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 But please do have a seat and let's pray together.

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 Father God, we thank you so much for the God that you are,

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 for the grace that you've shown,

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 for the mercy you've poured out,

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 for the price that it cost you in your Son, the Lord Jesus.

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 So Lord, I pray this time together gathering in your word would be useful to us,

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 that we would hear you speak through your word,

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 that we would leave clinging to your Son, the Lord Jesus,

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 and we would do it all in the power of your wonderful Holy Spirit,

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 who lives in us to conform us to his glorious image.

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 So bless us and help us, be with us, give us attentive minds, open hearts,

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 malleable wills, and eyes ready to be fixed on Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.

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 Amen.

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 So we're in Daniel's world.

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 We're in the really tricky second half.

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 Today we're going to focus predominantly in chapter 9.

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 And the question I think that lies behind this chapter is,

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 will the exile work?

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 I wonder, have you ever been to prison?

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 Have you ever been to prison?

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 I've been to prison over 40 times.

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 But not as an offender, not in handcuffs or a jumpsuit.

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 I've been to prison about 40 times,

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 because when I was at university, I did some work in this place,

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 Crag Inches Prison, to the south of Aberdeen in the district of Torrey.

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 What we did in prison is, me and a load of mates from university,

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 we went in to play football with the inmates.

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 It was prison rules.

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 It was pretty brutal.

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 I wish I had more than one pair of shin pads on at the time.

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 But we would play football.

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 We would get to know the guys.

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 We would then sit around afterwards.

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 We would share some testimonies, short talks from the Bible.

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 We would drink Coke and eat Mars bars.

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 And we all had a great time.

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 And I remember one guy in particular called Harry.

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 Harry became a good friend.

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 I think he was also a good friend to a lot of the prison staff.

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 They saw him quite a lot.

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 And I remember we were talking about the next week and who was free to play.

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 And Harry said this to us,

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 I won't be able to play next week.

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 I'm getting released.

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 But I'll probably be able to play the week after.

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 And sure enough, we missed him for a week.

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 And then the next week, there he was in his Celtic top,

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 beaming from ear to ear,

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 ready to kick us up and down the park all over again.

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 It's a major issue, isn't it, in the criminal justice system.

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 Do we send people to prison for correction,

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 or do we just send them there for punishment?

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 Is it rehabilitation, or is it merely incarceration?

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 Does prison work?

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 Is it a suitable deterrent?

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 Do people come out with changed lives and changed attitudes?

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 It's a big question that's going around in our political system at the moment.

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 What is the purpose of prison?

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 And I think a very similar question lies behind Daniel chapter 9.

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 Daniel chapter 9.

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 Is it a real key period for Daniel and the people of Israel in Babylon?

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 They've been in exile.

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 It's not been a prison like crag inches, but it's kind of the same idea.

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 On account of their sin,

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 their repeated disobedience,

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 their failure to honor God and worship Him with all their heart, soul, mind, and strength,

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 God allowed them to be deported,

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 to be exiled in the grip of Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonian Empire.

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 And I don't think we truly appreciate the horror of this.

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 That in God allowing His people to go into exile,

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 God was kind of undoing what He had been doing for His people for the last thousand years.

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 That He promised Abraham that you would have a land,

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 that you would be my people and I would be your God,

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 that you would be a blessing.

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 And with the exile, it seems that everyone packs up,

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 and that plan that God had been working out amongst His rebellious people

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 goes back to the bottom of the pile.

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 So what we read in Daniel chapter 1 verses 1 and 2

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 about Jehoiachin being taken captive

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 and people being exiled to Babylon is a national disgrace.

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 And people would wonder, why is this happening?

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 So I think if we get that in our minds,

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 that God's people have gone into exile as punishment,

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 then I think we start to get a bit more of a handle

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 and a bit more behind what's going on in chapter 9.

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 So let's have a look at Daniel chapter 9,

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 and just the first three verses as we see Daniel's preparation.

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 In the first year of Darius, son of Xerxes,

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 a Mede by descent who was made ruler over the Babylonian kingdom

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 in the first year of his reign,

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 I, Daniel, understood from the Scriptures,

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 according to the word of the Lord,

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 given to Jeremiah the prophet that the desolation of Jerusalem would last 70 years.

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 So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and petition,

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 in fasting and in sackcloth and ashes.

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 It's the first year of King Darius.

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 This happens in the same year that Daniel goes into the lion's den.

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 We don't know whether this is before or after.

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 And Daniel is reading his Bible.

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 He's reading his Bible and he's most probably reading something from Jeremiah,

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 probably chapter 25 or chapter 29.

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 And as he reads, he discovers what the plan is.

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 Jeremiah 29 puts it like this.

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 This is what the Lord says.

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 When 70 years are completed for Babylon,

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 I will come to you and fulfill my good promise to bring you back to this place.

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 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord,

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 plans to prosper you and not to harm you,

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 plans to give you hope and a future.

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 Then you will call on me and come and pray to me and I will listen to you.

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 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

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 I will be found by you, declares the Lord,

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 and will bring you back from captivity.

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 I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you,

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 declares the Lord,

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 and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile.

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 So Daniel's reading his Bible.

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 As he reads his Bible, he learns of God's plans.

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 As he learns of God's plans, it drives him to prayer.

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 I wonder, does that happen in our lives?

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 That as we read of who God is, what he's done for us,

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 does that drive us to prayer?

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 Does our Bible reading fuel our prayer?

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 Because it certainly seems to work in Daniel's life and he's all the better and stronger for it.

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 So when Daniel's reading Jeremiah, he hears of this 70 years.

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 And the thing for Daniel is these 70 years are nearly running out.

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 Daniel is exiled in about 605 BC.

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 The first year of King Darius is about 539 BC.

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 Using my calculator this week, I realized that this is the 66th year of a 70-year exile.

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 They're nearly finished.

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 And when Daniel realizes that, he prays.

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 Daniel's been a remarkable man of prayer.

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 He prays in chapter 2 earnestly because his very life depends on him being able to interpret Nebuchadnezzar's dream.

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 He prayed after he got the interpretation of the dream,

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 giving thanks to God that he was the God who reveals mysteries.

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 In chapter 6, we learn that he repeatedly, habitually, perpetually set aside three times a day for prescribed prayers to seek his God.

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 Day after day, month after month, year after year, decade after decade for 66 years during his exile in Babylon.

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 And look at him, he's earnest.

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 This isn't sitting down for a quiet time with a cup of tea and your slippers on.

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 He does it with prayer and petition in fasting and in sackcloth and ashes.

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 It is an appropriate physical expression of the attitude he comes to God with.

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 He has come to do real business with the Lord.

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 This isn't ticking off the checklist of the day.

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 Oh, I should pray today. Check.

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 This is an emergency prayer offered in the heat of the moment.

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 This is a deliberate act to come before God for prayers and petitions with a penitent heart.

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 We see sackcloth and ashes in Nineveh.

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 At the preaching of Jonah when all the people of Nineveh repent.

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 We see it in Esther's time before Esther goes before the king.

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 They all put on sackcloth and ashes.

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 So their physical expression is a mark of their earnestness.

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 And I guess the question is, why then, if they're nearly home,

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 does Daniel spend so much of the chapter praying a prayer of confession?

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 Surely he would be singing, Daniel's coming home.

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 He's coming home.

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 He's coming home.

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 Daniel's coming home.

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 That's what we would do.

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 It's nearly over.

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 The time is nearly through.

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 But why does he spend so much time in confession?

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 Well, Leviticus 26, I think.

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 Moses foreshadowing the exile.

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 This is what it says.

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 If you still do not listen to me, says God,

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 I will turn your cities into ruins and lay waste your sanctuaries.

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 And I will take no delight in the pleasing aroma of your offerings.

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 I myself will lay waste the land so that your enemies who live there will be appalled.

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 I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out my sword and pursue you.

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 Your land will be laid waste and your cities will lie in ruins.

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 Then a little bit further down.

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 But if they will confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors,

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 their unfaithfulness and their hostility towards me,

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 which made me hostile towards them so that I sent them into the land of their enemies.

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 I will remember my covenant with Jacob and my covenant with Isaac

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 and my covenant with Abraham.

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 And I will remember the land.

