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Voddie Baucham - Dealing with Doubt · Voddie Baucham Sermons

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  Speaker 1: If you have your Bible, is open to Exodus chapter six,
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  Speaker 1: and we're looking today at those first nine verses in
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  Speaker 1: Exodus chapter six. In Exodus chapter five, you come off
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  Speaker 1: one of those low points, a low point where God
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  Speaker 1: has begun to act on behalf of his people, and
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh responded negatively, and in his negative response, he increased
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  Speaker 1: hardship on the Israelites. The Israelites immediately turned against Moses
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  Speaker 1: because of this hardship that was increased against them, and Moses,
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  Speaker 1: great leader that he is, turns to God and complains
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  Speaker 1: because God hasn't done what he promised to do. And
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  Speaker 1: so Chapter five was rather discouraging in terms of the
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  Speaker 1: faith and faith of God's people. Now, one would think
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  Speaker 1: that if that was the case in chapter five, we
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  Speaker 1: would open to chapter six, and in chapter six we
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  Speaker 1: would find another story. And instead we find same song
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  Speaker 1: second verse. There is more faithlessness, there is more disbelief,
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  Speaker 1: there is more moaning and crying against God. Yet in
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  Speaker 1: the midst of this there is a statement that God
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  Speaker 1: makes that is crucial in understanding a couple of things. First,
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  Speaker 1: it's crucial in understanding why Israel and Moses are wrong
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  Speaker 1: in groaning against God. And secondly, it's crucial to understanding
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  Speaker 1: how it is that God is going to do what
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  Speaker 1: he said he would do, and why it is that
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  Speaker 1: God is going to do what he said he would do. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the fact of the matter is less we get on
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  Speaker 1: our high horse. What we see in Israel and in
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  Speaker 1: Moses in chapter five, in chapter six is the exact
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  Speaker 1: same thing we see in ourselves in our everyday lives. Amen, somebody,
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  Speaker 1: we do the same thing. There is a promise that
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  Speaker 1: we believe, a truth to which we hold, and there's
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  Speaker 1: a way that we believe that God ought to do
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  Speaker 1: what he has promised to do. And then God doesn't
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  Speaker 1: do what we think God ought to do, and two
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  Speaker 1: things happen. Number One, we shake our fists at God
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  Speaker 1: because he didn't do what we thought he ought to do.
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  Speaker 1: And secondly, we act as though God has forgotten how
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  Speaker 1: to take care of his business. It's one thing for
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  Speaker 1: us to be upset because I had an expectation and
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  Speaker 1: things didn't happen in accordance with my expectation. It's another
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  Speaker 1: thing to say, God, you've sinned against me, which essentially
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  Speaker 1: is what we say, you didn't do what you were
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  Speaker 1: supposed to do. You are wrong. You owed me something
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  Speaker 1: and you didn't give me what you owed me. There
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  Speaker 1: was a way to do this, there was a best
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  Speaker 1: way to do this, and I know what the best
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  Speaker 1: way was to get this done, and you did not
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  Speaker 1: do this and the best way to get this done? God,
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  Speaker 1: how dare you.
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  Speaker 2: Well?
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  Speaker 1: I would never speak to God like that, not openly.
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  Speaker 1: But that's exactly what Israel is saying to God here,
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  Speaker 1: and it's exactly what we have a tendency to say
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  Speaker 1: to God in the midst of our frustration. But if
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  Speaker 1: we will remember this statement, it will help turn us
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  Speaker 1: away from that tendency and towards something that is war true. First,
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  Speaker 1: let me read this passage in its entirety, and then
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  Speaker 1: we'll look at it more carefully. Let me go back
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  Speaker 1: to the last paragraph from last week. Then Moses turned
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  Speaker 1: to the Lord and said, O Lord, why have you
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  Speaker 1: done evil to this people? Evil? He accuses God of evil?
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  Speaker 1: Why have you done evil to this people? Why did
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  Speaker 1: you ever send me? For since I came to Pharaoh
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  Speaker 1: to speak in your name, he has done evil to
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  Speaker 1: this people, and you have not delivered your people at all. God,
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  Speaker 1: you did evil? How did God do evil? By allowing
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh to do evil. So now God is being blamed
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  Speaker 1: for the evil that Pharaoh has done. Never mind the
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  Speaker 1: fact that God said, hey, I'm going to send you
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  Speaker 1: to Pharaoh. Oh, by the way, he's going to harden
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  Speaker 1: his heart and he's not gonna do what you tell
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  Speaker 1: him to do. Now it happens exactly the way God
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  Speaker 1: said it was going to happen. And Moses said, you've
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  Speaker 1: done evil. Chapter six, verse one. But the Lord said
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  Speaker 1: to Moses, now you shall see what I will do
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  Speaker 1: to Pharaoh. For with a strong hand he will send
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  Speaker 1: them out, and with a strong hand he will drive
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  Speaker 1: them out of his land. That's amazing. That's amazing, And
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  Speaker 1: that's grace and its kindness and its mercy. I remember
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  Speaker 1: when I was a kid, but my mother was, how
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  Speaker 1: do we put this? My mama didn't play. And I
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  Speaker 1: remember as a kid one time in a grocery store
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  Speaker 1: hearing another child say something to their parent and throw
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  Speaker 1: a tantrum and throw something down in a grocery store.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how old I was. I must have
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  Speaker 1: been six, seven, eight years old or so, because I
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  Speaker 1: remember this, and I remember when it happened, and the
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  Speaker 1: kid yelled at their mother and said whatever it was
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  Speaker 1: of their mother, and threw that thing down on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: And I literally ducked, just in case his mama was
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  Speaker 1: anything like my mama, because I just thought to myself,
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  Speaker 1: if I had done what he just did, I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: make it out of the store. When I read the
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  Speaker 1: end of chapter five and the way that Moses spoke
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  Speaker 1: to God, something in me just wants to duck. Don't
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  Speaker 1: you feel that way? I mean, I read that and
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  Speaker 1: I go, I just I couldn't imagine having the audacity,
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  Speaker 1: the unmitigated gall to say what Moses says to God.
