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Voddie Baucham - This is Why We Need to Be Reminded · Voddie Baucham Sermons

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  Speaker 1: We doubt because we don't believe what the Lord has promised.
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  Speaker 2: Look at verses six through eight.
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  Speaker 1: Save therefore to the people of Israel, I am the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: I am Yahweh, and I will bring you out. This
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  Speaker 1: is framed by I am the Lord on the beginning
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  Speaker 1: and the end. So he's going back to remind them
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  Speaker 1: of who I am, that I'm God. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: there's no other explanation needed than I am God.
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  Speaker 2: Amen?
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of like when your parents tell you something,
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  Speaker 1: you go, why do I have to do that? Because
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  Speaker 1: I told you so. Well, why do I have to
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  Speaker 1: do what you tell me? Because I'm your daddy.
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  Speaker 2: Well, uh-uh. That's enough. That's enough. I am the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: That's enough.
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  Speaker 1: He says it at the beginning. and the end but
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  Speaker 1: in the middle again remember three times I am the
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  Speaker 1: Lord and in the middle of that seven promises another
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  Speaker 1: very important number in the scriptures look at those promises
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  Speaker 1: I will bring you out from under the burden of
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  Speaker 1: the Egyptians what's their worry you spoke to Pharaoh and
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  Speaker 1: our burden got heavier I'm God I will bring you
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  Speaker 1: out from under the burden of the Egyptians. Number two,
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  Speaker 1: I will deliver you from slavery to them. Number three,
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  Speaker 1: I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with
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  Speaker 1: great acts of judgment. Number four, I will take you
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  Speaker 1: to be my people. Number five, I will be your
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  Speaker 1: God and you shall know that I am the Lord
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  Speaker 1: your God who has brought you out from under the
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  Speaker 1: burden of the Egyptians.
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  Speaker 2: When I do it, you'll know I did it.
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  Speaker 1: Number six, I will bring you into the land that
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  Speaker 1: I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And
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  Speaker 1: number seven, I will give it to you for a possession.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not just going to bring you out. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to bring you in. I'm not just going to bring
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  Speaker 1: you out and bring you in, but I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: bring you out, take you as my own, be your
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  Speaker 1: God uniquely, specifically, and bring you into this land that
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  Speaker 1: I promised.
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  Speaker 2: And how does he end it? I am Yahweh.
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  Speaker 1: Why do we doubt? We doubt because we forget who
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  Speaker 1: God is. Because if we remembered who God was, there
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  Speaker 1: would be no room for doubt. We doubt because we
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  Speaker 1: forget what God has done. Because if we remembered what
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  Speaker 1: God has done, if we remembered God's covenant, if we
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  Speaker 1: remembered God's redemption, again, where would there be room for doubt?
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  Speaker 1: And then thirdly, again, we do. We forget what God
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  Speaker 1: has promised. We forget that God is not done with us.
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  Speaker 1: We forget that Jesus said, I go to prepare a
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  Speaker 1: place for you.
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  Speaker 2: Amen? That there is more ahead.
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  Speaker 1: We forget that he's coming again to judge the living
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  Speaker 1: and the dead and that he will make all things right.
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  Speaker 1: We forget that. That's why we doubt because we forget that.
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  Speaker 1: But lest we be flippant. And they go, oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's right. Yeah, all I have to do is just
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  Speaker 1: have those facts. Look at what happens because they get
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  Speaker 1: those facts. And they don't get those facts. They get
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  Speaker 1: those facts from God. God says to Moses, I am
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  Speaker 1: the Lord. And you're going to know me better than Abraham, Isaac,
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  Speaker 1: and Jacob knew me. I'm revealing myself and my character
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  Speaker 1: to you in ways that they couldn't even comprehend.
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  Speaker 2: I'm God.
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  Speaker 1: I'm God. You need to know me as God and
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  Speaker 1: you won't doubt. Secondly, you need to remember what I've done.
