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 There is a structural element to the first couple of chapters of this book.

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 I've mentioned this in passing. I think it would be helpful for us to give it a bit of our focus now at this point.

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 As we have learned, there's two major parts, two major divisions to the author's introduction here.

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 Part one, which spans from chapter 1 and verse 1 through chapter 2 and verse 5,

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 is really just a general statement about the series of events related to possessing the land of Canaan.

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 This is after Joshua's death and what happened afterwards as far as the nation of Israel coming in

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 and possessing the rest of the land that was left for them to possess.

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 The author in that section, that very first part, he really just kind of gives a flyover,

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 kind of a cold history of what happened.

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 Then we get to part 2, which spans from chapter 2 and verse 6 all the way to chapter 3 and verse 6.

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 And we find in this section, the author goes back and he interprets those events

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 in light of Israel's unfaithfulness to God's covenant.

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 Now, here's one thing that I want you to remember for today.

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 It will help us.

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 These two chapters, these two parts, are not written chronologically.

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 In other words, chapter 2 and verse 6 does not follow chronologically in a timeline, chapter 2 and verse 5.

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 That's not what the author is doing.

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 So we don't need to understand it that way.

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 It's going to probably mess us up if we do.

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 We need to understand this for the way that it's intended to be understood by the author.

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 It's better to understand the contents of these two sections as running parallel to one another.

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 In fact, if we wanted to visualize it, we could stack them on top.

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 Both sections begin with Joshua's death.

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 Both sections end with God's pronouncement of judgment on Israel.

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 And so I've put together, I don't know if the chart will be that helpful,

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 but I've put together a chart maybe to help us visualize this.

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 So if you'll notice here on this screen, here's the timeline here in the middle.

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 Joshua's death is first.

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 Then Israel does this spiral of disobedience that we find in the remainder of chapter 1, right?

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 And then God pronounces judgment.

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 In part 1, this is the timeline that's followed.

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 In the first two verses of chapter 1, we have Joshua's death.

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 In verses 3 through 36 to the end of that chapter, we have Israel spiral into sin.

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 This is their disobedience.

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 And then when we get to the first five verses of chapter 2,

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 you remember the angel of the Lord comes to Israel, and he pronounces this judgment, okay?

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 So that's part 1.

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 That's the timeline.

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 Part 2, go back to the screen before.

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 Part 2 is down here on the bottom.

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 The author goes back to Joshua's death.

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 So verses 6 through 10, we have Joshua's death again.

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 Verses 10 through 19, we have Israel spiral into sin again.

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 And then when we get to 20 through chapter 3, verse 6, we have God's pronouncement of judgment.

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 Now the section that we're covering today, what we just read, could be taken as a third timeline.

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 So that's for the next chart.

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 Will you pull that up for me there?

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 Okay.

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 So here's what we just read today.

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 We have Joshua's death again.

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 The author tells us Joshua dies and there's still nations remaining.

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 That's right there in chapter 2 and verse 23 through chapter 3 and verse 4.

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 Then we find Israel's sin again.

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 They didn't obey the Lord.

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 That's verses 5 and 6 of chapter 3.

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 Then we have God's judgment pronounced against the nation.

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 That's chapter 2, verses 20 to 22.

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 The order is a little bit different, but all of the distinct contents are clearly there.

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 So that's how we're understanding this passage.

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 That's going to come in handy when we get to the end of our study today.

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 But I want to introduce it to you now.

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 Here's what the author is doing.

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 He's starting with Joshua.

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 He's going through God's judgment.

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 And he says, generally, here's what happened.

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 Then he goes back and he does the same thing, except he interprets it in light of Israel's unfaithfulness.

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 And then when we get here, he's still interpreting the events, the earlier events in light of Israel's unfaithfulness.

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 However, he does something unique in the passage we're reading today.

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 He answers a critical question for us regarding the Canaanites that are still in the land.

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 This is not only an introduction of the people groups that are going to assault Israel again and again through the rest of this book.

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 That is part of it.

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 He's introducing us to them.

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 Here, but it's more than that.

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 He's telling us why they're still there.

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 Now, remember, this should be a question in your mind.

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 We get to the end of Joshua, and Joshua tells the people of Israel,

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 not a single promise that God made to you has failed.

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 He has given all the people into your hand.

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 So we would expect then when we get to Judges chapter 1 that there's no Canaanites left.

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 But that's not actually the case, is it?

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 We find that there's Canaanite people still living in the land.

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 And what the author does now, before he launches into the first judge, which is Othniel,

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 before he does that, he answers this question, why these nations are still there?

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 And we find out that God kept the nations there.

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 He prevented them from Joshua's reach in order to test the generation that followed Joshua.

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 Four different times this testing is explicitly stated in the verses we read this morning.

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 Three times he actually uses the word test.

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 The fourth time he uses the word teach as a synonym for this testing.

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 And what I want you to understand at this point is that this testing,

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 this testing of faith, this trial of faith is typical of God's action.

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 He does this over and over and over in the scriptures.

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 You understand this by experience.

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 If you've been a Christian for any amount of time at all in your life,

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 you understand that God tests his people.

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 He leads us through trials.

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 He leads us through periods in our life where our faith is tested,

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 and he is the one that's in control of the testing.

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 God leaves the nations, and he does it for a purpose.

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 There is this pattern of divine testing all through the scriptures,

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 but we find it first in the opening pages of the Bible, Genesis 1 through 3.

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 After God creates Adam and Eve, he puts what in the midst of the garden?

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 A unique tree.

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 It wasn't that the fruit was poison.

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 It's just that he put it there, and he said, don't eat of it.

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 That was the significance of the tree.

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 Why did God do that?

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 He's testing his people.

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 It was an instrument of testing.

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 They were never to eat of that tree.

