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>>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH.
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WE ARE COMING TO YOU FROM
CALIFORNIA'S CAPITAL CITY.
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IT IS A BEAUTIFUL, SUNNY DAY
HERE IN SACRAMENTO AND I HOPE
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THAT WHEREVER YOU ARE JOINING
US FROM, EVEN IF IT'S NOT SUNNY
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OUTSIDE, THAT YOU
ARE HAPPY IN YOUR HEARTS.
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I HOPE THAT YOU HAVE HAD A
WONDERFUL WEEK AND THAT YOU ARE
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READY TO OPEN UP GOD'S WORD AND
STUDY TOGETHER WITH US HERE AT
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CENTRAL CHURCH AND, OF COURSE,
SING YOUR FAVORITE SONGS.
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TODAY IS NO EXCEPTION. WE
HAVE A LOT OF REQUESTS FOR
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OUR FIRST SONG, SO IF YOU'RE AT
HOME AND YOU HAVE A HYMNAL, PULL
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IT OUT AND SING WITH US -
#373 - 'SEEKING THE LOST'.
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THIS IS A REQUEST FROM VAUGHN IN
ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA, ROSLYN IN
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AUSTRALIA, MARCEL, TERRY AND
SAMANTHA IN THE BAHAMAS, MICHAEL
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AND RHEA IN CALIFORNIA, BOB,
KOFI AND ROXANNE IN CANADA, DEAN
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IN COLORADO, ANN, KIMBERLY,
SIMREN, DIAMOND, AND SANJAY IN
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ENGLAND, AND LET'S SEE, SIMREN
IN ENGLAND SENT IN A MESSAGE.
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SHE'S NINE YEARS OLD AND
SHE LOVES TO SING ALONG WITH US
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EVERY SABBATH MORNING AND
THIS IS HER FAVORITE SONG.
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'THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS YOU'
AND HER FOUR-YEAR-OLD SISTER AND
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THEY'RE FROM
MANCHESTER, ENGLAND.
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SO IT'S ALWAYS NICE TO
HEAR FROM OUR YOUNG VIEWERS.
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OWEN IN FINLAND, DENVER IN
FLORIDA, FRANK AND MARRIE IN
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GEORGIA, DAVID, DABBIE AND
SHANTE IN GRENADA, LEOPOLD IN
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JAMAICA, ERNIE IN KENYA, CINDY
AND MARGARET IN MARYLAND, HASANI
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IN MICHIGAN, CONNIE AND HARLAND
IN MINNESOTA, JACQUES AND
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MICHAEL IN NEW JERSEY, ALLISON,
HAZEL, JADE, LEILA AND LINDA IN
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NEW YORK, JENA IN SAINT
KITTS AND NEVIS, IRVIN IN SAINT
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VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES,
THAPELO IN SOUTH AFRICA, KAM AND
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NATALIE IN TENNESSEE, NICK IN
TEXAS, AYESHA, JAYELLE AND JOEL
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IN TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, CHRISTA
IN VIRGINIA, AND CAMILLE,
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XAVIER, AND
KENDELL IN WASHINGTON.
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OKAY GUYS, WE WANT TO HEAR YOU
SINGING EXTRA LOUD THIS MORNING.
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#373 - WE'LL DO ALL THREE
STANZAS - 'SEEKING THE LOST'.
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(MUSIC)
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>>THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR
SENDING IN THAT REQUEST AND FOR
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THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE WATCHING
FROM ENGLAND, I WILL LET YOU
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KNOW THAT MY MOM AND DAD AND
I ARE GOING TO BE IN THE YORK
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SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST
CHURCH ON MAY THE 31ST.
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THAT IS A SABBATH AND I THOUGHT
I WOULD JUST LET YOU KNOW IN
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CASE YOU'RE IN THAT AREA AND, IN
FACT, IT'S VERY EXCITING, WE GOT
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AN E-MAIL FROM A LADY WHO WAS
WANTING TO COME TO CENTRAL TO BE
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BAPTIZED - AND HER SON - BUT
THEY COULDN'T COME AND THEY GO
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TO THE YORK CHURCH. AND
SO, I THINK, IF THEY WORK IT
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OUT MY DAD'S GOING TO DO TH
BAPTISM - WHICH IS THE PLACE
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WHERE HE WAS BAPTIZED, MY MOM
WAS BAPTIZED, THEY WERE MARRIED
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AND MY SISTER WAS DEDICATED,
SO IT'S VERY EXCITING.
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SO WE'RE GOING TO BE BACK
VISITING FAMILY FOR A FEW DAYS
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AND WE WILL BE IN YORK
ADVENTIST CHURCH ON MAY 31.
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SO WE WOULD LOVE TO SEE YOU, OUR
ENGLISH VIEWERS AND LITTLE GIRLS
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IN MANCHESTER, IT'S NOT THAT
FAR AWAY FROM YORK...HINT HINT.
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OUR NEXT SONG IS ONE OF
OUR NEW ONES. IT'S BEAUTIFUL.
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#55 - 'O GLADSOME LIGHT'.
THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL LITTLE TUNE.
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IT WAS WRITTEN BY A MOM FOR HER
TWO CHILDREN, MARY AND HARRY, IN
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THE 1800S AND WE ARE JUST
LEARNING THIS ONE AND IT IS JUST
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BEAUTIFUL, SO
WE'RE GOING TO SING IT.
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#55 - WHY AM I NOT
SEEING THAT? WRONG TITLE!
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'JESUS TENDER SHEPHERD
HEAR ME' - THERE WE GO.
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(MUSIC)
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>>THAT WAS SO SHORT AND
SWEET AND IT WAS REQUESTED BY
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ANNAMARIE IN ARIZONA AND JOYCE
IN KENYA. AND WE'RE GOING TO DO
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#56 - SEEING AS #55 WAS SO SHORT
AND THIS IS A GORGEOUS SONG.
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I ENCOURAGE YOU TO GO TO YOUTUBE
- JEN SENT ME THE LINK FOR THIS
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ONE LAST NIGHT FOR THIS AMAZING
ARRANGEMENT - LOOK FOR THE 2008
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SERVICE OF REMEMBRANCE FROM THE
ROYAL ALBERT HALL AND YOU WILL
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HEAR THIS WITH CHOIR BOYS AND AN
ORCHESTRA AND CHOIR - AND IN MY
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HEAD THIS MORNING I SEE CHOIR
BOYS COMING IN AND JOINING WITH
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US BUT WE DON'T
HAVE ANY, UNFORTUNATELY.
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SO JUST IMAGINE IT AND
GO LOOK IT UP ON YOUTUBE.
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#56 - BEAUTIFUL SONG AND
WE WILL DO ALL FOUR STANZAS.
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(MUSIC)
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FATHER IN HEAVEN, THROUGH
TIME EMPIRES HAVE COME AND GONE.
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YOU TOLD US THAT IN THE BIBLE.
NOTHING WOULD LAST FOREVER
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APART FROM YOURS,
WHICH IS COMING VERY SOON.
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AND I PRAY THAT WE WILL BE
READY FOR THAT DAY WHEN YOU DO
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COME SO WE CAN SPEND ETERNITY
WITH YOU IN HEAVEN WHERE
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THERE'LL BE NO MORE PAIN, NO
MORE SUFFERING, AND HAPPINESS
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FOREVERMORE. FATHER, I
PRAY THAT WE WILL EACH BE READY.
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THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR LOVING US,
FOR DYING FOR US, AND FOR GIVING
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US THE HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE.
BE WITH US RIGHT NOW AS WE OPEN
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UP YOUR WORD AND
WE STUDY TOGETHER.
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BE WITH PASTOR CHRIS AS
HE BRINGS US THE LESSON.
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BE WITH OUR EXTENDED FAMILY
ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND AROUND
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THE WORLD. YOU KNOW EACH
AND EVERY ONE OF THEM. YOU KNOW
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EACH AND EVERYONE'S PERSONAL
NEEDS AND I JUST PRAY THAT
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YOU'LL BE WITH US
TODAY IN A SPECIAL WAY.
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IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. AT
THIS TIME, OUR LESSON STUDY
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IS GOING TO BE BROUGHT TO
US BY PASTOR CHRIS BUTTERY.
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HE IS OUR FAMILY LIFE AND
EVANGELISM PASTOR, THAT'S RIGHT,
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AND HE'S ALSO FROM AUSTRALIA.
>>I KNOW NO ONE HERE IS GOING TO
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HOLD THAT AGAINST ME
- BEING FROM AUSTRALIA -
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AT LEAST I HOPE NOT.
GOOD MORNING TO EACH OF YOU.
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GOOD TO SEE YOU THIS MORNING
AND HAPPY SABBATH. ABSOLUTELY.
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I THINK WHAT WE NEED TO DO AFTER
DEBBIE GETS BACK FROM ENGLAND IS
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WORK OUT A WAY TO
GET HER TO AUSTRALIA.
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THEN SHE'LL KNOW WHAT
THE TRUE COUNTRY LOOKS LIKE.
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AND WAYNE - WAYNE AND SANDY FROM
AUSTRALIA - LOOK, YOU KNOW WHAT
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I'M TALKING ABOUT HERE.
AND, BY THE WAY, JUST IN CASE
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YOU WERE CONCERNED WHEN I TOLD
OUR FRIENDS FROM SYDNEY THAT
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ADELAIDE WINS HANDS DOWN, I
KNOW WAYNE IS ORIGINALLY FROM
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ADELAIDE, SO I WAS SAFE
THERE, BUT SANDY I'M NOT SURE.
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YOU MAY BE
TALKING TO ME AFTERWARDS.
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BUT LOOK - GOOD TO SEE YOU AND
GLAD WE COULD BE HERE TOGETHER
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TO STUDY GOD'S WORD.
AND ALSO, WE WANT TO WELCOME
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THOSE WHO ARE VIEWING ONLINE OR
WATCHING ON TV OR LISTENING BY
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RADIO THIS MORNING.
WE'RE SO GLAD TO HAVE YOU HERE
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AS WELL, STUDYING WITH US.
WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR
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ONLINE AND TV VIEWERS ARE
AWARE OF OUR FREE GIFT OFFER.
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IT'S ENTITLED, 'IS THERE
ANYTHING LEFT YOU CAN TRUST?'
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AND IT'S TODAY'S SPECIAL OFFER
AND IT'S OFFER #103 AND YOU CAN
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RECEIVE THIS BY
CALLING 1-866-STUDY-MORE OR
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1-866-788-3966. AND
CERTAINLY IN TODAY'S MORALLY
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CHALLENGED WORLD, ONE ASKS
THE QUESTION WHETHER THERE IS
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ANYTHING LEFT YOU CAN TRUST
AND THE ANSWER TO THAT IS 'YES.
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YOU CAN TRUST GOD'S HOLY WORD
AND SO THE STUDY GUIDE IS GEARED
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TOWARD ENCOURAGING INDIVIDUALS
THAT YOU CAN TRUST GOD'S WORD.
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IT'S FILLED WITH EVIDENCES
DECLARING GOD'S WORD IS
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TRUTHFUL AND YOU CAN TRUST IT.
WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE IN OUR -
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WITH OUR SABBATH
SCHOOL QUARTERLY.
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WE'RE IN LESSON #8 AND SO IF YOU
HAVE YOUR QUARTERLY WITH YOU,
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WE'RE GOING TO BE TURNING
OVER THERE TO LESSON #8 IN THIS
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QUARTER'S THEME, 'MAJOR
LESSONS FROM MINOR PROPHETS' -
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'TRUSTING GOD'S GOODNESS'.
THAT'S WHAT THE TITLE IS OF THIS
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WEEK'S LESSON, 'TRUSTING GOD'S
GOODNESS AND WE'RE GOING TO BE
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STUDYING AND LOOKING AT THE
BOOK OF HABAKKUK - FOR THOSE WHO
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PRONOUNCE IT OTHERWISE, LIKE
HABAKKUK, IT'S THE SAME BOOK,
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HABAKKUK. I DID MY
HOMEWORK AND MADE SURE
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I PRONOUNCED IT
CORRECTLY HERE THIS MORNING.
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HABAKKUK IS FINE, I UNDERSTAND,
BUT WERE IN - WE'RE GOING TO BE
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IN HABAKKUK AND WE'RE - FIRST OF
ALL, WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT OUR
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MEMORY VERSE HERE THIS MORNING -
HABAKKUK CHAPTER 2 AND VERSE 14.
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I'M GOING TO BE READING FROM
THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION -
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HABAKKUK CHAPTER 2 AND VERSE 14.
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IT SAYS, 'FOR THE EARTH WILL BE
FILLED WITH THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE
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GLORY OF THE LORD, AS
THE WATERS COVER THE SEA."
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AND WE'LL TAKE A LITTLE BIT
MORE ABOUT THAT AS WE PROGRESS
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THROUGH OUR STUDY
HERE THIS MORNING.
