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Deuteronomy 10 - 11 Bible Study - Pastor Daniel Batarseh · Bible Study with Pr. Daniel Batarseh | Verse by Verse Series | Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago

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  Deuteronomy chapter 10, we're still going through our study in
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  the book of Deuteronomy, but we're trusting that's going to
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  be a life-changing word regardless, even though we're
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  going through a chapter by chapter, we still believe that
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  it is living and has something for us right now.
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  Let's pray one more time, okay? As we, as we do this together,
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  father in Jesus name, Many people in here, might be
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  exhausted after conference. And in coming here, in the
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  beginning of the week to work, or to go to school below.
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  We're here. And we need another touch even
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  though we were touched last week and we still need fresh bread.
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  We can't survive a day without you.
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  So Lord, we just pray for total Clarity Precision, Lord, freedom
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  from confusion, and even more a conviction for those who need
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  it, father and a comfort for those who equally needed.
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  And where we That in this time. As we rehearse, these truths we
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  would leave here refreshed with the knowledge of who you are.
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  Lord, it's still on my heart to pray for the young preacher that
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  took his own life. This week, we lift up, Jared,
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  Wilson's, family to you, Lord, we don't have the answers to
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  questions, but father, we pray for his wife and we pray for his
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  to baby boy, is Lord. We ask for a supernatural peace,
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  to come upon them. We pray for the church Lord.
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  We pray for the people that might be.
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  Be wondering how a leader can come to that point and we pray
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  just for a comfort to come as well and assistance from your
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  Holy Spirit to bring a Serenity in a trust that you're in
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  control. Lord, we think of Isaiah 61
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  father, when King Uzziah died as I said, and I saw the Lord.
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  And so Lord, despite death, and despite disappointment, or we
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  choose to look at you and see that you are seated, high and
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  lifted up. Father, we just pray that if
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  anybody in here, In despair to the point where they don't see
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  another day Worth Living. Lord, you would Breathe, hope
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  through this word and that, it would bring a sense of trust in
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  you. Lord.
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  And father, we think of, even the song that we just sang, I
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  Believe In the resurrection and I believe that Jesus will come
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  again. Lord, we sometimes in these
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  moments aching in pain wish for that day to be.
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  Now, that you would come and sweep this up from this world,
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  from Temptation, from sin, from all these broken, things that we
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  hear Or of and experience. Lord, come and rescue us.
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  We say with the spirit, come Lord, Jesus, we anticipate your
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  return until then, teach us what you want us to know.
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  In Jesus name we pray, amen. Think it serves.
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  Purpose to remind ourselves where we left off.
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  Remember the whole point of the book of Deuteronomy is simply
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  this that God is speaking through Moses to this generation
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  of Israelites to go into the promised land, which symbolizes
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  the central desire for his will for their lives filled with
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  blessing and purpose, it's the same thing for you.
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  And I but it comes with conditions because we can enter
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  into the, will of God, like, many people have, but then
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  forfeited or walk away from it or Spradley come in and out of
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  it. And what Moses is teaching, the
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  people is how to remain in longevity for their purpose in
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  God. And we talked about many things,
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  talked about the warning of enemies that await we talked
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  about the Enemy Within my own heart that refuses to fear God
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  that refuses to love God. We talked about last time we
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  were together two main things in chapter 9 and that was this the
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  practice of remembering our past not just our past in general but
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  our past failures we go I try to forget my past why would I want
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  to remember it? Because there's a holy purpose
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  in that and it is not to Cripple me or condemn me or remove hope
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  for a brighter day tomorrow for God to use me or to reveal
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  himself to me. No is to remember what happened
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  in the past. To not repeat it again to
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  remember the pain that Hold the shame and to bring that memory
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  before me so that when Temptation comes and says hey
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  this is going to feel really good or hey, you're really going
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  to get away with it or hey, this is a better route than God's
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  route. You will go.
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  I done it my way and I remember that feeling, I remember who I
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  heard, I remember I grieve. God no, thank you.
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  That's what we remember our past.
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  And we also remember our past failures to Relish in the
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  Limitless grace of God to realize, he's forgiven me.
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  And he is good to me. And so that's what we talked
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  about. There was a second thing.
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  Moses repeated himself in chapter 9 reminding them of
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  despite their failures specifically five failures and
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  five different locations. He was up on a mountain on his
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  face for 40 days and 40 nights interceding for them. what was
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  the danger in chapter 9 that they would come into the
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  promised land and say, all of this good stuff is happening
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  because I'm righteous and Moses by the spear goes.
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  Hmm, actually you failed many times.
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  So let's go back and remember that and to while you were there
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  failing, I was there interceding.
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  I was crying out to God for you. And so Moses was reminding him
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  of his position. As a mediator reminding them
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  that it was his crying out to God.
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  That even brought them to this place where we are in
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  Deuteronomy, right at the border between the Wilderness and the
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  promised land. And so he's reminding that
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  you're here by grace and whatever you experience in the
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  promised land. That is all by Grace.
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  But now we come to chapter 10 and Moses wants to go from that
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  point to explain further truth. And so from verse 1, remember
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  the last thing we read was He just cried out to God for them
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  and now he says something else here verse 1.
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  It says at that time, the Lord said to me at what time the
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  time--where you failed over and over again.
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  And I lay prostrate before God and cried out to you at that
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  time. The Lord said to me, cut for
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  yourself, two tablets of stone, like the first and come up to me
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  on the mountain and make an arc of wood.
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  And I will write on the tablets, the words that were on the first
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  tablets that you broke and you shall put them in the ark. so
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  chapter 10 tells us the result of his prayers he saying,
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  because I prayed for you, let me let me remind you remember
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  chapter divisions, aren't inspired You know, verses and
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  chapters those weren't in the original text, those are there
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  for our sake and for our reference much later than when
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  the scriptures were written. So there's a flow here.
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  So remove the 10 there and it's a continuation of thought.
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  I've been praying for you, and here's the result of me standing
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  in the gap for you. God spoke and God said, cut two
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  tablets for me. In other words because of my
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  Ministry and my position, as a mediator, despite your failures.
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  You now have a renewed relationship with God.
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  God desires to renew Covenant with you.
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  God desires to restore fellowship with you.