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  Speaker 1: At the end of chapter five, he's in trouble, and
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  Speaker 1: chapter six begins and God doesn't strike him dead. He
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  Speaker 1: doesn't even strike him with leprosy or whatever. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't even get from God what he got earlier.
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  Speaker 1: When you know in the circumcision passage, when you know here,
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  Speaker 1: here it is, and we're trying to figure it out.
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  Speaker 1: You know who it is that's about to die, who
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  Speaker 1: it is God is coming against, about to kill them.
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  Speaker 1: But in chapter six that doesn't happen. Instead, God moves
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  Speaker 1: right along and he makes a statement, this is the
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  Speaker 1: prologue to the statement, and the prologue is, oh, You're
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  Speaker 1: about to see what I'm going to do to Moses.
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  Speaker 1: After the prolog he makes a statement. This statement beginning
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  Speaker 1: in verse two, God spoke to Moses and said to him,
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  Speaker 1: I am Yahweh, and I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac,
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  Speaker 1: and to Jacob as el Shaddai. But by my name Yahweh,
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  Speaker 1: I did not make myself known to them. I also
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  Speaker 1: established my covenant with them to give them the land
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  Speaker 1: of Canaan, the land in which they lived as sojourners. Moreover,
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  Speaker 1: I have heard the of the people of Israel, whom
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  Speaker 1: the Egyptians hold as slaves, and I have remembered my covenant.
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  Speaker 1: Say therefore, to the people of Israel, I am Yahweh,
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  Speaker 1: and I will bring you out from under the burdens
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  Speaker 1: of the Egyptians. And I will deliver you from slavery
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  Speaker 1: to them. And I will redeem you with an outstretched
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  Speaker 1: arm and with great acts of judgment. I will take
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  Speaker 1: you to be my people, and I will be your God.
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  Speaker 1: And you shall know that I am the Lord your God,
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  Speaker 1: who has brought you out from under the burdens of
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  Speaker 1: the Egyptians. I will bring you into the land that
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  Speaker 1: I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob.
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  Speaker 1: I will give it to you for a possession. I
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  Speaker 1: am Yahweh. Moses spoke thus to the people of Israel,
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  Speaker 1: and then here it is, but they did not listen
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  Speaker 1: to Moses because of their broken spirit and hearsh slavery.
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  Speaker 1: There it is. I want you to understand something from
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  Speaker 1: this text. I want you to see a picture of
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  Speaker 1: where all doubt comes from and how you overcome it,
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  Speaker 1: because I believe that that's what we see in this text.
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  Speaker 1: This is a picture of the human condition. This is
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  Speaker 1: a picture of why we doubt. And we know where
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  Speaker 1: the doubt comes from because we know God's antidote to
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  Speaker 1: the doubt. And we'll see that momentarily after this opening statement.
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  Speaker 1: There are a couple of things. First, we see that
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  Speaker 1: we doubt because we get who the Lord is, which
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  Speaker 1: is why God begins by reminding Moses and then Israel
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  Speaker 1: of who he is. Look at those verse two and three.
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  Speaker 1: God spoke to Moses and said to him, I am
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  Speaker 1: the Lord. I am Yahweh. I appeared to Abraham, to
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  Speaker 1: Isaac and to Jacob. Ask God Almighty or El should
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  Speaker 1: I but by my name the Lord Yahweh, I did
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  Speaker 1: not make myself known to them. This is an important statement.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of a complicated statement, but there is a
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  Speaker 1: triple reference here in this passage. When we look at
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  Speaker 1: verses two through nine, three times he says I am Yahweh.
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  Speaker 1: It frames his statement. First, before his statement to Moses,
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  Speaker 1: he says, I am the Lord, I am Yahweh. And secondly,
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  Speaker 1: before the statement that Moses is supposed to make to Israel,
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  Speaker 1: he says, I am Yahweh. And at the end of
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  Speaker 1: that statement he says I am Yahweh. Three times he
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  Speaker 1: says it. That's significant, the fact that three times he
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  Speaker 1: introduces himself and he uses this particular name for himself. However,
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  Speaker 1: there is something a little confusing about the revelation of
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  Speaker 1: this name, because he says I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac,
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  Speaker 1: and to Jacob as God Almighty or else should I
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  Speaker 1: but by my name the Lord, by my name Yahweh,
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  Speaker 1: I did not make myself known to them. This is
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  Speaker 1: a problem. Why number one, Because that name is used
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  Speaker 1: one hundred times in Genesis. So how is it that
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  Speaker 1: God is saying I didn't make myself known by that name.
