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 We're going to begin our worship now. We're singing firstly today in Psalm 96.

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 Psalm 96, that's in the Scottish Psalter, page 358.

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 Sing to the tune of St. Magnus, verses 1 to 6.

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 Sing a new song to the Lord. Sing all the earth to God. To God sing. Bless His name.

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 Show still His saving health abroad. Among the heathen nations His glory do declare.

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 And unto all the people show His works that wondrous are.

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 If you're able to stand, we'll stand to sing these verses, Psalm 96.

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 Sing a new song to the Lord. Sing all the earth to God.

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 To God sing. Bless His name.

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 Sing all the earth to God.

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 Sing all the earth to God.

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 Sing all the earth to God.

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 Sing all the earth to God.

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 Among the heathen nations His glory do declare.

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 And unto all the people show His works that wondrous are.

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 For Christ the Lord.

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 For Christ the Lord, not greatly be.

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 Is to be magnified.

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 Yea, worthy to be feared.

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 Is he above all those beside.

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 For all those beside.

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 For all the gods are idols found,

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 Which blinded nations fear.

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 A Seventh the land of the Hajnnej.

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 100%.

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 A se glass may be imantizized.

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 The way of your grave, the Mary masters fear.

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 With

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يرon most.

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 The Lord by you, the heavens be interweb.

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 With honour is the Lord is face, and majesty divine.

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 Strength is within his holy place, and there the beauty shines.

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 Let's call upon the Lord now in prayer briefly.

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 Our gracious God, we give thanks today that we are gathered here in your name.

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 That we do so under your own promise that you will be with your people as they gather.

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 And we thank you that we come together of all ages and all backgrounds,

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 and that we are welcome in your presence.

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 We give thanks, Lord, for the provision you have made for us to enable us to come

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 through the work of the Lord Jesus Christ, who died on the cross and rose again from the dead,

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 and is today seated at the right hand of glory on high.

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 And we thank you that he reigns over us, and that we expect him to come back to this world

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 at the day that you have appointed.

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 We pray, Lord, today that we may be still in your presence,

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 that we may know your blessing as we come together.

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 Bless the children today, we pray.

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 Bless them in all their activities, not only today, but as we anticipate that throughout this week.

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 Lord, we thank you for all our children, for our young families belonging to the congregation.

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 For we give thanks to you, O Lord, for the way in which we are so encouraged and so often given to rejoice

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 in seeing so many young lives coming to be taught the things of God.

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 Bless them, we pray today, and all who teach them and all who belong to them as parents and relatives.

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 Be with us in all our homes.

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 Grant us your blessing throughout this day.

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 For Jesus' sake.

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 Amen.

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 Now, I know you're going to be looking at Gideon again today in Sunday School Lessons,

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 and today you're looking at Gideon's victory, or Gideon victorious.

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 And in Judges chapter 7, I'm not sure if you're going to be looking at that chapter or not,

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 but Judges chapter 7 records a great victory that Gideon achieved by God's help over the Midianites.

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 And there's something quite amazing in the chapter as you read through it.

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 And it's this, that Gideon was told by God that he had too many people with him,

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 and he had to reduce that number until eventually he just had 300 out of 24,000 men that he began with.

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 Now, that's very strange because when you read in verse 12 there,

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 the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the east lay along the valley like locusts in abundance,

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 and their camels were without number as the sand that is on the seashore in abundance.

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 Why would God tell Gideon, you've got too many people,

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 when there were thousands and thousands and thousands of the Midianites and the Amalekites also that they were going to fight against?

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 Well, the reason was that Gideon was going to manage victory with God's help with the 300,

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 and that was going to give glory to God.

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 It was going to show Gideon that the power, the victory, belonged to God, not to themselves.

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 It was God helping them, enabling them, that gave them that victory.

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 And it was showing them that the power that gives us victory belongs to God alone,

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 and obviously from that they were being taught to depend on God and not on themselves,

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 not on anything that they had by way of their own gifts.

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 And so I want you today, young folks, to pray for God's power in your lives.

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 We all need God's power, and whatever age we are, we need God's power working in our lives today.

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 And what that means is that we need to pray for God's help and for God's power to work in our lives.

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 It doesn't matter what we're facing.

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 It doesn't matter how much bigger that may seem than ourselves.

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 It's important that we depend on God to give us the ability.

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 The second thing I want you to remember is that when we are given help by God, we need immediately to thank Him.

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 It's very interesting here in this chapter that you'll find in verse 15 that after Gideon,

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 you can look at the incident later yourselves, but he went down to the camp of the Amalekites.

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 He was told a dream had taken place.

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 One of these men of the Amalekites had had a dream, and another one was telling the story, the meaning of the dream.

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 And it was going to be a victory for Gideon and for his people.

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 And as soon as Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, he worshipped.

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 Isn't that important?

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 As soon as he heard what that dream meant and realized that it meant victory for them, he worshipped the Lord.

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 And for us too, that's important.

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 We're here today to worship God, and you young lives, you children as well are part of that.

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 And we're here to give thanks to God as well as to pray to God for His help.

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 So remember, pray for His power in your life.

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 And always give Him thanks.

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 Whatever He gives you at any time, give Him the thanks.

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 Give Him the glory just as Gideon did.

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 Well, let's say the Lord's prayer again together.

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 Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.

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 Thy kingdom come.

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 Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

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 Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

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 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

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 For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory forever.

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 Amen.

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 We're going to sing some more verses now, this time in Psalm 119.

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 In the same Psalms, page 159, verses 33 to 40.

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 And the tune is Finart.

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 Teach me to follow your decrees, then I will keep them to the end.

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 Give insight, and I'll keep your law with all my heart to it attend.

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 That section of Psalm 119.

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 That section of Psalm 119.

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 To God's praise.

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 Teach me to follow your decrees, then I will keep them to the end.

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 With this sight of that dear pure law with all my heart to it attend.

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 We feed me in your commandment's path.

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 For then, O Lord, delight thy mind.

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 They provide my heart to the Lord's new laws.

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 Come, selfish King, descend my life.

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 Oh, God, my heart to the Lord's new laws.

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 Oh, God, my heart to the Lord's new laws.

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 Come, selfish King, descend my heart to the Lord's new laws.

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 Give life according to your word.

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 To lead your servant, keep your place.

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 So that you may be here, O Lord's new laws.

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 Be good from me, the shame I get.

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 Your laws accept and unrighteousness.

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 O how I long for your redeeming.

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 Please bear me in your righteousness.

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 A reading of God's word today is from the book of Numbers.

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 The book of Numbers.

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 And we're reading in chapter 10.

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 We'll begin reading at verse 11.

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 So Numbers chapter 10 at verse 11.

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 In the second year and the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, the cloud lifted from over the tabernacle of the testimony.

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 And the people of Israel set out by stages from the wilderness of Sinai.

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 And the clouds settled down in the wilderness of Paran.

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 They set out for the first time at the command of the Lord by Moses.

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 The standard of the camp of the people of Judah set out first by their companies.

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 And over their company was Nashon, the son of Amminadab.

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 And over the company of the tribe of the people of Issachar was Nethanel, the son of Zuar.

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 And over the company of the tribe of the people of Zebulun was Eliab, the son of Helon.

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 And when the tabernacle was taken down, the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who carried the tabernacle, set out.

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 And the standard of the camp of Rehuban set out by their companies.

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 And over their company was Elisur, the son of Shedur.

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 And over the company of the tribe of the people of Simeon was Shelamiel, the son of Zerushaddai.

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 And over the company of the tribe of the people of Gad was Elisaph, the son of Deuel.

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 Then the Kohathites set out, carrying the holy things.

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 And the tabernacle was set up before their arrival.

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 And the standard of the camp of the people of Ephraim set out by their companies.

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 And over their company was Elisamah, the son of Ammihud.

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 And over the company of the tribe of the people of Manasseh was Gamaliel, the son of Pedasur.

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 And over the company of the tribe of the people of Benjamin was Abaddon, the son of Gedeoni.

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 Then the standard of the camp of the people of Dan, acting as the rear guard of all the camps, set out by their companies.

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 And over their company was Ahiezer, the son of Amishaddai.

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 And over the company of the tribe of the people of Asher was Pagiel, the son of Ochran.

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 And over the company of the tribe of the people of Naphtali was Ahira, the son of Inan.

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 This was the order of the march of the people of Israel by their companies when they set out.

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 And Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law,

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 We are setting out for the place of which the Lord said, I will give it to you.

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 Come with us. We will do good to you.

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 For the Lord has promised good to Israel.

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 But he said to him, I will not go.

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 I will depart to my own land and to my kindred.

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 And he said, Please do not leave us.

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 For you know where we would camp in the wilderness.

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 And you will serve as eyes for us.

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 And if you do go with us, whatever good the Lord will do to us, the same will we do to you.

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 So they set out from the mount of the Lord for three days' journey.

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 And the ark of the covenant of the Lord went before them for three days' journey to seek out a resting place for them.

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 And the cloud of the Lord was over them by day whenever they set out from the camp.

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 And whenever the ark set out, Moses said, Arise, O Lord, and let your enemies be scattered.

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 And let those who hate you flee before you.

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 And when it rested, he said, Return, O Lord, to the ten thousands of Israel.

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 Amen. May God bless to us reading that portion of his word.

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 Let's join together again in prayer.

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 Lord, our God, these words that we have read cause us to reflect upon our need for your guidance.

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 And the need for order in the way that we set about our lives.

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 And we give thanks that you are the God of order and of guidance.

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 That you are the one who gives counsel to your people, even as they travel through on their journey through this world.

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 Lord, we bless you that like Moses, we too can say that you have given us an account of what the journey will involve and where we are going to as we come to trust in you and look forward to that eternity you promised to your people.

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 We thank you today, Lord, that we gather as a joint company of people whose will it is that we should know you and that you should reveal yourself again to us.

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 So, Lord, bless us.

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 So, Lord, bless to us your word, we pray.

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 And enable us as we look upon this passage together that we will do so conscious of our need to truly belong to the company of your believing people.

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 To belong to those who are traveling in their own way by faith and relying upon the Lord himself and not on anything with which you may have endowed us.

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 So, bless us, we pray, as a congregation today.

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 Oh, Lord, we thank you for all the encouragement you give us.

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 We thank you for the many activities that we already heard of and read through as we anticipate in this coming week.

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 The various types of meetings and of worship services that we engage in as a people.

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 And we thank you, Lord, that you enable us to have the resources that we have for these activities and events.

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 And we thank you for them.

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 We thank you, Lord, that you continue to provide for us against our need.

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 We bless you that your promise is that you will at all times look to the need of your people.

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 And we pray for the confidence that your servant Paul had long ago when he could say of himself that he was confident that God would supply all the need of the Philippian church according to his riches and glory by Christ Jesus.

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 So, help us, we pray, today as we worship you.

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 And help us by your Holy Spirit, Lord, to lay to heart the things that you teach us in your word.

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 Bless us, we pray, as a congregation continue to bestow upon us the blessings of the gospel, the blessings of your Holy Spirit,

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 so that we may progress spiritually and morally and grow in the grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

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 O Lord, our God, we today give thanks that the promise you give to your church in all ages is that you will never depart from them,

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 that you will never forsake them, even in the difficulties of life.

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 Yet we acknowledge, Lord, that we, by our own sin, cause the times that you face may be hidden from us.

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 And we will not have the comfort that we ought to have in our hearts.

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 We know that it is our sin that causes such times in our lives.

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 Lord, we ask that whenever we are conscious of being at a distance from you,

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 whenever we are conscious that in our hearts we have backslidden,

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 that we have become cold, that our love is not as it once was and should be.

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 Lord, help us, we pray, to return to you.

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 Enable us to heed your voice and your appeal to us in the word.

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 And Lord, help us today, if that be our condition,

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 that we may be drawn by your Holy Spirit again,

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 that we may come to appreciate anew the warmth and the benefit of fellowship with you.

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 Bless any today, we pray, who are still unsaved,

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 and who have not come to rest upon the Lord Jesus Christ for time and for eternity.

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 Bless them, we pray, under your word today.

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 Be near to them, Lord, to open their hearts and give them the mind and the wherewithal to embrace you

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 as you offer yourself in your word to us.

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 And we pray that we may know of many during our own days here and elsewhere coming to know the Lord.

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 Bless, we pray again, those who have particular needs in our midst today.

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 Again, we remember those who mourn the passing of loved ones.

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 We know in this past week, O Lord, again, we've had two funerals, two families involved in times of sorrow and loss.

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 We pray for them and we pray that you would bless them even in the times that they find most acutely the pain of departure from loved ones.

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 Gracious one, we ask that you would be pleased to bestow your comfort upon them.

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 And remember all others who reflect upon times gone by and people who are no longer with them in this world.

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 O Lord, in all our bereavements and our sorrows, be our comforter, we pray.

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 Be our God to guide us and to counsel us that we may be able to say with the psalmist long ago that you hold us by your right hand and that you guide us with your counsel.

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 And afterwards that you will receive us to your glory.

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 Bless the world in which we live in these troublous days, O Lord.

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 We pray especially for places where there is violence and war, terror, famine, neglect.

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 Be pleased we pray in all these places in the world to remember them who suffer adversity at this time.

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 Be with the situation in the Middle East.

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 Lord, we ask that through your blessing, even though it may seem to us hardly possible, bring about, we pray, a lasting peace between the warring peoples.

