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 So we're beginning our worship this evening singing in Psalm 65.

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 Psalm number 65, that's in the St. Psalms version on page 82,

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 singing to the tune St. David, verses 1 to 7.

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 In Zion, praise awaits you, Lord.

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 To you our vows will pay.

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 To you all people will come near.

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 You hear us when we pray.

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 When we were overwhelmed by sins and guilt upon us lay,

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 you pardoned all our trespasses and washed our guilt away.

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 How blessed are those you choose and bring within your courts of grace.

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 We're filled with blessings in your house, in your most holy place.

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 Psalm 65, singing on to the end of verse 7.

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 In Zion, praise awaits you, Lord.

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 In Zion, praise awaits you, Lord.

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 To you our vows will pay.

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 To you all people will come near.

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 You hear us when we pray.

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 When we were overwhelmed by sins and guilt upon us lay,

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 You pardoned all our trespasses and washed our guilt away.

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 How blessed are those you choose and bring within your courts of grace.

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 We're filled with blessings in your house, in your most holy place.

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 With awesome deeds of righteousness, you answer us, O God.

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 ZARROW stilleses, O God.

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 Our Savior, O God, O God.

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 Our Savior, O God, O God, O God, O God, O God, O God, O God, O God, O God, O God, O God, O dobry.

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 hope over the seas and all the earth above.

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 By strength and power you are the hills, you have the ocean voice.

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 You come, let you know of the wind and still the hills' voice.

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 We're going to call upon the Lord now in prayer. Let's join together in prayer.

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 Our gracious and eternal God,

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 we draw near to you this evening conscious of the truth of these words we have been singing,

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 that you are the God who hears and answers the prayers of your people,

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 that you are the one to whom we draw near now with our petitions and our thanksgivings.

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 And we give thanks, Lord, that you have opened this way for us,

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 that we can so freely use through our Lord Jesus Christ.

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 We thank you tonight, O Lord, for this privilege we have.

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 We thank you that we can follow these words of the psalmist so readily for ourselves,

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 that even though he spoke of your house as the temple in those days long ago,

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 we give thanks that we draw near to you to the courts of heaven.

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 We give thanks that we are able to do so through our Lord Jesus Christ,

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 who has ascended on high and has led captivity captive

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 and has set down at the right hand of the throne of the majesty on high.

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 We thank you for the guarantee you give your people,

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 that they are acceptable and accepted by you

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 through him who loved them and gave himself for them.

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 Help us then, we pray, to draw near to you tonight in faith.

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 O Lord, we have so many things within ourselves

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 and around us in the world in which we live

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 that could cause us to hesitate.

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 That would be sources of doubt for us were we to allow them

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 to place doubts in our mind as to what we do

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 when we come near to God.

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 Or even hesitancy in drawing near to you.

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 Though we know our unworthiness, Lord,

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 feels like we are indeed meant to be hesitant before you.

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 Yet you make it clear in your word that it is not so.

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 That we should come before you, Lord, with believing hearts,

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 with minds ready to be filled by the teaching of your Spirit.

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 And we ask tonight that you would help us

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 to have our minds engaged with your truth

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 and to depend upon your Holy Spirit as we come.

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 We give thanks, O Lord, for the advantage you give us

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 as we find ourselves under the Gospel

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 and as we find ourselves educated by this Gospel

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 through the application of it to our hearts and minds by your Spirit.

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 We pray, O Lord, that tonight you would add to our understanding,

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 to our commitment to you.

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 That you would enable us to take from this evening's worship

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 a greater desire and a further resolve

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 to live as your people in the world.

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 We give thanks, Lord, that we belong to a believing people.

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 We're not confined to our own locality or to our own nation.

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 That we belong to a people spread throughout the world

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 whose trust is in the Lord

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 and who form his own living church on earth.

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 We pray, Lord, as we acknowledge these great things

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 that you would help us to be thankful

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 for the heritage that you have given us

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 to be part of as we find ourselves

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 even this evening to benefit from those who have gone before us,

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 from their faithfulness to your truth

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 and from the teaching that they gave us

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 in regard to the things of God.

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 We pray that our concern to pass these on

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 to our own children and grandchildren

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 may be amply fulfilled through your blessing.

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 And we pray tonight, gracious one,

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 for all the gatherings of your people.

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 We ask that where your beloved people are gathered

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 that they may too know your blessing

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 as we seek for ourselves.

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 That they may come under the guidance

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 of your Holy Spirit and your truth.

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 And that you would prepare us and prepare them

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 to live in this world that is so opposed to you

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 in so many ways.

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 Help us, we pray, in our own locality,

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 in our own nation,

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 as we face so many challenges to the gospel,

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 challenges to our own upholding of it.

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 Lord, help us to trust in you

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 and help us to be truly mindful of your word

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 as being fully sufficient

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 to meet with the needs of our age.

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 We give thanks that it reveals to us

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 even the things that we ought to expect

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 on to the end of the world

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 and the way in which people are foretold in your word

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 as would be opposed to your truth,

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 would seek out for themselves alternatives to God,

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 alternatives to trusting in you.

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 We pray that you would maintain us faithful,

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 maintain us active for you, Lord,

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 privately and publicly,

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 so that we may have that desire in our heart fulfilled

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 to bring glory and honor to your name.

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 We thank you as your servant, Jude,

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 in his epistle reminds us

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 that we are given that charge

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 of looking after your truth

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 even as the faith wants delivered to the saints.

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 And, Lord, our concern is

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 that you would help us

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 to do so meaningfully

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 and engagingly with the world in which we live

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 and that we may therefore not hide our light

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 under a bushel.

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 So remember us here as a congregation

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 also in all our concerns,

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 in all our activities.

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 We pray that you would continue, Lord,

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 to provide for us as you have down through the years.

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 You know our concerns, Lord,

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 to have the gospel supported

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 by the means that you give us.

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 We pray that whether we think of

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 that support being financial or material

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 or even the way of our own commitment personally

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 to give of our time

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 and of our gift to it,

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 we pray, Lord,

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 that you would enable us

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 to do it with thankfulness.

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 And we ask that you would bless our community

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 and bless the gospel among us, we pray.

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 Enlarge the place of our borders,

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 as your word tells us,

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 help us, help us, oh Lord,

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 to further depend upon

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 the grace of your spirit

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 to bless your word.

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 Remember those around us, Lord,

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 who care not for these things,

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 those who are affected

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 by the rampant secularism of our age,

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 to turn away from the things of God

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 and to give attention instead

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 to those ideologies and those teachings

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 which cannot satisfy our human souls

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 and which have such a destructive effect,

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 not only, Lord, personally on lives,

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 but also collectively,

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 as we see throughout our land.

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 we ask again that you would bless

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 every effort made to bring the gospel

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 before the world of our day,

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 not only by the services of your church

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 and by specific evangelistic endeavors,

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 but also through the ongoing witness of your people,

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 engaging individually with others

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 in their own neighborhoods and localities,

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 places of work.

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 remember that witness, Lord, we pray,

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 and bless it,

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 and bless it even beyond

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 what we are able ourselves

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 to imagine or to think.

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 We pray that you bless tonight

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 those who belong to us

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 and are unable to be present.

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 Remember those prevented

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 by the severity of the weather.

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 Bless them, we pray.

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 Bless those who are engaged online

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 with our service this evening.

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 We thank you, Lord, for that facility

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 and pray that it may be blessed

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 to those who partake of it,

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 not only here locally,

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 but throughout our land,

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 even throughout the world,

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 as we hear from time to time

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 of those who are thankful

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 and give information to us

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 about the benefits they receive from it.

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 And we thank you for every other congregation

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 that disseminates the gospel

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 through these means.

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 And we ask that these may be used

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 to the furtherance of your kingdom on earth

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 and the praise and the glory of your name.

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 Grant, O Lord,

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 that we may nevertheless be thankful

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 that we are able collectively

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 to join together physically,

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 to join together as we do tonight.

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 Lord, we ask that your blessing

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 will follow all that we seek to do

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 in your name.

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 Remember those tonight who are ill.

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 Be with them, we pray,

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 as they are known to ourselves,

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 those of our congregation,

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 those families,

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 those individuals who have,

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 at this time,

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 experienced trial of that kind.

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 Remember them, we pray,

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 those who have undergone treatment,

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 those who have undergone surgery,

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 those who are looking forward to such,

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 those who have difficulties

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 of mental health and issues with that.

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 Lord, remember them, we pray.

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 Remember our young people.

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 Bless them, we pray,

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 as they become familiar with your truth.

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 Help them to understand it.

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 Help us to pass it on to them meaningfully.

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 And in a way that will truly engage

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 with the situation that they face

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 in their young days.

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 Grant your blessing, we pray,

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 to our children,

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 to our grandchildren,

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 to those who face an uncertain future,

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 except for the fact that

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 all things are certain with yourself.

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 And we ask that you would continue

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 to bless all that we seek to do

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 in your name as a congregation,

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 as we reach out with the gospel

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 in different forms.

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 Bless us then now, we pray.

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 Continue to watch over us

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 during such weather

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 as we experience

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 and keep us safe,

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 pardoning all our sins

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 and receiving our thanks.

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 For Jesus' sake.

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 Amen.

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 Let's sing again to God's praise

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 in Psalm 119.

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 Psalm 119 from St. Sam's,

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 page 157,

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 singing to the tune,

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 Rockingham,

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 and singing verses 9 to 16.

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 How can the young keep their life pure

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 by doing what your word demands?

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 I seek you with my heart and soul.

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 Let me not stray from your commands.

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 Your word I've hidden in my heart

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 to keep me from offending you.

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 Praise be to you, O Lord my God.

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 Teach me your statutes,

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 firm and true.

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 We'll sing the whole of that section,

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 these four stanzas.

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 How can the young keep their life pure?

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 How can the young keep their life pure?

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 How can the young keep their life pure?

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 By doing all your word demands?

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 I seek you with my heart and soul.

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 Let me not stray from your commands.

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 Your word I've hidden in my heart

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 to keep me from offending you.

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 Praise be to you, O Lord my God.

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 Each junior statutes, firm and true.

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 Each law proceeding from your heart,

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 I gladly with my lips and hope.

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 I love to follow your commands,

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 as other child to count their own.

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 I meditated upon your ways,

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 and long your precepts I replay.

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 I take delight in your degrees.

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 Your word I never will be great.

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 Amen.

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 Let's turn now to read God's word.

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 We're reading tonight in the book of Exodus.

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 The book of Exodus and chapter 20.

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 And we can read through the whole chapter

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 from the beginning.

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 Exodus chapter 20.

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 And God spoke all these words, saying, I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

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 You shall have no other gods before me.

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 You shall not make for yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is in the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth.

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 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers and the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

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 You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

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 Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.

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 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God.

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 On it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male servant or your female servant or your livestock or the sojourner who is within your gates.

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 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day.

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 Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

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 Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God has given you.

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 You shall not murder.

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 You shall not commit adultery.

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 You shall not steal.

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 You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

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 You shall not covet your neighbor's house.

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 You shall not covet your neighbor's wife or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or anything that is your neighbor's.

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 Now when all the people saw the thunder and the flashes of lightning and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking,

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 the people were afraid and trembled.

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 And they stood far off and said to Moses,

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 You speak to us and we will listen, but do not let God speak to us lest we die.

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 Moses said to the people,

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 Do not fear, for God has come to test you, that the fear of him may be before you, that you may not sin.

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 The people stood afar off, while Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.

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 And the Lord said to Moses,

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 Thus you shall say to the people of Israel,

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 You have seen for yourselves that I have talked with you from heaven.

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 You shall not make gods of silver to be with me,

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 nor shall you make for yourselves gods of gold.

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 An altar of earth you shall make for me,

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 and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings,

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 your sheep and your oxen.

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 In every place where I cause my name to be remembered,

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 I will come to you and bless you.

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 If you make me an altar of stone,

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 you shall not build it of hewn stones,

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 for if you wield your tool on it, you profane it.

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 And you shall not go up by steps to my altar,

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 that your nakedness be not exposed on it.

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 Amen.

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 May God bless to us these words,

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 and to his name be the praise.

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 We're going to sing further from Psalm 119,

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 but this time in the Scottish Psalter version.

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 That's on page 402,

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 singing from verse 33 to the end of that section at verse 40.

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 Tune this time as St. Columba.

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 Teach me, O Lord,

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 the perfect way of thy precepts divine,

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 and to observe it to the end I shall my heart incline.

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 Give understanding unto me,

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 so keep thy law shall I.

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 Yea, even with my whole heart,

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 I shall observe it carefully.

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 In thy law's path make me to know,

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 for I delight therein,

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 my heart unto thy testimonies,

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 and not to greed incline.

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 This whole psalm, of course,

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 is mainly focused on the Word of God,

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 and different words are used to describe that Word of God,

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 precepts, law, testimonies, and so on.

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 And all the way through,

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 the psalmist is giving us

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 the benefits that he has received

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 from the Word of God

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 as he has sought to keep it for himself.

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 And so we follow that

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 as we turn this evening to Exodus chapter 20,

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 where the emphasis is on the law of God especially.

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 But of course, the Word of God,

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 as it includes the law of God,

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 includes other besides the gospel,

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 as well as the law.

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 So the whole Word of God,

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 you could say,

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 is encapsulated,

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 even as we sing about God's law and testimonies

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 from Psalm 119.

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 So from verse 33 to the tunes in Columba,

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 Teach me, O Lord,

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 the perfect way.

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 Teach me, O Lord,

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 the perfect way

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 of thy presence divine,

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 and to observe it to the end,

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 I shall my heart deny.

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 Give understanding unto thee,

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 So deep thy love shall I,

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 Ye, in with my whole heart I shall,

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 O servant carefully.

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 O servant carefully.

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 In thy love's path make me to go,

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 For I delight in him,

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 My heart unto thy testimonies,

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 And ought to thee in life.

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 Turn thou away my sight and eyes,

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 From you in gravity,

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 And in thy good and holy way,

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 Be pleased to quake in me.

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 Confirm to thee thy grace,

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 Vance carefully.

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 You will,

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 The gracious word,

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 Which I think I'll be here,

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 In celle you will shoutmys,

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 The King that's 2nd of blastery of death,

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 This I carefree.

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 The King that's makes me to go,

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 For I delight in you,

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 He hath to give unto thee,

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 Even of hy vself-nayers.

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 Once Stadt activ夜 it is making me,

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 Turn thou away,

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 For missionary it is available,

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 For in my home,

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 And have your peace in life away,

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 May my dear people

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 Or do thy judgment be

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 Though for thy peace

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 There's high among

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 In my truth be in thee

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 Please turn with me now to Exodus 20, a passage we read a few moments ago.

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 And tonight we're going to focus on verses 18 to 21, set in the context, of course, of the chapter as an account of giving the law to the people of Israel.

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 Well, Deuteronomy is a book that contains the sayings of Moses and reminders to the people of what the Lord had delivered them from.

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 They're actually now ready to enter the promised land as you come to Deuteronomy.

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 But here in Exodus, of course, it's the giving of the law.

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 And in the giving of the law, the Lord is setting out these things for them in a way that really shows his own awesomeness and his greatness.

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 We'll quote from Deuteronomy later on as words that are related to this.

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 But here, in terms of the giving of the law, is the effect that the whole incident had on the people.

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 This was a really awesome occasion.

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 I go back to verse chapter 19 and verses 16 to 20.

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 There you can see the description.

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 In the morning of the third day, there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud on the mountain and a very loud trumpet blast,

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 so that all the people in the camp trembled.

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 And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God.

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 And they took their stand at the foot of the mountain.

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 Now Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke because the Lord had descended on it in fire.

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 The smoke of it went up like the smoke of a kiln, and the whole mountain trembled greatly.

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 What an awesome occasion!

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 And what a description that is of that occasion.

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 That whole mountain that the people were standing on, standing near, trembled in the presence of the Lord.

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 It was an indication to them that the Lord himself actually was there.

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 They couldn't, of course, see God.

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 But they were sensible to his presence as they saw the effect that his descent, or the presence of God, had on the creation itself.

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 As the mountain was on fire and smoked and trembled under their feet.

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 And it's little wonder that they were actually terrified.

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 As you read here in chapter 20, when they saw, verse 18, they saw the thunder, the flashes of lightning, the sound of the trumpet, the mountain smoking.

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 The people were afraid and trembled.

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 And that fear that being afraid is not a small, slight thing.

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 They were really terrified.

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 And no wonder, because they were participants in this incredible occasion and event where the Lord had descended on Mount Sinai.

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 In fact, when you go to chapter 12 of the epistle to the Hebrews, it adds significantly there that even Moses said,

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 I exceedingly fear and tremble.

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 Now, that's not told us in the Exodus account of the event, but the fact that it's still within the Word of God means it's true.

