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The Unfailing Love of God 1 Hour · Abide Meditation App

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  Speaker 1: Luke, chapter fifteen. Now the tax collectors and sinners were
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  Speaker 1: all gathering around to hear Jesus. But the paracies and
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  Speaker 1: the teachers of the law muttered, this man welcomes sinners
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  Speaker 1: and eats with them. Then Jesus told them this parable.
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  Speaker 1: Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses
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  Speaker 1: one of them, doesn't he leave the ninety nine in
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  Speaker 1: the open country and go after the lost sheep until
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  Speaker 1: he finds it. And when he finds it, he joyfully
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  Speaker 1: puts it on his shoulders and goes home. Then he
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  Speaker 1: calls his friends and neighbors together and says, rejoice with me,
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  Speaker 1: I found my lost sheep. I tell you that in
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  Speaker 1: the same way, there will be more rejoicing in heaven
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  Speaker 1: over one sinner who repents than over ninety nine righteous
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  Speaker 1: people who do not need to repent. Or Suppose a
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  Speaker 1: woman has ten silver coins and loses one, doesn't she
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  Speaker 1: light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until
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  Speaker 1: she finds it. And when she finds it, she calls
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  Speaker 1: her friends and neighbors together and says, rejoice with me,
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  Speaker 1: I've found my lost coin. In the same way I
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  Speaker 1: tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the
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  Speaker 1: angels of God over one sinner who repents, Jesus continued.
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  Speaker 1: There was a man who had two sons. The younger
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  Speaker 1: one said to his father, father, give me my share
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  Speaker 1: of the estate. So he divided his property between them.
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  Speaker 1: Not long after that, the younger son got together all
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  Speaker 1: he had set off for a distant country, and there
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  Speaker 1: squandered his wealth in wild living. After he had spent everything,
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  Speaker 1: there was a severe famine in that whole country, and
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  Speaker 1: he began to be in need. So he went and
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  Speaker 1: hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who
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  Speaker 1: sent him to his fields to feed pigs. He longed
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  Speaker 1: to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs
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  Speaker 1: were eating, but no one gave him anything. When he
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  Speaker 1: came to his senses, he said, how many of my
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  Speaker 1: father's hired servants have food to spare, and here I
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  Speaker 1: am starving to death. I will set out and go
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  Speaker 1: back to my father and say to him, father, I
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  Speaker 1: have sinned against Heaven and against you. I am no
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  Speaker 1: longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like
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  Speaker 1: one of your hired servants. So he got up and
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  Speaker 1: went to his father. But while he was still a
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  Speaker 1: long way off. His father saw him and was filled
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  Speaker 1: with compassion for him. He ran to his son, threw
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  Speaker 1: his arms around him, and kissed him. The son said
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  Speaker 1: to him, father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.
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  Speaker 1: I am no longer worthy to be called your son.
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  Speaker 1: But the father said to his servants, quick, ring the
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  Speaker 1: best robe and put it on him. Put a ring
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  Speaker 1: on his finger, and sandals on his feet. Bring the
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  Speaker 1: fattened calf and kill it. Let's have a feast and celebrate,
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  Speaker 1: for this son of mine was dead and is alive again.
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  Speaker 1: He was lost and is found. So they began to celebrate. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: the older son was in the field. When he came
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  Speaker 1: near the house, he heard music and dancing, so he
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  Speaker 1: called one of the servants and asked him what was
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  Speaker 1: going on. Your brother has come, he replied, and your
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  Speaker 1: father has killed the fattened calf because he has him
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  Speaker 1: back safe and sound. The older brother became angry and
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  Speaker 1: refused to go in, so his father went out and
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  Speaker 1: pleaded with him. But he answered his father, look, all
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  Speaker 1: these years I've been slaving for you and never disobeyed
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  Speaker 1: your orders. Yet you never gave me even a young
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  Speaker 1: goat so I could celebrate with my friends. But when
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  Speaker 1: this son of yours, who has squandered your property with prostitutes,
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  Speaker 1: comes home, you kill the fattened calf for him, my son.
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  Speaker 1: The father said, you are always with me, and everything
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  Speaker 1: I have is yours. But we had to celebrate and
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  Speaker 1: be glad because this brother of yours was dead and
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  Speaker 1: is alive again. He was lost and is found Psalm
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty. Out of the depths, I cry
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  Speaker 1: to you, Lord, Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears
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  Speaker 1: be attentive to my cry for mercy. If you, Lord
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  Speaker 1: kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand. But
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  Speaker 1: with you there is forgiveness, so that we can with
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  Speaker 1: reverence serve you. I wait for the Lord, my whole
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  Speaker 1: being waits, and in his word I put my hope.
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  Speaker 1: I wait for the Lord more than watchmen wait for
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  Speaker 1: the morning, more than watchmen wait for the mourning Israel.
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  Speaker 1: Put your hope in the Lord, for with the Lord
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  Speaker 1: is unfailing love, and with him his full redemption. He
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  Speaker 1: himself will redeem Israel from all their sins. Romans chapter five. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: since we have been justified through faith, we have peace
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  Speaker 1: with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we
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  Speaker 1: have gained access by faith into this grace in which
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  Speaker 1: we now stand, and we boast in the hope of
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  Speaker 1: the glory of God. Not only so, but we also
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  Speaker 1: glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces
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  Speaker 1: persevere adhearance, perseverance, character and character, hope. And hope does
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  Speaker 1: not put us to shame, because God's love has been
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  Speaker 1: poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who
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  Speaker 1: has been given to us. You see, at just the
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  Speaker 1: right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for
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  Speaker 1: the ungodly. Very rarely will any one die for a
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  Speaker 1: righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly
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  Speaker 1: dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for
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  Speaker 1: us in this. While we were still sinners, Christ died
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  Speaker 1: for us. Since we have now been justified by His blood,
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  Speaker 1: how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath
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  Speaker 1: through him? For if while we were God's enemies, we
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  Speaker 1: were reconciled to Him through the death of his son,
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  Speaker 1: how much more having been reconciled, shall we be saved
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  Speaker 1: through his life. Not only is this so, but we
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  Speaker 1: also boasting God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom
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  Speaker 1: we have now received reconciliation. Therefore, just as sin entered
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  Speaker 1: the world through one man, and death through sin, and
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  Speaker 1: in this way, death came to all people because all sinned.
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  Speaker 1: To be sure, sin was in the world before the
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  Speaker 1: law was given. But sin is not charged against any
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  Speaker 1: one's account where there is no law. Nevertheless, death reigned
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  Speaker 1: from the time of Adam to the time of Moses,
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  Speaker 1: even over those who did not sin by breaking a command,
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  Speaker 1: as did Adam, who is a pattern of the one
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  Speaker 1: to come. But the gift is not like the trespass.
