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 We're going to begin our service then, friends, worshipping God by singing to his praise from Psalm 103.

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 Psalm 103 in Sing Psalms.

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 That's on page 135 of the Blue Psalm books, reading at the beginning of the psalm, Psalm 103.

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 Praise God my soul with all my heart, let me exalt his holy name.

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 Forget not all his benefits, his praise my soul in song proclaim.

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 The Lord forgives you all your sins and heals your sickness and distress.

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 Your life he rescues from the grave and crowns you in his tenderness.

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 We'll sing down to the end of the verse marked 11 to the praise of God, standing to sing,

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 Praise God my soul with all my heart.

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 Praise God my soul with all my heart.

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 Let me exalt his holy name.

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 Forget not all his benefits, his praise my soul in song proclaim.

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 The Lord forgives you all your sins and heals your sickness and distress.

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 Your life he rescues from the grave and crowns you in his tenderness.

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 He satisfies your deep desire.

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 He satisfies your deep desire.

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 From his unending source of good.

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 So that just like the evil strength, your youth will be her is renewed.

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 The Lord is known for righteous acts, and justice to the God in once.

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 Till Moses he made known his ways.

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 His mighty days to Israel's sons.

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 The Lord is merciful and kind.

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 To thine best, low and full of grace.

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 He will not constantly do.

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 For in his anger hide his days.

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 He does not banish our mercies.

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 For he has been their just reward.

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 And great his love as high as men.

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 To hearts alone, to fear the Lord.

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 Amen.

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 Friends, let's unite our hearts in prayer.

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 Let us pray.

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 Lord our God, we come and we seek this evening to know what it is to worship you in spirit and in truth.

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 That we are a people who are richly blessed as we reflect this evening upon the reason of our gathering.

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 That we gather together in order to come before the King of kings, the Lord of lords, the one who is high and lifted up.

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 The one who is infinite, eternal and unchangeable.

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 What a wonder it is that this is our desire.

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 To come and to worship.

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 And as we gather, O Lord, at this time, we pray that we might know something of your Holy Spirit leading us and guiding us to those fountains of living water.

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 That our gathering together would not be born out of any routine or ritual.

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 But rather that we would come with that sense of expectation.

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 Expecting you to fulfill your promise to your people.

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 That where two or three gather in your name.

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 You promised to be there in their midst.

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 And so we pray that indeed we would be here in the name of Jesus Christ.

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 That you would honor this promise.

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 And that we would be able to say it was good for us to meet.

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 You are worthy of all praise and adoration.

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 Not least because although you are the God who inhabits eternity, you are the God who draws nigh to sinners just like us.

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 You are a God who accommodates our weakness and our infirmities.

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 You are a God who meets us at our very point of need.

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 You accommodate our finite mind by revealing yourself to us in a way that we can understand.

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 And for this we give thanks.

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 We give thanks for your word.

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 This special revelation of not only who you are, but who we can be in you.

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 What a blessing it is that for many of us here tonight, we can say that indeed we are in Christ.

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 That our identity is not found in anything in this world.

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 Not even in ourselves.

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 But in the one who died and gave himself for us.

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 The one who cried out upon that cross.

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 It is finished.

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 So that for us, our life would just begin.

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 And so as we reflect upon the wonders of such an identity, we pray that all the more we would find ourselves coming and worshiping your name.

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 Individually and collectively as a people who you tell us is your beloved bride.

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 We know that indeed we are those who have been chosen from all eternity.

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 We know not why and in many ways we cannot understand the depths of such wonders.

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 But yet we believe.

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 We believe that you are God and that there is none other.

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 And that in this very act of faith, we come and we cling on to you as the only one for life and for death.

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 And Lord, we pray this evening for all who gather here.

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 Those who perhaps are unable to identify as of yet as a child of God.

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 Those who are perhaps wandering aimlessly in the wilderness as we once were ourselves.

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 That you would be with them even this evening.

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 That you would speak to them mightily by your word through your spirit.

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 That you would bring them to that place where they recognize their need of you.

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 For indeed what should it profit a man if he should gain the whole world and lose his soul?

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 What shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

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 Help us to see the brevity of time.

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 The time is short and eternity is long.

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 And that in light of this, we would make our calling and election sure by coming and laying hold of these promises by faith.

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 That those who seek will find.

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 Those who knock will have that door opened unto them.

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 And so we pray also for any gathered here this evening who as of yet are to profess your name publicly.

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 Those who perhaps do identify in their hearts as a child of God.

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 But have not come out and publicly shown that they have been bought by the precious blood of Christ.

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 Help them we pray even this evening as your word goes out.

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 That it would encourage them and draw them and strengthen them.

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 To truly know the blessing that follows such obedience.

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 We know that Satan is like a roaring lion seeking whom he might devour.

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 He is the accuser of the brethren.

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 He is the one who even at this time is whispering in our ears and telling us that we are his.

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 Forgive us, O Lord, for listening to his voice.

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 Forgive us for doubting our salvation.

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 Forgive us for the many times that we lose sight of the fact that our security is not in our own righteousness.

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 But in the righteousness of another.

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 And so we pray then that you would be with this dear congregation in the days that lie ahead.

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 We give thanks for their witness here in the town of Stornoway.

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 That this would be a continued witness.

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 That they would shine as a beacon of light in a dark world.

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 And that they would seek to reach out with the good news of the gospel.

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 We pray for this new ministry that has commenced.

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 We give thanks for it, for Calamordo.

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 And we pray that as he partners in the gospel with James.

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 That together they will see great things happening.

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 Not only in terms of a leadership team.

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 But as a congregation.

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 That they would all have that shared vision and purpose.

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 To go out and to, as it were, from one beggar to another.

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 Show them where to get food.

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 What a wonder it is.

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 That you have not left us to ourselves.

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 But you have provided for us that way of salvation.

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 Help us then to be reminded of its urgency.

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 And to seek with every fiber of our being.

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 To fulfill that calling that is ours.

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 To make disciples of all nations.

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 And so we pray that you would bless our time together this evening.

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 And also every other congregation that is meeting in a like manner.

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 We pray your hand of blessing upon the ministry of your word.

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 Wherever it goes out.

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 That it would go out with sincerity and with power.

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 That it would penetrate hearts.

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 So that men and women, boys and girls.

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 Would be fed and nourished in their souls.

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 That they would be drawn even from darkness.

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 Into your own most marvelous light.

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 And so be with us now we pray.

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 Forgive us for all our many sins.

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 And all we ask, we ask in Jesus name.

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 Amen.

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 Well we're going to continue singing to God's praise.

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 This time from Psalm 106.

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 Psalm 106 in the Scottish Psalter.

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 This is on page 378.

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 Psalm 106.

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 We can pick up a reading from verse 4.

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 Psalm 106 and verse 4.

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 Remember me Lord with that love.

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 Which thou to thine dost bear.

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 With thy salvation, O my God.

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 To visit me draw near.

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 That I thy chosen good may see.

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 And in their joy rejoice.

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 And may with thine inheritance triumph with cheerful voice.

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 Let's lift up our voices and praise.

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 Let's lift up our voices and praise from Psalm 106.

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 Verse 4.

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 Standing to sing.

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 Remember me Lord with that love.

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 Remember me Lord with that love.

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 For the love of that love.

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 Which thou to light us bear.

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 With thy salvation, O my God.

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 To visit me draw near.

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 That I thy chosen to be.

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 To be.

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 That I thy chosen to be.

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 To be.

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 For the love of that love.

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 To be.

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 To be.

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 To be.

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 To be.

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 To be.

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 To be.

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 Is it me, John, near

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 That I, thy chosen to deceive

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 And in their joy rejoice

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 And here with thine inheritance

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 Triumph with cheerful voice

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 We with our fathers

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 Say it, God

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 Act of iniquity

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 Too long we have the workers' feet

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 We have done wickedly

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 Thou wonders great wish

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 That, O Lord, this work

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 In each of our

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 Our fathers

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 All they saw yet well

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 It did not understand

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 And may thy mercy

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 Is not assured

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 Yet not in memory

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 But at the sea

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 In mercy

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 Provoked in grieveously

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 Never the rest

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 He saved the dead

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 Been for his own name's sake

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 That so he might

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 To be well

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 Lord

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 His mighty power

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 May

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 Well, friends, let us now turn

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 To read the word of God together

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 We're going to read from the Old Testament

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 And from the book of Joshua

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 Joshua chapter 4

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 We'll read the whole chapter together

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 Let us hear the word of God

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 When all the nation had finished

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 Passing over the Jordan

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 The Lord said to Joshua

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 Take twelve men from the people

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 From each tribe a man

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 And command them saying

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 Take twelve stones from here

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 Out of the midst of the Jordan

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 From the very place

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 Where the priest's feet stood firmly

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 And bring them over with you

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 And lay them down in the place

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 Where you lodge tonight

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 Then Joshua called the twelve men

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 From the people of Israel

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 Whom he had appointed

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 A man from each tribe

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 And Joshua said to them

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 Pass on before the ark

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 Of the Lord your God

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 Into the midst of the Jordan

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 And take up each of you

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 A stone upon his shoulder

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 According to the number of tribes

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 Of the people of Israel

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 That this may be a sign

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 Among you

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 When your children ask

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 In time to come

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 What do these stones

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 Mean to you

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 Then you shall tell them

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 That the waters of the Jordan

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 Were cut off

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 Before the ark of the covenant

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 Of the Lord

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 When it passed over the Jordan

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 The waters of the Jordan

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 Were cut off

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 So these stones

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 Shall be to the people of Israel

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 A memorial forever

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 And the people of Israel

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 Did just as Joshua commanded

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 And took up twelve stones

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 Out of the midst of the Jordan

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 According to the number

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 Of the tribes

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 Of the people of Israel

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 Just as the Lord

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 Told Joshua

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 And they carried them

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 Over with them

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 To the place

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 Where they lodged

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 And laid them down there

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 And Joshua set up

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 Twelve stones

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 In the midst of the Jordan

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 In the place

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 Where the feet

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 Of the priests

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 Bading the ark

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 Of the covenant

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 Had stood

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 And there they are

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 To this day

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 For the priests

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 Bading the ark

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 Stood in the midst

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 Of the Jordan

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 Until everything

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 Was finished

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 That the Lord

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 Commanded Joshua

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 To tell the people

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 According to all

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 That Moses

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 Had commanded Joshua

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 The people

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 Passed over in haste

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 And when all the people

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 Had finished passing over

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 The ark of the Lord

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 And the priests

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 Passed over

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 Before the people

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 The sons of Reuben

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 And the sons of Gad

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 And half the tribe

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 Of Manasseh

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 Passed over

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 Armed before the people

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 Of Israel

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 As Moses had told them

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 About forty thousand

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 Ready for war

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 Passed over

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 Before the Lord

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 For battle

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 To the plains

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 Of Jericho

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 On that day

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 The Lord exalted Joshua

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 In the sight

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 Of all Israel

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 And they stood

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 In awe of him

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 Just as they had

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 Stood in awe of Moses

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 All the days

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 Of his life

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 And the Lord

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 Said to Joshua

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 Command the priests

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 Bearing the ark

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 Of the testimony

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 To come up

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 Out of the Jordan

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 So Joshua

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 Commanded the priests

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 Come up

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 Out of the Jordan

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 And when the priests

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 Bearing the ark

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 Of the covenant

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 Of the Lord

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 Came up from the midst

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 Of the Jordan

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 And the souls

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 Of the priests

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 Were lifted up

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 On dry ground

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 The waters of the Jordan

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 Returned to their place

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 And overflowed

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 All its banks

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 As before

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 The people came up

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 Out of the Jordan

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 On the tenth day

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 Of the first month

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 And they encamped

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 At Gilgal

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 On the east border

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 Of Jericho

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 And those twelve stones

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 Which they took

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 Out of the Jordan

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 Joshua set up

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 At Gilgal

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 And he said

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 To the people

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 Of Israel

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 When your children

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 Ask their fathers

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 In time to come

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 What do these stones mean?

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 Then you shall let

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 Your children know

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 Israel passed over

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 This Jordan

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 On dry ground

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 For the Lord

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 Your God

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 Dried up

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 The waters

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 Of the Jordan

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 For you

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 Until you passed over

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 As the Lord

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 Your God

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 Did to the Red Sea

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 Which he dried up

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 For us

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 Until we passed over

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 So that all

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 The peoples

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 Of the earth

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 May know

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 That the hand

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 Of the Lord

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 Is mighty

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 And that you

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 May fear the Lord

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 Your God

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 Forever

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 Amen

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 And we pray

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 God's blessing

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 On that reading

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 Of his own

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 Holy word

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 Let's once again

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 Sing praise to God

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 This time from

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 Psalm 20

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 Psalm 20

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 Again in the

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 Scottish Psalter

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 We're going to

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 Read from verse 5

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 This is on page

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 224

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 Psalm 20

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 And verse 5

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 In thy salvation

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 We will joy

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 In our God's name

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 We will

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 Display our banners

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 And the Lord

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 Thy prayers

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 All fulfill

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 Now know I God

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 His King

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 Doth save

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 He from his

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 Holy heaven

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 Will hear him

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 With the saving

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 Strength

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 By his

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 Own right

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 Hand

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 Given

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 We'll sing down

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 To the end of the verse

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 To the end of the psalm

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 Rather

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 To the praise of God

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 Standing to sing

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 In thy salvation

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 We will joy

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 In thy salvation

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 We will joy

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 In our God's name

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 We will

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 Tis

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�

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 Now know I magazines

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 O my God, his gift has saved him from his holy hand.

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 We'll hear him with the saving strength, by his own right and clear.

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 In chariots sounded, all fiddeth, some horses passed upon.

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 The dear remember, well, the name of our Lord God alone.

