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00:01 Hello, I'm Andrew Russell and welcome to Let God Speak.
00:02 God has graciously revealed Himself in the written 00:06 scriptures. He has also revealed the one way of 00:09 salvation. As we read the scriptures ourselves today, we 00:13 will see the impact it's words had on the Jewish people of 00:17 Ezra and Nehemiah's day. ♪ ♪ 00:44 On our panel today we have Morgan Vincent and Ettienne 00:48 McClintock. Welcome Gentlemen. As is our custom, let's begin 00:52 with a word of prayer. Heavenly Father, we just want to thank 00:56 You again, Father, that we can study Your word together. We 00:58 know Lord You love to speak to us and these special revelations 01:03 Father, they come from Your inspired word, Lord, we know 01:06 they're life changing so Lord renew us and reform us today 01:10 is our prayer in Jesus' name Amen. Well why don't we begin 01:15 with reading from the book of Nehemiah, that's our study. 01:17 Nehemiah 8:1-2. Let's read Nehemiah 8:1-2. I notice it says 01:25 here. And all the people gathered themselves together 01:29 as one man into the street that was before the water gate and 01:33 they spoke unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of 01:37 Moses which the Lord had commanded to Israel. Ezra the 01:42 priest brought the law before the congregation, both of men 01:46 and women and all that could hear with understanding upon the 01:50 first day of the seventh month. And some of you _ 01:54 Ettienne what's happening here as we read in chapter eight. 01:58 This is an exciting few verses especially if you're a pastor 02:01 or a church here like this because what happens is the 02:04 people are asking for the message to be presented to them. 02:06 They are asking Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the Law. 02:09 This is really a grass roots movement and it is a movement 02:13 that is inspired by people wanting to learn more of God's 02:16 will. Really exciting. 02:18 It's very particular in terms of the timing of this event. 02:22 Why do you think that, you know, this is being outlined here for 02:25 us? Well look at the last verse of 02:28 of the chapter just preceding that in chapter 7. It says it's 02:31 the seventh month when the children of Israel came to the 02:33 cities. And so, the seventh month is really important. The 02:36 walls are being built well, they are dwelling in the city 02:39 themselves and this is the first day of the seventh month Now the 02:43 first day at the beginning the Feast of Trumpets at the blowing 02:45 of the trumpets which is to prepare for judgment. Then of 02:48 course on the 10th day we've got Yom Kippur, or the Day of 02:51 Atonement and then also on the 15th day you've got the Feast of 02:55 Booths or the Feast of Tabernacles. So all those events 02:58 were significant and the Feast of Tabernacles was to remind 03:01 them that they used to be slaves in Egypt and they are now 03:04 dwelling in booths to remember the time that they were actually 03:07 strangers and pilgrims before they entered the promised land. 03:10 Ah. And this feast had special significance, didn't it? It not 03:13 only pointed to the God of their deliverance, Israel, the plan of 03:18 salvation and so forth. And so it's quite a timely event here 03:22 that this gathering is taking place. Now Morgan, what's the 03:27 purpose of this gathering? 03:28 Yeah. There's a real key purpose here. By reading the book of the 03:31 Law of Moses it's referring to God's acts of how He had been 03:36 with His people in the past. So it's, if you would, a history 03:41 lesson of sorts where they're recounting the acts of God in 03:44 centuries and millennia of time ago. 03:48 Okay, so they come together and they're recounting 03:51 the acts of God in their history Was this something new to them 03:54 to do this? 03:56 No it wasn't. It wasn't a new thing and we find... I'm just 03:59 going to just quickly turn in the book of Deuteronomy. We find 04:02 there that something really special happens in the Book of 04:06 Deuteronomy. I'm going to read in verse 9-11 in chapter 31. 04:13 The Bible says, So Moses wrote this law and delivered it to the 04:16 priests. So he was saying Moses is writing and he's delivering 04:20 it to people. The sons of Levi who bore the Ark of the Covenant 04:24 of the Lord and to all the elders of Israel. Verse 10 says. 04:27 And Moses commanded them, saying At the end of every seven years 04:33 at the appointed time in the year of release, at the Feast of 04:36 Tabernacles. We've spoken of this just before. Then verse 11 04:41 is key: When all Israel comes to appear before the Lord your 04:45 God in the place which He chooses you shall read this Law 04:49 before all Israel in their hearing. And so it wasn't 04:53 anything new. It 04:55 was a practice done a long time before that. 04:57 Hmm. So it's consistency here. And Nehemiah seems to be aware 05:03 of that, of that consistency. So when we get to Nehemiah 8:1. 