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The Powerful Promises Of God · Abide Meditation App

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  Speaker 1: Our gods seekers, Welcome back to another video. Today. I
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  Speaker 1: have put together a compilation of what I feel are
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  Speaker 1: some of God's greatest covenants and promises of all of history.
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  Speaker 1: So sit back, relax, and let's enjoy God's word together.
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  Speaker 2: Genesis chapter fifteen. After these events, the word of the
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  Speaker 2: Lord came to Abram in a vision. Do not be afraid, Abram,
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  Speaker 2: I am your shield, your very great reward. But Abram replied, O,
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  Speaker 2: Lord God, what can you give me? Since I remain
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  Speaker 2: childless and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus.
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  Speaker 2: Abram continued, behold, you have given me no offspring servant
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  Speaker 2: in my household will be my heir. Then the word
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  Speaker 2: of the Lord came to Abram, saying, this one will
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  Speaker 2: not be your heir, but one who comes from your
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  Speaker 2: own body will be your heir. And the Lord took
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  Speaker 2: him outside and said, now look to the heavens and
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  Speaker 2: count the stars. If you are able, then he told him,
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  Speaker 2: so shall your offspring be. Abram believed the Lord, and
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  Speaker 2: it was credited to him as righteousness. The Lord also
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  Speaker 2: told him, I am the Lord who brought you out
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  Speaker 2: of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land
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  Speaker 2: to possess. But Abram replied, Lord God, how can I
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  Speaker 2: know that I will possess it? And the Lord said
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  Speaker 2: to him, bring me a heifer, a goat, and a ram,
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  Speaker 2: each three years old, along with a turtle, dove, and
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  Speaker 2: a young pigeon. So Abram brought all these to him,
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  Speaker 2: split each of them down the middle, and laid the
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  Speaker 2: halves opposite each other. The birds, however, he did not
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  Speaker 2: cut in half, and the birds of prey descended on
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  Speaker 2: the carcasses, but Abram drove them away. As the sun
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  Speaker 2: was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and suddenly
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  Speaker 2: great terror and darkness overwhelmed him. Then the Lord said
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  Speaker 2: to Abram, know for certain that your descendants will be
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  Speaker 2: strangers in a land that is not their own, and
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  Speaker 2: they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years. But
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  Speaker 2: I will judge the nation they serve as slaves, and
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  Speaker 2: afterward they will depart with many possessions. You, however, will
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  Speaker 2: go to your fathers in peace and be buried at
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  Speaker 2: a ripe old age. In the fourth generation, your descendants
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  Speaker 2: will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is
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  Speaker 2: not yet complete. When the sun had set and darkness
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  Speaker 2: had fallen. Behold, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch
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  Speaker 2: appeared and passed between the halves of the carcasses. On
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  Speaker 2: that day, the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying,
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  Speaker 2: to your descendants, I have given this land from the
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  Speaker 2: River of Egypt to the great River Euphrates, the land
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  Speaker 2: of the Kenites, Kenesites, Cadmanites, Hittites, Perizites, Ephaeites, Amorites, Canaanites, Gergeshites,
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  Speaker 2: and Jebuzites. Exodus chapter fourteen. Then the Lord said to Moses,
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  Speaker 2: tell the Israelites to turn back and encamp before p Hahiroth,
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  Speaker 2: between Migdol and the sea. You are to encamp by
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  Speaker 2: the sea directly opposite bal Zephon. For Pharaoh will say
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  Speaker 2: of the Israelites, they are wandering the land in confusion.
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  Speaker 2: Wilderness has boxed them in. And I will harden Pharaoh's
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  Speaker 2: heart so that he will pursue them. But I will
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  Speaker 2: gain honor by means of Pharaoh and all his army,
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  Speaker 2: and the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: So this is what the Israelites did. When the King
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  Speaker 2: of Egypt was told that the people had fled. Pharaoh
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  Speaker 2: and his officials changed their minds about them, and said,
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  Speaker 2: what have we done? We have released Israel from serving us.
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  Speaker 2: So Pharaoh prepared his chariot and took his army with him.
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  Speaker 2: He took six hundred of the best chariots and all
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  Speaker 2: the other chariots of Egypt, with officers over all of them.
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  Speaker 2: And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, king of Egypt,
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  Speaker 2: so that he pursued the Israelites, who were marching out defiantly.
