Hello, I'm Jill Morikone.
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Welcome to the Adventist
Virtual Global Camp Meeting.
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This seminar is
entitled, Restored Relationship.
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And it's divided up
into three sections.
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The first is the calling.
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Do you feel that
God has called you
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into relationship with Him?
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Do you desire to serve Him?
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Do you want to follow Him?
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The middle
section is the wandering.
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Do you feel that
you have wandered
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far from God?
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Do you want to come home?
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But you're afraid
that He would see the filth
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that is covering you.
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The final
section is my favorite.
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That is the renewing.
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Do you want a fresh start?
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Do you want to come home?
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Do you want that
first love experience
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with Jesus renewed?
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Then this seminar is for you.
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Let's pray.
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Holy Father, this is Your time.
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We come before You
in the name of Jesus,
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asking for the
anointing of Your Holy Spirit,
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that Your Word would come alive
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and You would speak to us
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and show us a
clear picture of Jesus.
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In the precious and
holy name of Jesus I pray.
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Amen.
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It was probably 12 years ago
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and I was going on a walk,
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which is a normal thing
for me down our gravel road.
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And there's a
little country church
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around the corner.
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And all of a
sudden I heard meow, meow
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coming from the bushes
and here was the scrawniest
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little cat you can imagine.
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Tiny gray.
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Her fur was matted.
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She had fleas.
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She was infested with
worms and she was starving.
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And she came up to me and
she rubbed against my ankle
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and she followed
me all the way home.
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And we got home and
I walked in the house
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and I told Greg,
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that's our cat.
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She's going to be ours.
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Why?
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Because I want her.
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And Greg tells her to this day.
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We've had her about 12 years
and he tells her to this day,
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your mom chose you.
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It reminds me of John 15:16.
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Let's look at that. John 15:16.
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This is Jesus
speaking to His disciples
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and to you and I down
through the stream of time,
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right before He
went to the cross.
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John 15:16,
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"You did not choose Me,
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but I chose you and ordained you
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that you should go
and bring forth fruit,
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and that your
fruit should remain."
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Did you catch that?
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We didn't choose God.
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He reached out and He chose us.
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Why did God choose the nature,
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the children of Israel?
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Why did He choose them?
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Deuteronomy 7:6,
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"For you are a holy
people to the Lord your God,
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the Lord your God has chosen you
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to be a people for Himself,
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a special treasure
above all the peoples
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on the face of the earth.
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Why was Israel chosen?
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Were they chosen
because they were stronger
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than the other nations?
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Were they richer
than the other nations?
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Were they more good
looking or more talented?
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Did they run in
better social circles?
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Maybe they obeyed better.
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No, none of those reasons.
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Read the next verse.
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"The Lord did not
set His love on you,
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nor did He choose you
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because you were more in number
than all the other people,
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for you were the
least of all the peoples."
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Why did He choose them?
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"But because the Lord loves you,
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and because He
would keep the oath
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which he swore to your fathers,
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the Lord has brought
you out with a mighty hand
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and redeemed you
from the house of bondage,
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from the hand of
Pharaoh, king of Egypt."
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Did you catch that?
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Why was the
nation of Israel chosen
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to be more special
than any other people
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on the face of the earth?
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Simple, because
the Lord loved them.
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And because He
remembered His covenant
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with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,
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and that He would
bring them out from Egypt
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and make them a
people for Himself.
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You see, God delights
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in taking what
other people cast aside.
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Let's look at Ezekiel.
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I don't often spend time
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studying in the Book of Ezekiel,
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but I really liked this passage.
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Ezekiel Chapter 16.
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We're going to
pick it up in verse 3.
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We're looking at why God
chose the nation of Israel
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and by extension,
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why He wants you and I.
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Ezekiel 16:3,
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"Thus says the
Lord God to Jerusalem:
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'Your birth and your nativity
are from the land of Canaan,
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your father was an Amorite
and your mother a Hittite.
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As for your nativity,
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on the day you were born
your navel cord was not cut,
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nor were you washed
in water to cleanse you,
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you were not rubbed with salt
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nor wrapped in swaddling cloths.
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No eye pitied you,
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to do any of
these things for you,
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to have compassion on you,
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but you were thrown
out into the open field,
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when you yourself were loathed
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on the day you were born."