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 But Moses says, exile is coming all that time before.

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 And he says, if they confess their sins, seek me with all their heart.

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 I'll remember them and bring them back.

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 So in chapter 9, there is real excitement about the return.

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 Exile has been really tough.

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 And yet Psalm 137,

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 And by the rivers of Babylon, we sat down and wept when we remember Zion.

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 This has been a difficult stint.

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 There's real excitement about getting home.

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 But there's real apprehension.

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 Will God's people have learnt their lesson from exile?

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 If sin caused their exile in the first place,

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 then are they going back as different people?

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 Or will the cycle just start all over again like Harry?

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 Goes to prison, comes out, goes to prison, comes out.

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 Will it be exile, sin, and then exile again?

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 That's what Daniel is worried about.

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 And so we see him in chapter 4, praying.

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 And so let us read this together.

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 I've written it out for you.

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 What I want you to do is all read the green bits.

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 The green bold bits.

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 The bits about sin, as it so happens.

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 Lord, the great and awesome God who keeps his covenant of love

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 with those who love him and keep his commandments.

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 We have sinned and done wrong.

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 We have been wicked and have rebelled.

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 We have turned away from your commands and laws.

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 We have not listened to your servants, the prophets,

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 who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our ancestors,

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 and to all the people of the land.

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 Lord, you are righteous, but this day we are covered with shame.

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 The people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel,

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 both near and far,

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 in all the countries where you have scattered us because of our unfaithfulness to you.

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 We and our kings, our princes, and our ancestors are covered with shame.

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 Lord, because we have sinned against you.

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 The Lord our God is merciful and forgiving,

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 even though we have rebelled against him.

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 We have not obeyed the Lord our God or kept the laws.

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 He gave us through his servants and prophets.

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 All Israel has transgressed your law and turned away,

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 refusing to obey you.

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 Therefore, the curses and sworn judgments written in the law of Moses,

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 the servant of God, have been poured out on us,

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 because we have sinned against you.

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 You have fulfilled the word spoken against us and against our rulers

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 by bringing on us great disaster.

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 Under the whole heaven, nothing has ever been done

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 like what has been done to Jerusalem.

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 Just as it is written in the law of Moses,

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 all this disaster has come on us,

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 yet we have not sought the favor of the Lord our God

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 by turning from our sins and giving attention to your truth.

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 The Lord did not hesitate to bring the disaster on us,

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 for the Lord our God is righteous in everything he does,

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 yet we have not obeyed him.

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 Now, Lord our God, who brought your people out of Egypt with a mighty hand

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 and who made for yourself a name that endures to this day,

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 we have sinned, we have done wrong.

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 Lord, in keeping with all your righteous acts,

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 turn away your anger and your wrath from Jerusalem,

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 your city, your holy hill.

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 Our sins and the iniquities of our ancestors

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 have made Jerusalem and your people an object of scorn.

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 to all those around us.

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 It's pretty powerful stuff, isn't it?

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 He's not playing at that.

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 He's not whizzing through the adoration, confession, thanksgiving and supplication

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 that we so regularly structure our prayers around.

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 And notice that it's confession in two directions.

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 It is confession about God's goodness,

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 his rightness, his character,

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 and it is confession about their wrongness,

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 how far they've fallen,

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 how they have not only sinned,

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 but they have willfully refused to obey.

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 They've not done this in ignorance,

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 they've done it in arrogance.

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 And so they say things like verse 7,

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 Lord, you are righteous,

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 but this day we are covered with shame.

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 You are righteous,

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 we are covered with shame.

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 And that's the truth that lies at the very centre of the Bible.

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 That God is good and righteous.

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 And that we, on account of our sin,

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 willfully rebelling against him,

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 are covered with shame.

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 And until we get that,

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 until we get the depth of our sin,

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 we will never turn to God as a saviour.

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 Until we get that before a holy God,

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 we have fallen so short,

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 and are covered in so much shame.

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 Until we pray prayers like Daniel,

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 God can do nothing to help us.

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 You are righteous,

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 and we are covered with shame.

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 The very essence of Christianity

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 is that it is a rescue religion.

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 It is a religion where God rescues us.

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 Yet again, the kids talk falls so perfectly in line.

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 Why does God send Moses

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 to rescue his people from Egypt?

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 Daniel knows that the exile was thoroughly deserved,

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 but he is worried that the 70 years won't have worked.

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 They may get home,

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 but they are still just as sinful,

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 so they won't be home for good.

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 And Daniel takes time to contemplate his sin.

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 It's quite a long time in the chapter to pray.

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 It's a significant proportion

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 where he declares his sin

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 and the sin of his people.

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 He is not dodging it.

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 He is owning it.

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 This is Daniel,

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 who seemingly is the holiest guy

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 on the planet at the time.

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 He has been this model,

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 this example of what holiness looks like.

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 And he is here on his knees

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 in sackcloth and ashes and fasting,

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 saying,

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 I failed and we failed.

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 Face down,

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 broken on the floor on account of his sin,

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 pleading to God.

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 Not brushing over it,

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 not making excuses,

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 saying,

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 we have sinned.

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 And it's got to be something

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 that we cultivate in our hearts,

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 that we own our sin.

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 That as we own our sin

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 in relation to God's holiness,

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 it will cultivate a humility,

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 a dependence,

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 and a thankfulness

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 for the Lord Jesus.

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 Until we realize that our sin

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 is our biggest problem,

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 we will never cling to Jesus,

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 our final answer.

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 Jesus says,

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 Mark chapter 2,

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 it is not the healthy

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 who need a doctor.

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 There's no one queuing up

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 at the Brunsfield doctor surgery

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 who is in fighting fit health.

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 It's not the healthy

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 who need a doctor,

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 but the sick.

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 I've not come to call

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 the righteous,

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 but sinners.

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 Until we own the fact

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 that we are sinners

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 covered in shame,

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 we will always be slow

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 to come to Jesus

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 and ask for help.

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 Until we realize

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 we're very lost,

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 we won't ever come

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 to the one who finds us.

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 Until we realize

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 we're eternally exiled

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 from God's presence,

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 we'll never come to Jesus

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 in order that we'll come home.

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 It's not just a first time thing.

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 Daniel is not an unbeliever.

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 He is a true Christian

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 who is serious about his sin,

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 who comes to God

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 pleading for help.

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 If we turn to Jesus,

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 then everything we have done

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 is given to Jesus

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 and everything he has done

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 is given to us.

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 That one of the beautiful things

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 about the gospel

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 is that I come as a sinner

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 and Jesus comes as a savior.

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 And as I come to Jesus,

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 he takes my sin

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 and gives me his salvation.

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 This is all over the New Testament.

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 There's some wonderful verses.

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 2 Corinthians 5, 21.

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 God made him who had no sin

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 to be sin for us

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 so that in him

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 we might become

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 the righteousness of God.

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 He himself, Jesus,

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 bore our sins

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 in his body on the cross

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 so that we might die to sins

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 and live for righteousness.

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 By his wounds

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 you have been healed.

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 If we confess our sins

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 he is faithful and just

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 and will forgive us our sins

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 and purify us

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 from all unrighteousness.

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 My fear for myself

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 and my fear for our church

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 is we're all too comfortable

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 with our sin.

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 We're all too ready

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 to keep on making

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 the same mistakes

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 day in, day out

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 and never take it seriously.

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 And yet the Bible says

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 we are to war

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 against our sin.

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 We are to hate our sin.

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 We are to put off

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 the old man

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 and put on the new self.

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 That we are to be

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 growing in holiness.

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 And I think for myself

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 and maybe some here

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 we're all too readily

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 defeated by sin

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 and just keep on going

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 in the same rut

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 doing the same thing.

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 And surely the first way

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 to wage war against sin

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 is to own it.

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 And to confess it to God.

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 And if we have trouble

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 then that's time

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 to bring in some accountability

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 and invite others.

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 Because until we get

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 serious about sin

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 we will never be

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 defeating it in our lives.

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 And that is one thing

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 that we see

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 loud and clear

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 from Daniel

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 that he is serious

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 about his sin

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 and is determined

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 to defeat it.

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 Because he knows

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 his very life

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 depends on it.

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 And whether he'll be

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 safely home

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 or not.