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 God was looking to see if they would take care, as the writer of Judges says,

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 take care to walk in the ways of the Lord.

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 And like Israel, Adam and Eve failed.

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 But their failure wasn't the end.

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 Through this testing, God promises hope of a coming Savior,

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 and the first man and woman learns something about God

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 that they would have otherwise been completely unable to comprehend,

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 namely, God's redeeming love.

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 So God is a testing God.

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 He tests his people, and he tests Israel.

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 And God tests his people today like he's been doing since the very beginning.

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 In fact, you may be facing a unique divine test of faith,

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 even now, unlike any other that you've faced before.

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 And if that's you, I want you to understand something about this text.

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 There's three critical truths in this text that are here to help you and to encourage you.

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 The first truth is this,

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 that God is sovereign over all the events of your life.

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 If you're facing discouragement, or you're facing a difficult trial,

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 or things aren't going the way that you thought they would go,

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 it's not because God has failed, it's not because he's ignoring you,

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 it's not because he's taking a nap, or he's gone,

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 and he's putting his efforts into another thing.

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 He is in absolute control of your life, including your trial, including your suffering.

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 He's sovereign.

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 Now, that should bring us comfort.

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 It also brings us a measure of fear, right?

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 But it should bring us some comfort.

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 Here's the second truth that I think we find in this text,

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 that God has a good purpose in leading us through difficult seasons.

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 He doesn't do it for no reason.

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 He doesn't do it just to make things hard on us.

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 He doesn't do it just to give us a hard time when he knows we're going to fail him.

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 He's a good purpose for it.

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 Really good purpose, and we'll get into that.

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 And then the third truth that I hope will encourage you

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 is that there is immense hope in our failure.

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 There's immense hope in our failure.

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 Even when we get to the end of Israel's failure,

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 here, as bad as their failure was,

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 who's still there?

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 Reaching out his hands in mercy.

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 God is, right?

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 There's always hope.

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 Even in our deepest, darkest failures,

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 when we do not follow the test the way that we would hope.

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 God is there offering grace to us.

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 I think you'll find those things present

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 as we work through this text together.

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 Here's the first thing,

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 if you like to keep notes of the particular outline.

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 First thing that I see here

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 is that there is testing with a purpose.

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 There is testing with a purpose.

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 Thursday afternoon,

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 Julie and I decided to break from our typical routines.

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 Typically, her office is downstairs

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 or either on the couch or at the kitchen table.

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 Mine's upstairs in one of the bedrooms.

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 The girls are in their bedroom doing their school.

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 We never leave our home.

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 We're hermits, I guess.

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 We don't leave our home very often.

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 But we're all in the house.

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 Thursday afternoon, we were downstairs,

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 and Julie said,

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 let's just work together downstairs today.

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 The girls are up in their room,

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 and I was downstairs.

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 Julie was working on some of her bookkeeping work,

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 and I was doing some reading and studying for today.

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 One point in the afternoon,

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 Ashlyn came downstairs,

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 and she did so reluctantly

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 because it was time for Julie

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 to administer a math test to her.

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 And what I witnessed happening

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 with Julie and Ashlyn in that moment

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 was such a helpful illustration

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 of what I was in that moment reading

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 about Israel and God here

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 in Judges chapters two and three.

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 This testing period was clearly grievous to Ashlyn.

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 Blankenships are not math people, are we, Ashlyn?

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 It is not fun.

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 It's not fun for Julie and me either.

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 It was clearly grievous,

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 but that doesn't mean that the test was harmful or unfair.

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 It's quite the opposite, actually, right?

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 We test our kids on purpose.

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 There's a good purpose to it.

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 The process, it strengthens our ability to learn.

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 We don't know how to learn better

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 or how we can increase our learning

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 if we don't know where our learning is weak

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 or it's missing, right?

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 The testing helps us with that.

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 It also exposes what's true about us.

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 That's the hard thing about it

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 because we can fake it till we make it, right?

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 But at some point, we're gonna fail.

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 You can't pass every test just on basic wits.

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 You can't just get by all the time,

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 and sometimes a test comes through,

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 and it exposes what's true.

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 Now, that's hard,

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 but when it exposes that truth,

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 it's doing so in order to build us up in a unique way,

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 and that test revealed how much Ashlyn really understood

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 or did not understand about exponents,

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 and then it helped Julie to understand

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 how to lead her moving forward.

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 The test was hard, but it had a good purpose.

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 That's what we find explained about God's testing here.

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 Look again at chapter two and verse 23.

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 So the Lord left those nations,

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 not driving them out quickly,

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 and he did not give them into the hand of Joshua, okay?

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 We're back at Joshua's death now.

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 So we're not at the end of Israel's sin at this point.

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 We're at the beginning.

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 Now, these are the nations that the Lord left

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 to test Israel by them.

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 That is, all in Israel,

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 who had not experienced all the wars in Canaan.

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 Now, the first thing that we see here

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 is that God clearly had not lost control,

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 neither had he been unfaithful to his people.

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 He was doing a particular work in Israel

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 through these remaining people groups.

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 It was a grievous work to Israel for sure,

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 but it was a good work,

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 and it was a work that God was intent to do.

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 The remaining nations were instruments for testing,

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 and he had a good purpose to the testing.

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 Now, there's a distinction here that we need to make.

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 The intended purpose is what determines

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 whether something is a test of faith

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 or a temptation to sin,

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 and there's a fine line between the two.

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 How do we know if what God was doing here

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 was a test of Israel's faith

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 that was good and righteous,

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 or was he actually setting them up to fail,

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 tempting them to sin?

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 Well, God's purpose is never

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 to lead us to sin against him.

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 It doesn't even make sense.

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 It's not a part of his character.

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 Why would he even do that?

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 If sin is defined as rebellion against God,

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 why would God ever desire

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 to lead us into that rebellion?

