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 Let us begin our worship this evening by singing to his praise of God in Psalm 103 of the Scottish Psalter.

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 Psalm 103, Scottish Psalter, you'll find that on page 369 of the Blue Book.

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 We'll sing from the beginning of that psalm.

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 Psalm 103 from the beginning, down to verse Mark 5.

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 O thou, my soul, bless God the Lord, and all that in me is.

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 Be stirred up his holy name to magnify and bless.

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 Bless, O my soul, the Lord thy God, and not forgetful be of all his gracious benefits he hath bestowed on thee.

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 All thine iniquities, who doth most graciously forgive, who thy diseases all and pains doth heal and thee relieve.

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 Who doth redeem thy life that thou to death mayest not go down, who thee with loving kindness doth and tender mercy's crown.

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 Who with abundance of good things doth satisfy thy mouth, so that even as the eagle's age, renewed is thy youth.

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 A psalm that speaks of God's goodness and love towards his people.

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 It's a psalm that will come back to sing the concluding verses at the end of our worship service.

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 So let us lift our voices in praise to God.

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 Let us stand together and sing this.

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 O thou, my soul, bless God the Lord.

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 O thou, my soul, bless God the Lord, and all that in me is.

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 He shed a praise holy name to magnify and bless.

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 O thou, my soul, bless God the Lord, and all forgetful be.

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 Of all his gracious benefits he hath bestowed on thee.

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 Thank you.

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 Thank you.

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 Thank you.

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 Thank you.

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 Amen.

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 Amen.

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 Amen.

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 We now join together in prayer and join our hearts together.

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 Amen.

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 Amen.

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 Amen.

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 Amen.

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 Amen.

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 You know all things and you know the hairs that are upon our heads.

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 You know the anxieties within our hearts.

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 You know the sadness within our hearts.

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 And we pray for those who are sad within their heart tonight.

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 We ask that you would remember them and that we would bring them before you.

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 That you would be a comfort to them.

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 And comfort those who mourn we pray.

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 We just ask that your loving arms would be wrapped around them.

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 And that you would continue with them.

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 Step by step in days that are so uncertain.

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 Days that may be fearful to them.

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 But as we heard in the morning.

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 You are one who gives peace.

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 You are the one that does not bring unto us things like the world does.

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 You take from us these anxieties and our fears.

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 And grants to us a peace within our hearts.

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 When we draw close to you.

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 And you draw close to us.

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 So in the gathering of your people.

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 May we know the closeness of your presence.

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 And the blessing of your spirit upon us.

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 As your word is spoken and read aloud tonight.

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 That it may speak within our hearts.

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 May it be a convicting voice.

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 A converting voice.

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 A strengthening voice.

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 An encouraging voice to each of us.

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 That we would know you.

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 When we gather with a heart and mind.

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 To seek you.

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 And so let us do that tonight.

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 Have a focus upon all the works of God.

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 And what Christ has done for us on the cross at Calvary.

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 And through that sacrifice.

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 We have been redeemed.

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 There is no other power that can wash away sins.

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 Sins that separate us from God.

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 That only through having faith in Christ.

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 Trusting and resting upon him.

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 Shall we be granted entry into your presence.

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 And unto the kingdom of glory.

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 Let us not forget what awaits those who trust in Christ.

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 For the hope that is set before us.

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 A place with no sorrow.

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 A place with no pain.

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 A place where we shall adore and look upon.

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 The lamb that was slain.

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 But it will be beautiful to us.

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 And his radiance will illuminate our presence.

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 And illuminate that land.

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 Let us keep our mind.

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 Upon things that are beyond this world.

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 And attain.

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 The things that are of.

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 Everlasting joy.

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 To the believer in Christ.

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 Lord we pray.

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 That as you gather with us here.

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 We pray for the young ones.

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 That are within this congregation.

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 And we are mindful of those.

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 Who may be away at camps.

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 We pray for them.

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 We pray for our own sponsor camp.

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 Concraig Junior.

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 And we thank you.

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 That they have gathered safely together.

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 And that they went to worship God together today.

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 That as they join together one another.

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 May you form lasting friendships there.

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 And bind them together.

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 And bind them together with your love.

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 That they may come to understand.

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 Your love.

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 That is not like the love of this world.

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 It is a love that does not hold grudges.

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 It is a love.

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 It is a love.

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 It is not angered.

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 It is a love.

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 It is a love.

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 It is a love.

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 That calls to us.

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 To come to him.

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 To confess of our sins.

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 That we may be adopted into the family of God.

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 Lord we pray.

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 That as your word has been proclaimed throughout your land.

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 And this nation.

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 This island.

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 That it would go with your blessing.

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 And that it would go with the power of your spirit.

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 Lord it is not by any man.

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 Can the mysterious works be done.

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 But by the works of your spirit.

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 Convicting and converting.

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 And turning souls that lie in sin.

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 Unto yourself.

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 Lord we just ask.

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 That you would bind us together.

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 In your love.

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 As we gather here this evening.

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 We pray.

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 That you would strengthen each of us.

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 In our tasks.

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 In our homes.

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 In the duties that we have.

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 Often we feel.

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 Insufficient.

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 For what lies ahead of us.

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 Often we feel weak.

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 To the tasks that are set before us.

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 Lord.

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 Renew us.

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 As we come before you.

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 May the strength of that eagle.

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 That is spoken in Isaiah be ours.

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 May we walk.

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 And continue to run.

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 And striving towards that.

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 Crown of righteousness.

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 That shall be ours.

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 As we walk in faith.

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 And trust in you.

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 Be with us.

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 We pray.

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 Watch over us.

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 In Persian.

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 Watch over us.

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 In our homes.

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 Keep us in health.

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 And strength.

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 And all this.

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 We ask.

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 In the name of Jesus Christ.

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 Amen.

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 We'll continue.

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 In our praise to God.

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 By singing in Psalm 32.

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 In the Sing Psalms version.

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 We'll find that on page 38.

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 Of the blue book.

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 Psalm 32.

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 From the beginning of that psalm.

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 Down to verse Mark 7.

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 How blessed the one who has received.

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 Forgiveness for his sin.

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 Whose sins are covered from God's face.

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 Whose debt is cancelled in God's grace.

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 There's no deceit in him.

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 Down to verse Mark 7.

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 You are my hiding place O Lord.

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 My true security.

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 You keep me safe in troubled days.

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 You circle me with joyful praise.

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 When you have set me free.

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 The psalm is speaking of that joy.

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 In knowing that his sins are forgiven.

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 And all debt is cancelled.

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 By the grace of God.

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 We stand together and sing these words.

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 How blessed the one who has received.

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 Forgiveness for his sin.

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 How blessed the one who has received.

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 Forgiveness for his sin.

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 Who united the一起 to return.

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 The birthday of God.

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 Where God

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 Let us pray.

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 Let us pray.

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 Let us pray.

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 Let us pray.

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 I said, O Lord, I have transgressed, and you forgive when I confess.

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 You pardoned all my sins.

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 Let the Godly pay to you, and you are to be found.

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 Surely when waves are sweeping past, and mighty waters rising past, you'll keep them safe and sound.

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 You are my hiding place, O Lord, my true security.

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 You keep me safe and troubled days.

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 You circle me with joyful praise, and you have set me free.

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 Amen.

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 Turn now to our Bibles, and if we could turn to the book of Isaiah.

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 The prophecy of Isaiah, chapter 1 of that book.

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 We'll read from the beginning of that chapter down to verse Mark 20.

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 Let us hear God's word.

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 The vision of Isaiah, the son of Amos, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

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 Hear, O heavens, and give ye, O earth, for the Lord has spoken.

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 Children I have reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me.

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 The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know.

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 My people do not understand.

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 Ah, sinful nation.

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 A people laden with iniquity.

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 Offspring of evildoers.

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 Children who deal corruptly.

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 They have forsaken the Lord.

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 They have despised the Holy One of Israel.

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 They are utterly estranged.

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 Why will you still be struck down?

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 Why will you continue to rebel?

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 The whole head is sick.

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 The whole heart faint.

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 From the sole of the foot to the head, there is no soundness in it.

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 But bruises and sores and raw wounds, they are not pressed out or bound up or softened with oil.

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 Your country lies desolate.

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 Your cities are burned with fire.

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 In your very presence, foreigners devour your land.

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 It is desolate as overthrown by foreigners.

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 And the daughter of Zion is left like a booth in a vineyard, like a lodge in a cucumber field, like a besieged city.

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 If the Lord of hosts had not left us, we should have been like Sodom and become like Gomorrah.

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 Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Gomorrah.

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 What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices, says the Lord.

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 I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed beasts.

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 I do not delight in the blood of bulls or of lambs or of goats.

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 When you come to appear before me, who has required of you this trampling of my coats?

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 Bring no more vain offerings.

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 The incense is an abomination to me.

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 New moon and Sabbath and the calling of convocations.

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 I do not endure iniquity and solemn assembly.

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 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates.

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 They have become a burden to me.

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 I am weary of bearing them.

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 When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you.

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 Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen.

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 Your hands are full of blood.

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 Wash yourselves.

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 Make yourselves clean.

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 Remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes.

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 Cease to do evil.

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 Learn to do good.

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 Seek justice, correct oppression.

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 Bring justice to the fatherless.

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 Plead the widow's cause.

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 Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord.

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 Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be white as snow.

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 Though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.

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 If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land.

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 But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be eaten by the sword.

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 For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.

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 We turn now also to the book of Revelation, chapter 7.

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 Read there from verse 9 of that chapter.

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 Revelation 7.

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 Reading at verse 9, down to verse 17.

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 John's vision of a great multitude in heaven.

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 After this, I looked and behold a great multitude that no one could number from every nation,

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 from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and the Lamb,

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 clothed in white robes with pan branches in their hands,

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 and crying out with a loud voice,

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 Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne and to the Lamb.

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 And all the angels were standing around the throne and round the elders and the four living creatures,

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 and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshipped God, saying,

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 Amen, blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honour and power and might

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 be to our God forever and ever.

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 Amen.

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 Then one of the elders addressed me, saying,

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 Who are these, clothed in white robes,

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 and from where have they come?

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 I said, Sir, you know.

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 And he said to me,

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 These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation.

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 They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

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 Therefore they are before the throne of God,

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 and serve him day and night in his temple.

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 And he who sits on the throne will shelter them with his presence.

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 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more.

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 The sun shall not strike them, nor any scorching heat.

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 For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd.

00:23:41.799 --> 00:23:44.519
 He will guide them to springs of living water,

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 and God will wipe away every tear from their eye.

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 Amen.

00:23:52.180 --> 00:23:55.359
 May the reading of God's word be a blessing to us.

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 We'll join in praise again by singing in Psalm 51.

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 Psalm 51 of the Scottish Psalter Version.

00:24:08.500 --> 00:24:12.420
 You'll find that on page 280 of the Blue Book.

00:24:13.220 --> 00:24:15.359
 Singing from the beginning of that psalm.

00:24:15.359 --> 00:24:20.279
 After thy loving kindness, Lord,

00:24:20.659 --> 00:24:22.119
 have mercy upon me,

00:24:22.979 --> 00:24:28.139
 for thy compassion's great blot out all mine iniquity.

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 Singing down to verse Mark 7 there.

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 To thy with hyssop sprinkle me,

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 I shall be cleansed so.

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 Yea, wash thy me,

00:24:37.799 --> 00:24:41.059
 and then I shall be whiter than the snow.

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 The psalm, part of David's confession of his sin,

00:24:46.419 --> 00:24:49.240
 as the prophet Nathan came before him.

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 Let us sing these words to God's praise.

00:24:52.960 --> 00:24:54.539
 Let us stand and sing.

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 After thy loving kindness, Lord,

00:24:56.879 --> 00:24:58.500
 have mercy upon me.

00:24:58.500 --> 00:25:07.160
 After thy loving kindness, Lord,

00:25:07.160 --> 00:25:14.099
 have mercy upon me.

00:25:14.460 --> 00:25:22.000
 For thy compassion's great, Lord,

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 and the

00:25:29.319 --> 00:25:35.660
 functions,

00:25:35.660 --> 00:25:37.700
 for every

00:25:37.700 --> 00:25:39.579
owment

00:25:39.579 --> 00:25:41.259
 and

00:25:41.759 --> 00:25:43.700
 the

00:25:43.700 --> 00:25:45.519
 works of

00:25:45.519 --> 00:25:50.460
 .

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 The temptations I confess, my sin I ever see.

00:26:05.279 --> 00:26:22.279
 It will be only a person, in my sight of this hell.

00:26:22.279 --> 00:26:40.279
 But where thou speak, thou hast be just, and fear in judging still.

00:26:40.279 --> 00:26:57.460
 The old lion iniquity was born in the womb with him.

00:26:57.460 --> 00:27:15.460
 My mother also be not thee, in guiltiness and sin.

00:27:15.460 --> 00:27:31.460
 Call thou with the inward heart, with truth delighted art.

00:27:31.460 --> 00:27:50.640
 And wisdom thine shall take me home within the hidden heart.

00:27:50.640 --> 00:28:07.640
 To thy will this soft spring to me, I shall be cleansed so.

00:28:07.640 --> 00:28:24.920
 Ye wash thou me, and then I shall be whiter than the snow.

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 I'd like us to turn together to the passage we read in Isaiah.

00:28:37.640 --> 00:28:43.900
 And give our minds attention in the time that we have to verses 18.

00:28:46.480 --> 00:28:50.660
 Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord.

00:28:51.180 --> 00:28:55.080
 Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be white as snow.

00:28:55.800 --> 00:29:01.400
 Though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.

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 There are often times in our lives when we hear things that we don't like to hear.

00:29:12.320 --> 00:29:17.940
 We may remember the voice of parents telling us that we shouldn't be doing something,

00:29:18.080 --> 00:29:19.600
 or we shouldn't be going somewhere.

00:29:21.240 --> 00:29:27.880
 Or maybe we hear someone speak to us against the plans that we have made in our own heads.

00:29:27.880 --> 00:29:33.080
 Maybe we've had great plans that we've spent a lot of time figuring out.

00:29:34.040 --> 00:29:35.000
 Could be anything.

00:29:36.000 --> 00:29:38.260
 We've had this great objective in our mind.

00:29:39.100 --> 00:29:41.300
 And we've come to discuss it.

00:29:41.400 --> 00:29:45.480
 And then someone may contradict what we've got in our head

00:29:45.480 --> 00:29:50.080
 with maybe words that are wiser than how we thought it to be.

00:29:50.079 --> 00:29:52.779
 Maybe words that we don't like to hear.

00:29:52.939 --> 00:29:57.679
 Maybe fundamental flaws have been pointed out in our plans.

00:30:00.119 --> 00:30:04.599
 It's things, when that happens, it's not easy for us to take it in.

00:30:05.500 --> 00:30:10.619
 Sometimes we can be stubborn to anyone that gives us wise counsel.

00:30:11.460 --> 00:30:13.579
 And we carry on regardless.

00:30:13.579 --> 00:30:20.220
 And other times we just need to admit that they are right

00:30:20.220 --> 00:30:24.819
 and put our pride in our pocket, pride in our pocket in a sense,

00:30:25.480 --> 00:30:28.339
 and admit that there was a flaw in our plan.

00:30:29.679 --> 00:30:32.599
 And really what we have to do is weigh things up.

00:30:33.460 --> 00:30:36.399
 Is what the person telling me, is he right?

00:30:36.859 --> 00:30:37.579
 Is it true?

00:30:38.019 --> 00:30:41.779
 And what the other voice that speaks to me says,

00:30:41.779 --> 00:30:43.480
 we have to weigh things up?

00:30:45.079 --> 00:30:47.339
 And the prophets in the Old Testament,

00:30:48.059 --> 00:30:50.220
 they didn't have an easy task.

00:30:51.279 --> 00:30:56.920
 It was their job to bring a voice of correction to the people in their time.

00:30:58.259 --> 00:31:01.819
 And the voice that they brought was the voice of the Almighty God

00:31:01.819 --> 00:31:05.879
 before nations that were in error.

00:31:07.240 --> 00:31:10.339
 And it was words that were usually contrary

00:31:10.339 --> 00:31:13.079
 to what the people wanted to hear.

00:31:13.639 --> 00:31:17.399
 It was words that they didn't like to listen to

00:31:17.399 --> 00:31:19.659
 because it opposed their actions,

00:31:19.799 --> 00:31:22.799
 it opposed their desires that were within their hearts.

00:31:24.139 --> 00:31:26.359
 It was just something they didn't like.

