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Sermon #B663 -
Heaven Knows My Address
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Dr. Byrd: I will invite you now
to take your Bibles and turn
with me to the book of Exodus.
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We're going to go to the book of
Exodus and we're going to Exodus
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chapter 12. Exodus chapter
12. We're going to begin reading
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verse number one. Exodus 12:1,
the Word of God says, "And the
Lord spake unto Moses
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and Aaron in the
land of Egypt saying,
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"This month shall be unto
you the beginning of months.
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It shall be the first
month of the year to you.
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Speak ye unto all the
congregation of Israel, saying,
"In the tenth day of this month,
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they shall take to them every
man a lamb, according to the
house of their fathers,
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a lamb for an house. And if the
household be too little for the
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lamb, let him and his neighbor
next unto his house take it
according to the number of the
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souls; every man according to
his eating shall make your count
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for the lamb. Your lamb shall be
without blemish, a male of the
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first year. Ye shall take
it from the sheep or from the
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goats, and ye shall keep it up
until the fourteenth day of the
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same month, and the whole
assembly of the congregation of
Israel shall kill it in the
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evening. And they shall take of
the blood, and strike it on the
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two side posts and on the upper
door and posts of the houses,
wherein they shall eat it.
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They shall eat the flesh in
that night, roast with fire, and
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unleavened bread; and with
bitter herbs, they shall eat
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it." Verse nine, eat not of it
raw, nor sodden at all with
water, but roast with fire.
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His head with his legs, and
with the purtenance thereof.
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And ye shall let nothing of
it remain until the morning;
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and that which remaineth of it
until the morning, ye shall burn
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with fire. And thus shall ye eat
it; with your loins girded. In
other words, with your clothes
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on. Your shoes on your feet, and
your staff in your hand; and ye
shall eat it in haste;
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it is the Lord's passover. For
I will pass through the land of
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Egypt this night, and will smite
all the firstborn in the land of
Egypt, both man and beast;
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and against all the gods of
Egypt, I will execute judgment.
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I am the Lord. And the blood
shall be to you for a token upon
the houses where you are.
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And when I see the
blood, I will pass over you,
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and the plague shall not be upon
you to destroy you, when I smite
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the land of Egypt. Tonight,
I want to challenge you all.
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Today, rather, I want to
challenge you on this subject.
Heaven knows my address.
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Heaven knows my address.
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Father in Heaven, right now,
breathe on us as we make Exodus
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12 come alive. We pray the
power of your Holy Spirit on us.
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Speak through the television and
the computer waves right now.
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God, may your anointing be
seen, be felt, and be heard.
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Forgive me of my sins;
hide me behind your cross.
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At the appeal
time, Lord, move, I pray.
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Touch your people, I
pray. Give me wisdom, knowledge,
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and understanding to properly
communicate your word to your
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people. We praise you in advance
for what you're going to do. In
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Jesus' name, amen.
Heaven knows my address.
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The final week of Christ's life
is referred to as Holy Week or
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the Passion Week. This Holy
Week, nearly 2,000 years ago,
was like a roller coaster
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because it had its
constant ups and constant downs.
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On Palm Sunday, the
Sunday before Jesus' death,
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Jesus rides into Jerusalem for
his triumphal entry on a donkey.
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The crowds are cheering. The
crowds are waving palm branches
as he enters Jerusalem.
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They're crying, shouting,
"Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna to
God in the highest."
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By the end of the week, these
same people who had shouted,
"Hosanna," now shout,
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"Crucify him." Let that be a
lesson for us today. Don't put
your trust in people.
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They will be with you one
minute, and then they'll be gone
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the next minute. On Monday,
Jesus goes back now to the
temple in Jerusalem.
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When he arrives in the temple,
he finds all these corrupt
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moneychangers and thieves
conducting business in the
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temple. The Bible says that
Jesus begins to turn over all of
the tables and clears out the
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temple, and he says,
"Get out of my house.
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My house shall be a house
of prayer and not a den of
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thieves." Let that be another
lesson for us today. The church
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is not a mall. The church is not
a supermarket. The church is not
Walmart, Sam's, or Costco's.
