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Sinai Where Moses Met God Msg 1520 - Pastor Chuck Swindoll Insight for Living · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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  Speaker 1: Tonight I want to talk about the most important priority
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  Speaker 1: in your life, and for that matter, the most important involvement,
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  Speaker 1: the most important investment of your time in all of
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  Speaker 1: your life. God reveals some of these things to me
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  Speaker 1: through the study of what some could call an irrelevant
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  Speaker 1: section of Scripture. And at first reading of Exodus chapter 19,
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  Speaker 1: you might get that same impression. How could we find
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  Speaker 1: life's most important priority in a place like that? But
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  Speaker 1: it is there. And we want to center our attention
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  Speaker 1: upon the nucleus of thought in the application of this message.
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  Speaker 1: And I want to reserve considerable time for that. First,
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  Speaker 1: will you turn with me to this section we've mentioned already,
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  Speaker 1: chapter 19 of Exodus. Directly, our thoughts will center upon
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  Speaker 1: Moses and his meeting with God. Ultimately, they will center
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  Speaker 1: upon our meeting with God, which is priority number one.
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  Speaker 1: Our time that we spend with the Lord as His children. Now,
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  Speaker 1: You will remember in days past we found Moses as
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  Speaker 1: God's choice instrument for leadership over the people of Israel.
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  Speaker 1: He led them out of Egypt in the Exodus. He
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  Speaker 1: led them through the Red Sea miraculously by God's power.
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  Speaker 1: He listened to their complaints as they couldn't find water
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  Speaker 1: to drink or food to eat. And God gave them
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  Speaker 1: both by His marvelous provision. And they came through the wilderness,
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  Speaker 1: protected from the enemies, all the way down to the
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  Speaker 1: base of the Sinai Peninsula, which is where we find
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  Speaker 1: them in this passage tonight. Exodus 19 begins by that
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  Speaker 1: place where they met together before the Lord. You see,
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  Speaker 1: in order for the people to meet with God... In
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  Speaker 1: order for Moses to be on that mountain hearing God's revelation,
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  Speaker 1: there had to be the proper preparation. Now part of
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  Speaker 1: the preparation has to do with a place where they met.
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  Speaker 1: That's in verses 1 and 2. In the third month
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  Speaker 1: after the sons of Israel had gone out of the
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  Speaker 1: land of Egypt, on that very day they came into
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  Speaker 1: the wilderness of Sinai. When they set out from Rephidim,
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  Speaker 1: they came to the wilderness of Sinai and camped in
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  Speaker 1: the wilderness, and there Israel camped in front of the mountains.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of things attract our attention in the reading
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  Speaker 1: of these couple of verses. First, they came to the wilderness. Second,
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  Speaker 1: they camped in the wilderness. The place where they met
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  Speaker 1: was at Sinai. Chances are that very few of us
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  Speaker 1: have ever or will ever be at Sinai. Sinai is
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  Speaker 1: a series of mountains at the base of the Sinai Peninsula.
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  Speaker 1: Some of these peaks reach as high as 8,000 feet.
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  Speaker 1: The mountain is solid granite. A large and expensive book
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  Speaker 1: was given me by my sister a number of years
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  Speaker 1: ago entitled God's Wilderness. And in this book, the book
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  Speaker 1: is done by a group of Jewish scholars, archaeologists, authors,
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  Speaker 1: men who know history like the back of our hand.
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  Speaker 1: And in this book, there are a number of pages
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  Speaker 1: of pictures of Sinai. I know it's tantalizing for me
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  Speaker 1: to hold up a picture for a group this large
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  Speaker 1: because about ten rows on back, you can't see anything
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  Speaker 1: but white and black. But it is a beautiful picture
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  Speaker 1: of the southernmost area of the Sinai range of mountains.
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  Speaker 1: The writers say this, the awe-inspiring granite peaks at the
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  Speaker 1: southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula seemed to form a
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  Speaker 1: gigantic fist of God proclaiming, Here! Here! The ever-changing, ever-deepening
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  Speaker 1: colors of the mountains in this part of Sinai invest
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  Speaker 1: this indescribably beautiful region with an aura of sanctity. And
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  Speaker 1: one can well believe that here God appeared to Moses.
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  Speaker 1: And then they add this, having been there at that spot.
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  Speaker 1: Israeli scholars who explored the peninsula in the brief period
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  Speaker 1: of Israeli occupation came to experience a holiness pervading Sinai's mountains.
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  Speaker 1: And they believe that it was in this region that
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  Speaker 1: the Israelites encamped when the law was given. Now I
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  Speaker 1: don't think in the middle of a service such as this,
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  Speaker 1: in the comfort of a place like this, we can
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  Speaker 1: possibly imagine the majesty of that place where they were.
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  Speaker 1: But the place was an important spot in God's plan.
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  Speaker 1: I know that many of us focus on the cross
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  Speaker 1: as a point of reference in meditating. I wish that
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  Speaker 1: we could replace that with a great massive imaginary range
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  Speaker 1: of mountains. Solid granite, gray, with all the hues of
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  Speaker 1: deep purple, the blackness of night, and the silence of
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  Speaker 1: space as these gray peaks like a gigantic fist reach heavenward.