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  Speaker 1: Remember the covenant that I made. I'm the God who
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  Speaker 1: made that covenant. I'm the one who came and got you.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't come and get me, Moses. You were keeping
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  Speaker 1: sheep on the other side of the mountain. I came
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  Speaker 1: and got you. I made that bush burn. I got
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  Speaker 1: your attention. You didn't get mine. Thirdly, tell the people
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  Speaker 1: that this is what I'm going to do. And Moses
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  Speaker 1: comes down armed with the word of God and armed
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  Speaker 1: with the word of God.
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  Speaker 2: The prophet of God speaks to the people.
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  Speaker 1: Of God, this powerful word reminding them of who God is,
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  Speaker 1: what he's done and what he's promised. And the people
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  Speaker 1: of God respond. Moses spoke thus to the people of Israel,
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  Speaker 1: but they did not listen to Moses because of their
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  Speaker 1: broken spirit and harsh slavery. God spoke directly to Moses.
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  Speaker 1: And Moses brought that word to the people. Because of
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  Speaker 1: their broken spirit and because of their circumstances, they wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: believe what Moses said. This heavy burden, this is real.
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  Speaker 1: This is real. Your promise is not real right now, Moses. Pharaoh,
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  Speaker 1: he's real. Your God is not real now, Moses. Your
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  Speaker 1: God says he's going to do ABC and XYZ. Pharaoh
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  Speaker 1: did what he was going to do. We got no straw, man.
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  Speaker 1: This is real.
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  Speaker 2: That's pie in the sky stuff.
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  Speaker 1: This is real. My pain is real. My heartache is real.
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  Speaker 1: My circumstances are real. My frustration is real. My fear
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  Speaker 1: is real. And right now it's more real to me
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  Speaker 1: than who you say God is and what you say
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  Speaker 1: God has done and what you say God has promised.
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  Speaker 1: That's you and me. That's where the rubber meets the road.
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  Speaker 1: That's the real Christian life.
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  Speaker 2: That's us.
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  Speaker 1: And because we don't understand that this is the real
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  Speaker 1: Christian life, here's what happens.
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  Speaker 2: We get to that place and we think.
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  Speaker 1: There's something wrong with us.
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  Speaker 2: There's something wrong with me.
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  Speaker 1: Because if there wasn't something wrong with me, I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: respond this way.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, same thing's wrong with you that was wrong with them.
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  Speaker 2: You're fallen. You're fallen.
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  Speaker 1: And living in this world is difficult. Information and rebuke,
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  Speaker 1: that's not enough. Granted, we need information. Granted, we need rebuke,
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  Speaker 1: but that's not enough. We need the presence and power
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  Speaker 1: of the Spirit of God in our lives. And we
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  Speaker 1: need Him to act mercifully. And we also need to
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  Speaker 1: be reminded. Israel would have to hear this same thing
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  Speaker 1: again and again and again and again and again. Listen, saints,
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  Speaker 1: don't think so much of yourself that you get frustrated
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  Speaker 1: because you have to be reminded. That's arrogance. What's the matter,
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  Speaker 1: fellow Christian? Oh, I'm just down. Why are you so down,
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  Speaker 1: fellow Christian? Well, because something happened in my life and
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  Speaker 1: I doubted again. Really, fellow Christian? Because Christians doubt things. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: but I should be more mature than that by now.
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  Speaker 1: I should be at a place in my life where
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  Speaker 1: I stop right now. Are you saying, dear Christian, that
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  Speaker 1: you should be at a place in your life where
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  Speaker 1: you don't need to be reminded again and again and again?
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  Speaker 2: Don't say that. First, let me read some things for you.
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  Speaker 2: Romans 15, 15.
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  Speaker 1: But on some points I have written to you very
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  Speaker 1: boldly by way of reminder because of the grace given
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  Speaker 1: me by God. 1 Corinthians 4, 17. This is why
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  Speaker 1: I sent you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ
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  Speaker 1: as I teach them everywhere in every church. 1 Corinthians 15, 1.
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  Speaker 1: Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I
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  Speaker 1: preach to you, which you received, in which you stand.
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  Speaker 1: 2 Corinthians 10, 7. Look at what is before your eyes.
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  Speaker 1: If anyone is confident that he is Christ's, let him
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  Speaker 1: remind himself that just as he is Christ's, so also
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  Speaker 1: are we.
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  Speaker 2: 2 Peter 1, 12 and 13.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore, I intend always to remind you of these qualities.
