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 And turn your Bibles to Psalm 38, sorry, Isaiah 38 and 39.

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! It's on page 598 and 599.

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 In a story that takes the narrative back to the point before the story is reached.

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 If you've any idea, what on earth is he talking about?

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 It just means flashback.

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 It's just a posh word for flashback.

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 Flashback, it's common, isn't it?

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 You see films or TV programs and it's a common theme.

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 In the middle of one episode there's a flashback.

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 And Isaiah 38 and 39 is a flashback.

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 Last week, 36 and 37, we saw the Assyrian ruler, Sennacherib, standing on the doorstep of Jerusalem.

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 And King Hezekiah prays to God and he's amazingly delivered.

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 But when we turn to chapter 38, verse 1, this is how it begins.

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 In those days, notice it's not specific, Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death.

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 And the vagueness of those days is such that we don't actually know exactly when Isaiah is writing about here.

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 However, a few days later, a few verses later, without getting ahead of ourselves, we find that Hezekiah prays again.

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 And Isaiah is told by God, go and tell Hezekiah.

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 Hezekiah, the Lord, the God of your father David, has heard your prayer.

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 He's seen your tears and He will give 15 more years of life to Hezekiah.

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 I'll deliver you and the city from the hand of King Assyria.

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 And I will defend the city.

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 And as a result of God's mercy and Hezekiah's prayer, God promises, I will not only extend your life to Hezekiah,

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 but I will also rescue Jerusalem from the King Assyria.

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 And the rescue that you read about in chapter 39, 38, is what you read about also in chapter 36, 37.

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 So here's a flashback.

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 And I want us to come back right at the end of today's sermon and say, why?

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 Why has Isaiah done it like this?

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 Why has he not followed it chronologically?

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 But before that, what I want us to see is an example from, really, 2 Corinthians,

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 where the Apostle Paul talks about walking by faith and not by sight.

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 Paul writes that Christians are those who walk by faith and not by sight.

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 And I want us to look at this story and see what does faith look like.

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 Because Hezekiah, in these two chapters, gives us an example of both things.

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 We're going to look, first of all, at the King walking by faith,

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 and then we will look at the King walking by sight.

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 And then we'll think about why he presents it as a flashback.

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 So first of all, the King walking by faith.

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 Let's pick it up in verse 1.

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 In those days, Hezekiah became sick and he was at the point of death.

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 And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Abor, came to him and said to him,

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 Thus says the Lord, set your house in order, for you shall die, you shall not recover.

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 It's not great bedside manner, is it?

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 Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and he prayed to the Lord and he said,

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 Please, O Lord, remember how I have walked before you in faithfulness with a whole heart

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 and have done what is good in your sight.

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 And Hezekiah went bitterly.

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 It looks like, doesn't it, the grim reaper,

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 well, his side is about to get Hezekiah before Sennacherib will.

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 Because God tells the King, the King is probably in his mid-thirties at this point,

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 that you're going to die.

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 And you can tell from Hezekiah's response that he doesn't think it terribly well.

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 He turns his face to the wall and he prays and he weeps uncontrollably.

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 And in one sense we know, because this is a flashback, this is going to be a training ground, isn't it?

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 For Hezekiah to turn to God in prayer.

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 We know that he turned to God in prayer when the Assyrians were on the doorstep.

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 In a little bit of time.

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 But I think what we see in Hezekiah's life is a reminder that it can be harder to trust God

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 and be strong in a personal crisis than in a public one.

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 Or in Hezekiah's case a national one.

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 Now look at his prayer.

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 Unlike Hezekiah's prayer last week, which was such a great prayer,

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 there's no praise, is there?

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 It's a short prayer.

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 There's no explicit submission to God's will.

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 There's no explicit desire that God would be glorified.

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 It's just a muted cry.

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 A cry for help on the basis of having lived a life of covenant obedience.

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 Hezekiah prays here.

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 And he gets a response that he wasn't expecting.

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 Look at verse 4.

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 And the word of the Lord came to Isaiah.

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 Go and say to Hezekiah,

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 And thus says the Lord, the God of your father,

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 the God of David, your father,

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 I've heard your prayer.

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 I've seen your tears.

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 Behold, I will add 15 years to your life.

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 I will deliver you with the city out of your hand of the king of Assyria,

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 and I will defend the city.

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 Now I want you to see that grace is seeping out of this paragraph everywhere.

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 Hezekiah in the midst of despair and despondency.

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 And God says to Hezekiah,

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 I've heard your prayer.

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 And not only that,

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 He says to Hezekiah,

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 I've not only heard your prayer,

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 I've seen your tears.

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 God knows every tear that you and I shed.

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 In fact, we've already seen Isaiah 25.

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 God says one day I'm going to wipe away every single tear.

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 And God has heard Hezekiah's prayer.

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 He's seen the tears,

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 and he tells the king,

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 I'm going to add 15 years to your life.

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 But you see,

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 God is not just a God that comes along and He gives us the minimum,

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 and leaves it like that.

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 No, God is not only a God who hears and sees,

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 and a God who adds,

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 but He's a God who promises to defend.

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 And Hezekiah had not said anything in this prayer,

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 about God's deliverance in Jerusalem.

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 But God is a God who delights to give beyond what we ask for.

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 Paul says in Ephesians chapter 3,

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 that God is able to do immeasurably,

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 immeasurably more than we ask or imagine.

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 Do you understand that?

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 That the God we worship today,

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 the God we have worshipped today,

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 is able to do immeasurably more,

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 not only than what you can ask,

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 but what you can dream of.

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 And so here in Hezekiah,

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 walking by faith,

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 it is not huge faith by any means,

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 is it?

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 But it is faith nonetheless.

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 And God hears,

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 and God defends,

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 and then God confirms it with a sign.

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 Look at verses 7 and 8.

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 This shall be the sign to you from the Lord,

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 that the Lord will do the same for what he's promised.