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SOME OF YOU MAY BE FAMILIAR
WITH THE INDIVIDUAL WHO TERMED
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HIMSELF, 'TERMINAL MAN' -
THE TERMINAL MAN - AT LEAST THAT
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WHAT HE CALLED
HIMSELF IN HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
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HIS REAL NAME IS MEHRAN KARIMI
NASSERI AND MEHRAN NASSERI LIVED
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IN A DEPARTURE LOUNGE OF
TERMINAL ONE IN THE CHARLES DE
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GAULLE AIRPORT IN PARIS, FRANCE.
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NASSERI WAS EXPELLED FROM HIS
OWN COUNTRY DUE TO PROTESTS TO
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THE THEN KING OF IRAN, MOHAMMAD
REZA SHAH, BUT WAS EVENTUALLY
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AWARDED REFUGEE STATUS IN
BELGIUM BY THE UNITED NATIONS
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HIGH COMMISSION. THIS
MEANT THAT HE COULD TAKE UP
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RESIDENCY IN ANY
EUROPEAN COUNTRY.
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HIS CHOICE WAS ENGLAND.
HMMM, INTERESTING...ENGLAND.
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WELL, DURING HIS STOPOVER IN
PARIS ON THE WAY TO ENGLAND, THE
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BRIEFCASE HE USED TO CARRY HIS
IMPORTANT PAPERWORK IN VANISHED.
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HE LOST IT. BUT IN
SPITE OF THIS, HE STILL
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BOARDED HIS FLIGHT TO BRITAIN
BUT WAS QUICKLY RETURNED TO
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FRANCE WHEN HE COULDN'T PRODUCE
HIS PASSPORT THERE IN ENGLAND.
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HE WAS INITIALLY ARRESTED BY
THE FRENCH BUT THEN RELEASED FOR
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REASONS THAT HIS ENTRY INTO THE
AIRPORT WAS LEGAL AND THAT HE
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HAD NO COUNTRY OF
ORIGIN TO BE RETURNED TO.
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THUS BEGAN HIS
RESIDENCY IN TERMINAL ONE.
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SEVERAL ATTEMPTS WERE MADE OVER
THE YEARS TO FIND A WAY TO GET
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NASSERI TO ENGLAND, BUT THEY ALL
FAILED, SO FROM AUGUST 26, 1988
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TO JULY 2006, THE BETTER PART OF
17 YEARS, MEHRAN NASSERI WAITED.
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WOW. THERE'S AN UNCANNY
SIMILARITY BETWEEN THE STORY OF
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NASSERI AND THE THEME
OF THE BOOK OF HABAKKUK -
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WAITING PATIENTLY
FOR GOD'S SALVATION.
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AND SO, LET'S TALK A
LITTLE BIT ABOUT HABAKKUK HERE.
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YOU WANT TO TURN IN YOUR
BIBLES TO THAT LITTLE BOOK.
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BY THE WAY, EVEN THOUGH IT'S
LITTLE, IT'S JAM-PACKED FULL OF
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GREAT SPIRITUAL TRUTHS
AND LESSONS FOR US TODAY.
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SO YOU WANT TO
TURN THERE TO HABAKKUK.
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WE'RE GOING TO BE STARTING
IN CHAPTER 1, BUT HABAKKUK, I
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UNDERSTAND, HIS NAME MEANS 'ONE
WHO EMBRACES' OR 'ONE WHO CLINGS
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AHOLD OF' OR CLINGS TO.
AND WE'LL SEE WHY THAT'S PRETTY
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IMPORTANT OR
SIGNIFICANT LATER ON.
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NOT MUCH ELSE IS
KNOWN ABOUT THE PROPHET.
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I'M NOT SURE IF GOD CALLED
HIM FROM SOME OTHER OCCUPATION.
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MAYBE HE WAS A TEMPLE
SINGER, BASED UPON CHAPTER 3
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OF THE BOOK. MAYBE
HE WAS A TEMPLE SINGER.
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WE DON'T KNOW IF HE WAS TRAINED
IN THE SCHOOL OF THE PROPHETS.
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WE JUST DON'T KNOW THESE THINGS.
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BUT NONETHELESS, HERE HE IS
DOING WHAT HE IS CALLED TO DO.
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NOW HABAKKUK LIVED DURING A TIME
OF DEEP APOSTASY - MAYBE TOWARD
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THE LATTER END OF MANASSEH'S
REIGN DURING, MAYBE, HIS SON
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AMMON'S RULE OR AT THE
FRONT END OF JOSIAH'S REIGN.
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THESE WERE ALL KINGS
OF THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM.
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THE ASSYRIANS HAD SUBJUGATED THE
TEN NORTHERN TRIBES BY THIS TIME
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AND MANY OF GOD'S PEOPLE
HAD BEEN DISPERSED AMONG THE
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NATIONS. THE ONLY
TRIBES LEFT WERE JUDAH
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AND BENJAMIN, AT THIS TIME.
AND SO WHEN YOU'RE READING IN
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THE OLD TESTAMENT ABOUT JUDAH,
YOU'RE TO CONSIDER JUDAH AND
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BENJAMIN TOGETHER. JUDAH
WAS THE LARGER TRIBE THAT
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HAD THE LARGER
PIECE OF TERRITORY.
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THOSE OF YOU JOINING US TUESDAY
NIGHTS FOR PRAYER MEETING ARE
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LEARNING A LITTLE BIT ABOUT
THIS IN THE BOOK OF JOSHUA.
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BUT HABAKKUK WAS A PROPHET TO
THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM - TO JUDAH
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- TO THE KINGDOM THERE OF JUDAH
PRIOR TO BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY.
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NOW WE KNOW THIS BECAUSE,
ACCORDING TO HABAKKUK CHAPTER 2
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AND VERSE 20, THE TEMPLE
OF GOD IS STILL STANDING.
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IT'S NOT IN RUINS. AND
WE KNOW THAT NEBUCHADNEZZAR
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DESTROYED THE TEMPLE IN 586 BC.
IT'S STILL STANDING SO WE KNOW
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THIS WAS PRIOR TO BABYLONIAN
CAPTIVITY AND THE DESTRUCTION
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OF JERUSALEM. AND
ALSO, ACCORDING TO HABAKKUK
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CHAPTER 1 AND VERSES 5 THROUGH
7, THE RISE OF BABYLON SEEMS
00:19:33.16\00:19:37.83
LIKE A FANTASTIC PROPOSITION.
GOD SAYS, 'LOOK HERE.
00:19:37.83\00:19:42.20
SOMETHING STARTLING IS GOING TO
HAPPEN AND I'M GOING TO RISE UP
00:19:42.20\00:19:45.90
SOMEONE WHO WILL DISCIPLINE
JUDAH.' AND SO WE KNOW THAT
00:19:45.90\00:19:51.50
BABYLON IS YET TO TAKE THE
STAGE. NABOPOLASSAR, WHO RULED
00:19:51.50\00:19:58.46
FROM 626 - 625 ON
HASN'T YET COME ON THE SCENE.
00:19:58.46\00:20:03.26
SO WE KNOW THAT HE IS
MINISTERING TO THE - TO THE
00:20:03.26\00:20:07.23
TRIBE OF JUDAH, PREACHING
AND PROCLAIMING GOD'S MESSAGE OF
00:20:07.23\00:20:11.16
WARNING TO THEM
PRIOR TO THEIR CAPTIVITY.
00:20:11.16\00:20:16.26
NOW, ACCORDING TO 'PROPHETS AND
KINGS' - THAT FABULOUS BOOK IN
00:20:16.26\00:20:19.86
THAT 'CONFLICT OF THE AGES'
SERIES - ON PAGE 381, WE'RE TOLD
00:20:19.86\00:20:25.03
ABOUT THAT TIME. SHE
SAYS, "THE KINGDOM OF JUDAH,
00:20:25.03\00:20:28.53
PROSPEROUS THROUGHOUT THE
TIME OF HEZEKIAH, WAS ONCE MORE
00:20:28.53\00:20:31.63
BROUGHT LOW DURING THE LONG
YEARS OF MANASSEH'S WICKED REIGN
00:20:31.63\00:20:35.40
WHEN PAGANISM WAS REVIVED AND
MANY OF THE PEOPLE WERE LED INTO
00:20:35.40\00:20:38.66
IDOLATRY.' AND THEN
SHE QUOTES 2 CHRONICLES
00:20:38.66\00:20:41.16
33, VERSE 9, WHICH SAYS,
"MANASSEH MADE JUDAH AND THE
00:20:41.16\00:20:44.13
INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM TO ERR
AND DO WORSE THAN THE HEATHEN."
00:20:44.13\00:20:49.00
SHE GOES ON TO SAY,
"THE GLORIOUS LIGHT OF FORMER
00:20:49.00\00:20:51.03
GENERATIONS WAS FOLLOWED BY
THE DARKNESS OF SUPERSTITION AND
00:20:51.03\00:20:54.86
ERROR. GROSS EVIL SPRANG UP AND
FLOURISHED, TYRANNY, OPPRESSION,
00:20:54.86\00:20:59.86
HATRED OF ALL THAT IS
GOOD, JUSTICE WAS PERVERTED AND
00:20:59.86\00:21:03.43
VIOLENCE PREVAILED."
THIS WAS THE TIME IN WHICH
00:21:03.43\00:21:06.46
HABAKKUK WAS
LIVING AND MINISTERING IN.
00:21:06.46\00:21:10.40
ACCORDING TO 2 KINGS 21, VERSE
16 THE AUTHOR SAYS, "MANASSEH
00:21:10.40\00:21:14.06
SHED BLOOD VERY MUCH TIL HE HAD
FILLED JERUSALEM FROM ONE END TO
00:21:14.06\00:21:20.16
ANOTHER." NOW
ALTHOUGH HIS SON AMMON RULED
00:21:20.16\00:21:24.63
FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS, HE
WAS A CHIP OFF THE OLD BLOCK.
00:21:24.63\00:21:27.26
HE WAS PRODIGIOUSLY WICKED, JUST
LIKE HIS FATHER. HIS REIGN CAME
00:21:27.26\00:21:30.56
TO A SHORT END WHEN HE
WAS MURDERED BY HIS SERVANTS.
00:21:30.56\00:21:34.40
THINGS WERE PRETTY BAD IN THE
CHURCH AT THE TIME OF HABAKKUK.
00:21:34.40\00:21:39.10
IF WE WERE TO SUMMARIZE THE
BOOK, PERHAPS WE COULD SAY IT
00:21:39.10\00:21:42.36
THIS WAY, 'ALTHOUGH REPEATEDLY
CALLED TO REPENTANCE, JUDAH
00:21:42.36\00:21:46.10
STUBBORNLY REFUSES TO RESPOND,
THEREFORE BRINGING INTOLERABLE
00:21:46.10\00:21:50.13
CONDITIONS TO THE COUNTRY.'
HABAKKUK IS CONCERNED ABOUT THE
00:21:50.13\00:21:54.06
STATE OF HIS COUNTRY AND SO ASKS
GOD 'HOW LONG WILL THE JUDGMENTS
00:21:54.06\00:21:58.50
LAST?' GOD RESPONDS, WHICH LEADS
00:21:58.50\00:22:01.46
HABAKKUK TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT
HE SHOULD TRUST GOD'S WISDOM, AS
00:22:01.46\00:22:04.63
THOUGH HE DOESN'T FULLY -
EVEN THOUGH HE DOESN'T FULLY
00:22:04.63\00:22:07.10
UNDERSTAND HIS WAYS,
AND PATIENTLY WAIT ON GOD.
00:22:07.10\00:22:12.60
I READ THIS ABOUT THE BOOK OF
HABAKKUK TOO AND I THOUGHT I'D
00:22:12.60\00:22:15.06
SHARE THIS. THE
AUTHOR SAYS, 'HABAKKUK' -
00:22:15.06\00:22:17.33
WHEN YOU READ THE BOOK OF
HABAKKUK IT PROVIDES A SOLUTION
00:22:17.33\00:22:19.96
TO WHY GOD PERMITS EVIL
TO PROSPER COMPARABLE TO THE
00:22:19.96\00:22:24.83
SOLUTION PROVIDED BY JOB AND TO
THE PROBLEM OF WHY GOD PERMITS
00:22:24.83\00:22:28.70
SAINTS TO SUFFER. SO
THESE ARE SOME THINGS WE CAN
00:22:28.70\00:22:32.06
LEARN WHEN WE STUDY THE BOOK OF
HABAKKUK AND WE'LL TAKE A LOOK
00:22:32.06\00:22:35.36
AT SOME OF THESE
THINGS HERE THIS MORNING.
00:22:35.36\00:22:38.26
AND SO YOU'RE IN CHAPTER 1 AND
SO AM I AND WE'RE GOING TO GO TO
00:22:38.26\00:22:41.16
SUNDAY'S LESSON 'THE
PERPLEXED PROPHET' AND REALLY,
00:22:41.16\00:22:46.36
THIS IS LOOKING AT THE FIRST 11
VERSES OF CHAPTER 1 - HABAKKUK
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CHAPTER 1, VERSES 1 THROUGH 11.
