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Wednesday Evening Message: A Study in Psalms - Psalm 50 · CCC West Covina

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I want to welcome you back to our third week of studying the
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Psalms everybody remembers the first song we did two weeks ago.
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Some 11. Do you remember the first six
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words of Psalm 11? Somebody here called Don Scott
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in Texas and told him what I said.
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So I got this in the mail today in the Lord I take refuge so
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whoever you are, thank you but I appreciated I told you I wanted
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that banner last week. We looked at Psalm 22 the
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prophecy of the Cross tonight. We're going to go in a little
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bit of a different direction. We're going to study a different
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kind of Psalm one that we probably haven't studied the
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last two or three years and I call Psalm 50, a Psalm of
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judgment last week, I began talking about the disciples on
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the Emmaus Road. I want to begin tonight talking
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about that wonderful story of Nicodemus, visiting Jesus.
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In John 3, we won't take the time to read it, but, you know
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it, right? Nicodemus was a religious man.
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Perhaps was the most religious man in all of Israel or in
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Jerusalem. He was a Pharisee.
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He was a member of the Sanhedrin.
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He was a religious man, but he did not have a relationship with
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Jesus, and although he was a religious leader, he was
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Herschel Darkness until Jesus met him when he met Jesus that
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night and Nicodemus and the Pharisees are kind of like the
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people were going to talk about tonight in Psalm 50, they
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externalized religion, they invented all sorts of manmade
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regulations. They added to the law of Moses
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and they took pride in observing them, right?
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And Jesus in the great, whoa, chapter of Matthew 23 where it
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says, woe to you, woe to you woe to you, he would blast them for
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their hypocrisy. They would tie the spices and he
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says that you would wash the inside of the cup out, but you
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neglected to deal with the sin in your life.
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So Nicodemus was kind of like that man before he found Jesus,
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someone has said that religion is man made the gospel is God.
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Given religion is What man does for God.
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The gospel is what God does for, man, religion is good views, the
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People is good news. Religion is an outer Reformation
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the gospel ends in an inner transformation.
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Religion often becomes a farce. The gospel is always a force,
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the power of God unto salvation, a thousand years before Jesus
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came and met Nicodemus. And before he blasted the
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religious leaders for their religiosity, and the rituals of
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worship a worship leader in the temple of Jerusalem wrote this
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Psalm, and he would give a warning about false worship.
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His name is ASAP and he gives us a warning on judgment.
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I think in the Bible someone has said it talks about judgment is
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coming over 265 times. The word judgment is one most
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hated words in human vocabulary. That's why many years ago,
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Pastor Lance told. Us, when you share Jesus, you
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share that all are sinners, the wages of sin is death.
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And after death comes judgment, Romans 3:23, Romans 6:23 and
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Hebrews. 9:27 judgment is not well liked even though the Bible
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talks about it a lot Ecclesiastes 13 verse 14 says,
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for God will bring every deed into judgment every secret
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thing. Whether good or evil Acts 17:31
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says God has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in
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righteousness. By a man whom he has appointed
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and of this, he has given Assurance to All by raising him
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from the dead. That man is Jesus Christ.
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And I just mentioned Hebrews 9:27 says, and just as it is
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appointed for man to die. Once after that comes judgment a
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few months ago, Lance went through the seven judgments in
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the Bible and I thought I'd just review them real quickly in the
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Bible. There are seven judgments.
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The first one is the Judgment of sin, and that's that's that's at
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the cross cake. Colossians 2:14 says by
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canceling, the record of debt that stood against us with his
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legal demands, this he set aside nailing it to the Cross.
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If you have Jesus Christ in your heart tonight, your sins were
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nailed to the cross. So, there's a judgment of sin at
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the cross. Then the number two, there's a
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judgment of self. We call this today, in the
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Believers life. First, Corinthians 11, 31 says,
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if we judge it ourselves, truly, We would not be judged, we
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examine Our Lives, we confess our sins daily or whenever we
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sin. And the number three, there's
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going to be a judgment of the Believers works.
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It's called the bema seat judgment.
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This is not a judgment of sin but someday will stand for
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Christ. Second Corinthians 5:10 says
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for, we must all appear before the Judgment seat of Christ.
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So that each one may receive what is due for what he has done
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in the body, whether good or evil.
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So it's a judgment for our Awards.
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And then number four we have the Judgment of Israel.
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That's going to happen at the end of the tribulation, Ezekiel
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2244 talk about that. And number five, will be a
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judgment of Nations also at the end of the tribulations.
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Jesus talks about that in Matthew, 25 verses 31 to 46 and
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then they'll be a judgment of Satan.
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At the end of the Millennium Jude 6 says he is Bound for
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Everlasting judgment and lastly, they'll be a judgment of the
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unsaved and that's in Revelation, 20 and we'll look at
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that. Later.
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So, which judgment is this? I'm talking about.
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Well, it can be argued. That some 50 only has in direct
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view, God's Judgment of Israel because it is the nation joined
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him in the Covenant as described here, Exodus 19 Exodus 20:4 yet
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by extension and the principle of First Peter 4:17.
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This has all people of God and view, so we'll talk about Israel
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in night and we'll talk about us.
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So let's read Psalm 50 and then we'll pray Psalm 50.
