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 Well, good evening everyone.

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 Somebody out there, it's very bright, light's shining on me.

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 It's great to be here with you in Brentsfield.

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 Again, can I wish you a very happy new year and God's blessing,

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 a year of change for you as a church.

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 I've been praying for you, for Graham, for the elders,

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 the team that God's going to bless you richly in this coming year.

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 Well, Christmas is over.

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 Remember, we now have grandchildren aged five and three,

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 so we've been discovering the delights of children's toys,

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 which are very different to the toys that we had when we were growing up,

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 says he, having just had his 70th birthday.

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 Pause for gas of amazement there, thank you.

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 So among all the presents, of course, the children want to know what you're going to buy them,

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 and we got them one or two things,

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 but my wife had the inspired idea that it was important for them to experience something a little more traditional.

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 So we bought them,

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 I do tell you this is not the only thing we bought them,

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 but we did buy them a box set of traditional stories as well.

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 Now you all know fairy stories.

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 They always begin with the same words.

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 So what do fairy stories begin with?

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 Once upon a time.

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 It's a story.

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 It begins once upon a time,

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 and then that follows a story.

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 Many twists and turns,

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 and they always end with the same words,

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 which are?

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 And they all lived happily ever after.

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 Now this book,

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 66 books,

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 makes up one book

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 that is the story.

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 It's the story of the Bible.

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 And it begins not with a fictional statement,

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 but with a factual statement,

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 which you've got on your back wall

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 in a variety of different languages.

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 It begins not with once upon a time.

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 It says,

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 in the beginning,

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 God.

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 The Bible is a story.

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 It begins with God,

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 a God who creates the world

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 in all its perfection.

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 Everything he makes is good.

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 It's a perfect world.

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 And when he's finished creating the crown of his creation,

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 the man and the woman,

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 he saw that everything was very good.

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 Unfortunately,

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 did not remain very good,

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 because Genesis 1 and 2 in the Bible

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 are followed by Genesis 3.

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 And sadly,

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 our first parents rebelled against God,

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 went their own way,

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 with the result that a fallen world

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 is the consequence.

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 With disastrous consequences for them,

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 and for the created order.

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 Now thankfully,

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 the Bible does not end at Genesis 3.

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 It would be a very short book,

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 and we would have a very short history.

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 Because God,

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 in his great love,

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 determines to put things right,

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 and to restore human beings

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 to the relationship for which we are made

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 to know and love God.

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 And this,

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 of course,

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 culminates in a redeemed world,

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 focusing finally

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 in the coming to earth

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 of God's Son

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 that we've just celebrated

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 at Christmas time.

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 the Son of God

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 who lives the life

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 we could never live,

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 who dies the death

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 that we deserved

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 in our place,

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 who is declared with power

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 to be God's Son

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 by raising him from the dead,

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 is raised to life,

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 he ascends into heaven,

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 and the last book of the Bible,

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 this is a very potted history

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 of a long book,

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 but at the very end of it,

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 the very last book,

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 the very last chapter,

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 we have a wonderful picture

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 of a restored world.

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 And in a sense,

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 they all lived happily ever after.

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 Well, not all, sadly.

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 And so the final book of the Bible

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 looks forward

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 to the return from heaven

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 of Jesus,

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 God's Son.

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 And then the curtain

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 of human history

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 will come down,

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 and it ends in this way.

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 It says,

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 he who testifies

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 to these things says,

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 yes,

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 I'm coming soon.

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 Amen,

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 come Lord Jesus.

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 And then there's a

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 kind of little postscript,

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 the grace of the Lord Jesus

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 be with God's people.

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 Now,

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 we live our lives

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 within this story.

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 We actually live

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 in the last chapter.

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 The last chapter

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 of God's story of salvation.

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 The last chapter

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 is that period

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 between the return

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 of Jesus to heaven

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 from earth,

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 and the last chapter

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 will finish

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 with the return

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 of Jesus

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 from heaven

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 to earth.

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 And every part

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 of the Bible,

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 this wonderful book,

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 God's book,

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 his word,

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 all the stories

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 within it

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 form part

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 of that great story

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 and contribute

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 towards it.

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 And all the characters

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 in it

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 play out their lives

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 within that story.

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 So what I've been

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 trying to do

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 is just set the context.

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 You think,

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 where is he going

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 with this?

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 I'm going to

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 the book of Ruth,

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 which is a wonderful

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 little story.

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 The German poet

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 Goethe

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 described it

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 as the loveliest

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 complete work

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 on a small scale

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 ever written.

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 What a commendation.

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 And it begins,

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 as we begin our story

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 today,

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 it begins

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 not with a happy story,

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 but with a sad story.

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 So our opening verses

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 in Ruth

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 begin with

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 a family tragedy.

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 And that's what

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 we're going to focus on

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 this evening.

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 So if you've got a Bible,

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 and there are Bibles

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 in the pews,

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 it really will be helpful

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 to have a Bible

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 in front of you.

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 We're just going to look

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 at these opening

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 five verses.

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 The words will come up

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 on the screen as well,

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 but it would be helpful

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 to have your own Bible

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 in front of you

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 if you haven't got on there.

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 So let's read

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 this wonderful story,

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 this beginning story.

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 which sets the scene.

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 In the days

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 when the judges ruled,

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 there was a famine

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 in the land.

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 So a man from Bethlehem

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 in Judah,

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 together with his wife

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 and two sons,

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 went to live for a while

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 in the country of Moab.

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 The man's name

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 was Elimelech,

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 his wife's name

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 was Naomi,

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 and the names

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 of his two sons

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 were Marlon

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 and Kilion.

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 They were Ephrathites

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 from Bethlehem

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 in Judah,

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 and they went to Moab

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 and lived there.

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 Now,

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 Elimelech,

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 Naomi's husband,

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 died,

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 and she was left

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 with her two sons.

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 They married Moabite women,

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 one named Orpah,

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 the other Ruth.

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 After they had lived there

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 about ten years,

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 both Marlon

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 and Kilion

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 also died,

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 and Naomi was left

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 without her two sons

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 and her husband.

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 It's God's word.

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 Now,

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 look with me

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 at this introduction

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 that sets the scene

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 for this story.

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 I want to focus,

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 this is going to be

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 really simple,

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 and

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 the points even begin

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 with the same letter.

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 All right?

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 So you'll be able

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 to remember them easily.

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 They don't always work

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 that way,

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 but I think these do.

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 And we're going to look

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 at three aspects

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 of the story

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 which apply to the characters,

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 these six named people here,

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 but they also apply

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 to your life

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 and to my life.

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 All right?

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 Here's the three.

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 I'll tell you what they are

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 before we begin,

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 and then we'll look

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 at each one in turn.

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 First of all,

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 circumstances,

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 the setting in which

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 the story takes place

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 and their lives take place.

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 Secondly,

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 choices,

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 which the characters make.

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 And finally,

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 arising from those choices

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 are consequences.

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 Those three things

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 apply to you and me.

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 We live in a context

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 in circumstances.

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 We make choices

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 in our lives,

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 and the choices we make

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 determine certain consequences.

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 So look with me

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 at each in turn.

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 So let's start with

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 consequences.

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 And what did I do then?

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 I forgot to put the words

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 up on the screen.

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 Sorry.

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 That's me with PowerPoint.

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 Circumstances.

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 The setting is given

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 right at the beginning.

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 In the days

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 when the judges ruled,

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 there was a famine

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 in the land.

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 Now notice in this

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 opening sentence,

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 we have a general context,

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 and then we have

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 a specific situation.

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 A general context.

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 It says,

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 in the general context,

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 in the days

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 when the judges ruled.

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 It's really simple

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 because maybe

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 you're getting to know

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 the Bible.

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 Some of you are

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 very familiar with it.

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 Others maybe don't know

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 it very well,

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 so I'll be absolutely simple.

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 So just excuse me

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 if you know all this

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 already, all right?

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 In the days

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 when the judges ruled.

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 After the...

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 Here's a little chart.

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 Can you see it?

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 No, it's not too bad.

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 I'm looking at that

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 big thing up there.

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 After the...

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 You know the story

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 of the Bible.

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 After the exodus

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 from Egypt,

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 under the leadership

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 of Moses,

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 the people of Israel

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 eventually,

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 after a 40-year hiatus

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 around the wilderness,

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 finally arrive

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 in the promised land.

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 Moses dies,

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 succeeded by Joshua,

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 and the book of Joshua

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 tells us the story

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 of the conquest of Canaan,

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 a somewhat patchwork event.

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 And this is followed

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 by a period

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 of around about

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 three centuries.

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 Think of that for a moment.

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 300 years.

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 300 years

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 when Israel was ruled

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 by a succession of leaders

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 who had the title

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 of judges.

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 And the book

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 which precedes you,

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 if you've got your Bible

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 open at Ruth,

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 if you turn back

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 the preceding book

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 in our English Bibles,

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 the experts will tell you

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 that in the Hebrew Bible

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 it's not the case.

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 But anyway,

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 in the English Bibles

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 the preceding book

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 is the book of Judges.

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 It's named after these

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 Judges.

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 And the last verse,

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 if you look,

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 just page over,

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 if you look back

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 it says,

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 it's characterized by this,

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 in those days

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 Israel had no king,

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 everyone did

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 as they saw fit.

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 Literally,

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 I think in Hebrew

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 it's everyone did

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 what was right

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 in his own eyes.

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 Am I right,

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 David?

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 Thank you very much.

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 David's got the Hebrew Bible

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 there to keep me straight.

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 Now,

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 the little nation of Israel

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 chosen in love by God,

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 not because of any merit

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 on their part,

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 the Lord said to them

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 in New Tionomy 7,

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 7,

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 it's not because you

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 were more in number

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 or better than anyone else.

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 I loved you

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 because I loved you.

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 He chose this nation,

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 delivered them

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 from slavery in Egypt,

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 brought them to their own land,

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 and yet sadly

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 they constantly turned

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 against God

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 and went their own way.

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 And the book of Judges

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 describes how

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 this terrible cycle

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 took place.

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 The people turned

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 against God,

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 God allowed

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 neighboring tribes

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 and nations

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 to invade,

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 to subjugate,

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 to oppress them.

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 The people then

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 cried out to God

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 for help.

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 God raised up

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 these leaders,

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 these judges.

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 The people turned

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 back to God

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 and yet within a generation

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 the cycle is repeated

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 as they turn

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 against the Lord again.

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 And this is this kind

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 of cycle

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 where people are just

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 doing what's right

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 in their own eyes.

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 It's a period

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 of political uncertainty.

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 Some of the judges

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 are well known.

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 Most people know

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 about Samson,

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 Gideon,

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 Samuel.

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 Others are not

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 so well known.

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 Ophnil,

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 Ehud,

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 Deborah,

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 Jephthah,

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 Shamgar,

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 Tola,

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 Jair.

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 What is familiar

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 is this repeated

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 cycle over

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 and over again.

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 That was the

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 general context

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 in which this

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 little family lived.