THE BOOK OF HABAKKUK BEGINS WITH
00:22:50.36\00:22:54.53
THE PROPHET
ASKING TWO QUESTIONS.
00:22:54.53\00:22:57.60
IT BEGINS BY ASKING TWO
QUESTIONS AND IT'S INTERESTING -
00:22:57.60\00:23:00.33
THE BOOK OF HABAKKUK IS
AN INTERESTING BOOK BECAUSE
00:23:00.33\00:23:03.60
NORMALLY THE PEOPLE - THE
PROPHET - SPEAKS ON BEHALF OF
00:23:03.60\00:23:07.60
GOD TO THE PEOPLE, BUT HABAKKUK
SPEAKS TO GOD ABOUT THE PEOPLE.
00:23:07.60\00:23:13.30
IT'S A LITTLE DIFFERENT
AND YOU'LL SEE THAT HERE.
00:23:13.30\00:23:16.96
FIRST, HABAKKUK QUESTIONS WHY
JUDAH'S SINS ARE ALLOWED TO GO
00:23:16.96\00:23:21.30
UNPUNISHED -
THAT'S VERSES 1 THROUGH 4.
00:23:21.30\00:23:23.23
WE'RE GOING TO LOOK
AT THAT IN JUST A MOMENT.
00:23:23.23\00:23:24.90
GOD ANSWERS IN THE FOLLOWING
VERSES THROUGH TO VERSE 11 BY
00:23:24.90\00:23:28.50
TELLING HIM THAT JUDAH WILL BE
PUNISHED BY THE CHALDEANS OR BY
00:23:28.50\00:23:32.00
THE BABYLONIANS. THIS
RAISES THE SECOND QUESTION
00:23:32.00\00:23:35.96
FOR HABAKKUK. 'HOW
CAN GOD USE A MORE WICKED
00:23:35.96\00:23:39.86
NATION THAN JUDAH TO
PUNISH JUDAH, HIS PEOPLE?'
00:23:39.86\00:23:45.63
AND THAT'S IN VERSES 12 AND
13. SO IN THE FIRST CHAPTER OF
00:23:45.63\00:23:49.20
HABAKKUK, WE HAVE HABAKKUK'S TWO
QUESTIONS. GOD ANSWERS ONE IN
00:23:49.20\00:23:54.06
CHAPTER 1 AND THE OTHER
ONE HE'LL ANSWER IN CHAPTER 2.
00:23:54.06\00:23:57.53
AND SO LET'S LOOK AT VERSES 2
THROUGH 4 OF HABAKKUK CHAPTER 1
00:23:57.53\00:24:01.73
AND LET'S READ
THAT HERE TOGETHER.
00:24:01.73\00:24:05.03
HABAKKUK CHAPTER 1, VERSES 2
THROUGH 4 - IT SAYS, "O LORD,
00:24:05.03\00:24:08.03
HOW LONG SHALL I CRY,
AND YOU WILL NOT HEAR?
00:24:08.03\00:24:12.86
EVEN CRY OUT TO YOU, 'VIOLENCE!'
AND YOU WILL NOT SAVE.
00:24:12.86\00:24:17.30
WHY DO YOU SHOW ME INIQUITY,
AND CAUSE ME TO SEE TROUBLE?
00:24:17.30\00:24:19.93
FOR PLUNDERING AND VIOLENCE ARE
BEFORE ME; THERE IS STRIFE, AND
00:24:19.93\00:24:22.73
CONTENTION ARISES.
THEREFORE THE LAW IS POWERLESS,
00:24:22.73\00:24:27.40
AND JUSTICE NEVER GOES FORTH.
FOR THE WICKED SURROUND THE
00:24:27.40\00:24:30.33
RIGHTEOUS; THEREFORE
PERVERSE JUDGMENT PROCEEDS."
00:24:30.33\00:24:35.46
HOW LONG - THIS IS HIS QUESTION
- 'HOW LONG, GOD WILL THE WICKED
00:24:35.46\00:24:40.16
CONTINUE TO PROSPER AND VIOLENCE
REMAIN UNCHECKED AND THE
00:24:40.16\00:24:44.70
RIGHTEOUS CONTINUE TO BE
VICTIMIZED BY THE UNGODLY?'
00:24:44.70\00:24:49.60
I MEAN, IT SOUNDS LIKE MORE
THAN ONE QUESTION BUT THAT'S THE
00:24:49.60\00:24:51.83
GENERAL TENOR OF HIS QUESTION.
'WHY ARE THE WICKED ALLOWED TO
00:24:51.83\00:24:54.63
PROSPER? WHY IS IT THAT
I'M LOOKING AT ALL THIS STUFF?
00:24:54.63\00:24:57.83
ALLOWED TO LOOK
AT ALL THIS STUFF?
00:24:57.83\00:24:59.46
WHY ISN'T WICKEDNESS
AND VIOLENCE BEING CHECKED?
00:24:59.46\00:25:02.60
WHY AREN'T YOU INTERVENING?
WHY AREN'T YOU STEPPING IN?
00:25:02.60\00:25:05.96
THE QUESTION 'HOW LONG?'
OF COURSE IS A CRY OF HUMAN
00:25:05.96\00:25:10.06
DESPAIR AND DISTRESS
AFTER WAITING FOR A LONG TIME.
00:25:10.06\00:25:14.83
THIS QUESTION IS RAISED
WHEN GOD'S PEOPLE SEE INJUSTICE
00:25:14.83\00:25:18.53
HAPPENING AROUND THEM AND EVEN,
PERHAPS - EVEN TO THEM AND THERE
00:25:18.53\00:25:24.06
DOESN'T APPEAR TO BE ANY
STOPPING IT. THIS CRY DOESN'T
00:25:24.06\00:25:27.16
ASK WHETHER GOD IS ALIVE,
NO, BUT ASKS WHEN GOD WILL WORK.
00:25:27.16\00:25:32.80
'WHEN WILL YOU WORK, LORD, AND
WHEN WILL THE TYRANNY COME TO AN
00:25:32.80\00:25:37.16
END?' THAT'S REALLY WHAT THE
QUESTION IS ASKING, THE SPIRIT
00:25:37.16\00:25:40.40
BEHIND THIS CRY IS DIFFERENT
FROM THE SPIRIT OF THAT CRY FROM
00:25:40.40\00:25:45.76
A PERSON THAT'S BEEN STUCK
BEHIND TRAFFIC, WHICH IS MAKING
00:25:45.76\00:25:49.10
HIM OR HER LATE FOR HER
APPOINTMENT OR FOR WORK.
00:25:49.10\00:25:51.56
VERY DIFFERENT. OR
FOR THE PERSON WHO'S BEEN
00:25:51.56\00:25:53.60
STUCK IN SOME WAITING ROOM
FOR AN INCREDIBLE AMOUNT OF TIME
00:25:53.60\00:25:56.16
WAITING TO SEE THE DOCTOR OR THE
DENTIST OR WHOEVER THEY'VE GONE
00:25:56.16\00:25:58.63
TO SEE. VERY
DIFFERENT 'HOW LONG?'
00:25:58.63\00:26:01.46
THIS IS A
DIFFERENT SPIRIT BEHIND THIS.
00:26:01.46\00:26:03.56
'LORD, HOW LONG UNTIL YOU WORK?'
OTHER BIBLE WRITERS ACTUALLY
00:26:03.56\00:26:06.90
ASKED THE SAME QUESTION
AND SOMEONE HERE HAS JEREMIAH
00:26:06.90\00:26:10.56
CHAPTER 12, VERSES 1 THROUGH 4
- THEY'RE GOING TO READ THAT FOR
00:26:10.56\00:26:12.83
US THIS MORNING.
WONDERFUL. WE'LL COME TO YOU
00:26:12.83\00:26:14.73
IN JUST A MOMENT. LET
ME JUST READ A COUPLE OF
00:26:14.73\00:26:17.16
VERSES FOR YOU. YOU CAN JOT THEM
DOWN. THERE ARE PLENTY OF THEM
00:26:17.16\00:26:21.30
BUT I'M NOT GOING TO
GO THROUGH ALL OF THEM.
00:26:21.30\00:26:23.03
PSALM 94, VERSE 3, THE PSALMIST
SAYS, "LORD, HOW LONG WILL THE
00:26:23.03\00:26:28.13
WICKED, HOW LONG WILL THE WICKED
TRIUMPH?" NOW, I DIDN'T STUTTER,
00:26:28.13\00:26:33.46
THAT'S EXACTLY HOW WHAT IT SAYS.
"LORD, HOW LONG WILL THE WICKED,
00:26:33.46\00:26:35.56
HOW LONG WILL
THE WICKED TRIUMPH?"
00:26:35.56\00:26:39.76
DANIEL 8, VERSE 13
IS INTERESTING AS WELL.
00:26:39.76\00:26:42.40
"THEN I HEARD A HOLY ONE
SPEAKING; AND ANOTHER HOLY ONE
00:26:42.40\00:26:46.40
SAID TO THAT CERTAIN ONE WHO
WAS SPEAKING, "HOW LONG WILL THE
00:26:46.40\00:26:51.03
VISION BE, CONCERNING THE DAILY
SACRIFICES AND THE TRANSGRESSION
00:26:51.03\00:26:54.50
OF DESOLATION, THE GIVING OF
BOTH THE SANCTUARY AND THE HOST
00:26:54.50\00:26:58.06
TO BE TRAMPLED
UNDERFOOT?" HOW LONG?
00:26:58.06\00:27:01.46
OF COURSE, DANIEL HAD JUST
WITNESSED THE RISE OF THE LITTLE
00:27:01.46\00:27:06.50
HORN POWER AND IN DANIEL CHAPTER
8 THAT LITTLE HORN IS ROME IN
00:27:06.50\00:27:10.66
ITS TWO PHASES - PAGAN AND PAPAL
ROME - AND HE SEES THIS POWER
00:27:10.66\00:27:14.76
TRAMPLING ON GOD'S TRUTH AND
UNFAIRLY TREATING GOD'S PEOPLE
00:27:14.76\00:27:20.03
AND THESE SAINTS ARE SPEAKING
TO ONE ANOTHER AND SAYING, 'HOW
00:27:20.03\00:27:23.60
LONG IS THIS GOING TO
LAST? HOW LONG IS THIS GOING TO
00:27:23.60\00:27:26.56
GO ON FOR?' AND THEN
IN REVELATION CHAPTER 6
00:27:26.56\00:27:29.60
AND VERSE 10, "THEY CRIED WITH
A LOUD VOICE," - THESE ARE THE
00:27:29.60\00:27:33.16
SOULS OF THOSE UNDER THE ALTAR -
PERSONIFICATION OF THESE SOULS.
00:27:33.16\00:27:41.70
THEY CRY OUT FOR VENGEANCE.
THEY SAY, "HOW LONG" - THIS IS
00:27:41.70\00:27:45.26
REVELATION 6, VERSE 10 -
"SAYING, 'HOW LONG, O LORD, HOLY
00:27:45.26\00:27:47.73
AND TRUE, UNTIL YOU JUDGE AND
AVENGE OUR BLOOD ON THOSE WHO
00:27:47.73\00:27:51.50
DWELL ON THE EARTH?'" HOW LONG?
AND THEN IN JEREMIAH 12, VERSES
00:27:51.50\00:27:56.56
1 THROUGH 4, YOU'VE GOT
THAT FOR US BROTHER. THANKS.
00:27:56.56\00:28:00.46
>>"RIGHTEOUS ARE YOU O LORD,
WHEN I PLEAD WITH YOU; YOU LET
00:28:00.46\00:28:05.40
ME TALK WITH YOU
ABOUT YOUR JUDGMENTS.
00:28:05.40\00:28:08.70
WHY DOES THE WAY
OF THE WICKED PROSPER?
00:28:08.70\00:28:12.63
WHY ARE THOSE HAPPY
WHO DEAL SO TREACHEROUSLY?
00:28:12.63\00:28:17.53
YOU HAVE PLANTED THEM, YES, THEY
HAVE TAKEN ROOT; THEY GROW, YES,
00:28:17.53\00:28:23.53
THEY BEAR FRUIT. YOU
ARE NEAR IN THEIR MOUTH BUT
00:28:23.53\00:28:27.26
FAR FROM THEIR MIND. BUT
YOU, O LORD, KNOW ME; YOU
00:28:27.26\00:28:32.63
HAVE SEEN ME, AND YOU HAVE
TESTED MY HEART TOWARD YOU.
00:28:32.63\00:28:36.46
PULL THEM OUT LIKE SHEEP FOR THE
SLAUGHTER, AND PREPARE THEM FOR
00:28:36.46\00:28:40.26
THE DAY OF SLAUGHTER.
HOW LONG WILL THE LAND MOURN,
00:28:40.26\00:28:44.70
AND THE HERBS OF
EVERY FIELD WITHER?