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  Speaker 1: That's where they met as a people two million strong
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  Speaker 1: to hear God's voice. You and I have been to
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  Speaker 1: such mountainous areas, and we can just draw upon our
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  Speaker 1: memory to realize the majesty of mountains. I love the surf.
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  Speaker 1: I take delight in seeing the changes in the desert,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't think anything can compare to the mountains
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  Speaker 1: to describe the majesty of the Creator. Now, that's where
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  Speaker 1: they were. jutting out above the great wilderness desert of
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  Speaker 1: Sinai is this gigantic series of peaks called Sinai. And there,
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  Speaker 1: God planned to meet with his people. But let me
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  Speaker 1: add that God does not quickly run into one's presence,
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  Speaker 1: nor do we quickly find God's presence. There is no
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  Speaker 1: frivolity in this matter of contacting and communing with God alone.
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  Speaker 1: there had to be preparation. Remember, these people had been
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  Speaker 1: grumbling through their wilderness journey. Now notice the preparation that
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  Speaker 1: God required. I find in these several verses, 3 through 15,
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  Speaker 1: four specific things that God required of the people. He
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  Speaker 1: brought them to this place, but before he ever gave
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  Speaker 1: his revelation to them, he required four specifics. Verse 3,
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  Speaker 1: follow along and mark them. Moses went up to God,
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  Speaker 1: and the Lord called to him from the mountain, saying,
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  Speaker 1: Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and
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  Speaker 1: tell the sons of Israel, You yourselves have seen what
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  Speaker 1: I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you
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  Speaker 1: on eagles' wings, and brought you to myself. Now then,
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  Speaker 1: here's the first. If you will indeed obey my voice...
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  Speaker 1: and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own
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  Speaker 1: possession among all the peoples for all the earth is mine.
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  Speaker 1: You shall be to me a kingdom of priests and
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  Speaker 1: a holy nation. These are the words that you shall
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  Speaker 1: speak to the sons of Israel. That last statement was
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  Speaker 1: directed to Moses. Moses, take that statement back down the
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  Speaker 1: mountain to the people. The first requirement was a willingness
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  Speaker 1: to obey. God wanted to be sure that his words
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  Speaker 1: would not fall on deaf ears. There must be an
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  Speaker 1: attitude of willingness. Lord, I want to obey what you say. Now,
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  Speaker 1: many people think, basing their feelings on the movie, the
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  Speaker 1: Ten Commandments or the Bible, that Moses went up once
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  Speaker 1: and got everything and came down. But if you study
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  Speaker 1: the text through Exodus, you find that he actually made
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  Speaker 1: seven trips. He was up and down, up. He was
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  Speaker 1: a busy man. And he took care of these matters
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  Speaker 1: ahead of time before he had that 40-day vigil in
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  Speaker 1: God's presence to receive God's word. But now in this
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  Speaker 1: first journey up, God said, I want to be sure
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  Speaker 1: they're willing to obey. And so he came back down
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  Speaker 1: the mountain. Look at the verse, verse 7. Moses came
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  Speaker 1: and called the elders of the people together and set
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  Speaker 1: before them all these words which the Lord had commanded him.
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  Speaker 1: Now listen to the answer. Just imagine, two men. million
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  Speaker 1: people in unison. All the people answered together and said,
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  Speaker 1: All that the Lord has spoken we will do. Now
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  Speaker 1: there's their answer. Are you willing to obey? Yes, we're
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  Speaker 1: willing to obey. So Moses goes back up the mountain.
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  Speaker 1: Verse 9. The Lord said to Moses, behold, I shall
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  Speaker 1: come to you in a thick cloud in order that
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  Speaker 1: the people may hear when I speak with you and
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  Speaker 1: may also believe in you forever. Then Moses told the
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  Speaker 1: words of the people to the Lord. Notice the second
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  Speaker 1: requirement is in verse 9, a sensitivity to hear. Moses,
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  Speaker 1: not only do I want them willing to obey, I
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  Speaker 1: want them sensitive to hear when I speak. That will
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  Speaker 1: cause them to believe in you, Moses, when they hear
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  Speaker 1: what I am saying. So Moses took the word back
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  Speaker 1: to God saying, yes, they're ready to hear. Now, what
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  Speaker 1: is God doing? I may interrupt your thinking for a moment.
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  Speaker 1: He is laying the groundwork for communications. Again, I want
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  Speaker 1: to remind you that he did not hasten to give
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  Speaker 1: his word to He laid a solid base, a structure
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  Speaker 1: of receptivity. They were to be ready to hear. They
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  Speaker 1: were to be willing to obey. Now there is a third.
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  Speaker 1: Verse 10. The Lord said to Moses, Go to the
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  Speaker 1: people and consecrate them today and tomorrow and let them
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  Speaker 1: wash their garments. Let them be ready for the third day.
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  Speaker 1: For on the third day, the Lord will come down
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  Speaker 1: on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.
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  Speaker 1: Verse 14. So Moses went down from the mountain to
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  Speaker 1: the people and consecrated the people and they washed their garments.
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  Speaker 1: Requirement number three. There was to be consecration of heart.
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  Speaker 1: Not only were they to have clean garments, but the
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  Speaker 1: clean garments were to speak of a clean heart. There
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  Speaker 1: was to be no soil of their soul. They were
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  Speaker 1: to be clean, pure, without and within. Even to the
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  Speaker 1: point of washing up. They were to be ready to
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  Speaker 1: hear in clean apparel. There was one more. Verse 12.