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 But we're told

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 they also faced

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 a specific situation.

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 There was a famine

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 in the land.

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 This family did not

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 live in one of

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 the economic upturns

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 that took place

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 in the nation

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 from time to time.

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 They lived in a

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 down time

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 when a famine

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 hit the land.

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 Now we're not told

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 where during

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 the book of Judges

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 this actually took

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 place.

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 It may have

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 been the period

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 if you know

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 the book of Judges

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 a little bit

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 further back.

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 There was a judge

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 named Gideon

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 who was raised

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 up by God

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 because a

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 neighboring nation

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 the Midianites

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 kept invading

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 the land

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 on camels.

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 They were

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 a camel

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 what's the word

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 I'm looking for?

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 Camel seated.

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 They sat on camels

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 and invaded Israel

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 for a period

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 of seven years

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 and they particularly

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 did it when

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 harvest came.

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 So they kind of

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 looted the land

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 and everyone

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 was desolate.

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 Maybe this

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 exacerbated the

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 situation.

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 This is maybe

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 the famine.

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 Whatever the case

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 this family

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 lived in hard

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 times at this

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 specific point

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 in history.

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 I think about it

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 for a moment.

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 If they'd lived

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 200 years before

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 they'd have

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 experienced

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 crossing the

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 river Jordan.

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 They'd have

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 experienced the

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 mighty conquest

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 under Joshua.

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 If they'd lived

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 a couple of

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 hundred years

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 later maybe

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 they'd lived

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 at the glorious

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 time of King

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 David and Solomon

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 in the amazing

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 temple that he

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 erected.

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 But they didn't.

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 They lived in the

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 days when the

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 judges ruled where

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 there was a famine

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 in the land.

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 Now,

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 2017 AD.

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 We live in history.

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 Present history.

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 We live in the days

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 of Islamic State.

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 Terrorist atrocities.

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 We live in the days

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 of mass migration.

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 Of Brexit.

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 Economic uncertainties.

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 People in boats

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 trying to get to

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 Europe.

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 We live in the days

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 of President-elect

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 Trump.

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 And we live in this

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 amazing celebrity

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 culture where,

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 can you believe it,

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 all of this is

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 superseded for 15

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 minutes on BBC

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 by the death of a

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 pop star.

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 kind of strange

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 days we live in,

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 don't we?

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 For those of us

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 who are Christians,

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 we do not live,

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 though we wish we

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 did,

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 and we hope we

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 may,

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 we do not live in

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 days of spiritual

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 revival.

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 I think,

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 to be fair,

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 in our nation,

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 we live in days of

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 spiritual decline.

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 Says he now,

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 having lived his

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 allotted three-score

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 years and ten.

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 And we cannot

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 escape the context

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 in which we live.

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 While we're

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 drawing into our

00:14:37.080 --> 00:14:37.639
 ghettos,

00:14:38.779 --> 00:14:39.500
 wallowing in

00:14:39.500 --> 00:14:40.720
 spiritual nostalgia.

00:14:42.639 --> 00:14:43.320
 We are,

00:14:43.419 --> 00:14:44.680
 Jesus reminded us,

00:14:44.940 --> 00:14:45.960
 we are in the

00:14:45.960 --> 00:14:46.340
 world,

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 but we are not

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 of the world.

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 You are,

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 said Jesus to

00:14:50.340 --> 00:14:50.879
 his followers,

00:14:51.519 --> 00:14:52.360
 the salt of the

00:14:52.360 --> 00:14:52.720
 earth.

00:14:52.720 --> 00:14:52.800
 death.

00:14:53.300 --> 00:14:53.899
 You are the

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 light of the

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 world.

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 That is the

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 context in which

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 we live.

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 And we have no

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 choice about that.

00:15:03.920 --> 00:15:04.920
 We have no choice

00:15:04.920 --> 00:15:05.700
 about the times in

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 which we live.

00:15:06.240 --> 00:15:06.860
 We do have a

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 choice about how

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 we respond to

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 the times in which

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 we live.

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 So,

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 here's my second

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 point.

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 Choices.

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 What are Elimelech

00:15:16.040 --> 00:15:16.920
 and his family to

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 do?

00:15:18.940 --> 00:15:20.019
 Living at this

00:15:20.019 --> 00:15:20.879
 time of famine,

00:15:20.879 --> 00:15:21.700
 in these

00:15:21.700 --> 00:15:22.860
 uncertain days?

00:15:23.379 --> 00:15:23.659
 Well,

00:15:23.720 --> 00:15:24.279
 we're told in

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 the text.

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 So a man from

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 Bethlehem in

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 Judah,

00:15:27.620 --> 00:15:28.320
 together with his

00:15:28.320 --> 00:15:29.019
 wife and two

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 sons,

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 went to live for

00:15:30.080 --> 00:15:31.200
 a while in the

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 country of Moab.

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 They just hopped

00:15:33.439 --> 00:15:34.620
 over into the

00:15:34.620 --> 00:15:35.559
 neighboring nation

00:15:35.559 --> 00:15:36.700
 of Moab.

00:15:36.960 --> 00:15:37.580
 They did what

00:15:37.580 --> 00:15:38.220
 many people are

00:15:38.220 --> 00:15:38.659
 doing today,

00:15:38.740 --> 00:15:39.179
 they became

00:15:39.179 --> 00:15:40.320
 economic migrants.

00:15:43.519 --> 00:15:43.939
 Now,

00:15:44.019 --> 00:15:44.519
 the writer of

00:15:44.519 --> 00:15:44.940
 this book,

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 will you notice,

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 he makes no

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 comment about

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 the wisdom or

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 folly of what

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 they did.

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 not everyone

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 agrees with this,

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 and I'll agree to

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 disagree and live

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 with you if you

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 disagree,

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 but I think

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 there is no

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 comment on this

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 because it

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 doesn't need any

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 comment.

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 For anyone who

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 knows the

00:16:04.820 --> 00:16:05.679
 history of Israel

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 will make the

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 correct judgment.

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 I was trying to

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 think of a modern

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 illustration.

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 It is like saying,

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 in 2012,

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 when Rangers were

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 demoted to the

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 third division of

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 Scottish football,

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 a certain supporter

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 decided to go to

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 Celtic Park,

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 you don't need to

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 comment on the

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 wisdom or folly

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 of such a move.

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 Well,

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 it depends who

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 you support.

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 So,

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 for those who

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 are not familiar

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 with the Bible,

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 there is a whole

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 history behind

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 this comment about

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 going to Moab.

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 Let me give you

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 again a brief

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 summary of the

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 origin and

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 history of the

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 nation of Moab,

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 and what I think

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 is the folly of

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 moving to Moab.

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 And,

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 in Genesis 19,

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 we read about

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 the unsavoury

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 origins of the

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 nation of Moab.

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 It's the story of

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 how Lot,

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 the nephew of

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 Abraham,

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 fleeing from the

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 destruction that

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 the God poured

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 out upon Sodom,

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 running away with

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 his two daughters.

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 His wife was the

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 one who was

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 turned into a

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 pillar of salt

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 when she looked

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 back.

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 And at the end

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 of the day,

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 he and his two

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 daughters,

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 the two daughters

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 get their father

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 drunk,

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 sleep with him

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 in successive

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 evenings.

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 And the elder

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 daughter gives

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 birth to a

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 son called

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 Moab,

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 which sounds

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 like the Hebrew

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 for from my

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 father.

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 The other one

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 gives birth to

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 another nation

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 called Ammon.

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 Lot was a man

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 who, because of

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 his materialism,

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 was dragged into

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 idolatry and

00:17:36.019 --> 00:17:36.600
 immorality,

00:17:37.680 --> 00:17:38.539
 traits which soon

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 became characteristic

00:17:39.559 --> 00:17:40.380
 of the nation

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 that emerged from

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 him, as we see

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 in later history.

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 We then meet

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 them in Numbers

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 22 and 25.

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 When the people

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 of Israel are

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 traveling from

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 Egypt through to

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 Canaan, they

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 asked the king

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 of Moab for

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 permission to go

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 through their

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 land, not to do

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 anything hostile.

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 He refuses.

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 Instead, it's one

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 of these stories in

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 the Bible, if you

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 went to Sunday

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 school, you

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 remember, he

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 hired a prophet

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 called Balaam to

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 put a curse on the

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 people of Israel.

00:18:11.480 --> 00:18:12.019
 Balaam was

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 prevented from doing

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 this by talking

00:18:13.819 --> 00:18:16.599
 donkey, and

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 instead he

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 pronounced a

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 blessing on

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 Israel, but

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 even though that

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 is not successful,

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 the women of

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 Moab enticed

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 the men of

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 Israel into

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 pagan revelry

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 and gross

00:18:27.659 --> 00:18:28.659
 sexual immorality

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 and 24,000 of

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 them are struck

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 dead.

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 In more recent

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 times, in

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 Judges 3, we

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 read of recent

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 oppression by

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 Moab.

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 Eglon, king of

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 Moab, attacks and

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 subjugates the

00:18:42.460 --> 00:18:43.399
 nation of Israel

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 for 18 years.

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 No wonder, then,

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 that later

00:18:46.980 --> 00:18:48.060
 prophets, Isaiah,

00:18:48.220 --> 00:18:49.440
 Jeremiah, Ezekiel,

00:18:49.580 --> 00:18:51.240
 Amos, Zephaniah, all

00:18:51.240 --> 00:18:51.980
 utter judgment

00:18:51.980 --> 00:18:53.080
 against Moab.

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 And the law of

00:18:54.620 --> 00:18:55.380
 Moses is very

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 clear.

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 The law of

00:18:56.340 --> 00:18:57.860
 Moses says, no

00:18:57.860 --> 00:18:58.780
 Ammonite or

00:18:58.780 --> 00:18:59.960
 Moabite or any

00:18:59.960 --> 00:19:00.300
 of their

00:19:00.300 --> 00:19:01.720
 descendants may

00:19:01.720 --> 00:19:02.180
 enter the

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 assembly of the

00:19:02.900 --> 00:19:03.920
 Lord, not even

00:19:03.920 --> 00:19:05.000
 in the tenth

00:19:05.000 --> 00:19:05.940
 generation.

00:19:06.360 --> 00:19:06.900
 We will see

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 gloriously there

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 is an exception

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 to this as we

00:19:09.640 --> 00:19:10.759
 come to this

00:19:10.759 --> 00:19:11.480
 series later.

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 But can you

00:19:12.279 --> 00:19:13.120
 see the irony

00:19:13.120 --> 00:19:13.740
 of a man

00:19:13.740 --> 00:19:14.900
 called Elimelech,

00:19:15.519 --> 00:19:16.079
 whose name

00:19:16.079 --> 00:19:16.740
 means my

00:19:16.740 --> 00:19:17.559
 God is king,

00:19:18.220 --> 00:19:19.299
 leaving Bethlehem,

00:19:19.640 --> 00:19:20.420
 which means the

00:19:20.420 --> 00:19:21.240
 house of bread,

00:19:21.680 --> 00:19:23.259
 to emigrate to a

00:19:23.259 --> 00:19:25.120
 place like Moab,

00:19:25.240 --> 00:19:26.460
 even in times of

00:19:26.460 --> 00:19:26.799
 famine.