05:07 it's an interesting term that we read there in chapter eight, 05:11 verse one. It says that and all the people gathered themselves 05:14 together as one man into the street that was before 05:19 the water, at the gate there. 05:21 Ettienne what's the significance of this? What does it mean 05:23 gathered them all together as one man. 05:25 As one man. That's an incredible unity that exists amongst 05:28 the people. 05:29 Obviously the work that Nehemiah had done and also the work that 05:33 Ezra had done had had an effect on the people. Yeah. If you can 05:36 think of God as always in the center of everything that we do, 05:39 the closer we come to God, the closer we come to one another 05:42 as well. So we see this unity. And even the psalmist talks 05:45 about how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell 05:48 together in unity. And that unity of believers is really 05:52 important. Even Jesus speaks about it and says by this all 05:55 men will know, you know, that you are followers of the true 05:58 God of heaven and earth. By our unity; if we're one with God 06:00 and then also one with one another. 06:02 Hmm. Yeah. It's incredible. And God often refers to Himself as 06:08 One God isn't it the wise God and it's really an expression of 06:11 that unity of the Godhead itself and so we see that being played 06:16 out here amongst God's people. Now what's included now? It was 06:21 mentioned there, the Book of the Law in verse 1 there, the 06:25 Book of the Law of Moses. What's included in these words? 06:29 Well the Book of the Law was actually put beside the Ark of 06:32 the Covenant. You know they had the 10 Commandments in there, 06:34 but it pretty much refers to the Torah, or the five books of 06:37 Moses. So it includes from the creation account right through 06:42 to Deuteronomy which is the law repeated for the second time. 06:44 Yeah. And it's got all the feast days and the significance of 06:47 salvation, the constitution pretty much of Israel, you know. 06:50 It's got the old and new covenants, both were in there. 06:53 It's just a wonderful revelation of God's plan for 06:55 Israel and also His purpose for Israel and even the constitution 06:58 of heaven now being adopted or adapted to meet man in the 07:02 fallen condition. 07:04 Amen, amen. So it's really foundational stuff isn't it? 07:06 Absolutely. You know, there's one thing I 07:09 love about the Bible; you can never get bored of it. You go 07:12 back, you reread, you learn something new, precious jewels 07:16 that just speak to your heart and help you. So this we can 07:22 very much apply to our day as well. Well let's move on. Let's 07:25 go to verse 3 of Nehemiah chapter 8, verse 3 and let's 07:30 read that together. It says: And he read therein before the 07:33 street that was before the water gate, from the morning until 07:36 midday, it says, before the men and women and those that could 07:42 understand and the ears of all the people were attentive upon 07:46 the book of the law. That's a long reading, Morgan. 07:50 How did the people cope? Yeah how did Nehemiah carry that out? 07:56 It seems like they'd be bored or falling be asleep, but 08:00 interestingly enough just one point that I'd like to bring out 08:04 is that if you could understand, male or female, then you were 08:08 there. God wanted you to be there. It reveals the heart of 08:13 God in that He wants everyone to understand who He is as God. 08:17 But the end of verse three it says and the ears of all the people 08:24 were attentive to the book of the law. So there's this sense 08:27 in which they were attentive, they were listening they weren't 08:30 falling off asleep but they were very much wanting to know what 08:35 God wanted them to do at this point in time, having just come 08:39 out of Babylonian captivity and here they wanted to see where 08:45 God would lead them for the future. They were attentive, 08:47 they were listening to understand Him. 08:50 It's amazing how attentive the human mind can be with a little 08:54 bit of training. Unfortunately in our time in which we live you 08:57 know, every seven to ten minutes there's an ad break on 08:59 television programs so people tend to spend most of that 09:02 seven to ten 09:04 minutes and then you need a little bit of a break and then 09:05 you got to get back into it again. But not here so with 09:07 these people and under the influence of the Holy Spirit 09:09 it's incredible how much you can actually concentrate and retain 09:13 when the law of God is read or the word of God is read. 09:16 Were they kind of suddenly keen to hear what the law was 09:22 saying? You know, this is beautiful 09:24 because we're reading here Ezra and I'll just quote from Ezra 09:29 7:10. You find there that there's three things that Ezra 09:33 set his heart to seek the Lord their God. He wanted to do it, 09:38 or do what the law of Moses, the writings of Moses, said. But 09:42 also it goes on and it says he wanted to teach the statutes. 