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 Remember the situation also in Ukraine.

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 Again, we continue to pray for your people there.

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 We ask, O Lord, that you would bring deliverance from the oppression and from the violence that is carried out against your people there.

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 Lord, we ask that you would bless your church there.

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 Bless those who continue faithful to you.

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 Be pleased in all other places of the world, Lord, to create peace where there is strife and war.

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 Make us thankful that we have such a level of peace and security in our own circumstances.

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 But bless us, we pray, as a nation, as a people.

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 For we know, Lord, that there is much evidence every day we live of a departure from you and from your ways and from your values, from your commands.

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 Turn us, we pray, to yourself as a people.

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 And to that end, bless those who are ruling over us.

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 And grant them, Lord, that they may trust in you, that they may look to you and realize their accountability to you.

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 And that they may come by your grace to rule wisely and to exercise wisdom and judgment.

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 Hear us now, we pray, and continue with us here, pardoning all our sin, washing us freely, for Jesus' sake. Amen.

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 Let's sing once again before we turn to Numbers chapter 10.

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 We're singing this time Psalm 84.

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 84, that's on page 112.

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 Sing to Tune Ottawa, verses 1 to 7.

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 How delightful are your dwellings, O Almighty Lord, to me!

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 For your courts my soul is yearning, in your house I long to be.

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 Heart and flesh cry out aloud, for the true and living God.

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 And verse 5 to 7, which speaks about the journey, as we'll see in Numbers.

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 We're thinking today of God's people, ourselves being gathered together for travel, on a journey on into eternity.

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 Blessed are those whose strength is in you, those who have a pilgrim's mind.

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 Pools from autumn rains refresh them, springs and bakers veil they find.

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 Strength increasing, Zionward, they go on their way to God.

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 So we'll sing these verses, Psalm 84, to God's praise.

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 Amen.

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 Ro

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 Your force my soul is bearing, in your hearts I long to thee.

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 I can pledge thy love for the true and living love.

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 Even sorrows find their dwellings, and thus follow hills and airs.

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 Near here, altar, Lord Almighty, where the offspring may have rest.

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 Blessed are those who strengthens in you, those who have a wilderness mind.

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 Who strong autumn waves refresh their strings and make us live behind.

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 Strength and peace inside of the world, they go on their way to God.

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 Amen.

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 Amen.

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 Amen.

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 Please turn with me now to Numbers chapter 10.

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 And today we're looking at verses 29 to 32.

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 And Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law, We are setting

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 out for the place of which the Lord said, I will give it to you.

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 Come with us, and we will do good to you, for the Lord has promised good to Israel.

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 But he said to him, I will not go.

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 I will depart to my own land and to my kindred.

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 And he said, please do not leave us, for you know where we should camp in the wilderness,

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 and you will serve as eyes for us.

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 And if you do go with us, whatever good the Lord will do to us, the same we will do to you.

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 Well, as we continue to look at the theme of the gathered church, gathered for various reasons,

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 gathered in different circumstances, today we're looking at the gathered church in terms

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 of the church on a journey or the church traveling onwards.

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 And we'll see something of what comes across in this part of the book of Numbers, these verses

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 we've read especially.

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 Because Numbers really is about this journey of the people of Israel on towards the promised

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 land of Canaan, as the Lord had promised to them, and as Moses here said to Chobab.

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 In fact, that's in the Hebrew text, which is what the Old Testament was written in.

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 This book is not called Numbers.

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 That came about by it being translated firstly into Greek and then all the other various languages

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 into which it was translated.

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 But the book that we know is the book of Numbers.

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 The title in the Hebrew text is In the Wilderness.

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 In the Wilderness.

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 Because it's talking, telling about this journey of the people in the wilderness, through the

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 wilderness, on towards the land that God had promised them.

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 God had said to them through Moses in Exodus chapter 8 that he had heard their groanings.

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 He was coming out.

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 He had come down to rescue them out of the hand of the Egyptians, to take them out of that

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 land, and to take them into a land that flows with milk and honey.

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 Where God takes us out of, He also takes us into.

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 He doesn't take us out of our state of being lost, our deadness and sin.

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 He doesn't take us out of that without taking us into its wonderful replacement in the salvation

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 that we have in the Lord Jesus Christ.

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 We are either in one or the other today.

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 And the Lord is teaching us here the importance of traveling together with the mind of pilgrims

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 on towards the land that God has promised His people.

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 Now, not all the people of Israel would actually enter the land of Canaan.

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 Sadly, many, many of them died in the wilderness.

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 And when you go to the book of Hebrews in the New Testament, Hebrews actually tells us that

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 the reason so many of them fell in the wilderness was due to their unbelief.

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 Their unbelief, their lack of faith.

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 The word that God sent to them was not actually received by them in faith.

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 And because of unbelief, they did not enter into the land of Canaan.

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 In other words, it's the same that you find with the church throughout all the generations,

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 throughout all the time of history and on to the end of the world.

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 There will always be a mixed multitude.

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 There will always be people who have received the word of the Lord believingly,

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 and therefore are in a relationship with himself where they are saved,

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 where they are secure in Christ.

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 And there are others who have not come to place their trust in the Lord,

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 who are traveling with those who believe, with those who come to trust,

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 whose place in the church is valued,

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 but who have not yet come to place their trust in the Lord Jesus Christ

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 and receive Him as their Savior.

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 So we remember that that's the case today as we look at this passage,

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 that the way we're traveling together,

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 it's important for us to remember that traveling together in that sense

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 doesn't guarantee automatically that we will enter into heaven.

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 We need to have Jesus for ourselves.

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 We need to receive Jesus as He's offered to us in the gospel.

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 We need to have Him as our King and as our Lord.

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 So let's look at these verses as we see them setting out,

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 the traveling together of the people.

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 They set out from the mount of the Lord for three days' journey.

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 Now Moses gives Hobab, first of all, an explanation

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 before he gives them the invitation to actually come to travel with them.

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 He gave them, first of all, the explanation of their journey,

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 where they were going to, where they were journeying on to.

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 And then having given them that explanation,

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 he gave them this invitation,

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 come with us and we will do good to you.

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 And then after the explanation and the invitation,

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 when Hobab refused and preferred to go back to his own people,

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 he then exhorted him,

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 please come with us.

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 And he explained to him,

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 any good that the Lord will do,

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 all the good the Lord will do to us,

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 we will also do to you.

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 So you have these three things,

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 this explanation,

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 this invitation,

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 and this exhortation,

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 all built into this short passage

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 describing the travels that Moses anticipated

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 towards the promised land.

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 So it's important that he began with,

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 we note that he began with this explanation of the journey.

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 We are traveling,

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 we are setting out for the place of which the Lord said,

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 I will give it to you.

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 He began with that statement.

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 That's really, in a sense,

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 what we do with the gospel as well.

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 We don't just come and look at the invitations

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 without something of what lies behind it,

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 without something of the statements

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 of the truth of God,

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 as he gives it to us,

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 on which the invitation is built.

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 We don't just appeal to people

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 in preaching the gospel

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 so that all you have is just a set of appeals

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 or maybe some nice stories or illustrations,

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 good though these are,

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 and important though the appeal is.

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 Every time you come in the Bible

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 to God's appeal,

00:33:15.400 --> 00:33:16.299
 to come to himself,

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 to follow him,

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 to trust in him,

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 and so on,

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 you always come to find

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 certain truths along with that,

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 certain truths on which the invitation

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 and the appeal is based.

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 And it's the same here.

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 In summary,

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 you find Moses here saying,

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 we are traveling to this place

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 of which the Lord said,

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 I will give it to you.

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 He's saying,

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 here is a place

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 the Lord has actually assured us

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 that he's giving us this place,

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 that he's made it ours,

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 and we're on the way to it.

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 So on the basis of that truth,

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 he's then inviting him to come and join them.

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 And you notice,

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 he is saying,

00:33:52.640 --> 00:33:53.860
 we're traveling to the place

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 of which the Lord said,

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 I will give it to you,

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 or I'm giving it to you.

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 It's really a matter of the Lord's gift to them,

00:34:08.980 --> 00:34:11.320
 so that the main feature in the passage really,

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 and through the whole of this book of Numbers,

00:34:13.539 --> 00:34:16.059
 though it's describing the journey of the people of Israel,

00:34:16.519 --> 00:34:19.279
 the main feature of it is the Lord's presence with them,

00:34:19.340 --> 00:34:20.279
 the Lord's guidance,

00:34:20.280 --> 00:34:23.580
 the Lord being their God as he goes before them,

00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:27.340
 as represented here by the ark being with them,

00:34:27.420 --> 00:34:28.760
 being in their midst,

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 and the cloud that's over them by day,

00:34:31.220 --> 00:34:32.840
 and all that's associated with that,

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 the Lord is with them,

00:34:34.340 --> 00:34:35.260
 the Lord is guiding them,

00:34:35.300 --> 00:34:36.400
 the Lord is in their midst,

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 and it's that Lord who has given them this land

00:34:39.240 --> 00:34:41.140
 that they're traveling towards.

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 You see, salvation,

00:34:45.360 --> 00:34:46.680
 the journey of salvation,

00:34:46.679 --> 00:34:48.940
 the journey through this world

00:34:48.940 --> 00:34:51.099
 onto the promised land of Canaan,

00:34:51.199 --> 00:34:52.679
 we didn't devise that journey.

00:34:53.179 --> 00:34:54.480
 It's not something that we invent.

00:34:54.619 --> 00:34:57.279
 It's not something that's arisen out of our own idea.

00:34:57.460 --> 00:35:00.199
 It's not something that's just grown in people's minds

00:35:00.199 --> 00:35:03.099
 and gradually built up momentum over the years

00:35:03.099 --> 00:35:05.719
 until we're at the stage that we're at today.

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 This is actually the same for us.

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 Salvation is God's deliverance from sin

00:35:11.019 --> 00:35:14.079
 and setting us on a journey that terminates in heaven,

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 and it's the Lord's doing.

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 It's the Lord's doing.

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 From beginning to end.

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 You know, we're so used, aren't we,

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 in the world in which we live,

00:35:25.819 --> 00:35:26.659
 the circumstances,

00:35:26.879 --> 00:35:28.319
 the situation we have in the world.

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 We're often told

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 that we don't really have a monopoly of the truth as Christians,

00:35:35.460 --> 00:35:37.039
 that we need to actually listen

00:35:37.039 --> 00:35:40.319
 and give due place to other faiths so-called,

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 that we need to combine together

00:35:43.400 --> 00:35:47.059
 all the accumulated wisdom of pagan writers,

00:35:47.059 --> 00:35:49.559
 of other faiths, of other religions,

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 and that is as you put them all together in a multi-faith,

00:35:53.039 --> 00:35:57.019
 including even the likes of secularists or scientific discoveries,

00:35:57.519 --> 00:35:59.519
 that then you're in a position to ask,

00:35:59.519 --> 00:36:02.179
 well, where can I get the truth amongst all of that?

00:36:02.179 --> 00:36:04.460
 Is it really as I put all of that together

00:36:04.460 --> 00:36:08.019
 that I come to some idea or semblance of where the truth lies?

00:36:08.219 --> 00:36:08.980
 No, God is saying,

00:36:08.980 --> 00:36:10.920
 I have given you my truth.

00:36:11.159 --> 00:36:12.460
 I have given you my word.

00:36:12.780 --> 00:36:15.440
 I have given you this revelation of myself.

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 I have given you this explanation of where the world came from,

00:36:19.119 --> 00:36:20.420
 who created it,

00:36:20.719 --> 00:36:21.659
 what is it like,

00:36:21.780 --> 00:36:23.260
 why is it in a state it's in?

00:36:23.960 --> 00:36:27.480
 I have given you this record of my Son coming into the world,

00:36:27.699 --> 00:36:28.820
 of His death on the cross,

00:36:28.900 --> 00:36:30.500
 of His resurrection from the dead,

00:36:30.780 --> 00:36:32.039
 of His ascension to glory,

00:36:32.119 --> 00:36:33.719
 of His return on the last day.

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 You have all of that.

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 That's the truth.

00:36:38.720 --> 00:36:42.539
 We're not traveling together without knowing where we're going.

00:36:43.500 --> 00:36:45.280
 We're not traveling on a journey,

00:36:45.480 --> 00:36:46.360
 on a path,

00:36:46.780 --> 00:36:49.139
 on a road that we've devised for ourselves.

00:36:50.480 --> 00:36:51.980
 We're not actually traveling

00:36:51.980 --> 00:36:55.119
 in what's just an accumulation of different ideas

00:36:55.119 --> 00:36:59.840
 that began with different philosophies of human beings.

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 It's exactly as Moses put it here.

00:37:02.679 --> 00:37:05.539
 We are on this journey.

00:37:05.759 --> 00:37:09.119
 We're setting out for the place of which the Lord said,

00:37:09.319 --> 00:37:11.079
 I will give it to you.

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 And you see,

00:37:12.619 --> 00:37:14.859
 there's a definite terminus as well,

00:37:14.879 --> 00:37:15.239
 isn't there,

00:37:15.239 --> 00:37:15.980
 for these people.

00:37:16.440 --> 00:37:18.339
 And Moses is reminding Hobab here,

00:37:18.759 --> 00:37:19.899
 this is where they're going to.

00:37:19.960 --> 00:37:20.559
 He's not just saying,

00:37:20.819 --> 00:37:21.480
 we're on a journey.