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Hmm, some of ASAP, the mighty one God, the Lord speaks and
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summons the Earth from the rising of the sun to its setting
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out of Zion. The Perfection of beauty.
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God shines forth, our God comes. He does not keep silence before.
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Him is devouring, fire around him, a mighty Tempest.
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He calls to the heavens above and to the Earth that he may
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judge his people gather to me. My faithful ones who made it.
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Covenant with me by sacrifice the heavens declare his
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righteousness for God himself is Judge hero, my people and I will
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speak o Israel, I will testify against you.
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I am God your God not for your sacrifices.
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Do I rebuke you? Your burnt offerings are
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continually before me. I will not accept the bull from
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your house or a goat from your folds for every beast of the
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forest is mine. The cattle on a thousand hills
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by know. All the birds of the Eels and
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all that moves in the field is mine.
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If I were hungry, I would not tell you for the world and all
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its fullness are mine. Do I eat the Flesh of bulls or
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drink? The blood of goats offer, to God
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of sacrifice of Thanksgiving and perform your vows to the most
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high and call on me in the day of trouble.
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I will deliver you and you shall glorify me, but to the wicked
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God says what right do you have to recite my statues or take my
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Covenant on your lips? For you hate discipline and you
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cast my words behind you. If you see a thief, you're
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pleased with him and you keep company with adulterers, you
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give your mouth free rein for evil and your tongue frames to
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see you sit and speak against your brother.
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You slander your own Mother's Son, these things you have done
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and I have been silent. You thought that I was one like
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yourself but now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you
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mark this then you who forgot God.
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List, I tear you apart and there be none to deliver the one who
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offers Thanksgiving as a sacrifice.
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Glorifies me to the one who orders his way.
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Rightly I will show the salvation of god.
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Let's pray. Father, we thank you that we can
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study some 52 night. May we leave here tonight
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knowing more of you and when we come into the sanctuary, may we
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come in with proper worship, as we'd been warned by Aesop
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tonight. Thank you in Jesus name.
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Amen. So First off what type of Psalm
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is this? We looked at a song of trust in
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Psalm 11 two weeks ago, last week we looked at a Messianic
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Psalm so this is called a covenant renewal Psalm and what
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is the Covenant renewal song? There's really only two of them
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out of 150. So I'm 50 and I believe Psalm 86
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I think is one of them a covenant renewal.
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Psalm is designed to lead God's people to a renewal of the
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Covenant that was first given at Mount Sinai in.
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Exodus. I think 19 to 24.
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Yeah, I'm sorry. Psalm 50 in Psalm 81, not 86.
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So we looked at a song of trust, will get a Messianic Psalm and
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now we're going to look at a covenant renewal.
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So in the Old Testament there were quite often not too much
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but Joshua would renew the Covenant and Joshua 8 Ezra would
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renew the Covenant in Ezra 8 to 10 ASA in second chronicles 15
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Jehoshaphat in and Chronicles 20 and then the two good Kings we
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know of Hezekiah would renew the Covenant and Josiah would renew
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the Covenant. One example of Josiah, it says
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in second chronicles 34-31 and the King stood in his place and
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made a covenant with the Lord to keep the Commandments and his
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testimonies and his statutes with all his heart and soul and
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to perform the words of the Covenant that were written in
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this book, actually, Josiah is renewing the Covenant.
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That was first made on Mount Sinai, but if Israel did not
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renew the Covenant and, you know, there were only eight
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Kings out of 20 who were good or very good.
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Most of them were awful, judgment, awaited, if they
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didn't obey God's word, there will be judgment.
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So this is a covenant, renewal Psalm, but I'm calling it.
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A Psalm of judgment. Alexander McLaren said, it's
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hard to think of a song that is as relevant to our day.
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As this one, this Psalm has been keen and Edge for modern as Were
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ancient sins. We do have a superscription.
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It just says above the your Psalm 50 there.
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Psalm of ASAP, who's ASAP ASAP wrote, 12 Psalms.
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So, this is the first one, he wrote Psalm 50 and then you have
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to jump to Psalm 73 283. Now, last year, we looked at
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Psalm 77 and I think the year before that we looked at Psalm
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73. So ASAP wrote those songs so if
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you want to study more of a steps some it's interesting.
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Because ASAP is going to talk about false worship.
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And he's the, he's the Tim, he's the guy sitting up there and
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imagine him in the temple looking around, he knows who's
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phony, who knows who's going through the rituals.
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So he's the right guy to write this song first.
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Chronicles 16 says that ASAP is one of the three great song
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leaders in the temple. Heman ASAP and Ethan were the
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three leaders and they would lead the temple worship.
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And the music is there a context connecting?
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This will just go back to I'm 49 verse 20, we actually study some
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49 last year. We call that some the
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worthlessness of wealth, but the last verse says, man and his
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pomp yet without understanding is like beasts that perish.
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So, there's a warning there for people, rich people, a warning
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that you will die in spend, eternity in hell.
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So Psalms 49 does kind of connect in the context with some
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50, your outline, your three main points, God, summons to
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judgment verses 1 to 6 God speaks in judgment verses 7 to
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15 and God sentences in judgment verses 16 to 23.
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So let's look at God's summons to judgment verses 1 to 6.
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So first off the judge is heard. It says the mighty one God.
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The Lord speaks and Summons of the Earth.
