It is time for
another Sabbath School Panel
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and we're excited
you are joining us.
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This quarter we
have been studying
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Present Truth in Deuteronomy.
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And I can't believe
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we're already to
lesson 11, but we are
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and it is Deuteronomy
in the Later Writings.
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You know, Bible
writers often alluded
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to earlier Bible
writers to make a point
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and this day,
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we're going to look
at how they used the Book
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of Deuteronomy in
the later writings.
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Join us in just a moment.
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Oh, we're so glad
you're joining us today
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because you're
the reason we do this
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and we're so happy
you're part of our 3ABN Family.
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I'm Shelley Quinn,
but let me introduce
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the rest of the 3ABN
Family that's here with me.
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We have Ryan Day. Amen.
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I'm excited to be here again.
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Once more, lesson number 11,
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on Monday's lesson
going to be talking about
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the Heaven of Heavens.
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And then, of
course, our dear brother,
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Kenny Shelton.
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Yeah. Always good to be here.
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Study the Word of God together,
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we're going to be
looking at Deuteronomy
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in Jeremiah, interesting.
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Very. Sister Jill Morikone.
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Thank you, Sister Shelley.
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I'm looking at what
does the Lord require?
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Excited about the study.
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It's going to be exciting study,
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and Pastor James Rafferty.
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Hi, Shelley and the panel.
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We are going to be
looking, in Thursday's lesson,
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at the connection
between Deuteronomy
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and Daniel Chapter 9.
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Ooh-ooh, that's
going to be a good one.
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Our memory text,
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I'm going to
read the memory text,
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then we're going to pray.
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The memory text is
one of my favorites,
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Deuteronomy 4:29,
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"From there you will
seek the Lord your God,
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and you will find him if,
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if you seek Him
with all of your heart,
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and with all of your soul."
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We want to do that,
just let's seek the Lord.
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Jill, would you like to
have our opening prayer?
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Holy Father, we come
before You in the name of Jesus,
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grateful for the study
in the Book of Deuteronomy,
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grateful for the
privilege we have of reading
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and opening up Your Word.
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And we ask just
now for the anointing
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of Your Holy Spirit that
You would teach us what we need.
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And we thank you in Jesus' name.
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Amen. Amen.
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Amen. Amen and amen.
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I am just going to jump
right into Sunday's lesson,
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which is called
The Book of the Law.
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And we have to remember,
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we get so confused
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if we don't look in
context at what the law is.
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People refer to,
and the Bible refers
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to God's Ten
Commandments as the law.
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The Law of Moses,
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when the Bible
says Law of Moses,
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it's talking about the
first five books of the Bible,
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when it is talking about
the law and the prophets,
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that's all of the Old Testament.
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It gets most confusing, I
think, in the New Testament,
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when we're
talking about the law.
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You have to read in context
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what law is being referred to.
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But the Book of the Law,
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and I'm going to quote
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directly from our
Sabbath School quarterly.
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It says, "Scholars
have long concluded
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that the Book of
the Law was Deuteronomy,
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which apparently had been lost
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to the people for many years."
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The Book of the Law,
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what Moses wrote,
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as they were standing
at the edge of promise
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getting ready to go
into the Promised Land,
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what he spoke, the
sermons that he spoke
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to the second generation,
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the children of the
one that didn't make it
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into the Promised Land.
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This is a repeat and
enlarge, if you will,
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of the Book of the
Covenant that God gave him
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in Exodus on Sinai.
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So let me give you the backstory
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to how the book was
lost and how it was found.
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We're going to look at,
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I'm going to choose,
I've chosen a parallel account
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to 2 Kings 22,
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because if we go
to 2 Chronicles 34,
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there's just a few more details
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as it introduces King Josiah.
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2 Chronicles 34:1,
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"Josiah was eight years old
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when he became king and
he reigned thirty-one years
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in Jerusalem.
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And he did what was
right in the sight of the Lord.
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He walked in the
ways of his father David,
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he did not turn aside
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to the right
hand or to the left.
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For in the eighth year,"
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that means he would
have been 16 years old,
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"the eighth year of his
reign, while he was still young,
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he began to seek the
God of his father David."
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And it's referring to David
as his forefather, actually.
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"In the twelfth year,
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he would have been 20 years old,
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he began to purge
Judah, Jerusalem, high places,
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these would have been
the Canaanite worship centers
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that Israel had taken
over the wooden images,
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the carved images,
and the molded images."
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And then, by his 12th year,
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he initiated a
purge of pagan religion,
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and he tore
down the high places,
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he tore down the altars of veil,
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the fertility god of Canaan,
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and the Asherah, which were,
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"objects that were
associated with Baal worship."
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So in 2 Kings 22,
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it's talking
about his 18th year.
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He's 26 years old,
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and Josiah has now ordered
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repairs for the
Temple of Yahweh God.
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So let's look at 2 King 22:8.
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You know what happens?
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As they begin to
repair the temple,
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the high priest finds
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the Book of the Law.
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And this is what he says,
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"I have found
the Book of the Law."
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Now, and this is
a covenant document.
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This is the Book of
Deuteronomy that contained
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the blessings for obedience,
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and the curses for disobedience.
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So as Clifford
Goldstein has told us,
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scholars have long concluded
that the Book of the Law
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was the Book of Deuteronomy.
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And it's mentioned in a
number of places in Deuteronomy,
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but most
specifically, Deuteronomy 31:26,
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after Moses wrote down,
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that he repeat and enlarge
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of the Book of the
Covenant from Exodus 24.
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Moses says, "Take
this Book of the Law
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and put it beside
the Ark of the Covenant
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of the Lord your God,
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that it may be there
as a witness against you."
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That's interesting.
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Now, how could a scroll,
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the Book of the Law would
fit on the scroll rolled up,
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put in the side pocket,
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the Ten Commandment Law
of God was inside the Ark,
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written on stone by the finger
of God to show permanency.
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It was, the Ark was His throne.
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So the Ten Commandments are,
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you could say the
foundation of God's government
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and the mercy seat
was over, wasn't it?
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But how could a
scroll so important be lost?
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When you think about
this, it's amazing. Yeah.
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But you have to remember Josiah,
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good King Josiah was
the son of King Amon,
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who was the son
of King Manasseh.
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So these were two
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of the most wicked
kings in Judah's history.
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And they did
grotesque pagan practices.
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They had no interest in
the Book of the Covenant,
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the Book of the Law.
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So it condemned their
practices, right? Right.
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So they ignored
it, they set it aside,
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perhaps it was even
hidden until Josiah's time
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when the high priest finds it.
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He brings it to
the scribe of Josiah
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which would be the
secretary of the king.
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And, boy, a scribe
reads it and he goes,
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he takes it to Josiah,
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he reads it to
Josiah and Josiah,
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his response, we see
it in 2 Kings 22:11-14.
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But what is his response?
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He has a heart that
is sensitive to the Lord.
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He has never heard the
words of the Book of the Law.
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And he is mortified.
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He's thinking about the
condition of his kingdom.
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He knows they've
broken covenant with the Lord.
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He tears his clothes,
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which was a sign of
grief and repentance.
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He humbled
himself before the Lord.
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Josiah, though,
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I think did
something really smart.
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He wanted confirmation
of his understanding?
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Have you ever studied something?
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I know we do it,
'cause we'll study something,
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and we'll come and say,
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"Now this is what I'm
seeing, what do you think?
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Am I seeing this right?
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"Josiah wanted confirmation.
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So he gets this
little delegation
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of people together
that he really trusted
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his spiritual leaders,
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and he sends them to a highly
respected prophet as Huldah.
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And when he goes to
Huldah, they go to Huldah,
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she confirms the bad news.
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You are covenant breakers.
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This is Josiah's worst fear,
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hey, God is going to
bring disaster on your nation.
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You're guilty of idolatry and
spiritual abandonment of God.
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I mean, this was a bad nation.
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And we know that the Bible
says God opposes the proud,
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but He gives
grace to the humble.
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And I just have to throw this
scripture in 'cause I love it.
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Isaiah 66:2 says,
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God, this is who God esteems,
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the humble and the
contrite in spirit,
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and the one who
trembles at His word.
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Amen.
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And, you know, Josiah
was trembling at God's word.
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And so God esteemed him.
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And you know what
He says to Josiah?
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I'm not going to bring all
of this tragedy in your day.
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You're going to go
to your rest in peace.
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But it is inevitable afterwards.
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So we look at 2
Kings Chapter 23.
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Josiah is determined
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he's going to lead a reformation
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and he vowed that he
is going to honor God
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with all of his heart,
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that he's going to
walk in God's ways,
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and he's going
to bring his nation
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back into covenant compliance.
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So he arranges a very solemn
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covenant renewal ceremony.
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He reads all the words of
Book of the Law to the people.
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And he then gets the people
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to make this commitment.
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As Moses had
instigated this same type
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of thing right at
the edge of the promise,
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so he cleanse the temple.
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He's purging it of all
the objects of paganism.
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And I've got to let you know
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a few of the
things this is including.
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In 2 Kings 23:7,
this is appalling.
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The living quarters
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of the male shrine
prostitutes for pagan gods
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had been constructed
right inside God's temple.
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Can you imagine that?
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2 Kings 23:10.
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He destroys the shrine
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where the people had
been sacrificing by fire,
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in the fire, their children
to the pagan god Molech.
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2 Kings 23:12.
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The pagan altars had actually
been erected in the two courts
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of the Lord's temple.
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So what does he do?
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He destroys all of
these pagan things.
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And here's what I
love, 2 Kings 23:21.
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"Then the king
commanded all the people saying,
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'Keep the Passover
to the Lord your God.'"
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They're still under
the ceremonial system
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of the Old Covenant.
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But listen to what he says,
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"As it is written in this Book
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of the Covenant."
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See, so we see it's
called the Book of the Law,
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but it's also called
the Book of Covenant.
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Now have to read our
Sabbath School quarterly quote,
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says, "People strayed
far from God's Covenant
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of love and truth
that He entrusted to them.
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But instead of remaining
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the holy people
they were supposed to be,
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they compromised with the world,
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even though they often thought,
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'Well, we're just
fine with the Lord.
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Thank you very much.'"
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What a dangerous deception.
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Let us all
examine ourselves. Amen.
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Take heed lest we
think we stand we fall.
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That's right. Amen.
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Thank you so
much. Beautiful lesson.
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I'm Ryan Day,
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and I have Monday's lesson
entitled The Heaven of Heavens.
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And we're going to be
looking at a couple of verses.
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This is based upon
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the original sources
in Deuteronomy Chapter 10.
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And we're going to
be reading verses 12
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through 15 to start off.