00:31:26.359 --> 00:31:31.359
 It is no wonder that God spoke of Israel

00:31:31.359 --> 00:31:34.799
 as being a stubborn and rebellious people so often

00:31:34.799 --> 00:31:38.379
 because they aimed to do it their way

00:31:38.379 --> 00:31:41.819
 and do it the way they thought was best.

00:31:43.159 --> 00:31:45.559
 And yet God comes to them

00:31:45.559 --> 00:31:49.759
 trying to redirect this stubborn people

00:31:49.759 --> 00:31:51.599
 back to himself

00:31:51.599 --> 00:31:54.859
 that they may be corrected

00:31:54.859 --> 00:31:57.839
 and they may not fall

00:31:57.839 --> 00:31:59.579
 by the wayside

00:31:59.579 --> 00:32:00.919
 into error

00:32:00.919 --> 00:32:03.919
 and do damage to themselves.

00:32:05.919 --> 00:32:08.119
 This correction of God

00:32:08.119 --> 00:32:10.379
 the direction of God

00:32:10.379 --> 00:32:12.219
 the voice of God

00:32:12.219 --> 00:32:14.480
 by whatever means

00:32:14.480 --> 00:32:15.879
 it would come to them

00:32:15.879 --> 00:32:18.319
 and by whatever means it comes to us

00:32:18.319 --> 00:32:21.079
 should demand our attention.

00:32:21.879 --> 00:32:24.299
 It should arrest our attention

00:32:24.299 --> 00:32:27.299
 when we read the word of God

00:32:27.299 --> 00:32:30.720
 because it is a voice that speaks to us.

00:32:31.519 --> 00:32:32.980
 It is a guiding voice

00:32:32.980 --> 00:32:34.700
 that shows us

00:32:34.700 --> 00:32:36.740
 the way in which we should go

00:32:36.740 --> 00:32:38.960
 the way in which we should live.

00:32:38.960 --> 00:32:43.039
 but it is a fatherly voice

00:32:43.039 --> 00:32:45.600
 as we pray unto our Father

00:32:45.600 --> 00:32:48.140
 the words that the Father speaks to us.

00:32:48.559 --> 00:32:51.500
 It's a loving, tender voice

00:32:51.500 --> 00:32:55.440
 and although it is made in love

00:32:55.440 --> 00:32:57.500
 sometimes it is things

00:32:57.500 --> 00:32:58.720
 that are hard to hear.

00:32:59.819 --> 00:33:01.079
 Sometimes it's things

00:33:01.079 --> 00:33:02.680
 that are not favourable

00:33:02.680 --> 00:33:04.140
 to our mind.

00:33:05.960 --> 00:33:07.640
 And continuing as we have done

00:33:07.640 --> 00:33:08.620
 in the last few weeks

00:33:08.620 --> 00:33:09.520
 we were looking at some

00:33:09.520 --> 00:33:10.440
 Bible similes

00:33:10.440 --> 00:33:13.200
 we were in Psalm 133 last week.

00:33:14.140 --> 00:33:15.600
 We look at this verse here

00:33:15.600 --> 00:33:16.820
 where it describes

00:33:16.820 --> 00:33:18.840
 the sin of Israel

00:33:18.840 --> 00:33:22.020
 as scarlet and crimson

00:33:22.020 --> 00:33:24.740
 doubly crimson

00:33:24.740 --> 00:33:27.900
 but one that shall make them

00:33:27.900 --> 00:33:28.620
 and turn them

00:33:28.620 --> 00:33:30.400
 white as snow

00:33:30.400 --> 00:33:32.620
 and just like wool.

00:33:34.600 --> 00:33:36.000
 But as we look at this word

00:33:36.000 --> 00:33:37.240
 that Isaiah brought

00:33:37.240 --> 00:33:38.059
 to the people

00:33:38.059 --> 00:33:41.039
 it is a truthful statement

00:33:41.039 --> 00:33:42.619
 about their case.

00:33:43.920 --> 00:33:45.240
 It is truthful

00:33:45.240 --> 00:33:46.900
 about who they are

00:33:46.900 --> 00:33:49.440
 before God

00:33:49.440 --> 00:33:52.720
 but it also gives them

00:33:52.720 --> 00:33:53.740
 it does not leave them

00:33:53.740 --> 00:33:55.099
 it gives them

00:33:55.099 --> 00:33:56.140
 the greatest hope

00:33:56.140 --> 00:33:58.680
 that God can give them.

00:33:59.579 --> 00:34:00.559
 The greatest hope

00:34:00.559 --> 00:34:01.460
 that they could hear.

00:34:01.460 --> 00:34:04.299
 And so this verse is

00:34:04.299 --> 00:34:05.420
 to us tonight

00:34:05.420 --> 00:34:06.920
 maybe something

00:34:06.920 --> 00:34:08.139
 we don't like to hear

00:34:08.139 --> 00:34:09.099
 something we don't like

00:34:09.099 --> 00:34:10.019
 to focus on

00:34:10.019 --> 00:34:12.920
 when it clearly states

00:34:12.920 --> 00:34:14.059
 not the

00:34:14.059 --> 00:34:14.800
 well

00:34:14.800 --> 00:34:15.539
 it states

00:34:15.539 --> 00:34:17.199
 it states

00:34:17.199 --> 00:34:18.699
 it states

00:34:18.699 --> 00:34:19.320
 the condition

00:34:19.320 --> 00:34:20.059
 of our nation

00:34:20.059 --> 00:34:20.900
 in one sense

00:34:20.900 --> 00:34:22.159
 but it states

00:34:22.159 --> 00:34:22.659
 the condition

00:34:22.659 --> 00:34:23.460
 of our hearts

00:34:23.460 --> 00:34:24.360
 in another sense.

00:34:25.440 --> 00:34:26.720
 As we come

00:34:26.720 --> 00:34:27.639
 and draw near

00:34:27.639 --> 00:34:29.579
 to a holy God

00:34:29.579 --> 00:34:31.679
 it's not comfortable

00:34:31.679 --> 00:34:32.679
 for us

00:34:32.679 --> 00:34:34.219
 to hear these things

00:34:34.219 --> 00:34:36.179
 but at the same time

00:34:36.179 --> 00:34:37.699
 we are presented

00:34:37.699 --> 00:34:39.019
 with the greatest hope

00:34:39.019 --> 00:34:40.559
 that man could ever hear

00:34:40.559 --> 00:34:41.860
 and that we

00:34:41.860 --> 00:34:43.199
 could ever hear.

00:34:44.279 --> 00:34:45.259
 And it is a point

00:34:45.259 --> 00:34:46.219
 where we marvel

00:34:46.219 --> 00:34:47.659
 at the love

00:34:47.659 --> 00:34:48.299
 that the Father

00:34:48.299 --> 00:34:49.460
 has to us

00:34:49.460 --> 00:34:51.519
 and how gracious

00:34:51.519 --> 00:34:52.380
 God is.

00:34:53.699 --> 00:34:54.279
 So firstly

00:34:54.279 --> 00:34:55.000
 we need to set

00:34:55.000 --> 00:34:55.579
 the scene

00:34:55.579 --> 00:34:56.299
 in a sense

00:34:56.299 --> 00:34:56.699
 to gather

00:34:56.699 --> 00:34:57.519
 what Isaiah

00:34:57.519 --> 00:34:58.079
 is saying

00:34:58.079 --> 00:34:58.759
 to the people.

00:35:01.099 --> 00:35:03.000
 What does Isaiah

00:35:03.000 --> 00:35:04.239
 say in the context

00:35:04.239 --> 00:35:05.259
 of this

00:35:05.259 --> 00:35:07.199
 well known verse?

00:35:08.860 --> 00:35:09.420
 Firstly

00:35:09.420 --> 00:35:10.319
 when you look

00:35:10.319 --> 00:35:11.279
 at the whole chapter

00:35:11.279 --> 00:35:13.400
 and the initial words

00:35:13.400 --> 00:35:14.299
 of this chapter

00:35:14.299 --> 00:35:16.539
 it's not easy listening

00:35:16.539 --> 00:35:18.360
 and what it does

00:35:18.360 --> 00:35:19.199
 is point out

00:35:19.199 --> 00:35:20.480
 the condemnation

00:35:20.480 --> 00:35:21.000
 of God

00:35:21.000 --> 00:35:21.719
 to the people.

00:35:24.039 --> 00:35:24.980
 Asking them

00:35:24.980 --> 00:35:26.940
 why God

00:35:26.940 --> 00:35:27.699
 sees them

00:35:27.699 --> 00:35:28.820
 as so stained.

00:35:29.900 --> 00:35:30.360
 So that's

00:35:30.360 --> 00:35:31.260
 our first point.

00:35:32.039 --> 00:35:32.900
 The condemnation

00:35:32.900 --> 00:35:33.420
 that God

00:35:33.420 --> 00:35:34.559
 presents to them.

00:35:36.260 --> 00:35:36.900
 And yet God

00:35:36.900 --> 00:35:37.960
 well he's not

00:35:37.960 --> 00:35:38.940
 all condemning

00:35:38.940 --> 00:35:39.780
 as some people

00:35:39.780 --> 00:35:41.159
 like to perceive

00:35:41.159 --> 00:35:41.740
 him to be.

00:35:42.380 --> 00:35:43.179
 Because God

00:35:43.179 --> 00:35:44.380
 calls out

00:35:44.380 --> 00:35:45.219
 to the people

00:35:45.219 --> 00:35:46.500
 as he did

00:35:46.500 --> 00:35:47.179
 then he does

00:35:47.179 --> 00:35:47.599
 today.

00:35:48.920 --> 00:35:50.059
 God calls.

00:35:51.400 --> 00:35:52.480
 That's our second point.

00:35:52.480 --> 00:35:52.519
 God.

00:35:53.760 --> 00:35:54.340
 And not only

00:35:54.340 --> 00:35:54.860
 is he a God

00:35:54.860 --> 00:35:55.619
 that calls

00:35:55.619 --> 00:35:56.820
 he is a God

00:35:56.820 --> 00:35:57.599
 that saves.

00:35:58.699 --> 00:35:59.340
 He is the one

00:35:59.340 --> 00:36:00.539
 that washes away

00:36:00.539 --> 00:36:01.579
 the stains

00:36:01.579 --> 00:36:02.519
 and the sins

00:36:02.519 --> 00:36:03.740
 that we have

00:36:03.740 --> 00:36:04.679
 within our lives

00:36:04.679 --> 00:36:05.380
 that the nation

00:36:05.380 --> 00:36:05.920
 has.

00:36:07.000 --> 00:36:07.980
 He is a God

00:36:07.980 --> 00:36:09.760
 that cleanses us.

00:36:10.760 --> 00:36:11.800
 So the condemnation

00:36:11.800 --> 00:36:12.460
 of God

00:36:12.460 --> 00:36:13.559
 the calling

00:36:13.559 --> 00:36:14.280
 of God

00:36:14.280 --> 00:36:15.860
 and the cleansed

00:36:15.860 --> 00:36:16.539
 of God

00:36:16.539 --> 00:36:17.880
 in this chapter.

00:36:19.000 --> 00:36:19.500
 So let's look

00:36:19.500 --> 00:36:20.460
 at the condemnation

00:36:20.460 --> 00:36:21.059
 that is set

00:36:21.059 --> 00:36:21.840
 before us

00:36:21.840 --> 00:36:22.860
 in Isaiah's day.

00:36:24.139 --> 00:36:25.079
 Isaiah was a prophet

00:36:25.079 --> 00:36:26.940
 to the people

00:36:26.940 --> 00:36:27.659
 of Jerusalem

00:36:27.659 --> 00:36:29.059
 and the people

00:36:29.059 --> 00:36:29.699
 of Israel.

00:36:30.699 --> 00:36:31.480
 He prophesied

00:36:31.480 --> 00:36:32.320
 to the southern

00:36:32.320 --> 00:36:32.780
 kingdom

00:36:32.780 --> 00:36:33.599
 known as Judah.

00:36:35.460 --> 00:36:36.000
 And we must

00:36:36.000 --> 00:36:36.960
 remember firstly

00:36:36.960 --> 00:36:37.740
 that the words

00:36:37.740 --> 00:36:38.920
 that Isaiah brings

00:36:38.920 --> 00:36:39.960
 is truth.

00:36:41.159 --> 00:36:41.699
 They're words

00:36:41.699 --> 00:36:42.480
 from God.

00:36:43.000 --> 00:36:43.800
 They're not words

00:36:43.800 --> 00:36:44.820
 of his own device.

00:36:46.139 --> 00:36:47.480
 God is saying

00:36:47.480 --> 00:36:48.380
 to the people

00:36:48.380 --> 00:36:49.059
 and he wants

00:36:49.059 --> 00:36:49.760
 the people

00:36:49.760 --> 00:36:50.460
 to know

00:36:50.460 --> 00:36:52.260
 this is how

00:36:52.260 --> 00:36:52.900
 you are

00:36:52.900 --> 00:36:53.599
 before me.

00:36:54.460 --> 00:36:55.019
 This is how

00:36:55.019 --> 00:36:57.140
 I see you.

00:36:59.000 --> 00:36:59.980
 God wants

00:36:59.980 --> 00:37:00.599
 them to see

00:37:00.599 --> 00:37:01.160
 their sin.

00:37:02.340 --> 00:37:02.940
 They need

00:37:02.940 --> 00:37:03.400
 to see

00:37:03.400 --> 00:37:04.340
 their sin.

00:37:04.599 --> 00:37:05.440
 God is warning

00:37:05.440 --> 00:37:06.180
 the people

00:37:06.180 --> 00:37:06.920
 in Judah

00:37:06.920 --> 00:37:08.340
 about their

00:37:08.340 --> 00:37:09.000
 position

00:37:09.000 --> 00:37:10.500
 when they face

00:37:10.500 --> 00:37:11.680
 divine justice

00:37:11.680 --> 00:37:12.280
 of God.

00:37:14.579 --> 00:37:15.539
 What is it

00:37:15.539 --> 00:37:16.380
 that leaves him?

00:37:16.380 --> 00:37:19.019
 doubly stained

00:37:19.019 --> 00:37:20.320
 in scarlet

00:37:20.320 --> 00:37:21.300
 and crimson.

00:37:22.460 --> 00:37:22.860
 Well,

00:37:23.260 --> 00:37:24.039
 we're presented

00:37:24.039 --> 00:37:25.200
 with a great

00:37:25.200 --> 00:37:26.280
 number of facts

00:37:26.280 --> 00:37:27.740
 through Isaiah's

00:37:27.740 --> 00:37:28.059
 words.

00:37:28.900 --> 00:37:29.440
 You can look

00:37:29.440 --> 00:37:30.320
 back and turn

00:37:30.320 --> 00:37:30.980
 and see

00:37:30.980 --> 00:37:31.760
 verse 2.

00:37:33.440 --> 00:37:34.019
 He speaks

00:37:34.019 --> 00:37:34.840
 of children

00:37:34.840 --> 00:37:35.460
 that I have

00:37:35.460 --> 00:37:36.140
 reared up,

00:37:37.680 --> 00:37:38.280
 reared and

00:37:38.280 --> 00:37:38.920
 brought up,

00:37:39.260 --> 00:37:40.180
 but they have

00:37:40.180 --> 00:37:40.840
 rebelled

00:37:40.840 --> 00:37:41.820
 against me.

00:37:42.860 --> 00:37:43.440
 The children

00:37:43.440 --> 00:37:44.099
 that have turned

00:37:44.099 --> 00:37:44.820
 their back

00:37:44.820 --> 00:37:45.580
 on God.

00:37:47.000 --> 00:37:47.320
 And then

00:37:47.320 --> 00:37:47.720
 he goes on

00:37:47.720 --> 00:37:48.200
 to speak

00:37:48.200 --> 00:37:48.940
 of the ox

00:37:48.940 --> 00:37:49.780
 in verse 3,

00:37:50.260 --> 00:37:50.760
 who knows

00:37:50.760 --> 00:37:51.240
 its owner.

00:37:51.920 --> 00:37:52.580
 The donkey

00:37:52.580 --> 00:37:53.240
 knows its

00:37:53.240 --> 00:37:54.180
 master's crib,

00:37:54.960 --> 00:37:55.860
 but Israel

00:37:55.860 --> 00:37:56.960
 does not

00:37:56.960 --> 00:37:57.280
 know.

00:37:57.980 --> 00:37:58.820
 My people

00:37:58.820 --> 00:37:59.300
 do not

00:37:59.300 --> 00:38:00.120
 understand.

