175: Peter Wilson – Exhortation: Scaffolding

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Welcome to Goodra selfie and
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I’m Levi.
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Hello and welcome back to

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another talk for this week.
We’re listening to exhortation

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that was given a Verdugo Hills
back in September by Brother.

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Peter Wilson on the subject of
scaffolding brother.

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Peter looks at the idea of
scaffolding and what it uses to

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support us, he talks about
multiple parts of it and how

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scaffolding well sometimes seen
as something that canvas cure,

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the actual building or something
that you may not always think as

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being important is something
instead that, Helps to form the

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structure and in turn, our
scaffolding should be something

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that supports and helps us to
develop into a people for God.

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I really enjoy this expectation
when I heard brother Peter, give

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it it was a great reminder.
And as we start the new year, I

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thought this would be a good
excitation to consider as it.

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Focus helps us to focus and
remind us on how we should be

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supporting ourselves in the
structures.

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We should put in our lives to
make sure that we are growing up

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in the direction that we should
go.

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As always, thank you for the
suggestions and recommendations.

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Somebody suggested this one to
me after we listen to it and

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thought it would be a great one
to share.

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So I hope that you enjoy this
excitation and that it is

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encouraging and uplifting to you
and your walk and that you’re

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having a great start to your new
year with that, I will turn it

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over to our brother, Peter
Wilson for his extrication

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entitled scaffolding.
Every building.

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Begins in the dirt.
I take some time and careful

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thought by the Builder and
architect working together to

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raise it safely and strongly one
section at a time.

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So it doesn’t fall into a pile
like that condo in Florida and

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our spiritual lives are similar.
There’s Small Beginnings, Ending

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in a beautiful Temple structure.
That is our goal, Ephesians

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chapter 2 verses 20, and 22
says, we are built upon the

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foundation of the Apostles and
Prophets.

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Jesus himself being the Chief
Cornerstone in whom are all the

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building fitly framed together
groweth into a, holy Temple in

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the Lord.
So that Temple is us and that’s

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what it is.
Being built.

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In whom he are also builded
together for an habitation of

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God through the spirit.
First Corinthians 3 supports

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this metaphor know, ye not that
ye are the temple of God and

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that the spirit of God dwelleth
in you.

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So God wants to build and dwell
in us and he will help us build.

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He has given us, the solid rock
foundation of the Apostles and

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Prophets The Cornerstone Jesus.
And we build our building

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structure.
By following the structure, and

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using the strong steel of his
truth.

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The first principles, that’s the
inner steel framework.

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And we strengthened our building
team by fellowship of other

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workers are Ecclesia.
So this familiar metaphor is a

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beautiful one and this Pleasant
to contemplate.

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So what more can be said about
this contemplate it, Value.

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The building that tools that God
has given us.

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Don’t contaminate the work site.
Is that enough of an

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extrication?
Well, there is an undervalued

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building tool worth considering,
and I call it God scaffold.

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Now, if I wanted to paint the
ceiling here, I would need to

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raise platforms to stand on to
do it well and to do it safely.

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I would need a structure that
supports something to lean on to

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stand on.
Most buildings raised modular

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scaffolding structures.
One are under construction.

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And when looking at a building
site, no one ever says, that’s a

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beautiful scaffold system.
They are, by nature of support

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system.
Nevertheless, we could not build

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without them.
Now it’s also a term used in

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teaching the teachers would
recognize it teachers provide

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virtual scaffolds for students
to lean on including outlines

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and thought.
In questions and advanced

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summaries PowerPoint slides to
give students a structures.

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Something to pin key ideas on
brother Christian did that with

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our Bible reading class.
He had four questions which were

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a scaffold and that worked well.
Parents provide scaffolding

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structure to their children’s
lives with family, standards and

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rules and doing the readings
together in Sunday school

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participation and talking about
important things.

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The law of Moses was a scaffold,
it was identified as a

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Schoolmaster to bring Israel to
Christ.

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The visual of Daniels image is a
scaffold to understand God’s

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historical Plan of Salvation.
Each section of history is

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attached to a different body
part and that’s a, that’s a

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virtual scaffold, a teaching
tool.

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So so far, do we understand what
a scaffold is both physically

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and metaphorically?
Some way extrication and goal

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this morning is to give you a
tool to build that man of Faith

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or woman of faith that man after
going God’s Own harder woman

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after God’s Own Heart with God’s
scaffolds.

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As we build our spiritual
Temple.

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So, all my scaffolds are based
on three Bible verses about God.

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All three promote a profound
understanding and appreciation

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of who God is.
And that’s the ultimate scaffold

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platform, the stand on.
I use these to build Faith which

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makes me walk more confidently,
which is joyful which Causes me

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to praise God which is worship
at its best.

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My goal to identify three
examples of virtual building,

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scaffolds and worship God and I
invite you to do that with me as

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Psalm 34.
And three says, o magnify the

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Lord with me.
Let us exalt his name together.

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So my scaffold has three
platforms three verses about God

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and the first is Romans eight
and 28.

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All things work together for
good to them.

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That love God, to them, that are
called according to his purpose.

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Notice the absolute extreme
nature of this statement about

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God.
The word all nothing in Human

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Experience is absolute.
We worship God for this.