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  Speaker 1: For if the many died by the trespass of the
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  Speaker 1: one man, how much more did God's grace and the
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  Speaker 1: gift that came by the grace of the one man
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, overflow to the many. Nor can the gift
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  Speaker 1: of God be compared with the result of one man's sin.
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  Speaker 1: The judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation, But the
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  Speaker 1: gift followed many trespasses and brought justification. For if by
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  Speaker 1: the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that
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  Speaker 1: one man, how much more will those who receive God's
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  Speaker 1: abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness
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  Speaker 1: reign in life through the one Man, Jesus Christ. Consequently,
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  Speaker 1: just as one trespass resulted in condemnation for all people,
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  Speaker 1: so also one righteous act resulted in justification and life
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  Speaker 1: for all people. For just as through the disobedience of
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  Speaker 1: the One Man, the many were made sinners, so also
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  Speaker 1: through the obedience of the One Man, the many will
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  Speaker 1: be made righteous. The law was brought in so that
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  Speaker 1: the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased
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  Speaker 1: all the more. So that just as sin reigned in death,
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  Speaker 1: so also grace my brain through righteousness to bring eternal
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  Speaker 1: life through Jesus Christ, our Lord Jeremiah chapter thirty one.
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  Speaker 1: At that time declares the Lord. I will be the
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  Speaker 1: god of all the families of Israel, and they will
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  Speaker 1: be my people. This is what the Lord says. The
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  Speaker 1: people who survive the sword will find favor in the wilderness.
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  Speaker 1: I will come to give rest to Israel. The Lord
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  Speaker 1: appeared to us in the past, saying, I have loved
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  Speaker 1: you with an everlasting love. I have drawn you with
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  Speaker 1: unfailing kindness. I will build you up again, and you
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  Speaker 1: virgin is Israel will be rebuilt again. You will take
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  Speaker 1: up your tambourines and go out to dance with the
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  Speaker 1: joyful again. You will plant vineyards on the hills of Samaria.
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  Speaker 1: The farmers will plant them and enjoy their fruit. There
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  Speaker 1: will be a day when watchmen cry out on the
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  Speaker 1: hills of Ephraim. Come. Let us go up to Zion
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  Speaker 1: to the Lord, our God. This is what the Lord says.
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  Speaker 1: Sing with joy for Jacob, shout for the foremost of
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  Speaker 1: the nations. Make your praises heard, and say, Lord, save
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  Speaker 1: your people, the remnant of Israel. See. I will bring
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  Speaker 1: them from the land of the north and gather them
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  Speaker 1: from the ends of the earth. Among them will be
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  Speaker 1: the blind and the lame, expectant mothers and women in labor.
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  Speaker 1: A great throng will return. They will come with weeping.
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  Speaker 1: They will pray. As I bring them back. I will
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  Speaker 1: lead them beside streams of water, on a level path,
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  Speaker 1: where they will not stumble. Because I am Israel's father,
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  Speaker 1: and Ephraeim is my first born son. Hear the word
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord, You nations proclaim it in distant coast lands.
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  Speaker 1: He who scattered Israel will gather them and will watch
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  Speaker 1: over his flock like a shepherd, for the Lord will
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  Speaker 1: deliver Jacob and redeem them from the hand of those
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  Speaker 1: stronger than they. They will come and shout for joy
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  Speaker 1: on the heights of Zion. They will rejoice in the
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  Speaker 1: bounty of the Lord, the grain, the new wine, and
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  Speaker 1: the olive oil. The young of the flocks and herds.
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  Speaker 1: They will be like a well watered garden, and they
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  Speaker 1: will sorrow no more. Then, young women will dance and
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  Speaker 1: be glad, young men and old as well. I will
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  Speaker 1: turn their mourning into gladness. I will give them comfort
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  Speaker 1: and joy instead of sorrow. I will satisfy the priests
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  Speaker 1: with abundance, and my people will be filled with my bounty,
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  Speaker 1: declares the Lord. This is what the Lord says. A
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  Speaker 1: voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping. Rachel
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  Speaker 1: weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted because
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  Speaker 1: they are no more. This is what the Lord says.
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  Speaker 1: Restrain your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears,
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  Speaker 1: for your work will be rewarded, declares the Lord. They
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  Speaker 1: will return from the land of the enemy, so there
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  Speaker 1: is hope for your descendants, declares the Lord. Your children
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  Speaker 1: will return to their own land. I have surely heard
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  Speaker 1: Ephraim's moaning. You disciplined me like an unruly card, and
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  Speaker 1: I have been disciplined. Restore me, and I will return,
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  Speaker 1: because you are the Lord, my God. After I strayed,
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  Speaker 1: I repented, After I came to understand, I beat my breast.
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  Speaker 1: I was ashamed and humiliated because I bore The disgrace
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  Speaker 1: of my youth is not Ephraim, my dear son, the
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  Speaker 1: child in whom I delight. Though I often speak against him,
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  Speaker 1: I still remember him. Therefore my heart yearns for him.
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  Speaker 1: I have great compassion for him, declares the Lord. Set
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  Speaker 1: up road signs, put up guide posts. Take note of
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  Speaker 1: the highway, the route that you take. Return, Virgin Israel.
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  Speaker 1: Return to your towns. How long will you wander, unfaithful
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  Speaker 1: daughter Israel. The Lord will create a new thing on earth.
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  Speaker 1: The woman will return to the man. This is what
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  Speaker 1: the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says, when I
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  Speaker 1: bring them back from captivity. The people in the land
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  Speaker 1: of Judah and in its towns will once again use
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  Speaker 1: these words. The Lord bless you, you prosperous city, you
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  Speaker 1: sacred bountain. People will live together in Judah and all
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  Speaker 1: its towns. Farmers and those who move about with their flocks.
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  Speaker 1: I will refresh the weary and satisfy the faint. At
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  Speaker 1: this I awoke and looked around. My sleep had been
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  Speaker 1: pleasant to me. The days are coming, declares the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: when I will plant the kingdoms of Israel and Judah
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  Speaker 1: with the offspring of people and of animals. Just as
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  Speaker 1: I watched over them to uproot and tear down, and
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  Speaker 1: to overthrow, destroy and bring disaster, so I will watch
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  Speaker 1: over them to build and to plant, declares the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: In those days, people will no longer say the parents
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  Speaker 1: have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set
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  Speaker 1: on edge. Instead, every one will die for their own sin.
