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Exodus chapter 32 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Exodus chapter 32, let us pray. Our Father who's in heaven, holy
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  is your name. May we keep your name.
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  Holy God, may we have reverence unto your name.
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  Lord, we pray for your Kingdom to come.
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  Lord, help us not to build our own Kingdom here on this earth.
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  Help us to be excited about your Kingdom.
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  God, I pray that we look up and we see our redemption drawing
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  near. God, I pray that we speed the
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  day. God, we love the day of your
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  coming. We are the five wise virgins.
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  Lord, we prepare ourselves, we adorn ourselves, we wait
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  expectantly. God, we know that you'll come at
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  a day and an hour that we do not, no.
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  So Lord, we wait well as we anticipate your arrival.
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  God, we pray for your will to be done on this earth.
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  God. Not our own selfish will, not
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  our own wants and desires, God. But what does the Holy Word say
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  about today and for such a time as this?
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  God, that is what we want. We want Your word, not ours, not
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  ours, not ours, Father, only yours.
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  God. It is yours and yours and yours
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  and yours alone that we want and desire for this world, God.
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  Help us not to try to manufacture our own destinies,
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  Lord. We get out of our own
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  understanding and our own intellect, God.
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  We get out of our own wants and desires.
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  We get out of our own cleverness, God.
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  And we only want your will to be done on this earth exactly the
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  way that you told us that it would in your scriptures.
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  Lord, we thank you. God, thank you for today.
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  We thank you for waking us up and putting us on our feet.
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  We thank you for daily bread. God, we thank you for feeding us
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  manna and quail. We thank you, God, for the bread
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  of life and the living water. God, we dine sumptuously upon
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  your word. Forgive us, God, for all the
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  times we've got it wrong, for all the times we've sinned
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  against you, sinned against heaven.
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  God, let us be an example unto the angelic realm.
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  Help us to forgive those who have wronged us, God.
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  Help us to forgive those who have trespassed against us.
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  God, I pray that we'll be a forgiving people.
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  Lord, keep us from the enemy today.
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  Keep us from falling into the traps and the snares, into the
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  pitfalls, God, that are set before us.
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  God, be our map. Guide us home.
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  Lord, help us not to fall in to sand and choose sand over you.
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  God, I pray that we'll stay in the light.
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  We will not go off into the darkness.
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  Lord, protect us from the evil one, for yours is the Kingdom
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  and the power and the glory and the honor, forever worthy to be
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  praised. King Jesus high and lifted up,
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  Jesus of Nazareth, Jesus the Christ, the Messiah, Yeshua.
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  We thank you God for the sacrifice of our Lord.
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  And it's in his holy and precious and powerful name that
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  we ask all of these things. Amen.
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  Well, let's start in verse one. And when the people saw that
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  Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people
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  gathered themselves together with Aaron and said to him, up
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  make us gods which shall go before us.
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  For As for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the
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  land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.
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  How interesting, friends, how quick we are to forget all of
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  the things that God has done for us in our lives.
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  And there is a sin of forgetfulness.
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  And that is what is happening here with the Israelites.
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  And they're going to pay a very grave penalty for this sin of
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  forgetfulness. They say we do not even know
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  what has become of Moses up Aaron make us gods.
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  Let's see what happens. Verse 2 and Aaron said to them
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  break off the golden earrings which are in the ears of your
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  wives, your sons, your daughters and bring them to me.
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  Look at how he immediately capitulated to their ridiculous
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  claims instead of telling them that this was Pagan idolatry,
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  that it was deceitful and deceptive, that it was
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  disgusting in the nostrils of a holy God.
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  Three. And all the people broke off the
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  golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them
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  unto Aaron. And if you remember from
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  previous chapters, friends, God told Moses when he was on Mount
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  Sinai, when he was enveloped in the manifest glory of God for 40
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  days and for 40 nights. He told Moses for them to bring
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  all of these offerings, to build the Tabernacle with the direct
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  specifications that God had given him.
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  And now we see this counterpart, we see this counterfeit, we see
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  how the enemy wiggles his way in to the congregation, and he gets
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  them to choose the lesser over God.