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 Second thing

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 is Daniel's confession.

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 Third

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 Daniel's petition.

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 This comes in the end

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 of the

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 chapter.

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 The end of the prayer.

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 Now Lord our God

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 who brought your people

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 out of Egypt

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 with a mighty hand

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 and who made for yourself

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 a name that endures

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 to this day.

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 We have sinned.

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 We have done wrong.

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 Lord in keeping

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 with all your righteous acts

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 turn away your anger

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 and your wrath

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 from Jerusalem

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 your city

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 your holy hill.

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 Our sins

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 and the iniquities

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 of our ancestors

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 have made Jerusalem

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 and your people

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 an object of scorn

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 to all those around you.

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 Now our God

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 hear the prayers

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 and petitions

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 of your servant

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 for your sake

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 Lord.

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 Look with favour

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 on your desolate sanctuary.

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 Give ear our God

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 and hear

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 open your eyes

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 and see the desolation

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 of the city

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 that bears your name.

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 We do not make

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 requests of you

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 because we are righteous

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 but because of

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 your great mercy.

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 Lord listen

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 Lord forgive

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 Lord hear and act.

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 For your sake

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 my God

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 do not delay

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 because your city

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 and your people

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 bear your name.

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 See how God

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 focused the petitioners.

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 Daniel is not there

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 saying

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 God we have done

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 our time

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 it is time

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 to let us out.

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 God I have been

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 so good for you

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 in Babylon

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 surely you could

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 just let me go home.

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 His concern

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 is for God's glory

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 and God's reputation.

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 It is your city

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 your holy hill

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 it is your people

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 the people

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 that bear

00:23:03.519 --> 00:23:04.539
 your name

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 it is your reputation

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 God that we want

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 to be seen

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 by the whole world

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 so would you

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 bring us home

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 to show that

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 you're not only

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 a right and good

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 God who punishes

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 his people

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 but you are a saving

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 God who is merciful

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 and forgiving

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 and who will bring

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 them home

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 and rescue.

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 It is a

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 God's glory

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 focused prayer.

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 This isn't Daniel

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 coming with a shopping list

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 would you do that

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 would you give me that

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 would you sort that out

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 he's saying

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 God would you glorify

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 your name

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 and that's massive

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 that is massive

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 for me when I look

00:23:37.539 --> 00:23:38.819
 at my own prayer life

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 and how me centered

00:23:40.799 --> 00:23:42.579
 it so readily

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 becomes.

00:23:45.440 --> 00:23:46.480
 Daniel's pleading

00:23:46.480 --> 00:23:47.079
 because God

00:23:47.079 --> 00:23:47.600
 has attached

00:23:47.600 --> 00:23:48.360
 his name

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 graciously to his

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 people

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 to Jerusalem

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 and to the temple

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 and he says

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 God

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 restore your glory

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 and let everyone

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 see it.