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 Behold, I will make the shadow cast by the declining sun

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 on the dial of Ahaz,

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 turn back ten steps.

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 So the sun turned back on the dial of ten steps,

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 by which it declines.

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 It's there, isn't it?

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 It's an obvious sign.

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 It's to assure Hezekiah that God can turn back time.

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 And therefore he adds 15 years in his life.

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 God makes a shadow go backwards on the stairway of Ahaz.

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 How does he do that?

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 Well, I don't know.

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 What's the point with miracles?

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 A miracle is persuasive as a sign from God,

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 precisely because you cannot explain it.

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 It can't be a human stunt, can it?

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 It has to be from God.

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 God, in this case,

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 somehow temporarily bends the sunlight.

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 It's not hard for him.

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 I hope you are unashamed of miracles.

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 God created the sun.

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 He controls it.

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 He can do whatever he wants from it.

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 And he does so here.

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 And with that, God therefore not only says to Hezekiah,

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 but he shows to Hezekiah,

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 let's see, I'm turning the clock back on your life.

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 Hezekiah, I've heard your prayer.

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 Now I think from this passage,

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 there is one question that we should be asking

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 before we move on,

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 and I hope that it's in some of your minds.

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 And it's the question of this.

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 Has God changed his mind here?

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 Was God actually planning to bring Hezekiah to death,

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 and then Hezekiah prayed,

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 and he says,

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 oh, has he?

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 Okay, you can have 15 more years.

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 Is that what's going on?

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 Is God being like the father

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 whose son is wanting to play outside

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 for another 10 minutes,

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 but it's bedtime.

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 And the son says,

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 please, please, please, dad.

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 And the dad says,

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 oh, okay, go on.

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 Is that what God is doing here?

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 There is a smooth thought.

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 There's a movement of theologians

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 called open theists.

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 And they would argue that God does change his mind.

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 And they would say,

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 at times God's intention is to go down

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 that route,

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 but then something happens,

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 circumstances change,

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 and he goes down another route.

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 But God doesn't know the future.

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 And so God has to wait for you and I

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 to decide what we're going to do,

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 and then he will react.

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 And if necessary,

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 God will change his plans.

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 And that might feel attractive to you.

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 It might feel that your relationship

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 with God will be more dynamic.

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 Because his actions

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 and your plans will interact.

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 But the main problem with that

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 is the Bible expressly forbids it.

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 Let me give you one clear objection.

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 In 1 Samuel 15 verse 29,

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 we read the glory of Israel.

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 It's referring to God.

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 And it says,

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 the glory of Israel will not lie.

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 God will not lie,

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 and he will not change his mind,

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 for he's not a man

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 that he should change his mind.

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 And I don't know why,

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 that seems, doesn't it,

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 pretty categorical.

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 God does not change his mind.

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 So the question is,

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 if that's the case,

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 well, what is going on in the Bible

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 when it appears that God does change his mind?

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 The Bible calls it often,

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 God relents.

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 You see that in the Old Testament particularly.

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 And I want to suggest to you

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 that the reason why this is presented to us

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 is actually a lesson for you and I

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 about the role of prayer.

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 That while God is in complete control of history,

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 and God has ordained from eternity past

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 everything that is going to happen,

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 much that is going to happen,

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 comes to pass because of his people's prayers.

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 By means of our prayer,

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 to encourage our faith.

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 You think about this.

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 God did not have to tell Hezekiah,

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 did he, about his impending death.

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 He could have just done it.

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 So why does God tell him?

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 Well, in part, God tells him,

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 I want you to set your things in order.

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 But as you go through the Old Testament,

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 you find that God occasionally tells people

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 what he's intending to do,

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 precisely as an invitation to pray.

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 He does it with Abraham.

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 Regarding Sodom in Genesis 18.

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 He does it with Moses,

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 right after the incidence of the golden calf

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 in Exodus 32.

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 He does it with the prophet Amos in Amos 7.

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 And here God seems to be doing it with Hezekiah.

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 God is inviting Hezekiah to pray.

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 So as one person has put it,

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 God's prayer is suggested by God,

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 moves God,

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 the ruler of all,

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 God is the one who suggests prayer.

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 He works through our prayers.

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 But He is sovereign over everything in the end.

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 So God here comes out,

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 He condescends to our level,

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 to allow us to be part of His attainable purposes.

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 Through our prayers.

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 Why?

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 Because God wants to build our faith.

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 He wants it to be a strengthener of our faith.

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 Prayer matters to God

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 as we seek to walk by faith

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 as Hezekiah is here.

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 Now that is unlikely, isn't it?

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 It is unlikely that any of us would have expected

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 at the end of the chapter

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 that by the time we get to verses 5 and 6

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 we would hear these gracious words from God.

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 Coming out of the sad wrapping of verse 1.

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 Hezekiah didn't expect it either.

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 But in verses 9 to 20,

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 Isaiah gives us the king's prayer,

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 or the king's writing as it's called.

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 About this experience of walking by faith.

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 And the verses,

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 I don't know if you picked them up as I read them,

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 they read like a psalm in many ways.

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 I think there are a number of parallels.

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 I think Hezekiah plagiarized David

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 at numerous times in this prayer.

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 I don't have time to look at it in detail,

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 but just look at a few things

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 and what it means to walk by faith.

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 First of all,

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 walking by faith does not gloss over reality.

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 Look at verse 12 to 14.

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 Hezekiah acknowledges

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 some very stark realities about life.

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 Number one,

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 he recognizes that life is fragile.

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 He talks about life being like a shepherd's tent.

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 He says,

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 my life has got no more permanence than a tent.

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 He talks about the decisiveness of death.

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 He uses the picture of tapestry.

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 That once the pole pattern has been woven,

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 the thread is slipped.

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 The tapestry is rolled off.

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 And that is like our lives.

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 And God is the one who brings that moment.

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 But when the tapestry is rolled up,

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 it is His decision.