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Now that word loathed in Hebrew
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means something that's hated.
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Why?
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Because it is unclean.
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So what is God saying here?
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Cod is saying that
Israel was not a wanted child.
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None of the
usual birthing rights
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were observed.
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The umbilical cord wasn't cut
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and you always do
that when the baby's born.
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The baby wasn't
washed with water.
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It was not rubbed with salt.
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It was not even clothed.
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It was not looked
on with compassion.
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It was thrown out
into the open field.
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Verse 6, we're in Ezekiel 16:6,
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"When I passed by you,
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I saw you
struggling in your own blood."
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So, God passed by and saw
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the nation of
Israel, the children.
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He saw you and I
struggling in our junk,
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in our sin.
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And I said to you live,
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yes, I said to
you in your blood,
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live.
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Why is that?
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God delights in
taking what other people
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have cast aside.
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The next verse Ezekiel 16:7,
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"I made you thrive
like a plant in the field
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and you grew mature
and became very beautiful."
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So Israel, the unwanted
child that nobody wanted,
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grew up and became beautiful.
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Verse 8,
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"When I passed by you
again and looked upon you,
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indeed your time
was the time of love.
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So, I spread my wing over you
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and covered your nakedness."
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This is symbolic.
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You think of Boaz and
Ruth and spreading the skirt.
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This is a marriage proposal.
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God says the child
that nobody wanted,
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the child that was
thrown out in the open field,
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He wanted,
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He wants to marry.
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Yes.
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I swore an oath to you
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and entered into
covenant with you.
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And you became
mine says the Lord, God.
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Now you and I as
spiritual Israel,
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Paul talks about
this very clearly
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in Galatians Chapter 3.
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Galatians 3:26-29,
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"You are all sons
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and daughters of God
through faith in Christ Jesus.
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For as many of you as
were baptized into Christ
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have put on Christ.
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There's neither Jew nor Greek,
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there's neither male nor female,
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there's neither slave nor free,
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for we are all
one in Christ Jesus.
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And if you are of
Christ's, then you are heirs
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according to the
promise, heirs of Abraham's seed
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and heirs
according to the promise."
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You see the
promises given to Israel
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are now extended to us.
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The covenant given to Israel
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is now extended to us.
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The marriage offered to Israel
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to be married to
the Lord Jesus Christ
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is now extended to us.
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We are His people, and
the sheep of His pasture.
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Why did God call us?
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Because we're strong,
because we were good looking,
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because we thought we were rich
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or intellectual or gifted,
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or we could
somehow walk in obedience.
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No,
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He called us
because He loves us.
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For God so loved the world
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that He gave His
only begotten Son
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that whoever believes
in Him would not perish,
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but would have everlasting life.
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God delights in
taking what other people
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have cast aside.
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Do you feel thrown out?
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Do you feel unwanted, unloved,
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unredeemable, unreachable?
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He looks at you and I,
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thrown out in the
open field and he says,
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live.
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I want you as My child.
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And not only does He want us,
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but He equips and prepares
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those whom He has chosen.
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We're going back
to Ezekiel Chapter 16.
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And we're going to
continue with the story
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of the unwanted baby
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that grew up and
that God married.
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We are in Ezekiel 16:9.
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I washed you in water.
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That reminds me of the washing
of the water of the word.
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What is God saying?
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I gave you My Word.
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"I washed you in water.
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I thoroughly
washed off your blood
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and anointed you with oil."
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He gives us the
gift of His Holy Spirit.
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Not only do we have
the gift of His Word,
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we have the gift
of His Holy Spirit.
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"I clothed you
in embroidered cloth
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and gave you
sandals of badger skin.
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I clothed you with fine linen
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and covered you with silk."
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You were," verse 13,
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"exceedingly beautiful
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and succeeded to royalty."
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So what does God do?
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First of all, He
gives us His Word.
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Second, He gives us the
gift of His Holy Spirit.
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Third, He says,
I'm going to clothe you
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or cover you
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with My righteous white robe.
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It reminds me
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in Zachariah
Chapter 3, remember Joshua,
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the high priest is standing
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before the angel of the Lord
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and he's covered
in filthy garments.
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He's dirty, he's defiled.
