bones under it and make it boil well and let them see the bones of it therein so there's a picture here that god is painting for the nation of israel in this parable he's showing them the nature of the people, as we'll see in the next point, that he's using this illustration of the pot with water in it and of the choice portions of meat that are put in there to boil. But as we see that they're put in there to boil until the water is all boiled off, And then even as we see further, the pot itself is melted down with the heat of the fire. So God is showing a picture here how that the nation of Judah had been blessed by God. And even when the Babylonians came against them, Judah was not in a place where they were bankrupt. They were not in a place where the people were all famished, although we know that in the time of Zedekiah that Babylon encamped against Jerusalem and starved them out. But they still, even though they were starved out, they weren't all at the point of dropping dead. But the point that God is making here is that he had blessed the nation of Judah, and yet they had rejected him, as he says in verse three, the rebellious house, they had rejected him, and they were going to be punished now, and there was not going to be any discretion on the part of the Babylonians as to who they would punish. They didn't just kill the lame and the crippled, But they killed some of the better people, better in the sense of healthy people, and they took some of the better people captive, like Daniel and his three friends. Ezekiel also was a captive in Babylon while he's writing this. So there was a danger here that the nation of Judah was not paying attention to. They were not listening to the men that God had sent them to speak against them and to warn them of the wickedness of their hearts. And so God was going to use this parable to show them further what he was doing. So the third point we have is the meaning. of this parable. What is… Okay, he's going right to the meaning, so he's not really going to break it down much. I'm not saying that that's necessarily wrong. I think that if you're going to try to equip people, you've got to let them know the way different things may interpret. At least two different AI programs are like, hey, the pot is Jerusalem. I asked ChatGPT about the water. Here's what ChatGPT said. The water and the Bible Memory app, they're artificial intelligence. You can't chat with it. You just click on basically deeper analysis or intelligence, and it just gives you what it gives you. You can't have a discussion with it. ChatGPT, obviously I can, which makes it great for hermeneutical work, right? But here we go. This is what AI said, "...the water poured into the pot in Ezekiel 24, 3-5 is part of the parable symbolizing Jerusalem and the judgment God is bringing upon it. The water represents the environment which the pieces of meat, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, are placed and subject to boiling." Here's a closer look at its symbolic meaning. preparation for judgment. The water is poured into the pot to boil the meat, symbolizing the process of judgment that God is initiating against Jerusalem. Just as water is necessary for cooking meat, the water represents the context or conditions that will facilitate the execution of divine judgment. So the pot is Jerusalem, the things put in there, that's the people, and then the water is really all the conditions and everything that is necessary to bring about this judgment. The water could represent the siege and the suffering that the people of Jerusalem will endure. The boiling process parallels the increasing intensity of God's judgment as the city is besieged, its inhabitants suffer, and ultimately the city is destroyed. The act of pouring water into the pot demonstrates God's control over the situation. He is the one initiating and overseeing the process of judgment, emphasizing that the events to come are not random, but are orchestrated by God in response to His people's sin. The parable as a whole uses the pot and its contents, water, meat, and bones, to depict the city of Jerusalem and its people. The water helps to draw out impurities, the scum, from the meat, symbolizing how the judgment will expose and deal with the sin and corruption of the people. The boiling water also emphasizes the inescapable nature of judgment. Just as the water surrounds and cooks the meat, the siege of Jerusalem would envelop the city, leaving no one untouched by the consequences of their rebellion. The idea of water symbolizing judgment or a purifying process is seen in Isaiah 1.25, Malachi 3.2-3. These passages resonate with imagery in Ezekiel 24, where the boiling water serves to expose and purge the sins of the people. The water poured into the pot represents the conditions of God's judgment upon Jerusalem. It symbolizes the environment in which the people's sins will be exposed and dealt with, emphasizing God's sovereignty in the inn the inevitability of divine justice. Now, see how much AI provided there? And it provided that to me in about five seconds. Now, the sermon didn't bother to go into any of this. All right, it kind of talked about the bones a little bit, but it didn't really It didn't break any of it down. Now that's okay, because a pastor could say, look, we can break this down, but there's all kinds of interpretations. What is the meaning? Now he goes directly to the meaning. So let's see what he says the meaning is here, because this is really, if he, if everyone ends up to the right, if everyone ends up to the same answer on what it means, that's the most important thing. So let's see what happens. What is this parable all about in verse six? Wherefore thus sayeth the Lord God, so there we see again, Lord God, Lord Adonai, God Jehovah, woe to the bloody city. To the pot whose scum is therein and whose scum is not gone out of it, bring it out piece by piece, let no lot fall upon it. Now it's interesting as we see that word blood and bloody here in these next verses. God taught the nation of Israel, and he taught all the way back to Adam when Adam and Eve sinned, that God killed an animal, shed the blood