00:38:01.300 --> 00:38:01.820
 It's as if

00:38:01.820 --> 00:38:02.460
 he's saying

00:38:02.460 --> 00:38:03.920
 that the animals

00:38:03.920 --> 00:38:04.960
 have more sense

00:38:04.960 --> 00:38:05.700
 than the people.

00:38:06.360 --> 00:38:07.059
 The animals

00:38:07.059 --> 00:38:08.080
 know where

00:38:08.080 --> 00:38:09.000
 they shall

00:38:09.000 --> 00:38:10.440
 receive care,

00:38:11.160 --> 00:38:11.700
 goodness,

00:38:12.220 --> 00:38:12.720
 nourishment,

00:38:12.719 --> 00:38:14.099
 and yet

00:38:14.099 --> 00:38:14.659
 the people

00:38:14.659 --> 00:38:15.359
 of Israel

00:38:15.359 --> 00:38:16.879
 aren't so

00:38:16.879 --> 00:38:17.480
 wise.

00:38:18.199 --> 00:38:18.419
 They're

00:38:18.419 --> 00:38:19.219
 abandoning

00:38:19.219 --> 00:38:20.039
 these things.

00:38:20.399 --> 00:38:20.539
 They're

00:38:20.539 --> 00:38:21.339
 walking away

00:38:21.339 --> 00:38:21.980
 from this

00:38:21.980 --> 00:38:22.419
 loving,

00:38:22.939 --> 00:38:23.439
 fatherly

00:38:23.439 --> 00:38:24.739
 figure who

00:38:24.739 --> 00:38:25.339
 will provide

00:38:25.339 --> 00:38:25.659
 for them

00:38:25.659 --> 00:38:26.039
 in every

00:38:26.039 --> 00:38:26.399
 way.

00:38:27.099 --> 00:38:27.679
 Israel,

00:38:27.899 --> 00:38:28.379
 a rebellion

00:38:28.379 --> 00:38:29.299
 against God.

00:38:30.039 --> 00:38:30.500
 They don't

00:38:30.500 --> 00:38:31.339
 understand.

00:38:33.539 --> 00:38:34.279
 My people

00:38:34.279 --> 00:38:34.839
 do not

00:38:34.839 --> 00:38:35.619
 understand,

00:38:35.739 --> 00:38:36.299
 he says.

00:38:37.679 --> 00:38:38.519
 In verse 4,

00:38:38.599 --> 00:38:39.319
 it continues,

00:38:39.320 --> 00:38:40.140
 the sinfulness

00:38:40.140 --> 00:38:40.559
 of the

00:38:40.559 --> 00:38:40.980
 nation,

00:38:41.760 --> 00:38:42.200
 laden

00:38:42.200 --> 00:38:42.420
 with

00:38:42.420 --> 00:38:43.080
 iniquity,

00:38:43.780 --> 00:38:44.260
 offspring

00:38:44.260 --> 00:38:45.019
 of evil

00:38:45.019 --> 00:38:45.440
 doers

00:38:45.440 --> 00:38:45.920
 who deal

00:38:45.920 --> 00:38:46.660
 corruptly.

00:38:47.900 --> 00:38:48.260
 They have

00:38:48.260 --> 00:38:48.920
 despised

00:38:48.920 --> 00:38:49.320
 God,

00:38:49.380 --> 00:38:49.620
 and what

00:38:49.620 --> 00:38:49.880
 does it

00:38:49.880 --> 00:38:50.200
 say at

00:38:50.200 --> 00:38:50.460
 the end

00:38:50.460 --> 00:38:50.860
 of verse

00:38:50.860 --> 00:38:51.200
 4?

00:38:51.940 --> 00:38:52.320
 They are

00:38:52.320 --> 00:38:52.980
 utterly

00:38:52.980 --> 00:38:54.059
 estranged.

00:38:54.940 --> 00:38:55.220
 They're

00:38:55.220 --> 00:38:55.800
 cut off

00:38:55.800 --> 00:38:56.460
 in a sense.

00:38:58.059 --> 00:38:58.920
 But God

00:38:58.920 --> 00:38:59.320
 has not

00:38:59.320 --> 00:38:59.820
 cut them

00:38:59.820 --> 00:39:00.080
 off.

00:39:01.140 --> 00:39:01.680
 It's

00:39:01.680 --> 00:39:02.300
 their own

00:39:02.300 --> 00:39:02.620
 doing.

00:39:03.800 --> 00:39:04.760
 They have

00:39:04.760 --> 00:39:05.360
 rejected

00:39:05.360 --> 00:39:05.980
 God.

00:39:07.200 --> 00:39:07.480
 They've

00:39:07.480 --> 00:39:08.180
 rejected the

00:39:08.179 --> 00:39:08.799
 fatherly

00:39:08.799 --> 00:39:09.460
 figure that

00:39:09.460 --> 00:39:10.039
 cares for

00:39:10.039 --> 00:39:10.319
 them.

00:39:11.739 --> 00:39:12.039
 They've

00:39:12.039 --> 00:39:12.519
 rebelled

00:39:12.519 --> 00:39:13.299
 against me.

00:39:13.759 --> 00:39:14.079
 They've

00:39:14.079 --> 00:39:14.500
 walked

00:39:14.500 --> 00:39:14.940
 away.

00:39:17.599 --> 00:39:18.079
 And then

00:39:18.079 --> 00:39:18.879
 we see

00:39:18.879 --> 00:39:19.960
 in verse

00:39:19.960 --> 00:39:20.659
 5,

00:39:21.519 --> 00:39:21.879
 this is

00:39:21.879 --> 00:39:23.119
 referred to

00:39:23.119 --> 00:39:23.599
 a body.

00:39:23.799 --> 00:39:24.319
 This nation

00:39:24.319 --> 00:39:24.719
 is referred

00:39:24.719 --> 00:39:25.059
 to a

00:39:25.059 --> 00:39:25.359
 body.

00:39:27.219 --> 00:39:27.599
 Isaiah

00:39:27.599 --> 00:39:28.019
 says,

00:39:28.119 --> 00:39:28.219
 they're

00:39:28.219 --> 00:39:28.879
 like being

00:39:28.879 --> 00:39:29.279
 sick.

00:39:29.399 --> 00:39:29.759
 The whole

00:39:29.759 --> 00:39:30.440
 head is

00:39:30.440 --> 00:39:30.819
 sick.

00:39:31.679 --> 00:39:32.119
 The whole

00:39:32.119 --> 00:39:32.779
 heart is

00:39:32.779 --> 00:39:33.899
 faint from

00:39:33.899 --> 00:39:34.480
 the soul

00:39:34.480 --> 00:39:34.819
 of the

00:39:34.819 --> 00:39:35.419
 foot even

00:39:35.419 --> 00:39:35.779
 to the

00:39:35.779 --> 00:39:36.079
 head.

00:39:36.719 --> 00:39:37.239
 The whole

00:39:37.239 --> 00:39:38.099
 being,

00:39:38.179 --> 00:39:39.079
 of Israel

00:39:39.079 --> 00:39:40.239
 has this

00:39:40.239 --> 00:39:40.960
 sickness

00:39:40.960 --> 00:39:41.659
 in it.

00:39:43.679 --> 00:39:43.980
 And we

00:39:43.980 --> 00:39:44.460
 see there's

00:39:44.460 --> 00:39:45.179
 no strength

00:39:45.179 --> 00:39:45.859
 to oppose

00:39:45.859 --> 00:39:46.480
 the nations.

00:39:47.099 --> 00:39:47.579
 There's no

00:39:47.579 --> 00:39:48.239
 balm for

00:39:48.239 --> 00:39:48.879
 their wounds.

00:39:49.399 --> 00:39:49.719
 They're

00:39:49.719 --> 00:39:50.679
 struggling on.

00:39:51.799 --> 00:39:52.359
 It sounds

00:39:52.359 --> 00:39:52.819
 like they're

00:39:52.819 --> 00:39:53.099
 killing

00:39:53.099 --> 00:39:53.739
 themselves

00:39:53.739 --> 00:39:55.239
 because

00:39:55.239 --> 00:39:55.519
 they're

00:39:55.519 --> 00:39:56.419
 living as

00:39:56.419 --> 00:39:56.879
 they want

00:39:56.879 --> 00:39:57.419
 to live.

00:39:59.019 --> 00:39:59.659
 And the

00:39:59.659 --> 00:40:00.399
 nation that

00:40:00.399 --> 00:40:00.899
 lives as

00:40:00.899 --> 00:40:01.480
 it wishes,

00:40:02.759 --> 00:40:03.480
 that reasons

00:40:03.480 --> 00:40:04.480
 without God,

00:40:05.480 --> 00:40:06.559
 that stubbornly

00:40:06.559 --> 00:40:07.799
 strives on

00:40:07.799 --> 00:40:08.139
 in their

00:40:08.139 --> 00:40:08.840
 own way,

00:40:09.539 --> 00:40:09.759
 will

00:40:09.759 --> 00:40:10.299
 essentially

00:40:10.299 --> 00:40:10.980
 slowly

00:40:10.980 --> 00:40:12.039
 kill itself.

00:40:12.639 --> 00:40:12.860
 There'll

00:40:12.860 --> 00:40:13.179
 be no

00:40:13.179 --> 00:40:13.739
 nourishment,

00:40:13.900 --> 00:40:14.039
 there'll

00:40:14.039 --> 00:40:14.400
 be no

00:40:14.400 --> 00:40:15.139
 balm for

00:40:15.139 --> 00:40:15.420
 them.

00:40:18.199 --> 00:40:19.119
 But all

00:40:19.119 --> 00:40:19.679
 the while,

00:40:20.239 --> 00:40:21.099
 those people

00:40:21.099 --> 00:40:22.360
 maintain some

00:40:22.360 --> 00:40:23.779
 outward profession

00:40:23.779 --> 00:40:24.320
 of worship.

00:40:25.980 --> 00:40:27.059
 They maintain

00:40:27.059 --> 00:40:27.699
 the traditions

00:40:27.699 --> 00:40:28.219
 of their

00:40:28.219 --> 00:40:28.940
 fathers in

00:40:28.940 --> 00:40:29.239
 offering

00:40:29.239 --> 00:40:30.199
 sacrifice,

00:40:30.599 --> 00:40:31.119
 and coming

00:40:31.119 --> 00:40:31.619
 to God

00:40:31.619 --> 00:40:32.099
 and worship.

00:40:32.099 --> 00:40:33.380
 You can

00:40:33.380 --> 00:40:33.860
 see in

00:40:33.860 --> 00:40:34.420
 verse 11

00:40:34.420 --> 00:40:35.699
 that they

00:40:35.699 --> 00:40:36.139
 bring a

00:40:36.139 --> 00:40:36.960
 multitude of

00:40:36.960 --> 00:40:37.699
 sacrifices,

00:40:38.659 --> 00:40:39.559
 but God's

00:40:39.559 --> 00:40:40.420
 had enough

00:40:40.420 --> 00:40:41.259
 of the

00:40:41.259 --> 00:40:41.579
 burnt

00:40:41.579 --> 00:40:42.019
 offerings.

00:40:43.000 --> 00:40:43.460
 He does

00:40:43.460 --> 00:40:44.299
 not delight

00:40:44.299 --> 00:40:44.679
 in what

00:40:44.679 --> 00:40:45.259
 he brings

00:40:45.259 --> 00:40:45.619
 to them.

00:40:48.719 --> 00:40:49.319
 Trampling

00:40:49.319 --> 00:40:49.960
 of my

00:40:49.960 --> 00:40:50.440
 court,

00:40:50.559 --> 00:40:51.219
 he speaks.

00:40:52.579 --> 00:40:52.920
 Bring

00:40:52.920 --> 00:40:53.480
 no more

00:40:53.480 --> 00:40:54.179
 vain offerings.

00:40:55.739 --> 00:40:56.519
 It is an

00:40:56.519 --> 00:40:56.960
 abomination

00:40:56.960 --> 00:40:57.599
 to me.

00:40:57.699 --> 00:40:58.139
 They keep

00:40:58.139 --> 00:40:58.539
 their new

00:40:58.539 --> 00:40:59.019
 moon and

00:40:59.019 --> 00:40:59.339
 Sabbath,

00:40:59.400 --> 00:40:59.779
 they keep

00:40:59.779 --> 00:41:00.440
 the festivals,

00:41:00.739 --> 00:41:01.239
 they uphold

00:41:01.239 --> 00:41:02.039
 these things.

00:41:02.099 --> 00:41:04.159
 but they're

00:41:04.159 --> 00:41:05.039
 burdensome to

00:41:05.039 --> 00:41:05.699
 God now.

00:41:09.059 --> 00:41:10.039
 Such so

00:41:10.039 --> 00:41:11.179
 that he

00:41:11.179 --> 00:41:11.659
 does not

00:41:11.659 --> 00:41:12.440
 hear the

00:41:12.440 --> 00:41:13.059
 prayers of

00:41:13.059 --> 00:41:13.599
 the people.

00:41:16.079 --> 00:41:16.380
 Now,

00:41:17.920 --> 00:41:18.500
 you look

00:41:18.500 --> 00:41:18.819
 at this

00:41:18.819 --> 00:41:19.920
 people that

00:41:19.920 --> 00:41:20.460
 is spoken

00:41:20.460 --> 00:41:21.179
 about here,

00:41:22.179 --> 00:41:22.539
 and you

00:41:22.539 --> 00:41:22.980
 think,

00:41:24.420 --> 00:41:24.940
 they don't

00:41:24.940 --> 00:41:25.599
 understand.

00:41:25.719 --> 00:41:25.960
 What are

00:41:25.960 --> 00:41:26.480
 they doing?

00:41:27.179 --> 00:41:27.360
 They're

00:41:27.360 --> 00:41:27.779
 rebelling

00:41:27.779 --> 00:41:28.500
 against God

00:41:28.500 --> 00:41:28.839
 in every

00:41:28.839 --> 00:41:29.199
 way.

00:41:30.139 --> 00:41:30.880
 What would

00:41:30.880 --> 00:41:31.339
 you do

00:41:31.339 --> 00:41:31.719
 with them?

00:41:32.099 --> 00:41:33.259
 If they

00:41:33.259 --> 00:41:34.119
 reject someone

00:41:34.119 --> 00:41:34.880
 that rejects

00:41:34.880 --> 00:41:35.179
 you,

00:41:36.239 --> 00:41:36.920
 someone that

00:41:36.920 --> 00:41:37.880
 goes against

00:41:37.880 --> 00:41:38.839
 you in

00:41:38.839 --> 00:41:39.460
 every way,

00:41:40.539 --> 00:41:41.339
 we are

00:41:41.339 --> 00:41:41.980
 inclined to

00:41:41.980 --> 00:41:42.519
 leave them.

00:41:43.059 --> 00:41:43.500
 We are

00:41:43.500 --> 00:41:44.920
 inclined just

00:41:44.920 --> 00:41:45.480
 to forget

00:41:45.480 --> 00:41:45.960
 about them,

00:41:46.019 --> 00:41:46.619
 to abandon

00:41:46.619 --> 00:41:47.599
 someone that

00:41:47.599 --> 00:41:48.199
 treats us

00:41:48.199 --> 00:41:48.679
 like that.

00:41:49.679 --> 00:41:50.440
 We're inclined

00:41:50.440 --> 00:41:51.179
 to exert

00:41:51.179 --> 00:41:51.719
 their anger

00:41:51.719 --> 00:41:52.639
 in return

00:41:52.639 --> 00:41:53.440
 to the way

00:41:53.440 --> 00:41:53.839
 that they've

00:41:53.839 --> 00:41:54.539
 treated us.

00:41:54.539 --> 00:41:58.099
 when we

00:41:58.099 --> 00:41:58.559
 think of

00:41:58.559 --> 00:41:58.860
 the

00:41:58.860 --> 00:41:59.519
 condemnation

00:41:59.519 --> 00:42:00.259
 of God,

00:42:01.779 --> 00:42:02.480
 God does

00:42:02.480 --> 00:42:03.139
 not condemn

00:42:03.139 --> 00:42:03.699
 as we

00:42:03.699 --> 00:42:04.000
 do.