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He's sinful.
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And yet God comes
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and takes off
those dirty garments
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and clothes him with
Christ's righteousness,
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His perfect robe.
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Not only that, it says
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they succeeded to royalty.
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Did you catch that?
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You were exceedingly beautiful
and succeeded to royalty.
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It reminds me of 1 Peter 2:9,
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"You and I are a
chosen generation,
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a royal priesthood,
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a holy nation."
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And why is that?
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That we could
proclaim the praises of Him
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who called us out of darkness
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into this marvelous light.
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Now, if we stopped there,
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the story would be fabulous.
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You and I unwanted, unloved,
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thrown out in the open field
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in our own sins and junk.
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God looked at us and said, live.
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I want you as My child.
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I will marry you.
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I will change you.
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I will give you My Word.
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I will anoint you
with My Holy Spirit.
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I will give you
My righteousness.
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Everything you need to walk
in Me and to be a Christian,
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but it doesn't stop there.
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Now we come to
the middle section,
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which is the wandering.
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We are in Ezekiel 16 still.
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Picking it up verse
13, you were beautiful.
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We just read that,
and succeeded to royalty.
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Verse 14,
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"Your fame went
out among the nations
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because of your beauty,
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for it was perfect
through My splendor."
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So, why are we perfect?
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Through God's splendor
which I bestowed on you,
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says the Lord God.
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Verse 15,
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but, there's a
little word right there,
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"But, you trusted
in your own beauty,
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you played the
harlot because of your fame.
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You poured out your harlotry
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on everyone passing
by who would have it."
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Why did they walk away from God?
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They trusted in
their own beauty.
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What does that mean?
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They became
proud in who they were.
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We're the chosen people of God.
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We got it together.
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These other nations,
they have some problems,
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but we are the
chosen people of God.
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Why did they walk away from God?
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Because they were proud of what
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God had given to them.
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Their fame went to their head
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and they forgot
that God's the one
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who gave the beauty.
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God's the one who called
them as His special people.
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God's the one who gave the fame.
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And the purpose of all of that
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was to point back to God.
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Never think that we are special
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as Seventh-day
Adventist Christians.
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Because we think somehow
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we have a corner or
a monopoly on truth.
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Because the truth
in the Word of God
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that is extended to everyone.
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Never think that we are special
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because we were
somehow chosen by God
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because the call
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to be God's child is
extended to the entire world.
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Never think that we are special
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because we were
somehow wanted by God.
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God calls and wants everyone.
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Turn with me to
the Book of Hosea.
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Hosea is an amazing book
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and we don't really
have time to unpack it,
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but it's an object lesson.
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God told the Prophet Hosea
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to go marry a woman of harlotry.
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He was supposed to marry Gomer.
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And if I had been in his shoes,
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I would not have
wanted to do that.
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Why God
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do You want me
to marry this woman
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who's going to
be unfaithful to me?
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But it was a sym...
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It was symbolic to represent
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that the nation of Israel
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had turned their back on God.
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They had forsaken
their husband who's God.
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And they had
followed after other idols.
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In fact, Hosea
is the last prophet
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to the Northern kingdom
of Israel before they fell.
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Now, remember, Israel had split
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after Solomon into
the north and the south.
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The Southern kingdom was
later taken into captivity,
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into Babylon and they returned,
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but the Northern
kingdom, they were taken away
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by the nation of Assyria.
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They never came back.
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Those people were lost forever.
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They were dispersed or settled
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amongst the Assyrians.
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It was a time of
spiritual bankruptcy
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when Hosea was prophesying.
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It was a time of idol worship.
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It was a time
of child sacrifice.
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These people, the
chosen people off God
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had degenerated in their worship
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that they no longer
not only worshiped God,
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they offered their children
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as sacrifices to
heathen idols and heathen gods.
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Injustice and
oppression, it was very common.
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In fact, no commandment of God
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was kept by the people.
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The unwanted child.
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Remember the child in Ezekiel 16
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that was thrown
out in the open field.
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That unwanted child
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that grew up that God wanted.
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They decided
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they no longer wanted their God.
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And we see in Hosea, this theme,
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the anguish of steadfast love.
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You see if love is temporary,
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if love is fickle, it
doesn't hurt that much
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because if your
love is not returned.
