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Job 29:15-25 - The Righteous Roots of Job: A Picture of Christ · The Bread of the Word Podcast

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  Blessed is the man
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  who walketh not in the council dan godlike,
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  nor standeth in the way of sinners
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  nor sitteth in seated scornful
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  but his delight is on the law of the LORD
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  and on his law
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  doth he meditate. Day and. Night
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  he shall be like a tree
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  planted by the rivers of water
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  that brings forth his fruit and his season
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  his leaf also shall not wither,
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  and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
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  Welcome
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  to the Bread of the Word Podcast,
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  a podcast striving to feast on god's Word
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  and let the Bible speak to us all
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  let us,
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  as a former generation said
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  go add fontaise
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  to the fountain
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  and be nourished and sustained by all that God is
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  let's dig in together
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  hello, welcome back to the Breatherword podcast
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  where we go add
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  fontes to the fountain to the Word of God
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  to be nourished and sustained by all
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  the God is as he's revealed Himself to us.
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  My name is Tyler
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  and we are going to be concluding
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  chapter 29 in the Book of Job
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  been a little sporadic lately
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  I've needed to take a bit of a mental
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  hiatus, but we are back
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  we are going to be
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  getting back into the regular swing of things
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  and so picking up where we left off in chapter 29,
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  verse 14,
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  Job is reflecting on his
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  his earlier years when he was
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  he was walking the blessings of God When he was
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  walking in wisdom
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  That he was seen walking in wisdom
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  That there was much that his
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  wisdom benefited other people.
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  We see a lot of biographical data
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  on Job in this chapter
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  talking about
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  that he was honored by many from different
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  social statuses
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  that he people listen to what he had to say
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  there was reverence and respect for
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  what he brought to the table so to speak
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  and at first 14
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  he says, I put on righteousness and, it closed me.
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  My judgment was as a robe and a diadem
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  and now we get to the rest of the chapter.
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  These are the words of God.
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  I was eyes to the blind and feet was I to the lame
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  I was a father to the poor
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  and the cause which I knew not
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  I searched out,
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  and I break the jaws
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  of the wicked And pluck the spoil out of his teeth
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  then I said, I shall die in, my nest
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  and I shall multiply my days
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  as the sand my root was spread out by the waters
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  And the dew lay all night upon my branch.
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  My glory was freshened me and my bow
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  was renewed in my hand
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  unto me. Men gave year and waited and kept silence
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  at my council.
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  After my words they speak not again
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  and my speech dropped upon them, and they, waited for me
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  as for the rain and they opened their mouth wide.
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  As for the latter rain
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  if I laughed on them.
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  They believed it not, and the light of, my countenance
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  that cast not down.
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  I chose out their way
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  And sat chief And dwelt as a king in the army
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  As one that comforted the mourners
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  and what we see a little bit more of
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  in this section as we saw with the last chunk
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  is that Job has
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  in his his past when Job was
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  not in the midst of his suffering
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  when Job was doing the things he was doing before
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  everything that happened in the Book of Job happened
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  we see that He is a sort of
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  almost a champion for the downtrod and for the
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  for the oppressed for the poor for the vulnerable,
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  and this is all stuff that the Old Testament lays out
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  time and time again before us.
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  It's center of the Book of Amos.
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  We see this in the Torah
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  all around the place with honoring the poor
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  welcoming the stranger
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  with all of this being an outworking
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  of the law of good wisdom
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  when we read in Ecclesiastes about
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  I looked and saw the tears of the oppress
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  and that they had none to comfort them
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  we get this idea
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  in the Old Testament. The guy cares very deeply
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  about not just the vertical but the horizontal
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  and that's not social gospel.
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  We're not going into any of that
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  but the idea that the wisdom God gives us
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  branches out to other people.
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  That is, that's the kind of the theme
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  of what we call the wisdom literature
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  in the Old Testament,
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  we look at
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  Ecclesiastes, we look at Proverts when we look at Job.
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  All of this is getting us
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  to look at wisdom the way God sees it
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  that wisdom is not just intelligence
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  it's not just head knowledge, but wisdom, in' the Hebrew.