00:42:06.199 --> 00:42:06.779
 God,

00:42:07.000 --> 00:42:07.639
 in the

00:42:07.639 --> 00:42:07.960
 first

00:42:07.960 --> 00:42:08.619
 instance,

00:42:09.619 --> 00:42:10.179
 is not

00:42:10.179 --> 00:42:11.320
 harsh,

00:42:12.719 --> 00:42:13.279
 wanting to

00:42:13.279 --> 00:42:14.019
 crush us,

00:42:15.500 --> 00:42:16.519
 exercising his

00:42:16.519 --> 00:42:17.400
 power over

00:42:17.400 --> 00:42:17.719
 us,

00:42:17.900 --> 00:42:18.759
 abandon us,

00:42:18.940 --> 00:42:19.800
 reject us.

00:42:20.759 --> 00:42:21.559
 God is not

00:42:21.559 --> 00:42:22.119
 like us,

00:42:23.019 --> 00:42:23.460
 thankfully.

00:42:26.219 --> 00:42:26.860
 God's

00:42:26.860 --> 00:42:27.779
 condemnation

00:42:27.779 --> 00:42:29.259
 is truth

00:42:29.259 --> 00:42:30.099
 to the

00:42:30.099 --> 00:42:30.460
 people.

00:42:31.420 --> 00:42:31.679
 He's

00:42:31.679 --> 00:42:32.380
 stating the

00:42:32.380 --> 00:42:32.980
 truth of

00:42:32.980 --> 00:42:33.699
 the facts

00:42:33.699 --> 00:42:35.000
 that leave

00:42:35.000 --> 00:42:36.279
 them condemned

00:42:36.279 --> 00:42:37.699
 before God.

00:42:37.699 --> 00:42:39.699
 a selfish

00:42:39.699 --> 00:42:40.519
 condemnation

00:42:40.519 --> 00:42:40.779
 that they

00:42:40.779 --> 00:42:41.199
 have brought

00:42:41.199 --> 00:42:41.480
 upon

00:42:41.480 --> 00:42:42.079
 themselves

00:42:42.079 --> 00:42:42.419
 because

00:42:42.419 --> 00:42:42.719
 they

00:42:42.719 --> 00:42:42.919
 have

00:42:42.919 --> 00:42:43.219
 walked

00:42:43.219 --> 00:42:43.559
 away.

00:42:49.559 --> 00:42:50.299
 In a

00:42:50.299 --> 00:42:50.659
 sense,

00:42:51.159 --> 00:42:52.079
 it's a

00:42:52.079 --> 00:42:53.000
 merciful word.

00:42:54.099 --> 00:42:54.939
 Although it's

00:42:54.939 --> 00:42:55.519
 condemning,

00:42:55.739 --> 00:42:56.519
 it's got

00:42:56.519 --> 00:42:58.159
 mercy strung

00:42:58.159 --> 00:42:58.759
 through it

00:42:58.759 --> 00:42:59.799
 because he

00:42:59.799 --> 00:43:00.239
 wants the

00:43:00.239 --> 00:43:00.719
 people to

00:43:00.719 --> 00:43:01.279
 see that

00:43:01.279 --> 00:43:01.539
 they are

00:43:01.539 --> 00:43:02.119
 guilty in

00:43:02.119 --> 00:43:02.659
 every way.

00:43:04.219 --> 00:43:05.139
 I want

00:43:05.139 --> 00:43:05.480
 you to

00:43:05.480 --> 00:43:06.839
 know that

00:43:06.839 --> 00:43:07.119
 you are

00:43:07.119 --> 00:43:07.519
 sinful.

00:43:07.699 --> 00:43:08.379
 And I

00:43:08.379 --> 00:43:08.859
 want you

00:43:08.859 --> 00:43:09.500
 to turn

00:43:09.500 --> 00:43:10.199
 from that

00:43:10.199 --> 00:43:10.539
 soon.

00:43:17.960 --> 00:43:18.559
 We

00:43:18.559 --> 00:43:19.980
 may

00:43:19.980 --> 00:43:21.279
 recall

00:43:21.279 --> 00:43:22.339
 instances

00:43:22.339 --> 00:43:22.899
 in our

00:43:22.899 --> 00:43:23.579
 lives where

00:43:23.579 --> 00:43:24.899
 we've done

00:43:24.899 --> 00:43:25.679
 something wrong.

00:43:27.359 --> 00:43:27.919
 Throughout

00:43:27.919 --> 00:43:28.419
 the day,

00:43:28.519 --> 00:43:28.879
 we come

00:43:28.879 --> 00:43:29.739
 in the

00:43:29.739 --> 00:43:30.299
 night time,

00:43:30.399 --> 00:43:30.679
 we're lying

00:43:30.679 --> 00:43:31.159
 in bed,

00:43:32.079 --> 00:43:32.519
 and then

00:43:32.519 --> 00:43:32.960
 the penny

00:43:32.960 --> 00:43:33.539
 drops,

00:43:33.819 --> 00:43:34.059
 and we

00:43:34.059 --> 00:43:34.359
 say,

00:43:34.939 --> 00:43:35.480
 oh no,

00:43:35.480 --> 00:43:37.820
 I did

00:43:37.820 --> 00:43:38.380
 that wrong

00:43:38.380 --> 00:43:38.760
 today.

00:43:39.500 --> 00:43:40.340
 I should

00:43:40.340 --> 00:43:40.740
 not have

00:43:40.740 --> 00:43:41.400
 done that

00:43:41.400 --> 00:43:41.900
 to that

00:43:41.900 --> 00:43:42.340
 person.

00:43:42.480 --> 00:43:42.679
 I should

00:43:42.679 --> 00:43:43.059
 have not

00:43:43.059 --> 00:43:45.500
 done that

00:43:45.500 --> 00:43:46.619
 act.

00:43:47.980 --> 00:43:48.619
 I've done

00:43:48.619 --> 00:43:49.059
 it wrong.

00:43:52.219 --> 00:43:52.900
 It's only

00:43:52.900 --> 00:43:53.539
 afterwards you

00:43:53.539 --> 00:43:54.079
 realize,

00:43:55.480 --> 00:43:55.800
 and you

00:43:55.800 --> 00:43:56.059
 think,

00:43:56.199 --> 00:43:56.579
 well what am

00:43:56.579 --> 00:43:56.920
 I going to

00:43:56.920 --> 00:43:57.519
 do to set

00:43:57.519 --> 00:43:58.099
 it straight?

00:43:58.099 --> 00:44:00.400
 because I

00:44:00.400 --> 00:44:01.099
 cannot leave

00:44:01.099 --> 00:44:01.400
 it like

00:44:01.400 --> 00:44:01.739
 that.

00:44:04.380 --> 00:44:05.319
 I've made

00:44:05.319 --> 00:44:05.659
 an error.

00:44:07.779 --> 00:44:08.339
 And you

00:44:08.339 --> 00:44:09.279
 may be

00:44:09.279 --> 00:44:09.759
 going round

00:44:09.759 --> 00:44:10.139
 and round

00:44:10.139 --> 00:44:10.619
 your head

00:44:10.619 --> 00:44:11.219
 wondering what

00:44:11.219 --> 00:44:11.639
 to do.

00:44:11.639 --> 00:44:13.299
 what have

00:44:13.299 --> 00:44:13.699
 I done?

00:44:16.099 --> 00:44:16.719
 You may

00:44:16.719 --> 00:44:17.139
 worry for

00:44:17.139 --> 00:44:17.739
 your job,

00:44:18.299 --> 00:44:18.659
 you may

00:44:18.659 --> 00:44:19.279
 worry for

00:44:19.279 --> 00:44:19.500
 your

00:44:19.500 --> 00:44:20.000
 friendships,

00:44:20.639 --> 00:44:21.279
 whatever it

00:44:21.279 --> 00:44:21.639
 is.

00:44:22.519 --> 00:44:22.940
 It may

00:44:22.940 --> 00:44:23.619
 cause

00:44:23.619 --> 00:44:25.440
 anxieties

00:44:25.440 --> 00:44:26.159
 within your

00:44:26.159 --> 00:44:26.739
 heart for

00:44:26.739 --> 00:44:27.179
 the thing

00:44:27.179 --> 00:44:27.480
 that you

00:44:27.480 --> 00:44:28.079
 have done,

00:44:29.079 --> 00:44:30.000
 and you

00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:31.000
 know you

00:44:31.000 --> 00:44:31.579
 have been

00:44:31.579 --> 00:44:31.980
 wrong.

00:44:34.940 --> 00:44:35.539
 And we

00:44:35.539 --> 00:44:36.000
 get worried

00:44:36.000 --> 00:44:36.639
 about these

00:44:36.639 --> 00:44:37.339
 things in

00:44:37.339 --> 00:44:38.019
 our lives,

00:44:38.480 --> 00:44:39.819
 but is it

00:44:39.819 --> 00:44:40.179
 not a

00:44:40.179 --> 00:44:40.799
 question we

00:44:40.799 --> 00:44:41.500
 need to

00:44:41.500 --> 00:44:41.780
 ask

00:44:41.780 --> 00:44:42.519
 ourselves,

00:44:43.659 --> 00:44:44.099
 do we

00:44:44.099 --> 00:44:45.280
 worry about

00:44:45.280 --> 00:44:45.820
 eternal

00:44:45.820 --> 00:44:46.579
 things like

00:44:46.579 --> 00:44:48.000
 that before

00:44:48.000 --> 00:44:48.460
 God?

00:44:50.460 --> 00:44:51.300
 It seems

00:44:51.300 --> 00:44:51.940
 to me like

00:44:51.940 --> 00:44:52.300
 we are

00:44:52.300 --> 00:44:52.860
 people that

00:44:52.860 --> 00:44:53.260
 are so

00:44:53.260 --> 00:44:54.159
 complacent

00:44:54.159 --> 00:44:55.920
 about

00:44:55.920 --> 00:44:56.639
 eternity

00:44:56.639 --> 00:44:59.199
 and the

00:44:59.199 --> 00:45:00.260
 truthfulness

00:45:00.260 --> 00:45:01.579
 of ourselves

00:45:01.579 --> 00:45:03.619
 before God.

00:45:05.719 --> 00:45:06.519
 We seem

00:45:06.519 --> 00:45:06.980
 to be so

00:45:06.980 --> 00:45:07.579
 complacent

00:45:07.579 --> 00:45:07.980
 with it.

00:45:09.320 --> 00:45:09.960
 The sins

00:45:09.960 --> 00:45:10.320
 of our

00:45:10.320 --> 00:45:11.139
 own lives

00:45:11.139 --> 00:45:12.159
 that leave

00:45:12.159 --> 00:45:13.159
 that scarlet

00:45:13.159 --> 00:45:13.659
 mark,

00:45:15.119 --> 00:45:15.639
 a mark

00:45:15.639 --> 00:45:16.059
 that is

00:45:16.059 --> 00:45:17.000
 irremovable

00:45:17.000 --> 00:45:18.000
 in many

00:45:18.000 --> 00:45:18.440
 ways,

00:45:19.500 --> 00:45:20.500
 that crimson

00:45:20.500 --> 00:45:21.359
 blemish

00:45:21.359 --> 00:45:23.299
 that stains

00:45:23.299 --> 00:45:23.940
 and ruins

00:45:23.940 --> 00:45:24.839
 our garments,

00:45:26.219 --> 00:45:26.759
 sins that

00:45:26.759 --> 00:45:27.259
 catch our

00:45:27.259 --> 00:45:27.599
 eye,

00:45:29.659 --> 00:45:31.559
 and it is a

00:45:31.559 --> 00:45:32.019
 sin in the

00:45:32.019 --> 00:45:32.819
 sight of God,

00:45:33.819 --> 00:45:34.799
 and it is

00:45:34.799 --> 00:45:36.079
 a sin that

00:45:36.079 --> 00:45:36.960
 God cannot

00:45:36.960 --> 00:45:37.799
 pass by.

00:45:37.800 --> 00:45:40.200
 God sees

00:45:40.200 --> 00:45:40.960
 that sin.

00:45:41.600 --> 00:45:42.160
 He cannot

00:45:42.160 --> 00:45:42.720
 miss it.

00:45:42.980 --> 00:45:43.380
 He cannot

00:45:43.380 --> 00:45:44.200
 forget about

00:45:44.200 --> 00:45:44.440
 it.

00:45:45.640 --> 00:45:46.300
 It needs

00:45:46.300 --> 00:45:46.840
 to be dealt

00:45:46.840 --> 00:45:47.160
 with.

00:45:48.840 --> 00:45:49.160
 And we

00:45:49.160 --> 00:45:49.600
 know we've

00:45:49.600 --> 00:45:50.039
 all seen

00:45:50.039 --> 00:45:50.500
 the images

00:45:50.500 --> 00:45:51.140
 on telly

00:45:51.140 --> 00:45:52.300
 of red

00:45:52.300 --> 00:45:52.780
 wine

00:45:52.780 --> 00:45:53.680
 stained in a

00:45:53.680 --> 00:45:54.880
 white garment

00:45:54.880 --> 00:45:55.480
 or a white

00:45:55.480 --> 00:45:56.000
 cloth,

00:45:57.140 --> 00:45:57.920
 and to prove

00:45:57.920 --> 00:45:58.420
 the cleaning

00:45:58.420 --> 00:45:59.120
 product,

00:46:00.400 --> 00:46:01.019
 they show it

00:46:01.019 --> 00:46:01.660
 as pure

00:46:01.660 --> 00:46:02.460
 white after

00:46:02.460 --> 00:46:02.920
 it's been

00:46:02.920 --> 00:46:03.300
 washed.

00:46:03.300 --> 00:46:08.680
 We need

00:46:08.680 --> 00:46:08.960
 to be

00:46:08.960 --> 00:46:09.340
 washed

00:46:09.340 --> 00:46:10.440
 from the

00:46:10.440 --> 00:46:11.360
 sin that

00:46:11.360 --> 00:46:11.880
 stains

00:46:11.880 --> 00:46:13.180
 our hearts.

00:46:14.440 --> 00:46:15.240
 We are

00:46:15.240 --> 00:46:15.880
 inclined to

00:46:15.880 --> 00:46:16.440
 cover up

00:46:16.440 --> 00:46:17.060
 the sins

00:46:17.060 --> 00:46:17.980
 before people,

00:46:18.780 --> 00:46:19.320
 but we

00:46:19.320 --> 00:46:20.000
 cannot hide

00:46:20.000 --> 00:46:20.480
 our sins

00:46:20.480 --> 00:46:21.120
 from God.

00:46:22.200 --> 00:46:22.920
 The stain

00:46:22.920 --> 00:46:23.660
 remains.

00:46:24.880 --> 00:46:25.519
 In a sense,

00:46:25.600 --> 00:46:26.280
 it tarnishes

00:46:26.280 --> 00:46:27.019
 the garments

00:46:27.019 --> 00:46:27.760
 that we wear.

00:46:28.660 --> 00:46:29.539
 It tarnishes

00:46:29.539 --> 00:46:30.640
 our lives

00:46:30.640 --> 00:46:31.440
 before God.

00:46:31.440 --> 00:46:34.000
 And our

00:46:34.000 --> 00:46:34.619
 garments are

00:46:34.619 --> 00:46:35.179
 so stained

00:46:35.179 --> 00:46:36.260
 that, well,

00:46:36.320 --> 00:46:36.700
 they may as

00:46:36.700 --> 00:46:37.280
 well be all

00:46:37.280 --> 00:46:38.000
 red, in a

00:46:38.000 --> 00:46:38.360
 sense.

00:46:41.179 --> 00:46:41.720
 And as it

00:46:41.720 --> 00:46:42.320
 was God's

00:46:42.320 --> 00:46:42.920
 desire that

00:46:42.920 --> 00:46:43.619
 Israel would

00:46:43.619 --> 00:46:44.159
 see their

00:46:44.159 --> 00:46:45.760
 sin, so

00:46:45.760 --> 00:46:46.519
 it is God's

00:46:46.519 --> 00:46:48.019
 desire that

00:46:48.019 --> 00:46:49.220
 we see the

00:46:49.220 --> 00:46:49.820
 sin in our

00:46:49.820 --> 00:46:50.260
 lives.

00:46:51.740 --> 00:46:52.440
 And the

00:46:52.440 --> 00:46:52.920
 means by

00:46:52.920 --> 00:46:53.619
 which we

00:46:53.619 --> 00:46:54.139
 are often

00:46:54.139 --> 00:46:54.960
 condemned

00:46:54.960 --> 00:46:57.320
 when we

00:46:57.320 --> 00:46:57.780
 read his

00:46:57.780 --> 00:46:59.500
 word, and

00:46:59.500 --> 00:47:00.240
 it states

00:47:00.240 --> 00:47:01.079
 the truthfulness

00:47:01.079 --> 00:47:01.860
 of our

00:47:01.860 --> 00:47:03.500
 heart, the

00:47:03.500 --> 00:47:04.259
 errors of

00:47:04.259 --> 00:47:05.880
 our ways, it

00:47:05.880 --> 00:47:06.739
 opposes the

00:47:06.739 --> 00:47:07.519
 desires and

00:47:07.519 --> 00:47:08.319
 the plans that

00:47:08.319 --> 00:47:10.519
 we make, some

00:47:10.519 --> 00:47:11.179
 things that we

00:47:11.179 --> 00:47:11.960
 don't like to

00:47:11.960 --> 00:47:12.239
 hear.