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 That just doesn't make sense.

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 And James is clear that that's true for us.

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 We see in James 1 and verse 13,

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 let no one say when he's tempted,

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 I am being tempted by God,

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 for God cannot be tempted with evil,

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 and he himself tempts no one.

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 God does, however, test our faith,

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 and Satan loves to use those moments

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 to tempt us to disobey.

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 Purpose is the distinction.

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 God will lead us into a test

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 in order to build us up in faith and in his truth.

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 Satan will come along,

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 even using God's test,

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 as a way to tempt us

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 and to persuade us to disobey.

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 Take Eve, for example.

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 God puts the tree in the garden

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 as a test of her faith and obedience,

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 but it was Satan who deceived her,

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 tempted her to eat the fruit.

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 God never desires for us to sin,

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 but Satan only desires that we sin.

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 Take Jesus, for example.

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 Remember, after his baptism,

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 after he was baptized by John,

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 we're told that the Holy Spirit of God

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 leads him into the wilderness

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 for 40 days of prayer and fasting

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 in order that Jesus might be tempted.

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 It's the Spirit of God leading him there

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 as a test even of the Son of God's faith.

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 And what is it that Satan does with the test?

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 He comes and he presents the temptations to our Lord.

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 And he passes the test, doesn't he?

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 He's the only one to ever pass the test,

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 but he does it.

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 God only ever wants to build us up

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 and he uses these tests,

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 as grievous as they may be,

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 to do that.

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 Only Satan wants to come in

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 and desires that we would sin against God.

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 Intended purpose is the difference.

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 God did not tempt Israel to sin,

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 but he did have a good purpose in testing them.

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 And there's two of them here for us.

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 The first one is this.

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 His test was meant to teach them.

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 His test was meant to teach them.

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 Look at verse two of chapter three.

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 It was only in order that the generations

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 of the people of Israel might know war,

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 to teach war to those who had not known it before.

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 So God's first good purpose here is

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 that he might teach

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 or that the next generation might learn war.

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 But it wasn't simply the practice of war

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 and fighting and defending against enemies.

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 It was to learn God's purpose

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 in the holy war

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 against the wicked nations of Canaan.

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 There's a distinction here.

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 God wasn't teaching them just to teach them.

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 He didn't want them just to have an ability to fight.

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 Part of why he's leaving them there

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 is so that the next generation after Joshua

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 would understand God's purposes here,

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 what God is doing in this war against these nations.

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 Daniel Block is helpful with this when he says,

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 when Yahweh expresses his determination

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 that the present generation of Israelites

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 should learn war,

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 his concern is not primarily

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 that they learn how to conduct war,

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 but that they learn the nature and significance

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 of this war.

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 This is an important part of this.

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 God's goal was not merely

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 that the people learn how to fight.

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 He did not need them to be experienced warriors

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 to give them victory.

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 All of those victories that they had

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 in the wilderness wandering years,

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 not a single one of those came

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 because Israel was great at war.

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 They were slaves for 400 years before that.

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 God didn't need them to be experienced in war.

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 He didn't need them to be experts in it.

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 That's not what he needed.

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 He can give victory to whomever he chooses.

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 God desired to teach them

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 why the fight mattered to begin with,

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 that they ultimately were not warring for themselves,

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 but they were warring on behalf of their God.

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 The people of Israel,

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 they were to look at the nations

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 that surrounded them

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 through the lens of God's holiness,

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 and in this sense,

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 the surrounding nations

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 that were left after Joshua

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 were to teach them about who God is.

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 And such is the case with various tests

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 that God sends your way as well.

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 The tests that God leads us to

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 are not meant to make us into stronger people.

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 We think that sometimes.

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 We think that we have to go through

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 tremendous difficulties in life

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 in order that we might be a strong person,

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 but that's not true.

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 He leads us into these things

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 not to make us stronger people,

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 but to give us a stronger faith

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 so that we might see more clearly

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 his majesty and his glory

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 and his power and his holiness,

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 and that through this testing,

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 we might be faithful Christians,

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 not stronger humans.

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 This was James' conclusion as well.

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 In James chapter one,

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 count it all joy, my brothers, he writes,

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 when you meet trials of various kinds,

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 for you know that the testing of your faith

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 produces steadfastness,

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 and let steadfastness have its full effect,

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 that you may be perfect,

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 complete, lacking in nothing, maturity,

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 spiritual maturity is what he's referring to here.

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 I can't tell you all the particular reasons

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 that God may be allowing you to go through

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 whatever it is that you may be going through today,

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 but what I can say for sure

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 is that he has a good purpose in it,

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 and central to that purpose

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 is that you may see him more clearly,

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 that you may rely on him more firmly,

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 not that you would become a stronger man or woman,

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 but that you would become

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 a more faithful follower of Christ.

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 But there's a second good purpose in this text.

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 It's this.

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 His test was meant to expose them.

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 His test was meant to expose them.

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 Verse four.

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 They were for the testing of Israel

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 to know whether Israel would obey

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 the commandments of the Lord,

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 which he commanded their fathers

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 by the hand of Moses.

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 Now, let's go back to our illustration

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 with Julie and Ashlyn on Thursday

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 with the math test and the exponents.

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 Part of the reason that Julie tests

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 the girls in their studies

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 is so that they can know

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 how much they truly understand, right?

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 Before Ashlyn took that test,

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 she came down and she showed me

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 one of the formulas

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 and the problems that she had

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 that I assumed was going to be

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 a part of her testing on that day

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 had to do with exponents.

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 Well, Ashlyn's in the sixth grade.

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 It's been a long time

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 since I was in the sixth grade.

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 I don't know what exponents are,

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 but I guessed,

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 and I guessed wrongly,

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 and I taught her the wrong way to do this,

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 and it took us a while to figure that out.