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  Speaker 1: Whoever eats sour grapes, their own teeth will be set
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  Speaker 1: on edge. The days are coming, declares the Lord, when
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  Speaker 1: I will make a new covenant with the people of
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  Speaker 1: Israel and with the people of Judah. It will not
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  Speaker 1: be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when
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  Speaker 1: I took them by the hand to lead them out
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  Speaker 1: of Egypt. Because they broke my covenant, though I was
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  Speaker 1: a husband to them, declares the Lord. This is the
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  Speaker 1: covenant that I will make with the people of Israel.
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  Speaker 1: After that time, declares the Lord. I will put my
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  Speaker 1: law in their minds and write it on their hearts.
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  Speaker 1: I will be their God, and they will be my people.
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  Speaker 1: No longer will they teach their neighbor or say to
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  Speaker 1: one another, know the Lord, because they will all know me,
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  Speaker 1: from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their
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  Speaker 1: sins no more. This is what the Lord says. He
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  Speaker 1: who appoints the sun to shine by day, who decrees
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  Speaker 1: the moon and the stars to shine by night, who
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  Speaker 1: stirs up the sea so that its waves roar, The
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  Speaker 1: Lord Almighty is his name. Only if these decrees vanish
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  Speaker 1: from my sight, declares the Lord, will Israel ever cease
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  Speaker 1: being a nation before me? This is what the Lord says.
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  Speaker 1: Only if the heavens above can be measured and the
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  Speaker 1: foundations of the earth below be searched out, will I
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  Speaker 1: reject all the descendants of Israel because of all they
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  Speaker 1: have done, declares the Lord. The days are coming, declares
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  Speaker 1: the Lord. When this city will be rebuilt for me.
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  Speaker 1: From the tower of Hananel to the corner gate, the
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  Speaker 1: measuring line will stretch from there straight to the hill
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  Speaker 1: of Gareb, and then turn to goa the whole valley
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  Speaker 1: where dead bodies and ashes are thrown, and all the
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  Speaker 1: terraces out of the Kidron Valley on the east as
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  Speaker 1: far as the corner of the horse Gate, will be
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  Speaker 1: wholly to the Lord. The city will never again be
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  Speaker 1: uprooted or demolished. Isiah chapter thirty, Woe to the obstinate children,
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  Speaker 1: declares the Lord to those who carry out plans that
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  Speaker 1: are not mine, forming an alliance, but not by my spirit,
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  Speaker 1: heaping sin upon sin who go down to Egypt without
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  Speaker 1: consulting me, who look for help, to Pharaoh's protection, to
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  Speaker 1: Egypt's shade for refuge, but Pharaoh's protection will be to
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  Speaker 1: your shame. Egypt's shade will bring you disgrace. Though they
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  Speaker 1: have officials in Zoan, and their envoys have arrived in Haines,
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  Speaker 1: everyone will be put to shame because of a people
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  Speaker 1: useless to them, who bring neither help nor advantage, but
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  Speaker 1: only shame and disgrace. A prophecy concerning the animals of
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  Speaker 1: the Negev through a land of hardship and distress of
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  Speaker 1: lions and lionesses, of adders and darting snakes. The envoys
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  Speaker 1: carry their riches on donkeys backs, their treasures on the
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  Speaker 1: humps of camels, to that unprofitable nation, to Egypt, whose
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  Speaker 1: help is utterly useless. Therefore I call her Rahab, the
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  Speaker 1: do nothing. Go now write it on a tablet for
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  Speaker 1: them inscribe it on a scroll, that for the days
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  Speaker 1: to come it may be an everlasting witness. For these
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  Speaker 1: are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to listen to
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  Speaker 1: the Lord's instruction. They say to the seers, see no
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  Speaker 1: more visions, and to the prophets, give us no more
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  Speaker 1: visions of what is right. Tell us pleasant things, prophesy illusions,
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  Speaker 1: leave this way, get off this path, and stop confronting
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  Speaker 1: us with the Holy One of Israel. Therefore, this is
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  Speaker 1: what the Holy One of Israel says. Because you have
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  Speaker 1: rejected this message, relied on oppression, and depended on deceit,
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  Speaker 1: this sin will become for you like a high war
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  Speaker 1: cracked and bulging that collapses suddenly in an instant. It
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  Speaker 1: will break in pieces, like pottery, shattered so merciless that
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  Speaker 1: among its pieces not a fragment will be found. For
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  Speaker 1: taking coals from a hearth, or scooping water out of
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  Speaker 1: a cistern. This is what the Sovereign Lord, the Holy
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  Speaker 1: One of Israel, says. In repentance and rest is your salvation.
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  Speaker 1: In quietness and trust is your strength. But you would
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  Speaker 1: have none of it. You said, no, we will flee
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  Speaker 1: on horses. Therefore you will flee. You said, we will
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  Speaker 1: ride off on swift horses. Therefore your pursuers will be swift.
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  Speaker 1: A thousand will flee at the threat of one, at
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  Speaker 1: the threat of five. You will all flee away till
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  Speaker 1: you are left like a flagstaff on a mountain top,
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  Speaker 1: like a banner on a hill. Yet the Lord longs
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  Speaker 1: to be gracious to you. Therefore he will rise up
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  Speaker 1: to show you compare. For the Lord is a god
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  Speaker 1: of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him, People
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  Speaker 1: of Zion who live in Jerusalem. You will weep no more,
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  Speaker 1: how gracious he will be when you cry for help.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as he hears, he will answer you. Although
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  Speaker 1: the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the
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  Speaker 1: water of affliction, your teachers will be hidden no more.
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  Speaker 1: With your own eyes, you will see them, whether you
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  Speaker 1: turn to the right or to the left. Your ears.
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  Speaker 1: Will hear a voice behind you, saying, this is the way,
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  Speaker 1: walk in it. Then you will desecrate your idols overlaid
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  Speaker 1: with silver, and your images covered with gold. You will
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  Speaker 1: throw them away like a menstrual cloth, and say to
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  Speaker 1: them away with you. He will also send you rein
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  Speaker 1: for the seed you sow in the ground, and the
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  Speaker 1: food that comes from the land will be rich and plentiful.
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  Speaker 1: In that day, your cattle will graze in broad meadows.
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  Speaker 1: The oxen and donkeys that work the soil will eat
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  Speaker 1: fodder and mash spread out with fork and shovel. In
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  Speaker 1: the day of great slaughter, when the towers fall, streams
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  Speaker 1: of water will flow on every high mountain and every
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  Speaker 1: lofty hill. The moon will shine like the sun, and
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  Speaker 1: the sunlight will be seven times brighter, like the light
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  Speaker 1: of seven full days. When the Lord binds up the
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  Speaker 1: bruises of his people and heals the wounds he inflicted.
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  Speaker 1: See the name of the Lord comes from Afar with
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  Speaker 1: burning anger and dense clouds of smoke. His lips are
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  Speaker 1: full of wrath, and his tongue is a consuming fire.
