052: Dennis Gillet - Faith At Rock Bottom

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   Welcome to the good crew selfie and talks podcast special specials. This is our special one-year anniversary episode. That’s pretty cool. So we’re together here at the table and excited to take a look a couple things. We are going to be playing a talk from brother Dennis galette Faith It Rock Bottom or rock-bottom. Faith is from 1974.

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   I believe I’m saying that I’ve taught my head and did not prepare but that will be after this so, we’re not sure how long this this intro be. Going to run through some of the numbers and talk about some of the surprises we’ve had from one year of the podcast. But if you don’t want to hear that stuff, you can just skip ahead and tell you here Dennis Colette’s voice are and we’ll put the timestamp in the show notes. Yeah, I’ll stick it in there.

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   So most podcast apps will hyper link that you can click on it and we’ll jump right to the time that that’s down there. So 52 episodes a year worth of doing one talk a week pretty crazy. So first off just thank you to everybody who’s been listening. We’re a averaging over 500 listens, which is crazy. So yeah absolutely nuts did not expect that and I guess we also now should thank thank the Lord for for blessing this project. It’s not it is something that we did not expect the the we didn’t expect the reception that it’s had and how many people have been enjoying it and how helpful is been. It’s been helpful for us to we always say how this is a been a blessing in our lives as well.

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   So it’s a great great thing and like we say in our normal intro. It just helps us get it. Get the word of God into our daily news feed and so thank you for listening and for so many suggestions for so many classes. That really is what we rely on at this point. I would say yeah, it’s definitely something we depend on there’s a there several people that have made multiple suggestions on that people send suggestions and they’ll have three or four classes and that which is awesome. So, you know who you are.

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   We only call anybody out, but thank you for that. It’s got an interesting also digging into all the different kind. The Archives of Adelphia finding kind of uncovered gems but also having people suggest things that have been really impactful them more recently so it’s kind of like we’re getting the pulse of christadelphians what people are thinking yeah, it’s been good and you know on our little web site internal website that we share we used to have just a couple places where you can get talks now, we’ve got like a big old list, which is also great. So, thank you too for those suggestions for those resources. We find we find out about foreclosures that host their talks and expectations and things every once in a while. Someone will save old.

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   I heard this really good one in that a brother gave here’s the website and here’s how to find the download link. So that’s something that has been really cool to see just how many sort of untapped locations. There are makes it exciting for us as we go forward because you know 52 episodes in and there’s the list of potential classes. We still have probably well over 20 right now, and we’re getting new suggestions all the time.

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   So we’re going to run through or just going to discuss just some of the numbers share some of the numbers that anchor gives us will go over some of our biggest surprises. I would say from doing this for a year talk about a couple ideas for the future whether or not we’re committed to them or not.

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   Who knows but that just some ideas the future and call up talk about other podcasts that we’ve got around and then and then we’ll get to this dance Colette class. So but yeah, let’s run through some numbers. So I think one of the things that’s that’s blown us away. Has been the just the reach of the of the podcasts I mean podcasting is a really cool format because it’s something you can do while you’re doing other things whether you’re driving to work or doing something where you don’t need to focus your entire mind on it. So I think it’s a medium that is a as a whole is growing and in the course of a year, we have over 30 thousand downloads total for the entire podcast for all 52 at our 51 episodes. I said, that’s crazy.

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   That’s what I’m just nuts. We are number one podcast. Is the first episode bye brother Bob Lloyd which is it just crossed the 1,000 download Mark and really there’s not that many crystal like there’s there’s like 60,000 Chris Elkins. We think in the world, you know just about and we have we have an episode that has a thousand downloads icaria thousand downloads. It’s just never would have expected that at all. It’s also really amazing because you know, Levi and I are both from California in the United States, but how widespread Fred it is globally were able to see some information about the countries and where the downloads are coming from and you know, obviously a big chunk comes to the United States, but I’d say probably from just kind of skimming the numbers on oh 30 to 40 percent or Australia UK Canada, but then all the way to pretty much any country.

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    You could think of Ireland. Yeah, maybe people must for downloading it randomly or where when people are traveling like I travel to Spain last summer and download an episode. So it shows that someone in Spain download an It was probably me. But but yeah to use it. Like you said a full 20% of our listeners download or 20% of our downloads are from Australia. So thank you to our friends down under but yeah, so that 30,000 divided by 52 is 576 and that’s that’s what we think is essentially the weekly support is 776 which is again, if you put that in that 60,000 number, it’s like one out of a hundred christadelphians.

