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 Well, through turning your Bibles to Isaiah chapter 33, Isaiah chapter 33, if you're ever to come this evening, we'd love to see you through.

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 Isaiah 33, C.S. Lewis wrote these words about his conversion from atheism to Christianity.

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 He says, you must picture me alone in that room in Magdalene, the college in Oxford.

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 Night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted, even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of him, who I so earnestly desired not to meet.

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 That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me.

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 In the Trinity term of 1929, I gave in and admitted that God was God, and Nelson prayed.

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 Perhaps that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.

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 I did not see then what was the most shining and obvious thing.

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 The divine humility which will accept a convert even on such terms.

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 The prodigal said at least walked home on his own feet.

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 But who can duly adore that love which will open the high gates to a prodigal who is brought in, kicking, struggling, resentful, and darting his eyes in every direction for a chance to escape.

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 Now whether you or I realize it or not, Lewis is actually speaking for every single one of us.

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 Because you and I, we all come to God reluctantly.

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 We all return to God reluctantly.

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 Because we find it so hard, don't we all of us, to give up control, to give up ownership.

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 And leisure from our lives.

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 But you see what C.S. Lewis discovered in this journey.

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 He speaks of this, divine humility.

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 Divine humility which accepts a convert even on those terms of reluctance.

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 That God is always more ready to meet us than we are to meet him.

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 And that is what we actually find in chapter 33.

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 If you've been with us in this series, you will know that it's been very evident that the people of Jerusalem,

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 they run in every direction for their safety, for their salvation, for their security.

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 They run in every direction that is, apart from the direction which God is in.

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 And yet, here in Isaiah 33, we are finally pointed to a time when they turn back to God.

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 Not as the one who is their great fountain of delight and joy of all good, but really to God as their last resort.

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 And repentance is not a way of life for the people of Jerusalem.

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 It's a last gasp effort to avoid disaster.

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 And yet, God humbly receives them.

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 And one clue to the changing situation for the people of Jerusalem actually comes in verse 1 of verse 23.

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 Ah, it should be woe.

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 Woe, you destroyer.

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 You who have not been destroyed.

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 You traitor.

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 Whom none has betrayed.

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 When you have ceased to destroy, you will be destroyed.

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 And when you have been finished betraying, you will be betrayed.

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 If you read from Isaiah 28 onwards, up to this point, you'll have noticed that there were a number of markers along the way.

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 The ESV really messes this part up.

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 I can't understand why it doesn't use the word woe in verse 1 of Isaiah 33.

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 We get six woes in these chapters.

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 But there's a difference because up to now, all the woes have been about God's people.

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 They'd be focused on Judah and Jerusalem.

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 The people of God have been running away from God.

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 And God has said through the prophet Isaiah, woe to you.

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 But this one is different.

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 Because in chapter 1, verse 1, it's addressed to the enemy of God.

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 To Assyria.

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 The one who's been destroying Judah is going to be destroyed itself.

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 The one who's betrayed Judah will be betrayed itself.

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 And so the tables have turned.

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 And now the woe is not on God's people, but on his enemies.

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 And we want to ask, how can God act like that?

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 How can he accept people who come to him kicking and screaming, who come to him really as a last resort?

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 And if that is true for the people of Jerusalem, it's true for you and I too.

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 And so I want us to follow the lead of the passage and you to do four things.

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 I want us to take the highway, the green cross code, isn't it?

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 To stop and to look and to listen.

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 And then to listen again.

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 To stop, to look and to listen.

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 And if you look at the chapter, it seems to be addressed to an audience who needs to think about their standing with God.

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 It starts from the perspective of a people who've come to God as a last ditch effort for rescue.

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 And they have found that God has humbly and gently received them.

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 So it tells us that God's attitude to overdo repentance,

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 His attitude to overdo repentance is actually gracious renewal.

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 His attitude to overdo repentance, when we come to him late, he is still gracious.

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 Or we can put it differently.

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 When God is all we have, we find that God is all we need.

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 When God is all that we have, we find that God is all we need.

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 So we need to learn this lesson.

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 So first of all, let's look at the stop, verses 2-6.

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 O Lord, be gracious to us.

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 We wait for you.

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 Be our arm every morning.

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 Our salvation in the time of trouble.

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 As the tumultuous noise, peoples flee.

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 When you lift yourself up, nations are scattered.

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 And your spoil is gathered.

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 As the caterpillars gather.

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 As locusts leap.

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 It is left upon.

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 The Lord is exalted, for He dwells on high.

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 He will fill Zion, His glorious city, with justice and righteousness.

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 And He will be the stability of your times.

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 Abundance of salvation, wisdom and knowledge.

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 The fear of the Lord is Zion's treasure.

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 Jerusalem in verse 2 basically says,

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 Lord, please stop treating us as our sins deserve.

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 We've stopped trusting in others.

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 Times have changed.

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 Finally, the people of Jerusalem have stopped trying to rescue themselves.

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 And finally, they heed Isaiah's preaching.

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 And as we saw in chapter 30,

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 where Isaiah said,

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 Blessed are all those who wait on Him, who rely on Him.

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 And finally, they're waiting for God.

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 But like C.S. Lewis,

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 they're not moving in this direction in the most eager of ways.