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  Speaker 1: His breath is like a rushing torrent, rising up to
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  Speaker 1: the neck. He shame the nations in the scythe of destruction.
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  Speaker 1: He places in the jaws of the peoples a bit
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  Speaker 1: that leads them astray. And you will sing as on
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  Speaker 1: the night you celebrate a holy festival. Your hearts will rejoice,
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  Speaker 1: as when people playing pipes go up to the mountain
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord, to the rock of Israel. The Lord
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  Speaker 1: will cause people to hear his majestic voice, and will
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  Speaker 1: make them see his arm coming down with raging anger
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  Speaker 1: and consuming fire, with cloudburst, thunderstorm and hail. The voice
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord will shatter Assyria with his rod. He
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  Speaker 1: will strike them down. Every stroke the Lord lays on
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  Speaker 1: them with his punishing club will be to the music
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  Speaker 1: of tambourines and harps, as he fights them in battle
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  Speaker 1: with the blows of his arm. Tofeth has long been prepared.
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  Speaker 1: It has been made ready for the Kingsopit has been
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  Speaker 1: made deep and wide with an abundance of fire and wood.
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  Speaker 1: The breath of the Lord, like a stream of burning sulfur,
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  Speaker 1: sets it ablaze Matthew chapter eighteen. At that time the
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  Speaker 1: disciples came to Jesus and asked, who then is the
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  Speaker 1: greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven. He called a little
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  Speaker 1: child to him and placed the child among them, And
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  Speaker 1: he said, truly, I tell you, unless you change and
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  Speaker 1: become like little children, you will never enter the Kingdom
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  Speaker 1: of heaven. Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this
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  Speaker 1: child is the greatest in the Kingdom of heaven. And
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  Speaker 1: whoever welcomes one such child in my name, welcomes me.
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  Speaker 1: If any one causes one of these little ones those
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  Speaker 1: who believe in me to stumble, it would be better
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  Speaker 1: for them to have a large millstone hung round their
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  Speaker 1: neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.
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  Speaker 1: Woe to the world because of the things that cause
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  Speaker 1: people to stumble. Such things must come, but woe to
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  Speaker 1: the person through whom they come. If your hand or
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  Speaker 1: your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and
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  Speaker 1: throw it away. It is better for you to enter
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  Speaker 1: life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or
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  Speaker 1: two feet and be thrown into eternal fire. And if
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  Speaker 1: your eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and
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  Speaker 1: throw it away. It is better for you to enter
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  Speaker 1: life with one eye than to have two eyes and
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  Speaker 1: be thrown into the fire of hell. See that you
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  Speaker 1: do not despise one of these little ones, for I
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  Speaker 1: tell you that their angels in heaven always see the
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  Speaker 1: face of my Father in heaven. What do you think
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  Speaker 1: if a man owns a hundred sheep and one of
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  Speaker 1: them wanders away? Will he not leave the ninety nine
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  Speaker 1: on the hills and go to look for the one
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  Speaker 1: that wandered off? And if he finds it, Truly, I
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  Speaker 1: tell you, he is happier about that one sheep than
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  Speaker 1: about the ninety nine that did not wander off. In
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  Speaker 1: the same way, your father in heaven is not willing
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  Speaker 1: that any of these little ones should perish. If your
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  Speaker 1: brother or sister sins go and point out their fault
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  Speaker 1: just between the two of you, if they listen to you,
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  Speaker 1: you have won them over. But if they will not listen,
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  Speaker 1: take one or two others along, so that every matter
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  Speaker 1: may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.
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  Speaker 1: If they still refuse to listen, tell it to the church.
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  Speaker 1: And if they refuse to listen even to the Church,
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  Speaker 1: treat them as you would a pagan or a tax collector. Truly,
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  Speaker 1: I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be
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  Speaker 1: bound in heaven, And whatever you loose on earth will
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  Speaker 1: be loosed in heaven again. Truly, I tell you that
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  Speaker 1: if two of you on earth agree about anything they
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  Speaker 1: ask for, it will be done for them by my
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  Speaker 1: Father in heaven. For where two or three gather in
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  Speaker 1: my name, there am I with them. Then Peter came
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  Speaker 1: to Jesus and asked, Lord, how many times shall I
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  Speaker 1: forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up
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  Speaker 1: to seven times? Jesus answered, I tell you not seven times,
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  Speaker 1: but seventy seven times. Therefore, the Kingdom of Heaven is
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  Speaker 1: like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants.
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  Speaker 1: As he began the settlement, a man who owed him
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  Speaker 1: ten thousand bags of gold was brought to him. Since
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  Speaker 1: he was not able to pay, the master ordered that
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  Speaker 1: he and his wife, and his children, and all that
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  Speaker 1: he had be sold to repay the debt. At this,
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  Speaker 1: the servant fell on his knees before him. Be patient
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  Speaker 1: with me, he begged, and I will pay back everything.
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  Speaker 1: The servant's master took pity on him, canceled the debt
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  Speaker 1: and let him go. But when that servant went out,
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  Speaker 1: he found one of his fellow servants who owed him
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  Speaker 1: a hundred silver coins. He grabbed him and began to
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  Speaker 1: choke him. Pay back what you owe me, he demanded.
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  Speaker 1: His fellow servant fell to his knees and begged him
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  Speaker 1: be patient with me and I will pay it back,
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  Speaker 1: but he refused. Instead, he went off and had the
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  Speaker 1: man thrown into prison until he could pay the debt.
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  Speaker 1: When the other servants saw what had happened, they were
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  Speaker 1: outraged and went and told their master everything that had happened.
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  Speaker 1: Then the master called the servant in you, wicked servant,
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  Speaker 1: He said, I counseled all that debt of yours because
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  Speaker 1: you begged me to. Shouldn't you have had mercy on
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  Speaker 1: your fellow servant just as I had on you. In anger,
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  Speaker 1: his master handed him over to the jailers to be
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  Speaker 1: tortured until he should pay back all he owed. This
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  Speaker 1: is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you
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  Speaker 1: unless you forgive your brother or sister from your heart
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  Speaker 1: one John chapter five. Everyone who believes that Jesus is
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  Speaker 1: the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves
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  Speaker 1: the Father loves his child as well. This is how
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  Speaker 1: we know that we love the children of God. By
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  Speaker 1: loving God and carrying out his commands. In fact, this
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  Speaker 1: is love for God to keep his commands, and his
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  Speaker 1: commands are not burdensome. For everyone born of God overcomes
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  Speaker 1: the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world,
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  Speaker 1: even our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world.