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  And with God we must wait. Well, even in the silence,
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  friends. And the greatest work of God is
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  done in the waiting for. And he received them at their
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  hand and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made
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  it a molten calf. And they said, these be your
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  gods, O Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
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  Look how they chose a man made image instead of a living God
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  and they chose what they could see rather than having faith to
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  believe in what they could not see.
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  And it's no different in our day and our hour.
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  It's no different for us friends.
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  We must choose what we cannot see.
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  Friends. That is what we are called to
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  do. 5 And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it.
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  And Aaron made proclamation and said tomorrow is a feast to the
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  Lord. So look at how Aaron quickly
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  turns tail and he is amazed at what his hands have made.
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  What a ridiculous notion this is to think about Aaron, who is
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  supposed to be leading the congregation, and what is he
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  doing? He is going and actually giving
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  in to their ridiculous requests. And not only did he give into
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  it, now he has built some kind of shrine unto this Pagan
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  idolatry. How disgusting and deplorable
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  our flesh is, apart from following after God. 5 And when
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  Aaron saw it, he built an altar. 6 And they rose up early on the
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  morning, and they offered burnt offerings and brought peace
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  offerings, and the people sat down to eat and drink, and they
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  rose up to play. You can see here in this
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  disgusting verse that they have given themselves in to Pagan
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  idolatry of worshipping satanic entities.
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  And this is just like Satan to wiggle his way into the
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  congregation and to get them to choose to worship the lesser
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  things that they can see rather than what they cannot see.
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  And the way of God is faith, and it is impossible to please God
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  without faith. But how many of us choose what
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  we can see and touch and feel and taste over a living God who
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  asked us to have faith? And you can see here that they
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  are giving themselves completely and totally over to this
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  disgusting act of offering sacrifices to a God that cannot
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  see and cannot hear. IS is not alive.
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  Every other God is an idol, friends.
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  There's only one true living God.
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  And it is the God of the Jews. That is who we attach ourselves
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  to. That is who he chose to bring
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  the Messiah through. King Jesus was a Jew.
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  Don't forget it, friends. And we attach ourselves to this
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  Messianic lineage, friends. And here you can see the people.
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  They are not only sacrificing unto it, but they have given
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  themselves over to revelry. They've given themselves over to
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  the disgusting practice of play. 7 And the Lord said unto Moses,
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  Get you down from your people, which you brought out of the
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  land of Egypt. They have corrupted themselves.
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  So look at how God turns it around and says, Moses, these
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  are your people. You brought them out.
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  He doesn't even claim them for himself. 8 And they've turned
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  aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them.
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  They have made a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have
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  sacrificed there unto it, and said, These be your gods, O
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  Israel, which have brought you up under the land of Egypt.
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  Nothing is missed on God. God is everywhere.
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  He's omnipresent. He's everywhere all at once.
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  He sees what is happening there in the camp while Moses is up on
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  the mount with him. Nothing is missed upon him.
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  He sees that they have made these graven images and they've
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  worshipped them and what they've said.
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  He's counted it all. Moses is yet to figure it out.
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  Nine And the Lord said to Moses, I've seen this people, and
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  behold, it is a stiff necked people.
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  This is like an animal who refuses to go in the way that
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  the farmer is trying to get it to go. 10 Now therefore let let
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  me alone, that my wrath may grow hot against them, that I may
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  consume them, and I will make of you a great nation.
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  Don't miss it, friends. Here God is willing to destroy
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  the entire nation and make an entire nation again out of
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  Moses. What an interesting thought.
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  Let's see how Moses takes it. 11 And Moses begged the Lord his
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  God, and said, Lord, why do you, why does your wrath grow hot
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  against your people, which you have brought forth out of the
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  land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?
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  So we can see here in the streamlined theology that is
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  consistent throughout all of Scripture, we know that God
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  already knows the beginning and the end, but he's trying to get
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  out of Moses and develop Moses into the man of God, the friend
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  of God, and he wants Moses to advocate for his people. 12 Why
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  should the Egyptian speak and say, for mischief?
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  Did he bring them out to slay them in the mountains and to
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  consume them from the face of the earth?
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  Turn from your fierce wrath and repent of this evil against your
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  people. Moses has yet to go down and see
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  what's actually happening, but he understands the context that
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  God has promised Abraham, Isaac and Jacob that he was going to
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  bless them and he was going to make them into a mighty nation
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  and he's going to lead them into the Promised land.