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 He talks about that stark reality.

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 He talks about that in the midst of suffering,

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 it sometimes feels that God is against us.

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 It sometimes feels that God is hostile to us.

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 So he describes here feeling that God is like a devouring lion.

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 He also talks about the reality that our prayer feels feeble.

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 Absolutely feeble.

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 Hezekiah feels here that he's praying.

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 He's doing absolutely nothing.

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 Hezekiah is unafraid to deal with the stark reality of how he feels.

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 And that's a good reminder, isn't it?

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 That when we come to God in prayer,

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 He expects us to come as we are.

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 He wants us to come as a little child comes to their parents.

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 Tells them what they're thinking and what they want.

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 That's the picture that the Bible has of us coming to God in prayer.

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 And so by walking by faith does not mean you cleaning up your prayers beforehand.

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 Because you think that God only wants to hear the sanitized version of your prayers.

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 God already knows the messy version of your life, doesn't He?

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 He knows how much mess you and I are in,

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 so we should tell Him.

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 And Hezekiah gets that here.

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 He points to the stark reality of how he feels,

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 but then he moves on from that to his perception of God's mysterious ways in his life.

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 Look at verses 15 and 17.

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 He says, what can I say, God?

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 You've spoken to me.

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 You've done these things,

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 and now I understand that the suffering that I went through,

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 it had a purpose in my life.

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 It's been an incredibly intense thing,

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 but he recognizes it's been for his benefit.

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 Actually, he uses the word shalom there.

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 But this suffering is for my overall peace.

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 It feels completely counterintuitive.

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 But he says, now I understand that you are doing all these things

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 because I've come to a new awareness of your love, Lord.

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 Does that connect with you?

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 That in the midst of your suffering,

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 or even after your suffering,

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 that you sense that you know God.

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 And you sense,

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 God, I know how much you love me

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 because of what I went through.

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 It's hard to see it in the midst of it, isn't it?

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 But in hindsight,

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 I think we can often look and see God's grace

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 and his love are apparent in so many ways.

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 Even in the valley of the shadow of death,

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 I will not fear.

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 Why? Because you are with me.

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 But I think the most important insight

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 that Hezekiah gets

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 comes in verse 17.

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 In verse 13,

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 he feels God's hostility towards him.

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 But in verse 17,

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 he says,

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 now I understand that I am a recipient of God's love.

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 It was my welfare.

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 And so,

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 the question is,

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 what brought the change?

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 How do you move from being a recipient of God's wrath

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 to being a recipient of God's love?

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 And the answer to that question

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 comes in the last line of verse 17.

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 You see what it says?

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 For you have cast all my sins

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 behind your back.

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 You've put all my sins behind your back.

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 The only way for God

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 to move from being a God of wrath towards us

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 to being a God of love towards us

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 is by having our sin dealt with.

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 Hezekiah doesn't explain how that happens.

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 But he knows that his sin

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 no longer stands between him and God.

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 Because God has taken that sin

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 and He's thrown it behind His back.

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 Lose your sin,

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 plunge right in.

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 He's thrown it behind His back.

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 He's taken care of it.

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 And so Hezekiah goes from the stark acknowledgement

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 of how he felt

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 to understanding the mysterious ways

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 of God's grace.

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 And then he says,

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 I'm going to tell everyone about it.

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 He wants to tell his offspring.

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 He doesn't actually have a son at this point.

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 But he knows that he's in the land of the living.

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 But he's really alive now.

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 And he needs to tell everyone

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 how great God is.

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 Here is a testimony

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 of what it looks

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 for a life

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 to walk by faith.

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 It's not clean, is it?

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 It's certainly messy.

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 But it acknowledges,

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 yes, there is mess in my life,

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 but God, you are at work.

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 And what a difference a chapter makes.

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 Because chapter 39 appears

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 as if 38 might well never have happened.

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 Because in chapter 39,

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 Hezekiah begins to walk by sight.

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 Look at the opening two verses

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 of chapter 59.

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 At the time,

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 Meridot Baladan,

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 the son of Baladan,

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 king of Babylon,

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 sent envoys with letters

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 and a present to Hezekiah,

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 for he assured

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 that he had been sick and had recovered.

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 Hezekiah welcomed them gladly.

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 And he showed them his treasure house,

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 the silver, the gold,

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 the spices, the precious isle,

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 his whole armoury,

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 all that was found

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 in his storehouses.

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 There was nothing in his house

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 and all his remnant

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 that Hezekiah did not show them.

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 Now, if you've been with us

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 through the series of Isaiah,

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 if you know the book at all,

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 you will know

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 that there are two superpowers

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 in the world.

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 There is Babylon

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 and there is Assyria.

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 And they were vying supremacy

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 at this time.

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 And when I told you

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 that the king of Babylon

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 now was Meridot Baladan.

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 You think that that name is bad,

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 his friends actually called him

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 Marduk Aplah Adina II.

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 We get the shorter version.

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 But to the Assyrians,

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 this man was a terrorist.

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 In his own mind,

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 Meridot Baladan was a freedom fighter.

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 He was a freedom fighter,

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 devoting his life

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 to the freedom

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 and the liberation of Babylon

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 from the Assyrian army.

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 And Meridot Baladan

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 cheers through the grapevine

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 that Hezekiah is becoming home.

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 So being the caring and concerned

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 king of years,

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 he sends Hezekiah letters

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 and a gift.

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 We're not exactly told

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 what the contents of the letters were,

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 but we can see from Hezekiah's reaction

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 that it wasn't kind of

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 sorry to hear you've been here

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 let's do lunch sometime

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 when you're better.

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 That wasn't the letter.

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 In fact, the letter led

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 Hezekiah

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 to display

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 all his resources.

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 and all the arm strength

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 of Judah

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 to a ruler

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 like Meridot Baladan.

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 It probably means

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 that the letter

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 could only mean one thing.