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Well, you just say fine,
I'll go seek another object
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and I'll love something else.
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However, if love is steadfast,
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rejection and
unfaithfulness cause
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great anguish.
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Love goes on even when
the object of that love
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no longer cares.
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Tremendous suffering results.
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So you see the heart of God,
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our Father hurts tremendously
because He could have said,
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well, I'll just
choose another people.
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Well, I don't really need
Dick, Tom, Harry and Joan,
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I'm going to find someone else.
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No, He wants you.
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So His heart is hurt
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when we reject Him.
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And that's what was going
on with this nation of Israel.
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So we see that Hosea,
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he marries Gomer
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and they have
three children together.
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And then Gomer, she runs off,
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which is what
she was prone to do.
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She followed after other lovers,
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which is symbolic
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of the nation of
Israel or you and I
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following after other idols.
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In fact, we see
this in Hosea 2:2,
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"Bring charges
against your mother,
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bring charges for
she is not my wife,
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nor am I her husband.
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Let her put away her
harlotries from her sight."
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Verse 4,
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"I will not have
mercy on her children
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for they are the
children of harlotry,
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for their mother
has played the harlot.
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She who conceived them
has behaved shamefully.
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For she said, I
will go after my lovers
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who give me my
bread and my water,
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my wool and my linen,
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my oil and my drink."
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Did you catch that?
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What is she saying there?
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She's saying these other people,
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these idols that I put
in place of my husband,
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in place of God,
00:16:56.18\00:16:57.51
they gave me my water.
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Remember, God's the one
that gave the little baby
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the water and washed it.
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God's the one who gave the word,
00:17:03.62\00:17:05.32
but yet she's
saying they gave me my oil.
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Remember, God's the one
00:17:08.96\00:17:10.29
that gave the
little baby the oil.
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God's the one that
washed it with oil.
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God's the one that gives
you and I the Holy Spirit.
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Yet she's
saying they're the ones
00:17:16.43\00:17:17.93
who clothed me.
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Remember in Ezekiel,
00:17:19.87\00:17:21.20
God's the one that covers
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you and I with
His righteousness.
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And so she's so self-deceived
00:17:24.54\00:17:27.28
thinking that all the
blessings in her life,
00:17:27.31\00:17:30.38
all the things
that she has been given,
00:17:30.41\00:17:32.38
came from God, came from,
00:17:32.41\00:17:35.12
they came from
God, but she thought,
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no, they came from someone else.
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Now you and I might
not be playing the harlot
00:17:40.79\00:17:43.59
like Hosea in
Hosea and Gomer story.
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However, an idol is anything
00:17:46.76\00:17:49.76
that you and I place before God,
00:17:49.80\00:17:52.57
anything between us and God,
00:17:52.60\00:17:54.10
we can make an
idol out of marriage,
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or an idol out of children,
or an idol out of friends,
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or an idol out of money,
or music or entertainment,
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or work or church, even ideas.
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You know, ideas
can become an idol.
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God could have left
00:18:08.52\00:18:09.85
the nation of Israel
alone and without hope,
00:18:09.88\00:18:12.75
but yet He
wanted to woo them back
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and bring them back to Himself.
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And that's where we
come to the third section,
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the renewing.
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God tells Hosea,
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go back and buy your wife back.
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Now she was yours
once, you were married,
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you had three children together.
00:18:28.97\00:18:30.64
And yet she forsook
that marriage covenant
00:18:30.67\00:18:35.41
that marriage relationship
and she did her own thing.
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She wandered in her own path,
00:18:37.95\00:18:40.08
and yet God tells Hosea go,
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buy her back.
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And so he does, he
buys her incidentally
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for 15 shekels of silver,
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which is half
the price of a slave.
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So, her value in the market
00:18:52.63\00:18:55.36
was not even worth
that much and yet God said,
00:18:55.40\00:18:59.13
"I want you for Myself."
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And that's what
He does to you and I.
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He wants to remove from
us the desire for other gods.
00:19:04.21\00:19:07.41
He wants to
remove from us that taste
00:19:07.44\00:19:10.08
for sin or for idol worship.
00:19:10.11\00:19:12.45
And He buys us back
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from the land of the enemy, how?