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  Speaker 1: When the name is used one hundred times in Genesis,
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  Speaker 1: surely you made himself known by that name if it's
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  Speaker 1: used one hundred times in Genesis. Not only is it
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  Speaker 1: used one hundred times in Genesis, but the name is
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  Speaker 1: used by and with the patriarchs. It's used with Abraham,
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  Speaker 1: for example. God's statement here is puzzling, brus Will says,
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  Speaker 1: since previous biblical texts speak clearly of Abraham's knowledge of
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  Speaker 1: the name Yahweh. Abraham uses the name himself Genesis fifteen
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  Speaker 1: two and eight, and Yahweh declares it to Abraham in
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  Speaker 1: Genesis fifteen seven, where he uses the same phrase, I
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  Speaker 1: am Yahueh. So what does God mean when he says
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  Speaker 1: to Moses, I did not reveal myself by this name
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  Speaker 1: to your forefathers, Because it seems like he did reveal
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  Speaker 1: himself by this name to the forefathers. It's two ways
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  Speaker 1: of solving this problem. One way of solving this problem
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  Speaker 1: that I believe is problematic is what's called the documentary hypothesis.
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  Speaker 1: You've probably heard of, you know, JEPD theory and so
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  Speaker 1: on and so forth, that there are multiple authors of
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  Speaker 1: the Pentateuch, and they are different, actually not only multiple authors,
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  Speaker 1: but there are multiple communities that came together to write
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  Speaker 1: the Pentateuch, and you can tell who they are by
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  Speaker 1: the way that they refer to God and so on
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  Speaker 1: and so forth. And so the argument goes that when
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  Speaker 1: this was being written by later communities, whoever it was
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  Speaker 1: that wrote Genesis or whatever groups actually wrote Genesis, well,
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  Speaker 1: this name had already been revealed to them when they
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  Speaker 1: went back and wrote Genesis. And therefore there's this little
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  Speaker 1: hiccup or contradiction when God says, here's where the name
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  Speaker 1: was revealed. It's true that it wasn't revealed until the Exodus,
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  Speaker 1: but they sort of went back into the Genesis account
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  Speaker 1: when they wrote it and just added that name. That's
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  Speaker 1: one way to look at it. It's problematic why Bible
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  Speaker 1: says Moses wrote the Pentitude, and I believe Moses wrote
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  Speaker 1: the Pentitude, Amen, Hallelujah, praise the Lord. Not a group
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  Speaker 1: of individuals, not a group of communities. I believe Moses
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  Speaker 1: wrote the Pentitude period, He's the a through the Pentitude. Well,
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  Speaker 1: then what do you do with this apparent contradiction. Listen
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  Speaker 1: to the way Calvin answers this question. Nor does God
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  Speaker 1: by his name in this passage mean syllables or letters,
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  Speaker 1: but the knowledge of His glory and majesty, which shone
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  Speaker 1: out more fully and more brightly in the redemption of
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  Speaker 1: his church than in the commencement of the Covenant. For
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  Speaker 1: Abraham and the other patriarchs were content with a smaller
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  Speaker 1: measure of light. Whence it follows that the fault of
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  Speaker 1: their descendants would be less excusable in their faith if
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  Speaker 1: their faith was not answerable to the increase of their grace. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: Moses is awakened to activity whilst God is setting before
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  Speaker 1: him a magnificent and singular means of showing forth his glory.
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  Speaker 1: They knew the word Yahweh, they didn't understanding the meaning.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't understand the meaning of Yahweh. They knew that
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  Speaker 1: God said, I am Yahweh. Had no idea what was
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  Speaker 1: significant about this name Yahweh. It was only when God
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  Speaker 1: revealed himself specifically and theologically to Moses and explained why
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  Speaker 1: this name in particular was significant for him that Moses
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  Speaker 1: had a more full orbed understanding of this term Yahweh.
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  Speaker 1: Listen to Cassado when he writes, in defining this name,
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  Speaker 1: this name means he who is with his creatures, and
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  Speaker 1: he who was constantly the same, that is, he is
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  Speaker 1: true to his word and fulfills his promises. That's what
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  Speaker 1: this name means. I am Yahweh, and my action shall
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  Speaker 1: be in keeping with my name. A similar interpretation attaches
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  Speaker 1: to the phrase I am Yahweh wherever it occurs in
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  Speaker 1: the Bible. It comes to link the statute or the
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  Speaker 1: promise with the attributes of God implied in the name Yahweh,
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  Speaker 1: the attributes of one who sees to it that the
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  Speaker 1: moral law is observed and fulfills with absolute faithfulness what
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  Speaker 1: he promises or what he announces before beforehand by his prophets.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, that name Yahweh means I am the
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  Speaker 1: God who keeps my covenant. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob didn't
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  Speaker 1: really understand this. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob don't know who
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  Speaker 1: God is. They know nothing about God. God reveals himself
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  Speaker 1: to them and he says, I am God. He establishes
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  Speaker 1: a covenant with them, and he makes a promise. They
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  Speaker 1: do not understand, however, that his very name means every
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  Speaker 1: promise I make I keep. His very name means I
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  Speaker 1: am the one that you can count on because every
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  Speaker 1: promise I make I keep that his very name is
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  Speaker 1: a reflection of his very character as the covenant keeping God.