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 We rise and up, but stand where they are, how it come and fall.

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 Deliver, Lord, and let the king pass here when we do call.

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 Well, friends, just for a short time this evening, if we could turn back to Joshua chapter 4.

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 Joshua chapter 4, and we can read again from verse 19.

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 The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month,

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 and they encamped at Gilgal on the east border of Jericho.

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 And those twelve stones which they took out of the Jordan, Joshua set up at Gilgal.

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 And he said to the people of Israel,

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 When your children ask their fathers in times to come, what do these stones mean?

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 Then you shall let your children know.

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 Israel passed over this Jordan on dry ground.

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 For the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan for you until you passed over,

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 as the Lord your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up for us until we passed over.

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 So that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the Lord is mighty,

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 that you may fear the Lord your God forever.

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 I wonder, friends, if there's anyone here tonight who would say that they have an especially bad memory.

00:27:56.640 --> 00:27:59.539
 They find it difficult to remember things.

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 I know myself.

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 I find it difficult at times to remember dates.

00:28:04.720 --> 00:28:06.599
 And I need to be reminded.

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 And of course, I suppose it's a case for all of us in many ways.

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 Our lives are governed by diaries and by schedules.

00:28:15.599 --> 00:28:17.659
 We're apt to forget.

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 That is the nature of who we are.

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 We have short memories.

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 There are few people, of course, who are gifted with good memories.

00:28:29.399 --> 00:28:33.980
 Those who remember every last detail of every last situation.

00:28:34.199 --> 00:28:40.139
 Those who remember every last date that's on their calendar in the year that's ahead of them.

00:28:40.199 --> 00:28:43.779
 But generally speaking, we have poor memories.

00:28:43.980 --> 00:28:46.519
 We are apt to forget.

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 And friends, as we gather here this Friday evening, we praise the Lord.

00:28:52.160 --> 00:28:58.599
 We praise the Lord because he is a God of mercy and of grace and of love.

00:28:59.220 --> 00:29:02.879
 He is a God who meets us at our very point of need.

00:29:03.139 --> 00:29:06.160
 He knows who we are and what we're like.

00:29:06.799 --> 00:29:08.220
 He knows our infirmities.

00:29:08.420 --> 00:29:09.539
 He knows our struggles.

00:29:10.299 --> 00:29:12.200
 He knows our challenges.

00:29:12.460 --> 00:29:13.519
 He knows our trials.

00:29:13.519 --> 00:29:14.839
 He knows our tribulations.

00:29:14.980 --> 00:29:20.519
 Whatever you're going through tonight, perhaps no one else in here knows, but he knows.

00:29:21.519 --> 00:29:24.720
 And the wonder of who our God is, is this.

00:29:25.619 --> 00:29:27.299
 That he accommodates us.

00:29:28.200 --> 00:29:31.200
 He accommodates us at our point of need.

00:29:31.259 --> 00:29:32.440
 I said that in prayer.

00:29:32.960 --> 00:29:36.019
 A God who is infinite, eternal and unchangeable.

00:29:36.319 --> 00:29:42.079
 A God who inhabits eternity and yet he reveals himself to us through words.

00:29:42.079 --> 00:29:44.299
 He doesn't need to do this.

00:29:44.559 --> 00:29:45.419
 But he does.

00:29:46.000 --> 00:29:49.240
 He accommodates our limitations.

00:29:50.539 --> 00:29:53.339
 And in terms of our memory, he does the same.

00:29:54.220 --> 00:29:55.579
 That's why we're here tonight.

00:29:56.460 --> 00:29:58.939
 And we see that, do we not, throughout Scripture.

00:29:59.619 --> 00:30:07.559
 That because we as human beings, due to our sinful fallen nature, we are those who forget time and time again.

00:30:07.559 --> 00:30:13.879
 He is a God who meets us at our point of need and who prompts us to remember.

00:30:14.839 --> 00:30:17.679
 You remember in Exodus 12, what do we see there?

00:30:18.179 --> 00:30:22.779
 Well, we see that after God has saved his people, he does what?

00:30:23.179 --> 00:30:26.220
 Well, he passes over the houses, does he not?

00:30:26.579 --> 00:30:31.759
 And he puts blood on the lintels of those who he's going to save.

00:30:32.319 --> 00:30:33.539
 He saves his people.

00:30:33.539 --> 00:30:41.319
 And of course, in response to saving his people, he knows that his people will forget.

00:30:41.559 --> 00:30:42.460
 So what does he do?

00:30:42.960 --> 00:30:54.519
 He institutes the Passover, this time where they would gather together and they would remember as a people that great deliverance from God to safety.

00:30:54.519 --> 00:31:00.079
 Of course, that's what we see here tonight.

00:31:01.279 --> 00:31:05.359
 Not only in the chapter that we read, but also in our own experience.

00:31:06.259 --> 00:31:14.039
 Because as we reflect upon how the Lord deals with us, we see that he's continuing to prompt us to remember.

00:31:15.220 --> 00:31:17.019
 Take, for example, the Lord's Day.

00:31:17.019 --> 00:31:20.319
 Today, we are a people who are so busy in life.

00:31:20.460 --> 00:31:23.859
 We have so much consuming our time and our energy.

00:31:24.460 --> 00:31:33.539
 But yet the Lord, in his love and in his mercy, he gives us this one day that we can set aside things that so take up our time.

00:31:33.619 --> 00:31:38.900
 And we can focus on gathering with his people and worshipping his name.

00:31:39.039 --> 00:31:39.359
 Why?

00:31:40.339 --> 00:31:41.700
 Because we forget.

00:31:41.700 --> 00:31:44.779
 I spoke to some in lockdown.

00:31:44.940 --> 00:31:49.000
 Perhaps you yourself would be able to testify to this as well.

00:31:49.180 --> 00:31:56.480
 That during lockdown, when we didn't have that routine of gathering together as God's people,

00:31:57.380 --> 00:32:00.140
 before we knew it, yes, we would watch sermons online.

00:32:00.279 --> 00:32:05.779
 But before we knew it, the Lord's Day began to become just like any other day.

00:32:05.779 --> 00:32:11.759
 And we could see, if we're being honest, and good Christian people have confessed to this,

00:32:11.920 --> 00:32:19.359
 being honest, that yes, we found ourselves as a people, once we had got our services out of the way,

00:32:19.660 --> 00:32:21.980
 doing what we wanted with the rest of the day.

00:32:23.039 --> 00:32:25.399
 That's the way we are by nature.

00:32:26.639 --> 00:32:29.039
 Left to ourselves, we forget.

00:32:29.039 --> 00:32:37.859
 And so that's why the Lord gives us this Lord's Day, not as a bind, but as a blessing.

00:32:38.700 --> 00:32:40.819
 A blessing to remind us.

00:32:40.899 --> 00:32:42.159
 To remind us of what?

00:32:42.579 --> 00:32:45.759
 To remind us of that great resurrection power.

00:32:46.039 --> 00:32:52.019
 So that we can gather together as his people, and that we can celebrate, because that's what it is, a celebration.

00:32:52.019 --> 00:33:00.139
 We can celebrate that victory that is ours in him, that he is not dead, he is risen.

00:33:01.119 --> 00:33:02.599
 That's what the Lord's Day is.

00:33:03.480 --> 00:33:04.680
 It's for our good.

00:33:06.299 --> 00:33:10.259
 And we come to a passage here tonight in Joshua 4,

00:33:11.079 --> 00:33:16.700
 and we see that the Lord is reminding the people for their good.

00:33:16.700 --> 00:33:21.880
 The context of this chapter is, of course, the exodus of the children of Israel.

00:33:22.039 --> 00:33:24.880
 They are making their way to the promised land.

00:33:25.000 --> 00:33:30.200
 They've had the Jordan parted for them, and they've had the path made clear,

00:33:30.340 --> 00:33:33.559
 so that after decades of wandering in the wilderness,

00:33:33.880 --> 00:33:38.960
 finally, eventually, they make their way to Canaan's shore.

00:33:39.640 --> 00:33:46.240
 That land that God had promised long since would be a land that is flowing with milk,

00:33:46.240 --> 00:33:47.960
 milk, and honey.

00:33:49.039 --> 00:33:50.000
 You know the story.

00:33:50.120 --> 00:33:51.819
 I don't need to go into it in detail.

00:33:51.920 --> 00:33:55.500
 We don't have time to go into that side of the story in detail.

00:33:56.180 --> 00:34:00.200
 But we know that they were a people who were making no progress.

00:34:00.740 --> 00:34:06.680
 They had been offered this freedom that God had given to them to lay hold of by faith,

00:34:06.759 --> 00:34:11.059
 and yet time and time again, they thought they were better off where they were.

00:34:11.679 --> 00:34:12.539
 Sounds familiar.

00:34:13.380 --> 00:34:15.480
 Maybe you're like that here tonight.

00:34:16.239 --> 00:34:17.699
 Maybe you're not a Christian.

00:34:18.239 --> 00:34:22.419
 And you're here tonight, and you know of the gospel message.

00:34:22.619 --> 00:34:27.799
 You know of the freedom that's offered in the pages of Scripture,

00:34:28.259 --> 00:34:30.719
 Lord's Day after Lord's Day in your head,

00:34:30.959 --> 00:34:32.919
 but not in your heart.

00:34:32.920 --> 00:34:38.039
 And perhaps you refuse to acknowledge it in your heart because you're scared.

00:34:39.039 --> 00:34:44.900
 And because you're scared, you're happy to settle for the status quo.

00:34:45.559 --> 00:34:49.519
 As it were, as I once was myself and every one of the Lord's people here,

00:34:49.760 --> 00:34:55.180
 going round and round in circles, perhaps even for decades in this wilderness,

00:34:55.179 --> 00:35:01.259
 when all along there is something so much better on offer.

00:35:01.259 --> 00:35:05.039
 That land that is flowing with milk and honey.

00:35:05.739 --> 00:35:10.139
 That place where there is freedom and joy and liberty.

00:35:10.559 --> 00:35:13.839
 That place where you can say, as I said in prayer,

00:35:14.019 --> 00:35:15.940
 I am in Christ.

00:35:15.940 --> 00:35:19.400
 And what a place that is to be in our souls.

00:35:21.619 --> 00:35:24.659
 And so they make their way through the Jordan.

00:35:25.559 --> 00:35:26.980
 We know the narrative.

00:35:27.179 --> 00:35:28.119
 We know the story.

00:35:28.960 --> 00:35:31.920
 But that's not the end of the story.

00:35:32.000 --> 00:35:35.059
 That's not the end of the Jordan narrative.

00:35:35.059 --> 00:35:39.279
 Because as the Israelites find themselves safe on the other side,

00:35:39.400 --> 00:35:43.059
 before they can move on to the next part of their journey,

00:35:43.199 --> 00:35:48.019
 the next chapter in their experience to go on and to conquer the land,

00:35:48.619 --> 00:35:49.599
 they're stopped.

00:35:50.519 --> 00:35:51.920
 They're asked to pause.

00:35:53.000 --> 00:35:53.880
 To reflect.

00:35:55.779 --> 00:35:57.259
 And in this reflection,

00:35:57.940 --> 00:36:00.199
 essentially what they're being asked to do is

00:36:00.199 --> 00:36:07.119
 is to ensure that they don't forget what the Lord has just done for them.

00:36:08.480 --> 00:36:11.099
 And of course, looking at what the Lord has just done for them,

00:36:11.139 --> 00:36:12.480
 he's parted the seas.

00:36:13.079 --> 00:36:16.480
 So that the sea was, as it were, a wall on either side of them.

00:36:16.480 --> 00:36:20.379
 This miraculous phenomena took place before their very eyes.

00:36:20.439 --> 00:36:23.019
 This wasn't something that they would have been seeing every day.

00:36:23.579 --> 00:36:27.219
 This was something, a sight to behold even for themselves.

00:36:27.219 --> 00:36:30.299
 And so we might say, well, of course they won't forget.

00:36:30.659 --> 00:36:33.659
 How could they ever forget what the Lord has just done for them?

00:36:33.739 --> 00:36:38.179
 This will be etched upon their minds for as long as they live.

00:36:40.579 --> 00:36:42.339
 But of course they would forget.

00:36:44.059 --> 00:36:45.339
 If not reminded,

00:36:47.159 --> 00:36:49.599
 they were fallen human beings,

00:36:49.799 --> 00:36:53.959
 apt to forget like you and like me.

00:36:54.579 --> 00:36:56.459
 And so what does the Lord do?

00:36:57.219 --> 00:37:00.539
 Well, he accommodates again in his mercy and in his love.

00:37:00.859 --> 00:37:02.500
 He accommodates their weakness.

00:37:02.659 --> 00:37:02.919
 How?

00:37:03.599 --> 00:37:05.859
 Well, let's look together at verses 1 to 3.

00:37:06.939 --> 00:37:10.819
 When all the nation had finished passing over the Jordan,

00:37:10.959 --> 00:37:12.399
 the Lord said to Joshua,

00:37:13.059 --> 00:37:15.000
 take 12 men from the people,

00:37:15.259 --> 00:37:16.899
 from each tribe a man,

00:37:17.379 --> 00:37:18.959
 and command them, saying,

00:37:19.480 --> 00:37:21.559
 take 12 stones from here,

00:37:21.659 --> 00:37:24.039
 out of the midst of the Jordan,

00:37:24.039 --> 00:37:28.159
 from the very place where the priest's feet stood firmly,

00:37:28.360 --> 00:37:30.400
 and bring them over with you,

00:37:30.599 --> 00:37:35.579
 and lay them down in the place where you lodge tonight.

