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#10116 - God’s Heart IS For ALL The Nations - Genesis 10 · Calvary Church with Ed Taylor Podcast

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Welcome to the study of God's word with pastor and author.
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Now, here's Pastor Ed to take us into our study.
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Amen. Amen.
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Would you take your Bibles open? Then to Genesis chapter 10,
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Genesis chapter 10 and I've entitled our Bible study today.
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God's heart is for all the nations God's heart is for all
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the nations. The first 11 chapters of Genesis
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are very important. They're filled with foundations
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and Essentials and understanding the blue, the flow of biblical
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theology throughout the rest of the In the first eleven
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chapters, there are many firsts by creation man-woman marriage,
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the Sabbath, rest, labor, Rebellion sin.
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In Murder. Remember we received the first
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Insight in preview of The Gospel message.
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In, Genesis 3, verse 15, then we had that Hidden Gem of the
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Gospel in chapter 5. And now we come to a new chapter
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chapter 10 and amazingly accurate.
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Historical document, that's often referred to as the table
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of Nations. The table of Nations.
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It says in chapter 10 verse 1 and now this is the genealogy of
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the sons of Noah Shem ham and japheth and Sons were born to
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them after the flood. The floods over and it's time to
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repopulate the Earth Noah has died at the ripe old age of nine
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hundred and fifty years old and his three sons.
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Ham Shem and japheth begin to reproduce upon the earth.
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I mean, chapter 10 is a really an astounding chapter.
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It's a brief history of most ethnic backgrounds known to man.
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Today, we learn of all Nations and people they come from One
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Source a common ancestor, Noah even coming back from NOAA to
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Adam and Eve, there's a Unity of humanity.
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That's a fact. It may not look like that.
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Today, there's such division, even as We were praying today
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such Division and animosity, but in God's perspective, there's a
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beautiful Unity of humanity. There's a common link of
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Brotherhood that binds the human race together.
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Now in chapter 10 there, 70 families are nations that are
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named and from here, the number 70 becomes the number of
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nations, it will often reflect in the scriptures, the numbers
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of Nations or representative Of the whole world.
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You're in, Genesis 10, go to Genesis 46.
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Because the rabbi's often will relate this passage.
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Or the number 72, Genesis 46. Notice with me, I'll read it to
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you in Genesis forty six and verse 26.
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It says all the persons who went with Jacob to Egypt, who came
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from his body besides Jacob's sons, wives were 66 persons and
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all, and the sons of Joseph were born to him in.
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Egypt were Two persons, and all the persons at the house of
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Jacob who went to Egypt were 70 and why is that significant?
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Well because God called Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and bless them
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and it was God's goal through Abraham to bless the world
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through Abraham's seed. All the world would be blessed.
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Because right here in the beginning, once again were
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remember it? We're reminded that God wants to
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reach the nation's that God. A vision for the world and I
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want you to see how this connects into the New Covenant.
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It's really neat thing to see as you consider the ministry of
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Jesus. I want you to change your
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thinking a minute. I don't want you to consider the
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ministry that is happening in the life of Jesus.
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You have Jesus, as he is the Fulfillment of God's blessing to
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the nation's, he is the Fulfillment.
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God has kept his promise and bringing a blessing to the world
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through the sea. Feed his shed, blood his death
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and Resurrection. So, what is Jesus?
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Doing his ministry? He calls together, Twelve
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Apostles. And that's how he begins.
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He sends them out there used to heal their used greatly.
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They come back with great testimonies and the number 12,
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many times in the scriptures represents the nation of Israel
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or the 12 tribes of Israel. And so, what does Jesus do?
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He first gathers 12? Representative of the 12 tribes
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of Israel. And remember, the Bible says,
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that Jesus came to the Jew first.
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And that's the gospel, the gospel comes to the Jew.
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First, now turn to Luke chapter 10, this is fascinating, you
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know, Mel if you've ever connected from the table of
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Nations, God's heart for the world and the ministry of Jesus
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will go to Luke chapter 10, will get to Genesis 10 in a moment.
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I want to give some Preparatory things as we land in to chapter
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10, when you get there just pick up in verse 1, Luke chapter 10
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It says. After these things, the Lord
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appointed, 70, 70, 70 others also and sent them to be by to
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before his face into every city and place where he himself was
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about to go. And what does he say to the 70,
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70 representing the whole world, the nations of the world, he
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says the Harvest, truly is great, but the laborers are few.
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Therefore pray, the Lord of the Harvest to send out laborers
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into his Harvest. Go your way, behold, I send you
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out as Lambs among the wolves. Now, when you read that know
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that the number 70 was not some haphazard random number that
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Jesus just picked. He picked it on purpose.
