010: Jay Mayock – The Gospel of the Burning Bush

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We’re listening to our brother

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Jay Mayock who gave a talk at
the Mid-Atlantic.

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Bible School in 2009, on the
topic, the gospel of the burning

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bush In his talk.
Which Brother Jay later expanded

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into a full series in the 2011
water, Sean Lake Bible school

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will have links to his full
series in the show.

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Notes in case you want to hear
him, give the full expanded

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version of this talk in this
talk.

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He looks at the theme of The
Burning Bush starting from where

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it was introduced in Moses.
When the angel of the Lord spoke

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to him, he then takes a deep
dive, looking at themes

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throughout scripture that are
introduced at the burning bush,

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and I found it Be interesting to
see just how many places the

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burning bush shows up brother.
Jay does a great job of taking a

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Bible story that we all learned
in Sunday school and going that

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next level deeper, he then uses
those themes to draw out lessons

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for us and has some really
powerful personal application

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that he uses for trials that
he’s faced both personally and

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in his family.
I found the testimony that he

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gave with these trials in these
lessons to be very encouraging

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and very inspiring and something
that we can all draw on as we

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face all the different trials
that we go through life.

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So now I’ll turn it over to our
brother j-mac for his talk

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titled.
The gospel of the burning bush

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And good evening.
My dear brothers and sisters in

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the Lord.
Jesus Christ and my very dear

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friends. and his opening prayer
this evening, our brother asked

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that the words that we’d be
considering tonight would

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strengthen us in our walk and
encourage us, And strengthen Us

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in the days that remain and I
hope they do.

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Because both my family and I
have found that that’s been the

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case for the study.
I think one of the things that

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comes out of this study first,
which will be considering the

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gospel of the Bush, the title
kind of gives some of it away,

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doesn’t it?
It’s okay.

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But when we consider that I
think one of the things that

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comes to mind is that there’s a
lot more to this simple story

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than We learned in Sunday school
initially and I think one of the

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things that’s very important
about Bible study in general,

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but especially about those
stories that we feel so familiar

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with is that we have to learn
how to read them deeper than

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were used to sometimes when we
come across a passage that we

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don’t know where more inclined
to study at deeply, because we

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don’t understand it.
But the challenge is when we

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come to those things, which we
think we know already.

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That’s right.
Moses turn to Didn’t he saw a

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bush in the bushes on fire?
We know the story.

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But when we think about it, when
we take a step back and we think

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about the almighty God that we
worship.

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We recognize that he can do
anything.

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So why was it appropriate in his
mind that after 40 years of

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being in the wilderness and of
leading A Flock that he would

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appear to Moses in this very
special way.

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Why was it appropriate?
That he would do that?

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Well, that’s what we’re going to
talk about this evening.

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God willing, brothers and
sisters and I think that we’re

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going to find some some very,
very comforting things in this

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study.
But it also comes with something

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that is kind of a catch because
this particular study, when my

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family and I are sitting around
doing the Bible readings or even

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if we’re at the meeting and we
hear a reading or an excitation,

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there’s something something kind
of funny that happens.

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We might come across a verse
That is reminiscent of Exodus

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chapter 3 verse 2.
When we kind of look for each

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other. and look over, like,
Burning bush, right?

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Try and get each.
And that’s, it’s amazing because

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we see that this theme will come
up all the way through the

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scriptural record, its woven all
through the scripture that is

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the truth to which the burning
bush speaks.

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And so, let’s hopefully, we have
our Bible still open at Exodus

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chapter 3, but, let’s just look
there at verse 2 in particular.

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And it says there that the angel
of the Lord appeared unto Moses

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in a flame of fire out of the
midst.

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The bush.
And he looked and behold the

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bush burned with fire.
And the Bush was not consumed.

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Now, it’s interesting because
when you do a little homework on

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this word Bush, you’ll actually
find that both guess Aeneas.

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I think Strong’s as well and
also the Septuagint translations

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don’t just assign this as a
generic Bush.

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This is a specific kind of bush
and it’s a bush that has thorns

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on it.
It’s a thorny craggly bush.

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That’s what it was that Moses
saw engulfed in this great flame

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that would not consume it.
And so when we just consider

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that symbol, first of all, what
we have to understand, I think

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at the outset is that this bush?
What’s the miracle behind this?

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Well obviously, it’s because
naturally speaking it should

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have been consumed.
Naturally speaking.

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It shouldn’t have done what it
did but it was preserved in some

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way.
And what’s more than that?