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    Ins to the shelves that’s amazing. I just again we’re not saying these numbers out of Pride. This is just something that we literally talked about doing this and said if 50 people benefit from this then it was worth it, you know because it’d be worth it to us to listen to the classes. So we’re just so happy that it really has been a need that has been that has helped people and has been responded to because I I think I think we I think I remember saying out loud if it we listen to it I’ll keep doing it but I’ll probably won’t do it for less than 50.

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    Like I think I think we had that conversation because Yeah, you know a year ago and we thought we’d give it a try and if we get 50 people it’s worth it and it’s just really cool to see to see so many people benefiting from it is a good idea and we were talking the other day and I did not remember Chris reminded me whose idea it was I could not remember whose idea was we were standing with you. Well, you tell a story we were standing with Andrew Styles. Yeah, so it was a little over a year ago a year and a half ago. We were at Men’s camp out that we do in California Lake Cachuma and we were standing around the campfire and And if I remember correctly, I ended up putting on the conversation that levite Andrew having about Christian Bible talks that he helps maintain and hoods Andrew Stiles runs that website and very popular here in North America.

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    And I think the conversation was just it started with kind of like how many what were the top classes that were downloaded from his sight and I don’t remember which one of us throughout the idea like, oh, you know, we should find a better way to make those classes be accessible whether it’s like, you know, we have a like a podcast feed off of the website and we’re kind of You know it kind of talking it out and you know, but we were kind of we ended up it was one of those things where everybody just started kind of thrown in some ideas and saying like, oh, you know, we should kind of curate it and try to pick out like the best ones because you know as Levi kind of says in you know, when we did our trailer a year ago it was you know, if somebody sends you a class and says this class is awesome then so much why likely to listen to exactly which is essentially why we call it good Chris selfie and talked sadly. So and then I think what ended up happening is if either one of us had said by ourselves we were going to do it. You know, it’s the the classic flower. If you say tell you if the only person involved in a project yourself, you’re never going to move forward, but yeah, and I held each other accountable.

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    So when one of us would sort of maybe not push through the other one be like, yeah, we’ll take care of this and I like to plan and overanalyze things. So I remember leave I was like, all right. I set up a Gmail account and we signed up for anchor so I was like, oh, I guess we’re doing this. So and then, you know, we just kind of we recorded the first intro.

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    We just kind of threw I think we recorded off there’s my phone. Yeah for phone for First one just yeah, I don’t so so anyways again, it’s been great. And we do we are happy that has been so helpful. So our biggest surprise is I think what Beyond we I guess I said it just the reception has definitely been my biggest surprise.

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    I did not expect that at all. I did expect to how hard it would be for me to get used to listening to as many classes as we have. We met has been a struggle for us will admit that we do Shoot To Each listen to 5, but we often do less than that. And again, that’s really why we live off. Questions is because when we get a suggestion that we find a good, you know, we know that one’s good and we both listen to it and then we try to post it so that it does not a surprise but what hasn’t that’s a challenge some weeks. I’ve been surprised at how you know, if guess our favorite episodes and that many of them it’s actually kind of hard to one of the things we want to talk about is like which episodes we look back at that.

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    Oh, yeah kind of either the ones that were surprised because some of the classes that we’ve posted have been definitely some of our longtime favorites, you know, the right Bob load when we ride with was a favorite of both of ours. Just write that particular service he’d given several times. But I know I know for myself The The J the J. Make one with the burning bush.

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    I really really enjoyed just because of the it was a good blend of kind of personal testimonial Bible study and practical application, which I really enjoyed but there’s tons of other ones. But yeah, I was I’ve been floored by the he is able by Harry tenant, which is on the on the feed that that was such a good class.

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    That’s probably one of the ones I’ve listened to more than once since we started and then the other one was filled. Brother Phil Davidson recently talking about depression. I think that class was awesome. Just really really good. We got a lot of good feedback on that and I wish we had more classes like that brother and talking about, you know, Jaipur practical issues as ably as he did.

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    He did such a good job on at once and it was definitely one that that resonated with a lot of people and it’s probably been the number one episode that I’ve had people come up to me or reach out to me or reach out to us through social media or whatever and say like how much they appreciated.

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    That class in particular. So we’re glad that that was you know, that brother Phil gave that class. Yeah, and that that was a suggestion wasn’t it? That was a suggestion. Yeah, we got that in an email box in the email box. Harrington was also He’s Able is also a suggestion all that’s right.

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    That was a that’s an excellent class. Yeah. So what are our plans for the future some of the some of the ideas that we’ve been throwing around that I’ve been planning in this kind of segues into how many other podcasts because Delphine Cast doubt on whether they were out there and we just weren’t aware of it or have sort of Spun up in the in the last year as the media kind of has taken off. But one of the ideas that I’m currently working on is getting a both a website that we will host podcast feeds off to make it a little bit easier for people to find have some of the slides and other information to some people have content have asked about that and it’s a little tricky to link to that when it’s in random places.