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  Speaker 2: The Egyptians, all Pharaoh's horses and chariots, horsemen and troops
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  Speaker 2: pursued the Israelites and overtook them as they camped by
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  Speaker 2: the sea near pi Hahiroth, opposite bal Zephon. As Pharaoh approached,
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  Speaker 2: the Israelites looked up and saw the Egyptians marching after them,
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  Speaker 2: and they were terrified and cried out to the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: They said to Moses, was it because there were no
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  Speaker 2: graves in Egypt that you brought us into the wilderness
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  Speaker 2: to die? What have you done to us by bringing
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  Speaker 2: us out of Egypt? Did we not say to you
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  Speaker 2: in Egypt, leave us alone, so that we may serve
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  Speaker 2: the Egyptians. For it would have been better for us
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  Speaker 2: to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.
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  Speaker 2: But Moses told the people, do not be afraid. Stand firm,
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  Speaker 2: and you will see the Lord's salvation, which he will
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  Speaker 2: accomplish for you to day. For the Egyptians you see
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  Speaker 2: to day, you will never see again. The Lord will
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  Speaker 2: fight for you. You need only to be still. Then,
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  Speaker 2: the Lord said to Moses, why are you crying out
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  Speaker 2: to me? Tell the Israelites to go forward, And as
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  Speaker 2: for you, lift up your staff and stretch out your
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  Speaker 2: hand over the sea and divide it so that the
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  Speaker 2: Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground. And
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  Speaker 2: I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that
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  Speaker 2: they will go in after them. Then I will gain
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  Speaker 2: honor by means of Pharaoh and all his army and
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  Speaker 2: chariots and horsemen. The Egyptians will know that I am
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  Speaker 2: the Lord. When I am honored through Pharaoh, his chariots
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  Speaker 2: and his horsemen, and the Angel of God, who had
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  Speaker 2: gone before the camp of Israel, withdrew and went behind them.
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  Speaker 2: The Pillar of Cloud also moved from before them and
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  Speaker 2: stood behind them, so that it came between the camps
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  Speaker 2: of Egypt and Israel. The cloud was there in the darkness,
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  Speaker 2: but it lit up the night, so all night long
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  Speaker 2: neither camp went near the other. Then Moses stretched out
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  Speaker 2: his hand over the sea, and all that night the
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  Speaker 2: Lord drove back the sea with a strong east wind
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  Speaker 2: that turned it into dry land. So the waters were divided,
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  Speaker 2: and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground,
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  Speaker 2: with walls of water on their right and on their left.
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  Speaker 2: And the Egyptians chased after them all Pharaoh's horses, chariots
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  Speaker 2: and horsemen, and followed them into the sea. At morning watch, however,
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  Speaker 2: the Lord looked down on the army of the Egyptians
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  Speaker 2: from the pillar of fire and cloud, and he threw
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  Speaker 2: their camp into confusion. He caused their chariot wheels to
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  Speaker 2: wobble so that they had difficulty driving. Let us flee
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  Speaker 2: from the Israelites, said the Egyptians, for the Lord is
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  Speaker 2: fighting for them against Egypt. Then the Lord said to Moses,
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  Speaker 2: stretch out your hand over the sea, so that the
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  Speaker 2: waters may flow back over the Egyptians and their chariots
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  Speaker 2: and horsemen. So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea,
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  Speaker 2: and at daybreak the sea returned to its normal state.
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  Speaker 2: As the Egyptians were retreating, the Lord swept them into
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  Speaker 2: the sea. The waters flowed back and covered the chariots
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  Speaker 2: and horsemen, the entire army of Pharaoh that had chased
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  Speaker 2: the Israelites into the sea. Not one of them survived,
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  Speaker 2: but the Israelites had walked through the sea on dry ground,
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  Speaker 2: with walls of water on their right and on their left.
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  Speaker 2: That day, the Lord saved Israel from the hand of
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  Speaker 2: the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the shore.
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  Speaker 2: When Israel saw the great power that the Lord had
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  Speaker 2: exercised over the Egyptians, the people feared the Lord and
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  Speaker 2: believed in him and in his servant Moses Joshua chapter
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  Speaker 2: twenty three. A long time after the Lord had given
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  Speaker 2: Israel rest from all the enemies around them, when Joshua
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  Speaker 2: was old and well along in years, he summoned all Israel,
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  Speaker 2: including its elders, leaders, judges, and officers. I am old
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  Speaker 2: and well along in years, he said, and you have
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  Speaker 2: seen everything that the Lord your God has done to
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  Speaker 2: all these nations for your sake, because it was the
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  Speaker 2: Lord your God who fought for you. See, I have
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  Speaker 2: allotted as an inheritance to your tribes. These remaining nations,
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  Speaker 2: including all the nations I have already cut off from
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  Speaker 2: the Jordan westward to the Great Sea. The Lord your
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  Speaker 2: God will push them out of your way and drive
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  Speaker 2: them out before you, so that you can take possession
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  Speaker 2: of their land, as the Lord your God promised you.