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 It means

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 that the letter said

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 will you join me

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 in rebellion

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 against Assyria?

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 And Hezekiah

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 falls for it.

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 The choice

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 could not have been more clear.

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 Walk by faith

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 in the Lord

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 or walk by sight.

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 Have the promises

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 of God

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 or the promises

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 of man.

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 And Hezekiah

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 falls into a new sickness.

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 But this sickness

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 is spiritual amnesia.

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 And he forgets

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 God's promises.

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 And it's not just

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 forgetfulness

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 it is huge pride.

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 Look at Hezekiah's response

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 to Isaiah's question

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 in verse 3.

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 Then Isaiah the prophet

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 came to Hezekiah

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 and said

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 what did these men say?

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 And from where

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 did they come to you?

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 And Hezekiah said

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 they have come to me

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 from a far country

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 from Babylon.

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 And he said

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 what have they seen

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 in your house?

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 Hezekiah answered

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 they have seen it all

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 that's in my house.

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 There's nothing

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 in my store or houses

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 that I could not show them.

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 Isaiah asked

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 three questions

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 interestingly

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 Hezekiah doesn't answer

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 the first one

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 about what the

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 Babylonian delegation

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 had said.

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 But look at his answer

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 to the question

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 of where they come from.

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 It's quite weak

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 in our English translation.

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 It basically says

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 they came from

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 the far country

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 to see

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 little old me.

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 Little old me.

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 There's two points

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 of emphasis.

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 They came

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 from such

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 a far country

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 to see

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 me.

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 Imagine them

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 coming all this way

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 to see poor little me.

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 Imagine

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 Merodec

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 Baladon

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 the mighty

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 king of Babylon

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 wanting little

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 old me

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 as an ally.

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 If he'd

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 battered his eyelids

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 at the end

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 of verse 4

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 it wouldn't have

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 been out of place.

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 It's totally pathetic.

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 It's as if

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 chapter 38

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 does not take place.

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 And he demonstrates

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 in all of our lives

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 what does it mean

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 to go from

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 faith in the

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 real crisis

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 to unbelief

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 when you're back

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 in the mundane

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 and your ego

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 gets struck.

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 All of us

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 we know

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 don't we

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 there's something

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 really gratifying

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 when someone

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 important

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 takes an interest

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 in us.

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 For all of us

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 it's really

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 heartwarming

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 when you matter

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 to important

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 people.

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 And he assures

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 Hezekiah's downfall

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 his forgetfulness

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 of God's word

00:22:52.700 --> 00:22:53.579
 and his pride.

00:22:54.640 --> 00:22:55.220
 Alec Mateo

00:22:55.220 --> 00:22:55.640
 puts it

00:22:55.640 --> 00:22:56.420
 forgetfulness

00:22:56.420 --> 00:22:57.019
 of the word

00:22:57.019 --> 00:22:57.319
 of God

00:22:57.319 --> 00:22:58.019
 is the prime

00:22:58.019 --> 00:22:58.880
 enemy of faith.

00:22:59.819 --> 00:23:00.640
 Pride in one's

00:23:00.640 --> 00:23:01.319
 importance

00:23:01.319 --> 00:23:02.440
 runs in a close

00:23:02.440 --> 00:23:02.839
 second.

00:23:04.339 --> 00:23:05.220
 Isaiah's response

00:23:05.220 --> 00:23:05.900
 could not be more

00:23:05.900 --> 00:23:06.200
 bleak

00:23:06.200 --> 00:23:06.640
 could it in

00:23:06.640 --> 00:23:07.640
 verses 5 to 7

00:23:07.640 --> 00:23:08.740
 hear the word

00:23:08.740 --> 00:23:09.060
 of the Lord

00:23:09.060 --> 00:23:09.380
 of hosts

00:23:09.380 --> 00:23:10.100
 behold the days

00:23:10.100 --> 00:23:10.380
 are coming

00:23:10.380 --> 00:23:10.900
 when all that

00:23:10.900 --> 00:23:11.300
 is in your

00:23:11.300 --> 00:23:11.580
 house

00:23:11.580 --> 00:23:12.220
 all that your

00:23:12.220 --> 00:23:12.759
 fathers have

00:23:12.759 --> 00:23:13.200
 stored up

00:23:13.200 --> 00:23:13.640
 to this day

00:23:13.640 --> 00:23:14.200
 will be carried

00:23:14.200 --> 00:23:14.980
 off to Babylon

00:23:14.980 --> 00:23:15.880
 nothing will be

00:23:15.880 --> 00:23:16.160
 left.

00:23:17.480 --> 00:23:17.920
 Some of your

00:23:17.920 --> 00:23:18.480
 own sons

00:23:18.480 --> 00:23:18.960
 who come from

00:23:18.960 --> 00:23:20.040
 you and whom

00:23:20.040 --> 00:23:20.680
 you will

00:23:20.680 --> 00:23:21.259
 father will be

00:23:21.259 --> 00:23:21.860
 taken away

00:23:21.860 --> 00:23:22.660
 and they shall

00:23:22.660 --> 00:23:23.280
 be eunuchs

00:23:23.280 --> 00:23:23.720
 in the place

00:23:23.720 --> 00:23:24.080
 of the kings

00:23:24.080 --> 00:23:24.460
 of Babylon.