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It says in Exodus chapter 3
later on that.

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There was an angel In the bush.
Verse 2.

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The angel of the Lord appeared
unto him in the midst, in a

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flame of fire out of the midst
of the Bush.

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That’s what Acts chapter 7 says
as well.

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There was an angel in that bush,
what?

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We’re going to take a step back
now and we’re going to move into

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Exodus chapter 2.
So just turn your Bibles back to

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Exodus chapter 2 and let’s
consider Moses from the very

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beginning and let’s begin to try
to make sense.

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Of why it was that God would try
to communicate with Moses in

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this way.
So Exodus chapter 2, will just

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begin at verse 1 and it says
there that there went a man of

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the house of Levi and took to
wife a daughter of Levi and the

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woman conceived and bare a son.
And when she saw him that he was

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a goodly child, she hid him, 3
months, imagine that.

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Three months hiding a child.
From the Egyptians who are

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waiting to take these children
and two to kill them.

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The male children that is I’d
suggest to you that it was a

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miracle that that child wasn’t
found at that time and the

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Miracles and Moses.
Life, don’t start, don’t stop

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there, excuse me.
Because when we continue it says

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in verse 3, when she could no
longer hide him, she took for

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him an ark of bulrushes and
daubed it with slime and with

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pitch and put the child there
in.

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And she laid it in the flags by
the rivers Brink.

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And his sister stood, afar off
to wit what should be done with

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him.
And the daughter of pharaoh came

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down to wash herself at the
river.

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Now let’s take a step back.
Let’s look at that

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NaturallySpeaking.
We know what happens but

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NaturallySpeaking who’s the last
person you’d want to find this

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child?
How about the daughter of the

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Mary very man who issued the
decree?

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That’s bad news Naturally
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But it wasn’t.
So in the Providence of God,

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because as we keep reading, it
says that her maidens walked

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Along by the Riverside.
And when she saw the ark among

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the flag, she sent her maid to
fetch it.

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And when she had opened it, she
saw the child and behold the

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Babe.
Wept.

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That’s amazing.
Do you know that this very man

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some 80 years after this point?
Was standing before God.

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And he says, I don’t know what
to say.

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If I were to be sent to the
people, I don’t know what I’d

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say to them.
And if he would have just had

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remembered the story that his
mother must have told him that

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at that very moment.
Where he needed to say

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something.
God gave him the utterance and

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he wept and that woman’s heart
melted for that child, it’s not

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wonderful.
So just a couple of verses here.

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We have the Providence of God in
the life of Moses What is we

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continue down?
Let’s just skip down to verse

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11.
I know we know the story.

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Well, we’re just going to
highlight some of the parts of

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Moses life because we’re not
concentrating exclusively on

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Moses this night.
But just look at verse 11, it

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says that it came to pass in
those days when Moses was grown,

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you’ll know that if you turn to
Acts chapter 7, that he’s 40

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years of age at this time,
according to the writings of the

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Jews, not according to
scripture, but tradition has it

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that he was a very successful
General when he was fully grown.

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He was an established, man.
He was given everything that

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that anybody would want.
And it says that in verse 11, he

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went out unto his Brethren and
looked on their burdens and he

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spied in Egyptian smiting in
Hebrew one of his brethren.

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And he looked this way and that
and we know the story he slays

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the Egyptian, right?
And he slays the Egyptian hides

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him in the sand and in the next
day it says in verse 13 two men

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of the Hebrews strove together
and he said to him that did the

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wrong.
Why did you smite your fellow?

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And he said, who made you a
prince and a judge over us?

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Do you intend to kill me as you
killed the Egyptian and Moses?

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Feared and said, surely?
This thing is known.

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And Pharaoh was after them and
verse 15, Pharaoh was after him

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you got to be pretty good to get
away from pharaoh.

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He was not an easy man to escape
from.

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I wouldn’t think.
But as we keep reading later on

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into Moses life, he has a
reflection back to this time.

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When he is in the wilderness
when he is married and he’s

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taking care of his sheep, not
his sheep, his father-in-law’s

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sheep.
So just come over to to Exodus

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chapter 18 for me.
It’s really interesting to

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consider this because when Moses
had his children he was a very

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reflective man, Moses was.
And when he was thinking back to

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this particular, Event.
Let’s just read verse 4 of

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Exodus chapter 18 and speaking
of the children of Moses, the

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first one’s name was gershom
meaning.

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Stranger because he was a
Stranger in a Strange Land.

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Moses was and in verse 4, it
says the name of the other was

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Eleazar, why did he call him
Eleazar?