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  Speaker 2: Be very strong. Then you can keep and obey all
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  Speaker 2: that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses,
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  Speaker 2: not turning aside from it to the right or to
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  Speaker 2: the left. So you are not to associate with these
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  Speaker 2: nations that remain among you. You must not call on
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  Speaker 2: the names of their gods or swear by them, and
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  Speaker 2: you must not serve them or bow down to them. Instead,
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  Speaker 2: you shall hold fast to the Lord your God, as
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  Speaker 2: you have done to this day. The Lord has driven
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  Speaker 2: out great and powerful nations before you, and to this
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  Speaker 2: day no one can stand against you. One of you
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  Speaker 2: can put a thousand to flight, because the Lord your
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  Speaker 2: God fights for you, just as he promised. Therefore, watch
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  Speaker 2: yourselves carefully that you love the Lord your God. For
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  Speaker 2: if you turn away and cling to the rest of
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  Speaker 2: these nations that remain among you, and if you inter
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  Speaker 2: marry and associate with them. Know for sure that the
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  Speaker 2: Lord your God will no longer drive out these nations
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  Speaker 2: before you. Instead, they will become for you a snare
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  Speaker 2: and a trap, a scourge in your sides, and thorns
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  Speaker 2: in your eyes, until you perish from this good land
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  Speaker 2: that the Lord your God has given you. Now behold
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  Speaker 2: to day, I am going the way of all the earth.
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  Speaker 2: And you know with all your heart and soul that
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  Speaker 2: not one of the good promises the Lord your God
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  Speaker 2: made to you has failed. Everything was fulfilled for you.
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  Speaker 2: Not one promise has failed. But just as every good
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  Speaker 2: thing the Lord your God promised you has come to pass, likewise,
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  Speaker 2: the Lord will bring upon you the calamity he has
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  Speaker 2: threatened until he has destroyed you from this good land
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  Speaker 2: he has given you. If you transgress the covenant of
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  Speaker 2: the Lord your God, which he commanded you, and go
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  Speaker 2: and serve other gods and bow down to them, then
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  Speaker 2: the anger of the Lord will burn against you, and
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  Speaker 2: you will quickly perish from this good land he has
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  Speaker 2: given you. Second Samuel chapter seven. After the king had
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  Speaker 2: settled into his palace and the Lord had given him
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  Speaker 2: rest from all his enemies around him, he said to Nathan,
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  Speaker 2: the prophet here I am living in a house of cedar,
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  Speaker 2: while the Ark of God remains in a tent. And
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  Speaker 2: Nathan replied to the king, go and do all that
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  Speaker 2: is in your heart, for the Lord is with you.
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  Speaker 2: But that night the word of the Lord came to Nathan, saying,
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  Speaker 2: go and tell my servant David, that this is what
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  Speaker 2: the Lord says. Are you the one to build for
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  Speaker 2: me a house to dwell in? For I have not
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  Speaker 2: dwelt in a house from the day I brought the
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  Speaker 2: Israelites up out of Egypt until this day. But I
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  Speaker 2: have moved about with a tent as my dwelling in
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  Speaker 2: all my journeys with all the Israelites. Have I ever
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  Speaker 2: asked any of the leaders I appointed to shepherd my
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  Speaker 2: people Israel, why haven't you built me a house of cedar. Now,
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  Speaker 2: then you are to tell my servant David that this
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  Speaker 2: is what the Lord of Hosts says. I took you
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  Speaker 2: from the pasture, from following the flock to be the
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  Speaker 2: ruler over my people Israel. I have been with you
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  Speaker 2: wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all
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  Speaker 2: your enemies from before you. Now I will make for
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  Speaker 2: you a name like that of the greatest in the land,
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  Speaker 2: and I will provide a place for my people Israel,
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  Speaker 2: and will plant them so that they may dwell in
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  Speaker 2: a place of their own and be disturbed no more.
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  Speaker 2: No longer will the sons of wickedness oppress them, as
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  Speaker 2: they did at the beginning and have done since the
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  Speaker 2: day I appointed judges over my people Israel. I will
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  Speaker 2: give you rest from all your enemies. The Lord declares
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  Speaker 2: to you that he himself will establish a house for you.
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  Speaker 2: And when your days are fulfilled and you rest with
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  Speaker 2: your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you,
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  Speaker 2: who will come from your own body, and I will
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  Speaker 2: establish his kingdom. He will build a house for my name,
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  Speaker 2: and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
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  Speaker 2: I will be his father, and he will be my son.