00:28:44.70\00:28:47.90
THE BEASTS AND BIRDS ARE
CONSUMED, FOR THE WICKEDNESS OF
00:28:47.90\00:28:52.33
THOSE WHO DWELL THERE, BECAUSE
THEY SAID, 'HE WILL NOT SEE OUR
00:28:52.33\00:28:57.70
FINAL END.'" >>WHY
LORD? AND HOW LONG? YOU
00:28:57.70\00:29:02.36
SEE THE - YOU
SEE THE THEME, RIGHT?
00:29:02.36\00:29:04.10
THE EARNEST PLEA OF THE PROPHET.
'LORD, WHEN WILL YOU INTERVENE
00:29:04.10\00:29:08.26
AND HOW LONG WILL THIS -
THESE JUDGMENTS CONTINUE.
00:29:08.26\00:29:11.93
IT SEEMS TO ME THAT IF
WE'RE NOT ASKING 'HOW LONG?'
00:29:11.93\00:29:16.96
WE EITHER AREN'T PAYING
ATTENTION TO WHAT'S HAPPENING
00:29:16.96\00:29:20.63
AROUND US IN THE WORLD TODAY, OR
WE'VE BECOME TOO FAMILIAR WITH
00:29:20.63\00:29:25.16
WHAT WE SEE IN THE WORLD AROUND
US AND WE'RE AT THE POINT WHERE
00:29:25.16\00:29:29.73
IT JUST DOESN'T
BOTHER US ANYMORE.
00:29:29.73\00:29:32.00
I WOULD SUSPECT THAT THOSE WHO
ARE WAITING AND LONGING FOR THE
00:29:32.00\00:29:34.50
SALVATION OF GOD - THE RETURN OF
CHRIST - WOULD BE CRYING OUT THE
00:29:34.50\00:29:38.20
SAME QUESTION, 'LORD, HOW LONG?'
HOW LONG WILL YOUR TRUTH BE
00:29:38.20\00:29:41.73
SUPPRESSED? HOW LONG WILL
YOUR PEOPLE HAVE TO ENDURE?
00:29:41.73\00:29:45.43
HOW LONG WILL THE
WICKEDNESS CONTINUE?
00:29:45.43\00:29:47.83
HOW LONG?' AND SO
THIS WAS THE QUESTION OF
00:29:47.83\00:29:50.60
THE PROPHET. GOD
ANSWERS HABAKKUK.
00:29:50.60\00:29:53.36
GOD ANSWERS HABAKKUK BY
REVEALING THAT HE WILL USE
00:29:53.36\00:29:55.93
BABYLON AS HIS TOOL OF
DISCIPLINE. AND WE'LL LOOK AT -
00:29:55.93\00:29:59.46
WE'LL READ THAT IN VERSES 6
THROUGH 8 OF HABAKKUK CHAPTER 1.
00:29:59.46\00:30:03.00
IT SAYS, "FOR INDEED I AM
RAISING UP THE CHALDEANS, A
00:30:03.00\00:30:06.46
BITTER AND HASTY NATION WHICH
MARCHES THROUGH THE BREADTH OF
00:30:06.46\00:30:09.53
THE EARTH, TO POSSESS DWELLING
PLACES THAT ARE NOT THEIRS.
00:30:09.53\00:30:13.80
THEY ARE TERRIBLE AND DREADFUL;
THEIR JUDGMENT AND THEIR DIGNITY
00:30:13.80\00:30:16.46
PROCEED FROM THEMSELVES.
THEIR HORSES ALSO ARE SWIFTER
00:30:16.46\00:30:21.46
THAN LEOPARDS, AND MORE
FIERCE THAN EVENING WOLVES.
00:30:21.46\00:30:24.90
THEIR CHARGERS CHARGE AHEAD;
THEIR CAVALRY COMES FROM AFAR;
00:30:24.90\00:30:28.53
THEY FLY AS THE
EAGLE THAT HASTENS TO EAT."
00:30:28.53\00:30:32.10
IT'S INTERESTING THE IMAGERY
THAT USED HERE WITH REGARD TO
00:30:32.10\00:30:34.16
BABYLON - THE EAGLE AND THE
- IS THAT THE WOLF THERE? THESE
00:30:34.16\00:30:39.73
ANIMALS - THE WOLVES, YEAH -
SWIFT LEOPARDS - SWIFT ANIMALS.
00:30:39.73\00:30:44.16
ANIMALS THAT ARE QUICK AND
BABYLON CERTAINLY CONQUERED THE
00:30:44.16\00:30:50.50
REGION THAT IT WAS EYEING IN A
VERY SHORT TIME AND SO - AND SO
00:30:50.50\00:30:57.73
GOD SAID, 'LOOK, I'M GOING
TO USE BABYLON TO DISCIPLINE MY
00:30:57.73\00:31:01.86
PEOPLE. I'M LETTING YOU KNOW,
HABAKKUK, WE'RE GOING TO DEAL
00:31:01.86\00:31:05.00
WITH THIS THING - THIS
QUESTION THAT YOU'VE ASKED.
00:31:05.00\00:31:08.26
NOW, WE KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO -
WE KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO JUDAH.
00:31:08.26\00:31:12.73
YOU CAN TURN WITH ME TO 2
CHRONICLES 36 IF YOU WANT.
00:31:12.73\00:31:15.36
WE'RE GOING TO READ FIVE
VERSES THERE - OR SIX RATHER.
00:31:15.36\00:31:18.26
2 CHRONICLES
36, VERSES 15 TO 20.
00:31:18.26\00:31:21.83
I'M GOING TO READ THIS FOR YOU.
HERE'S WHAT THE WRITER SAID WITH
00:31:21.83\00:31:25.96
REGARD TO JUDAH AND
THEIR DEMISE UNDER BABYLON.
00:31:25.96\00:31:30.40
IT SAYS, "AND THE LORD GOD
OF THEIR FATHER SENT WARNINGS TO
00:31:30.40\00:31:33.70
THEM" - THAT IS TO JUDAH - "BY
HIS MESSENGERS, RISING UP EARLY
00:31:33.70\00:31:38.16
AND SENDING THEM, BECAUSE HE HAD
COMPASSION ON HIS PEOPLE AND ON
00:31:38.16\00:31:41.73
HIS DWELLING PLACE. BUT THEY
MOCKED THE MESSENGERS OF GOD,
00:31:41.73\00:31:44.83
DESPISED HIS WORDS, AND SCOFFED
AT HIS PROPHETS, UNTIL THE WRATH
00:31:44.83\00:31:48.46
OF THE LORD AROSE AGAINST
HIS PEOPLE, TILL THERE WAS NO
00:31:48.46\00:31:51.46
REMEDY." - VERSE 17 - "THEREFORE
HE BROUGHT AGAINST THEM THE KING
00:31:51.46\00:31:55.36
OF THE CHALDEANS, WHO KILLED
THEIR YOUNG MEN WITH THE SWORD
00:31:55.36\00:31:59.03
IN THE HOUSE OF THEIR SANCTUARY,
AND HAD NO COMPASSION ON YOUNG
00:31:59.03\00:32:01.76
MEN OR VIRGIN, ON THE AGED OR
THE WEAK; HE GAVE THEM ALL INTO
00:32:01.76\00:32:06.33
HIS HAND." - VERSE 18 -
"AND ALL THE ARTICLES FROM THE
00:32:06.33\00:32:08.90
HOUSE OF GOD, GREAT AND SMALL,
THE TREASURES OF THE HOUSE
00:32:08.90\00:32:11.43
OF THE LORD, AND THE
TREASURES OF THE KING AND OF
00:32:11.43\00:32:13.56
HIS LEADERS, ALL
THESE HE TOOK TO BABYLON.
00:32:13.56\00:32:15.96
THEN THEY BURNED THE HOUSE
OF GOD, BROKE DOWN THE WALL OF
00:32:15.96\00:32:18.63
JERUSALEM, BURNED ALL ITS
PALACES WITH FIRE, AND DESTROYED
00:32:18.63\00:32:21.56
ALL ITS PRECIOUS POSSESSIONS.
AND THOSE WHO ESCAPED FROM THE
00:32:21.56\00:32:25.26
SWORD HE CARRIED AWAY TO
BABYLON, WHERE THEY BECAME
00:32:25.26\00:32:28.00
SERVANTS TO HIM AND HIS SONS
UNTIL THE RULE OF THE KINGDOM
00:32:28.00\00:32:31.53
OF PERSIA."
PRETTY DEVASTATING STUFF.
00:32:31.53\00:32:34.83
THESE VERSES SPEAK ABOUT THE
END OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S CAMPAIGN
00:32:34.83\00:32:38.90
AGAINST JERUSALEM
- OR AT LEAST JUDAH.
00:32:38.90\00:32:41.16
GOD DIDN'T ALLOW BABYLON TO COME
DOWN TOO HARD ON JUDAH AT FIRST.
00:32:41.16\00:32:46.03
GOD WAS GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL.
BUT AS THEY BECAME MORE
00:32:46.03\00:32:48.26
OBSTINATE, REFUSING TO LISTEN
TO GOD'S PROPHETS AND SEEKING TO
00:32:48.26\00:32:52.73
FORM AN ALLIANCE WITH EGYPT,
NEBUCHADNEZZAR CRACKED DOWN.
00:32:52.73\00:32:56.70
TO HELP YOU SEE WHAT I'M TALKING
ABOUT HERE, NEBUCHADNEZZAR CAME
00:32:56.70\00:32:59.70
UP AGAINST KING JEHOIAKIM IN 605
B.C. THIS IS WHEN DANIEL AND HIS
00:32:59.70\00:33:05.70
FRIENDS WERE TAKEN
CAPTIVE, YOU UNDERSTAND.
00:33:05.70\00:33:08.56
BECAUSE, THEN, OF KING JEHOACHIM
- JEHOIAKIM'S SON JEHOACHIM -
00:33:08.56\00:33:13.93
BECAUSE HE DIDN'T COOPERATE
WITH NEBUCHADNEZZAR, HE CAME -
00:33:13.93\00:33:17.06
NEBUCHADNEZZAR CAME BACK
TO JERUSALEM IN 597 B.C. -
00:33:17.06\00:33:20.36
8 YEARS LATER. THIS IS WHEN
EZEKIEL WAS TAKEN TO BABYLON.
00:33:20.36\00:33:26.43
THEN ZEDEKIAH WAS NO BETTER
THAN THE KINGS BEFORE HIM AND SO
00:33:26.43\00:33:30.33
NEBUCHADNEZZAR CAME BACK AND
COMPLETELY LEVELED THE CITY OF
00:33:30.33\00:33:34.00
JERUSALEM IN 586 B.C. IT
TOOK 19 YEARS TO GET TO THIS
00:33:34.00\00:33:39.73
POINT THAT WE READ ABOUT
IN 2 CHRONICLES CHAPTER 36.
00:33:39.73\00:33:42.56
IT DIDN'T HAPPEN OVERNIGHT.
00:33:42.56\00:33:44.06
GOD WORKS PATIENTLY WITH HIS
PEOPLE, DRAWING - GETTING THEIR
00:33:44.06\00:33:47.50
ATTENTION AND SEEKING TO
BRING THEM BACK TO HIMSELF.
00:33:47.50\00:33:50.73
GOD WAS VERY
PATIENT WITH HIS PEOPLE.
00:33:50.73\00:33:52.70
HE HAD WARNED THEM - NOW THE
CHALDEANS WERE GOING TO COME AND
00:33:52.70\00:33:57.73
IT TOOK 19 YEARS AND THEY
STILL DIDN'T LEARN THEIR LESSON.
00:33:57.73\00:34:02.43
LET'S GO TO MONDAY'S LESSON
'LIVING BY FAITH'. WE'RE GOING
00:34:02.43\00:34:05.80
TO JUMP DOWN HERE - WE'RE
BACK IN HABAKKUK CHAPTER 1.
00:34:05.80\00:34:10.30
I UNDERSTAND THAT IT WAS LUTHER,
MARTIN LUTHER, THAT SAID, 'HOPE
00:34:10.30\00:34:15.10
DESPAIRS AND YET DESPAIR HOPES.'
HOPE DESPAIRS AND YET DESPAIR
00:34:15.10\00:34:22.66
HOPES. THAT WAS THE
EXPERIENCE OF HABAKKUK.
00:34:22.66\00:34:25.16
HIS HOPE WAS DESPAIRING
AND YET HE - HIS DESPAIR HOPES.
00:34:25.16\00:34:32.30
HABAKKUK ACCEPTS GOD'S METHOD OF
DISCIPLINE AND EXPRESSES FAITH
00:34:32.30\00:34:36.83
IN GOD'S
PROMISES FOR HIS PEOPLE.
00:34:36.83\00:34:38.60
LOOK AT VERSE 12
OF HABAKKUK CHAPTER 1.
