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Management stinks from top to bottom.<\/p>\n\n<p>So, what do you do? Fire them all? Block them out? Put in new people? Is that illegal? No, the buyers have that right. Is that impractical? No, they have the power. It&#39;s smart.<\/p>\n\n<p>In the biblical story God comes to us. Because he&#39;s powerful, he&#39;s got the right to blot us out. Why? Because look at the world. It&#39;s incompetent. Morally incompetent from top to bottom. He&#39;s got the power, so it&#39;s not impractical. He&#39;s got the holiness. He&#39;s got the right, but thank goodness he&#39;s also got the mercy, because if he was just powerful and holy, he would do what any good company would do who has just bought out another company that&#39;s incompetent. Every head rolls. Fire them all! They have the right; they have the power. It&#39;s the smart thing to do. But God&#39;s also merciful, so he will restore us. He will redeem us. 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