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  It's essentially skill
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  that to be wise in god's eyes is to live
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  skillfully in the world that He has made,
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  and part of what that
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  entails is our dealings with other people,
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  with people who are
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  not as well off as we are
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  and so Job spends a lot of time talking about
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  the people that he was
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  a blessing too.
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  I was a father to the poor,
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  that I was eyes to the blind and I was feet to the lame
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  and this is just flesh
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  now
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  more of what we saw at the beginning of Job that he is
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  a man who is perfect and upright, that he
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  fears God and issue with evil
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  it's not just that he
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  knew about these things
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  but this is the fullness of what the Old Testament is
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  constantly
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  nailing the Israelites for
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  is that their wisdom doesn't go out
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  their wisdom does not branch out into sanctification
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  that there's not that
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  that outworking of this to other people,
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  and Job is kind of the picture
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  of what their wisdom should have been,
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  and Jesus says in the Book of Luke
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  that wisdom is vindicated by.
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  What it produces,
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  it's vindicated by its children so to speak
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  and so what is the fruit of job's wisdom
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  what is the fruit of the wisdom of Job that we're told
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  fearth God issue with evil
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  that he was a father to the poor
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  and the cause which he knew not he searched out
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  he break the jaws of the wicked
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  he plucked the spoil out of his teeth
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  this is my root was spread out by the waters and that
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  is a phrase that comes up again
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  in other books of the Old Testament.
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  So if we jump over to Jeremiah 17
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  we find a very similar phrase,
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  but Jeremiah 17
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  picking up in verse
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  7
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  he says Blessed is the man
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  that trusteth in the LORD and whose hope the LORD is
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  for he shall be as a tree
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  planted by the waters
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  that spreadeth out her roots by the river
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  and shall not see when he cometh,
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  but her leaf shall be green and shall not be careful.
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  In the year of drought,
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  neither shall cease from yielding fruit
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  this sounds like the kind of thing that Elf has
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  Bill dead and Zofar
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  would have
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  thrown at Job if they have been written at the time
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  the idea that the man who trusts in God
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  will
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  be planted by the river that he will not be careful
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  when heat cometh.
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  When the hard times come, it won't seem to bother him
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  but we're told' in job.
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  That there's a little more nuance to it than that
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  that sometimes
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  godly people suffer,
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  but they're still planted by the river
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  this is my root was spread out by the waters
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  and the dew lay all night upon my branch.
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  Jeremiah 17 does not
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  cease to be true when we read the Book of Job
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  that even though Job is suffering even though
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  things have gotten incredibly hard
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  even though he has lost much,
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  even though he has at times questioned
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  if God cares and will continue
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  to wrestle with where God is
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  in all of this throughout the rest of the book.
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  At the end of the day he is still
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  a tree planted by the water
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  that spreadeth out her roots by the river
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  and this is
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  a picture that's given in parallel with another picture
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  if we back up a couple verses
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  to verse 5, thus saith the LORD,
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  Cursed be the man that trusteth in man
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  and maketh flesh his arm
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  and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
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  A lot of qualifications for the same kind of person
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  is to trust in man is to not trust in God
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  in comparison with blessed
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  the man who trusteth in the LORD in whose hope
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  the LORD is this
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  is, for he shall be
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  like the Heath in the desert like the
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  shrubs in the desert
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  and shall not see when good cometh,
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  but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness
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  in assault land
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  and not inhabited
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  so we've got a pretty
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  stark picture in Jeremiah 17, and
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  reality is this is about Judah.
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  This is about the Kingdom of Judah who has
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  disregarded the ways of God,
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  who has gone their own way
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  who has
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  time and time
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  again demonstrated that they are the first picture,
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  and this is part of a much broader section
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  of proclaiming judgment
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  on the Kingdom of Judah,
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  judgment that culminates in their exile
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  that culminates in them being taken
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  from the from the land of Israel, being taken from
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  where the Temple is taken away from everything
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  they know, all their traditions all of, their heritage,
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  and they're taken to a country that' does not
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  care for the things of God
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  that has no desire to live for God,
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  and yet God is still in their midst.
