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Trusting In The Lord | Episode #336 | Encore Episode #007 · Reflections On The Word With Richard Kay

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of Reflection on the Word with
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  Speaker 1: Richard K. I'm Chuck Christie, and today we are asking
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  Speaker 1: you to spend a few moments of your time with
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  Speaker 1: us each day as Richard shares from God's Word with notes, quotes,
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  Speaker 1: and stories, along with some of his own personal experiences,
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  Speaker 1: to confirm for you God's great love for us, that
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  Speaker 1: his compassion for us never fails, and that He has
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  Speaker 1: a great faithfulness toward us in every regard. In Lamentations
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  Speaker 1: Chapter three, verses twenty two and twenty three, we read,
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  Speaker 1: because of the Lord's great love, we are not consumed,
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  Speaker 1: for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning.
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  Speaker 1: Great is your faithfulness. Now, if you miss a portion
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  Speaker 1: of today's broadcast or would like to recommend it to
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  Speaker 1: a friend, you can hear this program anytime online at
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  Speaker 1: Talknetwork Radio dot com. Well, now here's Richard with today's reflection.
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  Speaker 2: We read in Luke seven twenty two, go your way
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  Speaker 2: and tell John what things you have seen and heard,
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  Speaker 2: How that the blind see, the lame walk, and the
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  Speaker 2: lepers are cleansed, the death here and the dead are raised,
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  Speaker 2: and to the poor the gospel is preached. You know
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  Speaker 2: what We talk in an earlier segment about how we
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  Speaker 2: trust the Lord in this particular case, how are we
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  Speaker 2: really trusting in the Lord when everything seems to be
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  Speaker 2: going right or the way we want our lives to be.
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  Speaker 2: It's easy to trust in the Lord, but what about
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  Speaker 2: when things are not going the way we would hope?
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  Speaker 2: Do we have a firm foundation in life? Examples that
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  Speaker 2: are trusting in the Lord. Abraham trusted that the Lord
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  Speaker 2: would resurrect his son Isaac when he was called to
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  Speaker 2: sacrifice him to the Lord. Job lost everything and trusted
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  Speaker 2: God with his very life. Daniel entered the lion's den
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  Speaker 2: fully trusting the Lord. Joseph prospered while in prison, and
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  Speaker 2: as a prime Minister of Egypt. David trusted in the
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  Speaker 2: Lord of Israel to deliver the Philistines by slaying the
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  Speaker 2: giant Goliath. There are many examples of those who trusted
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  Speaker 2: in the Lord when the tide was turned against them.
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  Speaker 2: As we studied the life of Jesus, we recognize vivid
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  Speaker 2: illustrations of some we regard now as strong in the faith. Mary,
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  Speaker 2: the Mother of Jesus, resigns herself to personal ridicule and
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  Speaker 2: exile for the miracle of the virgin birth. Mary's cousin Elizabeth,
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  Speaker 2: who is Zechariah's wife, is the mother of John the Baptizer.
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  Speaker 2: John was regarded as the most important of the prophets,
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  Speaker 2: perhaps because he actually recognized that Jesus is the Lamb
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  Speaker 2: of God. Looking further into John's life, we find that
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  Speaker 2: he was a radical believer that he would announce the
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  Speaker 2: coming Messiah. He proclaimed this very position when he was
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  Speaker 2: asked by his follower if he was the Messiah. Listen
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  Speaker 2: to his words, I am the voice crying in the
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  Speaker 2: wilderness for men to repent. John was what today would
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  Speaker 2: be called an evangelist. His message was clear, repent and
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  Speaker 2: be baptized. Did everything work out the way John had hoped? Well?
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  Speaker 2: Would you consider that being put into prison awaiting the
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  Speaker 2: executioner's acts a time to trust in the Lord. John
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  Speaker 2: baptized Jesus, but desired to be baptized by him. In
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  Speaker 2: his prison cell, he sends some of his disciples to
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  Speaker 2: inquire of Jesus if, in fact, he is the Messiah.
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  Speaker 2: When John's followers asked Jesus if he was the Messiah
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  Speaker 2: or should they look for another, Jesus stated that they
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  Speaker 2: were to return to John and tell him the prophetic
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  Speaker 2: works being performed. Hearing this, John was able to lay
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  Speaker 2: his head on the chopping block, trusting in the Lord
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  Speaker 2: for his eternal soul.
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  Speaker 1: Richard will be right back in a moment to wrap up.
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  Speaker 2: But if you've just joined.
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  Speaker 1: Us you've been listening to Reflections on the Word with
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  Speaker 1: Richard Ka, you can hear this message in its entirety
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  Speaker 1: again online as well as Richard's entire archive at Talknetwork
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  Speaker 1: Radio dot com. We would like to acknowledge our theme song,
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  Speaker 1: how Great Is Thy Faithfulness from the America's twenty five
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  Speaker 1: the Holman Christian Standard Bible, which is published by Homan
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  Speaker 1: Bible Publishers in Nashville, Tennessee. Additional resources used for Reflections
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  Speaker 1: on the Word with Richard Kay include Great Is Thy
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  Speaker 1: Faithfulness by Our Daily Bread and printed by Discovery House Publishers. Again,
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  Speaker 1: here is Richard to wrap up today's message.
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  Speaker 2: Can we learn to trust in the Lord in the
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  Speaker 2: same way? In Luke seven, two Jesus' words to the
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  Speaker 2: followers of John, go your way and tell John what
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  Speaker 2: things you've seen and heard? How that the blind sea
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  Speaker 2: the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf here
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  Speaker 2: the deador raised, and to the poor the good news
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  Speaker 2: is preached. And that is today's Reflection on the Word.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Richard. Join us again tomorrow when we continue
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  Speaker 1: with the next edition of Reflections on the Word with
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  Speaker 1: Richard k or Richard and the entire team. This is
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  Speaker 1: Chuck Christie saying thanks for listening to this edition of
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  Speaker 1: Reflections on the Work