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With the
precious blood of Christ.
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I want to leave you in
closing with seven promises
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that God extends to us
as His covenant people.
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We're going to
Ezekiel Chapter 18.
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We're gonna pick it
up Ezekiel 18:30-31.
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Promise number one, He promises
00:19:34.77\00:19:36.47
to give you and I repentance
00:19:36.50\00:19:38.87
and cleansing from sin.
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Repent and turn
from your transgressions
00:19:41.98\00:19:45.21
so that iniquity
will not be your ruin.
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Cast away from you
all the transgressions,
00:19:48.15\00:19:50.35
which you have
committed and get yourselves
00:19:50.39\00:19:52.42
a new heart and a new spirit,
00:19:52.45\00:19:54.82
for why should you die,
00:19:54.86\00:19:57.33
O, house of Israel?
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You can put your name in there.
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Why do you wanna die?
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God says, repent
00:20:01.46\00:20:02.80
and turn back to Me.
00:20:02.83\00:20:05.23
Now we can't
conjure up repentance.
00:20:05.27\00:20:07.70
I remember as a
child, my mom saying,
00:20:07.74\00:20:09.34
tell your sister, you're
sorry, and I'd go, "Sorry."
00:20:09.37\00:20:12.64
That's not being sorry
for what you did but God,
00:20:12.67\00:20:16.51
Romans 2:4 says that
00:20:16.54\00:20:18.48
"It is the goodness of God
00:20:18.51\00:20:20.02
that leads you
and I to repentance."
00:20:20.05\00:20:22.28
So God is the one
00:20:22.32\00:20:23.82
who gives us the
gift of repentance.
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1 John 1:9,
00:20:26.79\00:20:28.12
"If we confess our sins,
00:20:28.16\00:20:29.49
He's faithful and
just to forgive us
00:20:29.52\00:20:30.93
and cleanse us from
all unrighteousness."
00:20:30.96\00:20:35.06
Christ's forgiveness,
it is instantaneous.
00:20:35.10\00:20:37.97
Christ's
forgiveness is complete.
00:20:38.00\00:20:40.74
Christ's forgiveness requires
no goodness on our behalf.
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And Christ's forgiveness
is though it's conditional,
00:20:45.11\00:20:48.84
it is dependent on you
and I just reaching out
00:20:48.88\00:20:52.05
and asking for that forgiveness.
00:20:52.08\00:20:55.18
Promise number two, He
promises to write His law,
00:20:55.22\00:20:58.95
His word in our hearts.
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Keep your finger in Ezekiel.
00:21:01.66\00:21:02.99
We're coming right back.
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But Hebrews 8:10 says,
00:21:04.39\00:21:06.03
"This is the covenant
00:21:06.06\00:21:07.40
that I will make
with the house of Israel
00:21:07.43\00:21:08.93
after these days says the Lord,
00:21:08.96\00:21:10.70
I will put my laws in their mind
00:21:10.73\00:21:12.93
and write them on their hearts."
00:21:12.97\00:21:15.57
God, by the power of His spirit
00:21:15.60\00:21:17.57
wants to put His word
00:21:17.61\00:21:19.84
in our minds and in our hearts.
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Promise number three,
we're going back to Ezekiel.
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He promises to
cleanse us from sin
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and from idol worship.
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Ezekiel 36:25,
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"I will sprinkle
clean water on you,
00:21:32.79\00:21:36.19
and you shall be clean.
00:21:36.22\00:21:38.49
I will cleanse you
from all your filthiness
00:21:38.53\00:21:42.03
and from all your idols."
00:21:42.06\00:21:44.27
Do you feel like
you are that child
00:21:44.30\00:21:46.07
we talked about
at the beginning,
00:21:46.10\00:21:47.54
who was thrown
out in the open field.
00:21:47.57\00:21:50.04
Do you feel like
you are unredeemable,
00:21:50.07\00:21:52.61
or unreachable, or how could God
00:21:52.64\00:21:55.21
even take me back
after what I've done?
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He promises that
He will cleanse you,
00:21:57.91\00:22:01.62
sprinkle that
clean water on you,
00:22:01.65\00:22:03.62
cleanse you from
filthiness and from idols.
00:22:03.65\00:22:06.02
He does it.
