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Nailed to the Cross | How Christ Ended the Penalty for Breaking God's Law (Sep 17) · 1 Year Audio Bible Podcast

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Paul said in Galatians chapter 3, verse 10,
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but those who depend on the law to make them right with God
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are under his curse. For the scriptures say,
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cursed is everyone who does not observe and obey all these
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commands that are written in God's book of the
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law. Consequently, it is clear that
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no one can ever be right with God by trying to keep the law.
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Are you trying to be right with God by keeping
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the law? Join us today as we unpack this
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chapter in Galatians chapter 3. Welcome to
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the Daily Audio Torah. Today is September 17th. Now let's
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continue our journey reading through the entire Bible in one year.
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This week we are reading from the New Living Translation for the Old Testament and
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for The New Testament.
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Deuteronomy 28:21-41.
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The Lord will afflict you with diseases until none of you are left
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in the land you are about to enter and occupy. The Lord
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will strike you with wasting diseases, fever, and inflammation,
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with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew.
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These disasters will pursue you until you die.
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The skies above will be as unyielding as bronze, and the earth
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beneath will be as hard as iron. The Lord will
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change the rain that falls on your land into powder,
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and dust will pour down from the sky until you are destroyed.
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The Lord will cause you to be defeated by your enemies,
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You will attack your enemies from one direction, but you will scatter from
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them in 7. You'll be
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an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
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Your corpses will be food for all the scavenging birds
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and wild animals, and no one will be there to chase them away.
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The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors,
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scurvy, and the itch. From which you cannot be cured.
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The Lord will strike you with madness, blindness, and panic.
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You will grope around in broad daylight like a blind person groping
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in the darkness, but you will not find your way.
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You will be oppressed and robbed continually, and no one will come to
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save you. You will be
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engaged to a woman, but another man will sleep
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with her. You will build a house, but someone else will live in it.
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You will plant a vineyard, but you will never enjoy its fruit.
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Your ox will be butchered before your eyes, but you
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will not eat a single bite of the meat. Your donkey will be
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taken from you, never to be returned. Your sheep and goats will be
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given to your enemies, and no one will be there to help you.
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You will watch as your sons and daughters are taken away as
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slaves. Your heart will break for them,
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but you won't be able to help them.
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A foreign nation you have never heard about will eat
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the crops you worked so hard to grow. You will suffer under
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constant oppression and harsh treatment. You will
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go mad because of all the tragedy you see around
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you. The Lord will cover your knees and legs with
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incurable boils. In fact, you'll be covered from head to
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foot. The Lord will exile you and your king
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to a nation unknown to you and your ancestors. There in
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exile, you will worship gods of wood and stone.
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You will become an object of horror, ridicule, and mockery among all
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the nations to which the Lord sends you. You will plant
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much but harvest little. For locusts will eat your crops.
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You will plant vineyards and care for them, but you will not drink
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the wine or eat the grapes, for worms will destroy the vines.
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You will grow olive trees throughout your land,
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but you will never use the olive oil, for the fruit will drop before it
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ripens. You will have sons and daughters, but you will
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lose them, for they will be led away into captivity.
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Isaiah 25:1-28:13.
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O Lord, I, Isaiah, will honor and praise Your name,
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for You are my God. You do such wonderful things.
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You planned them long ago, and now You have accomplished them.
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You turn mighty cities into heaps of ruins.
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Cities with strong walls are turned to rubble.
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Beautiful palaces in distant lands disappear and will
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never be rebuilt. Therefore, strong nations will declare your glory.
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Ruthless nations will revere you.
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But to the poor, O Lord, you are a refuge from
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the storm. To the needy in distress,
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You are a shelter from the rain and heat.
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For the oppressive acts of ruthless people are like a storm beating
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against a wall, or like the relentless heat of
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the desert. But you silence the roar of foreign nations;
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you cool the land with the shade of a cloud.