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This song begins with ASAP describing a courtroom scene.
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The roof of the courtroom is Heaven above, and the floor is
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the earth beneath God himself. Is the judge God is also the
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judge. God is also the prosecuting
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attorney all rolled and the jury all rolled into one.
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There is no defense attorney in this courtroom.
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The psalmist compounds three names for God.
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You probably seen this before. The only other currents of this
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is Joshua 22:22, which says the mighty one, God, the Lord.
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And that's what our song begins. So you have three names for God,
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L Elohim and Yahweh. So it gives an awesome sense of
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the Majesty. You could have just said,
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Yahweh, right? You just could have said Elohim
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but he's going to say the mighty one is L is the god, the mighty
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one that awful one who has attributes and judgments human
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judges. When you go in the courtroom, if
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you have ever done, I haven't done.
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Jury duty probably in 25 years, but when you go in the courtroom
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they still make you stand upright.
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The honorable Judge comes in and you stand up, right?
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Well this honorable Judge is called the mighty one when he
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walks into the courtroom. Room.
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The second name is Elohim and that means the god, that Who is
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majestic, he's the god of creation, he's the god of the
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sun and the stars in the galaxies and the planets.
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And then, the third name, Yahweh is the god.
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Merciful one who reveals himself to men and he signs contracts or
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covenants with them. The Covenant he did with Israel.
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So this God is majestic and all-powerful who speaks and
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summons the Earth to appear in judgment before him.
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And it says, From the rising of the sun to its setting.
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So from the East to the West, the whole earth is summoned to
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appear before this Almighty judge.
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Not just the children of Israel who is specifically a speaking
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to. So the judges heard now number
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two the judges scene he says out of Zion the Perfection of beauty
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God shines forth Zion is the Holy Mountain where the temple
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stands Zion stands for Perfection because God is in our
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Mist, God's holiness and Majesty Radiate the light that shines
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forth. You know, I mentioned that when
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the human courtroom we all stand respectively, when the judge
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enters the courtroom. But here are God's interests is
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accompanied by the Shekinah Glory and the fury Tempest.
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That was described on Mount Sinai when he gave the law in
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Exodus 19. If you want to turn there you
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can but in Exodus 19. When the law was given verses 16
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to 19 of Exodus 19 says, on the morning of the third day, there
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was Thunder, there was lightning and a thick cloud.
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The mountain and a very loud trumpet blast.
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So that all the people in the camp trembled, then Moses
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brought the people out of the camp to meet God and they took
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their stand at the foot of the mountain.
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Now, I'm out signing was wrapped in Smoke because the Lord had to
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send it on it. In fire, the smoke went up like
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the smoke of a kiln and the whole Mountain trembled greatly
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and the sound of the trumpet, grew, louder, and louder, Moses
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spoke. And God answered him in Thunder,
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the Lord came down on Mount Sinai to The top of the mountain
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and the Lord Called Moses to the top of the mountain and Moses
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went up. So this judge is going to leave
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his chamber and he's going to appear on Mount Zion in the form
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of dazzling. Brilliant, Glory Cloud that we
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call the Shekinah Glory. He's not going to be silent
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about people's sins. Any longer he's been silent for
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a long time, but he comes down with fire, a great storm with
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thunder and lightning all around him.
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At Mount Sinai. He came to give the law, here,
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he comes to Interpret the law, its spiritual meaning.
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He will come as a judge the New Testament States.
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The fact that this will be done, we read acts 17:31 that Jesus
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Christ is going to gather all the nations before him and he
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will pronounce. The final sentence on mankind.
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Verse 3, says, our God comes, he does not keep silent he's
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devouring fire and around him Mighty Tempest for most people.
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It seems that God is silent. Now, they can't hear God.
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Why doesn't God answer me? No voice is heard.
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No sentence is pronounced. So people think they can get
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away with things, they make themselves up gods of Idols, but
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this not will not always be the case.
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As a time is coming, when God will no longer be silent and he
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to the conduct and character of men, the wicked will see and
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hear and much like the children of Israel who trembled at Mount
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Sinai. The wicked will tremble with
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fear. Point C.
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The judge takes his place in the Judgment seat.
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It says he calls to the heavens above and to the Earth that he
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may judge his people. I read one Psalm a day which I
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encourage you to read one Psalm a day and today's saw my red was
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my reading was Psalm 75 and I hadn't even noticed that.
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But Psalm 75 verses 6 to 8 says for not from the east or from
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the west and not from the Wilderness comes lifting up but
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it is God who executes Putting down one and lifting up another
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for the hand of the Lord. There is a cup with foaming
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wine. Well mixed he pours out from it
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on all the wicked of the Earth shall drain it down to the
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dregs. So this is the judge that comes
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in and in the Bible when it calls Heaven and Earth as a
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witness it's a very serious thing.
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Isaiah chapter 1, verses 1 and 2 says the same thing.
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Isaiah begins his 66 chapters of his book by calling heavens and
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earth above that he could make witness.
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So it's a very Serious thing, God is going to subpoena Heaven
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and Earth. He's going to gather all the
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defendants to stand by the witness stand.
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So he commands the attendance to bring in the defendants first.
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He's going to talk about the faithful ones in verses, 7 to
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15, which we'll get to in a minute later.