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 Jerusalem has been threatened, doesn't it,

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 by the Assyrian Empire.

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 But God said,

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 You don't need to worry about that.

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 I will protect you.

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 For that isn't tangible enough for the people of Jerusalem.

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 Other rulers.

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 That's not the way they see other nations doing international diplomacy.

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 So they decide,

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 We've got to do it another way.

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 We will go to Egypt.

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 And we will ask them to help us.

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 And they look to form an alliance with the Egyptians to the south.

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 But in the end, Egypt lets them down.

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 And the pressure from Assyria doesn't let up.

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 So King Hezekiah, the king of Judah, decides,

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 You know what I'll do?

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 I'll try and buy Assyria off.

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 So we actually read in 2 Kings 18,

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 He takes the money from the temple treasury.

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 He strips down all the gold from the doors in the temple.

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 And he hands it all over to the king of Assyria.

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 To get him off his back.

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 It's a pretty bad move, isn't it, when you think of it.

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 Because not only does he treat God as a worthless ally.

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 But now they make God from his temple pay the bill.

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 The bill for their disobedience and their disloyalty.

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 Picture the people of Jerusalem.

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 As they carry the chests of silver and gold through the gates of the city.

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 To the Assyrian outpost.

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 To the command centre at a distance.

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 And they think, finally, finally we've got some peace from Assyria.

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 Finally the Assyrians, they will leave us alone.

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 Finally the siege will be over.

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 And they watch waiting for the foreign army to pack up camp.

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 To put its weapons away.

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 To fold up the tents.

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 But it doesn't happen.

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 Because the Assyrians won't go anywhere.

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 It's a con job.

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 It's a fix.

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 And the Assyrians get the money.

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 And they get the gold.

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 And then they decide we're going to attack anyway.

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 And Jerusalem suddenly realises we've given away all our money.

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 We've given away all our gold.

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 And we're no better off.

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 We're in trouble.

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 And they realise we've compromised ourselves.

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 We've got nothing out of the deal.

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 And so they realise they've got nothing left but the grace of God.

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 They've got nothing.

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 Absolutely nothing.

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 And so they're left with their tail between their legs.

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 And they go to God.

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 And they can't come back to singing.

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 Oh we will sing of your love forever.

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 They don't come back like that with their arms in the air.

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 Because that would be a lie.

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 It would be hypocritical.

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 And they come back to God as their great backup plan.

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 And they come back as the last resort.

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 And yet God still receives them.

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 That even if you.

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 Even if you this morning.

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 Even if you have been going everywhere else.

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 In life.

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 Looking for your security.

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 And your identity.

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 And your worth.

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 And your salvation.

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 And now you realise.

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 I'd be running to all those places.

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 All my life.

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 And they can't give me what I'm looking for.

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 And they won't give me what I'm looking for.

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 And then you come back to God as your last resort.

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 He says I'll take you.

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 You realise you can't save yourself.

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 You can't fix this.

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 And how gracious a God am I.

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 So the people of Israel in verse 2.

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 They plead with God to be gracious.

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 We're going to stop trying to fix this ourselves.

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 We can't fix it.

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 We're going to try trusting in you.

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 We need you to be our strength.

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 That's what he means in verse 2.

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 Be our arm every morning.

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 On a day to day basis.

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 We see your might.

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 And all you need to do.

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 Verse 2 Lord.

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 Is to get up out of your chair.

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 All you need to do.

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 In verse 3 sorry.

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 Is when you lift yourself out of your chair.

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 Lord.

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 The nations flee.

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 We need you.

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 We need you.

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 Because you are the highly exalted Lord.

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 You are the one who will establish people.

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 With justice and righteousness.

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 Now we know Lord.

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 That all we have is God.

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 And God is all we need.

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 That he is our stability.

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 He is the one who will be our wisdom.

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 And our salvation.

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 And our knowledge.

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 So they say.

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 All we need to value.

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 All we need to treasure.

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 Is the fear of the Lord.

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 We're going to stop trusting in other things.

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 We're going to wait on you.

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 But from that plea to the Lord.

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 To be gracious.

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 There's now a call.

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 To the listener.

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 And they're told in this call.

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 In verses 7 tonight.

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 Behold their heroes cry in the street.

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 Their edwards of peace.

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 Weep bitterly.

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 The highways lie waste.

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 The traveller ceases.

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 Covenants are broken.

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 Cities are despised.

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 There is no regard for man.

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 The land mourns and languishes.

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 Lebanon is confounded and withers away.

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 Sharon is like a desert.

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 Bishan, Karno, shake off their leaves.

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 To the end of verse 7.

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 There's a second command.

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 We're told to stop.

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 And then we're told to look.

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 That's what behold means.

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 Look.

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 Look at the desolation.

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 Look at what happens when you don't trust in God.

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 You've got military leaders on one hand.

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 You've got diplomatic envoys on the other.

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 You've got the hawks and the dunks.

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 So to speak.

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 But they're on their wits end.

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 They've seen their best laid plans come to nothing.

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 They're in absolute ruin.

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 They see that Judah has become a scorched earth.

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 A scorched earth.

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 Under a serious fist.