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  Speaker 1: You see, God wasn't saying, here's the way that you
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  Speaker 1: sort of keep me in line as opposed to the
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  Speaker 1: other gods. God was saying, I am God, and there
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  Speaker 1: is no other God. And my character is such that
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  Speaker 1: my very name evokes the righteousness of my moral law.
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  Speaker 1: Abraham didn't comprehend that the way that Moses would come
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  Speaker 1: to comprehend it. And that's what God means when he says,
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  Speaker 1: by this name, I didn't make myself known to them.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't comprehend this name. And there is a reason
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  Speaker 1: that they would not have comprehended this name in Genesis
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  Speaker 1: the way it was comprehended in Exodus, because ultimately, this
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  Speaker 1: covenant is about deliverance. It's sort of like a child
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  Speaker 1: who grows up in a Christian home. The child grows
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  Speaker 1: up in a Christian home and they hear the name Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: and they grow up in this home and they're catechised,
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  Speaker 1: and they go to church and they hear songs about
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  Speaker 1: Jesus and Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus and they like the
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  Speaker 1: name Jesus and come to love the name Jesus. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: loves me. This I know, if the Bible tells me so.
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  Speaker 1: Little ones to him belong. They're weak, but he is strong. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus loves me. Yes, Jesus loves me. Yes, Jesus loves me.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible tells me so. And they sing those songs
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  Speaker 1: about Jesus, and they learn those truths about Jesus. And
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  Speaker 1: yet one day their faith is no longer borrowed. Their
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  Speaker 1: faith is no longer secondhand, Their faith is no longer
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  Speaker 1: their parents' faith, but their faith is their own, and
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  Speaker 1: they come to know Jesus and not just the name Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: His name shall be called Jesus. Why because he will
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  Speaker 1: save his people. It's not until you become one of
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  Speaker 1: his saved people that you really understand his name. And basically,
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  Speaker 1: what God is saying is Abraham, Isaac and Jacob compared
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  Speaker 1: to you, Moses, and compared to what I have revealed
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  Speaker 1: to you and will continue to reveal to you, Compared
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  Speaker 1: to you their children who grew up in a house
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  Speaker 1: saying a name that they did not comprehend. However, when
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  Speaker 1: I do what I am going to do in with,
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  Speaker 1: through and for Israel. You will know and understand my
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  Speaker 1: name in a way that they never could have. That's
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  Speaker 1: what he means. That's what he means. They used the name,
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  Speaker 1: but you know the name. Secondly, not only do we
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  Speaker 1: doubt because we do we doubt. We doubt when we
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  Speaker 1: forget who God is. We doubt when we somehow, when
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  Speaker 1: we somehow don't understand that just by his very nature,
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  Speaker 1: God is the one who keeps his promises. We doubt
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  Speaker 1: when we just forget the fact that by his very
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  Speaker 1: nature God is sovereign, God is in control. Ultimately. That's
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  Speaker 1: what doubt is. Is it not that somehow we believe
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  Speaker 1: that there is an area that has fallen through the cracks.
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  Speaker 1: Somehow we believe that there is an area that has
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  Speaker 1: escaped God's view, or there's something that has slipped between
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  Speaker 1: his fingers, or that somehow he has forgotten, or that
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  Speaker 1: somehow he has lied. And the only way that we
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  Speaker 1: can doubt like that is if we forget who he is.
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  Speaker 1: When you know who he is, you know he does
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  Speaker 1: not forget things. He neither slumbers nor sleeks. That God
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  Speaker 1: is never late, but he's always right on time. When
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  Speaker 1: you understand who he is, there is no room for doubt.
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  Speaker 1: But beyond knowing who he is, we also doubt because
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  Speaker 1: we forget what he has done. Verses four and five
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  Speaker 1: allude to this. I also established my covenant with them
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  Speaker 1: to give them the land of Canaan, the land in
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  Speaker 1: which they lived at sojournals. Moreover, I have heard the
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  Speaker 1: groaning of the people of Israel, whom the Egyptians hold
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  Speaker 1: as slaves, and I have remembered my covenant. First, God
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  Speaker 1: is reminding Moses of their first meeting. That ought to
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  Speaker 1: sound familiar to you. When God first encounters Moses, he
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  Speaker 1: says these same words, I've seen, I've heard, I remember it,
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  Speaker 1: I've come. He says these same things. So God is
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  Speaker 1: reminding Moses of what he has done. Secondly, God is
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  Speaker 1: reminding Moses and Israel of his covenant. It's amazing we
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  Speaker 1: talk about covenant, but there are two things that are
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  Speaker 1: associated with the idea of covenant, and that is the
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  Speaker 1: concept of revelation and redemption. Listen to what our Confession
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  Speaker 1: says about covenant and Chapter seven, paragraph one. The distance
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  Speaker 1: between God and the creature is so great that all
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  Speaker 1: though reasonable creatures do oh obedience under him as their creator.