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But, of course, this is
going to take us into a couple
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of other passages
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where we see this
repeated not once, not twice,
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but three other times
in Scripture by three other
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different Bible writers.
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So obviously, we find its
source here in Deuteronomy,
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but you're going to see
the Psalmists writes about it,
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Nehemiah writes
about it, and obviously,
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Solomon is quoting this as
well in his prayer in 1 Kings.
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We'll get to that in a moment.
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Let's go to
Deuteronomy Chapter 10.
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We're going to read
verses 12 through 15.
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This is what the
Bible has to say.
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It says, "Israel,
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what does the Lord
your God require of you,
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but to fear the Lord your
God, to walk in all His ways,
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and to love Him,
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to serve the Lord your
God with all your heart,
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and with all your soul,
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and to keep the
commandments of the Lord
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and His statutes
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which I command you
today for your good."
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Indeed, this is verses 14,
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"Indeed heaven and
the highest heavens
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belong to the Lord your God,
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also the earth
with all that is in it.
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The Lord delighted
only in your father's,
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to love them, and He chose
their descendants after them,
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you above all
peoples, as it is this day."
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I love that. Yeah.
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Indeed, Heaven and
the Highest of Heavens,
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of course, the lesson
brings out that you know,
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this, you know,
we're not quite sure
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what this heaven
of the highest heavens
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or heaven of heavens means.
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It's not absolutely clear,
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and at least in
this immediate context
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of which we're reading it,
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but Moses is
pointing to the majesty,
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or seems to be very
clearly pointing to the majesty,
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the power, the
grandeur of God and who He is.
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Obviously, this is not
only, you know, heaven itself,
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but the heaven of the heavens.
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So when I read this,
when I first read this,
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I thought of, you
know, heaven of heavens,
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I'm thinking of
God's kingdom, you know,
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where the heavenly sanctuary is,
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where God's very presence is,
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where you find the
Father seated on His throne,
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and Jesus there
as well, you know,
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doing the work
of our High Priest.
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But obviously,
the lesson brings out
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that it's most likely
an idiomatic expression
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that points to
God's complete sovereignty
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over all of the
creation, the heaven of heavens,
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God is, in course, the leader,
the ruler of all the heavens
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and the earth, and
even the heaven of heavens.
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And so what a
beautiful way to express that.
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We find this mentioned in
three other places of Scripture.
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Let's go to 1 Kings Chapter 8.
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And, of course, 1 Kings
Chapter 8, this is Solomon.
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He's in prayer, and
he's praying to the Lord.
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And notice what he
says here in verse 27.
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1 Kings 8:27,
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this is the next
mentioning of this.
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It says, "But will God
indeed dwell on the earth?
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Behold," here it is,
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"heaven and the heaven of
heavens cannot contain you.
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How much less this
temple which I have built."
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I love that.
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He's acknowledging
the fact of God's majesty,
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God's grandeur, God's, you know,
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complete power
over all, and everyone,
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the fact that
he's built this temple,
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and of course,
biblically speaking,
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historically speaking,
Solomon's temple historically
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is known as the
greatest of all the temples
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that was ever built.
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And even
Solomon who was the head
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of building that
building project,
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he looks at it
and he says, "Lord,
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not even this great temple,
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which I built can contain
you because you are the God
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of the heaven of
all the heavens," right?
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We also see this
mentioned again in Nehemiah 9:6.
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Nehemiah, again, is
calling out to the Lord.
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So Nehemiah 9:6 says,
"You alone are the Lord.
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You have made
heaven," and here it is,
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"the heaven of
heavens, with all their hosts,
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the earth and
everything on it, the sea,
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and all that is in them,
and you preserve them all,
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the host of
heaven worships you."
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So also pointing back to
this reverential awe of God
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as creator of the
universe, creator of the cosmos,
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even the heaven of
heavens, as Nehemiah 9:6 says.
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And then, of course,
the Psalmist writes this
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as well in Psalm 148:4,
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if we go there, we'll
see it again, very quick,
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very simple, very short,
but he says, "Praise Him."
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I love that.
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"Praise Him, you
heavens of heavens,
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and you waters
above the heavens."
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I love that, praise
Him, you heavens of heavens
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and water above the heavens.
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So it's again acknowledging God
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as the sovereign God that He is.
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So this is, again,
this lesson brings out
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a very interesting expression
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to communicate God's
sovereignty, His glory,
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who He is as
creator of the universe,
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but in the time
remaining that I have,
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because as I was going through,
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oftentimes, we're preparing
these Sabbath School lessons,
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I'm just going to be
candid with our viewers,
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you know, oftentimes, you know,
00:19:02.24\00:19:03.57
when they're
writing these lessons,
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they make, they put maybe
a scripture or two in there,
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they make their quick point,
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and then they move
on to the next lesson.
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There's no any way
you can get 10 minutes
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of content out of that.
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So as I'm working
through this, and I saw,
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I could probably get about five
minutes of content out of this,
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what am I going to
do with the remaining
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five minutes of my time?
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Well, you know what? I have
to ask an important question.
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We can talk about the
heaven of heavens all day long,
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and we know that
God is indeed the ruler,
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the sovereign
ruler of all the cosmos,
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even the heaven of heavens,
but how can we make sure
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that we will be with our Savior
in that heaven of heavens?
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That's what I want to
ask, because actually,
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it's implied in the verses
we read at the very beginning.
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Let's go back to
Deuteronomy Chapter 10.
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And I have to just, the
reason why this was put in here,
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and I believe it's worth
mentioning that before Moses
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writes about this again,
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the heaven of the
highest heavens belong
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to the Lord your God.
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In verses 12 and 13,
00:19:55.22\00:19:56.62
he sets the groundwork
for how what is required of us
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to be able inherent that.
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And so notice verse 12,
again, "And now, Israel,
00:20:00.96\00:20:02.80
what does the Lord
God require of you,
00:20:02.83\00:20:04.97
but to fear the Lord your
God, to walk in all His ways
00:20:05.00\00:20:07.27
and to love Him, to
serve the Lord your God
00:20:07.30\00:20:09.10
with all your heart
and with all your soul,
00:20:09.14\00:20:11.17
and to keep the commandments
of the Lord and His statutes
00:20:11.21\00:20:13.64
which I command you
today for your good?"
00:20:13.68\00:20:16.75
Now I want to go back
here and I just want to add,
00:20:16.78\00:20:18.51
the two things
that I pull from that
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is just simply from those texts,
00:20:20.05\00:20:21.72
I'm not going to go
there's a whole lot more
00:20:21.75\00:20:23.22
complexity we
could web out from this.
00:20:23.25\00:20:25.32
But I'm just going to stick
to those two main principles
00:20:25.35\00:20:27.52
that I find in
those texts there.
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In other words,
the Lord is saying,
00:20:29.42\00:20:30.76
I need you to respect
Me, I need you to fear Me.
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Fear the Lord your
God, Deuteronomy 10:12,
00:20:33.29\00:20:35.56
we just read it.
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And now Israel,
00:20:36.97\00:20:38.30
what does the Lord
God require of you,
00:20:38.33\00:20:39.67
but you fear the Lord your God.
00:20:39.70\00:20:41.10
That doesn't mean,
00:20:41.14\00:20:42.47
you know, we need
to be tucking our tails
00:20:42.50\00:20:43.84
running in the
opposite direction
00:20:43.87\00:20:45.24
and shaking in our boots
because we're so terrified
00:20:45.27\00:20:48.21
of our Creator.
00:20:48.24\00:20:49.58
No, it's not that kind of fear,
00:20:49.61\00:20:50.95
because God is
not pushing us away.
00:20:50.98\00:20:52.88
He's not
running us away in fear.
00:20:52.91\00:20:54.42
He's drawing us to Him.
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We should fear Him in the sense
that we should respect Him.
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Shelley did an entire section
on this in a few weeks past.
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Go back and watch that again
00:21:02.19\00:21:03.53
where it talks
about fearing God,
00:21:03.56\00:21:04.93
a reverential,
awe, respect, an honor,
00:21:04.96\00:21:07.93
an homage given to God
that nobody else deserve
00:21:07.96\00:21:10.67
because only He
truly deserves it.
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Amen.
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Proverbs 9:10,
00:21:14.14\00:21:15.47
I'm going to go
faster through these,
00:21:15.50\00:21:16.84
so there's no way
you're going to be able
00:21:16.87\00:21:18.21
to follow along with me.
00:21:18.24\00:21:19.57
I'm going to hit it
quickly because I have two
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and a half minutes.
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The fear of the Lord
is the beginning of wisdom
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and the
knowledge of the Holy One
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is understanding,
Ecclesiastes 12:13,
00:21:25.15\00:21:28.55
that really could sum,
00:21:28.58\00:21:29.92
really that, both of those texts
00:21:29.95\00:21:31.29
that we just read in
Deuteronomy 10:12-13.
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Ecclesiastes 12 brings both
of those together in one text.
00:21:33.82\00:21:36.99
Let us hear the
conclusion of the whole matter,
00:21:37.03\00:21:39.89
fear God and
keep His commandments
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for this is man's all.
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That's the New
King James outline.
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I just love the
King James, though.
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For this is the
whole duty of man.
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I love it, fear God,
00:21:50.11\00:21:51.44
and keep His commandments
for this is the whole duty
00:21:51.47\00:21:54.61
of man.
00:21:54.64\00:21:55.98
Wisest man in the
Bible penned those words.
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And I'll tell you
right now, my friends,
00:21:57.38\00:21:59.11
he knew a little
bit of something about
00:21:59.15\00:22:00.88
what it means to be
prepared and to prepare you,
00:22:00.92\00:22:03.08
if he juiced, I
believe he juiced all
00:22:03.12\00:22:05.15
of his wisdom
down in that one text.
00:22:05.19\00:22:07.02
This is all of man's
all right here, this is,
00:22:07.06\00:22:09.89
the whole duty of
man is to fear God
00:22:09.92\00:22:12.19
and to keep His commandments.
00:22:12.23\00:22:13.56
Psalm 33:8,
00:22:13.60\00:22:15.10
"Let all the
earth fear the Lord,
00:22:15.13\00:22:16.63
let all the
inhabitants of the world
00:22:16.67\00:22:18.87
stand in awe of Him.
00:22:18.90\00:22:21.67
Shouldn't we, when we
stand in God's presence,
00:22:21.70\00:22:24.04
I don't believe
we're just going to be,
00:22:24.07\00:22:25.41
you know, flailing
around as if we're just,
00:22:25.44\00:22:26.78
you know, I believe
we're going to be standing,
00:22:26.81\00:22:28.14
when I first see
Jesus, I don't really know
00:22:28.18\00:22:29.68
how I'm going to act.
