THE GAP IN THE WALL (1 OF 7)
by Jeff Schreve
Scripture: Ezekiel 22:23-31
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Title: The Gap in the Wall
Series: Standing in the Gap (1 of 7)
Primary Scripture: Ezekiel 22:23-31
Author: Jeff Schreve
You know, they say that English is a hard language to learn. Now, we think of other languages that are hard to learn. You know, many of us learned Spanish, or as we learned from Chris last week, he learned French. I took French some in school. Spanish has a level of difficulty. French has a level of difficulty. If you get in to Russian, that gets harder. Chinese, really, really hard. But people will tell you English is a hard language to learn. And it's hard because grammatical rules are often broken, and spelling and pronunciation have many irregularities. And another difficulty in English are the idioms that we have in English. You know, an idiom is a figure of speech that has a meaning that's not deducible from the individual words. "It's raining cats and dogs." A person who doesn't know English, or who's just learning English, that doesn't make any sense at all to them. How about when we talk about "Shooting the breeze?" It doesn't make sense to them. We talk about quitting something "cold turkey." Doesn't compute. We have things like, "You're pulling my leg." I remember somebody was talking to a person that was learning English. They said, "You're pulling my leg." He said, "I promise you, I'm not!" We talk about "Being behind the eight ball, The elephant in the room." And how about this little phrase that we use, it's been around for a long, long time, "Going to hell in a handbasket?" You know, I looked that up, trying to figure out where did that come from? That's been around. It's written in a book from 1682 where they talked about going to hell in a handbasket. It has become a very English idiom. And, although, I think it was used in different parts of the world, it's become something in the English language. Someone has said that it became popular during the gold rush days, because they would lower men ...
Series: Standing in the Gap (1 of 7)
Primary Scripture: Ezekiel 22:23-31
Author: Jeff Schreve
You know, they say that English is a hard language to learn. Now, we think of other languages that are hard to learn. You know, many of us learned Spanish, or as we learned from Chris last week, he learned French. I took French some in school. Spanish has a level of difficulty. French has a level of difficulty. If you get in to Russian, that gets harder. Chinese, really, really hard. But people will tell you English is a hard language to learn. And it's hard because grammatical rules are often broken, and spelling and pronunciation have many irregularities. And another difficulty in English are the idioms that we have in English. You know, an idiom is a figure of speech that has a meaning that's not deducible from the individual words. "It's raining cats and dogs." A person who doesn't know English, or who's just learning English, that doesn't make any sense at all to them. How about when we talk about "Shooting the breeze?" It doesn't make sense to them. We talk about quitting something "cold turkey." Doesn't compute. We have things like, "You're pulling my leg." I remember somebody was talking to a person that was learning English. They said, "You're pulling my leg." He said, "I promise you, I'm not!" We talk about "Being behind the eight ball, The elephant in the room." And how about this little phrase that we use, it's been around for a long, long time, "Going to hell in a handbasket?" You know, I looked that up, trying to figure out where did that come from? That's been around. It's written in a book from 1682 where they talked about going to hell in a handbasket. It has become a very English idiom. And, although, I think it was used in different parts of the world, it's become something in the English language. Someone has said that it became popular during the gold rush days, because they would lower men ...
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