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 and see how he

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 comes

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 verse 18

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 this is an

00:24:02.319 --> 00:24:03.519
 incredible verse

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 one that I think

00:24:04.779 --> 00:24:05.279
 we could keep

00:24:05.279 --> 00:24:05.879
 right in the

00:24:05.879 --> 00:24:06.519
 forefront of our

00:24:06.519 --> 00:24:07.339
 minds as we pray

00:24:07.339 --> 00:24:08.659
 we do not make

00:24:08.659 --> 00:24:09.339
 requests of you

00:24:09.339 --> 00:24:10.139
 because we are

00:24:10.139 --> 00:24:10.579
 righteous

00:24:10.579 --> 00:24:12.099
 we're not coming

00:24:12.099 --> 00:24:13.099
 to cash in

00:24:13.099 --> 00:24:14.319
 our good things

00:24:14.319 --> 00:24:17.619
 we have no right

00:24:17.619 --> 00:24:18.259
 to request

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 anything

00:24:18.859 --> 00:24:20.559
 but we come

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 humbly

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 before you

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 because you

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 God are great

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 in mercy

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 that would

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 revolutionize

00:24:28.379 --> 00:24:29.079
 our prayer lives

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 if we don't

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 come as

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 dependent

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 children

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 who have

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 kind of

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 earned our

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 way

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 God I did

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 five quiet

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 times this

00:24:36.559 --> 00:24:36.859
 week

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 it's now

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 time for

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 the blessing

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 it's not

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 a slot

00:24:40.619 --> 00:24:40.939
 machine

00:24:40.939 --> 00:24:42.579
 we don't

00:24:42.579 --> 00:24:43.000
 make these

00:24:43.000 --> 00:24:43.399
 requests

00:24:43.399 --> 00:24:44.039
 because we

00:24:44.039 --> 00:24:44.579
 are righteous

00:24:44.579 --> 00:24:46.039
 but because

00:24:46.039 --> 00:24:46.419
 of your

00:24:46.419 --> 00:24:46.899
 great

00:24:46.899 --> 00:24:48.039
 mercy

00:24:48.039 --> 00:24:50.139
 and these

00:24:50.139 --> 00:24:50.419
 short

00:24:50.419 --> 00:24:51.199
 statements

00:24:51.199 --> 00:24:52.359
 Lord

00:24:52.359 --> 00:24:52.919
 listen

00:24:52.919 --> 00:24:54.039
 Lord

00:24:54.039 --> 00:24:54.699
 forgive

00:24:54.700 --> 00:24:56.120
 Lord

00:24:56.120 --> 00:24:56.900
 hear and

00:24:56.900 --> 00:24:57.480
 act

00:24:57.480 --> 00:24:58.600
 God

00:24:58.600 --> 00:24:59.340
 you're in

00:24:59.340 --> 00:24:59.600
 charge

00:24:59.600 --> 00:25:00.019
 you're the

00:25:00.019 --> 00:25:00.700
 Lord

00:25:00.700 --> 00:25:01.900
 you're the

00:25:01.900 --> 00:25:02.580
 creator

00:25:02.580 --> 00:25:03.420
 I am the

00:25:03.420 --> 00:25:04.120
 creature

00:25:04.120 --> 00:25:04.660
 you're the

00:25:04.660 --> 00:25:05.080
 you're the

00:25:05.080 --> 00:25:05.600
 boss

00:25:05.600 --> 00:25:06.819
 all the

00:25:06.819 --> 00:25:07.259
 stuff that

00:25:07.259 --> 00:25:07.660
 I've learnt

00:25:07.660 --> 00:25:08.539
 through so

00:25:08.539 --> 00:25:09.120
 far being

00:25:09.120 --> 00:25:09.539
 in Babylon

00:25:09.539 --> 00:25:09.940
 is that

00:25:09.940 --> 00:25:10.319
 you're the

00:25:10.319 --> 00:25:10.840
 boss

00:25:10.840 --> 00:25:12.420
 and so I'm

00:25:12.420 --> 00:25:12.900
 coming to

00:25:12.900 --> 00:25:13.620
 say listen

00:25:13.620 --> 00:25:14.400
 forgive

00:25:14.400 --> 00:25:15.580
 hear

00:25:15.580 --> 00:25:16.880
 and act

00:25:16.880 --> 00:25:18.160
 will it

00:25:18.160 --> 00:25:18.799
 work though

00:25:18.799 --> 00:25:20.380
 have God's

00:25:20.380 --> 00:25:20.920
 people been

00:25:20.920 --> 00:25:21.500
 reformed

00:25:21.500 --> 00:25:21.920
 will they be

00:25:21.920 --> 00:25:22.420
 home for

00:25:22.420 --> 00:25:23.380
 good when

00:25:23.380 --> 00:25:23.740
 they get

00:25:23.740 --> 00:25:24.200
 back

00:25:24.200 --> 00:25:25.180
 from Babylon

00:25:25.180 --> 00:25:26.960
 well let's

00:25:26.960 --> 00:25:27.720
 see God's

00:25:27.720 --> 00:25:28.580
 reaction

00:25:28.580 --> 00:25:29.799
 verse 20

00:25:29.799 --> 00:25:30.980
 while I was

00:25:30.980 --> 00:25:32.059
 speaking and

00:25:32.059 --> 00:25:32.519
 praying

00:25:32.519 --> 00:25:33.460
 confessing my

00:25:33.460 --> 00:25:34.120
 sin and the

00:25:34.120 --> 00:25:34.559
 sin of my

00:25:34.559 --> 00:25:35.279
 people Israel

00:25:35.279 --> 00:25:36.420
 and making my

00:25:36.420 --> 00:25:37.100
 request to the

00:25:37.100 --> 00:25:37.700
 Lord my God

00:25:37.700 --> 00:25:38.360
 for his holy

00:25:38.360 --> 00:25:38.640
 hill

00:25:38.640 --> 00:25:39.480
 while I was

00:25:39.480 --> 00:25:40.019
 still in

00:25:40.019 --> 00:25:40.400
 prayer

00:25:40.400 --> 00:25:41.740
 Gabriel

00:25:41.740 --> 00:25:43.259
 the man I

00:25:43.259 --> 00:25:43.940
 had seen in

00:25:43.940 --> 00:25:44.360
 the earlier

00:25:44.360 --> 00:25:44.840
 vision of

00:25:44.840 --> 00:25:45.480
 chapter 8

00:25:45.480 --> 00:25:46.620
 came to me

00:25:46.620 --> 00:25:47.340
 in swift

00:25:47.340 --> 00:25:47.960
 flight about

00:25:47.960 --> 00:25:48.559
 the time of

00:25:48.559 --> 00:25:48.980
 the evening

00:25:48.980 --> 00:25:49.580
 sacrifice

00:25:49.580 --> 00:25:50.900
 he instructed

00:25:50.900 --> 00:25:51.460
 me and said

00:25:51.460 --> 00:25:51.720
 to me

00:25:51.720 --> 00:25:52.660
 Daniel I

00:25:52.660 --> 00:25:53.060
 have now

00:25:53.060 --> 00:25:53.480
 come to

00:25:53.480 --> 00:25:53.779
 give you

00:25:53.779 --> 00:25:54.480
 insight and

00:25:54.480 --> 00:25:55.100
 understanding

00:25:55.100 --> 00:25:56.220
 as soon as

00:25:56.220 --> 00:25:56.680
 you began

00:25:56.680 --> 00:25:57.360
 to pray a

00:25:57.360 --> 00:25:57.860
 word went

00:25:57.860 --> 00:25:58.960
 out which