00:22:29.71\00:22:31.05
But I can imagine I'm just
going to stand in awe like,
00:22:31.08\00:22:33.35
"Oh, well, it's Jesus,
00:22:33.38\00:22:35.72
the Creator, the
God of the universe.
00:22:35.75\00:22:39.22
He's really here
standing before me."
00:22:39.25\00:22:41.12
I can't wait
for that day, right?
00:22:41.16\00:22:42.49
Amen. Amen.
00:22:42.52\00:22:43.86
First angel's
message, Revelation 14:7,
00:22:43.89\00:22:46.93
"Fear God and give glory to Him,
00:22:46.96\00:22:48.46
for the hour of His judgment
has come and worship Him
00:22:48.50\00:22:51.37
who made the heaven
and the earth, and the sea,
00:22:51.40\00:22:53.13
and the springs of waters."
00:22:53.17\00:22:54.94
Why is He Creator?
00:22:54.97\00:22:56.37
He deserves worship,
because He is Creator.
00:22:56.40\00:22:59.34
Revelation 4:11,
hey, the 24 elders get it.
00:22:59.37\00:23:02.14
They got it.
00:23:02.18\00:23:03.51
And Revelation 4:11,
it says, "You are worthy,
00:23:03.55\00:23:05.08
oh, God, to receive
glory and honor and power,
00:23:05.11\00:23:07.78
for You created all things,
and by Your will they were,
00:23:07.82\00:23:10.92
they exist and were created."
00:23:10.95\00:23:13.46
My friends, we
have to fear the Lord.
00:23:13.49\00:23:14.82
And, of course,
we know this as well,
00:23:14.86\00:23:16.36
as a second component to
that we need to obey Him,
00:23:16.39\00:23:18.69
because we respect
Him, because we honor Him,
00:23:18.73\00:23:21.10
because we give Him
that reverential awe
00:23:21.13\00:23:23.10
that He deserves,
the fear of the Lord,
00:23:23.13\00:23:25.03
we want to obey Him that
should be the response of that.
00:23:25.07\00:23:27.77
Deuteronomy 10:12-13.
00:23:27.80\00:23:29.34
We just read it
earlier, "To walk in the ways
00:23:29.37\00:23:31.61
and to love Him."
00:23:31.64\00:23:32.97
Notice we obey Him, why?
00:23:33.01\00:23:34.41
Because we love Him. Amen.
00:23:34.44\00:23:35.81
Because we love Him, because
He first loved us, right?
00:23:35.84\00:23:38.41
To serve the Lord your
God with all your heart,
00:23:38.45\00:23:40.38
with all your soul, and to keep
the commandments of the Lord.
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That's what it says.
00:23:43.62\00:23:44.95
And again, I can,
there's a whole lot
00:23:44.99\00:23:46.32
more scripture, but I got to
go back to Ecclesiastes 12:13.
00:23:46.35\00:23:49.69
Because not only does it
say to fear the Lord, notice,
00:23:49.72\00:23:52.23
let us hear the
conclusion of the whole matter,
00:23:52.26\00:23:53.70
fear God and
keep His commandments,
00:23:53.73\00:23:56.67
for this is the
whole duty of man.
00:23:56.70\00:23:59.17
My friends, if we're
going to be in the heaven
00:23:59.20\00:24:01.67
of heavens with our Creator,
may we learn to fear God,
00:24:01.70\00:24:04.91
keep His
commandments and serve Him.
00:24:04.94\00:24:06.98
We serve the
God of the universe.
00:24:07.01\00:24:08.34
He's not just any
mealy-nealy, little God,
00:24:08.38\00:24:10.18
like all of these other
false pagan gods of the world.
00:24:10.21\00:24:13.01
Yes.
00:24:13.05\00:24:14.38
He is the God of the universe,
and He deserves our awe.
00:24:14.42\00:24:18.12
Amen. Well done.
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Now we're going to continue
our study with our dear pastor,
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Pastor Kenny Shelton.
00:25:07.54\00:25:09.64
Thank you.
00:25:09.67\00:25:11.01
Well, Tuesday's lesson talking
about Deuteronomy in Jeremiah.
00:25:11.04\00:25:13.17
So you know what
a blessing that is.
00:25:13.21\00:25:15.34
And we'll see, I'm
gonna use in our lesson guide
00:25:15.38\00:25:17.98
that we have here is
couple of paragraphs,
00:25:18.01\00:25:20.08
'cause it tells a
story about a young man said,
00:25:20.12\00:25:23.18
an agnostic and with
passionate secret for truth.
00:25:23.22\00:25:25.95
And we love
passionate seekers for truth.
00:25:25.99\00:25:29.96
Just to find them,
you got to go out and beat
00:25:29.99\00:25:31.56
the bushes sometime, but
praise God, they're there.
00:25:31.59\00:25:34.00
The truth that led him you know,
00:25:34.03\00:25:36.13
let him
actually to Jesus Christ.
00:25:36.16\00:25:37.97
Eventually he came, notice this,
00:25:38.00\00:25:39.53
not only to believe in
God, the Father, the Son, Jesus,
00:25:39.57\00:25:43.81
but also accepted
00:25:43.84\00:25:45.47
the Seventh-day
Adventist message.
00:25:45.51\00:25:47.48
Notice as it goes on.
00:25:47.51\00:25:48.84
His favorite verse in
the Bible is Jeremiah 29:13.
00:25:48.88\00:25:51.61
We've read that
several times in this study,
00:25:51.65\00:25:53.42
this quarter, praise God.
00:25:53.45\00:25:54.78
It's always good. It gets
better every time we read it.
00:25:54.82\00:25:57.35
It says, "And you
will seek Me and find Me
00:25:57.39\00:25:59.92
when you search
for Me with," what?
00:25:59.95\00:26:01.79
Oh, I like that,
"With all your heart."
00:26:01.82\00:26:04.53
Years later,
however, studying his Bible,
00:26:04.56\00:26:06.59
he found the verse again.
00:26:06.63\00:26:08.60
But way back in the
Book of Deuteronomy,
00:26:08.63\00:26:11.73
that is, Jeremiah
got it from Moses.
00:26:11.77\00:26:15.90
I mean, that to me, that's just
powerful when you look at it.
00:26:15.94\00:26:18.27
And then our lesson
guide, you know, our study says,
00:26:18.31\00:26:20.38
go back to Deuteronomy 4.
00:26:20.41\00:26:22.21
Well, bless our hearts.
00:26:22.24\00:26:23.58
We've been there a lot
of times, but you know,
00:26:23.61\00:26:24.95
is maybe the first
time that you've joined us,
00:26:24.98\00:26:26.31
and so you don't know about it.
00:26:26.35\00:26:27.85
And so I think it's good
we go back to Deuteronomy 4,
00:26:27.88\00:26:31.62
sorry, and then read
verses 23 through 29.
00:26:31.65\00:26:34.72
We could probably go over
00:26:34.76\00:26:36.89
and just hit some
high points on it,
00:26:36.93\00:26:38.33
but somebody might miss them.
00:26:38.36\00:26:39.69
I'm always afraid
somebody is going, misses it,
00:26:39.73\00:26:42.16
but somebody is going
to miss something here
00:26:42.20\00:26:43.73
if we don't read it.
00:26:43.77\00:26:45.10
So I just pray by the grace
00:26:45.13\00:26:47.44
of God that we'll have our
ears open and listen to this.
00:26:47.47\00:26:50.37
I'll start with
verse 23, shall we?
00:26:50.41\00:26:52.47
Go through verse 29.
00:26:52.51\00:26:55.54
It says here, "Take
heed unto yourselves,
00:26:55.58\00:26:57.88
lest ye forget the
covenant of the Lord your God,
00:26:57.91\00:27:00.68
which he made with you,
and made you a graven image,
00:27:00.72\00:27:03.25
or the likeness of anything,
00:27:03.28\00:27:04.85
which the Lord thy
God hath forbidden thee.
00:27:04.89\00:27:07.72
For the Lord thy God is a
consuming fire, even," what?
00:27:07.76\00:27:11.56
It says, "Even a jealous God.
00:27:11.59\00:27:13.83
And when thou
shalt beget children,
00:27:13.86\00:27:15.43
and children's children,
ye shall have," notice this,
00:27:15.46\00:27:18.37
may remembered,
"remained long in the land,
00:27:18.40\00:27:21.40
and shall corrupt yourselves,
and make a graven image,
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or the likeness of anything,
00:27:24.41\00:27:25.74
and shall do evil in the
sight of the Lord thy God,
00:27:25.77\00:27:27.78
to provoke him to anger:
00:27:27.81\00:27:29.64
I call heaven and earth
00:27:29.68\00:27:31.01
to witness against you this day,
00:27:31.05\00:27:32.95
that ye shall soon
utterly perish from off the land
00:27:32.98\00:27:36.38
whereunto you go for
over Jordan to possess it,
00:27:36.42\00:27:39.69
ye shall not
prolong your days upon it,
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but shall utterly be destroyed."
00:27:41.86\00:27:44.13
Verse 27, "And the Lord shall
scatter you among the nations,
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and ye shall be left few
in number among the heathen,
00:27:47.73\00:27:50.77
whither the Lord
shall," notice, "lead you."
00:27:50.80\00:27:53.64
Verse 28, "And
there ye shall serve gods,
00:27:53.67\00:27:56.64
the work of men's
hands, wood and stone,
00:27:56.67\00:27:59.04
which neither see, nor
hear, nor eat, nor smell."
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Verse 29,
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"But if from thence thou
shalt seek the Lord thy God,
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thou shalt find him,
00:28:06.92\00:28:08.82
if you seek with
him with all your heart,
00:28:08.85\00:28:10.69
and with all your soul."
00:28:10.72\00:28:12.05
After I read these verses,
00:28:12.09\00:28:13.96
and I read them
this morning, again,
00:28:13.99\00:28:15.49
we've read them
several different times,
00:28:15.52\00:28:16.86
it really
touched my heart afresh.
00:28:16.89\00:28:19.43
You know, that's
the way it should be.
00:28:19.46\00:28:20.80
It was, it's fresh every morning
00:28:20.83\00:28:22.16
if we really get into it.
00:28:22.20\00:28:23.53
And I was reading this,
especially verses 28 and 29,
00:28:23.57\00:28:28.37
that God is saying, "I
know what you're going to do.
00:28:28.40\00:28:31.67
I know what you're
going to do in advance."
00:28:31.71\00:28:33.94
And He said, "How could this,"
00:28:33.98\00:28:36.14
I'm trying to put my mind like,
00:28:36.18\00:28:38.01
above what I'm thinking
that God love a universe.
