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Naaman's Healing · Stornoway Free Church of Scotland - Sermons

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We're going to begin our worship this evening by singing to God's praise in Psalm 27 in the
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Sing Psalms. We're singing verse 1 to verse 5. The Lord's my Savior and my light, who will make me
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dismayed. The Lord's the stronghold of my life. Why should I be afraid? When evildoers threaten
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me to take my life away, my adversaries and my foes, they will stumble in that day. We're going
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to sing from verse 1 to 5. The tune is St. Columba, and we'll stand to sing.
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St. Columba, and we'll make me dismayed. When evildoers threaten me to take my life away,
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my adversaries and my foes, they will stumble in that day. Although an army hands me in,
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my heart will feel no dread. Though war against me should arise, I will lift up my head.
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one thing that I need before the Lord, and this I'll see always, that I may come within
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in the cross-house and dwell in cross-house and dwell there all my days.
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and in the cross-house and dwell there all my days.
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on the beauty of the Lord, I constantly believe in his, and in his mouth may seem to know
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the direction in the cross-house and dwell there all my days.
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the beauty of the Lord, and in his way.
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the beauty of the Lord, I constantly believe in his, and in his mouth may seem to know
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the direction in his ways.
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the beauty of the Lord, and in his dwelling is, and in his dwelling is, and in his ways.
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the meaning is, and in his ways.
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the beauty of the Lord, and in his dwelling is, and in his ways.
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May seem to know
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Direction in His ways
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For in His dwelling
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He will be
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Be safe in trouble
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Will face
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Within His tent
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He'll shelter me
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And on and on
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Be raised
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Let's unite her
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Hearts in prayer
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Let us pray
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Lord our God
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Our Father in Heaven
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The privilege is ours
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To come and draw near
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To You in worship
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The joy is ours
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To know that You are a God
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Who delights
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In Your people coming
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And to draw near to You
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And to offer up
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Praise from the very bottom
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Of our hearts
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Rejoicing in the fact
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That You alone
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Are our salvation
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That in You alone
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There is salvation
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For all who will come
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And put their trust
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In the Lord Jesus Christ
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And we thank You
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That the Gospel
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Is an open invitation
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That there are no restrictions
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Put on it
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But that there is a free offer
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Through the Gospel
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We thank You
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That the Word
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Became flesh
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And dwelt among us
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And we thank You
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That the beauty of Christ
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Has been seen
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And indeed is seen
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In this world
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That there were many
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Who gazed upon the Lord
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Who saw His works
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Who saw His miracles
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Who spoke of them
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Who marveled at them
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That we thank You
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That the greatest one
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Of all
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That was those
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Who could say
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He is not here
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For He is risen
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We thank You
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That there is such great hope
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In those words
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That though there were many
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Who looked on
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As our Lord
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Was led to the cross
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And as He was crucified
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And as He gave His life up
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That there was much sorrow
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In that time
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As there was darkness
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Over all the earth
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We thank You
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For the resurrection morning
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We thank You
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For the power
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He has
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Over conquering death
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And that in Jesus Christ
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Now
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We know the beauty
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Of salvation
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We know the delight
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To be able
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To come near to Him
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And we pray
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That even this evening
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We will have that
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Great longing
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Of the psalmist
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That one thing
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We'll plead
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Before the Lord
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That we will seek it always
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That we may come in
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Within God's house
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And dwell there
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All our days
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That we would see
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The beauty
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Of the Lord
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And gaze constantly
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Upon Him
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We thank You
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That that is not just seen
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Here in this place
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But even as we leave here
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This evening
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Help us to fix our eyes
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On our Lord
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And Saviour
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Jesus Christ
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The one who heals
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Our sin sick hearts
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The one who
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If we come in repentance
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And confessing
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Our sins anew
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He is able to cleanse us
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From all our sin
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So we acknowledge
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Lord before You
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And You this evening
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Our shortcomings
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How we are a people
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Who falls short
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Of Your glory
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In so many ways
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You know the wickedness
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And the deceit
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Of our hearts
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As the word says
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The heart is wicked
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Beyond all things
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And we know Lord
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In our own experience
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In our day to day lives
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How easy it is
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For us to sin
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How often we say
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The wrong thing
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How often we do
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The wrong thing
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How often the wrong thoughts
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Come into our minds
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How often our inaction
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Is sin as well
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But we thank You
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That there is yet
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Forgiveness with You
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And so we come as sinners
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Before a holy God
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This evening
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Pleading with You Lord
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Have mercy upon us
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And direct us
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Towards You
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Lead us in our worship
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Lift up our hearts
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And our souls
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To You this evening
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So whatever our circumstances
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Whatever our situation
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We may find that great joy
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Of salvation
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Restored to our hearts
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We thank You
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That You are the one
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Who is able
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That we come before You
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With powerless hands
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And lips
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We thank You
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For the power of Your Spirit
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We thank You
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For the power You have
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To work in and through us
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And so we plead
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Lord Your presence with us
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That You will draw near to us
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As we draw near to You
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Bless all our homes
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And families
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As we unite our hearts
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Together here
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Bless the homes
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We reach into
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Through the online services
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As well
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And all who are
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Unable to be with us
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For such a variety
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Of reasons
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We thank You
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That we have the means
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To
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For the gospel
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To go out
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We pray that You will bless it
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To all ends of the earth
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Not just the gospel
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Preached here today
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But throughout
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Our denomination
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Throughout our churches
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Throughout all the churches
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Of the world today
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Wherever Your people
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Have gathered
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As Your church
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That wherever Your name
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Has been praised
