214: Ted Sleeper – Exhortation: True Religion

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Welcome to good for selfie and
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I’m Levi and I’m Chris and I’m
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We post a new episode of the
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Hand to kind of set the stage

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for the talk.
You’re about to listen to and

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now let’s talk more about this
week’s talk.

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This week’s talk is an
excitation by brother Ted,

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sleeper from the San Francisco
Peninsula, Ecclesia.

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That was given on September 25th
2022.

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He gave it on Zoom to, I think a
And group of religious, which he

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mentions at the beginning.
This is a really kind of kind of

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broad topic is a station titled
titled, True Religion, and he

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starts in Josiah, which I
believe was the reading ties in

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the Ezekiel reading and then
kind of bronze it out to the, to

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the whole of scripture.
It’s, it’s really, it’s really

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beautiful talk.
He is, he’s very passionate and

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you’ll hear it.
He’s kind of weaving in.

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A lot of things that get down to
the core of that, we can’t kind

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of litigate or totally
structure, our faith or our

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focus, it has to come from our
hearts and he repeats that

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message over and over.
And I found it, very useful,

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very easy to listen to very
accessible.

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So I’m very thankful to the
sister, that suggested this

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talk, and I’m very happy to
share it on the podcast now.

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So again, this was a suggestion,
please do keep sending in your

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Since we we were very thankful
for them and so here is brother.

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Ted sleeper on True Religion,
well, good morning, brothers and

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sisters and to all that are
here.

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This morning there are 46
screens, that’s wonderful.

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There’s lots of us here from
various Ecclesia as being able

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to come together.
The reading that we had in

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Ezekiel and I was matching it a
bit with the one from Jeremiah

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Was, it was size up.
What was going on at this time?

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This was the end.
For what was left in the land of

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Judah, it was the end of the
nation.

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The people had utterly corrupted
themselves in the ways that God

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had sought to lead them.
And so the end was about to

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arrive.
What is astonishing about this?

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This is done in the time that
began with Josiah and, of

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course, ends with his last son.
Zachariah.

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So it’s just sort of the, the
father and his sons.

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It’s during this period of time
that this end was reach.

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I just want to remind you for a
moment about Josiah.

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This is The Godly Josiah that
we’re talking about.

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GE is the And that came in after
his father of Manasseh had

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brought all kinds of idolatry
and horrific ways of worshipping

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false gods into the land.
Among the people, Josiah is the

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one who literally went through
the land.

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He burned to ashes all of the
various gods and images.

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He ground them to powder.
He literally obliterated what

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manasa had?
Got into the land and then not

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only that.
But we read this in second

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crime, you don’t need to turn to
this.

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Let me just read this one.
Verse from second Chronicles

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chapter, 34 Verse 33.
He says, thus Josiah removed all

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the Abominations from all the
country that belong to the

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children of Israel.
So not just in, Jude in the

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South, he swept through the
whole land to cleanse it.

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And they’d all who are listen
carefully this, he made all who

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were present at Israel,
diligently serve the Lord, their

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God, all his days, they did not
depart from following the Lord

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God of their fathers.
That was The Godly King Josiah

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and what he had done in the
land.

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But in the days of Jeremiah, the
prophet who is one of the sons

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of the good high priest hilkiah,
that that helped to lead the

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people in the days of Josiah,
and he was probably the grandson

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of huldah, the prophetess.
So, this was a young man who had

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come through a very powerful and
godly lineage.

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It was in that days of Jeremiah
that God revealed a very

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different outcome to Josiah’s
reformation.

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And if you have, if you can just
kind of open up to Jeremiah just

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for a second, we’ll pick this
pick up some of those verses

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that we had read this morning
that are reflected later on in

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Ezekiel and what he had to say
in.

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Verse verse 3 of Jeremiah 7.
We read that Les says the Lord

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of hosts, the god of Israel
amend, your ways and your

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doings, and I will cause you to
dwell in this place.

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Do not trust in these lying
words.

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The Temple of the Lord, the
Temple of the Lord are these.

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Keep some of these things that
I’m emphasizing in your mind?

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For, if you thoroughly amend
your ways and your doings, if

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you thoroughly execute judgment
between a man and his neighbor.