00:28:38.05\00:28:42.15
Yeah.
00:28:42.18\00:28:43.52
He looks down, and He says,
00:28:43.55\00:28:44.89
"You're going to be
worshiping these things of wood,
00:28:44.92\00:28:48.09
things that men make with
their hands that they can't see,
00:28:48.12\00:28:50.59
they can't eat, they can't hear,
00:28:50.63\00:28:51.96
they can't do anything for you.
00:28:51.99\00:28:54.03
There's nothing, they can't eat,
00:28:54.06\00:28:55.56
they can't smell,
they can't do anything."
00:28:55.60\00:28:58.47
And basically, He's telling
He could do everything for us,
00:28:58.50\00:29:01.57
and yet we exchange
these things that can't smell,
00:29:01.60\00:29:04.64
that can't do, that
can't work any miracle,
00:29:04.67\00:29:06.61
we exchange them for
the God of the universe.
00:29:06.64\00:29:09.74
And then He says, "Kenny,
00:29:09.78\00:29:12.08
when you get done playing
with those little wooden gods,
00:29:12.11\00:29:17.25
those little strange
gods that can't do you
00:29:17.29\00:29:19.95
any good at all, when
you get tired of that,
00:29:19.99\00:29:23.83
when you're
ready to give it up."
00:29:23.86\00:29:26.53
He said, oh, verse 29, He said,
00:29:26.56\00:29:29.16
"And then if you seek me, call."
00:29:29.20\00:29:32.93
Before you call, I like
that before you call, right?
00:29:32.97\00:29:34.87
Yes. Amen.
00:29:34.90\00:29:36.24
When you call, He said,
00:29:36.27\00:29:37.61
"I'm going to be there for you."
00:29:37.64\00:29:38.97
Yes. Wow.
00:29:39.01\00:29:40.34
Just kind of mentioned
in our thought as humans.
00:29:40.38\00:29:43.01
I tell most people,
"No, I won't be there for you
00:29:43.04\00:29:45.01
because of what you've done.
00:29:45.05\00:29:46.82
That's not the
godly way to handle it."
00:29:46.85\00:29:49.55
We're given an example here.
00:29:49.58\00:29:52.29
If you call, so pause it,
00:29:52.32\00:29:53.66
if you call
you're going to find me.
00:29:53.69\00:29:55.42
Please get that, if we
get nothing else out of this,
00:29:55.46\00:29:57.93
these the less
than the whole quarter,
00:29:57.96\00:30:00.00
if we've strayed, if
we've got other gods before Him,
00:30:00.03\00:30:02.43
and we decide to
put them away and God,
00:30:02.46\00:30:04.67
can you come back in my life?
00:30:04.70\00:30:06.03
Oh, I definitely will.
00:30:06.07\00:30:08.17
You seek me, you'll find me,
00:30:08.20\00:30:10.27
but you've got to
do with all your heart,
00:30:10.31\00:30:11.91
Kenny, because
part of that heart
00:30:11.94\00:30:13.27
and that mind has been
contaminated by the junk
00:30:13.31\00:30:16.08
that you've been
taking in by some
00:30:16.11\00:30:17.45
of these other things.
00:30:17.48\00:30:19.01
So there's needs
to be a cleansing,
00:30:19.05\00:30:20.68
need to put the Word of God
in heart that I might not sin
00:30:20.72\00:30:23.18
against Him.
00:30:23.22\00:30:24.55
And so, you know, I
read then I thought,
00:30:24.59\00:30:26.35
"Man, that's just
so good that He's going
00:30:26.39\00:30:28.26
to always be there for you
00:30:28.29\00:30:30.13
if you call and you seek
Him with all your heart."
00:30:30.16\00:30:32.86
I think some time with my mind,
00:30:32.89\00:30:35.03
you may think
everybody's mind is different.
00:30:35.06\00:30:38.00
That sometimes we say,
"Boy, I just don't know,
00:30:38.03\00:30:41.90
I forget things too easy."
00:30:41.94\00:30:43.34
We say sometime we forget.
00:30:43.37\00:30:45.07
And you know what our
lesson brings this out
00:30:45.11\00:30:46.84
if we had time to go into
a lot more into this here,
00:30:46.88\00:30:50.45
that if you talk
about a memory problem,
00:30:50.48\00:30:52.75
we're talking
about a bad memory,
00:30:52.78\00:30:54.68
I've noticed for bad
memory, if someone says to me
00:30:54.72\00:30:58.75
and pulls me aside,
four things we can go into
00:30:58.79\00:31:01.02
and think we have time to do it.
00:31:01.06\00:31:02.39
But if somebody
pulls you aside and says,
00:31:02.42\00:31:05.53
"I'm going to
tell you something,
00:31:05.56\00:31:06.90
I don't tell anybody."
00:31:06.93\00:31:09.06
All of sudden my
memory becomes real good.
00:31:09.10\00:31:12.90
I think about it.
00:31:12.93\00:31:14.57
When I was
younger and growing up
00:31:14.60\00:31:17.37
and somebody would say
something, something dirty.
00:31:17.41\00:31:20.74
Right.
00:31:20.78\00:31:22.11
Something that
wasn't right. That's true.
00:31:22.14\00:31:23.48
That's true Why? This world
did it, just stay in there.
00:31:23.51\00:31:26.08
Right.
00:31:26.11\00:31:27.45
You know, 40, 50 years
later, I still remember I know,
00:31:27.48\00:31:30.69
we're supposed to cleanse
it all out, but I'm saying,
00:31:30.72\00:31:32.85
why a bad memory turns into,
00:31:32.89\00:31:37.33
we can remember these things.
00:31:37.36\00:31:39.33
He's telling us here
00:31:39.36\00:31:40.70
we need to be concerned
about getting those things out
00:31:40.73\00:31:43.13
to watch for those
things that come our way
00:31:43.16\00:31:46.63
that take our
mind off of Christ.
00:31:46.67\00:31:49.44
You know, whatever it
might be, put it aside.
00:31:49.47\00:31:51.17
And when somebody comes to say,
00:31:51.21\00:31:52.77
"I've heard, did you hear?"
00:31:52.81\00:31:55.48
You ought to say,
"Get behind me, Satan.
00:31:55.51\00:31:56.85
I don't want to hear
that." Ain't that right?
00:31:56.88\00:31:58.55
And some people will
say, "Well, you know,
00:31:58.58\00:32:00.52
let's use some caution here,
00:32:00.55\00:32:02.28
when it's opened
needs to be dealt with."
00:32:02.32\00:32:04.32
The enemy could be speaking,
00:32:04.35\00:32:06.42
you know, we have
a work to do for God.
00:32:06.45\00:32:08.02
Make sure and watch,
you know, let's be careful.
00:32:08.06\00:32:10.56
People have you to watch
things you shouldn't be watching
00:32:10.59\00:32:12.93
and doing what you shouldn't be.
00:32:12.96\00:32:14.30
And those are
the things you just,
00:32:14.33\00:32:16.26
the enemy just tries
to keep them in your mind.
00:32:16.30\00:32:18.70
Moses said to the people
just turn it, flip it over.
00:32:18.73\00:32:22.10
He said, "Let's
examine the greatness of God,
00:32:22.14\00:32:24.74
let's examine
the goodness of God.
00:32:24.77\00:32:27.38
These things will
help us to reevaluate."
00:32:27.41\00:32:31.25
And now we've kind of
discussed that a little bit
00:32:31.28\00:32:33.01
about evaluate or reevaluate
ourselves in our relationship
00:32:33.05\00:32:37.15
with Christ.
00:32:37.19\00:32:38.85
Reevaluate His
greatness, His goodness,
00:32:38.89\00:32:41.06
His longsuffering, His glory,
and His willingness to forgive.
00:32:41.09\00:32:44.56
And when I seek
Him with all my heart,
00:32:44.59\00:32:46.16
soul and mind, He will be found,
00:32:46.19\00:32:48.06
we can find Him.
00:32:48.10\00:32:49.43
Yes. You know,
we're dealing with...
00:32:49.46\00:32:50.80
Yeah, we're dealing
with the only true God.
00:32:50.83\00:32:53.27
I think you brought that
out beautifully a while ago.
00:32:53.30\00:32:54.97
A living God, an
infinite God, an eternal God,
00:32:55.00\00:32:58.27
a God that's there,
00:32:58.31\00:32:59.64
and why would we want to
trade Him for some little...
00:32:59.67\00:33:01.88
Well, would carve things,
00:33:01.91\00:33:04.25
right little
idols in which we do.
00:33:04.28\00:33:05.68
All powerful,
yet if we reach out,
00:33:05.71\00:33:08.88
this just simply says
here, we call upon Him, He says,
00:33:08.92\00:33:11.29
"I'm going to be there."
00:33:11.32\00:33:12.65
Amen.
00:33:12.69\00:33:14.02
And He reminds the
children of Israel over
00:33:14.06\00:33:15.72
and over and
over, "Let's be careful,
00:33:15.76\00:33:17.13
we don't offend God,
He's a consuming fire.
00:33:17.16\00:33:20.83
He's a jealous God.
00:33:20.86\00:33:23.03
"And I read that as a
child younger and I still,
00:33:23.06\00:33:25.60
you know,
somebody saying I look at,
00:33:25.63\00:33:27.40
it's not the kind of
jealousy that we think about.
00:33:27.44\00:33:29.20
When we say
jealous here in human,
00:33:29.24\00:33:31.77
we're envious of somebody else,
00:33:31.81\00:33:33.14
we could do blah-blah, you know,
00:33:33.17\00:33:34.98
God says I'm jealous,
He wants us to come to Him.
00:33:35.01\00:33:38.48
He wants to save
us in His kingdom
00:33:38.51\00:33:41.08
when He comes.
00:33:41.12\00:33:42.45
And I've often said this,
00:33:42.48\00:33:43.82
and I mean it
with my whole heart,
00:33:43.85\00:33:45.19
"If I miss heaven,
00:33:45.22\00:33:46.55
number one it will be my choice.
00:33:46.59\00:33:49.02
It will be my own choice.
00:33:49.06\00:33:50.39
But if I miss heaven,
00:33:50.43\00:33:51.76
I've missed my
purpose for being here."
00:33:51.79\00:33:53.50
What other purpose could
there possibly be to endure
00:33:53.53\00:33:56.77
the mess that we're in and going
00:33:56.80\00:33:58.33
to endure other
than prepare for heaven?
00:33:58.37\00:34:01.50
That's good. Right.