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 Now, she could have gone immediately

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 from me explaining it the wrong way

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 to taking her test,

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 and she would have failed miserably,

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 or she could have not taken a test at all,

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 and she could have just continued

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 in her math studies,

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 and she would have been worse off for it

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 because she wouldn't have actually understood

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 how little she understood

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 about the exponents, right?

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 That was the purpose of the test.

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 It showed dad did this wrong,

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 and he taught you wrongly, right?

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 Had a purpose.

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 It exposes the reality of Ashlyn's knowledge,

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 and though failure brings grief,

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 it also reveals how to move forward, doesn't it?

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 Without the math test,

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 Ashlyn's potential for growth

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 is significantly diminished.

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 Now, of course,

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 God already knows what is true about us.

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 His tests are not about revealing something to him.

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 He already knows.

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 He doesn't need to send a test

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 in order for his mind to be enlightened.

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 Who's the test for then?

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 It's for us.

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 It exposes something in us.

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 God's tests reveal to us

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 the true nature of our spiritual condition.

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 Something we are prone to self-deceive about.

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 And without his test,

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 our potential for spiritual growth and maturity

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 is greatly diminished.

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 There's a good purpose in the testing of God.

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 He builds us up.

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 That's the purpose.

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 Second thing I want you to see in this text is this.

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 Failing the test.

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 Failing the test.

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 If you've paid attention at all

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 in these first five sermons of the book of Judges,

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 you will understand that this was coming.

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 Failure.

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 Verse five.

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 So the people of Israel lived among the Canaanites.

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 They did not drive them out.

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 They did not destroy them as God had told them to do.

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 They lived among them.

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 They lived among the Canaanites,

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 and the Hittites,

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 and the Amorites,

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 and the Perizzites,

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 the Hivites,

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 and the Jebusites,

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 all the enemies of God.

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 Their daughters,

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 they took to themselves for wives,

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 and their own daughters,

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 they gave to their sons,

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 and then the final step,

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 they serve their gods.

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 So God leaves a few groups after Joshua's death.

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 Death detests the nation,

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 and as we have seen described over and over

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 in these first two chapters,

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 the people fell miserably.

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 But God's test wasn't something

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 that he hadn't prepared them for.

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 You ever take one of those tests in school?

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 Maybe it's a pop quiz or something like that,

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 and the teacher really hasn't done a good job

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 of preparing the class,

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 and basically everybody fails.

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 Not the case with God.

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 God had already described

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 this exact progression of sin and judgment

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 to the nation

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 if they would not listen to him,

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 and if they would fail the test.

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 In fact,

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 turn in your Bibles back a few pages

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 to the book of Deuteronomy.

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 Deuteronomy chapter seven.

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 Would be more helpful for you probably

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 to set your eyes on it in your Bible

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 than on the screen.

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 So Deuteronomy,

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 I don't even know if I put it on the screen.

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 Deuteronomy chapter seven.

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 And I want to read the first five verses here.

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 Deuteronomy chapter seven.

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 Verse one.

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 When the Lord your God brings you into the land

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 that you are entering to take possession of it,

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 and he clears away many of the nations before you,

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 the Hittites and the Girgashites,

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 the Amorites,

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 the Canaanites,

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 the Perizzites,

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 the Hivites,

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 the Jebusites,

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 seven nations more numerous and mightier than you.

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 And when the Lord your God gives them over to you,

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 and you defeat them,

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 listen to what the instruction is.

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 Then you must devote them to complete destruction.

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 You shall make no covenant with them

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 and show no mercy to them.

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 You shall not intermarry with them,

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 giving your daughters to their sons

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 or taking their daughters for your sons,

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 for they would turn away your sons from following me

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 to serve other gods.

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 Then the anger of the Lord would be kindled against you,

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 and he would destroy you quickly.

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 But thus shall you deal with them.

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 You shall break down their altars

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 and dash in pieces their pillars

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 and chop down their ashram

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 and burn their carved images with fire.

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 Okay, that was the lesson, right?

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 That was the classroom lesson.

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 What Israel's facing now in Judges chapter two and three

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 is the test from the lesson

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 that God gave in Deuteronomy seven.

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 He said clearly,

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 I'm gonna give the people into your hand,

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 but if you disobey me in this,

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 by going and living among them

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 and then intermarrying with them,

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 eventually you are gonna begin to serve their gods,

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 and then my wrath will ensue.

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 My judgment will come.

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 Through intermarrying with the people of the land,

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 Israel became willing worshipers of the gods of the land,

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 and there's a word of warning and application for us in there,

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 and this isn't there.

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 I think it's Barry Webb who said,

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 the surest way to end up loving the world yourself

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 is to bind yourself to someone who already does.

00:26:37.599 --> 00:26:42.859
 The surest way to end up loving the world yourself

00:26:42.859 --> 00:26:45.439
 is to bind yourself to someone who already does.

00:26:45.759 --> 00:26:47.139
 Hence the apostles' warning,

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 do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers.

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 For what fellowship has righteousness

00:26:52.219 --> 00:26:54.000
 with unrighteousness or lawlessness?

00:26:54.259 --> 00:26:56.240
 Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

00:26:56.459 --> 00:26:59.039
 What accord has Christ with Belial?

00:26:59.740 --> 00:27:03.279
 What portion does a believer share with an unbeliever?

00:27:03.279 --> 00:27:08.259
 A New Testament application to an Old Testament problem with Israel.

00:27:09.940 --> 00:27:13.119
 God hasn't instructed us to conquer nations through war.

00:27:14.299 --> 00:27:17.039
 Thank goodness those days are behind.

00:27:18.019 --> 00:27:19.399
 I guess in some sense they're ahead,

00:27:19.899 --> 00:27:21.200
 but for right now they're behind.