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He's going to have a special court session for the wicked
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ones verses 16 to 19, God will call on all the universe.
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He will summon all who dwell on Earth, the world, the heavens,
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the universe will see and It that this judge is just the
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heavens, are called to Bear witness to the righteousness of
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God's judgment. The fact that this judge has
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perfect knowledge of all facts, he's absolutely impartial.
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His verdicts are wise. And just number Point D, the
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judge summons his people. He says, gather to me, my
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faithful ones who made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
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So this would be talking about the children of Israel.
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The psalm, the all the songs were written for the children of
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Israel, who Made a covenant by sacrifice a God's people entered
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into a solemn Covenant relationship with him and this
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Covenant was made of Mount Sinai and as I mentioned was renewed
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periodically by good leaders and good Kings.
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And lastly, pointy there. The judges declared righteous.
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What a statement we have here in verse 6, the heavens declare his
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righteousness for God himself is Judge Selah.
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So when you see a Cielo, it means there's a pause timed.
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It may be time to go to the second.
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Yes. But usually there's a space and
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there's a pause here because God wants you to think about what he
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just said. This is a serious and sober
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statement and were invited to pay attention to this momentous
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announcement of the Judgment upon God of God upon mankind
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particular to hear the children of Israel as applied to
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Christians. Today, he would speak of our
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relationship to Jesus Christ. The holy spirit is going to
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summon every man woman who ever lived someday, those who don't
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know, Christ, I read an article about Shaquille O'Neal was sued
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by something to do with bit con. I don't understand completely,
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but they couldn't catch him, they couldn't find it because
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you can't drag someone into court without having a summons.
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Right? So the process server has to
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find someone and I guess they finally caught up after a year
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or two. They got Shaquille O'Neal to be
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served. Now, he has to appear in court.
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Well, Shaquille O'Neal, voided it for some time, but they'll be
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no. Escaping.
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The process server, who is the Holy Spirit in this courtroom,
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John Sting versus 7-Eleven talk about the Holy Spirit, is a
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spirit of judgment, let's move on to point to God speaks in
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judgment. Okay, the main idea and verses 7
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to 15 is the judge is going to summon his Covenant People
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Israel. God is going to judge their
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worship. Nominally Orthodox.
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Mechanically and Pious would be how you describe the worship for
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a modern application for us. It would be a group of people
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who profess Christ. They might go to church, but
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there's no. No, fruit, just external
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mechanics, maybe you'd call those.
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Sometimes we call him. The CEO Christians.
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They come on Christmas Easter, only CEO Facebook, Christians.
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I have some relatives who claim to be Christians and they're
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really good at posting versus on Facebook or Instagram, but
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they're never in church except on Christmas or Easter.
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So God speaks in judgment. Number one, let's talk about the
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prosecuting attorney. I mentioned.
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There is no defense attorney in this courtroom.
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He says Hear o. My people.
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I will speak. Israel, I will testify against
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you. I am God your God in courtrooms
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today. It would be impossible for a
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judge to serve as the prosecutor, but in this case,
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it's altogether proper because he's just he's righteous for the
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judge, is the Lord God. Almighty God is also the chief
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witness in this courtroom and the defendants here in trial are
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God's Own people. So God is going to speak 10
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times and it's section verses 7 to 15.
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It says aye aye. I and I just imagine every time
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he says, I there's a thunder, there's lightning okay, there's
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fire. So he's going to say, aye God is
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speaking here. And what's he saying?
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He's basically saying I am Sovereign.
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I Am The Sovereign god of the universe.
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When he says, I am God, your God, there is no other number
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two, what are the charges that are brought against the children
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of Israel? It's the charges are the sin of
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ritualism ritualism kind of like Nicodemus.
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They did all those Rituals and washing cups.
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Tithing meant you. No trimming their beards doing
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all those things, but this group of people God makes it clear.
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They had not failed to bring sacrifices because he says not
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for your sacrifices to I rebuke you.
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They brought the sacrifices, the men came three times a year for
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the feasts, but they had failed to bring sacrifices to him.
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They had been faithful and bringing the burnt offerings.
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They felt this was all they had to do.
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That was all, that was expected. I'm like, showing up to church
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on Sunday, like I did many years ago.
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Someone has described him as being Sons and Daughters who
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treat their parents and differently day after day by
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doing things that grieve them. Then on some special occasion,
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they present their mother father with special gifts, Isaiah 1,
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11, to 15 talks about this in graphic terms.
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A Us five verses 21 to 24 talk about it, but I thought we'd
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turn to Micah 6 and I think a lot of, you know, verse 8 but
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will read like a six versus six to eight.
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So there's lots of chapters in the Bible that talk about but
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Micah chapter 6, verses 6 to 8 says, What shall I come with?
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What you like come before the Lord and bow myself before God
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on high Vic? Listen.
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What do you want me to do? God?
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Shall I come with him with burnt offerings with calves?
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That are a year old? Will the Lord?
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Be pleased with thousands of Rams with ten thousands of
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rivers of oil, shall I? Give my first foreign for my
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transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul and
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then you all know verse 8, I hope he has told you o, man.
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What is good and What does the Lord require of you but to do
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justice and to love kindness and to walk humbly with your God.
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God wasn't interested in the sacrifices that they were
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bringing okay? But they loaded his altar with
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all these animals they treated god with coldness and neglect.