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If you do not oppress, the
stranger, the fatherless, the

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Widow and do not shed innocent
blood in this place which is

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what they did.
When they offered up their

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children to bail and burned them
in the fire or walk after other

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gods to your hurt.
Then I will cause you to dwell

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in this Place in the land that I
gave to your father’s forever

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and ever behold.
You trust in lying Words that

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cannot profit, will you steal
murder?

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Commit, adultery swear, falsely
burn incense to Baal and walk.

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After other gods, whom you do
not know.

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And then come and stand before
me in this house, which is

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called by my name and say we are
delivered to do all these

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Abominations.
A nation’s and looking down at

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verse 17 and 18 and 19, he says,
do not see what they do in the

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cities of Judah and the streets
of Jerusalem, the children

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gather wood in the father’s
Kindle, the fire and the women

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need their dope.
They Kate but the Queen of

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Heaven.
And they pour out drink

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offerings to other gods that
they may provoke me to anger.

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Do they provoke me to anger
Sizzle, or do they not provoked

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themselves to the shame of their
own faces?

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I guess to sum it up in a very
simple way.

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The reforms, the incredible
reforms of Josiah.

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Didn’t last long after his
death.

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And it ended up and what we were
reading in Ezekiel 21.

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The end had arrived the days of
Zachariah and the Babylonians

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were coming in to sweep them.
Alphabet out of the land.

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Now, in a very far more
permanent way to leave the land

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desolate for 70 years.
I want you just to think about

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that reform of Josiah.
He did everything you would

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think was right?
He got rid of all the bad stuff

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and he reinstituted they worship
in the temple in Jerusalem.

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That was the place that they
were to come and yet for all of

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that Reformation of the external
surface.

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The problem was, if Reformation
doesn’t start from within it can

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never last.
Even when the forms are put,

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right?
And all the institutions are

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supposedly set up. that this
don’t seem to to work in the way

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they’re supposed to, and that’s
the problem with Reformation

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when Reformation addresses, the
external forms and institutions,

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It’s it’s as if they’re focusing
in the wrong place because the

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problem isn’t the institutions.
The problem is It within the

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people, that’s where the defects
were within the people.

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So if you just go back to
chapter 4 of Jeremiah verses 3

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and 4, we read these verses thus
says the Lord to the men of

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Judah and Jerusalem break up the
fallow ground and do not so

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among Thorns, circumcise
yourselves to the Lord and take

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away the foreskins of your
hearts.

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You men of Judah and inhabitants
of Jerusalem, So that was the

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problem real reformation and
real religion begins in the

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heart.
And when the heart is put,

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right?
That’s when good and right

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Behavior will flow from that
part into the world around you

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into into the Ecclesia, into the
community here in the times of

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Jeremiah.
And this is the time when things

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would been improved and become
different.

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And this is why the Reformation
that God promised is people

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promise to carry out was going
to be so dramatically different.

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I want you to turn with me to
Jeremiah 31.

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I want you to look at this
passage of scripture.

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This is where God’s Reformation
is being proclaimed.

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So, in Jeremiah 31.
Beginning at verse 31, We read

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this.
Behold the days are coming, says

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the Lord.
The days are coming when I will

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make a New Covenant with the
house of Israel.

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And with the house of Judah, not
according to the Covenant that I

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made with their fathers in the
day that I took them by the

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hand, to bring them out of the
land of Egypt.

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We know that as the Mosaic
Covenant, my Covenant, which

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they broke though.
I was a husband to them, says

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the Lord.
But this is the Covenant that I

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will make.
But I will make after those

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days, says the Lord, I will put
my law in their minds and write

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it on their hearts.
And I will be their God and they

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shall be my people and no more.
Listen to this.

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No more shall every man teaches
her and every man, his brother

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saying know the Lord for they
all shall know me from the least

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of them to the greatest of them.
Says the Lord for I will forgive

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their iniquity and their sin.
I will remember no more.

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You see what God is saying?
And hit the New Covenant.

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Is what he is always wanted.
In terms of a religion, he

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didn’t want the profession of
lips from us.

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That’s not what he’d look for
what he was looking for.

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Was a confession that flowed out
of our heart of people who

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actually knew their, God didn’t
just know things about their

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God.
But here’s the problem.