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  Speaker 1: Now think about this as we read it. And you
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  Speaker 1: shall set bounds for the people all around. All around what?
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  Speaker 1: All around the mountain. This area where I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: meet with you, Moses, set a boundary, a fence, a
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  Speaker 1: barrier for the people. And then say, beware that you
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  Speaker 1: do not go up on the mountain or touch the
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  Speaker 1: border of it. Whoever touches the mountain shall surely be
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  Speaker 1: put to death. No hand shall touch him. But he
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  Speaker 1: shall surely be stoned or shot through, meaning with spear
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  Speaker 1: or arrow he will be killed. Whether beast or man,
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  Speaker 1: he shall not live. Verse 14, He went down from
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  Speaker 1: the mountain to the people. Now look across at verse 21.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord spoke to Moses, Go down and warn the people,
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  Speaker 1: lest they break through to the Lord to gaze, and
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  Speaker 1: many of them perish. He wanted to be sure no
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  Speaker 1: one came up that mountain but precise people he would call,
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  Speaker 1: Moses and a few others. And Moses said to the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: verse 23, The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai,
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  Speaker 1: for thou hast warned us, saying, Set bounds about the
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  Speaker 1: mountain and consecrate it. So the fourth, there was to
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  Speaker 1: be a deep respect for God's presence. So deep, so
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  Speaker 1: profound was this respect that they were not to touch
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  Speaker 1: the mountain. They were to wait upon God to speak
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  Speaker 1: to Moses and through him to them. I want to
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  Speaker 1: apply just for a moment something that strikes me as
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  Speaker 1: being obvious in this passage. We are living in a
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  Speaker 1: day of a very shallow concept of God. Our hymnology
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  Speaker 1: of the present era seems to speak of God as
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  Speaker 1: sort of a keen, neat pal. Or in the words
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  Speaker 1: of one of the film stars, he's the great big
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  Speaker 1: daddy upstairs. Or more relevant, Jesus is the kind that
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  Speaker 1: keeps on trucking. That's not the biblical view of God
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  Speaker 1: at all. That's man's attempt to make God relevant, quote unquote.
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  Speaker 1: But there is a cheap twang with that. There is
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  Speaker 1: a twisting of the beauty of God's holiness. With a
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  Speaker 1: desire to make him relevant, we cheapen, we shallow the
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  Speaker 1: holiness of God. We make shallow the holiness of God.
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  Speaker 1: I find God so removed, so desirous of maintaining an elevated,
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  Speaker 1: exalted position that he marked off a boundary and he said,
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  Speaker 1: don't cross that. Don't become familiar and frivolous in my presence.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate very much, Mark, the choice of the hymn
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  Speaker 1: of the month, this month. For years, I have... reserved
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  Speaker 1: that particular hymn as one of the choice ones, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: that never makes it into the hymn books of our era. Immortal, invisible,
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  Speaker 1: God only wise, in light inaccessible hid from our eyes.
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  Speaker 1: I love the second stanza. Unresting, unhasting, and silent as light.
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  Speaker 1: Nor wanting nor wasting thou rulest in might. I'll tell you,
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  Speaker 1: the Puritans, the people of old, really had a concept
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  Speaker 1: of God. You know why I camp on this now?
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  Speaker 1: Because a shallow view of God leads to a cheap life.
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  Speaker 1: You cheapen God and you will have a cheap life.
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  Speaker 1: You make God shallow, you will become shallow. You keep
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  Speaker 1: God in profound respect. It is remarkable how it will
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  Speaker 1: deepen the roots of your spiritual life, which is one
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  Speaker 1: of the basics of this message tonight. I am deeply
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  Speaker 1: concerned over the shallowness of our walk. Our time with
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  Speaker 1: God is sort of a flip of the coin. Heads
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  Speaker 1: I do, tails I don't. Feel like it? Great. I don't? Well,
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  Speaker 1: His grace understands. I frankly do not find that Especially
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  Speaker 1: do I not find it in such passages as we
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  Speaker 1: are in tonight. He is holy. He is exalted. He
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  Speaker 1: is the only wise God. He is the creator, the maker,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord. He's the master. He tells me what to
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  Speaker 1: do and I have no option but to do it.
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  Speaker 1: There is no alternative, no multiple choice. One directive and
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  Speaker 1: it is to do his will. And I reaffirmed that
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  Speaker 1: in my meetings with him and my times with him.
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  Speaker 1: When Isaiah saw him, he was high and lifted up.
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  Speaker 1: When Joshua fell upon him, he fell upon his feet
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  Speaker 1: as dead. When Ezekiel saw him, he couldn't describe him
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  Speaker 1: and he just put him in the clouds as a
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  Speaker 1: number of shining wheels that would spin in the glories
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  Speaker 1: of heaven. He had no words to put him in
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  Speaker 1: the print on the page. But not today. He's our pal.
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  Speaker 1: He's our buddy. No, he is not. He is our God.
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  Speaker 1: And he doesn't bow to our hurried pace. In silence,
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  Speaker 1: he waits for us to meet his demands. And then
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  Speaker 1: once having met them, he is pleased to give us
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  Speaker 1: incredible depth, which is lacking. It's rare today. One man
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  Speaker 1: wrote it this way. Listen carefully. The heaviest obligation upon
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  Speaker 1: the Christian church is to purify and elevate her concept
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  Speaker 1: of God until it is once more worthy of Him.