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 Even Moses, this man who was so familiar with God, this man who knew what it was to be in the presence of this holy God.

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 And yet here is an occasion where even he trembled.

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 And if Moses trembled with the knowledge and the closeness and the way in which you are so familiar with being close to God,

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 if he trembled, then that itself tells you this must have been a completely awesome occasion.

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 We just can't, we can only just barely imagine what it must have been like.

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 I mean, we know in recent days and other times the devastating effects of an earthquake.

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 And you'll see nowadays video of people taking a video of an earthquake as it's taking place within buildings and outside buildings.

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 And you can see the cameras are just all over the place.

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 They're just being rattled as the earth moves, as the earth shakes beneath them.

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 And people, of course, are terrified.

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 Well, that's exactly what was happening in Mount Sinai.

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 It wasn't necessarily an earthquake, but the mountain itself trembled just like as an earthquake.

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 You see it still to this day.

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 But with fire and lightnings and thunders, all of that just added to the overwhelming experience of being in the presence of God.

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 God having descended in his presence to the earth.

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 And so the people came to Moses with this request.

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 They came as they trembled and stood afar off.

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 They would not come near to this immediate area.

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 They said, you speak to us and we will listen.

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 But don't let God speak to us lest we die.

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 You see, they were aware of being in the presence of God, aware of their own sinfulness, of what they were as created human beings and sinful human beings at that.

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 And here they are in the presence of this God who has descended on this mountain and caused this mountain to tremble and to smoke and so on.

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 And they say, you speak to us.

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 Don't let God speak to us in case we die.

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 Don't let God speak to us in case we die.

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 How Moses in the Old Testament is one of the primary examples of mediatorship in the Old Testament.

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 And here they are effectively asking Moses to mediate for them.

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 You speak to us.

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 You convey God's word to us.

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 You stand between us and God.

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 Don't let God come near to us.

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 Don't let God speak to us.

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 But you do it.

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 And if you do it, then we'll be safe.

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 But if God comes to speak to us, it's likely that we will die.

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 So there's the first of all, the people's fear.

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 And then we'll look at the purpose of God, where Moses said to them, don't fear, do not fear, for God has come to test you that the fear of him may be before you and that you may not sin.

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 And thirdly, at the end of the final point, a third point will be the person of Moses in this context, very briefly.

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 People's fear, the purpose of God, and the person of Moses.

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 Well, here's the people's fear.

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 They're aware of God's presence, as we said.

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 They heard the voice of God, and they trembled before them.

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 And they were afraid that they were just very near death.

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 That's really the experience they had.

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 They had come to realize that they were in the presence of this holy God,

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 the God who was now showing himself to them with such a tremendous power and effect.

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 And here they are, afraid they're going to die.

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 So they stood afar off.

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 They did not dare to draw near in that context.

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 Now, that's something, of course, that you find elsewhere in the Bible.

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 For example, in Isaiah chapter 6, we have an account of Isaiah's call to be a prophet,

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 and how part of that was how he saw the Lord high and lifted up, sitting on a throne,

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 and how his robe, the train of his robe, filled the temple, and so on.

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 And he saw the seraphim, and they were calling out to one another,

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 holy, holy, holy is the Lord God of hosts.

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 The whole earth is full of his glory.

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 And in a similar way to Sinai, the foundations of the threshold shook at the voice of him who called,

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 and the house was filled with smoke.

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 You see the similarity there, because it's to do with the presence of this awesome, holy God.

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 And God reiterating, as it were, his holiness through the words of the seraphim.

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 And I said, Isaiah goes on to say, I said,

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 Woe is me, for I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips,

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 and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips.

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 For my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.

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 What is Isaiah aware of more than anything else?

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 Yes, he's aware of the presence of God, but for himself, as respects himself.

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 What is he aware of? He's aware of his own utter sinfulness.

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 And because he's aware of his sinfulness in the presence of this holy God,

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 he's actually convinced that he's about to die.

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 I am undone.

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 The words really mean, I am going to die.

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 I can't stand in the presence of this God as I am,

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 so the only likely outcome of this is death for me.

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 See, when God does come near to us, even through the gospel,

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 through his word, through his law,

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 and impresses upon us his own awesome holiness,

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 if ever you've come to know that in your experience,

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 even to a small degree,

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 what you're really aware of is your own sinfulness in the presence of that,

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 and even that you're worthy of nothing else but that you would die

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 in the presence of this holy God.

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 You become aware of your sinfulness.

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 You become aware of death as the inevitable consequence of sin.

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 Or as the Bible puts it elsewhere,

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 the wages of sin is death.

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 And as you're aware of that,

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 and as that impresses itself upon you,

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 in most cases people are aware of their need of a mediator,

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 someone to come and stand between them and this God,

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 someone to actually act for them and on their behalf,

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 someone to actually cause that they will not die,

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 though that as they see it is the likely outcome

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 of God's holy presence coming into their experience.

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 And that, of course, is an aspect of the law of God itself.

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 This is a context, a chapter dealing with the giving of the law on Mount Sinai,

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 and all of these accompanying elements

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 are really an indicator of how important an event this was

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 in the experience of Israel.

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 God giving his law,

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 and God saying through these tremendous manifestations of himself

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 through the creation trembling,

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 how important, how awesome this is,

00:36:01.519 --> 00:36:04.320
 how important this law is going to be for the people,

00:36:05.680 --> 00:36:07.700
 and how they must regard it as a revelation

00:36:07.700 --> 00:36:10.700
 of God's own nature, effectively,

00:36:10.860 --> 00:36:11.680
 and what he's like,

00:36:12.500 --> 00:36:13.539
 and who they need to be,

00:36:13.579 --> 00:36:16.059
 and what they need to be in his presence.

00:36:17.519 --> 00:36:19.400
 It brings to you the knowledge of sin,

00:36:19.599 --> 00:36:21.079
 this law of God,

00:36:21.140 --> 00:36:21.660
 when it says,

00:36:21.980 --> 00:36:23.200
 this is the summary, of course,

00:36:23.280 --> 00:36:25.160
 of the law in the Ten Commandments,

00:36:25.159 --> 00:36:27.339
 where it talks about,

00:36:27.420 --> 00:36:28.259
 you shall not murder,

00:36:28.839 --> 00:36:30.199
 you shall not commit adultery,

00:36:30.279 --> 00:36:31.000
 you shall not steal,

00:36:31.079 --> 00:36:32.239
 you shall not be a false witness,

00:36:32.559 --> 00:36:34.519
 you shall have no other gods before me,

00:36:34.559 --> 00:36:35.199
 and so on.

00:36:35.920 --> 00:36:38.259
 There is the whole law of God,

00:36:38.319 --> 00:36:40.039
 the requirement of God morally,

00:36:40.579 --> 00:36:42.579
 summed up in these Ten Commandments.

00:36:43.839 --> 00:36:44.899
 And as they're summed up

00:36:44.899 --> 00:36:46.899
 in these Ten Commandments,

00:36:46.960 --> 00:36:48.799
 it brings to us the knowledge of sin,

00:36:48.800 --> 00:36:52.400
 the knowledge of our own demerit,

00:36:52.580 --> 00:36:56.180
 the knowledge of what we're liable to

00:36:56.180 --> 00:36:58.380
 as a consequence of our sin,

00:36:59.080 --> 00:37:01.640
 that we are liable to death,

00:37:02.700 --> 00:37:04.480
 liable to God's condemnation,

00:37:05.519 --> 00:37:09.180
 liable justly to all of these things.

00:37:09.179 --> 00:37:11.259
 And that's why,

00:37:12.099 --> 00:37:12.659
 in some ways,

00:37:12.739 --> 00:37:13.259
 in many ways,

00:37:13.339 --> 00:37:13.539
 indeed,

00:37:13.619 --> 00:37:15.319
 our society is the way it is.

00:37:16.739 --> 00:37:18.319
 The absence of this law

00:37:18.319 --> 00:37:19.559
 in the minds of people

00:37:19.559 --> 00:37:22.059
 and the consideration of people

00:37:22.059 --> 00:37:24.039
 leads to the kind of thing

00:37:24.039 --> 00:37:25.739
 that you find in our own society,

00:37:25.839 --> 00:37:26.719
 in the Western world,

00:37:26.779 --> 00:37:27.659
 especially today.

00:37:28.199 --> 00:37:30.259
 The law of God being largely absent

00:37:30.259 --> 00:37:31.419
 from people's thoughts,

00:37:31.519 --> 00:37:32.739
 from people's considerations,

00:37:33.139 --> 00:37:34.480
 from people's practices,

00:37:34.659 --> 00:37:36.239
 you're inevitably left with

00:37:36.239 --> 00:37:37.179
 something like secularism

00:37:37.179 --> 00:37:38.940
 as its foundation,

00:37:39.179 --> 00:37:40.559
 or other ideologies,

00:37:41.379 --> 00:37:42.699
 and what you're left with then

00:37:42.699 --> 00:37:45.079
 is really just people's own ideas

00:37:45.079 --> 00:37:46.879
 of what morality should be like,

00:37:47.460 --> 00:37:51.519
 or what way of life should be lived,

00:37:52.199 --> 00:37:54.739
 a life that's pleasing just to ourselves.

00:37:56.919 --> 00:37:58.500
 But the Bible tells us

00:37:58.500 --> 00:38:00.539
 that we need more than that.

00:38:00.619 --> 00:38:01.539
 We need a foundation.

00:38:02.739 --> 00:38:04.599
 We need this God

00:38:04.599 --> 00:38:05.819
 and this law of God

00:38:05.819 --> 00:38:08.339
 to be foundational for us.

00:38:08.340 --> 00:38:10.340
 When you put God's law

00:38:10.340 --> 00:38:11.539
 and God's word aside,

00:38:12.280 --> 00:38:13.600
 you inevitably end up

00:38:13.600 --> 00:38:14.340
 with the chaos

00:38:14.340 --> 00:38:16.160
 and the moral chaos

00:38:16.160 --> 00:38:17.260
 and the immorality

00:38:17.260 --> 00:38:19.780
 that sadly characterizes us

00:38:19.780 --> 00:38:21.400
 as a people so much.

00:38:22.600 --> 00:38:24.600
 Well, there's the people's fear then.

00:38:25.559 --> 00:38:26.059
 And secondly,

00:38:26.460 --> 00:38:27.600
 that leads us to think

00:38:27.600 --> 00:38:29.420
 of the purpose of God.

00:38:29.500 --> 00:38:30.200
 In verse 20,

00:38:30.460 --> 00:38:31.559
 Moses said to the people,

00:38:31.559 --> 00:38:33.119
 Do not fear,

00:38:33.699 --> 00:38:35.539
 for God has come to test you

00:38:35.539 --> 00:38:37.019
 that the fear of him

00:38:37.019 --> 00:38:38.019
 may be before you.

00:38:38.059 --> 00:38:38.659
 And it's interesting

00:38:38.659 --> 00:38:40.519
 that he says that,

00:38:40.559 --> 00:38:41.519
 that God has come

00:38:41.519 --> 00:38:43.000
 to test them.

00:38:43.440 --> 00:38:44.259
 And if you compare that

00:38:44.259 --> 00:38:45.159
 with Deuteronomy,

00:38:45.960 --> 00:38:46.840
 as we said earlier,

00:38:46.940 --> 00:38:47.719
 Deuteronomy is

00:38:47.719 --> 00:38:49.440
 a word that's given to them

00:38:49.440 --> 00:38:50.719
 before they enter

00:38:50.719 --> 00:38:51.799
 the promised land,

00:38:52.539 --> 00:38:53.219
 but a reminder

00:38:53.219 --> 00:38:54.980
 and a reiteration of things

00:38:54.980 --> 00:38:56.219
 like the giving of the law.

00:38:56.839 --> 00:38:57.459
 And if you go to

00:38:57.459 --> 00:38:58.599
 Deuteronomy chapter 8,

00:38:58.659 --> 00:38:59.199
 for example,

00:38:59.739 --> 00:39:00.839
 you'll find from verse,

00:39:01.399 --> 00:39:02.419
 the beginning of the chapter,

00:39:02.559 --> 00:39:04.159
 really the whole commandment.

00:39:04.259 --> 00:39:04.759
 God says that,

00:39:04.879 --> 00:39:05.799
 I command you today,

00:39:06.379 --> 00:39:07.839
 you shall be careful to do

00:39:07.839 --> 00:39:09.239
 that you may go

00:39:09.239 --> 00:39:10.459
 and you may live

00:39:10.459 --> 00:39:11.039
 and multiply

00:39:11.039 --> 00:39:12.559
 and go in and possess

00:39:12.559 --> 00:39:13.559
 the land the Lord gave.

00:39:13.599 --> 00:39:14.559
 And you shall remember

00:39:14.559 --> 00:39:15.779
 the way,

00:39:16.039 --> 00:39:16.679
 the whole way

00:39:16.679 --> 00:39:17.639
 that the Lord your God

00:39:17.639 --> 00:39:18.599
 has led you

00:39:18.599 --> 00:39:20.299
 these 40 years

00:39:20.299 --> 00:39:20.939
 in the wilderness

00:39:20.939 --> 00:39:23.119
 that he might humble you,

00:39:23.799 --> 00:39:24.619
 testing you

00:39:24.619 --> 00:39:26.639
 to know what was in your heart,

00:39:27.039 --> 00:39:28.239
 whether you would keep

00:39:28.239 --> 00:39:30.119
 his commandments or not.

00:39:30.159 --> 00:39:30.960
 And he goes through there

00:39:30.960 --> 00:39:32.299
 talking about the things

00:39:32.299 --> 00:39:32.920
 they experienced

00:39:32.920 --> 00:39:33.480
 in the wilderness

00:39:33.480 --> 00:39:35.179
 and it's all a period

00:39:35.179 --> 00:39:36.699
 of testing for them.

00:39:36.759 --> 00:39:37.839
 Are they going to be obedient

00:39:37.839 --> 00:39:38.900
 to God or not?

00:39:39.559 --> 00:39:40.440
 Are they going to set

00:39:40.440 --> 00:39:41.359
 the Lord before them

00:39:41.359 --> 00:39:42.119
 as their God

00:39:42.119 --> 00:39:42.940
 or are they going to turn

00:39:42.940 --> 00:39:43.819
 to other gods?

00:39:44.079 --> 00:39:44.940
 What are they going to do

00:39:44.940 --> 00:39:45.799
 when they enter into

00:39:45.799 --> 00:39:46.579
 the promised land

00:39:46.579 --> 00:39:47.719
 that's now before them?

00:39:47.960 --> 00:39:48.639
 Are they still going

00:39:48.639 --> 00:39:49.779
 to be true to God?

00:39:49.859 --> 00:39:50.539
 Are they going to just

00:39:50.539 --> 00:39:51.839
 abandon the ways of God?

00:39:52.239 --> 00:39:52.440
 You see,

00:39:52.519 --> 00:39:53.880
 that's why God was reminding them

00:39:53.880 --> 00:39:54.579
 at that stage

00:39:54.579 --> 00:39:55.920
 of what he had given them

00:39:55.920 --> 00:39:57.699
 on Mount Sinai

00:39:57.699 --> 00:39:59.719
 and why he had tested them

00:39:59.719 --> 00:40:00.579
 on Mount Sinai

00:40:00.579 --> 00:40:02.880
 by this tremendous manifestation.

00:40:03.059 --> 00:40:03.980
 It wasn't to kill them.

00:40:04.299 --> 00:40:05.139
 It wasn't to actually

00:40:05.139 --> 00:40:05.900
 annihilate them.

00:40:05.960 --> 00:40:07.119
 It wasn't to bring them death.

00:40:07.559 --> 00:40:08.920
 It was to test them.

00:40:09.679 --> 00:40:10.460
 To test them

00:40:10.460 --> 00:40:12.099
 whether they would be obedient

00:40:12.099 --> 00:40:13.279
 and faithful

00:40:13.279 --> 00:40:15.599
 to this God or not.

00:40:17.059 --> 00:40:17.480
 And you know,

00:40:17.519 --> 00:40:17.840
 God,

00:40:18.319 --> 00:40:19.559
 whenever he tests us

00:40:19.559 --> 00:40:20.400
 in his providence,

00:40:20.579 --> 00:40:21.259
 they may not be

00:40:21.259 --> 00:40:22.259
 anything like

00:40:22.260 --> 00:40:23.980
 the tremendous event

00:40:23.980 --> 00:40:26.840
 of Sinai,

00:40:27.720 --> 00:40:28.500
 but every time

00:40:28.500 --> 00:40:29.920
 the Lord is testing us

00:40:29.920 --> 00:40:31.020
 in whatever way

00:40:31.020 --> 00:40:32.280
 and to whatever degree,

00:40:33.280 --> 00:40:34.840
 that testing of God

00:40:34.840 --> 00:40:35.560
 is actually

00:40:35.560 --> 00:40:37.000
 a positive,

00:40:37.220 --> 00:40:38.500
 advantageous thing

00:40:38.500 --> 00:40:39.760
 if we take it

00:40:39.760 --> 00:40:40.620
 in the right spirit.