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 And it's there we're being told.

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 Aren't we?

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 Pay attention.

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 Because what happens.

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 When you live life without God.

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 It brings desolation.

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 Alan Duboton.

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 Is a British author and a speaker.

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 And he gave a TED talk.

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 Called Atheism 2.0.

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 It's quite interesting to talk when you watch it.

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 Because he admits that new atheism.

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 Which is put forward by people like Richard Dawkins.

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 And others.

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 Is actually really unwise in its militancy.

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 Against religion.

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 So Duboton proposes a new atheism.

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 Atheism 2.0.

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 And as he calls it that.

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 He wants to recognize the positive aspects of religion.

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 And seek to learn from them.

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 Here's what he says.

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 Atheism 2.0 starts with a very simple premise.

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 Of course there is no God.

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 Now let's move on.

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 That's not the end of the story.

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 That's the very beginning.

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 I'm thinking of a constituency of people.

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 Who say.

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 I can't believe in any of this.

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 I can't believe the doctrines.

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 That they are right.

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 But I really like Christmas carols.

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 I really like the art of Matanga.

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 I really like visiting old churches.

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 I really like turning the pages of the Old Testament.

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 These are people who are attracted to the ritualistic side.

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 The moralistic communal side of religion.

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 But can't bear the doctrine.

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 And Duboton goes on to stress.

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 That atheists need to incorporate ritual.

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 And community.

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 Into their atheistic lives.

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 And everything will be so much more rich.

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 it gives me when you watch that

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 there's something isn't there of rearranging the chairs

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 on the Titanic about that

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 because he's missing the whole point

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 and yet it's easy to look at Jabotov

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 and other atheists

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 and poke holes in the business

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 but you know the danger

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 the danger is that some of us would actually live that way too

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 even coming to IPC

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 we never call ourselves atheists

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 but perhaps there's certain aspects

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 and areas of our lives where we are functional atheists

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 we like the hymns

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 we like even the corporate confessions

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 we like the ritual

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 we like coming to the church

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 we like the community

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 but we really do it all without any reference

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 or connection to the living God

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 Jabotov and others

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 at least have the intellectual integrity

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 to say no we don't believe in God

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 some of us would never say that

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 but functionally that is where we're at

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 that we're not really trusting God

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 that we're not really holding on to him

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 we're not really submitting to him in our lives

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 and Isaiah says

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 the consequence of that belief

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 is desolation

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 look where that road leads you

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 look what's coming down the tracks this morning

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 a life without God

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 only brings desolation

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 do you know that?

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 do you believe that?

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 look at the midst of the desolation

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 as the people of Jerusalem

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 realise all they have to do

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 is depend upon the grace of God

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 and they change him

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 look what happens in verse 10

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 now

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 I will arise

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 says the Lord

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 now I will lift myself up

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 now I will be exalted

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 that when we admit

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 our disgrace

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 that when we admit

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 our defeat

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 that when we admit

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 our brokenness

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 and our disappointment

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 with ourselves

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 with how we've acted

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 and how we've acted

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 towards others

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 that is actually

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 when God

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 delights to enter in

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 he resists the proud

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 but he can't keep away

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 from the humble

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 he's saying

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 when you sink down

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 to your lowest point

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 God is saying

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 now again somewhere

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 now I can help you

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 it's completely counter-cultural

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 isn't it?

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 that God's prerequisite

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 for rising to save us

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 is our admission

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 of failure and weakness

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 God's prerequisite

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 for raising

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 himself

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 is our admission

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 and humbling of ourselves

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 and lowering of ourselves

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 that's not just

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 how you become a Christian

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 is it?

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 that is how you continue

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 to grow as a Christian

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 that is the life

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 of a Christian

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 that is the life

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 of a Christian church

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 what is the besetting sin

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 of Presbyterianism

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 if I can talk about that

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 if you don't know what that is

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 we can talk about it later

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 but what is the besetting sin

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 of that?

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 it is pride

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 God has been very kind

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 to this congregation

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 God has been very very kind