00:37:35.579 --> 00:37:38.819
 So basically what they were to do was this,

00:37:39.259 --> 00:37:43.639
 that one of each of the tribes of Israel,

00:37:43.639 --> 00:37:45.860
 one man from the tribes of Israel,

00:37:45.860 --> 00:37:46.579
 this was, of course,

00:37:46.799 --> 00:37:49.019
 representing God's people as a whole.

00:37:49.159 --> 00:37:53.039
 We see the collective of God's people coming together,

00:37:53.039 --> 00:37:53.500
 of course,

00:37:53.779 --> 00:37:55.659
 we know that two and a half of the tribes

00:37:55.659 --> 00:37:57.659
 had gone on before previously

00:37:57.659 --> 00:37:59.980
 to make their home in the promised land.

00:38:00.099 --> 00:38:02.139
 They had pledged to come back

00:38:02.139 --> 00:38:06.460
 and to help their brethren in the Lord

00:38:06.460 --> 00:38:07.539
 when the time would come,

00:38:07.579 --> 00:38:09.279
 and of course that time has come,

00:38:09.360 --> 00:38:11.039
 and so they all joined together

00:38:11.639 --> 00:38:15.880
 to send out one man to the riverbed

00:38:15.880 --> 00:38:19.019
 and to take a stone on their shoulder.

00:38:19.019 --> 00:38:21.199
 Now we can see that this was a large stone.

00:38:21.280 --> 00:38:22.239
 It wasn't a small stone.

00:38:22.480 --> 00:38:24.000
 It was one that would have to go on their shoulder,

00:38:24.159 --> 00:38:25.179
 a large stone.

00:38:25.719 --> 00:38:28.579
 And so 12 large stones made their way

00:38:28.579 --> 00:38:33.259
 from the riverbed up to the riverbank.

00:38:33.960 --> 00:38:36.420
 That's where they were to stay the night, in Gilgal.

00:38:37.480 --> 00:38:39.340
 And what they were to do with these stones

00:38:39.340 --> 00:38:42.480
 was to build a monument.

00:38:42.780 --> 00:38:46.360
 We don't know what this monument would have looked like.

00:38:46.360 --> 00:38:48.460
 In my own mind, I have a picture

00:38:48.460 --> 00:38:50.099
 of what we would call a cairn.

00:38:50.300 --> 00:38:53.180
 You see them on our island.

00:38:53.280 --> 00:38:55.480
 I know in Ness, in Skigersta,

00:38:55.620 --> 00:38:58.820
 there are two cairns out at a place called the Ka.

00:38:59.000 --> 00:39:01.039
 They're built up with stones.

00:39:01.519 --> 00:39:04.220
 They're a monument of something,

00:39:04.380 --> 00:39:05.860
 of what I'm not quite sure,

00:39:05.940 --> 00:39:06.680
 but of something.

00:39:06.800 --> 00:39:08.880
 There's another monument further out

00:39:08.880 --> 00:39:09.960
 called the Karnangyal.

00:39:10.079 --> 00:39:14.539
 This is a cairn that's speaking of a geologist

00:39:14.539 --> 00:39:16.400
 who, in years gone by,

00:39:16.539 --> 00:39:18.199
 worked in that part of Ness.

00:39:18.279 --> 00:39:20.659
 There's a war memorial in Stornoway,

00:39:20.739 --> 00:39:23.360
 a far more conspicuous monument,

00:39:23.539 --> 00:39:25.699
 a cairn, one that testifies

00:39:25.699 --> 00:39:28.779
 to the men who died in the war.

00:39:28.920 --> 00:39:30.960
 There are cairns, there are monuments

00:39:30.960 --> 00:39:32.940
 all around us.

00:39:34.659 --> 00:39:36.940
 And so that's what they're asked to do,

00:39:37.059 --> 00:39:39.199
 to build a monument,

00:39:39.360 --> 00:39:41.039
 to build a cairn.

00:39:41.039 --> 00:39:42.579
 But as we look at verse 9, friends,

00:39:42.639 --> 00:39:46.139
 we might begin to get a little bit confused.

00:39:47.059 --> 00:39:48.360
 Because there we read this,

00:39:48.440 --> 00:39:50.779
 and Joshua set up twelve stones

00:39:50.779 --> 00:39:52.139
 in the midst of the Jordan,

00:39:52.719 --> 00:39:54.900
 in the place where the feet of the priests

00:39:54.900 --> 00:39:57.139
 bearing the Ark of the Covenant had stood.

00:39:57.779 --> 00:40:00.659
 And there they are to this day.

00:40:02.139 --> 00:40:03.380
 So is there one monument?

00:40:04.440 --> 00:40:05.300
 Or is there two?

00:40:05.960 --> 00:40:08.719
 Is there one on the banks of the Jordan

00:40:08.719 --> 00:40:10.359
 and one in the middle of the Jordan?

00:40:10.480 --> 00:40:13.259
 This raises the question.

00:40:13.779 --> 00:40:14.239
 And of course,

00:40:14.959 --> 00:40:16.539
 commentators differ on this.

00:40:17.039 --> 00:40:18.799
 Even commentators of the same

00:40:18.799 --> 00:40:19.919
 Reformed tradition

00:40:19.919 --> 00:40:21.919
 will differ on their opinion

00:40:21.919 --> 00:40:24.399
 as to whether there are two monuments

00:40:24.399 --> 00:40:26.480
 or one monument.

00:40:28.059 --> 00:40:31.379
 Some who say that there's just one monument

00:40:31.380 --> 00:40:34.460
 would say that when this is speaking

00:40:34.460 --> 00:40:37.900
 of the twelve stones set

00:40:37.900 --> 00:40:39.059
 in the midst of the Jordan,

00:40:39.200 --> 00:40:41.119
 that the Hebrew would allude

00:40:41.119 --> 00:40:42.619
 to a translation that says

00:40:42.619 --> 00:40:46.640
 that Joshua had set up the stones

00:40:46.640 --> 00:40:48.880
 that had been in the midst of the Jordan.

00:40:48.980 --> 00:40:51.000
 So that he had taken up the stones

00:40:51.000 --> 00:40:53.900
 that had been in the midst of the Jordan.

00:40:54.360 --> 00:40:56.300
 And as we read the passage as a whole,

00:40:56.360 --> 00:40:58.039
 and as we read the comments

00:40:58.039 --> 00:41:00.079
 on the Cairn and Gilgal,

00:41:00.440 --> 00:41:03.800
 I think myself that this is most likely.

00:41:04.500 --> 00:41:05.719
 When we think logically

00:41:05.719 --> 00:41:08.099
 about there being a monument,

00:41:08.400 --> 00:41:11.139
 a Cairn in the middle of the River Jordan,

00:41:11.599 --> 00:41:13.279
 we would see that this poses

00:41:13.279 --> 00:41:14.360
 its own difficulties

00:41:14.360 --> 00:41:15.719
 if we look at verse 18.

00:41:16.259 --> 00:41:17.199
 And when the priests

00:41:17.199 --> 00:41:19.340
 bearing the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord

00:41:19.340 --> 00:41:21.300
 came up from the midst of the Jordan,

00:41:21.699 --> 00:41:23.179
 and the souls of the priests

00:41:23.179 --> 00:41:24.940
 were lifted on dry ground,

00:41:24.940 --> 00:41:27.619
 the waters of the Jordan returned

00:41:27.619 --> 00:41:28.740
 to their place

00:41:28.740 --> 00:41:31.400
 and overflowed all of its banks

00:41:31.400 --> 00:41:33.360
 as before.

00:41:34.019 --> 00:41:36.179
 The waters returned.

00:41:36.380 --> 00:41:39.340
 So that the valley of the Jordan River,

00:41:39.340 --> 00:41:42.679
 which went from 15 to 60 meters,

00:41:43.079 --> 00:41:45.420
 it was now full of water.

00:41:45.920 --> 00:41:47.039
 So that any stones,

00:41:47.179 --> 00:41:48.639
 any Cairns that had been built

00:41:48.639 --> 00:41:49.519
 in the middle of it

00:41:49.519 --> 00:41:52.240
 would either not be able to be seen,

00:41:52.340 --> 00:41:54.159
 which would defeat the whole purpose of them,

00:41:54.159 --> 00:41:57.179
 or would more likely be washed away.

00:41:57.339 --> 00:41:58.039
 But either way,

00:41:58.159 --> 00:41:59.940
 whether there's one or there's two,

00:42:00.159 --> 00:42:01.159
 what we know is this,

00:42:01.699 --> 00:42:04.019
 that this monument was set there

00:42:04.019 --> 00:42:05.739
 as a reminder.

00:42:06.819 --> 00:42:07.960
 That was its purpose,

00:42:08.319 --> 00:42:09.859
 to be a reminder.

00:42:11.319 --> 00:42:13.319
 But who was it to remind?

00:42:14.399 --> 00:42:16.879
 And what was it to remind them of?

00:42:16.920 --> 00:42:18.279
 Well, there are two or three things

00:42:18.279 --> 00:42:20.259
 for us to consider.

00:42:20.260 --> 00:42:22.200
 We read in verse 6

00:42:22.200 --> 00:42:26.980
 that they were to make this a sign among you,

00:42:27.620 --> 00:42:30.720
 so that when your children ask in time to come,

00:42:31.480 --> 00:42:35.780
 what do these stones mean?

00:42:36.220 --> 00:42:40.720
 What do these stones mean to you?

00:42:41.280 --> 00:42:42.660
 Then you shall tell them.

00:42:43.300 --> 00:42:45.900
 Then you shall tell them.

00:42:45.900 --> 00:42:47.139
 And these stones were there

00:42:47.139 --> 00:42:49.500
 to provoke conversation,

00:42:50.519 --> 00:42:52.340
 to stimulate discussion,

00:42:52.460 --> 00:42:56.360
 just as any Cairns or monument does today.

00:42:56.940 --> 00:42:58.740
 It was to be a talking point.

00:42:58.900 --> 00:43:02.480
 What do these stones mean?

00:43:03.440 --> 00:43:04.200
 Verse 21.

00:43:05.079 --> 00:43:06.539
 And he said to the people of Israel,

00:43:06.619 --> 00:43:08.420
 when your children ask their fathers

00:43:08.420 --> 00:43:09.380
 in times to come,

00:43:09.599 --> 00:43:11.240
 what do these stones mean?

00:43:11.239 --> 00:43:14.219
 Then you shall let your children know.

00:43:14.899 --> 00:43:17.159
 Israel passed over this Jordan

00:43:17.159 --> 00:43:19.139
 on dry ground.

00:43:19.259 --> 00:43:20.359
 For the Lord your God

00:43:20.359 --> 00:43:23.000
 dried up the waters of the Jordan for you

00:43:23.000 --> 00:43:25.959
 until you passed over,

00:43:26.399 --> 00:43:30.279
 as the Lord your God did to the Red Sea,

00:43:30.819 --> 00:43:32.279
 which he dried up for us

00:43:32.279 --> 00:43:35.659
 until we passed over.

00:43:36.399 --> 00:43:37.779
 Can you see, friends,

00:43:37.779 --> 00:43:40.739
 the purpose of this monument?

00:43:41.919 --> 00:43:44.419
 That this monument would be a talking point,

00:43:44.519 --> 00:43:46.500
 not only for the children of Israel.

00:43:47.139 --> 00:43:48.439
 This is a small detail,

00:43:48.559 --> 00:43:50.939
 but it's a significant detail.

00:43:51.059 --> 00:43:52.859
 And that's the wonder of Scripture.

00:43:53.039 --> 00:43:55.819
 The Lord includes these small details,

00:43:55.979 --> 00:43:57.919
 these small accommodations

00:43:57.919 --> 00:43:59.879
 for our weaknesses

00:43:59.879 --> 00:44:02.399
 so that we don't forget.

00:44:03.239 --> 00:44:06.719
 And that's exactly what this monument would do.

00:44:06.719 --> 00:44:10.859
 It would go on to act as a reminder

00:44:10.859 --> 00:44:13.299
 to the generations to come,

00:44:13.439 --> 00:44:14.799
 what the Lord had done.

00:44:15.459 --> 00:44:16.199
 People would say,

00:44:16.239 --> 00:44:17.059
 well, what does this mean?

00:44:17.279 --> 00:44:19.119
 What do these stones mean?

00:44:19.759 --> 00:44:21.939
 And those who would have heard it told to them

00:44:21.939 --> 00:44:22.859
 by their fathers,

00:44:23.199 --> 00:44:25.159
 who had been told by their fathers,

00:44:25.239 --> 00:44:25.579
 would say,

00:44:25.719 --> 00:44:28.359
 well, these stones tell a story.

00:44:28.360 --> 00:44:31.980
 They tell a story of the wonder

00:44:31.980 --> 00:44:34.820
 and the power of the God of Israel

00:44:34.820 --> 00:44:37.320
 who delivered his people.

00:44:37.460 --> 00:44:38.680
 Do you know that God?

00:44:39.720 --> 00:44:41.300
 Do you know that God?

00:44:42.280 --> 00:44:43.740
 Get to know that God.

00:44:43.840 --> 00:44:44.880
 He's a great God

00:44:44.880 --> 00:44:46.980
 who can do wonders for you.

00:44:47.079 --> 00:44:51.079
 And so conversations would be stimulated

00:44:51.079 --> 00:44:53.480
 for years to come.

00:44:53.480 --> 00:44:57.740
 These are stones that speak.

00:44:58.900 --> 00:44:59.400
 And of course,

00:44:59.460 --> 00:45:01.440
 as the Israelites themselves

00:45:01.440 --> 00:45:04.019
 went on to conquer the land of Canaan,

00:45:05.079 --> 00:45:07.460
 they would be overwhelmed, no doubt,

00:45:08.579 --> 00:45:10.260
 as they were faced with the magnitude

00:45:10.260 --> 00:45:11.940
 of what lay ahead of them,

00:45:12.079 --> 00:45:14.199
 the paralyzing fear

00:45:14.199 --> 00:45:17.400
 of the daunting task that was before them

00:45:17.400 --> 00:45:19.059
 to conquer the enemy.