00:19:27.460 --> 00:19:28.759
 So why did he do

00:19:28.759 --> 00:19:28.880
 it?

00:19:28.940 --> 00:19:29.400
 What was his

00:19:29.400 --> 00:19:30.740
 motivation in

00:19:30.740 --> 00:19:31.680
 moving to Moab?

00:19:31.980 --> 00:19:32.779
 Well, it's obvious.

00:19:33.000 --> 00:19:34.839
 Famine in Israel,

00:19:35.700 --> 00:19:37.299
 bread in Moab.

00:19:37.360 --> 00:19:38.620
 It seems a no-brainer

00:19:38.619 --> 00:19:40.199
 just across the

00:19:40.199 --> 00:19:40.500
 border.

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 It is, I would

00:19:45.379 --> 00:19:46.659
 say, the peril of

00:19:46.659 --> 00:19:48.379
 pragmatism, where

00:19:48.379 --> 00:19:49.699
 pragmatism overrules

00:19:49.699 --> 00:19:50.299
 principle.

00:19:51.979 --> 00:19:53.099
 And I simply say,

00:19:53.219 --> 00:19:54.319
 how many people,

00:19:54.439 --> 00:19:55.219
 how many Christians,

00:19:55.679 --> 00:19:56.459
 how many of us,

00:19:56.579 --> 00:19:57.479
 myself included,

00:19:57.899 --> 00:19:59.000
 how many at times

00:19:59.000 --> 00:19:59.659
 have allowed

00:19:59.659 --> 00:20:01.039
 pragmatism,

00:20:01.759 --> 00:20:02.939
 interest, self-interest

00:20:02.939 --> 00:20:03.779
 to overrule

00:20:03.779 --> 00:20:05.219
 principle, what is

00:20:05.219 --> 00:20:05.619
 right?

00:20:05.619 --> 00:20:07.819
 How did he

00:20:07.819 --> 00:20:08.439
 justify it?

00:20:08.459 --> 00:20:09.199
 How do we justify

00:20:09.199 --> 00:20:09.419
 it?

00:20:09.439 --> 00:20:10.179
 Well, the answer

00:20:10.179 --> 00:20:10.919
 lies in the little

00:20:10.919 --> 00:20:11.339
 words.

00:20:12.000 --> 00:20:13.119
 His intention is,

00:20:14.099 --> 00:20:14.919
 it's for a little

00:20:14.919 --> 00:20:15.339
 while.

00:20:15.500 --> 00:20:16.099
 Notice what it

00:20:16.099 --> 00:20:16.439
 says.

00:20:16.559 --> 00:20:17.019
 It says,

00:20:19.839 --> 00:20:20.879
 So a man from

00:20:20.879 --> 00:20:21.559
 Bethlehem in

00:20:21.559 --> 00:20:22.139
 Judah, together

00:20:22.139 --> 00:20:22.699
 with his wife and

00:20:22.699 --> 00:20:23.599
 two sons, went to

00:20:23.599 --> 00:20:25.159
 live for a while

00:20:25.159 --> 00:20:28.139
 in Moab.

00:20:29.179 --> 00:20:30.219
 To tide things

00:20:30.219 --> 00:20:30.619
 over.

00:20:31.219 --> 00:20:31.859
 It's a temporary

00:20:31.859 --> 00:20:32.599
 expedient.

00:20:32.719 --> 00:20:33.459
 I can imagine him

00:20:33.459 --> 00:20:34.339
 saying, well, it's

00:20:34.339 --> 00:20:35.000
 not the right thing.

00:20:35.000 --> 00:20:35.940
 I realize that and

00:20:35.940 --> 00:20:36.539
 it's not a good

00:20:36.539 --> 00:20:37.119
 thing for his

00:20:37.119 --> 00:20:37.440
 Israelites.

00:20:37.799 --> 00:20:38.559
 But a man's got

00:20:38.559 --> 00:20:39.059
 to live.

00:20:39.299 --> 00:20:40.059
 We've got to eat.

00:20:40.460 --> 00:20:41.339
 So let's do it.

00:20:41.400 --> 00:20:42.160
 But listen, we'll be

00:20:42.160 --> 00:20:42.819
 back soon.

00:20:43.900 --> 00:20:44.759
 It's the peril of

00:20:44.759 --> 00:20:45.740
 procrastination.

00:20:47.839 --> 00:20:49.000
 See, every choice

00:20:49.000 --> 00:20:50.299
 begins with the

00:20:50.299 --> 00:20:51.220
 first step that you

00:20:51.220 --> 00:20:51.599
 make.

00:20:52.720 --> 00:20:53.500
 And if the first

00:20:53.500 --> 00:20:54.279
 step is a wrong

00:20:54.279 --> 00:20:55.660
 step, someone said

00:20:55.660 --> 00:20:56.039
 to me the other

00:20:56.039 --> 00:20:56.559
 day, it's like a

00:20:56.559 --> 00:20:56.779
 ship.

00:20:57.119 --> 00:20:58.200
 If it's just two

00:20:58.200 --> 00:21:01.920
 degrees off, a few

00:21:01.920 --> 00:21:02.839
 miles out at sea,

00:21:03.019 --> 00:21:03.839
 you're a long way

00:21:03.839 --> 00:21:04.339
 off and your

00:21:04.339 --> 00:21:05.259
 destination is a

00:21:05.259 --> 00:21:05.980
 very different

00:21:05.980 --> 00:21:07.159
 destination.

00:21:07.559 --> 00:21:08.359
 See, every choice

00:21:08.359 --> 00:21:09.119
 begins with the

00:21:09.119 --> 00:21:09.919
 first step.

00:21:10.439 --> 00:21:11.000
 How many of

00:21:11.000 --> 00:21:11.879
 Christians decides

00:21:11.879 --> 00:21:12.740
 to stop going to

00:21:12.740 --> 00:21:14.119
 church just for a

00:21:14.119 --> 00:21:14.459
 while?

00:21:15.339 --> 00:21:16.079
 You know, I just

00:21:16.079 --> 00:21:16.639
 don't get on with

00:21:16.639 --> 00:21:17.019
 those other

00:21:17.019 --> 00:21:17.619
 Christians, you

00:21:17.619 --> 00:21:17.779
 know.

00:21:19.480 --> 00:21:20.259
 It caused me a lot

00:21:20.259 --> 00:21:20.679
 of hassle.

00:21:21.240 --> 00:21:21.819
 How many Christians

00:21:21.819 --> 00:21:23.099
 decide, just for a

00:21:23.099 --> 00:21:23.659
 while I'm going to

00:21:23.659 --> 00:21:24.359
 stop reading the

00:21:24.359 --> 00:21:24.899
 Bible because I'm

00:21:24.899 --> 00:21:25.399
 just not getting

00:21:25.399 --> 00:21:26.019
 much out of it.

00:21:26.199 --> 00:21:27.019
 Just for a while

00:21:27.019 --> 00:21:27.699
 I'm going to stop

00:21:27.699 --> 00:21:28.079
 praying.

00:21:28.419 --> 00:21:29.179
 Just for a while

00:21:29.179 --> 00:21:30.240
 I'll come to church

00:21:30.240 --> 00:21:30.839
 but I'm not going to

00:21:30.839 --> 00:21:31.279
 do anything.

00:21:31.379 --> 00:21:32.079
 I need to take a

00:21:32.079 --> 00:21:32.839
 back seat for a

00:21:32.839 --> 00:21:33.079
 while.

00:21:36.379 --> 00:21:37.259
 See, what does a

00:21:37.259 --> 00:21:37.959
 Christian do in

00:21:37.959 --> 00:21:38.779
 times of crisis?

00:21:39.720 --> 00:21:40.799
 What do you do in

00:21:40.799 --> 00:21:41.559
 times of famine?

00:21:41.879 --> 00:21:42.619
 Where do you look

00:21:42.619 --> 00:21:43.399
 for a solution?

00:21:44.939 --> 00:21:46.019
 You either continue

00:21:46.019 --> 00:21:47.039
 to trust God,

00:21:47.759 --> 00:21:48.899
 remaining within the

00:21:48.899 --> 00:21:50.399
 security of his love

00:21:50.399 --> 00:21:51.139
 and his people,

00:21:51.339 --> 00:21:52.119
 or you look

00:21:52.119 --> 00:21:53.919
 elsewhere to Moab

00:21:53.919 --> 00:21:54.779
 for a solution.

00:21:55.339 --> 00:21:56.439
 Now, maybe you're

00:21:56.439 --> 00:21:57.240
 there this evening.

00:21:57.240 --> 00:22:02.839
 Maybe there's a

00:22:02.839 --> 00:22:03.859
 crisis in your life

00:22:03.859 --> 00:22:04.920
 and you look to the

00:22:04.920 --> 00:22:05.819
 wrong place for a

00:22:05.819 --> 00:22:06.220
 solution.

00:22:07.160 --> 00:22:08.059
 Or maybe you're

00:22:08.059 --> 00:22:09.920
 tempted to look to

00:22:09.920 --> 00:22:12.940
 the wrong place for a

00:22:12.940 --> 00:22:13.339
 solution.

00:22:15.380 --> 00:22:16.240
 See, the Christian is

00:22:16.240 --> 00:22:17.000
 the only one who can

00:22:17.000 --> 00:22:17.920
 make such a choice.

00:22:18.039 --> 00:22:18.859
 Before you become a

00:22:18.859 --> 00:22:20.059
 Christian, the Bible

00:22:20.059 --> 00:22:21.220
 says you're a slave to

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 sin.

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 You have to obey its

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 whims and desires.

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 But when you are set

00:22:24.819 --> 00:22:25.940
 free by Christ,

00:22:26.720 --> 00:22:27.240
 filled with his

00:22:27.240 --> 00:22:28.059
 spirit, the prison

00:22:28.059 --> 00:22:28.960
 door is flung open,

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 but you have a choice.

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 You can walk out or

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 you can walk back in.

00:22:32.799 --> 00:22:33.659
 That's why the Bible

00:22:33.659 --> 00:22:34.559
 and the epistles

00:22:34.559 --> 00:22:35.799
 constantly says,

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 you know,

00:22:39.019 --> 00:22:39.759
 put off the old

00:22:39.759 --> 00:22:40.539
 nature, put on the

00:22:40.539 --> 00:22:41.019
 new nature.

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 Don't yield the parts

00:22:43.679 --> 00:22:44.919
 of your body to sin,

00:22:45.599 --> 00:22:46.599
 but to righteousness.

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 Make the right

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 choices.

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 Or you choose to go

00:22:50.759 --> 00:22:51.500
 your own way.

00:22:52.440 --> 00:22:53.640
 Every choice has a

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 consequence.