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  God desires to resume the program in the plan that he has
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  had for you but that is based on Not Your Righteous.
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  Remember he still hammering this point.
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  It's not your righteousness. I stood in the gap for you.
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  And we have to understand this because this is a picture of the
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  New Covenant that Jesus Christ. The greater Moses does the same
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  for you and I on a daily basis on a daily basis.
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  We fail on a daily basis, and instead of cutting ourselves off
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  from the blessings of God cutting ourselves off from the
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  goodness of God, there is one, who is pleading for us from a
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  once and for all sacrifice, granting us restoration and
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  reconciliation with the father So this is what they are
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  rehearsing and this is what we need to rehearse as well.
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  That there is one who stands in the gap for me.
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  When I fail, I come to him and he restores Fellowship from my
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  failure, but notice an emphasis here, he says cut for me to
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  stones. So, in this case, the Covenant
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  being restored to restored is in the expression of these two
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  Tablets by Stone written by God, to re stablish the commitment
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  from the people towards God. But I read slowly look what it
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  says here in verse 1 cup for yourself, two, tablets of stone
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  like the first, like the first you go to verse tune.
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  And I will write on the tablets, the words that were on the first
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  tablets. Then you come to verse three.
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  Cut two tablets of stone like the first and he says the same
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  thing in verse 4. So he is very specific in his
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  instructions. He's saying, listen, we're going
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  to restore this Covenant, we're going to restore this
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  commitment, and this contract, but when you make these Stones,
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  I want you to copy paste. The same ones that you broke.
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  When did he break them? He came down from Exodus 32 in
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  the mountain and he saw them all dancing around having a club
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  party time around the golden calf.
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  He was so angry. He broke those stones so they
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  have to restore those stones and he says I want them the same way
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  that I made them originally. What does that mean?
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  This is what it means. That despite of the failure of
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  the people to keep the commands of God, God has no intention
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  ever to change his laws. God will never change his
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  righteous standard even if we fail to keep them.
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  His word is eternal, his Holiness remains.
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  And so we might look at the word and go, that seems kind of
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  severe and God does not budge because God's laws are an
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  expression of his character. And so when he tells Moses do it
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  the same way as before, not because they failed, I'm going
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  to change and I'll bring him okay.
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  You know what? Yeah, you could commit adultery.
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  I see that. You can't contain yourself and
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  you can covet a little bit. I see that, you know, where
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  human he goes. Nope.
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  Same standard. Unchanging.
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  And that's important for us to understand because the issue is
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  not with God's laws. See people failing over and over
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  over again. People that want to create
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  sexuality marriage their own way.
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  It's not because God's laws are out of touch with culture or do
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  not meet the human need or do not lead us to True Joy.
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  Like that's not the reason it's not God's laws its human hearts.
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  That is the problem that is the issue and so the solution is not
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  to change the tablets of stone that God had already created and
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  established in heaven. It's the change.
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  Another type of stone. Can you guess what that stone
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  is? Ezekiel 36:26 tells us that part
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  of the New Covenant is not God removing his righteous
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  standards. It's not God, minimizing it or
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  excluding some commands. That's not God's standard.
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  What God is going to do is he's going to keep his righteous laws
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  on those tablets of stone. But he's going to come into the
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  cavity of our chest, open it up. Take what?
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  I will remove the Heart of Stone from your flesh.
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  And give you a heart of Flesh. That's the standard.
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  You know what many people have this misunderstanding about the
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  Old and New Testament? They go Old Testament.
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  Pretty severe. Those commands seem pretty
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  strict. Is it really though in
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  comparison to the New Testament, You have the Ten Commandments do
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  not commit. Adultery, you go to Jesus and he
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  says, yeah, if you look at a woman with lust, you've already
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  done it, Don't commit murder. If we're honest with ourselves
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  we have a lot of murders in this place according to New Covenant.
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  Because if you have unrighteous anger towards your brother,
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  you've killed them. So is the New Testament really?
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  A lightening up on the law? Or is it an increase in the
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  standard According To Jesus? It is, but even with that
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  standard being set up by the Lord or clarifying what these
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  laws are all about. He provides a solution and it's
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  not diminishing, its law, it's changing your heart and mine.
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  And this gospel truth is right here and it continues because
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  she says, I want you to take these 10 commandments these
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  tablets and I want you to put them in an arc.
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  You know, what does that mean? Why in the ark?
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  Remember the ark. We talked about this chess piece
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  called The Arc, that would follow the Israelites Into the
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  Wilderness, through the Wilderness and into the promised
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  land. And this golden Ark piece would
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  physically, symbolize the presence of God amongst the
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  people and so Moses was given instruction to build it.
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  And one man best lay ill, he was the one who implemented and
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  executed it, but Moses received instruction take the tablets and
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  put it in the arc. Why is that significant because
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  this Arc served a purpose? And the purpose was not just in
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  the fact that it was the Manifest presence of God, in a
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  physical sense, the lid, the lid of that Arc was called something
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  and it had a specific purpose in relationship to the law.
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  Bible study, not sermon. Feels like it, I get it.
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  But what is the lid mean, or what is the lid named?
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  The Mercy Seat. The Mercy Seat.
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  So I'm going to read this from Exodus 25 20 When he was
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  receiving instruction, it says the cherubim, these Heavenly
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  Creatures would be planted on this Mercy.
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  See and they should spread their wings above overshadowing.
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  The mercy seat with their wings, their faces towards one.
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  Another toward The Mercy Seat, shall the faces of the cherubim
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  be. And you shall put the mercy seat
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  on the top of the arc and the arc, you shall put the testimony
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  that I shall give you. So even back in Exodus 20:5,
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  this whole thing was to carry. The Ten Commandments but The
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  Mercy Seat would cover the Ten Commandments.
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  So what's the idea? There there is a sermon being
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  preached there that the tablets of stone which condemned, man
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  and bring men into judgment are hidden and are covered and is
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  Shield by the mercy of God. By the mercy of God, is those as
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  the indictment and the punishment that we deserve, as
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  we Face, the commands of God, it is all protected and covered by
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  God's mercy, but that Mercy, wasn't just automatically
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  implemented. Because there is a practice that
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  the Israelites needed to hold to to activate that Mercy on a
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  yearly basis. What was that practice?
