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Leviticus chapter 26 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Leviticus chapter 26. Let us pray.
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  Lord God Almighty, who reigns on high, you are the most high God.
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  You're worthy to be praised, worthy of all honor and
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  adoration. We thank you, Father, for who
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  you are. Thank you, God, that you are
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  good, You're trustworthy, You're a good Father who knows how to
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  give good gifts. Lord, I pray that you'll help us
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  increase our love, increase our obedience.
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  God discipline us. Lord, correct us when we go off
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  rails. Father, I pray you'll bring us
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  back. God, thank you that you are the
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  Good Shepherd. You leave the 99, you pursue the
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  one. You are the Father God who
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  anticipates our return from the far country.
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  God. Thank you Lord that we are
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  chosen, predestined and elected God.
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  And thank you God for free will to choose you Lord.
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  Thank you God for your multi faceted manifold wisdom.
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  Lord, we can actually come and get to know you more and more
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  and spend an entire lifetime God searching the deep end and never
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  touching the bottom. Father, your word is incredible.
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  It's alive and active, Lord. So we open it up today, Lord.
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  We hide it in our hearts today, God, we will try to not sin
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  against you, Father. Help us to keep your name.
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  Holy Father, I love you. We love you.
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  Fill us with your Holy Spirit, God.
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  Teach us your paths and your ways.
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  Lord, let the words jump off the page and into our hearts and
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  minds. I decrease as you increase.
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  Father, it's all about Jesus Christ the Lord the Savior, the
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  boss of our life. God, I pray that you'll wreck
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  us. God, with your presence, tear
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  down our theology and doctrine. God, I pray that will you give
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  us fresh wind, fresh fire. God the pure word.
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  Father, that's all that we're after.
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  Lord, I pray breakdown all tradition and man made rules and
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  regulations. God, I pray that we just want
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  the unadulterated pure word of God.
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  Lord, we munch on it, we devour it.
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  God we feast upon it today. Lord, we're so thankful that we
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  have access to your word. We pray for all those around the
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  globe, Father, that you give them your word and their
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  language to understand. I pray that people will have
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  access to this life giving literature, this life giving
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  book. God, we thank you for all of the
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  syllables, all the words, every John and every title from
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  Genesis to Revelation, the infallible inerrant word.
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  God, we thank you for all the prophecies that have already
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  happened and all those that are happening and every prophecy
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  that will happen. God, we thank you, Lord, that
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  you are reliable, trustworthy, true.
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  God, we walk in steadfast obedience today.
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  Lord, I pray that you'll help us to be humble, be faithful and
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  fruitful. Thank you, Lord, for another
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  day. It's in Jesus Christ, holy and
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  precious name that I pray. Amen.
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  Well, let's start in verse one. You shall make no idols or
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  graven image, neither rear up a standing image, neither shall
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  you set up any image of stone in your land to bow down to it, for
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  I am the Lord your God. So here he's going to tell them
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  the law of the land, of how they can avoid so many of the
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  pitfalls of all the Pagan nations that they were
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  surrounded by. The ones that God was actually
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  expelling, the ones that he was spewing out of the land.
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  He was giving the Jews the opportunity to make it right, to
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  make it good, to make sure as they go in there that they did
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  not get polluted and diluted by all the nations all around them.
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  Which is the reason they had to go down into Egypt is because
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  they started assimilating with all of the Pagan nations.
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  So here God is bringing them back into the land of Canaan
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  that He promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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  And you can see here that God, from the outset, before they
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  ever even make it there, tells them that they are to keep the
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  worship central and not to think that they could just worship
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  anywhere at any time however they desired.
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  God is telling them to make sure that they are doing it the way
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  that He wants them to, and not to just make up any old ways
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  that they want to. To You shall keep my sabbaths
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  and reverence. Reverence my sanctuary, I am the
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  Lord. If they would keep the Sabbaths,
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  that was a great precursor to keeping the reverence of the
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  sanctuary. For those who would not keep the
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  Sabbath, it usually indicated that they were irreverence in
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  connection to how they viewed the sanctuary of God.