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And he says, it’s because the
god of my father was my help and

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he delivered me from The Sword
of pharaoh.

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There’s Providence written all
over Moses life There’s

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Providence written all over his
life.

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And so when he comes
face-to-face with the burning

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bush, that NaturallySpeaking
should have been consumed, what

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wasn’t but wasn’t He was seeing
a reflection of himself.

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He was looking at that bush.
I don’t know whether he

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recognized that at the time.
I tend not to think, so that’s

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usually not how it works.
It’s usually after the fact,

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especially in the lives and in
the writings of the disciples,

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when they pain the gospels,
right?

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And it was when they remembered
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understanding Came Upon them, I
think it was probably the same

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for Moses.
But the lesson there is the

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same.
He saw a reflection of himself

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in the bush.
He should have been consumed

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NaturallySpeaking but he wasn’t.
He had been preserved through

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the fiery Trials of life,
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Through the work.
Of the angel. what was we, as we

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read in Exodus chapter 3, Moses
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he was sent back to be with His
people and to lead his people

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and bring them up out of the
iron furnace and bring them into

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the promised land and once when
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interesting.
I know I know that the iron

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furnace is not just The iron
furnace is not just a figure for

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the temperatures in Egypt, but
I’m sure when you thought iron

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furnace, I’m sure the children
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the heat in Egypt.
It was a very, very warm place

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to be for sure and so It says,
in Deuteronomy chapter 4 verse

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24, the Lord thy God is a
consuming fire.

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It says God is a consuming fire.
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into the iron?
Furnace to purge out the rebels

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to bring by bringing them out
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The Lord thy God is a consuming
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Even a jealous God.
And so we see in this bush that

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this was God working through the
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life of Moses.
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children of Israel as well.
And it’s very interesting

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because there are many cases in
which throughout scripture that

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will see this, but the
experiences of Moses prefigure

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in many cases, the experiences
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In a sense, you remember the
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Corinthians 10, they were
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And they shared many of those
experiences and it would be in

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this case as well as he would
lead his people up out of the

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Wilderness into the land of
promise.

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So I just want you to cast in
your mind for a second to a

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Revival Echo. because when
Israel was brought into the land

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of promise out of the iron
furnace, they were led into

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other iron furnaces weren’t.
They just come with me.

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Please to Ezekiel chapter 24 22,
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and we remember because Ezekiel,
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Jerusalem would be taken.
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And he says, beginning at verse
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reminiscent of their experiences
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The prophet says the word of the
Lord came unto me saying, son

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of, man, the house of Israel is
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All they are brass and tin and
iron and lead in the midst of

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the Furnace.
They are even the dross of

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silver.
Therefore thus saith the Lord

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God because he all our become
dross because therefore behold

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therefore I will gather you into
the midst of Jerusalem as they

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gather silver and brass and iron
and lead and Tin into the midst

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of the furnace to blow the fire
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So, will I gather you in mine?
Anger.

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And in my Fury and I will leave
you there and melt you.

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Yeah, I will gather you and blow
upon you in the fire of my wrath

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and you shall be melted in the
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As silver is melted in the midst
of the Furnace, so shall ye be

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melted in the midst thereof and
ye shall know that I the Lord

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have poured out my Fury upon you
brothers and sisters, Egypt may

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have been an iron furnace but
the kindling of it was of God

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Babylon and the things
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Jerusalem might have been an
iron furnace but it was kindled

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by the wrath of God.
Now, at the outset I said we

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were going to talk about things
that were comforting. but the

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reality is, is that is that the
purging Has to happen.

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First, the trials that we all go
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but even in the midst of this
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furnace in relation to the
Captivity into Babylon that

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should ring a bell.
Can anybody think of any place

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in Scripture?
Where we have people who are

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unconsumed.
In the midst of the Furnace.

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I got a couple hands very good.
Let’s go there.

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It’s Daniel chapter 3.
Daniel chapter 3.

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Yeah, I was I was looking
through this this is the in no

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other book of the Bible.
In no other chapter in the

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Bible, does the word furnace
occur occur.

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More often than in Daniel
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So we should definitely take
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What’s this all about here?
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begin at verse. 19 but just
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just pick up the context.
You remember that when the music

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was to be played They were to
fall down to this great image in

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worship.
Daniel and his friends responded

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or excuse me, it’s Daniels
friends who respond that they

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certainly would not do that at
all and because they absolutely

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refuse to have anything to do.
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And with what the world was
trying to get them to Bow, their

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knee to.
This is what Nebuchadnezzar does

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in verse 19.
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full of Fury and the form of his
visit was changed against

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Shadrach Meshach and Abednego
there.