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That there will be much glory
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Given to You
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We pray for the work
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Of salvation
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To be seen and known
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Far and wide
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But we thank You
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That Your gospel
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Is not confined
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In any way
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Not limited in any way
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And even as we see
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In our reading this evening
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That Your word
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Is powerful
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To convict
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And to convert
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And so we pray
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For that power
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To be with us
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As we hear Your word
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And as we come
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To study it together here
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We know Lord
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That You know
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Our very hearts
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And our innermost thoughts
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And we thank You
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That as we come
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In prayer
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We come rejoicing
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In the hope
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That You are the one
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Who is able to answer
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Above and beyond
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All that we ask
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Or imagine
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We thank You
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That as we ask
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For comfort
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In our prayers
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That You are able
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To comfort
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Beyond the comfort
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We even imagine
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That we cannot enter
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Into the experiences
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Of Your people
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At times
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In the hurt they feel
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In the anxieties
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They have
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In those who are
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Downcast in their hearts
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Sorrowful in their souls
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But we thank You
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That You are the one
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Who is able to uplift
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That You are the one
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Who is able to encourage
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And so we pray
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For all
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Who we know
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And love
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And care for
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Who are going
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Through difficult times
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Times of sorrow
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Times of illness
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Times of grief
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We do pray Lord
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For Your hand
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To be upon them
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For good
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That they would know
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That You are the one
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Who is faithful
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And always ever present
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That You are the one
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Who is near
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We pray Lord
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For our communities
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At this time
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We know that there's
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Been so much activity
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Around the town
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These past days
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We do thank You
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For many people
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We've met
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And spoken to
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We do pray Lord
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That even from
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This morning's
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Breakfast
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That there will be
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Many seeds
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That have been
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Sown there
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That will be
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Blessed by You
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Thank You
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For every engagement
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That was made
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With people in the hall
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Thank You
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For those who came
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Into the worship service
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And maybe even here
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This evening too
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Those who are visiting
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With us
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We pray Your blessing
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On each and every one
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And we do thank You Lord
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That You are a God
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Who is able to unite us
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As a people
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Through praise
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And worship
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We thank You
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For the families
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Who are present
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This morning
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For the baptisms
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We thank You
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For the children
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Who are baptized
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We continue to pray
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Your blessing on them
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We thank You
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For that great covenant
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Promise that there is
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And we pray
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That You will draw
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These children
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And all our children
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To know the covenant
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Promise of Christ
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Fulfilled in Him
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That they through faith
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Might come to confess Him
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As their Lord and Saviour
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Look after all our young people
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During these holiday times
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Remember especially those
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Who are at camps just now
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We continue to pray
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For the camps
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That continue to meet
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In this week
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And the week ahead
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The weeks ahead
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We ask Your safety
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And Your protection
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And Your blessing
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Over each and every one
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Of the leaders
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And all the activities
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They are involved in
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And the children
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Lord may they hear
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The gospel good news
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And may they be blessed
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By it
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We do pray for
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The ongoing work
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Of the church
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Throughout our nation
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And the nations of the world
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How we need Your light
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To go forth
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And with power
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Into our
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Into every nation
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Of the world
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To bless our leaders
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To bless those
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Who rule over us
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To bless those
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Who have such
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Desires for evil
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In this world
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When we think of war
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And terrorist activities
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And greed
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And all of the things
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That direct our hearts
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So often
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We pray for You
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To melt the hardest
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Of hearts
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To bring grace
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And to bring mercy
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And to bring repentance
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And to bring glory
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To Your name
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So we continue to pray
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For the needs of our world
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For Your protection
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Over us as a people
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For Your blessing
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To be upon us
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For Your reviving power
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Of Your spirit
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To be with us
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Even in this time together
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May You continue
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To bless us this day
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And look after us
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And go before us
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In the days ahead
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Direct our steps
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And our paths
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Encourage our hearts
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And give us lips
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That will always sing
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Your praise
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And witness for You
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So Lord continue
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With us now
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In our praise
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As we continue
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To worship You
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Forgive us all our sins
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And all we ask
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We ask the forgiveness
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Of all our sin
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In Jesus name
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Amen
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We'll again sing
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To God's praise
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In Psalm 125
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In the Scottish Psalter
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You'll find this
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On page 429
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Psalm 125
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Psalm 125
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Page 419
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We'll sing the whole
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Of this Psalm together
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Then the Lord
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That firmly trust
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Shall be like Sion Hill
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Which at no time
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Can be removed
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But standeth ever still
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We'll sing
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The whole of this Psalm
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The tune is St. Andrew
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And we'll stand
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To sing
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From the Church
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Amen.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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Okay.