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What I believe Jesus in the ministry of Jesus is saying to
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us that starting with 12, he went to Israel and to the Jew
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first. But now he's sending out 70 in
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his ministry because the day is come and the message will go far
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beyond the borders of the We land to reach Every Nation.
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Every people, every Kindred, every tribe.
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And we fast forward to the book of Acts and instruction to the
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book of Acts as that they were what to wait in Jerusalem until
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the Holy Spirit came upon them until they experience the
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baptism of the Holy Spirit and something would happen to this
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small little group that were waiting in Jerusalem, they would
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receive the power of the Holy Spirit upon them.
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And the immediate result is that they would become Some
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witnesses. And where would they become
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Witnesses Jerusalem? Judea Samaria, which is kind of
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taking it a little bit farther and then taking it outside of
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the Jewish people. And then what was the final
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instruction to the whole world? And here we have a reminder of
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God's heart for the whole world. Would you never forget that it
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doesn't matter what they're saying in the news?
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It doesn't matter what political view has the popularity to
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somehow caused you to think of a people, group, to think of an
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immigration status to think of something other than God's heart
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for the world. So, that now, in some way, you
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no longer love the world, You may not even here we're sitting
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in a in a Suburban type Church thinking about the blessings of
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God, in the faithfulness of God and we want to worship him and
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it would be really hard. It really requires a lot of
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humility to look in the mirror and say you know what, I don't
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think I love the whole world. I think I'll of a portion of the
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world. I think there are people in the
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world that I don't love and it would be hard to admit it, but
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until you admit it he won't open a channel for the Holy Spirit to
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give you an agape. Love for the World, and I'm not
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just some generic, it's easy when we think of the world, we
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think of the globe and just a bunch of faceless people that
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will never meet in our lives. But you know, it's fascinating
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for us being the Melting Pot being known as a nation as a
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Melting Pot, that God brings the world to us.
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Even if you never have the privilege of traveling anywhere,
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we live among the world every tribe, every tongue and every
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nation. And without a true love of God,
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let me put it this way, let me turn Turn it around and let's
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just make it. Let's bring it down.
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Simply let's just be just very matter-of-fact in the days in
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which we live. We're going to pray for Unity in
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the church and we're going to pray for a Great Awakening and
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we're going to pray that God might use us on our own personal
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walk. Then we have to deal with this
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issue of the sin of prejudice. It is not from God.
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It is not from God to be a prejudiced person.
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And from that word, we have the understanding of the definition
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to prejudge. Someone.
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This is something we're all guilty of some more than others.
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Prejudice is not from God, the sin of prejudging someone based
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on their skin color braced on the language that they speak
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based on their immigration status based on where they live,
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what part of town they're from, it's just not from the law.
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It seems as if a pastor shouldn't have to say that in
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this modern day, but it's important that we remind
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ourselves from the voice of God himself that his heart is for
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the world that's God's heart. And if we're going to be a part
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of what he's doing in the Earth today than we need to cultivate
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a love for the world. We need to confess our sin of
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prejudice wherever it comes up deal with death, blow to that
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part of our flesh. So that we might walk in the
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spirit. I mean, if you really want to
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see God, use you greatly personally then don't fall or
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participate in the temptation of prejudice.
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And another way of looking at in the scripture is showing
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partiality, James and James letter talks about the sin of
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partiality, I think in the Old King James, he talked about the
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respecter of persons and he uses the example of the rich and the
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poor. He says look, and I was just
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summarize what James says, is it look?
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Don't give preference to the rich and make the poor sit on
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the floor. You treat them the same you
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don't give any extra added benefit to the rich.
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You don't look down on the poor. They are both created in the
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image of God. And you don't show prejudice.
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There's not much that puts a person on the wrong side of God,
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faster than prejudice. Jesus came to the Earth to save
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all those who would repent of their sins and turn to him.
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He didn't come just to save a certain few, a certain segment
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of the world. He came to the Jew first but
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also to the Greek, he came to fulfill all righteousness for
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the Jew first. And also for the Greek, he
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didn't come to save a certain race of the world and write off,
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Heather races or ethnicities. He didn't come just to save a
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certain subgroup Jesus loves all Jesus was not and is not a
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prejudiced man, although the world that he entered definitely
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is and definitely was and still is even Among Us.
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Jesus example, for us to serve everyone equally regardless of
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the color of thus, again, language, they speak how they
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look, how they smell, where they live, how much money they have,
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and don't have whatever it might be.
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People are people and they're worthy of our time.
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Our intention The love of God that's in US.
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Be careful church not to label someone.
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What happens in labeling people is very simple.
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We learn this from Pastor miles McPherson in his book, the third
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option. The command from God is to love
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the Lord God, with all your heart, soul and mind, and love
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your neighbor as yourself. And here's what we do, we have
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different labels, that will use to slap on somebody that we
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don't agree with. We don't like, we might be
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prejudiced toward so that instead of now seeing them, as a
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neighbor, we see them as our label.