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    So have it be hosted in one central place an actual an actual website. Not just an anchor website for our for Podcast but then also your sanding of one for all the LM podcasts and then also to be able to link because the number of Crystal pin podcast that have that have popped up.

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    Yeah has been has been amazing. So we try to give shout outs to the different ones just because you know, not everybody not everybody necessarily always has the time or the attention to want to listen to an hour plus so I know so even had since the first one was pause to consider. Yes.

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    I stand who was our one of our guest host. So that’s actually one of our other. Other potential plans for the future is having if if you are comfortable doing that type of thing in are interested. Feel free to reach out to us. I think it’s something we enjoyed having Sam on. Yeah two weeks.

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    Yeah to have other guests hosts introduce a class that they found particularly impressive or yeah. No, that was great hers. And I said I’d like to do that again. Yeah. Okay. Let’s run down these other podcasts. Yeah, definitely so pause to consider by Sam Taylor definitely check that one out and that’s where saying check. Look search all of these if you want more these other brothers and sisters are doing really good work by by almost being more creative even than we are and having Sam’s doing full-on devotionals and they’re actually they’re totally excellent and encouraging so pause to consider by Sam Taylor. There’s a there’s a podcast called new Every Morning by a group of sisters in Australia who don’t put their names on the show, but they have an email address you can email and then Discerning daughters by sister Rachel Adams in New Jersey and I should say both of those are particularly unique and they’re both podcasts by sisters for sisters, which is something that you know, I think is is good because it gives everybody an opportunity.

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    That’s kind of the one of the beauties of the podcast media is like if you’ve got something that you can press record on yeah, especially with anchor making it so easy for you to get a feed up that you know, anybody whatever spin you’ve got on something you can you can either something.

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    So the essential bioassays podcasts by brother Tim Young The from the plant there’s a podcast in England called from the platform by Tom peel discussing the Chris – kind of community and then I’m on another podcast which we’re just now getting off the ground called a little faith. You can search a little faith we have we’re going to be posting episodes pretty quickly. Now, we posed an introduction to months ago, but the other episodes are coming winter was great getting off to getting off the ground now so so yeah, it’s like you said a lot of those have started in this last year kind of along with us. The same, you know, same graduating class if you will podcasts and and we definitely suggest all of them. We both have long commutes.

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    I mean that’s that’s what it comes down to is Chris and I both Drive 45 minutes an hour each way each day. So we are the biggest fans of these shows to you know to again get more positive things in our in our brains, so definitely well that I so yeah. Thanks for listening to all that we still do have a class here by brother Dan.

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    The wet and it’s an excellent one on the things that can hurt our faith and how to build our faith back up called Faith at Rock Bottom. I did this class is slightly challenging just in Dennis’s words are so beautiful and poetic just like his writing but his speaking is the same way like it’s not like a normal speaking English.

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    It is an older English. It’s from the 70s, but also, I believe just his style is very deliberate and poetic but I still found this class to be incredibly beneficial. Official so this is what will post for class 52 and here’s I guess we’ll probably learn a special episode of hundred. I would say probably not episode 104, but we’ll see we’ll see if we really do a 15-minute and detailed report every year.

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    But yeah, but again, thank you to everybody a please keep sending your suggestions posting on Facebook and all that is a huge help to us. Yeah, definitely any any questions or anything or if there’s any suggestions you have for for the format or anything else like that, or even I’ve had a couple of you Suggestions for different ideas for podcast things for some people the format is intimidating being in front of a microphone and talking so, you know, feel free to throw I crazy ideas that you have about other things you might want to do and who knows we might be able to pull something together. So thank you again both to everyone who’s listening and to to God for blessing the effort bring it bring forth the increase for us as we as we go forward. It’s been amazing.

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    Absolutely. Here’s brother Dennis galette. From the faith of those who have joined us today and haven’t been able to join us in the mornings this week May. I just remind you of the principles which underlie these addresses on Deuteronomy. They are based on the idea that in the book of Deuteronomy. There are words which are Central and fundamental to the discipleship of Christ.

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    They were spoken a long time ago measured in human time, but they were not spoken incidentally. They were not spoken dispensation Ali they were spoken essentially they were spoken universally because They were spoken on the basis of principles which are perpetual and Timeless things which were true then and things which are true.

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    Now upon that basis. Therefore. These addresses are based. So today we are to think about faith faith. First of all descending and then Faith at last ascending. There is no doubt and I think you have no doubt that in the life of discipleship. Faith is a real source of strength gout gout has the effect of cramping out energy Faith as the effect of expanding it trust is power. All things are possible to him that believeth disciples are called upon to overcome.