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  Speaker 2: When he does wrong, I will discipline him with the
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  Speaker 2: rod of men and with the blows of the sons
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  Speaker 2: of men. But my loving devotion will never be removed
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  Speaker 2: from him, as I removed it from Saul, whom I
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  Speaker 2: removed from before you. Your house and kingdom will endure
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  Speaker 2: forever before me, and your throne will be established forever.
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  Speaker 2: So Nathan relayed to David, all the words of this
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  Speaker 2: entire revelation. Then King David went in, sat before the
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  Speaker 2: Lord and said, who am i, O Lord God, and
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  Speaker 2: what is my house? You have brought me this far?
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  Speaker 2: And as if this was a small thing in your eyes,
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  Speaker 2: O Lord God, you have also spoken about the future
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  Speaker 2: of the house of your servant. Is this your custom
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  Speaker 2: with man, O Lord God? What more can David say
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  Speaker 2: to you? For you know your servant, O Lord God.
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  Speaker 2: For the sake of your word, and according to your
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  Speaker 2: own heart, you have accomplished this great thing and revealed
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  Speaker 2: it to your servant. How great you are, O Lord God.
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  Speaker 2: For there is none like you, and there is no
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  Speaker 2: god but you, according to everything we have heard with
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  Speaker 2: our own ears, And who is like your people Israel,
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  Speaker 2: the one nation on earth whom God went out to
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  Speaker 2: redeem as a people for himself and to make a
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  Speaker 2: name for himself. You performed great and awesome wonders by
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  Speaker 2: driving out nations and their gods from before your people,
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  Speaker 2: whom you redeemed for yourself from Egypt. For you have
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  Speaker 2: established your people Israel, as your very own forever, and you,
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  Speaker 2: o Lord, have become their God. And now, O Lord God,
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  Speaker 2: confirm forever the word you have spoken concerning your servant
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  Speaker 2: and his house. Do as you have promised, so that
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  Speaker 2: your name will be magnified forever. When it is said,
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  Speaker 2: the Lord of Hosts is God over Israel, and the
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  Speaker 2: house of your servant David will be established before you.
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  Speaker 2: For you, o Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel,
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  Speaker 2: have revealed this to your servant when you said, I
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  Speaker 2: will build a house for you. Therefore your servant has
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  Speaker 2: found the courage to offer this prayer to you. And now,
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  Speaker 2: O Lord God, you are God, your words are true,
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  Speaker 2: and you have promised this goodness to your self servant.
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  Speaker 2: Now therefore, may it please you to bless the house
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  Speaker 2: of your servant, that it may continue forever before you.
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  Speaker 2: For you, o Lord God, have spoken, and with your blessing,
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  Speaker 2: the house of your servant will be blessed forever. Psalms,
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  Speaker 2: chapter twenty three. The Lord is my shepherd. I shall
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  Speaker 2: not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures.
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  Speaker 2: He leads me beside quiet waters. He restores my soul.
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  Speaker 2: He guides me in the paths of righteousness. For the
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  Speaker 2: sake of his name. Even though I walk through the
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  Speaker 2: valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil,
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  Speaker 2: for you are with me. Your rod and your staff
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  Speaker 2: they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in
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  Speaker 2: the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil.
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  Speaker 2: My cup overflows. Surely, goodness and mercy will follow me
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  Speaker 2: all the days of my life, and I will dwell
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  Speaker 2: in the house of the Lord forever Psalms, chapter ninety one.
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  Speaker 2: He who dwells in the shelter of the most High
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  Speaker 2: will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will
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  Speaker 2: say to the Lord, you are my refuge and my fortress,
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  Speaker 2: my God in whom I trust. Surely he will deliver
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  Speaker 2: you from the snare of the fowler and from the
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  Speaker 2: deadly plague. He will cover you with his feathers. Under
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  Speaker 2: his wings you will find refuge. His faithfulness is a shield,
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  Speaker 2: and rampart. You will not fear the terror of the night,
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  Speaker 2: nor the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence
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  Speaker 2: that stalks in the darkness, nor the calamity that diss
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  Speaker 2: at noon. Though a thousand may fall at your side
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  Speaker 2: and ten thousand at your right hand, no harm will
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  Speaker 2: come near you. You will only see it with your
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  Speaker 2: eyes and witness the punishment of the wicked. Because you
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  Speaker 2: have made the Lord your dwelling, my refuge the most high.
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  Speaker 2: No evil will befall you, No plague will approach your tent,
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  Speaker 2: For he will command his angels concerning you to guard
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  Speaker 2: you in all your ways. They will lift you up
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  Speaker 2: in their hands, so that you will not strike your
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  Speaker 2: foot against a stone. You will tread on the lion
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  Speaker 2: and cobra. You will trample the young lion and serpent.