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How would all those?
Embraced by this new covenant.

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come to know their God, so well,
How is God going to take what he

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once wrote with his fingers?
Remember on the stones and gave

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them to Moses in the first
Covenant?

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How was God going to instead of
writing it on Stone?

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Write it on their hearts.
This is what we need to consider

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this morning, brothers and
sisters.

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This is the, the critical
excitation.

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If you like that, we want to
think about this morning,

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because we in Christ Jesus have
been brought into this new

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covenant.
And so how is it going to work

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out?
What is it that first of all,

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God needs from us for this New
Covenant that for what he has

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promised to actually happen?
Well, it turns out there are two

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things that God needs for
internal Reformation to take

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place inside of us.
The first is found in Psalm 40

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and you can listen to this or
follow along in your Bibles.

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It’s Psalm 40 verses 6.
And it goes like this.

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Sacrifice and offering you did
not desire.

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See those are externals.
But he says my ears, you have

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opened burnt offering and sin
offering you did not require but

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then I said behold I come in the
scroll of the book it is written

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of me.
I Delight to do your Will O my

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God and your law is within my
heart.

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I Delight to do your.
Will you get what that’s telling

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us what God needs is a willing
heart?

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He doesn’t want to use coercion
and force because that can have

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no place in the New Covenant.
That’s what happened.

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Under the Mosaic Covenant was
this external apparatus?

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That was trying to transform the
people but what God wanted in

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the New Covenant is a willing
desire.

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Fire of obedience that is freely
given not forced.

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And if you’d like for a moment
to come to the New Testament and

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take a look in Hebrews chapter
10.

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Where this particular verse is
picked up.

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We get this, we get this idea.
Brought before us Hebrews

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chapter 10, I’m going to start
back in verse 1, where he says

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for the law having a shadow.
Of the good things to come,

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which is what the New Covenant
is, and not the very image of

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the things can never with those
same sacrifices, which they

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offer continually yeard by year.
Make those who approach.

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Perfect for then would they not
have ceased to be offered?

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Why would you offer all of these
external sacrifices for?

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If the worshipper once purged if
that had happened would they

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would Not have had more
consciousness of sins, but in

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those sacrifices, there is a
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it is not possible that the
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These external things could take
away sins and therefore when he

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came into the world verse 5,
here’s the quotation and you

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know he’s referring to the Lord
Jesus Christ’s sacrifice and

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offering you did not desire but
a body you have prepared.

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For me, it burnt offerings and
sacrifices for sin, you had no

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pleasure.
Then I said, behold I come in

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the volume of the book it is
written of me to do your Will O

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God.
Pre-release a saying sacrifice

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and offering and burnt offerings
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You did not desire nor had
pleasure in them which are

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offered according to the law.
Then I said, behold I come to do

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your Will O God.
And in that act, the first

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comment was being taken away and
the New Covenant was being

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brought into Force Through the
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Two at the very core of the New
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of it.
We have the one who is showing

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us exactly what God wanted and
which is a willing heart and a

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willing desire to obey God in
all things but that’s only half

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of what God needs to complete
his Reformation within all of

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us.
So Hebrews 11:6, you know, this

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wonderful famous passage, which
you probably have memorized and

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we teach our young children to
memorize but without faith, it

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is impossible to please God.
For he who comes to God, must

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believe that he is, that he?
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And that.
Excuse me.

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I just lost my place and that he
is a rewarder of those who

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diligently seek him.
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needed after a willing heart in
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And to do what is pleasing in
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faith, which is not a mysterious
word, all it means is a

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willingness to trust God.
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It may not be apparent.
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Trusting God Is So vital to the
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the New Covenant nor how it can
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But if you bear with me I’d like
to Share with you what this is

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all about and make it as plain
as I possibly can and of all

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things if you know you need to
turn to this, when I want you to

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go back to The Vedic has all
right.

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Genesis Exodus Leviticus.
So your third book of the, the

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five books of Moses that they’re
sometimes called.

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Leviticus chapter 25.
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found in Leviticus chapter 25
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That amazingly.
So obscure it is this obscure

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little corner in the in the law
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The significance of the very
things that we have just been

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asking about in terms of the New
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So read this carefully with me,
verse 23, Free the Land shall

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not be sold permanently and we
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This is God’s land.
This is the one he promised all

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of that.
But listen to this.