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  Speaker 1: In all her prayers and labors, this should have first place.
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  Speaker 1: We do the greatest service to the next generation of
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  Speaker 1: Christians by passing on to them undimmed and undiminished. the
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  Speaker 1: noble concept of God, which we receive from our Hebrew
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  Speaker 1: and Christian fathers of generations past. So how's your theology?
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  Speaker 1: What is your theology? Who is your God? I noticed
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  Speaker 1: something very significant that when the meeting began, verse 20,
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  Speaker 1: It was not Moses who went up, but it was
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  Speaker 1: God who came down. When the preparations are such that
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  Speaker 1: they have met God's requirement, he comes down. He initiates
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  Speaker 1: the contact. It pleases him intensely when his children have
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  Speaker 1: properly prepared for those meetings with him. Verse 20. The
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  Speaker 1: Lord came down on Mount Sinai to the top of
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  Speaker 1: the mountain. And the Lord called Moses to the top
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  Speaker 1: of the mountain and Moses went up. What was it
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  Speaker 1: like up there? Listen to verses 16, 17, 18, and 19.
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  Speaker 1: Let's just read them. Just slowly and meditate on what
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  Speaker 1: we're reading. Verse 16. Came about on the third day
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  Speaker 1: when it was morning. There were thunder and lightning flashes
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  Speaker 1: and a thick cloud upon the mountain and a very
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  Speaker 1: loud trumpet sound. so that all the people who were
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  Speaker 1: in the camp trembled. And Moses brought the people out
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  Speaker 1: of the camp to meet God. They stood at the
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  Speaker 1: foot of the mountain. Now Mount Sinai was all in
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  Speaker 1: smoke because the Lord descended upon it in fire, and
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  Speaker 1: its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and
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  Speaker 1: the whole mountain trembled violently. When the sound of the
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  Speaker 1: trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered
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  Speaker 1: him with thunder.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, man.
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  Speaker 1: That was some kind of experience. We have a little
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  Speaker 1: ripple of our earth here, and we have a funny feeling,
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  Speaker 1: and then we go back to normal. But it's not
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  Speaker 1: often that you see a granite mountain shaking. Nor witness... Thunder, lightning, clouds,
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  Speaker 1: and blasting long blasts of trumpets in the heavens, knowing
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  Speaker 1: that God is ready to meet you. Can you imagine
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  Speaker 1: how Moses felt when the Lord said to Moses, come on,
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  Speaker 1: come on up, Moses. Oh, wow, you know, what do
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  Speaker 1: you do now? How do you do it? How do
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  Speaker 1: you carry on? I'll tell you it was with fear
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  Speaker 1: and trembling that he made that journey up into the clouds.
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  Speaker 1: What was the reason that God wanted to meet with Moses?
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  Speaker 1: Why did the meeting occur? There were two reasons. Look
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  Speaker 1: at chapter 20 and verse 20. How healthy they are.
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  Speaker 1: What good reminders. Chapter 20, verse 20, Moses said to
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  Speaker 1: the people, do not be afraid that is frightened in
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  Speaker 1: the flesh. For God has come in order to test you.
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  Speaker 1: And now notice, in order that the fear of him
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  Speaker 1: may remain with you so that you may not sin.
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  Speaker 1: There's the first reason. God wanted to establish a healthy
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  Speaker 1: fear of the Almighty. to deter sin. You know when
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  Speaker 1: you have a proper fear of God, you live a
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  Speaker 1: cleaner life. Any person who is born again and sins
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  Speaker 1: willfully has momentarily blocked out his fear of God. You
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  Speaker 1: do and I do. When you and I actively engage
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  Speaker 1: in sin, we consciously put aside what we know to
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  Speaker 1: be the truth about God, and we lie to ourselves
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  Speaker 1: in saying, we'll get by. Moses was God's instrument of
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  Speaker 1: revealing to the people the fear of the Almighty. And again,
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  Speaker 1: at the risk of sounding like I am haranguing or
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  Speaker 1: grinding an axe, that is also missing in our era.
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  Speaker 1: This wholesome fear of the Almighty. Because it allows us
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  Speaker 1: to do as we please. That is, when it is absent.
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  Speaker 1: You can live as you please if you know you're
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  Speaker 1: not being seen and you won't get caught. You do
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  Speaker 1: as you like. But if down deep inside you know
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  Speaker 1: there is a loving and holy God who will not
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  Speaker 1: let you get away with that, it will deter your life.
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  Speaker 1: that is the life to sin. Now that's what the
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  Speaker 1: Lord wanted to establish first with the people of Israel.
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  Speaker 1: A holy, righteous, pure concept of His presence. Now there's
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  Speaker 1: another reason. Chapter 24, verse 12. This is clearly defined.
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  Speaker 1: The second reason was to communicate written instructions for the
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  Speaker 1: people to obey. 2412, the Lord said to Moses, Come
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  Speaker 1: up to me on the mountain and remain there. Now,
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  Speaker 1: here's the reason. I will give you the stone tablets
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  Speaker 1: with the law and the commandment, which I have written
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  Speaker 1: for their instruction. The second reason was to give Moses...