00:25:58.960 --> 00:25:59.240
 I have

00:25:59.240 --> 00:25:59.580
 come to

00:25:59.580 --> 00:26:00.100
 tell you

00:26:00.100 --> 00:26:01.200
 for you

00:26:01.200 --> 00:26:01.700
 are highly

00:26:01.700 --> 00:26:02.320
 esteemed

00:26:02.320 --> 00:26:03.200
 therefore

00:26:03.200 --> 00:26:03.940
 consider the

00:26:03.940 --> 00:26:04.980
 word and

00:26:04.980 --> 00:26:05.759
 understand the

00:26:05.759 --> 00:26:06.100
 vision

00:26:06.100 --> 00:26:09.060
 this is such

00:26:09.060 --> 00:26:09.620
 an encouragement

00:26:09.620 --> 00:26:10.240
 to pray I

00:26:10.240 --> 00:26:10.779
 think before we

00:26:10.779 --> 00:26:11.360
 get into all

00:26:11.360 --> 00:26:11.920
 the weeks and

00:26:11.920 --> 00:26:12.680
 what it means

00:26:12.680 --> 00:26:13.740
 I think there's

00:26:13.740 --> 00:26:14.740
 some real gold

00:26:14.740 --> 00:26:16.060
 to encourage us

00:26:16.060 --> 00:26:17.160
 in these three

00:26:17.160 --> 00:26:17.640
 verses

00:26:17.640 --> 00:26:20.400
 I remember

00:26:20.400 --> 00:26:20.960
 I had coffee

00:26:20.960 --> 00:26:21.759
 with Fraser

00:26:21.759 --> 00:26:23.020
 last Friday

00:26:23.020 --> 00:26:24.380
 and his watch

00:26:24.380 --> 00:26:24.960
 was still on

00:26:24.960 --> 00:26:26.060
 Boston time

00:26:26.060 --> 00:26:28.040
 which was

00:26:28.040 --> 00:26:28.820
 slightly unhelpful

00:26:28.820 --> 00:26:29.380
 as I did need

00:26:29.380 --> 00:26:29.759
 to know what

00:26:29.759 --> 00:26:30.280
 the time was

00:26:30.280 --> 00:26:30.759
 and had no

00:26:30.759 --> 00:26:31.200
 idea what

00:26:31.200 --> 00:26:31.520
 the time

00:26:31.520 --> 00:26:32.300
 difference was

00:26:32.300 --> 00:26:34.560
 that was

00:26:34.560 --> 00:26:35.000
 because Fraser

00:26:35.000 --> 00:26:35.580
 had been in

00:26:35.580 --> 00:26:36.480
 Boston recently

00:26:36.480 --> 00:26:38.259
 Daniel has

00:26:38.259 --> 00:26:38.940
 been in

00:26:38.940 --> 00:26:39.759
 Babylon for

00:26:39.759 --> 00:26:41.040
 66 years

00:26:41.040 --> 00:26:42.480
 and yet he's

00:26:42.480 --> 00:26:42.780
 still on

00:26:42.780 --> 00:26:43.680
 Jerusalem time

00:26:43.680 --> 00:26:45.240
 do you see

00:26:45.240 --> 00:26:45.700
 that

00:26:45.700 --> 00:26:47.960
 about the

00:26:47.960 --> 00:26:48.539
 time of the

00:26:48.539 --> 00:26:49.420
 evening sacrifice

00:26:49.420 --> 00:26:51.500
 he is in

00:26:51.500 --> 00:26:52.059
 Babylon but

00:26:52.059 --> 00:26:52.500
 he's definitely

00:26:52.500 --> 00:26:53.360
 not of Babylon

00:26:53.360 --> 00:26:55.019
 he is still

00:26:55.019 --> 00:26:55.779
 holy God

00:26:55.779 --> 00:26:57.740
 it's great

00:26:57.740 --> 00:26:58.380
 isn't it

00:26:58.380 --> 00:26:59.580
 God is so

00:26:59.580 --> 00:27:00.660
 infected his

00:27:00.660 --> 00:27:01.299
 vision and

00:27:01.299 --> 00:27:02.000
 his life

00:27:02.000 --> 00:27:03.160
 that he runs

00:27:03.160 --> 00:27:03.840
 his whole life

00:27:03.840 --> 00:27:04.580
 depending on

00:27:04.580 --> 00:27:05.600
 God

00:27:05.600 --> 00:27:12.340
 verse 23

00:27:12.340 --> 00:27:14.680
 as soon as

00:27:14.680 --> 00:27:15.319
 you began

00:27:15.319 --> 00:27:16.279
 to pray

00:27:16.279 --> 00:27:18.220
 God wasn't

00:27:18.220 --> 00:27:18.879
 even waiting

00:27:18.879 --> 00:27:19.439
 for Daniel

00:27:19.439 --> 00:27:19.960
 to finish

00:27:19.960 --> 00:27:20.419
 his prayer

00:27:20.419 --> 00:27:20.980
 before he

00:27:20.980 --> 00:27:21.359
 sent the

00:27:21.359 --> 00:27:21.759
 answer

00:27:21.759 --> 00:27:22.799
 I just get

00:27:22.799 --> 00:27:23.279
 the sense

00:27:23.279 --> 00:27:23.579
 from this

00:27:23.579 --> 00:27:23.939
 that God

00:27:23.939 --> 00:27:24.899
 is so eager

00:27:24.899 --> 00:27:26.079
 to hear

00:27:26.079 --> 00:27:26.679
 and answer

00:27:26.679 --> 00:27:27.419
 our prayers

00:27:27.419 --> 00:27:28.159
 he's like

00:27:28.159 --> 00:27:28.939
 in the starting

00:27:28.939 --> 00:27:29.439
 blocks

00:27:29.439 --> 00:27:31.079
 eager to hear

00:27:31.079 --> 00:27:32.899
 desperate to

00:27:32.899 --> 00:27:33.500
 hear from his

00:27:33.500 --> 00:27:34.019
 people

00:27:34.019 --> 00:27:35.659
 longing

00:27:35.659 --> 00:27:37.200
 that we would

00:27:37.200 --> 00:27:37.859
 turn to him

00:27:37.859 --> 00:27:38.240
 and pray

00:27:38.240 --> 00:27:39.679
 there seems to

00:27:39.679 --> 00:27:40.139
 be a more

00:27:40.139 --> 00:27:41.139
 eagerness in

00:27:41.139 --> 00:27:41.779
 God to hear

00:27:41.779 --> 00:27:42.259
 our prayers

00:27:42.259 --> 00:27:42.819
 than there are

00:27:42.819 --> 00:27:43.419
 in his people

00:27:43.419 --> 00:27:44.059
 to be eager

00:27:44.059 --> 00:27:44.639
 to pray

00:27:44.640 --> 00:27:46.480
 I think that

00:27:46.480 --> 00:27:47.080
 is wonderful

00:27:47.080 --> 00:27:47.920
 if we could

00:27:47.920 --> 00:27:48.640
 grasp that

00:27:48.640 --> 00:27:49.020
 that God

00:27:49.020 --> 00:27:50.000
 is eager

00:27:50.000 --> 00:27:50.480
 to hear

00:27:50.480 --> 00:27:50.860
 our prayers

00:27:50.860 --> 00:27:51.180
 he's not

00:27:51.180 --> 00:27:52.400
 just tolerating

00:27:52.400 --> 00:27:52.900
 us

00:27:52.900 --> 00:27:53.920
 he's not

00:27:53.920 --> 00:27:54.340
 just like

00:27:54.340 --> 00:27:54.780
 oh there

00:27:54.780 --> 00:27:55.280
 goes John

00:27:55.280 --> 00:27:55.600
 again

00:27:55.600 --> 00:27:56.060
 he needs

00:27:56.060 --> 00:27:56.640
 some help

00:27:56.640 --> 00:27:58.060
 but he

00:27:58.060 --> 00:27:58.920
 is eager

00:27:58.920 --> 00:28:00.240
 as soon

00:28:00.240 --> 00:28:00.259
 as soon

00:28:00.259 --> 00:28:00.640
 as you

00:28:00.640 --> 00:28:01.120
 started

00:28:01.120 --> 00:28:01.820
 to pray

00:28:01.820 --> 00:28:03.320
 a word

00:28:03.320 --> 00:28:04.360
 went out

00:28:04.360 --> 00:28:04.660
 if that

00:28:04.660 --> 00:28:05.060
 doesn't put

00:28:05.060 --> 00:28:05.500
 a bit of

00:28:05.500 --> 00:28:06.180
 fuel

00:28:06.180 --> 00:28:06.960
 and energy

00:28:06.960 --> 00:28:08.100
 into our

00:28:08.100 --> 00:28:08.860
 prayer lives

00:28:08.860 --> 00:28:09.880
 I don't know

00:28:09.880 --> 00:28:10.240
 what will

00:28:10.240 --> 00:28:10.740
 and then look

00:28:10.740 --> 00:28:11.500
 what he says

00:28:11.500 --> 00:28:13.539
 end of verse

00:28:13.539 --> 00:28:14.060
 23

00:28:14.060 --> 00:28:15.140
 as soon as

00:28:15.140 --> 00:28:15.560
 you began

00:28:15.560 --> 00:28:15.980
 to pray

00:28:15.980 --> 00:28:16.360
 a word

00:28:16.360 --> 00:28:16.840
 went out

00:28:16.840 --> 00:28:17.400
 which I

00:28:17.400 --> 00:28:17.720
 have come

00:28:17.720 --> 00:28:18.080
 to tell

00:28:18.080 --> 00:28:18.220
 you

00:28:18.220 --> 00:28:18.560
 for you

00:28:18.560 --> 00:28:19.320
 are highly

00:28:19.320 --> 00:28:20.380
 esteemed

00:28:20.380 --> 00:28:21.840