00:34:38.60\00:34:41.33
"ARE YOU NOT FROM EVERLASTING,
O LORD MY GOD, MY HOLY ONE?
00:34:41.33\00:34:44.60
WE SHALL NOT" - WHAT? - DIE. "WE
SHALL NOT DIE. O LORD, YOU HAVE
00:34:44.60\00:34:49.90
APPOINTED THEM FOR JUDGMENT;
O ROCK, YOU HAVE MARKED THEM FOR
00:34:49.90\00:34:53.80
CORRECTION." AND SO HIS
DESPAIR IS BEGINNING TO HOPE.
00:34:53.80\00:35:00.40
BUT IT DIDN'T TAKE LONG BEFORE
HABAKKUK SEES ANOTHER PROBLEM.
00:35:00.40\00:35:04.53
HERE'S WHERE HE ASKS HIS
SECOND QUESTION IN VERSE 13.
00:35:04.53\00:35:08.06
LET'S READ THAT. "YOU
ARE OF PURER EYES THAN TO
00:35:08.06\00:35:11.00
BEHOLD EVIL," - HE'S TALKING
ABOUT THE LORD - "AND CANNOT
00:35:11.00\00:35:13.56
LOOK ON WICKEDNESS. WHY
DO YOU LOOK ON THOSE WHO
00:35:13.56\00:35:15.70
DEAL TREACHEROUSLY, AND
HOLD YOUR TONGUE WHEN THE WICKED
00:35:15.70\00:35:24.70
DEVOURS A PERSON MORE RIGHTEOUS
THAN HE?" HOW CAN GOD -
00:35:24.70\00:35:30.73
THIS IS THE QUESTION - HOW
CAN GOD USE A MORE WICKED -
00:35:30.73\00:35:33.10
PERCEIVABLY - MORE WICKED CITY
OR NATION TO INFLICT DISCIPLINE
00:35:33.10\00:35:39.13
UPON GOD'S PEOPLE. IS
THAT FAIR? IS THAT REASONABLE?
00:35:39.13\00:35:43.86
NOW HIS QUESTION IS A LITTLE
RASH HERE, BUT HE'S EARNEST AND
00:35:43.86\00:35:50.06
PROBABLY INNOCENT, BUT HABAKKUK
DEMANDS AN ANSWER TO THIS
00:35:50.06\00:35:54.76
QUESTION. YOU KNOW, GOD'S GOOD.
00:35:54.76\00:35:57.46
GOD DIDN'T BRUSH HABAKKUK ASIDE
BECAUSE HE ASKED THE QUESTION,
00:35:57.46\00:36:02.26
GOD DEALS
PATIENTLY WITH HABAKKUK.
00:36:02.26\00:36:04.36
IT'S GOOD NEWS FOR THOSE OF US
WHO HAVE QUESTIONS FROM TIME TO
00:36:04.36\00:36:06.66
TIME AS WELL, AMEN? BY THE
WAY, IT'S OKAY TO ASK QUESTIONS.
00:36:06.66\00:36:10.30
I HEAR, SOMETIMES, FOLKS SAY,
'YOU KNOW, WE SHOULDN'T ASK GOD
00:36:10.30\00:36:13.03
ANY QUESTIONS.' NO, NO -
YOU NEED TO ASK GOD QUESTIONS.
00:36:13.03\00:36:15.96
IF YOU, IN SINCERITY, ARE
LOOKING FOR TRUTH AND YOU WANT
00:36:15.96\00:36:18.80
TO FOLLOW TRUTH, THEN YOU
CAN ASK GOD - YOU CAN SEARCH HIS
00:36:18.80\00:36:22.26
WORD - YOU CAN
PRAY, THAT'S OKAY.
00:36:22.26\00:36:24.03
HABAKKUK WASN'T BEING
HARD TO GET ALONG WITH.
00:36:24.03\00:36:28.20
THERE ARE FOLK WHO ASK QUESTIONS
JUST FOR THE SAKE OF STIRRING
00:36:28.20\00:36:30.33
THE POT AND CAUSING TROUBLE.
WE RUN INTO SOME OF THEM.
00:36:30.33\00:36:33.06
PERHAPS WE'VE EVEN BEEN THERE
OURSELVES, BUT IT'S OKAY TO ASK
00:36:33.06\00:36:35.80
QUESTIONS. GOD HAS AN ANSWER AND
HABAKKUK KNEW GOD HAD AN ANSWER.
00:36:35.80\00:36:39.83
HE KNEW THAT HE COULD TRUST GOD.
BUT THERE DOES COME A TIME WHEN
00:36:39.83\00:36:44.16
SOME THINGS JUST AREN'T CRYSTAL
CLEAR AND - AND SO HABAKKUK
00:36:44.16\00:36:49.76
ASKED GOD FOR
CLARITY ON THE ISSUE.
00:36:49.76\00:36:52.70
AND NOTICE THE WAY GOD
GIVES AN ANSWER - HIS ANSWER.
00:36:52.70\00:36:55.13
VERSES 2 THROUGH 4 OF HABAKKUK
CHAPTER 2 - WE'RE OVER THERE NOW
00:36:55.13\00:36:59.53
- HABAKKUK CHAPTER 2, VERSES
2 THROUGH 4, "THEN THE LORD
00:36:59.53\00:37:02.03
ANSWERED ME AND SAID: 'WRITE
THE VISION AND MAKE IT PLAIN ON
00:37:02.03\00:37:05.30
TABLETS, THAT HE
MAY RUN WHO READS IT.
00:37:05.30\00:37:07.96
FOR THE VISION IS YET FOR AN
APPOINTED TIME; BUT AT THE END
00:37:07.96\00:37:10.26
IT WILL SPEAK, AND IT WILL NOT
LIE. THOUGH IT TARRIES, WAIT FOR
00:37:10.26\00:37:13.63
IT; BECAUSE IT WILL
SURELY COME, IT WILL NOT TARRY.
00:37:13.63\00:37:17.70
BEHOLD THE PROUD, HIS SOUL IS
NOT UPRIGHT IN HIM; BUT THE JUST
00:37:17.70\00:37:21.76
SHALL LIVE BY HIS FAITH."
NOW GOD, ADMITTEDLY, BRIEFLY
00:37:21.76\00:37:27.60
PASSES OVER THE QUESTION
OF HABAKKUK, HIS RASHNESS, BUT
00:37:27.60\00:37:31.00
ASSURES HIM AT THE SAME TIME OF
THE CERTAINTY OF HIS PURPOSES.
00:37:31.00\00:37:35.26
THEN HE POINTS HABAKKUK IN
THE DIRECTION OF NEEDING TO BE
00:37:35.26\00:37:38.46
PATIENT AND NEEDING TO
BE TRUSTING WHILE GOD'S PLAN
00:37:38.46\00:37:42.20
UNFOLDS FOR JUDAH - EVEN WHILE
HABAKKUK WAITS HE MUST TRUST THE
00:37:42.20\00:37:48.73
LORD. SO GOD SAYS, 'WRITE
THE VISION. WRITE THE VISION.'
00:37:48.73\00:37:52.73
WRITING WOULD GIVE PERMANENCY TO
THE MESSAGE THAT HABAKKUK WAS TO
00:37:52.73\00:37:56.56
BEAR. ISAIAH CHAPTER 30, VERSE
8 SAYS, "NOW GO, WRITE IT BEFORE
00:37:56.56\00:37:59.83
THEM ON A TABLET, AND NOTE IT
ON A SCROLL, THAT IT MAY BE FOR
00:37:59.83\00:38:02.86
TIME TO COME, FOREVER AND EVER:"
WRITING THE VISION DOWN WOULD
00:38:02.86\00:38:06.93
GIVE IT PERMANENCY. IT WOULD
HAVE BEEN WRITTEN ON EITHER A
00:38:06.93\00:38:09.80
STONE TABLET - ENGRAVED THERE -
OR IT WOULD HAVE BEEN WRITTEN ON
00:38:09.80\00:38:12.93
A BOARD COVERED WITH WAX
AND WRITTEN ON WITH AN IRON PEN.
00:38:12.93\00:38:16.93
THEN IT WAS, APPARENTLY, HUNG IN
A PUBLIC PLACE - PROBABLY OUT IN
00:38:16.93\00:38:20.23
FRONT OF THE PLACE OF THE
PROPHET SO EVERYONE WHO PASSED
00:38:20.23\00:38:23.10
BY COULD READ IT, YOU
SEE. IT'S INTERESTING.
00:38:23.10\00:38:27.06
THOSE - THESE WORDS, OF
COURSE, THAT WE'RE READING HAVE
00:38:27.06\00:38:30.13
IMMEDIATE APPLICATION IN THE
TIME OF HABAKKUK, BUT THEY'VE
00:38:30.13\00:38:34.46
ALSO PROVEN - THESE WORDS
HAVE PROVEN TO BE ENCOURAGEMENT
00:38:34.46\00:38:37.53
TO GOD'S PEOPLE AT OTHER TIMES.
00:38:37.53\00:38:39.23
I'M THINKING HERE OF THE
MILLERITE MOVEMENT OF THE
00:38:39.23\00:38:41.90
MID-1800S - DURING THE
GREAT SECOND ADVENT AWAKENING.
00:38:41.90\00:38:46.23
IT WAS ARDENT MILLERITE
CHARLES FITCH - A FORMER
00:38:46.23\00:38:50.20
CONGREGATIONALIST MINISTER - WHO
DESIGNED THE 1843 CHART - THE
00:38:50.20\00:38:55.23
1843 CHART THAT PROBABLY ALL THE
LECTURERS USED DURING THE GREAT
00:38:55.23\00:38:59.86
SECOND ADVENT AWAKENING.
00:38:59.86\00:39:01.23
HE WAS INSPIRED TO DO SO BECAUSE
OF THE WORDS IN THE BOOK OF
00:39:01.23\00:39:04.30
HABAKKUK AND AS A RESULT, MANY
COULD PLAINLY SEE AND GRASP THE
00:39:04.30\00:39:08.63
GREAT PROPHECIES OF DANIEL
AND THE BOOK OF REVELATION.
00:39:08.63\00:39:13.43
MOST ARE THINKING OF SEVENTH DAY
ADVENTIST PIONEER JAMES WHITE,
00:39:13.43\00:39:16.70
WHO WAS CHARGED TO WRITE
NOT ONLY BOOKS, BUT HE WAS
00:39:16.70\00:39:21.13
ENCOURAGED TO PRODUCE A
PERIODICAL - SOMETHING THAT
00:39:21.13\00:39:24.20
WOULD PERSISTENTLY WITNESS FOR
THE TRUTH OF GOD'S WORD - ALL
00:39:24.20\00:39:27.93
THE WAY BACK THERE IN 1848, 400
YEARS AFTER THE GUTENBERG PRESS
00:39:27.93\00:39:33.30
WAS INVENTED - 400 YEARS AFTER
THAT, IN 1848, GOD HAD TOLD HIM
00:39:33.30\00:39:39.56
THROUGH HIS WIFE THAT HE
WAS TO START A PERIODICAL.
00:39:39.56\00:39:44.70
IT WOULD BE SMALL AT
FIRST BUT THEN IT WOULD GROW.
00:39:44.70\00:39:47.50
THERE WOULDN'T BE A LOT OF MEANS
COMING IN, BUT THEN MORE MEANS
00:39:47.50\00:39:49.73
WOULD COME IN AND IT WOULD
BE LIKE STREAMS OF LIGHT THAT
00:39:49.73\00:39:52.03
WOULD GO CLEAR AROUND THE WORLD.
THAT WAS A PRETTY IMPRESSIVE
00:39:52.03\00:39:56.16
VISION FOR A
POVERTY-STRICKEN PEOPLE.
00:39:56.16\00:39:59.00
'HOW ON EARTH ARE THESE THINGS
GOING TO GO ALL AROUND THE
00:39:59.00\00:40:01.23
WORLD?' BUT FROM
THAT SMALL BEGINNING,
00:40:01.23\00:40:04.46
'THE ADVENTIST REVIEW AND
SABBATH HERALD' WAS FORMED AND
00:40:04.46\00:40:07.96
TODAY'S 'ADVENTIST REVIEW'
AND TODAY'S WORLD - IS IT CALLED
00:40:07.96\00:40:11.30
'THE WORLD ADVENTIST'?
HANG ON, I WANT TO MAKE SURE
00:40:11.30\00:40:14.63
I GET THIS RIGHT,
'THE WORLD ADVENTIST'?
00:40:14.63\00:40:16.96
I'M GETTING IT WRONG, I
KNOW I AM. BUT IN ANY CASE,
00:40:16.96\00:40:18.70
THE FLAG - THE FLAGSHIP
JOURNAL OF THE ADVENTIST CHURCH
00:40:18.70\00:40:22.80
THAT IS ALL OVER THE WORLD
BRINGING ITS WORK AND TEACHING
00:40:22.80\00:40:28.60
GOD'S PEOPLE AND BRINGING GOD'S
PEOPLE TOGETHER FROM ALL OVER
00:40:28.60\00:40:31.63
THE WORLD. FROM THAT SMALL
BEGINNING SHE SAID IT WOULD BE
00:40:31.63\00:40:33.86
LIKE STREAMS OF LIGHT THAT
WOULD GO CLEAR AROUND THE WORLD.