00:34:01.54\00:34:02.87
My brother said, yes,
we did a little program,
00:34:02.90\00:34:04.31
he used the word, he said,
00:34:04.34\00:34:05.67
"This is what we need to
do to get ready for Jesus."
00:34:05.71\00:34:07.38
And we know what he
said, prepare, prepare.
00:34:07.41\00:34:10.81
And it kept coming out, prepare.
00:34:10.85\00:34:12.51
I thought, man,
he's right. Yeah.
00:34:12.55\00:34:14.02
Prepare for the coming
of Jesus. That's right.
00:34:14.05\00:34:16.45
And that is reevaluate ourselves
00:34:16.48\00:34:18.29
and our relationship with Him.
00:34:18.32\00:34:21.62
Hebrews 10:27, but a fearful,
00:34:21.66\00:34:23.49
now a certain fearful
looking for a judgment
00:34:23.53\00:34:26.19
and fiery indignation,
00:34:26.23\00:34:28.36
which shall
devour the adversaries.
00:34:28.40\00:34:31.43
Those that go against
God, I like this here,
00:34:31.47\00:34:34.17
fire consumes, notice this,
only that which is fuel for it.
00:34:34.20\00:34:40.18
I don't want to be fuel
for that, that fire, do you?
00:34:40.21\00:34:44.75
So it behooves us to get
ready for the coming of Jesus.
00:34:44.78\00:34:48.02
It behooves us to call upon Him.
00:34:48.05\00:34:50.69
It behooves us
right now to get rid
00:34:50.72\00:34:52.99
of anything that
would cause division
00:34:53.02\00:34:55.16
or separation right now
that separate us from God.
00:34:55.19\00:34:58.43
If we ever need
to be close to Him,
00:34:58.46\00:34:59.89
I really believe it's right now.
00:34:59.93\00:35:02.06
The judgments are
falling in the land.
00:35:02.10\00:35:03.67
He says, "Get ready, get
ready, because I'm coming back
00:35:03.70\00:35:05.87
and I just beg
you, by the grace God,
00:35:05.90\00:35:07.94
get ready, He's coming back."
00:35:07.97\00:35:10.04
Amen. Thank you so much,
Pastor Kenny, each one of you.
00:35:10.07\00:35:13.88
I feel like I'm
having church. Glory.
00:35:13.91\00:35:15.44
Don't you feel like church? Yes.
00:35:15.48\00:35:16.81
That's right.
00:35:16.85\00:35:18.18
Opening up the Word of God,
00:35:18.21\00:35:19.55
and the Holy Spirit
is convicting my heart,
00:35:19.58\00:35:21.22
I know that.
00:35:21.25\00:35:22.58
So I'm so grateful for the
Holy Spirit's work in our lives.
00:35:22.62\00:35:25.75
I'm Jill Morikone, and
I have Wednesday's lesson,
00:35:25.79\00:35:28.66
which is, What
Does the Lord Require?
00:35:28.69\00:35:31.66
We're going to
the Book of Micah.
00:35:31.69\00:35:34.13
Pastor Kenny had Jeremiah
and Deuteronomy, Pastor Ryan,
00:35:34.16\00:35:38.20
Nehemiah and Deuteronomy,
00:35:38.23\00:35:40.20
and I have
Micah and Deuteronomy.
00:35:40.24\00:35:43.41
You know,
Deuteronomy if we look at it
00:35:43.44\00:35:45.01
as you're turning
to Micah, 'cause Micah
00:35:45.04\00:35:46.51
is a hard book to find
as you're turning them.
00:35:46.54\00:35:49.61
Deuteronomy is
the reaffirmation,
00:35:49.64\00:35:51.65
you could say, of the covenant.
00:35:51.68\00:35:53.05
The people are
standing on the borders
00:35:53.08\00:35:54.98
of the Promised Land,
and God reaffirms His end
00:35:55.02\00:35:58.92
of the covenant with the people.
00:35:58.95\00:36:00.76
And the people
are clearly reminded,
00:36:00.79\00:36:02.99
they need to keep their end,
their portion of the covenant.
00:36:03.02\00:36:08.20
When we get to
the Book of Micah,
00:36:08.23\00:36:09.60
of course, he's
a prophet to Judah,
00:36:09.63\00:36:11.17
and he prophesied under
Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah.
00:36:11.20\00:36:14.47
The message of the
book is that God hates
00:36:14.50\00:36:17.64
and condemn sin,
whether it's religious,
00:36:17.67\00:36:20.78
economic, social, and
how we treat other people.
00:36:20.81\00:36:25.11
And because of that
sin, judgment is coming.
00:36:25.15\00:36:29.58
And yet, in this book,
00:36:29.62\00:36:31.55
we see that God
still is merciful.
00:36:31.59\00:36:34.62
God still is
longsuffering. Yes, He is.
00:36:34.66\00:36:38.13
God still is extending
hope to the people of Judah,
00:36:38.16\00:36:42.26
and by extension
to you and I today.
00:36:42.30\00:36:44.77
So we're in Micah 6,
00:36:44.80\00:36:46.13
we're going to read the first
eight verses of Micah 6:1-8.
00:36:46.17\00:36:51.24
This is, we talked about
this a couple lessons ago.
00:36:51.27\00:36:55.24
This is a reeb, Pastor
Kenny, it's a Hebrew word,
00:36:55.28\00:36:59.25
but it means a covenant lawsuit.
00:36:59.28\00:37:01.38
This is God's covenant lawsuit
against the people of Judah.
00:37:01.42\00:37:07.02
God's taking legal action,
00:37:07.06\00:37:09.76
because they failed to
keep their end of the covenant.
00:37:09.79\00:37:13.53
Our lesson talks
about it being reeb,
00:37:13.56\00:37:15.16
but also if you
study Deuteronomy 26,
00:37:15.20\00:37:17.93
we see a reeb
there, Deuteronomy 4,
00:37:17.97\00:37:19.90
I'm sorry, 4:26, God
calls heaven and earth
00:37:19.93\00:37:23.91
as witnesses against the people.
00:37:23.94\00:37:26.64
If you read Isaiah
Chapter 1, we find another reeb,
00:37:26.68\00:37:31.31
another covenant lawsuit.
00:37:31.35\00:37:33.48
In that case, God calls
heaven and earth to listen.
00:37:33.52\00:37:37.95
If you read Acts
Chapter 7, we find another reeb.
00:37:37.99\00:37:41.79
This is Stephen, of
course, he recounts the history
00:37:41.82\00:37:45.46
of the children of Israel,
and then what does he say,
00:37:45.49\00:37:47.86
"You stiff necked people."
00:37:47.90\00:37:50.00
And here comes the judgment
00:37:50.03\00:37:52.70
against the nation of Israel.
00:37:52.73\00:37:56.04
So in this case,
in Micah Chapter 6,
00:37:56.07\00:37:58.44
it's not heaven and
earth called as witnesses,
00:37:58.47\00:38:01.14
it's the mountains and the hills
00:38:01.18\00:38:03.61
called as witnesses.
00:38:03.65\00:38:06.55
So let's look at it,
we'll look at the reeb,
00:38:06.58\00:38:08.15
this is the
first couple of verses,
00:38:08.18\00:38:09.95
then we look at the appeal,
and finally we get the answer.
00:38:09.98\00:38:13.86
So let's look at the
reeb, this is verses 1 and 2.
00:38:13.89\00:38:16.26
Here, now what the Lord says,
00:38:16.29\00:38:19.09
"Arise, plead your
case before the mountains,
00:38:19.13\00:38:22.80
and let the
hills hear your voice.
00:38:22.83\00:38:25.87
Hear, O you mountains,
the Lord's complaint."
00:38:25.90\00:38:28.90
That word in Hebrew is
reeb, the Lord's complaint.
00:38:28.94\00:38:32.74
And you
foundations of the earth,
00:38:32.77\00:38:34.74
for the Lord has a
complaint," there's reeb again,
00:38:34.78\00:38:37.38
"against His people,
00:38:37.41\00:38:40.45
and He will
contend with Israel."
00:38:40.48\00:38:42.12
Now the name Israel,
one of its meanings is what?
00:38:42.15\00:38:44.99
One who contends with God.
00:38:45.02\00:38:47.26
But in this case,
00:38:47.29\00:38:48.62
they're not contending with God,
00:38:48.66\00:38:50.39
God is contending with them.
00:38:50.43\00:38:53.16
Good. All right.
00:38:53.19\00:38:54.63
This time of the
children of Judah was a time
00:38:54.66\00:38:57.23
of upheaval and crisis.
00:38:57.27\00:38:58.77
If you look at
Ahaz's leadership,
00:38:58.80\00:39:01.40
it's probably one of the
most evil kings of Judah,
00:39:01.44\00:39:03.87
He sacrificed His
own children in the fire,
00:39:03.91\00:39:07.84
and he placed idol
worship within the precincts
00:39:07.88\00:39:11.48
of the temple.
00:39:11.51\00:39:13.45
The people had
clearly violated the covenant.
00:39:13.48\00:39:15.98
They were in
apostasy, they were in lethargy,
00:39:16.02\00:39:19.25
they were in
hypocrisy, and their treatment
00:39:19.29\00:39:22.39
of their fellow
Israelites violated
00:39:22.42\00:39:25.19
the covenant
pre-principles that they had
00:39:25.23\00:39:28.40
promised to uphold.
00:39:28.43\00:39:29.76
There's idolatry taking place.
There's perversion of justice.
00:39:29.80\00:39:34.24
Let's look at the appeal.
00:39:34.27\00:39:35.60
This is verses 3
through 5, we're in Micah 6:3-5.
00:39:35.64\00:39:39.27
Oh, my people, God's
talking to the people.
00:39:39.31\00:39:41.58
"O My people, what
have I done to you?
00:39:41.61\00:39:45.65
How have I wearied you?"
00:39:45.68\00:39:50.49
I don't know about
you, but that gets me.
00:39:50.52\00:39:52.52
How have I wearied you?
00:39:52.55\00:39:56.69
Do you not think
we've wearied God?
00:39:56.73\00:39:58.49
Do you not think
the children of Judah,
00:39:58.53\00:39:59.96
the children of Israel
had wearied God by breaking
00:40:00.00\00:40:03.33
the covenant, and yet
God comes to them and says,
00:40:03.37\00:40:06.13
"My people, how
have I wearied you?"
00:40:06.17\00:40:10.37
I remember when I was young,
00:40:10.41\00:40:12.37
the strongest discipline
00:40:12.41\00:40:13.74
I ever received
was not a spanking.
00:40:13.78\00:40:16.41
And I got more than my
fair share of spanking.
00:40:16.44\00:40:19.51
I deserved them clearly.