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 to us as a denomination

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 in the last few years

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 and the danger is

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 we think we've got it

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 we've made it

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 we are the people

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 we must be thankful

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 that pride is dangerous

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 the way of a church

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 that refuses to become

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 proud and self-righteous

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 and that is humble

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 and repentant

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 and utterly aware

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 of its constant need

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 for grace

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 that we are fragile

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 fragile

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 fragile

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 fragile

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 God says

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 you need to plunge

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 your failures

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 into my grace

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 and then I'll raise you up

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 now I will rise

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 so we'll stop trusting

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 in ourselves

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 we're to look

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 and thirdly

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 in verses 13 to 14

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 we are to listen

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 it's very obvious

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 isn't it

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 verse 13

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 here

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 here you are

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 far off

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 like death

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 and you are near

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 and acknowledge my might

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 that sinners in Zion

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 are afraid

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 trembling

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 and seized

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 the darkness

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 who among us

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 can dwell with

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 the consuming fire

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 who among us

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 can dwell with

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 everlasting burning

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 now it's the Lord

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 speaking

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 and speaking

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 he says

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 I want you to listen

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 and he tells the whole

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 world to listen

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 can you see that

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 verse 13

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 it's not a parochial

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 message

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 it's not just for

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 Jerusalem

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 it's not just for

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 Presbyterians

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 it's not just for

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 Christians

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 it's an appeal

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 to every person

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 on this planet

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 to listen up

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 and to acknowledge

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 the power of the Lord

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 God says

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 listen

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 do you see

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 and hear the effect

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 of my power

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 on those who are in Zion

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 they are shaking

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 in their boots

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 because they suddenly

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 now understand

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 who they're dealing with

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 and the one

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 who they are dealing with

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 is a consuming fire

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 and the God of the Bible

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 is red hot holy

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 God is a fire

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 who will burn forever

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 with consuming intensity

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 and he says

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 here is the one

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 who every single person

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 must be concerned about

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 I want all of us

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 to feel the weight

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 of this God

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 this morning

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 he is a consuming fire

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 the writer

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 to the Hebrews

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 picks up on it

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 as he instructs us

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 that we are to

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 worship God

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 how are we to

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 worship God

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 we are to worship God

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 acceptably

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 with reverence

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 and awe

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 why are we to

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 worship God

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 like that

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 because he is

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 the God

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 of a consuming fire

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 it's not an

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 Old Testament God

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 versus a New Testament

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 God

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 that is untrue

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 this is the God

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 the Bible presents

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 from beginning to end

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 and so the reaction

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 of the sinners

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 and the godless

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 in Isaiah 33

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 is totally appropriate

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 they quake in their boots

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 because they suddenly

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 understand who God is

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 this God

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 who you have come

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 to worship today

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 is the same God

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 that they are fearful of

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 because they say

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 who can dwell

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 with the one

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 who is a consuming fire

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 God gives us the answer

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 in verses 15 and 16

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 and he says

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 he who walks righteously

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 and speaks uprightly

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 who despises

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 the gain of oppression

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 who shakes his hands

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 lest they hold a bribe

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 who stops his ears

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 from hearing of bloodshed

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 and shuts his eyes

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 from looking on evil

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 he will dwell

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 on the heights

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 his place of defence

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 will be a fortress

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 among the rocks

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 his bread will be given him