00:45:19.960 --> 00:45:20.980
 They would forget.

00:45:21.579 --> 00:45:23.340
 Quite quickly, they would forget.

00:45:24.480 --> 00:45:26.559
 How often do you and I forget?

00:45:28.079 --> 00:45:30.900
 We're faced with something that's difficult.

00:45:32.019 --> 00:45:33.340
 We're faced with something,

00:45:33.440 --> 00:45:35.460
 if we're being honest in our mind's eye,

00:45:35.539 --> 00:45:37.679
 we say it's too difficult,

00:45:38.059 --> 00:45:39.119
 even for God.

00:45:40.119 --> 00:45:41.179
 And we forget.

00:45:42.179 --> 00:45:45.760
 In that blur of anxiety and of fear,

00:45:46.480 --> 00:45:47.340
 we forget.

00:45:47.960 --> 00:45:50.920
 We forget that this is the self-same God

00:45:50.920 --> 00:45:53.940
 who has delivered us in times past.

00:45:53.940 --> 00:45:56.400
 This is the self-same God

00:45:56.400 --> 00:46:00.579
 who seeks to lead us

00:46:00.579 --> 00:46:04.240
 to that place of safety and of refuge,

00:46:04.400 --> 00:46:06.360
 but still we forget.

00:46:07.619 --> 00:46:08.940
 We need reminded.

00:46:10.880 --> 00:46:11.860
 We need reminded.

00:46:11.860 --> 00:46:16.480
 And so for us here tonight, friends,

00:46:16.700 --> 00:46:19.680
 these stones speak.

00:46:20.380 --> 00:46:21.700
 They speak to us.

00:46:22.840 --> 00:46:24.440
 They speak to you and to me.

00:46:24.519 --> 00:46:26.320
 And what do they say?

00:46:26.320 --> 00:46:28.920
 Well, they say plenty.

00:46:30.820 --> 00:46:32.220
 Because if you're here tonight

00:46:32.220 --> 00:46:33.080
 and you're a Christian,

00:46:33.340 --> 00:46:36.220
 the reality is that you too

00:46:36.220 --> 00:46:37.980
 have a memorial in your life,

00:46:38.039 --> 00:46:39.860
 your own personal memorial.

00:46:40.000 --> 00:46:41.600
 You have that marker

00:46:41.600 --> 00:46:43.820
 that you can go back to in your mind's eye,

00:46:43.920 --> 00:46:45.840
 that point in time.

00:46:45.840 --> 00:46:47.720
 It might be a specific hour,

00:46:48.140 --> 00:46:50.960
 day, week, month, year,

00:46:51.320 --> 00:46:52.200
 couple of years,

00:46:52.280 --> 00:46:53.039
 whatever it is.

00:46:53.079 --> 00:46:55.559
 You have a time in your mind's eye,

00:46:55.620 --> 00:46:58.180
 a period whereby you know

00:46:58.180 --> 00:47:00.000
 that the Lord did something miraculous

00:47:00.000 --> 00:47:00.980
 in your life.

00:47:02.760 --> 00:47:05.400
 Perhaps you can't remember a time

00:47:05.400 --> 00:47:08.079
 in your life when you weren't the Lord's.

00:47:08.100 --> 00:47:09.640
 That's also the case for some.

00:47:10.500 --> 00:47:12.140
 Some are converted so young

00:47:12.140 --> 00:47:14.460
 that they cannot recollect this time,

00:47:14.460 --> 00:47:16.579
 but still you know the Lord

00:47:16.579 --> 00:47:18.460
 has done something miraculous

00:47:18.460 --> 00:47:19.720
 in your life.

00:47:19.780 --> 00:47:21.099
 He didn't part the Jordan,

00:47:22.039 --> 00:47:23.340
 but what he did was this.

00:47:23.539 --> 00:47:25.500
 He parted your heart.

00:47:25.579 --> 00:47:26.720
 He opened your heart

00:47:26.720 --> 00:47:29.139
 so that you could receive Jesus Christ

00:47:29.139 --> 00:47:31.840
 as your Lord and your Savior.

00:47:32.000 --> 00:47:34.139
 So much more miraculous

00:47:34.139 --> 00:47:37.179
 than anything we read here before us.

00:47:39.539 --> 00:47:41.280
 And when we're first converted,

00:47:41.420 --> 00:47:43.119
 when we have our hearts opened

00:47:43.119 --> 00:47:43.940
 in such a way,

00:47:43.940 --> 00:47:45.000
 is it not true, friends?

00:47:45.360 --> 00:47:46.579
 We're so full.

00:47:47.179 --> 00:47:48.700
 We're so full of zeal

00:47:48.700 --> 00:47:50.599
 and vigor and wonder

00:47:50.599 --> 00:47:51.300
 and awe

00:47:51.300 --> 00:47:52.760
 as we look back upon

00:47:52.760 --> 00:47:54.220
 what Jesus has just done

00:47:54.220 --> 00:47:55.059
 in our lives.

00:47:55.500 --> 00:47:57.059
 Just as the children of Israel

00:47:57.059 --> 00:47:57.639
 were here

00:47:57.639 --> 00:47:59.740
 as they reflected at Gilgal

00:47:59.740 --> 00:48:01.159
 on what the Lord had just done,

00:48:01.240 --> 00:48:02.619
 they couldn't believe it

00:48:02.619 --> 00:48:04.019
 and so it is with us.

00:48:05.200 --> 00:48:06.639
 When we see lambs,

00:48:06.700 --> 00:48:07.659
 as it were, coming,

00:48:08.559 --> 00:48:09.780
 we pray for more.

00:48:09.780 --> 00:48:12.420
 We can almost see it in their face.

00:48:12.420 --> 00:48:12.920
 face.

00:48:12.920 --> 00:48:14.680
 This brightness,

00:48:14.980 --> 00:48:16.300
 this vigor,

00:48:16.579 --> 00:48:17.320
 this zeal,

00:48:18.180 --> 00:48:19.539
 that something wonderful

00:48:19.539 --> 00:48:20.820
 has taken place

00:48:20.820 --> 00:48:22.900
 in their lives.

00:48:22.900 --> 00:48:26.260
 and we think that will never end.

00:48:27.260 --> 00:48:29.760
 That we'll always be on that mountaintop.

00:48:30.360 --> 00:48:32.019
 And how disappointed we are

00:48:32.019 --> 00:48:34.260
 when we come crashing down to earth

00:48:34.260 --> 00:48:35.300
 with a bang.

00:48:35.940 --> 00:48:36.960
 And so we do.

00:48:37.820 --> 00:48:38.940
 And so we do.

00:48:39.660 --> 00:48:41.619
 And as we're left, as it were,

00:48:41.800 --> 00:48:43.220
 to, not left,

00:48:43.219 --> 00:48:44.879
 but as we're called

00:48:44.879 --> 00:48:45.839
 to go on

00:48:45.839 --> 00:48:47.379
 and to live that life

00:48:47.379 --> 00:48:48.399
 of faith,

00:48:48.459 --> 00:48:49.379
 it can be difficult.

00:48:50.480 --> 00:48:51.399
 So much so

00:48:51.399 --> 00:48:52.819
 that we lose sight

00:48:52.819 --> 00:48:54.319
 of what the Lord's done

00:48:54.319 --> 00:48:54.959
 in our life

00:48:54.959 --> 00:48:55.599
 at the beginning.

00:48:55.799 --> 00:48:56.219
 We forget

00:48:56.899 --> 00:48:57.219
 the wonder

00:48:57.959 --> 00:48:59.019
 of that grace

00:48:59.019 --> 00:48:59.679
 and mercy

00:48:59.679 --> 00:49:00.319
 and love

00:49:00.319 --> 00:49:02.159
 that has drawn us

00:49:02.159 --> 00:49:02.500
 to Him

00:49:02.500 --> 00:49:03.619
 in the first place.

00:49:04.899 --> 00:49:06.219
 So that our hearts

00:49:06.219 --> 00:49:07.239
 grow cold.

00:49:08.879 --> 00:49:09.480
 Or so that

00:49:09.480 --> 00:49:10.759
 we're so busy

00:49:10.759 --> 00:49:12.259
 even with the church

00:49:12.260 --> 00:49:13.880
 but we forget

00:49:13.880 --> 00:49:14.580
 the Savior,

00:49:15.300 --> 00:49:16.040
 the Lord,

00:49:16.560 --> 00:49:17.240
 the King

00:49:17.240 --> 00:49:18.480
 of the church.

00:49:19.120 --> 00:49:20.140
 The main thing

00:49:20.140 --> 00:49:20.920
 doesn't become

00:49:20.920 --> 00:49:21.760
 the main thing.

00:49:22.420 --> 00:49:23.600
 He becomes secondary

00:49:23.600 --> 00:49:25.200
 in all that we do.

00:49:26.580 --> 00:49:27.780
 And so we need

00:49:27.780 --> 00:49:29.380
 reminded.

00:49:30.920 --> 00:49:32.320
 Allow me to ask you,

00:49:33.360 --> 00:49:34.800
 what does Jesus mean

00:49:34.800 --> 00:49:35.680
 to you tonight?

00:49:36.580 --> 00:49:37.500
 And I ask myself

00:49:37.500 --> 00:49:38.480
 the same question.

00:49:38.720 --> 00:49:39.060
 And we know

00:49:39.060 --> 00:49:40.220
 the textbook answer

00:49:40.220 --> 00:49:41.460
 what we should say

00:49:41.460 --> 00:49:42.220
 but really

00:49:42.220 --> 00:49:44.539
 in working terms,

00:49:44.720 --> 00:49:45.440
 what does Jesus

00:49:45.440 --> 00:49:46.559
 mean to you tonight?

00:49:47.079 --> 00:49:48.000
 In your life

00:49:48.000 --> 00:49:49.599
 on this Friday evening

00:49:49.599 --> 00:49:50.360
 in August,

00:49:50.800 --> 00:49:52.119
 if you were to

00:49:52.119 --> 00:49:53.019
 honestly answer,

00:49:53.559 --> 00:49:54.579
 what does Jesus

00:49:54.579 --> 00:49:55.920
 mean to you tonight?

00:49:57.840 --> 00:49:58.659
 How would you

00:49:58.659 --> 00:49:59.780
 articulate that?

00:50:00.199 --> 00:50:01.000
 How would I

00:50:01.000 --> 00:50:02.320
 articulate that?

00:50:03.099 --> 00:50:04.039
 It's a challenge.

00:50:04.980 --> 00:50:05.880
 It's a question

00:50:05.880 --> 00:50:07.240
 that searches us

00:50:07.239 --> 00:50:09.179
 because we can tell

00:50:09.179 --> 00:50:10.179
 what many different

00:50:10.179 --> 00:50:11.199
 things mean to us

00:50:11.199 --> 00:50:11.439
 tonight.

00:50:11.439 --> 00:50:12.399
 We can even tell

00:50:12.399 --> 00:50:13.819
 what church means

00:50:13.819 --> 00:50:14.639
 to us tonight.

00:50:15.219 --> 00:50:16.359
 But what does Jesus

00:50:16.359 --> 00:50:17.939
 mean to you

00:50:17.939 --> 00:50:18.959
 tonight?

00:50:21.299 --> 00:50:22.639
 We forget.

00:50:25.219 --> 00:50:26.539
 We forget

00:50:26.539 --> 00:50:27.779
 the wonder

00:50:27.779 --> 00:50:28.779
 of who He is

00:50:28.779 --> 00:50:31.099
 and what He's done

00:50:31.099 --> 00:50:33.259
 and what He will do.

00:50:33.260 --> 00:50:35.480
 we lose sight

00:50:35.480 --> 00:50:36.380
 of our identity

00:50:36.380 --> 00:50:37.180
 as being

00:50:37.180 --> 00:50:38.180
 in Him

00:50:38.180 --> 00:50:39.120
 and in none other.

00:50:40.220 --> 00:50:41.440
 We get bogged down

00:50:41.440 --> 00:50:43.780
 and held back.

00:50:45.140 --> 00:50:46.300
 We forget.

00:50:48.020 --> 00:50:48.760
 But tonight,

00:50:48.900 --> 00:50:49.160
 friends,

00:50:49.240 --> 00:50:50.200
 we have good news.

00:50:51.580 --> 00:50:52.740
 And the good news

00:50:52.740 --> 00:50:53.380
 is this,

00:50:54.220 --> 00:50:56.320
 that He accommodates us.

00:50:57.260 --> 00:50:58.700
 It's not to justify

00:50:58.700 --> 00:51:00.060
 our neglect

00:51:00.060 --> 00:51:00.820
 of our Lord

00:51:00.820 --> 00:51:01.480
 and Savior

00:51:01.480 --> 00:51:02.420
 or far from it,

00:51:02.480 --> 00:51:03.139
 but still,

00:51:04.099 --> 00:51:04.559
 the Lord

00:51:04.559 --> 00:51:05.500
 accommodates us.

00:51:05.559 --> 00:51:06.240
 He's so different

00:51:06.240 --> 00:51:06.860
 to us.

00:51:07.960 --> 00:51:09.320
 When people forget us

00:51:09.320 --> 00:51:10.360
 or neglect us,

00:51:11.280 --> 00:51:12.119
 what do we do?

00:51:12.719 --> 00:51:13.619
 We turn our back

00:51:13.619 --> 00:51:14.019
 on them.