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And whether it's direct or indirect, whether it's known, or
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unknown, whether it's conscious or subconscious, it's
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irrelevant. The end result is the same.
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If we label someone and identify him by that label, then somehow
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we excuse ourselves from giving love because we don't see them
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as our neighbor and our culture doesn't you know, culture does a
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good job of supporting this changing, the are thinking
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whatever the new popular narrative is of the day.
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And Jesus reminded Us in Mark, chapter 12.
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That first of all, the Commandment is to hear o Israel.
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The Lord our God is one and you shall love the Lord God with all
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your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with
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all your strength, that's the first commandment he said.
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And the second is like it, you shall love your neighbor as
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yourself and there's no other commandment greater than these.
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What were you doing tonight? We were praying about Unity.
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And as my friend Tony Clark pastor and Newport News.
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Woof and say he will often reflect from his perspective.
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As a black Pastor serving in a predominantly black congregation
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in Virginia. He'll say the most segregated
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day in the country is Sunday morning and God's desire is for
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us to be in Unity Church to have a true heart for all people.
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And to really, just be honest It isn't something that you answer
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to us as a leadership team. It isn't something that you need
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to openly demonstrate in some way that you're not like that.
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And I mean, when we start talking about Prejudice almost
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immediately, there's a defensiveness.
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So not me, not me. I could never be that way.
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And that may or may not be true. I don't know, I don't walk in
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your shoes but I walk in my shoes and whatever Prejudice.
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I have toward whatever situation that comes up.
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I don't want it in my life. I don't want my Ministry.
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Limited. I don't want to learn how to
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just conveniently label people that I don't want to deal with,
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or I don't want to serve or I don't want to go out of my way
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to die to myself. It just stifles the work of the
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Holy Spirit. It Grieves, the Holy Spirit,
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whether you were raised that way, whether you were taught
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that whether you learned it, whether it's just something you
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picked up along the way. It is a sin to be repented from
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and forsaken. Why?
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Because we come back to Genesis 10 and Right out of the gate, we
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understand God's hardest for the world and I think if we kind of
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turn it up, turn around a little bit and just like, I am so
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thankful that God's heart is for the world.
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Because I'm part of the world that God's love came to me.
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In my worst, where I was born, where I was raised, you know, so
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many parts of our Lives, we don't even get to choose.
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It's just our life. Where we what family were born
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into what our DNA is it? Just?
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This is what we were given by the will of God And it's in
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Christ. These barriers have been broken.
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And the in chapter 10. Now coming down to our study
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today. With all that in mind, I know
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that genealogies are very easy to skip and you start out the
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year especially in Genesis I'm going to read the Bible in a
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year and be like yeah read the Bible in the year chapter one.
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Great chapter 2. Great 3 4, 5 6, 7 10, I don't
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think so, it's just a bunch of names, 70mm 70 different names
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and, you know, genealogies. They take a little extra time.
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I mean you if you really To study a genealogy and spend some
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time on it. Just get a good Bible
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dictionary. You get a good Bible dictionary.
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You can look up every name. That's really how you learn.
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Who is this person? What does this person have?
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Is there any significance? Sometimes, there's great
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significance. Sometimes not so much, but can I
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just remind you that if we told you that in the Bible, there's a
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whole list of genealogies from people that went to church at
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Calvary and your name was in it. Don't you think you'd look for
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that genealogy? You're like the most your name
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will be in there. Here I am, honey, I'm in the
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Bible and so these people are just as significant as you are.
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However, they're even in a greater ways.
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They play out God's heart for the world and and I can't
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emphasize this enough. It's just from the holy spirit
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for this moment in time from the very beginning, God's heart and
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intention is a love for the whole world.
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Do you guys get that yet? It's very important.
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It will accentuate. And accelerate, Your usefulness
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in the hands of God, if you will grasp that believe it and live
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it in your life you have to go through your own pains.
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Right you have to really deal with how you've been treated.
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You might be on the other side of prejudice people have been
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prejudiced towards you. Taking advantage of you hurting
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you deeply and so what's the response?
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Forgiveness. Releasing Sequoia.
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Pastor I understand Prejudice. I've been treated that way my
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whole life and for that, I'm sorry.
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I wish you wouldn't treat you that way.
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I wish that it would have been an easier Road for you.
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And even so nothing is wasted by God.
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It is developing in you a care and concern for the
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marginalized. It's developing a new of love
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for people that are being made fun of or bullied, or judge
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because of the color of their skin, or their language, or
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their status may be growing up in a single home, or you're an
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orphan or you grew up in foster care, all the different pains
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and difficulties that separate us.
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It's the love of God that unites us.