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The church is not a football
field, but the church is God's
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house. It's a place where a
sinner and saint alike can find
the Sovereign Savior.
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On Tuesday, Jesus and his
disciples go now to the Mount of
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Olives. Here, Jesus prophesies
the destruction of Jerusalem.
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He prophesies also
the end of the world.
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He speaks in parables using
symbolic language about in-time
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events, including his second
coming and, also, the final
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judgment. On Wednesday, the
Bible does not specifically
specify or say what Jesus did,
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but many Bible scholars believe
that after two exhausting days,
on Monday and Tuesday,
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in Jerusalem, Jesus and his
disciples spent Wednesday
resting in Bethany where Jesus'
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friends, Mary, Martha, and
Lazarus, lived resting in
anticipation of Passover.
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On Thursday, the Holy
Week takes a dismal turn.
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Leaving Bethany,
Jesus sends Peter
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and John ahead of him to
the upper room in Jerusalem to
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make preparations
for the Passover feast.
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At evening, after sunset, Jesus
washes the feet of his disciples
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as they prepare for Passover.
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Jesus is about to fulfill the
meaning of Passover by giving
his body to be broken
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and his blood to be shed
cleansing us from sin and
freeing us from death.
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It's during this last
supper that Jesus establishes
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communion. After eating the
bread, after drinking the cup,
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Jesus and His disciples leave
the upper room and they all go
to the Garden of Gethsemane,
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where in the garden, Jesus
earnestly prays to his father;
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but Thursday is not over
yet because later that night in
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Gethsemane, Jesus is betrayed by
Judas, and he's arrested by the
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Sanhedrin. He's taken to
the home of Caiaphas, the high
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priest, where the entire council
has gathered together to begin
making their case against him.
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In the wee hours of the morning,
Peter denies Jesus three times.
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The people you help the
most, appreciate it the least.
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Now, we're at day six. Good
Friday, the preparation day.
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This day is the most difficult
day of the week of Holy week. On
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Friday, Jesus endures false
accusations, is condemned, is
mocked, is beaten, is abandoned.
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After multiple unlawful trials,
he is sentenced to death.
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He carries his cross only
assisted by a man by the name of
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Simon of Cyrene up Golgotha's
hill. He is nailed to a wooden
cross and then Jesus is
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crucified. Jesus dies on the
cross, not because of the nails
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in his feet, not because of the
nails in his hands, not because
of the crown of thorns on his
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head, but Jesus dies of a broken
heart. Jesus' body is taken down
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from the cross,
which leads us to Saturday.
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It's on Saturday, the seventh
day of the week, the Sabbath,
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Jesus' body lay resting in
the grave, which means even in
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death, Jesus is obedient to his
law because Jesus rests in death
on the seventh-day Sabbath.
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Early on the first day of the
week, early on a resurrection
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Sunday, Jesus, he rises from the
grave, and Satan thinks he has
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won. Satan thought that Jesus
was defeated, the devil and his
imps begin to celebrate.
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The devil and his imps begin to
party. Satan says, "We took him
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out and he's gone. This Jesus
who kept raising people from the
dead, this Jesus who gave sight
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to the blind, this Jesus who
made the lame to walk, this
Jesus, this miracle worker,
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this water walker, this healer,
this teacher, this preacher,
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this Jesus, we have finally shut
him up." Satan thought he was
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done with Jesus and
that he had killed Jesus.
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Jesus was crucified on Friday,
lay resting in the grave on the
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Sabbath; but early Sunday
morning, he got up with all
power in his hands, power over
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death, hell, and the grave.
Because he lives today, I live.
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Because he got up, one day, the
dead in Christ are going to get
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up. Behold, I show you a mystery
that one day, we shall not all
sleep, but one day,
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we shall be changed in a
twinkling of an eye for the Lord
Himself shall descend
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from heaven with a shout, with
the voice of the archangel and
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the trump of God, and the dead
in Christ shall rise first.