00:40:19.55\00:40:21.88
But the strongest
discipline I ever received,
00:40:21.92\00:40:23.79
I'll never forget it. I
was probably 10 years old.
00:40:23.82\00:40:25.65
My mom came in the bedroom
and I was standing by the bed,
00:40:25.69\00:40:28.29
and I knew I was
keeping my backside away
00:40:28.32\00:40:30.13
'cause I knew I was
about ready to get it.
00:40:30.16\00:40:32.06
And she said, she knelt
down, and she began to cry.
00:40:32.09\00:40:35.80
And she said,
"God, Jill is rebellious.
00:40:35.83\00:40:39.57
I don't know how
to get through to her.
00:40:39.60\00:40:42.20
I want her to follow You,
but she's not following You."
00:40:42.24\00:40:46.24
That was the best
discipline I ever got.
00:40:46.27\00:40:48.04
Absolutely.
00:40:48.08\00:40:49.41
How have I wearied you?
00:40:49.44\00:40:52.85
God says, "What
have I done?" Right.
00:40:52.88\00:40:55.48
And then He says,
"Testify against me."
00:40:55.52\00:40:58.19
And He goes on to proclaim
how He has kept His side
00:40:58.22\00:41:01.59
of the covenant, even though
the people they broke theirs.
00:41:01.62\00:41:04.63
He says, "I brought you
up from the land of Egypt.
00:41:04.66\00:41:08.03
I redeemed you from
the house of bondage."
00:41:08.06\00:41:10.50
He reminds them
what He did to them.
00:41:10.53\00:41:14.10
"I sent before you
Moses, Aaron and Miriam,
00:41:14.14\00:41:17.21
I gave you good
leadership My people."
00:41:17.24\00:41:20.94
Remember now what
Balak, King of Moab counseled?
00:41:20.98\00:41:23.78
And what Balaam, the
son of Beor answered him.
00:41:23.81\00:41:26.05
What is he saying?
00:41:26.08\00:41:27.78
That Balaam was supposed to
curse the children of Israel.
00:41:27.82\00:41:32.32
And what does God say?
00:41:32.35\00:41:33.69
"I turned it into a blessing.
00:41:33.72\00:41:35.06
I would not lay him curse
00:41:35.09\00:41:36.62
when I protected you from that."
00:41:36.66\00:41:38.76
It says, "And from
Acacia Grove to Gilgal,"
00:41:38.79\00:41:41.83
those were two cities on
either side of the Jordan.
00:41:41.86\00:41:44.07
So what is He saying?
00:41:44.10\00:41:45.43
"I'm the one who brought
you over the River Jordan.
00:41:45.47\00:41:48.27
I'm the one who brought
you into the Promised Land."
00:41:48.30\00:41:51.41
Why did He do all this?
00:41:51.44\00:41:52.81
That you may know the
righteousness of the Lord.
00:41:52.84\00:41:57.11
Awesome. God
wanted them to know Him.
00:41:57.15\00:41:59.38
God wanted to reveal
His righteousness to them.
00:41:59.41\00:42:01.85
He reminds them that He kept
His portion of the covenant.
00:42:01.88\00:42:06.15
And now we see the
answer, in verses 6 and 7
00:42:06.19\00:42:08.46
the people answer,
and then God answers.
00:42:08.49\00:42:11.49
It says, "What shall I come with
00:42:11.53\00:42:13.09
what shall I
come before the Lord,
00:42:13.13\00:42:15.16
and bow myself
before the High God?
00:42:15.20\00:42:17.40
Shall I come before
Him with burnt offerings,
00:42:17.43\00:42:19.60
with calves a year old?
00:42:19.63\00:42:21.20
Will the Lord be
pleased with thousands of rams,
00:42:21.24\00:42:24.34
ten thousand rivers of oil?
00:42:24.37\00:42:26.61
Shall I give my
firstborn for my transgression,
00:42:26.64\00:42:30.11
the fruit of my body
for the sin of my soul?
00:42:30.15\00:42:32.98
What's going on?
00:42:33.01\00:42:34.35
The people are saying,
"God, what do you want?
00:42:34.38\00:42:36.69
Do you want more sacrifice?
00:42:36.72\00:42:38.55
Do you want more rams?
00:42:38.59\00:42:40.12
Do you want child sacrifices
like Ahaz had engaged in?
00:42:40.16\00:42:44.19
What are you looking for?"
00:42:44.23\00:42:45.56
God is not
interested in religious ritual.
00:42:45.59\00:42:48.73
God is not
interested in your hypocrisy.
00:42:48.76\00:42:52.07
God wants worship that is
not centered on outward show.
00:42:52.10\00:42:57.04
Amen.
00:42:57.07\00:42:58.41
It's time that we were
done as a people with legalism.
00:42:58.44\00:43:01.44
It's time that we were
done as a people with hypocrisy.
00:43:01.48\00:43:04.88
It's time that we were done
as a people with outward show,
00:43:04.91\00:43:09.82
and we get to the
heart of the matter.
00:43:09.85\00:43:11.25
And what is the
heart of the matter?
00:43:11.29\00:43:13.12
It's in verse 8.
00:43:13.15\00:43:14.79
He is showing you,
oh man, what is good.
00:43:14.82\00:43:18.33
What does the
Lord require of you?
00:43:18.36\00:43:20.43
Three things, but to
do justly, to love mercy,
00:43:20.46\00:43:26.30
to walk humbly with your God.
00:43:26.33\00:43:30.11
What is God's answer?
00:43:30.14\00:43:31.47
He just says, "I
want you in covenant.
00:43:31.51\00:43:33.41
I want you to walk in
covenant obedience with Me
00:43:33.44\00:43:38.21
as My children."
00:43:38.25\00:43:39.71
We are to respond
to God's forgiveness,
00:43:39.75\00:43:42.25
respond to His deliverance,
respond to His love,
00:43:42.28\00:43:46.32
respond to His grace.
00:43:46.35\00:43:48.46
It's the same verse.
00:43:48.49\00:43:49.82
This is similar, this verse,
00:43:49.86\00:43:51.19
to what Pastor Ryan had
talked about in Deuteronomy
00:43:51.23\00:43:54.06
Chapter 10.
00:43:54.10\00:43:55.73
Israel, what does the
Lord your God require of you?
00:43:55.76\00:43:57.93
It's the same thing coming
back here again in Micah 6:8.
00:43:57.97\00:44:03.20
That threefold
answer to do justly.
00:44:03.24\00:44:05.57
We are to act with
justice toward other people.
00:44:05.61\00:44:09.61
This is how we treat people.
00:44:09.64\00:44:11.05
This is our, you could
say horizontal relationship
00:44:11.08\00:44:14.95
with how we treat
our brothers and sisters,
00:44:14.98\00:44:17.05
whether they know God or don't,
00:44:17.09\00:44:18.99
whether they're
in the church or not,
00:44:19.02\00:44:20.82
whether we like them or not,
we're to treat people justly.
00:44:20.86\00:44:24.23
Number two, we
are to love mercy.
00:44:24.26\00:44:26.39
This word mercy hesed, Shelley,
00:44:26.43\00:44:29.00
I love that God's
covenant to loyalty,
00:44:29.03\00:44:31.87
His loving-kindness.
00:44:31.90\00:44:34.34
We're not just to treat
people fairly and honestly
00:44:34.37\00:44:36.81
with justice, we're
to love other people.
00:44:36.84\00:44:39.41
This is horizontal.
00:44:39.44\00:44:40.94
We are to extend mercy
to our brothers and sisters.
00:44:40.98\00:44:44.91
And number three,
00:44:44.95\00:44:46.28
we are to walk
humbly with our God.
00:44:46.31\00:44:49.25
This is vertical.
00:44:49.28\00:44:50.62
This is our relationship
with God to walk in humility.
00:44:50.65\00:44:55.92
You see, true biblical faith,
00:44:55.96\00:44:58.16
it affects every
aspect of our lives.
00:44:58.19\00:45:01.83
Faith is not just
something we proclaim,
00:45:01.86\00:45:03.87
I'm a Seventh-day
Adventist Christian
00:45:03.90\00:45:05.43
or I'm whatever
denomination, no.
00:45:05.47\00:45:07.87
It is lifestyle, it enters
into every fiber of our being,
00:45:07.90\00:45:13.48
and it changes who we are.
00:45:13.51\00:45:15.71
Amen. Amen.
00:45:15.74\00:45:17.31
Praise the Lord.
00:45:17.35\00:45:18.68
That was really powerful, Jill,
00:45:18.71\00:45:20.05
and every one of you
guys have all just knocked it
00:45:20.08\00:45:21.85
out of the park.
00:45:21.88\00:45:23.22
I'm James Rafferty, and
I have Thursday's lesson,
00:45:23.25\00:45:26.35
which is Daniel's Prayer.
00:45:26.39\00:45:29.59
You know, Christian experience
is based on God's Word.
00:45:29.62\00:45:33.29
And Daniel's Christian
experience was stellar,
00:45:33.33\00:45:37.83
especially in Daniel Chapter 9.
00:45:37.87\00:45:39.50
And that's because
Daniel's experience
00:45:39.53\00:45:42.20
was based on the
Word of God, specifically,
00:45:42.24\00:45:45.57
it was based on
Deuteronomy 4:30-31.
00:45:45.61\00:45:50.61
And we just want to
look at those two verses
00:45:50.65\00:45:52.88
as we open up our
lesson study here on Daniel.
00:45:52.91\00:45:55.65
I don't know if you realize,
00:45:55.68\00:45:57.09
I didn't realize
00:45:57.12\00:45:58.45
how significant of
a connection there was
00:45:58.49\00:46:00.39
between Daniel Chapter 9,
and the Book of Deuteronomy.
00:46:00.42\00:46:03.86
But here it is,
Daniel's in captivity,
00:46:03.89\00:46:05.73
his whole nation
has been in apostasy,
00:46:05.76\00:46:08.13
they've been taken
captive by Babylon,
00:46:08.16\00:46:10.57
all the promises have failed,
and Daniel is beside himself.
00:46:10.60\00:46:14.77
He doesn't know what
to do, what to think.
00:46:14.80\00:46:16.67
He's just been given
this 2300 day prophecy,
00:46:16.71\00:46:19.04
the 70 years are
over, he's thinking,
00:46:19.07\00:46:20.84
"We've got to go back.
00:46:20.88\00:46:22.21
What's going on?" He's confused.
00:46:22.24\00:46:24.38
And what does he do?
00:46:24.41\00:46:25.75
He turns to the Book of the Law.
00:46:25.78\00:46:27.92
He turns to
Deuteronomy Chapter 4.