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  Speaker 1: 2 Peter 3. No, let me finish at 12 and 13.
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  Speaker 1: Remind you of these qualities, though you know them and
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  Speaker 1: are established in the truth that you have. I think
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  Speaker 1: it right as long as I am in this body
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  Speaker 1: to stir you up by way of reminder. 2 Peter 3, 1.
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  Speaker 1: This is now the second letter that I am writing
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  Speaker 1: to you, beloved. In both of them, I am stirring
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  Speaker 1: up your sincere mind by way of reminder. And finally,
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  Speaker 1: Jude 5. Now I want to remind you. you, although
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  Speaker 1: you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a
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  Speaker 1: people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those
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  Speaker 1: who did not believe. Reminder, reminder, reminder. Why do we
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  Speaker 1: need to sit under the ordinary means of grace every week.
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  Speaker 2: In church?
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  Speaker 1: Because we need to be reminded. Why do we need
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  Speaker 1: to be reminded of the gospel? Because we forget faith
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  Speaker 1: comes by hearing and hearing by the word of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Why do we need to read the word regularly and
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  Speaker 1: Pray the word regularly. Sing the word regularly. Why do
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  Speaker 1: we need to come before the Lord's table week in
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  Speaker 1: and week out? Because we need to be reminded again
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  Speaker 1: and again and again. Because the yoke of your oppression
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  Speaker 1: is a constant reminder. And you need the word of
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  Speaker 1: God as a constant reminder. Because the difficulties that you
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  Speaker 1: face every day are a reminder. And so you need
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  Speaker 1: the word of God as a reminder. The hardness of
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  Speaker 1: life is a reminder. And so you need the preaching
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  Speaker 1: of the gospel as a reminder. The disappointment of your
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  Speaker 1: sinfulness is a reminder.
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  Speaker 2: So you need the majesty of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Put forth before you again and again and again as
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  Speaker 1: a reminder. Christianity is not a class you take and pass.
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  Speaker 2: It's your life.
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  Speaker 1: It's your breath, your health, your strength, your everything. And
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  Speaker 1: you must be reminded. I must be reminded. Because every
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  Speaker 1: time difficulty smacks you or me in the face, our
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  Speaker 1: natural tendency is not to remember who God is, what
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  Speaker 1: he's done, and what he's promised. Our natural tendency is
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  Speaker 1: to say, this is too much for me. I just
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  Speaker 1: can't believe right now. This is why there's no such
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  Speaker 1: thing as a Lone Ranger Christian. You can't do this
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  Speaker 1: on your own. You weren't meant to do this on
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  Speaker 1: your own. You're not capable of doing this.
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  Speaker 2: On your own.
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  Speaker 1: You need someone to remind you. You need to remind
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  Speaker 1: yourself and you need to remind somebody else. Amazing things
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  Speaker 1: happen when we remind other people of things.
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  Speaker 2: This happens all the time.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things, you know, as pastors, We talk
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  Speaker 1: about all the time how, you know, you're sitting and
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  Speaker 1: you're dealing with some situation and you're helping someone with
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  Speaker 1: some situation and you're looking at these things objectively and
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  Speaker 1: you're reminding these people of these things objectively. And all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden, in the middle of being the objective voice,
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  Speaker 1: reminding people of these things, you go, you know, you're
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  Speaker 1: doing really good. This is sometimes why we're talking to you.
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  Speaker 1: You're doing really good talking to them.
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  Speaker 2: That's awesome, man.
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  Speaker 1: Where was all that stuff the other day? when you
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  Speaker 1: had your own difficulties and your own doubts. You know
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  Speaker 1: what that means? It is a blessing to be part
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  Speaker 1: of the body, to have people remind us again and
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  Speaker 1: again and again. It is a blessing when we gather
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  Speaker 1: as believers to be reminded again and again and again.
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  Speaker 1: But it is also a blessing to remind your brothers
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  Speaker 1: and sisters in Christ because oftentimes you need to hear
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  Speaker 1: those words fall out of your own mouth so that
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  Speaker 1: you can remember why the wheels fell off. Why did
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  Speaker 1: I say that thing I shouldn't have said?