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  But
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  what God is establishing is that they are the first
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  picture, not the latter,
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  and they are the first picture now
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  and it's part of why they're being
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  taken away into captivity in the hopes that someday
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  by god's Grace, they will be the second picture.
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  They will be the blessed man that trusteth in the Lord
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  and whose hope the Lord is,
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  and in order for
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  him to be their hope there has to be no other hope
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  and so he takes them away from what they know
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  he takes them away from
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  what they've grown up in from their heritage'
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  from all of the traditions that they've
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  been surrounded. By some of them their whole lives
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  for generations
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  they've been around the temple
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  they've been around this' they've been around the law
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  and yet they're going to be
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  stricken away from all of that
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  and they will live in a nation that doesn't honor God
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  and it is God who did that
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  but this is a picture
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  that harkens to another passage.
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  We go to Psalm Chapter 1.
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  We also have a similar
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  bit of content.
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  Psalm 1 says blessed is the man
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  that walketh not in the council of the ungodly
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  nor standeth in the way of sinners
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  nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful
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  but his delight is on the law of the LORD
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  and upon his law doth he meditate day and night
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  and he shall be like a tree
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  planted by the rivers of water
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  which beareth
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  which bringeth forth his fruit into season
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  his leaf also shall not wither,
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  and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
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  The wicked
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  are not so, the ungodly are not so,
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  but are like the chaff which the wind drives away
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  therefore the ungodly says the psalm shall not stand
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  in the judgment
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  nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous
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  for the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous
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  but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
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  I was talking with a friend
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  about this passage recently and he
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  described it as the Old Testament Beatitudes.
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  This is a description of the kind of person
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  that God blesses.
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  Is one who delights
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  in the word of God who delights in the ways of God
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  who meditates on his law day and night
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  and the kind of person that would do that
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  is the kind of person who is planted
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  his like a tree planted by the rivers of water
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  that bringeth forth his fruit in his season
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  his leave shall not wither, and whatsoever he doeth
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  shall prosper.
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  Job
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  does the things that he's listed,
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  and it's not those things that make him good
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  it's not those things that make him
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  righteous or upright
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  these are things he does because
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  he's righteous because he's upright
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  because he is god's man.
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  These are the things that god's men do
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  so he was a father to the poor
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  and the cause which he did not know. He searched out
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  he broke the jaws of the Wick And he
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  plucked the spoil out of their teeth
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  his root was spread out by the waters
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  And the dew lay all night upon his branch
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  unto him. Men gave ear
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  and waited and kept silent at his counsel.
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  After his words they spoke not again
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  and his speech dropped upon them.
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  They waited for him as for the rain
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  and they opened their mouth wide. As for the latter rain
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  he dwelt as a king in the army
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  and is one that comforteth the mourners
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  Joe does all this
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  not to become righteous, but because he is righteous,
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  these are things that God. Has made him to be.
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  These are things that
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  we can only be
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  by the Grace of God
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  these aren't the things we can conjure up in ourselves
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  things that we can cause ourselves to be of our own
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  willpower.
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  This is the result of God.
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  The sanctification says okay how do I be this
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  because this is what God is like?
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  This is what Jesus Christ modeled for us
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  as the ideal man
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  as the second Adam,
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  that this is what the man ought to be,
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  that Jesus invites us into the new humanity
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  where we look at what God delights in
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  and say blessed are the poor and spirit
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  for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
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  blessed are those that mourn for
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  they shall be comforted,
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  blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth
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  blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see
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  God,
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  and so our sanctification
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  causes us to look at ourselves and look at
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  Christ and go.
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  How can we be more like that?
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  How can we be a father to the poor? How can we be
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  eyes to the blind and feet to the lame
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  it's only by the power of God.
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  It is only by the Spirit working within us
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  conforming us to the image of Christ day by day
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  moment by moment decision by decision
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  because we are predestined not to go to heaven,
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  we are predestined to be conformed
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  to the image of Christ.
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  That is,
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  that is. Prophecy in. Motion right there that is.