00:46:27.95\00:46:30.09
Look at these two verses
and tell me they don't describe
00:46:30.12\00:46:32.75
Daniel's experience
in Daniel Chapter 9.
00:46:32.79\00:46:35.26
Deuteronomy 4:30, "When
thou art in tribulation,"
00:46:35.29\00:46:38.79
oh, yeah, they
were in tribulation,
00:46:38.83\00:46:40.16
"when these things
are come upon thee,"
00:46:40.20\00:46:42.16
oh, they've
really come upon them,
00:46:42.20\00:46:43.80
"in the latter days after
all these kings rose and fell,
00:46:43.83\00:46:47.80
if thou turn to
the Lord thy God,
00:46:47.84\00:46:50.97
and shall be
obedient unto His voice."
00:46:51.01\00:46:52.91
That's what Daniel is doing.
00:46:52.94\00:46:54.28
He's turning to Lord, he's
been obedient unto his voice.
00:46:54.31\00:46:56.04
Verse 31, "For the Lord
thy God is a merciful God.
00:46:56.08\00:47:00.88
He will not forsake
thee, neither destroy thee,
00:47:00.92\00:47:03.75
nor forget the
covenant of thy fathers,
00:47:03.79\00:47:06.42
which he swear unto them."
00:47:06.45\00:47:08.42
This is what Daniel is doing.
00:47:08.46\00:47:09.89
Daniel has this amazing
experience in Daniel Chapter 9.
00:47:09.92\00:47:13.06
I'm just going to
summarize Daniel 9:1-19.
00:47:13.09\00:47:16.46
And by the way, this happened
in the first year of Darius.
00:47:16.50\00:47:19.77
The first year of Darius is also
00:47:19.80\00:47:21.14
when Daniel got
thrown into the lions' den
00:47:21.17\00:47:22.80
because he
refused to stop praying.
00:47:22.84\00:47:24.94
Guess what he's doing right now.
00:47:24.97\00:47:26.74
He's praying and who knows?
00:47:26.78\00:47:28.11
Maybe in lions' den
when he was praying,
00:47:28.14\00:47:30.01
we don't know.
00:47:30.05\00:47:31.38
But we know prayer is important.
00:47:31.41\00:47:32.75
It's vital for
us to be in prayer.
00:47:32.78\00:47:35.05
Daniel realizes this.
00:47:35.08\00:47:36.42
So he's willing to put his
life on the line as he prays.
00:47:36.45\00:47:39.49
Now, the reason
Daniel is praying
00:47:39.52\00:47:40.86
is because he's just
been given this prophecy,
00:47:40.89\00:47:42.46
this 2300 day
prophecy in Daniel Chapter 8,
00:47:42.49\00:47:45.56
specifically verse 14,
00:47:45.59\00:47:47.23
and he doesn't
know what it means.
00:47:47.26\00:47:48.86
So Daniel goes to prayer,
00:47:48.90\00:47:51.27
and he goes to
the Book of Jeremiah.
00:47:51.30\00:47:54.10
He goes to the Bible,
and he goes to the Lord
00:47:54.14\00:47:56.64
and he prays, and he
says, "Lord, I don't get it."
00:47:56.67\00:47:58.97
I mean, if you read Daniel 8:27,
00:47:59.01\00:48:00.71
he admits that.
00:48:00.74\00:48:02.08
You know,
sometimes, as preachers,
00:48:02.11\00:48:03.51
I've been in
ministry for 37 years,
00:48:03.55\00:48:05.05
and I don't want to admit
00:48:05.08\00:48:06.41
so readily that
there's something I don't know.
00:48:06.45\00:48:09.55
Daniel is an old
statesman at this time,
00:48:09.58\00:48:11.55
a politician and a man of God,
00:48:11.59\00:48:13.96
and he's ready to admit
he doesn't know something.
00:48:13.99\00:48:15.92
He doesn't know something about
00:48:15.96\00:48:17.29
what we all know
something about, right?
00:48:17.33\00:48:18.66
We all know about
the 2300 day prophecy,
00:48:18.69\00:48:20.03
you know what I mean.
00:48:20.06\00:48:21.40
He doesn't know it.
He doesn't understand.
00:48:21.43\00:48:22.76
He says, "Lord, I don't get it.
00:48:22.80\00:48:24.13
I don't understand it."
00:48:24.17\00:48:25.50
Daniel has
intellectual humility.
00:48:25.53\00:48:29.00
Yes. Intellectual humility.
00:48:29.04\00:48:30.41
Amen.
00:48:30.44\00:48:31.77
And then we see
Daniel, he fasts and he prays,
00:48:31.81\00:48:35.64
he humbles
himself before the Lord.
00:48:35.68\00:48:38.11
He's following an
outline that we find
00:48:38.15\00:48:40.12
all through the Old Testament.
00:48:40.15\00:48:41.48
Daniel has behavioral,
00:48:41.52\00:48:44.15
behavioral humility.
00:48:44.19\00:48:47.06
And then we see
Daniel, he has this attitude,
00:48:47.09\00:48:50.39
and it begins in verse 5,
00:48:50.43\00:48:51.79
he has this
attitude that so often
00:48:51.83\00:48:53.66
is missing in the
Christian experience.
00:48:53.70\00:48:55.23
Has this attitude of
confession that involves
00:48:55.26\00:48:58.03
a corporate confession.
00:48:58.07\00:48:59.40
Right.
00:48:59.43\00:49:00.77
He doesn't say they,
those guys, that church,
00:49:00.80\00:49:02.70
those people, he
says we, we have sinned.
00:49:02.74\00:49:05.54
Now, he's including
himself with the apostasy
00:49:05.57\00:49:07.74
of his entire nation here.
00:49:07.78\00:49:09.28
He's doing
something that Jesus does.
00:49:09.31\00:49:12.25
It's a corporate relationship,
00:49:12.28\00:49:14.35
a corporate
responsibility that Daniel
00:49:14.38\00:49:16.12
is taking on for
everyone else, we have sinned.
00:49:16.15\00:49:18.62
And He says this over
and over again, once, twice,
00:49:18.65\00:49:21.19
three, four, five,
six, seven, eight, nine,
00:49:21.22\00:49:23.86
all the way
through Daniel 9:5-11.
00:49:23.89\00:49:26.86
All the way through there,
00:49:26.90\00:49:28.23
he has this relational humility.
00:49:28.26\00:49:31.80
Relational humility, the
way he relates to people,
00:49:31.83\00:49:34.24
relational humility,
00:49:34.27\00:49:35.60
so he has intellectual humility,
00:49:35.64\00:49:37.17
behavioral humility,
and relational humility.
00:49:37.21\00:49:40.18
And then, as he gets
down to the last verses,
00:49:40.21\00:49:43.45
verses 17 to 19, he tells God
00:49:43.48\00:49:46.05
why it is this he's
asking all these things.
00:49:46.08\00:49:47.88
You know why he's
asking all these things?
00:49:47.92\00:49:50.45
Not so we can have this
big name and glory and fame,
00:49:50.49\00:49:53.86
and look what
we're doing, and look
00:49:53.89\00:49:55.22
what we've accomplished,
00:49:55.26\00:49:56.59
and look at all
the things that...
00:49:56.62\00:49:57.96
He is praying this
for God's name's sake,
00:49:57.99\00:50:00.50
for God's glory,
00:50:00.53\00:50:02.06
that His name
would not be reproached
00:50:02.10\00:50:03.70
among the Gentiles.
00:50:03.73\00:50:05.07
He is more concerned about
00:50:05.10\00:50:06.43
God's glory than he
is about his own glory,
00:50:06.47\00:50:08.24
and we could call
that motivational.
00:50:08.27\00:50:12.84
That's good.
00:50:12.87\00:50:14.21
He's motivated
by the glory of God.
00:50:14.24\00:50:15.58
He's motivated
by the love of God.
00:50:15.61\00:50:16.95
What a prayer?
00:50:16.98\00:50:18.78
What a corporate prayer?
00:50:18.81\00:50:20.15
What a powerful prayer?
00:50:20.18\00:50:21.52
And this powerful
corporate prayer brings
00:50:21.55\00:50:23.82
a corporate answer.
00:50:23.85\00:50:25.45
That's what it does, it
brings a corporate answer.
00:50:25.49\00:50:26.96
And we're going to get
to that in just a second.
00:50:26.99\00:50:28.32
But I want us to
read the quarterly here,
00:50:28.36\00:50:30.03
the lesson quarterly says,
00:50:30.06\00:50:31.39
"Daniel's prayer is
a summary of exactly
00:50:31.43\00:50:33.90
what the nation had been
warned about in Deuteronomy
00:50:33.93\00:50:36.10
regarding the fruits
of not keeping their end
00:50:36.13\00:50:38.03
of the covenant."
00:50:38.07\00:50:39.40
Twice, Daniel referred
back to the Law of Moses,
00:50:39.43\00:50:41.20
Daniel 9:11-13,
00:50:41.24\00:50:42.94
which certainly
included Deuteronomy,
00:50:42.97\00:50:44.71
in this case, might
have been specifically
00:50:44.74\00:50:47.11
referring to it
as Shelley mentioned.
00:50:47.14\00:50:49.44
As Deuteronomy has said,
00:50:49.48\00:50:51.68
they were driven from the land,
00:50:51.71\00:50:53.88
see Deuteronomy
4:27-31, and Deuteronomy 28,
00:50:53.92\00:50:56.92
because they didn't obey exactly
00:50:56.95\00:50:59.75
what Moses had
been told would happen.
00:50:59.79\00:51:02.42
They didn't obey, and
that's what Moses said
00:51:02.46\00:51:03.79
was going to happen
in Deuteronomy 31:29.
00:51:03.83\00:51:06.06
How tragic too that
instead of the gnash nations
00:51:06.09\00:51:09.36
around them, saying,
"Surely, this is a great nation
00:51:09.40\00:51:12.40
and a wise and
understanding people,
00:51:12.43\00:51:14.30
Israel became a reproach
to those same nations," pause.
00:51:14.34\00:51:20.04
God's promises never fail.
00:51:20.08\00:51:23.48
And even if the
entire nation says no,
00:51:23.51\00:51:28.05
if one person says yes,
and that would be Daniel,
00:51:28.08\00:51:32.15
God's promises are
sure. That's right.
00:51:32.19\00:51:34.72
They became an...
00:51:34.76\00:51:37.06
What does it say here?
00:51:37.09\00:51:40.83
An amazement, an
astonishment to the nations
00:51:40.86\00:51:43.80
around them through
Daniel and his friends
00:51:43.83\00:51:47.10
who stayed faithful to God.
00:51:47.14\00:51:48.47
Amen.