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  Speaker 1: Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son
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  Speaker 1: of God. This is the one who came by water
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  Speaker 1: and blood, Jesus Christ. He did not come by water only,
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  Speaker 1: but by water and blood. And it is the spirit
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  Speaker 1: who testifies, because the spirit is the truth. For there
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  Speaker 1: are three that testify, the Spirit, the water, and the blood,
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  Speaker 1: and the three are in agreement. We accept human testimony,
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  Speaker 1: but God's testimony is greater because it is the testimony
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  Speaker 1: of God which he has given about his son. Whoever
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  Speaker 1: believes in the Son of God accepts this testimony. Whoever
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  Speaker 1: does not believe God has made him out to be
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  Speaker 1: a liar because they have not believed the testimony God
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  Speaker 1: has given about his Son. And this is the testimony
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  Speaker 1: God has given us eternal life. And this life is
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  Speaker 1: in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life. Whoever
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  Speaker 1: does not have the Son of God does not have life.
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  Speaker 1: I write these things to you who believe in the
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  Speaker 1: name of the Son of God, so that you may
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  Speaker 1: know that you have eternal life. This is the confidence
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  Speaker 1: we have in approaching God, that if we ask anything
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  Speaker 1: according to his will, he hears us. And if we
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  Speaker 1: know that He hears us whatever we ask, we know
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  Speaker 1: that we have what we asked of him. If you
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  Speaker 1: see any brother or sister commit a sin that does
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  Speaker 1: not lead to death, you should pray, and God will
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  Speaker 1: give them life. I refer to those whose sin does
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  Speaker 1: not lead to death. There is a sin that leads
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  Speaker 1: to death. I am not saying that you should pray
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  Speaker 1: about that. All wrongdoing is sin, and there is sin
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  Speaker 1: that does not lead to death. We know that any
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  Speaker 1: one born of God does not continue to sin. The
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  Speaker 1: one who was born of God keeps them safe, and
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  Speaker 1: the evil One cannot harm them. We know that we
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  Speaker 1: are children of God and that the whole world is
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  Speaker 1: under the control of the evil One. We know also
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  Speaker 1: that the Son of God has come and has given
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  Speaker 1: us understanding, so that we may know Him who is true,
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  Speaker 1: and we are in Him who is true by being
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  Speaker 1: in his son, Jesus Christ. He is the true God
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  Speaker 1: and eternal life. Dear children, keep yourselves from idols. Psalm
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  Speaker 1: sixty three. You God, are my God. Earnestly I seek you.
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  Speaker 1: I thirst for you. My whole being longs for you.
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  Speaker 1: In a dry and parched land where there is no water.
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  Speaker 1: I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your
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  Speaker 1: power and your glory. Because your love is better than life.
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  Speaker 1: My lips will glorify you. I will praise you as
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  Speaker 1: long as I live, and in your name I will
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  Speaker 1: lift up my hands. I will be fully satisfied, as
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  Speaker 1: with the richest of foods. With singing lips, my mouth
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  Speaker 1: will praise you. On my bed, I remember you. I
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  Speaker 1: think of you through the watches of the night. Because
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  Speaker 1: you are my help. I sing in the shadow of
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  Speaker 1: your wings. I cling to you. Your right hand upholds me.
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  Speaker 1: Those who want to kill me will be destroyed. They
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  Speaker 1: will go down to the depths of the earth. They
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  Speaker 1: will be given over to the sword and become food
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  Speaker 1: for jackals. But the King will rejoice in God. All
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  Speaker 1: who swear by God will glory in him, while the
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  Speaker 1: mouths of liars will be silenced. Psalm thirty three. Sing
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  Speaker 1: joyfully to the Lord, you righteous. It is fitting for
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  Speaker 1: the upright to praise him. Praise the Lord with the
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  Speaker 1: harp make music to him. On the ten stringed liar,
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  Speaker 1: sing to him a new song, playskillfully and shout for joy.
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  Speaker 1: For the word of the Lord is right and true.
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  Speaker 1: He is faithful in all he does. The Lord loves
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  Speaker 1: righteousness and justice. The earth is full of his unfailing love.
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  Speaker 1: By the word of the Lord, the heavens were made
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  Speaker 1: their starry host by the breath of his mouth. He
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  Speaker 1: gathers the waters of the sea into jars. He puts
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  Speaker 1: the deep into storehouses. Let all the earth fear the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Let all the people of the world revere him. For
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  Speaker 1: he spoke, and it came to be. He commanded, and
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  Speaker 1: it stood firm. The Lord foils the plans of the nations.
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  Speaker 1: He thwarts the purposes of the peoples. But the plans
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord stand firm forever, the purposes of his
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  Speaker 1: heart through all generations. Blessed is the nation whose God
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  Speaker 1: is the Lord. The people he chose for his inheritance
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  Speaker 1: from heaven. The Lord looks down and sees all mankind
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  Speaker 1: from his dwelling place. He watches all who live on earth.
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  Speaker 1: He who forms the hearts of all, who considers everything
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  Speaker 1: they do. No king is saved by the size of
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  Speaker 1: his army. No warrior escapes by his great strength. A
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  Speaker 1: horse is a vain hope for deliverance. Despite all its
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  Speaker 1: great strength, it cannot save. With the eyes of the
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  Speaker 1: Lord are on those who fear him, on those whose
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  Speaker 1: hope is in His unfailing love, to deliver them from
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  Speaker 1: death and keep them alive famine. We wait in hope
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  Speaker 1: for the Lord. Here is our help and our shield.
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  Speaker 1: In him. Our hearts rejoice, for we trust in his
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  Speaker 1: holy name. May your unfailing love be with us, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: even as we put our hope in you one Peter
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  Speaker 1: Chapter two. Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy,
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  Speaker 1: and slander of every kind. Like new born babies, crave
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  Speaker 1: pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow
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  Speaker 1: up in your salvation. Now that you have tasted that
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  Speaker 1: the Lord is good, as you come to him the
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  Speaker 1: living stone, rejected by humans, but chosen by God and
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  Speaker 1: precious to Him. You, also, like living stones, are being
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  Speaker 1: built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood,
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  Speaker 1: offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For
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  Speaker 1: in Scripture it says see I lay a stone in Zion,
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  Speaker 1: a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who trusts
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  Speaker 1: in him will never be put to shame. Now to
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  Speaker 1: you who believe, this stone is precious, but to those
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  Speaker 1: who do not believe, the stone the builders rejected has
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  Speaker 1: become the cornerstone, a stone that causes people to stumble,
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  Speaker 1: and a rock that makes them fall. They stumble because
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  Speaker 1: they disobey the message, which is also what they were
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  Speaker 1: destined for. But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood,
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  Speaker 1: a holy nation, God's special possession, that you may declare
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  Speaker 1: the praises of Him who called you out of darkness
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  Speaker 1: into his wonderful Once you were not a people, but
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  Speaker 1: now you are the people of God. Once you had
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  Speaker 1: not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. Dear friends,
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  Speaker 1: I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from
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  Speaker 1: sinful desires which wage war against your soul. Live such
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  Speaker 1: good lives among the pagans, that though they accuse you
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  Speaker 1: of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and
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  Speaker 1: glorify God on the day he visits us. Submit yourselves
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  Speaker 1: for the Lord's sake to every human authority, whether to
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  Speaker 1: the Emperor as the supreme authority, or to governors who
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  Speaker 1: are sent by him to punish those who do wrong
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  Speaker 1: and to commend those who do right. For it is
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  Speaker 1: God's will that by doing good you should silence the
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  Speaker 1: ignorant talk of foolish people. Live as free people, but
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  Speaker 1: do not use your freedom as a cover up for evil.