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They thought they would earn Merit.
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They'd walk out of the temple. We're all right.
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Now for another, another few months till the next time, a
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sacrifices. But when it came to a warm
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relationship with God, it was seriously lacking.
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There's always a danger of outward obedience but there's a
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failure but it's a failure to have a Burning Heart of Love for
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God. And His word is the lesson for
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us. God had never intended.
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Right, outward action to serve as a cover for wrong inward
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attitudes. The attitude of the offer is
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significant, we'll talk about in a minute, a true worshiper.
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Recognizes the fact that everything we bring to God is
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already his including ourselves so they had a lack of reasoning.
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That's Point number C or three there in verses 9 to 13 and here
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he's going to say it's not it's not for your animals, I don't
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need them. The problem is you're Attitudes.
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So, not for the animals, they had failed to stop and think
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that God owns these animals. He owns all the creatures in the
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world already. Kind of like, when we put money
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in the offering, we think we're tithing out of our money.
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It's God's money altogether when we die, but they failed to stop
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and think about God and His creatures that God owns the
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beasts of the field. He owns the cattle on a thousand
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hills. He owns the bird of the air, the
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birds in the air. You owns everything that moves
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in the The field God doesn't really need a single thing from
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these men. He's never hungry and if he
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were, he has a well-stocked Pantry in heaven.
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God received no nourishment from or satisfaction from the blood
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of bulls meat or goats blood. God is completely
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self-sufficient. God instituted sacrifices not
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because he needed them but because people desperately
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needed him. Their attitudes were wrong.
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They thought they were benefiting God.
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They thought God needs these. Sacrifices, he needs these
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offerings. Someone has said, actually, he
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wrote this probably 150 years ago.
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William Booth the founder of the Salvation Army and this is true
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of our church today. I consider that the chief
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dangers, which will confront the 20th century will be religion
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without the Holy Spirit Christianity without the
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Christ's forgiveness without regeneration.
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Ian morality without God in heaven.
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I'm sorry. Morality without God, and Heaven
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without hell. So they had a lack of reasoning
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about their animals and their attitudes were wrong when they
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came to the temple. So Point number four there D,
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what does God want from his people?
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And I wrote them out in your outline for things, first off,
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he wants Thanksgiving, offered to God, a sacrifice of
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Thanksgiving, you know, no gift can take the place of simple.
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To. There's a story told of a
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family. They took their mother for
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granted. They didn't visit her a lot when
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she's on her deathbed they rarely came but after they're
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after her death, at the funeral they have tempted to atone for
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their thankfulness by dressing her in a two thousand dollar
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Dior gown. That's what a lot of people do
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right after but we need to have a thankful heart before we need
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to fulfill our vows to the most high vows of love for God,
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worship service and devotion. So he He's telling them that
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they need to offer God sacrifices of Thanksgiving.
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And number two, I'm sorry, excuse me.
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Colossians 4:2, says continued steadfastly in prayer being
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watchful in it with Thanksgiving.
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Number two, we need to have an obedient will he says, perform
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your vows to the most. I notice, the kind of obedience
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is, it's not something forced upon us, it's something you
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choose to do. And the Bible tells us in first
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John 5:3 that for this is For God, that we keep his
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Commandments and his Commandments are what not
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burdensome. Number three, we need to have
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praful Spirits. It says, we need to call upon me
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in the day of trouble. This is a lovely verse in the
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inside of the god. This judge here, the very Heart
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Of God, he loves to hear from his people.
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He loves it when they pray and he loves to answer those
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prayers. God wants a close relationship,
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intimate relationship, a tender relationship with his people and
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himself. Elf and number four, he wants
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dependent lives. She says, I will deliver you and
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you shall glorify me. Jude 1:20 says, but you beloved
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building yourselves up in the Most.
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Holy Faith and praying in the Holy Spirit.
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God wants your proper worship. He wants your prayers.
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He wants your ties, he wants your service.
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Not because he needs them, but because he wants your heart, the
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greatest commandment Jesus said in the Old Testament, says in
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Jesus repeated it when asked was to Love the Lord, your God, with
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all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength and
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with all your mind, one Martyn, lloyd-jones said the chief
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problem today is not the problem of those people who say there is
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no God and who are in the world. It's the problem of people who
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go to the house of God in a purely mechanical manner, they
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go there. But why?
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Because it's the thing to do, they attend church is a matter
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of Duty. It's the thing to do.
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It's just a formality. It's entirely eat.
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Eternal, let's move to point. Number three, God sentence is in
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judgment verse, 16 to 23. We just saw in verses 7 to 15 a
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group of people, Israelites, and some Christians today, who don't
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properly worship God. Those people though can repent,
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they can find a Salvation with God but now he's going to judge
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another group of people. These people also profess to be
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religious but their lives are an open denial of the truth.
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He levels a series of charges against him that we're going to
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look at. So in verses 16 to 19, he's
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going to not judge the the religious ones here.
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He's going to judge the wicked ones and I mention ASAP.
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As a chief musician was certainly have had many
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opportunities to observe, the worship of the people who are
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hypocrites in their worship. So in verses 7 to 15, you saw
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the personal pronoun i' II 10 times.
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But now in verses 16 to 23, you're going to see You-you-you.