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We turn together to read in God's Word, a reading in the Old Testament and in the book of 2 Kings.
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2 Kings chapter 5.
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We're reading from the beginning of the chapter down to the middle of verse 19.
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2 Kings chapter 5, reading from the beginning of that chapter.
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1 Kings chapter 5, reading from the beginning of that chapter.
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1 Kings chapter 5, reading from the beginning of that chapter.
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1 Kings chapter 5, reading from the beginning of that chapter.
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he is seeking a quarrel with me. But when Elisha, the man of God, heard that the king of Israel had
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torn his clothes, he sent to the king, saying, Why have you torn your clothes? Let him come now to me,
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that he may know that there is a prophet in Israel. So Naaman came with his horses and chariots
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and stood at the door of Elisha's house. And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying,
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Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored, and you shall be clean.
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But Naaman was angry and went away, saying, Behold, I thought that he would surely come out to me and
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stand and call upon the name of the Lord his God, and wave his hand over the place and cure the leper.
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Are not Aban and Farpar, the rivers of Damascus, Beth and all the waters of Israel?
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Could I not wash in them and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage. But their servants came
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near and said to him, My father, it is a great word the prophet has spoken to you. Will you not do it?
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As he actually said to you, Wash and be clean. So he went down and dipped himself seven times in the
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Jordan according to the word of the man of God. And his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little
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child, and he was clean. Then he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and he came
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and stood before him. And he said, Behold, I know there is no God in all the earth but in Israel,
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so accept now a present from your servant. But he said, As the Lord lives before whom I stand,
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I will receive none. And he urged him to take it, but he refused. Then Naaman said, If not, please,
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let it be given to your servant two mule loads of earth. For from now on, on your servant,
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on your servant will not offer burnt offering or sacrifice to any God but the Lord. In this matter,
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may the Lord pardon your servant. When my master goes into the house of Rimon to worship there,
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leaning on my arm, and I bow myself in the house of Rimon, when I bow myself in the house of Rimon,
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the Lord pardon your servant in this matter. He said to him, Go in peace.
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And so on. And may God bless that reading from his word to our souls. We're going to sing again
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before we turn back to this passage in Psalm 31. We're singing the Sing Psalms version. Psalm 31 on
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page 36 of the Psalm books. I'm going to sing from verse 1 to verse 7. In you I have taken refuge,
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Lord. You are my shelter in distress, so let me never be ashamed, but save me in your righteousness.
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We're going to sing verse 1 to verse 7, and the tune is Rockingham, and we'll stand to sing.
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in you I have taken refuge, Lord. You are my shelter in distress. Oh, let me never be ashamed, but save me in your righteousness.
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Lord, turn you here to hear my cry. How quickly to be dear to hear my cry. How quickly to be dear to hear my cry.
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Lord, deliver me, and bring my love and firm defense, my stronghold and security.
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You are my fortress and my love. You are my fortress and my love. For you may save me, my sure guide.
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I hate all those who trust false gods.
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I trust the Lord, for he is true.
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I will rejoice and take delight in all the love that you have shown.
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For my affection you have seen.
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To you, my soul's distress is known.
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Amen.
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Well, if we can turn back to our reading in 2 Kings 5.
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We want to consider these verses we've read.
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Together we read of this man called Naaman.
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Naaman, who was, as we read in verse 1, commander of the army of the king of Syria.
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He was a great man with his master and in high favor, because by him the Lord had given victory to Syria.
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He was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.
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And so it goes on.
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There are many things that we maybe think are hidden from others in this life.
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Many things that we probably know in our own hearts that we're glad that people don't know about us.
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But God's word reminds us that there is nothing hidden from the Lord.
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You know, in the psalm we just sang, Psalm 31.
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In verse 7 we read these words.
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For my affliction you have seen.
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To you my soul's distress is known.
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And in the midst of Naaman's life, in the midst of everything that was good in his life, as he would see it himself,
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there was something that was a great affliction to him.
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But almost unbeknown to him, the Lord had a great plan and a greater plan for him than anything that he could have planned in his own heart.
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And that's what we want to look at this evening as we come to look at this passage.
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One of the many things that people will look forward to on a Sunday, and perhaps you've already enjoyed this afternoon,
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is to sit down to a nice meal.
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To sit down and enjoy maybe a traditional Sunday roast.
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Gathered around the table, maybe with family and friends.
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Sometimes it's hard to beat, just a nice roast and all the trimmings.
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But with it comes another issue.
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The dishes.
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There may be a rush to come and sit at the table when everyone's called, that the food is ready.
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But then once all the food is gone, once all the food has been devoured,
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there'll be a different kind of rush.
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And that's the rush away from having to do the dishes.
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We'll leave that for someone else to do.
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Because to make a roast involves a lot of work.
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The roasting dish will be hard to clean.
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The pan of vegetables that's dried and burnt to the bottom will be impossible to clean.
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The Yorkshire dish, the Yorkshire pudding dish, it just will not clean no matter how much you scrub at it.