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Always and forever. There are no second-class
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citizens in the Kingdom of Heaven.
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And as we live in incredible times, were God, you know, if
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you think about the day in which this age of Gentiles is age of
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Grace until the fullness of the Gentiles comes in, if you
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consider this we're living in an age where God is taking Jew and
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Gentile and grafting them together.
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That's the church age we're seeing God bring together
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diverse groups of people in Christ.
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And yes, there is a divine order.
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We learned that God has chosen the Jewish people, it's his
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Divine prerogative, but through that choice, salvation comes to
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the world. So let's look at some of the
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names now, and jump in to chapter 2.
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If you want to take notes, you can jot them down in your Bible
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or you can look up if you don't have a Bible dictionary, a free
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Bible dictionary online can be found at Blue Letter.
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Bible dot o-- r-- g-- very robust and free website with a
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lot of Bible study. Versus you don't have to spend a
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lot of money on a library. You can get it right there.
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Blue Letter Bible dot-org. Verse to the sons of japheth
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were Gomer, Magog may die Javan tubal meshech and tiras, the
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sons of Gomer were Ashkenazi Reef off and talk more on the
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sons of Javen were L. Le choix tarshish.
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Kit, Amanda Denim, and from these, the coastlines people of
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the Gentiles, They were separated into their lands
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everyone. According to his own language
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according to their families into their Nations.
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Japheth japheth is the descendants of japheth are
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primarily the Indo-European people.
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And so, this lineage begins with J path was the oldest son and
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the area, they inhabited is the farthest removed from the
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Palestinian region. Remember in chapter 9 and verse
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27 if you want to look back Noah blessed JPS line lineage to be
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enlarged there in verse 27, he says may God enlarge japheth and
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may He dwell in the tents of Shem and may Canaan be his
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servant and these are the sons Gomer.
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Now if these are the Germanic peoples from which most of the
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original peoples of Western Europe, come the original French
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Spanish and Celtic settlers. And three of japheth sons may
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God to ball and meshech then verse 2.
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They settled as far as north of Europe and they become the
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Russian people's from may die in verse to come, the ancient needs
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and those who populated Modern Day Iran and Iraq.
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In. Verse 2, Javen gave birth to the
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ancient Greeks who are now described in detail in Verses, 4
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and 5 and verse 3, the sons of Gomer were Ashkenazi Which are
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the modern-day Germans and they subtle north of Judea in the
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Fertile Crescent area. If you come to Israel with us,
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one of the ways you can tell the distinction of the Jews that
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have come back from all throughout Europe, is the way
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that they dress and the hats that they wear.
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And there is a particular group of Jews, they still identifying
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themselves this way. Today, they're known as the
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ashkenazi's and these were the Jewish people that have returned
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from Germany and the area surrounding And I forget Which
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Way their hats look, but very fascinating.
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When you see them walk on the Sabbath day to their times of
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worship. At the synagogues in verse 3,
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talk Mara are those that settled in Armenia.
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And so there are many ins come through there and it's
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interesting for you Bible students in Ezekiel chapter 38
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and 39 may God meshech. Tubal Gomer tog, Mara are all
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members of the anti-god alliance in the Last days, you learn all
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that in the first few verses of chapter 10, don't you ever skip
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a genealogy? Again there is always meet in
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there if you'll dig a little bit, let's move on to the sons
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of ham, the sons of ham, the family and lineage of ham
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beginning in verse 6 or the Oriental African and Canaanite
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peoples. In verse 6, the sons of ham were
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cush mizraim, IM put and Canaan. The sons of cush were seba
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havala Sab, tah, Rama sabotage. And the sons of Rama were Sheba
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and dedan and I did practice some of these names verse a cush
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begat Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one on
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the earth. He was a mighty Hunter before
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the Lord therefore it was said like Nimrod the mighty Hunter
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before the Lord and the beginning of his kingdom was
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Babel Eric akkad and Kane. In the land of shinar from that
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land, he went to Syria and built Nineveh, Rahab off air and kala
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resin between Nineveh and calah. That is the principal City verse
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13. Miss ryeom be got loot him and
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am in lahab. Mm, not to him past three Sim
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and cos Elohim from whom came the Philistines and cafetorium.
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So from ham, come the peoples of Africa and the Far East Arabia.
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Ethiopia Egypt, Canaan, the Oriental and African nations,
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Iran. Iraq are all covered in this
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area. These were a vigorous and
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aggressive people. The early Empire Builders and
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controllers of human Destiny. Verse 6, cush cush has a
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Biblical name for Ethiopia and becomes prophetic as they align
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with the Antichrist. But when we get to the New
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Testament, the Kush is super important.
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Because by the time we get to Acts chapter 8, we're introduced
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to To a eunuch who was from Ethiopia and God did a great
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ministry and bringing salvation directly to him.