00:47:13.920 --> 00:47:14.819
 Sometimes we

00:47:14.819 --> 00:47:15.360
 stubbornly

00:47:15.360 --> 00:47:17.199
 oppose it in

00:47:17.199 --> 00:47:17.659
 our own

00:47:17.659 --> 00:47:18.079
 folly.

00:47:20.079 --> 00:47:20.739
 How does

00:47:20.739 --> 00:47:21.880
 God see you

00:47:21.880 --> 00:47:22.960
 tonight?

00:47:24.539 --> 00:47:25.239
 And although

00:47:25.239 --> 00:47:26.000
 we are sinners,

00:47:26.759 --> 00:47:27.480
 and we are

00:47:27.480 --> 00:47:27.900
 full of

00:47:27.900 --> 00:47:28.539
 sin and our

00:47:28.539 --> 00:47:29.119
 garments are

00:47:29.119 --> 00:47:29.840
 so stained,

00:47:29.840 --> 00:47:32.579
 God does

00:47:32.579 --> 00:47:33.400
 not call the

00:47:33.400 --> 00:47:35.140
 righteous, but

00:47:35.140 --> 00:47:35.880
 sinners to

00:47:35.880 --> 00:47:36.600
 repentance.

00:47:38.019 --> 00:47:38.680
 Though we

00:47:38.680 --> 00:47:39.480
 state before

00:47:39.480 --> 00:47:40.180
 God we are

00:47:40.180 --> 00:47:42.079
 condemned, we

00:47:42.079 --> 00:47:42.800
 are called.

00:47:43.800 --> 00:47:45.000
 We are called

00:47:45.000 --> 00:47:45.640
 by God.

00:47:46.480 --> 00:47:46.940
 That is our

00:47:46.940 --> 00:47:47.600
 next point.

00:47:49.260 --> 00:47:50.200
 As we said,

00:47:50.280 --> 00:47:50.980
 the condemnation

00:47:50.980 --> 00:47:52.500
 is a part of

00:47:52.500 --> 00:47:53.059
 his calling.

00:47:53.720 --> 00:47:54.180
 It is a

00:47:54.180 --> 00:47:55.480
 merciful element

00:47:55.480 --> 00:47:56.559
 of his nature,

00:47:57.280 --> 00:47:57.820
 that we should

00:47:57.820 --> 00:47:58.380
 know and that

00:47:58.380 --> 00:47:58.760
 it should be

00:47:58.760 --> 00:47:59.580
 real to us.

00:48:00.640 --> 00:48:01.300
 And you see

00:48:01.300 --> 00:48:01.900
 the calling

00:48:01.900 --> 00:48:02.519
 through the

00:48:02.519 --> 00:48:03.360
 chapter here.

00:48:04.160 --> 00:48:05.120
 In verse 2,

00:48:05.600 --> 00:48:06.100
 there is a

00:48:06.100 --> 00:48:06.440
 hear.

00:48:07.200 --> 00:48:08.019
 He calls the

00:48:08.019 --> 00:48:08.500
 people to

00:48:08.500 --> 00:48:08.760
 hear.

00:48:09.660 --> 00:48:11.660
 In verse 5,

00:48:12.200 --> 00:48:13.000
 he questions

00:48:13.000 --> 00:48:13.600
 the people.

00:48:13.860 --> 00:48:14.539
 Why do you

00:48:14.539 --> 00:48:15.539
 continue to

00:48:15.539 --> 00:48:16.019
 rebel?

00:48:16.660 --> 00:48:17.400
 Why will you

00:48:17.400 --> 00:48:18.000
 be struck

00:48:18.000 --> 00:48:18.420
 down?

00:48:19.460 --> 00:48:20.080
 The call of

00:48:20.080 --> 00:48:20.680
 hear comes

00:48:20.680 --> 00:48:21.740
 again in

00:48:21.740 --> 00:48:22.340
 verse 10,

00:48:22.440 --> 00:48:23.080
 to hear his

00:48:23.080 --> 00:48:23.460
 word.

00:48:23.460 --> 00:48:24.920
 And then

00:48:24.920 --> 00:48:25.320
 in verse

00:48:25.320 --> 00:48:27.179
 18, he

00:48:27.179 --> 00:48:28.079
 tells the

00:48:28.079 --> 00:48:28.639
 people to

00:48:28.639 --> 00:48:30.220
 come now.

00:48:31.099 --> 00:48:31.699
 Hear my

00:48:31.699 --> 00:48:32.179
 voice.

00:48:32.320 --> 00:48:32.519
 Give

00:48:32.519 --> 00:48:33.840
 consideration to

00:48:33.840 --> 00:48:34.519
 your ways.

00:48:35.199 --> 00:48:35.820
 Come and

00:48:35.820 --> 00:48:36.579
 speak with

00:48:36.579 --> 00:48:36.880
 me.

00:48:37.820 --> 00:48:38.220
 Let us

00:48:38.220 --> 00:48:39.119
 reason together.

00:48:40.179 --> 00:48:40.940
 After all

00:48:40.940 --> 00:48:41.639
 his proceeding

00:48:41.639 --> 00:48:42.320
 words to

00:48:42.320 --> 00:48:44.079
 Judah, after

00:48:44.079 --> 00:48:44.619
 all he's

00:48:44.619 --> 00:48:45.159
 condemned

00:48:45.159 --> 00:48:46.079
 them of and

00:48:46.079 --> 00:48:46.740
 shown them

00:48:46.740 --> 00:48:47.440
 the guiltiness

00:48:47.440 --> 00:48:47.800
 of their

00:48:47.800 --> 00:48:50.300
 lives, God

00:48:50.300 --> 00:48:51.039
 still says

00:48:51.039 --> 00:48:51.960
 come.

00:48:51.960 --> 00:48:53.880
 come and

00:48:53.880 --> 00:48:54.579
 speak with

00:48:54.579 --> 00:48:54.900
 me.

00:48:56.119 --> 00:48:56.900
 Come and

00:48:56.900 --> 00:48:57.539
 reason with

00:48:57.539 --> 00:48:57.980
 God.

00:48:58.880 --> 00:48:59.639
 Or come and

00:48:59.639 --> 00:49:00.380
 dispute with

00:49:00.380 --> 00:49:00.579
 him.

00:49:00.639 --> 00:49:01.039
 And really

00:49:01.039 --> 00:49:01.440
 what it

00:49:01.440 --> 00:49:02.159
 means is to

00:49:02.159 --> 00:49:02.699
 weigh up.

00:49:03.679 --> 00:49:04.500
 Weigh up

00:49:04.500 --> 00:49:05.380
 God's words

00:49:05.380 --> 00:49:06.000
 with him.

00:49:06.740 --> 00:49:07.260
 Weigh up

00:49:07.260 --> 00:49:08.019
 how God

00:49:08.019 --> 00:49:08.820
 sees you

00:49:08.820 --> 00:49:09.840
 in your

00:49:09.840 --> 00:49:10.220
 life.

00:49:11.559 --> 00:49:12.240
 Ask God

00:49:12.240 --> 00:49:12.559
 is it

00:49:12.559 --> 00:49:13.019
 true.

00:49:13.820 --> 00:49:14.659
 If this

00:49:14.659 --> 00:49:15.019
 is the

00:49:15.019 --> 00:49:16.500
 case, if

00:49:16.500 --> 00:49:16.900
 you know

00:49:16.900 --> 00:49:17.400
 you've done

00:49:17.400 --> 00:49:17.820
 wrong,

00:49:19.139 --> 00:49:20.199
 why are we

00:49:20.199 --> 00:49:20.920
 so complacent

00:49:20.920 --> 00:49:21.599
 about eternal

00:49:21.599 --> 00:49:22.139
 things?

00:49:23.699 --> 00:49:24.039
 Why do

00:49:24.039 --> 00:49:24.420
 we not

00:49:24.420 --> 00:49:25.219
 seek to

00:49:25.219 --> 00:49:27.019
 set ourselves

00:49:27.019 --> 00:49:27.940
 straight before

00:49:27.940 --> 00:49:29.860
 God and

00:49:29.860 --> 00:49:30.400
 correct the

00:49:30.400 --> 00:49:30.900
 error of

00:49:30.900 --> 00:49:31.500
 our ways?

00:49:34.179 --> 00:49:35.400
 Our ideas

00:49:35.400 --> 00:49:35.940
 and our

00:49:35.940 --> 00:49:38.339
 ways lead

00:49:38.339 --> 00:49:39.860
 us in a

00:49:39.860 --> 00:49:40.179
 totally

00:49:40.179 --> 00:49:40.599
 different

00:49:40.599 --> 00:49:41.179
 direction

00:49:41.179 --> 00:49:43.799
 before the

00:49:43.799 --> 00:49:44.639
 truthful reason

00:49:44.639 --> 00:49:45.259
 of God.

00:49:45.260 --> 00:49:45.360
 God.

00:49:47.460 --> 00:49:47.800
 And then

00:49:47.800 --> 00:49:48.060
 when you

00:49:48.060 --> 00:49:48.500
 come to

00:49:48.500 --> 00:49:49.000
 see that

00:49:49.000 --> 00:49:49.660
 God still

00:49:49.660 --> 00:49:50.920
 calls Israel

00:49:50.920 --> 00:49:52.400
 after their

00:49:52.400 --> 00:49:53.540
 actions and

00:49:53.540 --> 00:49:54.080
 after their

00:49:54.080 --> 00:49:54.480
 sinful,

00:49:54.680 --> 00:49:55.160
 rebellious

00:49:55.160 --> 00:49:55.620
 ways,

00:49:56.960 --> 00:49:57.380
 you think,

00:49:57.480 --> 00:49:57.720
 well, is

00:49:57.720 --> 00:49:58.180
 God an

00:49:58.180 --> 00:49:58.880
 angry God?

00:49:59.700 --> 00:50:00.060
 No.

00:50:02.000 --> 00:50:02.560
 Anger

00:50:02.560 --> 00:50:03.420
 would not

00:50:03.420 --> 00:50:04.160
 call the

00:50:04.160 --> 00:50:04.640
 people to

00:50:04.640 --> 00:50:04.980
 come.

00:50:06.640 --> 00:50:07.180
 Anger

00:50:07.180 --> 00:50:07.820
 would not

00:50:07.820 --> 00:50:09.220
 plead that

00:50:09.220 --> 00:50:09.520
 they would

00:50:09.520 --> 00:50:10.860
 understand their

00:50:10.860 --> 00:50:11.760
 foolishness and

00:50:11.760 --> 00:50:12.340
 their ways.

00:50:12.340 --> 00:50:13.400
 grace.

00:50:13.400 --> 00:50:14.320
 It's grace

00:50:14.320 --> 00:50:16.920
 because God

00:50:16.920 --> 00:50:17.320
 is a

00:50:17.320 --> 00:50:17.660
 gracious

00:50:17.660 --> 00:50:18.380
 God.

00:50:20.280 --> 00:50:21.420
 Grace from

00:50:21.420 --> 00:50:21.840
 a loving

00:50:21.840 --> 00:50:22.300
 Heavenly

00:50:22.300 --> 00:50:24.100
 Father that

00:50:24.100 --> 00:50:24.579
 we hear

00:50:24.579 --> 00:50:25.240
 His words.