00:23:24.680 --> 00:23:25.040
 It couldn't be

00:23:25.040 --> 00:23:25.420
 more clear

00:23:25.420 --> 00:23:26.300
 defeat is coming

00:23:26.300 --> 00:23:28.620
 captivity is coming

00:23:28.620 --> 00:23:29.620
 exile is coming

00:23:29.620 --> 00:23:30.520
 and notice

00:23:30.520 --> 00:23:31.680
 Isaiah's impeccable

00:23:31.680 --> 00:23:32.420
 logic here

00:23:32.420 --> 00:23:33.180
 Hezekiah

00:23:33.180 --> 00:23:33.900
 okay you want

00:23:33.900 --> 00:23:34.680
 to commit all

00:23:34.680 --> 00:23:35.259
 that you have

00:23:35.259 --> 00:23:35.940
 to Hezekiah

00:23:35.940 --> 00:23:38.240
 that all that

00:23:38.240 --> 00:23:38.980
 you have

00:23:38.980 --> 00:23:40.400
 well it will

00:23:40.400 --> 00:23:41.240
 go to Babylon

00:23:41.240 --> 00:23:43.720
 here's what

00:23:43.720 --> 00:23:44.440
 Hezekiah

00:23:44.440 --> 00:23:45.039
 happened when

00:23:45.039 --> 00:23:45.920
 Hezekiah refused

00:23:45.920 --> 00:23:46.580
 to walk by

00:23:46.580 --> 00:23:47.039
 faith

00:23:47.039 --> 00:23:48.680
 and instead

00:23:48.680 --> 00:23:49.240
 he decided

00:23:49.240 --> 00:23:50.320
 he could walk

00:23:50.320 --> 00:23:50.840
 by sight

00:23:50.839 --> 00:23:53.599
 let me finish

00:23:53.599 --> 00:23:54.279
 let me conclude

00:23:54.279 --> 00:23:55.740
 why the flashback

00:23:55.740 --> 00:23:58.359
 why the flashback

00:23:58.359 --> 00:24:01.220
 this all happened

00:24:01.220 --> 00:24:01.639
 didn't it

00:24:01.639 --> 00:24:02.240
 to Hezekiah

00:24:02.240 --> 00:24:02.779
 before his

00:24:02.779 --> 00:24:03.419
 finest hour

00:24:03.419 --> 00:24:05.319
 when he trusted

00:24:05.319 --> 00:24:06.039
 God

00:24:06.039 --> 00:24:06.599
 to defeat

00:24:06.599 --> 00:24:07.339
 Sennacherib

00:24:07.339 --> 00:24:08.859
 and the Assyrians

00:24:08.859 --> 00:24:09.779
 and so the question

00:24:09.779 --> 00:24:10.519
 is why would

00:24:10.519 --> 00:24:11.419
 why would

00:24:11.419 --> 00:24:11.740
 Isaiah

00:24:11.740 --> 00:24:12.959
 change the order

00:24:12.959 --> 00:24:14.919
 wouldn't it have

00:24:14.919 --> 00:24:15.559
 been better

00:24:15.559 --> 00:24:16.359
 a better ending

00:24:16.359 --> 00:24:17.139
 to finish the

00:24:17.139 --> 00:24:17.980
 narrative section

00:24:17.980 --> 00:24:19.700
 with Jerusalem

00:24:19.700 --> 00:24:20.480
 saved

00:24:20.480 --> 00:24:22.039
 and 185,000

00:24:22.039 --> 00:24:22.860
 of those pesky

00:24:22.860 --> 00:24:23.400
 Assyrians

00:24:23.400 --> 00:24:24.240
 wiped out

00:24:24.240 --> 00:24:25.319
 and Hezekiah

00:24:25.319 --> 00:24:26.099
 trusting God

00:24:26.099 --> 00:24:26.440
 wouldn't that

00:24:26.440 --> 00:24:26.640
 have been

00:24:26.640 --> 00:24:27.039
 the natural

00:24:27.039 --> 00:24:27.460
 end

00:24:27.460 --> 00:24:30.299
 well it might

00:24:30.299 --> 00:24:30.480
 have been

00:24:30.480 --> 00:24:30.759
 if it was

00:24:30.759 --> 00:24:31.079
 even I

00:24:31.079 --> 00:24:31.339
 but not

00:24:31.339 --> 00:24:31.759
 for Isaiah

00:24:31.759 --> 00:24:33.980
 because Isaiah

00:24:33.980 --> 00:24:34.559
 places these

00:24:34.559 --> 00:24:35.200
 two chapters

00:24:35.200 --> 00:24:35.960
 next to chapter

00:24:35.960 --> 00:24:37.140
 40 for a reason

00:24:37.140 --> 00:24:37.799
 chapter 40

00:24:37.799 --> 00:24:38.299
 is a major

00:24:38.299 --> 00:24:38.839
 new section

00:24:38.839 --> 00:24:39.279
 of the book

00:24:39.279 --> 00:24:42.360
 but when

00:24:42.360 --> 00:24:43.079
 chapter 40

00:24:43.079 --> 00:24:43.480
 begins

00:24:43.480 --> 00:24:44.019
 can you guess

00:24:44.019 --> 00:24:44.500
 where Judah

00:24:44.500 --> 00:24:44.880
 is

00:24:44.880 --> 00:24:47.099
 Judah is in

00:24:47.099 --> 00:24:47.599
 exile

00:24:47.599 --> 00:24:48.879
 in Babylon

00:24:48.879 --> 00:24:51.359
 it's going to

00:24:51.359 --> 00:24:51.899
 pick up the story

00:24:51.899 --> 00:24:52.559
 sometimes after

00:24:52.559 --> 00:24:53.240
 chapter 39

00:24:53.240 --> 00:24:53.819
 but the point

00:24:53.819 --> 00:24:54.240
 is clear

00:24:54.240 --> 00:24:54.919
 God made a

00:24:54.919 --> 00:24:55.439
 promise here

00:24:55.439 --> 00:24:55.980
 and He will

00:24:55.980 --> 00:24:56.439
 bring it to

00:24:56.439 --> 00:24:57.059
 fulfilment

00:24:57.059 --> 00:24:58.500
 but there's

00:24:58.500 --> 00:24:59.339
 another reason

00:24:59.339 --> 00:25:00.459
 why Isaiah

00:25:00.459 --> 00:25:01.139
 inserts the

00:25:01.139 --> 00:25:02.099
 flashback here

00:25:02.099 --> 00:25:04.240
 and the reason

00:25:04.240 --> 00:25:05.139
 why I think

00:25:05.139 --> 00:25:06.139
 that he puts it

00:25:06.139 --> 00:25:07.019
 here is because

00:25:07.019 --> 00:25:07.879
 Hezekiah was

00:25:07.879 --> 00:25:08.719
 one of the best

00:25:08.719 --> 00:25:10.799
 he was one of

00:25:10.799 --> 00:25:11.279
 the best

00:25:11.279 --> 00:25:13.119
 let me read you

00:25:13.119 --> 00:25:13.559
 what it says

00:25:13.559 --> 00:25:13.980
 in 2 Kings

00:25:13.980 --> 00:25:14.519
 chapter 18

00:25:14.519 --> 00:25:15.259
 verse 5

00:25:15.259 --> 00:25:16.079
 it says

00:25:16.079 --> 00:25:16.839
 Hezekiah trusted

00:25:16.839 --> 00:25:17.399
 in the Lord

00:25:17.399 --> 00:25:17.879
 the God of

00:25:17.879 --> 00:25:18.159
 Israel

00:25:18.159 --> 00:25:18.939
 so that there

00:25:18.939 --> 00:25:19.439
 was none

00:25:19.439 --> 00:25:19.899
 like him

00:25:19.899 --> 00:25:20.299
 among all

00:25:20.299 --> 00:25:20.639
 the kings

00:25:20.639 --> 00:25:21.000
 of Judah

00:25:21.000 --> 00:25:21.699
 after him

00:25:21.699 --> 00:25:22.559
 nor among

00:25:22.559 --> 00:25:23.019
 those who

00:25:23.019 --> 00:25:23.460
 were before

00:25:23.460 --> 00:25:23.879
 him

00:25:23.879 --> 00:25:26.199
 Hezekiah

00:25:26.199 --> 00:25:26.500
 was the

00:25:26.500 --> 00:25:27.379
 great king

00:25:27.379 --> 00:25:29.980
 and it was

00:25:29.980 --> 00:25:30.439
 after his

00:25:30.439 --> 00:25:31.079
 pride and

00:25:31.079 --> 00:25:31.799
 his forgetfulness

00:25:31.799 --> 00:25:32.359
 of God's

00:25:32.359 --> 00:25:32.759
 word

00:25:32.759 --> 00:25:33.879
 that that

00:25:33.879 --> 00:25:34.539
 precipitated

00:25:34.539 --> 00:25:35.259
 the exiles

00:25:35.259 --> 00:25:35.759
 of Babylon

00:25:35.759 --> 00:25:38.619
 Isaiah's point

00:25:38.619 --> 00:25:39.019
 is this

00:25:39.019 --> 00:25:39.539
 it's only a long

00:25:39.539 --> 00:25:39.819
 while I've

00:25:39.819 --> 00:25:40.319
 got there

00:25:40.319 --> 00:25:41.199
 is that

00:25:41.199 --> 00:25:41.960
 Hezekiah

00:25:41.960 --> 00:25:43.299
 is not the

00:25:43.299 --> 00:25:43.579
 king who

00:25:43.579 --> 00:25:43.919
 is going to

00:25:43.919 --> 00:25:44.539
 save Jerusalem

00:25:44.539 --> 00:25:47.259
 don't put

00:25:47.259 --> 00:25:47.720
 your trust

00:25:47.720 --> 00:25:48.339
 in Hezekiah

00:25:48.339 --> 00:25:49.980
 that even

00:25:49.980 --> 00:25:50.619
 the best

00:25:50.619 --> 00:25:51.200
 of kings

00:25:51.200 --> 00:25:51.980
 is mortal

00:25:51.980 --> 00:25:52.700
 and fallible

00:25:52.700 --> 00:25:54.339
 I've needed

00:25:54.339 --> 00:25:54.879
 an illustration

00:25:54.879 --> 00:25:55.359
 all week

00:25:55.359 --> 00:25:55.940
 of if we

00:25:55.940 --> 00:25:56.639
 can't trust

00:25:56.639 --> 00:25:57.279
 in dot dot

00:25:57.279 --> 00:25:57.619
 dot

00:25:57.619 --> 00:25:59.399
 who can we

00:25:59.399 --> 00:25:59.879
 trust in

00:25:59.879 --> 00:26:01.500
 the best

00:26:01.500 --> 00:26:02.019