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  Speaker 2: Because he loves me, I will deliver him, because he
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  Speaker 2: knows my name. I will protect him. When he calls
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  Speaker 2: out to me, I will answer him. I will be
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  Speaker 2: with him in trouble. I will deliver for him and
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  Speaker 2: honor him with long life. I will satisfy him and
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  Speaker 2: show him my salvation. Isaiah chapter forty. Comfort, Comfort, my people,
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  Speaker 2: says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to
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  Speaker 2: her that her forced labor has been completed. Her iniquity
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  Speaker 2: has been pardoned, for she has received from the hand
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  Speaker 2: of the Lord double for all her sins. A voice
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  Speaker 2: of one calling, prepare the way for the Lord in
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  Speaker 2: the wilderness, make a straight highway for our God. In
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  Speaker 2: the desert. Every valley shall be lifted up, and every
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  Speaker 2: mountain and hill made low, the uneven ground will become smooth,
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  Speaker 2: and the rugged land a plain, And the glory of
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  Speaker 2: the Lord will be revealed, and all humanity together will
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  Speaker 2: see it. For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken.
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  Speaker 2: A voice, says, cry out, And I asked what should
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  Speaker 2: I cry out? All flesh is like grass, and all
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  Speaker 2: its glory like the flowers of the field. The grass
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  Speaker 2: withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the
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  Speaker 2: Lord blows on them. Indeed, the people are grass. The
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  Speaker 2: grass withers and the flowers fall. But the word of
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  Speaker 2: our God stands forever. Go up on a high mountain,
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  Speaker 2: O Zion, herald of good news. Raise your voice loudly,
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  Speaker 2: Oh Jerusalem, herald of good news. Lift it up. Do
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  Speaker 2: not be afraid, say to the cities of Judah, here
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  Speaker 2: is your God. Behold. The Lord. God comes with might,
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  Speaker 2: and his arm establishes his rule. His reward is with him,
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  Speaker 2: and his recompense accompanies him. He tends his flock like
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  Speaker 2: a shepherd. He gathers the lambs in his arms and
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  Speaker 2: carries them close to his heart. He gently leads the
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  Speaker 2: nursing Ewes, who has measured the waters in the hollow
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  Speaker 2: of his hand, or marked off the heavens with the
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  Speaker 2: span of his hand. Who has held the dust of
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  Speaker 2: the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on
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  Speaker 2: a scale and the hills with a balance. Who has
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  Speaker 2: directed the spirit of the Lord, or informed him as
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  Speaker 2: his Counselor whom did he consult to enlighten him, and
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  Speaker 2: who taught him the paths of justice? Who imparted knowledge
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  Speaker 2: to him and showed him the way of understanding. Surely
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  Speaker 2: the nations are like a drop in a bucket. They
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  Speaker 2: are considered a speck of dust on the scales. He
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  Speaker 2: lifts up the islands like fine dust. Lebanon is not
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  Speaker 2: sufficient for fuel, nor its animals enough for a burnt offering.
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  Speaker 2: All the nations are as nothing before him. He regards
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  Speaker 2: them as nothingness and emptiness. To whom will you liken
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  Speaker 2: God to what image? Will you compare him? To an
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  Speaker 2: idol that a craftsman casts and a metal worker overlays
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  Speaker 2: with gold and fits with silver chains. One lacking such
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  Speaker 2: an offering chooses wood that will not rot. He seeks
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  Speaker 2: a skilled craftsman to set up an idol that will
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  Speaker 2: not topple. Do you not know? Have you not heard?
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  Speaker 2: Has it not been declared to you from the beginning?
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  Speaker 2: Have you not understood? Since the foundation of the earth.
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  Speaker 2: He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth. Its
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  Speaker 2: dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like
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  Speaker 2: a curtain and spreads them out like a tent to
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  Speaker 2: dwell in. He brings the princes to nothing, and makes
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  Speaker 2: the rulers of the earth meaningless. No sooner are they planted,
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  Speaker 2: No sooner are they sown. No sooner have their stems
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  Speaker 2: taken root in the ground than he blows on them,
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  Speaker 2: and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like stubble.
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  Speaker 2: To whom will you liken me? Or who is my equal?
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  Speaker 2: Asks the Holy One? Lift up your eyes on high?
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  Speaker 2: Who created all these? He leads forth the starry host
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  Speaker 2: by number, He calls each one by name, because of
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  Speaker 2: his great power and mighty strength, not one of them
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  Speaker 2: is missing. Why do you say, oh Jacob, And why
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  Speaker 2: do you assert, o Israel? My way is hidden from
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  Speaker 2: the Lord, and my claim is ignored by my God.