00:22:55.700 --> 00:22:56.279
 It's put most

00:22:56.279 --> 00:22:58.340
 succinctly in the

00:22:58.340 --> 00:22:58.820
 letter that the

00:22:58.820 --> 00:22:59.740
 Apostle Paul wrote to

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 the Christians in the

00:23:00.640 --> 00:23:02.279
 Roman province of

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 Galatia.

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 It talks about the law

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 of cause and effect.

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 Do not be deceived.

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 God cannot be mocked.

00:23:09.900 --> 00:23:12.200
 A man reaps what he

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 sows.

00:23:14.340 --> 00:23:15.259
 Whoever sows to

00:23:15.259 --> 00:23:16.160
 please their flesh

00:23:16.160 --> 00:23:16.980
 from the flesh will

00:23:16.980 --> 00:23:17.759
 reap destruction.

00:23:18.180 --> 00:23:19.340
 Whoever sows to

00:23:19.340 --> 00:23:20.220
 please the Spirit

00:23:20.220 --> 00:23:21.519
 from the Spirit

00:23:21.519 --> 00:23:22.460
 will reap eternal

00:23:22.460 --> 00:23:22.940
 life.

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 There are consequences

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 that follow

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 from our choices.

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 So we come

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 thirdly back to

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 our story.

00:23:32.000 --> 00:23:32.600
 Consequences.

00:23:34.080 --> 00:23:34.680
 Elimelech,

00:23:34.940 --> 00:23:35.900
 head of the house,

00:23:36.820 --> 00:23:37.700
 makes his choice.

00:23:39.080 --> 00:23:40.180
 Probably his wife

00:23:40.180 --> 00:23:41.160
 had little say in it

00:23:41.160 --> 00:23:42.000
 in a patriarchal

00:23:42.000 --> 00:23:42.580
 society.

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 The husband said

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 that sadly still

00:23:46.060 --> 00:23:46.980
 happens today in

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 our more egalitarian

00:23:48.620 --> 00:23:50.319
 society that my

00:23:50.319 --> 00:23:51.259
 experience pastoral

00:23:51.259 --> 00:23:52.200
 is that often men

00:23:52.200 --> 00:23:52.940
 set a lead and

00:23:52.940 --> 00:23:53.960
 women are sometimes

00:23:53.960 --> 00:23:55.279
 quite often the ones

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 who suffer not always.

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 He went to Moab

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 for a while.

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 For a while

00:24:02.420 --> 00:24:03.160
 became a long

00:24:03.160 --> 00:24:03.519
 while.

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 And the consequences

00:24:07.299 --> 00:24:08.079
 for him and his

00:24:08.079 --> 00:24:10.380
 family are enormous.

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 for a while

00:24:14.180 --> 00:24:14.840
 became a long

00:24:14.840 --> 00:24:15.140
 while.

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 And for Elimelech

00:24:16.980 --> 00:24:18.340
 there is no

00:24:18.340 --> 00:24:18.840
 return.

00:24:19.920 --> 00:24:20.880
 He dies in

00:24:20.880 --> 00:24:21.280
 Moab.

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 I kind of think

00:24:24.139 --> 00:24:24.740
 about him maybe

00:24:24.740 --> 00:24:25.460
 saying every year

00:24:25.460 --> 00:24:26.000
 to his family

00:24:26.000 --> 00:24:27.339
 well we're going

00:24:27.339 --> 00:24:27.779
 to go back

00:24:27.779 --> 00:24:28.379
 home soon.

00:24:29.240 --> 00:24:29.440
 Yep.

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 This is going

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 to be the year

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 and then something

00:24:32.579 --> 00:24:33.460
 just kind of puts

00:24:33.460 --> 00:24:34.119
 it up you know.

00:24:35.200 --> 00:24:36.099
 We live under

00:24:36.099 --> 00:24:37.059
 an illusion if we

00:24:37.059 --> 00:24:37.879
 think we can set

00:24:37.879 --> 00:24:38.500
 the agenda you

00:24:38.500 --> 00:24:38.639
 know.

00:24:38.899 --> 00:24:39.539
 Okay I'm not

00:24:39.539 --> 00:24:40.180
 where I should be

00:24:40.180 --> 00:24:40.859
 spiritually at the

00:24:40.859 --> 00:24:42.019
 moment but believe

00:24:42.019 --> 00:24:42.680
 me I'm going to

00:24:42.680 --> 00:24:43.200
 put it right.

00:24:43.359 --> 00:24:44.099
 Believe me the

00:24:44.099 --> 00:24:45.440
 years go by year

00:24:45.440 --> 00:24:46.279
 after year

00:24:46.279 --> 00:24:48.559
 unless you make

00:24:48.559 --> 00:24:50.500
 a clear and

00:24:50.500 --> 00:24:51.220
 definite choice

00:24:51.220 --> 00:24:51.920
 to return.

00:24:52.859 --> 00:24:53.500
 What I want to

00:24:53.500 --> 00:24:54.039
 say and I say

00:24:54.039 --> 00:24:54.920
 with all seriousness

00:24:54.920 --> 00:24:57.079
 you can be a

00:24:57.079 --> 00:24:57.759
 believer and you

00:24:57.759 --> 00:24:58.819
 can die in Moab.

00:25:01.059 --> 00:25:02.160
 You can die in

00:25:02.160 --> 00:25:02.539
 Moab.

00:25:03.859 --> 00:25:04.700
 He dies there.

00:25:05.200 --> 00:25:06.160
 As always happens

00:25:06.160 --> 00:25:07.059
 with families the

00:25:07.059 --> 00:25:08.079
 children assimilate

00:25:08.079 --> 00:25:08.940
 more quickly and

00:25:08.940 --> 00:25:10.160
 easily into the

00:25:10.160 --> 00:25:11.139
 prevailing culture

00:25:11.139 --> 00:25:12.359
 than the parents

00:25:12.359 --> 00:25:13.220
 the two sons

00:25:13.220 --> 00:25:13.940
 Marlon and

00:25:13.940 --> 00:25:14.339
 Kilion.

00:25:15.399 --> 00:25:15.899
 Their names

00:25:15.900 --> 00:25:16.780
 both probably

00:25:16.780 --> 00:25:17.340
 mean something

00:25:17.340 --> 00:25:18.019
 like weakness

00:25:18.019 --> 00:25:18.920
 or frailness

00:25:18.920 --> 00:25:20.380
 expressed in the

00:25:20.380 --> 00:25:21.060
 fact that both

00:25:21.060 --> 00:25:21.480
 of them

00:25:21.480 --> 00:25:23.600
 both of them

00:25:23.600 --> 00:25:24.800
 marry Moabite

00:25:24.800 --> 00:25:25.360
 girls

00:25:25.360 --> 00:25:27.320
 contrary again

00:25:27.320 --> 00:25:27.860
 to the law

00:25:27.860 --> 00:25:28.380
 of Moses

00:25:28.380 --> 00:25:29.580
 and then great

00:25:29.580 --> 00:25:30.600
 tragedy each of

00:25:30.600 --> 00:25:31.300
 them in turn

00:25:31.300 --> 00:25:31.960
 dies.

00:25:34.360 --> 00:25:35.500
 But notice the

00:25:35.500 --> 00:25:35.920
 irony.

00:25:37.140 --> 00:25:37.840
 Why did they

00:25:37.840 --> 00:25:38.720
 go to Moab

00:25:38.720 --> 00:25:39.320
 in the first

00:25:39.320 --> 00:25:39.680
 place?

00:25:39.700 --> 00:25:40.420
 To save their

00:25:40.420 --> 00:25:41.180
 lives in time

00:25:41.180 --> 00:25:41.660
 of famine.

00:25:43.220 --> 00:25:44.259
 But Moab

00:25:44.259 --> 00:25:47.279
 was never

00:25:47.279 --> 00:25:48.879
 is an

00:25:48.879 --> 00:25:49.299
 answer.

00:25:50.079 --> 00:25:50.559
 The promise

00:25:50.559 --> 00:25:51.279
 of life

00:25:51.279 --> 00:25:52.940
 always proves

00:25:52.940 --> 00:25:54.599
 false in

00:25:54.599 --> 00:25:55.140
 the end.