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  Speaker 1: written instructions for the people to obey. Isn't it great
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  Speaker 1: of God to have done that? You know, this is
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  Speaker 1: the first time in all of history that God ever
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  Speaker 1: wrote down his word. Up until the time of Moses,
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  Speaker 1: there was no written word of God. But now there is.
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  Speaker 1: All right, now that we know the reasons that Moses
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  Speaker 1: was on the mountain, let's answer the question, what did
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  Speaker 1: God reveal? Well, we have just seen right here in
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  Speaker 1: verse 12, the first thing, he revealed his written word.
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  Speaker 1: The first thing that God gave to this man who
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  Speaker 1: met with him was his written word. He took the
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  Speaker 1: time to inscribe it in stone. He broke off a
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  Speaker 1: peak of Sinai. He honed it down so that it
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  Speaker 1: would be able to be handled by Moses, and he
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  Speaker 1: wrote it with his own finger. Look at 31.18. Still
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  Speaker 1: in Exodus, the last verse of chapter 31, one of
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  Speaker 1: the few times you find God writing anything. He wrote
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  Speaker 1: the law and gave it his autograph. When he had
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  Speaker 1: finished speaking with him on the mountain... He gave Moses
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  Speaker 1: the two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone written
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  Speaker 1: by the finger of God. I don't think anyone has
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  Speaker 1: ever had in his possession a more valuable document. He
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  Speaker 1: had the autograph, the autographer from God's own finger. Now
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  Speaker 1: there's another revelation that God gave, and look back in
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  Speaker 1: chapter 25, verses 8 and 9. Just before I apply
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  Speaker 1: all of this to that number one priority, one more passage, 25, 8,
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  Speaker 1: and 9. After God revealed the written word, he revealed
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  Speaker 1: the design of the tabernacle. 8, 25, 8. Let them
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  Speaker 1: construct a sanctuary for me that I may dwell among
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  Speaker 1: them according to all that I am going to show
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  Speaker 1: you as the pattern of the tabernacle. the first mention
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  Speaker 1: now in all the Bible of the tabernacle, and the
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  Speaker 1: pattern of all its furniture, just so you shall construct it.
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  Speaker 1: Now he gave them the word of God that they
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  Speaker 1: might know his mind and obey. He gave them the
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  Speaker 1: design for the tabernacle that they might build it and
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  Speaker 1: he might come and dwell among them. He didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to remain on a mountain. He wanted to be accessible
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  Speaker 1: and available, but in keeping with his own design, he
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  Speaker 1: would dwell in a certain place. That's the tabernacle. That's
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  Speaker 1: another study all to itself, which we won't get involved
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  Speaker 1: in in our study of the life of Moses. Now then,
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  Speaker 1: I told you when I began the message that I
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  Speaker 1: find in these passages that seem to be terribly dated
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  Speaker 1: some highly significant information. I want to go into that
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  Speaker 1: right now. I believe that the number one priority for
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  Speaker 1: you in this year, and it will determine more than
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  Speaker 1: any other single thing, your life of victory is the
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  Speaker 1: matter of walking I should say the matter of meeting
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  Speaker 1: regularly with God and I think when I say that
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  Speaker 1: I strike a note of conviction or the Lord does
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  Speaker 1: in many a heart you've met the Lord you've been
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  Speaker 1: through the Red Sea as it were you've come through
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  Speaker 1: the wilderness but you haven't come yet to that mountain
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  Speaker 1: that place of meeting where you consistently and regularly have
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  Speaker 1: time with Him. We often refer to it glibly as
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  Speaker 1: the quiet time. It isn't always quiet, those meetings with God.
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  Speaker 1: But for the sake of a better term, that is
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  Speaker 1: what I have referenced to, that time of devotional strengthening
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  Speaker 1: of your life. And I have every Christian in mind
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  Speaker 1: when I say these things. I want to suggest from
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  Speaker 1: the passages we've looked at, Four principles to remember and
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  Speaker 1: to apply. Number one, to meet regularly with God, you
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  Speaker 1: need a place. I think it's noteworthy that the very
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  Speaker 1: first thing that's mentioned in the chapter we studied, chapter 19,
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  Speaker 1: is that they came to a place where they met
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  Speaker 1: with God. Now, it's not practical for you to wait
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  Speaker 1: until you can find a mountain. Christian conference grounds are great.
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  Speaker 1: But if you wait for that, you're going to be
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  Speaker 1: carnal a long time before you get there. Forest Home
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  Speaker 1: or Mount Hermon or the Furs or wherever else you
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  Speaker 1: may wish to meet, even a cabin down by the
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  Speaker 1: lake or one up in the mountains or down by
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  Speaker 1: the surf. If you wait until you get to those places,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to spend a lot of time out of
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  Speaker 1: fellowship with God. You need to have a place that's accessible. Remember,
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  Speaker 1: when they came to that mountain, they were in the wilderness.
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  Speaker 1: They camped in the wilderness, and there was their meeting
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  Speaker 1: place with God. You need to have the place in
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  Speaker 1: the realm of your wilderness where you camp, namely your dwelling.
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  Speaker 1: You need to have a place in your dwelling where
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  Speaker 1: you meet with the Lord. Let me even be more
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  Speaker 1: practical than that. You must provide yourself with that place.