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For he spake and commanded that
they should heat the furnace

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seven times more than it was.
Usually heated is what that

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means.
And he commanded the most mighty

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men that were in his army to
bind.

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Shadrach Meshach and Abednego
and to cast them into the

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burning fiery.
Furnace.

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Now, I’ve highlighted to my
Bible, burning fiery furnace and

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it occurs eight times in this
chapter.

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I’m not going to say them all
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Eight times.
Find them.

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Daniel chapter 3, And you found
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They’re cast into this Burning,
fiery furnace, and it says, just

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reading later on.
In verse 23, that these three

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men, Shadrach Meshach and
Abednego fell down into the

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midst of the burning fiery
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Then Nebuchadnezzar, the King
was astonished and Rose up in

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haste and spake and said unto
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Did not we cast three men bound
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They answered and said unto the
king true, okay?

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He answered and said, lo, I see
four men loose walking in the

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midst of the fire and they have
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And the form of the fourth.
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And just like at the bush.
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flame, there was an angel.
Doug was there.

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Preserving the nation?
The story and Daniel 3 is not

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just about the Redemption of
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It’s not about that.
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nation as an emblem.
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You know how we know?
Do you know, any verse in the

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profits?
That talks about Nations, who

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would cast the children of
Israel?

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In the tribulation and
affliction and yet somehow the

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nation of Israel would not be
destroyed, but the people who

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tried to obliterate the nation
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Does that sound familiar Stern
and Jeremiah chapter 30, please.

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See, this is this is the
principle that’s enshrined in

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this symbol of the bush.
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Verse 11.
Jeremiah says for I am with

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thee.
Saith the Lord to save thee

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though.
I make a full end of all nations

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with her.
I have scattered the yet will I

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not make a full end of thee.
There would not be a full end of

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the nation of Israel.
No matter what kind of furnace

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they could be put into but I
will correct.

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The in measure and will not
leave the altogether unpunished

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and so they had to go through
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That he would make a full end of
all the nations and as we read

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on and if we were had time to
read on and Daniel chapter 3, it

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says that the men who cast
Daniels three friends into the

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fire were burnt up.
The people out of those nations

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were burnt up because they tried
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But God says he would not make a
full end of his people just come

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over with me again to a
companion passage.

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This is actually in the book of
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It’s in chapter 3.
You may have already gone here

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in your mind in Lamentations
chapter 3.

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And this is, this is the Prophet
Jeremiah reflecting on.

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All of the, the judgments that
had come upon his people, the

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things that he had experienced
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And despite all of the
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And all of the trial he says in
verse 22, it’s amazing in this

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part of Lamentations because
it’s almost the only bright spot

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in the whole book.
You just read the first couple

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chapters desperate to get to
these verses and it says there

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in verse 22.
It is of the Lord’s mercies that

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we are not.
Consumed.

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Because his compassion’s fail
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Great is thy faithfulness.
Is he God doesn’t change. the

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nation of Israel could not be
wiped out, could not be

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obliterated because God had made
promises to the father’s and you

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can’t go back on any of those
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It’s because of that that no
matter what kind of Affliction,

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the nation experiences, no
matter what happens, they can’t

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be totally wiped out.
God will bring them again to

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repentance.
And we pray that they will be

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coming soon.
Now you might have been thinking

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about a number of different
passages as we’re going through

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this.
But I’d like to just turn to one

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more before we begin to to
change gears a little bit.

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And that passage is in the
prophecy of Isaiah chapter 48,

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Isaiah chapter 48 and we will
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what we’re going to find here,
is we find two different

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allegories coming together in
this particular set of verses

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here verse 9 The prophet says,
speaking the words of God, for

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my name’s sake, will I defer
mine anger and for my praise

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will.
I refrain for thee that I cut

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the knot off?
It’s Romans 11, isn’t it?

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We’re talks about the cutting
off of the branches of the Olive

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Tree.
But as a nation, they would not

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be cut off completely.
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behold, I have refined thee but
not as silver.

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I have chosen thee in the
furnace of Affliction and then

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we see the idea of this Egypt is
a furnace as the nation’s is a

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furnace aligning with the idea.
Of Romans chapter Romans chapter

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11, where we have the idea of
cutting off and in the one

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sense, we have, the judgments
are expressed is the cutting off

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of branches.
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judgments are expressed in the
burning, or the consuming, it’s

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the same idea, but it’s a
different metaphor and it’s all

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part of that emblem of the
burning bush, because when it

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comes down to it, the Bush is
still there despite the fire

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when it comes down to it.
The tree is still there despite

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the branches that have been cut
off.