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  Something that has been in the mind of God since
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  before the foundations of the earth
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  is having a people out of every tribe tongue in nation
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  that bear his image on the earth
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  job gives us a
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  glimmer
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  of something that was yet to be realized,
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  something that was yet to come.
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  Job gives us a shadow
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  of something that is fully beheld in Christ,
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  and so we don't look at Job, we don't look at
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  the good thing that Job does
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  and go.
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  I need to be like Job.
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  We look at this and go. I need to be like Christ.
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  This is who Christ is
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  this is a foreshadowing of the character of Christ
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  and this character can be ours
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  by the work of God. We go over to Collisions. Chapter 3
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  collagens chapter 3
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  starts off with these words
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  if ye then be risen with Christ,
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  that is that we are united with Christ,
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  that salvation of we are in Christ
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  in his life in his death in his resurrection.
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  If he then be risen with Christ,
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  seek those things which are above
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  where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God,
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  set your affection
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  on things above, not on things on the earth
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  for ye are dead
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  and your life is hid with Christ in God.
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  Colosion is 220
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  says I am crucified with Christ and I no longer live
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  and the life that I now live in the body.
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  I live by faith to the Son of God
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  who loved me and gave himself for me
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  and so you are dead
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  and when Christ, who is our life,
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  shall appear
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  then shall he also appear with him in glory.
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  Mortify, therefore your members, which are upon the earth
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  fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection
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  evil, concupiescence,
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  covetousness, which is idolatry
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  for which these things say
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  the wrath of God,
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  cometh on the children of disobedience
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  in the which he also walks sometime
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  when he lived in them.
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  But now also, he says put off
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  all these anger wrath, malice, blasphemy,
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  fill the communication out of your mouth
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  lie not one to another,
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  seeing that EFP put off the old man with his deeds
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  and have put on the new man,
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  which is renewed in knowledge
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  after the image of him that created him
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  that is, Christ
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  put on the new man
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  through Christ,
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  take on
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  the character of Christ,
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  put it on as a garment, be clothed in his righteousness
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  as Job said I put on righteousness, and it, clothed me.
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  It was as a robe and a diadem
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  and put on the new man
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  which is renewed in knowledge
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  after the image of him that created him
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  where there is neither Greek nor Jew.
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  Circumcision nor uncircumcision
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  barbarian, Scythian bond nor free.
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  But Christ is all,
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  and in all
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  put on, therefore as the elect of, God, holy and beloved,
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  bowels of mercy, kindness, humbleness of mind meekness
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  long suffering,
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  forbearing one another and forgiving one another
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  if any man have a quarrel against any
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  even as Christ forgave you,
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  so also do ye?
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  And above all these things put on charity,
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  which is the bond
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  of perfectness.
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  That the core of why Joe does what he does
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  is to love in the way that God does
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  that. This. Is why we put on righteousness. This. Is why we
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  can be a father to the poor
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  and eyes of the blind and feet to the lame is
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  it is grounded in God.
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  We are clothed in the righteousness of Christ
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  and we are
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  being conformed to His image to His character
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  to His worldview.
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  But then we do these things
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  out of love, not just any love,
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  but the love that comes from the Father,
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  love that is like
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  Christ.
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  This is why in the New Testament
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  so many times we see this word agape
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  using reference to the church
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  which is Greek for divine love.
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  There's falaya love which is familial love
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  like the love between brothers
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  but then there's a gape which is god's love,
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  and when Jesus is restoring Peter
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  after his resurrection
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  he says, Simon,
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  son of Jonah
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  lovest thou me?
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  And first he says filleo
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  but by the end of it
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  he says love astound me
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  and it's agape
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  do you love me
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  as I love you?
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  And that is the love that we are back into as believers
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  is to love as.
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  God loves
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  to love Him and to love others
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  as God does thank you for listening.
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  This has been the Bread of the Word podcast.
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  striving to feed people
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  the wonderful words of God,
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  book by book
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  chapter by chapter and verse by verse
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  striving to let the words speak for itself
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  god Bless
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  Matthew 44.