 illustration I

00:26:02.019 --> 00:26:02.319
 can think of

00:26:02.319 --> 00:26:02.720
 is Ryan

00:26:02.720 --> 00:26:03.200
 Giggs

00:26:03.200 --> 00:26:04.839
 Ryan Giggs

00:26:04.839 --> 00:26:05.359
 is a Welsh

00:26:05.359 --> 00:26:05.899
 footballer

00:26:05.899 --> 00:26:07.220
 he's a hero

00:26:07.220 --> 00:26:08.940
 to boys

00:26:08.940 --> 00:26:09.299
 of my

00:26:09.299 --> 00:26:09.759
 generation

00:26:09.759 --> 00:26:10.299
 he only

00:26:10.299 --> 00:26:10.779
 retired

00:26:10.779 --> 00:26:11.180
 playing

00:26:11.180 --> 00:26:11.460
 to me

00:26:11.460 --> 00:26:11.799
 about 2

00:26:11.799 --> 00:26:12.059
 years

00:26:12.059 --> 00:26:12.539
 at the age

00:26:12.539 --> 00:26:13.119
 of 38

00:26:13.119 --> 00:26:13.759
 or 39

00:26:13.759 --> 00:26:14.660
 he's a

00:26:14.660 --> 00:26:15.039
 hero

00:26:15.039 --> 00:26:16.559
 and he

00:26:16.559 --> 00:26:16.879
 was so

00:26:16.879 --> 00:26:17.500
 clean living

00:26:17.500 --> 00:26:17.859
 he didn't

00:26:17.859 --> 00:26:18.220
 go to all

00:26:18.220 --> 00:26:18.700
 the parties

00:26:18.700 --> 00:26:19.140
 he wasn't

00:26:19.140 --> 00:26:19.559
 like Lee

00:26:19.559 --> 00:26:19.900
 Sharp

00:26:19.900 --> 00:26:20.119
 and the

00:26:20.119 --> 00:26:20.259
 other

00:26:20.259 --> 00:26:20.420
 man

00:26:20.420 --> 00:26:20.720
 united

00:26:20.720 --> 00:26:20.960
 players

00:26:20.960 --> 00:26:21.240
 he wasn't

00:26:21.240 --> 00:26:21.519
 allowed to

00:26:21.519 --> 00:26:21.700
 do an

00:26:21.700 --> 00:26:21.960
 interview

00:26:21.960 --> 00:26:22.440
 for years

00:26:22.440 --> 00:26:23.160
 he was

00:26:23.160 --> 00:26:24.019
 everybody's

00:26:24.019 --> 00:26:24.379
 hero

00:26:24.379 --> 00:26:25.879
 mothers

00:26:25.879 --> 00:26:26.500
 liked their

00:26:26.500 --> 00:26:27.119
 boys to

00:26:27.119 --> 00:26:28.079
 like Ryan

00:26:28.079 --> 00:26:28.379
 Giggs

00:26:28.379 --> 00:26:29.279
 older sisters

00:26:29.279 --> 00:26:29.920
 thought that

00:26:29.920 --> 00:26:30.200
 he was

00:26:30.200 --> 00:26:30.740
 gorgeous

00:26:30.740 --> 00:26:31.859
 boys wanted

00:26:31.859 --> 00:26:32.319
 to be like

00:26:32.319 --> 00:26:32.460
 him

00:26:32.460 --> 00:26:33.059
 everybody

00:26:33.059 --> 00:26:33.920
 loved Ryan

00:26:33.920 --> 00:26:34.319
 Giggs

00:26:34.319 --> 00:26:36.019
 he was a

00:26:36.019 --> 00:26:36.400
 national

00:26:36.400 --> 00:26:36.879
 hero

00:26:36.879 --> 00:26:39.379
 and then it

00:26:39.379 --> 00:26:39.759
 turned out

00:26:39.759 --> 00:26:40.019
 didn't it

00:26:40.019 --> 00:26:40.740
 about 4 years

00:26:40.740 --> 00:26:41.160
 ago that he

00:26:41.160 --> 00:26:41.579
 had been

00:26:41.579 --> 00:26:41.960
 sleeping with

00:26:41.960 --> 00:26:42.400
 his brother's

00:26:42.400 --> 00:26:42.799
 wife

00:26:42.799 --> 00:26:44.599
 and numerous

00:26:44.599 --> 00:26:45.059
 others

00:26:45.059 --> 00:26:46.579
 and the

00:26:46.579 --> 00:26:47.159
 behind this

00:26:47.159 --> 00:26:47.960
 incredible

00:26:47.960 --> 00:26:48.819
 facade

00:26:48.819 --> 00:26:51.259
 was actually

00:26:51.259 --> 00:26:51.819
 a pretty

00:26:51.819 --> 00:26:52.759
 immorally

00:26:52.759 --> 00:26:53.419
 bankrupt

00:26:53.419 --> 00:26:53.819
 man

00:26:53.819 --> 00:26:56.359
 and so there

00:26:56.359 --> 00:26:56.839
 was a blog

00:26:56.839 --> 00:26:57.539
 post I remember

00:26:57.539 --> 00:26:58.099
 reading it

00:26:58.099 --> 00:26:58.419
 that said

00:26:58.419 --> 00:26:58.960
 if we can't

00:26:58.960 --> 00:26:59.399
 trust in

00:26:59.399 --> 00:27:00.039
 Ryan Giggs

00:27:00.039 --> 00:27:00.619
 who can we

00:27:00.619 --> 00:27:01.200
 trust in

00:27:01.200 --> 00:27:05.419
 Isaiah in

00:27:05.419 --> 00:27:06.019
 chapter 39

00:27:06.019 --> 00:27:06.720
 is leaving us

00:27:06.720 --> 00:27:07.279
 with that same

00:27:07.279 --> 00:27:07.659
 question

00:27:07.659 --> 00:27:08.059
 he's saying

00:27:08.059 --> 00:27:08.879
 if you can't

00:27:08.879 --> 00:27:09.240
 trust in

00:27:09.240 --> 00:27:09.759
 Hezekiah

00:27:09.759 --> 00:27:10.440
 who can you

00:27:10.440 --> 00:27:10.980
 trust in

00:27:10.980 --> 00:27:13.620
 and Isaiah

00:27:13.620 --> 00:27:13.900
 is going to

00:27:13.900 --> 00:27:14.180
 help you

00:27:14.180 --> 00:27:14.539
 answer that

00:27:14.539 --> 00:27:14.779
 question

00:27:14.779 --> 00:27:15.099
 in chapter

00:27:15.099 --> 00:27:15.740
 40

00:27:15.740 --> 00:27:17.200
 but let me

00:27:17.200 --> 00:27:17.400
 give you

00:27:17.400 --> 00:27:17.740
 the answer

00:27:17.740 --> 00:27:18.160
 now

00:27:18.160 --> 00:27:19.720
 you look at

00:27:19.720 --> 00:27:20.079
 the last

00:27:20.079 --> 00:27:20.620
 temptation

00:27:20.620 --> 00:27:21.299
 of the

00:27:21.299 --> 00:27:21.940
 Lord Jesus

00:27:21.940 --> 00:27:23.579
 when the

00:27:23.579 --> 00:27:24.079
 devil came

00:27:24.079 --> 00:27:24.279
 to him

00:27:24.279 --> 00:27:24.500
 took him

00:27:24.500 --> 00:27:24.799
 to a high

00:27:24.799 --> 00:27:25.079
 mountain

00:27:25.079 --> 00:27:25.360
 and he

00:27:25.360 --> 00:27:25.700
 said

00:27:25.700 --> 00:27:26.279
 he showed

00:27:26.279 --> 00:27:26.500
 him all

00:27:26.500 --> 00:27:26.880
 the kingdoms

00:27:26.880 --> 00:27:27.140
 of the

00:27:27.140 --> 00:27:27.500
 world

00:27:27.500 --> 00:27:27.940
 and he

00:27:27.940 --> 00:27:28.319
 said

00:27:28.319 --> 00:27:29.660
 I'll give

00:27:29.660 --> 00:27:29.960
 them to

00:27:29.960 --> 00:27:30.559
 you

00:27:30.559 --> 00:27:31.579
 if you

00:27:31.579 --> 00:27:31.980
 bow down

00:27:31.980 --> 00:27:32.380
 and worship

00:27:32.380 --> 00:27:32.740
 me

00:27:32.740 --> 00:27:34.420
 and Jesus

00:27:34.420 --> 00:27:34.960
 said to him

00:27:34.960 --> 00:27:36.059
 away from me

00:27:36.059 --> 00:27:36.440
 Satan

00:27:36.440 --> 00:27:37.819
 for it is

00:27:37.819 --> 00:27:38.079
 written

00:27:38.079 --> 00:27:38.779
 worship the

00:27:38.779 --> 00:27:39.200
 Lord your

00:27:39.200 --> 00:27:39.500
 God

00:27:39.500 --> 00:27:39.960
 and save

00:27:39.960 --> 00:27:40.480
 him only

00:27:40.480 --> 00:27:42.460
 and Satan

00:27:42.460 --> 00:27:43.599
 dives down

00:27:43.599 --> 00:27:44.200
 to find

00:27:44.200 --> 00:27:45.319
 if he can

00:27:45.319 --> 00:27:46.460
 see any

00:27:46.460 --> 00:27:47.500
 pride in

00:27:47.500 --> 00:27:48.079
 Jesus

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 that might

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 make Jesus

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 grasp for

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 control of

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 the kingdoms

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 of the world

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 and he says

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 all this is

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 for you

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 Jesus

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 if you

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 will only

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 bow down

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 to me

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 but there

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 was no

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 pride in