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  It's a feast. That they were to keep once a
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  year. What was it?
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  Another one, the day of what? Atonement Leviticus 16, 14, that
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  one day out of the year, a high priest will walk in and he would
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  take blood from his sacrifice and sprinkle it on the mercy
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  seat. And so it was the blood of
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  another sacrifice upon the mercy seat, that would activate that
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  mercy and keep them Mercy flowing and covering with the
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  laws should do to us. And that is slay us.
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  Here's a picture of what happens when you remove Mercy.
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  There was one time that this golden chest piece was removed
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  from the camp of Israel, and the Philistines took it.
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  And when the Philistines took it, it took a few months for
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  them to realize that we're messing with a true and living
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  God plagues broke out. It was a mess, so they say,
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  let's bring this art back and they bring it back.
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  And once they bring it back out of excitement, the Israelites
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  realized the ark is back and so they come up to the ark and they
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  do something that they shouldn't have done.
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  The ESV doesn't do justice here to explain what happened.
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  If you have new King, James new King, James or nasb, it tells us
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  In 1st Samuel 619. Look what happens.
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  So, this are comes back and they're all freaking out.
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  They're all excited. They come up to this golden
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  piece and it's a holy thing, but they do something Unholy.
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  He struck some of the men have Beth Shemesh because they looked
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  upon the ark. See the ESV says upon, anybody
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  have new King James. What does it say?
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  Okay, if you're there, could you read it for us into the are?
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  so, according to that, what they had done is they have come up to
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  the arc They remove the lid. And they looked into it and when
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  they looked into it, here's a picture.
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  Yes, they touch something that was holding.
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  When the God said, don't touch the holy thing because your
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  Unholy, but I like the picture there, that they remove the
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  mercy seat, and the law was exposed killing them.
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  And so we Here, gospel truth from Deuteronomy chapter 10.
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  That all of these symbolic things, tell us something that
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  we are in need of God's grace. God's covering God's blood to
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  Shield us from what we deserve and that is total, condemnation
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  and destruction because of our sin and our Disobedience, the
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  law. So, he says these things and
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  then in verse 12, we skip through these things because we
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  cover them in our last Bible study.
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  And now Israel verse 12 of chapter 10, what does the Lord
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  your God require of you? That's a humbling question.
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  That's a sobering question. We've been hearing what God had
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  done for them, how God had responded to the intercession of
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  Moses. And now, after all these
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  wonderful things being explained he goes now here's the question.
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  God requires something of you. What is it?
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  Now, we look at that. We go, I'm getting uncomfortable
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  here. Requirement, you've been talking
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  about Grace and you've been talking about God's mercy and
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  provision. That's all true.
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  But Just be realistic here for any relationship to be
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  maintained in a healthy way. There are requirements from both
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  parties and both parties have to meet those requirements.
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  For relationship to be sustained and experience and flourished
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  with the most of abundance and joy, and blessing requirements
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  are laid down and they have to be met.
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  So now, God, turns the table and says, I've given you so much and
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  I am now requiring of you these very things.
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  Now we've touched on a lot of these things.
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  He says, fear the lord your God Walk in all his ways, love him,
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  serve the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your
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  soul, and to keep the Commandments and statues of the
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  Lord, which Commanding you today for your good?
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  See I love that last part for your good.
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  It's not for you too because you're because I did this for
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  you, you better do this for me. It's actually for your good to
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  do it. Only if we would believe it for
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  your good but this is what I want to focus on because Moses.
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  He's a preacher, he's preaching whole sermon, it's a long
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  sermon. We're only halfway through it.
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  Barely And when Moses is doing here is he's laying out the
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  requirements. But with every requirement he
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  brings a reason because this is what God requires for you and he
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  goes, here's the reason. This is the response that God
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  wants from you, but here's why. So he gives a reason in order to
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  motivate them. So when they hear these
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  Commandments, they have fuel to say.
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  I'm gonna do that. I really want to obey, I really
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  want to submit to fearing God into obeying God and loving God,
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  he gives reasons and we touched on the We touch on the fear of
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  God, loving God, with all your heart mind.
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  So we touch on all this for this study.
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  I want to look at the reasons. I see three main reasons for us
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  to dive into the deep end of obedience and total surrender.
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  I mean, you come to the edge of the cliff and some people are
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  flirting with that and they go, I don't want to jump someone,
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  let my foot hang over there. I might hang over my hands.
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  I'm talking about reasons for us to be able to boldly and
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  confidently, launch ourselves into the arms of God and total
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  obedience. He says here, in verse 14,
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  here's the one reason behold so he says, check it out.
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  Modern term. Realize this feel this.
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  No, this absorb, this behold to the Lord, your God, belong,
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  Heaven, and the heaven of Heavens.
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  The Earth with all that is in it.
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  So pretty much wants to say listen, obey.
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  God follow God. Serve God.
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  Give everything to God, why? Because God owns everything.
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  You know, there's some people that might feel a sense of
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  Honor. If they know somebody else that
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  might be a possessor of great things that my own a specific
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  type of business with a specific amount of Revenue that my own
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  specific amount of houses or luxury cars or lands.
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  And you might have this sense where, you know, this person you
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  go, I know. So and so and this is what they
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  own and this is the toys that they have.
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  And this is what they do and there's this sense of almost
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  privileging I'm buddies with this guy.
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  Yeah, I got this guy's a cell. Phone number He invites me here
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  and there to go out to his place over there in Switzerland or
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  whatever. And what Moses is trying to say
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  is, do you realize who your God is?
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  He is the architect. The manager and the owner of
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  everything of everything. God literally owns every tier of
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  every atmosphere that you can imagine.
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  That's why he says heaven. And the heaven of heavens.
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  He owns all of it. Next time you fly out and you
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  pass through those clouds and you see the Horizon, you realize
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  God owns all of it. You scale through those
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  mountains, you look into the Horizon.
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  You go to the beach and you see those waves crashing go.
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  God owns all of this. Earlier this year, my brother
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  and I had a chance to go to a specific place in the world
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  that's known for its Majestic Beauty in the natural sense and
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  that was Iceland. And we kept driving because you
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  feel like when you go to Iceland you feel like you're in a
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  completely different world. There is barely any thing of
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  Life there even animals. It's just these Grand mountains,
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  you're driving 15 minutes and it's snowing and it's a blizzard
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  and 30 minutes later it's sunshine.