00:37:21.639 --> 00:37:23.319
 I'm not sure where it's going to end.

00:37:24.460 --> 00:37:24.859
 He's saying,

00:37:24.960 --> 00:37:27.619
 we are on this journey to this place

00:37:27.619 --> 00:37:28.980
 of which the Lord said,

00:37:29.059 --> 00:37:30.139
 I'm giving it to you.

00:37:30.139 --> 00:37:32.639
 There's a definite terminus in view.

00:37:33.679 --> 00:37:35.859
 And so you don't go along with current ideas,

00:37:35.980 --> 00:37:36.159
 really,

00:37:36.319 --> 00:37:38.839
 that says that you can't really be certain

00:37:38.839 --> 00:37:40.460
 about what the truth is

00:37:40.460 --> 00:37:41.839
 or can't really be certain

00:37:41.839 --> 00:37:43.239
 about things in the future.

00:37:44.440 --> 00:37:45.679
 Life is evolving.

00:37:46.940 --> 00:37:48.259
 We are evolving with it

00:37:48.259 --> 00:37:51.500
 as we go on in our human experience.

00:37:53.219 --> 00:37:53.739
 Uncertainties,

00:37:53.839 --> 00:37:56.460
 but life evolves as you go on.

00:37:56.460 --> 00:37:58.019
 So you can't really be sure

00:37:58.019 --> 00:37:59.679
 where it's going to terminate at all.

00:38:00.780 --> 00:38:01.139
 No,

00:38:01.159 --> 00:38:02.480
 that's not what God is saying.

00:38:03.820 --> 00:38:05.500
 You're on a journey to eternity.

00:38:07.260 --> 00:38:08.699
 And when you get to eternity,

00:38:08.880 --> 00:38:10.699
 there's only two possibilities,

00:38:11.980 --> 00:38:12.800
 two realities,

00:38:13.039 --> 00:38:14.039
 two certainties.

00:38:15.000 --> 00:38:16.360
 The eternity of the lost

00:38:16.360 --> 00:38:17.940
 or the eternity of the saved.

00:38:17.940 --> 00:38:20.960
 And the eternity of the saved

00:38:20.960 --> 00:38:21.900
 is this place

00:38:21.900 --> 00:38:25.820
 that the Lord has promised to His people

00:38:25.820 --> 00:38:27.559
 and Christ has prepared for them

00:38:27.559 --> 00:38:30.099
 as He taught His disciples

00:38:30.099 --> 00:38:32.740
 in the Gospel of John in chapter 14,

00:38:32.840 --> 00:38:33.679
 that wonderful chapter

00:38:33.679 --> 00:38:35.519
 that we so often read,

00:38:35.659 --> 00:38:37.320
 especially at times of loss,

00:38:37.420 --> 00:38:38.000
 of bereavement,

00:38:38.059 --> 00:38:38.500
 of sorrow.

00:38:39.380 --> 00:38:41.240
 Don't let your hearts be troubled.

00:38:41.239 --> 00:38:46.099
 I'm going to prepare a place for you.

00:38:47.259 --> 00:38:48.579
 If that were not the case,

00:38:48.719 --> 00:38:50.139
 would I have told you so?

00:38:51.919 --> 00:38:53.339
 It's the same as Moses here

00:38:53.339 --> 00:38:54.199
 saying to Hobab,

00:38:54.579 --> 00:38:55.739
 we are traveling.

00:38:56.159 --> 00:38:58.019
 We're setting out for this place

00:38:58.019 --> 00:38:59.639
 of which the Lord said,

00:38:59.939 --> 00:39:01.699
 I'm giving it to you.

00:39:02.959 --> 00:39:03.979
 You remember in Hebrews,

00:39:04.239 --> 00:39:05.159
 chapter 11,

00:39:05.259 --> 00:39:06.039
 that great list

00:39:06.039 --> 00:39:09.259
 of people who lived by faith.

00:39:10.180 --> 00:39:11.960
 And in the middle of that,

00:39:12.040 --> 00:39:12.680
 we have a statement

00:39:12.680 --> 00:39:13.720
 that fits in with the point

00:39:13.720 --> 00:39:15.040
 we've just made

00:39:15.040 --> 00:39:16.900
 that life's journey,

00:39:17.060 --> 00:39:19.080
 while it is full of uncertainties

00:39:19.080 --> 00:39:20.800
 in terms of what will happen to us

00:39:20.800 --> 00:39:21.420
 on the journey,

00:39:21.720 --> 00:39:22.860
 that's in God's hands,

00:39:23.440 --> 00:39:24.740
 but we know where the journey ends

00:39:24.740 --> 00:39:26.180
 and we know what the journey is about.

00:39:27.200 --> 00:39:28.220
 Here in the middle of this,

00:39:28.560 --> 00:39:30.200
 chapter 11 of Hebrews,

00:39:30.340 --> 00:39:31.140
 at verse 13,

00:39:31.900 --> 00:39:33.840
 you find a little summary

00:39:33.840 --> 00:39:35.780
 and then it moves on

00:39:35.780 --> 00:39:37.300
 to a list of further names.

00:39:37.800 --> 00:39:38.900
 And the summary goes like this.

00:39:38.900 --> 00:39:40.539
 These all died in faith,

00:39:41.139 --> 00:39:42.360
 not having received

00:39:42.360 --> 00:39:43.440
 the things promised,

00:39:44.059 --> 00:39:45.019
 but having seen them

00:39:45.019 --> 00:39:46.559
 and greeted them from afar,

00:39:47.099 --> 00:39:47.840
 having acknowledged

00:39:47.840 --> 00:39:49.000
 that they were strangers

00:39:49.000 --> 00:39:50.519
 and exiles on the earth.

00:39:51.059 --> 00:39:53.000
 For people who speak thus

00:39:53.000 --> 00:39:54.639
 make it clear

00:39:54.639 --> 00:39:55.820
 that they are seeking

00:39:55.820 --> 00:39:57.039
 a homeland.

00:39:58.099 --> 00:39:59.440
 And if they had been thinking

00:39:59.440 --> 00:40:00.280
 of that land

00:40:00.280 --> 00:40:01.480
 from which they had gone out,

00:40:01.900 --> 00:40:03.220
 they would have had opportunity

00:40:03.220 --> 00:40:04.079
 to return.

00:40:04.079 --> 00:40:05.900
 But as it is,

00:40:06.519 --> 00:40:07.420
 they desire

00:40:07.420 --> 00:40:09.059
 a better country,

00:40:09.420 --> 00:40:10.099
 that is,

00:40:10.319 --> 00:40:11.279
 a heavenly one.

00:40:11.900 --> 00:40:12.179
 Therefore,

00:40:12.400 --> 00:40:13.920
 God is not ashamed

00:40:13.920 --> 00:40:14.739
 to be called

00:40:14.739 --> 00:40:15.880
 their God.

00:40:16.319 --> 00:40:16.639
 Why?

00:40:17.119 --> 00:40:18.619
 For He has prepared

00:40:18.619 --> 00:40:19.179
 for them

00:40:19.179 --> 00:40:20.360
 a city.

00:40:21.539 --> 00:40:22.840
 It's been prepared.

00:40:23.579 --> 00:40:24.159
 It's ready.

00:40:25.799 --> 00:40:27.380
 Partly occupied already

00:40:27.380 --> 00:40:29.199
 by those who have gone

00:40:29.199 --> 00:40:30.000
 before us.

00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:33.000
 But Moses is saying,

00:40:33.739 --> 00:40:34.960
 we are traveling

00:40:34.960 --> 00:40:35.920
 to this place.

00:40:37.119 --> 00:40:38.159
 That's the reality

00:40:38.159 --> 00:40:38.840
 of the gospel.

00:40:39.780 --> 00:40:40.880
 That's what the gospel

00:40:40.880 --> 00:40:41.579
 is setting out

00:40:41.579 --> 00:40:42.679
 for you and for me today.

00:40:43.639 --> 00:40:45.340
 That God has prepared

00:40:45.340 --> 00:40:47.079
 an inheritance,

00:40:48.239 --> 00:40:49.900
 an eternal dwelling place

00:40:49.900 --> 00:40:50.699
 for His people.

00:40:50.699 --> 00:40:53.299
 And so,

00:40:53.379 --> 00:40:53.939
 the invitation

00:40:53.939 --> 00:40:54.980
 is based on that.

00:40:55.939 --> 00:40:56.859
 Come with us

00:40:56.859 --> 00:40:58.639
 and we will do

00:40:58.639 --> 00:40:59.639
 good to you.

00:41:00.299 --> 00:41:00.480
 So,

00:41:00.519 --> 00:41:01.179
 that's the second thing.

00:41:01.279 --> 00:41:02.239
 The explanation

00:41:02.239 --> 00:41:02.779
 is followed

00:41:02.779 --> 00:41:04.219
 by this invitation.

00:41:04.500 --> 00:41:05.939
 Come with us.

00:41:06.339 --> 00:41:07.359
 Following the explanation,

00:41:07.519 --> 00:41:08.919
 you have this invitation.

00:41:09.239 --> 00:41:09.960
 Hobab's here

00:41:09.960 --> 00:41:10.439
 with them

00:41:10.439 --> 00:41:11.779
 at Mount Sinai.

00:41:11.859 --> 00:41:12.299
 Hobab,

00:41:12.679 --> 00:41:13.179
 or Rauel,

00:41:13.299 --> 00:41:14.159
 as he's also called,

00:41:14.279 --> 00:41:14.719
 Moses'

00:41:15.139 --> 00:41:15.980
 father-in-law.

00:41:16.519 --> 00:41:17.460
 He wasn't a Hebrew.

00:41:18.279 --> 00:41:19.079
 He belonged to

00:41:19.079 --> 00:41:20.419
 the place

00:41:20.420 --> 00:41:21.820
 that he mentions himself

00:41:21.820 --> 00:41:23.059
 to his father's house,

00:41:23.159 --> 00:41:23.639
 his kindred,

00:41:23.740 --> 00:41:24.300
 the Midianite.

00:41:24.780 --> 00:41:25.840
 And he knew

00:41:25.840 --> 00:41:26.320
 the wilderness

00:41:26.320 --> 00:41:27.079
 very well,

00:41:27.119 --> 00:41:27.720
 as we'll see.

00:41:28.659 --> 00:41:29.700
 But he is

00:41:29.700 --> 00:41:31.240
 invited here

00:41:31.240 --> 00:41:32.619
 to stay with them,

00:41:32.680 --> 00:41:33.500
 to join with them,

00:41:33.860 --> 00:41:35.139
 to travel with them now.

00:41:35.820 --> 00:41:36.380
 And that's really

00:41:36.380 --> 00:41:37.619
 exactly what we do

00:41:37.619 --> 00:41:38.900
 in the gospel.

00:41:40.280 --> 00:41:41.139
 That's exactly

00:41:41.139 --> 00:41:42.159
 how we set about

00:41:42.159 --> 00:41:43.740
 not just the preaching

00:41:43.740 --> 00:41:44.420
 of the gospel,

00:41:44.559 --> 00:41:45.880
 but our evangelism,

00:41:46.260 --> 00:41:47.700
 which presents

00:41:47.700 --> 00:41:48.260
 the gospel

00:41:48.260 --> 00:41:49.159
 to the world.

00:41:49.159 --> 00:41:51.239
 It doesn't just say

00:41:51.239 --> 00:41:52.759
 statement-wise,

00:41:52.899 --> 00:41:53.759
 we are traveling

00:41:53.759 --> 00:41:54.420
 as Christians,

00:41:54.539 --> 00:41:55.059
 we're traveling

00:41:55.059 --> 00:41:56.599
 to a certain place,

00:41:57.319 --> 00:41:58.019
 a terminus

00:41:58.019 --> 00:41:59.039
 that God has prepared

00:41:59.039 --> 00:41:59.420
 for us.

00:41:59.679 --> 00:42:00.339
 We also say,

00:42:00.500 --> 00:42:01.599
 will you come with us?

00:42:01.980 --> 00:42:03.139
 Please join us.

00:42:03.719 --> 00:42:04.379
 Come with us

00:42:04.379 --> 00:42:05.719
 and we will do good

00:42:05.719 --> 00:42:06.199
 to you

00:42:06.199 --> 00:42:07.879
 out of whatever good

00:42:07.879 --> 00:42:08.799
 the Lord

00:42:08.799 --> 00:42:10.460
 will do to us.

00:42:12.399 --> 00:42:13.699
 And that's the promise.

00:42:14.699 --> 00:42:15.559
 We will

00:42:15.559 --> 00:42:17.239
 do good to you.

00:42:17.239 --> 00:42:20.299
 We will do good

00:42:20.299 --> 00:42:20.799
 to you

00:42:20.799 --> 00:42:21.279
 for the Lord

00:42:21.279 --> 00:42:22.139
 has promised good

00:42:22.139 --> 00:42:23.619
 to Israel.

00:42:24.519 --> 00:42:25.399
 In other words,

00:42:26.599 --> 00:42:27.759
 despite what you often

00:42:27.759 --> 00:42:29.099
 hear to be the case

00:42:29.099 --> 00:42:30.779
 that our interest

00:42:30.779 --> 00:42:31.359
 really in

00:42:31.359 --> 00:42:33.019
 being the church

00:42:33.019 --> 00:42:33.479
 together,

00:42:33.779 --> 00:42:34.399
 that our interest

00:42:34.399 --> 00:42:35.479
 is just self-interest,

00:42:35.679 --> 00:42:36.839
 that we're not really

00:42:36.839 --> 00:42:38.159
 interested in people

00:42:38.159 --> 00:42:39.279
 at all to an extent.