00:25:56.559 --> 00:25:57.180
 The wise

00:25:57.180 --> 00:25:58.140
 little writer

00:25:58.140 --> 00:25:58.400
 of the

00:25:58.400 --> 00:25:58.859
 Proverbs

00:25:58.859 --> 00:25:59.740
 summarizes it

00:25:59.740 --> 00:26:00.319
 so well in

00:26:00.319 --> 00:26:01.180
 Proverbs 14

00:26:01.180 --> 00:26:01.680
 12 he

00:26:01.680 --> 00:26:01.960
 says

00:26:01.960 --> 00:26:03.500
 sorry I

00:26:03.500 --> 00:26:04.180
 should put a

00:26:04.180 --> 00:26:04.660
 picture on

00:26:04.660 --> 00:26:05.180
 there sorry

00:26:05.180 --> 00:26:06.519
 there's a

00:26:06.519 --> 00:26:08.059
 family tree like

00:26:08.059 --> 00:26:08.559
 the program

00:26:08.559 --> 00:26:09.000
 who do you

00:26:09.000 --> 00:26:09.619
 think you are

00:26:09.619 --> 00:26:10.119
 and you look

00:26:10.119 --> 00:26:10.500
 at it and

00:26:10.500 --> 00:26:10.919
 you see

00:26:10.919 --> 00:26:12.259
 died in

00:26:12.259 --> 00:26:12.679
 Moab

00:26:12.679 --> 00:26:13.599
 died in

00:26:13.599 --> 00:26:14.039
 Moab

00:26:14.039 --> 00:26:14.959
 died in

00:26:14.959 --> 00:26:15.399
 Moab

00:26:15.399 --> 00:26:16.039
 and there's

00:26:16.039 --> 00:26:16.379
 Naomi

00:26:16.379 --> 00:26:17.359
 left on

00:26:17.359 --> 00:26:17.679
 her own

00:26:17.679 --> 00:26:18.000
 a little

00:26:18.000 --> 00:26:18.279
 writer

00:26:18.279 --> 00:26:18.739
 of Proverbs

00:26:18.739 --> 00:26:19.279
 puts it

00:26:19.279 --> 00:26:20.479
 there is a

00:26:20.479 --> 00:26:20.819
 way that

00:26:20.819 --> 00:26:21.459
 seems right

00:26:21.459 --> 00:26:22.000
 to a man

00:26:22.000 --> 00:26:24.000
 but in the

00:26:24.000 --> 00:26:24.339
 end

00:26:24.339 --> 00:26:25.799
 it leads

00:26:25.799 --> 00:26:27.059
 to death

00:26:27.059 --> 00:26:29.299
 and the

00:26:29.299 --> 00:26:29.719
 story of

00:26:29.719 --> 00:26:30.059
 Elimelech

00:26:30.059 --> 00:26:30.339
 and his

00:26:30.339 --> 00:26:30.759
 family

00:26:30.759 --> 00:26:31.539
 is a

00:26:31.539 --> 00:26:31.919
 tragedy

00:26:31.919 --> 00:26:32.419
 that is

00:26:32.419 --> 00:26:32.739
 sadly

00:26:32.739 --> 00:26:33.299
 repeated

00:26:33.299 --> 00:26:34.519
 time and

00:26:34.519 --> 00:26:34.959
 again in

00:26:34.959 --> 00:26:35.339
 Christian

00:26:35.339 --> 00:26:35.839
 homes and

00:26:35.839 --> 00:26:36.339
 families

00:26:36.339 --> 00:26:38.919
 for you

00:26:38.919 --> 00:26:39.359
 can be a

00:26:39.359 --> 00:26:39.959
 church member

00:26:39.959 --> 00:26:40.339
 and live

00:26:40.339 --> 00:26:40.879
 in Moab

00:26:40.879 --> 00:26:41.459
 you can be

00:26:41.459 --> 00:26:41.699
 a

00:26:41.699 --> 00:26:45.339
 you can be

00:26:45.339 --> 00:26:45.740
 here this

00:26:45.740 --> 00:26:46.079
 evening

00:26:46.079 --> 00:26:48.079
 physically

00:26:48.079 --> 00:26:48.919
 here but

00:26:48.919 --> 00:26:50.939
 spiritually you

00:26:50.939 --> 00:26:51.379
 can be living

00:26:51.379 --> 00:26:51.980
 in Moab

00:26:51.980 --> 00:26:53.759
 how

00:26:53.759 --> 00:26:55.480
 by making

00:26:55.480 --> 00:26:56.339
 wrong choices

00:26:56.339 --> 00:26:59.319
 oh you may

00:26:59.319 --> 00:26:59.599
 have your

00:26:59.599 --> 00:27:00.099
 excuses

00:27:00.099 --> 00:27:01.839
 and you may

00:27:01.839 --> 00:27:02.319
 be saying to

00:27:02.319 --> 00:27:02.740
 yourself it's

00:27:02.740 --> 00:27:03.199
 only for a

00:27:03.199 --> 00:27:03.639
 little while

00:27:03.639 --> 00:27:04.480
 I'm not going

00:27:04.480 --> 00:27:04.879
 to stay there

00:27:04.879 --> 00:27:05.199
 I'm going to

00:27:05.199 --> 00:27:05.720
 put this right

00:27:05.720 --> 00:27:06.199
 eventually

00:27:06.200 --> 00:27:11.299
 I'm going to

00:27:11.299 --> 00:27:12.019
 return home to

00:27:12.019 --> 00:27:12.460
 the Lord

00:27:12.460 --> 00:27:13.680
 and his

00:27:13.680 --> 00:27:14.539
 people but

00:27:14.539 --> 00:27:15.220
 you may not

00:27:15.220 --> 00:27:16.039
 it's a sobering

00:27:16.039 --> 00:27:16.700
 message really

00:27:16.700 --> 00:27:19.840
 you may die

00:27:19.840 --> 00:27:20.420
 in Moab

00:27:20.420 --> 00:27:22.940
 because life

00:27:22.940 --> 00:27:23.840
 goes past so

00:27:23.840 --> 00:27:24.420
 quickly doesn't

00:27:24.420 --> 00:27:24.900
 the older we

00:27:24.900 --> 00:27:25.380
 get we suddenly

00:27:25.380 --> 00:27:25.880
 think you

00:27:25.880 --> 00:27:26.900
 know where

00:27:26.900 --> 00:27:27.500
 did 70

00:27:27.500 --> 00:27:28.180
 years go

00:27:28.180 --> 00:27:30.600
 the older you

00:27:30.600 --> 00:27:31.000
 get the more

00:27:31.000 --> 00:27:31.480
 you begin to

00:27:31.480 --> 00:27:32.080
 reflect on

00:27:32.080 --> 00:27:32.519
 those things

00:27:32.519 --> 00:27:32.960
 don't you

00:27:32.960 --> 00:27:34.360
 and you begin

00:27:34.360 --> 00:27:35.100
 to think about

00:27:35.100 --> 00:27:35.720
 things like

00:27:35.720 --> 00:27:36.740
 what legacy

00:27:36.740 --> 00:27:37.339
 will you leave

00:27:37.339 --> 00:27:37.620
 for your

00:27:37.620 --> 00:27:38.100
 family

00:27:38.100 --> 00:27:40.799
 Elimelech

00:27:40.799 --> 00:27:41.160
 made the

00:27:41.160 --> 00:27:41.700
 wrong choice

00:27:41.700 --> 00:27:41.940
 and he

00:27:41.940 --> 00:27:42.539
 left behind

00:27:42.539 --> 00:27:43.259
 an embittered

00:27:43.259 --> 00:27:43.799
 wife and

00:27:43.799 --> 00:27:44.400
 two pagan

00:27:44.400 --> 00:27:45.339
 daughters-in-law

00:27:45.339 --> 00:27:47.779
 yes we're

00:27:47.779 --> 00:27:48.180
 going to see

00:27:48.180 --> 00:27:48.799
 in this book

00:27:48.799 --> 00:27:49.700
 and in our

00:27:49.700 --> 00:27:50.200
 series how

00:27:50.200 --> 00:27:51.120
 God transformed

00:27:51.120 --> 00:27:51.900
 the situation

00:27:51.900 --> 00:27:53.000
 but it was

00:27:53.000 --> 00:27:53.799
 in spite of

00:27:53.799 --> 00:27:54.420
 Elimelech

00:27:54.420 --> 00:27:55.539
 not because

00:27:55.539 --> 00:27:56.000
 of him

00:27:56.000 --> 00:27:57.579
 and God

00:27:57.579 --> 00:27:58.019
 willing we'll

00:27:58.019 --> 00:27:58.440
 see more

00:27:58.440 --> 00:27:58.920
 about her

00:27:58.920 --> 00:27:59.180
 and the

00:27:59.180 --> 00:28:00.180
 choice she

00:28:00.180 --> 00:28:00.740
 then made

00:28:00.740 --> 00:28:01.360
 as the story

00:28:01.360 --> 00:28:02.360
 unfolds

00:28:02.360 --> 00:28:02.980
 God willing

00:28:02.980 --> 00:28:03.559
 next week

00:28:03.559 --> 00:28:03.779
 in the

00:28:03.779 --> 00:28:04.220
 weeks that

00:28:04.220 --> 00:28:04.659
 follow

00:28:04.659 --> 00:28:06.980
 some kind

00:28:06.980 --> 00:28:07.559
 of sobering

00:28:07.559 --> 00:28:08.139
 message isn't

00:28:08.139 --> 00:28:08.819
 it but

00:28:08.819 --> 00:28:09.740
 but maybe I

00:28:09.740 --> 00:28:10.259
 think you might

00:28:10.259 --> 00:28:11.159
 maybe at the

00:28:11.159 --> 00:28:11.759
 beginning of a

00:28:11.759 --> 00:28:12.720
 new year it's

00:28:12.720 --> 00:28:13.639
 it's maybe a

00:28:13.639 --> 00:28:14.399
 good message for

00:28:14.399 --> 00:28:15.079
 us to to

00:28:15.079 --> 00:28:15.819
 pause and take

00:28:15.819 --> 00:28:16.759
 stock and say

00:28:16.759 --> 00:28:17.679
 where are you

00:28:17.679 --> 00:28:19.839
 living where are

00:28:19.839 --> 00:28:20.720
 you living today

00:28:20.720 --> 00:28:22.319
 I don't mean are

00:28:22.319 --> 00:28:22.759
 you living in

00:28:22.759 --> 00:28:23.339
 Brentsville or

00:28:23.339 --> 00:28:24.480
 Edmond I mean

00:28:24.480 --> 00:28:25.639
 are you living in

00:28:25.639 --> 00:28:28.159
 Moab are you

00:28:28.159 --> 00:28:29.039
 living in Bethlehem

00:28:29.039 --> 00:28:29.579
 are you living in

00:28:29.579 --> 00:28:30.079
 Israel are you

00:28:30.079 --> 00:28:30.879
 living among God's

00:28:30.879 --> 00:28:31.819
 people are you

00:28:31.819 --> 00:28:32.720
 rooted in God's

00:28:32.720 --> 00:28:33.559
 people

00:28:33.559 --> 00:28:37.360
 challenging

00:28:37.360 --> 00:28:38.160
 daughter's name

00:28:38.160 --> 00:28:41.180
 well

00:28:41.180 --> 00:28:43.220
 looked at the

00:28:43.220 --> 00:28:44.339
 sad story of a

00:28:44.339 --> 00:28:45.160
