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Exodus chapter 23 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Exodus chapter 23 verse one, you should not raise a false report
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  and put your hand with the wicked to be unrighteous
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  witness. So just know that you are who
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  the company that you keep friends, you are a
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  representative of that and if they are doing wrong, so are you
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  and you will 100% pick up on the habits of those that you
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  surround yourself with. Verse 2 You shall not follow a
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  multitude to do evil, neither shall are you speaking A cause
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  to decline after many to rest judgement.
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  So you need to know that if the people that you are hanging
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  around are doing evil, it will automatically be assumed that
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  you are as well. Verse 3 Neither shall you
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  countenance a poor man in his cause.
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  So he's saying, do not make fun, do not take advantage of someone
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  who is in a poor state for and if you meet your enemies ox or
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  his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to
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  him again. So he's saying if it is within
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  your power to return back the goods of someone who you do not
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  have a great relationship with, perhaps God is using that
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  situation to reconcile you back together. 4 But if you see the
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  donkey of him that hates you lying under his burden and woods
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  for bear to help him, you shall surely help with them.
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  So he's saying, if it's within your power to help, you need to
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  do so. Six you shall not rest the
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  judgement of the poor and his cause.
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  So he's saying, make sure that you take care of those that are
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  poor. Do not turn your back on them or
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  do not refuse to hear them just because they are poor. 7 Keep
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  you far from a false matter, and the innocent and the righteous
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  slay you not, for I will not justify the wicked.
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  So you need to know that just because you have more money
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  doesn't make you better than 8 And you shall take no gift, for
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  the gift blinds the wise and perverts the words of the
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  righteous. So you need to know that bribery
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  is a great entryway to evil. 9 Also, you shall not oppress a
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  stranger, for you know the heart of a stranger, saying that you
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  were strangers in the land of Egypt.
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  So said God says, remember where you came from and for us today
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  we need to remember that we were once sinners, we were once lost,
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  we were once naked and blind friends before God clothed us
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  and opened our eyes. 10 And six years you shall sow the land
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  that shall gather in the the fruits of it. 11 But the 7th
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  year you shall let it rest and lie still, and the poor of your
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  people may eat what they leave. The beast of the field shall
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  eat. And in like manner you shall
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  deal with the vineyard and with your olive yard.
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  So you need to understand that for six years they were to
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  gather in all of the harvest, but on the 7th year they were to
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  allow the poor to go in and to gather and to eat.
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  And isn't it just like God to make sure to take care of the
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  poor? 12-6 days you shall do your
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  work, and on the 7th day you shall rest, that your ox and
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  your donkey may rest, and the son of your handmaid and the
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  stranger may be refreshed. So not only does God care about
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  the Israelites, but he also cares about the animals.
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  And not only does he care about the animals, but he cares about
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  the stranger in the land as well. 13 And then all things
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  that I have said unto you, be circumspect, and make no mention
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  of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of
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  your mouth. So he's saying, don't even
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  mention it. Make sure you give no word play,
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  give no respect unto the disgusting names of the evil.
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  They don't even need to enter into your mouth. 14 Three times
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  you shall keep a feast unto me in the year. 15 You shall keep
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  the Feast of Unleavened Bread. You shall eat Unleavened bread 7
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  days, as I commanded you in the time appointed in the month of
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  Abib, For in it you came out from Egypt, and none shall
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  appear before me empty. So he's saying the first one
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  that you need to keep is the Feast of Unleavened Bread, 16
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  and the Feast of Harvest, the first fruits of your laborers
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  which you have sown in the field, and the Feast of End
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  gathering, which is at the end of the year when you have
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  gathered in your laborers out of the field.
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  So for three times a year, there to honor the Lord and to give
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  God all respect and due praise for him, bringing them out of
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  Egypt, giving them the land flowing with milk and honey,
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  remembering all the times that He delivered them, remembering
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  who gives them their sustenance. Friends, that is what God is
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  saying here. 17 Three times in the year all your mail shall
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  appear before the Lord God. So every single man and every
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  single boy was to appear before God. 3 * a year. 18 You shall
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  not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread,
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  neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the
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  morning. So he's saying do not mix blood
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  with bread. He's saying don't do it in the
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  leaven we know is the yeast, which is representative of the
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  sin. So the sin and the holy blood of
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  our Lord, they do not mix friends and he's saying don't
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  let fat remain until the morning.
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  If you do not consume it, it is to be completely burned up. 19
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  The first of the first fruits of of your land you shall bring
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  into the House of the Lord your God.
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  You shall not see the kid in his mother's milk.
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  So here he's taking care of the priests.
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  He's going to take care of the Levites eventually whenever he
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  institute's the temple worship. But you need to know also
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  there's some kind of witchcraft in here of putting the little go
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  in with the mother's milk was thought of to be some kind of
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  power over some spiritual stuff. And it's all a disgusting thing.
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  We see that God actually cares for mothers, and he thinks that
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  it is disgusting and deplorable for us to intermingle the
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  offspring with the milk of the mother. 21 Behold, I send an
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  Angel before you to keep you in the way and to bring you into
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  the place which I have prepared. So there's Jesus Christ
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  Preincarnate coming on the scene, robed in deity, and he's
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  going to lead them home, friends. 21 Beware of him and
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  obey his voice. Provoke him not, for he will not
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  pardon your transgressions, for my name is in him, He is God,
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  Jesus is God. 22 But if you shall indeed obey his voice and
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  do all that I speak, then I will be be an enemy to your enemies,
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  an adversary to your adversaries.