09:45 In other words, Ezra didn't just want to hear and to be 09:50 attentive for himself, but he also wanted to share that with 09:53 others. So it wasn't something new or unexpected for Ezra. He'd 09:58 been doing this for many years, for many years. 10:01 For 30 years he'd been doing this. I'm still laboring on your 10:05 point, Ettienne, the attention span. You know in churches 10:09 today you go 10:10 and how long do we sit and listen to the message for. But 10:13 I think there's a real emphasis on the keenness of the people. 10:15 The consistency of Ezra's ministry, that he'd been 10:19 teaching these things, but the people also keen to hear and to 10:23 know about the God. And that's what really holds us isn't it? 10:27 It wasn't a yawn fest. People were really eager. 10:28 That's right, that's right. So it works both ways in a sense. 10:32 How did Ezra manage to read for four hours straight Ettienne 10:37 No microphone. This is from daylight pretty much, they read 10:41 through till mid-day. Could be four, could be more hours. 10:44 But that's a lot of reading for one man. But we read in 10:47 verse four. It says: Ezra the scribe stood on a platform of 10:51 wood which they had made for that purpose and beside him at 10:54 his right stood (I'm probably going to butcher these names) 10:58 but there's Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Urijah, Hilkiah, and 11:02 and Maaseiah and on the left hand side he had another bunch 11:05 of people there as well. And if we go to verse seven it says 11:07 that all these men then helped the people to understand the law 11:11 and the people stood in their place. So he wasn't the only 11:14 one that was actually helping and going 11:15 through the instruction. 11:17 He had the help of at least 13 other men there to help him and 11:18 assist him through the processes. 11:20 There's that one man aspect again, isn't it. Even just in 11:23 this work, working together as well. In verse eight of 11:28 Ezra it uses an interesting text here, or interesting phrase. 11:33 It says that they read in the book of the law of God distinctly 11:38 and gave the sense and caused them to understand the reading, giving 11:43 them the sense of what they were hearing, isn't that right? 11:46 It's true. How important is that? 11:48 Very important. There may be a factor that the language of some 11:51 of the young people have come through, which would have been 11:53 in Aramaic out of Babylon may have been a factor at play. 11:56 Of course, then they're reading out of a Hebrew book and to help 11:59 them understand. Quite often you go to churches nowadays where 12:02 the old people still speak their language, for example in Auckland 12:05 it's Samoan and _ churches and the young people 12:08 wouldn't understand the language so well so they cover 12:11 those bases but more than that I think they were given a deep 12:14 sense of what these texts actually mean when they are speaking to 12:18 the people and teaching the people. And that's exciting when 12:20 you see something and you understand the actual meaning 12:23 and relevance of the text to your own life and your 12:26 life and your relationship with God. 12:27 Yeah, yeah. So understanding is important. I just think of 12:31 myself and maybe other ministers We still sometimes use the King 12:34 James Bible. The kids say, ah that's the old English. 12:36 But it's amazing how you can still get the understanding and 12:40 the lessons across that God's people need to... 12:43 Paul even when he was addressing the Corinthians 12:44 he talks about how 12:46 important it is to understand, you know. He talks about them 12:49 speaking in tongues and he'd rather they pray with the 12:52 Spirit and the understanding, and sing with the Spirit and the 12:55 understanding. So the under- standing rather than just going 12:58 through a set of words, you know 13:01 maybe more like a ritual. There's actually deep 13:04 significance in the word of God and of course we know that these 13:06 are living words, they're powerful words, they're words 13:08 from on high._ was through God's holy prophets. 13:12 Hmm. That what makes us keen the hear and keen to learn more. 13:15 Um, is there some 13:17 risk, Morgan, in having someone else give you the scriptures? 