00:22:06.05\00:22:07.39
We don't have to clean ourselves
00:22:07.42\00:22:08.76
up before coming to Him.
00:22:08.79\00:22:10.13
He does the cleansing.
00:22:10.16\00:22:11.49
Promise number four, He promises
00:22:11.53\00:22:13.03
to give us a new
heart and a new spirit.
00:22:13.06\00:22:16.63
Ezekiel 36:26,
00:22:16.67\00:22:19.07
"I will give you a new heart
00:22:19.10\00:22:21.64
and put a new spirit within you.
00:22:21.67\00:22:23.91
I will take out the
heart stone out of your flesh,
00:22:23.94\00:22:26.68
and I'll give you
a heart of flesh."
00:22:26.71\00:22:29.64
This is the imputed
00:22:29.68\00:22:32.15
righteousness of Christ.
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This is His robe
00:22:33.58\00:22:35.48
that He puts over
us and covers us with.
00:22:35.52\00:22:39.02
He wants to give us a new heart.
00:22:39.05\00:22:40.69
He forgives us.
00:22:40.72\00:22:42.06
Yes, He cleanses us
00:22:42.09\00:22:43.46
and removes those
idols from our lives.
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And then what does He say?
00:22:46.23\00:22:48.00
He wants to give us a
new heart and a new spirit.
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Promise number five.
00:22:50.40\00:22:51.73
I promise to give us His spirit.
00:22:51.77\00:22:54.47
He promises,
00:22:54.50\00:22:55.84
"I will give you My Spirit
00:22:55.87\00:22:57.51
so that you and I
can walk in obedience."
00:22:57.54\00:23:00.74
The next verse,
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"I will put my spirit within you
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and cause you to
walk in my statutes
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and you will keep My
judgments and do them."
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So, He promises not
only to clean us up.
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He promises not only
to give us a new heart
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and a heart of
flesh that even desires
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to walk after Him.
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He promises to sanctify us,
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to enable you and I
to walk in obedience,
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not through our own
strength, not through anything
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that we can do of ourselves,
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but through Him.
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Promise number six,
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He promises to be our God.
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The next verse, Ezekiel 36:28,
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"Then you shall
dwell in the land
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I gave your fathers.
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You shall be My people
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and I will be your God."
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The last promise
number seven, to vindicate,
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He promises to vindicate
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His name before the world.
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Ezekiel 36:23,
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"And I will
sanctify My great name,
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which has been
profaned among the nations,
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which you have
profaned in their midst."
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Did you catch that?
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The nation of Israel,
and you and I many times
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as Seventh-day
Adventist Christians
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have profaned the name of God,
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because we did our own thing
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because we didn't follow
Him because we did lip service,
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but our hearts,
they were unconverted
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and we didn't even know
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who our God was
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that we claim to be married to.
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They profaned His name,
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but it doesn't stop there.
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It says, "The nations shall know
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that I am the Lord
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when I am hallowed in
you before their eyes."
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What is He saying?
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When you and I are
changed by the power of Jesus,
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when He gets a hold
of us and cleanses us
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and fills us up and changes us,
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other people will know
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that we have been with Jesus.
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And will know
that we belong to Him.
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We'd had our little
kitty cat about four years
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when the unthinkable happened,
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she disappeared.
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Greg and I had
traveled on a trip for 3ABN.
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And when we got
back, we called her
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and she wasn't there.
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And Greg said, it's late.
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We don't know where
she is. Let's go to bed.
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And all I could
think about was the owls,
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and the coyotes, and the foxes,
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and the bobcats
that might've eaten her.
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And she was our
little cat and we left her,
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but we went to bed and prayed.
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And the next morning
she still wasn't there.
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And so Greg went into work
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and I put on His old jeans
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and an old flannel shirt.
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And I headed out in search
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of our little cat.
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I went across the
street from our house
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and there's a lot
of thickets and briars.
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And almost immediately,
there were so thick,
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they forced me down to my knees.
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And I'm crawling
through the bushes,
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dodging deer
droppings and poison Ivy
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and yanking this
flannel shirt of Greg's
00:25:52.81\00:25:55.18
off of the
briars and the prickers
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stopping to call.
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No meow.
