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If you don't know what I'm talking about, count it as a blessing [laughs] you didn't have to endure some of that.

Um, okay, let...

Yeah, yeah, we're just gonna keep going.

Um, Nehemiah 4, if you have your Bibles.

We'll get there in, in just a moment.

Uh, Nehemiah 4.

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He's going to free her again.

And when I bring her in, I'm going to wall her in on every side so she can't find her other lovers.

She's only going to be able to find me.

And I'm going to take the names of all the bales out of her mouth.

And she's going to begin to call me husband and not master.

And she's going to worship me and love me.

And the question then becomes, how is God going to do that? How is God going to heal such a broken, dysfunctional, unfaithful Israel? Well, he goes back to Hosea and he gives Hosea the answer by giving him a command of what to do with his broken, dysfunctional, and unfaithful wife.

But how