 that God

00:28:21.840 --> 00:28:22.480
 highly

00:28:22.480 --> 00:28:23.100
 esteems

00:28:23.100 --> 00:28:23.980
 Daniel

00:28:23.980 --> 00:28:25.000
 that Daniel

00:28:25.000 --> 00:28:25.520
 has been

00:28:25.520 --> 00:28:26.400
 in Babylon

00:28:26.400 --> 00:28:27.220
 for 66

00:28:27.220 --> 00:28:27.680
 years

00:28:27.680 --> 00:28:28.660
 loads of

00:28:28.660 --> 00:28:29.080
 what he's

00:28:29.080 --> 00:28:29.440
 done has

00:28:29.440 --> 00:28:29.960
 been behind

00:28:29.960 --> 00:28:30.680
 the scenes

00:28:30.680 --> 00:28:32.580
 as far as

00:28:32.580 --> 00:28:32.920
 we know

00:28:32.920 --> 00:28:33.240
 we've only

00:28:33.240 --> 00:28:33.940
 got details

00:28:33.940 --> 00:28:34.540
 of a few

00:28:34.540 --> 00:28:35.220
 days

00:28:35.220 --> 00:28:36.100
 of his

00:28:36.100 --> 00:28:36.660
 life

00:28:36.660 --> 00:28:37.800
 and yet

00:28:37.800 --> 00:28:38.100
 throughout

00:28:38.100 --> 00:28:38.440
 it all

00:28:38.440 --> 00:28:38.720
 he has

00:28:38.720 --> 00:28:39.680
 been consistent

00:28:39.680 --> 00:28:40.500
 he has

00:28:40.500 --> 00:28:41.100
 been loving

00:28:41.100 --> 00:28:41.600
 God

00:28:41.600 --> 00:28:42.160
 he has

00:28:42.160 --> 00:28:42.480
 been

00:28:42.480 --> 00:28:43.180
 pursuing

00:28:43.180 --> 00:28:43.900
 holiness

00:28:43.900 --> 00:28:44.660
 he has

00:28:44.660 --> 00:28:44.880
 been

00:28:44.880 --> 00:28:45.620
 prayerfully

00:28:45.620 --> 00:28:46.360
 inclined

00:28:46.360 --> 00:28:47.420
 and God

00:28:47.420 --> 00:28:47.840
 says you

00:28:47.840 --> 00:28:48.340
 are highly

00:28:48.340 --> 00:28:48.700
 esteemed

00:28:48.700 --> 00:28:49.180
 because I've

00:28:49.180 --> 00:28:49.520
 seen it

00:28:49.520 --> 00:28:49.900
 all

00:28:50.380 --> 00:28:51.380
 it's an

00:28:51.380 --> 00:28:51.840
 encouragement

00:28:51.840 --> 00:28:52.360
 isn't it

00:28:52.360 --> 00:28:52.760
 to do

00:28:52.760 --> 00:28:53.200
 stuff

00:28:53.200 --> 00:28:54.120
 behind

00:28:54.120 --> 00:28:55.320
 the scenes

00:28:55.320 --> 00:28:56.840
 and then

00:28:56.840 --> 00:28:57.100
 we get

00:28:57.100 --> 00:28:57.700
 this vision

00:28:57.700 --> 00:28:58.700
 this vision

00:28:58.700 --> 00:28:59.800
 that seems

00:28:59.800 --> 00:29:00.200
 that more

00:29:00.200 --> 00:29:00.700
 people have

00:29:00.700 --> 00:29:01.340
 written about

00:29:01.340 --> 00:29:02.420
 than you

00:29:02.420 --> 00:29:02.840
 could ever

00:29:02.840 --> 00:29:03.300
 imagine

00:29:03.300 --> 00:29:04.100
 no one's

00:29:04.100 --> 00:29:04.760
 very clear

00:29:04.760 --> 00:29:06.100
 I'm not

00:29:06.100 --> 00:29:06.700
 very clear

00:29:06.700 --> 00:29:07.480
 this is the

00:29:07.480 --> 00:29:08.120
 blind leading

00:29:08.120 --> 00:29:08.620
 the blind

00:29:08.620 --> 00:29:09.220
 I feel like

00:29:09.220 --> 00:29:09.620
 I'm leading

00:29:09.620 --> 00:29:10.280
 you all across

00:29:10.280 --> 00:29:11.500
 a frozen

00:29:11.500 --> 00:29:12.080
 lake where

00:29:12.080 --> 00:29:13.260
 the ice is

00:29:13.260 --> 00:29:13.900
 very thin

00:29:13.900 --> 00:29:14.400
 and some of

00:29:14.400 --> 00:29:14.760
 us stand

00:29:14.760 --> 00:29:15.300
 every chance

00:29:15.300 --> 00:29:15.700
 of falling

00:29:15.700 --> 00:29:16.020
 in but

00:29:16.020 --> 00:29:16.360
 this is

00:29:16.360 --> 00:29:16.700
 what I've

00:29:16.700 --> 00:29:16.960
 gleaned

00:29:16.960 --> 00:29:17.500
 so far

00:29:17.500 --> 00:29:21.119
 God's

00:29:21.119 --> 00:29:21.680
 solution

00:29:21.680 --> 00:29:22.039
 let's

00:29:22.039 --> 00:29:22.579
 read it

00:29:22.579 --> 00:29:23.660
 let's

00:29:23.660 --> 00:29:24.119
 read verse

00:29:24.119 --> 00:29:24.619
 24

00:29:24.619 --> 00:29:25.420
 first

00:29:25.420 --> 00:29:27.039
 seventy

00:29:27.039 --> 00:29:28.200
 sevens

00:29:28.200 --> 00:29:28.680
 are decreed

00:29:28.680 --> 00:29:28.980
 for your

00:29:28.980 --> 00:29:29.519
 people in

00:29:29.519 --> 00:29:29.980
 your holy

00:29:29.980 --> 00:29:30.400
 city

00:29:30.400 --> 00:29:31.640
 to finish

00:29:31.640 --> 00:29:32.400
 transgression

00:29:32.400 --> 00:29:33.700
 to put an

00:29:33.700 --> 00:29:34.339
 end to sin

00:29:34.339 --> 00:29:34.920
 to atone

00:29:34.920 --> 00:29:35.839
 for wickedness

00:29:35.839 --> 00:29:36.799
 to bring in

00:29:36.799 --> 00:29:37.319
 everlasting

00:29:37.319 --> 00:29:37.880
 righteousness

00:29:37.880 --> 00:29:38.740
 to seal up

00:29:38.740 --> 00:29:39.259
 vision and

00:29:39.259 --> 00:29:39.660
 prophecy

00:29:39.660 --> 00:29:40.579
 and to

00:29:40.579 --> 00:29:41.299
 anoint the

00:29:41.299 --> 00:29:41.779
 most

00:29:41.779 --> 00:29:42.420
 holy

00:29:42.420 --> 00:29:43.299
 place

00:29:43.299 --> 00:29:44.639
 I think

00:29:44.639 --> 00:29:45.000
 that is

00:29:45.000 --> 00:29:45.759
 the summary

00:29:45.759 --> 00:29:46.279
 of what

00:29:46.279 --> 00:29:46.559
 is to

00:29:46.559 --> 00:29:47.299
 come

00:29:47.299 --> 00:29:48.000
 that God

00:29:48.000 --> 00:29:48.440
 says

00:29:48.440 --> 00:29:49.220
 this is

00:29:49.220 --> 00:29:49.619
 what will

00:29:49.619 --> 00:29:50.099
 happen

00:29:50.099 --> 00:29:51.139
 Daniel is

00:29:51.139 --> 00:29:51.960
 worried

00:29:51.960 --> 00:29:52.799
 that the

00:29:52.799 --> 00:29:53.680
 exile won't

00:29:53.680 --> 00:29:54.519
 be what he

00:29:54.519 --> 00:29:55.019
 wants it to

00:29:55.019 --> 00:29:55.419
 be and they'll

00:29:55.419 --> 00:29:55.899
 be back in

00:29:55.899 --> 00:29:56.599
 exile and God

00:29:56.599 --> 00:29:57.119
 says

00:29:57.119 --> 00:29:58.500
 actually I'm

00:29:58.500 --> 00:29:59.059
 working on a

00:29:59.059 --> 00:29:59.619
 far longer

00:29:59.619 --> 00:30:00.440
 time period

00:30:00.440 --> 00:30:02.279
 it is not

00:30:02.279 --> 00:30:03.700
 now we're

00:30:03.700 --> 00:30:04.240
 home after

00:30:04.240 --> 00:30:05.079
 seventy years

00:30:05.079 --> 00:30:05.639
 but he says

00:30:05.639 --> 00:30:06.659
 seventy seven

00:30:06.659 --> 00:30:07.720
 sometimes translated

00:30:07.720 --> 00:30:09.339
 seventy weeks

00:30:09.339 --> 00:30:10.639
 I am working on a

00:30:10.639 --> 00:30:11.339
 far longer

00:30:11.339 --> 00:30:12.000
 time scale

00:30:12.000 --> 00:30:12.279
 than

00:30:12.279 --> 00:30:13.119
 than you

00:30:13.119 --> 00:30:14.979
 and I know

00:30:14.979 --> 00:30:15.579
 you haven't

00:30:15.579 --> 00:30:16.179
 changed

00:30:16.179 --> 00:30:16.959
 so it is

00:30:16.959 --> 00:30:17.439
 going to be

00:30:17.439 --> 00:30:18.379
 me

00:30:18.379 --> 00:30:19.679
 who's going

00:30:19.679 --> 00:30:20.159
 to do these

00:30:20.159 --> 00:30:20.599
 things I'm

00:30:20.599 --> 00:30:20.979
 going to

00:30:20.979 --> 00:30:21.839
 finish

00:30:21.839 --> 00:30:22.919
 transgression