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So there's a lot of work.
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And that's when people will disappear.
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And that's why there are billions spent on trying to find the magic cleaning agent
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or the magic machine that will do the work for you.
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But there are some stains that are just impossible and so hard to remove.
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Well, this evening as we look at Naaman, we're looking at a man who in the midst of all his power and all his wealth,
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a man who probably never had to clean a dish in his life.
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We look at him, but he's got a different problem.
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A different issue that's needing cleaning.
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But no matter how much he has and no matter how much he can try to deal with this issue himself,
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it is impossible.
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It's a stain that's impossible to remove by himself.
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As we've read there in verse 1, you see so many things about this man.
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So many things that would have held him in great esteem among his people.
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He was a man of great power, a commander of the army, second only to the king of Syria.
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And yet he finds himself having to humble himself and look for help from someone he would never want to go near
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by his own choice.
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To go to the people of Israel.
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To go to the prophet of God.
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To go to Elisha in order to be healed.
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And yet it's into this amazing situation that we see God working things for his good.
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From the most unexpected of sources comes a word of hope to him.
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From a little girl who had been taken captive.
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Who has a great burden for her Lord as she calls him.
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For her master.
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And she speaks to his wife these wonderful words.
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If only he would look to the Lord.
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If he would only listen to this prophet of God.
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And it's in this encounter that the word of God takes hold of this man who was a stranger to the God of Israel.
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A stranger to the Lord and his grace.
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And at the center, at the heart of it, is what it really means to be clean.
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To have that stain of sin washed away.
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A stain that we can never remove ourselves.
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But that only the Lord can.
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It's a reminder to us of ourselves.
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And how we are a people who are unclean in so many ways.
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But how the Lord is able to work from the inside out.
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To make us clean.
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In other words, to make us right with God.
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But we may see ourselves in Naaman.
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Or we have to see ourselves in Naaman.
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In different ways to know this cleaning.
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In order for our hearts to be made right with God.
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Our hearts need to be pricked.
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Just as Naaman's was.
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And there's three things I want us to see about Naaman this evening.
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That remind us of ourselves.
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The first thing is this.
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That Naaman was a sick man.
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The second thing is he was a stubborn man.
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The third thing.
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And the most amazing thing is he was a saved man.
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So the first thing we see is Naaman is a sick man.
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Naaman and who he was.
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We are introduced there in verse 1.
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It tells us all about him.
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But what does it tell us?
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What does it say in that verse that stands out to you?
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He was a commander.
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Commander of the army of the king of Syria.
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Which at this time was one of the most powerful kingdoms in the whole world.
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It's hard for us to imagine just the power that this man had.
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The hold that he had over his own armies.
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And over all the nations around him.
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People lived in fear of him.
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He was a commander in the midst of this.
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It says too that he was a great man with his master.
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He was trusted by the king of Syria.
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He gave him all authority and all power to do as he saw right in his eyes.
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To go about all his conquests.
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He was trusted by the king of Syria.
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It also says that he was a mighty man of valor.
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He was a brave man.
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He had conquered many nations.
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Many people.
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He'd won many battles over his years.
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You can almost see him as being untouchable in so many different ways.
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And these are the kinds of things that in our day and age are so appealing to people now as well.
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They want this sense of being untouchable as we were hearing this morning about everybody has their own individual ideas.
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You cannot tell me what to do.
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I am going to do what I want.
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And these are the things that people see as being important.
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People want power and wealth and authority are strived for.
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And as we've seen over the last few years, they're not easily given up.
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Nobody wants to let go of this power.
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Nobody wants to let go of this authority if they have it.
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People want this sense of power.
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But yet there is something about Naaman in this verse that it tells us to.
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Something telling.
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You see, at the end of verse 1, there is a but.
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He may have been all these great things.
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A commander.
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A trusted man.
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A man of valor.
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A mighty man of valor.
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Yet it says at the end of the verse,
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But he was a leper.
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He was a sick man.
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No matter how much power.
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No matter how much money or authority he had.
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This was something that was incurable.
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He was a sick man.
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Now we've experienced much sickness in different ways over these last few years.
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Our world was living in a way where it seemed people were untouchable.
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Nothing could get to them.
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And yet during the pandemic, it seemed at some points that each day it was emphasized just how contagious the virus was.
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And it was often noted that even so-and-so has got it.
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And it's almost like people were astonished, surprised, that people in positions such as the rich and the famous sports people, the politicians, that this virus could touch them.
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And yet no one was immune to it.
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No matter the power that Naaman had.
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No matter the wealth that Naaman had.
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He was sick.
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And no matter the power that anyone has today.
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Or the status that anyone has today.
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People are not immune to sickness.
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But this is telling us more than just a physical illness.
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This is reminding us of a greater problem.
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A problem that's even more contagious than any virus of this world that comes our way in this world.
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And it's the problem of sin.
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Sin is the greatest sickness that we experience.
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And we all have it.
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You see, no matter how you describe your life today.
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No matter how well you feel today.