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  Three If you walk in my statutes and keep my commandments and do
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  them, 4 then I will give you rain and due season, and the
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  land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall
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  yield her fruit. 5 And your threshing shall reach to the
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  vintage, and the vintage shall reach to the sowing time, and
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  you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land
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  safely. 6 And I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie
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  down, and none shall make you afraid, and I will rid evil
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  beast out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your
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  land. 7 And you shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall
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  before you by the sword. 8 And five of you shall chase 100 and
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  100 of you shall put 10,000 to flight, and your enemies shall
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  fall before you by the sword. 9 For I will have respect unto
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  you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my
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  covenant with you. 10 And you shall eat the old store, and
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  bring forth the old because of the new. 11 And I will set my
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  Tabernacle among you, and my soul shall not abhor you. 12 And
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  I will walk among you, and I will be your God, and you shall
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  be my people. 13 And I am the Lord your God, which brought you
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  forth out of the land of Egypt, and you shall not be their
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  bondsman. I have broken the bands of your
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  yoke and made you to go upright. So God here he goes on a tangent
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  and tells them that how they are to be blessed.
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  If they were to be obedient unto Him, then He would make all of
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  these wonderful promises come true.
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  If you have read the Bible and you know anything about the
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  history of the Jews, you're going to find that that this
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  next section is more likened unto them than that section.
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  Unfortunately, God gave them the opportunity to be the light in
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  the world, to actually be so supernaturally protected that
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  all the nations all around them would know that they are God's
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  chosen people. And one day this, the time is
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  coming, whenever in the Millennium, all the nations will
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  flow into Israel, they will flow into Jerusalem, and they will
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  actually see the goodness of God actually being portrayed the
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  right way through the people that God has chosen.
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  But you're going to see, as we get into this next section, what
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  has happened in the history of the Jews. 14 But if you will not
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  listen to me and will not do all these commandments, and if you
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  will despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so
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  that you will not do all my commandments, but that you break
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  my covenant, 16 I also will do unto you.
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  I will appoint over you terror, consumption, burning ague,
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  consume your eyes, and call sorrow of heart.
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  You shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
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  17 And I will set my face against you, and you shall be
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  slain before your enemies, that they hate you shall reign over
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  you, and you shall flee when none pursues you.
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  Think about it friends, when we see the Babylonian captivity,
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  when we see them let off, Friends when we see the northern
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  tribe going into Assyria and we see the southern tribe going to
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  Babylon. You see friends, that God always
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  keeps a remnant because the Messiah would come through them.
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  God never let them be completely overtaken.
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  He supernaturally protected them even in their disobedience and
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  it's no different today. Friends, we do not need to get
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  hung up on this Jew hatred. This anti-Semitism is garbage
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  and satanic at his core. God will deal with them in due
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  time. He sees them.
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  They have a bullseye on their back friends.
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  God watches them and He desires for them to do what is right,
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  but if they will not, then He will hotly pursue them and He
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  will deal with them. It's not our place to try and
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  persecute any people group, much less God's chosen.
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  That is the reality. They are still His peculiar
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  possession. 18 And if you will not yet for all this, listen to
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  me, then I will punish you 7 times more for your sins. 19 And
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  I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your
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  heaven is iron, your earth is brass. 20 And your strength
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  shall be spent in vain, and your land shall not yield or
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  increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their
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  fruits. So God's going to increase the
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  temperature, God's going to continue to crank down.
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  But look at his loving kindness in this.
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  Even in their willful disobedience, He never turns his
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  back on them. And you need to know that God
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  disciplines those that he loves. 21 And if you walk contrary to
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  me and will not listen to me, I will bring 7 times more plagues
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  upon you according to your sins. 22 I will send wild beasts among
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  you, and will rob you of your children and destroy your cattle
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  and make you few in number, and your highways will be desolate.
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  So here, when we get into first and second kings, you're going
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  to get to see the history of the Jews, and these things actually
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  happen. Everything that gets outlined in
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  here happened to them, and you're going to see them and
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  Jeremiah talking about the Temple of the Lord, the temple
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  of the Lord, as if they had some kind of corner.
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  And even in AD 70, Titus did not want to destroy the temple and
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  they did not want to go in, but they were so arrogant that they
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  thought that they could just keep proclaiming Yahweh whenever
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  they were not obeying Yahweh. And it does not happen.
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  It does not work that way. God can still love you and God
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  can discipline you at the same time.
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  Never forget that, friends. And correction is not rejection.