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15 times with increasing intensity, God is rebuking the
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wicked. You did this, you did that you
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recited the law as you agree to the Covenant.
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Without any conviction, these religious Hypocrites in spite of
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their presence in public worship actually hated God's instruction
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and they rejected his word. Let's look at Point a, the
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evidence that was presented there were disobedient in verses
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16 and there are four things that you don't have your
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outline. It'll give you real quick.
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Number one, they hated discipline.
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He's sick but God says to the Wicket what right have you to
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recite my statutes or to take my Covenant on your lips for you?
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Hey discipline, this group of people consider themselves above
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correction. They resented correction much
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like people today even if this correction was from God
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Almighty, they only wanted their way.
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These people are interested in religion that has no influence
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upon their life. They might talk about God, They
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live, as if he doesn't exist, they hate it instruction from
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God's word and that goes to point some point.
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Number two, they treated God's word with contempt.
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It just says that you cast my words behind you.
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I was thinking of that example of King, jehoiakim in Jeremiah
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36 remember what he did. Jeremiah was Barack, Jeremiah
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scribe wrote out the scroll and then that they eventually got it
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to the king. King and the king would read a
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couple lines and then he'd cut it and throw it in the fire.
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Can you imagine that? So these people though would
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cast, God's words behind him, I guarantee you, they would know
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the Psalms they would know the Torah.
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They would know the Bible, but there was no impact on their
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life. Number three, they refuse to
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walk in a path of Separation, says, if you see a thief, you're
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pleased with him and you keep the company of adulterers.
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So by fellowshipping with thieves and adulterers, they had
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disobeyed The Lord and brought reproof upon his name.
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So the psalmist is going to use the eighth commandment, you
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shall not steal and the seventh commandment, you shall not
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commit adultery. Leviticus 20 and all the
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covenants says I have separated you from the peoples that you
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should be mine. So there was always to be a
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separation. I think you just remember just a
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couple months ago not even a month ago, right in our study of
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Hebrews, Lance gave the message tackling 10 Timeless truths
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remember that? You remember what truth number
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seven was, it was realized the importance of separation from
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the world that was from Hebrews 13:2 10 to 14.
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And you remember what Lance said?
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If you're a companion of the world, you'll start caring about
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the world, you'll become contaminated by the world.
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You'll be conformed by the world.
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You'll be controlled by the world and you'll be convicted by
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the world. So these people did the same
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thing. They refused to separate and be
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holy. And the fourth thing that God
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says they're guilty of is. Their speech was wicked verses
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19 to 20. So now he's going to give the
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ninth commandment. So he's given the seventh eighth
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and Ninth Commandments. He could give them all but he's
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just using free as example. But the ninth commandment is
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Exodus. 20:16 you shall not bear false witness against your
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neighbor. But this verse tells us that
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they were experts in line experts in to see experts and
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slander, even their close relatives.
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It says you speak against your brother, you slander your own
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Mother's Son. So, close relatives were not
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safe from this vicious Wicked. Talk of these people.
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So the psalmist, selects three of The Ten Commandments to
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reveal how these cryptic Hypocrites had no intention of
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keeping the law. Let's move on to some point, be
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the execution spoken destruction verses 21 to 22.
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So here in verse 21 it says God number one, God has been silent.
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God had been silent much like today.
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People think God is silent and because God didn't judge them
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immediately. Now occasionally, God would
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judge people Sodom and Gomorrah and Aiken, when he stole and
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Sons of Korah ananias and Sapphira, there are people who
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got judged immediately but most often are merciful kind God
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doesn't judge them and doesn't judge us immediately.
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So that gave them the thought that they could disobey God and
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they would create a God in their own image.
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Lance talked about this on. Sunday.
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So God had been silent verse 21. But then he says in last part of
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21b God. Now speaks.
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And he says you thought that I was one like yourself Martyn,
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lloyd-jones preached, an entire sermon on Psalm 50 verse 21.
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You thought that I was one like yourself and it's so important.
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You thought that I was one like yourself.
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They believed in a God, they're interested in religion.
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But they ultimately make themselves out to be a God.
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But where do they get their ideas from?
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They have thoughts. It says you thought.
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So they think they think how can I justify my sin, they make a
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God in their own likeness after their image determined by their
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thoughts. Monday night at the men's
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meeting, I had a group of men and I brought this up about, you
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hear the same thing from homosexuals.
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Jesus, never spoke on homosexuality heard that there's
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videos out there. There's false teachers talking
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about that. So is that true?
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Okay. So the homosexual hears that and
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they believe that, well, God doesn't speak about
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homosexuality so I can stay in my sin.
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I can live in this lifestyle after all.
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God loves me, right? Well, Bodie Bachmann, you can,
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you can Google it with Bodhi Bachmann says, on this, when
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Jesus says, he never spoke on homosexuality, vodi, Bachmann
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says, for things, he says number one.
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Jesus did speak on marriage in Matthew 5 and especially Matthew
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19. That marriage is between one man
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and one woman. Okay.
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Number two and this is where First Corinthians 2 is at 14.
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Says The Man Without the spirit, cannot understand the Bible and
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things of the spirit. When God speaks Jesus is
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speaking. The holy spirit is speaking.