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And yet will be grafted again.
NaturallySpeaking, brothers and

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sisters, the nation of Israel.
Shouldn’t be here.

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There have been many writers in
the world who have struggled to

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come to grips with exactly how
the nation of Israel is still

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here.
They’ve suffered through

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Egyptian, Syrian Assyrian,
Babylonian, Roman and European

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furnaces.
And yet, they’re still here.

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Because God doesn’t change.
The angels are still working.

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brothers and sisters, we would
be Way out of line, if we didn’t

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consider what the Lord Jesus
Christ has to say about this

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very subject.
Because he has quite a lot to

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say actually and he speaks about
that in a couple of places but

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the the place that will be going
to this night is in Mark chapter

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12, just turned to Mark chapter
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Mark chapter 12 will just begin
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I absolutely love this account.
One of the reasons I love this

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account is because it gives us a
feeble attempt at one of the

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Sadducees parables.
We’re toward the end of the

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ministry of the Lord, Jesus
Christ in all throughout the

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ministry.
The Lord Jesus Christ has been

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speaking about Parables, he
speaks in Parables and I could

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just imagine the Sadducees and
the herodians and the Pharisees

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and all the others who were
challenging him, going back and

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thinking that, he’s just getting
this every time on these

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Parables, the people can’t stop
listening to him.

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And as the Sadducees sat there
there must have been one who

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stuck up his hand after thinking
for a while and said I’ve got

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I’ve got the perfect one.
He can’t answer.

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It’s the perfect parable.
I think we’ve got that recorded

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in Mark, chapter 12.
Verse 18. then come unto him,

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the Sadducees, which say there
is no resurrection and they

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asked him saying, Master Moses
wrote unto us.

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If a man’s brother die and leave
his wife behind him and leave no

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children.
The his brother should take his

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wife and raise up seed unto his
brother.

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And here starts the parable Now,
there were seven Brethren and

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the first took a wife and dying
left.

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No seed.
And the second took her and

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died.
Neither Lefty any seed in the

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third likewise and the Seven had
her and left no seed.

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Last of all the woman died also.
Now if we just consider that

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Parable there, that’s pretty
weak.

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Let’s be honest.
I mean the Lord Jesus Christ.

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He spoke about Parables that
were that had to do with with

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everyday life, right?
And here, the this had to cease

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come up with this impossible
scenario.

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And challenged him with it and
you can almost just, I don’t

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know how long or if the Lord
paused after hearing that just

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to take that into think wow.
That was But he proceeds to

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answer them but their challenges
in verse 23 in the resurrection

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therefore which they said with a
wink by the way because they

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didn’t really believe it in the
resurrection.

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Wait for it, when they shall
rise, whose wife shall?

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She be of them.
For the seven, had her to wife.

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Donna, right?
So hopefully keep reading down.

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It says, in verse 24, Jesus
answering said unto them, do ye

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not therefore are because you
know, not the scriptures,

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neither the power of God For
when they shall rise from the

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dead.
They neither marry nor are given

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in marriage but are as the
Angels, which are in heaven.

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Let’s just talk about this for a
second, brothers and sisters.

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I don’t think that this is
saying that in the Kingdom, we

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won’t know our spouses.
That’s not what it’s saying at

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all.
It means that in that state, we

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don’t get married I don’t know
what your picture, the kingdom

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is brothers and sisters, but I
pray, I hope and pray that I

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will be, I’ll be working
alongside my wife. and I think

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that those of us who have known
each other, in the days of our

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flesh will know each other in
the days of our immortality, you

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know, I believe that because the
Lord Jesus Christ, said to his

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disciples, those of you who have
served with me in the

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Regeneration, you’ll sit with me
on 12, Thrones, it’s the

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continuation of a relationship.
It’s a change.

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Definitely, but do you think
we’re going to forget who we

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are?
We can The whole reason, the

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Lord Jesus is able to, to
intercede for us.

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And to be our high priest is
because he remembers, of course,

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we’ll know each other.
That’s not what that verse is

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saying, at all.
It’s just saying that in that

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state that phase of the
relationship passes away, But

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verse 26, he returns to the
bush.

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And he says is touching the dead
that they rise.

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Have you not read in the book of
Moses?