00:40:42.320 --> 00:40:43.240
 And whatever testing

00:40:43.240 --> 00:40:43.840
 you're going through

00:40:43.840 --> 00:40:44.800
 tonight as a Christian,

00:40:45.780 --> 00:40:46.560
 don't look at it

00:40:46.560 --> 00:40:47.200
 as a negative

00:40:47.200 --> 00:40:48.340
 in God's providence.

00:40:48.340 --> 00:40:50.579
 Don't think it's something

00:40:50.579 --> 00:40:51.960
 that just somehow or other

00:40:51.960 --> 00:40:53.380
 sits outside

00:40:53.380 --> 00:40:54.440
 of God's purpose

00:40:54.440 --> 00:40:55.079
 for you.

00:40:56.039 --> 00:40:56.780
 Don't go along

00:40:56.780 --> 00:40:57.500
 with the idea

00:40:57.500 --> 00:40:58.880
 that God doesn't

00:40:58.880 --> 00:40:59.640
 really intend

00:40:59.640 --> 00:41:00.260
 or want you

00:41:00.260 --> 00:41:01.200
 to have any suffering

00:41:01.200 --> 00:41:02.400
 at all in your life

00:41:02.400 --> 00:41:03.400
 and that therefore

00:41:03.400 --> 00:41:04.100
 you have to appeal

00:41:04.100 --> 00:41:04.640
 to him to take

00:41:04.640 --> 00:41:05.680
 the suffering away.

00:41:06.600 --> 00:41:07.280
 That you can live

00:41:07.280 --> 00:41:08.240
 a far better life

00:41:08.240 --> 00:41:09.440
 without suffering

00:41:09.440 --> 00:41:10.120
 at all.

00:41:10.579 --> 00:41:11.120
 That your faith

00:41:11.120 --> 00:41:12.059
 will be much stronger

00:41:12.059 --> 00:41:13.160
 if you didn't have

00:41:13.160 --> 00:41:13.980
 any such suffering

00:41:13.980 --> 00:41:14.780
 in your life.

00:41:15.320 --> 00:41:16.220
 That way of thinking

00:41:16.219 --> 00:41:17.659
 is not respectful

00:41:17.659 --> 00:41:18.399
 of the teaching

00:41:18.399 --> 00:41:19.359
 of the word of God.

00:41:19.719 --> 00:41:21.059
 God does test us.

00:41:21.179 --> 00:41:21.879
 God tests us

00:41:21.879 --> 00:41:23.019
 in his providence.

00:41:23.199 --> 00:41:23.879
 God tests us

00:41:23.879 --> 00:41:24.839
 by various events

00:41:24.839 --> 00:41:25.579
 in our lives.

00:41:26.039 --> 00:41:26.759
 God tests us

00:41:26.759 --> 00:41:27.299
 by illness.

00:41:27.559 --> 00:41:28.139
 God tests us

00:41:28.139 --> 00:41:28.980
 by bereavement.

00:41:29.379 --> 00:41:30.059
 God tests us

00:41:30.059 --> 00:41:30.819
 in many ways

00:41:30.819 --> 00:41:31.779
 in his providence.

00:41:32.179 --> 00:41:32.919
 All of these things

00:41:32.919 --> 00:41:33.500
 are under his

00:41:33.500 --> 00:41:34.719
 complete control.

00:41:36.399 --> 00:41:36.819
 And tonight

00:41:36.819 --> 00:41:37.379
 when God

00:41:37.379 --> 00:41:38.699
 is bringing you

00:41:38.699 --> 00:41:39.199
 something

00:41:39.199 --> 00:41:41.159
 testing in your life,

00:41:42.179 --> 00:41:42.719
 remember

00:41:42.719 --> 00:41:44.159
 he's not

00:41:44.159 --> 00:41:45.319
 giving you that

00:41:45.320 --> 00:41:46.660
 so that you

00:41:46.660 --> 00:41:47.059
 will think

00:41:47.059 --> 00:41:47.980
 badly of him.

00:41:49.360 --> 00:41:49.960
 So that you

00:41:49.960 --> 00:41:50.360
 will think

00:41:50.360 --> 00:41:50.740
 he's not

00:41:50.740 --> 00:41:51.519
 dealing with you

00:41:51.519 --> 00:41:52.720
 really in a way

00:41:52.720 --> 00:41:53.820
 that's advantageous

00:41:53.820 --> 00:41:55.039
 or positive for you.

00:41:55.940 --> 00:41:56.920
 Every testing

00:41:56.920 --> 00:41:58.140
 has its own benefit.

00:41:59.340 --> 00:42:00.100
 But we need

00:42:00.100 --> 00:42:00.920
 to receive it

00:42:00.920 --> 00:42:02.300
 faithfully,

00:42:03.220 --> 00:42:03.940
 trustingly,

00:42:04.700 --> 00:42:05.320
 lovingly.

00:42:06.000 --> 00:42:06.640
 Now that's easy

00:42:06.640 --> 00:42:07.559
 to say in words.

00:42:08.600 --> 00:42:09.600
 That's easy to say

00:42:09.600 --> 00:42:10.760
 standing in a pulpit.

00:42:11.760 --> 00:42:12.880
 Much more difficult

00:42:12.880 --> 00:42:13.500
 to know it,

00:42:14.019 --> 00:42:15.140
 to accept it

00:42:15.140 --> 00:42:16.059
 and to receive it

00:42:16.059 --> 00:42:17.579
 when you're actually

00:42:17.579 --> 00:42:18.680
 in that testing.

00:42:20.140 --> 00:42:20.960
 But as the epistle

00:42:20.960 --> 00:42:22.019
 to the Hebrews

00:42:22.019 --> 00:42:22.579
 puts it

00:42:22.579 --> 00:42:23.619
 in terms of

00:42:23.619 --> 00:42:24.500
 chastisement

00:42:24.500 --> 00:42:25.180
 or chastening,

00:42:25.900 --> 00:42:27.079
 it's not pleasant

00:42:27.079 --> 00:42:27.920
 for the time

00:42:27.920 --> 00:42:28.420
 that it's

00:42:28.420 --> 00:42:30.579
 being experienced.

00:42:30.720 --> 00:42:31.340
 Neither is any

00:42:31.340 --> 00:42:32.119
 type of suffering

00:42:32.119 --> 00:42:32.800
 in the providence

00:42:32.800 --> 00:42:33.400
 of God.

00:42:34.059 --> 00:42:34.920
 But afterward,

00:42:35.539 --> 00:42:36.300
 how does it put it?

00:42:36.539 --> 00:42:37.440
 It yields the

00:42:37.440 --> 00:42:38.500
 peaceable fruit

00:42:38.500 --> 00:42:39.300
 of righteousness

00:42:39.300 --> 00:42:41.700
 to all those

00:42:41.700 --> 00:42:42.840
 not only

00:42:42.840 --> 00:42:43.640
 who have been tested

00:42:43.640 --> 00:42:44.880
 but who have

00:42:44.880 --> 00:42:46.240
 actually carried

00:42:46.240 --> 00:42:46.980
 the test

00:42:46.980 --> 00:42:47.760
 positively.

00:42:48.620 --> 00:42:49.640
 Who have been

00:42:49.640 --> 00:42:50.920
 exercised

00:42:50.920 --> 00:42:52.000
 thereby.

00:42:53.519 --> 00:42:54.580
 God is testing

00:42:54.580 --> 00:42:54.900
 us

00:42:54.900 --> 00:42:56.519
 so that we

00:42:56.519 --> 00:42:56.900
 will come

00:42:56.900 --> 00:42:57.580
 to himself

00:42:57.580 --> 00:42:59.720
 and be exercised

00:42:59.720 --> 00:43:00.420
 all the more

00:43:00.420 --> 00:43:01.880
 in our relationship

00:43:01.880 --> 00:43:02.360
 with him.

00:43:02.800 --> 00:43:03.180
 And that's why

00:43:03.180 --> 00:43:03.880
 he goes on to say

00:43:03.880 --> 00:43:05.519
 it's so that the fear

00:43:05.519 --> 00:43:06.400
 of him

00:43:06.400 --> 00:43:07.620
 might be before you

00:43:07.619 --> 00:43:09.299
 and that you may

00:43:09.299 --> 00:43:09.920
 not sin.

00:43:10.599 --> 00:43:11.139
 There's a number

00:43:11.139 --> 00:43:11.759
 of things there.

00:43:12.279 --> 00:43:12.920
 He's not come

00:43:12.920 --> 00:43:13.699
 he says to you

00:43:13.699 --> 00:43:14.539
 to kill you

00:43:14.539 --> 00:43:15.059
 don't fear

00:43:15.059 --> 00:43:15.579
 he has come

00:43:15.579 --> 00:43:16.319
 to test you

00:43:16.319 --> 00:43:17.619
 so that the fear

00:43:17.619 --> 00:43:18.319
 of him may be

00:43:18.319 --> 00:43:18.819
 before you.

00:43:18.880 --> 00:43:19.299
 Now we often

00:43:19.299 --> 00:43:19.920
 come across

00:43:19.920 --> 00:43:20.960
 as we've done

00:43:20.960 --> 00:43:21.960
 a number of times

00:43:21.960 --> 00:43:22.719
 on other occasions

00:43:22.719 --> 00:43:23.839
 the fear of God

00:43:23.839 --> 00:43:24.779
 and the meaning

00:43:24.779 --> 00:43:25.920
 of the fear of God

00:43:25.920 --> 00:43:27.199
 and what does the Bible

00:43:27.199 --> 00:43:28.699
 mean by the fear of God

00:43:28.699 --> 00:43:29.519
 and what is it

00:43:29.519 --> 00:43:30.940
 to be a God fearer

00:43:30.940 --> 00:43:32.159
 words which are not

00:43:32.159 --> 00:43:33.400
 all that current

00:43:33.400 --> 00:43:34.599
 in our present usage

00:43:34.599 --> 00:43:35.000
 of them

00:43:35.000 --> 00:43:35.599
 but used to be

00:43:35.599 --> 00:43:36.199
 very common

00:43:36.199 --> 00:43:37.559
 and sadly

00:43:37.559 --> 00:43:38.219
 have fallen out

00:43:38.219 --> 00:43:38.599
 of use

00:43:38.599 --> 00:43:39.279
 in many ways

00:43:39.279 --> 00:43:40.559
 the fear of God

00:43:40.559 --> 00:43:42.139
 of being a God fearer

00:43:42.139 --> 00:43:43.500
 is something

00:43:43.500 --> 00:43:44.099
 that really

00:43:44.099 --> 00:43:47.059
 is so significant

00:43:47.059 --> 00:43:48.279
 to understand

00:43:48.279 --> 00:43:49.079
 what that means.

00:43:49.179 --> 00:43:50.259
 Well the fear of God

00:43:50.259 --> 00:43:51.659
 as in many places

00:43:51.659 --> 00:43:52.279
 in the Bible

00:43:52.279 --> 00:43:54.299
 includes such things

00:43:54.299 --> 00:43:55.359
 as being in awe

00:43:55.359 --> 00:43:56.099
 of God.