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    They are called upon to On the forces which apart from God would bring them to Doom when the saints are gathered for the final song upon Mount Zion the song of Triumph as I said before it’s not going to be a great bath chair rally. It’s not a gathering of the cripples. It’s the Gathering of those who have Triumph those who have overcome as their lord is Victorious.

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    So are they to be remember Revelation chapter 3 verse 21, he that Overcometh I will deal hit give him to sit down with me in my Throne as I also overcame and sat down with my father in his throne so we can mark the quality of the victory as I also overcame. Now.

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    It’s the Apostle John that fixes for us the power which brings Victory. He says this is the victory which overcometh the world. Old even our faith and why is that? Well, it’s because faith is the Assurance of things hoped for by The Proving of things not seen in order to have triumphing faith.

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    You must have the capacity to see the invisible and according to their Vision men are empowered and so it was with those Heroes and heroines which are cataloged in Hebrews 11. Heaven Abraham left a certain city for the land that he never seen them which he did not know. He began the journey having no idea where it would lead him if there had been newspapers in the day of Abraham. No doubt one morning in the called Ian times. There would have been an article which begun like this our respective citizen.

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    Abraham is leaving us at the end of the week when our correspondent asked him where he was going. He said he did not No, he was canceled to take medical advice.

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    And so measured by the measured by the moment by the wisdom of the our measured by the wisdom of this world men would doubtless say that Abraham was a foolish man to leave that place of stability for a place of instability that Abraham was absolutely sure and Abraham was utterly calm now, why was he so sure of the Unseen land because he was so Sure of the Unseen God when men see the invisible. They do things which Blind Men would never contemplate. Noah did a very strange thing he built a big liner in the middle of dry land.

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    They never thought of building the Queen Mary at Coventry because the harbor is a little shallow in summertime. Now if there had been newspapers in the day of Noah one morning in the Mesopotamian Chronicle, there would have been an article or a headline which began like this the reverent Noah has gone mad. Because when men see the invisible they are able to do things which other men who cannot see the invisible count strange even contradictory even lunatic. Noah was utterly sure of the Unseen flood because he was utterly sure of the Unseen God somehow in his deepest heart. He knew that that is a Madness which rightly named is the sublimest sanity think of the man with the Shepherds. Cook who turned his back on all the Splendor of Egypt because he had respect unto the recompense of the reward somehow. He was sure that there is infinitely more value in Messiahs reproach than in all the honor of pharaoh. He endured as seeing him who is invisible. He knew this Moses.

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    He knew that thin it may be pleasant for a while, but it Has a very short season that is measured by the calendar of Heaven A very short season. Or think of the man of Tarsus. He saw something which his companions never saw and he was never the same again. He tramped over rough roads, he faced Tempest see and you would paddle upon pedal more than once barely escaped with his life because he was utterly sure of his King. He said I know whom I have believed. He said neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities nor things present nor things to come nor powers nor height nor depth nor any other creature is able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ.

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    Jesus our lord. What a splendid confession of faith that is unshakable Faith and out of it came alive of enduring faithfulness, but no doubt faith is power.

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    But Brethren and sisters, I think I know what you are thinking. because I am thinking the same myself and I believe I am normal. Not many of us not many of us are able to live at the altitude which we have just been recalling. Not many of us ever get above the snowline. Too often.

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    We are in the valley where the day is dull and the Safran is scarce and the stream of life is rancid and Faith consequently descends and we think thoughts. wrong thoughts and we nursed doubts and we do things which would make us ashamed in the presence of Abraham and Noah and Moses and Paul.

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    Why does faith descend faith that begins so brightly so earnestly. Why does it descend? Why does it get dim? Why do Disciples who were want strong begin to fail and falter? Well, first of all, it’s no new problem. We can be sure of that. I can think of to quickly. I can think of two sentences from the New Testament. But tell us it’s no new problem.

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    Ye were running well. Who did hinder you? I have this against thee that thou didst leave thy first love so it was so then just as it is sometimes now, why is it? Well as it appears to me that our divers reasons perhaps as many reasons as there are different kinds of disciples.

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    And obviously we cannot think of all the reasons only some and of those some only true one. Very often faith is assaulted by fear. Now fear is an Insidious thing. It saps the strength that weakens the nerve it dilutes the resolution through fear man lose their grip and through fear men lose their up to medium High Hopes are dashed.