00:51:14.519 --> 00:51:15.360
 We let them know

00:51:15.360 --> 00:51:16.699
 in no uncertain terms

00:51:16.699 --> 00:51:17.760
 that we're not happy,

00:51:18.119 --> 00:51:18.980
 we're not pleased,

00:51:19.059 --> 00:51:19.719
 not the Lord.

00:51:20.719 --> 00:51:22.039
 He accommodates us,

00:51:22.320 --> 00:51:23.240
 He meets us

00:51:23.240 --> 00:51:24.880
 at our point of need.

00:51:24.880 --> 00:51:25.260
 How?

00:51:26.880 --> 00:51:27.480
 By giving

00:51:27.480 --> 00:51:28.719
 to His bride

00:51:28.719 --> 00:51:30.059
 that memorial

00:51:30.059 --> 00:51:30.960
 to return

00:51:30.960 --> 00:51:31.880
 to time

00:51:31.880 --> 00:51:33.259
 and time

00:51:33.259 --> 00:51:34.239
 again.

00:51:34.360 --> 00:51:35.039
 What is it?

00:51:36.500 --> 00:51:36.960
 It is,

00:51:37.099 --> 00:51:37.500
 of course,

00:51:37.779 --> 00:51:38.779
 the Lord's Supper.

00:51:40.039 --> 00:51:40.659
 What do we read

00:51:40.659 --> 00:51:42.360
 in Luke 22, 19?

00:51:43.519 --> 00:51:44.539
 And He took bread

00:51:44.539 --> 00:51:45.900
 and when He had given thanks,

00:51:45.980 --> 00:51:46.679
 He broke it

00:51:46.679 --> 00:51:47.579
 and gave it to them,

00:51:47.759 --> 00:51:48.039
 saying,

00:51:48.259 --> 00:51:49.739
 This is my body

00:51:49.739 --> 00:51:51.279
 which is given

00:51:51.279 --> 00:51:52.019
 for you.

00:51:52.159 --> 00:51:53.079
 We read these words

00:51:53.079 --> 00:51:53.659
 so often

00:51:53.659 --> 00:51:54.420
 and, of course,

00:51:54.500 --> 00:51:55.340
 when we read words,

00:51:55.539 --> 00:51:57.259
 often familiarity

00:51:57.260 --> 00:51:58.900
 can lead us

00:51:58.900 --> 00:51:59.720
 to lose sight

00:51:59.720 --> 00:52:00.360
 of the depth

00:52:00.360 --> 00:52:01.080
 of their meaning.

00:52:01.460 --> 00:52:02.520
 This is my body

00:52:02.520 --> 00:52:03.260
 which is given

00:52:03.260 --> 00:52:03.920
 for you.

00:52:04.460 --> 00:52:05.220
 Do this

00:52:05.220 --> 00:52:06.780
 in remembrance

00:52:06.780 --> 00:52:08.820
 of me.

00:52:09.360 --> 00:52:09.960
 And likewise,

00:52:10.120 --> 00:52:10.420
 the cup

00:52:10.420 --> 00:52:11.560
 after they had eaten,

00:52:11.780 --> 00:52:12.020
 saying,

00:52:12.460 --> 00:52:13.100
 This cup

00:52:13.100 --> 00:52:14.340
 that is poured

00:52:14.340 --> 00:52:15.340
 out for you

00:52:15.340 --> 00:52:17.100
 is the new covenant

00:52:17.100 --> 00:52:19.080
 in my blood.

00:52:19.300 --> 00:52:20.200
 Do this

00:52:20.200 --> 00:52:21.800
 in remembrance

00:52:21.800 --> 00:52:23.460
 of me.

00:52:23.460 --> 00:52:25.300
 What we have here,

00:52:25.400 --> 00:52:25.639
 friends,

00:52:25.740 --> 00:52:28.059
 is a crucial marker

00:52:28.059 --> 00:52:29.300
 for God's people,

00:52:29.539 --> 00:52:31.000
 a time when we can

00:52:31.000 --> 00:52:32.880
 refocus on our Savior

00:52:32.880 --> 00:52:35.139
 and His loving kindness

00:52:35.139 --> 00:52:36.500
 and delivering us

00:52:36.500 --> 00:52:38.179
 out of the bondage

00:52:38.179 --> 00:52:39.059
 and the tyranny

00:52:39.059 --> 00:52:40.159
 of that wilderness

00:52:40.159 --> 00:52:41.780
 that we found ourselves in.

00:52:41.920 --> 00:52:43.440
 It's so easy to forget.

00:52:44.159 --> 00:52:44.860
 It's so easy,

00:52:44.980 --> 00:52:46.320
 even as the Lord's people,

00:52:46.440 --> 00:52:47.440
 to become high

00:52:47.440 --> 00:52:48.300
 and lofty

00:52:48.300 --> 00:52:49.900
 and to start looking down

00:52:49.900 --> 00:52:51.199
 on those who are not saved

00:52:51.199 --> 00:52:52.220
 and tutting

00:52:52.219 --> 00:52:53.039
 at their behavior

00:52:53.039 --> 00:52:54.119
 as if we ourselves

00:52:54.119 --> 00:52:55.319
 were never there.

00:52:55.859 --> 00:52:56.699
 We forget

00:52:56.699 --> 00:52:58.019
 that He took us

00:52:58.019 --> 00:52:59.039
 from the mighty clay,

00:52:59.119 --> 00:53:00.099
 from the fearful pit.

00:53:00.239 --> 00:53:01.359
 We didn't take ourselves,

00:53:01.500 --> 00:53:02.279
 He took us.

00:53:03.879 --> 00:53:04.899
 And so we need to be brought

00:53:04.899 --> 00:53:06.079
 back down to earth.

00:53:07.059 --> 00:53:08.339
 We need to be brought back

00:53:08.339 --> 00:53:09.419
 to that place

00:53:09.419 --> 00:53:11.319
 where we remember.

00:53:12.439 --> 00:53:13.139
 A reminder

00:53:13.139 --> 00:53:14.719
 of that miracle,

00:53:14.819 --> 00:53:15.599
 not the parting

00:53:15.599 --> 00:53:16.319
 of the Jordan,

00:53:16.459 --> 00:53:17.599
 but the miracle

00:53:17.599 --> 00:53:18.439
 of grace

00:53:18.439 --> 00:53:20.439
 that has taken place

00:53:20.439 --> 00:53:21.599
 in our lives.

00:53:21.599 --> 00:53:22.619
 That's what you hope

00:53:22.619 --> 00:53:23.400
 to do here

00:53:23.400 --> 00:53:25.199
 this Lord's Day.

00:53:26.400 --> 00:53:27.659
 And in this reminder,

00:53:28.659 --> 00:53:29.719
 there is strengthening.

00:53:30.880 --> 00:53:31.739
 Because it's important

00:53:31.739 --> 00:53:32.400
 to remember

00:53:32.400 --> 00:53:33.400
 that the Lord's Supper

00:53:33.400 --> 00:53:34.460
 isn't just a bare

00:53:34.460 --> 00:53:35.940
 memorial service.

00:53:36.779 --> 00:53:38.079
 That's not what it is.

00:53:38.139 --> 00:53:38.719
 We're not coming

00:53:38.719 --> 00:53:41.179
 to just remember.

00:53:41.380 --> 00:53:42.420
 It's so much more

00:53:42.420 --> 00:53:43.039
 than that.

00:53:44.119 --> 00:53:45.539
 The eating and drinking

00:53:45.539 --> 00:53:46.579
 in the Lord's Supper,

00:53:46.739 --> 00:53:48.019
 it shows forth

00:53:48.019 --> 00:53:48.559
 what they used

00:53:48.559 --> 00:53:49.179
 to call that

00:53:49.179 --> 00:53:50.960
 that mystical union

00:53:50.960 --> 00:53:52.079
 between Christ

00:53:52.079 --> 00:53:53.480
 and His people,

00:53:53.639 --> 00:53:54.619
 which essentially

00:53:54.619 --> 00:53:55.639
 refers to that

00:53:55.639 --> 00:53:56.739
 intimate,

00:53:56.940 --> 00:53:58.699
 that spiritual union

00:53:58.699 --> 00:54:00.199
 between Christ

00:54:00.199 --> 00:54:01.239
 and you

00:54:01.239 --> 00:54:02.400
 if you are His.

00:54:03.920 --> 00:54:05.059
 What the Apostle Paul

00:54:05.059 --> 00:54:06.420
 calls communing

00:54:06.420 --> 00:54:07.360
 or fellowshipping

00:54:08.000 --> 00:54:09.400
 in the body

00:54:09.400 --> 00:54:10.940
 and in the blood

00:54:10.940 --> 00:54:12.980
 of Jesus Christ.

00:54:13.039 --> 00:54:13.980
 Isn't that wonderful?

00:54:15.259 --> 00:54:16.699
 That He's given us that.

00:54:16.699 --> 00:54:18.019
 Do we deserve it?

00:54:18.099 --> 00:54:18.319
 No.

00:54:18.819 --> 00:54:19.919
 Are we worthy of it?

00:54:20.039 --> 00:54:21.000
 Certainly not.

00:54:21.779 --> 00:54:23.559
 But yet He gives us

00:54:23.559 --> 00:54:24.579
 that time

00:54:24.579 --> 00:54:26.579
 where we can be reminded

00:54:26.579 --> 00:54:30.659
 that we are in Christ.

00:54:30.739 --> 00:54:32.339
 This is not a bare memorial

00:54:32.339 --> 00:54:33.719
 or an act of remembrance.

00:54:33.879 --> 00:54:34.759
 And so never ever

00:54:34.759 --> 00:54:36.219
 treat the Lord's Supper

00:54:36.219 --> 00:54:36.899
 as such.

00:54:37.639 --> 00:54:38.759
 Come with that sense

00:54:38.759 --> 00:54:40.279
 of expectation

00:54:40.279 --> 00:54:41.759
 and praise

00:54:41.759 --> 00:54:43.139
 and worship.

00:54:43.139 --> 00:54:45.859
 that almost

00:54:45.859 --> 00:54:47.900
 sense of victory

00:54:47.900 --> 00:54:49.099
 within your heart.

00:54:49.319 --> 00:54:50.500
 He is not here

00:54:50.500 --> 00:54:51.599
 for He

00:54:51.599 --> 00:54:52.659
 has

00:54:52.659 --> 00:54:53.559
 risen.

00:54:55.480 --> 00:54:56.319
 And that's why

00:54:56.319 --> 00:54:57.599
 it's so important

00:54:57.599 --> 00:54:58.539
 for us to

00:54:58.539 --> 00:55:01.839
 avail ourselves

00:55:01.839 --> 00:55:02.579
 of such

00:55:02.579 --> 00:55:04.000
 a blessing.

00:55:05.759 --> 00:55:07.159
 God has given it

00:55:07.159 --> 00:55:07.839
 to us

00:55:07.839 --> 00:55:08.759
 for our good.

00:55:08.760 --> 00:55:11.660
 Now I didn't say

00:55:11.660 --> 00:55:12.560
 God has given it

00:55:12.560 --> 00:55:12.900
 to us

00:55:12.900 --> 00:55:13.980
 because we are good.

00:55:14.700 --> 00:55:15.440
 That's sometimes

00:55:15.440 --> 00:55:16.440
 what we can think.

00:55:17.400 --> 00:55:18.080
 Maybe you think

00:55:18.080 --> 00:55:18.680
 that tonight

00:55:18.680 --> 00:55:19.760
 you haven't professed

00:55:19.760 --> 00:55:20.100
 the Lord

00:55:20.100 --> 00:55:20.780
 as your Savior

00:55:20.780 --> 00:55:21.740
 and you are His.

00:55:21.820 --> 00:55:22.680
 You have a relationship

00:55:22.680 --> 00:55:23.220
 with Him

00:55:23.220 --> 00:55:24.220
 and you have done

00:55:24.220 --> 00:55:24.900
 for years.

00:55:25.520 --> 00:55:26.080
 But you say

00:55:26.080 --> 00:55:28.440
 I am not good enough

00:55:28.440 --> 00:55:29.440
 and neither you are

00:55:29.440 --> 00:55:30.500
 and neither you will be.

00:55:31.560 --> 00:55:32.540
 That is a complete

00:55:32.540 --> 00:55:33.260
 and I say this

00:55:33.260 --> 00:55:34.000
 with all love

00:55:34.000 --> 00:55:35.080
 and due respect

00:55:35.080 --> 00:55:36.340
 that is a complete

00:55:36.340 --> 00:55:37.220
 and utter

00:55:37.220 --> 00:55:38.260
 misunderstanding

00:55:38.260 --> 00:55:39.180
 of the whole

00:55:39.180 --> 00:55:40.540
 gospel of Jesus Christ

00:55:40.540 --> 00:55:41.700
 and not only that

00:55:41.700 --> 00:55:42.900
 but it undermines it.

00:55:44.020 --> 00:55:45.380
 Because with that

00:55:45.380 --> 00:55:46.240
 approach

00:55:46.240 --> 00:55:46.960
 you are saying

00:55:46.960 --> 00:55:47.620
 that there could be

00:55:47.620 --> 00:55:48.340
 a time that you

00:55:48.340 --> 00:55:49.060
 are good enough.

00:55:49.260 --> 00:55:50.100
 It will never come.

00:55:51.320 --> 00:55:52.680
 That's the whole point.

00:55:53.880 --> 00:55:55.640
 He is good enough.

00:55:56.620 --> 00:55:57.220
 And that's what

00:55:57.220 --> 00:55:58.160
 ought to draw us

00:55:58.160 --> 00:55:59.020
 all the more

00:55:59.020 --> 00:56:00.260
 that we take our eyes

00:56:00.260 --> 00:56:01.120
 off ourselves.