00:27:22.839 --> 00:27:24.559
 He has commanded us, however,

00:27:25.119 --> 00:27:28.019
 not to align ourselves with unbelievers

00:27:28.019 --> 00:27:32.299
 in ways that compromise our Christian faith.

00:27:33.279 --> 00:27:36.399
 Because the same progression of sinfulness

00:27:36.399 --> 00:27:37.500
 that happened to Israel

00:27:37.500 --> 00:27:40.480
 is the same progression of sinfulness and failure

00:27:40.480 --> 00:27:42.119
 that will happen to us

00:27:42.119 --> 00:27:44.420
 when we do not exercise wisdom

00:27:44.420 --> 00:27:46.220
 regarding who we're going to marry.

00:27:46.960 --> 00:27:49.019
 When we do not exercise wisdom

00:27:49.019 --> 00:27:52.839
 regarding the most intimate friendships of our lives.

00:27:53.019 --> 00:27:54.799
 When we do not exercise wisdom

00:27:54.799 --> 00:27:57.720
 about where we send our kids for schooling and for education.

00:27:58.000 --> 00:28:00.019
 When we do not exercise wisdom

00:28:00.019 --> 00:28:02.440
 when choosing a company for which to work.

00:28:02.440 --> 00:28:05.820
 All of these things require discernment and wisdom.

00:28:06.240 --> 00:28:08.240
 And if we begin aligning ourselves

00:28:08.240 --> 00:28:10.840
 in ways that compromise our faith,

00:28:10.960 --> 00:28:12.519
 what will inevitably happen

00:28:12.519 --> 00:28:14.320
 is we will in the end

00:28:14.320 --> 00:28:18.620
 make ourselves unidentifiable as believers anymore.

00:28:20.200 --> 00:28:21.840
 It's the same progression.

00:28:22.799 --> 00:28:26.019
 It's the same test that we continue to fail.

00:28:26.900 --> 00:28:29.160
 Israel does it over and over and over

00:28:29.160 --> 00:28:30.580
 and so do we.

00:28:32.500 --> 00:28:34.920
 Now Jesus does something that seems impossible, right?

00:28:34.960 --> 00:28:35.880
 He comes in and he says,

00:28:36.000 --> 00:28:37.360
 here's how we're supposed to live in the world.

00:28:37.560 --> 00:28:38.700
 I'm going to leave you here.

00:28:38.740 --> 00:28:39.779
 I'm not going to take you out of it.

00:28:40.240 --> 00:28:41.600
 I'm going to leave you here

00:28:41.600 --> 00:28:44.519
 and I want you to live in this world,

00:28:44.620 --> 00:28:45.580
 not in isolation,

00:28:46.279 --> 00:28:48.480
 but in the process of living in this world,

00:28:48.540 --> 00:28:49.720
 you're going to have to be my light.

00:28:50.840 --> 00:28:52.240
 Seems impossible, doesn't it?

00:28:52.240 --> 00:28:57.319
 Well, it is without the working of the Holy Spirit in us,

00:28:57.380 --> 00:28:59.700
 but there is a danger here, isn't it?

00:29:01.120 --> 00:29:02.700
 That if we align ourselves

00:29:02.700 --> 00:29:05.079
 in a way that's unfaithful or unhelpful,

00:29:05.620 --> 00:29:07.819
 we're going to set ourselves on a trajectory

00:29:07.819 --> 00:29:10.039
 of serving other gods.

00:29:12.319 --> 00:29:15.680
 Don't let the most crucial relationships of your life

00:29:15.680 --> 00:29:19.079
 be with unbelievers.

00:29:19.079 --> 00:29:20.519
 It cannot be that.

00:29:21.500 --> 00:29:23.039
 It will be a danger to you

00:29:23.039 --> 00:29:24.619
 and to your family and to your children.

00:29:29.099 --> 00:29:32.339
 Thirdly, I want you to see grading the test.

00:29:33.319 --> 00:29:34.899
 So we've seen testing with a purpose.

00:29:35.179 --> 00:29:37.639
 We've now seen Israel failing the test

00:29:37.639 --> 00:29:39.179
 and how often we fail the test as well.

00:29:39.240 --> 00:29:41.399
 Now I want you to see God grading it.

00:29:42.139 --> 00:29:42.839
 Now do you remember

00:29:42.839 --> 00:29:44.919
 how the narrative timelines are stacked?

00:29:45.579 --> 00:29:48.579
 We throw up that second chart again there, Becky,

00:29:48.579 --> 00:29:49.579
 just to remind us.

00:29:50.339 --> 00:29:51.359
 Here's why it's important.

00:29:52.859 --> 00:29:55.500
 When the author says that God left those nations

00:29:55.500 --> 00:30:00.379
 to test Israel in chapters 2 and verse 23 through 34,

00:30:00.539 --> 00:30:01.599
 right here, okay?

00:30:02.339 --> 00:30:03.899
 Where is this at in the timeline?

00:30:05.799 --> 00:30:07.619
 Joshua's death, if you can see it, right?

00:30:08.559 --> 00:30:09.779
 Okay, that's important.

00:30:10.859 --> 00:30:13.220
 When God says that he left those nations

00:30:13.220 --> 00:30:16.940
 to test Israel in chapter 2, verses 20 to 22,

00:30:17.240 --> 00:30:18.480
 where is it at in the timeline?

00:30:20.100 --> 00:30:20.579
 God's judgment.

00:30:21.980 --> 00:30:24.740
 So there's an initial purpose to the testing

00:30:24.740 --> 00:30:27.460
 that then transforms to a different purpose

00:30:27.460 --> 00:30:30.240
 after they disobey and after they fail.

00:30:30.900 --> 00:30:32.000
 That's what I want you to see here.

00:30:32.240 --> 00:30:33.160
 This is gonna be helpful.