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  And you see the Green Mountains with the muddy skip?
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  You just realized it's just a different planet, almost And the
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  question that keep recurring to me and I was saying it to my
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  brother in the car, like Pete who owns this land, like, you'll
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  see this tiny little house in behind a house.
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  Is this Majestic Peak Mountain? You go.
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  Is that the guys backyard? I don't understand who owns all
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  of this land, whose who, like, does the government owned?
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  It is there even a government? And I said, I haven't seen a
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  police car for so long. What's going on here?
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  What is this land? All about, and it dawned on me,
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  it belongs to God. Anyway, It's all his. so the
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  ocean is, is pool and the mountain, never mind the
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  mountain, the Earth Is His footstool And that's your God.
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  And that's my God. If you're going to link with
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  anybody, if there's anyone that you want to boast in, it's not
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  in your successful buddy. It's not in the one that owns
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  this and that it's the god that claims everything.
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  There's a verse in the Bible that I often love to pray
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  whenever it comes to specifically asking God for a
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  need. Let me read it to you.
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  We can put up on the screen. It's in Psalms 50 verse 10 and
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  12 Look What the Lord says. He says for every beast of the
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  forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.
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  I know all the birds of the hills and all that moves in.
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  The field is mine. If I were hungry, I would not
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  tell you why for the world and its fullness are mine.
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  A preacher made this beautiful illustration concerning the
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  return of Christ. We believe in a millennial
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  Reign, we believe that Jesus Christ will come back physically
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  and will plant his feet on a mountain, that mountain will
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  split into and Jesus Will begin a physical Kingdom on this Earth
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  in which he will rule. The nations with an iron
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  scepter, and all people of all placed will come to worship on
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  the Mount of the lord. We believe that.
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  But the person expressed how it will be when Jesus Christ comes
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  and it would many things are going to be happening.
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  But here's one thing he expressed that when he comes he
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  will stretch forth his hand over all creation and he will state
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  in fatica lie. Mine mine, mine mine, it's all
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  mine. How silly is it going to be when
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  people who have lived for? The things of this world will
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  have to Forfeit in the end to the one who claims it all in his
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  name anyway. He's the owner of everything.
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  That's what he says in verse 14. But then he says here in verse
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  15 yet. So in spite of the fact that he
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  is so above, I mean, everything is his own yet as though to say
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  realize this about how awesome he is the Lord set his heart in
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  Love on your father's and chose their offspring after them you
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  Above All Peoples as you are this day.
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  So, he says in essence. That though he is above and
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  though he owns all things he still in his heart sets his
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  affection on you and on me, he's in love.
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  He is stirred towards us. He saves us and this owner of
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  all things, brings us into his family and calls us his own.
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  See what Moses trying to do, he's trying to stir the hearts
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  to realize how this whole thing is relational.
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  And so, he's saying his affection is set on.
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  You don't don't miss out on that that any good that he does to.
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  You is not just because you are fulfilling something called
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  obedience, it's not just because you're obeying.
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  Some things is he going to bless you?
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  The same book tells us why he gives us good things.
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  Why He blesses us? Why he protects us?
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  Why he provides for us? It's in chapter 28 of the same
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  book verse 63. It's the first part it says, and
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  as the Lord took the light, that's why, oh, he took Delight
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  in doing you good and multiplying you it pleased him.
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  It pleased him 63 of chapter 28, says that it's stirred him like
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  a father that takes pleasure in giving good things to his
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  children. God the one who owns all things
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  the universe is in his name. Says, I take so much delight in
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  blessing. You So as much as you are in
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  that moment, experiencing the goodness of God, where you are
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  at one point in the week, bubbling up, because you realize
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  God has been too good to you realize that at the same time,
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  there is a God in heaven, that is bubbling with that same Joy
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  even more as you relish and experience his favor.
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  Like this God, you know what the other deities do?
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  They according to historical understandings, they would try
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  to make you convince them that they are worthy of rain or crops
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  fertility. And this God is not like the
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  gods of the world. Like, even to this day, there
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  are people who worship the god of the sun and there are people
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  who worship the god of the ocean.
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  They're in charge of the ocean. They make the waves come, they
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  make hurricanes happy. So let's make sacrifices to make
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  sure that the water stays still Let's make sure that the god of
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  the earth doesn't cause earthquakes.
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  So, let's make sacrifices. And this God says, I'm the god
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  of the water, the Earth, the sky, the clouds fertility, all
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  of it, and not only that, I'm not in this to make you convince
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  me that you're worthy of my love.
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  I Delight in extending my grace, do you?
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  Tell me which other God is like this.
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  God He doesn't even stop there. He comes down to verse 17.
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  The third point, the second one was that he is setting his
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  affection on us. This God and thirdly, he is all
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  powerful and all compassion, at the same time for the Lord, your
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  God, I love this, this can be a worship song for the Lord.
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  Your God is, God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the
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  mighty, and the awesome. God, who is not partial and
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  takes no bride. He executes Justice for the
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  fatherless and the Widow and loves a Sojourner, giving him
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  food and clothing. You cannot bring an equal to
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  this God. Nothing or no one can match the
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  purity of his Holiness, the purity of his Justice, the
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  purity of his power. Nothing can withstand or out
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  with his will or his plan being implemented on the earth and
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  nothing in this world can ultimately say anything to him
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  to persuade him. To have their own way.
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  No matter how much bills they bring to the bank, he can't be
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  bribed. He can't be convinced.
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  He cannot be stirred or is turned concerning righteousness.
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  Now you hear something about this, kind of a God and you kind
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  of get the impression that he is mighty.
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  He is big. He is Holy but he doesn't seem
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  very approachable. Or you can go to the extreme to
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  say this God, he has his way this God, his will is done no
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  matter what in the end. So he sounds more like a
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  dictator than a father. He sounds like a force that
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  bulldozes over creation to make sure that he has his flag
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  planted on all Hills. But it doesn't say that because
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  Verse 18 tells us the tenderness of this.
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  God do not confuse God's power with coldness.
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  Do not confuse God's might with an uncaring spirit.
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  Do not confuse. God's awesomeness.