00:42:39.379 --> 00:42:39.919
 All we're interested

00:42:39.919 --> 00:42:40.719
 in is preserving

00:42:40.719 --> 00:42:41.919
 what we have,

00:42:42.039 --> 00:42:43.039
 preserving the church,

00:42:43.199 --> 00:42:43.979
 preserving our own

00:42:43.979 --> 00:42:44.699
 interests in it.

00:42:44.699 --> 00:42:46.639
 that's not what

00:42:46.639 --> 00:42:47.039
 we're saying.

00:42:47.139 --> 00:42:48.939
 This is so important

00:42:48.939 --> 00:42:50.139
 that people actually

00:42:50.139 --> 00:42:51.659
 see that our interest

00:42:51.659 --> 00:42:52.460
 in them,

00:42:53.139 --> 00:42:53.919
 that our interest

00:42:53.919 --> 00:42:54.899
 in them as people

00:42:54.899 --> 00:42:55.960
 we invite to join

00:42:55.960 --> 00:42:56.899
 with us on the journey

00:42:56.899 --> 00:42:58.480
 is not self-interest,

00:42:58.659 --> 00:42:59.500
 that it's genuine.

00:43:00.659 --> 00:43:01.599
 It's something that

00:43:01.599 --> 00:43:02.659
 has the best

00:43:02.659 --> 00:43:03.899
 motives in it.

00:43:04.539 --> 00:43:04.980
 That, of course,

00:43:05.219 --> 00:43:06.279
 means that our own

00:43:06.279 --> 00:43:07.199
 conduct,

00:43:07.339 --> 00:43:08.119
 our own behavior,

00:43:08.359 --> 00:43:09.739
 how people see us

00:43:09.739 --> 00:43:10.539
 is important.

00:43:10.539 --> 00:43:12.519
 because sadly,

00:43:12.639 --> 00:43:13.420
 some of the time,

00:43:14.360 --> 00:43:15.239
 we don't accompany

00:43:15.239 --> 00:43:16.019
 the invitation

00:43:16.019 --> 00:43:17.820
 by the kind

00:43:17.820 --> 00:43:19.300
 of conduct

00:43:19.300 --> 00:43:20.279
 that would really

00:43:20.279 --> 00:43:21.279
 draw people

00:43:21.279 --> 00:43:22.019
 to study

00:43:22.019 --> 00:43:22.739
 and to listen

00:43:22.739 --> 00:43:24.340
 to the statements

00:43:24.340 --> 00:43:25.059
 we make about

00:43:25.059 --> 00:43:25.599
 our traveling

00:43:25.599 --> 00:43:26.440
 on to the place

00:43:26.440 --> 00:43:26.940
 that God

00:43:26.940 --> 00:43:29.000
 has provided for us.

00:43:31.400 --> 00:43:32.279
 But we have

00:43:32.279 --> 00:43:33.139
 the best motives.

00:43:34.699 --> 00:43:35.820
 We have the best

00:43:35.820 --> 00:43:36.480
 intentions

00:43:36.480 --> 00:43:37.639
 for people to come

00:43:37.639 --> 00:43:39.980
 and become travelers

00:43:39.980 --> 00:43:40.519
 with us

00:43:40.519 --> 00:43:41.079
 on the way

00:43:41.079 --> 00:43:42.559
 to eternity.

00:43:44.379 --> 00:43:44.839
 Christianity

00:43:44.839 --> 00:43:46.980
 has always had

00:43:46.980 --> 00:43:47.779
 its share

00:43:47.779 --> 00:43:49.239
 of hypocrites,

00:43:50.079 --> 00:43:50.799
 charlatans,

00:43:51.779 --> 00:43:52.239
 people who are

00:43:52.239 --> 00:43:52.940
 not genuine,

00:43:54.699 --> 00:43:55.179
 people who have

00:43:55.179 --> 00:43:56.299
 simply attached

00:43:56.299 --> 00:43:56.779
 themselves

00:43:56.779 --> 00:43:57.739
 for whatever reason

00:43:57.739 --> 00:43:59.059
 to the church

00:43:59.059 --> 00:43:59.659
 visibly.

00:44:00.659 --> 00:44:01.480
 But we're concerned

00:44:01.480 --> 00:44:02.679
 with genuine

00:44:02.679 --> 00:44:03.839
 love,

00:44:04.119 --> 00:44:04.460
 genuine

00:44:04.460 --> 00:44:05.559
 intentions,

00:44:06.359 --> 00:44:07.619
 genuine motives,

00:44:07.639 --> 00:44:08.839
 genuine compassion,

00:44:09.099 --> 00:44:10.099
 genuine concern.

00:44:10.719 --> 00:44:11.519
 As we come to

00:44:11.519 --> 00:44:12.679
 say to people

00:44:12.679 --> 00:44:14.400
 through reaching

00:44:14.400 --> 00:44:15.239
 out with the gospel,

00:44:15.440 --> 00:44:16.619
 come and join us.

00:44:17.039 --> 00:44:17.619
 Come with us

00:44:17.619 --> 00:44:18.559
 because it's good

00:44:18.559 --> 00:44:19.440
 that we have

00:44:19.440 --> 00:44:20.759
 promised by the Lord.

00:44:21.239 --> 00:44:21.980
 Here is one of

00:44:21.980 --> 00:44:22.779
 the definite things

00:44:22.779 --> 00:44:23.839
 you can say to people

00:44:23.839 --> 00:44:25.099
 as you pray

00:44:25.099 --> 00:44:26.179
 that God will

00:44:26.179 --> 00:44:26.879
 bless them

00:44:26.879 --> 00:44:27.960
 and bless His word

00:44:27.960 --> 00:44:28.299
 to them.

00:44:28.819 --> 00:44:29.460
 We have to say

00:44:29.460 --> 00:44:29.739
 to them,

00:44:30.099 --> 00:44:31.339
 the Lord has promised

00:44:31.339 --> 00:44:32.500
 good to Israel.

00:44:32.819 --> 00:44:33.379
 We don't have

00:44:33.379 --> 00:44:34.079
 any doubts

00:44:34.079 --> 00:44:34.819
 about that.

00:44:35.259 --> 00:44:35.839
 Even if people

00:44:35.839 --> 00:44:36.559
 find it difficult

00:44:36.559 --> 00:44:37.440
 to understand,

00:44:37.639 --> 00:44:38.940
 this is the reality

00:44:38.940 --> 00:44:39.359
 of it,

00:44:39.599 --> 00:44:40.659
 that God for us

00:44:40.659 --> 00:44:41.739
 today has promised

00:44:41.739 --> 00:44:43.480
 good as we travel

00:44:43.480 --> 00:44:44.159
 on together,

00:44:44.359 --> 00:44:45.359
 as He gathers us

00:44:45.359 --> 00:44:45.719
 together,

00:44:46.039 --> 00:44:46.859
 especially as we

00:44:46.859 --> 00:44:47.619
 come to place

00:44:47.619 --> 00:44:48.739
 our trust in Him.

00:44:48.980 --> 00:44:49.879
 It is good,

00:44:49.980 --> 00:44:50.819
 good, good

00:44:50.819 --> 00:44:51.359
 that the Lord

00:44:51.359 --> 00:44:52.039
 has promised.

00:44:53.339 --> 00:44:53.940
 As the psalmist

00:44:53.940 --> 00:44:54.279
 put it,

00:44:54.279 --> 00:44:54.859
 how great

00:44:54.859 --> 00:44:56.279
 is the goodness

00:44:56.279 --> 00:44:58.400
 which you keep

00:44:58.400 --> 00:44:59.279
 in store

00:44:59.279 --> 00:45:00.960
 for them

00:45:00.960 --> 00:45:01.940
 that fear you,

00:45:02.500 --> 00:45:02.980
 for those

00:45:02.980 --> 00:45:03.719
 who honor you,

00:45:04.099 --> 00:45:04.659
 for those

00:45:04.659 --> 00:45:05.639
 who trust in you.

00:45:05.639 --> 00:45:07.059
 you see,

00:45:07.139 --> 00:45:07.480
 for you

00:45:07.480 --> 00:45:08.139
 as a Christian

00:45:08.139 --> 00:45:08.599
 today,

00:45:09.500 --> 00:45:10.019
 and for us

00:45:10.019 --> 00:45:10.480
 together,

00:45:11.119 --> 00:45:12.819
 as we join

00:45:12.819 --> 00:45:13.559
 together here,

00:45:13.679 --> 00:45:14.579
 is God's

00:45:14.579 --> 00:45:15.719
 assurance to us.

00:45:16.859 --> 00:45:17.359
 He isn't just

00:45:17.359 --> 00:45:18.259
 inviting us

00:45:18.259 --> 00:45:19.299
 to come

00:45:19.299 --> 00:45:20.679
 and meaningfully

00:45:20.679 --> 00:45:21.440
 be part of

00:45:21.440 --> 00:45:22.000
 His traveling

00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:22.519
 people,

00:45:23.940 --> 00:45:24.759
 and inviting us

00:45:24.759 --> 00:45:25.219
 to place

00:45:25.219 --> 00:45:26.519
 our trust in Him,

00:45:26.599 --> 00:45:27.259
 our confidence

00:45:27.259 --> 00:45:27.679
 in Him,

00:45:27.739 --> 00:45:28.400
 to believe in Him,

00:45:28.440 --> 00:45:29.139
 to receive Him,

00:45:29.379 --> 00:45:30.000
 all of what's

00:45:30.000 --> 00:45:30.920
 included in that.

00:45:30.920 --> 00:45:30.960
 God,

00:45:32.099 --> 00:45:32.400
 but He's

00:45:32.400 --> 00:45:32.639
 saying,

00:45:33.000 --> 00:45:34.760
 everything that's

00:45:34.760 --> 00:45:35.579
 going before you

00:45:35.579 --> 00:45:36.200
 as a Christian

00:45:36.200 --> 00:45:37.559
 is good.

00:45:40.559 --> 00:45:41.079
 Everything.

00:45:42.139 --> 00:45:42.559
 The goodness

00:45:42.559 --> 00:45:43.240
 of God,

00:45:44.000 --> 00:45:44.539
 even at the

00:45:44.539 --> 00:45:45.099
 most difficult

00:45:45.099 --> 00:45:45.920
 of times,

00:45:46.920 --> 00:45:47.880
 even those

00:45:47.880 --> 00:45:48.639
 incidents where

00:45:48.639 --> 00:45:49.180
 we're hurt,

00:45:50.240 --> 00:45:50.599
 where the

00:45:50.599 --> 00:45:51.200
 providence of

00:45:51.200 --> 00:45:51.579
 God is

00:45:51.579 --> 00:45:52.039
 challenging,

00:45:53.519 --> 00:45:53.800
 where we

00:45:53.800 --> 00:45:54.320
 would prefer

00:45:54.320 --> 00:45:54.860
 it to be

00:45:54.860 --> 00:45:55.519
 some other

00:45:55.519 --> 00:45:55.920
 way,

00:45:57.420 --> 00:45:57.720
 we would

00:45:57.720 --> 00:45:58.800
 prefer that

00:45:58.800 --> 00:45:59.860
 the way we're

00:45:59.860 --> 00:46:00.440
 traveling on

00:46:00.440 --> 00:46:01.039
 is just too

00:46:01.039 --> 00:46:01.460
 hard,

00:46:02.039 --> 00:46:02.559
 we'd prefer

00:46:02.559 --> 00:46:03.000
 it to be

00:46:03.000 --> 00:46:03.360
 easier.

00:46:04.059 --> 00:46:04.579
 Why does it

00:46:04.579 --> 00:46:05.000
 have to be

00:46:05.000 --> 00:46:05.679
 this hard?

00:46:06.420 --> 00:46:06.920
 Why does it

00:46:06.920 --> 00:46:07.460
 have to hurt

00:46:07.460 --> 00:46:08.159
 so badly?

00:46:09.599 --> 00:46:10.220
 Why can't it

00:46:10.220 --> 00:46:11.179
 just be a

00:46:11.179 --> 00:46:11.619
 little bit

00:46:11.619 --> 00:46:12.019
 easier,

00:46:12.460 --> 00:46:13.039
 a little bit

00:46:13.039 --> 00:46:13.780
 less challenging?

00:46:15.679 --> 00:46:16.139
 Well,

00:46:16.220 --> 00:46:17.860
 because the

00:46:17.860 --> 00:46:18.240
 Lord is

00:46:18.240 --> 00:46:19.059
 assuring us

00:46:19.059 --> 00:46:20.099
 that He

00:46:20.099 --> 00:46:20.579
 knows what

00:46:20.579 --> 00:46:21.039
 He's doing.

00:46:22.260 --> 00:46:22.800
 And He

00:46:22.800 --> 00:46:23.119
 knows what

00:46:23.119 --> 00:46:23.480
 He's doing

00:46:23.480 --> 00:46:24.119
 because He's

00:46:24.119 --> 00:46:24.539
 the good

00:46:24.539 --> 00:46:24.940
 God.