00:30:33.299 --> 00:30:34.900
 If you'll hang with me when we get to the end,

00:30:35.180 --> 00:30:37.140
 I think that it will encourage you.

00:30:37.140 --> 00:30:40.500
 This refers, these verses I'm about to read,

00:30:40.540 --> 00:30:44.340
 it refers to the time after Israel's apostasy,

00:30:44.800 --> 00:30:46.520
 and it records God's response.

00:30:46.900 --> 00:30:47.360
 Verse 20,

00:30:48.220 --> 00:30:50.520
 the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel,

00:30:50.600 --> 00:30:51.100
 and he said,

00:30:51.099 --> 00:30:53.939
 because this people have transgressed my covenant

00:30:53.939 --> 00:30:55.699
 that I commanded their fathers

00:30:55.699 --> 00:30:57.259
 and have not obeyed my voice,

00:30:57.579 --> 00:31:01.359
 I will no longer drive out before them

00:31:01.359 --> 00:31:03.219
 any of the nations that Joshua left

00:31:03.219 --> 00:31:05.599
 in order to test Israel by them

00:31:05.599 --> 00:31:07.299
 whether they will take care

00:31:07.299 --> 00:31:09.139
 to walk in the way of the Lord

00:31:09.139 --> 00:31:11.139
 as their fathers did or not.

00:31:12.939 --> 00:31:16.019
 Israel's offense against God was personal,

00:31:17.299 --> 00:31:20.099
 and the consequences severe.

00:31:21.099 --> 00:31:24.399
 The nations initially left to test them

00:31:24.399 --> 00:31:27.980
 would now be used by God to judge them.

00:31:29.419 --> 00:31:31.500
 Now there's an important thing to understand here.

00:31:32.439 --> 00:31:35.279
 God was not breaking his covenant with Abraham

00:31:35.279 --> 00:31:39.599
 when he refuses to continue driving out the people.

00:31:39.819 --> 00:31:40.839
 He's not breaking covenant.

00:31:41.379 --> 00:31:45.259
 What he's doing is deferring the blessings

00:31:45.259 --> 00:31:47.879
 of this covenant to another generation.

00:31:48.799 --> 00:31:50.259
 He will always be faithful,

00:31:50.259 --> 00:31:54.160
 and he ultimately won this battle with Israel,

00:31:54.319 --> 00:31:55.839
 particularly the King David,

00:31:55.960 --> 00:31:57.599
 and then ultimately in King Jesus.

00:31:59.019 --> 00:32:00.579
 But he's not breaking covenant here.

00:32:01.059 --> 00:32:02.500
 He's deferring its blessings

00:32:02.500 --> 00:32:03.680
 to a different generation.

00:32:04.400 --> 00:32:06.259
 God must judge sin,

00:32:06.440 --> 00:32:08.099
 and he was not gonna look the other way

00:32:08.099 --> 00:32:09.799
 when Israel failed this test.

00:32:09.799 --> 00:32:12.740
 I want you to consider for just a moment

00:32:12.740 --> 00:32:15.359
 the personal nature of sin

00:32:15.359 --> 00:32:17.700
 that breaks covenant with God.

00:32:19.799 --> 00:32:23.159
 If you get pulled over by a cop

00:32:23.159 --> 00:32:25.019
 for speeding after church this morning,

00:32:26.119 --> 00:32:26.799
 this afternoon,

00:32:27.599 --> 00:32:30.940
 it has no relational significance

00:32:30.940 --> 00:32:32.240
 to that police officer

00:32:32.240 --> 00:32:33.559
 to write you a ticket.

00:32:34.599 --> 00:32:34.839
 Right?

00:32:35.240 --> 00:32:35.779
 He doesn't care.

00:32:35.779 --> 00:32:37.319
 You haven't broken his heart

00:32:37.319 --> 00:32:38.660
 by speeding today.

00:32:39.319 --> 00:32:39.460
 Right?

00:32:39.839 --> 00:32:40.899
 But he's gonna write you a ticket.

00:32:41.399 --> 00:32:41.799
 Right?

00:32:41.839 --> 00:32:42.599
 He's gonna judge you.

00:32:42.799 --> 00:32:44.359
 But he's acting as an agent

00:32:44.359 --> 00:32:45.519
 of someone else's law.

00:32:45.700 --> 00:32:45.940
 Right?

00:32:46.779 --> 00:32:47.019
 Okay?

00:32:47.440 --> 00:32:48.680
 That's a different kind of situation.

00:32:49.099 --> 00:32:50.119
 You're not really breaking our covenant.

00:32:50.259 --> 00:32:50.980
 You're just doing something

00:32:50.980 --> 00:32:51.879
 you're not supposed to do,

00:32:51.940 --> 00:32:53.420
 and somebody's gonna punish you for it.

00:32:53.420 --> 00:32:57.240
 But if your wife discovers

00:32:57.240 --> 00:32:58.279
 that you've cheated on her

00:32:58.279 --> 00:32:59.660
 with another woman or man,

00:33:00.300 --> 00:33:03.620
 it has all the personal significance

00:33:03.620 --> 00:33:04.580
 in the world, doesn't it?

00:33:06.420 --> 00:33:07.880
 You haven't broken a law.

00:33:08.740 --> 00:33:09.920
 You've broken a covenant.

00:33:11.160 --> 00:33:13.120
 And there are serious consequences

00:33:13.120 --> 00:33:14.680
 that come with breaking a covenant

00:33:14.680 --> 00:33:15.259
 with a lover.

00:33:16.960 --> 00:33:19.100
 That's precisely what's happening here

00:33:19.100 --> 00:33:20.500
 between God and Israel.

00:33:20.500 --> 00:33:22.619
 And it's the most common way

00:33:22.619 --> 00:33:26.779
 that God describes our sin against him.