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So the boastful songs of ruthless people are
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stilled. In Jerusalem,
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the Lord Almighty will spread a wonderful feast for everyone around
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the world. It will be a delicious feast of good
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food with clear, well-aged wine and choice beef.
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In that day, He will remove the cloud of gloom,
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the shadow of death that hangs over the earth. He will
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swallow up death forever. The Sovereign
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Lord will wipe away all tears. He will remove
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forever all insults and mockery against His land
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and people. The Lord has spoken.
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In that day the people will proclaim, This is
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our God! We trusted in Him and He saved us. This is
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the Lord in whom we trusted! Let us rejoice in
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the salvation He brings. For the Lord's good hand will rest on Jerusalem.
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Moab will be crushed like trampled straw and left to
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rot. God will push down Moab's people as
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a swimmer pushes down water with his hands.
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He will end their pride and all their evil works. The high
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walls of Moab will be demolished and ground to dust.
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In that day, everyone in the land of Judah will sing this song: Our
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city is now strong; we are surrounded by the walls of God's
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salvation. Open the gates to all who are righteous; allow
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the faithful to enter. You will keep in perfect peace
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all who trust in you, whose thoughts are fixed
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on you. Trust in the Lord always, for the Lord
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God is the eternal Rock. He humbles
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the proud and brings the arrogant city to the dust.
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Its walls come crashing down. The poor and
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oppressed trample it underfoot. But for those who are righteous,
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the path is not steep and rough. You are a God
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of justice, and you smooth out the road ahead of them. Lord,
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we love to obey your laws. Our heart's desire
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is to glorify your name. All night long
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I search for you. Earnestly I seek for God.
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For only when you come to judge the earth will people turn from wickedness
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and do what is right. Your kindness to
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the wicked does not make them do good. They keep
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doing wrong and take no notice of the Lord's majesty.
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O Lord, they do not listen when you threaten.
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They do not see your upraised fist.
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Show them your eagerness to defend your people.
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Perhaps then they will be ashamed. Let your fire consume
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your enemies. Lord, you will grant us peace,
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for all we have accomplished is really from you.
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O Lord our God, others have ruled us, but we worship
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you alone. Those we served before are
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dead and gone. Never again will they return.
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You attacked them and destroyed them, and they are long forgotten.
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We praise You, Lord. You have made our nation great.
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You have extended our borders. Lord, in distress
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we searched for You.
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We were bowed beneath the burden of Your discipline. We were like
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a woman about to give birth, writhing and crying out in pain.
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When we are in Your presence, Lord, we too writhe in agony,
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but nothing comes of our suffering. We have done nothing
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to rescue the world. No one has been born to populate the
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earth. Yet we have this assurance: those
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who belong to God will live. Their bodies will rise again.
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Those who sleep in the earth will rise and
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sing for joy. For God's light of
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life will fall like dew on his people
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in the place of the dead.
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Go home, my people, and lock your doors.
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Hide until the Lord's anger against your enemies has passed.
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Look, the Lord is coming from heaven to punish the people
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of the earth for their sins. The earth will no longer hide
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those who have been murdered. They will be brought out for
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all to see. In that
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day, the Lord will take his terrible swift sword and punish Leviathan,
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the swiftly moving serpent, the coiling, writhing serpent,
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the dragon of the sea. In that day we will sing of
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the pleasant vineyard. I, the Lord, will watch over it and tend its fruitful
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vines. Each day I will water them. Day and night
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I will watch to keep enemies away. My anger against
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Israel will be gone. If I find briars
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and thorns bothering her, I will burn them up.
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These enemies will be spared only if they surrender and
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beg for peace and protection. The time is coming
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when My people will take root. Israel will
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bud and blossom and fill the whole earth with
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her fruit. Has the Lord punished Israel in the
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same way He has punished her enemies? No, for He devastated
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her enemies, But he has punished Israel only a little.