00:43:56.879 --> 00:43:57.839
 See God is teaching

00:43:57.839 --> 00:43:58.719
 the people here

00:43:58.719 --> 00:43:59.659
 Moses is saying

00:43:59.659 --> 00:44:01.059
 he has drawn near to you

00:44:01.059 --> 00:44:02.460
 he's come to test you

00:44:02.460 --> 00:44:03.980
 that the fear of him

00:44:03.980 --> 00:44:04.899
 may be before you

00:44:04.900 --> 00:44:05.900
 that you will come

00:44:05.900 --> 00:44:06.920
 to be in awe

00:44:06.920 --> 00:44:07.500
 of him

00:44:07.500 --> 00:44:08.940
 as the great God

00:44:08.940 --> 00:44:10.260
 who is your deliverer

00:44:10.260 --> 00:44:11.480
 who is your God

00:44:11.480 --> 00:44:12.820
 your creator

00:44:12.820 --> 00:44:13.599
 your savior

00:44:13.599 --> 00:44:17.240
 and living in awe

00:44:17.240 --> 00:44:17.840
 of God

00:44:17.840 --> 00:44:19.400
 is not the same

00:44:19.400 --> 00:44:19.920
 as living

00:44:19.920 --> 00:44:20.660
 in a way

00:44:20.660 --> 00:44:21.380
 that's afraid

00:44:21.380 --> 00:44:21.880
 of him

00:44:21.880 --> 00:44:23.260
 in fact

00:44:23.260 --> 00:44:24.920
 the fear of God

00:44:24.920 --> 00:44:26.139
 is in many ways

00:44:26.139 --> 00:44:26.820
 the opposite

00:44:26.820 --> 00:44:28.460
 of being afraid

00:44:28.460 --> 00:44:29.260
 of God

00:44:29.260 --> 00:44:30.880
 the people here

00:44:30.880 --> 00:44:31.579
 were afraid

00:44:31.579 --> 00:44:33.579
 but Moses is assuring

00:44:33.579 --> 00:44:33.840
 them

00:44:33.840 --> 00:44:34.599
 no he says

00:44:34.599 --> 00:44:35.579
 don't be afraid

00:44:35.579 --> 00:44:36.920
 he has not come down

00:44:36.920 --> 00:44:37.639
 so that you will be

00:44:37.639 --> 00:44:38.420
 afraid of him

00:44:38.420 --> 00:44:39.599
 he's come down

00:44:39.599 --> 00:44:40.799
 so that the fear

00:44:40.799 --> 00:44:42.139
 of him may go before you

00:44:42.139 --> 00:44:43.299
 that you'll have love

00:44:43.299 --> 00:44:44.159
 and respect

00:44:44.159 --> 00:44:45.119
 and awe

00:44:45.119 --> 00:44:45.619
 of him

00:44:45.619 --> 00:44:46.400
 and of his ways

00:44:46.400 --> 00:44:47.279
 and of his word

00:44:47.279 --> 00:44:48.219
 and of his commandments

00:44:48.219 --> 00:44:49.440
 because you see

00:44:49.440 --> 00:44:50.319
 the fear of God

00:44:50.319 --> 00:44:51.440
 at the very heart

00:44:51.440 --> 00:44:52.440
 of the fear of God

00:44:52.440 --> 00:44:54.500
 is love for God

00:44:54.500 --> 00:44:56.619
 and love for God

00:44:56.619 --> 00:44:58.360
 means respect for God

00:44:58.360 --> 00:44:59.759
 that's really the fear

00:44:59.760 --> 00:45:00.780
 of God in action

00:45:00.780 --> 00:45:01.440
 if you like

00:45:01.440 --> 00:45:05.900
 and Israel is not

00:45:05.900 --> 00:45:08.100
 to keep the law

00:45:08.100 --> 00:45:08.480
 of God

00:45:08.480 --> 00:45:09.540
 because they're afraid

00:45:09.540 --> 00:45:10.240
 of God

00:45:10.240 --> 00:45:11.900
 but out of love

00:45:11.900 --> 00:45:12.860
 and respect for him

00:45:12.860 --> 00:45:13.760
 out of the fear

00:45:13.760 --> 00:45:14.180
 of him

00:45:14.180 --> 00:45:15.900
 that's what leads us

00:45:15.900 --> 00:45:16.600
 to be careful

00:45:16.600 --> 00:45:17.560
 with regard to

00:45:17.560 --> 00:45:19.580
 the word of God

00:45:19.580 --> 00:45:20.740
 and how we apply it

00:45:20.740 --> 00:45:22.280
 to our lives

00:45:22.280 --> 00:45:23.720
 and see

00:45:23.720 --> 00:45:24.520
 that combination

00:45:24.520 --> 00:45:26.280
 is important as well

00:45:26.280 --> 00:45:26.980
 that combination

00:45:26.980 --> 00:45:27.740
 of love

00:45:27.740 --> 00:45:29.160
 and of law

00:45:29.159 --> 00:45:30.239
 it's important

00:45:30.239 --> 00:45:31.559
 that we keep them together

00:45:31.559 --> 00:45:33.719
 because love needs the law

00:45:33.719 --> 00:45:35.179
 and law needs love

00:45:35.179 --> 00:45:37.219
 these are not opposites

00:45:37.219 --> 00:45:39.139
 these are not contradictory

00:45:39.139 --> 00:45:41.920
 that's not necessarily

00:45:41.920 --> 00:45:43.379
 what our society

00:45:43.379 --> 00:45:44.119
 thinks of it

00:45:44.119 --> 00:45:45.559
 because when you think

00:45:45.559 --> 00:45:46.440
 of presenting

00:45:46.440 --> 00:45:47.500
 the law of God

00:45:47.500 --> 00:45:48.500
 the ten commandments

00:45:48.500 --> 00:45:50.000
 the teaching of the Bible

00:45:50.000 --> 00:45:50.759
 even generally

00:45:50.759 --> 00:45:51.759
 to the world

00:45:51.759 --> 00:45:52.460
 of our days

00:45:52.460 --> 00:45:53.719
 you'll very soon find out

00:45:53.719 --> 00:45:54.759
 they don't want to know that

00:45:54.759 --> 00:45:56.279
 they don't want to be under law

00:45:56.279 --> 00:45:57.159
 but their own law

00:45:57.159 --> 00:45:58.480
 the law that people have

00:45:58.480 --> 00:45:59.059
 for themselves

00:45:59.059 --> 00:46:00.199
 their own ideas

00:46:00.199 --> 00:46:01.340
 of what's right and wrong

00:46:01.340 --> 00:46:03.679
 their own ideology

00:46:03.679 --> 00:46:08.460
 but love without

00:46:08.460 --> 00:46:09.779
 law

00:46:09.779 --> 00:46:10.759
 you could compare it

00:46:10.759 --> 00:46:11.400
 I think to

00:46:11.400 --> 00:46:13.099
 I'm sure you've all seen

00:46:13.099 --> 00:46:13.920
 and especially

00:46:13.920 --> 00:46:14.940
 if you've kept chickens

00:46:14.940 --> 00:46:16.759
 you know that sometimes

00:46:16.759 --> 00:46:18.259
 an egg is laid

00:46:18.259 --> 00:46:19.360
 without a shell

00:46:19.360 --> 00:46:21.900
 and it's rather difficult

00:46:21.900 --> 00:46:23.179
 to pick up that egg

00:46:23.179 --> 00:46:24.759
 without your finger

00:46:24.759 --> 00:46:25.579
 piercing it

00:46:25.579 --> 00:46:27.059
 it's a perfectly good enough

00:46:27.059 --> 00:46:27.900
 egg to eat

00:46:27.900 --> 00:46:29.699
 the inside is perfectly okay

00:46:29.699 --> 00:46:30.400
 you have the yolk

00:46:30.400 --> 00:46:31.179
 and you have the white

00:46:31.179 --> 00:46:32.819
 but you don't have the shell

00:46:32.819 --> 00:46:33.480
 it's a very

00:46:33.480 --> 00:46:35.400
 it's a very malleable

00:46:35.400 --> 00:46:36.619
 movable thing

00:46:36.619 --> 00:46:38.239
 all too easily broken

00:46:38.239 --> 00:46:39.659
 something you've got to be

00:46:39.659 --> 00:46:40.259
 very careful

00:46:40.259 --> 00:46:41.119
 how you handle

00:46:41.119 --> 00:46:42.319
 and in some ways

00:46:42.319 --> 00:46:44.420
 if you think of love

00:46:44.420 --> 00:46:47.279
 without the law of God

00:46:47.279 --> 00:46:48.099
 underneath it

00:46:48.099 --> 00:46:48.900
 or along with it

00:46:48.900 --> 00:46:50.480
 it's a bit like that

00:46:50.480 --> 00:46:51.199
 malleable

00:46:51.199 --> 00:46:52.579
 movable

00:46:52.579 --> 00:46:53.259
 thing

00:46:53.259 --> 00:46:53.860
 that the egg

00:46:53.860 --> 00:46:54.699
 without the shell is

00:46:54.699 --> 00:46:55.219
 or think of

00:46:55.219 --> 00:46:55.960
 something

00:46:55.960 --> 00:46:56.799
 mallowy

00:46:56.799 --> 00:46:57.360
 something without

00:46:57.360 --> 00:46:58.199
 any structure

00:46:58.199 --> 00:47:00.259
 love needs

00:47:00.259 --> 00:47:01.900
 the law of God

00:47:01.900 --> 00:47:03.159
 to give it that

00:47:03.159 --> 00:47:03.679
 shape

00:47:03.679 --> 00:47:04.880
 that firmness

00:47:04.880 --> 00:47:06.779
 to give it that

00:47:06.779 --> 00:47:09.400
 foundational

00:47:09.400 --> 00:47:10.199
 if you like

00:47:10.199 --> 00:47:11.460
 it's not necessarily

00:47:11.460 --> 00:47:12.119
 foundational

00:47:12.119 --> 00:47:13.079
 to love

00:47:13.079 --> 00:47:13.699
 but love

00:47:13.699 --> 00:47:14.860
 requires

00:47:14.860 --> 00:47:16.860
 the law of God

00:47:16.860 --> 00:47:17.799
 to give it

00:47:17.799 --> 00:47:18.500
 the structure

00:47:18.500 --> 00:47:19.360
 that's required

00:47:19.360 --> 00:47:20.599
 love can't exist

00:47:20.599 --> 00:47:21.400
 without structure

00:47:21.400 --> 00:47:23.240
 that's why it's so

00:47:23.240 --> 00:47:24.400
 meaningless

00:47:24.400 --> 00:47:26.240
 to hear this

00:47:26.240 --> 00:47:27.320
 often repeated

00:47:27.320 --> 00:47:28.500
 mantra today

00:47:28.500 --> 00:47:29.780
 with regard to

00:47:29.780 --> 00:47:30.780
 lifestyles that are

00:47:30.780 --> 00:47:31.599
 contrary to the word

00:47:31.599 --> 00:47:31.920
 of God

00:47:31.920 --> 00:47:33.680
 love is love

00:47:33.680 --> 00:47:35.019
 what does that mean

00:47:35.019 --> 00:47:36.160
 love is love

00:47:36.160 --> 00:47:37.420
 love is what I make it

00:47:37.420 --> 00:47:38.360
 that's what it means

00:47:38.360 --> 00:47:40.420
 love is how I define it

00:47:40.420 --> 00:47:41.900
 love is how it best

00:47:41.900 --> 00:47:43.380
 fits with my ideology

00:47:43.380 --> 00:47:45.180
 love is how it

00:47:45.180 --> 00:47:45.740
 how it

00:47:45.740 --> 00:47:46.619
 how it fits with

00:47:46.619 --> 00:47:47.820
 how I see the world

00:47:47.820 --> 00:47:48.840
 how I see my place

00:47:48.840 --> 00:47:49.260
 in it

00:47:49.260 --> 00:47:50.840
 how I see my lifestyle

00:47:50.840 --> 00:47:52.400
 love is love

00:47:52.400 --> 00:47:54.079
 so different

00:47:54.079 --> 00:47:55.320
 to the definition

00:47:55.320 --> 00:47:57.100
 and the teaching

00:47:57.100 --> 00:47:57.740
 of the Bible

00:47:57.740 --> 00:47:58.960
 as to what love is

00:47:58.960 --> 00:47:59.820
 love for God

00:47:59.820 --> 00:48:00.960
 primarily

00:48:00.960 --> 00:48:01.900
 and first of all

00:48:01.900 --> 00:48:02.440
 but love

00:48:02.440 --> 00:48:03.200
 as it extends

00:48:03.200 --> 00:48:04.680
 to loving your fellow

00:48:04.680 --> 00:48:05.120
 Christians

00:48:05.120 --> 00:48:06.180
 and loving the world

00:48:06.180 --> 00:48:06.660
 indeed

00:48:06.660 --> 00:48:07.980
 it has to have

00:48:07.980 --> 00:48:08.880
 a firmness to it

00:48:08.880 --> 00:48:10.000
 what does provide

00:48:10.000 --> 00:48:11.180
 how does that

00:48:11.180 --> 00:48:12.240
 firmness provide it

00:48:12.240 --> 00:48:13.360
 well the word of God

00:48:13.360 --> 00:48:14.760
 the law of God

00:48:14.760 --> 00:48:16.660
 if you go to the opposite

00:48:16.660 --> 00:48:18.460
 and the law of God

00:48:18.460 --> 00:48:19.300
 without love

00:48:19.300 --> 00:48:20.060
 what do you have

00:48:20.060 --> 00:48:21.980
 well that's something

00:48:21.980 --> 00:48:23.600
 if you like to have

00:48:23.600 --> 00:48:24.480
 another illustration

00:48:24.480 --> 00:48:25.200
 it's rather like

00:48:25.200 --> 00:48:26.160
 a grindstone

00:48:26.160 --> 00:48:28.740
 which just goes on

00:48:28.740 --> 00:48:29.260
 grinding

00:48:29.260 --> 00:48:30.380
 and goes on grinding

00:48:30.380 --> 00:48:31.120
 the more you try

00:48:31.120 --> 00:48:31.760
 to keep it

00:48:31.760 --> 00:48:33.039
 as Paul found out

00:48:33.039 --> 00:48:34.400
 the more it grinds you

00:48:34.400 --> 00:48:35.780
 and the more it grinds you

00:48:35.780 --> 00:48:36.760
 the more it hurts

00:48:36.760 --> 00:48:42.700
 it just wears you down

00:48:42.700 --> 00:48:45.700
 you try and keep

00:48:45.700 --> 00:48:46.600
 the law of God

00:48:46.599 --> 00:48:48.440
 without love for God

00:48:48.440 --> 00:48:50.279
 without respect

00:48:50.279 --> 00:48:50.819
 and awe

00:48:50.819 --> 00:48:52.839
 in loving God

00:48:52.839 --> 00:48:54.019
 and you'll find

00:48:54.019 --> 00:48:54.960
 that's its effect

00:48:54.960 --> 00:48:56.699
 when Paul

00:48:56.699 --> 00:48:58.339
 and Saul of Tarsus

00:48:58.339 --> 00:48:59.900
 thought he was really

00:48:59.900 --> 00:49:02.519
 managing the situation

00:49:02.519 --> 00:49:03.099
 so well

00:49:03.099 --> 00:49:03.860
 his own life

00:49:03.860 --> 00:49:05.440
 those things

00:49:05.440 --> 00:49:06.159
 he now says

00:49:06.159 --> 00:49:07.460
 having come to know Christ

00:49:07.460 --> 00:49:09.460
 what gain did I have

00:49:09.460 --> 00:49:10.719
 I count them now

00:49:10.719 --> 00:49:11.659
 as just rubbish

00:49:11.659 --> 00:49:13.539
 something to be

00:49:13.539 --> 00:49:14.659
 thrown away

00:49:14.659 --> 00:49:15.859
 his own righteousness

00:49:15.859 --> 00:49:16.819
 that is he means

00:49:16.819 --> 00:49:18.480
 he wasn't actually

00:49:18.480 --> 00:49:19.359
 rubbishing the law

00:49:19.359 --> 00:49:19.899
 of God

00:49:19.899 --> 00:49:21.679
 but he was rubbishing

00:49:21.679 --> 00:49:22.480
 his own attitude

00:49:22.480 --> 00:49:22.980
 to it

00:49:22.980 --> 00:49:23.960
 his own attempt

00:49:23.960 --> 00:49:24.500
 to keep it

00:49:24.500 --> 00:49:25.480
 by his own strength

00:49:25.480 --> 00:49:28.639
 and so love

00:49:28.639 --> 00:49:29.099
 and law

00:49:29.099 --> 00:49:30.519
 actually go together

00:49:30.519 --> 00:49:30.980