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 Jesus

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 and in

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 addition

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 Jesus

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 was not

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 quick to

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 forget

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 God's

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 word

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 was he

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 instead

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 he quotes

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 it back

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 at Satan

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 in this

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 case

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 Deuteronomy

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 6.13

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 and he says

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 worship the

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 Lord your

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 God

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 and save

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 him only

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 Jesus

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 resists

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 temptation

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 because he

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 wasn't

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 proud

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 and he

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 didn't

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 forget

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 the word

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 of the

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 Lord

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 and he

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 understood

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 that he

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 was the

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 answer

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 to Isaiah's

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 implicit

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 question

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 that if you

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 can't trust

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 in Hezekiah

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 who can you

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 trust in

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 and the

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 answer is

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 only Jesus

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 and it's

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 the message

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 of the Old

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 New Testament

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 again and

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 again

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 and it's

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 the message

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 of the New

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 Testament

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 over and

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 again

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 because Jesus

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 is the

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 true king

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 and all

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 the kingdoms

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 that Satan

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 offered Jesus

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 were his

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 already

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 because he's

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 the true

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 king

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 but Jesus

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 understood

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 to secure

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 the crown

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 of being

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 king

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 meant first

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 he would

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 go to the

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 cross

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 why

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 because Jesus

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 is the

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 missing piece

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 of Isaiah

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 38 verse

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 17

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 that we

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 refer to

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 by Hezekiah

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 that how

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 could Hezekiah

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 go from

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 being a

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 recipient of

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 God's

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 wrath

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 to be a

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 recipient of

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 God's

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 grace

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 why

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 because he

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 says God

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 has thrown

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 all my

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 sins behind

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 his back

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 but he

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 doesn't

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 explain how

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 he doesn't

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 explain why

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 and we're