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    Loyalty is abandoned through fear. Just let me remind you of the people of God. People called upon to high destiny. And high Enterprise the people of God have they came to the margin of the good land that K – Barney. They sent spies in to spy out the land. And they came back with that intelligence report in preparation for the campaign. I know, you know they came back with two reports. There was a majority report in a Minority Report and they were almost identical the majority report said in effect. It is a good land it flows with milk and honey the great so luscious the rivers are beautiful. But there are Ward’s scissors and Giants and we are as grasshoppers in their sight.

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    We had better not go. Let us make a captain and go back to Egypt. The Minority Report was almost the same. It said it’s a good land that flows with milk and honey. The Grapes Elijah’s the rivers are beautiful. It is true. There are World citizen Giants. And we may look like grasshoppers, but the Lord Our God will give us this land.

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    Let us go in and possess it just in passing. The difference between the majority report and The Minority Report was the placing of the little word but in the Bible every word is important. They said there are wall citizen Giants. No, they said it’s a good land but there are walls citizen Giants.

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    The other said it is a good Land There are horses and Giants but the Lord Our God will give us this land. Well, it’s to the lasting Shame of the people of Israel. As you know, that they chose the majority report and they chose it because they were afraid it was fear that was fear which is at the root of their failure. They were afraid of the forces which were in opposition and in the face of those forces their courage melted away. The Hebrew writer says that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief and that unbelief was rooted in there. Here it tells us that eroded faith is a barrier to possession now what made their failure so inexcusable, as you know is that they had received so much evidence of the invisible God. Remember faith is the Assurance of things hoped for by The Proving of Things Not Seen and God had given them abundant proof of his power.

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    He had given them outstanding proof of his compassion. He had parted the Red Sea Seein, it destroyed that enemies in it. He delivered them from Egypt with Mighty power and and with her stretched out arm and here they are with no Assurance about his ability to deal with these walls citizen these Giants.

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    They dare not Venture. They were afraid to venture even with God. They forgot his providential care as I said to you before they they like the milk and honey, but they couldn’t forget the garlic and the leeks and the onions. It’s a strange thing that garlic has come to be the outward sign of an inward disgrace such was the tragedy of descending faith in the people of God.

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    They turn back from their High Heritage through fear. fear of the things that lie ahead and fear of losing the things that lay behind Well now discipleship in Deuteronomy. Here is the issue. Dare, we consult our fears in the life of this and sample of Israel. I know the local conditions of no faded and they are changed but the principles remain why do men hold back from venturing in faith with God? Sometimes through fear.

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    So a fear that if they were to act boldly in faith, they might expose themselves to some D privation. It might mean the last of some material advantage. All a fear that the difficulties might result in some hardship or some opposition which would hurt them and which they are not ready to enjoy. Oh, I feel that if they declared themselves openly as their faith demands then somehow their reputation would be injured. All the fact of acting in faith might mean the repudiation of some relationship or some Indulgence which they fear to relinquish or which they long to keep. But then there are other fears too. Fear of weakness the by weakness. I mean the continual failure to master forces which assault the spirit and crushed the soul.

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    Fear of the unknown looking into the future and seeing no light. Or fear of some physical disability some bodily failure some doubt problem, which no human agency is able to solve.

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    Fear of the things which are coming on the world fear of violence fear of evil fear of that perhaps fear that that perhaps which began best will end worse. and then the sphere about the mystery of sorrow and pain not only your own pain, but Feel about the pain and the sorrow of others.

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    And then the fear of death. The Last Enemy not the fear of death itself, but the feel of that scrutiny of Life which death will bring at the Judgment seat of Christ.

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    Then the sphere and this is a real fear. That is fear my brethren. Of some upspringing of forces in a man’s character which are depraved and degenerate fear of the emergence of something. In our personality, which is slimy and devilish and hateful now all these fears have the effect of eroding faith and dimming the vision so that at last failure hangs on the heart like an icicle and the soul of a man becomes benumbed. Well that if you remember, it seems a long time ago. Now that if you remember was the first cause of the failure of Faith fear the second one I wanted to draw your attention to Is in the Bible called self corruption I bring you to Deuteronomy chapter 4.

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    Deuteronomy chapter 4 verse 25 when thou shalt beget children and children’s children, and you shall have been long in the land and shall corrupt yourselves and make a Graven image in the form of anything and shall do that, which is evil in the sight of the Lord. Thy God to provoke him to anger.

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    I call Heaven and Earth to witness against you this day that she shall soon utterly perish from off the land. We’re onto you go over Jordan to possess it. He shall not prolong your days. The pain it but shall utterly be destroyed. And the Lord shall scatter you among the peoples and you shall be left few in number among the Nations within the Lord shall lead you away and there you Shall Serve God’s the work of men’s hands wood and stone which neither see nor hear nor heat nor snare notice the process when ye have remained long. In the land what and have begun to take its blessings for granted.

