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Isaiah 15-16 - God’s Judgment Against Moab · Tabernacle Talk - A Bible Study Podcast with Pastor Bryon Self

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  Welcome to Tabernacle talk. Tabernacle talk is a Bible study
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  podcast brought from Tabernacle Baptist Church in Essex, MD.
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  I'm your host, Brian Self. We hope this podcast encourages
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  you to know Christ, grow in his word, and show his love to
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  others. Let's dive right in.
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  Welcome back to Tabernacle talk. We are back in our study in
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  Isaiah and we are going to be in Isaiah chapters 15 and 16.
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  Today we are back into God saying nations of the world, you
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  are in trouble. And so the particular nation in
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  view here in chapters 15 and 16 is the nation of Moab.
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  So Moab is a super interesting story as you walk through
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  scripture. You can look back at our
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  Tabernacle Baptist Essex sermon podcast.
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  I preached a message in Genesis 19 called the beginning of
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  judgment or the beginning of God's judgment, something like
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  that, and talked about the family origins of Moab.
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  These are semi relatives to the Israelites through Abraham's
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  nephew Lot, and he had two sons, Moab and Ammon.
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  And so Moab was one that in Deuteronomy chapter 2, as Israel
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  was going to enter the land, God made sure to tell the children
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  of Israel, hey, for the descendants of Esau, for the
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  descendants of Moab and the descendants of Ammon.
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  Do not attack these people groups, do not like try to step
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  foot on their land because I've given them these portions around
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  Israel as part of their inheritance.
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  So he says this land belongs to someone else.
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  I will not give it to you guys, so don't try it.
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  We are also told in Scripture that these would be people
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  groups that Israel was not intended to intermarry with or
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  at least not casually as a result of the fact that they
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  worshipped false gods, kind of a hodgepodge of the different
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  deities that were around the land of Canaan at that time.
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  And then we can see in the story of Ruth the Moabitus that there
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  was a woman who previously her family worshipped other gods,
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  but as a family from Bethlehem, actually the the son of Rahab.
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  No, I forgot about that that the sorry the family lineage and
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  genealogy gets a little squirrely in there is Boaz is
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  Rahab's son and then Boaz ends up marrying Ruth who is a
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  Moabitus and then their great grandson or great great grandson
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  is King David. So there you have like the
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  chosen line of David is from half from this this people
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  group, the land of Moab. So even as we read through a lot
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  of these things of God's judgment, here it is as we've
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  read against Israel, God's chosen people, they could
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  experience judgment for their sin.
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  Ditto with the southern Kingdom of Judah.
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  And then now over to Moab, these people that had been previously
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  protected by God in some aspects, but God has something
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  to say against them. Verse #1A pronouncement
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  concerning Moab. R in Moab is devastated.
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  This would be kind of like a region, capital city area would
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  would be the idea there. You can think of saying
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  something like DC or the DMV in in our area of the world over
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  here in Maryland, where it's like the capital but there's a
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  little bit more land around it that is there says are.
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  In Moab is devastated, destroyed in a night.
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  Here in Moab is devastated, destroyed in a night.
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  This would be another big city. Debon went up to its temple to
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  weep at its high places. Moab wails on Nebo and at
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  Mediba. Every head is shaved, every
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  beard is cropped short. In its streets, they were
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  sackcloth. On its rooftops and in its
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  public squares, everyone wails, falling down and weeping.
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  Heshbon and Ilaya cry out. Their voices are heard as far
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  away as Jay has. Therefore the soldiers of Moab
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  cry out, and they tremble. My heart cries out over Moab,
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  whose fugitives flee as far as or to egg laugh.
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  Oh my goodness, I do not often. As you guys know, I don't often
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  have to straight up stop and sound out a name of a city, but
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  this city's name is Eglath Shalashiya.
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  Eglath Shalashiya is quite the mouthful.
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  You can name your kid that if you are pregnant and looking for
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  baby names. They go up the ascent of Luhith.
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  Weeping. They raise a cry of destruction
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  on the road to Hora Name. So here he's walking through,
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  there's a bunch of cities, towns, areas within Moab, and
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  he's saying, if you will, using kind of our parlance, from
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  Juneau to Maine to Jacksonville to Los Angeles.
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  There is crying, there's weeping, the soldiers are
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  afraid. Everyone is dressed up in
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  funeral clothing. That's the idea that we have
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  here. Verse #6 The waters of Nimrim
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  are desolate. The grass is withered, the
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  foliage is gone, the vegetation is vanished.
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  Think of an agricultural setting.
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  There's no more ability to to grow food.