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Jesus was there when Leviticus was written which says that
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sodomy is the OWN Abomination against God, the Holy Spirit was
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there. So when Jesus speaks God's
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speech, you can't separate the Trinity.
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So when they say Jesus, Didn't say anything about
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homosexuality. You can't separate Jesus, the
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Holy Spirit and God, but of course, they don't know that.
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And the number 3, the Bible is one uniform book from Genesis to
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Revelation. It's one story about man in sin.
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You can't just take out certain parts of it.
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And number for the silent argument is what fools use?
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Right, Jesus, never said, anything about homosexuality.
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Well, Jesus never said any about pedophilia, does that mean?
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It's okay. So, arguing, the Bible from side
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This is really a stupid argument, but, but you can see
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how the homosexual people created God in their own mind.
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They'll go to church thinking that they won't be judged.
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So God says you thought, think about it today?
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You thought you could make a marriage covenant between saying
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sexist. You thought you could kill that
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baby in your womb because you call it a fetus is not a person.
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You thought you could change your sex when I created you,
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beautiful. You thought you could call
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yourself an agnostic And not know me.
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You thought you could call yourself an atheist and claimed
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not to know me. You thought you could have a god
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without wrath and without hell and judgment.
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You thought you were like me a God is what he's seeing.
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So God speaks powerfully in verse 21 and now in verse 22 he
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sentenced the wicked. So God had been silent God.
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Now speaks and now God sentences.
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He says mark this then you who forgot God.
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Lest I tear you apart. And there be none to deliver God
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is going to judge them. He already has Judge them.
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The Bible says, unless they've renewed their Covenant, the soul
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who sins will die Ezekiel aching for all have sinned and fall
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short of the glory of God Romans 3:23.
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He does not leave the guilty unpunished, Exodus 34:7.
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So you have these Wicked people who made a God in their own
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image and they're living in their sin.
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And these are for us, Modern Day applications.
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It would be the people that go to church.
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The people who come on Christmas and Easter and these people.
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We'll be like, what we quote, this verse, I think, every month
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that Christ May Church. Matthew 7 verses 21 to 23 very
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familiar. Right?
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Jesus says, not everyone who says to me.
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Lord, Lord will enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
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Not everyone will enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
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There's no universalism, okay? But the one who does the will of
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my father who is in heaven, on that day, what day is that?
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The great white Throne judgment many will say to me.
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Lord Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, cast out demons in
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your name? Do many mighty works in your
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name and then I will declare to them.
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I never knew you depart from me, you workers of lawlessness, so
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there's a warning to the Israel. There's a warning for us and
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then in Revelation, 20 verse 11 to 15, I read this.
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I think just a few weeks ago, it says in Revelation 20:11-15.
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Then I saw a great white Throne judgment again, this is the
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great white Throne judgment is for the unsaved, okay?
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The unsaved, the whole world and him who was In on it from his
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presence Earth and Sky fled away.
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And no place was found for them. And I saw the dead Great and
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Small standing Before, the Throne and the books were
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opened. And another book was opened
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which is The Book of Life and the dead were judged by what was
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written in the book. According to what they had done
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and the Sea gave up the Dead who were in it, death and Hades,
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gave up the Dead who were in them and they were judged each
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one of them according to what they had Done then death and
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Hades were thrown into the Lake of Fire.
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This is the second death, the Lake of Fire And if anyone's
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name was not found written in the Book of Life, he was thrown
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into the Lake of Fire. So these Wicked people would be
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judged unless they repented and turned to God.
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But let's finish her song with verse 23.
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The expectation required Delight, okay, says the one who
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offers Thanksgiving as a sacrifice, glorifies me, that's
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the second time in her song, we had the word Thanksgiving to the
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Orders his way rightly. I will show the salvation of my
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God. So the true worshiper, new his
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sin right? The true worshiper, humbly.
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Come before the Lord. You know, I read that and I
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think of Luke 18 with the story of the Pharisee and the tax
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collector, right, you know, one time I counted the Pharisee
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prayed 33 words, right? Thank God.
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I'm not like this person. I did this.
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I did that 33 words and his prayer went to the rafters or
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the temple or the ceiling the tax.
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Sure. He only said seven words, right?
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God be merciful to me a sinner. That's somebody who comes.
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Who knows they're a sinner. Who comes humbly for God?
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First, Peter 4:17 says, for the time of judgment is to begin.
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If it begins with the household of God, and if it begins with
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us, what will the outcome be for those who do not obey the gospel
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of God? So I'll finish tonight with a
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illustration for Martyn lloyd-jones.
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And he talks about Psalms 14:1, you all know Psalm 14:1 right.
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The fool and Heart says what? There is, no God.
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So Lloyd Jones says, I wonder is that could anything be more
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foolish than that? Is there any greater Folly than
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saying the the fullness heart says there's no no no God.
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Well Joan says, I would like to suggest that in the 50th Psalm
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there is a suggestion that something worse or stronger than
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that. There's people the Folly of
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people who say, they believe in God.
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But who in the terror of their lives and the whole of their
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conduct daily forget God and live exactly.
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As he does not exist, at least you must Grant the fool because
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he says there is no God, the fool doesn't read the Bible.
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He doesn't think about God. But these other people that
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people, when our psalm They're in a worse State.