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  Speaker 1: Live as God's slaves. Show proper respect to every one.
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  Speaker 1: Love the family of believers, Fear God, honor the Emperor.
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  Speaker 1: Slaves in reverent fear of God. Submit yourselves to your masters,
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  Speaker 1: not only to those who are good and considerate, but
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  Speaker 1: also to those who are harsh. For it is commendable
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  Speaker 1: if some one bears up under the pain of unjust
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  Speaker 1: suffering because they are conscious of God. But how is
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  Speaker 1: it to your credit if you receive a beating for
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  Speaker 1: doing wrong and endure it. But if you suffer for
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  Speaker 1: doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God.
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  Speaker 1: To this you were called because Christ suffered for you,
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  Speaker 1: leaving you an example that you should follow in his steps.
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  Speaker 1: He committed no sin and no deceit was found in
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  Speaker 1: his mouth when they hurled their insults at him. He
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  Speaker 1: did not retaliate when he suffered, he made no threats. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: he entrusted himself to him who judges justly. He himself
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  Speaker 1: bore our sins in his body on the cross, so
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  Speaker 1: that we might die to sins and live for righteousness.
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  Speaker 1: By his wounds, you have been healed, for you were
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  Speaker 1: like sheep going astray. But now you have returned to
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  Speaker 1: the shepherd and overseer of your souls Philippians chapter two. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ,
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  Speaker 1: if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing
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  Speaker 1: in the spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make
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  Speaker 1: my joy complete by being like minded, having the same love,
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  Speaker 1: being one in spirit and of one mind. Do nothing
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  Speaker 1: out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility,
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  Speaker 1: value you others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests,
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  Speaker 1: but each of you to the interests of the others
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  Speaker 1: in your relationships with one another. Have the same mindset
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  Speaker 1: as Christ. Jesus, who, being in very nature God, did
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  Speaker 1: not consider equality with God something to be used to
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  Speaker 1: his own advantage. Rather, he made himself nothing by taking
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  Speaker 1: the very nature of a servant, being made in human
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  Speaker 1: likeness and being found in appearance as a man, he
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  Speaker 1: humbled himself by becoming obedient to death, even death on
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  Speaker 1: a cross. Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
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  Speaker 1: and gave him the name that is above every name,
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  Speaker 1: that at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow
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  Speaker 1: in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and
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  Speaker 1: every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord to the
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  Speaker 1: glory of God the Father. Therefore, my dear friends, as
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  Speaker 1: you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but
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  Speaker 1: now much more in my absence, continue to work out
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  Speaker 1: your salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God
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  Speaker 1: who works in you to will and to act in
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  Speaker 1: order to fulfill His good purpose. Do everything without grumbling
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  Speaker 1: or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure
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  Speaker 1: children of God, without fault in a warped and crooked generation.
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  Speaker 1: Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky,
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  Speaker 1: as you hold firmly to the word of life. And
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  Speaker 1: then I will be able to boast on the day
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  Speaker 1: of Christ that I did not run or labor in vain.
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  Speaker 1: But even if I am being poured out like a drink,
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  Speaker 1: offering on the sacrifice and service coming from your faith,
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  Speaker 1: I am glad and rejoice with all of you, so
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  Speaker 1: you too should be glad and rejoice with me. I
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  Speaker 1: hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon,
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  Speaker 1: that I also may be cheered when I receive news
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  Speaker 1: about you. I have no one else like him who
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  Speaker 1: will show genuine concern for your welfare, for every one
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  Speaker 1: looks out for their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: But you know that Timothy has proved himself because as
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  Speaker 1: a son with his father, he has served with me
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  Speaker 1: in the work of the Gospel. I hope therefore to
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  Speaker 1: send him as soon as I see how things go
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  Speaker 1: with me. And I am confident in the Lord that
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  Speaker 1: I myself will come soon. But I think it is
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  Speaker 1: necessary to send back to you. Epaphroditis my brother, co
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  Speaker 1: worker and fellow soldier who is also your messenger, whom
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  Speaker 1: you send to take care of my needs. For he
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  Speaker 1: longs for all of you and is distressed because you
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: heard he was ill. Indeed he was ill and almost died.
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: But God had mercy on him, and not on him only,
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  Speaker 1: but also on me, to spare me sorrow upon sorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore I am all the more eager to send him,
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  Speaker 1: so that when you see him again, you may be glad,
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  Speaker 1: and I may have less anxiety. So then welcome him
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  Speaker 1: in the Lord with great joy and honor people like him,
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: because he almost died for the work of Christ. He
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  Speaker 1: risked his life to make up for the help you
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  Speaker 1: yourselves could not give me. Exodus chapter twenty. And God
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  Speaker 1: spoke all these words, I am the Lord your God,
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  Speaker 1: who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land
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  Speaker 1: of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me.
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  Speaker 1: You shall not make for yourself an image in the
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  Speaker 1: form of anything in heaven above, or on the earth beneath,
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  Speaker 1: or in the waters below. You shall not bow down
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  Speaker 1: to them or worship them. For I, the Lord your God,
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  Speaker 1: am a jealous god, punishing the children for the sin
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  Speaker 1: of the parents to the third and fourth generation of
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  Speaker 1: those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand
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  Speaker 1: generations of those who love me. And keep my commandments.
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  Speaker 1: You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God.
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: For the Lord will not hold any one guiltless who
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  Speaker 1: misuses his name. Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.
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  Speaker 1: Six days, you shall labor and do all your work.
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  Speaker 1: But the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord
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  Speaker 1: your God. On it, you shall not do any work,
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  Speaker 1: neither you nor your son or daughter, nor your male
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  Speaker 1: or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing
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  Speaker 1: in your towns. For in six days the Lord Lord
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  Speaker 1: made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all
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  Speaker 1: that is in them. But he rested on the seventh day. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord blessed the sabbath day and made it holy
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  Speaker 1: honor your father and your mother, so that you may
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  Speaker 1: live long in the land the Lord your God is
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  Speaker 1: giving you. You shall not murder, You shall not commit adultery.