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The family of kush divided, some founded Babylon, Nimrod and
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others went toward Ethiopia. The Bible tells us in Jeremiah
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13, that Kaku sites, were dark skinned and very tall.
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Isaiah 45, verse 14, in verse 6 mr.
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I am founded Egypt verse 6. Put built BR and the region of
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North Africa, west of Egypt and Canaan, of course refers to the
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people who filled the ancient land and the area of Israel.
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The hivites the jebusites etcetera.
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I want to give a little bit of attention to this guy by the
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name of nimrod. Again, looking for Bible names
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for your kids. Here you have one little nimrod.
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Nimrod is a very interesting character in The Bible.
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His name literally means Rebel Rebel or to be rebellious.
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It can also mean Valiant and strong and when you put these
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definitions together, you have a valiant strong Rebel or you
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could also say a very strong-willed rebellious, man.
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Now remember, whenever the Bible speaks of rebellion in a
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character in a man or a woman the All units toward God, not
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necessarily toward one another. However, when you are rebellious
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toward God, you will also be rebellious toward others.
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And Nimrod is a great example of that.
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His life was one long Rebellion against the things of God, he's
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known historically for establishing cities and kingdoms
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and it says that in verse 9, it says that he had he was a mighty
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Hunter and just Mark that phrase before the Lord just Mark that
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will get back to it in a second. He was a mighty Hunter.
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Her. And so he was talked about is
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Nimrod. The mighty Hunter before the
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Lord, but according to the rabbi's and the Jewish targum,
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the rabbi's taught that this isn't necessarily a reference
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toward the hunting of animals, as much as it was a hunting or a
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conquering of The Souls of men. And historically Nimrod starting
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with Babel continuing to Babylon and thinking of how Babylon
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represents that in time City in Rebellion toward God.
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That in the hunting and pursuing, and conquering Nimrod
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would do whatever it needed to whatever he needed to do, to
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abuse people, and take advantage of them for his own gain.
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However, even in his Rebellion, it says that he was before the
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Lord and I believe, God would have us to be encouraged for
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those situations in people in our lives that are very hard,
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very difficult, maybe some rebellious nastas, some enemies.
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Difficulties attacks that. What's happening to you tonight
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is happening before the Lord? It is not unseen.
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I know it feels like that at times.
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You kind of like an in the psalmist when the psalmist talks
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about, you know, what is going on, don't you see God, why are
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you allowing this? Many times David would sit there
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with his harp and begin to think, you know, what is
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happening in my life. Why?
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I had someone very close to me. Recently asked me a couple of
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questions about why We're just driving along and it's like, why
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this and why that? And it's easy to try to jump in
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and begin to answer that question, but eventually it's
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like, you know, those questions aren't aren't answerable.
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I don't know why. I might be able to give you some
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theological answer some principle from the scriptures
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but even that's not satisfying because it doesn't really take
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away the difficulty. You got, man.
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I've got a nimrod after me, Ed, why?
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So, I don't know. But it's before the Lord nothing
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is happening. Apart from God.
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God sees every Wicked person, every Wicked deed and he's aware
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of everything that goes on which leads to the next.
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Why question, well why doesn't he just stop it?
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If he knows it all. Well, some of that is reserved
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into the mysteries of God's will.
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I do know this, he has stopped things before.
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I do know that I do know that in his sovereignty in his grace, he
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has intervened. I do know that even if he
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doesn't stop I do know these going to work all things
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together for the good. I do know that we're going to
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grow through the pain. I dunno.
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You know that it's like God has his hand on the thermostat and
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he doesn't allow it to get hotter than for us to have the
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way of escape and trusting with our lives.
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I do know this, I can speak for myself.
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I may not be able to answer all the white questions but I
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certainly can speak from my own personal experience.
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The things that God have allowed in my life as painful as they
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are have made me a better man. They've made me a more
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worshipful men. They've made me a more Broken,
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Man. A more humble man.
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God is able to use the trials and difficulties in our lives
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and even the nimrods. Just the nimrods just the name
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makes you. Yeah.
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Even the nimrods, he allows the nimrod.
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Is that name like resonate yet? Nimrod people are listening on
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the radio, stop it already stopped it but even the rebel,
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even the value in, in the strong, the ones that seem to be
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getting away with everything. The ones that seem to have all
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the power and all the leverage and everything that the world
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values, they seem to be getting away with it and not only
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getting away with it more and more and more, I don't know
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what's happening exactly in the spiritual realm.
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I don't know how much they're getting away with.
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I don't know what they're dealing with.
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I don't know how miserable or life is, I don't know.
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Any of that. But I do know this.
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It is all happening before the Lord and He is righteous and he
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is just and nothing. Nothing.