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 his water will be sure

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 and not fail him

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 who can dwell

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 with the God

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 who is a consuming fire

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 that is

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 who can be

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 in God's presence

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 even though

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 they've got no right

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 to be in God's presence

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 God says

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 it is the one

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 who does

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 what is right

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 in God's eyes

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 it's the one

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 who speaks

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 what is right

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 in God's ears

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 it's the one

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 who acts rightly

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 to his neighbour

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 those kind of people

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 get to dwell

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 with God

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 on the heights

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 those people

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 can be in the

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 presence of God

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 be consumed

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 and not be consumed

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 and God says

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 listen to this

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 because this

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 leaves you and I

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 in a terrible

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 predicament

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 in a terrible

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 situation

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 and it would

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 have left

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 the people of

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 Jerusalem

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 in a terrible

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 situation

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 because left

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 to ourselves

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 we are selfish

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 beings

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 like they were

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 and left

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 to ourselves

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 I don't know

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 about you

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 but I say

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 words which

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 wound and hurt

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 other people

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 and left

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 to ourselves

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 we treat

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 each other

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 very harshly

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 so the question

00:21:46.000 --> 00:21:47.019
 is how can I

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 how can you

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 how can we

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 ever dwell

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 with the

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 consuming

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 fire

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 with the God

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 who is a

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 consuming fire

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 that's the

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 fire

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 so God

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 says stop

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 look

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 and listen

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 but then he

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 says look

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 again

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 verse 17

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 your eyes

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 will behold

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 your eyes

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 will behold

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 the king

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 and his

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 beauty

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 they will

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 see a land

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 that stretches

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 far off

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 your heart

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 will muse

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 on the tower

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 where is

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 he counted

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 where is

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 he weighed

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 the timber

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 where is

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 he counted

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 the towers

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 you will

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 see no more

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 the insolent

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 people

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 the people

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 of an

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 obscure

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 speech

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 that you

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 can't

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 comprehend

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 stammering

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 in a tongue

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 that you

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 can't

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 understand

00:22:21.959 --> 00:22:23.679
 look at

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 Zion

00:22:23.939 --> 00:22:24.619
 behold Zion

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 the city

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 of our

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 appointed