of an animal in order to provide a coat for Adam and Eve. And the blood and the sacrifices, blood sacrifices that God taught Adam and Eve and also Noah and also the nation of Israel, those blood sacrifices were to make an atonement for the sins of the people. The word atonement means a covering. And so as the people were to bring their animals and give them to the priest and the priest was to kill them, and put the flesh of the animal on the brazen altar. And the blood was to be taken and sprinkled and once a year taken into the holiest place and sprinkled on the mercy seat there. And that was for an atonement for the sins of the people. But here we see that the city is guilty of shedding blood and the blood is not a covering for them, but it's condemning them. because of their rebellion. So woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is therein and whose scum is not gone out of it. Bring it out piece by piece. Let no lot fall upon it. Now the word scum, the Hebrew word translated as scum there means disease or rust. So it's talking about impurities. And the scum that comes when you boil the meat and the bones, that scum, that's the impurities that's coming out of the bones and out of the blood. And that is normally scooped off and thrown away. But it tells us here that they're not supposed to let the scum fall, no lot fall upon it. Verse seven, for her blood is in the midst of her. She set it upon the top of a rock. She poured it not upon the ground to cover it with dust. So here, the point is that God is making is that the blood, normally, if you want to, like Cain tried to when he killed his brother, and God says his blood is crying out from the ground, But here it says that the blood is on the rock and it's not on the ground where the dust can cover it. So the sin of Judah here is exposed and there's no covering for it. So as I mentioned before, already the blood of the animal was to be for an atonement for the sin of the people, but they were not making an atonement to God, they were sacrificing to idols. And so the blood was upon the top of a rock, and of course a rock is not porous, it's not going to let the blood soak in. And so the nation of Israel couldn't hide their sin. They were guilty, they couldn't hide it. They couldn't cover it up because it's on a rock. Then in verse eight it says, that it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance. I have sent her blood upon the top of a rock that it should not be covered." So God here is intentionally exposing the sin of Judah. He does a little bit of work on verse 7. There's a lot there not to work on. So, artificial intelligence breaks it down this way. This is chat GPT. It says that this verse, Ezekiel 24 7, hang on, let me go here, it just... Here we go. Ezekiel 24-7. This verse uses vivid imagery to describe the guilt of Jerusalem personified as she and its unrepentant shedding of innocent blood. The verse emphasizes how the city's sins, particular acts of violence and injustice, are exposed and unhidden before God. The blood she had shed in her midst. The phrase refers to the guilt of Jerusalem for acts of violence, oppression, and shedding innocent blood. Ann Hermitz indicates that these sins are not hidden or isolated, but are pervasive throughout the city. she put it on a bare rock. This suggests that Jerusalem has made no effort to hide or repent its sins, and ancient times, blood from sacrifices or killing was often poured on the ground and covered with dust as a symbolic act of atonement or burial. You can read about this in Leviticus chapter 17. So now AI provides us greater context and an understanding that typically it had been poured on the ground and covered with dust as a symbol of atonement. Now he mentioned it a little bit, I didn't go into great detail, but he gave us a little bit here. By placing the blood on bare rock, the city openly displays its guilt, making it impossible to conceal. She did not pour it on the ground to cover it with dust. Covering blood with dust was a way of showing respect for life and acknowledging guilt or seeking atonement. And then he did make a reference to Genesis 4, which AI does, and Leviticus 17.13. The refusal to cover the blood symbolizes Jerusalem's blatant disregard for justice, repentance, or respect for life. So there we have it, and it offers some cross-references there. So AI provides obviously greater detail, summarizes it, breaks it down in very specific individual parts. Once again, AI is doing far more than the sermon and making it abundantly clear. Now, as we've said, God would want to forgive them. He would want to provide that mercy toward them so that they could continue to serve him, but they were not interested in serving him. They were going their own way. They were intent on defiling the true God and going their own way, and so God says, that it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance, I have set her blood upon the top of a rock and it should not be covered. Verse nine, therefore, thus sayeth the Lord God, woe to the bloody city. I will even make the pile for fire great. When God pronounces a woe, it's not a good thing. Now when you consider the structure of the sermon, the whole first part, that introduction about Canada and media and Israel and God, none of that has anything to do with anything that came after. The introduction was a complete disconnect from what came after. It didn't even really lead you into it in any way, shape, or form. Now, because we're already over an hour, then let's just have AI just give us what's the parable about. Here's what AI says. The parable of the boiling pot in Ezekiel 24 symbolizes God's judgment on Jerusalem for its persistent sin and rebellion. Here is the core message. 