 and you see

00:49:30.980 --> 00:49:32.199
 it's saying here

00:49:32.199 --> 00:49:32.859
 that the love

00:49:32.859 --> 00:49:33.960
 that the fear

00:49:33.960 --> 00:49:34.619
 of God

00:49:34.619 --> 00:49:36.099
 which we're saying

00:49:36.099 --> 00:49:37.099
 contains the love

00:49:37.099 --> 00:49:37.480
 of God

00:49:37.480 --> 00:49:39.500
 may be before you

00:49:39.500 --> 00:49:41.000
 in other words

00:49:41.000 --> 00:49:41.579
 it's not to be

00:49:41.579 --> 00:49:42.940
 an occasional thing

00:49:42.940 --> 00:49:43.280
 for you

00:49:43.280 --> 00:49:43.840
 God is saying

00:49:43.840 --> 00:49:44.380
 to Israel

00:49:44.380 --> 00:49:45.599
 that it may be

00:49:45.599 --> 00:49:46.780
 before you

00:49:46.780 --> 00:49:48.280
 that it may be

00:49:48.280 --> 00:49:49.800
 part of your path

00:49:49.800 --> 00:49:50.320
 onwards

00:49:50.320 --> 00:49:52.200
 that you may

00:49:52.200 --> 00:49:53.119
 always place it

00:49:53.119 --> 00:49:53.800
 before you

00:49:53.800 --> 00:49:55.320
 that it may always

00:49:55.320 --> 00:49:56.700
 direct your life

00:49:56.700 --> 00:49:58.079
 as you see

00:49:58.079 --> 00:49:59.820
 from Psalm 119

00:49:59.820 --> 00:50:00.380
 so often

00:50:00.380 --> 00:50:01.320
 the word of God

00:50:01.320 --> 00:50:02.400
 the precepts

00:50:02.400 --> 00:50:03.000
 of God

00:50:03.000 --> 00:50:05.659
 they're not laborious

00:50:05.659 --> 00:50:06.220
 when you love

00:50:06.220 --> 00:50:06.820
 the Lord

00:50:06.820 --> 00:50:08.460
 they're not burdensome

00:50:08.460 --> 00:50:08.960
 when you love

00:50:08.960 --> 00:50:09.519
 the Lord

00:50:09.519 --> 00:50:10.800
 they're actually

00:50:10.800 --> 00:50:12.039
 a guide to life

00:50:12.039 --> 00:50:13.880
 they keep your life

00:50:13.880 --> 00:50:14.559
 in check

00:50:14.559 --> 00:50:16.219
 they guide you

00:50:16.219 --> 00:50:16.800
 on the way

00:50:16.800 --> 00:50:17.719
 so he says

00:50:17.719 --> 00:50:18.400
 that the fear

00:50:18.400 --> 00:50:18.739
 of him

00:50:18.739 --> 00:50:19.920
 may be

00:50:19.920 --> 00:50:20.900
 before you

00:50:20.900 --> 00:50:22.139
 not occasional

00:50:22.139 --> 00:50:23.480
 but as part

00:50:23.480 --> 00:50:24.420
 of your path

00:50:24.420 --> 00:50:25.219
 Psalm 1

00:50:25.219 --> 00:50:26.659
 that man

00:50:26.659 --> 00:50:27.500
 has perfect

00:50:27.500 --> 00:50:28.219
 blessedness

00:50:28.219 --> 00:50:29.159
 who walks

00:50:29.159 --> 00:50:29.940
 not astray

00:50:29.940 --> 00:50:31.599
 in counsel

00:50:31.599 --> 00:50:32.719
 of ungodly men

00:50:32.719 --> 00:50:33.460
 or stands

00:50:33.460 --> 00:50:34.699
 in sinners way

00:50:34.699 --> 00:50:36.759
 whose loves

00:50:36.759 --> 00:50:37.559
 the Lord

00:50:37.559 --> 00:50:38.340
 who meditates

00:50:38.340 --> 00:50:39.400
 on the law

00:50:39.400 --> 00:50:39.960
 of God

00:50:39.960 --> 00:50:41.480
 night and day

00:50:41.480 --> 00:50:44.260
 we need

00:50:44.260 --> 00:50:45.300
 the law

00:50:45.300 --> 00:50:45.659
 of God

00:50:45.659 --> 00:50:46.280
 before us

00:50:46.280 --> 00:50:46.659
 always

00:50:46.659 --> 00:50:47.500
 that's

00:50:47.500 --> 00:50:48.099
 again so

00:50:48.099 --> 00:50:48.500
 contrary

00:50:48.500 --> 00:50:49.099
 to the way

00:50:49.099 --> 00:50:50.139
 our society

00:50:50.139 --> 00:50:51.240
 sadly

00:50:51.240 --> 00:50:52.519
 see things

00:50:52.519 --> 00:50:52.980
 law

00:50:52.980 --> 00:50:53.820
 and love

00:50:53.820 --> 00:50:54.340
 as we said

00:50:54.340 --> 00:50:54.719
 kept

00:50:54.719 --> 00:50:55.659
 or regarded

00:50:55.659 --> 00:50:56.800
 as opposites

00:50:56.800 --> 00:50:58.400
 and especially

00:50:58.400 --> 00:50:59.039
 the law

00:50:59.039 --> 00:51:00.139
 of God

00:51:00.139 --> 00:51:00.820
 itself

00:51:00.820 --> 00:51:02.179
 and friends

00:51:02.179 --> 00:51:04.199
 you're all

00:51:04.199 --> 00:51:04.800
 too conscious

00:51:04.800 --> 00:51:05.400
 I'm sure

00:51:05.400 --> 00:51:07.039
 of how

00:51:07.039 --> 00:51:07.800
 lawlessness

00:51:07.800 --> 00:51:08.559
 or the

00:51:08.559 --> 00:51:09.559
 degree of

00:51:09.559 --> 00:51:10.159
 lawlessness

00:51:10.159 --> 00:51:10.699
 that has

00:51:10.699 --> 00:51:11.039
 crept

00:51:11.039 --> 00:51:12.219
 into our

00:51:12.219 --> 00:51:12.779
 society

00:51:12.779 --> 00:51:13.259
 into the

00:51:13.259 --> 00:51:13.719
 behavior

00:51:13.719 --> 00:51:14.440
 of people

00:51:14.440 --> 00:51:15.539
 when you

00:51:15.539 --> 00:51:15.920
 find

00:51:15.920 --> 00:51:17.099
 violence

00:51:17.099 --> 00:51:17.579
 all too

00:51:17.579 --> 00:51:17.980
 soon

00:51:17.980 --> 00:51:19.000
 accompanying

00:51:19.000 --> 00:51:19.420
 different

00:51:19.420 --> 00:51:19.820
 types

00:51:19.820 --> 00:51:20.059
 of

00:51:20.059 --> 00:51:20.719
 demonstrations

00:51:20.719 --> 00:51:21.259
 on our

00:51:21.259 --> 00:51:21.779
 streets

00:51:21.779 --> 00:51:23.279
 what's

00:51:23.279 --> 00:51:23.659
 behind

00:51:23.659 --> 00:51:24.119
 that

00:51:24.119 --> 00:51:24.860
 why

00:51:24.860 --> 00:51:25.340
 is that

00:51:25.340 --> 00:51:25.639
 the way

00:51:25.639 --> 00:51:25.820
 it is

00:51:25.820 --> 00:51:26.199
 why can't

00:51:26.199 --> 00:51:26.460
 people

00:51:26.460 --> 00:51:27.340
 demonstrate

00:51:27.340 --> 00:51:27.880
 peaceably

00:51:27.880 --> 00:51:28.380
 although some

00:51:28.380 --> 00:51:28.960
 of course

00:51:28.960 --> 00:51:29.360
 do

00:51:29.360 --> 00:51:30.259
 well it's

00:51:30.259 --> 00:51:31.019
 largely because

00:51:31.019 --> 00:51:31.500
 there's no

00:51:31.500 --> 00:51:32.159
 concept of

00:51:32.159 --> 00:51:32.500
 the law

00:51:32.500 --> 00:51:33.000
 of God

00:51:33.000 --> 00:51:33.880
 no concept

00:51:33.880 --> 00:51:34.239
 of being

00:51:34.239 --> 00:51:34.900
 answerable

00:51:34.900 --> 00:51:35.420
 to a higher

00:51:35.420 --> 00:51:35.960
 authority

00:51:35.960 --> 00:51:36.200
 than

00:51:36.200 --> 00:51:36.740
 themselves

00:51:36.740 --> 00:51:39.039
 and certainly

00:51:39.039 --> 00:51:39.860
 not answerable

00:51:39.860 --> 00:51:40.380
 to God

00:51:40.380 --> 00:51:40.840
 because they

00:51:40.840 --> 00:51:41.280
 don't believe

00:51:41.280 --> 00:51:41.680
 in him

00:51:41.680 --> 00:51:43.700
 well here is

00:51:43.700 --> 00:51:44.340
 Moses saying

00:51:44.340 --> 00:51:45.579
 this is why

00:51:45.579 --> 00:51:46.880
 this event

00:51:46.880 --> 00:51:47.360
 has happened

00:51:47.360 --> 00:51:47.820
 this is why

00:51:47.820 --> 00:51:48.300
 God has

00:51:48.300 --> 00:51:48.880
 come down

00:51:48.880 --> 00:51:49.680
 don't be

00:51:49.680 --> 00:51:50.160
 afraid

00:51:50.160 --> 00:51:51.139
 but it's so

00:51:51.139 --> 00:51:51.519
 that you

00:51:51.519 --> 00:51:52.300
 may have

00:51:52.300 --> 00:51:52.720
 the fear

00:51:52.720 --> 00:51:52.960
 of him

00:51:52.960 --> 00:51:53.400
 before you

00:51:53.400 --> 00:51:54.139
 that you

00:51:54.139 --> 00:51:54.900
 may not

00:51:54.900 --> 00:51:55.360
 sin

00:51:55.360 --> 00:51:56.880
 because you

00:51:56.880 --> 00:51:57.200
 see the

00:51:57.200 --> 00:51:57.619
 outcome

00:51:57.619 --> 00:51:58.500
 of the

00:51:58.500 --> 00:51:59.220
 fear of

00:51:59.220 --> 00:51:59.680
 God

00:51:59.680 --> 00:52:00.760
 as something

00:52:00.760 --> 00:52:01.559
 that regulates

00:52:01.559 --> 00:52:02.139
 your heart

00:52:02.139 --> 00:52:02.840
 your thoughts

00:52:02.840 --> 00:52:03.360
 your way of

00:52:03.360 --> 00:52:03.660
 life

00:52:03.659 --> 00:52:04.839
 the outcome

00:52:04.839 --> 00:52:05.440
 of that

00:52:05.440 --> 00:52:06.379
 the inevitable

00:52:06.379 --> 00:52:07.199
 consequence

00:52:07.199 --> 00:52:08.239
 of having

00:52:08.239 --> 00:52:08.779
 the fear

00:52:08.779 --> 00:52:09.219
 of God

00:52:09.219 --> 00:52:09.519
 as the

00:52:09.519 --> 00:52:09.739
 guide

00:52:09.739 --> 00:52:09.980
 of your

00:52:09.980 --> 00:52:10.219
 life

00:52:10.219 --> 00:52:11.579
 is holiness

00:52:11.579 --> 00:52:12.420
 of life

00:52:12.420 --> 00:52:13.980
 is so

00:52:13.980 --> 00:52:14.359
 that you

00:52:14.359 --> 00:52:14.879
 may not

00:52:14.879 --> 00:52:15.299
 sin

00:52:15.299 --> 00:52:17.079
 that's why

00:52:17.079 --> 00:52:17.539
 God has

00:52:17.539 --> 00:52:17.859
 come

00:52:17.859 --> 00:52:18.679
 that the

00:52:18.679 --> 00:52:19.159
 fear of

00:52:19.159 --> 00:52:19.519
 him may

00:52:19.519 --> 00:52:20.079
 be before

00:52:20.079 --> 00:52:20.519
 you

00:52:20.519 --> 00:52:21.659
 and that

00:52:21.659 --> 00:52:22.119
 you may

00:52:22.119 --> 00:52:22.920
 not sin

00:52:22.920 --> 00:52:23.460
 in relation

00:52:23.460 --> 00:52:24.059
 to that

00:52:24.059 --> 00:52:27.179
 it's not

00:52:27.179 --> 00:52:28.199
 our own

00:52:28.199 --> 00:52:28.899
 efforts to

00:52:28.899 --> 00:52:29.359
 keep the

00:52:29.359 --> 00:52:29.719
 law of

00:52:29.719 --> 00:52:30.019
 God

00:52:30.019 --> 00:52:30.779
 that ensure

00:52:30.779 --> 00:52:31.239
 that we

00:52:31.239 --> 00:52:31.619
 do not

00:52:31.619 --> 00:52:32.000
 sin

00:52:32.000 --> 00:52:33.920
 it's

00:52:33.920 --> 00:52:34.219
 actually

00:52:34.219 --> 00:52:34.800
 our love

00:52:34.800 --> 00:52:35.440
 for God

00:52:35.440 --> 00:52:36.539
 and respect

00:52:36.539 --> 00:52:37.019
 for his

00:52:37.019 --> 00:52:37.360
 law

00:52:37.360 --> 00:52:38.500
 that has

00:52:38.500 --> 00:52:39.099
 the effect

00:52:39.099 --> 00:52:40.400
 of not

00:52:40.400 --> 00:52:41.000
 wanting to

00:52:41.000 --> 00:52:42.039
 sin in

00:52:42.039 --> 00:52:42.519
 the presence

00:52:42.519 --> 00:52:43.280
 of God

00:52:43.280 --> 00:52:44.679
 holiness

00:52:44.679 --> 00:52:45.199
 in other

00:52:45.199 --> 00:52:45.460
 words

00:52:45.460 --> 00:52:46.599
 likeness

00:52:46.599 --> 00:52:47.460
 to God

00:52:47.460 --> 00:52:47.880
 himself

00:52:47.880 --> 00:52:48.179
 and you

00:52:48.179 --> 00:52:48.420
 may be

00:52:48.420 --> 00:52:48.619
 saying

00:52:48.619 --> 00:52:48.960
 tonight

00:52:48.960 --> 00:52:49.260
 well

00:52:49.260 --> 00:52:51.760
 I'm just

00:52:51.760 --> 00:52:52.300
 left out of

00:52:52.300 --> 00:52:52.679
 the picture

00:52:52.679 --> 00:52:53.139
 altogether

00:52:53.139 --> 00:52:53.519
 then

00:52:53.519 --> 00:52:55.699
 what hope

00:52:55.699 --> 00:52:56.059
 is there

00:52:56.059 --> 00:52:56.699
 for me

00:52:56.699 --> 00:52:58.119
 when I know

00:52:58.119 --> 00:52:58.679
 that I'm a

00:52:58.679 --> 00:52:58.920
 sinner

00:52:58.920 --> 00:53:00.139
 when I know

00:53:00.139 --> 00:53:00.900
 that even

00:53:00.900 --> 00:53:01.220
 as a

00:53:01.220 --> 00:53:01.519
 Christian

00:53:01.519 --> 00:53:01.940
 I do

00:53:01.940 --> 00:53:02.280
 sin

00:53:02.280 --> 00:53:02.780
 from day

00:53:02.780 --> 00:53:03.340
 to day

00:53:03.340 --> 00:53:04.000
 I'm

00:53:04.000 --> 00:53:04.300
 conscious

00:53:04.300 --> 00:53:04.800
 of my

00:53:04.800 --> 00:53:05.180
 sin

00:53:05.180 --> 00:53:05.900
 and here's

00:53:05.900 --> 00:53:06.340
 a passage

00:53:06.340 --> 00:53:06.920
 saying that

00:53:06.920 --> 00:53:07.680
 the fear

00:53:07.680 --> 00:53:08.400
 of God

00:53:08.400 --> 00:53:09.639
 may be

00:53:09.639 --> 00:53:10.119
 before you

00:53:10.119 --> 00:53:10.519
 so that

00:53:10.519 --> 00:53:10.820
 you may

00:53:10.820 --> 00:53:11.240
 not sin

00:53:11.240 --> 00:53:11.599
 where does

00:53:11.599 --> 00:53:12.099
 that leave

00:53:12.099 --> 00:53:12.519
 me

00:53:12.519 --> 00:53:13.380
 well if you're

00:53:13.380 --> 00:53:13.980
 conscious of

00:53:13.980 --> 00:53:14.480
 your sin

00:53:14.480 --> 00:53:14.940
 tonight

00:53:14.940 --> 00:53:15.639
 what do you

00:53:15.639 --> 00:53:16.039
 do with

00:53:16.039 --> 00:53:16.159
 it

00:53:16.159 --> 00:53:16.539
 you go

00:53:16.539 --> 00:53:17.139
 to Jesus

00:53:17.139 --> 00:53:17.599
 with it

00:53:17.599 --> 00:53:18.320
 you confess

00:53:18.320 --> 00:53:18.780
 it to

00:53:18.780 --> 00:53:19.099
 Jesus

00:53:19.099 --> 00:53:19.500
 whether you're

00:53:19.500 --> 00:53:19.980
 a Christian

00:53:19.980 --> 00:53:20.740
 converted

00:53:20.740 --> 00:53:21.500
 or otherwise

00:53:21.500 --> 00:53:22.780
 but you go

00:53:22.780 --> 00:53:23.200
 to God

00:53:23.200 --> 00:53:23.539
 with it

00:53:23.539 --> 00:53:24.079
 you express

00:53:24.079 --> 00:53:24.380
 it to

00:53:24.380 --> 00:53:24.680
 him

00:53:24.680 --> 00:53:25.680
 whenever you

00:53:25.680 --> 00:53:26.039
 are a

00:53:26.039 --> 00:53:26.400
 Christian

00:53:26.400 --> 00:53:27.119
 as many

00:53:27.119 --> 00:53:27.579
 of you are