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Or no matter how weak and vulnerable you maybe feel today.
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This is something we cannot get away from.
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This is a problem we all have.
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We all have this but in our life.
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Not I am a leper.
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But I am a sinner.
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I am a sinner.
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Naaman was a sick man.
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You and I are sick people.
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Because the word of God tells us so.
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You read in the book of Romans chapter 3 verse 23.
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We all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
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No matter how much we try and deny it.
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No matter how much we try and push that away from us.
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No matter how much the world will tell us that we cannot say you are a sinner.
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The word of God tells us that we are sick.
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That we are all sinners.
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Naaman was a mighty man.
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A powerful man.
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But he was a sick man.
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But in the midst of this.
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There is something greater going on.
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God is at work.
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There is another but in this verse.
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A verse.
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A but that we maybe don't see.
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Immediately that doesn't stand out as much as.
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But he was a leper.
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You see in this opening verse.
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It is not all about Naaman.
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It is not telling us.
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How great Naaman was.
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It is telling us.
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How great God is.
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You read through verse 1 there.
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And there is all these things about Naaman.
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Naaman was a commander of the army.
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He was a great man with his master.
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High in favor.
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But in the middle of the verse it says.
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Another but if you like.
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But because.
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By him.
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The Lord.
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Had given victory to Syria.
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It wasn't through Naaman's power.
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It wasn't through Naaman's.
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Military tactics.
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Or skills.
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It was the Lord.
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That had given victory.
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It was the Lord.
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Who had won.
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God.
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Was in the midst.
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Of everything here.
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And it's a reminder to us as well.
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For all.
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Our world is sin sick.
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That God.
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Is working in this world.
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God is working.
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His purposes.
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Through all his works of providence.
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Providence.
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God is still working.
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Providence.
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That doesn't seem to make sense to us.
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At times.
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Who could understand.
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Why this mighty nation of Syria.
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Naaman's day.
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Was all conquering.
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And all powerful.
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When they did not trust God.
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Yet in the midst of it.
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God was teaching his people lessons.
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And God was working.
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Even in the heart of Naaman.
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An enemy of God.
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It was the Lord.
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Who had given.
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Victory.
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In all the victories.
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That Naaman had.
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It was the Lord.
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Naaman.
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Could do nothing.
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Without the Lord.
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Willing it.
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And the same.
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Is true for ourselves.
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Too.
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We are lost.
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Apart from the Lord.
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God.
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But we should be thankful.
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That the Lord is speaking.
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That the Lord is working.
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That the Lord looks down.
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On this sin sick world.
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And what does he want for his people.
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That they might be saved.
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That they might come.
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To him.
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And be saved.
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Because there is something else here.
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In these opening verses.
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That reminds us.
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Of God's great works.
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In verse 2.
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It says.
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Now the Syrians.
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On one of their raids.
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Had carried off.
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A little girl.
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From the land of Israel.
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And she worked.
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In the service.
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Of Naaman's wife.
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She said.
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To her mistress.
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Would.
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That my Lord.
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Were with the prophet.
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Who is in Samaria.
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It's such.
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A minute detail.
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In so many ways.
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Naaman.
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Would have had no thought.
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For this little girl.
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As she was taken captive.
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Probably along with hundreds.
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Or even thousands of others.
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But this little girl.
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Was about to change his life.
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This little girl.
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In God's providence.
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Was brought to work.
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In his household.
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To have a word.
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To speak.
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To Naaman's wife.
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Would.
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That my Lord.
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Were with the prophet.
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Who is in Samaria.
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Watching the courage.
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Of that little girl.
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To speak.
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To say these words.
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To her masters.
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In their own home.
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To stand up before them.
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And direct them.
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To their enemy.
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And say.
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You can get help there.
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From this man.
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Of God.
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From this prophet.
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Of God.
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The courage.
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Of this little girl.
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And then.
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Isn't it wonderful.
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How God.
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Works together.
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All things.
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How God.
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In the midst.
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Of this mighty.
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Man of valor.
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Life.
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Uses.
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A little.
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Helpless girl.
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To direct him.
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To the place.
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Of healing.
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What we see.
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In this little girl.
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Is what we should see.
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In every Christian.
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Courage.
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Courage.
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To speak.
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And to point people.
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To the prophet of God.
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To the son of God.
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To Jesus Christ.
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And to say.
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To the sin sick world.
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I know your problem.
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Because I have it too.
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I am a sinner.
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In my heart.
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Yet I know.
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Where there is hell.
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Would.
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That you would go.
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To Christ.
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Would.
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That you would come.
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To him.
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Who is able.
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To heal.
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We have a powerful man.
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Who is a sick man.
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But who hears.
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Of a great God.
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And that is what we should long for today.
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For ourselves.
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To know our sickness.
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To know that.
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No matter what power we feel we have.
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We are unable to do anything about this sickness.
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But to hear.
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That there is a God.
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Who can help.
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To acknowledge our sin.
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To acknowledge our weakness before God.
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Pleading for help.
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With him.
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But we see the second thing.
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Is a problem we also have so often.
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Naaman.