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 not certain

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 he understood

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 why

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 and how

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 but we do

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 because the

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 answer is

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 Jesus

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 because the

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 king is also

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 what we saw

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 last week

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 the servant

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 and this

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 king is also

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 the saviour

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 and he had

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 to come and

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 go to the

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 cross

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 and there on

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 the cross

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 he bore the

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 wrath that

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 you and I

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 deserve

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 because you

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 and I have

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 spiritual amnesia

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 and over and

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 over and over

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 again you

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 and I

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 are proud

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 little people

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 over and over

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 again

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 and he bore

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 it all

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 so that you

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 and I would

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 not be

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 recipients of

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 God's wrath

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 but recipients

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 of his wrath

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 so that all

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 that God

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 would pour

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 into our

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 lives is

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 grace and

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 mercy

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 and the

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 problem is

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 without

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 Jesus

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 this morning

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 your sins

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 have not

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 been hurled

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 behind God's

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 back

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 you are still

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 under the

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 weight of

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 them

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 you carry

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 them everywhere

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 you go

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 and the penalty

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 for those sins

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 you will carry

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 into eternity

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 unless you can

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 find someone

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 to bear them

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 for you

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 and so who

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 are you going

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 to trust

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 who are you

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 going to trust

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 not the

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 Hezekiahs of

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 this world

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 not the

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 Brian Gibbs

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 of this

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 world

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 whoever else

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 you want

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 to put

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 into that

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 little

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 blank

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 but say

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 I am going

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 to trust

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 Jesus

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 because only

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 Jesus can

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 deliver me

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 from sin

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 only Jesus

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 can rescue

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 you and me

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 from exile

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 because He

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 is the

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 true king

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 He is the

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 true king

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 He is the

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 one

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 brothers

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