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  Speaker 2: Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord
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  Speaker 2: is the everlasting God, the creat of the ends of
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  Speaker 2: the earth. He will not grow tired or weary. His
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  Speaker 2: understanding is beyond searching out. He gives power to the
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  Speaker 2: feint and increases the strength of the weak. Even youths
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  Speaker 2: grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall.
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  Speaker 2: But those who wait upon the Lord will renew their strength.
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  Speaker 2: They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will
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  Speaker 2: run and not grow weary. They will walk and not faint.
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  Speaker 2: Isaiah chapter fifty five. Come all, you who are thirsty,
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  Speaker 2: come to the waters, and you, without money, come buy
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  Speaker 2: and eat. Come buy wine and milk without money and
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  Speaker 2: without cost. Why spend money on that which is not bread,
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  Speaker 2: and your labor on that which does not satisfy. Listen
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  Speaker 2: carefully to me and eat what is good, and your
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  Speaker 2: soul will delight in the richest of foods. Incline your
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  Speaker 2: ear and come to me. Listen, so that your soul
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  Speaker 2: may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant,
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  Speaker 2: my loving devotion promised to David. Behold, I have made
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  Speaker 2: him a witness to the nations, a leader and commander
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  Speaker 2: of the peoples. Surely you will summon a nation you
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  Speaker 2: do not know, and nations who do not know you
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  Speaker 2: will run to you. For the Lord, your God the
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  Speaker 2: Holy One of Israel has bestowed glory on you. Seek
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  Speaker 2: the Lord while he may be found. Call on him
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  Speaker 2: while he is near. Let the wicked man forsake his way,
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  Speaker 2: and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to
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  Speaker 2: the Lord that he may have compassion, and to our God,
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  Speaker 2: for he will freely pardon. For my thoughts are not
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  Speaker 2: your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so
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  Speaker 2: my ways are higher than your ways, and my thoughts
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  Speaker 2: than your thoughts. For just as rain and snow fall
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  Speaker 2: from heaven and do not return without watering the earth,
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  Speaker 2: making it bud and sprout, and providing seed to sow
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  Speaker 2: and food to eat, so my word that proceeds from
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  Speaker 2: my mouth will not return to me empty, but it
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  Speaker 2: will accomplish what I please, and it will prosper where
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  Speaker 2: I send it. You will indeed go out with joy
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  Speaker 2: and be led forth in peace. The mountains and hills
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  Speaker 2: will burst into song before you, and all the trees
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  Speaker 2: of the field will clap their hands. Instead of the
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  Speaker 2: thorn bush, the cypress will grow, and instead of the briar,
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  Speaker 2: the myrtle will spring up. This will make a name
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  Speaker 2: for the Lord, an everlasting sign, never to be destroyed.
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  Speaker 2: Romans chapter eight. Therefore, there is now no condemnation for
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  Speaker 2: those who are in Christ Jesus. For in Christ Jesus
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  Speaker 2: the law of the Spirit of Life set you free
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  Speaker 2: from the law of sin and death. For what the
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  Speaker 2: law was powerless to do, in that it was weakened
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  Speaker 2: by the flesh, God did by sending his own son
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  Speaker 2: in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin.
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  Speaker 2: He thus condemned sin in the flesh, so that the
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  Speaker 2: righteous standard of the law might be fulfilled in us,
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  Speaker 2: who do not walk according to the flesh, but according
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  Speaker 2: to the Spirit. Those who live according to the flesh
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  Speaker 2: set their minds on the things of the flesh, but
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  Speaker 2: those who live according to the Spirit set their minds
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  Speaker 2: on the things the Spirit. The mind of the flesh
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  Speaker 2: is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life
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  Speaker 2: and peace. Because the mind of the flesh is hostile
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  Speaker 2: to God, it does not submit to God's law, nor
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  Speaker 2: can it do so. Those controlled by the flesh cannot
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  Speaker 2: please God. You, however, are controlled not by the flesh
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  Speaker 2: but by the spirit. If the Spirit of God lives
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  Speaker 2: in you and if any one does not have the
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  Speaker 2: spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. But
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  Speaker 2: if Christ is in you, your body is dead because
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  Speaker 2: of sin. Yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness.