13:22 Yes and no. And the reason I say yes is that we all need to know 13:28 the scriptures for ourselves. For those tuning in we need to 13:35 know what the scripture says for ourselves. But then there's 13:39 a time when we do need help and I want us to turn to Acts 13:43 chapter eight in the New Testament. We find in the book 13:46 of Acts chapter eight an account of where a preacher or an 13:52 apostle was needed to explain scripture to someone. So in Acts 13:57 chapter eight and from verse 27 the Bible says: So he... the 14:03 Bible tells us in verse 26 that it's Phillip. So he arose and he 14:07 went and behold a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great 14:11 authority under Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who had 14:16 charge of all her treasury. So this is a man of esteem. And had 14:21 come to Jerusalem to worship. Verse 28: He was returning and 14:24 sitting in the chariot, he was reading Isaiah the prophet. 14:28 You just imagine if you're walking down the street and see 14:32 someone in their car or at a bus stop. They're just reading 14:34 their Bible and it would be a situation that would delight us. 14:39 The Bible goes on and says in verse 29: Then the Spirit said 14:43 to Phillip go ye and overtake this chariot. So Phillip ran to 14:48 him and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah and said, Do you 14:52 understand what you are reading? And verse 31's the clincher. 14:56 And he said, How can I unless someone guides me. And so he was 15:01 in the case of this Ethiopian eunuch asking a question of 15:06 Phillip, well how can I know? I need someone to teach me. 15:09 So this is where we need to listen to someone like a 15:14 someone like a preacher. 15:16 So clearly he's reading the scripture but there's a role for 15:19 the teachers and in the New Testament teachers, evangelists 15:22 preachers... 15:25 One of the gifts of the Spirit is teaching isn't it? 15:27 That's right, that's right. I remember sitting in the library 15:28 one day reading my Bible. It was the local community library 15:31 and a guy came up to me and said you know what you're 15:34 reading about? We struck up a conversation. Ended up being he 15:37 loved the word of God as well. So there is certainly a role 15:40 therefor the teachers and so forth but of course the 15:43 purpose was for the people to learn God better and to know His 15:48 will better. Isn't that right? And of course, that didn't 15:51 exempt them from reading the scriptures as well. Well let's 15:53 go to Nehemiah chapter eight verse nine now. Let's go to 15:58 Nehemiah 8:9. Let's read that together. And it says here, 16:02 verse nine it says and Nehemiah which is the Tirshatha and Ezra 16:09 the priest, the scribe 16:10 and the Levites that taught the people said unto all 16:14 the people, This day is holy unto the Lord your God; mourn 16:18 not nor weep for all the people wept when they heard the 16:22 words of the Law. So what were they doing here? They were 16:26 weeping because they heard the word of the Law. Why were they 16:30 weeping do you think there? 16:32 It says at the end there they were weeping only when they heard the 16:37 word of the Law. And we've established so far that in the 16:41 word of the Law is the history of God's faithfulness to His 16:45 people and when we see God's holiness, when we see God's 16:49 character in direct contrast to our sinfulness, our unworthiness 16:54 it's overwhelming and you know when you see that it stirs up 16:59 within us the sense of weeping and sorrow for how far short 17:03 we fall of God's glory. 17:06 Because one of the things really with the book of Nehemiah is 17:11 that Nehemiah is zealous for God's people and he's zealous 17:13 for his God but there's this reproach that has come upon his 17:16 people, isn't that right? Because of their own sins, 17:18 because of their own departure from the living God and now 17:23 when they hear now of God's faithfulness, they hear of God's 17:26 love again and here he is showing up to be that Savior 17:31 and deliverer once again they weep in the sight of God's 17:35 goodness. Yeah, there's a thing in the 17:37 Bible that's referred to as a godly sorrow and the Apostle 17:39 Paul talks to the Corinthians about that when the word came to 17:42 them and understood that there was a godly sorrow as well. 17:44 Ettienne can we tease this out a little bit more? This sense of 17:51 mourning or godly sorrow. 17:53 Yeah definitely. You know the prophet Zechariah talks about 17:56 you know that God will pour out on His people a spirit of 17:59 supplication and His grace will be upon them and there will be 18:02 an element of mourning especially when they look on Him 18:04 whom they have pierced. And I want to go to Isaiah 53 because 18:11 we read there about Jesus. Matter of fact, the eunuch was 18:12 reading Isaiah 53 you know when Phillip was sent to help him 18:14 understand the reading. Yes, that's right. And let's look at 18:17 maybe three verses there. Yeah, Isaiah 53:4 says Surely He has 18:22 borne our grief. Now the word borne there in the original 18:25 language is nawsaw. It also means to forgive. But in God 18:29 forgiving He has to carry and bear our sins. 18:31 surely He has borne our 18:34 griefs, carried our sorrows and we esteemed Him stricken, 18:36 smitten by God and afflicted. So there's a misunderstanding 18:39 there, you know. He's bearing our griefs, our sorrows but we 18:42 think God is just inflicting it on Him for some other reason. 