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  23 And if you will not be reformed by me by these things,
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  but we'll walk contrary to me, 24 Then I will also walk
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  contrary to you, and I will punish you yet 7 times for your
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  sins. 25 And I will bring a sword upon you that shall avenge
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  the quarrel of my covenant. When you are gathered together
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  within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you, and
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  you shall be delivered into the hand of your enemy. 26 And when
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  I have broken the staff of your bread, 10 women shall bake bread
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  in one oven, and they will deliver you your bread again by
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  weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.
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  There's going to be such little grain during the time of the
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  siege of Babylon that the people resort to all kinds of
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  disgusting things. And there is very limited
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  supplies within that walled city. 27 And if you will not for
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  all this listen to me, but walk contrary to me, then I will walk
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  contrary to you also in fury. And I even I will chastise you 7
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  times for your sins. And you shall eat the flesh of
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  your sons, and the flesh of your daughter shall you eat. 30 And I
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  will destroy your high places, cut down your images, cast your
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  carcasses upon the carcasses of your idols, and my soul shall
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  have pour you. 31 And I will make your cities waste, and I
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  will bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell
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  the savour of your sweet odours. It is a horrible thing to fall
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  into the hands of an almighty God and that is what we don't
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  understand. We have been sold a watered down
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  gospel. God is immutable.
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  He does not change Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and
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  forever. You need to understand, friends,
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  that if you truly love God, it will be revealed in the way that
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  you do things. And this is not behavior
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  modification, it is just revealing the work that's
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  already done in your heart. You cannot say that you love God
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  and continue going down these paths.
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  You must turn away from sin. You must confess and repent, for
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  the Kingdom of God is at hand, Friends, He says because you are
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  lukewarm, He will spit you out of his mouth.
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  That is vomit you out of his mouth.
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  That is New Testament. We need to stop looking at all
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  of these things as if they are not applicable to us.
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  We must see the full context of how God is so merciful in the
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  Old Testament, and there is much judgement within the New
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  Testament. That's the reality, friends, and
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  we should do the things that God asks us to do.
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  All of our sins are forgiven in Christ Jesus, every single one
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  of them. And when you have that reality,
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  it will make you want to do what God asks of you.
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  It will be your pleasure. It will be your highest order to
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  do the things that God is required of you.
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  Oh man, stay away from sexual immorality.
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  Make sure that you love him with your full heart and love your
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  neighbor as yourself. Walk humbly with him.
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  Seek justice, Love, mercy. And you can see that verses 27
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  through 31 actually happened to this famine that came. 32 And I
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  will bring the land into desolation.
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  Your enemies shall dwell in it as astonished at it. 33 And I
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  will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a
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  sword after you. And your land shall be desolate
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  in your city's waste. So this has happened to the Jews
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  many times, friends, you can see it.
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  It's going to happen when they go into the Babylonian
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  captivity. You're going to see them
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  scattered around the whole world before they're regathered back
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  to their land in 1948. 34 Then shall the land enjoy her
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  Sabbaths, as long as it lied desolate, and you be in your
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  enemy's land, even the land shall rest and enjoy her
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  Sabbath. So he's saying to them, If you
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  do not adhere to what I have prescribed, then I will make it
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  good in my own way, in my own time, and I will kick you out of
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  the land. And then I will count all the
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  way to however many Sabbaths, however many times you do not
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  let the ground rest, I will make sure that it rests.
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  An amazing God that we serve. 35 As long as it lies desolate
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  shall rest, because it did not rest in your Sabbath when you
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  dwelt upon it. 36 And upon them that are left alive of you, I
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  will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their
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  enemies, and the sound of a shaped leaf shall chase them,
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  and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword, and they shall
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  fall when none pursues. So that's the fear, friends,
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  that God can inflict on a human when there's nothing there to
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  even terrorize you, but is the presence of God, and God is able
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  to turn your hearts and to turn you away from.
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  This safety and all of the security that we hold on to, God
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  knows how to get a hold of us even when none pursues.
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  You'll have it in your mind that someone is 37 and they shall
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  fall one upon another, as it were before a sword.
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  When none pursues, you shall have no power to stand before
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  your enemies. 38 And you shall perish among the heathen, and
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  the land of your enemies shall eat you up, 39 And they that are
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  left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies
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  lands, and also in the enemies of their fathers shall they pine
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  away with them. This is strict, severe
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  chastisement from God. But let's see how he turns it
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  around. Verse 40.