Jesus is the resurrection and
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the life. Jesus rose. Jesus
lives. God is not dead. God is
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alive. We clap our hands, we
stomp our feet, we shout over
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the resurrection, and we should
because there's no hope for the
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Christian of living
again without the resurrection.
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We talk a lot about Good Friday.
We talk a lot about the Holy
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Sabbath. We talk a lot
about Resurrection Sunday.
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Today, I want us to back up and
I want us to talk about Passover
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Thursday.
Passover is about freedom.
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It celebrated the children of
Israel's freedom from slavery in
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Egypt. Now, it celebrates our
freedom from sin through Jesus
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Christ, because if the Son
sets you free, you shall be free
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indeed. As a Christian, I
celebrate this freedom every
time I partake up communion.
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The bread
represents Jesus' broken body.
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The wine or the grape juice
represents Jesus' shed blood.
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What can wash away my sins?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
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What can make me whole again?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
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When I partake
of the broken body,
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when I partake of the grape
juice in the cup, I am free.
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In the book of Exodus, the Bible
teaches that God freed the
children of Israel from
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slavery in Egypt after
inflicting 10 plagues on the
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Egyptians before
Pharaoh would let them go.
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The tenth and final plague
was the death of the firstborn.
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The Israelites were told to put
blood on their doorposts, put
blood on their side posts.
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This blood was to come
from the blood of a lamb.
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When the death
angel would see this,
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the death angel would know
to pass over the firstborns in
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these homes. Let me needle this
a little deeper so somebody can
understand a little better.
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Israel was in Egypt. Israel
was enslaved. Israel was bound.
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The brutality of their slavery
was so oppressive that the
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children of Israel were crying
out to the Lord, "Lord, how
long? God, how long?" God said,
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"Enough is enough. I'm going to
deliver my people." God executed
10 plagues on the Egyptians.
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God didn't made a Red Sea a dry
highway. The Israelites' walked
across on dry land.
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Pharaoh and his 600 chosen
chariots tried to chase him,
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but God, just in the nick of
time, close down the walls to
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the Red Sea, and they drowned in
the Red Sea. It was so powerful.
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The Bible says that Miriam
looked back and she saw the man
who had oppressed them,
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she saw the man who
had raped their women,
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she saw the man who had beaten
their sons drowning in the Red
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Sea, that she grabbed a
tambourine and she started
beating that thing,
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and dancing and
praising before God.
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God said, "The enemies you
see today, you shall see them no
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more." God's people were
delivered, but it was after the
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tenth plague. It was after
the Passover that this happened.
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Now, to prepare
for the Passover,
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you need to understand the
children of Israel had to get a
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lamb. They had to get a lamb,
and then they had to kill a
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lamb, and then the
blood had to be spilled
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and then put the blood of
the lamb on the doorposts.
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This lamb typified
Christ, the true Passover lamb.
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How do I know that?
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Well, number one, the lamb that
was sacrificed had to be a lamb
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without blemish. If the lamb had
the smallest speck of disease,
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it wouldn't have
been allowed for Passover.
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The priests, my friends, he
wouldn't have allowed that lamb
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to be killed, and God wouldn't
have accepted the sacrifice.
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The lamb had to be without
blemish. Jesus, the Lamb of God,
was also unblemished,
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born of the Virgin Mary,
begotten of the Holy ghost.
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He was tempted in all points
just like we are, but he had no
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taint of sin. The second point,
the lamb had to be killed in a
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particular way. The lamb had to
be killed and its blood caught
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in a basin. After
the blood was secured,
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the priests then threw the blood
on the fire at the foot of the
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altar. Next, that lamb was
roasted with bitter herbs that
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had been placed on the lamb,
and the lamb had to be roasted.
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It had to be cooked, the
Bible teaches for a long time,
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and no bone was to
be broken on the lamb.
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When we look at Jesus Christ
on the cross, there was the
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shedding of blood. The hands
were pierced. The feet were
pierced. Blood was spilled.
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The crucifixion also had the
idea of what we call roasting.
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Foot roasting signifies a
long torment, a long torture.