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  Speaker 1: You need three things, a desk, a light, and quietness
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  Speaker 1: for that place. It may be in your bedroom where
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  Speaker 1: you can close the door and be alone. It may
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  Speaker 1: best be in a part of your den where or
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  Speaker 1: kitchen area, wherever you can be, all alone, you need
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  Speaker 1: to have a place to be with God. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we in our family are very convinced of this, so
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  Speaker 1: much so that it's built into the decoration, not decoration,
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  Speaker 1: but the decor of our home. Each one of our
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  Speaker 1: children has a desk. And they have been provided a desk,
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  Speaker 1: not an expensive desk, not a big, massive, attractive thing,
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  Speaker 1: but a place to write with a chair and a light.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, that's one of the first pieces of furniture
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  Speaker 1: we provide for their rooms. We provide it even before
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  Speaker 1: they know why they're getting a desk. And we help
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  Speaker 1: them know what to do when they are at the
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  Speaker 1: desk with the Lord. So that we have a rendezvous
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  Speaker 1: spot with God. And we build that into their thinking.
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  Speaker 1: Children don't just become godly. They need training. Your kiddos
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  Speaker 1: will see you and even attend with you in going
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  Speaker 1: to church. But they will not know how to be
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  Speaker 1: godly children and young people and young adults without training.
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  Speaker 1: How about giving some time to that, parents? I know
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  Speaker 1: a young fellow who was in a large family and
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  Speaker 1: they didn't have any other place, and so he chose
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  Speaker 1: the closet. Rigged up a light, put a desk, at
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  Speaker 1: least it had a door. Kind of quiet, kind of close,
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  Speaker 1: but it was a place. You will pardon the earthy illustration,
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  Speaker 1: the home in which I was raised, very small and
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  Speaker 1: an involved, busy family, my mom's place was the bathroom.
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  Speaker 1: And she put her books on the little stove that
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  Speaker 1: heated up the room. She put a little sign on
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  Speaker 1: the door that said, do not disturb. And we knew.
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  Speaker 1: She didn't want to be bothered. Now, busy mothers, you
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  Speaker 1: can't have your time with the Lord at breakfast time
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  Speaker 1: or supper time. That creates havoc. You will be disturbed,
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  Speaker 1: I want to tell you, ahead of time. You've got
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  Speaker 1: to be practical about it. But you need time with God. Businessmen,
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  Speaker 1: your time, your best place might be at your office.
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  Speaker 1: I know a businessman where every morning he goes early
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  Speaker 1: purposely to spend time with the Lord. And if you
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  Speaker 1: were to call him on that line, you would interrupt
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  Speaker 1: his time with the Lord. That's his place. That's my place.
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  Speaker 1: That's not my wife's place. That's not my kid's place,
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  Speaker 1: but that's my place. You need to have your own
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  Speaker 1: place where you can sit down and identify some time
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  Speaker 1: with God. May I even say this? You, because you
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  Speaker 1: haven't planned a place, don't meet regularly with God. You
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  Speaker 1: can't have it sitting on the edge of your bed.
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  Speaker 1: You won't do it sitting on the sofa in the
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  Speaker 1: living room. You need a desk, you need a light,
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  Speaker 1: and you need silence. And you must be legalistic in
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  Speaker 1: preparing a place for that time with God. Now, second,
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  Speaker 1: to approach God, you need to be prepared. You can't
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  Speaker 1: waltz into God's presence. You can't go with an idle
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  Speaker 1: mind as if hands in the pocket, thinking that's going
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  Speaker 1: to be my time with God. No, the heart needs
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  Speaker 1: to be prepared. You can't prepare yourself in five minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Most of us have difficulty getting ready for that time
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  Speaker 1: with God in ten minutes. You need a good 30
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  Speaker 1: minutes a day regularly with the Lord. It's not asking
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  Speaker 1: too much. It'll mean all the difference in the rest
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  Speaker 1: of your day. All the difference in the world. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to be mystical about this. Let's get
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  Speaker 1: earthy and practical. Look at what the people of God did.
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  Speaker 1: You just wrote it down on your chart, on your sheet.
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  Speaker 1: They had a willingness to obey. When you sit down
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  Speaker 1: at that desk, Lord, I'm willing to obey. I'm here
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  Speaker 1: not to play games, but to invest 30 solid minutes
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  Speaker 1: in listening to your voice. I want to be sensitive.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care if anybody else knows I'm here. I
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  Speaker 1: want to hear what you're saying. They had to have
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  Speaker 1: consecration of life, remember? Be explicit about those areas that
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  Speaker 1: have been wrong with the Lord, between you and the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Deal directly and keep short accounts with sin. The Israelites
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  Speaker 1: even washed their garments. You know, I'll let you in
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  Speaker 1: on a secret about me. I don't do well in
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  Speaker 1: my time with the Lord if I'm dirty. I do
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  Speaker 1: better after a shower. Early in the morning or late
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  Speaker 1: in the evenings. I don't do well if in the
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  Speaker 1: sweat of the day or after I've mowed the grass
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  Speaker 1: or whatever may have been the job for the day,
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  Speaker 1: just to sit down and do my time with God.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't work like that. My body needs to be clean.