00:53:27.579 --> 00:53:27.880
 tonight

00:53:27.880 --> 00:53:28.179
 and you're

00:53:28.179 --> 00:53:28.559
 conscious

00:53:28.559 --> 00:53:29.400
 of still

00:53:29.400 --> 00:53:29.860
 sinning

00:53:29.860 --> 00:53:30.340
 against the

00:53:30.340 --> 00:53:30.480
 Lord

00:53:30.480 --> 00:53:30.860
 and so

00:53:30.860 --> 00:53:31.460
 difficult

00:53:31.460 --> 00:53:32.360
 to actually

00:53:32.360 --> 00:53:33.019
 control

00:53:33.019 --> 00:53:33.659
 some of the

00:53:33.659 --> 00:53:34.279
 urges in

00:53:34.279 --> 00:53:34.599
 your own

00:53:34.599 --> 00:53:35.000
 heart

00:53:35.000 --> 00:53:35.960
 some of the

00:53:35.960 --> 00:53:36.559
 constant

00:53:36.559 --> 00:53:37.779
 motions of

00:53:37.779 --> 00:53:38.219
 sin in

00:53:38.219 --> 00:53:38.819
 your mind

00:53:38.819 --> 00:53:39.400
 and in

00:53:39.400 --> 00:53:39.799
 your heart

00:53:39.799 --> 00:53:40.079
 what do

00:53:40.079 --> 00:53:40.579
 you do

00:53:40.579 --> 00:53:41.480
 well where

00:53:41.480 --> 00:53:41.759
 is the

00:53:41.759 --> 00:53:42.019
 answer

00:53:42.019 --> 00:53:42.500
 the answer

00:53:42.500 --> 00:53:43.059
 is in

00:53:43.059 --> 00:53:43.619
 first

00:53:43.619 --> 00:53:43.900
 John

00:53:43.900 --> 00:53:44.219
 chapter

00:53:44.219 --> 00:53:44.559
 two

00:53:44.559 --> 00:53:44.840
 verses

00:53:44.840 --> 00:53:45.219
 one

00:53:45.219 --> 00:53:45.360
 to

00:53:45.360 --> 00:53:45.779
 two

00:53:45.779 --> 00:53:47.380
 my

00:53:47.380 --> 00:53:47.699
 beloved

00:53:47.699 --> 00:53:48.559
 children

00:53:48.559 --> 00:53:49.099
 I write

00:53:49.099 --> 00:53:49.699
 these things

00:53:49.699 --> 00:53:50.380
 to you

00:53:50.380 --> 00:53:50.860
 he says

00:53:50.860 --> 00:53:51.579
 so that

00:53:51.579 --> 00:53:52.019
 you may

00:53:52.019 --> 00:53:52.840
 not sin

00:53:52.840 --> 00:53:54.559
 but if

00:53:54.559 --> 00:53:54.920
 anyone

00:53:54.920 --> 00:53:55.440
 does

00:53:55.440 --> 00:53:55.799
 sin

00:53:55.800 --> 00:53:57.080
 we have

00:53:57.080 --> 00:53:57.780
 an advocate

00:53:57.780 --> 00:53:58.420
 with the

00:53:58.420 --> 00:53:58.880
 father

00:53:58.880 --> 00:53:59.920
 Jesus

00:53:59.920 --> 00:54:00.580
 Christ

00:54:00.580 --> 00:54:00.860
 the

00:54:00.860 --> 00:54:01.220
 righteous

00:54:01.220 --> 00:54:01.680
 one

00:54:01.680 --> 00:54:02.740
 and he

00:54:02.740 --> 00:54:03.460
 is the

00:54:03.460 --> 00:54:04.380
 propitiation

00:54:04.380 --> 00:54:05.340
 for our

00:54:05.340 --> 00:54:05.480
 sin

00:54:05.480 --> 00:54:05.920
 he is

00:54:05.920 --> 00:54:06.420
 God's

00:54:06.420 --> 00:54:06.900
 answer

00:54:06.900 --> 00:54:07.620
 to his

00:54:07.620 --> 00:54:07.860
 own

00:54:07.860 --> 00:54:08.280
 anger

00:54:08.280 --> 00:54:08.880
 against us

00:54:08.880 --> 00:54:09.240
 for our

00:54:09.240 --> 00:54:09.900
 sins

00:54:09.900 --> 00:54:12.060
 go to

00:54:12.060 --> 00:54:12.420
 Jesus

00:54:12.420 --> 00:54:14.100
 he's

00:54:14.100 --> 00:54:14.380
 already

00:54:14.380 --> 00:54:14.900
 paid the

00:54:14.900 --> 00:54:15.240
 price

00:54:15.240 --> 00:54:15.720
 of sin

00:54:15.720 --> 00:54:17.640
 he continues

00:54:17.640 --> 00:54:18.080
 to be

00:54:18.080 --> 00:54:18.900
 the mediator

00:54:18.900 --> 00:54:20.160
 between us

00:54:20.160 --> 00:54:20.720
 and God

00:54:20.720 --> 00:54:21.080
 when we

00:54:21.080 --> 00:54:21.420
 come

00:54:21.420 --> 00:54:22.140
 and have

00:54:22.140 --> 00:54:22.660
 our trust

00:54:22.660 --> 00:54:23.180
 in him

00:54:23.179 --> 00:54:25.719
 and he

00:54:25.719 --> 00:54:26.119
 continues

00:54:26.119 --> 00:54:26.539
 to make

00:54:26.539 --> 00:54:27.199
 intercession

00:54:27.199 --> 00:54:28.879
 for his

00:54:28.879 --> 00:54:29.259
 people

00:54:29.259 --> 00:54:30.359
 from his

00:54:30.359 --> 00:54:30.759
 throne

00:54:30.759 --> 00:54:31.239
 in heaven

00:54:31.239 --> 00:54:32.779
 he presents

00:54:32.779 --> 00:54:34.460
 the perfection

00:54:34.460 --> 00:54:34.899
 of his

00:54:34.899 --> 00:54:35.099
 own

00:54:35.099 --> 00:54:35.879
 atonement

00:54:35.879 --> 00:54:37.940
 the death

00:54:37.940 --> 00:54:38.519
 he died

00:54:38.519 --> 00:54:39.239
 at Calvary

00:54:39.239 --> 00:54:40.839
 the life

00:54:40.839 --> 00:54:41.440
 of obedience

00:54:41.440 --> 00:54:42.159
 he lived

00:54:42.159 --> 00:54:44.319
 he continually

00:54:44.319 --> 00:54:45.839
 presents that

00:54:45.839 --> 00:54:46.299
 to God

00:54:46.299 --> 00:54:46.960
 even by his

00:54:46.960 --> 00:54:47.659
 person being

00:54:47.659 --> 00:54:48.039
 there

00:54:48.039 --> 00:54:49.579
 we have an

00:54:49.579 --> 00:54:50.079
 advocate

00:54:50.079 --> 00:54:50.619
 with the

00:54:50.619 --> 00:54:50.960
 father

00:54:50.960 --> 00:54:52.059
 and he is

00:54:52.059 --> 00:54:53.099
 the propitiation

00:54:53.099 --> 00:54:54.380
 for our

00:54:54.380 --> 00:54:54.980
 sins

00:54:54.980 --> 00:54:57.519
 so don't

00:54:57.519 --> 00:54:58.019
 despair

00:54:58.019 --> 00:54:58.500
 tonight

00:54:58.500 --> 00:54:59.719
 don't treat

00:54:59.719 --> 00:55:00.159
 your sin

00:55:00.159 --> 00:55:00.619
 lightly

00:55:00.619 --> 00:55:01.960
 don't think

00:55:01.960 --> 00:55:02.299
 of it in

00:55:02.299 --> 00:55:02.799
 such a way

00:55:02.799 --> 00:55:03.139
 as says

00:55:03.139 --> 00:55:03.539
 well I can

00:55:03.539 --> 00:55:03.860
 go to

00:55:03.860 --> 00:55:04.139
 Jesus

00:55:04.139 --> 00:55:04.460
 with it

00:55:04.460 --> 00:55:05.099
 any time

00:55:05.099 --> 00:55:05.860
 that's not

00:55:05.860 --> 00:55:06.219
 what he's

00:55:06.219 --> 00:55:06.480
 saying

00:55:06.480 --> 00:55:06.860
 yes you

00:55:06.860 --> 00:55:07.219
 can do

00:55:07.219 --> 00:55:07.539
 that

00:55:07.539 --> 00:55:08.960
 but you

00:55:08.960 --> 00:55:09.219
 need to

00:55:09.219 --> 00:55:09.659
 constantly

00:55:09.659 --> 00:55:09.980
 have in

00:55:09.980 --> 00:55:10.339
 your mind

00:55:10.339 --> 00:55:10.639
 and I

00:55:10.639 --> 00:55:11.239
 must too

00:55:11.239 --> 00:55:12.299
 when I'm

00:55:12.299 --> 00:55:12.619
 conscious

00:55:12.619 --> 00:55:13.159
 of my

00:55:13.159 --> 00:55:13.480
 sin

00:55:13.480 --> 00:55:14.460
 I look

00:55:14.460 --> 00:55:14.940
 to God

00:55:14.940 --> 00:55:15.360
 I look

00:55:15.360 --> 00:55:15.639
 to his

00:55:15.639 --> 00:55:16.000
 provision

00:55:16.000 --> 00:55:16.440
 I look

00:55:16.440 --> 00:55:16.799
 to the

00:55:16.799 --> 00:55:17.139
 Savior

00:55:17.139 --> 00:55:18.279
 I look

00:55:18.279 --> 00:55:18.860
 to Jesus

00:55:18.860 --> 00:55:19.339
 I look

00:55:19.339 --> 00:55:19.699
 to him

00:55:19.699 --> 00:55:20.019
 as the

00:55:20.019 --> 00:55:20.559
 mediator

00:55:20.559 --> 00:55:21.380
 I look

00:55:21.380 --> 00:55:21.739
 to his

00:55:21.739 --> 00:55:22.360
 intercession

00:55:22.360 --> 00:55:22.800
 I look

00:55:22.800 --> 00:55:23.220
 to him

00:55:23.220 --> 00:55:24.240
 as the

00:55:24.240 --> 00:55:24.760
 one God

00:55:24.760 --> 00:55:25.360
 has provided

00:55:25.360 --> 00:55:25.960
 for me

00:55:25.960 --> 00:55:27.559
 so that

00:55:27.559 --> 00:55:27.940
 I will

00:55:27.940 --> 00:55:28.620
 not die

00:55:28.620 --> 00:55:29.760
 for my

00:55:29.760 --> 00:55:30.400
 sins

00:55:30.400 --> 00:55:32.620
 who's

00:55:32.620 --> 00:55:33.220
 looking after

00:55:33.220 --> 00:55:33.680
 your own

00:55:33.680 --> 00:55:33.960
 life

00:55:33.960 --> 00:55:34.360
 tonight

00:55:34.360 --> 00:55:37.400
 who's

00:55:37.400 --> 00:55:37.960
 looking after

00:55:37.960 --> 00:55:38.720
 your eternity

00:55:38.720 --> 00:55:41.559
 who's looking

00:55:41.559 --> 00:55:42.120
 after what

00:55:42.120 --> 00:55:42.500
 happened

00:55:42.500 --> 00:55:43.380
 what happens

00:55:43.380 --> 00:55:43.720
 to you

00:55:43.720 --> 00:55:44.559
 during the

00:55:44.559 --> 00:55:45.039
 course of

00:55:45.039 --> 00:55:45.480
 life

00:55:45.480 --> 00:55:47.360
 who's

00:55:47.360 --> 00:55:47.960
 looking after

00:55:47.960 --> 00:55:48.440
 what will

00:55:48.440 --> 00:55:48.820
 be the

00:55:48.820 --> 00:55:49.099
 case

00:55:49.099 --> 00:55:49.480
 when you

00:55:49.480 --> 00:55:49.940
 die

00:55:49.940 --> 00:55:51.380
 or after

00:55:51.380 --> 00:55:52.039
 you die

00:55:52.039 --> 00:55:53.360
 who's

00:55:53.360 --> 00:55:53.920
 looking after

00:55:53.920 --> 00:55:54.760
 your present

00:55:54.760 --> 00:55:56.260
 who's looking

00:55:56.260 --> 00:55:56.780
 after your

00:55:56.780 --> 00:55:57.220
 future

00:55:57.220 --> 00:55:59.139
 in what

00:55:59.139 --> 00:55:59.539
 or in

00:55:59.539 --> 00:55:59.920
 whom

00:55:59.920 --> 00:56:01.039
 is your

00:56:01.039 --> 00:56:01.599
 trust

00:56:01.599 --> 00:56:03.960
 well if

00:56:03.960 --> 00:56:04.300
 it's in

00:56:04.300 --> 00:56:04.619
 Jesus

00:56:04.619 --> 00:56:06.139
 it is

00:56:06.139 --> 00:56:06.579
 well

00:56:06.579 --> 00:56:06.960
 it is

00:56:06.960 --> 00:56:07.300
 well

00:56:07.300 --> 00:56:07.760
 with your

00:56:07.760 --> 00:56:08.240
 soul

00:56:08.240 --> 00:56:10.159
 and if

00:56:10.159 --> 00:56:10.579
 it's not

00:56:10.579 --> 00:56:11.000
 you don't

00:56:11.000 --> 00:56:11.280
 have a

00:56:11.280 --> 00:56:11.820
 mediator

00:56:11.820 --> 00:56:13.920
 if you

00:56:13.920 --> 00:56:14.260
 haven't

00:56:14.260 --> 00:56:14.639
 come to

00:56:14.639 --> 00:56:15.340
 accept him

00:56:15.340 --> 00:56:16.200
 to trust

00:56:16.200 --> 00:56:16.659
 in him

00:56:16.659 --> 00:56:17.679
 you're

00:56:17.679 --> 00:56:18.159
 facing

00:56:18.159 --> 00:56:18.819
 God

00:56:18.819 --> 00:56:19.659
 in your

00:56:19.659 --> 00:56:19.819
 own

00:56:19.819 --> 00:56:20.239
 ability

00:56:20.239 --> 00:56:20.539
 in your

00:56:20.539 --> 00:56:20.739
 own

00:56:20.739 --> 00:56:21.339
 strength

00:56:21.339 --> 00:56:22.739
 and where's

00:56:22.739 --> 00:56:23.119
 that going

00:56:23.119 --> 00:56:23.480
 to get

00:56:23.480 --> 00:56:23.819
 us

00:56:23.819 --> 00:56:25.019
 because

00:56:25.019 --> 00:56:25.599
 the wages

00:56:25.599 --> 00:56:26.179
 of sin

00:56:26.179 --> 00:56:27.799
 is death

00:56:27.799 --> 00:56:29.579
 so there's

00:56:29.579 --> 00:56:30.460
 the people's

00:56:30.460 --> 00:56:30.779
 fear

00:56:30.779 --> 00:56:31.639
 the purpose

00:56:31.639 --> 00:56:32.179
 of God

00:56:32.179 --> 00:56:32.500
 and very

00:56:32.500 --> 00:56:33.039
 very briefly

00:56:33.039 --> 00:56:34.639
 the person

00:56:34.639 --> 00:56:35.259
 of Moses

00:56:35.259 --> 00:56:36.759
 we said

00:56:36.759 --> 00:56:37.359
 the people's

00:56:37.359 --> 00:56:38.379
 request

00:56:38.379 --> 00:56:38.940
 or plea

00:56:38.940 --> 00:56:39.339
 here

00:56:39.339 --> 00:56:40.039
 when they're

00:56:40.039 --> 00:56:40.500
 afraid to

00:56:40.500 --> 00:56:41.039
 draw near

00:56:41.039 --> 00:56:42.019
 is saying

00:56:42.019 --> 00:56:43.139
 to Moses

00:56:43.139 --> 00:56:43.940
 you speak

00:56:43.940 --> 00:56:44.339
 to us

00:56:44.339 --> 00:56:45.259
 don't let

00:56:45.259 --> 00:56:45.899
 God speak

00:56:45.900 --> 00:56:46.420
 to us

00:56:46.420 --> 00:56:48.000
 in case

00:56:48.000 --> 00:56:48.579
 we die

00:56:48.579 --> 00:56:50.420
 in the

00:56:50.420 --> 00:56:50.980
 Old Testament

00:56:50.980 --> 00:56:52.160
 we have

00:56:52.160 --> 00:56:52.519
 a number

00:56:52.519 --> 00:56:54.300
 of people

00:56:54.300 --> 00:56:55.240
 that represent

00:56:55.240 --> 00:56:55.900
 Jesus

00:56:55.900 --> 00:56:56.720
 and you could

00:56:56.720 --> 00:56:57.119
 say are

00:56:57.119 --> 00:56:58.320
 foreshadowing

00:56:58.320 --> 00:56:58.660
 of Jesus

00:56:58.660 --> 00:56:59.079
 we use the

00:56:59.079 --> 00:56:59.780
 word type

00:56:59.780 --> 00:57:00.680
 a type

00:57:00.680 --> 00:57:01.260
 of Christ

00:57:01.260 --> 00:57:02.300
 means somebody

00:57:02.300 --> 00:57:03.059
 who's symbolic

00:57:03.059 --> 00:57:03.619
 in a sense

00:57:03.619 --> 00:57:04.240
 of Christ

00:57:04.240 --> 00:57:05.579
 in the

00:57:05.579 --> 00:57:06.380
 prophecies

00:57:06.380 --> 00:57:07.000
 or in the

00:57:07.000 --> 00:57:07.320
 teachings

00:57:07.320 --> 00:57:07.860
 of the Old

00:57:07.860 --> 00:57:08.240
 Testament

00:57:08.240 --> 00:57:09.440
 leading up

00:57:09.440 --> 00:57:10.000
 to the time

00:57:10.000 --> 00:57:10.420
 of Jesus

00:57:10.420 --> 00:57:11.019
 himself

00:57:11.019 --> 00:57:12.599
 and if

00:57:12.599 --> 00:57:12.940
 you ask

00:57:12.940 --> 00:57:13.599
 who is

00:57:13.599 --> 00:57:15.639
 the main

00:57:15.639 --> 00:57:16.400
 type

00:57:16.400 --> 00:57:17.779
 of a

00:57:17.779 --> 00:57:18.299
 mediator