00:33:28.240 --> 00:33:30.180
 Barry Webb, again, is helpful here.

00:33:30.960 --> 00:33:32.460
 There is a covenant relationship

00:33:32.460 --> 00:33:34.880
 between God and human beings

00:33:34.880 --> 00:33:36.740
 inerrant in creation.

00:33:38.099 --> 00:33:39.880
 The offense is greater, though,

00:33:40.119 --> 00:33:42.720
 for those who have been brought

00:33:42.720 --> 00:33:45.539
 into a special relationship with God

00:33:45.539 --> 00:33:48.240
 by his gracious redeeming work

00:33:48.240 --> 00:33:50.339
 for them and in them.

00:33:50.900 --> 00:33:53.160
 That was Israel, right?

00:33:53.940 --> 00:33:55.400
 They weren't just any nation.

00:33:55.740 --> 00:33:57.400
 They were God's chosen nation.

00:33:58.140 --> 00:33:59.640
 And it wasn't because they were great.

00:33:59.759 --> 00:34:01.279
 It was actually the opposite of that.

00:34:01.339 --> 00:34:02.000
 They were the worst.

00:34:03.180 --> 00:34:03.980
 God chooses them.

00:34:04.079 --> 00:34:05.339
 He sets his love on them.

00:34:05.440 --> 00:34:07.980
 They see his power at work

00:34:07.980 --> 00:34:09.860
 in them and for them

00:34:09.860 --> 00:34:10.920
 in the years of wandering

00:34:10.920 --> 00:34:11.780
 coming out of Egypt

00:34:11.780 --> 00:34:12.639
 and into the wilderness

00:34:12.639 --> 00:34:14.980
 and now through the Joshua generation.

00:34:16.559 --> 00:34:18.799
 They have a unique covenant relationship

00:34:18.799 --> 00:34:20.599
 with God at this point.

00:34:22.440 --> 00:34:24.679
 Sin is never a minor issue with God.

00:34:25.099 --> 00:34:26.339
 It is personal.

00:34:27.179 --> 00:34:29.339
 And the personal nature of sin

00:34:29.339 --> 00:34:32.079
 is magnified when it is committed

00:34:32.079 --> 00:34:34.799
 by those who are in covenant with him.

00:34:35.920 --> 00:34:37.099
 In our terms,

00:34:37.319 --> 00:34:39.920
 it would be for those who commit sins

00:34:39.920 --> 00:34:43.180
 who have experienced the gracious work of God

00:34:43.180 --> 00:34:44.460
 in salvation.

00:34:47.220 --> 00:34:50.559
 It should grieve us when we sin.

00:34:51.119 --> 00:34:52.559
 It should grieve us

00:34:52.559 --> 00:34:54.579
 because we know the grace of God.

00:34:54.960 --> 00:34:57.200
 That's why it should grieve us most.

00:34:59.039 --> 00:35:00.159
 It's personal.

00:35:03.380 --> 00:35:05.360
 But God will never break his covenant

00:35:05.360 --> 00:35:08.740
 with those on whom he has set his redeeming love.

00:35:08.739 --> 00:35:09.939
 That's the encouraging thing.

00:35:10.199 --> 00:35:10.979
 He won't do that.

00:35:11.639 --> 00:35:13.299
 He will not take away your salvation.

00:35:14.479 --> 00:35:15.819
 But he will judge your sin.

00:35:18.019 --> 00:35:19.939
 And he will judge it at least in this sense.

00:35:20.639 --> 00:35:23.219
 That he may defer the blessings

00:35:23.219 --> 00:35:26.679
 of that covenant

00:35:26.679 --> 00:35:30.459
 so that you do not fully experience

00:35:30.459 --> 00:35:31.879
 the joy of your salvation

00:35:31.879 --> 00:35:34.039
 in the here and now.

00:35:34.819 --> 00:35:36.239
 You understand this.

00:35:36.239 --> 00:35:38.719
 The most miserable person on earth

00:35:38.719 --> 00:35:40.359
 is not the person who is without Christ.

00:35:40.899 --> 00:35:42.739
 The most miserable person on earth

00:35:42.739 --> 00:35:44.139
 is the person who has Christ

00:35:44.139 --> 00:35:45.799
 but lives in sin against him.

00:35:47.519 --> 00:35:48.899
 You understand the nature

00:35:48.899 --> 00:35:49.819
 of breaking that covenant.

00:35:51.299 --> 00:35:52.299
 God in his judgment

00:35:52.299 --> 00:35:53.539
 does not remove your salvation.

00:35:53.699 --> 00:35:54.819
 That has been put on Christ

00:35:54.819 --> 00:35:55.879
 but he does

00:35:55.879 --> 00:35:56.639
 and he may

00:35:56.639 --> 00:35:59.079
 defer the blessings of joy

00:35:59.079 --> 00:36:00.079
 of that salvation

00:36:00.079 --> 00:36:00.979
 in the here and now.

00:36:00.979 --> 00:36:02.379
 He may defer that

00:36:02.379 --> 00:36:03.919
 beyond this life.

00:36:03.920 --> 00:36:07.559
 We should never feel good in sin.

00:36:08.639 --> 00:36:10.300
 We should never be content

00:36:10.300 --> 00:36:11.880
 to live in it.

00:36:12.740 --> 00:36:13.680
 He should grieve us.

00:36:14.880 --> 00:36:15.720
 He should grieve us.

00:36:17.559 --> 00:36:19.019
 But it's not old judgment

00:36:19.019 --> 00:36:19.820
 in this section.

00:36:20.079 --> 00:36:21.340
 That's the great thing about it, right?

00:36:22.300 --> 00:36:23.220
 Again, we see

00:36:23.220 --> 00:36:25.360
 the wonder of God's justice

00:36:25.360 --> 00:36:26.200
 and his mercy

00:36:26.200 --> 00:36:27.400
 being brought together here.