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The land shall not be sold
permanently for the land is

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mine.
Okay?

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For you.
Are strangers and sojourners.

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With me.
Did you hear what he just said?

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Strangers and sojourners, I
think all of us this morning

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understand what a stranger and
Sojourner, some of us, I guess

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for brother James and the
Philippines that was being like

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a stranger and a Sojourner for
certain and it experiencing a

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foreign land.
But we understand that what it

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means is a stranger and
Sojourner, it’s a temporary way

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of life until one finally,
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But he says, you’re strangers
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What?
God.

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A stranger and Sojourner.
The implication of these words

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brothers and sisters are
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He is not too told, excuse me.
I guess, put simply it’s this,

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God is telling us even way back
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That this present World in which
they live through, in, which we

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are now.
Living through this present

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world is not God’s world.
He is a stranger and Sojourner

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in this world.
No place of it in that sense?

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Is he belongs to him?
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And what we see going on in the
world today is not the

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outworking of God’s desires.
It’s the outworking of man’s

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desires.
So, the implications of those

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words that we just read are
enormous, but there’s one more

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little tiny word embedded in
that what yours even more

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surprising because God says, you
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With me.
You get the point.

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What I had read back in Hebrews
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again and Hebrews 11 and verses
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We’re told that Abraham obeyed
when he was called to go out to

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the place which he would
afterward receive as an

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inheritance and he went out, not
knowing where he was going by

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faith.
He sojourned in the land of

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promise as in a foreign country.
Tree dwelling in tents with

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Isaac.
And Jacob, The Heirs with him of

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the same promise.
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For the city which has
foundations whose Builder and

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maker is God.
Do you see the point of that

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word with me?
God is not kind of above or

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outside of our experience.
He has not told us in some

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detached way, will give up your
citizenship as we do is

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christadelphians?
When were baptized me?

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We give up our ownership if you
like, or any claim that we might

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have on this, this present age,
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And now we go out and we live as
strangers and sojourners to

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until the king.
God is set upon the Earth.

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That’s not what God Said.
Rather what God has done is he

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has invited us.
To sojourn with him, he said to

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Abraham come, come with me. so,
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we have received like Abraham.
We have been invited to join the

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Living God, the god of Heaven
and Earth in his sojourning.

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Until he establishes the
promised new heavens and new

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earth, which wherein dwells
righteousness.

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As we’re told, This is the point
of a well-known passage back in

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Micah 6:8.
So please turn to it because I

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want this.
See this before your eyes as

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well.
Hosea, Excuse Me, Not O.

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See a Micah chapter 8.
There it is.

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Got it.
Mike said Mike, excuse me,

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chapter 6.
There is no chapter 8, Micah

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6:8.
Here’s this famous verse that

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again.
I think we know well he has

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shown you o man what is good and
what does the Lord require of

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you?
But to do justly that is to live

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righteous lives following for us
after the Lord Jesus Christ to

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do justly to love mercy and we
had a beginning class on Mercy

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in our Ecclesia couple weeks
back in Sunday school but it

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Early has to do with a strong
desire to reach out, and

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salvation and forgiveness, to
our brothers and sisters hell of

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mercy.
And finally, to walk humbly with

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our God, or as the literal
translation would suggest who

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humble ourselves To walk with
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I want you to think about that
to Humble ourselves to walk with

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God.
Remember we said this is what

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the what God has invited us to
do.

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And the New Covenant is to
become a stranger and Sojourner

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with him in this earth.
You know, you’ve all done this

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and let’s say with James with
the big group that he

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accompanied down to the
Philippines, you know, when

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you’re with a big group or is he
said, with the brother, though

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is in his room, you get to know
people.

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When your journey with them.
You get to you, get to you, get

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to see how they respond to
different circumstances that you

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may encounter together.
You see how that other person

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acts and in certain ways you
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And so James, I guess at some
level God, hey, you’re listening

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to the music and it’s I’m not
the music that the talks that

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the brother was listening to But
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You are sharing together.
Think about this, you are

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sharing together in a common set
of experiences a common life

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together when you are together
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Think about that brothers and
sisters.