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  Speaker 1: That's my case. And so without being preoccupied with other things,
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  Speaker 1: I'm able to get prepared to hear from God. You
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  Speaker 1: know what else I use? I use the InterVarsity Christian
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  Speaker 1: Fellowship Hymnal. Now, I don't make a cut on this,
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  Speaker 1: so if you get one, that's great. I'm not in
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  Speaker 1: on that team. The hymn book is broken down into
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  Speaker 1: several phases. When you gather for fellowship, when you speak
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  Speaker 1: of Christ to others, when you pray, when you search
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  Speaker 1: the scriptures, when you seek fellowship with God. And there are, oh,
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  Speaker 1: 164 hymns. Good ones. May the mind of Christ, my Savior,
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  Speaker 1: O Master, let me walk with Thee. The sands of
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  Speaker 1: time are sinking. We rest on Thee, our shield and
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  Speaker 1: our defender. Arise, my soul, arise. Charles Wesley's great hymn.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not skilled to understand how firm a foundation. You
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  Speaker 1: memorize those. You spend time before the Lord singing in
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  Speaker 1: His presence. You won't remember them without having this available,
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  Speaker 1: so have that on your desk. Or get one that's
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  Speaker 1: like it. Take that hymnal you took home from church.
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  Speaker 1: It's a good way to spend it. Better still, bring
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  Speaker 1: it back and get one for yourself, man. What are
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  Speaker 1: you doing running off with our hymnals? That's a sin
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  Speaker 1: you need to confess if you've got that hymnal at home.
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  Speaker 2: At home.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to get your heart together. Get it all
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  Speaker 1: together so that when God speaks, you hear. You can't
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  Speaker 1: handle some little ditty and expect the God of heaven
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  Speaker 1: to pay attention to what you want. Get it together.
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  Speaker 1: Now the third, to hear from God, you need the scriptures.
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  Speaker 1: That book. I'm impressed that God did not give Moses
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  Speaker 1: a revelation and say, go down to those people and
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  Speaker 1: give them a vision. While you'd have Israelites looking for
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  Speaker 1: visions all over the desert. They'd hear visions and see
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  Speaker 1: visions and witness visions and share visions. He gave them
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  Speaker 1: the book and he said, take those written truths and
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  Speaker 1: instruct them. Open this book. Don't rely on your memory.
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  Speaker 1: Rely on print on a page. And don't flip from
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  Speaker 1: page to page or verse to verse or the old
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  Speaker 1: open window method that sort of blows the verses. You
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  Speaker 1: find one for the day. That's equal to spiritual stupidity.
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  Speaker 1: You'll never get God's verse for the day that way.
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  Speaker 1: Start at the beginning of a book and work your
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  Speaker 1: way through it slowly, systematically. Read it aloud. Read it thoughtfully.
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  Speaker 1: Pray it. Personalize it. Sing it. Make that a part
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  Speaker 1: of your conscious moment and forget everything else as you
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  Speaker 1: turn that high priority time to Him. Listen to what
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  Speaker 1: your lips say Ask him to make that live. Block
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  Speaker 1: everything else out. You say, well, that's nothing new. Well,
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  Speaker 1: why have you stopped doing it? I know it's nothing new.
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  Speaker 1: Our problem is not getting something new. Our problem is
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  Speaker 1: doing what we should with something old. That will revolutionize
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  Speaker 1: your marriage, your business, your evangelism. Your whole attitude towards school.
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  Speaker 1: It's remarkable what that discipline will do to your study habits. Remarkable.
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  Speaker 1: I know because when I don't, I pay a terrible price. Now,
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  Speaker 1: there's one more. So far, you could pretty well think
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  Speaker 1: ahead of me and get it together. But this one
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  Speaker 1: might throw you. To remember what God says, you need
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  Speaker 1: a journal. You need a notebook.
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  Speaker 2: Notebook.
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  Speaker 1: Some people call it your life's notebook, but when you
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  Speaker 1: say that, you think in terms of gold leaves and
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  Speaker 1: embossed name on the front, you know, beautiful cover, great
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  Speaker 1: big book, something like this, a life's notebook, that type
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  Speaker 1: of thing. All you need is a composition book. Twenty-nine cents.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe splurge and make it seventy-nine cents. The main thing
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  Speaker 1: about it is that it is a study guide. It's
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  Speaker 1: not a diary. You're not recording what you have done.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to record what God has given you. And
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  Speaker 1: time with the Lord must be accompanied by a pencil
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  Speaker 1: and a piece of paper. You know what Webster calls
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  Speaker 1: a journal? Listen to his definition. It's super. A record
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  Speaker 1: of current transactions. experiences, ideas, and reflections kept for private use.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that good? Now let me give you a hint.
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  Speaker 1: Don't let anybody read your journal. Journals are not written
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  Speaker 1: to be published. They're written to help us maintain our
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  Speaker 1: memory with what God is doing. A journal will help
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  Speaker 1: you remember what God has said. Some of you got
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  Speaker 1: the most profound thoughts in those few times with the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: but they're all left because you never recorded them. I
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  Speaker 1: have kept a journal ever since I studied the life
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  Speaker 1: of Jim Elliott, whose testimony was so beautifully put together
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  Speaker 1: by his wife, Elizabeth, in the book entitled Shadow of
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  Speaker 1: the Almighty, which is nothing more than a published volume
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  Speaker 1: of that man's journal. What a great gift to give
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  Speaker 1: your wife or husband or to give a friend. What
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  Speaker 1: a good way to handle a project with your children.