1. Jerusalem corruption is exposed. The pot represents Jerusalem, and the meat and bones inside symbolize its inhabitants. The scum, or filth, refers to the moral and spiritual corruption of the people, which cannot be cleansed through ordinary means. The city's sins, including violence, idolatry, and injustice, are so pervasive that they have become inseparable from its identity. Number two, the inevitability of judgment. The boiling of the pot and the burning of its contents represent the siege and destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians. Just as the boiling water draws out impurities, God's judgment exposes and purges the city's sins. The fire intensifies, consuming even the pot itself, showing that nothing will escape God's wrath, including the city itself. Number three, the finality of God's judgment. God declares that the judgment is irrevocable. Despite his previous attempts to cleanse and correct the people, they refused to repent, now the time for mercy has passed, and the consequences of the rebellion are unavoidable. 4. Accountability for Sin The parable emphasizes that Jerusalem's suffering is the result of its own actions. The people's unrepentant sin and rejection of God's warnings have brought about their downfall. What are the key themes? God's sovereignty. God is in control of the judgment, orchestrating events to fulfill his purpose. Human responsibility. The people are held accountable for their sins and rebellion. Justice and purification. The judgment is not arbitrary, but serves to expose and deal with sin. What is the takeaway? The parable warns of the consequences of persistent sin and unrepentance. It illustrates the holiness of God, the seriousness of sin, and the inevitability of divine justice when mercy is rejected. It serves as a call to repentance and a reminder that God's patience has limits. There, AI broke the entire thing down for you so you understand it all. in a clear, concise way. we go. I'll just let him speak a little bit more, and then you can compare and contrast. And we didn't even get to everything the AI did. I mean, I've got pages of notes here of what AI did. I was just picking and choosing different parts, trying to put it in context with the sermon, and going back and forth. But if I was to take everything AI did within seconds, it would have given me It would have given me everything I could have ever wanted to know about Ezekiel 24. And it even gives me things to study further. It offers me discussion, discussion questions. It gives me all possible, it goes through everything. God knows what he's doing. He wanted, he raised up the nation of Israel to serve him, to glorify him, to be a light to the nations around, that the nations around would see the importance of turning to the true God, trusting in the true God and forsaking their idols. Did God raise up Israel to be this perfect example to all the other nations? If you ask me, He raised up Israel to be a perfect example of man's inability to keep the law. Israel's the perfect example of, we can't keep the law. We can't. We fall short. We spend our life condemned by the law. But we could get into a theological discussion there. Well, we could get into a big discussion here. All right, let's see here. I'll let him continue, I'll let him continue, I'll let him continue. But Israel had chosen to abandon the true God and they chose to take the idols of the pagan nations around them. So God says here that he's gonna make a pile for fire great. Now, if you've been paying attention to the news, you know that California right now, I think it's Los Angeles, California is on fire. The area that's burning right now is the area where the wealthy, wealthy of the wealthy live. And the people there, many of them are very immoral, very pagan. And their houses, many houses have burned down already. Many businesses have burned down. One of the reasons for these fires that they're having there, the news is telling us that they haven't had rain there since last summer, I think they said. But one of the reasons that they're having the fires is because the governor of California, Mr. Newsom, has refused to allow them to direct the rainwater that comes to direct it so that it will come and flow and water that particular area of California. It's a lot of rainwater. A lot of it is going straight into the ocean instead of being directed to flow through that area and provide water for the trees and whatever else. And so it's very dry. So that makes for good firewood to make a good fire. Okay, now he's making another claim. I don't know what this has to do with Ezekiel 24. AI said, wildfires in California are primarily caused by a combination of factors, including drought, climate change, human activity. The claim that Governor Newsom's policies on rainwater management are a primary cause lacks evidence and oversimplifies a complex issue. Additionally, the assertion about rainwater being directed to prevent fires is not a standard wildfire prevention method. So once again, he's making claims, making accusations. Now, Maybe he's right. Maybe AI is incorrect. But the point is, you see what happens? At the beginning of the sermon and now here in the middle, he's making accusations and claims, which if not correct, he's bearing false witness. That's a sin, ladies and gentlemen. And not only that, it's pulling. Now, is he going to get this wildfire stuff back to Ezekiel 24? Let's see. Personally, I believe that California has been for years already under God's judgment. It's one of the more wicked states in the United States with Hollywood being there and promoting a lot of wickedness and a lot of new age and occultic stuff goes on in that state. And I believe that this is just another step of the destruction of the United States. So the fires are a judgment. Hey guys, your house is burning down because God is judging you because you're pagan. Now what happens when the storms hit in an area where it's not the wealthy pagans, but it's the poor believers? I mean, what happens? I mean, how many reports do I need to get about storms here, floods here, tornadoes here? Are they being judged? I can't stand this. Like, if anything bad happens, oh, God's judging them. Well, bad things happened over here. Is God judging them? And who are you to speak about who God is judging? Do you have some insight? Again, making absolute dogmatic accusations. This is what AI has to say. Linking the fires to perceived immorality or paganism lacks evidence and is completely speculative. And not only that, you could be bearing false witness. How