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  Speaker 2: And if the spirit of Him who raised Jesus from
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ
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  Speaker 2: Jesus from the dead, will also give life to your
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  Speaker 2: mortal bodies through his spirit who lives in you. Therefore, brothers,
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  Speaker 2: we have an obligation, but it is not to the
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  Speaker 2: flesh to live according to it. For if you live
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  Speaker 2: according to the flesh, you will die. But if by
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  Speaker 2: the spirit you put to death the deeds of the body,
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  Speaker 2: you will live. For all who are led by the
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  Speaker 2: Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did
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  Speaker 2: not receive a spirit of slavery that returns you to fear,
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  Speaker 2: but you received the spirit of adoption to sonship, by
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  Speaker 2: whom we cry Aba Father. The Spirit himself testifies with
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  Speaker 2: our spirit that we are God's children. And if we
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  Speaker 2: are children, then we are heirs, heirs of God and
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  Speaker 2: co heirs with Christ. If indeed we suffer with Him
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  Speaker 2: so that we may also be glorified with him. I
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  Speaker 2: consider that our present sufferings are not comparable to the
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  Speaker 2: glory that will be revealed in us. The creation waits
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  Speaker 2: in eager expectation for the revelation of the sons of God.
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  Speaker 2: For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its
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  Speaker 2: own will, but because of the one who subjected it.
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  Speaker 2: In hope that the creation itself will be set free
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  Speaker 2: from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious
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  Speaker 2: freedom of the children of God. We know that the
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  Speaker 2: whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of
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  Speaker 2: childbirth until the present time. Not only that, but we ourselves,
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  Speaker 2: who have the first fruits of the Spirit, grown inwardly,
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  Speaker 2: as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons the
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  Speaker 2: redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved.
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  Speaker 2: But hope that is seen is no hope at all.
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  Speaker 2: Who hopes for what he can already see. But if
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  Speaker 2: we hope for what we do not yet see, we
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: wait for it patiently. In the same way, the Spirit
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  Speaker 2: helps us in our weakness, for we do not know
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  Speaker 2: how we ought to pray, but the Spirit himself intercedes
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  Speaker 2: for us with groans too deep for words, And he
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  Speaker 2: who searches our hearts knows the mind of the spirit,
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  Speaker 2: because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the
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  Speaker 2: will of God. And we know that God works all
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  Speaker 2: things together for the good of those who love Him,
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  Speaker 2: who are called according to His purpose. For those God foreknew.
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  Speaker 2: He also predestined to be conformed to the image of
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  Speaker 2: his son, so that he would be the first born
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  Speaker 2: among many brothers. And those he predestined he also called.
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  Speaker 2: Those he called, he also justified. Those he justified He
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  Speaker 2: also glorified. What then, shall we say in response to
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  Speaker 2: these things? If God is for us, who can be
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  Speaker 2: against us? He who did not spare his own son,
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  Speaker 2: but gave him up for us all, How will he
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  Speaker 2: not also, along with him freely give us all things.
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  Speaker 2: Who will bring any charge against God's elect It is
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  Speaker 2: God who justifies who is there to condemn us? For Christ, Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: who died and more than that was raised to life,
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  Speaker 2: is at the right hand of God, and he is
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  Speaker 2: interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love
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  Speaker 2: of Christ. Shall trouble or distress, or persecution, or famine,
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  Speaker 2: or nakedness or danger or sword, as it is written,
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  Speaker 2: for your sake, we face death all day long. We
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  Speaker 2: are considered as sheep to be slaughtered. No, in all
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  Speaker 2: these things we are more than conquerors through Him who
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  Speaker 2: loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life,
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  Speaker 2: neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future,
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  Speaker 2: nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else
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  Speaker 2: in all creation will be able to separate us from
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  Speaker 2: the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord, Hebrews,
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  Speaker 2: chapter eleven. Now, faith is the assurance of what we
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  Speaker 2: hope for and the certainty of what we do not see.
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  Speaker 2: This is why the ancients were commended by faith. We
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  Speaker 2: understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so
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  Speaker 2: that what is seen was not made out of what
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  Speaker 2: was visible. By faith, Able offered God a better sacrifice
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  Speaker 2: than Cain did. By faith, he was commended as righteous
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: when God gave approval to his gifts, and by faith
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  Speaker 2: he still speaks even though he is dead. By faith,
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  Speaker 2: Enoch was taken up so that he did not see death.
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  Speaker 2: He could not be found because God had taken him away.