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  Speaker 1: We're just beginning to get into journals with our kiddos.
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  Speaker 1: Now that they've learned how to write and to believe
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  Speaker 1: that what they write actually is making sense, that's a
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  Speaker 1: real breakthrough. We've had them see, now God can speak
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  Speaker 1: and we want you to put down what God is saying.
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  Speaker 1: Just a sentence or two is fine. You know, this
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  Speaker 1: applies to you that wrestle with the area of your
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  Speaker 1: romance life, seeking God's mate for your life. In the journal,
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  Speaker 1: record the desires that you have. Talk about the design
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  Speaker 1: of that man or that woman that you believe God
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  Speaker 1: would have you spend your life with. Talk about the
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  Speaker 1: wrestlings that go with that whole realm of finding that person.
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  Speaker 1: Put those wrestlings into writing. What a difference it makes.
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  Speaker 1: This is one of the ways I cultivate my pen.
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  Speaker 1: It's through my journal. The think-it-overs are nothing in the
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  Speaker 1: world more than an overflow of, oh, how many pages?
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  Speaker 1: I have in how many journals lost track years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Jim Elliott put this down. I walked out to the
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  Speaker 1: hill just now. It is exalting and delicious to stand
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  Speaker 1: embraced by the shadows of a friendly tree. With the
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  Speaker 1: heavens hailing your heart and the wind tugging at your coattails.
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  Speaker 1: to gaze and glory and give oneself to God, what
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  Speaker 1: more could a man ask? Oh, the fullness, the sheer
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  Speaker 1: excitement of knowing God on earth. I care not if
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  Speaker 1: I never raise my voice again for Him. If only
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  Speaker 1: I may love Him and please Him, perhaps in mercy
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  Speaker 1: He shall give me a host of children. that I
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  Speaker 1: may lead them through the vast star fields to explore
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  Speaker 1: his delicacies. But if not, if only I may see
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  Speaker 1: him touch his garments and smile into his eyes, ah,
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  Speaker 1: then not stars nor children shall matter, only himself. I
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  Speaker 1: want desperately, for your walk with Christ to become consistent
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  Speaker 1: and deeper. That's my desire for every one of you.
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  Speaker 1: If that walk with Christ is that, you will have
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  Speaker 1: very little struggles with evangelism, attitude conflicts, relationship hang-ups, schooling, authority,
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  Speaker 1: or even God's will. That's why it's priority number one.
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  Speaker 1: Let's bow, shall we? Okay, let's just wait upon God
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  Speaker 1: for a few moments. I feel that in especially the
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  Speaker 1: last few minutes of this message, some of you have
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  Speaker 1: had your attention grabbed by the Spirit of God. It's
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  Speaker 1: easy for you to substitute an emotional moment for a
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  Speaker 1: volitional decision. But I want you to do that. I
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  Speaker 1: want you to make a decision. Not think a good
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  Speaker 1: thought or dream a new dream. I want you to
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  Speaker 1: plan tonight on keeping an appointment with God daily. The
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  Speaker 1: enemy is going to tell you to set it aside,
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  Speaker 1: to do something else. You've got far too many things involved,
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  Speaker 1: far too busy. And I'll tell you, everyone is a lie.
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  Speaker 1: Every excuse he suggests. If you're too busy to meet
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  Speaker 1: with the Lord, you are too busy. You've got to
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  Speaker 1: carve out the time. Now let's make plans before we
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  Speaker 1: go to bed tonight. Lord, we have witnessed a man
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  Speaker 1: who met with you. And then we have talked about
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  Speaker 1: some of the disciplines involved in doing that. But we
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  Speaker 1: have yet to do it. It's sort of like taking
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  Speaker 1: a course on prayer, but not praying. Or learning the
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  Speaker 1: techniques of evangelism, but not witnessing. We've learned very little
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  Speaker 1: that has been brand new, but we have gotten a
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  Speaker 1: hold of some profound reminders from your word. We need
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  Speaker 1: not so much a new technique as much as we
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  Speaker 1: need a swift kick in the pants. We need a
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  Speaker 1: reminder from your spirit. We need a rebuke because we
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  Speaker 1: are so slothful and procrastinating and sleepy. when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to digging and climbing that mountain and meeting with you.
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  Speaker 1: And so do a work in spite of us, in
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  Speaker 1: spite of our bad track record, stop us with a
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  Speaker 1: reminder that we could be much more men and women
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  Speaker 1: of God If we would maintain such times with you.
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  Speaker 2: And if you will do this, Lord, if you will
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  Speaker 2: begin anew in our hearts by your grace, we would
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  Speaker 2: appreciate it more than words can say.
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  Speaker 1: Have your way. Have your will. Silence the enemy's suggestions
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  Speaker 1: to delay. In the name of Christ.
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  Speaker 3: The preceding message, Sinai, Where Moses Met God, was copyrighted
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  Speaker 3: in 1976, 1978, 1981, 1985, 1998, and 2024, and the
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  Speaker 3: sound recording was copyrighted in 2024 by Charles R.
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  Speaker 2: Swindoll, Inc.
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  Speaker 3: All rights are reserved worldwide. Duplication of copyrighted material for
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  Speaker 3: commercial use
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  Speaker 1: Is strictly prohibited.