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Is a stubborn man.
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And isn't that a problem.
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We so often have.
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Ourselves too.
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You just look at the way Naaman responds.
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When he hears about this.
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Possibility of help.
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He hears.
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The potential of healing.
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For himself.
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And he's keen.
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To find out.
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What it is.
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But he wants it on his own terms.
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He wants everything done.
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His way.
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And that's because.
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Like you and I.
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He was stubborn.
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Sin.
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Makes us stubborn.
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Sin makes us a people.
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Who want to work things out.
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For ourselves.
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We want things done.
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In our own way.
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And who is willing.
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To acknowledge.
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Their stubbornness.
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We are so often.
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Too slow.
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To admit it.
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Even if someone was to tell us.
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Why are you so stubborn?
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Or you're just a stubborn person.
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Our natural reaction.
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Would be to say.
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I'm not stubborn.
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Our stubbornness.
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Makes us stubborn.
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To admit we're stubborn.
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We don't want.
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To admit it.
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And we'll go on the defensive.
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Straight away.
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And so.
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If someone tells us.
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You're a sinner.
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And you need to come to Christ.
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Our natural reaction is.
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No I'm not.
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And how dare you tell me so.
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And you see.
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Our own hearts.
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In Naaman's.
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In his stubbornness.
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As you see.
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In verse 11.
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Naaman was angry.
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He was angry.
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And he went away.
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Saying.
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Behold.
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I thought he would surely.
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Come out to me.
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And stand.
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And call upon.
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The name of the Lord.
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And just wave his hand.
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Over the place.
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And cure the leper.
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Why.
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Why.
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Was he so angry.
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Because.
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In his stubbornness.
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He couldn't humble himself.
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To this point.
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Where he would receive help.
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From somebody else.
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He wanted it done.
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To.
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In his way.
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First of all.
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He thought.
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He could sort things out.
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For himself.
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By his wealth.
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You see that.
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In the middle.
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Of verse 5.
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In verse 5.
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It says.
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The king of Syria said.
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Go now.
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And I will send a letter.
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To the king of Israel.
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So he went.
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Taking with him.
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Ten talents of silver.
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Six thousand shekels of gold.
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And ten changes.
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Of clothes.
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In today's value.
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You're looking at silver.
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They're worth about.
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Two hundred thousand pounds.
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And gold.
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Worth.
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Probably around.
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Three million pounds.
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And here he is.
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Carrying this wealth.
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With him.
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In the hope.
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That he could probably.
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Buy.
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His cleansing.
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Purchase it for himself.
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And to be able to say.
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I have done it.
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By my own wealth.
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And by my own means.
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But we are fools.
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To think.
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That we can in any way.
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Do anything.
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To earn or pay.
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For our salvation.
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To find a way.
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That is going to save me.
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That's.
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A cost that I can pay myself.
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Because our salvation.
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Is a cost.
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That we can.
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And could never pay.
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Isaiah 55.
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Verse 1.
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Is that.
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Great invitation.
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And says.
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Come.
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Everyone who thirsts.
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Come to the waters.
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He who has no money.
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Come.
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Buy and eat.
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Come.
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Buy wine and milk.
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Without money.
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And without price.
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But Naaman would rather bring.
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His own wealth.
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To buy it.
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And isn't that the stubbornness.
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Of our hearts.
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So often too.
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Where we feel.
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That there is a way.
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We can do something.
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About our situation.
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Ourselves.
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We need to learn.
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This lesson.
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Of our stubbornness.
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You cannot.
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We cannot.
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Do anything.
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The second way.
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You see.
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He was stubborn.
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Was.
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Who he came to.
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He was told.
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To go.
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To the prophet.
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Of God.
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In Samaria.
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But who does he come to?
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He came.
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To the king.
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Elisha.
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Was almost way down the ranks.
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He wasn't going to go to a common person.
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He was going to go to the top.
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To the king.
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If anyone was going to help him.
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It would have to be someone really important.
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So he goes.
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To the king.
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But no.
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It wasn't to the king.
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He had to go.
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But his stubbornness.
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Made him.
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When he did eventually go to Elisha.
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He wouldn't even go through his door.
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He wasn't going to come down.
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And go into his place.
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He was going to have to come out to him.
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To help him.
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Did he not know who he was?
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And how important a person he was.
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In our stubbornness.
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We need to humble ourselves.
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To recognize how unimportant we are.
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And to realize the importance of the one.
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Who is able to help.
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The one who came into this world.
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Who humbled himself by coming into this world.
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Who was nothing to be looked at.
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And yet when we are saved.
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As the psalmist says.
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That we might see the beauty of the Lord.
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The beauty of Jesus Christ.
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And humble ourselves before him.
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Our stubbornness wants things done.
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Our way.
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But humility teaches us.
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And grace teaches us.
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There is nothing we can do.
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That it has all been done.
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By the Son of God.
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By Jesus Christ.
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And to see Jesus.
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And to see the price that he has paid.
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Should humble us.
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That he came to give his life.
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As a ransom for many.
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That he came to pay the price.