00:46:25.720 --> 00:46:26.420
 He's good

00:46:26.420 --> 00:46:26.960
 and He

00:46:26.960 --> 00:46:27.740
 does good.

00:46:28.740 --> 00:46:29.280
 Millions of

00:46:29.280 --> 00:46:29.720
 people today

00:46:29.720 --> 00:46:30.280
 are thanking

00:46:30.280 --> 00:46:30.720
 God.

00:46:32.040 --> 00:46:32.440
 That the

00:46:32.440 --> 00:46:33.220
 troubles that

00:46:33.220 --> 00:46:33.960
 came their

00:46:33.960 --> 00:46:34.420
 way in the

00:46:34.420 --> 00:46:35.440
 providence and

00:46:35.440 --> 00:46:35.960
 the appointment

00:46:35.960 --> 00:46:36.680
 of God

00:46:36.680 --> 00:46:37.720
 were a

00:46:37.720 --> 00:46:38.400
 framework or

00:46:38.400 --> 00:46:39.100
 a means by

00:46:39.100 --> 00:46:39.640
 the blessing

00:46:39.640 --> 00:46:40.200
 of God

00:46:40.200 --> 00:46:41.480
 out of which

00:46:41.480 --> 00:46:41.960
 so much

00:46:41.960 --> 00:46:42.620
 good came

00:46:42.620 --> 00:46:44.000
 flowing into

00:46:44.000 --> 00:46:44.680
 their lives.

00:46:46.600 --> 00:46:47.140
 And so He's

00:46:47.140 --> 00:46:47.700
 assuring us

00:46:47.700 --> 00:46:49.040
 today, as the

00:46:49.040 --> 00:46:49.519
 Lord has

00:46:49.519 --> 00:46:50.320
 promised good,

00:46:50.780 --> 00:46:51.320
 He's assuring

00:46:51.320 --> 00:46:52.500
 us that when

00:46:52.500 --> 00:46:53.820
 we have our

00:46:53.820 --> 00:46:54.540
 place along

00:46:54.540 --> 00:46:54.880
 with His

00:46:54.880 --> 00:46:55.240
 people,

00:46:56.680 --> 00:46:58.080
 then we

00:46:58.080 --> 00:46:58.640
 will do good

00:46:58.639 --> 00:46:59.000
 to each

00:46:59.000 --> 00:47:00.440
 other out

00:47:00.440 --> 00:47:00.699
 of the

00:47:00.699 --> 00:47:02.079
 good that

00:47:02.079 --> 00:47:03.139
 the Lord

00:47:03.139 --> 00:47:05.099
 has done

00:47:05.099 --> 00:47:05.420
 and is

00:47:05.420 --> 00:47:06.299
 doing to

00:47:06.299 --> 00:47:06.699
 us.

00:47:07.119 --> 00:47:07.420
 In other

00:47:07.420 --> 00:47:07.599
 words,

00:47:07.699 --> 00:47:08.159
 Moses is

00:47:08.159 --> 00:47:08.460
 saying,

00:47:09.519 --> 00:47:09.879
 Hobab,

00:47:09.960 --> 00:47:10.279
 you will

00:47:10.279 --> 00:47:11.039
 share in

00:47:11.039 --> 00:47:11.480
 the goodness

00:47:11.480 --> 00:47:12.039
 of God

00:47:12.039 --> 00:47:12.719
 to us

00:47:12.719 --> 00:47:14.079
 if you

00:47:14.079 --> 00:47:15.519
 come and

00:47:15.519 --> 00:47:16.079
 travel with

00:47:16.079 --> 00:47:16.440
 us.

00:47:17.719 --> 00:47:18.239
 Genuinely,

00:47:18.579 --> 00:47:19.519
 this will be

00:47:19.519 --> 00:47:20.539
 your experience.

00:47:22.019 --> 00:47:22.460
 The

00:47:22.460 --> 00:47:23.460
 explanation

00:47:23.460 --> 00:47:25.599
 invitation

00:47:25.599 --> 00:47:26.679
 is based

00:47:26.679 --> 00:47:27.460
 upon that.

00:47:28.220 --> 00:47:28.659
 But let me

00:47:28.659 --> 00:47:29.179
 just pause

00:47:29.179 --> 00:47:30.599
 and pose

00:47:30.599 --> 00:47:31.179
 the question

00:47:31.179 --> 00:47:31.599
 today.

00:47:32.199 --> 00:47:32.639
 We're all

00:47:32.639 --> 00:47:33.360
 here together

00:47:33.360 --> 00:47:33.800
 as the

00:47:33.800 --> 00:47:34.139
 gathered

00:47:34.139 --> 00:47:35.179
 church at

00:47:35.179 --> 00:47:35.659
 worship.

00:47:36.340 --> 00:47:36.820
 We're all

00:47:36.820 --> 00:47:37.380
 here together

00:47:37.380 --> 00:47:37.820
 as people

00:47:37.820 --> 00:47:38.059
 who are

00:47:38.059 --> 00:47:38.980
 traveling on

00:47:38.980 --> 00:47:40.340
 through time

00:47:40.340 --> 00:47:41.179
 on into

00:47:41.179 --> 00:47:41.740
 eternity.

00:47:42.300 --> 00:47:42.960
 We all have

00:47:42.960 --> 00:47:43.420
 different

00:47:43.420 --> 00:47:44.440
 experiences in

00:47:44.440 --> 00:47:45.019
 that journey,

00:47:45.340 --> 00:47:45.880
 but we're in

00:47:45.880 --> 00:47:46.420
 it together.

00:47:47.639 --> 00:47:48.360
 Here is the

00:47:48.360 --> 00:47:49.199
 important question

00:47:49.199 --> 00:47:49.480
 though.

00:47:50.559 --> 00:47:51.139
 What is your

00:47:51.139 --> 00:47:52.079
 relationship with

00:47:52.079 --> 00:47:53.880
 the Lord as

00:47:53.880 --> 00:47:54.659
 we travel on

00:47:54.659 --> 00:47:55.619
 together as

00:47:55.619 --> 00:47:56.079
 a people?

00:47:57.400 --> 00:47:57.779
 Is it

00:47:57.779 --> 00:47:58.380
 indeed your

00:47:58.380 --> 00:47:59.159
 expectation

00:47:59.159 --> 00:48:01.299
 that the

00:48:01.299 --> 00:48:01.819
 Lord will

00:48:01.819 --> 00:48:03.019
 continue to

00:48:03.019 --> 00:48:03.440
 do you

00:48:03.440 --> 00:48:03.779
 good?

00:48:04.599 --> 00:48:05.259
 Is it

00:48:05.259 --> 00:48:06.139
 goodness that's

00:48:06.139 --> 00:48:06.840
 waiting for

00:48:06.840 --> 00:48:07.960
 you when

00:48:07.960 --> 00:48:08.599
 your life is

00:48:08.599 --> 00:48:09.519
 over in

00:48:09.519 --> 00:48:10.079
 this world?

00:48:11.079 --> 00:48:11.579
 Will the

00:48:11.579 --> 00:48:12.219
 goodness of

00:48:12.219 --> 00:48:13.840
 God then be

00:48:13.840 --> 00:48:14.279
 a goodness

00:48:14.279 --> 00:48:14.779
 that you will

00:48:14.779 --> 00:48:15.619
 enjoy for

00:48:15.619 --> 00:48:16.259
 all eternity

00:48:16.259 --> 00:48:16.799
 because that's

00:48:16.799 --> 00:48:17.159
 what heaven

00:48:17.159 --> 00:48:17.739
 is about?

00:48:19.039 --> 00:48:19.860
 Enjoying the

00:48:19.860 --> 00:48:20.500
 goodness of

00:48:20.500 --> 00:48:20.840
 God.

00:48:22.079 --> 00:48:22.699
 Or are you

00:48:22.699 --> 00:48:23.380
 still not

00:48:23.380 --> 00:48:24.920
 saved?

00:48:29.239 --> 00:48:29.940
 In a

00:48:29.940 --> 00:48:30.519
 relationship

00:48:30.519 --> 00:48:31.219
 with God

00:48:31.219 --> 00:48:32.860
 that assures

00:48:32.860 --> 00:48:34.219
 you of the

00:48:34.219 --> 00:48:34.639
 place you

00:48:34.639 --> 00:48:35.039
 are going

00:48:35.039 --> 00:48:36.940
 to and

00:48:36.940 --> 00:48:37.279
 that it's

00:48:37.279 --> 00:48:38.299
 yours in

00:48:38.299 --> 00:48:38.799
 Christ,

00:48:40.279 --> 00:48:41.420
 please don't

00:48:41.420 --> 00:48:43.980
 journey along

00:48:43.980 --> 00:48:44.559
 with God's

00:48:44.559 --> 00:48:45.039
 people and

00:48:45.039 --> 00:48:45.699
 miss out

00:48:45.699 --> 00:48:47.179
 on the

00:48:47.179 --> 00:48:48.199
 core issue,

00:48:48.900 --> 00:48:49.460
 the eternal

00:48:49.460 --> 00:48:50.099
 life.

00:48:50.099 --> 00:48:50.159
 life.

00:48:51.380 --> 00:48:51.880
 And if

00:48:51.880 --> 00:48:52.199
 you're here

00:48:52.199 --> 00:48:52.679
 today and

00:48:52.679 --> 00:48:53.460
 not saved,

00:48:55.339 --> 00:48:56.299
 surely this

00:48:56.299 --> 00:48:56.880
 is giving you

00:48:56.880 --> 00:48:57.380
 pause for

00:48:57.380 --> 00:48:57.839
 thought,

00:48:58.679 --> 00:48:59.659
 that you're

00:48:59.659 --> 00:49:00.239
 traveling in

00:49:00.239 --> 00:49:00.799
 the company

00:49:00.799 --> 00:49:02.400
 of people

00:49:02.400 --> 00:49:02.920
 who know

00:49:02.920 --> 00:49:03.480
 the promise

00:49:03.480 --> 00:49:04.079
 of God,

00:49:05.079 --> 00:49:05.460
 the promise

00:49:05.460 --> 00:49:05.839
 that you

00:49:05.839 --> 00:49:06.460
 know yourself

00:49:06.460 --> 00:49:06.779
 in the

00:49:06.779 --> 00:49:07.139
 gospel.

00:49:08.719 --> 00:49:09.360
 And we

00:49:09.360 --> 00:49:09.900
 say to you

00:49:09.900 --> 00:49:10.239
 today,

00:49:10.960 --> 00:49:11.900
 you come

00:49:11.900 --> 00:49:12.339
 with us

00:49:12.339 --> 00:49:12.839
 spiritually,

00:49:12.840 --> 00:49:14.559
 you come

00:49:14.559 --> 00:49:15.039
 with us

00:49:15.039 --> 00:49:15.660
 intentionally,

00:49:16.660 --> 00:49:17.400
 you come

00:49:17.400 --> 00:49:17.920
 with us

00:49:17.920 --> 00:49:19.300
 believingly and

00:49:19.300 --> 00:49:20.019
 trustingly in

00:49:20.019 --> 00:49:20.460
 the Lord,

00:49:21.539 --> 00:49:22.160
 and goodness

00:49:22.160 --> 00:49:22.780
 will be the

00:49:22.780 --> 00:49:23.200
 result.

00:49:24.200 --> 00:49:24.920
 God's goodness

00:49:24.920 --> 00:49:25.820
 will be shared

00:49:25.820 --> 00:49:27.380
 as we travel

00:49:27.380 --> 00:49:27.880
 together.

00:49:29.019 --> 00:49:29.620
 And thirdly,

00:49:29.620 --> 00:49:29.920
 there's an

00:49:29.920 --> 00:49:30.860
 exhortation that

00:49:30.860 --> 00:49:32.100
 follows on the

00:49:32.100 --> 00:49:32.980
 invitation and

00:49:32.980 --> 00:49:33.900
 the previous

00:49:33.900 --> 00:49:34.620
 explanation.

00:49:34.619 --> 00:49:36.159
 because Hobab

00:49:36.159 --> 00:49:36.480
 said,

00:49:37.239 --> 00:49:37.839
 I will not

00:49:37.839 --> 00:49:38.199
 go,

00:49:38.900 --> 00:49:39.279
 I will

00:49:39.279 --> 00:49:39.900
 depart to

00:49:39.900 --> 00:49:40.299
 my own

00:49:40.299 --> 00:49:41.659
 land and

00:49:41.659 --> 00:49:42.139
 to my

00:49:42.139 --> 00:49:42.579
 kindred.

00:49:43.299 --> 00:49:43.679
 And then

00:49:43.679 --> 00:49:44.380
 Moses said,

00:49:44.819 --> 00:49:45.119
 as he

00:49:45.119 --> 00:49:45.779
 exhorted him,

00:49:45.960 --> 00:49:46.579
 please do

00:49:46.579 --> 00:49:47.019
 not leave

00:49:47.019 --> 00:49:47.259
 us,

00:49:47.539 --> 00:49:48.239
 for you know

00:49:48.239 --> 00:49:48.659
 where we

00:49:48.659 --> 00:49:49.179
 should camp

00:49:49.179 --> 00:49:49.440
 in the

00:49:49.440 --> 00:49:49.779
 wilderness,

00:49:50.299 --> 00:49:50.799
 and you

00:49:50.799 --> 00:49:51.319
 will serve

00:49:51.319 --> 00:49:51.859
 as eyes

00:49:51.859 --> 00:49:52.460
 for us.