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  Speaker 1: You shall not steal. You shall not give false testimony
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  Speaker 1: against your neighbor. You shall not covet your neighbour's house.
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  Speaker 1: You shall not covet your neighbour's wife, or his male
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  Speaker 1: or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that
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  Speaker 1: belongs to your neighbor. When the people saw the thunder
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  Speaker 1: and lightning, and heard the trumpet, and saw the mountain
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  Speaker 1: in smoke, they trembled with fear. They stayed at a
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  Speaker 1: distance and said to Moses, speak to us yourself, and
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  Speaker 1: we will listen. But do not let God speak to us,
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  Speaker 1: or we will die. Moses said to the people, do
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  Speaker 1: not be afraid. God has come to test you, so
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  Speaker 1: that the fear of God will be with you to
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  Speaker 1: keep you from sinning. The people remained at a distance
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  Speaker 1: while Moses approached the thick darkness where God was. Then
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  Speaker 1: the Lord said to Moses, tell the Israelites this you
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  Speaker 1: have seen for yourselves that I have spoken to you
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  Speaker 1: from heaven. Do not make any gods to be alongside me.
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  Speaker 1: Do not make for yourselves gods of silver or gods
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  Speaker 1: of gold. Make an altar of earth for me, and
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  Speaker 1: sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, your
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  Speaker 1: sheep and goats, and your cattle. Wherever I cause my
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  Speaker 1: name to be honored, I will come to you and
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  Speaker 1: bless you. If you make an altar of stones for me,
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  Speaker 1: do not build it with dressed stones, for you will
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  Speaker 1: defile it if you use a tool on it. And
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  Speaker 1: do not go up to my altar on steps, or
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  Speaker 1: your private parts may be exposed. Psalm One blessed is
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  Speaker 1: the one who does not walk in step with a
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  Speaker 1: wicked or stand in the way that sinners take, or
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  Speaker 1: sit in the company of mockers, but whose delight is
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  Speaker 1: in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on
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  Speaker 1: his law day and night. That person is like a
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  Speaker 1: tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit
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  Speaker 1: in season, and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever they
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  Speaker 1: do prospers. Not so the wicked. They are like chaff
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  Speaker 1: that the wind blows away. Therefore, the will not stand
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  Speaker 1: in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous,
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  Speaker 1: For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous,
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  Speaker 1: but the way of the wicked leads to destruction. To Timothy,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter one, Paul an apostle of Christ Jesus, by the
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  Speaker 1: will of God, in keeping with the promise of life
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  Speaker 1: that is in Christ Jesus. To Timothy, my dear son, grace,
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  Speaker 1: mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: our Lord. I thank God, whom I serve as my
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  Speaker 1: ancestors did, with a clear conscience. As night and day.
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  Speaker 1: I constantly remember you in my prayers, recalling your tears.
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  Speaker 1: I long to see you so that I may be
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  Speaker 1: filled with joy. I am reminded of your sincere faith,
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  Speaker 1: which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your
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  Speaker 1: mother Eunice. And I am persuaded now lives in you. Also.
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  Speaker 1: For this reason, I mind you to fan into flame
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  Speaker 1: the gift of God which is in you through the
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  Speaker 1: laying on of my hands. For the spirit God gave
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  Speaker 1: us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love,
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  Speaker 1: and self discipline. So do not be ashamed of the
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  Speaker 1: testimony about our Lord or of me his prisoner. Rather
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  Speaker 1: join with me in suffering for the Gospel. By the
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  Speaker 1: power of God, He has saved us and called us
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  Speaker 1: to a holy life, not because of anything we have done,
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  Speaker 1: but because of His own purpose and grace. This grace
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  Speaker 1: was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time,
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  Speaker 1: but it has now been revealed through the appearing of
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  Speaker 1: our savior, Christ Jesus, who has destroyed death and has
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  Speaker 1: brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel. And
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  Speaker 1: of this Gospel, I was appointed a herald and an
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  Speaker 1: apostle and a teacher. That is why I am suffering
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  Speaker 1: as I am. Yet this is no cause for shame,
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  Speaker 1: because I know whom I have believed, and I am
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  Speaker 1: convinced that He is able to guard what I have
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  Speaker 1: entrusted to him until that day. What you heard from
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  Speaker 1: me keep as the pattern of sound teaching with faith
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  Speaker 1: and love. In Christ, Jesus, guard the good deposit that
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  Speaker 1: was entrusted to you, guarded with the help of the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit who lives in us. You know that every
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  Speaker 1: one in the province of Asia has deserted me, including
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  Speaker 1: for Galis and Homogenes. May the Lord show mercy to
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  Speaker 1: the household of Honysyfheras, because he often refreshed me and
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  Speaker 1: was not ashamed of my chains. On the contrary, when
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  Speaker 1: he was in Rome, he searched hard for me until
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  Speaker 1: he found me. May the Lord grant that he will
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  Speaker 1: find mercy from the Lord on that day. You know
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  Speaker 1: very well in how many ways he helped me in
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  Speaker 1: Ephesus Hebrews chapter four. Therefore, since the promise of entering
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  Speaker 1: his rest still stands, let us be careful that none
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  Speaker 1: of you be found to have fallen short of it,
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  Speaker 1: For we also have had the good news proclaimed to us,
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  Speaker 1: just as they did, But the message they heard was
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  Speaker 1: of no value to them because they did not share
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  Speaker 1: the faith of those who obeyed. Now, we who have believed,
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  Speaker 1: enter that rest, just as God has said. So I
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  Speaker 1: declared on oath in my anger, they shall never enter
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  Speaker 1: my rest. And yet his works have been finished since
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  Speaker 1: the creation of the world. For somewhere he has spoken
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  Speaker 1: about the seventh day in these words. On the seventh
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  Speaker 1: day God rested from all his works, and again in
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  Speaker 1: the passage above he says, they shall never enter my rest. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: since it still remains for some to end to that rest,
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  Speaker 1: and since those who formerly had the good news proclaimed
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  Speaker 1: to them did not go in because of their disobedience,
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  Speaker 1: God again set a certain day, calling it today. This
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  Speaker 1: he did when a long time later he spoke through
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  Speaker 1: David as in the passage already quoted today. If you
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  Speaker 1: hear his voice, do not harden your hearts, for if
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  Speaker 1: Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken
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  Speaker 1: later about another day. There remains then a sabbath rest
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  Speaker 1: for the people of God. For anyone who enters God's
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  Speaker 1: rest also rests from their works, just as God did
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  Speaker 1: from his. Let us therefore make every effort to enter
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  Speaker 1: that rest, so that no one will perish by following
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  Speaker 1: their example of disobedience. For the Word of God is
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  Speaker 1: alive and active, sharper than any double edged sword. It
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  Speaker 1: penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit joints and marrow.