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How in the bush God spake unto
him saying, I am the god of

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Abraham and the god of Isaac.
The god of Jacob.

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He is not the god of the dead,
but the god of the living, ye

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therefore do greatly err.
See, the Lord Jesus Christ, when

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he saw the burning bush, he saw
an expression.

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When he read about that, he saw
an expression of the

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00:33:13,400 –> 00:33:16,500
Resurrection to immortality,
that’s what he saw.

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00:33:17,600 –> 00:33:21,200
This is the proof of that and
it’s kind of difficult to see it

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00:33:21,200 –> 00:33:23,000
first.
How you make that leap?

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00:33:23,100 –> 00:33:25,400
Okay, there’s a burning bush.
How does that describe

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Resurrection?
We’ll come to that as we as we

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00:33:29,300 –> 00:33:33,600
consider our thoughts tonight.
But I think that that was a

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wonderful promise for the Lord,
Jesus Christ, because not too

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far away, he would be offering
himself as well.

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For the suffering of death.
And taste death for every man.

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but the interesting thing to
consider here in particular, Is

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that God says.
Excuse me, the Lord.

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00:34:02,300 –> 00:34:07,700
Jesus Christ says that God is
the god of the living and I

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00:34:07,700 –> 00:34:10,199
remember sitting in a Bible
class one time down in the

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basement of our ecclesial Hall
at the, at the Moorestown

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00:34:12,900 –> 00:34:14,600
Ecclesia.
Some of you might have been here

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00:34:14,600 –> 00:34:18,300
to remember that and we had a
visitor and we happen to be

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00:34:18,308 –> 00:34:20,500
talking about the spirit of God,
that night.

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00:34:21,199 –> 00:34:23,800
And I forget exactly how it came
around to this particular

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00:34:23,800 –> 00:34:25,699
passage.
But somehow we were talking

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00:34:25,699 –> 00:34:29,199
about heaven going, I remember
being brought right to this

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00:34:29,199 –> 00:34:32,400
passage.
It says, Here, verse 27.

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00:34:32,400 –> 00:34:35,400
He is not the god of the dead,
but the god of the living

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Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are
still living in the eyes of God.

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Therefore, they must be in
heaven, talk about not reading

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00:34:43,000 –> 00:34:44,500
for context, brothers and
sisters.

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Like, if you look at that, it’s
speaking about the resurrection,

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it’s because God does not see
them as being dead because

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ultimately he will raise them.
This a scriptural principle for

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that and I think it’s found in
Romans chapter 4, just turn that

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00:35:00,100 –> 00:35:03,100
up quickly, it’s a great.
Great verse to have alongside

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Mark chapter 12 and that place
Romans chapter 4.

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And there’s a wonderful little
phrase at the end of verse 17.

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And without going into all the
details of Romans chapter 4, we

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know that this the subject here,
essentially, through much of the

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chapter is of Resurrection.
Especially in this particular

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00:35:26,500 –> 00:35:35,500
part and it says in verse 16 for
context therefore it is of faith

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that it might be by grace. to
the end, the promise might be

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sure to all the seed not to that
only, which is of the law but To

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that also, which is of the faith
of Abraham who is the father of

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us all as it is written.
I have made thee a father of

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many nations before him whom he
believed even God who quickens

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the dead and calls those things,
which be not as though they were

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the wonderful thing about this
verse is that at the beginning

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of verse 17, as it is written,
God said I have made you a

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father of many nations and
Abraham can look around him.

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He didn’t have any children.
You know, kids but God could say

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I have made you a father of many
nations because when God says

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it, it’s as good as done.
In the eyes of God.

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It’s as good as done because he
only has the power to bring

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these things to pass and it’s
because he raises the dead and

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00:36:37,100 –> 00:36:43,100
calls those things that be not
as though they were Just as he

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looks on Abraham Isaac and Jacob
and says, I’m going to raise you

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from the dead and give you
immortality and give you the

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00:36:50,300 –> 00:36:53,600
promises that I’ve given you
that I’ve made to you fulfill

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them.
By sending my son and raising

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the Dead.
It’s a wonderful picture there.

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That’s the way that the Lord
Jesus Christ saw.

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The Burning Bush.
You know what?

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A comfort that would have been
to the Lord Jesus. it was a

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00:37:12,200 –> 00:37:17,500
comfort because the heat of the
trial that he was about to go

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00:37:17,500 –> 00:37:22,100
through.
Would Bing bring great sweat to

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00:37:22,100 –> 00:37:25,400
his Brown.
And in the words of the

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psalmist, it would make his
tongue cleave do his jaws and

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melt his heart in the midst of
his bowels.