00:49:53.099 --> 00:49:53.539
 And if you

00:49:53.539 --> 00:49:54.059
 do go with

00:49:54.059 --> 00:49:54.279
 us,

00:49:54.359 --> 00:49:54.900
 whatever good

00:49:54.900 --> 00:49:55.279
 the Lord

00:49:55.279 --> 00:49:55.679
 will do

00:49:55.679 --> 00:49:56.199
 to us,

00:49:56.659 --> 00:49:57.480
 the same

00:49:57.480 --> 00:49:57.880
 we will

00:49:57.880 --> 00:49:58.980
 do to

00:49:58.980 --> 00:49:59.400
 you.

00:49:59.400 --> 00:50:02.220
 In other

00:50:02.220 --> 00:50:02.420
 words,

00:50:02.519 --> 00:50:03.079
 Moses is

00:50:03.079 --> 00:50:03.680
 pleading with

00:50:03.680 --> 00:50:03.840
 him,

00:50:04.760 --> 00:50:05.260
 please don't

00:50:05.260 --> 00:50:05.800
 go back,

00:50:06.519 --> 00:50:06.980
 please stay

00:50:06.980 --> 00:50:07.539
 with us,

00:50:07.820 --> 00:50:08.900
 because you

00:50:08.900 --> 00:50:09.639
 are gifted

00:50:09.639 --> 00:50:10.800
 in a particular

00:50:10.800 --> 00:50:11.960
 way to

00:50:11.960 --> 00:50:12.780
 help us on

00:50:12.780 --> 00:50:13.240
 our journey

00:50:13.240 --> 00:50:13.660
 through the

00:50:13.660 --> 00:50:14.000
 wilderness.

00:50:14.880 --> 00:50:15.240
 You will

00:50:15.240 --> 00:50:15.780
 be eyes

00:50:15.780 --> 00:50:16.200
 for us,

00:50:16.440 --> 00:50:16.820
 you know

00:50:16.820 --> 00:50:17.400
 the wilderness,

00:50:18.079 --> 00:50:18.320
 you're

00:50:18.320 --> 00:50:19.039
 experienced in

00:50:19.039 --> 00:50:19.460
 the wilderness,

00:50:19.980 --> 00:50:20.440
 you know

00:50:20.440 --> 00:50:21.880
 the place as

00:50:21.880 --> 00:50:22.440
 we seek a

00:50:22.440 --> 00:50:23.160
 resting place

00:50:23.160 --> 00:50:23.639
 for us,

00:50:24.440 --> 00:50:24.760
 you know

00:50:24.760 --> 00:50:25.160
 where we

00:50:25.160 --> 00:50:25.700
 should stop,

00:50:25.800 --> 00:50:26.039
 where we

00:50:26.039 --> 00:50:26.420
 should go,

00:50:26.539 --> 00:50:26.740
 where we

00:50:26.740 --> 00:50:27.360
 should avoid,

00:50:28.539 --> 00:50:29.099
 you will

00:50:29.099 --> 00:50:29.839
 be as eyes

00:50:29.839 --> 00:50:30.519
 to us.

00:50:31.579 --> 00:50:32.000
 In other

00:50:32.000 --> 00:50:32.239
 words,

00:50:33.279 --> 00:50:34.480
 Moses knows

00:50:34.480 --> 00:50:35.239
 the gift

00:50:35.239 --> 00:50:36.460
 that Hobab

00:50:36.460 --> 00:50:37.019
 has.

00:50:38.199 --> 00:50:38.659
 And that's

00:50:38.659 --> 00:50:39.139
 an important

00:50:39.139 --> 00:50:39.940
 feature of

00:50:39.940 --> 00:50:40.839
 the appeal

00:50:40.839 --> 00:50:41.219
 the Lord

00:50:41.219 --> 00:50:41.860
 sets out

00:50:41.860 --> 00:50:42.319
 in the

00:50:42.319 --> 00:50:42.699
 gospel,

00:50:43.299 --> 00:50:43.759
 that he

00:50:43.759 --> 00:50:44.139
 knows that

00:50:44.139 --> 00:50:44.559
 each one

00:50:44.559 --> 00:50:44.860
 of us

00:50:44.860 --> 00:50:45.400
 is gifted

00:50:45.400 --> 00:50:46.420
 in a

00:50:46.420 --> 00:50:46.839
 particular

00:50:46.839 --> 00:50:47.299
 way,

00:50:47.719 --> 00:50:48.079
 in such

00:50:48.079 --> 00:50:48.400
 a way

00:50:48.400 --> 00:50:48.759
 that would

00:50:48.759 --> 00:50:49.099
 actually

00:50:49.099 --> 00:50:50.039
 add that

00:50:50.039 --> 00:50:50.319
 gift,

00:50:50.420 --> 00:50:50.880
 whatever it

00:50:50.880 --> 00:50:51.239
 is,

00:50:51.480 --> 00:50:51.860
 to the

00:50:51.860 --> 00:50:52.400
 overall

00:50:52.400 --> 00:50:53.099
 equipment

00:50:53.099 --> 00:50:53.779
 of the

00:50:53.779 --> 00:50:54.159
 church

00:50:54.159 --> 00:50:54.839
 as it

00:50:54.839 --> 00:50:55.219
 travels

00:50:55.219 --> 00:50:55.779
 on

00:50:55.779 --> 00:50:56.099
 through

00:50:56.099 --> 00:50:56.639
 time.

00:50:58.039 --> 00:50:58.239
 And

00:50:58.239 --> 00:50:58.500
 whatever

00:50:58.500 --> 00:50:59.059
 gift you

00:50:59.059 --> 00:50:59.299
 have

00:50:59.299 --> 00:50:59.779
 today may

00:50:59.779 --> 00:51:00.739
 be very,

00:51:00.900 --> 00:51:01.400
 very different

00:51:01.400 --> 00:51:02.500
 from anybody

00:51:02.500 --> 00:51:03.079
 else's

00:51:03.079 --> 00:51:03.460
 gift.

00:51:04.980 --> 00:51:05.619
 God has

00:51:05.619 --> 00:51:06.000
 given you

00:51:06.000 --> 00:51:06.480
 that gift

00:51:06.480 --> 00:51:06.960
 to use

00:51:06.960 --> 00:51:07.259
 it,

00:51:08.699 --> 00:51:09.659
 to be a

00:51:09.659 --> 00:51:10.159
 doer of

00:51:10.159 --> 00:51:10.500
 the Word

00:51:10.500 --> 00:51:10.960
 and not

00:51:10.960 --> 00:51:11.440
 just a

00:51:11.440 --> 00:51:12.179
 hearer only,

00:51:12.299 --> 00:51:12.699
 as James

00:51:12.699 --> 00:51:13.239
 put it.

00:51:14.679 --> 00:51:15.079
 And that

00:51:15.079 --> 00:51:16.539
 gift is

00:51:16.539 --> 00:51:16.960
 not for

00:51:16.960 --> 00:51:17.239
 you to

00:51:17.239 --> 00:51:17.759
 just hold

00:51:17.759 --> 00:51:18.259
 on to

00:51:18.259 --> 00:51:19.340
 for

00:51:19.340 --> 00:51:19.799
 yourself.

00:51:21.360 --> 00:51:21.820
 It's

00:51:21.820 --> 00:51:22.519
 to use

00:51:22.519 --> 00:51:23.460
 in the

00:51:23.460 --> 00:51:23.980
 accumulation

00:51:23.980 --> 00:51:24.980
 of gifts

00:51:24.980 --> 00:51:25.340
 that the

00:51:25.340 --> 00:51:25.719
 Lord has

00:51:25.719 --> 00:51:26.159
 given to

00:51:26.159 --> 00:51:26.320
 His

00:51:26.320 --> 00:51:26.679
 people,

00:51:26.679 --> 00:51:28.359
 so that

00:51:28.359 --> 00:51:28.639
 as you

00:51:28.639 --> 00:51:29.259
 travel with

00:51:29.259 --> 00:51:29.419
 them,

00:51:29.460 --> 00:51:29.699
 as we

00:51:29.699 --> 00:51:30.019
 travel

00:51:30.019 --> 00:51:30.519
 together,

00:51:31.399 --> 00:51:31.980
 whatever way

00:51:31.980 --> 00:51:32.379
 the Lord

00:51:32.379 --> 00:51:32.960
 has endowed

00:51:32.960 --> 00:51:33.279
 us and

00:51:33.279 --> 00:51:33.899
 gifted us,

00:51:34.519 --> 00:51:34.940
 maybe it's

00:51:34.940 --> 00:51:35.440
 working with

00:51:35.440 --> 00:51:35.919
 young folks,

00:51:36.019 --> 00:51:36.440
 maybe it's

00:51:36.440 --> 00:51:36.879
 working with

00:51:36.879 --> 00:51:37.460
 older folks,

00:51:38.039 --> 00:51:38.599
 maybe it's

00:51:38.599 --> 00:51:39.879
 looking after

00:51:39.879 --> 00:51:40.819
 a creche,

00:51:40.980 --> 00:51:41.500
 maybe it's

00:51:41.500 --> 00:51:42.659
 in reaching out

00:51:42.659 --> 00:51:43.139
 to people and

00:51:43.139 --> 00:51:43.739
 speaking to

00:51:43.739 --> 00:51:43.940
 them.

00:51:44.859 --> 00:51:45.399
 Not all of us

00:51:45.399 --> 00:51:45.779
 are gifted

00:51:45.779 --> 00:51:46.259
 that way,

00:51:46.339 --> 00:51:46.619
 but we're

00:51:46.619 --> 00:51:47.079
 gifted in

00:51:47.079 --> 00:51:47.639
 some way or

00:51:47.639 --> 00:51:47.839
 other.

00:51:48.859 --> 00:51:49.199
 And as

00:51:49.199 --> 00:51:49.919
 Moses says to

00:51:49.919 --> 00:51:50.259
 Hobab,

00:51:50.679 --> 00:51:50.899
 you know,

00:51:50.980 --> 00:51:51.299
 we can

00:51:51.299 --> 00:51:52.199
 really use

00:51:52.199 --> 00:51:52.919
 your gifts.

00:51:53.619 --> 00:51:53.980
 So,

00:51:54.579 --> 00:51:55.139
 the gospel,

00:51:55.480 --> 00:51:55.760
 so the

00:51:55.760 --> 00:51:56.300
 preaching of

00:51:56.300 --> 00:51:56.740
 the gospel,

00:51:56.960 --> 00:51:57.599
 so the

00:51:57.599 --> 00:51:58.039
 voice of

00:51:58.039 --> 00:51:58.380
 God's

00:51:58.380 --> 00:51:58.680
 people,

00:51:58.780 --> 00:51:58.900
 if you

00:51:58.900 --> 00:51:59.139
 like,

00:51:59.180 --> 00:51:59.360
 and the

00:51:59.360 --> 00:51:59.780
 voice of

00:51:59.780 --> 00:52:00.000
 God

00:52:00.000 --> 00:52:00.539
 Himself is

00:52:00.539 --> 00:52:00.880
 saying to

00:52:00.880 --> 00:52:01.139
 you and

00:52:01.139 --> 00:52:01.400
 to me

00:52:01.400 --> 00:52:01.740
 today,

00:52:02.460 --> 00:52:03.420
 we can

00:52:03.420 --> 00:52:03.880
 use your

00:52:03.880 --> 00:52:04.220
 gifts.

00:52:04.340 --> 00:52:04.680
 We need

00:52:04.680 --> 00:52:04.920
 you.

00:52:06.039 --> 00:52:06.559
 We need

00:52:06.559 --> 00:52:07.159
 you to

00:52:07.159 --> 00:52:07.860
 be part

00:52:07.860 --> 00:52:08.800
 of this

00:52:08.800 --> 00:52:09.539
 gathered

00:52:09.539 --> 00:52:10.019
 church

00:52:10.019 --> 00:52:10.500
 together

00:52:10.500 --> 00:52:11.599
 as we

00:52:11.599 --> 00:52:12.340
 travel onwards

00:52:12.340 --> 00:52:12.900
 together,

00:52:14.000 --> 00:52:14.579
 serving the

00:52:14.579 --> 00:52:14.860
 Lord,

00:52:15.599 --> 00:52:16.220
 the service

00:52:16.220 --> 00:52:17.280
 that we

00:52:17.280 --> 00:52:19.059
 owe to

00:52:19.059 --> 00:52:19.500
 God and

00:52:19.500 --> 00:52:20.639
 the service

00:52:20.639 --> 00:52:20.900
 that we

00:52:20.900 --> 00:52:21.200
 give in

00:52:21.200 --> 00:52:21.860
 return for

00:52:21.860 --> 00:52:22.800
 all that

00:52:22.800 --> 00:52:23.080
 He has

00:52:23.080 --> 00:52:24.039
 done for

00:52:24.039 --> 00:52:24.519
 us.

00:52:25.700 --> 00:52:25.940
 Well,

00:52:25.960 --> 00:52:26.300
 the church

00:52:26.300 --> 00:52:27.519
 is not so

00:52:27.519 --> 00:52:28.060
 much about

00:52:28.060 --> 00:52:28.539
 what you

00:52:28.539 --> 00:52:29.060
 get from

00:52:29.060 --> 00:52:29.260
 it.