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 feast

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 your eyes

00:22:26.339 --> 00:22:26.619
 will see

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 Jerusalem

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 an untroubled

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 habitation

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 an unmovable

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 tent

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 whose stakes

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 will never

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 be plucked

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 up

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 nor will

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 any of

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 its cords

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 be broken

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 but there

00:22:36.319 --> 00:22:36.819
 the lord

00:22:36.819 --> 00:22:37.460
 in majesty

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 will be

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 for us

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 a place

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 of bread

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 rivers

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 and streams

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 where no

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 galley

00:22:42.980 --> 00:22:43.779
 no warship

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 with oars

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 can go

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 no majestic

00:22:45.759 --> 00:22:46.059
 ship

00:22:46.059 --> 00:22:46.539
 can pass

00:22:46.539 --> 00:22:46.980
 for the lord

00:22:46.980 --> 00:22:47.559
 is our judge

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 and the lord

00:22:47.900 --> 00:22:48.440
 is our law

00:22:48.440 --> 00:22:48.620
 giver

00:22:48.620 --> 00:22:49.000
 and the lord

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 is our king

00:22:49.519 --> 00:22:49.860
 and he

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 will save

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 us

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 your cords

00:22:52.920 --> 00:22:53.400
 hand loose

00:22:53.400 --> 00:22:54.680
 they cannot

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 hold the

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 mast

00:22:55.380 --> 00:22:55.580
 frame

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 in its

00:22:55.759 --> 00:22:56.000
 place

00:22:56.000 --> 00:22:56.319
 or keep

00:22:56.319 --> 00:22:56.460
 the

00:22:56.460 --> 00:22:56.640
 sail

00:22:56.640 --> 00:22:57.120
 spread out

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 then pray

00:22:58.420 --> 00:22:58.920
 and spoil

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 and abundance

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 will be

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 divided

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 even the

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 lame

00:23:00.819 --> 00:23:01.160
 will take

00:23:01.160 --> 00:23:01.539
 the prey

00:23:01.700 --> 00:23:02.460
 no inhabitant

00:23:02.460 --> 00:23:02.799
 will say

00:23:02.799 --> 00:23:03.420
 I am sick

00:23:03.420 --> 00:23:04.600
 the people

00:23:04.600 --> 00:23:05.000
 who dwell

00:23:05.000 --> 00:23:05.279
 there will

00:23:05.279 --> 00:23:05.740
 be forgiven

00:23:05.740 --> 00:23:06.440
 their iniquity

00:23:06.440 --> 00:23:08.580
 what are they

00:23:08.580 --> 00:23:09.019
 told to look

00:23:09.019 --> 00:23:09.240
 at

00:23:09.240 --> 00:23:11.400
 they're told

00:23:11.400 --> 00:23:11.700
 to look

00:23:11.700 --> 00:23:12.180
 on the city

00:23:12.180 --> 00:23:12.539
 of God

00:23:12.539 --> 00:23:13.039
 on Zion

00:23:13.039 --> 00:23:14.559
 to look

00:23:14.559 --> 00:23:15.100
 on the future

00:23:15.100 --> 00:23:15.460
 Zion

00:23:15.460 --> 00:23:16.380
 to look

00:23:16.380 --> 00:23:16.960
 at the future

00:23:16.960 --> 00:23:17.519
 Jerusalem

00:23:17.519 --> 00:23:18.059
 the future

00:23:18.059 --> 00:23:18.380
 world

00:23:18.380 --> 00:23:18.740
 which will

00:23:18.740 --> 00:23:19.299
 be completely

00:23:19.299 --> 00:23:19.819
 peaceful

00:23:19.819 --> 00:23:21.039
 completely

00:23:21.039 --> 00:23:21.480
 secure

00:23:21.480 --> 00:23:22.660
 and it will

00:23:22.660 --> 00:23:23.299
 be absolutely

00:23:23.299 --> 00:23:23.960
 protected

00:23:23.960 --> 00:23:24.779
 from every

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 enemy

00:23:25.100 --> 00:23:25.700
 it's another

00:23:25.700 --> 00:23:26.420
 vision isn't it

00:23:26.420 --> 00:23:26.940
 from Isaiah

00:23:26.940 --> 00:23:28.140
 of that world

00:23:28.140 --> 00:23:29.080
 that's to come

00:23:29.080 --> 00:23:30.980
 that absolutely

00:23:30.980 --> 00:23:31.860
 glorious world

00:23:31.860 --> 00:23:32.519
 that world

00:23:32.519 --> 00:23:33.039
 that you

00:23:33.039 --> 00:23:33.360
 and I

00:23:33.360 --> 00:23:34.319
 yearn for

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 we say

00:23:36.220 --> 00:23:36.720
 that is what

00:23:36.720 --> 00:23:37.220
 we were built

00:23:37.220 --> 00:23:37.559
 for

00:23:37.559 --> 00:23:39.039
 the kind

00:23:39.039 --> 00:23:39.500
 of world

00:23:39.500 --> 00:23:40.160
 we're seduced

00:23:40.160 --> 00:23:40.680
 into thinking

00:23:40.680 --> 00:23:41.200
 that we can

00:23:41.200 --> 00:23:42.160
 get on by

00:23:42.160 --> 00:23:43.039
 get to

00:23:43.039 --> 00:23:43.960
 by running

00:23:43.960 --> 00:23:44.620
 to the Egypt

00:23:44.620 --> 00:23:45.440
 of the world

00:23:45.440 --> 00:23:46.539
 by running

00:23:46.539 --> 00:23:47.140
 to money

00:23:47.140 --> 00:23:48.860
 or a certain

00:23:48.860 --> 00:23:49.460
 relationship

00:23:49.460 --> 00:23:50.220
 or a certain

00:23:50.220 --> 00:23:50.500
 job

00:23:50.500 --> 00:23:51.120
 that will get

00:23:51.120 --> 00:23:51.680
 me to that

00:23:51.680 --> 00:23:52.240
 world

00:23:52.240 --> 00:23:54.420
 but you see

00:23:54.420 --> 00:23:55.099
 there is a reason

00:23:55.099 --> 00:23:55.880
 why this sign

00:23:55.880 --> 00:23:56.460
 is secure

00:23:56.460 --> 00:23:57.259
 and safe

00:23:57.259 --> 00:23:58.759
 it's because

00:23:58.759 --> 00:23:59.759
 as they look

00:23:59.759 --> 00:24:00.539
 at Zion

00:24:00.539 --> 00:24:01.319
 they are told

00:24:01.319 --> 00:24:01.840
 that they see

00:24:01.840 --> 00:24:02.519
 a person

00:24:02.519 --> 00:24:03.620
 look at verse 17

00:24:03.620 --> 00:24:05.400
 they see a king

00:24:05.400 --> 00:24:06.100
 in his beauty

00:24:06.100 --> 00:24:09.180
 and the security

00:24:09.180 --> 00:24:09.940
 of this world

00:24:09.940 --> 00:24:10.660
 and paradise

00:24:10.660 --> 00:24:11.460
 all depends

00:24:11.460 --> 00:24:12.120
 on this king

00:24:12.120 --> 00:24:13.240
 in fact the mention

00:24:13.240 --> 00:24:13.620
 of the king

00:24:13.620 --> 00:24:14.360
 in verse 17

00:24:14.360 --> 00:24:15.019
 would seem to

00:24:15.019 --> 00:24:15.380
 indicate

00:24:15.380 --> 00:24:16.279
 he's the key

00:24:16.279 --> 00:24:17.480
 to any of us

00:24:17.480 --> 00:24:18.759
 being able to dwell

00:24:18.759 --> 00:24:19.279
 in the presence

00:24:19.279 --> 00:24:19.840
 of the consuming

00:24:19.840 --> 00:24:20.259
 fire

00:24:20.259 --> 00:24:22.440
 so the question

00:24:22.440 --> 00:24:23.380
 is who is this

00:24:23.380 --> 00:24:23.759
 king he's

00:24:23.759 --> 00:24:24.259
 talking about

00:24:24.259 --> 00:24:26.559
 and in verse 22

00:24:26.559 --> 00:24:26.879
 we're told

00:24:26.879 --> 00:24:27.720
 the Lord Yahweh

00:24:27.720 --> 00:24:28.440
 he is the judge

00:24:28.440 --> 00:24:28.839
 the Lord

00:24:28.839 --> 00:24:29.420
 given the king

00:24:29.420 --> 00:24:30.359
 he is the one

00:24:30.359 --> 00:24:31.220
 who will save us

00:24:31.220 --> 00:24:33.180
 so we're told

00:24:33.180 --> 00:24:33.579
 the Lord

00:24:33.579 --> 00:24:34.420