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  With a void of tenderness. Because look what it says he has
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  three people in mind this. Holy God has three types of
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  people on mind. The fatherless Verse 18 says,
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  the Widow and the Sojourner, the little child that doesn't have a
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  dad, he becomes her dad. The soldier that's traveling.
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  Void of things to maintain basic survival.
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  He's the provider. The wife that is aching because
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  their spouse passed away, he becomes their husband and
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  protection and provision this, God zooms into the world and he
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  becomes personal with these groups of people when we in our
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  sin, tend to even neglect and ignore these types.
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  It's no wonder. Look up.
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  Moses says in verse 21. He is your praise.
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  He's your praise like by the end of the segment of his sermon, he
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  comes to the conclusion. We goes, doesn't he as the
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  object of your adoration deserve it?
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  That he is your worship? He is your praise.
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  He is the source of your joy. He is the theme of your song.
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  He's the reason why you come even at the end of a week where
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  you're exhausted to say, you're still worthy of my praise
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  because of the things that we just unpacked.
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  He is your praise meaning, two things.
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  One is the object of all those things but to though he is these
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  things and gives these things, even if these things are
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  experience, not just in me but through me she still gets
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  praised. Do you know?
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  I mean by that because God's goodness it's not just things
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  being given to us. God's goodness is expressed with
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  things happening through us. Look at verse 22.
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  He says here, your father's went down to Egypt, 70 persons and
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  now the Lord, your God has made you as numerous as the stars of
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  Heaven. so this procreation, this multiplication of people,
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  That's a very human act, right? That's a very human thing that
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  is experienced between two people.
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  But as much as it might be between two people, God is
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  ultimately the one who provides it makes those things happen and
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  so he still my praise. Even if I accomplish anything
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  with my own body, with my own hands, with my own mind with my
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  own eyes, he's still the object of my praise.
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  He is still worthy of My Worship.
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  He gets all the glory in the end.
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  So, for weeks now we've been discovering different reasons
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  and different ways to maintain longevity.
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  In the blessings and the will and the plan for God in our
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  lives. So we come to this chapter,
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  Chapter 11. And this is where we are
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  concluding here. He does something interesting.
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  Moses wants us to consider other things.
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  Remember we've considered so many things up to this point.
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  Fear of God, love for God, the enemies outside the enemies
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  Within. My observance of the word of
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  God, rehearsing the word of God to my children.
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  Now, he comes to chapter 11 and he wants him to consider three
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  things, three more things. We're going to go through these
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  quickly maybe. Verse 1.
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  You shall therefore. Love the Lord, your God and keep
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  his charge. We've heard this so many times.
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  But how his statutes his rules and his Commandments, always
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  here it is, verse 2. And consider today since I'm not
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  speaking to your children who have not known or seen it
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  consider. Here's the first one.
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  There's three 3D's. Here's the first D.
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  Consider the discipline of the Lord.
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  Maybe he's giving them ingredients to know how to bring
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  these ingredients together and maximize longevity in the will
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  of God. And you know what, discipline is
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  not the primary meditation for many people who follow God in
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  their day-to-day walk. We love to meditate or many
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  things upon the Lord, but let's be honest.
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  Discipline is not one of them. But he says, considered
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  discipline consider God's chastisement.
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  Consider when God steps in as a father to correct his children.
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  And I want you to meditate on that.
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  And then he gives scenarios, he says different ones.
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  But here's to one main ones, he goes, his greatness, his mighty
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  hand and his outstretched arm. His signs in his deeds that he
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  didn't Egypt to pharaoh. I want you to meditate on what
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  happened to pharaoh. And how I dealt with him.
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  Really, yes, I want you to think about how Pharaoh was and how I
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  moved upon him and his Nation as an act of discipline.
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  What's the purpose of that? To keep me in line?
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  Not just that he goes on to explain the things that happened
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  in the wilderness and then he comes to a different place in
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  verse 6, and he was, and what he did to dathan and abiram, the
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  sons of Elijah, the sons of Reuben, how the Earth opened its
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  mouth and swallowed them up with their households.
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  That's not something that we would tend to meditate on.
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  If there's a story in the Bible to help us in our Holiness,
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  sanctification one of the things on my list would not be how the
• 35:51
  Earth opened up and swallowed people alive and clothes on top
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  of them, but he Meditate on it. What did they send a Byram Cora
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  and Farrell have in common? I think one thing that they had
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  in common was this and this is what God has in mind with these
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  examples. That they fully knew the will of
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  God and they still chose to rebel against it.
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  Willfully. Did you hear that?
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  God disciplines Us in different ways.
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  And God knows exactly how to discipline us, but when it comes
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  to knowing the standard of God, knowing the word of God knowing
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  what God is doing, knowing what God is saying and then still
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  with my heart, come against it with my decisions.
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  I am in for a specific type of discipline that should keep us
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  in the fear of God, Pharaoh knew what God Said.
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  Let my people go and he did everything.
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  To not make that happen. Korah dathan.
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  And the guys with him knew that Moses and Aaron were the chosen
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  leaders. They knew God spoke to about
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  that. Made it so clear and yet they
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  still willfully rebelled against God's decision when we choose to
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  know God's word and go against it willfully.
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  We're entering into a realm of God's discipline that God warns
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  us about. And I thought about this just
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  studying it today, I was looking at this going and what he I mean
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  this happened back in numbers and he's still bringing it up
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  out of all the examples to bring up.
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  Remember this. And I thought to myself, is
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  probably good to go back and look at it for all of us to
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  remember what happened in that scene.
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  So go to number 16th with me quickly. what Cora and these
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  guys did was they rebelled against God's chosen Authority,
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  which is ultimately rebelling against God, But, you know, my
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  question about that is, why did they come to that place?
• 38:08
  How did they come to that place? What was it within them that
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  caused them to come to a decision to say?
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  We are going to overthrow Moses and Aaron and we are going to
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  set up a new leader and we're going back to where we want to
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  go. And that's Egypt, it's
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  craziness. but I think that there are some lessons here to
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  remind ourselves because really it's Envy.
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  It's jealousy. Listen.
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  Have you known anybody that has Outburst of anger?
• 38:43
  Well, we heard a lot of memes there.
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  It's not a fun thing to live with.