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  Speaker 2: For before he was taken he would commended as one
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  Speaker 2: who pleased God. And without faith it is impossible to
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  Speaker 2: please God. For any one who approaches him must believe
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  Speaker 2: that he exists, and that he rewards those who earnestly
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  Speaker 2: seek him by faith. Noah, when warned about things not
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  Speaker 2: yet seen in godly fear, built an ark to save
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  Speaker 2: his family. By faith, he condemned the world and became
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  Speaker 2: heir of the righteousness that comes by faith. By faith, Abraham,
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  Speaker 2: when called to go to a place he would later
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  Speaker 2: receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went without knowing where
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  Speaker 2: he was going. By faith, he dwelt in the promised
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  Speaker 2: land as a stranger in a foreign country. He lived
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  Speaker 2: in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs
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  Speaker 2: with him of the same promise, for he was looking
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  Speaker 2: forward to the city with foundations whose architect and builder
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  Speaker 2: is God. By faith. Sarah, even though she was barren
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  Speaker 2: and beyond the proper age, was enabled to conceive a
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  Speaker 2: child because she considered him faithful who had promised, And
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  Speaker 2: so from one man and he, as good as dead,
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  Speaker 2: came descendants, as numerous as the stars in the sky,
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  Speaker 2: and as countless as the sand on the sea shore.
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  Speaker 2: All these people died in faith without having received the
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  Speaker 2: things they were promised. However they saw them and welcomed
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  Speaker 2: them from Afar, and they acknowledged that they were strangers
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  Speaker 2: and exiles on the earth. Now, those who say such
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  Speaker 2: things show that they are seeking a country of their own.
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  Speaker 2: If they had been thinking of the country they had left,
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  Speaker 2: they would have had opportunity to return. Instead, they were
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  Speaker 2: longing for a better country, a heavenly one. Therefore, God
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  Speaker 2: is not ashamed to be called their god, for he
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  Speaker 2: has prepared city for them by faith. Abraham, when he
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  Speaker 2: was tested, offered up Isaac on the altar. He who
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  Speaker 2: had received the promises, was ready to offer his one
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  Speaker 2: and only son, even though God had said to him,
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  Speaker 2: through Isaac, your offspring will be reckoned. Abraham reasoned that
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  Speaker 2: God could raise the dead, and in a sense he
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  Speaker 2: did receive Isaac back from death by faith. Isaac blessed
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  Speaker 2: Jacob and Esau concerning the future. By faith. Jacob, when
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  Speaker 2: he was dying, blessed each of Joseph's sons and worshiped
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  Speaker 2: as he leaned on the top of his staff by faith. Joseph,
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: when his end was near, spoke about the exodus of
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  Speaker 2: the Israelites and gave instructions about his bones. By faith.
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  Speaker 2: Moses's parents hid him for three months after his birth,
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  Speaker 2: because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and
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  Speaker 2: they were unafraid of the king's edict. By faith, Moses,
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  Speaker 2: when he was grown, refused to be called the son
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  Speaker 2: of Pharaoh's daughter. He chose to suffer oppression with God's
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  Speaker 2: people rather than to experience the fleeting enjoyment of sin.
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  Speaker 2: He valued disgrace for Christ above the treasures of Egypt,
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  Speaker 2: for he was looking ahead to his reward. By faith,
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  Speaker 2: Moses left Egypt not fearing the king's anger. He persevered
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: because he saw Him who is invisible. By faith, he
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  Speaker 2: kept the passover and the sprinkling of blood, so that
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  Speaker 2: the destroyer of the first born would not touch Israel's
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  Speaker 2: own first born. By faith, the people passed through the
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  Speaker 2: Red Sea as on dry land, but when the Egyptians
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  Speaker 2: tried to follow, they were drowned. By faith, the walls
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  Speaker 2: of Jericho fell after the people had marched around them
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  Speaker 2: for seven days. By faith faith, the prostitute Rahab, because
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  Speaker 2: she welcomed the spies in peace, did not perish with
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  Speaker 2: those who were disobedient. And what more shall I say?
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  Speaker 2: Time will not allow me to tell of Gideon Barak
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  Speaker 2: Samson Jephther, David, Samuel, and the prophets, who through faith
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  Speaker 2: conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised. Who
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  Speaker 2: shut the mouths of lions, quenched the raging fire, and
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  Speaker 2: escaped the edge of the sword, who gained strength from weakness,
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  Speaker 2: became mighty in battle, and put foreign armies to flight.
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  Speaker 2: Women received back their dead, raised to life again. Others
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  Speaker 2: were tortured and refused their release so that they might
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  Speaker 2: gain a better resurrection. Still others endured mocking and flogging,
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  Speaker 2: and even chains and imprisonment. They were stown oomed, They
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  Speaker 2: were sword in two. They were put to death by
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  Speaker 2: the sword. They went around in sheepskins and goat skins, destitute, oppressed,
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  Speaker 2: and mistreated. The world was not worthy of them. They
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  Speaker 2: wandered in deserts and mountains, and hid in caves and
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  Speaker 2: holes in the ground. These were all commended for their faith,
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  Speaker 2: Yet they did not receive what was promised. God had
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  Speaker 2: planned something better for us, so that together with us
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  Speaker 2: they would be made perfect.