00:57:18.299 --> 00:57:18.619
 in the

00:57:18.619 --> 00:57:19.259
 Old Testament

00:57:19.259 --> 00:57:20.339
 to teach

00:57:20.339 --> 00:57:20.879
 us about

00:57:20.879 --> 00:57:21.259
 Jesus

00:57:21.259 --> 00:57:21.839
 and the

00:57:21.839 --> 00:57:22.819
 way Jesus

00:57:22.819 --> 00:57:23.239
 was going

00:57:23.239 --> 00:57:23.559
 to come

00:57:23.559 --> 00:57:23.879
 to be

00:57:23.879 --> 00:57:24.719
 the mediator

00:57:24.719 --> 00:57:25.039
 well

00:57:25.039 --> 00:57:26.019
 in many

00:57:26.019 --> 00:57:26.279
 ways

00:57:26.279 --> 00:57:26.519
 it's

00:57:26.519 --> 00:57:27.000
 Moses

00:57:27.000 --> 00:57:28.819
 because

00:57:28.819 --> 00:57:29.239
 Moses

00:57:29.239 --> 00:57:30.019
 here

00:57:30.019 --> 00:57:30.759
 is asked

00:57:30.759 --> 00:57:31.099
 by the

00:57:31.099 --> 00:57:31.359
 people

00:57:31.359 --> 00:57:31.819
 to come

00:57:31.819 --> 00:57:32.460
 and stand

00:57:32.460 --> 00:57:33.159
 between

00:57:33.159 --> 00:57:33.519
 them

00:57:33.519 --> 00:57:34.099
 and God

00:57:34.099 --> 00:57:34.659
 or at

00:57:34.659 --> 00:57:34.839
 least

00:57:34.839 --> 00:57:35.539
 speak

00:57:35.539 --> 00:57:35.859
 to them

00:57:35.859 --> 00:57:36.059
 that's

00:57:36.059 --> 00:57:36.359
 the same

00:57:36.359 --> 00:57:36.579
 thing

00:57:36.579 --> 00:57:37.079
 as a

00:57:37.079 --> 00:57:37.460
 mediator

00:57:37.460 --> 00:57:37.900
 speaking

00:57:37.900 --> 00:57:38.699
 for God

00:57:38.699 --> 00:57:39.299
 to the

00:57:39.299 --> 00:57:39.579
 people

00:57:39.579 --> 00:57:40.139
 rather than

00:57:40.139 --> 00:57:40.639
 God

00:57:40.639 --> 00:57:40.960
 himself

00:57:40.960 --> 00:57:41.299
 coming

00:57:41.300 --> 00:57:42.240
 destructively

00:57:42.240 --> 00:57:43.300
 to

00:57:43.300 --> 00:57:45.200
 them

00:57:45.200 --> 00:57:45.680
 for their

00:57:45.680 --> 00:57:45.940
 sin

00:57:45.940 --> 00:57:47.620
 and Moses

00:57:47.620 --> 00:57:47.940
 as a

00:57:47.940 --> 00:57:48.260
 mediator

00:57:48.260 --> 00:57:48.539
 you see

00:57:48.539 --> 00:57:49.780
 that wonderful

00:57:49.780 --> 00:57:50.340
 chapter in

00:57:50.340 --> 00:57:51.380
 chapter 32

00:57:51.380 --> 00:57:54.640
 where the

00:57:54.640 --> 00:57:55.160
 people had

00:57:55.160 --> 00:57:56.640
 so grievously

00:57:56.640 --> 00:57:57.380
 sinned against

00:57:57.380 --> 00:57:57.820
 the Lord

00:57:57.820 --> 00:57:59.340
 in fashioning

00:57:59.340 --> 00:58:00.000
 creating this

00:58:00.000 --> 00:58:00.920
 golden calf

00:58:00.920 --> 00:58:01.840
 and beginning

00:58:01.840 --> 00:58:02.560
 to worship

00:58:02.560 --> 00:58:02.840
 it

00:58:02.840 --> 00:58:04.760
 while Moses

00:58:04.760 --> 00:58:05.340
 was up in

00:58:05.340 --> 00:58:05.760
 the mountain

00:58:05.760 --> 00:58:06.960
 God revealed

00:58:06.960 --> 00:58:07.340
 to him

00:58:07.340 --> 00:58:07.620
 that the

00:58:07.620 --> 00:58:08.019
 people had

00:58:08.019 --> 00:58:08.500
 corrupted

00:58:08.500 --> 00:58:09.160
 themselves

00:58:09.159 --> 00:58:10.159
 made a

00:58:10.159 --> 00:58:10.619
 calf

00:58:10.619 --> 00:58:12.000
 and the

00:58:12.000 --> 00:58:12.219
 Lord

00:58:12.219 --> 00:58:12.420
 said

00:58:12.420 --> 00:58:12.879
 I have

00:58:12.879 --> 00:58:13.219
 seen

00:58:13.219 --> 00:58:13.440
 this

00:58:13.440 --> 00:58:13.779
 people

00:58:13.779 --> 00:58:14.619
 behold

00:58:14.619 --> 00:58:15.059
 it is a

00:58:15.059 --> 00:58:15.719
 stiff neck

00:58:15.719 --> 00:58:15.980
 people

00:58:15.980 --> 00:58:16.559
 now therefore

00:58:16.559 --> 00:58:17.179
 leave me

00:58:17.179 --> 00:58:17.579
 alone

00:58:17.579 --> 00:58:18.679
 that my

00:58:18.679 --> 00:58:19.139
 wrath

00:58:19.139 --> 00:58:19.879
 may burn

00:58:19.879 --> 00:58:20.500
 hot against

00:58:20.500 --> 00:58:20.719
 them

00:58:20.719 --> 00:58:21.440
 that I

00:58:21.440 --> 00:58:22.399
 may consume

00:58:22.399 --> 00:58:22.819
 them in

00:58:22.819 --> 00:58:23.359
 order that I

00:58:23.359 --> 00:58:23.899
 may make a

00:58:23.899 --> 00:58:24.539
 great nation

00:58:24.539 --> 00:58:24.980
 of you

00:58:24.980 --> 00:58:25.500
 what a great

00:58:25.500 --> 00:58:25.960
 test for

00:58:25.960 --> 00:58:26.339
 Moses

00:58:26.339 --> 00:58:27.839
 God is

00:58:27.839 --> 00:58:28.179
 saying to

00:58:28.179 --> 00:58:28.319
 him

00:58:28.319 --> 00:58:29.599
 don't appeal

00:58:29.599 --> 00:58:30.039
 to me

00:58:30.039 --> 00:58:32.219
 don't

00:58:32.219 --> 00:58:34.179
 don't

00:58:34.179 --> 00:58:34.539
 don't

00:58:34.539 --> 00:58:34.920
 actually

00:58:34.920 --> 00:58:35.879
 as he

00:58:35.879 --> 00:58:36.219
 puts it

00:58:36.219 --> 00:58:36.480
 there

00:58:36.480 --> 00:58:37.759
 leave me

00:58:37.759 --> 00:58:38.059
 alone

00:58:38.059 --> 00:58:38.559
 let me

00:58:38.559 --> 00:58:38.940
 alone

00:58:38.940 --> 00:58:40.480
 stop

00:58:40.480 --> 00:58:40.940
 praying for

00:58:40.940 --> 00:58:41.119
 this

00:58:41.119 --> 00:58:41.460
 people

00:58:41.460 --> 00:58:41.960
 I'm

00:58:41.960 --> 00:58:42.220
 going to

00:58:42.220 --> 00:58:42.599
 destroy

00:58:42.599 --> 00:58:42.900
 them

00:58:42.900 --> 00:58:43.679
 Moses

00:58:43.679 --> 00:58:44.019
 said

00:58:44.019 --> 00:58:44.760
 he

00:58:44.760 --> 00:58:45.440
 implored

00:58:45.440 --> 00:58:45.639
 the

00:58:45.639 --> 00:58:45.920
 Lord

00:58:45.920 --> 00:58:46.240
 instead

00:58:46.240 --> 00:58:46.619
 of that

00:58:46.619 --> 00:58:46.920
 Moses

00:58:46.920 --> 00:58:47.300
 acted

00:58:47.300 --> 00:58:47.659
 as the

00:58:47.659 --> 00:58:48.179
 mediator

00:58:48.179 --> 00:58:49.000
 oh

00:58:49.000 --> 00:58:49.280
 Lord

00:58:49.280 --> 00:58:49.780
 why

00:58:49.780 --> 00:58:50.039
 does

00:58:50.039 --> 00:58:50.220
 your

00:58:50.220 --> 00:58:50.519
 wrath

00:58:50.519 --> 00:58:50.840
 burn

00:58:50.840 --> 00:58:51.099
 hot

00:58:51.099 --> 00:58:51.400
 against

00:58:51.400 --> 00:58:51.579
 your

00:58:51.579 --> 00:58:51.960
 people

00:58:51.960 --> 00:58:52.800
 why

00:58:52.800 --> 00:58:53.039
 should

00:58:53.039 --> 00:58:53.159
 the

00:58:53.159 --> 00:58:53.599
 Egyptians

00:58:53.599 --> 00:58:54.099
 say

00:58:54.099 --> 00:58:54.559
 with

00:58:54.559 --> 00:58:54.860
 evil

00:58:54.860 --> 00:58:55.320
 intent

00:58:55.320 --> 00:58:55.820
 he

00:58:55.820 --> 00:58:56.059
 brought

00:58:56.059 --> 00:58:56.220
 them

00:58:56.220 --> 00:58:56.380
 out

00:58:56.380 --> 00:58:56.539
 to

00:58:56.539 --> 00:58:56.840
 kill

00:58:56.840 --> 00:58:57.139
 them

00:58:57.139 --> 00:58:57.960
 turn

00:58:57.960 --> 00:58:58.220
 from

00:58:58.220 --> 00:58:58.380
 your

00:58:58.380 --> 00:58:58.679
 burning

00:58:58.679 --> 00:58:59.079
 anger

00:58:59.079 --> 00:58:59.619
 and

00:58:59.619 --> 00:58:59.980
 relent

00:58:59.980 --> 00:59:00.700
 remember

00:59:00.700 --> 00:59:01.220
 Abraham

00:59:01.220 --> 00:59:01.760
 Isaac

00:59:01.760 --> 00:59:02.360
 and

00:59:02.360 --> 00:59:02.760
 Israel

00:59:02.760 --> 00:59:03.019
 your

00:59:03.019 --> 00:59:03.460
 servants

00:59:03.460 --> 00:59:04.720
 and so

00:59:04.720 --> 00:59:04.880
 the

00:59:04.880 --> 00:59:05.059
 Lord

00:59:05.059 --> 00:59:05.500
 turned

00:59:05.500 --> 00:59:06.900
 from

00:59:06.900 --> 00:59:07.740
 the

00:59:07.740 --> 00:59:08.059
 anger

00:59:08.059 --> 00:59:08.320
 that he

00:59:08.320 --> 00:59:08.460
 had

00:59:08.460 --> 00:59:08.860
 threatened

00:59:08.860 --> 00:59:09.420
 to break

00:59:09.420 --> 00:59:09.679
 out

00:59:09.679 --> 00:59:10.659
 on the

00:59:10.659 --> 00:59:11.000
 people

00:59:11.000 --> 00:59:12.820
 and then

00:59:12.820 --> 00:59:13.280
 later on

00:59:13.280 --> 00:59:13.500
 in the

00:59:13.500 --> 00:59:13.820
 chapter

00:59:13.820 --> 00:59:14.900
 you have

00:59:14.900 --> 00:59:15.179
 this

00:59:15.179 --> 00:59:16.059
 marvelous

00:59:16.059 --> 00:59:17.159
 emphasis

00:59:17.159 --> 00:59:18.300
 on

00:59:18.300 --> 00:59:18.599
 Moses

00:59:18.599 --> 00:59:19.059
 saying

00:59:19.059 --> 00:59:19.980
 Moses

00:59:19.980 --> 00:59:20.420
 said to

00:59:20.420 --> 00:59:20.539
 the

00:59:20.539 --> 00:59:20.720
 people

00:59:20.720 --> 00:59:20.880
 you

00:59:20.880 --> 00:59:21.039
 have

00:59:21.039 --> 00:59:21.440
 sinned

00:59:21.440 --> 00:59:21.539
 a

00:59:21.539 --> 00:59:21.760
 great

00:59:21.760 --> 00:59:22.139
 sin

00:59:22.139 --> 00:59:35.839
 what's

00:59:35.839 --> 00:59:49.879
 what's

00:59:49.880 --> 00:59:50.180
 Moses

00:59:50.180 --> 00:59:50.200
 Moses

00:59:50.200 --> 00:59:50.740
 saying

00:59:50.740 --> 00:59:53.059
 he's

00:59:53.059 --> 00:59:53.400
 pleading

00:59:53.400 --> 00:59:53.619
 with

00:59:53.619 --> 00:59:53.840
 God

00:59:53.840 --> 00:59:54.099
 not

00:59:54.099 --> 00:59:54.240
 to

00:59:54.240 --> 00:59:54.640
 destroy

00:59:54.640 --> 00:59:54.840
 the

00:59:54.840 --> 00:59:55.220
 people

00:59:55.220 --> 00:59:56.619
 that

00:59:56.619 --> 00:59:56.760
 there

00:59:56.760 --> 00:59:56.900
 be

00:59:56.900 --> 00:59:57.180
 not

00:59:57.180 --> 00:59:57.619
 death

00:59:57.619 --> 00:59:57.880
 from

00:59:57.880 --> 00:59:58.200
 God

00:59:58.200 --> 00:59:58.400
 for

00:59:58.400 --> 00:59:58.640
 these

00:59:58.640 --> 00:59:59.019
 people

00:59:59.019 --> 00:59:59.519
 but

00:59:59.519 --> 00:59:59.700
 he's

00:59:59.700 --> 00:59:59.920
 saying

00:59:59.920 --> 01:00:00.760
 Lord

01:00:00.760 --> 01:00:02.240
 instead

01:00:02.240 --> 01:00:02.519
 of

01:00:02.519 --> 01:00:02.680
 that

01:00:02.680 --> 01:00:03.300
 if there

01:00:03.300 --> 01:00:03.619
 has

01:00:03.619 --> 01:00:03.940
 to be

01:00:03.940 --> 01:00:04.119
 a

01:00:04.119 --> 01:00:04.380
 death

01:00:04.380 --> 01:00:04.880
 effectively

01:00:04.880 --> 01:00:05.099
 he's

01:00:05.099 --> 01:00:05.240
 saying

01:00:05.240 --> 01:00:06.160
 let

01:00:06.160 --> 01:00:06.440
 that

01:00:06.440 --> 01:00:06.660
 be

01:00:06.660 --> 01:00:07.160
 mine

01:00:07.160 --> 01:00:08.400
 let

01:00:08.400 --> 01:00:08.660
 that

01:00:08.660 --> 01:00:08.860
 be

01:00:08.860 --> 01:00:09.180
 upon

01:00:09.180 --> 01:00:09.579
 me

01:00:09.579 --> 01:00:10.579
 let

01:00:10.579 --> 01:00:10.840
 me

01:00:10.840 --> 01:00:11.160
 bear

01:00:11.160 --> 01:00:11.360
 the

01:00:11.360 --> 01:00:11.800
 penalty

01:00:11.800 --> 01:00:13.160
 let

01:00:13.160 --> 01:00:13.420
 me

01:00:13.420 --> 01:00:13.840
 take

01:00:13.840 --> 01:00:14.019
 the

01:00:14.019 --> 01:00:14.340
 guilt

01:00:14.340 --> 01:00:15.300
 for

01:00:15.300 --> 01:00:15.480
 their

01:00:15.480 --> 01:00:15.860
 grievous

01:00:15.860 --> 01:00:16.280
 sin

01:00:16.280 --> 01:00:17.620
 no

01:00:17.620 --> 01:00:18.340
 that's

01:00:18.340 --> 01:00:19.600
 mediatorship

01:00:19.600 --> 01:00:21.160
 that is

01:00:21.160 --> 01:00:21.380
 a

01:00:21.380 --> 01:00:22.400
 type

01:00:22.400 --> 01:00:23.700
 a

01:00:23.700 --> 01:00:24.600
 foreshadowing

01:00:24.600 --> 01:00:25.720
 of the

01:00:25.720 --> 01:00:26.519
 mediatorship

01:00:26.519 --> 01:00:27.260
 of Jesus

01:00:27.260 --> 01:00:28.880
 because

01:00:28.880 --> 01:00:29.180
 that's

01:00:29.180 --> 01:00:29.680
 effectively

01:00:29.680 --> 01:00:30.660
 what

01:00:30.660 --> 01:00:31.000
 Jesus

01:00:31.000 --> 01:00:31.420
 did

01:00:31.420 --> 01:00:33.260
 for

01:00:33.260 --> 01:00:33.420
 his

01:00:33.420 --> 01:00:33.780
 people

01:00:33.780 --> 01:00:34.880
 he

01:00:34.880 --> 01:00:35.120
 took

01:00:35.120 --> 01:00:35.380
 their

01:00:35.380 --> 01:00:35.640
 sin

01:00:35.640 --> 01:00:35.860
 to

01:00:35.860 --> 01:00:36.420
 himself

01:00:36.420 --> 01:00:38.080
 let

01:00:38.080 --> 01:00:38.400
 me

01:00:38.400 --> 01:00:38.940
 die

01:00:38.940 --> 01:00:39.820
 their

01:00:39.820 --> 01:00:40.380
 death

01:00:40.380 --> 01:00:41.340
 let

01:00:41.340 --> 01:00:41.580
 me

01:00:41.580 --> 01:00:42.019
 die

01:00:42.019 --> 01:00:42.519
 the

01:00:42.519 --> 01:00:42.800
 death

01:00:42.800 --> 01:00:43.140
 they

01:00:43.140 --> 01:00:43.660
 deserve

01:00:43.660 --> 01:00:43.960
 that's

01:00:43.960 --> 01:00:44.460
 effectively

01:00:44.460 --> 01:00:45.180
 what's

01:00:45.180 --> 01:00:45.400
 at the

01:00:45.400 --> 01:00:45.680
 heart

01:00:45.679 --> 01:00:46.480
 of the

01:00:46.480 --> 01:00:47.159
 mediatorship

01:00:47.159 --> 01:00:47.339
 of

01:00:47.339 --> 01:00:47.639
 Jesus

01:00:47.639 --> 01:00:48.239
 standing

01:00:48.239 --> 01:00:48.759
 between

01:00:48.759 --> 01:00:49.719
 God

01:00:49.719 --> 01:00:50.539
 and his

01:00:50.539 --> 01:00:50.980
 people

01:00:50.980 --> 01:00:51.940
 God

01:00:51.940 --> 01:00:52.699
 and sinners