00:25:59.52\00:26:00.86
Calling again, no meow.
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I searched about an hour
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at hands and knees calling,
00:26:05.26\00:26:07.00
crying out.
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Then I started
down a different path
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and all of a
sudden there she was,
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I saw her way back in the woods
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and I went out and I
said, where have you been?
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Why hadn't she come home?
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Maybe she'd been lost.
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Maybe the way home
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it looked too far.
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Maybe she just gotten
too tired to walk anymore.
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I don't know why.
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Before we got her,
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she had been a little bit abused
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so she did not like to be hold.
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She was afraid
00:26:35.22\00:26:36.56
every time we would pick her up,
00:26:36.59\00:26:37.93
she'd struggle
and try to get away.
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And so I knew there's no chance
00:26:39.83\00:26:41.16
I could carry her home.
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So I started walking.
I said, come on Pebbles.
00:26:42.56\00:26:44.43
You can walk with me hoping
00:26:44.47\00:26:47.10
that maybe she'd walk with me,
00:26:47.14\00:26:49.00
but she didn't.
00:26:49.04\00:26:50.37
She just sat there
and looked up at me.
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So I thought, well,
I got nothing to lose.
00:26:52.81\00:26:55.04
So I reached down
and I picked her up
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and amazingly,
00:26:58.08\00:26:59.41
she didn't struggle.
00:26:59.45\00:27:00.78
She had no fight left.
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She just knew that I loved her
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and she wanted to go home.
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Across the field
we went me dirty,
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scratched up
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and a little cat in my arms.
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And as we walked,
00:27:15.06\00:27:17.07
my mind traveled
to the many times
00:27:17.10\00:27:18.93
my Father, the shepherd
00:27:18.97\00:27:21.14
had looked for me, the
times He had called me,
00:27:21.17\00:27:24.14
the miles He had
walked in my pursuit.
00:27:24.17\00:27:26.78
I thought of the
brambles and thickets
00:27:26.81\00:27:28.78
that He had gone through
00:27:28.81\00:27:30.91
in search of me.
00:27:30.95\00:27:32.58
Sometimes I
think I purposely hid
00:27:32.61\00:27:35.32
afraid of a holy God.
00:27:35.35\00:27:37.99
Seeing my sin polluted heart,
00:27:38.02\00:27:40.46
seeing what was
wrong in my life,
00:27:40.49\00:27:43.69
seeing that I had forsaken Him,
00:27:43.73\00:27:45.89
and I had gone
after other idols.
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And I had done my own thing.
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Other times I just got lost
00:27:51.13\00:27:52.77
and I couldn't seem to find
00:27:52.80\00:27:54.40
my way back home.
00:27:54.44\00:27:56.27
Other times I was so
worn out with a fight,
00:27:56.30\00:27:59.11
I just couldn't
take another step.
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Those were the times
my Father reached down,
00:28:01.84\00:28:05.41
picked me up
and carried me home,
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close against His heart.
00:28:08.58\00:28:11.55
I don't know where you
are in your walk with Jesus.
00:28:11.59\00:28:15.42
You might hear Him
00:28:15.46\00:28:16.79
calling to your
heart and feel like,
00:28:16.83\00:28:18.63
but I've done too much.
00:28:18.66\00:28:20.30
I've been through too much.
00:28:20.33\00:28:22.30
I've spat in His face.
00:28:22.33\00:28:25.20
I've gone after
other lovers, other gods,
00:28:25.23\00:28:28.87
other idols.
00:28:28.90\00:28:30.51
Would He take me back?
00:28:30.54\00:28:32.21
I wanna tell you right now
00:28:32.24\00:28:33.98
that there's nothing
00:28:34.01\00:28:35.34
that you have
ever done or can do
00:28:35.38\00:28:37.28
that will separate you
00:28:37.31\00:28:39.58
from the love of God.
00:28:39.61\00:28:41.32
Open up your heart to Him
00:28:41.35\00:28:43.95
just now and say, Lord Jesus,
00:28:43.99\00:28:46.79
would You cleanse me?
00:28:46.82\00:28:48.16
Lord Jesus, would You take me?
00:28:48.19\00:28:50.46
Lord Jesus, would
You make me Your child?
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And you know what?
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He will.
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