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Just as the earthly lamb was
in the fire roasting for a long
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time, so is Jesus
at the crucifixion.
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He was, for a long time,
tortured and exposed to the
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broiling sun. Not only that, not
a bone on his body was broken.
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Remember, Jesus died of a broken
heart, not of a broken bone.
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All three elements with
the lamb were also with Jesus,
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the Lamb of God,
at the crucifixion.
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Blood was spilled. The lamb was
roasted, cooked for a long time,
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and number three, no
bone could be broken.
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in the Israelite Passover,
blood had to be sprinkled on the
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doorposts, and they had
to eat the roasted lamb.
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Now, notice, blood was not
sprinkled on the threshold,
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blood was not
sprinkled on the ground,
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but blood had to be sprinkled on
what they called the lintel, the
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doorpost, which was the top
of the door and the sides of the
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door; but the blood was never to
be sprinkled on the threshold,
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on the ground or the bottom of
the floor because, symbolically,
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you are not to trample or walk
over the blood of Jesus Christ.
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They also had to eat the flesh
of the roasted lamb with bitter
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herbs, pointing back to the
bitterness of the bondage in
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Egypt. Likewise, we have to
sprinkle the blood of Jesus on
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our hearts. We are not
saved without the blood.
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We also received
spiritual strength
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and spiritual nourishment
from Jesus through His word.
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That's our food.
It was Jesus who said,
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"Except ye eat of my flesh,
except you drink of my blood,
you have no life in you;
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but whosoever, eateth my flesh
and drinketh my blood, you have
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eternal life." Now, if the
Israelites had deviated in the
slightest bit from the
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directions God had given them,
if they had gone out of their
houses, they wouldn't have been
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safe. If they had slain the
lamb, listen to me, but failed
to put blood on the doorpost,
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they wouldn't have been safe.
Their sincerity wouldn't have
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saved them. Their religion
wouldn't have saved them. Their
standing wouldn't have saved
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them. They still have to obey
and put blood on the doorpost.
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I'm almost done, but let me
make this abundantly clear to
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somebody today. The only thing
that can save us is the blood of
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Jesus Christ. There are lot of
people in this world who think
they're going to be saved by
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their works. "I'm not a drunk so
I'll be saved." "I'm not a drug
user so I'll be saved."
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"I'm not a cheat so I'll be
saved." "I go to church every
week so I'll be saved."
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I study my Sabbath school lesson
every week, every day, I will be
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saved." You may be as righteous
as you want to be, you may be as
spiritual as you want to be,
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but if you don't have the blood
of Jesus sprinkled on your
heart, you're going to be lost.
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It's the blood that
saves and not anything else.
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Now, let may be clear. That
doesn't mean you don't have to
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obey because while a man is
saved by faith and not by works,
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his faith must be
shown by his works.
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It was Jesus who said, "If you
love me, keep my commandments."
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Fast forward to 2020, fast
forward to today, you can think
you're a good person,
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you can think you're a saved
person, you can think you're a
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righteous person, but if you
don't have the blood of Jesus
sprinkled on your heart, you are
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a lost person. Very soon,
there's a day that is coming.
There are some plagues that are
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coming. The only way the
angel is going to pass over,
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the only way our lives are going
to be spared is if we've eaten
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the Word of God and sprinkled
the blood of Jesus on our souls.
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Let me be clear with you today.
In all of the weekend
celebration of Easter,
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we are in a season right now
that we're told to stay in our
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homes for safety because
of the coronavirus pandemic.
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We're told not to go out for our
own safety until this pandemic
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passes over, but this is
nothing, my friends, compared to
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what is coming. As long as the
blood of Jesus, as long as the
blood is sprinkled on your
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heart, God will know your
address. The death angel will
pass over your house.
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What am I talking about? Well,
according to Daniel 8:14, God,
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right now, is in the most holy
place. Jesus is at the right
hand of the Father.