 family tragedy

00:28:45.160 --> 00:28:46.299
 a man

00:28:46.299 --> 00:28:48.160
 who left

00:28:48.160 --> 00:28:48.839
 home and went

00:28:48.839 --> 00:28:49.339
 to a foreign

00:28:49.339 --> 00:28:49.860
 country

00:28:49.860 --> 00:28:51.620
 because of a

00:28:51.620 --> 00:28:51.920
 famine

00:28:51.920 --> 00:28:53.440
 and died

00:28:53.440 --> 00:28:53.819
 there

00:28:53.819 --> 00:28:55.279
 but I want

00:28:55.279 --> 00:28:56.279
 to finish on a

00:28:56.279 --> 00:28:57.039
 positive note

00:28:57.039 --> 00:29:00.019
 because I want

00:29:00.019 --> 00:29:00.640
 to remind you

00:29:00.640 --> 00:29:01.279
 it need not

00:29:01.279 --> 00:29:01.779
 happen

00:29:01.779 --> 00:29:04.039
 you need not

00:29:04.039 --> 00:29:04.899
 end up in

00:29:04.899 --> 00:29:05.299
 Moab

00:29:05.299 --> 00:29:07.139
 let me finish

00:29:07.139 --> 00:29:07.599
 with another

00:29:07.599 --> 00:29:08.200
 story

00:29:08.200 --> 00:29:09.420
 a story Jesus

00:29:09.420 --> 00:29:10.059
 told us I

00:29:10.059 --> 00:29:10.819
 reflected on it

00:29:10.819 --> 00:29:11.379
 I began to

00:29:11.379 --> 00:29:11.899
 notice some

00:29:11.899 --> 00:29:12.339
 interesting

00:29:12.339 --> 00:29:13.119
 connections

00:29:13.119 --> 00:29:13.960
 these are

00:29:13.960 --> 00:29:14.359
 preachers

00:29:14.359 --> 00:29:14.819
 connections

00:29:14.819 --> 00:29:16.259
 not necessarily

00:29:16.259 --> 00:29:16.799
 biblical

00:29:16.799 --> 00:29:17.359
 connections

00:29:17.359 --> 00:29:18.319
 but it may

00:29:18.319 --> 00:29:18.839
 help us to

00:29:18.839 --> 00:29:19.240
 think about

00:29:19.240 --> 00:29:19.819
 these things

00:29:19.819 --> 00:29:21.139
 so let me

00:29:21.139 --> 00:29:21.839
 finish with a

00:29:21.839 --> 00:29:22.940
 happy ending

00:29:22.940 --> 00:29:24.900
 there's a

00:29:24.900 --> 00:29:25.519
 story about a

00:29:25.519 --> 00:29:26.000
 young man

00:29:26.000 --> 00:29:26.519
 who like

00:29:26.519 --> 00:29:27.160
 Elimelech

00:29:27.160 --> 00:29:28.220
 left his

00:29:28.220 --> 00:29:28.900
 home country

00:29:28.900 --> 00:29:29.900
 not because of

00:29:29.900 --> 00:29:30.360
 a famine

00:29:30.360 --> 00:29:31.799
 but because he

00:29:31.799 --> 00:29:32.420
 was attracted

00:29:32.420 --> 00:29:33.240
 by the bright

00:29:33.240 --> 00:29:34.019
 lights of a

00:29:34.019 --> 00:29:34.700
 distant far

00:29:34.700 --> 00:29:35.180
 country

00:29:35.180 --> 00:29:36.420
 which seemed

00:29:36.420 --> 00:29:37.200
 to offer so

00:29:37.200 --> 00:29:37.920
 much more

00:29:37.920 --> 00:29:39.100
 than all the

00:29:39.100 --> 00:29:39.880
 boring stuff at

00:29:39.880 --> 00:29:40.160
 home

00:29:40.160 --> 00:29:41.500
 restricted by

00:29:41.500 --> 00:29:42.180
 family and

00:29:42.180 --> 00:29:42.580
 father

00:29:42.579 --> 00:29:44.879
 armed with

00:29:44.879 --> 00:29:45.339
 his share of

00:29:45.339 --> 00:29:45.679
 the family

00:29:45.679 --> 00:29:46.240
 fortune

00:29:46.240 --> 00:29:47.879
 he set out

00:29:47.879 --> 00:29:48.199
 on his

00:29:48.199 --> 00:29:48.919
 journey and

00:29:48.919 --> 00:29:49.599
 for a time

00:29:49.599 --> 00:29:50.279
 as is always

00:29:50.279 --> 00:29:50.939
 the case

00:29:50.939 --> 00:29:52.819
 his destination

00:29:52.819 --> 00:29:53.500
 seemed to

00:29:53.500 --> 00:29:54.000
 fulfill

00:29:54.000 --> 00:29:55.699
 all he had

00:29:55.699 --> 00:29:56.299
 hoped for

00:29:56.299 --> 00:29:57.079
 as he

00:29:57.079 --> 00:29:57.639
 squandered

00:29:57.639 --> 00:29:59.000
 his wealth

00:29:59.000 --> 00:29:59.699
 in wild

00:29:59.699 --> 00:30:00.299
 living

00:30:00.299 --> 00:30:00.879
 wine

00:30:00.879 --> 00:30:01.740
 women

00:30:01.740 --> 00:30:03.000
 and song

00:30:03.000 --> 00:30:05.179
 but it

00:30:05.179 --> 00:30:05.559
 didn't

00:30:05.559 --> 00:30:06.259
 last

00:30:06.259 --> 00:30:07.680
 as Jesus

00:30:07.680 --> 00:30:08.319
 goes on to

00:30:08.319 --> 00:30:08.920
 explain in

00:30:08.920 --> 00:30:09.420
 this wonderful

00:30:09.420 --> 00:30:09.879
 story

00:30:09.879 --> 00:30:10.940
 let me read

00:30:10.940 --> 00:30:11.480
 from the

00:30:11.480 --> 00:30:11.980
 text

00:30:11.980 --> 00:30:16.839
 after he'd

00:30:16.839 --> 00:30:17.480
 spent everything

00:30:17.480 --> 00:30:18.160
 now notice the

00:30:18.160 --> 00:30:18.539
 connection

00:30:18.539 --> 00:30:19.559
 there was a

00:30:19.559 --> 00:30:21.279
 severe famine

00:30:21.279 --> 00:30:23.799
 in that

00:30:23.799 --> 00:30:24.519
 whole country

00:30:24.519 --> 00:30:25.460
 and he began

00:30:25.460 --> 00:30:26.379
 to be in

00:30:26.379 --> 00:30:26.720
 need

00:30:26.720 --> 00:30:27.940
 so he went

00:30:27.940 --> 00:30:28.440
 and hired

00:30:28.440 --> 00:30:28.960
 himself

00:30:28.960 --> 00:30:30.339
 to a citizen

00:30:30.339 --> 00:30:30.779
 of that

00:30:30.779 --> 00:30:31.279
 country

00:30:31.279 --> 00:30:32.319
 who sent

00:30:32.319 --> 00:30:32.619
 him

00:30:32.619 --> 00:30:33.900
 to his

00:30:33.900 --> 00:30:34.400
 fields

00:30:34.400 --> 00:30:35.059
 to feed

00:30:35.059 --> 00:30:35.740
 pigs

00:30:35.740 --> 00:30:37.880
 he longed

00:30:37.880 --> 00:30:38.099
 to fill

00:30:38.099 --> 00:30:38.579
 his stomach

00:30:38.579 --> 00:30:38.940
 with the

00:30:38.940 --> 00:30:39.259
 pods

00:30:39.259 --> 00:30:39.559
 that the

00:30:39.559 --> 00:30:39.759
 pigs

00:30:39.759 --> 00:30:40.279
 were eating

00:30:40.279 --> 00:30:41.079
 but no

00:30:41.079 --> 00:30:41.660
 one gave

00:30:41.660 --> 00:30:41.920
 him

00:30:41.920 --> 00:30:43.440
 anything

00:30:43.440 --> 00:30:45.380
 what a

00:30:45.380 --> 00:30:45.880
 place for

00:30:45.880 --> 00:30:46.299
 a Jewish

00:30:46.299 --> 00:30:46.799
 boy to

00:30:46.799 --> 00:30:47.440
 end up

00:30:47.440 --> 00:30:49.359
 in a

00:30:49.359 --> 00:30:49.859
 pigsty

00:30:49.859 --> 00:30:50.339
 eating

00:30:50.339 --> 00:30:50.680
 pig

00:30:50.680 --> 00:30:51.160
 swill

00:30:51.160 --> 00:30:53.920
 but you

00:30:53.920 --> 00:30:54.160
 see

00:30:54.160 --> 00:30:55.039
 the story

00:30:55.039 --> 00:30:55.740
 Jesus tells

00:30:55.740 --> 00:30:56.120
 us

00:30:56.120 --> 00:30:57.339
 reminds us

00:30:57.339 --> 00:30:57.599
 that he

00:30:57.599 --> 00:30:58.140
 didn't end

00:30:58.140 --> 00:30:58.420
 up he

00:30:58.420 --> 00:30:58.900
 didn't die

00:30:58.900 --> 00:30:59.160
 in the

00:30:59.160 --> 00:30:59.660
 pigsty

00:30:59.660 --> 00:31:02.700
 instead

00:31:02.700 --> 00:31:03.400
 the famine

00:31:03.400 --> 00:31:04.799
 God used

00:31:04.799 --> 00:31:05.299
 the famine

00:31:05.299 --> 00:31:06.159
 to remind

00:31:06.159 --> 00:31:06.619
 him

00:31:06.619 --> 00:31:07.700
 of what

00:31:07.700 --> 00:31:08.079
 he left

00:31:08.079 --> 00:31:08.639
 behind

00:31:08.639 --> 00:31:09.539
 it was

00:31:09.539 --> 00:31:10.139
 the famine

00:31:10.139 --> 00:31:10.759
 in this

00:31:10.759 --> 00:31:11.279
 case that

00:31:11.279 --> 00:31:11.579
 was the

00:31:11.579 --> 00:31:12.039
 means of

00:31:12.039 --> 00:31:12.819
 his salvation

00:31:12.819 --> 00:31:18.899
 we just

00:31:18.899 --> 00:31:19.399
 sang a hymn

00:31:19.399 --> 00:31:21.119
 by John

00:31:21.119 --> 00:31:21.460
 Newton

00:31:21.460 --> 00:31:21.919
 Amazing

00:31:21.919 --> 00:31:22.440
 Grace

00:31:22.440 --> 00:31:23.079
 John

00:31:23.079 --> 00:31:23.319
 Newton

00:31:23.319 --> 00:31:23.720
 of course

00:31:23.720 --> 00:31:24.019
 lived in

00:31:24.019 --> 00:31:24.519
 the 18th

00:31:24.519 --> 00:31:24.879
 century

00:31:24.879 --> 00:31:25.440
 he was

00:31:25.440 --> 00:31:26.539
 this slave

00:31:26.539 --> 00:31:27.059
 trader who

00:31:27.059 --> 00:31:27.460
 lived a

00:31:27.460 --> 00:31:28.339
 life of

00:31:28.339 --> 00:31:29.379
 utter

00:31:29.379 --> 00:31:30.039
 depravity

00:31:30.039 --> 00:31:31.460
 was gloriously

00:31:31.460 --> 00:31:32.399
 converted in a

00:31:32.399 --> 00:31:33.099
 storm at sea

00:31:33.099 --> 00:31:34.439
 and became

00:31:34.439 --> 00:31:34.859
 a minister

00:31:34.859 --> 00:31:35.079