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That we could never pay.
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The book of Acts.
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It tells us that there is only one.
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Who can heal our sin sick hearts.
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In chapter 4 verse 11.
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It says.
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This Jesus is the stone.
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Who was rejected by you.
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He has become the cornerstone.
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And there is salvation.
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In no one else.
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For there is no other name.
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Under heaven given among men.
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By which we must be saved.
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There is no other way.
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In a stubbornness.
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Naaman thought.
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He could do things his way.
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Again you look at.
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Verse 11.
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And it says.
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In his anger.
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Behold.
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I thought.
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That he would surely come out to me.
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I thought.
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This is how it was going to work out.
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I thought.
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This was what was going to happen.
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And we all have our own plans.
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I thought.
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This is how I would be saved.
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But the truth.
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Changes it for us.
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To recognize it so often.
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Not what we thought.
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But what the Lord wants.
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He thought he could change.
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God's plan.
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Naaman thought.
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His ways.
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His ways.
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Were superior.
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To God's ways.
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He even found fault.
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In God's plan.
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When Elisha says to him.
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Through the messenger.
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Go and dip yourself.
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Seven times.
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In the Jordan.
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What's his response?
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What an insult.
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Are there not better rivers.
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In my own country.
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That I could go and dip myself in.
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Are there not better places.
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I could go.
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Be a bit like someone.
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Saying to us.
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Go to Glasgow.
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And dip yourself in the Clyde.
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You say.
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Well.
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Why not just go to the Creed?
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It's cleaner.
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It's better.
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But when God says.
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To do something.
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You must do it.
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We must obey.
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The command of God.
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And not say.
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But I've got a better idea.
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I've got a better way.
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If God says.
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Go to church.
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To hear his word.
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You don't say no.
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If God says.
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You're a sinner.
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You don't say.
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No I'm not.
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If God says.
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You must repent.
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You don't say.
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No.
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I've got no need.
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For repentance.
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If God says.
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Believe in the Lord.
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Jesus Christ.
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It's the only way.
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To salvation.
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You don't have the right.
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To turn and say.
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No.
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I've got a better way.
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For there is only one way.
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To be saved.
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And that is through him.
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Millions.
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Every day.
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Make the same mistake.
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That Naaman made.
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Perhaps you've been making.
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That mistake.
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In your own life.
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Again.
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And again.
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You think.
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Your own ways.
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I thought.
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I could do this.
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I thought.
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I could do it.
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This way.
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Or a better way.
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I've got a better plan.
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But God is saying.
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No.
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There is no other way.
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To be saved.
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So he speaks.
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To Naaman's.
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Stubborn heart.
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In the same way.
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He speaks.
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To our own.
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Stubborn hearts.
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And he says.
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Do it my way.
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Come.
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Repent.
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And put your trust.
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In the Lord Jesus Christ.
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In our stubbornness.
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God sent his son.
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To bring a stubborn people.
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Back to himself.
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There is only.
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One way.
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Naaman.
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Was a sick man.
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Something we must acknowledge.
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Naaman was a stubborn man.
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Something again.
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We must acknowledge.
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And turn our hearts.
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Towards him.
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But the third thing.
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And the great thing.
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You see here.
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Is Naaman.
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Is a saved man.
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When we see.
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God's grace.
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Fulfilled.
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In his life.
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You see the.
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I thought.
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I knew best.
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In verse 11.
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God.
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I know.
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He is a saint.
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I know.
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He is a saint.
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In verse 15.
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He returned.
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To the man of God.
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To Elisha.
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He and all his company.
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And he came.
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And stood before him.
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And he said.
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Behold.
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I know.
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There is no God.
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In all the earth.
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But in Israel.
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I thought.
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I knew.
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He is saying.
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You see his humility.
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Now I know.
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Now I know.
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there is no other God in all the earth but in Israel. And this is the God who has come to us
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in the person of Jesus Christ. There is no other God but him. What a transformation for this man
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Naaman, the second most powerful man in the world, humbled before God.
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How was he humbled? How did he come to this point? He obeyed the word of God from the prophet.
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He dipped himself seven times into the Jordan and he was cleansed.
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There was repentance. There was humility. There was obedience.
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He went from unwilling to willing. And you notice some things that brought him to this point.
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There was a word from his own servants in verse 13. Even when he was angry, his servants came and said
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to him there in verse 13, my father is a great word. The prophet has spoken to you. Will you not do it?
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Will you not do it? And sometimes we just have to speak directly to people. People are angry against
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God. But they said to him, my Lord, my father, it's a great word the prophet has spoken.
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Sometimes the hardest thing for us is to speak the truth.
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But in a world that's so confused and lost, it is the truth that needs to be heard.
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My friends, you are sinners.
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But my friends, there's a cure in Jesus Christ.
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Naaman's stubbornness is turned to submission.
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Who would have thought, looking at this man, this Naaman, the most powerful man at this time,
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that in his stubbornness, he would be changed.
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And when we look around ourselves today, we see our own stubbornness and we see the stubbornness of others.
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We see the truth in love.