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  If they will confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of
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  their fathers with their trespass, which they trespassed
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  against me, they also they have walked contrary unto me. 41 And
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  that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them
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  into the land of their enemies. If then their uncircumcised
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  hearts be humbled, and then they accept of the punishment of
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  their iniquity, 42 then I will remember my covenant with Jacob,
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  my covenant with Isaac, and my covenant with Abraham.
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  I will remember, and I will remember the land. 43 The land
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  also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her Sabbath while
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  she lies desolate without them. They shall accept of the
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  punishment of their iniquity, because even because they
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  despise my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my
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  statutes. So go and look at the history.
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  You're going to see that for every single time that they were
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  supposed to let the ground rests and they did not, then that
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  actually translated into the Babylonian captivity the exact
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  amount of numbers that they were exiled before they came back and
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  built the Second Temple in the days of Nehemiah and Ezra and
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  Zerubbabel. God is so magnificent.
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  He's giving us all the way back here in Leviticus.
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  He's giving us the history lesson of the prophecy, these
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  two things at once. He's saying if you do these
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  things, and then he's in a way showing us all the things that
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  will happen. What an amazing God we serve
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  that He can see both sides before they ever even happen.
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  He knew that we would be the way that we are before he even
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  created the world, before he ever even put the serpent in the
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  garden. Friends, He knew it all and He
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  knew it ultimately would bring him the most amount of glory
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  when Someone Like You and someone like me would actually
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  choose him wholeheartedly, 100% unapologetically.
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  Our whole heart given unto him is what he's after.
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  He's not after robots. He's not after people who just
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  serve him to get something from him, friends, or just to put
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  their faith in him to get out of hell.
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  Friends, he wants sold out, laid down lovers who love him
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  unconditionally, regardless of the external.
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  We love because he first loved us.
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  And in 42 he's talking about he's going to remember the land
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  when he brings them back. 44 And yet for all that, when they be
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  in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither
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  will I abhor them to destroy them utterly, to break my
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  covenant with them. For I am the Lord their God.
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  God, when he made the covenant with Abraham, there was no
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  greater to swear by, so he swore by himself.
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  He put Abraham into a trance. He fell into a horror, friends,
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  as the fire went through the cut pieces.
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  That's what is mentioned here. And God will never go back on
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  his own word. He's going to make sure the
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  Messiah comes and he's going to make sure that the Messiah comes
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  again. All the words that you hold in
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  your hand will actually happen to the exact degree, the exact
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  letter. And there's lots of
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  interpretations of lots of different things.
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  But the real question is, do you even read the Bible?
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  Do you know the Bible? Or are you just listening to all
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  these echo chambers? Are you just listening to all
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  these sounding boards, all of these sound bites, all of these
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  tickling of the ear, friends, this twisting of Scripture,
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  friends, that is happening, this apostate church friends, are you
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  just listening to the teachers, the false teachers and the false
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  leaders who are coming in in droves and leading so many
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  people astray? And the way that we safeguard
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  ourselves against that is actually getting into the Word
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  of God, knowing the Word of God, meditating upon the Word of God,
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  actually having a spiritual appetite to digest the hard
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  truths that we find here in Leviticus.
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  And when you see the full context, you're going to know
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  that God's plans will come to fruition.
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  Every jot and every title from Genesis to Revelation, every
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  single thing that is outlined is going to happen to the exact
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  degree that the Bible tells us, not man's interpretation of it.
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  But what does the Bible say, friends?
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  That's what we need to be hyper fixated upon.
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  Because let every man be a liar, but the Word of God will stay
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  true and it will never pass away.
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  Not one of these words will ever pass away.
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  Friends. He is the Lord God Almighty, and
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  it is because he made that covenant.
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  He will not go back on it. 45 But I will for their sakes
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  remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth
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  out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I
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  might be their God. I am the Lord, He is the Lord.
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  Serve him while there is still time.
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  Choose Him while there is still time.
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  Friends, we'll live on. 46 These are the statutes and the
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  judgments and laws the Lord made between him and the children of
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  Israel in Mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
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  What an amazing God we serve. What an amazing chapter we just
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  read. I hope you enjoyed it.
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  I hope you were edified by it. I hope that you let it soak in,
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  let it completely wash over you, friends, go and meditate upon it
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  and actually pull. There's so much more to pull out
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  of each of these chapters, friends, but there's just not
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  enough time. I love you.
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  I'm praying for you, and we'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.