00:50:25.239 --> 00:50:27.739
 we hear his words tonight

00:50:27.739 --> 00:50:29.459
 saying

00:50:29.459 --> 00:50:31.719
 yes sinful child

00:50:31.719 --> 00:50:34.319
 look at your garments

00:50:34.319 --> 00:50:36.219
 and see what you're wearing

00:50:36.219 --> 00:50:38.839
 they are stained

00:50:38.839 --> 00:50:41.119
 by your sin

00:50:41.119 --> 00:50:44.639
 but I have grace for you

00:50:44.639 --> 00:50:47.439
 I call you to come

00:50:47.439 --> 00:50:48.599
 to me

00:50:48.599 --> 00:50:51.439
 a call that is extended

00:50:51.439 --> 00:50:52.899
 to every one of us tonight

00:50:52.900 --> 00:50:56.000
 who hears his word

00:50:56.000 --> 00:50:57.619
 as it is proclaimed

00:50:57.619 --> 00:50:58.579
 and preached

00:50:58.579 --> 00:51:01.559
 maybe you are one

00:51:01.559 --> 00:51:03.579
 that has been reared on this word

00:51:03.579 --> 00:51:06.059
 as Israel was reared

00:51:06.059 --> 00:51:06.800
 by God

00:51:06.800 --> 00:51:08.800
 and have walked away

00:51:08.800 --> 00:51:11.200
 and have turned your back

00:51:11.200 --> 00:51:13.380
 from following

00:51:13.380 --> 00:51:15.260
 the guidance of this father

00:51:15.260 --> 00:51:17.539
 maybe you're one

00:51:17.539 --> 00:51:19.460
 who has dealt corruptly in your life

00:51:19.460 --> 00:51:22.119
 and you know that you shouldn't have

00:51:22.119 --> 00:51:24.380
 maybe you're someone

00:51:24.380 --> 00:51:26.119
 that doesn't care for this word

00:51:26.119 --> 00:51:27.400
 care for this word

00:51:27.400 --> 00:51:30.000
 care to hear God's word

00:51:30.000 --> 00:51:31.599
 maybe you've despised

00:51:31.599 --> 00:51:32.380
 Christ

00:51:32.380 --> 00:51:36.119
 maybe our worship

00:51:36.119 --> 00:51:39.940
 has fallen into an empty routine

00:51:39.940 --> 00:51:43.000
 maybe we find ourselves

00:51:43.000 --> 00:51:43.839
 backslidden

00:51:43.839 --> 00:51:46.359
 what does God say

00:51:46.360 --> 00:51:48.160
 to those

00:51:48.160 --> 00:51:49.579
 who are so sinful

00:51:49.579 --> 00:51:51.300
 come

00:51:51.300 --> 00:51:55.200
 hear what I have to say to you

00:51:55.200 --> 00:51:57.660
 come and reason with me

00:51:57.660 --> 00:51:59.519
 come and understand

00:51:59.519 --> 00:52:01.140
 what you are

00:52:01.140 --> 00:52:02.920
 before my sight

00:52:02.920 --> 00:52:07.740
 now as we look at ourselves

00:52:07.740 --> 00:52:09.720
 without this

00:52:09.720 --> 00:52:10.660
 gracious

00:52:10.660 --> 00:52:12.460
 lovingly heavenly father

00:52:12.460 --> 00:52:14.780
 presented before us

00:52:14.780 --> 00:52:16.580
 we look at the sinfulness

00:52:16.580 --> 00:52:17.880
 of our garments

00:52:17.880 --> 00:52:18.620
 the stains

00:52:18.620 --> 00:52:19.480
 that are upon it

00:52:19.480 --> 00:52:22.160
 we think

00:52:22.160 --> 00:52:23.160
 well my sins

00:52:23.160 --> 00:52:24.380
 have surely provoked

00:52:24.380 --> 00:52:25.240
 an anger

00:52:25.240 --> 00:52:28.220
 as we understand

00:52:28.220 --> 00:52:30.780
 as we would treat people

00:52:30.780 --> 00:52:35.080
 that God would never

00:52:35.080 --> 00:52:36.000
 set salvation

00:52:36.000 --> 00:52:36.780
 before me

00:52:36.780 --> 00:52:40.100
 that God would be someone

00:52:40.100 --> 00:52:41.540
 who would not value me

00:52:41.540 --> 00:52:43.300
 because of what I am

00:52:43.300 --> 00:52:44.539
 because of what I have done

00:52:44.539 --> 00:52:46.800
 but that is not true

00:52:46.800 --> 00:52:48.620
 that is of course

00:52:48.620 --> 00:52:49.180
 what the devil

00:52:49.180 --> 00:52:50.160
 wants you to think

00:52:50.160 --> 00:52:52.760
 God is gracious

00:52:52.760 --> 00:52:54.780
 and loving

00:52:54.780 --> 00:52:58.160
 and he provides

00:52:58.160 --> 00:52:59.200
 the means of grace

00:52:59.200 --> 00:53:00.519
 to know his grace

00:53:00.519 --> 00:53:02.340
 and to receive

00:53:02.340 --> 00:53:03.060
 his grace

00:53:03.060 --> 00:53:06.900
 he wants you to call

00:53:06.900 --> 00:53:07.480
 to him

00:53:07.480 --> 00:53:09.920
 he wants you to

00:53:09.920 --> 00:53:10.860
 weigh up your case

00:53:10.860 --> 00:53:11.280
 with him

00:53:11.280 --> 00:53:12.540
 and speak to him

00:53:12.540 --> 00:53:13.960
 pray to him

00:53:13.960 --> 00:53:17.780
 pray with a truthful heart

00:53:17.780 --> 00:53:19.860
 the truthful state

00:53:19.860 --> 00:53:20.620
 of yourself

00:53:20.620 --> 00:53:21.500
 before God

00:53:21.500 --> 00:53:24.620
 and that God

00:53:24.620 --> 00:53:25.800
 would work within you

00:53:25.800 --> 00:53:26.720
 a hatred

00:53:26.720 --> 00:53:27.620
 of sin

00:53:27.620 --> 00:53:29.380
 driving you

00:53:29.380 --> 00:53:30.300
 to repentance

00:53:30.300 --> 00:53:31.260
 to turn away

00:53:31.260 --> 00:53:32.440
 from these things

00:53:32.440 --> 00:53:33.620
 and the ways

00:53:33.620 --> 00:53:34.320
 in which you lived

00:53:34.320 --> 00:53:34.740
 your life

00:53:34.740 --> 00:53:36.120
 because now you see it

00:53:36.120 --> 00:53:37.780
 that you have made

00:53:37.780 --> 00:53:38.380
 a mistake

00:53:38.380 --> 00:53:40.579
 you see the error

00:53:40.579 --> 00:53:41.460
 of your ways

00:53:41.460 --> 00:53:43.380
 you see what you are

00:53:43.380 --> 00:53:44.260
 before God

00:53:44.260 --> 00:53:46.900
 and you need to turn

00:53:46.900 --> 00:53:51.360
 God

00:53:51.360 --> 00:53:53.220
 did not abandon Israel

00:53:53.220 --> 00:53:55.480
 God did not

00:53:55.480 --> 00:53:56.440
 reject Israel

00:53:56.440 --> 00:54:00.140
 nor will he you

00:54:00.139 --> 00:54:03.400
 yes he acknowledges

00:54:03.400 --> 00:54:04.559
 the state

00:54:04.559 --> 00:54:05.519
 of your sin

00:54:05.519 --> 00:54:07.799
 as we need to do

00:54:07.799 --> 00:54:08.619
 before God

00:54:08.619 --> 00:54:11.599
 and you know

00:54:11.599 --> 00:54:12.259
 what the amazing

00:54:12.259 --> 00:54:13.099
 thing is

00:54:13.099 --> 00:54:14.319
 that as we

00:54:14.319 --> 00:54:15.639
 come before him

00:54:15.639 --> 00:54:16.400
 with a hatred

00:54:16.400 --> 00:54:17.059
 of the things

00:54:17.059 --> 00:54:17.940
 that we have done

00:54:17.940 --> 00:54:19.739
 and the things

00:54:19.739 --> 00:54:20.420
 that grieve

00:54:20.420 --> 00:54:21.019
 our hearts

00:54:21.019 --> 00:54:21.859
 and our souls

00:54:21.859 --> 00:54:24.619
 we only see

00:54:24.619 --> 00:54:25.460
 half of it

00:54:25.460 --> 00:54:27.139
 in a sense

00:54:27.139 --> 00:54:27.779
 the garments

00:54:27.779 --> 00:54:28.339
 that we wear

00:54:28.339 --> 00:54:29.319
 we see the sins

00:54:29.320 --> 00:54:30.059
 upon the front

00:54:30.059 --> 00:54:30.740
 but we don't

00:54:30.740 --> 00:54:31.340
 see the sins

00:54:31.340 --> 00:54:31.980
 on the back

00:54:31.980 --> 00:54:34.039
 God sees

00:54:34.039 --> 00:54:35.460
 the entirety

00:54:35.460 --> 00:54:37.480
 of the stains

00:54:37.480 --> 00:54:38.260
 on your garment

00:54:38.260 --> 00:54:40.500
 the blemishes

00:54:40.500 --> 00:54:42.039
 in your life

00:54:42.039 --> 00:54:44.300
 and still

00:54:44.300 --> 00:54:45.640
 he calls you

00:54:45.640 --> 00:54:46.280
 to come

00:54:46.280 --> 00:54:48.840
 he calls you

00:54:48.840 --> 00:54:49.539
 to weigh up

00:54:49.539 --> 00:54:50.100
 your life

00:54:50.100 --> 00:54:51.019
 before him

00:54:51.019 --> 00:54:54.980
 it's amazing

00:54:54.980 --> 00:54:55.840
 this fatherly

00:54:55.840 --> 00:54:56.280
 figure

00:54:56.280 --> 00:54:58.580
 that loves

00:54:58.580 --> 00:54:59.519
 the one

00:54:59.519 --> 00:55:00.460
 who has walked

00:55:00.460 --> 00:55:00.860
 away

00:55:00.860 --> 00:55:03.460
 come

00:55:03.460 --> 00:55:04.280
 now

00:55:04.280 --> 00:55:05.300
 and reason

00:55:05.300 --> 00:55:05.920
 with me

00:55:05.920 --> 00:55:08.500
 not tomorrow

00:55:08.500 --> 00:55:10.240
 come now

00:55:10.240 --> 00:55:12.100
 and you see

00:55:12.100 --> 00:55:12.680
 the faults

00:55:12.680 --> 00:55:13.360
 of your life

00:55:13.360 --> 00:55:17.180
 he will take

00:55:17.180 --> 00:55:17.960
 these sins

00:55:17.960 --> 00:55:19.900
 and he will

00:55:19.900 --> 00:55:20.800
 cleanse them

00:55:20.800 --> 00:55:21.500
 from you

00:55:21.500 --> 00:55:23.360
 and those

00:55:23.360 --> 00:55:24.039
 who come

00:55:24.039 --> 00:55:25.320
 knowing

00:55:25.320 --> 00:55:26.039
 and acknowledging

00:55:26.039 --> 00:55:27.480
 and seeing

00:55:27.480 --> 00:55:28.019
 the sins

00:55:28.019 --> 00:55:28.820
 of their lives

00:55:28.820 --> 00:55:30.300
 coming

00:55:30.300 --> 00:55:30.780
 in reason

00:55:30.780 --> 00:55:31.460
 with God

00:55:31.460 --> 00:55:32.000
 and saying

00:55:32.000 --> 00:55:32.400
 yes

00:55:32.400 --> 00:55:34.579
 I have

00:55:34.579 --> 00:55:35.079
 turned my

00:55:35.079 --> 00:55:35.880
 back on you

00:55:35.880 --> 00:55:37.619
 and I have

00:55:37.619 --> 00:55:38.360
 made a mess

00:55:38.360 --> 00:55:39.440
 of the way

00:55:39.440 --> 00:55:40.000
 I have lived

00:55:40.000 --> 00:55:40.679
 my life

00:55:40.679 --> 00:55:44.719
 he provides

00:55:44.719 --> 00:55:45.159
 a means

00:55:45.159 --> 00:55:45.719
 of washing

00:55:45.719 --> 00:55:46.300
 you clean

00:55:46.300 --> 00:55:49.700
 he provides

00:55:49.700 --> 00:55:50.120
 a meaning

00:55:50.120 --> 00:55:50.480
 in which

00:55:50.480 --> 00:55:51.019
 there will be

00:55:51.019 --> 00:55:51.600
 no more

00:55:51.600 --> 00:55:52.560
 condemnation

00:55:52.560 --> 00:55:53.300
 for those

00:55:53.300 --> 00:55:54.840
 who believe

00:55:54.840 --> 00:55:55.380
 in Jesus

00:55:55.380 --> 00:55:55.920
 Christ

00:55:55.920 --> 00:55:57.820
 to believe

00:55:57.820 --> 00:55:58.360
 in Jesus

00:55:58.360 --> 00:55:58.900
 Christ

00:55:58.900 --> 00:55:59.420
 will wash

00:55:59.420 --> 00:56:00.580
 that condemnation

00:56:00.580 --> 00:56:00.980
 away

00:56:00.980 --> 00:56:02.240
 and wash

00:56:02.240 --> 00:56:03.260
 the sins

00:56:03.260 --> 00:56:03.700
 of your

00:56:03.700 --> 00:56:04.220
 garment

00:56:04.220 --> 00:56:04.720
 away

00:56:04.720 --> 00:56:06.060
 as you

00:56:06.060 --> 00:56:06.580
 turn in

00:56:06.580 --> 00:56:07.340
 new obedience

00:56:07.340 --> 00:56:07.960
 to him

00:56:07.960 --> 00:56:10.500
 how are we

00:56:10.500 --> 00:56:11.180
 made clean

00:56:11.180 --> 00:56:12.720
 how are we

00:56:12.720 --> 00:56:13.560
 cleansed

00:56:13.559 --> 00:56:14.840
 through

00:56:14.840 --> 00:56:15.820
 the blood

00:56:15.820 --> 00:56:16.699
 of the lamb

00:56:16.699 --> 00:56:17.179
 as we read

00:56:17.179 --> 00:56:17.480
 of in

00:56:17.480 --> 00:56:18.000
 revelation

00:56:18.000 --> 00:56:19.360
 through that

00:56:19.360 --> 00:56:20.239
 sacrifice

00:56:20.239 --> 00:56:20.679
 that takes

00:56:20.679 --> 00:56:21.239
 away the

00:56:21.239 --> 00:56:21.759
 sin of the

00:56:21.759 --> 00:56:22.159
 world

00:56:22.159 --> 00:56:23.340
 the sins

00:56:23.340 --> 00:56:23.659
 of my

00:56:23.659 --> 00:56:24.079
 heart

00:56:24.079 --> 00:56:26.340
 let us

00:56:26.340 --> 00:56:27.360
 move to

00:56:27.360 --> 00:56:27.739
 the next

00:56:27.739 --> 00:56:28.099
 point

00:56:28.099 --> 00:56:28.799
 of the

00:56:28.799 --> 00:56:29.320
 cleansed

00:56:29.320 --> 00:56:29.880
 of God

00:56:29.880 --> 00:56:30.820
 very briefly

00:56:30.820 --> 00:56:33.920
 you'll notice

00:56:33.920 --> 00:56:34.480
 there that

00:56:34.480 --> 00:56:35.599
 God

00:56:35.599 --> 00:56:36.699
 calls them

00:56:36.699 --> 00:56:37.860
 to wash

00:56:37.860 --> 00:56:38.279
 themselves

00:56:38.279 --> 00:56:39.000
 in verse

00:56:39.000 --> 00:56:39.519
 16

00:56:39.519 --> 00:56:40.940
 wash

00:56:40.940 --> 00:56:42.059
 themselves

00:56:42.059 --> 00:56:42.599
 make

00:56:42.599 --> 00:56:42.980
 yourselves

00:56:42.980 --> 00:56:43.440
 clean

00:56:43.440 --> 00:56:44.599
 remove

00:56:44.599 --> 00:56:45.179
 the evil

00:56:45.179 --> 00:56:45.539
 of your

00:56:45.539 --> 00:56:45.860
 deeds

00:56:45.860 --> 00:56:46.539
 from before

00:56:46.539 --> 00:56:47.440
 my eyes

00:56:47.440 --> 00:56:50.200
 salvation

00:56:50.200 --> 00:56:50.820
 is all

00:56:50.820 --> 00:56:51.400
 of God

00:56:51.400 --> 00:56:52.380
 the means

00:56:52.380 --> 00:56:52.720
 of being

00:56:52.720 --> 00:56:53.220
 cleansed

00:56:53.220 --> 00:56:53.559
 is all

00:56:53.559 --> 00:56:54.079
 of God

00:56:54.079 --> 00:56:55.000
 but he

00:56:55.000 --> 00:56:55.619
 asks of

00:56:55.619 --> 00:56:55.940
 us

00:56:55.940 --> 00:56:56.900
 to learn

00:56:56.900 --> 00:56:57.220
 to do

00:56:57.220 --> 00:56:57.500
 good

00:56:57.500 --> 00:56:58.019
 to seek

00:56:58.019 --> 00:56:58.500
 justice

00:56:58.500 --> 00:56:59.079
 to correct

00:56:59.079 --> 00:56:59.639
 corruption

00:56:59.639 --> 00:57:04.260
 that we

00:57:04.260 --> 00:57:04.599
 do not

00:57:04.599 --> 00:57:05.200
 continue

00:57:05.200 --> 00:57:06.039
 living the

00:57:06.039 --> 00:57:06.440