00:56:01.260 --> 00:56:02.540
 Yes we examine ourselves

00:56:02.540 --> 00:56:03.820
 but we take our eyes

00:56:03.820 --> 00:56:04.580
 off ourselves

00:56:04.580 --> 00:56:05.420
 and we look

00:56:05.420 --> 00:56:06.140
 to Him

00:56:06.140 --> 00:56:06.680
 and we say

00:56:06.680 --> 00:56:07.280
 Hallelujah

00:56:07.280 --> 00:56:09.040
 what a Savior.

00:56:10.420 --> 00:56:12.300
 What a Savior.

00:56:15.920 --> 00:56:16.780
 And so if you

00:56:16.780 --> 00:56:17.760
 haven't come forward

00:56:17.760 --> 00:56:18.700
 to the Lord's table

00:56:18.700 --> 00:56:19.840
 what's stopping you?

00:56:21.440 --> 00:56:22.500
 If you're His

00:56:22.500 --> 00:56:23.240
 we know that

00:56:23.240 --> 00:56:24.920
 this is the table

00:56:24.920 --> 00:56:25.800
 of the Lord

00:56:25.800 --> 00:56:27.220
 for His people.

00:56:28.400 --> 00:56:29.740
 It's a strengthening

00:56:29.740 --> 00:56:30.340
 ordinance.

00:56:30.760 --> 00:56:31.400
 What is it

00:56:31.400 --> 00:56:32.460
 that's stopping you?

00:56:32.460 --> 00:56:34.699
 You can't say

00:56:34.699 --> 00:56:35.199
 that you're not

00:56:35.199 --> 00:56:35.840
 good enough

00:56:35.840 --> 00:56:38.019
 or you can say that

00:56:38.019 --> 00:56:39.820
 but you're never

00:56:39.820 --> 00:56:40.579
 going to get over

00:56:40.579 --> 00:56:41.380
 that hurdle.

00:56:42.960 --> 00:56:43.880
 But what about

00:56:43.880 --> 00:56:44.420
 Christ?

00:56:45.360 --> 00:56:46.139
 What think

00:56:46.139 --> 00:56:47.079
 ye of Christ?

00:56:48.079 --> 00:56:49.199
 You answer that

00:56:49.199 --> 00:56:50.039
 and allow your

00:56:50.039 --> 00:56:51.059
 answer to that

00:56:51.059 --> 00:56:51.720
 question

00:56:51.720 --> 00:56:52.980
 to inform

00:56:52.980 --> 00:56:53.780
 the reason

00:56:53.780 --> 00:56:55.099
 why you are

00:56:55.099 --> 00:56:56.220
 or are not

00:56:56.220 --> 00:56:57.720
 at the Lord's table.

00:56:57.880 --> 00:56:58.559
 You're denying

00:56:58.559 --> 00:56:59.720
 yourself a blessing.

00:56:59.719 --> 00:57:02.319
 But more than that

00:57:02.319 --> 00:57:04.099
 this is important.

00:57:05.119 --> 00:57:05.779
 You're denying

00:57:05.779 --> 00:57:06.559
 others

00:57:06.559 --> 00:57:08.299
 your witness.

00:57:08.859 --> 00:57:09.239
 Remember

00:57:09.239 --> 00:57:10.000
 this memorial

00:57:10.000 --> 00:57:10.739
 was to serve

00:57:10.739 --> 00:57:11.459
 as a witness

00:57:11.459 --> 00:57:12.559
 to the children

00:57:12.559 --> 00:57:13.759
 of the people.

00:57:15.359 --> 00:57:16.599
 As many of you know

00:57:16.599 --> 00:57:17.279
 I grew up

00:57:17.279 --> 00:57:17.959
 in this very

00:57:17.959 --> 00:57:18.739
 congregation

00:57:18.739 --> 00:57:20.579
 and I would

00:57:20.579 --> 00:57:21.019
 sit up

00:57:21.019 --> 00:57:21.779
 in that seat

00:57:21.779 --> 00:57:22.319
 that has the

00:57:22.319 --> 00:57:23.039
 ladder in it

00:57:23.039 --> 00:57:23.719
 in the back

00:57:23.719 --> 00:57:24.019
 there

00:57:24.019 --> 00:57:25.779
 and the Lord's

00:57:25.779 --> 00:57:26.059
 Supper

00:57:26.059 --> 00:57:26.500
 would be

00:57:26.500 --> 00:57:27.519
 dispensed here

00:57:27.519 --> 00:57:28.659
 on a Lord's Day

00:57:28.659 --> 00:57:29.019
 morning

00:57:29.019 --> 00:57:29.439
 and I would

00:57:29.439 --> 00:57:30.139
 peer over

00:57:30.139 --> 00:57:31.619
 and I would

00:57:31.619 --> 00:57:32.699
 ask questions

00:57:32.699 --> 00:57:34.399
 what's happening?

00:57:35.500 --> 00:57:36.059
 Why are they

00:57:36.059 --> 00:57:36.979
 doing what

00:57:36.979 --> 00:57:37.619
 they're doing?

00:57:38.419 --> 00:57:39.119
 And I would

00:57:39.119 --> 00:57:39.819
 see people

00:57:39.819 --> 00:57:40.539
 partaking

00:57:40.539 --> 00:57:41.179
 some of whom

00:57:41.179 --> 00:57:41.899
 are here tonight

00:57:41.899 --> 00:57:43.199
 some are long

00:57:43.199 --> 00:57:43.599
 gone

00:57:43.599 --> 00:57:45.379
 and I would

00:57:45.379 --> 00:57:46.219
 look upon them

00:57:46.219 --> 00:57:48.659
 and they would

00:57:48.659 --> 00:57:49.639
 speak not as

00:57:49.639 --> 00:57:50.099
 stones

00:57:50.099 --> 00:57:51.980
 but as

00:57:51.980 --> 00:57:53.659
 living stones

00:57:53.659 --> 00:57:55.419
 those who

00:57:55.419 --> 00:57:55.959
 join

00:57:55.959 --> 00:57:57.000
 together

00:57:57.000 --> 00:57:58.459
 to build

00:57:58.459 --> 00:57:59.619
 the house

00:57:59.619 --> 00:58:00.059
 of God

00:58:00.059 --> 00:58:00.519
 that's what the

00:58:00.519 --> 00:58:01.119
 house of God

00:58:01.119 --> 00:58:01.799
 is not this

00:58:01.799 --> 00:58:02.639
 building but his

00:58:02.639 --> 00:58:03.139
 people

00:58:03.139 --> 00:58:05.000
 joining

00:58:05.000 --> 00:58:06.199
 together

00:58:06.199 --> 00:58:08.179
 I would

00:58:08.179 --> 00:58:08.679
 ask

00:58:08.679 --> 00:58:09.679
 what are they

00:58:09.679 --> 00:58:10.119
 doing?

00:58:11.119 --> 00:58:11.359
 What

00:58:11.359 --> 00:58:12.319
 does

00:58:12.319 --> 00:58:13.279
 this

00:58:13.279 --> 00:58:14.119
 mean?

00:58:14.119 --> 00:58:16.119
 if you

00:58:16.119 --> 00:58:16.679
 are not

00:58:16.679 --> 00:58:18.099
 coming to

00:58:18.099 --> 00:58:18.679
 the Lord's

00:58:18.679 --> 00:58:19.059
 table

00:58:19.059 --> 00:58:19.480
 and you

00:58:19.480 --> 00:58:20.259
 are his

00:58:20.259 --> 00:58:21.920
 and again

00:58:21.920 --> 00:58:22.639
 I say this

00:58:22.639 --> 00:58:23.019
 in love

00:58:23.019 --> 00:58:23.400
 what you're

00:58:23.400 --> 00:58:23.859
 doing is

00:58:23.859 --> 00:58:24.219
 this

00:58:24.219 --> 00:58:25.559
 you're

00:58:25.559 --> 00:58:26.059
 marrying

00:58:26.059 --> 00:58:27.079
 your witness

00:58:27.079 --> 00:58:29.779
 your friends

00:58:29.779 --> 00:58:31.239
 your loved

00:58:31.239 --> 00:58:31.659
 ones

00:58:31.659 --> 00:58:32.480
 your children

00:58:32.480 --> 00:58:33.460
 your grandchildren

00:58:33.460 --> 00:58:34.219
 your husband

00:58:34.219 --> 00:58:34.920
 your wife

00:58:34.920 --> 00:58:35.539
 your mother

00:58:35.539 --> 00:58:36.659
 your father

00:58:36.659 --> 00:58:38.299
 they're seeing

00:58:38.299 --> 00:58:38.960
 you holding

00:58:38.960 --> 00:58:40.039
 back year

00:58:40.039 --> 00:58:41.279
 after year

00:58:41.279 --> 00:58:42.440
 after year

00:58:42.440 --> 00:58:44.179
 refusing

00:58:44.179 --> 00:58:45.460
 to identify

00:58:45.460 --> 00:58:46.159
 with the

00:58:46.159 --> 00:58:46.539
 people

00:58:46.539 --> 00:58:47.240
 of God

00:58:47.240 --> 00:58:53.059
 and not

00:58:53.059 --> 00:58:53.700
 only that

00:58:53.700 --> 00:58:54.000
 and this

00:58:54.000 --> 00:58:54.400
 is a real

00:58:54.400 --> 00:58:54.880
 challenge

00:58:54.880 --> 00:58:55.460
 to us

00:58:55.460 --> 00:58:56.880
 you're

00:58:56.880 --> 00:58:57.260
 marrying

00:58:57.260 --> 00:58:57.900
 your witness

00:58:57.900 --> 00:58:58.340
 to the

00:58:58.340 --> 00:58:58.900
 community

00:58:58.900 --> 00:58:59.500
 at large

00:58:59.500 --> 00:58:59.840
 what do

00:58:59.840 --> 00:59:00.200
 I mean?