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  Speaker 1: Yet they could never have attained the reward of life
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  Speaker 1: but by some voluntary condescension on God's part, which he
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  Speaker 1: had been pleased to express by way of covenant. You
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  Speaker 1: can't know God unless he reveals himself to you. Sure,
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  Speaker 1: the heavens declare the glory of God, and you look
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  Speaker 1: out at the heavens, and you look at the world,
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  Speaker 1: and it says to you, there is a creator, and
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  Speaker 1: you're without excuse. However, you don't know who he is.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know his name unless he condescends to you
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  Speaker 1: and reveals himself. And the covenant is the means by
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  Speaker 1: which God reveals himself. So when he reminds Moses of
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  Speaker 1: this covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, what he is
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  Speaker 1: saying is I revealed myself to Abraham and to Isaac
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  Speaker 1: and to Jacob in ways that I did not reveal
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  Speaker 1: myself to the rest of the world. Not everyone has
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  Speaker 1: access to the same revelation, but God reveals himself uniquely
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  Speaker 1: to his covenant people. And so first and foremost, he's
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  Speaker 1: reminding him of the fact that God revealed himself. And secondly,
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  Speaker 1: there's this idea of redemption covenant means redemption. God shows Abraham,
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  Speaker 1: not the rest of the world. He redeemed Abraham. There
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  Speaker 1: are other individuals that could have been redeemed by God
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  Speaker 1: for this purpose, but they weren't Abraham was. Secondly, God
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  Speaker 1: turned a barren couple into parents. God did that for
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  Speaker 1: his purpose of redemption. Thirdly, he turned a man into
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  Speaker 1: a nation. God did that for his own purpose in redemption,
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  Speaker 1: and God turned to that nation's time of need into
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  Speaker 1: their time of deliverance. God does that for Israel, and
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  Speaker 1: he reminds Moses of that. God also rebukes Moses and
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  Speaker 1: Israel for their doubt, and they need to be rebuked
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  Speaker 1: for their doubt. How does he rebuke him simply by
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  Speaker 1: reminding them of who he is? You've forgotten who I
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  Speaker 1: am is Israel says, you made it hard for us.
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  Speaker 1: What's wrong with you? You came and you spoke to Pharaoh,
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  Speaker 1: and now all of a sudden things are harder for us.
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  Speaker 1: Moses turns to God, Why have you done evil against
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  Speaker 1: these people? Look at what Pharaoh did, the evil he
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  Speaker 1: did to them. How could you do this to them?
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  Speaker 1: And God says, hold on, son, First of all, I'm God.
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  Speaker 1: You seem to have forgotten that, but I'm gonna let
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  Speaker 1: that one slide. Secondly, i am the God who made
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  Speaker 1: a covenant with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. Thirdly, I'm
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  Speaker 1: the God who promised something to these people. And Fourthly,
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  Speaker 1: I'm the God who remembered my covenant and came and
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  Speaker 1: got you so that my people could be delivered. Or
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  Speaker 1: have you forgotten why we started this conversation in the
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  Speaker 1: first place. This is a gentle rebuke. It's better than
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  Speaker 1: the last one. Amen. This is one of those rebukes
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  Speaker 1: where at the end of it you kind of go,
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  Speaker 1: I just got rebuked, didn't I Yes, you did, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: you did. You See, God doesn't owe us anything, and
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  Speaker 1: yet he has revealed himself to us, and he has
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  Speaker 1: redeemed us, and he's in the process of redeeming us,
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  Speaker 1: regardless of what it is that we're experiencing. Thirdly, we
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  Speaker 1: doubt because we don't believe what the Lord has promised.
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  Speaker 1: Look at verses six through eight save therefore to the
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  Speaker 1: people of Israel. I am the Lord. I am Yahweh,
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  Speaker 1: and I will bring you out that this is framed
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  Speaker 1: by I am the Lord on the beginning and the end.
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  Speaker 1: So he's going back to remind them of who I am.
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  Speaker 1: That I'm God. By the way, there's no other explanation
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  Speaker 1: needed than I am God. Amen. That's kind of like
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  Speaker 1: when you your parents tell you something, you go, why
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  Speaker 1: do I have to do that? Because I told you so? Well,
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  Speaker 1: what I have to do what you tell me? Because
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  Speaker 1: I'm your daddy. Well uh uh, that's enough. That's enough.
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  Speaker 1: I am the Lord. That's enough. He says it at
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  Speaker 1: the beginning and the end. But in the middle again,
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  Speaker 1: remember three times, I am the Lord. And in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of that seven promises, another very important number in scriptures.
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  Speaker 1: Look at those promises. I will bring you out from
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  Speaker 1: under the burden of the Egyptians. What's their worry? You
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  Speaker 1: spoke to Pharaoh and our burden got heavier. I'm God.