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Nothing. Gets past.
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Scott. What you sow?
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Is what you reap. I don't know when and I don't
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know how, but, you know, it can go both ways, right?
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You don't have to sow to the flesh.
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You can sow to the spirit, you know what, you sow to the
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spirit, you'll reap that too. When you soda righteousness,
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you'll reap righteousness. When you are a giver, you'll be
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given to, you know, they will be blessed.
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You'll be encouraged. You'll be strengthened.
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It's more blessed to give than to receive when you help, when
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you step into someone's life, when you when you help someone
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just get up a little bit when you go.
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Rescue when you redeem, when you helped restore God, blesses
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those so Nimrod. I mean, you're going to read
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more of him will read ahead and chapter 11 for our study next
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time. But Nimrod is the antithesis of
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God on the Earth. No problem, doing whatever it
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take, any becomes a picture in a type of the coming Antichrist.
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It's spoken of in second Thessalonians, in Revelation,
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the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, but later Babylon,
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literally mean that he believed he built it, as it was a gateway
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to. God is what he believed, but
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Babylon speaks of the ultimate Rebellion against God.
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And we know this Babylon is ultimately destroyed.
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In Revelation. All right, let's move on to the
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family in verse 15 of Canaan. It says Canaan begat side in his
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first born in Heth. The jebusite, the amorites, the
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girgashites, the hivite the archive, and the sennight, the
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Arvid, a'ight the Zimmer right? The Hama fight and afterward the
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families of the Canaanites were dispersed verse 19 and the
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border of the Canaanites was from sidon.
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As you go toward guerard, as far as Gaza and then you go down
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towards Sodom Gomorrah. Admah and zeboiim as far as
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lascia. There were sons of ham.
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These were the sons of ham according to their families,
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according to their languages, in their lands and in their
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Nations. So here's the line and family of
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Canaan, the son of ham, we have brief information on the
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families of Canaan. One special note in this list is
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seitan the father of the Hittites.
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Another Note that you might want to Mark in the verse 17 are the
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sin i'ts. These are the father of the
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oriental people, so are the Chinese.
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And you notice all the items in this line, it's significant all
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the iights mention here, in Genesis 10 become very
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significant when the children of Israel enter where the Promised
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Land Because they all faced all these sites.
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These are all the enemies of God.
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They come through the line of Canaan.
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Now verse 21 children were born also to Shem.
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The father of all the children of Eber.
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The brother of japheth the older, the sons of Shem were
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Elam ashur, arphaxad, lud. Arum the sons of Aaron Were Us
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whole Gather in mosh arphaxad begat Salah and solid begat Eber
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and to Eber were born Two sons, the name of one was peleg for in
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his days. The Earth was divided and his
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brother's name was joktan, joktan begat Alma dad shall left
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hazarmaveth Gera had a ram whose ol dick.
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Le O ball a bimmel Sheba over havala jobab.
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All these were sons of joktan verse 30 and their Dwelling
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Place was from me, shaw as you go toward, Safar the Of the
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East. These were the sons of Shem
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according to their families, according to their languages, in
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their lands, according to their Nations, these were the families
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of the sons of Noah according to their Generations, in their
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Nations. And from these, the nations were
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divided on the earth. After the flood, this is an
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important line Shem. All the descendants of the
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Middle East come from Shem. But most importantly, shim is
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the lineage By which Messiah comes.
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So this is significant. The Semitic peoples come through
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Shem, the most notable semites, are the descendants of Israel.
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Now, remember the prophecy that was given of know about shim
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that he was to be the father of a people whose God, the only
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living and true God was to be blessed.
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And so shims, descendants, were to reach out to the world and
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Lead all people to worship and bless God.
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Now, notice in verse 21 some highlights so many scholars
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believe that in verse 21, the children of Eber is actually the
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root word from which we get our word Hebrew from The rest of the
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Bible is now focused on this important line and lineage not
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only because of Israel, but because of Messiah would come
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through this blessed line of people's.
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It says, in verse 22, Elam. He was the father of the
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Pershing Persian people, elamites Abram will settle in
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this area and while they're in either, my king will come and
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attack him. Asher was the father of the
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Assyrian people's blood was the father of the lydians who lived
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in Asia Minor. And we visit a zoom Asia Minor.
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When we come through, the rest of the study, in the book of
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Acts, arum was the father of the syrians in Damascus.
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A language develops through the syrians the language known as
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Aramaic. The Aramaic language is one of
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three languages used in the Bible.
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Remember, the Old Testament is primarily written in the Hebrew
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language with the exception of a few chapters in The Book of
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Daniel. That go and switch from Hebrew
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to Aramaic and then back to Hebrew.
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The New Testament was written in the common day language of the
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first century in the area of Israel, which was koine, Greek.