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Naaman dipped himself in the Jordan.
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And what the word of God is telling us is, you must believe.
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You see, Naaman wasn't changed by the dipping itself.
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He wasn't changed by the Jordan itself.
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It was by the power of God that changed this leper into a man who was clean.
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And how are we made clean today?
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How can we be made clean?
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Well, Peter, in his first letter, tells us,
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not with perishable things such as silver or gold,
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but with the precious blood of Christ,
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like that of a lamb without blenish or spot.
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We are made clean through faith in Christ.
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And Naaman's cleansing was complete.
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He got more than his health.
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He was made whole.
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It tells us there at the end of verse 14,
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his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child,
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and he was clean.
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He was made well.
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And you see it so often in the cleansing of Jesus in the New Testament.
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The woman with the issue of blood.
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Blind Bartimaeus.
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And so it goes on, there's so many.
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By the touch of Christ, they are made well.
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They are made clean.
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They are made whole.
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Your faith has made you well, he says.
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We need that faith.
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And as he is made well,
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you also see that even in his anxieties and his fears
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of being a man who had come to trust in the God of Israel,
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and he had to go back to his own people,
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to his own land,
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and the fear of the worship that they were involved in.
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And you see that in verse 17 down to the middle of verse 19.
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He's going back to a place that is offering sacrifices to any God,
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but the Lord, it says.
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There's so much that is wrong with where he is going.
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And he has this fear.
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And he brings this fear to Elisha.
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He's almost saying to him,
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he's bowing himself before him.
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He's saying in verse 18,
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in this matter, may the Lord pardon your servant.
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He knows the challenges he's going to have going back.
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But Elisha says this to him,
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go in peace.
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And one of our greatest fears
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when it comes to faith in the Lord Jesus
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is to go back into the world
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and to live among a people who will challenge our faith,
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a people whose ways may be so different to our faith,
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to hear a language that hurts,
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to see behavior that hurts.
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We don't avoid it.
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You see, Naaman was being put back there
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as a light for the gospel,
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a powerful man in the midst of that nation,
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just like Daniel,
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who stood up for the Lord,
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just like so many we see in the scriptures
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who stood up for the Lord.
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And so we as Christians
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are to stand up for the Lord.
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Do not be afraid to believe.
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For the Lord says,
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go in peace.
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And what these words means is
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he goes with us.
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When we are well,
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we are to tell others
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of the way to be well
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and not to be afraid,
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for the Lord is with us.
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He will never leave us
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or forsake us.
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He is with his people always.
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That is the great promise.
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Do you see yourself then in this man, Naaman?
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We are a sick people,
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just like Naaman.
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But in God's providence,
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here we are with the opportunity
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to know
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the one who is able to make us clean,
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the Lord Jesus.
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We are a stubborn people.
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Our hearts are always stubborn.
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To be told what we must do,
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we don't like it.
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The Lord is telling us,
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humble yourselves.
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Humble yourselves
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unto the mighty arm of God
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so that he may lift you up.
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That's what the gospel tells us.
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And the gospel assures us
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that when we come to the Lord Jesus,
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we are made well,
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we are made clean,
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and we are able to go in peace.
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That peace that only he can give.
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We all have this issue of uncleanness.
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The stain that's so hard to remove,
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impossible for ourselves.
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But God sent his son into this world
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that these stain of sin
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may be eradicated from our hearts,
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that we may be made well with him,
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and that we may know his peace.
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Just like Naaman,
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we are to humble ourselves in obedience
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and come to him.
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So may we hear that great invitation
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to come and be clean,
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to be well,
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and to go in peace.
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May God bless his word to us.
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We're going to conclude by singing
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to his praise in Psalm 92
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in the Scottish Psalter.
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Psalm 92,
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page 351.
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We'll sing from verse 1 to verse 3.
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Psalm 91,
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Psalm 92, sorry.
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Psalm 92,
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in the Scottish Psalter,
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verse 1 to verse 3.
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To render thanks unto the Lord,
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it is a comely thing,
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and to thy name,
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O thou most hide,
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you praise aloud to sing.
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We'll sing from verse 1 to verse 3
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to God's praise.
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You praise aloud to sing.
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You praise aloud to sing.
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To praise aloud to sing.
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To praise aloud to sing.
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Love to die in all the most high,
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to praise aloud to sing.
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Thy lovingkindness to show
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for when shines a morning light,
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and to declare thy faithfulness
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with pleasure every night,
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with pleasure every night,
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with pleasure every night,
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and to declare thy faithfulness,
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with pleasure every night,
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on heart and sing it instrument,
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upon the psaltery,
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And on heart and singлена.
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And on heart we shall
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and sound a BE sweet melody,
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and邊 sweet melody,
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and邊 sweet melody,
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and邊 sweet melody,
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and two.
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And on the heart will fall in sun
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And grace be carried out thee
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After the benediction I'll go to the door to my right hand side
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Let's close with the benediction
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Now may grace, mercy and peace from God
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Father, Son and Holy Spirit
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Rest upon and abide with us all
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Now and forevermore
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Amen