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He has exiled her from her land as though blown away in a
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storm from the east. The Lord did this to purge away Israel's
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sin. When he had finished, all the pagan altars
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will be crushed to dust. There won't be an Asherah
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pole or incense altar left standing. Israel's fortified
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cities will be silent and empty. The houses abandoned,
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the streets covered with grass. Cattle will graze there,
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chewing on twigs and branches. The people are
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like the dead branches of a tree, broken off and used for
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kindling beneath the cooking pots. Israel is a foolish
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and stupid nation, for its people have turned away
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from God. Therefore, the one who made them will show them no
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pity or mercy. Yet the time will come when
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the Lord will gather them together one by one like hand-picked
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grain. He will bring them to his great
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threshing floor, from the Euphrates River in the east to the Brook
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of Egypt in the west. In that day, the great
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trumpet will sound. Many who were dying in
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exile in Assyria and Egypt will return
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to Jerusalem. To worship the Lord on
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His holy mountain.
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Destruction is certain for the city of Samaria, the pride
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and joy of the drunkards of Israel. It sits in a
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rich valley, but its glorious beauty will suddenly disappear.
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Destruction is certain for that city, the pride of
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a people brought low by wine. For the Lord will send
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the mighty Assyrian army against it. Like a mighty
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hailstorm and a torrential rain, they will burst upon
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it and dash it to the ground. The proud city of
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Samaria, the pride and joy of the drunkards of Israel,
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will be trampled beneath its enemies' feet. It sits in
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a fertile valley, but its glorious beauty will suddenly disappear.
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It will be greedily snatched up as an early fig
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is hungrily picked and eaten. Then at last the Lord Almighty will himself
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be Israel's crowning glory. He will
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be the pride and joy of the remnant of his people.
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He will give a longing for justice to their judges.
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He will give great courage to their warriors who stand at
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the gates. Now, however,
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Israel is being led by drunks. The priests and prophets
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reel and stagger from beer and wine. They make stupid
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mistakes as they carry out their responsibilities.
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Their tables are covered with vomit. Filth is everywhere.
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They say, who does the Lord think we are? Why does he speak
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to us like this? Are we little children barely old enough to talk?
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He tells us everything over and over again, a line at
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a time, in very simple words.
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Since they refuse to listen, God will speak to them through
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foreign oppressors who speak an unknown language.
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God's people could have rest in their own land if they would only
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obey Him, but they will not listen. So the Lord will spell
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out His message for them again, repeating it over and over,
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a line at a time, in very simple words.
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Yet, they will stumble over this simple,
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straightforward message. They will be injured,
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trapped, and captured.
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Galatians 3:10-22.
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But those who depend on the Law to make them right with God are under
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his curse. For the Scriptures say, cursed is
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everyone who does not obey and observe all these
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commands that are written in God's book of the Law.
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Consequently, it is clear that no one can ever be
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right with God by trying to keep the Law.
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For the Scriptures say, it is through faith that
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a righteous person has life. How different from this way
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of life is the way of Law, which says, if you wish to find life
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by obeying the Law, you must obey all of its commands.
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But Christ has rescued us from
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the curse pronounced by the Law.
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When He was hung on the cross, He took upon Himself the curse for
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our wrongdoings.
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For it is written in the Scriptures, cursed is everyone who is hung upon
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a tree. Through the work of Christ Jesus,
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God has blessed the Gentiles with the same blessing
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He promised to Abraham. And we Christians
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receive the promised Holy Spirit through faith.
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Dear brothers and sisters, here's an example from everyday life.
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Just as no one can set aside or amend an irrevocable agreement,
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so it is in this case. God gave the promise
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to Abraham and his child. And notice that it
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doesn't say the promise was to his children, as if it meant many
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descendants, but the promise was to his child, and that,
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of course, means Christ. This is what
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I am trying to say: the agreement God made with Abraham could not
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be canceled 430 years later when God
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gave the Law to Moses. God would be breaking
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his promise. For if the inheritance could be received only
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by keeping the law, then it would not be the result of
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accepting God's promise. But God gave it to Abraham as
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a promise. Well then, why was the law given?
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It was given to show people how guilty they are.