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  It's not a fun thing to know, somebody who has that talk about
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  outbursts of anger. It's like, I mean to the point
• 38:54
  where you're scared to go to public with that kind of person.
• 38:58
  You're scared that anything will set them off.
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  Somebody with anger issues. You know, the scripture says
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  that as atrocious as that is they the scriptures does a
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  contrast between anger and rage. But then it says, when it comes
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  to jealousy, but who can stand before jealousy, And the reason
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  why jealousy is so scary, I'll tell you why.
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  Anger, you might be able to point to external things that
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  might trigger somebody off, but when it comes to jealousy,
• 39:32
  what's scary, is that person who is the object of one's, jealousy
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  is not doing anything wrong. They're just doing what God told
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  them to do. And yet there's still this
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  Monster within you, that wants to devour that person in your
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  mind and your thoughts. And so jealousies, and nasty
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  thing, unless by the spirit it comes and brings Deliverance.
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  These guys had a sense in which they did not realize anymore
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  that God is the one who chooses individuals for specific roles.
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  Look at verse 5 of number 16. When Moses heard it, he fell on
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  his face when he heard that they have come to rebel against them
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  and to overthrow the authority and he said to Cora and all this
• 40:14
  company in the morning, the Lord will show who is his and who is
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  Holy and will bring him near to him.
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  The one whom he chooses he will bring near to him.
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  See, they failed to realize that it is God, who appoints?
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  It is God who anoints, it is, God who sets apart different,
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  people for different tasks and not just different people with
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  different tasks. Here, me very carefully.
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  God even appoints, the level of influence that they have.
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  So, we always limit this to God gifts you with a certain gift.
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  God gives her with a certain gift that's all true.
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  But even with that gift, look how Sovereign God is God,
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  determines the boundaries of their influence of how far and
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  how many people that gift will touch.
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  Say really, here's a verse second Corinthians. 2nd
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  Corinthians, 10:13. Look what Paul says.
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  In verse 13 of second Corinthians 10, but we will not
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  boast Beyond limits, but will boast only with regard to the
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  area of influence. God assigned to us, to reach,
• 41:19
  even to. You is right there because
• 41:23
  listen got assigned to us boundaries to wear influence of
• 41:29
  our ministry. To the Gentiles will go and we
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  can't boast beyond that. God has given us this Outreach.
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  God has given us the ability. Come to you.
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  And so that's it. God assign that to us.
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  And so, what we begin to do is we can fall into jealousy when
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  we fail to realize that God is the one who appoints all this
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  stuff in the first place. And we have the right to pray
• 41:52
  and ask the Lord. Lord broaden, the horizons of my
• 41:56
  influence Lord. Let me let me touch as many
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  people as I can while I still have breath.
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  And God in his sovereignty. In his wisdom, knows how much we
• 42:03
  can handle and who needs to be touched.
• 42:08
  But these men have come to a place where they fail to realize
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  that it is God who appoints. Especially in a Ministry,
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  context, brothers and sisters. God is the boss. he hires, and
• 42:21
  he fires, And it's a wonderful thing when God hires and he
• 42:26
  exalts, and it's a scary thing. When God takes somebody, who is
• 42:30
  in a place and brings them low. He's ultimately Sovereign all
• 42:35
  this people worried all the time when they hear of something, how
• 42:37
  can this person who's in Ministry do this and how can
• 42:39
  person who has that kind of an influence do that, they're not
• 42:43
  dealing with a human boss who is unaware of their Affairs in the
• 42:47
  world. They're dealing with God.
• 42:50
  And he assigns and he removes and he promotes and emotes.
• 42:53
  It's all him. They've made this a merely human
• 42:59
  thing. Now in verse 9, this is where
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  else they failed. It says here in verse 9 of
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  chapter 16. Look what Moses says in verse 8
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  and Moses said to Cora here. Now you sons of Levi, hold on
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  for a second. Okay.
• 43:14
  These guys that were jealous and envious of Moses and Aaron, they
• 43:18
  were sons of Levi. You know what the Levites were
• 43:22
  instructed to do, right? Can anybody explain what the
• 43:24
  Levites role was? The Levites.
• 43:34
  So there are Levites who were priests?
• 43:37
  But listen, not all Levites were priests.
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  You had people who had specific roles in which they handled the
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  actual artifacts and the furniture that dealt with
• 43:46
  intercession and sacrifice. Then you had Levites who
• 43:49
  assisted these men, And we're not primary, the ones handling
• 43:54
  these things. So you have those who are
• 43:56
  directly involved with it, and yet those who assisted The
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  priests they were those who are still within there were those
• 44:03
  who carried part of the tent. They were there but look what
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  they failed to do. They fail to realize what honor
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  that was because he says in verse 9, is it too small.
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  A thing for you. That the god of Israel has
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  separated you from the congregation of Israel to bring
• 44:20
  you near to himself to do the service in the Tabernacle the
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  Lord and to stand before the congregation to minister to them
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  and that he has brought you near to him.
• 44:28
  And all your brothers are sons of Levi with you.
• 44:32
  See what people go wrong is when they begin to look at their
• 44:34
  Ministry or their life and they see it as a small thing and they
• 44:37
  compared to somebody else, who seems to be doing a big thing.
• 44:41
  And the go. What about my life?
• 44:42
  I'm insignificant. What about what I'm doing?
• 44:44
  I'm not touching, as many people.
• 44:45
  I'm not as influential, I'm not as known.
• 44:48
  See, when you begin to think that like that, you create a
• 44:51
  breeding ground for covetousness and envy and jealousy.
• 44:56
  And so the sons of Korah these Levites have come to that place
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  and it was a disaster for them but what I love about the sons
• 45:04
  of Korah is that you read through numbers and you go
• 45:06
  through the Old Testament you come to Psalms And you reach
• 45:09
  something that is written by the sons of Korah.
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  And we sing it here sometimes and chapter 84.
• 45:18
  Verse 10 for a day in your courts is better than a thousand
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  elsewhere. Look what they say.
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  Do you think this will relationship?
• 45:27
  Absolutely. These are the sons of Korah who
• 45:29
  did not join their father core in Rebellion.
• 45:32
  We found out that the sons of Korah when God said hey separate
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  yourselves from their camps, walk away, you know who walked
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  away the sons of Korah I'm sorry Dad.