 lives

00:57:06.440 --> 00:57:06.920
 that he

00:57:06.920 --> 00:57:07.079
 has

00:57:07.079 --> 00:57:07.619
 condemned

00:57:07.619 --> 00:57:10.019
 and even

00:57:10.019 --> 00:57:10.360
 as a

00:57:10.360 --> 00:57:10.860
 Christian

00:57:10.860 --> 00:57:13.019
 confession

00:57:13.019 --> 00:57:13.320
 it is a

00:57:13.320 --> 00:57:14.039
 continuing

00:57:14.039 --> 00:57:15.120
 confession

00:57:15.120 --> 00:57:15.880
 and repentance

00:57:15.880 --> 00:57:16.380
 of the

00:57:16.380 --> 00:57:16.820
 sins

00:57:16.820 --> 00:57:17.960
 that we

00:57:17.960 --> 00:57:18.340
 gather

00:57:18.340 --> 00:57:18.900
 daily

00:57:18.900 --> 00:57:20.059
 that we

00:57:20.059 --> 00:57:20.820
 come before

00:57:20.820 --> 00:57:21.240
 him

00:57:21.240 --> 00:57:23.140
 while we

00:57:23.140 --> 00:57:23.620
 are within

00:57:23.620 --> 00:57:24.300
 the kingdom

00:57:24.300 --> 00:57:25.039
 of grace

00:57:25.039 --> 00:57:26.599
 knowing of

00:57:26.599 --> 00:57:26.980
 the daily

00:57:26.980 --> 00:57:27.840
 benefits as

00:57:27.840 --> 00:57:28.320
 he washes

00:57:28.320 --> 00:57:29.240
 and cleanses

00:57:29.240 --> 00:57:30.740
 us in the

00:57:30.740 --> 00:57:31.360
 blood of the

00:57:31.360 --> 00:57:31.700
 lamb

00:57:31.700 --> 00:57:32.740
 and the

00:57:32.740 --> 00:57:33.620
 sacrifice that

00:57:33.620 --> 00:57:34.019
 was offered

00:57:34.019 --> 00:57:34.640
 for soon

00:57:34.639 --> 00:57:37.619
 and though

00:57:37.619 --> 00:57:38.759
 we are

00:57:38.759 --> 00:57:39.259
 called to

00:57:39.259 --> 00:57:39.619
 come

00:57:39.619 --> 00:57:40.679
 there is

00:57:40.679 --> 00:57:41.159
 nothing that

00:57:41.159 --> 00:57:41.839
 we can do

00:57:41.839 --> 00:57:42.500
 to actually

00:57:42.500 --> 00:57:43.319
 cleanse us

00:57:43.319 --> 00:57:45.139
 the power

00:57:45.139 --> 00:57:45.879
 and effectiveness

00:57:45.879 --> 00:57:48.339
 of the

00:57:48.339 --> 00:57:48.839
 cleansing

00:57:48.839 --> 00:57:50.500
 is in

00:57:50.500 --> 00:57:51.859
 Christ

00:57:51.859 --> 00:57:54.779
 it is

00:57:54.779 --> 00:57:55.279
 entirely

00:57:55.279 --> 00:57:56.199
 in Christ

00:57:56.199 --> 00:57:58.019
 the ones

00:57:58.019 --> 00:57:58.299
 that were

00:57:58.299 --> 00:57:59.039
 clothed in

00:57:59.039 --> 00:57:59.659
 white as

00:57:59.659 --> 00:58:00.480
 John saw

00:58:00.480 --> 00:58:01.559
 in the

00:58:01.559 --> 00:58:02.159
 kingdom of

00:58:02.159 --> 00:58:02.659
 glory

00:58:02.659 --> 00:58:04.279
 where those

00:58:04.279 --> 00:58:04.960
 who brought

00:58:04.960 --> 00:58:06.039
 their robes

00:58:06.039 --> 00:58:06.980
 the ones

00:58:06.980 --> 00:58:07.659
 who washed

00:58:07.659 --> 00:58:08.579
 their robes

00:58:08.579 --> 00:58:08.839
 in the

00:58:08.839 --> 00:58:09.319
 blood of

00:58:09.319 --> 00:58:09.819
 the lamb

00:58:09.819 --> 00:58:10.719
 were

00:58:10.719 --> 00:58:11.559
 cleansed

00:58:11.559 --> 00:58:13.139
 it's almost

00:58:13.139 --> 00:58:13.759
 as if they

00:58:13.759 --> 00:58:14.259
 had that

00:58:14.259 --> 00:58:15.119
 conscious effort

00:58:15.119 --> 00:58:15.879
 to come

00:58:15.879 --> 00:58:16.980
 to that

00:58:16.980 --> 00:58:17.699
 cleaning

00:58:17.699 --> 00:58:20.099
 that cleansing

00:58:20.099 --> 00:58:20.679
 solution

00:58:20.679 --> 00:58:21.279
 for soon

00:58:21.279 --> 00:58:22.319
 where there

00:58:22.319 --> 00:58:22.699
 was no

00:58:22.699 --> 00:58:23.599
 other solution

00:58:23.599 --> 00:58:24.940
 to cleanse

00:58:24.940 --> 00:58:25.599
 their garments

00:58:25.599 --> 00:58:27.819
 and you

00:58:27.819 --> 00:58:28.239
 know what

00:58:28.239 --> 00:58:28.799
 we're speaking

00:58:28.799 --> 00:58:29.259
 of here

00:58:29.259 --> 00:58:29.779
 tonight

00:58:29.779 --> 00:58:31.539
 it is

00:58:31.539 --> 00:58:33.319
 the whole

00:58:33.319 --> 00:58:33.819
 cleansing

00:58:33.819 --> 00:58:34.440
 process

00:58:34.440 --> 00:58:35.159
 of sin

00:58:35.159 --> 00:58:37.900
 that we

00:58:37.900 --> 00:58:38.460
 see

00:58:38.460 --> 00:58:39.299
 ourselves

00:58:39.299 --> 00:58:40.139
 before God

00:58:40.139 --> 00:58:41.339
 that we

00:58:41.339 --> 00:58:41.819
 turn

00:58:41.819 --> 00:58:42.639
 from the

00:58:42.639 --> 00:58:43.420
 filth

00:58:43.420 --> 00:58:44.599
 that sticks

00:58:44.599 --> 00:58:45.059
 to our

00:58:45.059 --> 00:58:45.599
 garments

00:58:45.599 --> 00:58:47.360
 the sin

00:58:47.360 --> 00:58:47.799
 in our

00:58:47.799 --> 00:58:48.199
 lives

00:58:48.199 --> 00:58:49.119
 before God

00:58:49.119 --> 00:58:50.299
 we need

00:58:50.299 --> 00:58:50.679
 to

00:58:50.679 --> 00:58:52.159
 see

00:58:52.159 --> 00:58:52.860
 what we

00:58:52.860 --> 00:58:53.440
 are before

00:58:53.440 --> 00:58:53.739
 God

00:58:53.739 --> 00:58:54.279
 it's part

00:58:54.279 --> 00:58:54.599
 of the

00:58:54.599 --> 00:58:55.219
 process

00:58:55.219 --> 00:58:57.359
 that we

00:58:57.359 --> 00:58:58.439
 hear

00:58:58.439 --> 00:58:59.199
 his call

00:58:59.199 --> 00:59:00.339
 as it

00:59:00.339 --> 00:59:01.119
 is extended

00:59:01.119 --> 00:59:01.739
 to you

00:59:01.739 --> 00:59:02.219
 tonight

00:59:02.219 --> 00:59:03.899
 that you

00:59:03.899 --> 00:59:04.339
 come

00:59:04.339 --> 00:59:05.519
 and come

00:59:05.519 --> 00:59:05.919
 now

00:59:05.919 --> 00:59:09.039
 confessing

00:59:09.039 --> 00:59:09.779
 who we

00:59:09.779 --> 00:59:10.139
 are

00:59:10.139 --> 00:59:11.139
 and reasoning

00:59:11.139 --> 00:59:11.980
 with God

00:59:11.980 --> 00:59:15.659
 that he

00:59:15.659 --> 00:59:15.959
 is the

00:59:15.959 --> 00:59:16.259
 one

00:59:16.259 --> 00:59:17.019
 that will

00:59:17.019 --> 00:59:17.539
 in return

00:59:17.539 --> 00:59:18.099
 cleanse

00:59:18.099 --> 00:59:18.459
 us

00:59:18.459 --> 00:59:20.139
 to be

00:59:20.139 --> 00:59:20.939
 cleansed

00:59:20.939 --> 00:59:21.599
 we must

00:59:21.599 --> 00:59:22.259
 confess

00:59:22.259 --> 00:59:22.739
 of our

00:59:22.739 --> 00:59:23.179
 sins

00:59:23.179 --> 00:59:25.460
 the

00:59:25.460 --> 00:59:26.000
 solution

00:59:26.000 --> 00:59:28.059
 comes

00:59:28.059 --> 00:59:28.500
 from the

00:59:28.500 --> 00:59:28.899
 cross

00:59:28.899 --> 00:59:30.539
 at Calvary

00:59:30.539 --> 00:59:32.299
 the son

00:59:32.299 --> 00:59:32.759
 of God

00:59:32.759 --> 00:59:33.339
 that died

00:59:33.339 --> 00:59:33.899
 for you

00:59:33.899 --> 00:59:34.859
 as we

00:59:34.859 --> 00:59:35.219
 said

00:59:35.219 --> 00:59:35.940
 God

00:59:35.940 --> 00:59:36.279
 cannot

00:59:36.279 --> 00:59:36.639
 just

00:59:36.639 --> 00:59:37.039
 pass

00:59:37.039 --> 00:59:37.419
 over

00:59:37.419 --> 00:59:38.299
 the

00:59:38.299 --> 00:59:38.739
 stains

00:59:38.739 --> 00:59:39.000
 and

00:59:39.000 --> 00:59:39.339
 blemishes

00:59:39.339 --> 00:59:39.739
 of your

00:59:39.739 --> 00:59:40.099
 life

00:59:40.099 --> 00:59:41.599
 they need

00:59:41.599 --> 00:59:41.819
 to be

00:59:41.819 --> 00:59:42.419
 paid for

00:59:42.419 --> 00:59:43.779
 they need

00:59:43.779 --> 00:59:44.039
 to be

00:59:44.039 --> 00:59:44.739
 cleansed

00:59:44.739 --> 00:59:45.899
 and it

00:59:45.899 --> 00:59:46.379
 is in the

00:59:46.379 --> 00:59:46.799
 blood of

00:59:46.799 --> 00:59:47.319
 Christ

00:59:47.319 --> 00:59:48.619
 that all

00:59:48.619 --> 00:59:49.259
 this is

00:59:49.259 --> 00:59:49.959
 cleansed

00:59:49.959 --> 00:59:54.000
 the son of

00:59:54.000 --> 00:59:54.619
 God is the

00:59:54.619 --> 00:59:54.979
 lamb

00:59:54.979 --> 00:59:56.579
 that was

00:59:56.579 --> 00:59:57.339
 sacrificed

00:59:57.339 --> 00:59:59.739
 to satisfy

00:59:59.739 --> 01:00:00.500
 justice

01:00:00.500 --> 01:00:02.519
 the blood

01:00:02.519 --> 01:00:03.260
 of Christ

01:00:03.260 --> 01:00:04.239
 has the

01:00:04.239 --> 01:00:04.639
 power

01:00:04.639 --> 01:00:05.199
 to wash

01:00:05.199 --> 01:00:05.539
 away

01:00:05.539 --> 01:00:05.840
 our

01:00:05.840 --> 01:00:06.360
 sins

01:00:06.360 --> 01:00:10.539
 if you

01:00:10.539 --> 01:00:11.079
 come with

01:00:11.079 --> 01:00:11.619
 your garments

01:00:11.619 --> 01:00:12.500
 stained

01:00:12.500 --> 01:00:14.619
 and you

01:00:14.619 --> 01:00:15.119
 pray to

01:00:15.119 --> 01:00:15.619
 God

01:00:15.619 --> 01:00:16.539
 and you

01:00:16.539 --> 01:00:16.960
 reason

01:00:16.960 --> 01:00:17.539
 with him

01:00:17.539 --> 01:00:19.360
 the

01:00:19.360 --> 01:00:19.920
 truthfulness

01:00:19.920 --> 01:00:20.360
 of your

01:00:20.360 --> 01:00:20.920
 life

01:00:20.920 --> 01:00:22.860
 there's

01:00:22.860 --> 01:00:23.420
 an assurance

01:00:23.420 --> 01:00:24.940
 there

01:00:24.940 --> 01:00:25.619
 even in

01:00:25.619 --> 01:00:26.360
 this passage

01:00:26.360 --> 01:00:27.619
 oh your

01:00:27.619 --> 01:00:28.219
 sins are

01:00:28.219 --> 01:00:29.039
 like scarlet

01:00:29.039 --> 01:00:30.179
 and yes

01:00:30.179 --> 01:00:30.619
 they are

01:00:30.619 --> 01:00:31.059
 they are

01:00:31.059 --> 01:00:32.539
 if you

01:00:32.539 --> 01:00:33.059
 come and

01:00:33.059 --> 01:00:33.400
 reason

01:00:33.400 --> 01:00:34.039
 with me

01:00:34.039 --> 01:00:36.219
 they shall

01:00:36.219 --> 01:00:36.719
 be washed

01:00:36.719 --> 01:00:37.059
 away

01:00:37.059 --> 01:00:38.880
 they shall

01:00:38.880 --> 01:00:39.500
 be white

01:00:39.500 --> 01:00:40.099
 as snow

01:00:40.099 --> 01:00:41.519
 it's not

01:00:41.519 --> 01:00:42.159
 maybes

01:00:42.159 --> 01:00:43.259
 or buts

01:00:43.259 --> 01:00:43.900
 about it

01:00:43.900 --> 01:00:45.800
 they shall

01:00:45.800 --> 01:00:46.639
 be washed

01:00:46.639 --> 01:00:47.340
 away

01:00:47.340 --> 01:00:49.300
 the question

01:00:49.300 --> 01:00:50.759
 that we

01:00:50.759 --> 01:00:51.159
 have to

01:00:51.159 --> 01:00:52.279
 ask ourselves

01:00:52.279 --> 01:00:53.320
 is how

01:00:53.320 --> 01:00:53.599
 do we

01:00:53.599 --> 01:00:54.079
 react

01:00:54.079 --> 01:00:54.980
 to this

01:00:54.980 --> 01:00:55.500
 word

01:00:55.500 --> 01:00:57.779
 how did

01:00:57.779 --> 01:00:58.639
 Israel react

01:00:58.639 --> 01:00:58.980
 to the

01:00:58.980 --> 01:00:59.319
 word of

01:00:59.319 --> 01:00:59.779
 Isaiah

01:00:59.779 --> 01:01:01.299
 and the

01:01:01.299 --> 01:01:01.719
 words that

01:01:01.719 --> 01:01:02.259
 he spoke

01:01:02.259 --> 01:01:02.699
 to them

01:01:02.699 --> 01:01:03.739
 as they

01:01:03.739 --> 01:01:04.159
 saw the

01:01:04.159 --> 01:01:04.639
 truth of

01:01:04.639 --> 01:01:05.159
 their lives

01:01:05.159 --> 01:01:05.980
 before God

01:01:05.980 --> 01:01:08.119
 how do we

01:01:08.119 --> 01:01:09.119
 react to

01:01:09.119 --> 01:01:09.659
 the word

01:01:09.659 --> 01:01:10.460
 of God

01:01:10.460 --> 01:01:12.339
 when it

01:01:12.339 --> 01:01:13.179
 speaks that

01:01:13.179 --> 01:01:13.980
 of us

01:01:13.980 --> 01:01:14.319
 has been

01:01:14.319 --> 01:01:14.739
 sinners

01:01:14.739 --> 01:01:15.239
 that are

01:01:15.239 --> 01:01:15.739
 likewise

01:01:15.739 --> 01:01:16.500
 stained

01:01:16.500 --> 01:01:18.039
 that we

01:01:18.039 --> 01:01:18.759
 are condemned

01:01:18.759 --> 01:01:19.839
 before God

01:01:19.839 --> 01:01:20.279
 without

01:01:20.279 --> 01:01:21.559
 Christ

01:01:21.559 --> 01:01:24.579
 and yet he

01:01:24.579 --> 01:01:24.920
 is one

01:01:24.920 --> 01:01:25.219
 that is

01:01:25.219 --> 01:01:26.039
 calling to

01:01:26.039 --> 01:01:26.400
 you

01:01:26.400 --> 01:01:28.019
 how are

01:01:28.019 --> 01:01:28.700
 we reacting

01:01:28.700 --> 01:01:29.180
 to the

01:01:29.180 --> 01:01:29.619
 call

01:01:29.619 --> 01:01:30.559
 of Christ

01:01:30.559 --> 01:01:32.460
 you suppose

01:01:32.460 --> 01:01:32.800
 that there

01:01:32.800 --> 01:01:33.139
 would be a

01:01:33.139 --> 01:01:33.940
 man standing

01:01:33.940 --> 01:01:34.440
 at the end

01:01:34.440 --> 01:01:34.980
 of the road

01:01:34.980 --> 01:01:35.460
 as he went

01:01:35.460 --> 01:01:36.500
 down and

01:01:36.500 --> 01:01:36.880
 left the

01:01:36.880 --> 01:01:37.480
 church tonight

01:01:37.480 --> 01:01:37.820
 and he'd

01:01:37.820 --> 01:01:38.260
 be calling

01:01:38.260 --> 01:01:38.900
 your name

01:01:38.900 --> 01:01:42.380
 what would

01:01:42.380 --> 01:01:42.940
 you do

01:01:42.940 --> 01:01:45.079
 would you

01:01:45.079 --> 01:01:45.539
 walk the

01:01:45.539 --> 01:01:46.039
 other way

01:01:46.039 --> 01:01:48.519
 and if it

01:01:48.519 --> 01:01:49.099
 was a call

01:01:49.099 --> 01:01:49.420
 that was

01:01:49.420 --> 01:01:49.800
 made in

01:01:49.800 --> 01:01:50.180
 love

01:01:50.180 --> 01:01:52.440
 and a

01:01:52.440 --> 01:01:53.420
 fatherly love

01:01:53.420 --> 01:01:54.039
 to you

01:01:54.039 --> 01:01:55.880
 calling

01:01:55.880 --> 01:01:56.260
 you

01:01:56.260 --> 01:01:58.340
 are you

01:01:58.340 --> 01:01:58.579
 going to