00:52:30.160 --> 00:52:30.900
 It's much

00:52:30.900 --> 00:52:31.480
 more indeed

00:52:31.480 --> 00:52:32.019
 about what

00:52:32.019 --> 00:52:32.580
 you give.

00:52:33.660 --> 00:52:34.360
 We all

00:52:34.360 --> 00:52:35.060
 get so much

00:52:35.060 --> 00:52:35.620
 from being

00:52:35.620 --> 00:52:36.039
 together.

00:52:36.780 --> 00:52:37.220
 We all

00:52:37.220 --> 00:52:37.760
 get so much

00:52:37.760 --> 00:52:38.380
 individually

00:52:38.380 --> 00:52:39.019
 from that.

00:52:39.800 --> 00:52:40.360
 We serve

00:52:40.360 --> 00:52:40.840
 each other,

00:52:41.280 --> 00:52:42.019
 but we

00:52:42.019 --> 00:52:42.519
 give,

00:52:43.460 --> 00:52:43.860
 in a sense,

00:52:43.940 --> 00:52:44.340
 more than

00:52:44.340 --> 00:52:44.880
 we actually

00:52:44.880 --> 00:52:46.100
 receive.

00:52:47.980 --> 00:52:48.180
 And,

00:52:48.240 --> 00:52:50.460
 you know,

00:52:50.960 --> 00:52:51.480
 the

00:52:51.480 --> 00:52:53.840
 gifts that

00:52:53.840 --> 00:52:54.280
 God has

00:52:54.280 --> 00:52:54.719
 given to

00:52:54.719 --> 00:52:54.880
 His

00:52:54.880 --> 00:52:55.219
 church,

00:52:56.400 --> 00:52:56.880
 while they

00:52:56.880 --> 00:52:57.179
 vary,

00:52:57.260 --> 00:52:57.500
 yet

00:52:57.500 --> 00:52:58.539
 accumulatively,

00:52:59.019 --> 00:52:59.559
 they all

00:52:59.559 --> 00:53:00.320
 fit together

00:53:00.320 --> 00:53:00.820
 in God's

00:53:00.820 --> 00:53:01.139
 way.

00:53:02.480 --> 00:53:02.719
 And

00:53:02.719 --> 00:53:03.920
 serving the

00:53:03.920 --> 00:53:04.360
 Lord

00:53:04.360 --> 00:53:06.059
 through using

00:53:06.059 --> 00:53:06.800
 these gifts

00:53:06.800 --> 00:53:07.760
 is so

00:53:07.760 --> 00:53:08.219
 important.

00:53:08.639 --> 00:53:09.079
 Let me just

00:53:09.079 --> 00:53:09.940
 conclude by

00:53:09.940 --> 00:53:11.659
 a quotation

00:53:11.659 --> 00:53:12.260
 from a book

00:53:12.260 --> 00:53:12.740
 by Sinclair

00:53:12.740 --> 00:53:13.219
 Ferguson,

00:53:14.219 --> 00:53:14.539
 a book

00:53:14.539 --> 00:53:14.840
 called

00:53:14.840 --> 00:53:15.599
 Devoted to

00:53:15.599 --> 00:53:16.000
 God's

00:53:16.000 --> 00:53:16.360
 Church.

00:53:17.760 --> 00:53:18.219
 Please read

00:53:18.219 --> 00:53:18.519
 through it.

00:53:18.539 --> 00:53:18.739
 It's a

00:53:18.739 --> 00:53:19.000
 wonderful

00:53:19.000 --> 00:53:19.319
 book.

00:53:20.739 --> 00:53:21.139
 And in

00:53:21.139 --> 00:53:22.139
 describing

00:53:22.139 --> 00:53:23.719
 the service

00:53:23.719 --> 00:53:24.279
 we owe

00:53:24.279 --> 00:53:24.759
 to God,

00:53:24.859 --> 00:53:25.159
 he gives

00:53:25.159 --> 00:53:26.039
 certain

00:53:26.039 --> 00:53:26.719
 principles,

00:53:26.899 --> 00:53:27.579
 negatives and

00:53:27.579 --> 00:53:28.000
 positives

00:53:28.000 --> 00:53:28.480
 together.

00:53:29.319 --> 00:53:29.679
 And I'll

00:53:29.679 --> 00:53:30.099
 finish with

00:53:30.099 --> 00:53:30.319
 that.

00:53:30.399 --> 00:53:30.779
 He says,

00:53:31.199 --> 00:53:31.819
 service to

00:53:31.819 --> 00:53:32.199
 God,

00:53:32.679 --> 00:53:33.099
 first of

00:53:33.099 --> 00:53:33.299
 all,

00:53:33.339 --> 00:53:33.919
 it's not

00:53:33.919 --> 00:53:34.459
 a matter

00:53:34.459 --> 00:53:35.599
 of others

00:53:35.599 --> 00:53:36.379
 recognizing

00:53:36.379 --> 00:53:37.279
 our gifts,

00:53:37.579 --> 00:53:38.379
 but it

00:53:38.379 --> 00:53:39.039
 is a matter

00:53:39.039 --> 00:53:39.939
 of us

00:53:39.939 --> 00:53:40.639
 recognizing

00:53:40.639 --> 00:53:41.279
 others'

00:53:41.439 --> 00:53:41.819
 needs.

00:53:42.799 --> 00:53:43.299
 It's not

00:53:43.299 --> 00:53:43.599
 a matter

00:53:43.599 --> 00:53:44.299
 of others

00:53:44.299 --> 00:53:45.399
 recognizing

00:53:45.399 --> 00:53:46.199
 our gifts,

00:53:46.199 --> 00:53:47.179
 it is a

00:53:47.179 --> 00:53:47.619
 matter of

00:53:47.619 --> 00:53:49.199
 us recognizing

00:53:49.199 --> 00:53:50.299
 the needs

00:53:50.299 --> 00:53:51.059
 of others.

00:53:52.019 --> 00:53:52.279
 Secondly,

00:53:52.699 --> 00:53:53.239
 it's not a

00:53:53.239 --> 00:53:53.599
 matter of

00:53:53.599 --> 00:53:54.500
 doing things

00:53:54.500 --> 00:53:55.099
 for others

00:53:55.099 --> 00:53:55.819
 at our

00:53:55.819 --> 00:53:56.119
 own

00:53:56.119 --> 00:53:56.699
 convenience,

00:53:57.279 --> 00:53:58.339
 it is a

00:53:58.339 --> 00:53:58.779
 matter of

00:53:58.779 --> 00:53:59.539
 our helping

00:53:59.539 --> 00:54:00.779
 others when

00:54:00.779 --> 00:54:01.199
 they are

00:54:01.199 --> 00:54:02.399
 inconvenienced.

00:54:03.139 --> 00:54:03.439
 It's not a

00:54:03.439 --> 00:54:04.239
 matter of

00:54:04.239 --> 00:54:05.679
 doing things

00:54:05.679 --> 00:54:06.099
 for others

00:54:06.099 --> 00:54:06.599
 at our

00:54:06.599 --> 00:54:06.859
 own

00:54:06.859 --> 00:54:07.379
 convenience,

00:54:08.419 --> 00:54:08.699
 without

00:54:08.699 --> 00:54:08.980
 putting

00:54:08.980 --> 00:54:09.399
 ourselves

00:54:09.399 --> 00:54:09.839
 out,

00:54:10.480 --> 00:54:10.819
 but he

00:54:10.819 --> 00:54:11.119
 says it

00:54:11.119 --> 00:54:11.539
 is a

00:54:11.539 --> 00:54:12.419
 matter of

00:54:12.419 --> 00:54:13.139
 our helping

00:54:13.139 --> 00:54:14.219
 others when

00:54:14.219 --> 00:54:14.739
 they are

00:54:14.739 --> 00:54:15.699
 inconvenienced.

00:54:16.199 --> 00:54:17.019
 And thirdly,

00:54:17.059 --> 00:54:17.399
 he says,

00:54:17.980 --> 00:54:18.259
 it's not a

00:54:18.259 --> 00:54:18.659
 matter of

00:54:18.659 --> 00:54:19.279
 feeling that

00:54:19.279 --> 00:54:19.579
 we have

00:54:19.579 --> 00:54:20.539
 special gifts,

00:54:21.500 --> 00:54:22.099
 but it is a

00:54:22.099 --> 00:54:22.559
 matter of

00:54:22.559 --> 00:54:23.099
 us seeing

00:54:23.099 --> 00:54:23.659
 that others

00:54:23.659 --> 00:54:24.659
 have very

00:54:24.659 --> 00:54:25.579
 special needs.

00:54:26.939 --> 00:54:27.619
 And fourthly,

00:54:28.359 --> 00:54:28.939
 it's not an

00:54:28.939 --> 00:54:29.819
 optional extra

00:54:29.819 --> 00:54:31.079
 for a member

00:54:31.079 --> 00:54:31.819
 of the church.

00:54:32.679 --> 00:54:33.419
 Service to

00:54:33.419 --> 00:54:34.679
 God is not

00:54:34.679 --> 00:54:35.219
 an optional

00:54:35.219 --> 00:54:35.739
 extra,

00:54:35.960 --> 00:54:36.299
 he says.

00:54:37.039 --> 00:54:37.599
 It's written

00:54:37.599 --> 00:54:38.239
 into the

00:54:38.239 --> 00:54:40.239
 definition of

00:54:40.239 --> 00:54:40.879
 being a member

00:54:40.879 --> 00:54:41.559
 of the church,

00:54:41.599 --> 00:54:41.980
 or you might

00:54:41.980 --> 00:54:42.399
 say even

00:54:42.399 --> 00:54:42.799
 being a

00:54:42.799 --> 00:54:43.159
 Christian.

00:54:44.059 --> 00:54:44.839
 It's written

00:54:44.839 --> 00:54:45.819
 into the

00:54:45.820 --> 00:54:46.760
 definition of

00:54:46.760 --> 00:54:47.120
 that.

00:54:48.080 --> 00:54:48.500
 As we

00:54:48.500 --> 00:54:49.280
 travel together

00:54:49.280 --> 00:54:49.800
 that each

00:54:49.800 --> 00:54:50.280
 of us

00:54:50.280 --> 00:54:51.039
 will say

00:54:51.039 --> 00:54:52.000
 of ourselves,

00:54:53.940 --> 00:54:54.580
 saving the

00:54:54.580 --> 00:54:54.900
 Lord,

00:54:56.039 --> 00:54:56.559
 saving the

00:54:56.559 --> 00:54:56.940
 church,

00:54:57.340 --> 00:54:57.820
 it's not an

00:54:57.820 --> 00:54:58.660
 optional extra.

00:55:00.260 --> 00:55:00.940
 It's a

00:55:00.940 --> 00:55:01.500
 delight,

00:55:02.080 --> 00:55:03.519
 as well as

00:55:03.519 --> 00:55:04.480
 a responsibility,

00:55:05.260 --> 00:55:06.880
 because all

00:55:06.880 --> 00:55:07.160
 that the

00:55:07.160 --> 00:55:07.559
 Lord has

00:55:07.559 --> 00:55:08.039
 done for

00:55:08.039 --> 00:55:08.420
 us,

00:55:09.539 --> 00:55:10.680
 calls upon

00:55:10.680 --> 00:55:11.400
 us to do

00:55:11.400 --> 00:55:12.780
 as much

00:55:12.780 --> 00:55:13.440
 as we can

00:55:13.440 --> 00:55:14.840
 for him.

00:55:15.820 --> 00:55:16.519
 We are

00:55:16.519 --> 00:55:17.820
 traveling to

00:55:17.820 --> 00:55:18.280
 the place

00:55:18.280 --> 00:55:18.780
 of which the

00:55:18.780 --> 00:55:19.180
 Lord has

00:55:19.180 --> 00:55:19.440
 said,

00:55:19.720 --> 00:55:19.980
 I will

00:55:19.980 --> 00:55:20.280
 give it

00:55:20.280 --> 00:55:20.680
 to you.

00:55:21.539 --> 00:55:22.120
 Come with

00:55:22.120 --> 00:55:22.460
 us.

00:55:23.480 --> 00:55:23.920
 We will

00:55:23.920 --> 00:55:24.380
 do good

00:55:24.380 --> 00:55:24.680
 to you,

00:55:24.720 --> 00:55:24.960
 for the

00:55:24.960 --> 00:55:25.380
 Lord has

00:55:25.380 --> 00:55:26.180
 spoken good

00:55:26.180 --> 00:55:27.320
 concerning

00:55:27.320 --> 00:55:27.920
 his people.

00:55:28.980 --> 00:55:29.320
 Whatever

00:55:29.320 --> 00:55:29.800
 good the

00:55:29.800 --> 00:55:30.360
 Lord will

00:55:30.360 --> 00:55:30.820
 do to

00:55:30.820 --> 00:55:31.140
 us,

00:55:31.920 --> 00:55:32.420
 the same

00:55:32.420 --> 00:55:32.720
 we will

00:55:32.720 --> 00:55:33.080
 do to

00:55:33.080 --> 00:55:33.440
 you,

00:55:34.539 --> 00:55:35.180
 as God

00:55:35.180 --> 00:55:36.240
 has

00:55:36.240 --> 00:55:36.760
 promised.

00:55:37.600 --> 00:55:37.900
 Let's

00:55:37.900 --> 00:55:38.120
 pray.