00:40:33.86\00:40:35.96
HOW TRUE THOSE WORDS WERE.
TALK ABOUT A DREAM COMING TRUE.
00:40:35.96\00:40:41.16
NOT TO MENTION ALL THE OTHER
BOOKS THAT HAVE BEEN WRITTEN TO
00:40:41.16\00:40:43.43
UPHOLD THE TRUTH OF GOD'S WORD
AND THE THREE ANGELS' MESSAGES
00:40:43.43\00:40:47.46
AND THE 12 OR 13 PUBLISHING
HOUSES THE CHURCH HAS ACROSS THE
00:40:47.46\00:40:51.53
WORLD POURING OUT MATERIALS
TO SHARE WITH THE MASSES.
00:40:51.53\00:40:55.36
TRULY, IT WAS A
VISION - A DREAM COME TRUE.
00:40:55.36\00:40:59.23
BUT THEN THE PROPHET GOES ON TO
SAY HE THAT - 'WRITE THE VISION,
00:40:59.23\00:41:02.40
MAKE IT PLAIN ON TABLES
THAT HE MAY RUN WHO READS IT.'
00:41:02.40\00:41:05.53
SOME HAVE SUGGESTED THAT THIS
MEANS 'WRITE IT SO INTELLIGIBLE
00:41:05.53\00:41:09.86
AS TO BE EASILY READ
BY ONE RUNNING PAST.'
00:41:09.86\00:41:13.20
WELL, IF THAT WERE THE CASE THEN
IT SHOULD READ 'THAT HE RUNNING
00:41:13.20\00:41:18.36
MAY READ.' BUT
IT DOESN'T SAY THAT.
00:41:18.36\00:41:21.00
THE TRUE SENSE OF THIS - OF THIS
VERSE IS 'WRITE IT SO LEGIBLE
00:41:21.00\00:41:26.33
THAT WHOEVER READS IT MAY RUN TO
TELL OTHERS ABOUT THE GOOD NEWS
00:41:26.33\00:41:31.56
OF THE ENEMY'S DOOM
AND JUDAH'S DELIVERANCE.'
00:41:31.56\00:41:35.83
I'M THINKING OF DANIEL CHAPTER
12 AND VERSE 4 FOR JUST A MOMENT
00:41:35.83\00:41:38.83
- DO YOU
REMEMBER WHAT THAT SAYS?
00:41:38.83\00:41:40.56
"AT THE TIME OF THE END BUT
DANIEL SHUT UP THE WORDS AND
00:41:40.56\00:41:42.76
SEALED THE BOOK UNTIL THE
TIME OF THE END. MANY SHALL" -
00:41:42.76\00:41:44.83
DO WHAT? "RUN TO AND FRO."
IT'S THE SAME CONCEPT HERE.
00:41:44.83\00:41:49.33
MANY WILL RUN AT THE TIME OF THE
END WITH THE EXPLANATION OF THE
00:41:49.33\00:41:52.80
PROPHECIES REVEALED IN
THE BOOK OF DANIEL, YOU SEE.
00:41:52.80\00:41:56.10
RUN IS EQUIVALENT TO
ANNOUNCING A DIVINE REVELATION.
00:41:56.10\00:42:00.06
TO RUN IS TO DISPATCH AND
MAKE IT KNOWN TO OTHERS SO THAT
00:42:00.06\00:42:04.46
WHOSOEVER READS MAY RUN TO
TELL OTHERS ABOUT IT, YOU SEE.
00:42:04.46\00:42:10.70
AND THEN IN VERSE 3 IT WAS TO BE
COMMITTED TO WRITING BECAUSE THE
00:42:10.70\00:42:14.70
FULFILLMENT OF THE PROPHECY
WAS YET STILL IN THE FUTURE.
00:42:14.70\00:42:18.76
THOUGH IT WAS YET TO BE IN THE
FUTURE, IT WAS ENOUGH - IT WAS
00:42:18.76\00:42:24.10
ENOUGH FOR - I SHOULD SAY
HABAKKUK'S - HABAKKUK'S FAITH -
00:42:24.10\00:42:29.50
IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH FOR
HABAKKUK'S FAITH THAT GOD SPOKE
00:42:29.50\00:42:31.60
IT. WRITE IT DOWN. MAKE IT
PLAIN. LAMENTATIONS 3:26 SAYS,
00:42:31.60\00:42:35.76
"IT IS GOOD THAT ONE SHOULD
HOPE AND WAIT QUIETLY FOR THE
00:42:35.76\00:42:39.43
SALVATION OF THE LORD."
HABAKKUK WAS TO TRUST THAT GOD
00:42:39.43\00:42:43.80
WOULD WORK IT ALL OUT IN
DUE TIME AND HE'S CALLING US, OF
00:42:43.80\00:42:46.56
COURSE, TO DO
THE SAME THING TODAY.
00:42:46.56\00:42:48.46
NOW VERSE 4 - VERSE 4, "BEHOLD
THE PROUD, HIS SOUL IS NOT
00:42:48.46\00:42:52.63
UPRIGHT IN HIM; BUT THE
JUST SHALL LIVE BY HIS FAITH."
00:42:52.63\00:42:55.60
NOW THE 'NOT UPRIGHT' IS
REFERRING HERE, IN THE IMMEDIATE
00:42:55.60\00:42:59.36
CONTEXT, TO THE CHALDEANS.
FOR A TIME THEY WOULD SEEM TO BE
00:42:59.36\00:43:03.30
- SEEM TO PROSPER, BUT THEY
WOULD BE LIFTED UP - LIFTED UP
00:43:03.30\00:43:07.13
WITH PRIDEFUL UNBELIEF.
CONTRAST THAT WITH THE JUST THAT
00:43:07.13\00:43:12.03
SHALL LIVE BY HIS FAITH.
THE HUMBLE MAN WILL GO FORWARD
00:43:12.03\00:43:16.30
IN FAITH TRUSTING THE WISDOM AND
PROVIDENCE OF GOD IN CONTRAST
00:43:16.30\00:43:20.06
WITH THE MAN WHOSE SOUL IS
LIFTED UP AND DOUBTS THE WISDOM
00:43:20.06\00:43:23.10
AND THE JUSTICE OF
GOD'S DEALING WITH MANKIND.
00:43:23.10\00:43:25.60
THE MAN WHO IS JUST
WILL EXERCISE HIS FAITH.
00:43:25.60\00:43:30.40
YEAH, THAT'S WHAT
HABAKKUK IS SAYING RIGHT HERE.
00:43:30.40\00:43:32.86
WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT A FEW
VERSES BECAUSE WE WANT TO LOOK
00:43:32.86\00:43:35.83
AT THE - HOW THE NEW TESTAMENT
USES THIS PASSAGE OF SCRIPTURE.
00:43:35.83\00:43:39.60
SOMEONE HAS GALATIANS CHAPTER
3 AND VERSE 11 - GALATIANS 3,
00:43:39.60\00:43:43.60
VERSE 11 - WONDERFUL. WE'LL
COME OVER TO MELISSA IN JUST A
00:43:43.60\00:43:46.26
MOMENT. LET'S GO TO
ROMANS CHAPTER 1 AND VERSE 17.
00:43:46.26\00:43:49.96
LET'S SEE HOW PAUL USED -
PAUL USED THIS VERSE IN THE NEW
00:43:49.96\00:43:53.63
TESTAMENT. ROMANS
CHAPTER 1, VERSE 16, PAUL
00:43:53.63\00:43:59.16
IS TALKING ABOUT THE GOSPEL
HAVING POWER - THE GOSPEL BEING
00:43:59.16\00:44:04.50
THE POWER OF GOD UNTO SALVATION.
THEN IN VERSE 17 HE SAYS, "FOR
00:44:04.50\00:44:08.10
IN IT" - THAT IS THE GOSPEL
- "THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD IS
00:44:08.10\00:44:12.63
REVEALED." WHETHER
THAT BE GOD'S RIGHTEOUS
00:44:12.63\00:44:16.40
DEALINGS WITH HIS PEOPLE OR
JUST HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS OR HIS
00:44:16.40\00:44:19.36
RIGHTEOUSNESS
REFLECTED IN HIS PEOPLE.
00:44:19.36\00:44:21.20
"THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD IS
REVEALED FROM FAITH TO FAITH; AS
00:44:21.20\00:44:24.06
IT IS WRITTEN, 'THE JUST
SHALL LIVE BY' - WHAT? "FAITH."
00:44:24.06\00:44:27.86
"THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH."
THEN IN HEBREWS CHAPTER 10,
00:44:27.86\00:44:31.93
VERSES 35 TO 39 - INTERESTING
PASSAGE OF SCRIPTURE - NOTICE
00:44:31.93\00:44:36.43
THESE WORDS THAT WERE PENNED.
"THEREFORE DO NOT CAST AWAY YOUR
00:44:36.43\00:44:42.16
CONFIDENCE,
WHICH HAS GREAT REWARD.
00:44:42.16\00:44:44.70
FOR YOU HAVE NEED OF ENDURANCE,
SO THAT AFTER YOU HAVE DONE THE
00:44:44.70\00:44:48.66
WILL OF GOD, YOU MAY RECEIVE
THE PROMISE: 'FOR YET A LITTLE
00:44:48.66\00:44:52.13
WHILE,'" - NOW HE'S QUOTING FROM
HABAKKUK CHAPTER 2 AND VERSE 3 -
00:44:52.13\00:44:55.03
"'FOR YET A LITTLE WHILE,'"
- AND NOTICE HOW HE CHANGES IT.
00:44:55.03\00:44:57.80
NOW, THE WRITER IS INSPIRED
AND HE'S A - HE'S ADAPTING THE
00:44:57.80\00:45:01.43
PROMISE HERE IN HABAKKUK,
IN CHAPTER 2 AND VERSE 3, FROM
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THAT TIME - THE TIME WILL COME
WHEN BABYLON WILL COME AND BRING
00:45:04.40\00:45:08.06
PUNISHMENT AND
DISCIPLINE TO JUDAH.
00:45:08.06\00:45:11.26
HE'S APPLYING IT TO
THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS.
00:45:11.26\00:45:14.73
HE GOES ON TO SAY, "'FOR YET
A LITTLE WHILE, AND HE WHO IS
00:45:14.73\00:45:17.20
COMING WILL COME AND WILL NOT'"
- WHAT? - HE "'WILL NOT TARRY.
00:45:17.20\00:45:20.86
NOW THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY
FAITH;'" - NOW NOTICE - "'BUT IF
00:45:20.86\00:45:26.33
ANYONE DRAWS BACK, MY
SOUL HAS NO PLEASURE IN HIM.'
00:45:26.33\00:45:30.76
BUT WE ARE NOT OF THOSE WHO DRAW
BACK TO PERDITION, BUT OF THOSE
00:45:30.76\00:45:34.00
WHO BELIEVE TO THE" -
WHAT? - "SAVING OF OUR SOULS."
00:45:34.00\00:45:38.40
THIS IS NOT A
PASSIVE FAITH HERE.
00:45:38.40\00:45:40.40
THIS IS A FAITH THAT PRESSES
ON AND PERSEVERES AND CONTINUES
00:45:40.40\00:45:43.70
ONWARD AND UPWARD IRRESPECTIVE
OF WHAT'S GOING ON AROUND US.
00:45:43.70\00:45:46.63
WE ARE NOT OF THOSE WHO DRAW
BACK, BUT OF THOSE WHO BELIEVE
00:45:46.63\00:45:49.53
TO THE SAVING OF OUR SOULS.
NOW NOTICE HOW PAUL USES IT IN
00:45:49.53\00:45:53.10
GALATIANS
CHAPTER 3 AND VERSE 11.
00:45:53.10\00:45:56.03
>>"BUT THAT NO ONE IS JUSTIFIED
BY THE LAW IN THE SIGHT OF GOD
00:45:56.03\00:46:00.26
IS EVIDENT, FOR 'THE
JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH.'"
00:46:00.26\00:46:05.03
>>SO PAUL USES THIS VERSE TO
PROVE THAT THE MAN WHO EXERCISES
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FAITH WILL BE CONSIDERED JUST.
IT'S A LITTLE DIFFERENT THAN THE
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ORIGINAL CONTEXT
FOUND IN HABAKKUK CHAPTER 2.
00:46:14.16\00:46:17.60
THE JUST MAN WILL EXERCISE HIS
FAITH BUT PAUL SAYS YOU BECOME
00:46:17.60\00:46:22.93
JUST BY HAVING FAITH, YOU SEE.
AND, OF COURSE, FAITH IS THE
00:46:22.93\00:46:28.50
FUNDAMENTAL PREREQUISITE
TO ACCEPTANCE WITH GOD.