01:01:58.579 --> 01:01:59.000
 rebel

01:01:59.000 --> 01:01:59.599
 from that

01:01:59.599 --> 01:02:00.019
 call

01:02:00.019 --> 01:02:01.180
 are you

01:02:01.180 --> 01:02:01.420
 going to

01:02:01.420 --> 01:02:02.059
 walk away

01:02:02.059 --> 01:02:02.639
 from that

01:02:02.639 --> 01:02:03.079
 call

01:02:03.079 --> 01:02:05.599
 or are you

01:02:05.599 --> 01:02:05.840
 going to

01:02:05.840 --> 01:02:06.420
 draw near

01:02:06.420 --> 01:02:07.039
 to him

01:02:07.039 --> 01:02:09.159
 are you

01:02:09.159 --> 01:02:09.380
 going to

01:02:09.380 --> 01:02:09.760
 weigh up

01:02:09.760 --> 01:02:10.300
 your case

01:02:10.300 --> 01:02:10.800
 with him

01:02:10.800 --> 01:02:11.440
 are you

01:02:11.440 --> 01:02:11.659
 going to

01:02:11.659 --> 01:02:12.119
 pray to

01:02:12.119 --> 01:02:12.460
 him

01:02:12.460 --> 01:02:15.360
 are you

01:02:15.360 --> 01:02:15.780
 going to

01:02:15.780 --> 01:02:16.200
 be the

01:02:16.200 --> 01:02:16.680
 willing and

01:02:16.680 --> 01:02:17.139
 obedient

01:02:17.139 --> 01:02:18.099
 one spoken

01:02:18.099 --> 01:02:18.519
 of in

01:02:18.519 --> 01:02:19.260
 verse 19

01:02:19.260 --> 01:02:21.220
 that would

01:02:21.220 --> 01:02:21.960
 receive and

01:02:21.960 --> 01:02:22.860
 eat the

01:02:22.860 --> 01:02:23.220
 good of

01:02:23.220 --> 01:02:23.760
 the land

01:02:23.760 --> 01:02:25.900
 but the

01:02:25.900 --> 01:02:26.480
 warning is

01:02:26.480 --> 01:02:26.860
 there in

01:02:26.860 --> 01:02:27.640
 verse 20

01:02:27.640 --> 01:02:28.740
 if you

01:02:28.740 --> 01:02:29.700
 refuse and

01:02:29.700 --> 01:02:30.160
 rebel

01:02:30.160 --> 01:02:31.580
 you shall

01:02:31.580 --> 01:02:32.160
 be eaten

01:02:32.160 --> 01:02:32.880
 by the

01:02:32.880 --> 01:02:33.320
 sword

01:02:33.320 --> 01:02:34.540
 judgment

01:02:34.540 --> 01:02:35.360
 will come

01:02:35.360 --> 01:02:37.100
 it is the

01:02:37.100 --> 01:02:37.660
 word of

01:02:37.660 --> 01:02:38.260
 the Lord

01:02:38.260 --> 01:02:38.760
 that has

01:02:38.760 --> 01:02:39.280
 spoken

01:02:39.280 --> 01:02:41.240
 will you

01:02:41.240 --> 01:02:42.120
 continue in

01:02:42.120 --> 01:02:42.960
 stubbornness

01:02:42.960 --> 01:02:44.840
 as a time

01:02:44.840 --> 01:02:45.300
 to put your

01:02:45.300 --> 01:02:45.820
 pride in

01:02:45.820 --> 01:02:46.440
 our pocket

01:02:46.440 --> 01:02:48.040
 and turn

01:02:48.040 --> 01:02:48.660
 to God

01:02:48.659 --> 01:02:49.279
 and say

01:02:49.279 --> 01:02:50.440
 yes I

01:02:50.440 --> 01:02:50.799
 have done

01:02:50.799 --> 01:02:51.179
 wrong

01:02:51.179 --> 01:02:53.219
 I have

01:02:53.219 --> 01:02:53.599
 sinned

01:02:53.599 --> 01:02:54.339
 before you

01:02:54.339 --> 01:02:56.399
 and take

01:02:56.399 --> 01:02:56.899
 the things

01:02:56.899 --> 01:02:57.619
 of eternity

01:02:57.619 --> 01:02:58.440
 serious

01:02:58.440 --> 01:03:02.519
 and though

01:03:02.519 --> 01:03:02.879
 we are

01:03:02.879 --> 01:03:03.420
 condemned

01:03:03.420 --> 01:03:05.899
 the gracious

01:03:05.899 --> 01:03:06.619
 loving

01:03:06.619 --> 01:03:07.460
 father

01:03:07.460 --> 01:03:08.519
 calls you

01:03:08.519 --> 01:03:10.339
 calls you

01:03:10.339 --> 01:03:10.819
 to come

01:03:10.819 --> 01:03:11.319
 tonight

01:03:11.319 --> 01:03:13.139
 to him

01:03:13.139 --> 01:03:14.940
 why

01:03:14.940 --> 01:03:16.519
 so that

01:03:16.519 --> 01:03:16.819
 he may

01:03:16.819 --> 01:03:17.339
 cleanse

01:03:17.339 --> 01:03:17.579
 you

01:03:17.579 --> 01:03:19.000
 and that

01:03:19.000 --> 01:03:19.440
 he may

01:03:19.440 --> 01:03:19.840
 wash

01:03:19.840 --> 01:03:20.099
 your

01:03:20.099 --> 01:03:20.799
 garments

01:03:20.799 --> 01:03:22.159
 white

01:03:22.159 --> 01:03:23.039
 as snow

01:03:23.039 --> 01:03:24.819
 that they

01:03:24.819 --> 01:03:25.340
 would become

01:03:25.340 --> 01:03:26.019
 like wool

01:03:26.019 --> 01:03:27.480
 that they

01:03:27.480 --> 01:03:27.799
 would be

01:03:27.799 --> 01:03:28.340
 pure

01:03:28.340 --> 01:03:29.719
 and white

01:03:29.719 --> 01:03:31.340
 and it

01:03:31.340 --> 01:03:31.940
 speaks

01:03:31.940 --> 01:03:32.840
 and echoes

01:03:32.840 --> 01:03:35.100
 of glory

01:03:35.100 --> 01:03:35.120
 of glory

01:03:35.120 --> 01:03:37.220
 where Christ

01:03:37.220 --> 01:03:37.900
 was spoken

01:03:37.900 --> 01:03:38.300
 of

01:03:38.300 --> 01:03:39.079
 and appearing

01:03:39.079 --> 01:03:40.440
 in glory

01:03:40.440 --> 01:03:41.180
 and white

01:03:41.180 --> 01:03:43.720
 the hair

01:03:43.720 --> 01:03:44.000
 on his

01:03:44.000 --> 01:03:44.280
 head

01:03:44.280 --> 01:03:44.920
 like wool

01:03:44.920 --> 01:03:47.200
 the hair

01:03:47.200 --> 01:03:47.460
 on his

01:03:47.460 --> 01:03:47.700
 head

01:03:47.700 --> 01:03:48.039
 white

01:03:48.039 --> 01:03:48.539
 like wool

01:03:48.539 --> 01:03:49.240
 like snow

01:03:49.240 --> 01:03:51.640
 the transfigured

01:03:51.640 --> 01:03:52.300
 Christ

01:03:52.300 --> 01:03:52.980
 appeared

01:03:52.980 --> 01:03:53.820
 white

01:03:53.820 --> 01:03:54.519
 as light

01:03:54.519 --> 01:03:57.300
 the one

01:03:57.300 --> 01:03:57.800
 who believes

01:03:57.800 --> 01:03:58.440
 in Christ

01:03:58.440 --> 01:03:58.900
 shall be

01:03:58.900 --> 01:03:59.460
 like him

01:03:59.460 --> 01:04:01.840
 and received

01:04:01.840 --> 01:04:02.699
 into glory

01:04:02.699 --> 01:04:05.280
 through the

01:04:05.280 --> 01:04:05.840
 blood of the

01:04:05.840 --> 01:04:06.179
 lamb

01:04:06.179 --> 01:04:07.780
 we are

01:04:07.780 --> 01:04:08.699
 cleansed

01:04:08.699 --> 01:04:11.000
 Christ

01:04:11.000 --> 01:04:11.940
 is calling

01:04:11.940 --> 01:04:12.619
 you tonight

01:04:12.619 --> 01:04:14.340
 come

01:04:14.340 --> 01:04:15.400
 and reason

01:04:15.400 --> 01:04:16.360
 with him

01:04:16.360 --> 01:04:17.920
 may these

01:04:17.920 --> 01:04:18.539
 thoughts be

01:04:18.539 --> 01:04:19.099
 blessed to

01:04:19.099 --> 01:04:19.380
 us

01:04:19.380 --> 01:04:21.659
 we'll

01:04:21.659 --> 01:04:22.139
 conclude

01:04:22.139 --> 01:04:22.420
 our

01:04:22.420 --> 01:04:23.740
 time of

01:04:23.740 --> 01:04:24.240
 worship

01:04:24.240 --> 01:04:24.940
 by singing

01:04:24.940 --> 01:04:25.880
 in Psalm 103

01:04:25.880 --> 01:04:26.500
 again

01:04:26.500 --> 01:04:26.860
 in the

01:04:26.860 --> 01:04:27.200
 Scottish

01:04:27.200 --> 01:04:27.700
 Psalter

01:04:27.700 --> 01:04:29.640
 in

01:04:29.640 --> 01:04:32.539
 page 369

01:04:32.539 --> 01:04:34.320
 of the

01:04:34.320 --> 01:04:34.800
 blue book

01:04:34.800 --> 01:04:35.900
 Psalm 103

01:04:35.900 --> 01:04:37.059
 the

01:04:37.059 --> 01:04:37.420
 Scottish

01:04:37.420 --> 01:04:38.000
 Psalter

01:04:38.000 --> 01:04:41.260
 returning

01:04:41.260 --> 01:04:41.900
 to Psalm

01:04:41.900 --> 01:04:42.860
 103

01:04:42.860 --> 01:04:43.559
 the psalm

01:04:43.559 --> 01:04:44.079
 that speaks

01:04:44.079 --> 01:04:44.800
 of God's

01:04:44.800 --> 01:04:45.200
 goodness

01:04:45.200 --> 01:04:45.760
 and love

01:04:45.760 --> 01:04:46.280
 towards

01:04:46.280 --> 01:04:46.900
 his people

01:04:46.900 --> 01:04:49.059
 we'll sing

01:04:49.059 --> 01:04:49.539
 there from

01:04:49.539 --> 01:04:49.860
 verse

01:04:49.860 --> 01:04:50.180
 marked

01:04:50.180 --> 01:04:50.599
 8

01:04:50.599 --> 01:04:51.820
 down to

01:04:51.820 --> 01:04:52.140
 verse

01:04:52.140 --> 01:04:52.480
 marked

01:04:52.480 --> 01:04:53.000
 12

01:04:53.000 --> 01:04:54.739
 the

01:04:54.739 --> 01:04:55.059
 Lord

01:04:55.059 --> 01:04:55.239
 our

01:04:55.239 --> 01:04:55.480
 God

01:04:55.480 --> 01:04:55.659
 is

01:04:55.659 --> 01:04:56.179
 merciful

01:04:56.179 --> 01:04:57.119
 and

01:04:57.119 --> 01:04:57.280
 he

01:04:57.280 --> 01:04:57.440
 is

01:04:57.440 --> 01:04:57.940
 gracious

01:04:57.940 --> 01:04:58.679
 long

01:04:58.679 --> 01:04:59.139
 suffering

01:04:59.139 --> 01:04:59.619
 and slow

01:04:59.619 --> 01:05:00.219
 to wrath

01:05:00.219 --> 01:05:00.840
 and mercy

01:05:00.840 --> 01:05:01.559
 plenteous

01:05:01.559 --> 01:05:02.800
 he will

01:05:02.800 --> 01:05:03.480
 not chide

01:05:03.480 --> 01:05:04.239
 continually

01:05:04.239 --> 01:05:05.139
 nor keep

01:05:05.139 --> 01:05:05.579
 his anger

01:05:05.579 --> 01:05:06.039
 still

01:05:06.039 --> 01:05:07.360
 with us

01:05:07.360 --> 01:05:07.800
 he dealt

01:05:07.800 --> 01:05:08.599
 not as we

01:05:08.599 --> 01:05:09.139
 sinned

01:05:09.139 --> 01:05:09.719
 nor did

01:05:09.719 --> 01:05:10.280
 requite

01:05:10.280 --> 01:05:10.659
 at all

01:05:10.659 --> 01:05:12.159
 for us

01:05:12.159 --> 01:05:12.699
 the heaven

01:05:12.699 --> 01:05:13.199
 in its

01:05:13.199 --> 01:05:13.579
 height

01:05:13.579 --> 01:05:14.099
 the earth

01:05:14.099 --> 01:05:14.579
 surmount

01:05:14.579 --> 01:05:15.099
 far

01:05:15.099 --> 01:05:16.139
 so great

01:05:16.139 --> 01:05:16.599
 to those

01:05:16.599 --> 01:05:16.980
 that do

01:05:16.980 --> 01:05:17.500
 him fear

01:05:17.500 --> 01:05:18.159
 his tender

01:05:18.159 --> 01:05:18.559
 mercy

01:05:18.559 --> 01:05:18.960
 are

01:05:18.960 --> 01:05:20.340
 as far

01:05:20.340 --> 01:05:20.760
 as east

01:05:20.760 --> 01:05:21.340
 is distant

01:05:21.340 --> 01:05:21.900
 from the

01:05:21.900 --> 01:05:22.260
 west

01:05:22.260 --> 01:05:23.000
 so far

01:05:23.000 --> 01:05:23.660
 he hath

01:05:23.660 --> 01:05:24.200
 from us

01:05:24.200 --> 01:05:24.720
 removed

01:05:24.720 --> 01:05:26.120
 in his

01:05:26.120 --> 01:05:26.560
 love

01:05:26.560 --> 01:05:27.720
 all our

01:05:27.720 --> 01:05:28.720
 iniquities

01:05:28.720 --> 01:05:29.400
 the God

01:05:29.400 --> 01:05:29.620
 that

01:05:29.620 --> 01:05:30.880
 loves his

01:05:30.880 --> 01:05:31.340
 people

01:05:31.340 --> 01:05:32.640
 and calls

01:05:32.640 --> 01:05:33.000
 them to

01:05:33.000 --> 01:05:33.700
 come to him

01:05:33.700 --> 01:05:34.360
 and parts

01:05:34.360 --> 01:05:35.000
 from them

01:05:35.000 --> 01:05:35.680
 their sins

01:05:35.680 --> 01:05:36.820
 let us stand

01:05:36.820 --> 01:05:37.240
 and sing

01:05:37.240 --> 01:05:37.640
 together

01:05:37.640 --> 01:05:38.400
 the Lord

01:05:38.400 --> 01:05:38.860
 our God

01:05:38.860 --> 01:05:39.480
 is merciful

01:05:39.480 --> 01:05:40.380
 and he

01:05:40.380 --> 01:05:41.160
 is gracious

01:05:41.159 --> 01:05:46.819
 the Lord

01:05:46.819 --> 01:05:48.119
 our God

01:05:48.119 --> 01:05:50.019
 is merciful

01:05:50.019 --> 01:05:52.119
 and he

01:05:52.119 --> 01:05:54.819
 is gracious

01:05:54.820 --> 01:06:02.120
 thanks

01:06:18.120 --> 01:06:19.400
 always

01:06:19.400 --> 01:06:31.180
 With us he dealt, nor does we sin, nor did we quite a hell.

01:06:32.680 --> 01:06:43.059
 For us the heaven in its high, the earth surmounted by.

01:06:43.059 --> 01:06:55.779
 So great to those that do in fear, his tender mercy's eye.

01:06:56.340 --> 01:07:07.019
 As far as he's desistened from the west, so far and here.

01:07:07.019 --> 01:07:18.059
 From the stream who did his love, all our iniquity.

01:07:20.300 --> 01:07:22.019
 The word of prayer.

01:07:22.019 --> 01:07:27.800
 Our heavenly Father, we pray that we may see ourselves before you.

01:07:28.420 --> 01:07:32.500
 The Holy One, a creator of all things.

01:07:33.079 --> 01:07:35.139
 That we may turn from our ways.

01:07:35.780 --> 01:07:38.539
 And that you, as we confess our sins to you.

01:07:39.099 --> 01:07:42.759
 You will part these sins as far as the east is from the west.

01:07:42.880 --> 01:07:45.340
 Removing all the iniquity of our lives.

01:07:45.880 --> 01:07:48.699
 And cleansing us in the blood of Jesus Christ.

01:07:48.699 --> 01:07:51.460
 The one that died for us on the cross at Calvary.

01:07:52.579 --> 01:07:55.980
 A payment that we should stand for and take.

01:07:56.599 --> 01:07:59.099
 But yet out of his love and grace.

01:07:59.819 --> 01:08:05.039
 The loving heavenly Father that loves such a stubborn and rebellious and stiff-necked people.

01:08:06.279 --> 01:08:08.919
 He comes to us and calls us.

01:08:09.980 --> 01:08:11.480
 That we may be cleansed.

01:08:12.579 --> 01:08:15.299
 What a love he extends to us.

01:08:15.300 --> 01:08:18.659
 May we continue in that love.

01:08:19.560 --> 01:08:22.340
 And may it continue to amaze us.

01:08:23.140 --> 01:08:24.380
 Be with us as we part.

01:08:24.520 --> 01:08:26.380
 And return to our homes we pray.

01:08:26.699 --> 01:08:27.480
 Watch over us.

01:08:27.640 --> 01:08:29.699
 Guide us and keep us in your safety.

01:08:30.300 --> 01:08:32.199
 We ask these things in Jesus name.

01:08:32.579 --> 01:08:32.880
 Amen.

01:08:32.880 --> 01:08:39.940
 corporate sjel Day Whitter.

01:08:42.819 --> 01:08:44.100
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01:08:44.100 --> 01:08:44.159
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