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This movement took place back
in 1844 where God moved from the
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holy place to the most holy
place, and God is engaged right
now in what we call the
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investigative judgment. Right
now, God is reviewing the cases
of all the professed people of
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God. He is seeing who's been
naughty and who is nice which
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means, right now,
he's reviewing my case.
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Right now, he's reviewing
your case. At any time,
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he can review our cases which is
why we must live every day as if
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it was our last. Now, Revelation
16 speaks of seven plagues.
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These seven last plagues,
according to Revelation 15:8,
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will occur after the
investigative judgement in
heaven is complete.
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Not before, but after. We have
the judgment which is going on
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right now, and we don't know
when it's going to end, but then
the plagues will follow the
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judgment. Don't mistake a
pestilence for a plague. They're
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not the same. The pestilence is
one thing, a plague is another
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thing. They are different, but
the plagues of Revelation 16
must come in sequential order
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beginning with a grieving sore
that afflicts the beast and his
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followers,
according to Revelation 16:2.
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We have the judgement, we have
the plagues, and then we have
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the second coming. Hallelujah of
Jesus Christ. The good news, my
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friends, is this. Just like the
plagues didn't mess with the
children of Israel when they
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were in Egypt back in the day,
the plagues of Revelation 16
will not mess with the children
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of God just before Jesus' second
coming. The plagues will be
rough, the plagues will be
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tough, there will be wailing,
and there will be crying, but
God's children will not be
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touched. That's why during
this period of the investigative
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judgement, it's so important
that we make our calling and
election sure with God
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because Revelation 22 is clear.
He, that is holy, let him be
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holy still. He, that is
unholy, let him be unholy still.
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And behold, I come quickly;
and my reward is with me to give
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every man and woman
according as his work shall be.
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Heaven will know our
addresses if we have God sealed
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and have the blood of
Jesus sprinkled in our hearts.
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If God's people have made it
through and are alive at the
judgement. let me say that
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again. If God's people have made
it through and are alive at the
end of the judgement,
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those people of God who
are alive at the end of the
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judgement, they will
make it through the plagues.
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Heaven will know your address.
The plagues will pass over you
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during Holy Week. On the day of
the Passover, Jesus, the Lamb of
God, presented himself as a sin
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offering. He was putting
to an end the systems of types
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and ceremonies that for 4,000
years had pointed to his death.
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As he ate the
Passover with his disciples,
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he instituted communion which
was to be a memorial for his
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great sacrifice. The earthly
lamb died never to live again,
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but I'm so glad today that
through the blood of Jesus
Christ, the Lamb of God,
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Jesus gives us life, and Jesus
is still living. The earthly
lamb was a forerunner.
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The earthly lamb was a model.
The earthly lamb was a shadow of
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things to come, but Jesus is the
real thing. Jesus is the real
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Passover lamb. At communion, he
invites us to eat of the bread
symbolic of his body.
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He invites us to drink of the
cup symbolic of His blood so
that we might be free from sin,
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so that when the plagues of
Revelation 16 come, the only way
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we will be spared, the only way
heaven will know our address is
if we've eaten the Lamb of God
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and sprinkled the
blood of Jesus on our souls.
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Today, I'm so glad heaven
doesn't just know my name.
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I'm so glad that heaven doesn't
just know the numbers of hairs
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over my head, but I'm so
glad that heaven also knows my
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address, and the death
angel is passing over my house.
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I'm covered because he that
dwelleth in the secret place of
the most high shall
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abide under the
shadow of the Almighty.
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I will say of the Lord, He is my
refuge, my fortress, my God; in
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him will I trust." The death
angel to those who have been
sealed by God is passing over.
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Dr. Byrd: Pain, loss, trama,
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in life we
experience these things.
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My wife and I have a story,
00:28:12.45\00:28:15.26
we have a
testimony of how we lost
00:28:15.29\00:28:19.49
our first born daughter
in a horrific car accident.
00:28:19.53\00:28:26.27
We have this new sharing
book, its en-titled “Gone.”
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And, in it I
want to share with you
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how God has helped me,
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how God has my wife
how God has helped us,
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as we had to endure the fact
that our first born daughter is
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