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I was the fiery trial of the
Lord Jesus Christ. and when

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those, Wicked men.
Looked at him. and after he

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expired, They dusted off their
hands and said, we’ve consumed

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him.
And they didn’t.

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He lay in the Tomb for three
days.

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And God raised him from the
dead.

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Unconsumed.
What a wonderful picture.

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Brothers and sisters, the trials
that we experience in our lives

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are not meant to consume us.
They are meant to refine us.

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Sometimes we can think about
things that happen to us because

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00:38:31,900 –> 00:38:35,000
we all have our furnaces of
Affliction and we can think

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00:38:35,000 –> 00:38:36,600
about those things that we go
through.

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And wonder why it’s happening to
us.

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It’s there to help us even
though we can’t see that

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00:38:43,400 –> 00:38:46,700
sometimes but quite often it’s
there to help other people who

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were watching from afar off and
are witnessing your trials.

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00:38:51,400 –> 00:38:52,800
And can derive strength from
them.

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But what I hope that we have
that not even death, can consume

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us.
Our attitude to trial is one of

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the most important things.
That we can appreciate in our

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00:39:10,800 –> 00:39:17,500
walks in the truth.
And I know that that’s true

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00:39:17,500 –> 00:39:22,600
because of the experiences in my
own family and I’m just going to

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00:39:22,600 –> 00:39:25,400
talk briefly about this because
I think I can only talk briefly

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00:39:25,400 –> 00:39:31,700
about it, but three years ago,
we came home from Shippensburg,

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00:39:31,700 –> 00:39:38,600
Bible School to find my my
father-in-law in the hospital.

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Because you just been in a
tractor accident.

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I know that many of you here.
We’re praying for us.

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And I remember through through
all of these things really being

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00:39:51,600 –> 00:39:58,900
concerned about my my wife’s
family and but in particular my

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00:39:59,700 –> 00:40:05,300
brother-in-law and sister-in-law
who were not yet baptized That

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00:40:05,300 –> 00:40:13,300
is that is quite a blow.
And we received a card with

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receive many cards in the mail
after brother, Glenn fell

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asleep.
And I want to tell you about one

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00:40:18,400 –> 00:40:22,600
of them.
We looked at the card and it was

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drawn just with stick figures
but it was I wish I brought it

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00:40:28,100 –> 00:40:32,900
with me but It was our whole
family.

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Dressed in white robes.
Including my brother and

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00:40:42,600 –> 00:40:47,900
sister-in-law.
Who weren’t baptized yet?

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00:40:51,100 –> 00:40:54,600
I remember thinking, what a
powerful.

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00:40:55,700 –> 00:41:07,900
Encourage for them.
And it wasn’t long after that,

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until they were baptized.
And since then to be able to

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00:41:11,900 –> 00:41:17,800
witness in the midst of this
terrible trial, the growth that

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00:41:17,800 –> 00:41:20,700
we have been able to experience
in the midst of these.

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00:41:20,700 –> 00:41:25,900
If that, that really terrible
trial has been such a comfort

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00:41:28,800 –> 00:41:32,400
And even though I can’t know
exactly what we all experience

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00:41:32,400 –> 00:41:34,600
in those things, because we all
experience it differently.

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00:41:37,400 –> 00:41:39,900
It’s amazing to see the
outworking of God in your life

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00:41:39,900 –> 00:41:45,200
than those things. and it was it
about that time during youth

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00:41:45,200 –> 00:41:48,300
conference, that year, that I
was going through the youth

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00:41:48,300 –> 00:41:52,200
conference book because we were
going to Manitoulin and I came

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00:41:52,200 –> 00:41:55,400
to a certain passage certain
question.

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I don’t know if you’ve ever done
a youth conference book but the

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00:41:57,800 –> 00:42:00,100
interesting thing is that if
you’re anything like me, you’re

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very critical of anything is put
together like that looking

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00:42:03,000 –> 00:42:05,500
through Reading.
That’s kind of a strange

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00:42:05,500 –> 00:42:06,600
question.
I wouldn’t have wanted it that

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00:42:06,600 –> 00:42:07,900
way, maybe you don’t think like
that.

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But that’s, that’s how I think.
And I was looking at that and I

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the next question was, what does
the burning bush me?

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I remember thinking, what a
strange question that is.

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And had it not been for the
verse.