18:45 But then in verse five it says But he was wounded for our 18:48 transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities, the 18:51 chastisement our peace was upon Him and by His stripes we are 18:55 healed. And it says, We all as sheep have gone astray, we have 18:59 turned every one to his own way. So God wants to turn us from our 19:02 own way because that way seemed right to us but the end of it is 19:05 death. Turned everyone to his own way, but the Lord has laid 19:10 on Jesus or Christ the iniquity of us all. So we look at that 19:12 when we see the big price that was paid for our sins and it 19:16 really comes home through the Holy Spirit and through the Law 19:19 then the Law's our school master to bring us to Christ, to show 19:23 us our sin and our need of a Savior. When we recognize 19:25 what God has actually done for us in Christ, in Christ we have 19:29 been made acceptable and in Christ we have been redeemed, 19:32 we have been justified. When we see the goodness of God in that 19:35 day there will be a moment of weeping. But after that will 19:38 also be followed by moments of rejoicing and gratitude because 19:41 of salvation. 19:42 That kind of leads into my next question. I was going to ask you 19:44 then why were they told not to weep and mourn then? 19:47 Okay, well let's go back to verse eight there that you read 19:53 just the last part there. So you know it's verse 10. 19:58 My mistake. 20:00 It says for do not sorrow for the joy of Lord is your strength 20:06 So in other words, there's some strength in joy. And as we look 20:10 at that we can even consider that where would that joy come 20:12 from, you know that? It could only be something that God 20:15 plants in the heart. I mean, they're sad, they're sad for a 20:18 reason. I think there's a time to weep and a time to mourn, a 20:20 time to laugh, but obviously after we have repented. You 20:24 don't stay in that mournful condition. You now transition 20:27 into the joy of salvation. Even the psalmist, you know, I think 20:30 it was David, when he repented of his sin with Bathsheba, said 20:33 Lord restore unto me the joy of Thy salvation. 20:37 So do these sins matter though, Morgan? 20:41 They matter, yeah absolutely they do matter and it's this 20:45 great turn of situation where yes the sins matter because of 20:52 what it cost God, but God didn't want them to stay in that 20:56 mournful, sorrowful state. You know when we repent of our 21:01 sins, when we receive the pardon and the forgiveness of God, then 21:05 that's where we can see that the joy of the Lord truly is our 21:09 strength. A verse comes to mind in the New Testament in Hebrews 21:13 12 and verse two it says you know looking unto Jesus the 21:17 author and finisher of our faith who for the joy that was set 21:21 before Him He endured the cross despising the shame. And so it's 21:27 here where we find that our greatest joy comes in seeing 21:31 what Jesus has done for us and yes we have this sorrow but when 21:37 we really see what God's done for us in Christ, we see that 21:42 He's seated in heavenly places for us. 21:45 So we kind of interpret joy to be something that's really 21:50 overrated, right? 21:51 I don't think so. You shouldn't feel guilty when you have joy 21:55 unless it's joy in sin, of course. But when it's joy in 21:57 salvation, by all means grasp everything that you have and 22:01 enjoy it, the gift that God has given us. 22:04 I was just thinking of that text you 22:06 said that He despised the shame and that's really what sin 22:09 brings to us, isn't it? It brings shame, in our shameful 22:15 actions. It's destructive. This is what Israel experienced and 22:18 yet God now is willing in His covenant, His mercy and His 22:23 mercy and His deliverance. And so it's not general kind of joy 22:30 in sense of mere fun. This is deep seated, long lasting joy, 22:35 the kind of joy that will see you through even in challenging 22:40 times you can still find cause to joy because God is with you. 22:45 Where do we say this joy really comes from I think? 22:49 Well ultimately the Bible tells us that it is a fruit of the 22:54 Spirit. So we go to Galatians chapter five and verse 22. 22:59 But the fruit of the Spirit is love then joy. It's second thing 23:04 mentioned there. Joy, then peace and so forth and then it goes on 23:07 So joy ultimately is a gift of God. When the Holy Spirit has 23:11 done its work of convicting the world of sin, of righteousness. 