00:59:00.280 --> 00:59:00.720
 well let's

00:59:00.720 --> 00:59:01.559
 come back

00:59:01.559 --> 00:59:01.880
 to our

00:59:01.880 --> 00:59:02.179
 text

00:59:02.179 --> 00:59:02.380
 and with

00:59:02.380 --> 00:59:02.500
 this

00:59:02.500 --> 00:59:02.639
 I'm

00:59:02.639 --> 00:59:02.860
 nearly

00:59:02.860 --> 00:59:03.440
 finished

00:59:03.440 --> 00:59:04.480
 because

00:59:04.480 --> 00:59:05.179
 as well

00:59:05.179 --> 00:59:05.760
 as reminding

00:59:05.760 --> 00:59:06.420
 the Israelites

00:59:06.420 --> 00:59:06.940
 and their

00:59:06.940 --> 00:59:07.420
 children

00:59:07.420 --> 00:59:07.880
 that this

00:59:07.880 --> 00:59:08.900
 simple

00:59:08.900 --> 00:59:09.960
 monument

00:59:09.960 --> 00:59:11.280
 this simple

00:59:11.280 --> 00:59:11.699
 monument

00:59:11.699 --> 00:59:12.139
 was to

00:59:12.139 --> 00:59:12.760
 remind

00:59:12.760 --> 00:59:13.900
 all

00:59:13.900 --> 00:59:14.539
 people

00:59:14.539 --> 00:59:15.760
 the pagans

00:59:15.760 --> 00:59:16.480
 the godly

00:59:16.480 --> 00:59:17.800
 the ungodly

00:59:17.800 --> 00:59:18.760
 all that were

00:59:18.760 --> 00:59:19.820
 living in the

00:59:19.820 --> 00:59:20.240
 vicinity

00:59:20.240 --> 00:59:21.220
 all who were

00:59:21.220 --> 00:59:21.980
 worshipping

00:59:21.980 --> 00:59:23.139
 false gods

00:59:23.139 --> 00:59:24.659
 they were

00:59:24.659 --> 00:59:25.260
 they were

00:59:25.260 --> 00:59:25.760
 this

00:59:25.760 --> 00:59:27.240
 monument

00:59:27.240 --> 00:59:28.079
 would serve

00:59:28.079 --> 00:59:28.860
 as a reminder

00:59:28.860 --> 00:59:29.400
 of what the

00:59:29.400 --> 00:59:30.880
 God of Israel

00:59:30.880 --> 00:59:31.820
 had done

00:59:31.820 --> 00:59:32.820
 and was

00:59:32.820 --> 00:59:33.400
 doing

00:59:33.400 --> 00:59:36.500
 verse 24

00:59:36.500 --> 00:59:37.340
 so that all

00:59:37.340 --> 00:59:37.900
 the peoples

00:59:37.900 --> 00:59:38.659
 of the earth

00:59:38.659 --> 00:59:39.379
 may know

00:59:39.379 --> 00:59:40.059
 that the

00:59:40.059 --> 00:59:40.619
 hand of

00:59:40.619 --> 00:59:41.179
 the lord

00:59:41.179 --> 00:59:42.019
 is mighty

00:59:42.019 --> 00:59:43.099
 that you

00:59:43.099 --> 00:59:43.940
 may fear

00:59:43.940 --> 00:59:45.299
 the lord

00:59:45.299 --> 00:59:46.440
 your god

00:59:46.440 --> 00:59:47.920
 forever

00:59:47.920 --> 00:59:50.719
 these stones

00:59:50.719 --> 00:59:51.739
 spoke to

00:59:51.739 --> 00:59:52.379
 the people

00:59:52.379 --> 00:59:53.920
 at large

00:59:53.920 --> 00:59:55.899
 and you know

00:59:55.899 --> 00:59:56.239
 that's what

00:59:56.239 --> 00:59:56.920
 our profession

00:59:56.920 --> 00:59:57.500
 of faith

00:59:57.500 --> 00:59:57.960
 does

00:59:57.960 --> 00:59:59.719
 it speaks

00:59:59.719 --> 01:00:00.420
 to people

01:00:00.420 --> 01:00:02.659
 we're nailing

01:00:02.659 --> 01:00:03.259
 our colours

01:00:03.259 --> 01:00:04.099
 to the mast

01:00:04.099 --> 01:00:05.639
 that is the

01:00:05.639 --> 01:00:06.299
 nature of

01:00:06.299 --> 01:00:06.699
 faith

01:00:06.699 --> 01:00:07.259
 we will not

01:00:07.259 --> 01:00:07.759
 walk on

01:00:07.759 --> 01:00:08.059
 water

01:00:08.059 --> 01:00:08.460
 till we

01:00:08.460 --> 01:00:09.019
 step out

01:00:09.019 --> 01:00:09.299
 of the

01:00:09.299 --> 01:00:09.659
 boat

01:00:09.659 --> 01:00:11.139
 and when

01:00:11.139 --> 01:00:11.619
 we nail

01:00:11.619 --> 01:00:12.159
 our colours

01:00:12.159 --> 01:00:12.679
 to the mast

01:00:12.679 --> 01:00:13.539
 people see

01:00:13.539 --> 01:00:13.920
 that we

01:00:13.920 --> 01:00:14.679
 identify

01:00:14.679 --> 01:00:15.340
 not in

01:00:15.340 --> 01:00:15.900
 this world

01:00:15.900 --> 01:00:16.559
 but in

01:00:16.559 --> 01:00:17.039
 Christ

01:00:17.039 --> 01:00:18.000
 so that

01:00:18.000 --> 01:00:18.279
 when you

01:00:18.279 --> 01:00:18.739
 go back

01:00:18.739 --> 01:00:19.059
 to your

01:00:19.059 --> 01:00:19.519
 workplace

01:00:19.519 --> 01:00:20.199
 on Monday

01:00:20.199 --> 01:00:20.840
 you can

01:00:20.840 --> 01:00:21.259
 say I

01:00:21.259 --> 01:00:21.420
 have

01:00:21.420 --> 01:00:22.340
 professed

01:00:22.340 --> 01:00:23.320
 I have

01:00:23.320 --> 01:00:23.799
 come out

01:00:23.799 --> 01:00:24.199
 on his

01:00:24.199 --> 01:00:24.679
 side

01:00:24.679 --> 01:00:25.299
 when you

01:00:25.299 --> 01:00:25.840
 go back

01:00:25.840 --> 01:00:26.440
 to your

01:00:26.440 --> 01:00:27.079
 street

01:00:27.079 --> 01:00:27.840
 you can

01:00:27.840 --> 01:00:28.360
 say to

01:00:28.360 --> 01:00:28.960
 your neighbours

01:00:28.960 --> 01:00:29.779
 I have

01:00:29.779 --> 01:00:30.099
 now

01:00:30.099 --> 01:00:30.799
 identified

01:00:30.799 --> 01:00:31.299
 as a

01:00:31.299 --> 01:00:31.639
 child

01:00:31.639 --> 01:00:32.139
 of God

01:00:32.139 --> 01:00:32.659
 by being

01:00:32.659 --> 01:00:33.259
 obedient

01:00:33.260 --> 01:00:34.160
 to his

01:00:34.160 --> 01:00:34.700
 command

01:00:34.700 --> 01:00:35.280
 you're

01:00:35.280 --> 01:00:35.920
 witnessing

01:00:35.920 --> 01:00:37.260
 to those

01:00:37.260 --> 01:00:38.080
 around you

01:00:38.080 --> 01:00:38.740
 not of

01:00:38.740 --> 01:00:39.320
 yourself

01:00:39.320 --> 01:00:41.260
 but of

01:00:41.260 --> 01:00:41.460
 your

01:00:41.460 --> 01:00:42.160
 saviour

01:00:42.160 --> 01:00:43.380
 and you

01:00:43.380 --> 01:00:43.960
 can say

01:00:43.960 --> 01:00:44.500
 then with

01:00:44.500 --> 01:00:45.500
 all confidence

01:00:45.500 --> 01:00:46.740
 come see a

01:00:46.740 --> 01:00:47.480
 man who

01:00:47.480 --> 01:00:48.380
 told me all

01:00:48.380 --> 01:00:48.860
 things that

01:00:48.860 --> 01:00:49.340
 ever I

01:00:49.340 --> 01:00:49.500
 did

01:00:49.500 --> 01:00:49.920
 is this

01:00:49.920 --> 01:00:50.340
 not the

01:00:50.340 --> 01:00:50.820
 Christ

01:00:50.820 --> 01:00:52.640
 is this

01:00:52.640 --> 01:00:53.080
 not the

01:00:53.080 --> 01:00:53.540
 Christ

01:00:53.540 --> 01:00:55.100
 I'm not

01:00:55.100 --> 01:00:56.040
 ashamed to

01:00:56.040 --> 01:00:56.580
 call him

01:00:56.580 --> 01:00:57.460
 my saviour

01:00:57.460 --> 01:00:59.079
 you come

01:00:59.079 --> 01:01:00.240
 and know

01:01:00.240 --> 01:01:00.639
 him

01:01:00.639 --> 01:01:01.619
 for

01:01:01.619 --> 01:01:02.980
 yourself

01:01:02.980 --> 01:01:03.940
 what a

01:01:03.940 --> 01:01:04.460
 witness

01:01:04.460 --> 01:01:05.079
 that is

01:01:05.079 --> 01:01:05.420
 don't we

01:01:05.420 --> 01:01:05.860
 need that

01:01:05.860 --> 01:01:06.260
 witness

01:01:06.260 --> 01:01:06.579
 in the

01:01:06.579 --> 01:01:06.920
 day that

01:01:06.920 --> 01:01:07.320
 we live

01:01:07.320 --> 01:01:07.519
 in

01:01:07.519 --> 01:01:09.240
 that's

01:01:09.240 --> 01:01:09.840
 what faith

01:01:09.840 --> 01:01:10.280
 is

01:01:10.280 --> 01:01:11.099
 stepping

01:01:11.099 --> 01:01:11.559
 out

01:01:11.559 --> 01:01:12.579
 in the

01:01:12.579 --> 01:01:13.159
 strength

01:01:13.159 --> 01:01:14.099
 of the

01:01:14.099 --> 01:01:14.300
 Lord

01:01:14.300 --> 01:01:14.619
 and so

01:01:14.619 --> 01:01:14.980
 friends

01:01:14.980 --> 01:01:15.380
 if you

01:01:15.380 --> 01:01:15.880
 are his

01:01:15.880 --> 01:01:16.380
 come

01:01:16.380 --> 01:01:18.619
 you come

01:01:18.619 --> 01:01:18.960
 and you

01:01:18.960 --> 01:01:19.619
 show forth

01:01:19.619 --> 01:01:21.000
 in humble

01:01:21.000 --> 01:01:22.599
 remembrance

01:01:22.599 --> 01:01:23.500
 of what

01:01:23.500 --> 01:01:24.199
 God

01:01:24.199 --> 01:01:25.360
 has done

01:01:25.360 --> 01:01:25.880
 in

01:01:25.880 --> 01:01:26.900
 your

01:01:26.900 --> 01:01:27.380
 life

01:01:27.380 --> 01:01:28.680
 you be

01:01:28.680 --> 01:01:29.360
 part of

01:01:29.360 --> 01:01:29.559
 this

01:01:29.559 --> 01:01:30.079
 marker

01:01:30.079 --> 01:01:30.780
 of this

01:01:30.780 --> 01:01:31.820
 cairn

01:01:31.820 --> 01:01:33.300
 we've

01:01:33.300 --> 01:01:33.860
 often heard

01:01:33.860 --> 01:01:34.360
 it said

01:01:34.360 --> 01:01:35.440
 that the

01:01:35.440 --> 01:01:36.000
 church is

01:01:36.000 --> 01:01:36.420
 like a

01:01:36.420 --> 01:01:37.000
 wall made

01:01:37.000 --> 01:01:37.420
 up of

01:01:37.420 --> 01:01:38.200
 stones

01:01:38.200 --> 01:01:39.619
 different

01:01:39.619 --> 01:01:40.220
 sized

01:01:40.220 --> 01:01:40.980
 stones

01:01:40.980 --> 01:01:41.880
 there are

01:01:41.880 --> 01:01:42.300
 large

01:01:42.300 --> 01:01:42.800
 stones

01:01:42.800 --> 01:01:43.180
 there are

01:01:43.180 --> 01:01:43.619
 small

01:01:43.619 --> 01:01:44.240
 stones

01:01:44.240 --> 01:01:45.480
 but every

01:01:45.480 --> 01:01:46.180
 single

01:01:46.180 --> 01:01:47.039
 stone is

01:01:47.039 --> 01:01:47.340
 needed

01:01:47.340 --> 01:01:48.000
 you might

01:01:48.000 --> 01:01:48.360
 look at

01:01:48.360 --> 01:01:49.000
 other people

01:01:49.000 --> 01:01:49.420
 here and

01:01:49.420 --> 01:01:49.740
 you might

01:01:49.740 --> 01:01:50.079
 say I

01:01:50.079 --> 01:01:50.640
 will never

01:01:50.640 --> 01:01:51.380
 be as

01:01:51.380 --> 01:01:52.099
 godly as

01:01:52.099 --> 01:01:52.800
 that person

01:01:52.800 --> 01:01:53.180
 of course

01:01:53.180 --> 01:01:53.559
 that's the

01:01:53.559 --> 01:01:54.240
 voice of

01:01:54.240 --> 01:01:54.680
 the devil

01:01:54.680 --> 01:01:55.680
 but no

01:01:55.680 --> 01:01:56.280
 matter how

01:01:56.280 --> 01:01:56.880
 you see

01:01:56.880 --> 01:01:57.599
 yourself

01:01:57.599 --> 01:01:58.960
 the reality

01:01:58.960 --> 01:01:59.760
 is that if

01:01:59.760 --> 01:02:00.039
 you're

01:02:00.039 --> 01:02:00.860
 Christ's

01:02:00.860 --> 01:02:01.800
 he sees

01:02:01.800 --> 01:02:02.140
 you as

01:02:02.140 --> 01:02:02.680
 a precious

01:02:02.680 --> 01:02:03.240
 stone

01:02:03.240 --> 01:02:04.680
 a needful

01:02:04.680 --> 01:02:05.220
 stone

01:02:05.220 --> 01:02:06.320
 and so

01:02:06.320 --> 01:02:06.860
 come

01:02:06.860 --> 01:02:08.400
 be part

01:02:08.400 --> 01:02:09.360
 of

01:02:09.360 --> 01:02:10.200
 this

01:02:10.200 --> 01:02:11.240
 glorious

01:02:11.240 --> 01:02:12.140
 body

01:02:12.140 --> 01:02:12.940
 of Christ

01:02:12.940 --> 01:02:14.380
 by identifying

01:02:14.380 --> 01:02:16.019
 as him

01:02:16.019 --> 01:02:17.420
 as his

01:02:17.420 --> 01:02:17.860
 rather

01:02:17.860 --> 01:02:18.940
 that you

01:02:18.940 --> 01:02:19.240
 would

01:02:19.240 --> 01:02:21.000
 unashamedly

01:02:21.000 --> 01:02:21.860
 allow that

01:02:21.860 --> 01:02:22.880
 flag to

01:02:22.880 --> 01:02:24.740
 fly above

01:02:24.740 --> 01:02:26.360
 that cairn

01:02:26.360 --> 01:02:27.500
 he

01:02:27.500 --> 01:02:29.180
 has died

01:02:29.180 --> 01:02:30.760
 for me

01:02:30.760 --> 01:02:32.019
 let us

01:02:32.019 --> 01:02:32.320