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  And here all he's doing is reminding God of the promises of
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  God. And we are called to do the
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  same. Go into scripture, pull out
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  scripture and remind God of what His Word says, and hold God to
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  what His Word says. God is not a liar.
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  God is not like us as a man. God will make good on all of His
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  promises forever and ever. Amen. 13 Remember Abraham and
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  Isaac and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own
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  self and said to them, I will multiply your seed as the stars
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  of heaven, and all this land I've spoken of I will give to
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  your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.
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  We're talking about the land of Canaan, friends.
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  We're talking about Genesis 15, friends.
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  God said that he there was no one greater than God that he
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  could swear by, and so he swore by himself that he was going to
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  do the things that Moses is reminding God about 1514.
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  And the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do to
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  his people. The Lord relented, friends, the
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  Lord. All he did was get this
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  character out of Moses that he wanted.
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  God already knew what he was going to do, but he was getting
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  Moses to the place where Moses could be of the great advocate
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  for the people of Israel and to love them. 14 And Moses turned
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  and went down from the mount, and the 2 tables of the
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  testimony were in his hand. The tables were written on both
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  their sides, on the one side, and on the other were they
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  written. 16 And the tables were the work of God, and the writing
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  was the writing of God graven upon the tables. 17 And when
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  Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said
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  to Moses, There's noise of war in the camp.
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  We can see that this Joshua was a general.
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  His mind was fixated upon these engagements.
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  He already had this war mind in his mind that he could go and he
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  could overtake all the land of Canaan as God wanted him to.
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  We see that he is just already reprogrammed as a great general.
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  18 And he said it is not the voice of them that shout for
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  mastery, neither it is the voice of them that cry for being
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  overcome, but the noise of them that sing.
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  Do I hear? So Moses is saying this is not a
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  victorious people, and this is not a beaten people that have
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  that have experienced war. This is a very deplorable sound
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  of people that are dancing and engaging in sexual activity one
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  with the other outside of the marital connotation, and they
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  are in a very disgusting way is what Moses is pointing out. 19
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  And it came to pass as soon as they came near to the camp that
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  he saw the calf, the dancing and Moses's anger grew hot and he
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  cast the tables out of his hand and broke them beneath the
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  mountain. So here we see the anger of
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  Moses, and God has to get this anger under control.
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  We could see that this anger is what's going to cause Moses not
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  to reach the Promised Land. But this was a holy indignation.
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  And he broke the tables of stone at the base of the mountain. 20
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  And he took the calf which they had made, and he burned it in
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  the fire, and he ground it to powder, and he shrouded upon the
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  water, and he made the children of Israel drink of it.
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  Think about it, friends. Moses's anger was so hot that he
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  took this false idol and he grounded into powder and he
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  mixed it with water and he forced them to drink of the very
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  God that they were trying to worship, to show them the
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  idiocracy of worshiping a man made image instead of a living
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  God. And they would have to pass this
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  through their bodies, and it would become waste out of their
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  bodies. And I'm sure that it was bitter
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  as they took it down. One.
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  And Moses said to Aaron, What did this people to you, that you
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  have brought so great a sin upon them?
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  Moses says to Aaron, How deplorable and despicable have
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  you become, that you have degraded yourself down to the
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  request of this heathen people. 22 And Aaron said, Let not the
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  anger of my Lord grow hot. You know your people, that they
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  are set on mischief. What a despicable excuse. 23 For
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  they said to me, Make us gods which shall go before us.
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  For As for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the
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  land of Egypt, we know not what has become of him.
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  Think about it, friends, For 40 days and for 40 nights they did
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  not know what was going on with Moses.
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  They thought that perhaps he was consumed by the fire that they
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  saw at the top of Mount Sinai. And here they go to Aaron, and
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  they say to Aaron, Make us these false gods.
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  And Aaron gives over to them. 24 And I said to them, Whosoever
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  has any gold, let them break it off.
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  So they gave it to me, and I cast it into the fire, and there
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  came out this calf. This was a ridiculous excuse.
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  And Moses knew that it was all a farce.
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  Aaron did not just throw earrings into a fire and out
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  popped a golden calf. It does not work that way.