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  Speaker 1: It judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. Nothing
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  Speaker 1: in all creation is hidden from God's sight. Everything is
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  Speaker 1: uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of Him, to
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  Speaker 1: whom we must give account. Therefore, since we have a
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  Speaker 1: great high priest who has ascended into heaven, Jesus the
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  Speaker 1: Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith
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  Speaker 1: we profess. For we do not have a high priest
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  Speaker 1: who is unable to feel sympathy for our weaknesses. But
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  Speaker 1: we have one who has been tempted in every way
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  Speaker 1: just as we are, yet he did not sin. Let
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  Speaker 1: us then approach God's throne of grace with confidence, so
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  Speaker 1: that we may receive mercy and find grace to help
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  Speaker 1: us in our time of need. Proverbs chapter three, My son,
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  Speaker 1: do not forget my teaching, but keep my commands in
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  Speaker 1: your heart, for they will prolong your life many years
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  Speaker 1: and bring you peace and prosperity. Let love and faithfulness
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  Speaker 1: never leave you. Bind them round your neck, write them
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  Speaker 1: on the tablet of your heart. Then you will win
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  Speaker 1: favor and a good name in the sight of God
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  Speaker 1: and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
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  Speaker 1: and lean not on your own understanding in all your ways.
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  Speaker 1: Submit to him, and he will make your path straight.
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  Speaker 1: Do not be wise in your own eyes. Fear the
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  Speaker 1: Lord and shun evil. This will bring health to your
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  Speaker 1: body and nourishment to your bones. Honor the Lord with
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  Speaker 1: your wealth, with the first fruits of all your crops.
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  Speaker 1: Then your barns will be filled to overflowing, and your
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  Speaker 1: vats will brim over with new wine. My son, do
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  Speaker 1: not despise the Lord's discipline, and do not resent his rebuke.
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  Speaker 1: Because the Lord disciplines those he loves as a father.
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  Speaker 1: The son he delights in. Blessed those who find wisdom,
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  Speaker 1: those who gain understanding. For she is more profitable than silver,
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  Speaker 1: and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious
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  Speaker 1: than rubies. Nothing you desire can compare with her. Long
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  Speaker 1: life is in her right hand. In her left hand
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  Speaker 1: are riches and honor. Her ways are pleasant ways, and
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  Speaker 1: all her paths are peace. She is a tree of
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  Speaker 1: life to those who take hold of her. Those who
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  Speaker 1: hold her fast will be blessed by wisdom. The Lord
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  Speaker 1: laid the earth's foundations by understanding. He set the heavens
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  Speaker 1: in place. By his knowledge. The watery depths were divided,
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  Speaker 1: and the clouds let up the dew, my son, Do
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  Speaker 1: not let wisdom and understanding out of your sight. Preserve sound, judgment,
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  Speaker 1: and discretion. They will be life for you, an ornament
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  Speaker 1: to grace your neck. Then you will go on your
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  Speaker 1: way in safety, and your foot will not stumble. When
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  Speaker 1: you lie down, you will not be afraid. When you
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  Speaker 1: lie down, your sleep will be sweet. Have no fear
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  Speaker 1: of sudden disaster or of the ruin that overtakes the wicked,
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  Speaker 1: for the Lord will be at your side and will
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  Speaker 1: keep your foot from being snared. Do not withhold good
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  Speaker 1: from those to whom it is due, when it is
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  Speaker 1: in your power to act. Do not say to your neighbor,
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  Speaker 1: come back to morrow, and I'll give it to you
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  Speaker 1: when you already have it with you. Do not plant
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  Speaker 1: harm against your neighbor who lives trustfully near you. Do
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  Speaker 1: not accuse any one for no reason when they have
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  Speaker 1: done you no harm. Do not envy the violent, or
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  Speaker 1: choose any of their ways. For the Lord detests the perverse,
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  Speaker 1: but takes the upright into his confidence. The Lord's curse
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  Speaker 1: is on the house of the wicked, but he blesses
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  Speaker 1: the home of the righteous. He mocks proud mockers, but
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  Speaker 1: shows favor to the humble and oppressed. The wise inherit honor,
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  Speaker 1: but fools get only shame one Thessalonians, chapter four. As
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  Speaker 1: for other matters, brothers and sisters, we instructed you how
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  Speaker 1: to live in order to please God, as in fact
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  Speaker 1: you are living now. We ask you and urge you,
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  Speaker 1: in the Lord Jesus, to do this more and more.
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  Speaker 1: For you know what instructions we gave you, by the
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  Speaker 1: authority of the Lord Jesus. It is God's will that
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  Speaker 1: you should be sanctified, that you should avoid so actual immorality,
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  Speaker 1: that each of you should learn to control your own
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  Speaker 1: body in a way that is wholly and honorable, not
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  Speaker 1: impassionate lust like the pagans who do not know God,
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  Speaker 1: And that in this matter no one should wrong or
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  Speaker 1: take advantage of a brother or sister. The Lord will
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  Speaker 1: punish all those who commit such sins, as we told
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  Speaker 1: you and warned you before. For God did not call
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  Speaker 1: us to be impure, but to live a holy life. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: any one who rejects this instruction does not reject a
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  Speaker 1: human being, but God, the very God who gives you
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  Speaker 1: his holy spirit. Now about your love for one another.
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  Speaker 1: We do not need to write to you, for you
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  Speaker 1: yourselves have been taught by God to love each other,
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  Speaker 1: and in fact you do love all of God's family
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  Speaker 1: throughout Macedonia. Yet we urge you, brothers and sisters, to
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  Speaker 1: do so more and more, and to make it your
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  Speaker 1: ambition to lead a quiet life. Should mind your own
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: business and work with your hands, just as we told you,
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  Speaker 1: so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders,
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  Speaker 1: and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.
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  Speaker 1: Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be
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  Speaker 1: uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you
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  Speaker 1: do not grieve like the rest of mankind who have
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  Speaker 1: no hope. For we believe that Jesus died and rose again,
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  Speaker 1: and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus
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  Speaker 1: those who have fallen asleep in him according to the
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: Lord's word. We tell you that we who are still alive,
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  Speaker 1: who are left until the coming of the Lord, will
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  Speaker 1: certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep, For the
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  Speaker 1: Lord himself will come down from heaven with a loud command,
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  Speaker 1: with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet
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  Speaker 1: call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
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  Speaker 1: After that we who are still alive and a left
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  Speaker 1: will be caught up together with them in the clouds
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  Speaker 1: to meet the Lord in the air. And so we
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  Speaker 1: will be with the Lord forever. Therefore, encourage one another
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  Speaker 1: with these words.