00:30:22.919 --> 00:30:24.699
 I am going

00:30:24.699 --> 00:30:26.079
 to put an

00:30:26.079 --> 00:30:27.079
 end to sin

00:30:27.079 --> 00:30:28.899
 I'm going to

00:30:28.899 --> 00:30:29.879
 atone for

00:30:29.879 --> 00:30:30.500
 wickedness I'm

00:30:30.500 --> 00:30:31.059
 going to bring

00:30:31.059 --> 00:30:31.839
 in everlasting

00:30:31.839 --> 00:30:32.979
 righteousness I'm

00:30:32.979 --> 00:30:33.519
 going to seal up

00:30:33.519 --> 00:30:33.899
 vision and

00:30:33.899 --> 00:30:34.479
 prophecy which

00:30:34.479 --> 00:30:34.959
 it takes to

00:30:34.959 --> 00:30:35.699
 mean fulfill

00:30:35.699 --> 00:30:36.279
 it all so

00:30:36.279 --> 00:30:36.639
 there's no

00:30:36.639 --> 00:30:37.279
 more mystery

00:30:37.279 --> 00:30:38.559
 and I'm going

00:30:38.559 --> 00:30:39.359
 to anoint the

00:30:39.359 --> 00:30:40.379
 most holy

00:30:40.379 --> 00:30:41.099
 place

00:30:41.099 --> 00:30:43.039
 this is what

00:30:43.039 --> 00:30:43.480
 God will

00:30:43.480 --> 00:30:44.599
 ultimately do

00:30:44.599 --> 00:30:46.679
 all the

00:30:46.679 --> 00:30:47.179
 things that

00:30:47.179 --> 00:30:48.519
 caused God's

00:30:48.519 --> 00:30:49.139
 people to go

00:30:49.139 --> 00:30:50.079
 into exile he

00:30:50.079 --> 00:30:50.619
 will bring an

00:30:50.619 --> 00:30:51.099
 end to

00:30:51.099 --> 00:30:52.539
 he will do it

00:30:52.539 --> 00:30:53.579
 himself it'll be a

00:30:53.579 --> 00:30:54.500
 gracious act

00:30:54.500 --> 00:30:55.599
 some of it has

00:30:55.599 --> 00:30:57.059
 been done in the

00:30:57.059 --> 00:30:57.859
 Lord Jesus that

00:30:57.859 --> 00:30:58.559
 we'll see

00:30:58.559 --> 00:31:00.039
 that the

00:31:00.039 --> 00:31:02.079
 penalty for sin

00:31:02.079 --> 00:31:02.959
 was conquered

00:31:02.959 --> 00:31:04.099
 by the Lord

00:31:04.099 --> 00:31:04.819
 Jesus but

00:31:04.819 --> 00:31:06.019
 transgression and

00:31:06.019 --> 00:31:07.279
 sin and wickedness

00:31:07.279 --> 00:31:08.959
 still is prevalent

00:31:08.960 --> 00:31:10.180
 he will bring in

00:31:10.180 --> 00:31:10.799
 everlasting

00:31:10.799 --> 00:31:11.539
 righteousness

00:31:11.539 --> 00:31:13.240
 that'll be a

00:31:13.240 --> 00:31:14.140
 perfect kingdom

00:31:14.140 --> 00:31:15.000
 where God rules

00:31:15.000 --> 00:31:15.539
 and reigns

00:31:15.539 --> 00:31:16.700
 forever he will

00:31:16.700 --> 00:31:17.460
 seal up vision

00:31:17.460 --> 00:31:18.340
 and prophecy that

00:31:18.340 --> 00:31:19.100
 everything will be

00:31:19.100 --> 00:31:20.279
 clear it will no

00:31:20.279 --> 00:31:21.259
 longer be looking in

00:31:21.259 --> 00:31:22.480
 a mirror dimly it

00:31:22.480 --> 00:31:23.519
 will be seeing face

00:31:23.519 --> 00:31:25.480
 to face and to

00:31:25.480 --> 00:31:26.240
 anoint the most

00:31:26.240 --> 00:31:27.180
 holy place which I

00:31:27.180 --> 00:31:28.400
 take is the

00:31:28.400 --> 00:31:30.400
 ultimate end of

00:31:30.400 --> 00:31:31.220
 what the temple was

00:31:31.220 --> 00:31:32.019
 meant to be God

00:31:32.019 --> 00:31:33.160
 dwelling in the

00:31:33.160 --> 00:31:33.779
 middle of his

00:31:33.779 --> 00:31:35.519
 people not

00:31:35.519 --> 00:31:37.059
 symbolically but

00:31:37.059 --> 00:31:38.180
 forever

00:31:38.180 --> 00:31:38.299
 forever

00:31:38.299 --> 00:31:41.700
 it's a wonderful

00:31:41.700 --> 00:31:42.259
 vision

00:31:42.259 --> 00:31:44.400
 and then we get

00:31:44.400 --> 00:31:45.180
 the weeks which

00:31:45.180 --> 00:31:46.640
 you know I think

00:31:46.640 --> 00:31:47.420
 that's the main

00:31:47.420 --> 00:31:47.860
 thing and the

00:31:47.860 --> 00:31:48.600
 plain thing this is

00:31:48.600 --> 00:31:49.720
 what I've got we

00:31:49.720 --> 00:31:50.480
 can disagree at the

00:31:50.480 --> 00:31:51.060
 door and fight

00:31:51.060 --> 00:31:51.660
 afterwards if

00:31:51.660 --> 00:31:52.220
 necessary

00:31:52.220 --> 00:31:54.259
 not to seven weeks

00:31:54.259 --> 00:31:55.360
 hope returns

00:31:55.360 --> 00:31:57.539
 seven to 62 weeks

00:31:57.539 --> 00:31:58.880
 the city is rebuilt

00:31:58.880 --> 00:32:00.220
 but in distressing

00:32:00.220 --> 00:32:00.940
 times

00:32:00.940 --> 00:32:02.820
 after 62 weeks

00:32:02.820 --> 00:32:03.940
 Messiah is killed

00:32:03.940 --> 00:32:05.279
 the anointed one

00:32:05.279 --> 00:32:06.100
 will be put to

00:32:06.100 --> 00:32:06.799
 death and we'll

00:32:06.799 --> 00:32:07.480
 have nothing

00:32:07.480 --> 00:32:09.160
 the city will

00:32:09.160 --> 00:32:10.059
 then be destroyed

00:32:10.059 --> 00:32:11.640
 the final week

00:32:11.640 --> 00:32:12.000
 there'll be

00:32:12.000 --> 00:32:12.960
 opposition distress

00:32:12.960 --> 00:32:14.480
 difficulty this

00:32:14.480 --> 00:32:16.400
 ruler will rise

00:32:16.400 --> 00:32:17.539
 he will make a

00:32:17.539 --> 00:32:18.360
 covenant pulling

00:32:18.360 --> 00:32:19.380
 people away from

00:32:19.380 --> 00:32:21.900
 God and then in

00:32:21.900 --> 00:32:23.799
 the end there'll be

00:32:23.799 --> 00:32:24.680
 an end of sin

00:32:24.680 --> 00:32:27.200
 an end of God's

00:32:27.200 --> 00:32:30.579
 enemies and he

00:32:30.579 --> 00:32:31.539
 will rule and reign

00:32:31.539 --> 00:32:32.360
 all the things that

00:32:32.360 --> 00:32:33.460
 he promises to do

00:32:33.460 --> 00:32:35.960
 in verse 24

00:32:35.960 --> 00:32:39.299
 so Daniel is

00:32:39.299 --> 00:32:40.259
 worried he says

00:32:40.259 --> 00:32:41.500
 God will it work

00:32:41.500 --> 00:32:43.460
 will the exile

00:32:43.460 --> 00:32:44.640
 mean that we're

00:32:44.640 --> 00:32:45.360
 finally home

00:32:45.360 --> 00:32:47.960
 and God says no

00:32:47.960 --> 00:32:49.840
 I am working on a

00:32:49.840 --> 00:32:50.680
 far longer time

00:32:50.680 --> 00:32:51.039
 scale

00:32:51.039 --> 00:32:53.440
 you thought 70

00:32:53.440 --> 00:32:54.039
 years was enough

00:32:54.039 --> 00:32:54.779
 I'm talking about

00:32:54.779 --> 00:32:55.860
 70 sets of seven

00:32:55.860 --> 00:32:56.680
 however long they

00:32:56.680 --> 00:32:56.940
 are

00:32:56.940 --> 00:32:58.799
 and then you'll

00:32:58.799 --> 00:32:59.880
 finally be home

00:32:59.880 --> 00:33:00.579
 and safe

00:33:00.579 --> 00:33:02.500
 forever and I

00:33:02.500 --> 00:33:03.379
 will ultimately be

00:33:03.379 --> 00:33:04.359
 your God face to

00:33:04.359 --> 00:33:05.079
 face and you will

00:33:05.079 --> 00:33:05.919
 be my people in

00:33:05.919 --> 00:33:06.859
 perfect obedience

00:33:06.859 --> 00:33:08.799
 and you will be in

00:33:08.799 --> 00:33:09.539
 the place that I'm

00:33:09.539 --> 00:33:11.119
 establishing forever

00:33:11.119 --> 00:33:13.000
 not because you were

00:33:13.000 --> 00:33:15.379
 righteous but because

00:33:15.379 --> 00:33:16.220