00:55:42.760 --> 00:55:43.200
 Almighty

00:55:43.200 --> 00:55:43.620
 God,

00:55:43.700 --> 00:55:44.120
 we give

00:55:44.119 --> 00:55:44.739
 thanks that

00:55:44.739 --> 00:55:44.960
 you are

00:55:44.960 --> 00:55:45.359
 the God

00:55:45.359 --> 00:55:47.039
 that keeps

00:55:47.039 --> 00:55:47.759
 company with

00:55:47.759 --> 00:55:48.279
 your people

00:55:48.279 --> 00:55:49.900
 and that

00:55:49.900 --> 00:55:50.319
 has set

00:55:50.319 --> 00:55:50.579
 them on

00:55:50.579 --> 00:55:51.059
 the journey

00:55:51.059 --> 00:55:51.880
 which you

00:55:51.880 --> 00:55:53.359
 yourself is

00:55:53.359 --> 00:55:53.880
 also on

00:55:53.880 --> 00:55:54.380
 with them.

00:55:55.359 --> 00:55:55.719
 Your

00:55:55.719 --> 00:55:56.139
 presence,

00:55:56.359 --> 00:55:56.440
 Lord,

00:55:56.519 --> 00:55:56.960
 is promised

00:55:56.960 --> 00:55:57.420
 to your

00:55:57.420 --> 00:55:57.739
 people.

00:55:58.659 --> 00:55:59.039
 We pray

00:55:59.039 --> 00:55:59.420
 that your

00:55:59.420 --> 00:56:00.119
 presence will

00:56:00.119 --> 00:56:00.460
 be out

00:56:00.460 --> 00:56:00.960
 portioned

00:56:00.960 --> 00:56:01.219
 daily.

00:56:02.259 --> 00:56:02.679
 We ask

00:56:02.679 --> 00:56:02.920
 that you

00:56:02.920 --> 00:56:03.339
 would enable

00:56:03.339 --> 00:56:03.559
 us,

00:56:03.679 --> 00:56:03.819
 Lord,

00:56:03.880 --> 00:56:04.339
 as we look

00:56:04.339 --> 00:56:05.359
 at the

00:56:05.359 --> 00:56:05.839
 ways in

00:56:05.839 --> 00:56:06.199
 which you

00:56:06.199 --> 00:56:06.839
 have gifted

00:56:06.839 --> 00:56:07.179
 us.

00:56:08.059 --> 00:56:08.559
 Help us,

00:56:08.699 --> 00:56:08.920
 we pray,

00:56:09.019 --> 00:56:09.619
 to use these

00:56:09.619 --> 00:56:09.940
 to your

00:56:09.940 --> 00:56:10.539
 service and

00:56:10.539 --> 00:56:10.880
 to your

00:56:10.880 --> 00:56:11.960
 glory in

00:56:11.960 --> 00:56:12.599
 your service.

00:56:12.599 --> 00:56:14.059
 and we

00:56:14.059 --> 00:56:14.519
 give thanks,

00:56:14.619 --> 00:56:14.940
 O Lord,

00:56:15.019 --> 00:56:15.519
 that while we

00:56:15.519 --> 00:56:16.099
 don't boast

00:56:16.099 --> 00:56:16.619
 about our

00:56:16.619 --> 00:56:17.000
 gifts,

00:56:17.739 --> 00:56:18.019
 why we

00:56:18.019 --> 00:56:18.360
 would never

00:56:18.360 --> 00:56:19.119
 see ourselves

00:56:19.119 --> 00:56:20.179
 as better

00:56:20.179 --> 00:56:20.719
 than others

00:56:20.719 --> 00:56:21.299
 or better

00:56:21.299 --> 00:56:21.860
 endowed,

00:56:22.860 --> 00:56:23.319
 we ask,

00:56:23.519 --> 00:56:23.579
 Lord,

00:56:23.659 --> 00:56:23.860
 that you

00:56:23.860 --> 00:56:24.259
 would help

00:56:24.259 --> 00:56:25.400
 us in

00:56:25.400 --> 00:56:26.119
 true gratitude

00:56:26.119 --> 00:56:26.719
 and humble

00:56:26.719 --> 00:56:28.319
 service to

00:56:28.319 --> 00:56:29.739
 extend all

00:56:29.739 --> 00:56:30.000
 that we

00:56:30.000 --> 00:56:30.799
 can by way

00:56:30.799 --> 00:56:31.980
 of our

00:56:31.980 --> 00:56:33.119
 using our

00:56:33.119 --> 00:56:34.400
 gifts to

00:56:34.400 --> 00:56:35.039
 the furtherance

00:56:35.039 --> 00:56:35.420
 of your

00:56:35.420 --> 00:56:35.860
 church.

00:56:36.819 --> 00:56:37.119
 Lord,

00:56:37.179 --> 00:56:37.539
 help us,

00:56:37.539 --> 00:56:37.940
 we pray,

00:56:38.079 --> 00:56:38.380
 as we

00:56:38.380 --> 00:56:40.639
 consider the

00:56:40.639 --> 00:56:41.139
 wonderful

00:56:41.139 --> 00:56:42.980
 truth about

00:56:42.980 --> 00:56:43.460
 your people

00:56:43.460 --> 00:56:43.759
 and their

00:56:43.759 --> 00:56:44.159
 traveling,

00:56:45.019 --> 00:56:45.319
 and the

00:56:45.319 --> 00:56:46.000
 invitation that

00:56:46.000 --> 00:56:46.519
 you send to

00:56:46.519 --> 00:56:46.819
 us through

00:56:46.819 --> 00:56:47.359
 the gospel.

00:56:48.299 --> 00:56:48.900
 Help us to

00:56:48.900 --> 00:56:49.359
 know that you

00:56:49.359 --> 00:56:49.859
 are also

00:56:49.859 --> 00:56:51.000
 exhorting us

00:56:51.000 --> 00:56:51.500
 through that

00:56:51.500 --> 00:56:53.139
 gospel to

00:56:53.139 --> 00:56:53.679
 cast our

00:56:53.679 --> 00:56:54.259
 lot in with

00:56:54.259 --> 00:56:54.759
 your people

00:56:54.759 --> 00:56:56.119
 and to come

00:56:56.119 --> 00:56:56.920
 to serve you

00:56:56.920 --> 00:56:57.719
 while we

00:56:57.719 --> 00:56:58.019
 have the

00:56:58.019 --> 00:56:58.599
 opportunity.

00:56:59.559 --> 00:56:59.879
 Hear us

00:56:59.879 --> 00:57:00.440
 now, we pray,

00:57:00.500 --> 00:57:01.079
 and receive us

00:57:01.079 --> 00:57:02.420
 graciously for

00:57:02.420 --> 00:57:03.199
 Jesus' sake.

00:57:03.359 --> 00:57:03.639
 Amen.

00:57:07.099 --> 00:57:07.679
 Well, we're

00:57:07.679 --> 00:57:08.239
 singing finally

00:57:08.239 --> 00:57:09.419
 in Psalm 107.

00:57:10.379 --> 00:57:11.399
 Psalm 107,

00:57:11.500 --> 00:57:12.019
 this time it's

00:57:12.019 --> 00:57:12.559
 in the Scottish

00:57:12.559 --> 00:57:13.039
 Psalter.

00:57:14.479 --> 00:57:14.979
 June is

00:57:14.979 --> 00:57:15.479
 Newington,

00:57:15.619 --> 00:57:16.019
 we're singing

00:57:16.019 --> 00:57:17.259
 verses 1 to

00:57:17.259 --> 00:57:17.619
 8.

00:57:20.879 --> 00:57:21.799
 Praise God,

00:57:21.879 --> 00:57:22.399
 for he is

00:57:22.399 --> 00:57:23.299
 good, for

00:57:23.299 --> 00:57:23.899
 still his

00:57:23.899 --> 00:57:24.419
 mercy's

00:57:24.419 --> 00:57:25.139
 lasting be.

00:57:25.879 --> 00:57:26.539
 Let God's

00:57:26.539 --> 00:57:27.219
 redeemed say

00:57:27.219 --> 00:57:28.019
 so whom he

00:57:28.019 --> 00:57:28.759
 from the

00:57:28.759 --> 00:57:29.579
 enemies handed

00:57:29.579 --> 00:57:30.099
 free and

00:57:30.099 --> 00:57:30.799
 gathered them

00:57:30.799 --> 00:57:31.739
 out of the

00:57:31.739 --> 00:57:32.239
 lands from

00:57:32.239 --> 00:57:32.519
 north,

00:57:32.659 --> 00:57:32.819
 south,

00:57:32.919 --> 00:57:33.099
 east,

00:57:33.179 --> 00:57:33.619
 and west.

00:57:34.139 --> 00:57:34.719
 They strayed

00:57:34.719 --> 00:57:35.319
 in deserts

00:57:35.319 --> 00:57:36.139
 pathless way,

00:57:36.279 --> 00:57:36.819
 no city

00:57:36.819 --> 00:57:37.399
 found to

00:57:37.399 --> 00:57:37.739
 rest.

00:57:38.239 --> 00:57:39.079
 For thirst

00:57:39.079 --> 00:57:39.639
 and hunger

00:57:39.639 --> 00:57:39.939
 in them

00:57:39.939 --> 00:57:40.219
 faints

00:57:40.219 --> 00:57:40.839
 their soul.

00:57:41.500 --> 00:57:41.679
 When

00:57:41.679 --> 00:57:42.019
 straits

00:57:42.019 --> 00:57:42.219
 them

00:57:42.219 --> 00:57:42.519
 press,

00:57:42.599 --> 00:57:43.000
 they cry

00:57:43.000 --> 00:57:43.439
 unto the

00:57:43.439 --> 00:57:43.739
 Lord,

00:57:44.099 --> 00:57:44.439
 and he

00:57:44.439 --> 00:57:44.639
 them

00:57:44.639 --> 00:57:45.039
 frees

00:57:45.039 --> 00:57:45.219
 from

00:57:45.219 --> 00:57:45.399
 their

00:57:45.399 --> 00:57:45.959
 distress.

00:57:46.699 --> 00:57:47.419
 Them also

00:57:47.419 --> 00:57:48.099
 in a way

00:57:48.099 --> 00:57:48.699
 to walk,

00:57:49.159 --> 00:57:49.839
 that right

00:57:49.839 --> 00:57:50.539
 is he did

00:57:50.539 --> 00:57:50.979
 guide,

00:57:51.639 --> 00:57:52.039
 that they

00:57:52.039 --> 00:57:52.539
 might to

00:57:52.539 --> 00:57:52.919
 a city

00:57:52.919 --> 00:57:53.279
 go,

00:57:53.899 --> 00:57:54.139
 wherein

00:57:54.139 --> 00:57:54.519
 they

00:57:54.519 --> 00:57:55.119
 might

00:57:55.119 --> 00:57:55.739
 abide.

00:57:56.379 --> 00:57:56.639
 Oh,

00:57:56.699 --> 00:57:57.199
 that men

00:57:57.199 --> 00:57:57.579
 to the

00:57:57.579 --> 00:57:57.819
 Lord

00:57:57.819 --> 00:57:58.239
 would give

00:57:58.239 --> 00:57:59.519
 praise for

00:57:59.519 --> 00:58:00.099
 his goodness

00:58:00.099 --> 00:58:00.519
 then,

00:58:01.059 --> 00:58:01.519
 and for

00:58:01.519 --> 00:58:02.039
 his works

00:58:02.039 --> 00:58:02.639
 of wonder

00:58:02.639 --> 00:58:04.059
 done unto

00:58:04.059 --> 00:58:04.579
 the sons

00:58:04.579 --> 00:58:05.119
 of men.

00:58:05.219 --> 00:58:05.419
 To the

00:58:05.419 --> 00:58:05.619
 tune

00:58:05.619 --> 00:58:06.299
 Newington

00:58:06.299 --> 00:58:06.599
 these

00:58:06.599 --> 00:58:06.919
 verses.

00:58:08.239 --> 00:58:08.779
 Amen.

00:58:08.780 --> 00:58:38.760
 Thank you.

00:58:38.780 --> 00:58:53.980
 And gather them out of the lands from north, south, east and west.

00:58:53.980 --> 00:59:08.760
 This great desert's pathless way, no city come to rest.

00:59:08.780 --> 00:59:22.780
 For thirst and hunger in their face, their soul west, west and west.

00:59:22.780 --> 00:59:36.780
 They cry out to the Lord and He, then preach from their distress.

00:59:36.780 --> 00:59:52.780
 Then also in our way to walk, that righteous be denied.

00:59:52.780 --> 01:00:07.780
 That they might do a city, O where they might abide.

01:00:07.780 --> 01:00:22.780
 O that men to the Lord would give praise for His goodness name.

01:00:22.780 --> 01:00:38.780
 And for His works of wonder, O where they might be.

01:00:39.380 --> 01:00:41.620
 After the bendiction, I'll go to the door to my left.

01:00:42.940 --> 01:00:46.460
 Now may the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God the Father,

01:00:46.920 --> 01:00:50.800
 and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you now and evermore.

01:00:51.120 --> 01:00:51.440
 Amen.

01:00:51.440 --> 01:00:52.059
 Amen.

01:00:52.179 --> 01:00:52.760
 Amen.

01:00:53.440 --> 01:00:55.500
 Amen.

01:00:55.500 --> 01:00:56.420
 Amen.

01:00:56.420 --> 01:01:26.400
 Thank you.