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  Speaker 1: I will bring you out from under the burden of
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  Speaker 1: the Egyptians. Number two, I will deliver you from slavery
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  Speaker 1: to them. Number three, I will redeem you with an
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  Speaker 1: outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment. Number four,
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  Speaker 1: I will take you to be my people. Number five,
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  Speaker 1: I will be your God, and you shall know that
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  Speaker 1: I am the Lord, your God, who has brought you
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  Speaker 1: out from under the burden of the Egyptians. When I
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  Speaker 1: do it, you'll know I did it. Number six, I
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  Speaker 1: will bring you into the land that I swore to
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  Speaker 1: give to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. And number seven, I
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  Speaker 1: will give it to you for a possession. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: just going to bring you out. I'm going to bring
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  Speaker 1: you in. I'm not just going to bring you out
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  Speaker 1: and bring you in, but I'm going to bring you out,
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  Speaker 1: take you as my own, be your God uniquely specifically,
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  Speaker 1: and bring you into this land that I promised. And
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  Speaker 1: how does he end it? I and yahweh. Why do
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  Speaker 1: we doubt? We doubt because we forget who God is,
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  Speaker 1: Because if we've remembered who God was, there would be
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  Speaker 1: no room for doubt. We doubt because we forget what
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  Speaker 1: God has done, because if we remembered what God has done,
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  Speaker 1: if we remembered God's covenant, if we remembered God's redemption again,
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  Speaker 1: where would there be room for doubt? And then thirdly,
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  Speaker 1: again we do we forget what God has promised. We
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  Speaker 1: forget that God has not done with us. We forget
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus said, I go to prepare a place for you, amen,
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  Speaker 1: that there is more ahead. We forget that He's coming again,
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  Speaker 1: that judge the living in the dead, and then he
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  Speaker 1: will make all things right. We forget that. That's why
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  Speaker 1: we doubt, because we forget that. But lest we be
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  Speaker 1: flippant and they go, oh yeah, that's right, Yeah, all
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  Speaker 1: I have to do is just have those facts. Look
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  Speaker 1: at what happens. Because they get those facts, and they
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  Speaker 1: don't get those facts, they get those facts from God.
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  Speaker 1: God says to Moses, I am the Lord, and you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna know me better than Abraham, Isaac and Jacob knew me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm revealing myself and my character you character to you
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  Speaker 1: in ways that they couldn't even comprehend. I'm God. You
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  Speaker 1: need to know me as God and you won't doubt. Secondly,
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  Speaker 1: you need to remember what I've done. Remember the covenant
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  Speaker 1: that I made. I'm the guy who made that covenant.
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  Speaker 1: I'm the one who came and got you. You didn't
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  Speaker 1: come and get me, Moses, you were keeping sheep on
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  Speaker 1: the other side of the mountain. I came and got you.
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  Speaker 1: I made that bush burn. I got your attention, you
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  Speaker 1: didn't get mine. Thirdly, tell the people that this is
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  Speaker 1: what I'm going to do. And Moses comes down armed
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  Speaker 1: with the word of God, and armed with the word
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  Speaker 1: of God, the prophet of God speaks to the people
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  Speaker 1: of God this powerful word, reminding them of who God is,
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  Speaker 1: what He's done, and what he's promised. And the people
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  Speaker 1: of God respond. Moses spoke thus to the people of Israel,
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  Speaker 1: but they did not listen to Moses because of their
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  Speaker 1: broken spirit and hearsh slavery. God spoke directly to Moses,
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  Speaker 1: and Moses brought that word to the people. Because of
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  Speaker 1: their broken spirit and because of their circumstances, they wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: believe what Moses said. This heavy burden, this is real.
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  Speaker 1: Your promise is not real right now, Moses, Pharaoh, he's real.
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  Speaker 1: Your God is not real now, Moses, your God says
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna do ABC and X y Z Pharaoh did
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  Speaker 1: what he was gonna do. We got no straw man.
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  Speaker 1: This is real. That's pie in the sky stuff. This
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  Speaker 1: is real. My pain is real, my heartache is real,
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  Speaker 1: my circumstances are real, my frustration is real, my fear
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  Speaker 1: is real. And right now it's more real to me
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  Speaker 1: than who you say God is and what you say
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  Speaker 1: God has done and what you say God has promised.
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  Speaker 1: That's you and me that's where the burber meets the road.
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  Speaker 1: That's the real Christian life. That's us. And because we
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  Speaker 1: don't understand that this is the real Christian life, here's
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  Speaker 1: what happens. We get to that place and we think
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  Speaker 1: there's something wrong with us, there's something wrong with me.
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  Speaker 1: Because if there wasn't something wrong with me, I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: respond this way. Listen, same thing's wrong with you, that
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  Speaker 1: was wrong with them. You're falling and living in this
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  Speaker 1: world is difficult. Information and rebuke. That's not enough. Granted,
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  Speaker 1: we need information, Granted we need rebuke, but that's not enough.
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  Speaker 1: We need the presence and power of the Spirit of
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  Speaker 1: God in our lives, and we need him to act mercifully.