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    When ye shall corrupt yourselves when ye shall make a Graven image. When ye shall do evil in the sight of the Lord notice the process of the system. the whole process began with self corruption When ye shall corrupt yourselves. Now what is self corruption?

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    Well, here is my definition. It is giving or using the powers of your life for something which is lower than the highest and the best it is. In fact the first step in backsliding you see when a man takes his eye for what he knows to be the highest and he is satisfied with something lower be the distance have a so small is Faith is slightly on the decline. It’s not a case of having the ideal unbelieving in the ideal and falling short of the ideal.

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    That is one thing that is one problem. But that’s not self corruption self corruption is when a man put something lower as his ideal put something lower has is idea of what God is and what God requires. That is to say when he is corrupted he begins to think falsely about God and the next step as the process suggests.

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    He is beginning to make a God for himself. He’s making an image in the words of Moses. He is making an image is making a God after the pattern of his own reduced and diminished ideal. And when he does that he becomes like his God and sooner or later. He is doing something evil witch at the beginning. He never dreamt of doing or intended to do and this sad process begins ever so slightly and it begins ever so slightly with the first calling of the passion the first diminution of the enthusiasm the first Junction of the loyalty to Christ the accepting of the compromise coming to terms with the sin which doth so easily beset us. It’s the tragedy of a man who wears all the externalities of discipleship, but inwardly he has lost the thrill inwardly is lost the passion inwardly.

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    So help him. God is bored with the gospel the devotion which once drove him as become quiescent. He’s content with this self-invented God because as I said before it’s really a projection of himself and his own desires. It’s God made in his own image.

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    Now what we ought to be concerned about my brother and is this not that great Gulf which exists between God and the man who at last overtly and uncaring Lee does evil in the sight of the Lord. Not that great golf what we ought to be concerned about is the first step on the descending path the first dimming of the bright Faith the first the first chill wind that blows through a man’s life which once with warm warm with love. Because if that process which begins ever so slightly if that process goes on unhindered and unchecked it results at last in that condition, which the Hebrew writer calls in the New Testament being hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. This is a gloomy address, isn’t it? If there were no more to be said on this subject, it would be sad indeed.

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    You must think I’m a misery. But there is more to be said praise God. Deuteronomy 4 Let’s read verse 28 again. And there you Shall Serve gods. self-made gods insensate gods they are God’s the work of men’s hands wood and stone which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell. Every word in the Bible is important. notice the next word but but if from thence.

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    But if from them social seek the Lord thy God Thou shalt find him if those search after him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. But he is from them.

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    You just think we’re thence was for these people eventually came to this condition that Moses had for warn them about people. Who were mustard? By insensate gods who were themselves the people of Yahweh. the Living God Where they were in eventually in some foreign land far away from Zion in the very heart of idolatry Mastered by paganism degenerating.

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    They were descending men of vision. They were men of the highest Vision. They were men of noble passions met Affair ideals. And here they were languishing and lost.

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    How can they sing the songs of Zion in a Strange Land scattered for Satan and despised? But if from thence. Well, you don’t have to be a genius in Durban to see that this is the agony of broken discipleship wherever it is.

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    Vince is a wonderfully inclusive word. I don’t know where thence is for any man. It may be a long way back. It could be. for some soul in this house It could be a long way back where there seemed to be. No, hope. Weather seemed to be no possibility of restoration. Where the heart is chilled? And where the soul is hot and fevered. Then said where that poor wandering boy was eating swinish husks and his Spirit was broken.

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    But if from thence Moses said and he means there is no situation to hopeless. Betty has no conditions so hard that is no failure so dark, but if there is a searching for God, he will be found and being found he will lift up and be a lifting up he will restore. If from thence wherever you are if ye shall seek the Lord thy God with all thy heart with all thy whole heart and with thy whole soul Thou shalt find him.

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    discipleship and Deuteronomy now that is in the New Testament. A word which is the counterpart of vents in Deuteronomy chapter 4 it is in the seventh chapter of the Hebrew letter.

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    Hebrews chapter 7 And it’s verse 25. Hebrews chapter 7 verse 25 wherefore. Also he is able to save to the uttermost then the draw near unto God through him seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. And the word of course is uttermost. That is the equivalent of vents. Because uttermost looks back to the deepest place of failure ultimo’s 12 the word speaks for itself.

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    It’s as far as you can go. It breaks through the boundaries are two most he said it expresses the power to find the broken ones wherever they are our two most he said it it means that this man’s priesthood descends deeper than the deepest sin. It penetrates every barrier. It removes every impediment. It heals every wound.