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In sojourning and being invited
into what we have in Christ

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Jesus, we have been invited to
sojourn with God.

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That means we are sharing in his
life.

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And he is sharing in our lives.
This is a v extraordinary

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message, and you can just listen
to this passage, if you like

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from Isaiah 63, and it’s in
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If you want to write this down,
he says, surely they are my

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people children, who will not
lie, and so he became their

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savior.
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this is going, is loving,
kindness towards his people in

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all.
They are affliction.

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He was afflicted.
In other words and all that they

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experienced when they went
through their Wilderness

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wandering, they came into their
land and all their afflictions.

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God says he was afflicted and
the angel of his presence, saved

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them in his love and his in his
pity.

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He redeemed them, he bore them
and carry them all the days of

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old to see what kind of
relationship that is describing

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in sharing that Plum and life.
Together two things are

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happening first but common bond
is being forged a relationship

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is being built.
Why do you think God called

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Abraham his friend?
Friend of God.

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Friendship is not a one-sided
relationship as much as Abraham

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had come through his sojournings
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Even.
So had God.

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Come to depend upon his friend
Abraham.

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And second we need to fully
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That our life’s experiences with
we walk with God are not the

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subject of chance.
Of.

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Oops, something happened.
God is Meandering haphazardly

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around?
This is God’s Journey, he

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doesn’t wander around
haphazardly and he we are with

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him on this journey.
It means God’s path that he is

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taking, and we are walking along
with him is deliberate.

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And it is purposeful.
The writer in Hebrews 12 speaks

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of God’s discipline and training
the Apostle Paul and speaking to

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the brethren in Ephesus, he
speaks about much tribulation

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that is much pressure through
which we must pass to enter into

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the kingdom of God.
Perhaps, the most revealing

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passage of all in light of, this
is something that we find in

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Hebrews chapter 5, and I would
like you to turn there.

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As we begin to draw our thoughts
together about why we are all

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together this morning and
Hebrews chapter 5, we read this

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and verse seven and eight.
Speaking of the Lord, Jesus, who

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in the days of his flesh.
When he had offered up prayers

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and supplications with vehement
cries and tears.

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To him who was able to save him.
From death and was heard because

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of his Godly fear, though he was
a son, she had he learned

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obedience.
By the things, which he

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suffered, he learned, obedience,
and the word is the idea is to

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learn by use and practice.
Some has translated to acquire

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the habit of obedience, Jesus
acquired, the habit of obeying

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his father by the things that he
went through.

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In other words, God was writing
on the heart.

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This son.
Those precious qualities that he

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desired through the things that
his son was experiencing and

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these experiences that Jesus
went through arose because Jesus

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was willing to trust his father
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Let him That’s what’s amazing.
And so brothers and sisters,

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what can we learn?
From all of this, I don’t even

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know how to convey.
The utter Wonder of our God in

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the New Covenant.
Can you see that if indeed, this

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was God’s Journey, that Jesus
joined, if he was a Sojourner

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with his father, then the sorrow
and the pain that he

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experienced.
Whilst also being have been

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experienced by his father, they
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So don’t be discouraged, my
brethren.

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Don’t be discouraged if you go
through fiery and difficult.

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If we encountered fiery and
difficult trials in our lives.

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If we need our hands
strengthened because they’ve

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grow weak in our knees.
Need needs strengthening because

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they’ve grown feeble.
If we humble ourselves under the

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mighty hand of our God, God will
exalt Us in due time.

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I want to close brothers and
sisters by having.

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All of us, look at Galatians
chapter 5.

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Because this is Preston.
Incredible passage Galatians

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chapter 5 in verse 22 and 23.
Listen to what he says.

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But the fruit of the spirit is
love joy.

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Peace.
Long suffering.

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Kindness goodness faithfulness,
gentleness self-control against

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anything like this.
There is no law that is needed.

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Think about all of those
behaviors and then concentrate

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on one word in verse 22.
But the Fruit of the Spirit.

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This is the beauty of this
rather than sisters.

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The fruit is the outcome of a
process and this is the outcome

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of God’s process in our lives.
To think that this is what God

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is seeking.
To accomplish in each one of us.

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By our journey with him.
This is the result of life that

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is fit.
For eternity.

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And so may this be according to
God’s grace the blessing that we

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