01:00:52.699 --> 01:00:55.179
 and you

01:00:55.179 --> 01:00:55.699
 see here

01:00:55.699 --> 01:00:56.699
 in Exodus

01:00:56.699 --> 01:00:57.139
 chapter

01:00:57.139 --> 01:00:58.039
 20

01:00:58.039 --> 01:00:58.379
 these

01:00:58.379 --> 01:00:58.779
 verses

01:00:58.779 --> 01:01:00.059
 in verse

01:01:00.059 --> 01:01:00.500
 21

01:01:00.500 --> 01:01:01.179
 that section

01:01:01.179 --> 01:01:01.659
 finishes

01:01:01.659 --> 01:01:02.440
 people stood

01:01:02.440 --> 01:01:03.079
 afar off

01:01:03.079 --> 01:01:04.719
 while Moses

01:01:04.719 --> 01:01:05.379
 drew near

01:01:05.379 --> 01:01:05.759
 to the

01:01:05.759 --> 01:01:06.179
 thick

01:01:06.179 --> 01:01:06.739
 darkness

01:01:06.739 --> 01:01:08.159
 where

01:01:08.159 --> 01:01:08.559
 God

01:01:08.559 --> 01:01:09.259
 was

01:01:09.259 --> 01:01:12.179
 what is

01:01:12.179 --> 01:01:12.699
 Calvary

01:01:12.699 --> 01:01:15.159
 Calvary

01:01:15.159 --> 01:01:15.539
 is the

01:01:15.539 --> 01:01:16.019
 mediator

01:01:16.019 --> 01:01:17.579
 is the

01:01:17.579 --> 01:01:18.980
 mediator

01:01:18.980 --> 01:01:20.219
 and entering

01:01:20.219 --> 01:01:20.859
 into the

01:01:20.859 --> 01:01:21.500
 thick

01:01:21.500 --> 01:01:21.980
 darkness

01:01:21.980 --> 01:01:23.719
 where God

01:01:23.719 --> 01:01:24.019
 and his

01:01:24.019 --> 01:01:24.980
 wrath is

01:01:24.980 --> 01:01:25.339
 and taking

01:01:25.339 --> 01:01:26.119
 to himself

01:01:26.119 --> 01:01:27.940
 that penalty

01:01:27.940 --> 01:01:28.539
 that they

01:01:28.539 --> 01:01:29.319
 deserved

01:01:29.319 --> 01:01:31.599
 here is

01:01:31.599 --> 01:01:32.059
 Moses

01:01:32.059 --> 01:01:33.759
 on behalf

01:01:33.759 --> 01:01:34.059
 of the

01:01:34.059 --> 01:01:34.440
 people

01:01:34.440 --> 01:01:35.699
 foreshadowing

01:01:35.699 --> 01:01:37.179
 that entrance

01:01:37.179 --> 01:01:37.879
 of Jesus

01:01:37.879 --> 01:01:39.420
 into the

01:01:39.420 --> 01:01:39.859
 darkness

01:01:39.860 --> 01:01:42.780
 and Calvary's

01:01:42.780 --> 01:01:43.680
 darkness

01:01:43.680 --> 01:01:44.380
 is recorded

01:01:44.380 --> 01:01:44.940
 for us

01:01:44.940 --> 01:01:45.920
 in the

01:01:45.920 --> 01:01:46.579
 New Testament

01:01:46.579 --> 01:01:49.559
 that darkness

01:01:49.559 --> 01:01:51.519
 in the

01:01:51.519 --> 01:01:52.019
 creation

01:01:52.019 --> 01:01:53.240
 that symbolized

01:01:53.240 --> 01:01:54.940
 the darkness

01:01:54.940 --> 01:01:56.019
 in the soul

01:01:56.019 --> 01:01:56.800
 of Jesus

01:01:56.800 --> 01:01:58.800
 as he

01:01:58.800 --> 01:01:59.300
 became

01:01:59.300 --> 01:02:02.000
 the curse

01:02:02.000 --> 01:02:04.340
 for his

01:02:04.340 --> 01:02:04.780
 people

01:02:04.780 --> 01:02:09.160
 are you

01:02:09.160 --> 01:02:09.500
 tonight

01:02:09.500 --> 01:02:10.019
 under his

01:02:10.019 --> 01:02:10.720
 intercession

01:02:10.720 --> 01:02:13.260
 who is

01:02:13.260 --> 01:02:13.740
 remembering

01:02:13.740 --> 01:02:14.180
 you in the

01:02:14.180 --> 01:02:14.740
 presence of

01:02:14.740 --> 01:02:14.960
 God

01:02:14.960 --> 01:02:15.320
 remember

01:02:15.320 --> 01:02:16.340
 it's not

01:02:16.340 --> 01:02:16.700
 the same

01:02:16.700 --> 01:02:17.019
 thing to

01:02:17.019 --> 01:02:17.400
 have people

01:02:17.400 --> 01:02:18.200
 praying for

01:02:18.200 --> 01:02:18.580
 you

01:02:18.580 --> 01:02:20.460
 as to be

01:02:20.460 --> 01:02:21.200
 within the

01:02:21.200 --> 01:02:21.820
 intercession

01:02:21.820 --> 01:02:22.380
 of Jesus

01:02:22.380 --> 01:02:23.080
 himself

01:02:23.080 --> 01:02:25.600
 through faith

01:02:25.600 --> 01:02:26.260
 in Christ

01:02:26.260 --> 01:02:28.320
 through trusting

01:02:28.320 --> 01:02:28.920
 in him

01:02:28.920 --> 01:02:30.160
 through handing

01:02:30.160 --> 01:02:30.880
 your life over

01:02:30.880 --> 01:02:31.340
 to him

01:02:31.340 --> 01:02:31.880
 whatever way

01:02:31.880 --> 01:02:32.440
 you describe

01:02:32.440 --> 01:02:32.640
 it

01:02:32.639 --> 01:02:34.000
 you come

01:02:34.000 --> 01:02:34.519
 under this

01:02:34.519 --> 01:02:35.359
 magnificent

01:02:35.359 --> 01:02:36.960
 indescribable

01:02:36.960 --> 01:02:37.960
 wonderful

01:02:37.960 --> 01:02:38.739
 privilege

01:02:38.739 --> 01:02:40.379
 of having

01:02:40.379 --> 01:02:40.859
 the king

01:02:40.859 --> 01:02:41.440
 of heaven

01:02:41.440 --> 01:02:43.119
 interceding

01:02:43.119 --> 01:02:43.699
 for you

01:02:43.699 --> 01:02:45.219
 constantly

01:02:45.219 --> 01:02:45.859
 remembering

01:02:45.859 --> 01:02:46.259
 you

01:02:46.259 --> 01:02:47.579
 in the

01:02:47.579 --> 01:02:47.900
 presence

01:02:47.900 --> 01:02:48.379
 of the

01:02:48.379 --> 01:02:48.739
 father

01:02:48.739 --> 01:02:50.599
 who would

01:02:50.599 --> 01:02:50.940
 want to

01:02:50.940 --> 01:02:51.239
 live

01:02:51.239 --> 01:02:52.739
 without

01:02:52.739 --> 01:02:53.319
 that

01:02:53.319 --> 01:02:54.739
 let's

01:02:54.739 --> 01:02:54.980
 pray

01:02:54.980 --> 01:02:57.159
 oh

01:02:57.159 --> 01:02:57.400
 lord

01:02:57.400 --> 01:02:57.599
 our

01:02:57.599 --> 01:02:57.940
 god

01:02:57.940 --> 01:02:58.139
 we

01:02:58.139 --> 01:02:58.379
 give

01:02:58.379 --> 01:02:58.859
 thanks

01:02:58.859 --> 01:03:00.559
 for the

01:03:00.559 --> 01:03:00.920
 provision

01:03:00.920 --> 01:03:01.299
 that you

01:03:01.299 --> 01:03:01.719
 have made

01:03:01.719 --> 01:03:02.339
 for us

01:03:02.340 --> 01:03:03.780
 so that

01:03:03.780 --> 01:03:04.200
 as sinners

01:03:04.200 --> 01:03:04.579
 we would

01:03:04.579 --> 01:03:04.960
 not be

01:03:04.960 --> 01:03:05.539
 consumed

01:03:05.539 --> 01:03:06.760
 by the

01:03:06.760 --> 01:03:07.100
 wrath

01:03:07.100 --> 01:03:07.480
 that we

01:03:07.480 --> 01:03:07.980
 so much

01:03:07.980 --> 01:03:08.600
 deserve

01:03:08.600 --> 01:03:10.280
 we thank

01:03:10.280 --> 01:03:10.700
 you tonight

01:03:10.700 --> 01:03:11.320
 for Jesus

01:03:11.320 --> 01:03:11.920
 for the

01:03:11.920 --> 01:03:12.740
 mediatorship

01:03:12.740 --> 01:03:13.700
 that he

01:03:13.700 --> 01:03:14.440
 exercises

01:03:14.440 --> 01:03:16.000
 and for

01:03:16.000 --> 01:03:16.340
 the way

01:03:16.340 --> 01:03:16.780
 that he

01:03:16.780 --> 01:03:17.500
 came into

01:03:17.500 --> 01:03:18.079
 this world

01:03:18.079 --> 01:03:19.360
 and entered

01:03:19.360 --> 01:03:19.940
 into that

01:03:19.940 --> 01:03:20.680
 thick darkness

01:03:20.680 --> 01:03:21.400
 that no one

01:03:21.400 --> 01:03:22.200
 can describe

01:03:22.200 --> 01:03:23.720
 the darkness

01:03:23.720 --> 01:03:24.440
 of bearing

01:03:24.440 --> 01:03:24.960
 the wrath

01:03:24.960 --> 01:03:25.500
 of god

01:03:25.500 --> 01:03:27.120
 we thank

01:03:27.120 --> 01:03:27.539
 you lord

01:03:27.539 --> 01:03:28.460
 that he

01:03:28.460 --> 01:03:28.920
 endured

01:03:28.920 --> 01:03:29.420
 and came

01:03:29.420 --> 01:03:29.800
 through

01:03:29.800 --> 01:03:32.440
 and came

01:03:32.440 --> 01:03:33.120
 from the

01:03:33.120 --> 01:03:33.360
 dead

01:03:33.360 --> 01:03:33.920
 itself

01:03:33.920 --> 01:03:35.380
 to finally

01:03:35.380 --> 01:03:36.019
 be ascended

01:03:36.019 --> 01:03:36.539
 to heaven

01:03:36.539 --> 01:03:37.580
 to sit

01:03:37.580 --> 01:03:37.780
 at the

01:03:37.780 --> 01:03:38.280
 right hand

01:03:38.280 --> 01:03:38.820
 of god

01:03:38.820 --> 01:03:40.300
 oh help

01:03:40.300 --> 01:03:40.640
 us we

01:03:40.640 --> 01:03:40.920
 pray

01:03:40.920 --> 01:03:41.980
 to have

01:03:41.980 --> 01:03:42.560
 our trust

01:03:42.560 --> 01:03:43.039
 in you

01:03:43.039 --> 01:03:44.140
 to have

01:03:44.140 --> 01:03:44.760
 our confidence

01:03:44.760 --> 01:03:45.300
 in that

01:03:45.300 --> 01:03:45.700
 lord

01:03:45.700 --> 01:03:47.180
 and turn

01:03:47.180 --> 01:03:47.519
 us we

01:03:47.519 --> 01:03:47.940
 pray

01:03:47.940 --> 01:03:48.820
 from our

01:03:48.820 --> 01:03:49.360
 own ways

01:03:49.360 --> 01:03:49.740
 from our

01:03:49.740 --> 01:03:50.480
 own thoughts

01:03:50.480 --> 01:03:51.860
 so that we

01:03:51.860 --> 01:03:52.340
 might think

01:03:52.340 --> 01:03:52.880
 our thoughts

01:03:52.880 --> 01:03:53.580
 after you

01:03:53.580 --> 01:03:54.860
 as we find

01:03:54.860 --> 01:03:55.440
 these in your

01:03:55.440 --> 01:03:55.840
 word

01:03:55.840 --> 01:03:56.820
 bless us

01:03:56.820 --> 01:03:57.160
 then we

01:03:57.160 --> 01:03:57.740
 pray for

01:03:57.740 --> 01:03:58.080
 jesus

01:03:58.080 --> 01:03:58.519
 sake

01:03:58.519 --> 01:03:59.320
 amen

01:03:59.320 --> 01:04:02.019
 now we're

01:04:02.019 --> 01:04:02.420
 going to sing

01:04:02.420 --> 01:04:02.900
 finally in

01:04:02.900 --> 01:04:03.300
 conclusion

01:04:03.300 --> 01:04:03.740
 tonight

01:04:03.740 --> 01:04:04.220
 from psalm

01:04:04.220 --> 01:04:05.160
 119

01:04:05.160 --> 01:04:05.580
 again

01:04:05.580 --> 01:04:07.800
 psalm

01:04:07.800 --> 01:04:08.519
 119

01:04:08.519 --> 01:04:08.800
 again

01:04:08.800 --> 01:04:09.140
 is the

01:04:09.140 --> 01:04:09.480
 scottish

01:04:09.480 --> 01:04:09.780
 psalter

01:04:09.780 --> 01:04:10.059
 version

01:04:10.059 --> 01:04:10.480
 page

01:04:10.480 --> 01:04:11.980
 415

01:04:11.980 --> 01:04:13.480
 and we

01:04:13.480 --> 01:04:13.800
 sing from

01:04:13.800 --> 01:04:14.960
 verse 172

01:04:14.960 --> 01:04:15.380
 the final

01:04:15.380 --> 01:04:16.380
 four stanzas

01:04:16.380 --> 01:04:17.940
 of psalm

01:04:17.940 --> 01:04:18.800
 119

01:04:18.800 --> 01:04:19.380
 my tongue

01:04:19.380 --> 01:04:19.760
 of thy

01:04:19.760 --> 01:04:20.400
 most blessed

01:04:20.400 --> 01:04:20.780
 word

01:04:20.780 --> 01:04:21.480
 shall speak

01:04:21.480 --> 01:04:22.480
 and it

01:04:22.480 --> 01:04:23.100
 confess

01:04:23.100 --> 01:04:24.200
 because all

01:04:24.200 --> 01:04:24.940
 thy commandments

01:04:24.940 --> 01:04:25.800
 are perfect

01:04:25.800 --> 01:04:26.320
 righteousness

01:04:26.320 --> 01:04:27.580
 let thy

01:04:27.580 --> 01:04:28.420
 strong hand

01:04:28.420 --> 01:04:29.019
 make help

01:04:29.019 --> 01:04:29.500
 to me

01:04:29.500 --> 01:04:30.980
 thy precepts

01:04:30.980 --> 01:04:31.320
 are my

01:04:31.320 --> 01:04:31.780
 choice

01:04:31.780 --> 01:04:33.160
 i longed

01:04:33.160 --> 01:04:33.519
 for thy

01:04:33.519 --> 01:04:34.080
 salvation

01:04:34.080 --> 01:04:34.559
 lord

01:04:34.559 --> 01:04:35.559
 and in

01:04:35.559 --> 01:04:36.200
 thy law

01:04:36.200 --> 01:04:37.120
 rejoice

01:04:37.120 --> 01:04:37.660
 these words

01:04:37.660 --> 01:04:38.400
 in conclusion

01:04:38.400 --> 01:04:47.080
 my tongue

01:04:47.080 --> 01:04:48.980
 of thy

01:04:48.980 --> 01:04:49.880
 most

01:04:49.880 --> 01:04:51.580
 blessed

01:04:51.580 --> 01:04:53.580
 word

01:04:53.579 --> 01:04:57.319
 shall be

01:04:57.319 --> 01:04:59.239
 shall speak

01:04:59.239 --> 01:05:05.279
 shall speak

01:05:05.279 --> 01:05:14.980
 and it

01:05:14.980 --> 01:05:15.319
ановly

01:05:15.320 --> 01:05:26.980
 Let thy strong hand be held to me.

01:05:26.980 --> 01:05:33.980
 Thy pleasets are my choice.

01:05:34.900 --> 01:05:43.300
 I long for thy salvation, Lord.

01:05:43.300 --> 01:05:51.120
 And in thy glory rejoice.

01:05:51.120 --> 01:06:00.120
 O let thy soul in hand be sharp.

01:06:01.019 --> 01:06:07.120
 Give praises come to thee.

01:06:07.119 --> 01:06:16.940
 And let thy judgment wish us.

01:06:16.940 --> 01:06:23.119
 Be helpful unto thee.

01:06:23.119 --> 01:06:32.940
 I lie in the lost sheep wanes astray.

01:06:32.940 --> 01:06:40.760
 I serve as secret and high.

01:06:40.760 --> 01:06:48.580
 For thy promise I suffer not.

01:06:48.579 --> 01:06:56.400
 To save as of my mind.

01:06:56.400 --> 01:06:58.400
 Amen.

01:06:58.400 --> 01:07:02.960
 Now, we're not using the main door this evening for exiting the building because of the strength of the weather.

01:07:03.619 --> 01:07:05.440
 I'm not sure if Rory's opening this one.

01:07:05.840 --> 01:07:07.559
 This one is and this one as well.

01:07:07.780 --> 01:07:11.800
 So just come forward to the side doors, please, to vacate the building this evening.

01:07:11.880 --> 01:07:13.500
 I'll go to the door to my right.

01:07:13.760 --> 01:07:18.720
 Those upstairs can just choose which one of the front doors they come to, side doors they come to.

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 Now, may the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God the Father, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you now and evermore.

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 Amen.

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 Amen.