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And that's why when you're reading translations in the
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English, there are length, there are sentence structures and
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things that our help, even with the new King James, I pointed
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this out before. But as you're reading through
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the new King, James, you will see words added in italics.
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Not in the sense of adding to the Bible but giving Phrase or a
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turn of phrase that might help it be better understood in the
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English language. Because if they just translated
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the Greek straight through, there's no punctuation and the
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sentence structures are different, and the Greek
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language is much more descriptive than English.
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So Aramaic develops through are mm and is used in The Book of
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Daniel. Jesus himself would speak
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Aramaic as well. Back to verse 22, the sons of
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Shem or Elam ashur. Arphaxad is in the direct line
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leading to Abram and then was in verse 23, you Bible students
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know that o is that region of Arabia and later, we know that
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job is known to come from us. Joktan is another name, one of
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the names following are all associated with the Arab people
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in that region. In verse 29 is interesting
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because you have that name over have a law and then jobab.
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Now many scholars believe that this is an extended version of
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the name job of which is the oldest believed to be the oldest
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book in the scriptures. This maybe job there and these
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two were says were scattered across the globe and we're
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reminded in job and in Genesis 10 of God's great love for the
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whole Earth. As we close, it's very important
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to understand God's heart for the lost and God's heart for the
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world and my encouragement to you.
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Whether you're here now or listening on the radio watching
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online may be listening at some later date.
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When this airs on the radio, I'm asking you to consider those
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areas of your life where you are prejudiced.
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Whatever it may be. Prejudice has an idea, not only
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of prejudging but thinking more, highly of yourself than others.
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That when you prejudge someone, they're in a lower class than
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you, or in a different class and may the Lord by his agape love.
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Help us to show true love that when we read John 3:16 and it
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says, God, so loved the world that we really mean it.
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We really mean the one struggling with sin.
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We really mean the one that with a rough past, we really mean the
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one that's in prison right now. We really mean the one that just
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is their whole life has been one mistake after another one
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failure after another that we would learn how to actively and
39:05
again it's the work of the Holy Spirit, none of us can do this
39:08
on our own, but we would really learn how to walk in the grace
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of God. That we would really learn how
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to give Second Chances. Or third chances would
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participate with the restorative work of God, that we wouldn't be
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so quick to label people. That we wouldn't be so quick to
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be influenced by others, that label people, as I agree with
39:30
them. You know, they made such a
39:31
convincing case in 30 seconds. But rather I mean I hope you
39:38
guys are listening to Grace FM. I really do and I mean I there's
39:41
a little bit of a selfish part of that because I just know when
39:43
you're listening to Bible studies you'll you'll be
39:46
encouraged like your the Lord will change you.
39:48
The more Bible study. Listen to I mean you'll you will
39:51
change in another way listening to country music but not
39:54
listening to Bible studies. So it's worth it.
39:58
But today on the show was just was just the live show is just
40:02
amazing. It was God, gave a gift.
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Everybody was listening. You should listen to the
40:07
podcast. Second half of the show toward
40:09
the end. A gal calls up and shares how
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she's having a hard time forgiving herself for being such
40:16
a rebel as a teenager. Just broken, just can't.
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She's in her 30s. I think she said she was 38.
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And she's looking back at a season of her life and just
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admitting, you know, that she was such a rebel and so hard for
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her mom or single mom. And, and she just went on
40:35
sharing that. And as I'm listening and
40:37
praying, I'm like, well, you know, and as I was leading
40:41
asking some follow-up questions, talking about shaming a hard
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time forgiving herself, and if that's something that you
40:49
wrestle with, I shared with her, you know, not we're working on a
40:52
book right now. Hopefully it'll be done in the
40:54
next three to four months on. To deal with your past how to
40:58
have freedom from your past so we're working on that and that's
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good. I taught those Bible studies
41:03
that are up on our app on our website but I asked her for a
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picture. I just wanted to know.
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What did she mean by? I don't forgive yourself.
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I don't want to assume, I don't know what she means.
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And as she began to explain it, she went right back to 13 years
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ago. So she fast forwarded from the
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time with her mom because she's beating herself up for something
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that happened. 20, something years ago is unique, I mean, we
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all have regrets, amen. Anybody have regrets.
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If we think back far enough, we all have regrets so it was just
41:34
unusual that she was so Tethered to that season.
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And her mom has forgiven her and all that.
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So those of you who are listening, you know what she
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said? She said 13 years ago, I had an
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abortion. And I just can't forgive myself.
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And that opened up a whole new channel ministry, didn't it?
41:54
It happened a whole new opportunity about how she's been
41:58
held in bondage. This one of the things the
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abortion industry or those that approve of abortion and that's
42:04
this. The big secret nobody wants to
42:06
talk about the real deep seeded painful damage.