 who is the king

00:24:34.420 --> 00:24:36.019
 who is a consuming

00:24:36.019 --> 00:24:36.599
 fire

00:24:36.599 --> 00:24:37.160
 is going to

00:24:37.160 --> 00:24:37.500
 save us

00:24:37.500 --> 00:24:38.019
 from himself

00:24:38.019 --> 00:24:39.859
 and how is he

00:24:39.859 --> 00:24:40.519
 going to do that

00:24:40.519 --> 00:24:41.279
 well Isaiah

00:24:41.279 --> 00:24:41.879
 points us

00:24:41.879 --> 00:24:42.559
 into the direction

00:24:42.559 --> 00:24:43.059
 of his answer

00:24:43.059 --> 00:24:43.879
 look at verse 10

00:24:43.879 --> 00:24:46.079
 now I will rise

00:24:46.079 --> 00:24:47.460
 says the Lord

00:24:47.460 --> 00:24:48.759
 now I will

00:24:48.759 --> 00:24:50.079
 lift myself

00:24:50.079 --> 00:24:50.539
 up

00:24:50.539 --> 00:24:52.119
 now I will

00:24:52.119 --> 00:24:52.700
 be exalted

00:24:52.700 --> 00:24:55.640
 if you know

00:24:55.640 --> 00:24:56.259
 the most famous

00:24:56.259 --> 00:24:57.059
 chapter in Isaiah

00:24:57.059 --> 00:24:57.500
 it's Isaiah

00:24:57.500 --> 00:24:58.279
 chapter 53

00:24:58.279 --> 00:25:02.160
 and Isaiah

00:25:02.160 --> 00:25:03.140
 uses the exact

00:25:03.140 --> 00:25:03.840
 same language

00:25:03.840 --> 00:25:04.740
 of verse 10

00:25:04.740 --> 00:25:05.440
 to speak of a

00:25:05.440 --> 00:25:06.120
 particular person

00:25:06.120 --> 00:25:07.000
 in Isaiah 52

00:25:07.000 --> 00:25:07.720
 verse 13

00:25:07.720 --> 00:25:09.600
 it says this

00:25:09.600 --> 00:25:10.580
 see my servant

00:25:10.580 --> 00:25:11.480
 will act wisely

00:25:11.480 --> 00:25:12.500
 he will be raised

00:25:12.500 --> 00:25:13.380
 and lifted up

00:25:13.380 --> 00:25:14.400
 and highly exalted

00:25:14.400 --> 00:25:17.400
 here is Yahweh

00:25:17.400 --> 00:25:18.200
 here is the Lord

00:25:18.200 --> 00:25:19.400
 speaking of his servant

00:25:19.400 --> 00:25:21.380
 his servant

00:25:21.380 --> 00:25:22.100
 will be raised

00:25:22.099 --> 00:25:22.919
 and lifted up

00:25:22.919 --> 00:25:23.839
 and exalted

00:25:23.839 --> 00:25:24.379
 and the question

00:25:24.379 --> 00:25:25.179
 is well who is he

00:25:25.179 --> 00:25:26.740
 well you'll get

00:25:26.740 --> 00:25:27.240
 there in Isaiah

00:25:27.240 --> 00:25:27.799
 52

00:25:27.799 --> 00:25:30.299
 but it is God's

00:25:30.299 --> 00:25:30.659
 servant

00:25:30.659 --> 00:25:33.099
 where we're told

00:25:33.099 --> 00:25:33.819
 he will suffer

00:25:33.819 --> 00:25:35.000
 it is God's

00:25:35.000 --> 00:25:35.959
 suffering servant

00:25:35.959 --> 00:25:38.619
 and amazingly

00:25:38.619 --> 00:25:39.299
 he's described

00:25:39.299 --> 00:25:40.359
 in Isaiah 52

00:25:40.359 --> 00:25:41.000
 in this

00:25:41.000 --> 00:25:42.519
 suffering servant

00:25:42.519 --> 00:25:43.419
 who's also a king

00:25:43.419 --> 00:25:45.419
 the king in all

00:25:45.419 --> 00:25:45.879
 his beauty

00:25:45.879 --> 00:25:46.519
 that we look on

00:25:46.519 --> 00:25:47.639
 in Isaiah 33

00:25:47.639 --> 00:25:50.619
 and inquiring minds

00:25:50.619 --> 00:25:51.039
 want to say

00:25:51.039 --> 00:25:52.119
 how is this servant

00:25:52.119 --> 00:25:52.960
 king the answer

00:25:52.960 --> 00:25:53.599
 to our need

00:25:53.599 --> 00:25:55.259
 how is the king

00:25:55.259 --> 00:25:56.099
 in all his beauty

00:25:56.099 --> 00:25:57.119
 going to enable me

00:25:57.119 --> 00:25:58.159
 to live with this

00:25:58.159 --> 00:25:58.819
 God who's a

00:25:58.819 --> 00:25:59.659
 consuming fire

00:25:59.659 --> 00:26:01.359
 because otherwise

00:26:01.359 --> 00:26:01.920
 I'm dead

00:26:01.920 --> 00:26:02.920
 look at verse 24

00:26:02.920 --> 00:26:06.000
 and no inhabitant

00:26:06.000 --> 00:26:06.920
 will say I am sick

00:26:06.920 --> 00:26:07.740
 the people who dwell

00:26:07.740 --> 00:26:08.180
 there will be

00:26:08.180 --> 00:26:08.859
 forgiven their

00:26:08.859 --> 00:26:09.379
 iniquity

00:26:09.379 --> 00:26:10.539
 the more literal

00:26:10.539 --> 00:26:11.339
 word there

00:26:11.339 --> 00:26:12.180
 is born

00:26:12.180 --> 00:26:14.659
 he will take up

00:26:14.659 --> 00:26:15.619
 our sins

00:26:15.619 --> 00:26:17.000
 will be born

00:26:17.000 --> 00:26:18.799
 ours in the sense

00:26:18.799 --> 00:26:19.420
 of lifted up

00:26:19.420 --> 00:26:20.120
 it's the same word

00:26:20.120 --> 00:26:20.720
 as rest time

00:26:20.720 --> 00:26:23.039
 and then we find

00:26:23.039 --> 00:26:23.740
 that word again

00:26:23.740 --> 00:26:24.740
 in Isaiah 53

00:26:24.740 --> 00:26:28.120
 the suffering servant

00:26:28.120 --> 00:26:29.060
 in Isaiah 53

00:26:29.060 --> 00:26:30.580
 where God says

00:26:30.580 --> 00:26:31.380
 I will give him

00:26:31.380 --> 00:26:32.100
 a portion among

00:26:32.100 --> 00:26:32.580
 the great

00:26:32.580 --> 00:26:33.620
 and he will divide

00:26:33.620 --> 00:26:34.360
 the spoils

00:26:34.360 --> 00:26:35.240
 with the strong

00:26:35.240 --> 00:26:36.300
 sounds like a king

00:26:36.300 --> 00:26:39.560
 so he poured out

00:26:39.560 --> 00:26:40.440
 his life unto death

00:26:40.440 --> 00:26:40.940
 he was numbered

00:26:40.940 --> 00:26:41.960
 with transgressions

00:26:41.960 --> 00:26:43.060
 he bore the sin

00:26:43.060 --> 00:26:43.600
 of many

00:26:43.600 --> 00:26:44.840
 he made intercession

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 for transgressions

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 it is this servant king

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 this servant king

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 who will come

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 and bear our sins

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 here is the king

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 in his beauty

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 and in his majesty

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 in holy fire

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 and as we gaze

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 upon the king

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 in his beauty

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 we see that he has

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 nail marks

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 on his hands

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 and he has nail prints

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 on his feet

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 and his side

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 is pierced

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 from the sphere

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 because you see

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 it is only because

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 the servant king

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 poured out his life

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 unto death

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 on the cross

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 that you and I

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 can now dwell

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 with the God

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 who is a consumer

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 of fire

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 and the image

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 of the servant king

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 now bearing our sin

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 well we know

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 don't we

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 it is rooted

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 back in the book

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 of Leviticus

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 that on the day

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 of the atonement

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 of the high priest

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 among other things

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 he took into the holy place