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    It finds the Forsaken ones wherever they may be on though. They be fear-filled and sin laid, never mind. Tim knows he said it means he finds them and carries them through the Tempest and over the rugged Mountain to the place of sucker and safety over the rugged mountain. Did I say? a figure listen how beautiful

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    upon the mountain Are the feet of him? That bringeth good tidings that saith unto Zion. vanish that saith unto Zion in vents by God reigneth and because God Reigns the broken soul is never forsaken.

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    You see it was not then change that that poor wandering boy came to himself and he said I will arise and I will go to my father and I will say father. I have sinned before heaven and against thee. I am no more worthy to be called. Thy son make me as one of they hired servants. I expect you’ve noticed you he was never able to finish the sentence.

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    He’s resolved in practiced. The sentence was interrupted by the father’s Embrace and the loving welcome the boys plan to be a slave instead of a son was hushed and ended by the ministry of restoration if from thence. Let’s come back Brethren and sisters to what we were thinking of it first the fears the fears which rock are soul and twist our hearts the depths of Life The Suffering and the weakness and the failure the sorrow and the perplexity the frightfulness which fills our hearts with heart failure. The mastering power of self which crippled assassin and Phyllis with foreboding the disappointments that the fellowship which was once joy-filled and is now soured and saddened.

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    What can we do as our faith descends and the spirit sinks into depression. What can we do? Well, our next reference is Deuteronomy chapter 33.

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    We’ve Come Back At Last to the song of Moses the great song of Moses verse 27 of Deuteronomy chapter 33. All right first 27 view Toronto me 33 The Eternal God Is Thy dwelling place and underneath are the Everlasting Arms. And he thrust that the enemy from before thee and said destroy.

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    The Eternal God Is Thy dwelling place and underneath are the Everlasting Arms now it is that little sentence to which we must now direct our minds and our hearts. Let’s let’s just enjoy a bit of exposition in this sentence the word God the Eternal God. The word God is the Hebrew word Elohim. And in this particular case stands for the unfathomable and immeasurable immeasurable power of the most high the Intensive Hebrew plural word speaking of Might and majesty and then there is a difference between the words Eternal the Eternal God. Beside driving place and the word Everlasting underneath are the Everlasting Arms.

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    There’s a difference between Eternal and everlasting. The word translated Eternal is the Hebrew word Give em, and here it has the meaning of being in the front whether it’s in place or time being in the front inferentially, of course, it means the place of the sunrise the place where the day starts it is a word which though it speaks of the four-part.

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    It has a way of looking back to the start. It would be true I suppose so I understand it would be true to the Hebrew meaning of the word to translate it. The god of old is thy dwelling place. But to use the word old for this Hebrew word would lack one thing it would lack the poetic sense of the word the word Eternal and therefore the best way of expressing it.

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    Is this the god of the beginning is Slide Welling face the god of the morning the god of the morning that morning when the stars sang together for joy in the mystery of creation. It is saying then that The God Who was at the beginning and revealed himself in the power and the glory of his creation the god of way back. He is nevertheless the God who is now and Nia and he is thy Dwelling Place.

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    The newness of the great God is discovered and realized as the place where failing men may be at home because he is thy dwelling place now, I use the word home delivered Italy because home is the place as I said to you. I think already home is the place where you are at home.

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    The place where all fear is banished the place where there is security and rest the place where that is peace and goodwill where you move not by the authority of dogmatism, but by the authority of love the place where every door is open for Love’s sake where you can be true to yourself the place where there is no need of guile or pretense or window dressing at home. You are inwardly what you are out with all the other way around you are outwardly what you are in with me. Now if you think I’ve overstated it then I want to bring you to a place another place in the Old Testament where this same word dwell the Eternal God Is Thy dwelling place where this word dwell is used.

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    And it’s used again in the sense of being at home with Isaiah 33. Remember, we’re enjoying a bit of exegesis. Isaiah 33 verse 14 Shalom words from Isaiah The sinners in Zion are afraid trembling have surprised the Godless ones who among us shall dwell with devouring fire who among us shall dwell with Everlasting burnings.

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    Now that question that I say I asked means who among us shall dwell with Everlasting burnings who Among Us will be at home in the fire who will be able to survive and come out of it better and purer not the sinners in Zion certainly not the sinners in Zion, but those who have lived their lives.

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    And made them income bustable by the quality of their living. Gold survives in the fire stubble is destroyed one who is at home with fire is the gold and the other who is consumed is trouble. So you see what on him dwell there means being at home with being able to live with it and to live through it the Everlasting burnings.

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    So coming back to Deuteronomy. The god of the morning is thy Dwelling Place the god of the beginning is the god who is with with the now on the pathway with the in spite see drilling drilling with you dwelling with you in spite of your recording powerlessness dwelling with you in spite of your faltering steps. In spite of your trembling heart the god of the beginning is by Homestead.