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  Notice how Aaron did not ever put in to the details that he
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  molted it down and graved it with a tool into the shape of
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  this golden calf. 25 And when Moses saw that the people were
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  naked, Aaron made them naked unto their shame among their
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  enemies. Do you see them dancing?
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  Do you see them feasting and offering sacrifices and laying
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  down one with the other naked and dancing, and reveling
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  friends in a drunken stupor to their own shame?
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  And it is to our shame as well when we engage in this
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  disgusting, deplorable act. 26 And Moses stood in the gate of
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  the camp and said, Who is on the Lord's side, Let him come to me.
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  And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to
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  him. So this was the Levitical line,
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  the priesthood friends who were going to minister in the temple.
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  27 He said to them, This is what the Lord God of Israel says.
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  Put every man his sword by his side.
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  Go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp.
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  Slay every man his brother, every man his companion, every
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  man his neighbor. So what Moses is telling these
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  sons of Levi to do, you have to understand, there are 2 million
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  people out here in the wilderness, and they've all
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  given themselves over to this drunken revelry.
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  And Moses is going to carve out the leaders of all of this
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  disgusting, deplorable revolt. And he tells the sons of Levi
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  not to hold back, because they might be their brother, they
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  might be their neighbor or their companion.
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  Don't hold back. But anybody who is stuck in this
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  drunken stupor, who refuses to come unto the Lord, must be done
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  away with. 28 And the children of Levi did, according to the
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  word of Moses. And there fell of the people
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  that day about 3000 men. This was a small amount in
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  relation to the 2 million, but it was just enough to get it all
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  to stop and for the people to understand that they have made a
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  grave error. 29 For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves
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  today to the Lord, every man upon his son and upon his
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  brother, that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day.
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  So Moses had told them to consecrate themselves, and
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  anyone who was found refusing to do so was put to death. 30 And
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  it came to pass on the Morrow that Moses said to the people,
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  You have sinned a great sin, and now I will go up unto the Lord,
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  Perhaps I shall make an atonement for your sin.
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  So Moses is going to intercede on their behalf. 31 And Moses
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  returned to the Lord and said, Oh, this people have sinned a
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  great sin, and have made them gods of gold.
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  God already knew and Moses was an advocate for them and then
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  Moses saw it all. Now Moses is back to God and
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  he's saying, I did not know how terrible it was. 32 Yet now, if
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  you will forgive their sin, and if not blot me, I pray you, out
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  of the book which you have written, Lamb's Book of life.
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  So here Moses is advocating and interceding on the point, the
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  same point that Paul makes in the New Testament, anathema, to
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  be completely cut off so that others can come in.
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  Do you have that heart today, friends?
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  I pray that you do. I pray that you have a heart for
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  people around the world, not just those who look like you and
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  sound like you, but people around the entire globe.
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  Friends, there will be representatives of every nation
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  and every tongue and every people group there with us. 33
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  And then the Lord said to Moses, Whosoever has sinned against me,
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  him I will blot out of my book. 34 Therefore now go lead the
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  people to the place of which I've spoken to you.
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  Behold, my Angel will go before you.
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  Nevertheless, in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin
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  upon them. 35 And the Lord plagued the people, because they
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  made the calf which Aaron made. So here God is pulling out.
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  He's saying Just go. I promised Abraham, Isaac, and
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  Jacob the land flowing with milk and honey.
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  Sure you can go. I will not go with you because
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  if I go with you, you will not even make it there, because I
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  will consume you in my holy perfection.
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  You know, if you go back to the book of Genesis, right before
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  God flooded the earth, it says that he grieved God, that He had
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  made mankind. And you can see why our hearts
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  are set upon destruction. They're bent upon rebelling
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  against the holy God. We need the blood of Jesus to
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  make us perfect. We need every day to wake up and
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  give our lives back over to the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  We can't rest on yesterday, the winds.
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  We need to make sure that every day that you wake up, you give
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  your entire life over to the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  This continual renewal unto God, that is how we'll know that we
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  know that we know that we know that we belong to Him.
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  Do not wander. Do not grieve the Holy Spirit.
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  Get your heart right with God today.
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  Make it right with God today, for today is the day of
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  salvation. I hope you've been blessed by
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  this amazing chapter in God's Word.
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  I know I sure have. I'm praying for every single one
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  of you. I love you.
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  We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.