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  So you need to know, friends, that if God is for us, who can
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  be against us? And if we are on God's side, we
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  are more powerful than all the armies of the entire world all
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  put together, every atomic bomb all put together, friends, one
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  Christian outweighs every single bit of the force that's in this
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  world because God Almighty is their protector. 23 For my Angel
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  shall go before he can bring you into the Amorites.
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  And they hit the tights and the parasites and the Canaanites,
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  the Hivites and the Jebusites, and I will cut them off.
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  So there's no, they can't stand against the holy God.
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  There is no opposition. God breaks down all of their
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  defenses. 24 You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve
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  them, nor do after their works, but you shall utterly overthrow
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  them and quite break down their images.
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  There is nothing that can stand against our God.
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  He breaks down every single opposition.
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  There is no character on this earth.
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  There's no amount of money on this earth.
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  There's no earthly defense on this earth.
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  There is no fortresses, there's no gate, there's no wall, there
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  is no layer. There is nothing that can stop
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  our God from breaking out in the land.
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  We need to understand that that God is all powerful and he's all
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  knowing and he's everywhere all at once, and that is the God
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  that we serve, the only one true living God.
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  There's no other gods. 25 And you shall serve the Lord your
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  God, and he shall bless your bread and your water, and I will
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  take sickness away from the midst of you, if we serve a holy
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  God. God can literally do anything.
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  And it believes you in the sickness, friends, or if you've
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  got hunger in your belly, friends.
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  It doesn't mean that God can't clothe you.
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  It doesn't mean that God can't feed you, doesn't mean that God
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  can't cure you. But he has a plan and we need to
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  trust the process. 26 There shall nothing cast their young,
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  nor be barren in your land. The number of your days I will
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  fulfill. So he's saying that he will make
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  sure that when someone is pregnant that they come to full
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  term and that they are able to birth 27 I will send my fear
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  before you, and I will destroy all the people to whom you shall
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  come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
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  So God can send out fear. He can send out this horror upon
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  a land that makes people turn upon themselves, that makes
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  people flee for nothing, for no reason.
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  They're scared of their shadows. They turn on each other thinking
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  each other's the enemy. He can literally do anything.
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  He can send the destroying Angel and kill 185 1001 night.
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  He can send the Hornets that we're about to see. 28 and I
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  will send Hornets before you will drive out the hip bite the
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  Canaanite and the Hittite from before you.
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  So here we can see that God can use even the natural things of
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  this earth to overcome our enemies, whether it be
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  pestilence, whether it be the animals, whether it be the
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  weather. God can literally do anything,
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  and that's the God that we serve. 29 And I will not drive
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  them out from before you in one year, lest the land become
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  desolate and the beast of the field multiply against you.
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  So he's saying that it's all in due time, that God knows the
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  perfect time. And you can see that for us,
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  because we're so impatient and we're so limited in our
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  knowledge that we want it, and we want it now.
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  Instant gratification. We want to see the whole thing
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  immediately, and that's just not the way that God works.
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  God knows the perfect timing, and He's going to tell him why
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  he doesn't just completely turn all their enemies over all at
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  once. 30 Little by little I will drive them out from before you
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  until you be increased and inherit the land.
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  So that is what God is after, little by little until we're
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  ready to take it. And it's no different today.
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  We want whatever it is that God has placed on our heart and
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  promised us. We want it and we want it now.
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  But God has to develop us to steward the mantle that He wants
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  to give us. Friends, never forget it. 31 And
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  I will set your bounds from the Red Sea even unto the sea of the
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  Philistines, and from the desert unto the river, for I will
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  deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you
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  shall drive them out before you. They will not see the completion
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  of this promise until the millennial reign of Jesus Christ
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  on this earth, when he has a mile square temple sitting in
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  Jerusalem and Mount Olives is split to open it up to be able
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  to house the amount of people that are going to come through
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  Jerusalem during that time. 32 And you shall make no covenant
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  with them, nor with their gods. 33 They shall not dwell in your
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  land, lest they make you sin against me.
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  For if you serve they're gods, it will surely be a snare unto
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  you, and we'll end there, friends.
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  But you need to know, as time goes on and as the pages of the
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  Bible get discovered, the more that we read, we're going to see
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  that the Israelites did start making covenants and did start
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  worshipping their gods. And it is, and it was a snare.
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  You have to understand that the Jews are not perfect people.
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  They're God's chosen people, but they're not perfect.
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  And just like Judas, God can use it without excusing it.
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  And God will deal with them, friends, but it does not change
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  the fact that they are His chosen people.
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  I hope that you've been blessed by this amazing chapter in God's
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  Word. I know I sure have.
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  I'm praying for every single one of you.
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  I love you. We'll see you back here
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  tomorrow. Let's pray.
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  Lord God Almighty, who reigns on high, we love you, Father, You
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  are amazing at everything that you do.
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  We thank you God for Israel. We thank you God for the Jews.
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  We thank you God and pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
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  Lord, thank you that we can hold your scriptures in our hands.
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  You're the same God. Help us to understand your words
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  and apply them in Jesus name I pray.
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  Amen.