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  Speaker 2: Here's why. I wouldn't hold it onto this. Why did
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  Speaker 2: I do that thing I shouldn't have done? Here's why.
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  Speaker 2: Because I wasn't holding on to this. Why did I
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  Speaker 2: act the way I shouldn't have acted? Here's why.
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  Speaker 1: Because I wasn't holding on to this.
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  Speaker 2: Who is God?
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  Speaker 1: What has he done? What has he promised? My prayer
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  Speaker 1: for you, for me, for all of us, is that
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  Speaker 1: as we walk through the difficulties of our lives, and
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  Speaker 1: our lives will be fraught with difficulties, that as we
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  Speaker 1: face each one of them, we will ask ourselves, who
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  Speaker 1: is God? What has he done? What has he promised?
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  Speaker 1: I'm struggling with something right now. It's hurting me. What
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  Speaker 1: do I need to do? You need to ask yourself,
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  Speaker 1: who is God? What has he done? What has he promised?
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  Speaker 1: I got some news that overwhelmed me. How do I
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  Speaker 1: face it? You ask yourself, who is God? What has
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  Speaker 1: he done?
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  Speaker 2: What has he promised?
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  Speaker 1: I've got a task in front of me that I
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  Speaker 1: have no idea how I can accomplish.
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  Speaker 2: What do I do?
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  Speaker 1: You ask yourself, who is God? What has he done?
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  Speaker 1: And what has he promised? And what happens when that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't work? Rinse and repeat. It's just real easy to
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  Speaker 1: get caught up in this idea of this Christianity that
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  Speaker 1: makes us invincible. It's really easy to get caught up
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  Speaker 1: in this kind of Christianity that never has a bad
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  Speaker 1: day or at least never admits it. It's real easy
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  Speaker 1: to get caught up in this Christian.
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  Speaker 2: How are you?
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  Speaker 1: I'm blessed and highly favored. And never answer the question with, man,
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  Speaker 1: I'm struggling today. The problem with getting caught up in
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  Speaker 1: that myth of Christianity is Is that it leaves you
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  Speaker 1: nowhere to go in your dark days. But to your darkness.
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  Speaker 1: You can't admit that you're struggling. You can't ask for
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  Speaker 1: help when you're struggling. And you can't get out of
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  Speaker 1: your struggle. Because all you have is your struggle. And
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  Speaker 1: the idea that there's something wrong with you. Because you're
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  Speaker 1: a Christian who's in the midst of a struggle. Let
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  Speaker 1: that go.
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  Speaker 2: Let that go.
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  Speaker 1: And rejoice in the fact that God has given you
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  Speaker 1: this one day in seven, that he has given you
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  Speaker 1: your Bible, that he has given you your brothers and
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  Speaker 1: sisters in Christ, and so much more in order to
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  Speaker 1: remind you again and again and again and again. Why?
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  Speaker 1: Because we need it. We need it. We need to
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  Speaker 1: be reminded Christ died for sin once for all, the
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  Speaker 1: just for the unjust, in order that he might bring
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  Speaker 1: us back to God. We need to be reminded of that.
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  Speaker 1: We need to be reminded that because we have come
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  Speaker 1: to him in repentance and faith, That we are part
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  Speaker 1: of the covenant people of God.
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  Speaker 2: That we are saved.
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  Speaker 1: And that we are in the process of being sanctified.
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  Speaker 1: And we will one day be glorified. We need to
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  Speaker 1: be reminded that Christ will. He who began a good
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  Speaker 1: work in you is able and faithful to see it
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  Speaker 1: through to completion. You need to be reminded of that, Christian.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're not a Christian, you need to be
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  Speaker 1: reminded of that. Because if you're not a Christian, that
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  Speaker 1: means you're trusting in something other than the completed work
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  Speaker 1: of Christ. And you're failing. And it's failing. And it's
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  Speaker 1: not enough for you to just fail. You need to
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  Speaker 1: be reminded over and over and over again why you're failing.
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  Speaker 1: Because Christ is your only hope. Flee to him. Cling
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  Speaker 1: to him. Trust in him. And nothing else. And don't
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  Speaker 1: leave here another week. without embracing and walking
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  Speaker 2: In that reality.