00:46:28.50\00:46:31.03
THIS IS WHAT HE'S SAYING.
WHILE ONE WHO LIVES BY FAITH IS
00:46:31.03\00:46:33.20
NOT SAVED BY HIS WORKS,
HIS WORKS SHOW THAT HE LIVES BY
00:46:33.20\00:46:36.76
FAITH, YOU KNOW, HIS FAITH IS
REVEALED BY HIS WORKS AND THUS
00:46:36.76\00:46:42.80
HE IS PROMISED ETERNAL LIFE.
THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH.
00:46:42.80\00:46:50.30
FAITH IN CHRIST'S
PROMISES. FAITH IN GOD'S WORD.
00:46:50.30\00:46:53.13
FAITH IN
CHRIST'S SACRIFICE. FAITH.
00:46:53.13\00:46:56.73
IN THE BOOK 'PROPHETS AND KINGS'
PAGE 387, WITH REFERENCE TO THIS
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CONCEPT OF THE JUST LIVING
BY FAITH, WE'RE TOLD WE MUST
00:47:01.93\00:47:04.93
'CHERISH AND CULTIVATE THE FAITH
OF WHICH PROPHETS AND APOSTLES
00:47:04.93\00:47:07.93
HAVE TESTIFIED. THE
FAITH THAT LAYS HOLD ON THE
00:47:07.93\00:47:10.73
PROMISES OF GOD AND WAITS
FOR DELIVERANCE IN HIS APPOINTED
00:47:10.73\00:47:13.56
TIME AND WAY. THE
SURE WORD OF PROPHECY WILL
00:47:13.56\00:47:16.26
MEET ITS FINAL FULFILLMENT IN
THE GLORIOUS ADVENT OF OUR LORD
00:47:16.26\00:47:19.16
AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST AS
KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.
00:47:19.16\00:47:22.86
THE TIME OF
WAITING MAY SEEM LONG.
00:47:22.86\00:47:25.03
THE SOUL MAY BE OPPRESSED
BY DISCOURAGING CIRCUMSTANCES.
00:47:25.03\00:47:28.26
MANY IN WHOM CONFIDENCE HAS BEEN
PLACED MAY FALL BY THE WAY, BUT
00:47:28.26\00:47:33.03
WITH THE PROPHET WHO ENDEAVORED
TO ENCOURAGE JUDAH IN A TIME OF
00:47:33.03\00:47:36.26
UNPARALLELED APOSTASY, LET US
CONFIDENTLY DECLARE THE LORD IS
00:47:36.26\00:47:41.03
IN HIS HOLY TEMPLE, LET
ALL THE EARTH KEEP SILENCE.'
00:47:41.03\00:47:45.53
GOD'S GOT EVERYTHING
UNDER CONTROL. DON'T PANIC.
00:47:45.53\00:47:48.03
DON'T FRET. KEEP YOUR
MOUTH QUIET AND DON'T DOUBT GOD.
00:47:48.03\00:47:52.16
TRUST HIM. 'MAY ALL
THE EARTH KEEP SILENCE.'
00:47:52.16\00:47:56.70
WELL, LET'S MOVE ON
NOW TO TUESDAY'S LESSON.
00:47:56.70\00:47:58.93
TUESDAY'S LESSON, 'THE
EARTH SHALL BE FILLED'.
00:47:58.93\00:48:02.36
GOD, NOW, IS GOING TO
ENUMERATE THE SINS OF BABYLON.
00:48:02.36\00:48:05.93
THIS IS HIS ATTEMPT -
GOD'S ATTEMPT - TO ANSWER THE
00:48:05.93\00:48:08.33
QUESTIONS OF HABAKKUK AND
HE WILL DECLARE HERE THAT HE IS
00:48:08.33\00:48:13.16
STILL IN CONTROL OF ALL
HUMAN - EVEN THOUGH BY HUMAN
00:48:13.16\00:48:16.50
APPEARANCES, EVERYTHING
SEEMS TO BE OUT OF CONTROL.
00:48:16.50\00:48:19.13
GOD IS IN COMPLETE CONTROL
AND, APPARENTLY, FIVE WOES ARE
00:48:19.13\00:48:22.70
PRONOUNCED UPON BABYLON IN
VERSES 6, 9, 12, 15, AND 19.
00:48:22.70\00:48:27.40
IN OTHER WORDS, BABYLON IS GOING
TO END UP REAPING WHAT IT SOWED.
00:48:27.40\00:48:30.53
IT WAS A PRETTY FIERCE
CONQUERING NATION AND SO IT
00:48:30.53\00:48:34.06
WOULD END UP SUFFERING UNDER
- SUFFERING THE SAME FATE AND WE
00:48:34.06\00:48:37.46
KNOW THAT BABYLON CAME TO
ITS KNEES UNDER THE REIGN OF THE
00:48:37.46\00:48:41.16
MEDES AND THE PERSIANS.
NOW IN ALL OF THIS - IN ALL OF
00:48:41.16\00:48:44.53
THE - IN ALL OF THIS, THE
DESCRIPTION OF THE WICKEDNESS OF
00:48:44.53\00:48:48.46
BABYLON AND ITS DESTRUCT - AND
ITS FORTHCOMING DESTRUCTION, GOD
00:48:48.46\00:48:52.30
SAYS THAT HE HAS A PEOPLE WHO
WILL SHINE BRIGHTLY FOR HIM AND
00:48:52.30\00:48:56.73
THAT'S FOUND IN HABAKKUK CHAPTER
2 AND VERSE 14. IT WAS OUR
00:48:56.73\00:49:00.23
MEMORY TEXT HERE THIS MORNING.
LET'S READ THAT TOGETHER.
00:49:00.23\00:49:03.26
HABAKKUK CHAPTER 2, VERSE 14,
"FOR THE EARTH WILL BE FILLED
00:49:03.26\00:49:06.76
WITH THE KNOWLEDGE OF
THE GLORY OF THE LORD."
00:49:06.76\00:49:11.00
SO IN ALL OF THIS GOD HAS A
FAITHFUL PEOPLE WHO WILL SHINE
00:49:11.00\00:49:15.33
BRIGHTLY FOR HIM, YOU SEE.
HABAKKUK 2, VERSE 14 TALKS ABOUT
00:49:15.33\00:49:20.00
THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE CHARACTER
OF GOD FILLING THE ENTIRE EARTH.
00:49:20.00\00:49:24.93
EVEN DURING DIFFICULTY -
DIFFICULT TIMES - EVEN BACK IN
00:49:24.93\00:49:29.53
THE DAYS OF HABAKKUK AND JUDAH,
IT WAS TO BE A PEOPLE WHO WOULD
00:49:29.53\00:49:33.66
REFLECT IN THEIR LIVES THAT GOD
WAS JUST AND THAT GOD WAS FAIR,
00:49:33.66\00:49:37.50
YOU SEE. AND
THERE'S COMING A TIME WHEN,
00:49:37.50\00:49:40.63
IN A LARGE WAY, ACROSS
THIS GLOBE, THROUGH THE LIVES OF
00:49:40.63\00:49:46.23
GOD'S PEOPLE, ALL
QUESTIONS WILL BE CEASED.
00:49:46.23\00:49:50.26
NO MORE DOUBTING, NO MORE
GUESSING AS TO WHY GOD IS DOING
00:49:50.26\00:49:52.56
WHAT HE'S DOING. IT
WILL BE SEEN THAT GOD IS
00:49:52.56\00:49:54.56
FAIR, GOD IS JUST. THE
CONCEPT IS PLAYED OUT, OF
00:49:54.56\00:49:58.56
COURSE, IN OTHER BIBLE
VERSES. I'M JUST GOING TO SHARE
00:49:58.56\00:50:00.56
A FEW OFTHESE.
PSALM 72, VERSE 19, "AND
00:50:00.56\00:50:03.00
BLESSED BE HIS
GLORIOUS NAME FOREVER!
00:50:03.00\00:50:05.03
AND LET THE WHOLE EARTH
BE FILLED WITH HIS GLORY.
00:50:05.03\00:50:07.73
AMEN AND AMEN."
00:50:07.73\00:50:10.93
AND THEN OVER IN ISAIAH CHAPTER
60, VERSES 1 THROUGH 3 - NOTICE
00:50:10.93\00:50:14.03
WHAT THE PROPHET SAYS, "ARISE,
SHINE; FOR YOUR LIGHT HAS COME!
00:50:14.03\00:50:18.10
AND THE GLORY OF THE
LORD IS RISEN UPON YOU.
00:50:18.10\00:50:22.46
FOR BEHOLD, THE DARKNESS
SHALL COVER THE EARTH, AND DEEP
00:50:22.46\00:50:25.16
DARKNESS THE PEOPLE; BUT THE
LORD WILL ARISE OVER YOU, AND
00:50:25.16\00:50:30.30
HIS GLORY WILL BE
SEEN" - WHERE? - "UPON YOU.
00:50:30.30\00:50:34.63
THE GENTILES SHALL COME TO
YOUR LIGHT, AND KINGS TO THE
00:50:34.63\00:50:37.16
BRIGHTNESS OF YOUR RISING."
THIS WAS THE HOPE OF GOD FOR HIS
00:50:37.16\00:50:39.63
PEOPLE BACK IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
- THEY FAILED. THIS IS HIS HOPE
00:50:39.63\00:50:42.76
FOR HIS PEOPLE IN THE
NEW TESTAMENT ERA. IN THE NEW
00:50:42.76\00:50:46.66
TESTAMENT, 2 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER
4, VERSE 6 PAUL SAYS, "FOR IT IS
00:50:46.66\00:50:50.30
THE GOD WHO COMMANDED LIGHT TO
SHINE OUT OF DARKNESS, WHO HAS
00:50:50.30\00:50:54.33
SHONE IN OUR HEARTS TO GIVE THE
LIGHT OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE
00:50:54.33\00:51:00.93
GLORY OF GOD IN THE
FACE OF JESUS CHRIST."
00:51:00.93\00:51:03.20
THAT'S THE REASON YOU AND I HAVE
BEEN CALLED - TO BE - TO WALK
00:51:03.20\00:51:07.43
WITH CHRIST AND TO REFLECT
HIS GOODNESS - TO SHARE HIS
00:51:07.43\00:51:10.30
CHARACTER, HIS LOVE, HIS
GRACE WITH OTHERS AROUND US.
00:51:10.30\00:51:13.93
THEN IN REVELATION 18 AND VERSE
1 IT SAYS, "AFTER THESE THINGS I
00:51:13.93\00:51:17.30
SAW ANOTHER ANGEL COMING
DOWN FROM HEAVEN, HAVING GREAT
00:51:17.30\00:51:20.30
AUTHORITY, AND THE EARTH
WAS ILLUMINATED WITH HIS GLORY."
00:51:20.30\00:51:24.93
THIS IS TALKING ABOUT THE LATTER
RAIN AND THE LOUD CRY WHEN GOD'S
00:51:24.93\00:51:28.66
PEOPLE WILL BE DARTING ACROSS
THIS EARTH IN EARTH'S FINAL
00:51:28.66\00:51:32.70
MOMENTS TO SHARE THIS MESSAGE
AND CALLING GOD'S PEOPLE OUT OF
00:51:32.70\00:51:36.36
BABYLON AND TAKE THEIR
STAND WITH CHRIST AND HIS TRUTH.
00:51:36.36\00:51:40.20
IT'S GOING ON TODAY, BUT IN
A LARGER WAY GOD IS WAITING TO
00:51:40.20\00:51:44.00
POUR OUT HIS SPIRIT UPON
HIS PEOPLE. WELL WE NEED TO MOVE
00:51:44.00\00:51:49.03
OVER TO WEDNESDAY'S
LESSON HERE FOR TIME'S SAKE.
00:51:49.03\00:51:51.60
WANT TO REMEMBER - WE'RE TALKING
ABOUT REMEMBERING GOD'S FAME -
00:51:51.60\00:51:54.10
WE'RE IN HABAKKUK CHAPTER 3
LOOKING AT VERSES 1 THROUGH 16.
00:51:54.10\00:51:58.33
IN CHAPTER 3 HABAKKUK REALIZES
THAT HE'S GONE A LITTLE TOO FAR
00:51:58.33\00:52:01.66
IN ASKING GOD QUESTIONS SO HE
REPENTS, BUT IN THE SAME BREATH
00:52:01.66\00:52:06.26
HE PLEADS FOR JUSTICE
TO BE SEASONED WITH MERCY.
00:52:06.26\00:52:09.13
LOOK AT VERSE 2, "O LORD, I
HAVE HEARD YOUR SPEECH AND WAS
00:52:09.13\00:52:12.03
AFRAID; O LORD, REVIVE YOUR
WORK IN THE MIDST OF THE YEARS!