many times in storms churches are burned to the ground? I mean, I've seen it right here in the local area where wildfires have burned the houses down of Christians, have burned down churches. I've seen where tornadoes have destroyed churches. Is that God's judgment upon the church? Isn't that the same mistake Job's friends made? Well, you had to have done something wrong for this bad stuff to happen. Because of their wickedness. So we'll see what they do with this afterwards, but there's a lot of houses burned up. They showed this today, the people were fleeing in their vehicles and for some reason they stopped driving their vehicles and the road, the main highway was blocked, so emergency vehicles couldn't get through. And so they brought a bulldozer in because the people had stopped driving and got out of their vehicles and ran. I don't know what the point of that would be, why you wouldn't drive out of the fire area, but they abandoned their vehicles. So they had this bulldozer there pushing the vehicles off the road so that the emergency vehicles could get through. But that's what happens when lost people get into a state like that, they panic. Lost people panic. Christians don't. When Christians are faced with a large tragedy, a catastrophe, they never panic. Just lost people panic. What? Oh, man. And they don't think rationally, and they don't realize the danger they're putting others into by their irrational thinking. So in verse 10, it says, heap on. I'm just going to stop right there. That is, oh man. Yeah. Lost people, they're just irrational and panic, and they can't handle difficulties. But Christians, of course, we're always rational. Always. Never have a problem. Oh, give me a break. Okay. Nothing. It has nothing to do. You see why AI wins every single time? AI would have not added any of that to the text, would not put any of that in the text, would not have made false accusations, born false witness. You just heard a sermon where basically you heard sin in a sermon. And all of that did what? Detract from Ezekiel 24. This is why I keep saying AI is better than sermons. Preachers, we, including me, we say things not accurately. We put our opinions in. We add subjective judgment. We sin because we are sinners. So our sin manifests itself in our preaching. Either we're judging, we're condemning, we're accusing, we are showing self-righteousness. That's what we, including me, AI doesn't do any of that. AI will just break down the text, break down the parable. And if I need extra clarification, AI will give it to me in five seconds if I need any extra clarification. So we've done three, really. We did two sermons where we just had AI analyze them and we saw the problems. This is the third one we actually listened to while comparing it to what AI was doing with it. We didn't even really get into everything AI was... I wasn't even able to cover everything AI was doing because I had to spend so much time dealing with this other nonsense. So far, AI has won every single time. And if you compare my sermons to AI, AI would win every single time. If you compare AI to any broadcast I do, AI would win every single time. AI can be concise. Now, is AI gonna make mistakes? Yes. Are there gonna be problems? Yes. based on whatever it's accessing, whatever information it has. AI did not know that the prime minister of Canada had resigned, or at least, no, I'm sorry, AI did not say that. AI said that the transcript provided no evidence of, which that is true. I mean, he made all kinds of claims and provided no evidence of. AI was more calling out that it made claims without, and then stated something was illegal when it was. Okay, all the different things that it did. So I could have asked AI if it knows if the prime minister of Canada has stepped down. And I don't know if it can access that information right now, but it probably can. In fact, I'll just see. Has the prime minister of Canada stepped down? Resigned. Yes. OK. So Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his resignation on January the 6th, 2025. He stated that he would step down as both the leader of the Liberal Party and as the prime minister once a new leader is chosen. This decision follows a period of declining public support and internal challenges within his party. And then it gives me, starts giving me all the sources, BBC, Politico, Financial Times, The New Yorker, gives me all kinds of different sources. So, yes. So AI knows that as well. So there you have it. I don't know what to do. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. What do we do with this? I mean, what does this mean for the future of preaching? What does it mean? Like, I know we're only in January the 9th, and we've kind of just, this has just become the, I didn't know where we were going in 2025, all right? I didn't know. But just already early, I mean, what conclusion can you come to? I mean, what's the point of sermons, ladies and gentlemen? I mean, look at all the things that happened in that sermon. I believe it crossed the line into bearing false witness. And then making an accusation that, hey, all these people got out of the car and ran because they're lost. Because lost people just panic. Lost people do irrational things in the face of tragedy. I mean, that is so... I don't even have words for that. I found myself in some crazy situations in the military, and sometimes with Christians, and they didn't always handle themselves in rational ways. Oh, come on now. That's just ridiculous. Oh, man. Oh, man. I mean, we've done three sermons, ladies and gentlemen. We've only just done three, and look what has happened. And in all three, AI pointed out factual errors, just incorrect statements. Three for three. And I mean, AI right now, AI three, humans zero. AI three, sermons zero. If we keep going on this direction, by the time we reach the end of 2025, I'm not even, I don't even, I don't even know how long I can go before I just like, I give up. I don't know. I don't even know what to, I don't even know what to say. So I just will stop. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for listening. Everyone have a great evening. The end.