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  There is hunger, there is famine and devastation here.
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  Verse #7 So they carry their wealth and belongings over the
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  Wadi of the willows. A Wadi would be a very shallow
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  stream that would only have water at particular times of
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  year when there was very heavy rain, and then it would kind of
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  flood up and over, but it didn't normally have water.
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  So that's kind of what's what's going on there.
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  For their cry echoes throughout the territory of Moab.
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  Their wailing reaches Eglaim, their wailing reaches bury them.
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  The waters of Debone are full of blood.
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  But I will bring on Debone even more than this, a lion for those
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  who escaped from Moab and for the survivors in the land.
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  So here, for Moab's wickedness, there would be a total
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  devastation of the land, even as we know today, there's no
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  country named Moab. And that is because its people
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  were defeated and then assimilated long, long ago.
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  Verse #16 or sorry, Chapter 16. Send lambs to the ruler of the
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  land, from sailor in the desert to the mountain of daughter
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  Zion, like a bird fleeing, forced from the nest.
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  The daughters of Moab will be at the Fords of the Arnons.
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  So hey, send a message to Jerusalem about Moab here.
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  Give us counsel and make a decision.
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  Shelter us at noonday with shade that is as dark as night.
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  Hide the refugees. Do not betray the one who flees.
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  Let my refugees stay with you. Be a refuge for Moab from the
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  aggressor. When the oppressor is gone,
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  destruction has ended and marauders have vanished from the
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  land. A throne will be established in
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  love and one will sit on it faithfully in the tent of David,
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  the descendant of Moab, judging and pursuing what is right quick
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  to execute justice. OK, so after all of the
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  marauders, the invaders are gone, who could it be from the
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  line of David? That is going to be one that
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  reigns in love? Well, of course, this is Jesus,
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  the son of David, verse number six.
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  We've heard of Moab's pride. How very proud he is, His
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  haughtiness, his pride, his arrogance and his empty
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  boasting. Therefore, let Moab wail.
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  Let every one of them wail for Moab.
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  You who are completely devastated, mourn for the
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  raising cakes of Kira Herseth, for Heshbon's terraced vineyards
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  and the grapevines of Sibma have withered.
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  The rulers of the nations have trampled its choice vines that
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  reached as far as Jazer and spread to the desert.
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  Their shoots spread out and reached the sea.
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  So I join with Jazer to weep for the vines of Sibma.
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  I drench Heshbon and Iliela with my tears.
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  Triumphant shouts have fallen silent over your summer fruit
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  and your harvest. Joy and rejoicing have been
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  removed from the orchard. No one is singing or shouting
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  for joy in the vineyards. No one tramples grapes in the
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  wine presses. They've put an end to the
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  shouting. Therefore I moan like the sound
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  of a liar from Moab, as does my innermost being for Kier Harris.
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  When Moab appears and tires himself out on the high place
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  and comes to his sanctuary to pray, it will do him no good.
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  So here, the incredible agricultural successes that the
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  nation of Moab had, their wine presses, wine, Raisin cakes,
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  grape vines, all of that comes to an end.
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  And it didn't matter the high places, those places of worship
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  that Moab had been trusting in, that was not where salvation
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  would be found, if you will. The only true place for
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  salvation or safety is found in Yahweh, in the Lord.
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  Which is then what we read in verses kind of like 4:00 and
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  5:00 about them coming to the, you know, daughter Zion, the
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  city of God, and looking forward to the one who's related to them
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  from the line of David who would be able to reign injustice, that
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  the oppressors and marauders would be long gone.
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  Verse #13 This is the message that Yahweh previously announced
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  about Moab. And now Yahweh says in three
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  years as a hired worker counts years, Moab's splendor will
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  become an object of contempt in spite of a very large
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  population. And those who are left will be
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  few and weak. God does not play favorites.
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  He doesn't even play favorites here with quote UN quote family
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  that when there is justice that needs to be done, God will bring
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  it. So the only place of safety for
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  you and I today is the same as it was in chapter 16.
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  It is found in the one from the tent of David who reigns in
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  love, who judges and pursues what is right and the one that
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  is quick to execute justice. Let us call on Him for His mercy
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  and His grace, and He will answer lovingly, compassionately
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  and eagerly. May we not pursue evil because
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  evil whether personally within families, within nation's evil
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  and unrighteousness destroys a people and brings us low, but
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  righteousness exalts the nation. So let's pursue God's way and
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  find his blessing and his safety over and over again.
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  Thanks for tuning in today and looking forward to I believe
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  it's 17 or maybe portion of chapter 17 next episode.
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  Thanks for tuning in. See you next time.