00:51:48.50\00:51:49.84
We don't have to worry
about the apostasy of others,
00:51:49.87\00:51:51.47
because Jesus is our
Savior and His Word is true.
00:51:51.51\00:51:54.94
We need to be faithful
in what God has given us
00:51:54.98\00:51:57.28
to be faithful in and God's
promises will be fulfilled.
00:51:57.31\00:52:00.82
So we can see
Daniel, in a sense,
00:52:00.85\00:52:03.69
as a type of Christ,
because Daniel Chapter 9
00:52:03.72\00:52:07.12
is what covenant faithfulness
looks like in the life
00:52:07.16\00:52:10.56
of a believer.
00:52:10.59\00:52:12.36
Now Daniel Chapter
9 doesn't end there.
00:52:12.39\00:52:13.90
We close out here
in the last few minutes
00:52:13.93\00:52:16.26
that we have
together in verses 24 to 27.
00:52:16.30\00:52:18.97
Here is the prophecy of Jesus,
00:52:19.00\00:52:20.60
its prophecy was
death upon the cross,
00:52:20.64\00:52:22.60
but it's not just the prophecy
of His death upon the cross.
00:52:22.64\00:52:24.87
Look at these verses with me
00:52:24.91\00:52:26.57
and recognize that
this is also a prophecy
00:52:26.61\00:52:30.21
of what Jesus
Christ would accomplish
00:52:30.25\00:52:32.21
as the covenant giver.
00:52:32.25\00:52:36.02
Jesus Christ is
the covenant giver.
00:52:36.05\00:52:38.29
Jesus Christ is on the
upside of the covenant.
00:52:38.32\00:52:40.62
But Daniel Chapter 9 is
telling us that Jesus Christ
00:52:40.66\00:52:43.16
is also on the
downside of the covenant.
00:52:43.19\00:52:46.13
Jesus Christ is
a covenant giver,
00:52:46.16\00:52:47.93
and Jesus Christ is
a covenant fulfiller.
00:52:47.96\00:52:51.13
He's on both sides.
00:52:51.17\00:52:52.50
And because He's a giver,
and because He's a fulfiller
00:52:52.53\00:52:55.00
of the covenant
as God and as man,
00:52:55.04\00:52:57.81
we have Daniel's.
00:52:57.84\00:52:59.94
We have people in the Bible,
00:52:59.97\00:53:02.38
who accept the
righteousness of Jesus Christ,
00:53:02.41\00:53:04.55
they actually live out the
very principles of the covenant,
00:53:04.58\00:53:07.85
because they scratch
that Old Testament effort
00:53:07.88\00:53:10.19
which led to apostasy
00:53:10.22\00:53:11.55
and they scratch
that New Testament effort
00:53:11.59\00:53:13.22
which led to legalism,
00:53:13.25\00:53:14.89
and they put their trust
totally in the righteousness
00:53:14.92\00:53:17.66
of Jesus Christ.
00:53:17.69\00:53:19.03
Now look at this
in Daniel Chapter 9,
00:53:19.06\00:53:20.86
beginning with verse 24.
00:53:20.90\00:53:22.23
It's so powerful.
00:53:22.26\00:53:24.33
Daniel 9:24,
00:53:24.37\00:53:26.23
we have a covenant
prayer that's going to get
00:53:26.27\00:53:27.67
a covenant answer
and that covenant answer
00:53:27.70\00:53:29.34
is Jesus and Jesus
is coming, excuse me,
00:53:29.37\00:53:31.67
a corporate prayer that's
going to get a corporate answer,
00:53:31.71\00:53:34.14
Jesus is coming to
do what only He can do.
00:53:34.18\00:53:36.71
Seventy weeks are
determined upon thy people
00:53:36.75\00:53:38.81
and upon thy holy city,
to finish transgression,
00:53:38.85\00:53:40.55
and to make an end of sins,
00:53:40.58\00:53:41.92
make
reconciliation for iniquity,
00:53:41.95\00:53:43.28
bring in
everlasting righteousness,
00:53:43.32\00:53:44.72
seal up the vision and prophecy,
00:53:44.75\00:53:46.15
and anoint the most Holy."
00:53:46.19\00:53:47.52
That's seven tasks.
00:53:47.56\00:53:48.89
Seven tasks that
had to be accomplished.
00:53:48.92\00:53:50.43
Did Israel
accomplish these tasks?
00:53:50.46\00:53:52.83
That's a trick question. Yes.
00:53:52.86\00:53:55.03
Because Jesus Christ was Israel,
00:53:55.06\00:53:57.33
and Jesus Christ came
to fulfill these tasks.
00:53:57.37\00:53:59.67
In fact, in verse 25,
God makes it very clear,
00:53:59.70\00:54:02.60
Gabriel says to Daniel,
"Know therefore and understand,
00:54:02.64\00:54:06.14
that from the going
forth of the commandment
00:54:06.17\00:54:07.64
to restore and build
Jerusalem unto Messiah
00:54:07.68\00:54:09.54
the Prince shall be..."
00:54:09.58\00:54:11.51
Seven weeks.
00:54:11.55\00:54:12.88
"Three score, seven weeks,
and threescore and two weeks."
00:54:12.91\00:54:14.88
That's 69 weeks.
00:54:14.92\00:54:16.52
"Daniel, you and
your people have 70 weeks
00:54:16.55\00:54:18.45
to get your act together."
00:54:18.49\00:54:19.82
Yes. "But don't be worried.
00:54:19.85\00:54:21.42
This is New Covenant now,
00:54:21.46\00:54:22.79
get your New
Covenant glasses on," right?
00:54:22.82\00:54:24.16
Right.
00:54:24.19\00:54:25.53
The Messiah is
coming in 69. Right.
00:54:25.56\00:54:26.96
Wow.
00:54:27.00\00:54:28.33
After 69 weeks of failure,
00:54:28.36\00:54:29.96
you're going to get
one last resurrection hope
00:54:30.00\00:54:34.10
and it's going to be Jesus.
00:54:34.14\00:54:35.47
And He is going to
make an end of sins,
00:54:35.50\00:54:36.94
and He's going to
bring in all righteousness
00:54:36.97\00:54:38.57
and He's going to
finish transgression.
00:54:38.61\00:54:40.18
He's going to make
reconciliation for iniquity.
00:54:40.21\00:54:42.18
He's going to
anoint the Most Holy.
00:54:42.21\00:54:44.01
Jesus Christ is the fulfillment.
00:54:44.05\00:54:46.51
Jesus is the
giver of the covenant
00:54:46.55\00:54:49.05
and Jesus is the
fulfiller of the covenant.
00:54:49.08\00:54:51.49
Jesus is on the
upside of the covenant
00:54:51.52\00:54:53.32
and Jesus is on the
downside of the covenant.
00:54:53.36\00:54:55.22
And because of
that, we have Daniel's.
00:54:55.26\00:54:58.16
Because of that, we have hope.
00:54:58.19\00:55:00.20
Because of that
we too can in our
00:55:00.23\00:55:03.63
lives be stellar
examples of the love
00:55:03.67\00:55:08.94
of Jesus Christ
because that's what Daniel did.
00:55:08.97\00:55:11.87
Daniel prayed for his miserable,
00:55:11.91\00:55:14.14
apostate fellow Christians.
00:55:14.18\00:55:19.78
And that's what
God is calling us to.
00:55:19.81\00:55:21.15
That's the ultimate
end of the law, is it not?
00:55:21.18\00:55:22.98
To love God with all
heart, mind and soul,
00:55:23.02\00:55:24.39
to love your neighbors.
00:55:24.42\00:55:25.75
Amen. Amen. Beautiful.
00:55:25.79\00:55:27.12
That was great.
00:55:27.16\00:55:28.49
If you want to hear some
more of this teaching on Daniel,
00:55:28.52\00:55:31.13
you can watch
Salvation in Symbols
00:55:31.16\00:55:35.00
and Signs on 3ABN,
00:55:35.03\00:55:37.17
where our dear brother
James is going verse by verse
00:55:37.20\00:55:40.87
through Daniel.
00:55:40.90\00:55:42.24
Well, we have had
church, Jill, we have.
00:55:42.27\00:55:46.21
Let's just take
each of you a few seconds
00:55:46.24\00:55:49.34
and give us a little
point from you today.
00:55:49.38\00:55:52.21
You know,
Jeremiah 29:11, God says,
00:55:52.25\00:55:55.92
"Don't tell me
what to think about you.
00:55:55.95\00:55:58.39
I already know
what I think about you."
00:55:58.42\00:56:00.89
He says, "For I
know the thoughts
00:56:00.92\00:56:02.36
that I think toward
you," says the Lord,
00:56:02.39\00:56:03.86
"thoughts of peace
00:56:03.89\00:56:05.29
and not of evil to give
you a future and a hope."
00:56:05.33\00:56:07.76
God has a plan for you.
00:56:07.80\00:56:09.36
Don't tell Him
what to think about you.
00:56:09.40\00:56:10.73
He already knows
what He thinks about you.
00:56:10.77\00:56:12.10
He loves you, He died for
you, and He wants to save you.
00:56:12.13\00:56:15.04
Amen. Praise the Lord.
00:56:15.07\00:56:16.71
You know,
reading the Bible is like
00:56:16.74\00:56:18.54
me speaking right
dropping ideas into the brain.
00:56:18.57\00:56:21.61
And when you do that,
there should be a reaction.
00:56:21.64\00:56:25.18
And if there's not a
reaction, then there's no brain.
00:56:25.21\00:56:28.35
Well, let's leave
that food for thought.
00:56:28.38\00:56:32.42
Micah 7:18,
00:56:32.45\00:56:34.42
"Who is a God like
You, pardoning iniquity,
00:56:34.46\00:56:37.13
passing over transgression
of the remnant of His heritage?
00:56:37.16\00:56:40.03
He does not
retain His anger forever,
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for He delights in mercy."
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God delights in
you. Yes, He does.
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Amen. Amen.
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Daniel Chapter 9
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is what covenant faithful looks
like in the life of a believer
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who trusts in the
righteousness of Jesus Christ.
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Amen and amen.
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We, in my day, we
were looking at King Josiah
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who followed the Lord
with all of his heart,
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soul, mind and strength.
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And 2 Kings 23:25 says,
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"There's never been another
king like him not before him
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or not after him."
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God considered him
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the greatest
king that ever ruled
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until King Jesus.
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Oh, thank you so
much for joining us.
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We, I should have looked,
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we're going to be coming
back for lesson 12 next week,
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Deuteronomy in
the New Testament.
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It's one of Jesus'
most favorite books
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because He quoted it most often.
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Join us then. Amen.
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