 of the

00:31:35.079 --> 00:31:35.319
 gospel

00:31:35.319 --> 00:31:35.659
 and he

00:31:35.659 --> 00:31:36.139
 wrote this

00:31:36.139 --> 00:31:36.879
 wonderful hymn

00:31:36.879 --> 00:31:38.039
 Amazing

00:31:38.039 --> 00:31:38.679
 Grace

00:31:38.679 --> 00:31:40.719
 but he

00:31:40.719 --> 00:31:41.179
 wrote other

00:31:41.179 --> 00:31:41.759
 hymns and

00:31:41.759 --> 00:31:43.480
 maybe I'd be

00:31:43.480 --> 00:31:44.019
 surprised if

00:31:44.019 --> 00:31:44.519
 anyone here

00:31:44.519 --> 00:31:45.059
 maybe one or

00:31:45.059 --> 00:31:45.379
 two of you

00:31:45.379 --> 00:31:45.859
 might know

00:31:45.859 --> 00:31:46.519
 that he

00:31:46.519 --> 00:31:47.339
 actually wrote

00:31:47.339 --> 00:31:48.299
 a hymn

00:31:48.299 --> 00:31:49.740
 about the

00:31:49.740 --> 00:31:50.319
 parable of

00:31:50.319 --> 00:31:50.899
 the prodigal

00:31:50.899 --> 00:31:51.339
 son

00:31:51.339 --> 00:31:53.039
 and as I was

00:31:53.039 --> 00:31:53.659
 looking at it

00:31:53.659 --> 00:31:54.559
 I thought it's

00:31:54.559 --> 00:31:55.059
 a nice

00:31:55.059 --> 00:31:56.279
 place to

00:31:56.279 --> 00:31:56.719
 finish

00:31:56.719 --> 00:31:57.539
 so I'm

00:31:57.539 --> 00:31:58.000
 going to read

00:31:58.000 --> 00:31:58.339
 the words

00:31:58.339 --> 00:31:58.719
 of this hymn

00:31:58.719 --> 00:31:58.919
 now

00:31:58.919 --> 00:31:59.819
 the words

00:31:59.819 --> 00:32:00.179
 are a little

00:32:00.179 --> 00:32:00.719
 bit quaint

00:32:00.720 --> 00:32:01.059
 and old

00:32:01.059 --> 00:32:01.360
 fashioned

00:32:01.360 --> 00:32:01.740
 but I

00:32:01.740 --> 00:32:02.059
 think you'll

00:32:02.059 --> 00:32:02.400
 get the

00:32:02.400 --> 00:32:02.900
 meaning of

00:32:02.900 --> 00:32:03.100
 them

00:32:03.100 --> 00:32:03.660
 Newton is

00:32:03.660 --> 00:32:04.079
 a great

00:32:04.079 --> 00:32:04.620
 great

00:32:04.620 --> 00:32:05.880
 hymn

00:32:05.880 --> 00:32:06.200
 writer

00:32:06.200 --> 00:32:07.460
 so here's

00:32:07.460 --> 00:32:07.880
 what Newton

00:32:07.880 --> 00:32:08.279
 says

00:32:08.279 --> 00:32:08.680
 writes

00:32:08.680 --> 00:32:08.980
 listen

00:32:08.980 --> 00:32:09.500
 carefully

00:32:09.500 --> 00:32:11.539
 here's a

00:32:11.539 --> 00:32:12.000
 big star

00:32:12.000 --> 00:32:12.620
 picture

00:32:12.620 --> 00:32:15.000
 afflictions

00:32:15.000 --> 00:32:15.519
 though they

00:32:15.519 --> 00:32:16.620
 seem severe

00:32:16.620 --> 00:32:17.620
 in mercy

00:32:17.620 --> 00:32:18.319
 oft are

00:32:18.319 --> 00:32:18.759
 sent

00:32:18.759 --> 00:32:19.960
 they stopped

00:32:19.960 --> 00:32:20.720
 the prodigal's

00:32:20.720 --> 00:32:21.519
 career and

00:32:21.519 --> 00:32:22.059
 forced him

00:32:22.059 --> 00:32:22.819
 to repent

00:32:22.819 --> 00:32:23.920
 simple

00:32:23.920 --> 00:32:24.740
 isn't it

00:32:24.740 --> 00:32:26.660
 although he

00:32:26.660 --> 00:32:27.860
 no relentings

00:32:27.860 --> 00:32:28.220
 felt

00:32:28.220 --> 00:32:29.140
 change

00:32:29.140 --> 00:32:29.600
 your mind

00:32:29.599 --> 00:32:30.679
 till he

00:32:30.679 --> 00:32:31.319
 had spent

00:32:31.319 --> 00:32:32.179
 his store

00:32:32.179 --> 00:32:33.519
 his stubborn

00:32:33.519 --> 00:32:34.179
 heart began

00:32:34.179 --> 00:32:34.819
 to melt

00:32:34.819 --> 00:32:36.419
 when famine

00:32:36.419 --> 00:32:37.159
 pinched him

00:32:37.159 --> 00:32:37.599
 sore

00:32:37.599 --> 00:32:39.679
 what have I

00:32:39.679 --> 00:32:40.519
 gained by sin

00:32:40.519 --> 00:32:40.919
 he said

00:32:40.919 --> 00:32:41.480
 by hunger

00:32:41.480 --> 00:32:41.879
 shame

00:32:41.879 --> 00:32:42.459
 and fear

00:32:42.459 --> 00:32:43.699
 my father's

00:32:43.699 --> 00:32:44.459
 house abounds

00:32:44.459 --> 00:32:45.139
 with bread

00:32:45.139 --> 00:32:46.039
 while I am

00:32:46.039 --> 00:32:47.119
 starving here

00:32:47.119 --> 00:32:48.480
 I'll go and

00:32:48.480 --> 00:32:49.019
 tell him all

00:32:49.019 --> 00:32:49.559
 I've done

00:32:49.559 --> 00:32:50.199
 and fall

00:32:50.199 --> 00:32:50.819
 before his

00:32:50.819 --> 00:32:51.279
 face

00:32:51.279 --> 00:32:52.279
 unworthy

00:32:52.279 --> 00:32:53.000
 to be called

00:32:53.000 --> 00:32:53.579
 his son

00:32:53.579 --> 00:32:54.559
 I'll seek

00:32:54.559 --> 00:32:55.419
 a servant's

00:32:55.419 --> 00:32:56.219
 place

00:32:56.220 --> 00:33:01.100
 his father

00:33:01.100 --> 00:33:01.600
 saw him

00:33:01.600 --> 00:33:02.420
 coming back

00:33:02.420 --> 00:33:03.700
 he saw

00:33:03.700 --> 00:33:04.420
 and ran

00:33:04.420 --> 00:33:05.700
 and smiled

00:33:05.700 --> 00:33:06.779
 and threw

00:33:06.779 --> 00:33:07.440
 his arms

00:33:07.440 --> 00:33:08.559
 around the

00:33:08.559 --> 00:33:08.880
 neck

00:33:08.880 --> 00:33:09.839
 of his

00:33:09.839 --> 00:33:10.440
 rebellious

00:33:10.440 --> 00:33:11.039
 child

00:33:11.039 --> 00:33:13.420
 father I've

00:33:13.420 --> 00:33:13.819
 sinned

00:33:13.819 --> 00:33:14.180
 but oh

00:33:14.180 --> 00:33:14.620
 forgive

00:33:14.620 --> 00:33:15.440
 I've heard

00:33:15.440 --> 00:33:15.740
 enough

00:33:15.740 --> 00:33:16.259
 he said

00:33:16.259 --> 00:33:17.539
 rejoice my

00:33:17.539 --> 00:33:17.940
 house

00:33:17.940 --> 00:33:18.660
 my son's

00:33:18.660 --> 00:33:19.180
 alive

00:33:19.180 --> 00:33:20.339
 for whom

00:33:20.339 --> 00:33:21.039
 I mourned

00:33:21.039 --> 00:33:21.600
 as dead

00:33:21.600 --> 00:33:22.559
 now let

00:33:22.559 --> 00:33:23.039
 the fatted

00:33:23.039 --> 00:33:24.140
 calf be slain

00:33:24.140 --> 00:33:24.920
 and spread

00:33:24.920 --> 00:33:25.320
 the news

00:33:25.320 --> 00:33:25.900
 around my

00:33:25.900 --> 00:33:26.360
 son was

00:33:26.360 --> 00:33:26.740
 dead

00:33:26.740 --> 00:33:27.520
 but lives

00:33:27.520 --> 00:33:28.060
 again was

00:33:28.060 --> 00:33:28.600
 lost

00:33:28.600 --> 00:33:29.540
 but now

00:33:29.540 --> 00:33:30.440
 is found

00:33:30.440 --> 00:33:32.200
 and here's

00:33:32.200 --> 00:33:32.740
 the lesson

00:33:32.740 --> 00:33:33.940
 final bit

00:33:33.940 --> 00:33:36.700
 it is thus

00:33:36.700 --> 00:33:37.259
 the Lord

00:33:37.259 --> 00:33:37.900
 his love

00:33:37.900 --> 00:33:38.520
 reveals

00:33:38.520 --> 00:33:39.900
 to call

00:33:39.900 --> 00:33:40.680
 poor sinners

00:33:40.680 --> 00:33:41.160
 home

00:33:41.160 --> 00:33:42.720
 more than

00:33:42.720 --> 00:33:43.380
 a father's

00:33:43.380 --> 00:33:43.780
 love he

00:33:43.780 --> 00:33:44.320
 feels

00:33:44.320 --> 00:33:45.960
 and welcomes

00:33:45.960 --> 00:33:46.780
 all

00:33:46.780 --> 00:33:47.620
 that

00:33:47.620 --> 00:33:48.800
 come

00:33:48.800 --> 00:33:51.600
 maybe

00:33:51.600 --> 00:33:53.280
 this evening

00:33:53.279 --> 00:33:54.440
 you're

00:33:54.440 --> 00:33:54.960
 that poor

00:33:54.960 --> 00:33:55.240
 sinner

00:33:55.240 --> 00:33:57.359
 living in

00:33:57.359 --> 00:33:57.680
 a far

00:33:57.680 --> 00:33:58.119
 country

00:33:58.119 --> 00:34:00.200
 if truth

00:34:00.200 --> 00:34:00.639
 are told

00:34:00.639 --> 00:34:00.960
 in a

00:34:00.960 --> 00:34:01.399
 pigsty

00:34:01.399 --> 00:34:01.879
 life

00:34:01.879 --> 00:34:03.379
 maybe

00:34:03.379 --> 00:34:03.539
 you're

00:34:03.539 --> 00:34:03.819
 not a

00:34:03.819 --> 00:34:04.180
 Christian

00:34:04.180 --> 00:34:05.859
 and you're

00:34:05.859 --> 00:34:06.220
 living in

00:34:06.220 --> 00:34:06.599
 that far

00:34:06.599 --> 00:34:06.920
 country

00:34:06.920 --> 00:34:07.200
 and I

00:34:07.200 --> 00:34:07.500
 simply

00:34:07.500 --> 00:34:07.879
 want to

00:34:07.879 --> 00:34:08.059
 say

00:34:08.059 --> 00:34:08.579
 to finish

00:34:08.579 --> 00:34:09.860
 on a

00:34:09.860 --> 00:34:10.199
 gospel

00:34:10.199 --> 00:34:10.519
 note

00:34:10.519 --> 00:34:11.099
 that God

00:34:11.099 --> 00:34:12.820
 the father

00:34:12.820 --> 00:34:13.380
 loves you

00:34:13.380 --> 00:34:13.960
 his son

00:34:13.960 --> 00:34:14.699
 invites you

00:34:14.699 --> 00:34:15.759
 the Holy

00:34:15.759 --> 00:34:16.099