 God is great in

00:33:16.220 --> 00:33:18.319
 mercy and now a

00:33:18.319 --> 00:33:18.899
 little bit further

00:33:18.899 --> 00:33:19.859
 along than Daniel

00:33:19.859 --> 00:33:21.399
 was we see the

00:33:21.399 --> 00:33:22.879
 true depth of that

00:33:22.879 --> 00:33:25.159
 mercy as God would

00:33:25.159 --> 00:33:27.259
 enact his plan to

00:33:27.259 --> 00:33:28.740
 send his only son

00:33:28.740 --> 00:33:30.619
 to live a perfect

00:33:30.619 --> 00:33:32.140
 life we failed to

00:33:32.140 --> 00:33:33.099
 live the only man

00:33:33.099 --> 00:33:33.759
 who didn't need to

00:33:33.759 --> 00:33:34.799
 pray Daniel's prayer

00:33:34.799 --> 00:33:36.779
 who never turned

00:33:36.779 --> 00:33:38.720
 away who always

00:33:38.720 --> 00:33:40.180
 obeyed God even

00:33:40.180 --> 00:33:40.839
 to the point of

00:33:40.839 --> 00:33:41.700
 giving up his life

00:33:41.700 --> 00:33:43.720
 on a cross so

00:33:43.720 --> 00:33:44.359
 that we who have

00:33:44.359 --> 00:33:45.220
 disobeyed can be

00:33:45.220 --> 00:33:46.000
 treated as those

00:33:46.000 --> 00:33:48.539
 who always obeyed

00:33:48.539 --> 00:33:50.259
 and those who

00:33:50.259 --> 00:33:50.920
 deserve to be

00:33:50.920 --> 00:33:52.900
 exiled forever can

00:33:52.900 --> 00:33:54.299
 be welcomed in

00:33:54.299 --> 00:33:55.240
 God's presence

00:33:55.240 --> 00:33:56.500
 I think this

00:33:56.500 --> 00:33:58.380
 passage encourages

00:33:58.380 --> 00:33:59.200
 us to be more

00:33:59.200 --> 00:34:00.160
 honest about our

00:34:00.160 --> 00:34:01.859
 sin to own it

00:34:01.859 --> 00:34:03.500
 and to confess it

00:34:03.500 --> 00:34:05.980
 it encourages us

00:34:05.980 --> 00:34:07.059
 to admit all the

00:34:07.059 --> 00:34:07.599
 things that are

00:34:07.599 --> 00:34:08.320
 true about God

00:34:08.320 --> 00:34:08.780
 that he is

00:34:08.780 --> 00:34:09.760
 righteous and good

00:34:09.760 --> 00:34:10.719
 and merciful and

00:34:10.719 --> 00:34:13.099
 forgiving that we

00:34:13.099 --> 00:34:13.960
 might turn to God

00:34:13.960 --> 00:34:14.719
 for forgiveness

00:34:14.719 --> 00:34:16.860
 we might cling to

00:34:16.860 --> 00:34:17.559
 the Lord Jesus

00:34:17.559 --> 00:34:18.579
 with all we've got

00:34:18.579 --> 00:34:19.679
 so that we might

00:34:19.679 --> 00:34:20.519
 be home forever

00:34:20.519 --> 00:34:21.860
 with God because

00:34:21.860 --> 00:34:22.639
 of the Lord Jesus

00:34:22.639 --> 00:34:23.300
 let me pray

00:34:23.300 --> 00:34:28.940
 Father God we

00:34:28.940 --> 00:34:29.740
 come to confess

00:34:29.740 --> 00:34:30.500
 to you that we

00:34:30.500 --> 00:34:31.260
 have not been the

00:34:31.260 --> 00:34:31.920
 people we should

00:34:31.920 --> 00:34:32.300
 have been

00:34:32.300 --> 00:34:35.760
 we have arrogantly

00:34:35.760 --> 00:34:36.740
 disobeyed you

00:34:36.740 --> 00:34:39.700
 Father we know

00:34:39.700 --> 00:34:41.039
 what is right

00:34:41.039 --> 00:34:41.780
 what is good

00:34:41.780 --> 00:34:42.500
 what is holy

00:34:42.500 --> 00:34:43.240
 what is pleasing

00:34:43.240 --> 00:34:43.760
 to you

00:34:43.760 --> 00:34:46.220
 and we have

00:34:46.220 --> 00:34:46.960
 turned away

00:34:46.960 --> 00:34:48.940
 we've refused

00:34:48.940 --> 00:34:49.600
 to listen

00:34:49.600 --> 00:34:52.180
 we've stubbornly

00:34:52.180 --> 00:34:52.960
 disobeyed

00:34:53.300 --> 00:34:54.800
 Lord we are

00:34:54.800 --> 00:34:55.880
 covered in shame

00:34:55.880 --> 00:34:58.960
 and yet Lord

00:34:58.960 --> 00:34:59.660
 we come

00:34:59.660 --> 00:35:01.560
 pleading

00:35:01.560 --> 00:35:04.039
 asking that you

00:35:04.039 --> 00:35:04.680
 would be gracious

00:35:04.680 --> 00:35:05.620
 to us not because

00:35:05.620 --> 00:35:06.420
 we are righteous

00:35:06.420 --> 00:35:08.440
 but because of the

00:35:08.440 --> 00:35:09.300
 great mercy you've

00:35:09.300 --> 00:35:10.560
 shown us in your

00:35:10.560 --> 00:35:11.480
 son the Lord Jesus

00:35:11.480 --> 00:35:14.960
 that our sin was

00:35:14.960 --> 00:35:15.900
 indeed deeper than

00:35:15.900 --> 00:35:16.620
 the sea and your

00:35:16.620 --> 00:35:18.580
 grace went deeper

00:35:18.580 --> 00:35:19.019
 still

00:35:19.019 --> 00:35:21.639
 and so Lord

00:35:21.639 --> 00:35:22.559
 cleanse us

00:35:22.559 --> 00:35:25.019
 give us a pure

00:35:25.019 --> 00:35:25.920
 heart

00:35:25.920 --> 00:35:27.820
 Father give us a

00:35:27.820 --> 00:35:28.679
 real desire to

00:35:28.679 --> 00:35:29.639
 wage war against

00:35:29.639 --> 00:35:30.619
 our sin let us do

00:35:30.619 --> 00:35:31.519
 it dependently

00:35:31.519 --> 00:35:33.099
 on your Holy

00:35:33.099 --> 00:35:34.139
 Spirit working in

00:35:34.139 --> 00:35:34.559
 us

00:35:34.559 --> 00:35:36.480
 that Jesus might be

00:35:36.480 --> 00:35:37.440
 an example to

00:35:37.440 --> 00:35:37.880
 us

00:35:37.880 --> 00:35:39.259
 and that we might

00:35:39.259 --> 00:35:40.139
 live all of life

00:35:40.139 --> 00:35:40.840
 that you might be

00:35:40.840 --> 00:35:41.320
 pleased

00:35:41.320 --> 00:35:42.800
 and we might be

00:35:42.800 --> 00:35:44.199
 those of whom you

00:35:44.199 --> 00:35:45.559
 say you are highly

00:35:45.559 --> 00:35:46.179
 esteemed

00:35:46.179 --> 00:35:47.460
 because of your

00:35:47.460 --> 00:35:48.299
 love and devotion

00:35:48.299 --> 00:35:49.239
 to the Lord Jesus

00:35:49.239 --> 00:35:51.299
 Father bless us

00:35:51.299 --> 00:35:52.079
 and help us

00:35:52.079 --> 00:35:53.299
 discomfort us

00:35:53.299 --> 00:35:54.139
 where necessary

00:35:54.139 --> 00:35:55.779
 and comfort us

00:35:55.779 --> 00:35:56.719
 where we need it

00:35:56.719 --> 00:35:57.960
 and we ask this

00:35:57.960 --> 00:35:58.779
 all for Jesus

00:35:58.779 --> 00:35:59.259
 sake

00:35:59.259 --> 00:36:00.679
 and in his name

00:36:00.679 --> 00:36:01.440
 Amen

00:36:01.440 --> 00:36:01.599
 Amen

00:36:01.599 --> 00:36:02.059
 Amen

00:36:02.059 --> 00:36:03.460
 Amen

00:36:03.460 --> 00:36:05.460
 Amen

00:36:05.460 --> 00:36:05.679
 Amen

00:36:05.679 --> 00:36:05.740
 Amen

00:36:05.740 --> 00:36:06.159
 Amen

00:36:06.159 --> 00:36:06.440
 Amen

00:36:06.440 --> 00:36:06.740
 Amen

00:36:06.740 --> 00:36:09.480
 Amen

00:36:09.480 --> 00:36:09.700
 Amen

00:36:09.700 --> 00:36:10.260
 Amen

00:36:10.260 --> 00:36:11.639
 Amen

00:36:11.639 --> 00:36:11.760
 Amen

00:36:11.760 --> 00:36:13.659
 Amen

00:36:13.659 --> 00:36:14.659
 Amen

00:36:14.659 --> 00:36:15.579
 Amen

00:36:15.579 --> 00:36:17.179
 Amen

00:36:17.179 --> 00:36:19.740
 Amen

00:36:20.220 --> 00:36:20.460
 Amen

00:36:20.460 --> 00:36:20.679
 Amen

00:36:20.679 --> 00:36:22.420
 Amen

00:36:22.599 --> 00:36:22.800
 Amen

00:36:22.800 --> 00:36:23.420
 Amen

00:36:23.420 --> 00:36:24.460
 Amen

00:36:24.460 --> 00:36:31.260
 Amen