00:52:12.03\00:52:14.73
IN THE MIDST OF THE YEARS
MAKE IT KNOWN; IN WRATH REMEMBER
00:52:14.73\00:52:17.43
MERCY." AND SO
THE FOLLOWING VERSES
00:52:17.43\00:52:21.03
PRESENT A SUBLIME PICTURE OF GOD
COMING IN JUDGMENT TO DELIVER
00:52:21.03\00:52:24.96
HIS PEOPLE AND IT'S A PRAYER OF
HABAKKUK AND APPARENTLY HE WANTS
00:52:24.96\00:52:28.76
IT PUT TO - OR
IT IS PUT TO MUSIC.
00:52:28.76\00:52:31.70
THESE VERSES ALSO ARE
DESCRIPTIVE OF THE COMING OF
00:52:31.70\00:52:34.53
CHRIST FOR HIS PEOPLE.
THEY PROVIDE ENCOURAGEMENT TO
00:52:34.53\00:52:37.53
ALL THOSE WHO ARE WAITING
FOR THEIR LORD TO DELIVER THEM.
00:52:37.53\00:52:41.43
HABAKKUK LOOKS BACK TO SEE
HOW GOD HAS ACTED AND LED IN THE
00:52:41.43\00:52:44.90
PAST, WHICH PROVIDES CONFIDENCE
WITH THE WAY GOD IS GOING TO
00:52:44.90\00:52:48.73
LEAD HIS PEOPLE IN THE FUTURE.
AND THIS IS HOW YOU AND I ARE TO
00:52:48.73\00:52:51.53
PERSEVERE - TO LIVE WITH THE
VISION - TO LOOK IN THE PAST TO
00:52:51.53\00:52:55.50
SEE HOW GOD HAS LED US
INDIVIDUALLY AND TO SEE HOW HE'S
00:52:55.50\00:52:57.66
HAS LED HIS CHURCH. GOOD
IDEA TO UNDERSTAND AND KNOW
00:52:57.66\00:53:00.23
THE HISTORY OF
THE ADVENTIST CHURCH.
00:53:00.23\00:53:01.90
IF WE SEE HOW GOD HAS LED IN
THE PAST, WE'LL BE ENCOURAGED TO
00:53:01.90\00:53:04.56
KNOW THAT HE'LL CONTINUE TO
LEAD US IN THE FUTURE AS WE ARE
00:53:04.56\00:53:07.86
FAITHFUL TO HIM AND MEET THE
CONDITIONS FOR THE OUTPOURING OF
00:53:07.86\00:53:10.76
HIS HOLY SPIRIT. YOU
KNOW, OTHER BIBLE WRITERS
00:53:10.76\00:53:13.16
ENCOURAGE US TO USE SONG TO
RALLY THE BELIEVER WHILE HE OR
00:53:13.16\00:53:18.16
SHE IS WAITING
FOR GOD'S SALVATION.
00:53:18.16\00:53:20.33
NOTICE THESE VERSES - I'M GOING
TO READ EPHESIANS 5:19 AND 20 IN
00:53:20.33\00:53:23.33
THE MEANTIME, "SPEAKING TO ONE
ANOTHER IN PSALMS AND HYMNS AND
00:53:23.33\00:53:26.70
SPIRITUAL SONG, SINGING AND
MAKING MELODY IN YOUR HEART TO
00:53:26.70\00:53:30.23
THE LORD, GIVING THANKS ALWAYS
FOR ALL THINGS TO GOD THE FATHER
00:53:30.23\00:53:33.13
IN THE NAME OF OUR
LORD JESUS CHRIST."
00:53:33.13\00:53:34.86
SO THE APOSTLE PAUL ENCOURAGES
US TO SPEAK TO ONE ANOTHER,
00:53:34.86\00:53:37.96
ENCOURAGE ONE ANOTHER IN PSALMS,
HYMNS AND SPIRITUAL SONGS.
00:53:37.96\00:53:42.20
IT DOESN'T MEAN WE GO AROUND
CHURCH LITERALLY SINGING TO
00:53:42.20\00:53:45.40
EACH OTHER, 'HI,
HOW ARE YOU TODAY?'
00:53:45.40\00:53:48.23
WE AREN'T WANTING TO BE SINGING
TO EACH OTHER BUT TO COME
00:53:48.23\00:53:50.93
TOGETHER AT TIMES AND TO SING
AND IN THE SONGS THAT ARE RICH -
00:53:50.93\00:53:53.80
THAT HAVE RICH THEOLOGY
AND THAT ARE SONGS THAT ARE NOT
00:53:53.80\00:53:56.43
MANTRA-LIKE - THAT ARE SONGS
THAT ARE MEDITATIVE - THAT WILL
00:53:56.43\00:53:59.50
LIFT US TOWARD HEAVEN. WE
ARE TO ENCOURAGE ONE ANOTHER.
00:53:59.50\00:54:02.56
JAMES CHAPTER 5, VERSE 13,
"IS ANYONE AMONG YOU SUFFERING?
00:54:02.56\00:54:05.20
LET HIM PRAY.
IS ANYONE CHEERFUL?
00:54:05.20\00:54:06.96
LET HIM SING PSALMS."
ACTS 16:25, "BUT AT MIDNIGHT
00:54:06.96\00:54:11.60
PAUL AND SILAS WERE PRAYING AND
SINGING HYMNS TO GOD, AND THE
00:54:11.60\00:54:14.96
PRISONERS WERE
LISTENING TO THEM."
00:54:14.96\00:54:17.50
IN TIMES OF ADVERSITY PAUL
AND SILAS WERE ENCOURAGING EACH
00:54:17.50\00:54:20.10
OTHER, SINGING
HYMNS AND PRAYING.
00:54:20.10\00:54:22.83
IN 1 CORINTHIANS 14:26 PAUL
SAYS, "HOW IS IT THEN, BRETHREN?
00:54:22.83\00:54:26.00
WHENEVER YOU COME TOGETHER,
EACH OF YOU HAS A PSALM, HAS A
00:54:26.00\00:54:29.63
TEACHING, HAS A TONGUE,
HAS A REVELATION, HAS AN
00:54:29.63\00:54:31.50
INTERPRETATION. LET
ALL THINGS BE DONE FOR
00:54:31.50\00:54:33.56
EDIFICATION." LET
THE MUSIC BE TO EDIFY.
00:54:33.56\00:54:36.83
AND, OF COURSE, IN MATTHEW
26, VERSE 30, "AND WHEN THEY HAD
00:54:36.83\00:54:40.10
SUNG A HYMN," - TALKING
ABOUT JESUS AND THE DISCIPLES -
00:54:40.10\00:54:42.10
"THEY WENT OUT TO
THE MOUNT OF OLIVES."
00:54:42.10\00:54:44.30
PSALMS WERE OLD TESTAMENT PSALMS
SUNG, PROBABLY, TO INSTRUMENTS.
00:54:44.30\00:54:47.90
HYMNS WERE PRAISES TO GOD
COMPOSED BY BELIEVERS AND SUNG
00:54:47.90\00:54:51.50
BY THE WHOLE GROUP.
SPIRITUAL OR SACRED SONGS WERE
00:54:51.50\00:54:55.40
OF A MORE GENERAL OR MEDITATIVE
NATURE WITH OR WITHOUT
00:54:55.40\00:54:58.86
ACCOMPANIMENT. TO
BE HONEST, I CAN'T SEE
00:54:58.86\00:55:01.10
CHRISTIAN ROCK OR RAP
INCLUDED IN ANY OF THIS. AMEN.
00:55:01.10\00:55:08.16
ALRIGHT, THURSDAY 'GOD IS
OUR STRENGTH' - AS WE WRAP UP.
00:55:08.16\00:55:10.86
LOOK AT THE LAST FEW VERSES OF
HABAKKUK CHAPTER 3, VERSES 17 TO
00:55:10.86\00:55:14.76
19, "THOUGH THE FIG TREE MAY
NOT BLOSSOM, NOR FRUIT BE ON THE
00:55:14.76\00:55:18.50
VINES; THOUGH THE LABOR OF THE
OLIVE MAY FAIL, AND THE FIELDS
00:55:18.50\00:55:21.46
YIELD NO FOOD; THOUGH THE FLOCK
MAY BE CUT OFF FROM THE FOLD,
00:55:21.46\00:55:25.73
AND THERE BE NO HERD IN THE
STALLS - YET I WILL REJOICE IN
00:55:25.73\00:55:29.10
THE LORD, I WILL JOY IN
THE GOD OF MY SALVATION.
00:55:29.10\00:55:32.43
THE LORD GOD IS MY STRENGTH;
HE WILL MAKE MY FEET LIKE DEER'S
00:55:32.43\00:55:36.66
FEET, AND HE WILL MAKE
ME WALK ON MY HIGH HILLS.
00:55:36.66\00:55:39.63
TO THE CHIEF MUSICIAN
WITH MY STRINGED INSTRUMENTS."
00:55:39.63\00:55:43.30
THE PROPHET BEGINS BY
ASKING QUESTIONS - NOT SURE THIS
00:55:43.30\00:55:48.26
THING'S GOING TO WORK OUT AND
HE CLOSES WITH WORDS OF HOPE AND
00:55:48.26\00:55:55.36
ENCOURAGEMENT THAT GOD IS GOING
TO WORK THINGS OUT ACCORDING TO
00:55:55.36\00:56:00.30
HIS PLAN. HE'S
GOING TO BE MY STRENGTH.
00:56:00.30\00:56:02.60
HE'S GOING TO GIVE ME
FEET LIKE DEER'S FEET, YOU SEE.
00:56:02.60\00:56:06.70
WE'LL BE STRONG - IN OTHER WORDS
HE'S SAYING WE'LL BE STRONG FOR
00:56:06.70\00:56:09.46
OUR SPIRITUAL WARFARE AND WORK.
WE'LL BE SWIFT FOR OUR SPIRITUAL
00:56:09.46\00:56:15.46
RACE RUNNING THE WAY OF GOD'S
COMMANDS AND OUTRUNNING OUR
00:56:15.46\00:56:19.06
TROUBLES. WE WILL BE SUCCESSFUL
IN OUR SPIRITUAL ENTERPRISES.
00:56:19.06\00:56:25.16
SO THE BOOK OF HABAKKUK BEGINS
WITH QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS, BUT
00:56:25.16\00:56:28.53
CLOSES WITH AFFIRMATION OF
CONFIDENCE IN THE PROMISE AND
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THE PURPOSES OF GOD.
HABAKKUK CLINGS TO GOD'S WORD.
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THAT'S WHAT HIS NAME MEANS
- TO CLING. HABAKKUK EMBRACES
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WHO GOD IS AND WHEN YOU
KNOW WHO GOD IS, IT MAKES
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IT A WHOLE LOT EASIER TO TRUST
HIM, EVEN IF THINGS AREN'T GOING
00:56:44.46\00:56:47.00
THE WAY YOU WANTED THEM TO WORK
- THE WAY THINGS YOU PLAN DON'T
00:56:47.00\00:56:52.66
HAPPEN THE WAY THEY -
YOU HOPED THEY WOULD GO.
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YOU CAN TRUST GOD
BECAUSE YOU CAN TRUST HIS HEART.
00:56:55.60\00:56:58.90
THERE'S A LITTLE SONG THAT STEVE
GREEN SANG AND THE CHORUS SAYS,
00:56:58.90\00:57:03.90
"WHEN YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND,
WHEN YOU DON'T SEE HIS HAND,
00:57:03.90\00:57:07.80
WHEN YOU CAN'T TRACE HIS PLAN,"
- SOME OF YOU KNOW THIS SONG -
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"TRUST HIS HEART." I
WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO DO
00:57:12.33\00:57:14.60
THAT HERE THIS MORNING. IF
YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND, CAN'T
00:57:14.60\00:57:17.33
SEE HIS PLAN, CAN'T TRACE HIS
HAND, YOU CAN TRUST GOD'S HEART
00:57:17.33\00:57:21.13
TODAY. HABAKKUK
DID. THE PSALMIST DID.
00:57:21.13\00:57:24.13
GOD'S PEOPLE OF OLD DID.
00:57:24.13\00:57:25.43
YOU CAN TRUST HIM AND KNOW THAT
GOD'S GOING 'TO WORK OUT ALL
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THINGS TOGETHER FOR GOOD
TO THOSE THAT LOVE HIM AND ARE
00:57:29.30\00:57:31.40
CALLED
ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE'.
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I WANT TO MAKE SURE OUR VIEWERS
CALL IN FOR THEIR FREE OFFER -
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1-866-STUDY-MORE
OR 1-866-788-3966.
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I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR JOINING
US HERE THIS MORNING, WHETHER
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YOU'RE VIEWING ON TV OR YOU'RE
LISTENING ON RADIO AND THOSE
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THAT ARE SITTING HERE THIS
MORNING, GLAD YOU COULD BE HERE.
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TAKE COURAGE IN GOD'S WORD TODAY
AND KNOW THAT 'THE JUST SHALL
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LIVE BY FAITH.' (MUSIC)
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