42:10
That's done to a woman and often the man that participates In a
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decision. So she began to share that and
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she's began to cry and very emotional time.
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And and I took the opportunity to help her understand the grace
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of God and forgiveness of God and And yeah, I know if she had
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the information today, the back then was she had today she would
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no way make that decision, but you can't erase 13 years and
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she's been living within living at that living with it.
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The reason I believe, it's relevant for our study tonight.
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Is that if you are watching the news or following all the
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Christian voices, you would think that abortion is some
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political Stand to take. You would think that abortion,
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the primary way of stepping into abortion is just carry a sign
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and fight for this and yell on the steps because everyone else
43:07
is yelling. So if everyone's yelling than
43:09
the Christians have to yell too but the reality is that Jesus
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Christ came to usher in a different Kingdom.
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He came in to do a different work.
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And if you're not careful, you will find yourself identifying
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with the way people want you to identify.
43:27
They'll convince you. I mean, after all it's a it's a
43:30
good cause after all, it's a righteous cause and for us, that
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you can even it's a Biblical cause to stand in the gap for
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The Unborn and to stand in the gap for those who have no voice.
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Yes, yes, yes. And yes, But who's going to
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reach out to the hurting? Who who's going to reach out to
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The One carrying this pain for 13 years?
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And it's manifesting that's not why she called, it's
43:59
manifesting, because she's can't forgive herself the way she
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treated her mom. And it's just taking root as a
44:06
bondage. It seemed like those two things
44:08
were bondages in her life and even in just a few moments on
44:11
the radio, God was able to give some release to her and some
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freedom and some forgiveness. And I'm not advocating.
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I'm not here as a pastor to tell you how you, engage in the
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culture wars and such like that. And that's not my, I don't know.
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You could line up here one after another nasty.
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I don't know. I don't know.
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I don't know. I just want you from the pulpit
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here on behalf. I believe speaking of God, that
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if you're not careful, you will adopt other people's views and
44:40
opinions about things and then you will say that's god's
44:44
opinion and be fully convinced about it.
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And I just want to say and suggest to you, That you might
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be wrong. And you spend your whole life
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and all your energy and passion on wrong things.
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When your neighbor The person that lives next to you, the
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person you share a fence with the person that you see taking
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out the trash. Because she somebody's neighbor.
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She lives somewhere. Is hurting because of a decision
45:22
with every. Now everything is on on the news
45:24
and it's all back in her face. And all God wants for her is to
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know that he loves her and he forgives her.
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And it's almost like you can hear the voice of Jesus in some
45:35
way saying just go and sin no more.
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Perhaps that's a testimony for you tonight.
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That's your story. Different name, different age
45:49
different, but that's your story, your so wounded and
45:52
crushed and broken. And then all the world has
45:56
labels and narratives and you're hiding behind this and you're
45:59
hiding behind that. I mean, we could go today show
46:03
was really, really powerful. What God wanted to do from just
46:07
set. Free set, free set, free calls,
46:09
that's what they were today. God wants to set you free.
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You don't need to call some radio station to be set free.
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You can be set free right now, you can come clean before God,
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you can come with the Open Hands and say, Lord, here I am.
46:24
Wash me and cleanse me and maybe it's just back to the context of
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chapter 10 today. Maybe it's just back to
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cultivate a love for the world. Just a man.
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Lord, I just want more of your eyes.
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I want to see things from your perspective.
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And it could just be a love for Bible study.
46:45
Maybe today you're like, oh, I'm going to look up every single
46:47
name. It'll take you a couple hours.
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That's all. You just do your own little
46:53
bible study and go, oh, Ed. I see where I got it.
46:56
Now, I use the same dictionary you do, but then you start to
47:00
pray in the lore says. No, this is for you.
47:03
I don't want it. You know, you look at Nimrod and
47:05
you go, oh my gosh, what's going on with them?
47:06
But nimrods before the Lord, nothing's done this, not before
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the Lord. Nothing is hidden.
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They won't be revealed. God sees all things.
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And he just so faithful to us. So father I do pray that as we
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come to a close today and is this chapter is so fascinating.
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Give us a heart, God for a love for your world.
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We all have room to grow in this.
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We all have our prejudices, we have our prejudgments We have
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our failures in this area. maybe you don't like the homeless,
47:43
maybe we don't like the rich, maybe you don't like the white
47:47
or the yellow, or the black, or the Male or the female?
47:52
I mean, whatever. and, Who are we?
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Who are we? But men and women receiving of
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your grace undeserving, Your undeserved Love.
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And so, we just celebrate tonight in our worship for your
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undeserved love and we ask you to set us free.
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We asked you to set us free. that we would grow little by
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little Open to a fresh work of your Holy Spirit.
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Jesus name. Amen.
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