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  Speaker 1: And we also need to be reminded. Israel would have
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  Speaker 1: to hear this same thing again and again and again
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  Speaker 1: and again and again. Listen, Saints, don't think so much
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  Speaker 1: of yourself that you get frustrated because you have to
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  Speaker 1: be reminded. That's arrogance. What's the matter, fellow Christian? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just down. Why are you so down, fellow Christian? Well,
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  Speaker 1: because something happened in my life and I doubted again, really,
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  Speaker 1: fellow Christian, because Christians doubt things. Yes, but I should
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  Speaker 1: be more mature than that. By now. I should be
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  Speaker 1: at a place in my life where I stop. Right now,
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  Speaker 1: are you saying, dear Christian, that you should be at
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  Speaker 1: a place in your life where you don't need to
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  Speaker 1: be reminded again and again and again. Don't say that. First,
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  Speaker 1: let me read some things for you Romans fifteen fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm on some points. I have written to you
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  Speaker 1: very boldly by way of reminder, because of the grace
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  Speaker 1: given me by God. First Corinthians four seventeen. This is
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  Speaker 1: why I sent you, Timothy, my beloved and faithful child
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  Speaker 1: in the Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ,
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  Speaker 1: as I teach them everywhere in every church. One Corinthians
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  Speaker 1: fifteen one. Now I would remind you, brothers of the
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  Speaker 1: gospel I preach to you, which you received, in which
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  Speaker 1: you stand tewod Corinthians ten to seven. Look at what
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  Speaker 1: is before your eyes. If anyone is confident that he
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  Speaker 1: is Christ's, let him remind himself that just as he
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  Speaker 1: is Christ's, so also are we Second Peter one twelve
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  Speaker 1: and thirteen. Therefore I intend always to remind you of
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  Speaker 1: these qualities. Second Peter three, No, let me finish twelve, twelve,
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  Speaker 1: and thirteen remind you of these qualities, though you know
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  Speaker 1: them and are established in the truth that you have.
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  Speaker 1: I think it right as long as I am in
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  Speaker 1: this body to stir you up by way of reminder
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  Speaker 1: tewod Peter three to one. This is now the second
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  Speaker 1: letter that I am writing to you, beloved, and both
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  Speaker 1: of them I am stirring up your sincere mind by
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  Speaker 1: way of reminder. And finally, Jude five, now I want
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  Speaker 1: to remind you, although you once fully knew it that
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  Speaker 1: Jesus who saved a people out of the land of Egypt,
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  Speaker 1: afterward destroyed those who did not believe. Reminder, Reminder, reminder.
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  Speaker 1: Why do we need to sit under the ordinary means
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  Speaker 1: of grace every week in church because we need to
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  Speaker 1: be reminded. Why do we need to be reminded of
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  Speaker 1: the Gospel because we forget faith comes by hearing and
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  Speaker 1: hearing by the Word of Christ. Why do we need
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  Speaker 1: to read the Word regularly, pray the word regularly, sing
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  Speaker 1: the word regularly? Why do we need to come before
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  Speaker 1: the Lord's table week in and week out because we
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  Speaker 1: need to be reminded again and again and again, because
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  Speaker 1: the yoke of your oppression is a constant reminder, and
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  Speaker 1: you need the Word of God as a constant reminder.
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  Speaker 1: Because the difficulties that you face every day are a reminder,
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  Speaker 1: and so you need the Word of God as a reminder.
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  Speaker 1: The hardness of life is a reminder, and so you
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  Speaker 1: need the preaching of the Gospel as a reminder. The
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  Speaker 1: disappointment of your sinfulness is a reminder. So you need
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  Speaker 1: the majesty of Christ put forth before you again and
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  Speaker 1: again and again as a reminder. Christianity is not a
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  Speaker 1: class you take and pass. It's your life. It's your breath,
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  Speaker 1: your health, your strength, your everything. And you must be reminded.
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  Speaker 1: I must be reminded because every time difficulty smacks you
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  Speaker 1: or me in the face, our natural tendency is not
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  Speaker 1: to remember who God is, what He's done, and what
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  Speaker 1: He's promised. Our natural tendency is to say, this is
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  Speaker 1: too much for me. I just can't believe right now.
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  Speaker 1: This is why there's no such thing as a lone
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  Speaker 1: ranger christian You can't do this on your own. You
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  Speaker 1: weren't meant to do this on your own. You're not
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  Speaker 1: capable of doing this on your own. You need someone
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  Speaker 1: to remind you, You need to remind yourself, and you
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  Speaker 1: need to remind somebody else. Amazing things happen when we
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  Speaker 1: remind other people of things. This happens all the time.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things, you know, as pastors we talk
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  Speaker 1: about all the time, how you know you're sitting and
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  Speaker 1: you're dealing with some situation, and you're helping someone with
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  Speaker 1: some situation, and you're looking at these things objectively, and
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  Speaker 1: you're reminding these people of these things objectively, And all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden, in the middle of being the objective
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  Speaker 1: voice reminding people of these things, you go, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you're doing really good. What is sometimes while we're talking
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  Speaker 1: to you, you're doing really good talking to them. That's awesome, man,
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  Speaker 1: Where was all that stuff the other day when you
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  Speaker 1: had your own difficulties and your own doubts. That means
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  Speaker 1: it is a blessing to be part of the body
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  Speaker 1: to have people remind us again and again and again.
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  Speaker 1: It is a blessing when we gather as believers to
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  Speaker 1: be reminded again and again and again. But it is
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  Speaker 1: also a blessing to remind your brothers and sisters in
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  Speaker 1: Christ because oftentimes you need to hear those words fall
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  Speaker 1: out of your own mouth so that you can remember
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  Speaker 1: why the wheels fell off? Why did I say that
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  Speaker 1: thing I shouldn't have said? Here's why. I wouldn't hold
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  Speaker 1: it under this? Why did that do that thing I
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't have done. Here's why, because I wouldn't hold it
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  Speaker 1: onto this. Why did I act the way I shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: have acted? Here's why because I wasn't holding on to this?