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  I love you. Mom.
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  I love you but if you're going to rebel against God I'm
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  standing with God. And so the sons of Korah many
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  years later, write this song and look what they say.
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  I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than to
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  dwell in the tents of wickedness.
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  You know what they're saying? God, I'm satisfied with whatever
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  Ministry you give me. Want to make me a doorkeeper.
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  Want to make me an usher. Want me to sweep the floor.
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  I don't need this. I don't need this.
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  I don't need no public. I don't need to be on the
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  camera. I don't need anything as long as
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  I know that I have your presence.
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  I'm satisfied. I'm satisfied.
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  See their fathers were concerned with position.
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  The suns were concerned with presence.
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  And when you begin to occupy your life, with position more
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  than presence, you are setting yourself up for disaster because
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  I guarantee when you get to the position, you will still feel
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  void. so that was going to be important for these guys to go
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  in, because One of the things that will destroy you
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  experiencing God's promises in your life is when you begin to
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  covet other people's and are not satisfied with him alone.
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  So now we come to the second D of chapter 11 one is considered
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  that this a plan of the Lord realize that God will do
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  something with my sin. If I'm Blatantly disobeying and
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  walking against the Lord, he will do something in his love.
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  I want you to think about something.
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  How do you know Jesus loves you? He died for you, absolutely.
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  Have you ever thought about this expression of God's love?
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  We don't think about it, but it's found in Revelations.
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  Chapter 3. We go to John 3:16.
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  Let's go to Revelation 3. Verse 19.
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  This is what Jesus has to a church.
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  I want you to think about this the next time you might
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  experience God's discipline in any shape or form.
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  Those whom I love I reprove and discipline.
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  That's it. Those whom I love.
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  I'm going to discipline. I'm going to rebuke.
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  I'm gonna deal with. See if you didn't love you and
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  me he would let us get away with our sin.
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  He would let us get away with our apathy.
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  Oftentimes, in meeting sometimes you see, people that listen are
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  severely dealt with by God because they have back slid and
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  they are crushed with conviction.
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  And I see that person standing before me, and I see tears, and
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  I see Guilt and remorse, but at the same time, I see a love from
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  God to not leave them in that condition.
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  But the conviction to the point where it hurts the core only to
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  bring them back into the center of his.
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  Will I just don't believe that. God loves me because he sent his
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  son, I know that, but I believe that even as I walk and I walk
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  away, God, Discipline me and that is his love.
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  He will do something with my Disobedience.
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  He will not keep me in it. Second D, that clock is frozen.
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  So you cannot blame me for going through late here.
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  Verse 10 and 11. Not just the discipline of the
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  Lord, consider the dependency. We have on the Lord.
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  He says, for the land that you are entering to take possession.
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  Of is not like the land of Egypt from which you have come where
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  you sold your seat and irrigated it like a garden of vegetables.
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  But the land that you are going over to possess as a land of
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  Hills and Valleys was drinks water by the rain from Heaven, a
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  land that the Lord your God cares for the eyes of the Lord,
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  your God are always upon it from the beginning of the year, to
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  the end of the year. We touch on this and Maranatha.
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  If you were That Isaac in the midst of a severe famine, wanted
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  to go back to Egypt. And you would think when the
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  famine affect that part of the Middle East as well, could have.
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  But there is a man-made water system that provided water,
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  because they were desert and they didn't have as much rain as
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  this part would And this is a beautiful concept because what
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  he's saying is, as you are entering into the promised land
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  as you are entering into from, I will for your lives.
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  This is what you inherit check this out because it's true in
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  the New Testament. You inherit a 24/7, guarantee,
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  surveillance, and Care from God. He says, when you come into this
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  land, when you come into my will, when you make a decision
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  to obey and to stay in where, I want you to be what you get with
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  that is year to year month to month week, to week day by Day.
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  Second-by-second eyes on you. Eyes on your needs eyes on
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  everything that you need for survival and joy.
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  I'm there. This is what you inherit. and
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  that's a wonderful thing, because That is what we have to
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  understand should be a motivation to Walking With
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  Jesus. So even if a man does come and
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  even if there's delay on rain, this is what.
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  I know he's there. I'm telling you guys, you have
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  to, we have to live with a conscious awareness that he is
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  really with me. Every single moment that is
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  life-changing that is life-changing.
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  See, Egypt is a system of the world that was working
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  independently from God's Aid. They were doing it their way,
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  they're doing it by their own strength.
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  And so things are happening. They didn't need to call out the
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  guard necessarily. But if you were here on last
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  Wednesday and prayer meeting Ezekiel tells us something about
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  this land, he gives description and I want to read it.
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  Ezekiel 20 verse 6. This is so beautiful.
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  He says, on that day, I swore to them, that I would bring them
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  out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for
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  them. God had searched out that land
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  for them. Listen, they sent spies.
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  Was that God's will? The people asked?
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  Moses to send spies? And God says, sure, but I
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  already did the searching. I don't know why you're going.
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  I already know your future. I already know what needs to be
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  provide. I know everything.
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  It's all set up for you. Why are you so scared?
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  Why do you feel like you need to walk in unbelief?
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  Why are you so fearful I searched out the land and then
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  look what. He says a land flowing with milk
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  and honey, the most glorious of all lands.
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  The most glorious of all lands. Do you know why it was glorious?
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  I believe, because what we read in Deuteronomy 11 because he's
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  watching over it. Day and night, night and day.
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  He's there that this geographical location is where
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  God wants to bring his presence and power to be made manifest.
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  So, you know what that means for us, in light of this study, that
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  when I am wondering, whether I want to walk in the fullness of
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  God, I really want to fully surrender.
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  I know this that whatever God has for me in that is the most
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  glorious plan. Is the most glorious thing he
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  has in light of my life, nothing less.
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  But Egypt has all this. I could care less.
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  What Egypt has or what Egypt has to offer.
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  The Bible tells me the center of God's will is the most glorious.
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  I've said it many times before and I'll say it.
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  Again, you can write down the best ideal concept of what your
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  life can be imagined. You had I want you to do this.
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  Imagine you had Limitless resources.
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  Imagine you can have any person in the world at your Choice.
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  Imagine you can have anything anything and you would write it
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  down on the list for the next 70 years of your life, 80 years,
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  whatever, that plan is whatever. God has is way more glorious.