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But this system of law was to last only until
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the coming of the child to whom God's promise was made.
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And there is further difference.
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God gave his laws to angels to give to Moses,
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who was the mediator between God and the people. Now,
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a mediator is needed if 2 people enter into an
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agreement, but God acted on his own when
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he made his promise to Abraham.
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Well then, Is there a conflict between God's Law and
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God's promises? Absolutely not.
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If the Law could have given us new life, we could have been
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made right with God by obeying it. But the Scriptures have declared
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that we are all prisoners of sin.
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So the only way to receive God's promise is to
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believe in Jesus Christ.
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Psalm 61:1-8.
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O God, listen to my cry; hear my prayer.
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From the ends of the earth I will cry to You for help,
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for my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to
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the towering rock of safety,
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for You are my safe refuge. A fortress
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where my enemies cannot reach me. Let me live forever in
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your sanctuary, safe beneath the shelter of your wings.
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For you have heard my vows, O God; you have given
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me an inheritance reserved for those who fear your name.
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Add many years to the life of the king; may
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his years span the generations. May he
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reign under God's protection forever. Appoint your
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unfailing love and faithfulness to watch over him.
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Then I will always sing praises to your name as
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I fulfill my vows day after day.
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Proverbs 23:17-18.
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Don't envy sinners, but always continue to fear the
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Lord. For surely you have a future ahead of you. Your hope will
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not be disappointed.
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I want to speak to you today from our reading in Galatians chapter
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3, and it states some things very plainly
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and very clearly, beginning in verse 10.
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But those who depend on the law to make them right with
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God are under his curse. For the Scriptures say,
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cursed is everyone who does not observe and
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obey all these commands that are written in God's book of
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the law. And in fact, in our reading today from Deuteronomy
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chapter 28, we read about all these
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different curses that would come upon the children of Israel
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if they did not obey the law of God.
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All kinds of curses are listed about growing olive trees
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and you don't get to use the olive oil, about having sons and daughters but
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they'll go away into captivity, you'll plant much and harvest
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little, you'll become an object of horror and ridicule and mockery,
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all these different curses because they did not obey the
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law. So Paul is making a very strong
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case that you cannot depend upon the law to make you
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right with God. And that if you do try to make
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yourself right with God by obeying the law, you come under his curse.
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Christ rescued us from the curse pronounced by the law.
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When he hung on the cross, he took upon himself the curse for our wrongdoing.
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So then later on in the same chapter, Paul asked, well then,
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why was the law given? What is the purpose of the
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law? The purpose of the law is not to make us righteous with
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God. Because we can't, uh,
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by obeying or trying to obey the law, we will fall short.
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What is the answer to that question? Paul answers. He says
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it was given to show people how guilty they are.
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It's like looking in the mirror. When you read the Word of God,
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you're looking in the mirror at yourself, and oh by golly,
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I've got some dirt on my face. But this system of law
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was to last only until the coming of the child to whom
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God's promise was made.
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Now I'd like to share with you a short chapter from
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the book The Divine Romance written by Jean Edwards,
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and it is chapter 43. It's very short,
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but this chapter is talking about what transpired
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at the moment that Jesus was crucified
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on the cross. What was accomplished? What was
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happening in the spiritual realm when He
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was dying on the cross?
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And it fits in with our reading today from Galatians,
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but before I read that chapter, there's another scripture I want to share,
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and this is from Colossians chapter
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2, and I want to begin in
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verse 14. He, that is Christ,
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canceled the record of the charges brought
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against us, and He took it away by nailing it to
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the cross. So how would I know that I'm a sinner
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unless I read the Ten Commandments and realize, oh,
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Thou shalt not covet, and I'm coveting. I want something
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that belongs to somebody else, and it's not mine, and I'm jealous, and I want
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what they have. Um, and that's coveting. And thou shalt not covet.
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I wouldn't know that that's a sin except that the Ten Commandments
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tells me that that is a sin. And so that's a
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charge brought against me. This is what makes me unholy. It makes me impure,
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unclean, a sinner. That I've sinned.