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  Speaker 1: Who is God? What has he done? What has he promised?
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  Speaker 1: My prayer for you, for me, for all of us,
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  Speaker 1: is that as we walk through the difficulties of our lives,
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  Speaker 1: and our lives will be fraught with difficulties, that as
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  Speaker 1: we face each one of them, we will ask ourselves
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  Speaker 1: who is God? What has he done? What has he promised?
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  Speaker 1: I'm struggling with something right now. It's hurting me. What
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  Speaker 1: I need to do? You need to ask yourself, who
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  Speaker 1: is God? What has he done? What has he promised?
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  Speaker 1: I got some news that overwhelmed me. How do I
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  Speaker 1: face it? You ask yourself? Who is God? What has
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  Speaker 1: he done? What is promised? I've got a task in
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  Speaker 1: front of me that I have no idea how I
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  Speaker 1: can accomplish, what do I do? You ask yourself, who
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  Speaker 1: is God? What has he done? And what has he promised?
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  Speaker 1: And what happens when that doesn't work? Rent and repeat.
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  Speaker 1: It's just real easy to get caught up in this
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  Speaker 1: idea of this Christianity that makes us invincible. It's really
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  Speaker 1: easy to get caught up in this kind of Christianity
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  Speaker 1: that never has a bad day, or at least never
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  Speaker 1: admits it. It's real easy to get caught up in
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  Speaker 1: this christian how are you I'm blessed of highly favored,
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  Speaker 1: and never answer the question with now I'm struggling today.
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  Speaker 1: The problem with getting caught up in that myth of
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  Speaker 1: Christianity is that it leaves you nowhere to go in
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  Speaker 1: your dark days. But to your darkness. You can't admit
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  Speaker 1: that you're struggling. You can't ask for help when you're struggling,
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  Speaker 1: and you can't get out of your struggle because all
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  Speaker 1: you have is your struggle and the idea that there's
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  Speaker 1: something wrong with you because you're a Christian who's in
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  Speaker 1: the midst of a struggle. Let that go. Let that go,
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  Speaker 1: and rejoice in the fact that God has given you
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  Speaker 1: this one day and seven that he has given you
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  Speaker 1: your Bible, that He has given you your brothers and
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  Speaker 1: sisters in Christ, and so much more. In order to
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  Speaker 1: remind you again and again and again and again why
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  Speaker 1: because we need it. We need it. We need to
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  Speaker 1: be reminded Christ died for sin, once for all, the just,
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  Speaker 1: for the unjust, in order that He might bring us
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  Speaker 1: back to God. We need to be reminded of that.
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  Speaker 1: We need to be reminded that because we have come
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  Speaker 1: to Him in repentance and faith, that we are part
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  Speaker 1: of the covenant people of God, that we are saved,
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  Speaker 1: and that we are in the process of being sanctified
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  Speaker 1: and we will one day be glorified. We need to
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  Speaker 1: be reminded that Christ will, he who began a good
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  Speaker 1: work in you, is able and faithful to see it
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  Speaker 1: through to completion. You need to be reminded of that. Christian,
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  Speaker 1: And if you're not a Christian, you need to be
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  Speaker 1: reminded of that, because if you're not a Christian, that
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  Speaker 1: means you're trusting in something other than the completed work
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  Speaker 1: of Christ, and you're failing, and it's failing, and it's
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  Speaker 1: not enough for you to just fail. You need to
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  Speaker 1: be reminded over and over and over again. Why you're
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  Speaker 1: failing because Christ is your only hope. Flee to him,
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  Speaker 1: cling to him, trust in him and nothing else, and
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  Speaker 1: don't leave here another week without embracing and walking in
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  Speaker 1: that reality.
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  Speaker 2: Let's pray, Dear Father, we bow before you as a
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  Speaker 2: humble and needy people, by before you as a broken people,
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  Speaker 2: and yet we buy before you as a forgiven people,
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  Speaker 2: as a grateful people.
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  Speaker 1: Grateful that although we need reminders, we serve a God
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  Speaker 1: who delights in reminding us. Grateful that although we despair,
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  Speaker 1: we serve a God who delights in pointing us to hope.
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  Speaker 1: Grateful that although we disbelieve, we serve a God who
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  Speaker 1: helps our unbelief. Grant by your grace that we would
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  Speaker 1: embrace the reality of the Christian life and its struggles,
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  Speaker 1: and rejoice in the provision that you have made. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you for Christ, who is our only hope. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: for this meal in which we are about to partake.
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  Speaker 1: That reminds us again and again, week in and week
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  Speaker 1: out that just as our bodies need food, spiritually, we
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  Speaker 1: must feed on Christ. That reminds us again and again
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  Speaker 1: that his broken body and his shed blood are indeed
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  Speaker 1: our only hope, and that that hope is sufficient because
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  Speaker 1: Christ is sufficient. As we turn our attention to the
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  Speaker 1: Lord's table, grant by your grace that we might rejoice
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  Speaker 1: in Christ, and whose name we pray and ask all
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  Speaker 1: these things amen. But in a moment we will partake
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  Speaker 1: the word supper.