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  I promise you. But he tells them to go into
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  this land. I love it because it was
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  creating a dependency upon them. So you can't rely necessarily on
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  these systems to create Waters to take care of your Gardens.
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  You need rain from heaven and so I'm bringing you here
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  geographically so that you would continually seek me, wait on me,
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  trust in me. Because, as much as we want,
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  God's will guess what God's will involves dependency?
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  Lastly, the last D, it's in verse 16 of chapter 11. and I
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  looked, He says here, take care. Lest your heart be here.
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  It is deceived. And you turn aside and serve
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  other gods and worship them. The first one was understanding
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  is discipline. The second one is understanding
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  my dependency. In the third.
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  One is understanding the possibility of my heart being
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  deceived. So he gives warning, he says
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  listen even in the midst of all of this goodness, because he
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  just goes on to describe how he will provide the former rain and
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  the later rain, and it's all going to be taken care of.
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  And then he inserts this warning yet, take care of that.
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  Your hearts, don't get caught up in deception and you turn aside
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  and follow other gods. You know what, I've always
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  wondered. How is it?
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  That people who experienced the goodness of God, who have tasted
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  his presence who's seen works of God?
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  Who are one time. So in the will of God, Think
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  turn aside. How do they go into another
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  Direction? And now they're fully blatantly
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  serving other gods, many reasons.
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  And here's one of them deception.
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  Because it says, beware lest your heart, be deceived and then
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  you turn aside and follow other gods.
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  So it didn't start with turning aside.
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  And then deception came. It was deception that made them
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  turn aside. They believe something to be
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  true when it was blatantly false and they bought the LIE, they
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  were convinced of it and they headed toward a direction that
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  pull them away from truth. So, big reason for why many
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  people can turn away is because deception has crept in and
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  convince them of a truth that was actually false and they
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  bought it. Do you realize that Temptation
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  within itself? Is a deception.
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  Every time it presents itself. Every time sin comes up and says
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  taste it. Every time sin comes is open
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  every time, the sin comes and says, look for it every time
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  since it's just do it. Every time it's deception.
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  And that pull that you feel within that that pull that
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  you're getting in that moment, what it's saying to you, is this
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  sin is better than God. Every time.
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  And what people do is that they open themselves up to deception,
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  do you realize why we have to get into the word of God every
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  day? Every moment I can, yes, we have
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  other things to do, but I must give something to the Lord in
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  order to filter my heart from deception.
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  To give myself to understanding. What truth is that when
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  Deception comes? I can identify and laser beam it
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  out of my system. Because Hebrews 3:13 tells us
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  that our hearts can be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
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  And so, the antidote to that is truth and remaining in the
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  truth. And that goes back to other
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  things. That Moses said, rehearsing the
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  word of God coming to the word of God, washing ourselves with
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  the word of God, lest our hearts, be susceptible to lies
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  and me walking in those lies. And I'm going to end on that
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  note to say this. That maybe you're in this place.
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  And your heart is turned away from God.
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  Because you believe the lie. About a substance about a
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  person, but a way of life about who God is, but what this whole
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  Christian experience is about. You have bought into a lie that
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  has made you turn aside to follow other gods.
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  I declare to you on this Friday night as many people in here.
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  Now, That walking in the fullness of the will of God is
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  more glorious than what you're experiencing.
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  And that every time Temptation presents itself, people of God.
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  You and I must realize, but obedience to him is much more.
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  Glorious waiting on him is much more glorious trusting in Him is
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  much more glorious. If you're in this place tonight
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  and your heart is not fully set on living for Christ
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  surrendering to Christ. Can you ask yourself this
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  question? And I encourage you people of
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  God to ask people. This question in evangelism in
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  your witness to your family, your friends always ask this
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  question, it's a beautiful question.
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  You heard the gospel? Yes.
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  What's holding you back from saying yes?
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  Just ask that. And see how people come into
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  bewilderment. See how people in the moment you
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  will see it most of the time. People just the lights are
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  turning out due to do and they realize If they're honest with
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  themselves, they will begin to cough up answers.
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  And if they are not one of the best answers, you can get, is
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  this nothing. Nothing's holding me back.
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  Then do you want to follow Jesus Christ surrender to him?
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  Yeah. Yeah, I do.
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  But I want to ask you that question in your heart.
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  What's holding you back from surrendering to him all over
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  again? Whatever it is.
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  According to this Bible study. Who God is and what God has for
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  you is so much better. Promise you with the authority
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  of the scriptures, not my opinion.
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  So tonight guys, I understand some are tired.
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  Some are weary some are ready to get in the cars and go home for
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  a good night's sleep. But can we do one more thing
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  before we do that? Scripture tells us in verse 21
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  and chapter 10, he is your praise in light of how good he
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  has been. And that's what we're going to
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  do right now seek his face and just tell him one more time Lord
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  you are good and your worthy of my affection.
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  You bow your heads tonight. Do we choose to read this verse
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  in light of addressing you tonight?
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  And we see here that you tell us For the Lord, your God is, God
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  of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the
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  awesome. God, who is not partial and
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  takes, no bribe, he executes Justice for the fatherless and
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  the Widow and loves the Sojourner, giving him food and
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  clothing. Lori read in verse 14,
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  addressing you behold. To the Lord, your God belong,
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  Heaven, and the heaven of heavens.
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  The Earth with all that is in it yet.
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  The Lord said his heart and love on you.
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  Your father's chose their offspring, after them you Above
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  All Peoples as you are this day. God we choose to really believe
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  this tonight and we pray that you would receive our praise in
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  light of it. Father, we pray for the person
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  whose heart might have turned away and deception.
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  May they know right now that you are ready to receive them.
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  You are ready to see them. Come into your Arms and
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  fellowship rest or lured, by the finished work of Jesus Christ.
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  Let them know that tonight, let them know that tonight that if
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  they were one who walk with you, but walked away that you giving
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  this word, as an act of discipline, to convict him to
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  bring to that, place of restoration and Reconciliation,
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  speak to your people. Lord, speak to your people, by
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  your spirit. Now exactly what we need to hear
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  about Lord, may you receive this from all people here.
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  And that is praise. We ask these things in Jesus
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  name. Amen.