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And so it's a record of charges, my sin, the record of charges
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against me. He canceled it and took it away
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by nailing those charges, my sin,
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to the cross. Verse 15, in this way He,
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that is Jesus, disarmed the spiritual
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rulers and authorities. He shamed them publicly by
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His victory over them on the cross.
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Don't let anyone condemn you for what you eat or drink or
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for not celebrating certain holy days or new moon ceremonies
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or Sabbaths, for these rules are only
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shadows of the reality yet to come,
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and Christ Himself is that reality.
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So this is from Colossians chapter 2, verses 14 through 17.
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Now, um, now I want to read this chapter
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because it really captures the essence and the
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heart of what we just read in Galatians chapter 3 today.
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Once more, a nail was pressed deep into the other wrist.
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Once more the soldier drew his arm in a mighty upward swing,
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and once more the Lord froze time and eternity in
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their journey. At that very instant, one of the angels
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arrived at the base of Mount Sinai and began to sort furiously
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through the stones and rocks. He paused. There they lay,
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smashed, long forgotten— the stone tablets
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of the Commandments and the Law of Moses.
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Quickly, the angel clutched them to his bosom,
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turned, and darted again toward Jerusalem's
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Holy Temple. Arriving at the temple courtyard, this same angel went
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straight into the Holy of Holies. Terrified yet obedient,
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he lifted the mercy seat, reached inside the box of hammered
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gold, and brought forth the sacred copy of the law.
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He then gathered that from within the temple every rule Every
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regulation, every ordinance that had ever been penned,
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proclaimed, or dreamed of. All law,
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all legalism, all bondage.
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The angel was about to depart when he heard again the Lord's voice
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within him. Turning, he called forth all ritual
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of all worship. Once more he would have departed, but turned again
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at the prodding of his glowing spirit. He now called forth
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all observance of all holy days. Finally, he called
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forth even the Sabbath.
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You are but pictures of my Lord today,
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pictures, types, and shadows of my Lord.
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End. At last he left the temple,
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only to be stopped again. He breathed hard,
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turned, and called forth even the temple.
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You too. For even you are but a picture of my Lord.
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Today the picture ends. Now he
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rose high above the earth, and in a voice that
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reached all ends of times, he commanded
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every rule, regulation, ritual,
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decree, and ordinance that had ever been observed
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by any religion ever practiced upon the face of the earth to
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come forth once more. The burdened angel
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plunged downward through the skies into time. He arrived
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just in time to lay his profound burden into
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the bosom of his Lord. He stepped back.
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All this ends today.
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The hammer smashed against the nail,
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and with it, Allah All rules,
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all ordinances, all holy days, and all
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ritual were crucified upon the cross of Jesus Christ
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our Lord. And so
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I come back to Colossians chapter 2, verse 14. I'm going to read it
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now in the New King James Version. It's slightly different than the New
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Living Translation, that Jesus having wiped
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out the handwriting of requirements that
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was against us, which was contrary to us,
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and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed
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it to the cross.
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And so just trying to follow rituals
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and rules and regulations and routines
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That does not save us. That is not what it is to walk
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by faith and to have a true heart relationship
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with Jesus. He calls us to an intimate love
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relationship with Him.
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So break out of the routine, break out of the rote,
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break out of the religious ritual, and Press
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in to have true heart relationship
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with Jesus. Spend time with Him.
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Listen to Him. Listen to His whispers.
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Take time to get away and to be alone with
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the Lover of your soul. Have a
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blessed day, and we will see you tomorrow. Shalom.
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Yevrekka Adonai,
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vehishmerekka
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Yahweh Adonai.
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And now he look up,
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we couldn't make up.
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He's so hard on
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us. And now he
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look up, we say look
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up.
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The Aaronic Blessing from Numbers chapter 6,
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24 to 26.
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Adonai bless you and keep you.
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Adonai make his face to shine upon you and be
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gracious to you. Adonai lift up his countenance
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upon you and give you peace.