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    Regarding said let there be light The God Who divided the water from the water the God who brought life into existence and said let us make man in our image light water life. It’s the story of discipleship the light of the truth the water of baptism the life of Faith this God Is Thy dwelling place where broken men may find home. And then underneath are the Everlasting Arms the word Everlasting seeks to describe the timelessness of God. It’s the Hebrew word Olam.

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    It means it means age abide in him. Something which is unchanged by the ages passing through the ages and Beyond the age has never touched by the ages violating all the calendars and all the almanacs. That means that a good example of what it means is in that in that word in Isaiah 9 amongst those names conferred upon him Manuel He is wonderful. The Mighty God L Gibble the the Everlasting father. That is the father of Eternity the father of the vanishing point.

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    The father of the vanishing point where the line passes out of sight the concealed that which lies beyond the utmost effort to follow and understand where thought and Imagination are halted age abiding. Something so Broad and extensive extensive as to be always outside of human experience and human endeavor broader than the broadest reaching of human hearts and human hands deeper than the deepest descending of human Frailty Everlast the strength unlimited the enclosing power of the infinite tenderness of God the god of the morning.

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    then the word underneath underneath are the Everlasting Arms. This is the only place in the Bible where we find this word translated underneath now, the Hebrew word is found in other places. I mean other Hebrew writings and therefore its meaning is not in doubt. It is very simple its meaning it means bottom. Just bottom. associated with the idea though is the idea of going down descending falling briefing down humbling the depths of the deepest condition worse your imagination or your experience can conceive when you are right down when you are right down in sorrow and anguish in fear in weakness in suffering in Failure the lowest level when you said I was never deeper down the now never now listen underneath underneath that lower than that of the Everlasting Arms. lower than the bottom beneath that of the Everlasting Arms When Faith was at Rock Bottom the Everlasting Arms Of God were underneath that on the lie underneath life with all its mystery with all its seeming chance fullness with its perplexity with his contradiction.

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     Underneath are the Everlasting Arms. There’s nothing outside the orbit of Israel. There is nothing beyond the tenderness of his care. What can you say, how can you tell it that? human syllables are not adequate Brethren and sisters when we are falling fearfully and sadly in the last in the last reach of The Descent when every support is giving way when no finger is lifted to hold her falling when no voice can stay a help lessness when no glance of the I can anymore understand that Agony in the moment of our utter weakness in the moment of our final hope lessness we for and we have fallen into the arms of God. Cradled by the god of the morning sucking at rock bottom and Moses goes on to Proclaim that the God who is our refuge will bring to nought all the forces which are set on hindering and harming us.

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     He will first out the enemy said and say destroy The forces which are against us and a soldier us at last he will say to them destroyed. Let them be destroyed. It means that feel like a brat like a black raven will drop dead. An old death Riding on His Pale Horse his vanquished. so discipleship in Deuteronomy, we may take these words of old these words of Moses the last words of Moses on the plains of Moab.

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     We may take them to ourselves. He said happy Art Thou o people of God who is like unto thee a people saved by the Lord. So this is the answer to all our fears and all our foreboding. He is in the beginning the god of the beginning is the beginning of this day and every day until the until the cycle of the running days is over and all the secrets of the ages out of Iran and so my comrades we have come to the end of our show.

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     Should I Deuteronomy? And as you go out to this house today into the streets of the world you go bearing his name and the guns and his course the manifesting his discipleship. window Because of the things we have talked about together, will you remember that the secret things belong to the Lord your God but the things which are revealed belong on to you and to your children that you made you all the words of this law.

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     We need to remember that in the strange and varied experiences of your discipleship. He is leading you like an eagle. He is bearing you on his pinions so that at last you met Ray you may rise onward. And upward and sunward in the full flush of your new life. And finally if in the strange and awful ways of failure and weakness, you are fearful and you are faltering underneath your deepest sorrow and underneath your deepest failure are the Everlasting Arms of the god of the morning and as you submit yourselves more and more to his will so Oh, the secret things will be discovered and will be me discovered as your faith increases and so you will rise up into that Circle of those who know the king best of all his next of kin. Those were told to stand with him and to fight with him until the day is done and the kingdom is come until the day when all the aggregated souls who are his become one in him. the lungs wife and thank you for listening to the good christophany talks podcast, Please Subscribe for new episodes and leave a review and apple podcast or whatever service you are listening from to help people find the show when they search for it. If you enjoyed this talk share it on social media. So other people can find it to for show notes and links to the talk that you just listen to visit our show page at anchor dot f m / G CT We want to encourage everyone to share their thoughts from the talk this week on Facebook or Instagram where we are at good

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