00:36:27.760 --> 00:36:28.920
 Look at verse 22.

00:36:28.920 --> 00:36:32.920
 He left these nations

00:36:32.920 --> 00:36:34.000
 when Joshua died

00:36:34.000 --> 00:36:36.900
 in order to test Israel by them

00:36:36.900 --> 00:36:38.480
 whether they will take care

00:36:38.480 --> 00:36:39.700
 to walk in the way of the Lord.

00:36:39.880 --> 00:36:40.740
 Now this is interesting.

00:36:42.119 --> 00:36:43.519
 This was his initial reason

00:36:43.519 --> 00:36:44.300
 for the test, right?

00:36:45.039 --> 00:36:45.900
 Now they've failed.

00:36:46.700 --> 00:36:48.400
 Why would he issue the test again?

00:36:50.180 --> 00:36:51.360
 There's only one reason.

00:36:52.800 --> 00:36:53.960
 Because he loves them.

00:36:55.260 --> 00:36:56.579
 He doesn't cut them off.

00:36:56.579 --> 00:36:58.739
 He doesn't abandon them.

00:36:59.579 --> 00:37:00.380
 He doesn't say,

00:37:00.480 --> 00:37:01.319
 I'm done with you.

00:37:01.960 --> 00:37:03.340
 I'm going to find someone else.

00:37:04.219 --> 00:37:05.799
 Forget all those other things.

00:37:06.259 --> 00:37:07.159
 He doesn't do that.

00:37:08.279 --> 00:37:09.579
 Though they committed adultery

00:37:09.579 --> 00:37:10.319
 against him,

00:37:10.480 --> 00:37:11.960
 he would not cast them out.

00:37:12.360 --> 00:37:13.659
 Despite their sin,

00:37:13.960 --> 00:37:15.039
 he was faithful

00:37:15.039 --> 00:37:17.179
 again and again

00:37:17.179 --> 00:37:17.880
 and again

00:37:17.880 --> 00:37:19.440
 to offer his mercy

00:37:19.440 --> 00:37:20.420
 in an attempt

00:37:20.420 --> 00:37:21.319
 to lead them

00:37:21.319 --> 00:37:22.739
 to repentance.

00:37:23.519 --> 00:37:25.000
 That's what judges is.

00:37:25.000 --> 00:37:26.380
 It's this cycle

00:37:26.380 --> 00:37:27.760
 of Israel's failure

00:37:27.760 --> 00:37:29.739
 paired with

00:37:29.739 --> 00:37:30.579
 this cycle

00:37:30.579 --> 00:37:32.440
 of God's mercy.

00:37:33.239 --> 00:37:34.380
 Again and again

00:37:34.380 --> 00:37:34.840
 and again

00:37:34.840 --> 00:37:35.519
 they fail

00:37:35.519 --> 00:37:36.320
 and again

00:37:36.320 --> 00:37:36.880
 and again

00:37:36.880 --> 00:37:37.460
 and again

00:37:37.460 --> 00:37:38.780
 he delivers them

00:37:38.780 --> 00:37:40.119
 and he extends his mercy.

00:37:40.679 --> 00:37:42.219
 This is the wonderful

00:37:42.219 --> 00:37:44.239
 grace of God.

00:37:45.579 --> 00:37:47.539
 No matter how often

00:37:47.539 --> 00:37:48.840
 we fail the test,

00:37:49.219 --> 00:37:50.480
 he pursues us

00:37:50.480 --> 00:37:51.699
 and he offers us

00:37:51.699 --> 00:37:53.199
 mercy anew

00:37:53.199 --> 00:37:54.099
 and afresh

00:37:54.099 --> 00:37:55.679
 every morning

00:37:55.679 --> 00:37:57.400
 the word tells us.

00:37:58.920 --> 00:37:59.960
 Says Kristen Getty,

00:38:00.059 --> 00:38:01.179
 what grace is mine

00:38:01.179 --> 00:38:02.860
 that he who dwells

00:38:02.860 --> 00:38:04.320
 in endless light

00:38:04.320 --> 00:38:06.500
 called through the night

00:38:06.500 --> 00:38:08.880
 to find my distant soul

00:38:08.880 --> 00:38:11.420
 and from his scars

00:38:11.420 --> 00:38:12.740
 poured mercy

00:38:12.740 --> 00:38:14.400
 that would plead for me

00:38:14.400 --> 00:38:16.159
 that I might live

00:38:16.159 --> 00:38:18.340
 and in his name be known.

00:38:18.340 --> 00:38:19.820
 What grace?

00:38:22.500 --> 00:38:23.220
 Are you being tested

00:38:23.220 --> 00:38:23.900
 by God today?

00:38:26.720 --> 00:38:28.059
 The answer is yes

00:38:28.059 --> 00:38:30.019
 whether you realize it or not.

00:38:30.940 --> 00:38:32.140
 It may be more

00:38:32.140 --> 00:38:33.280
 or less severe

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 than other times

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 in your life

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 but the fact is

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 is you're probably

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 being tested

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 in some way.

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 Remember God's tests

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 are always

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 with a good purpose

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 even if you can't see it.

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 it's a good purpose

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 that he has for you

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 but even if you fail

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 or if you have already

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 failed

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 his mercies are new.

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 He'll give you another test.

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 We call it a makeup test

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 when I was a kid

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 and if enough people

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 in the class failed

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 the teacher would

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 reissue the test

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 because it looks bad on her

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 if everybody fails, right?

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 God doesn't do it

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 for the same reason.

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 God does it

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 because he loves us

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 because he's a merciful God.

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 As John Newton said

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 there is more mercy in him

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 than there is sin in us.

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 Turn

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 trust him.

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