23:13 I think in that conviction of righteousness, which is after 23:16 the sin conviction and judgment that's when the joy actually 23:19 comes in and ultimately we're talking about the blowing of the 23:22 trumpets, the day of atonement which is the day of judgment, 23:24 and then of course the feast of tabernacles. The feast of 23:27 tabernacles is actually just a reminder of deliverance. You're 23:30 no longer slaves. You've been set free. And that's where the 23:33 joy ultimately come in. 23:35 Yeah, so it's something we only really get from God isn't that 23:41 right? So we 23:42 don't get it of ourselves. We get it from God and that's what 23:46 it's all about here. Just delighting in God's goodness, 23:51 just delighting in God's faithfulness, His righteousness. 23:55 How do we find then, Morgan, balance between mourning over 23:59 our sins and rejoicing in the Lord. I think this is a very 24:04 relevant question because some people get so bogged down when 24:07 they've seen they make the mistakes they do. I heard one 24:12 man say that he knew someone who went and committed suicide 24:15 because he didn't feel that they could live up to walking 24:20 uprightly. So some people can really get bogged down. 24:23 I believe Satan's really whispering there trying to keep 24:26 us held down, not really in the faith of Christ and what he's 24:30 done. So how do we strike that balance? 24:32 It is a balance. There's this sense in which yes you may feel 24:38 that sense of shame and remorse for things you have done, but 24:42 text we looked at earlier in Hebrews 12:2 where Jesus 24:46 despised the shame. For our shame Jesus put our shame to 24:51 shame on the cross, if that makes sense. So He's done away 24:55 with that and though we may feel it, thought we may experience 24:58 it, that's where faith comes in. Faith in God's promises, faith 25:04 in God's forgiveness and pardon for us. Yeah, the cross of 25:08 Christ, He is our Savior, a living Savior as well and so 25:13 that's a powerful hope for us to lean into and to believe in 25:16 Really holding onto the sacrifice of Christ. Being sure. 25:22 and if you're sure of the sacrifice and all the prophets 25:25 spoke about, you can be sure of God's mercies. And you know 25:28 the Holy Spirit is convicting us isn't it? And if the Holy Spirit 25:31 is convicting us we know that God is working, He's working 25:34 with us. Now going back to Israel, they all decided to 25:39 continue reading the next day so they gathered together in the 25:43 morning again and they discovered something else in the 25:46 scriptures. Morgan, what was it? 25:47 We're going to read in chapter eight, Nehemiah chapter eight 25:50 and verse 13 and 14. It reads, Now on the second day the heads 25:57 of the fathers houses, of all the people, with the priests, 26:03 Levites. They were gathered together to Ezra the scribe in 26:06 order to understand the words of the Law. So they were 26:09 gathered together for a purpose, to understand. Verse 14 says, 26:12 They found, and if you're finding something, it's because 26:16 you're seeking. So they found written in the Law which the 26:20 Lord had commanded by Moses that the children of Israel should dwell 26:24 in booths or in tabernacles or in shelters during the feast of 26:28 the seventh month. So they discovered this feast of 26:32 tabernacles, this feast of dwellings, where God would be 26:35 with them ultimately. 26:36 And what did they end up doing, Ettienne? 26:38 Well they actually start getting the plans together and building 26:41 booths in their houses in their garden area, in the open squares 26:45 and they start living in those as a reminder of being strangers 26:50 and pilgrims once upon a time. 26:52 It's really an expression of now their safety, their God now 26:58 is their haven of security once again. And so, no matter where 27:01 we've been God can continue to be our haven of security if 27:05 we'll just look to Him and come to Him by faith. So we must 27:10 never be discouraged, never allow Satan to discourage us 27:12 but look to Jesus. Well we're going to leave it there today 27:15 gentlemen. It is clearly a healthy thing to sorrow and 27:18 repent of our sins, but it is our privilege to move on from 27:22 that and rejoice in our forgiveness and new status as 27:26 children of God. We are glad you joined us on Let Got Speak 27:30 today. You can watch all past programs on our website 27:32 3abnaustralia.org.au and Sabbath School teachers will 27:36 find notes there. If you wish to send an e-mail send it to 27:39 lgs@3abnaustralia.org.au. Do join us again next time and 27:45 God bless you. 27:46 ♪ ♪ |
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