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They Proclaim that they believe in God, but there's no influence
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in their lives, their Outlook, and the whole of their behavior
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and living. So tonight, you know, I'm
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preaching to the choir tonight. The Wednesday night people, I'm
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not preaching to the Sunday people, but maybe some of us
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need to have a sober reflection Upon Our Life.
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Do you have a religion or do you have a relationship with our
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Lord Jesus Christ? Are you religious or
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ritualistic? Or is Jesus, your relationship?
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What do you have? If you died tonight?
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Where would you spend eternity? I've only had one person in my
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entire life. Tell me how most people say
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heaven, right? So, the second question is, if
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God were to ask you, why should I let you into heaven?
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What would you say? And let you think about that.
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Hopefully everyone here tonight would say, well, Jesus Christ
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died for my sins, on the cross, I believe in him.
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I trust in him. I've accepted in my life.
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Okay. The Bible says in Romans 5:8,
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that God demonstrates his love toward us while we were sinners.
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Christ died for me. Romans 10:9 says, you confess
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with your mouth? Jesus is Lord and believe in
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your heart, that God raised from the dead.
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You will be saved. Is that you tonight?
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Well, then you don't have to worry about judgment.
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You don't have To worry about the the Judgment songs.
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You're not going to get a summons.
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Okay, you're not going to get a summons.
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You're going to be welcomed into heaven.
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But your sins were judged at the cross.
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You have peace with God, Romans 5:1 and to says we have peace
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with God. Thanks to what Jesus Christ.
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Did your expectation is the glories of Heaven, eternal life
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and that's why I titled it Delight.
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So if you answered that correctly, Then you say you love
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Jesus, you say Jesus Loves Me, Do You Love Jesus?
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Can you see that in your life? Now the children of Israel, they
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took a covenant, right? But most of them forgot that
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Covenant their worship became mechanical Pious.
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Okay? Is the love for Christ on
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display in your life. It's not just reading the Bible,
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it's not just praying, it's not just going to church is not just
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tithing is not just serving because even that you can be
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very mechanical and Pious about, right?
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You got to love him with all your heart, soul, strength, and
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mind. So the second question is
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tonight, do I need to renew my Covenant with the Lord?
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What is a covenant with the Lord?
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You said I didn't think a common with the lord.
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Well, you did. You took a covenant with the
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Lord. If you join Christ Community
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Church you took a covenant with Christ, Community Church, a
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covenant is unusually formal solemn, binding agreement.
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When You're baptized you're giving a you're testifying to
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the world that I'm going to follow Jesus Christ.
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When you confess Jesus Christ, you say I'm going to follow him.
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That's a covenant, you're going to love him, you're going to
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serve him, you're going to worship him.
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But many of us have forgotten the Covenant card that we took,
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as I think I took this Covenant card.
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Anybody remember this? It's a covenant card that we
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show you in the new members class.
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Well, I've had the joy of teaching the new members class
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to me about 50 people in the last three years.
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Well, Many of us have forgotten this.
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Remember Marlene because it's been like 28 years for me, 28
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years, for some of you. Well, I got good news in the
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month of September Pastor, Lance is going to review our covenant
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card. So I don't need to spend a lot
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of time on it tonight but you know some people say not
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important, join the church not important, the go through a
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covenant card, but Christ Community Church is the local
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church in the larger body of Christ.
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It's the living organism in the body of Christ in West Covina,
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Baldwin Park, Irwindale, Southern California and the ends
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of the world. So we're going to look at that
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and I'll just leave you with Hebrews.
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We looked at Hebrews 12, it says let us offer to God acceptable
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worship with reverence and awe for our God is a consuming fire.
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The children of Israel will be judged while they were judged
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but they will be judged in the in the Judgment of Israel
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someday also and so will everyone who ever lived that
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rejects? Jesus Christ, if you have Jesus,
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Jesus Christ tonight, your heart, you don't have to fear
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judgment, you have peace with God.
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You'll have the Delights of heaven, but does God have your
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heart? I read this.
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And I realize there are things I need to do to renew my Covenant
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with God and I hope you will too next week.
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We're going to look at Psalm 56. A Psalm of trust When Trials.
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Come, let's close in prayer. Father in Heaven.
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Just want to Thank you tonight for Psalm 50.
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Thank you.i hope every single person here tonight has Jesus
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Christ in their heart father, but some of us are worship has
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become mechanical. We just come.
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We sit. Like I did many years ago before
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Lance preach the word of God and Shook Me Up.
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Father, I pray that we would renew our covenant like the
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children of Israel did periodically with Hezekiah and
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Josiah. May, we have true worship for
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you. Sing and praise and worship you
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not just read the bible to read through it.
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In one year, but to study it so that we can obey it when we
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leave our Bible study, knowing more of you.
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And what it is that we could share it father that we could
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love you and serve you. There's so many places to serve
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at Christ Community Church. Father, can we give you our
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heart, our soul or strength or mine?
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So we pray that we could renew our covenant worship with you
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father. We also want to uplift little
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Joshua Bustos who's in surgery right now.
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I know they delayed the surgery. We pray that he would be Getting
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out of surgery. You have to spend one night in
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the hospital at night, be with Esteban be with Michelle but
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please heal, that little Joshua me, the surgery.
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We hear good news tonight that it's done in successful and we
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look forward to seeing you in Sunday in Jesus name.
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Amen.