 Spirit

00:34:16.099 --> 00:34:16.739
 urges you

00:34:16.739 --> 00:34:17.300
 and welcomes

00:34:17.300 --> 00:34:17.779
 you home

00:34:17.779 --> 00:34:19.779
 we come

00:34:19.779 --> 00:34:20.340
 expecting

00:34:20.340 --> 00:34:20.800
 nothing

00:34:20.800 --> 00:34:22.039
 and we

00:34:22.039 --> 00:34:22.480
 receive

00:34:22.480 --> 00:34:22.840
 God's

00:34:22.840 --> 00:34:23.080
 love

00:34:23.080 --> 00:34:23.660
 and grace

00:34:23.660 --> 00:34:24.800
 his arms

00:34:24.800 --> 00:34:25.500
 around us

00:34:25.500 --> 00:34:26.320
 of great

00:34:26.320 --> 00:34:27.019
 assurance

00:34:27.019 --> 00:34:28.400
 and maybe

00:34:28.400 --> 00:34:29.260
 for you

00:34:29.260 --> 00:34:30.060
 2017

00:34:30.060 --> 00:34:30.560
 is the

00:34:30.560 --> 00:34:30.840
 year

00:34:30.840 --> 00:34:31.640
 when you

00:34:31.640 --> 00:34:32.280
 return home

00:34:32.280 --> 00:34:32.560
 for the

00:34:32.560 --> 00:34:33.080
 first time

00:34:33.080 --> 00:34:33.460
 back to

00:34:33.460 --> 00:34:33.740
 the

00:34:33.740 --> 00:34:35.680
 father's

00:34:35.680 --> 00:34:35.960
 home

00:34:35.960 --> 00:34:37.180
 the fellowship

00:34:37.180 --> 00:34:37.620
 with God

00:34:37.620 --> 00:34:38.400
 to restoration

00:34:38.400 --> 00:34:39.200
 to forgiveness

00:34:39.200 --> 00:34:40.120
 to peace

00:34:40.120 --> 00:34:40.580
 to joy

00:34:40.580 --> 00:34:40.980
 all the

00:34:40.980 --> 00:34:41.420
 things you've

00:34:41.420 --> 00:34:41.880
 longed for

00:34:41.880 --> 00:34:43.519
 and prove

00:34:43.519 --> 00:34:43.840
 that this

00:34:43.840 --> 00:34:44.340
 world never

00:34:44.340 --> 00:34:44.920
 satisfies

00:34:44.920 --> 00:34:46.500
 but maybe

00:34:46.500 --> 00:34:46.840
 there's

00:34:46.840 --> 00:34:47.340
 someone here

00:34:47.340 --> 00:34:47.900
 this evening

00:34:47.900 --> 00:34:49.160
 and you're

00:34:49.160 --> 00:34:50.440
 actually a

00:34:50.440 --> 00:34:50.840
 Christian

00:34:50.840 --> 00:34:52.940
 but you're

00:34:52.940 --> 00:34:53.380
 far from

00:34:53.380 --> 00:34:53.760
 God

00:34:53.760 --> 00:34:55.139
 living in

00:34:55.139 --> 00:34:55.519
 the peace

00:34:55.519 --> 00:34:55.860
 time

00:34:55.860 --> 00:34:58.160
 living in

00:34:58.160 --> 00:34:58.460
 the far

00:34:58.460 --> 00:34:58.800
 country

00:34:58.800 --> 00:34:59.380
 living in

00:34:59.380 --> 00:34:59.740
 Moab

00:34:59.740 --> 00:35:00.059
 as it

00:35:00.059 --> 00:35:00.320
 were

00:35:00.320 --> 00:35:02.900
 and I

00:35:02.900 --> 00:35:03.420
 simply want

00:35:03.420 --> 00:35:03.780
 to urge

00:35:03.780 --> 00:35:04.099
 you this

00:35:04.099 --> 00:35:04.440
 evening

00:35:04.440 --> 00:35:05.740
 don't die

00:35:05.740 --> 00:35:06.440
 in Moab

00:35:06.440 --> 00:35:10.180
 return home

00:35:10.180 --> 00:35:11.320
 to your

00:35:11.320 --> 00:35:11.579
 heavenly

00:35:11.579 --> 00:35:12.019
 father

00:35:12.019 --> 00:35:14.200
 let's pray

00:35:14.200 --> 00:35:14.740
 and then I'll

00:35:14.740 --> 00:35:15.360
 hand over to

00:35:15.360 --> 00:35:15.960
 Carrie for

00:35:15.960 --> 00:35:16.300
 a final

00:35:16.300 --> 00:35:16.619
 song

00:35:16.619 --> 00:35:19.239
 just pause

00:35:19.239 --> 00:35:19.699
 for a moment

00:35:19.699 --> 00:35:20.500
 just to reflect

00:35:20.500 --> 00:35:21.440
 what God

00:35:21.440 --> 00:35:21.940
 has said to

00:35:21.940 --> 00:35:22.259
 us this

00:35:22.259 --> 00:35:22.519
 evening

00:35:22.519 --> 00:35:22.900
 for his

00:35:22.900 --> 00:35:23.259
 word

00:35:23.259 --> 00:35:29.839
 father we

00:35:29.839 --> 00:35:30.279
 thank you

00:35:30.279 --> 00:35:31.000
 for your

00:35:31.000 --> 00:35:31.900
 amazing

00:35:31.900 --> 00:35:33.659
 unconditional

00:35:33.659 --> 00:35:34.299
 love

00:35:34.299 --> 00:35:36.639
 here is

00:35:36.639 --> 00:35:37.099
 love not

00:35:37.099 --> 00:35:37.440
 that we

00:35:37.440 --> 00:35:38.079
 loved you

00:35:38.079 --> 00:35:39.219
 but that

00:35:39.219 --> 00:35:39.699
 you loved

00:35:39.699 --> 00:35:40.119
 us

00:35:40.119 --> 00:35:41.559
 and gave

00:35:41.559 --> 00:35:42.059
 your son

00:35:42.059 --> 00:35:42.639
 to be the

00:35:42.639 --> 00:35:43.559
 one to

00:35:43.559 --> 00:35:44.199
 pay the

00:35:44.199 --> 00:35:44.799
 price for

00:35:44.799 --> 00:35:45.219
 our sin

00:35:45.219 --> 00:35:45.940
 to restore

00:35:45.940 --> 00:35:46.239
 us

00:35:46.239 --> 00:35:46.739
 to

00:35:46.739 --> 00:35:47.299
 yourself

00:35:47.299 --> 00:35:50.399
 thank you

00:35:50.399 --> 00:35:50.899
 for your

00:35:50.899 --> 00:35:51.679
 great

00:35:51.679 --> 00:35:52.239
 patience

00:35:52.239 --> 00:35:52.839
 with us

00:35:52.839 --> 00:35:53.859
 forgive us

00:35:53.859 --> 00:35:54.279
 that so

00:35:54.279 --> 00:35:54.819
 often we

00:35:54.819 --> 00:35:55.359
 seek our

00:35:55.359 --> 00:35:56.019
 satisfaction

00:35:56.019 --> 00:35:56.579
 in things

00:35:56.579 --> 00:35:57.099
 that never

00:35:57.099 --> 00:35:58.819
 fulfill

00:35:58.819 --> 00:36:00.459
 things that

00:36:00.459 --> 00:36:00.939
 prove in

00:36:00.939 --> 00:36:01.419
 the end

00:36:01.419 --> 00:36:04.379
 worthless

00:36:04.379 --> 00:36:05.559
 even

00:36:05.559 --> 00:36:06.519
 degrading

00:36:06.519 --> 00:36:06.960
 thank you

00:36:06.960 --> 00:36:08.579
 thank you

00:36:08.579 --> 00:36:10.360
 thank you

00:36:10.360 --> 00:36:10.579
 that you

00:36:10.579 --> 00:36:10.940
 welcome

00:36:10.940 --> 00:36:11.159
 us

00:36:11.159 --> 00:36:11.519
 home

00:36:11.519 --> 00:36:15.980
 and as

00:36:15.980 --> 00:36:16.119
 we

00:36:16.119 --> 00:36:16.320
 bound

00:36:16.320 --> 00:36:16.500
 your

00:36:16.500 --> 00:36:16.860
 presence

00:36:16.860 --> 00:36:17.079
 you

00:36:17.079 --> 00:36:17.300
 know

00:36:17.300 --> 00:36:17.480
 our

00:36:17.480 --> 00:36:17.900
 hearts

00:36:17.900 --> 00:36:20.639
 you're the

00:36:20.639 --> 00:36:20.980
 one to

00:36:20.980 --> 00:36:21.320
 whom all

00:36:21.320 --> 00:36:21.800
 hearts are

00:36:21.800 --> 00:36:22.019
 open

00:36:22.019 --> 00:36:22.739
 from whom

00:36:22.739 --> 00:36:24.179
 no secrets

00:36:24.179 --> 00:36:24.639
 are hid

00:36:24.639 --> 00:36:26.400
 and so

00:36:26.400 --> 00:36:26.699
 knowing

00:36:26.699 --> 00:36:26.920
 our

00:36:26.920 --> 00:36:27.359
 hearts

00:36:27.359 --> 00:36:29.059
 grant to

00:36:29.059 --> 00:36:29.420
 us that

00:36:29.420 --> 00:36:30.179
 repentant

00:36:30.179 --> 00:36:30.699
 spirit

00:36:30.699 --> 00:36:32.739
 that desire

00:36:32.739 --> 00:36:34.279
 to return

00:36:34.279 --> 00:36:34.839
 and as we

00:36:34.839 --> 00:36:35.379
 turn we

00:36:35.379 --> 00:36:35.759
 thank you

00:36:35.759 --> 00:36:36.019
 that you

00:36:36.019 --> 00:36:36.599
 welcome us

00:36:36.599 --> 00:36:36.859
 home

00:36:36.859 --> 00:36:39.379
 may this

00:36:39.379 --> 00:36:39.739
 day

00:36:39.739 --> 00:36:40.819
 be a day

00:36:40.819 --> 00:36:41.460
 of rejoicing

00:36:41.460 --> 00:36:41.900
 in heaven

00:36:41.900 --> 00:36:42.460
 as jesus

00:36:42.460 --> 00:36:42.980
 said over

00:36:42.980 --> 00:36:43.579
 one sinner

00:36:43.579 --> 00:36:44.359
 who repents

00:36:44.359 --> 00:36:45.679
 over one

00:36:45.679 --> 00:36:46.500
 son who

00:36:46.500 --> 00:36:47.199
 is restored

00:36:47.199 --> 00:36:48.259
 who was dead

00:36:48.259 --> 00:36:48.839
 and is alive

00:36:48.839 --> 00:36:49.239
 again who

00:36:49.239 --> 00:36:49.759
 was lost

00:36:49.760 --> 00:36:50.560
 and is found

00:36:50.560 --> 00:36:54.360
 and may this

00:36:54.360 --> 00:36:54.980
 be a beginning

00:36:54.980 --> 00:36:55.840
 a new year

00:36:55.840 --> 00:36:57.060
 when we

00:36:57.060 --> 00:36:57.880
 experience the

00:36:57.880 --> 00:36:58.880
 joy of

00:36:58.880 --> 00:36:59.500
 belonging to

00:36:59.500 --> 00:37:00.140
 you and

00:37:00.140 --> 00:37:00.660
 belonging to

00:37:00.660 --> 00:37:01.180
 your people

00:37:01.180 --> 00:37:04.720
 we ask it in

00:37:04.720 --> 00:37:05.420
 jesus name

00:37:05.420 --> 00:37:06.880
 for your glory

00:37:06.880 --> 00:37:07.600
 amen