 pray

01:02:32.320 --> 01:02:36.019
 what wonderful

01:02:36.019 --> 01:02:36.740
 words oh

01:02:36.740 --> 01:02:37.300
 lord that

01:02:37.300 --> 01:02:38.539
 any of us

01:02:38.539 --> 01:02:39.140
 can say

01:02:39.140 --> 01:02:39.640
 he

01:02:39.640 --> 01:02:41.059
 has died

01:02:41.059 --> 01:02:41.740
 for me

01:02:41.740 --> 01:02:43.579
 and as

01:02:43.579 --> 01:02:44.260
 we reflect

01:02:44.260 --> 01:02:44.760
 upon

01:02:44.760 --> 01:02:45.940
 what you

01:02:45.940 --> 01:02:46.559
 have done

01:02:46.559 --> 01:02:48.559
 we come

01:02:48.559 --> 01:02:48.920
 and we

01:02:48.920 --> 01:02:49.239
 seek

01:02:49.239 --> 01:02:49.880
 forgiveness

01:02:49.880 --> 01:02:50.599
 for our

01:02:50.599 --> 01:02:51.059
 apathy

01:02:51.059 --> 01:02:51.460
 and our

01:02:51.460 --> 01:02:52.239
 coldness

01:02:52.239 --> 01:02:53.940
 but yet

01:02:53.940 --> 01:02:54.400
 we don't

01:02:54.400 --> 01:02:55.259
 stop there

01:02:55.259 --> 01:02:57.019
 because our

01:02:57.019 --> 01:02:57.900
 identity is

01:02:57.900 --> 01:02:58.639
 not found

01:02:58.639 --> 01:02:59.299
 even in

01:02:59.299 --> 01:02:59.679
 our own

01:02:59.679 --> 01:03:00.239
 obedience

01:03:00.239 --> 01:03:01.979
 but in

01:03:01.979 --> 01:03:02.679
 Christ

01:03:02.679 --> 01:03:04.359
 but help

01:03:04.359 --> 01:03:04.819
 oh lord

01:03:04.819 --> 01:03:05.559
 our identity

01:03:05.559 --> 01:03:06.319
 in Christ

01:03:06.319 --> 01:03:07.139
 to inform

01:03:07.139 --> 01:03:08.139
 our obedience

01:03:08.139 --> 01:03:09.479
 so that we

01:03:09.479 --> 01:03:10.359
 might come

01:03:10.359 --> 01:03:12.000
 come and

01:03:12.000 --> 01:03:13.279
 know for

01:03:13.279 --> 01:03:13.879
 ourselves

01:03:13.879 --> 01:03:14.939
 the blessing

01:03:14.939 --> 01:03:16.239
 that follows

01:03:16.239 --> 01:03:16.919
 therein

01:03:16.919 --> 01:03:18.119
 for us to

01:03:18.119 --> 01:03:18.599
 come

01:03:18.599 --> 01:03:20.059
 and identify

01:03:20.059 --> 01:03:21.139
 that indeed

01:03:21.139 --> 01:03:21.719
 we have been

01:03:21.719 --> 01:03:22.639
 brought into

01:03:22.639 --> 01:03:23.639
 your banqueting

01:03:23.639 --> 01:03:24.139
 house

01:03:24.139 --> 01:03:25.539
 the banner

01:03:25.539 --> 01:03:26.519
 over us

01:03:26.519 --> 01:03:27.699
 is love

01:03:27.699 --> 01:03:28.139
 and so we

01:03:28.139 --> 01:03:28.839
 pray for any

01:03:28.839 --> 01:03:29.559
 of our dear

01:03:29.559 --> 01:03:30.380
 friends here

01:03:30.380 --> 01:03:30.659
 who are

01:03:30.659 --> 01:03:31.000
 perhaps

01:03:31.000 --> 01:03:31.599
 struggling

01:03:31.599 --> 01:03:32.099
 and have

01:03:32.099 --> 01:03:32.579
 been for

01:03:32.579 --> 01:03:33.119
 years

01:03:33.119 --> 01:03:34.739
 who have

01:03:34.739 --> 01:03:35.099
 got so

01:03:35.099 --> 01:03:35.860
 many fears

01:03:35.860 --> 01:03:36.779
 and anxieties

01:03:36.779 --> 01:03:37.380
 of what it

01:03:37.380 --> 01:03:37.880
 means to

01:03:37.880 --> 01:03:38.619
 profess your

01:03:38.619 --> 01:03:38.960
 name

01:03:38.960 --> 01:03:40.259
 draw them

01:03:40.259 --> 01:03:40.779
 we pray

01:03:40.779 --> 01:03:41.239
 by your

01:03:41.239 --> 01:03:41.659
 spirit

01:03:41.659 --> 01:03:42.380
 give them

01:03:42.380 --> 01:03:43.679
 that boldness

01:03:43.679 --> 01:03:44.659
 to come

01:03:44.659 --> 01:03:45.259
 forward

01:03:45.259 --> 01:03:46.019
 a step

01:03:46.019 --> 01:03:46.840
 that they

01:03:46.840 --> 01:03:47.460
 will never

01:03:47.460 --> 01:03:49.159
 ever regret

01:03:49.159 --> 01:03:50.340
 and so go

01:03:50.340 --> 01:03:50.920
 before us

01:03:50.920 --> 01:03:51.619
 now we pray

01:03:51.619 --> 01:03:52.219
 be with

01:03:52.219 --> 01:03:53.159
 our friends

01:03:53.159 --> 01:03:53.639
 here in the

01:03:53.639 --> 01:03:54.299
 remainder of

01:03:54.299 --> 01:03:55.000
 their communion

01:03:55.000 --> 01:03:55.619
 weekend

01:03:55.619 --> 01:03:56.059
 as they

01:03:56.059 --> 01:03:56.699
 remember

01:03:56.699 --> 01:03:58.299
 your death

01:03:58.299 --> 01:03:58.900
 until

01:03:58.900 --> 01:03:59.940
 you come

01:03:59.940 --> 01:04:00.400
 again

01:04:00.400 --> 01:04:01.200
 that they

01:04:01.200 --> 01:04:01.660
 would do

01:04:01.660 --> 01:04:02.260
 so so

01:04:02.260 --> 01:04:03.079
 mindful of

01:04:03.079 --> 01:04:03.599
 the fact

01:04:03.599 --> 01:04:04.619
 that you

01:04:04.619 --> 01:04:05.360
 are here

01:04:05.360 --> 01:04:06.019
 with them

01:04:06.019 --> 01:04:06.920
 part us

01:04:06.920 --> 01:04:07.320
 then with

01:04:07.320 --> 01:04:07.900
 your blessing

01:04:07.900 --> 01:04:08.420
 and forgive

01:04:08.420 --> 01:04:08.800
 us for

01:04:08.800 --> 01:04:09.220
 Jesus

01:04:09.220 --> 01:04:09.720
 sake

01:04:09.720 --> 01:04:10.340
 amen

01:04:10.340 --> 01:04:12.599
 we're going

01:04:12.599 --> 01:04:13.260
 to conclude

01:04:13.260 --> 01:04:13.860
 singing to

01:04:13.860 --> 01:04:14.720
 God's praise

01:04:14.720 --> 01:04:15.900
 from Psalm

01:04:15.900 --> 01:04:17.000
 136

01:04:17.000 --> 01:04:19.400
 Psalm 136

01:04:19.400 --> 01:04:19.980
 again in the

01:04:19.980 --> 01:04:20.320
 Scottish

01:04:20.320 --> 01:04:20.940
 Psalter

01:04:20.940 --> 01:04:27.400
 this is a

01:04:27.400 --> 01:04:28.679
 psalm of

01:04:28.679 --> 01:04:29.320
 reminders

01:04:29.320 --> 01:04:32.539
 what we

01:04:32.539 --> 01:04:32.940
 read in

01:04:32.940 --> 01:04:33.679
 every verse

01:04:33.679 --> 01:04:34.059
 is that

01:04:34.059 --> 01:04:34.740
 his mercy

01:04:34.740 --> 01:04:35.720
 for certainly

01:04:35.720 --> 01:04:37.019
 his mercy

01:04:37.019 --> 01:04:37.559
 is due

01:04:37.559 --> 01:04:38.579
 most firm

01:04:38.579 --> 01:04:39.880
 and sure

01:04:39.880 --> 01:04:41.079
 eternally

01:04:41.079 --> 01:04:41.800
 each and

01:04:41.800 --> 01:04:42.659
 every verse

01:04:42.659 --> 01:04:43.700
 reminds us

01:04:43.700 --> 01:04:44.420
 why because

01:04:44.420 --> 01:04:45.200
 we forget

01:04:45.200 --> 01:04:46.260
 so let's

01:04:46.260 --> 01:04:47.059
 sing friends

01:04:47.059 --> 01:04:47.559
 together

01:04:47.559 --> 01:04:48.360
 verses

01:04:48.360 --> 01:04:49.240
 first of

01:04:49.240 --> 01:04:49.620
 all verses

01:04:49.620 --> 01:04:50.240
 1 to

01:04:50.240 --> 01:04:50.720
 4

01:04:50.720 --> 01:04:52.120
 1 to

01:04:52.120 --> 01:04:52.500
 4

01:04:52.500 --> 01:04:53.380
 and then

01:04:53.380 --> 01:04:54.079
 down to

01:04:54.079 --> 01:04:55.380
 13 to

01:04:55.380 --> 01:04:55.840
 16

01:04:55.840 --> 01:04:56.320
 so verses

01:04:56.320 --> 01:04:56.900
 1 to

01:04:56.900 --> 01:04:57.400
 4

01:04:57.400 --> 01:04:58.240
 and then

01:04:58.240 --> 01:04:58.539
 verses

01:04:58.539 --> 01:05:00.059
 13 to

01:05:00.059 --> 01:05:00.620
 16

01:05:00.620 --> 01:05:01.559
 praise God

01:05:01.559 --> 01:05:02.220
 for he is

01:05:02.220 --> 01:05:02.720
 kind

01:05:02.720 --> 01:05:03.940
 his mercy

01:05:03.940 --> 01:05:04.700
 lasts for

01:05:04.700 --> 01:05:04.900
 he's

01:05:04.900 --> 01:05:05.460
 standing to

01:05:05.460 --> 01:05:05.740
 sing

01:05:05.739 --> 01:05:12.439
 praise God

01:05:12.439 --> 01:05:13.559
 for he

01:05:13.559 --> 01:05:14.479
 is

01:05:14.479 --> 01:05:16.019
 kind

01:05:16.019 --> 01:05:18.599
 his mercy

01:05:18.599 --> 01:05:20.859
 lasts for

01:05:20.859 --> 01:05:22.419
 aid

01:05:22.419 --> 01:05:24.839
 give thanks

01:05:24.839 --> 01:05:26.519
 with heart

01:05:26.519 --> 01:05:29.099
 and mind

01:05:29.099 --> 01:05:31.319
 to God

01:05:31.319 --> 01:05:33.000
 across

01:05:33.000 --> 01:05:37.320
 his mercy

01:05:37.320 --> 01:05:38.320
 away

01:05:38.320 --> 01:05:38.719
 for certainly

01:05:38.719 --> 01:05:41.320
 his mercy

01:05:41.320 --> 01:05:42.719
 dear

01:05:42.719 --> 01:05:44.960
 most firm

01:05:44.960 --> 01:05:46.960
 and should

01:05:46.960 --> 01:05:47.900
 be

01:05:47.900 --> 01:05:49.400
 turned

01:05:49.400 --> 01:05:51.320
 away

01:05:51.320 --> 01:05:55.519
 the Lord

01:05:55.519 --> 01:05:57.119
 the Lord

01:05:57.119 --> 01:05:59.679
 is here

01:05:59.679 --> 01:06:02.059
 his mercy

01:06:02.059 --> 01:06:02.119
 his mercy

01:06:02.119 --> 01:06:03.000
 still

01:06:03.000 --> 01:06:05.059
 endure

01:06:05.059 --> 01:06:07.000
 with

01:06:07.000 --> 01:06:08.000
 one

01:06:08.000 --> 01:06:09.000
 verse

01:06:09.000 --> 01:06:10.000
 only

01:06:10.000 --> 01:06:12.000
 he

01:06:12.000 --> 01:06:14.000
 that

01:06:14.000 --> 01:06:14.779
 were

01:06:14.779 --> 01:06:16.000
 by his

01:06:16.000 --> 01:06:17.000
 great

01:06:17.000 --> 01:06:18.000
 power

01:06:18.000 --> 01:06:20.000
 for

01:06:20.000 --> 01:06:22.000
 certainly

01:06:22.000 --> 01:06:25.000
 his mercy

01:06:25.000 --> 01:06:26.279
 sure

01:06:26.279 --> 01:06:27.000
 was

01:06:27.000 --> 01:06:27.780
 destroyed

01:06:27.780 --> 01:06:32.320
 from

01:06:35.320 --> 01:06:36.380
 his cities

01:06:36.380 --> 01:06:37.219
 nor

01:06:37.219 --> 01:06:37.380
 one

01:06:37.380 --> 01:06:37.820
 or

01:06:37.820 --> 01:06:40.380
 his

01:06:40.380 --> 01:06:41.440
 has

01:06:41.440 --> 01:06:42.920
 his

01:06:42.920 --> 01:06:43.780
 Chloe

01:06:43.780 --> 01:06:44.320
 or

01:06:44.380 --> 01:06:45.159
 his

01:06:45.159 --> 01:06:45.460
 Devil

01:06:45.460 --> 01:06:46.260
 has

01:06:46.260 --> 01:06:47.440
 just

01:06:47.440 --> 01:06:48.719
 been

01:06:48.719 --> 01:06:49.820
 he

01:06:49.820 --> 01:06:50.380
 to

01:06:52.460 --> 01:06:53.860
 нож

01:06:53.860 --> 01:07:23.840
 CHOIR SINGS

01:07:23.860 --> 01:07:53.840
 CHOIR SINGS

01:07:53.860 --> 01:07:55.860
 CHOIR SINGS

01:07:55.860 --> 01:07:57.860
 CHOIR SINGS

01:07:57.860 --> 01:07:59.860
 CHOIR SINGS

01:07:59.860 --> 01:08:01.860
 CHOIR SINGS

01:08:01.860 --> 01:08:03.860
 CHOIR SINGS

01:08:03.860 --> 01:08:05.860
 CHOIR SINGS

01:08:05.860 --> 01:08:07.860
 CHOIR SINGS

01:08:07.860 --> 01:08:09.860
 CHOIR SINGS

01:08:09.860 --> 01:08:11.860
 CHOIR SINGS

01:08:11.860 --> 01:08:13.860
 CHOIR SINGS

01:08:13.860 --> 01:08:15.860
 CHOIR SINGS

01:08:15.860 --> 01:08:17.860
 CHOIR SINGS

01:08:17.860 --> 01:08:19.860
 CHOIR SINGS

01:08:19.859 --> 01:08:21.859
 CHOIR SINGS

01:08:21.859 --> 01:08:23.859
 CHOIR SINGS

01:08:23.859 --> 01:08:25.859
 CHOIR SINGS

01:08:25.859 --> 01:08:27.859
 CHOIR SINGS

01:08:27.859 --> 01:08:29.859
 CHOIR SINGS

01:08:29.859 --> 01:08:31.859
 CHOIR SINGS

01:08:31.859 --> 01:08:47.039
 For certainly is mercy sure, most pernature, eternally.

01:08:49.380 --> 01:08:52.699
 After the benediction, if you'd just allow me to meet you at the door.

01:08:53.880 --> 01:08:59.939
 Now may the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God the Father, and the communion of the Holy Spirit,

01:08:59.939 --> 01:09:04.839
 rest on and abide with you now and forevermore. Amen.

01:09:29.939 --> 01:09:31.939
 Amen.