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 two male goats

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 one goat he would kill

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 the blood was sprinkled

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 on the mercy seat

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 the place of atonement

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 for our sins

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 but the priest

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 would take the live goat

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 he'd lay his hand

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 on the goat

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 he'd confess our sins

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 over the goat

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 and then he'd send it away

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 right into the wilderness

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 and he carried our guilt

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 as far as the east

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 is from the west

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 as far as it could go

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 he bore the sins

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 of his people

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 and every year

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 the high priest did that

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 every year

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 he repeated that

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 why?

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 well because

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 a goat

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 can't take our sin

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 it's pointing you

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 forward

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 to the one

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 who would be

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 taken away

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 outside the city wall

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 to a green hill

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 far away

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 without a city wall

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 because he's been

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 taken outside

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 as it were

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 into the wilderness

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 he dies in Canaan

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 and the Lord Jesus

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 is taken out of the city

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 to bear our sins

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 it's significant

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 it's pointed to the one

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 on the cross

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 who'd bear our sin

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 away as far as

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 east is from the west

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 so far as he removed

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 his transgression

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 from us

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 and that is the only way

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 that you and I

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 can survive

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 the consuming fire

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 it's also the way

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 that you and I

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 can dwell

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 in the consuming fire

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 if I can put it on that

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 it's a fire

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 which won't burn up

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 but a fire

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 that gives us life

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 and so the servant

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 comes to die for us

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 as such

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 that the Zion

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 of the king

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 becomes the dwelling

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 place of his people

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 the invitation

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 this morning

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 is to put all your sins

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 on the suffering king

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 so that you and I

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 this morning

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 even if we are coming

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 to him as a last resort

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 even if you're here

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 this morning

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 and you think

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 I don't know

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 where to turn

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 I might as well

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 go to church

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 if you're here

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 as a last resort

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 God welcomes you

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 he welcomes you

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 he welcomes you

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 to the place

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 where one day

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 all of us

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 will one day say

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 I am not tired

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 I am not ill

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 I won't have a cold

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 wouldn't it be amazing

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 if it's verse 24

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 doesn't that drive you nuts

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 about London

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 how are you

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 busy

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 how are you feeling

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 tired

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 we used to ban that

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 in our house group

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 but look at verse 24

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 and no inhabitant

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 will say I am sick

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 you'll never say

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 I am tired

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 in the new creation

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 you'll never say

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 I am too pretty

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 whatever your burdens

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 or sicknesses

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 in that place

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 he says to you

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 you will not say

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 those words anymore

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 because our sins

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 have been borne

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 by Jesus

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 the servant king

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 in the film

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 the iron lady

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 it's about Margaret Thatcher

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 the former power minister

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 and in the film

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 Thatcher is asked

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 by her doctor

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 how do you feel

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 she's at the end

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 of her life

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 at the end of

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 how do you feel

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 here's her reply

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 people don't think

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 anymore

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 they feel

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 it's very clever

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 one of the problems

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 of our age

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 is that we are

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 governed by people

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 who care more

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 about feelings

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 than they do

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 about thoughts

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 and ideas

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 the Bible wants

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 you to feel

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 does want you to feel

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 but the Bible

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 calls you to think

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 and the danger

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 for some of us

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 and the danger

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 for some of our

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 friends is we just

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 go straight to our

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 feelings

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 and Isaiah says

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 I want you to think

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 Isaiah says

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 I want you to stop

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 and I want you to

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 listen

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 and I want you to

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 look

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 and I want you to

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 look again

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 and I want you to

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 process this

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 because your eternity

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 hangs on this

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 the TED talk

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 that I cited earlier

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 TED's strapline

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 is this

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 it's ideas worth

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 thinking about

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 about watching

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 about considering

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 but this is the

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 ultimate idea

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 isn't it

00:31:42.319 --> 00:31:44.440
 this is the idea

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 that you've got

00:31:45.259 --> 00:31:46.180
 to have an answer

00:31:46.180 --> 00:31:46.519
 for

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 CS Lewis did

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 and you and I

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 have to

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 to think

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 and to look

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 and to listen

00:31:52.400 --> 00:31:54.859
 over and over again

00:31:54.859 --> 00:31:57.119
 and to realise

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 that when God

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 is all that we have

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 God is all

00:32:01.200 --> 00:32:01.960
 that we need

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 when God

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 is all that we have

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 God is all

00:32:07.440 --> 00:32:08.099
 we need

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 because what we need

00:32:10.039 --> 00:32:11.160
 is a servant king

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 and we have him

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 in the person

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 of the Lord Jesus

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 let's pray

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 God

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