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That the brothers who prepared
that workbook.

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Put next to the question to help
me understand that I wouldn’t be

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giving this talk tonight.
And my family wouldn’t be

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00:42:36,700 –> 00:42:39,800
talking about the burning bush.
Every chance we get, and I want

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to show you that passage right
now and it’s in Malachi chapter

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00:42:42,200 –> 00:42:47,400
3.
Same Hebrew word here in Malachi

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00:42:47,400 –> 00:42:50,900
chapter 3.
This was the little hint.

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What does the burning bush mean?
Consider, this verse Malachi 3:6

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and it says this for, I am the
Lord.

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That’s the way that God revealed
himself at the bush and I

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00:43:11,300 –> 00:43:14,900
change.
Not therefore ye sons of Jacob

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00:43:14,900 –> 00:43:19,900
are not consumed.
And I remember just like the

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00:43:19,900 –> 00:43:21,600
world started to align
scripturally.

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00:43:21,600 –> 00:43:24,600
Speaking, when I read that
verse, so many Echoes came to

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00:43:24,600 –> 00:43:28,100
mind and it really helped unlock
the key to what the burning bush

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00:43:28,100 –> 00:43:30,600
meant.
It was an expression of the

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00:43:30,600 –> 00:43:32,500
children of Israel but it was
more than that.

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It was an expression of the life
of Moses and it was more than

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00:43:35,800 –> 00:43:39,600
that it speaks to the
resurrection itself and its

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00:43:39,600 –> 00:43:42,800
encouragement for us in our
trials that no matter how bad

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00:43:42,800 –> 00:43:46,200
things get, no matter what,
kinds of things beset, our

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00:43:46,200 –> 00:43:51,300
families and our Closures.
And our Brotherhood.

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That if we keep together and
stick together with our heads in

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this book and immerse ourselves
in the things of God that will

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be brought up out of Egypt,
unconsumed.

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You know, it was just a couple
of months ago that my

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brother-in-law when we were
talking about these things and

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he’s always one for pointing out
these burning bush versus just

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be walking by be like Genesis,
19 burning bush.

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Look it up.
Look at.

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Okay.
This is it’s there to.

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It’s amazing.
Look it up.

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But one of the things that he
said, was that after talking

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about these things and thinking
about the way that that God

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works in our lives, through
through the fiery trial that we

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go through.
He said something that I don’t

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know that I’ll ever be able to
say where I do go through the

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same thing.
He said, you know it’s amazing

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how much God loves us.
To to put us through the things

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that we’ve been through.
Teach, can you say that about

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your trials?
What we have to look at it like

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that because when we go through
those things, we can either, we

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can either turn bitter against
God or we can run to them.

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With all of our hearts.
And he’ll bring us up out of

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Egypt, the Egypt of sin and
death that we go through

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unconsumed because brothers and
sisters.

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The bottom line is there are
angels in our furnaces of

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Affliction to God is working
with us.

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He’s working with our families.
If we’ll let him and it will

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open ourselves to his word and
to encourage each other around

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that, that’s the message.
That’s the gospel of the Bush.

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It’s the whole gospel, isn’t it?
In a sense, it’s the whole hope

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of being unconsumed in the midst
of trial.

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Because of the power of God and
because of his Mercy.

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I’d like to close with a passage
in Romans chapter 8.

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I just want you to think. about
Romans chapter 8 beginning at

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verse 32 in the context of those
things, which we’ve been

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considering tonight, He that
spared not his own son.

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But delivered him up for us all.
How shall he not with him also

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freely?
Give us all things.

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Who shall lay anything to the
charge of God’s elect?

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It is God that justifieth, who
is he that condemneth?

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It is Christ that died.
Yea, rather that is risen again.

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Who is even at the right hand of
God who also maketh intercession

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for us.
Who shall separate us from the

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love of Christ.
Shall tribulation or distress?

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Persecution famine nakedness
Peril sword.

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As it is written for thy sake,
we are killed all the day long.

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We are accounted as sheep for
the slaughter.

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Nay in all these things, we are
more than conquerors through him

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that loved us for.
I am persuaded says the apostle

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that neither death nor life, nor
angels, nor principalities nor

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powers nor things present, nor
things to come nor height nor

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depth, nor any other created
thing, shall be able to separate

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us from the love of God, which
is in Christ Jesus, our lord,

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Brothers and sisters.
Let us look to the word of our

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God, to strengthen our families
and our a cliches around it so

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that we can come out of the
world of sin and death in the

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trials in it.
On consume.

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