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And the phrase worshipping, His
holy name, blessing His holy

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name, which appears in various
forms of the Bible.

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Is this very process.
All every never are terms used.

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Mostly in adolescence before we
experience true life.

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Mom, can I go to this event?
Everyone is going to it.

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Of course, mom never bought that
because she knows knew that

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everyone wasn’t.
For this reason, salesmen are

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trained to challenge absolutes
when someone uses those terms,

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all they go all every never.
So my question for you about

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this verse is Do you believe it
all?

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Things work together for good?
If you think that this means

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that nothing bad will ever
happen to you or your loved

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ones, then it would be
impossible to believe because

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life experience teaches us
differently.

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All things happen.
According to his purpose.

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That’s what it says.
God’s purpose is not just to

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make us happy now.
I often Ponder why such valuable

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Christian christadelphians
leaders.

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Lives were cut short, in my in
ignorance.

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I categorize them as terribly
bad occurrences in my youth.

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Dennis and Faye forward prolific
preachers run, able Chris

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Barrett we could all make a
longer list.

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Why were such valuable
christadelphians leaders lives,

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cut short.
Why did David suffer so much at

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the handle Saul?
My answer is that perhaps he was

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forced out of the cortisol, so
he would not become Saul learn

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his ways or take on his
attitudes.

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I lost a job once where the
salesmen were mostly extreme

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corruptors, they were very
talented at it and like David

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situation.
I think God took me out of

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there.
So I wouldn’t learn their

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tricks.
I’m more certain of that guess

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than I am assuming my other
guesses about the other people.

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The key idea is that God has
purpose and what happens to us

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teaching purposes strengthening
purposes.

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Long-range salvation purposes,
living object lesson for other

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purposes.
So, ask yourself.

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When trouble hits, am I focused
only on me?

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The pain, the worry.
What is God’s purpose in this?

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How do I fit into it?
And as Jason said, last week in

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his exhortation it’s a comfort
to know that God hurts when we

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hurt.
He he is with us in suffering.

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his instruction is a sign of
love, but for me to tell you,

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With absolute confidence.
What specific reason God is

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allowing your personal suffering
would be obnoxious.

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Any attempt to minimize the
impact of suffering by phrases,

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such as at least, or when God
closes a door, he opens another

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are hard to swallow and imputing
a cause and effect for others is

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just insensitive.
So I walk carefully when tempted

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to speak for God.
This is why this happened to

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you.
You have cancer because you got

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hurt because because you did
this wrong, you lost your job

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because you have conflict
because I do get answers for

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myself sometimes to these kinds
of questions, but not until many

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years later.
Usually, It is possible,

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however, to flip The Narrative
of bad things.

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Jesus recommends, we do this.
That there are two sides to

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every coin in the familiar.
I never looked at it this way

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before, but the Beatitudes are a
flip.

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Matthew 5 blessed are the poor
in spirit and he flips for their

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theirs.
Is the Kingdom of Heaven.

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Blessed?
Are they that mourn for they

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shall be comforted?
Blessed, are they, which are

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persecuted for theirs, is the
Kingdom of Heaven.

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Blessed are ye when men shall
revile, you, and persecute you

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for great is your reward in
heaven.

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You can reframe the present
problem with the future frame

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visualize, a different outcome.
And it’s supported by the

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promises of Jesus.
Every situation has a secondary

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benefit.
It’s our job to find it.

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Of course, sometimes it doesn’t
seem to be equal.

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The benefits of covid are not
equal with the problems sickness

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and death.
But we can find a secondary

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benefit if we look to it.
So why did I choose this verse

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for my scaffold?
It reinforces to me the powerful

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hand of God in my life.
I’m not just wandering around

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life bumping into the furniture.
God has a purpose for me.

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My faith is strengthened by
contemplating this I think what

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a wonderful God.
This is my God.

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It’s personal.
The contemplation of this verse

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gives me confidence and joy and
trust.

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It’s a true scaffold because I
lean on it.

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I stand on this principle while
I navigate the process of

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building myself into a man of
God It allows me to focus

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outside of myself and on my
problems.

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Know why me?
No, woes me.

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I am in God’s hand.
I avoid worry and anxiety and

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grow and build looking straight
forward.

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My goal is to elevate my
estimation of God to build my

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faith to strengthen my walk.
It gives me joy and peace.

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If I can do this, my building
project will proceed so my

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second scaffold platform is this
first chronicles 16?

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And 34?
O give thanks unto the Lord for

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his mercy endureth forever.
This is a phrase.

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It’s in the Bible. 88 times.
We make whole important

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doctrines and rules based on
things that are in the Bible.

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Once this is in the Bible. 88
times in, this is another

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absolute extreme.
Attribute of God signaled by the

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word forever.
Now human forgiveness is often

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fragile.
Love can fade sometimes

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inexplicably but not God’s his
mercy endureth forever. as James

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says, About God, there is no
shadow of turning.

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I’m going to ask you the same
question.

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I asked for scalp weld platform.
Number one, Do you believe it?

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If you do you ought to act like
you ought to walk joyfully

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confidently.
How do you know that it’s true?

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Can you feel forgiveness?
What does it feel like?

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I don’t think forgiveness has a
feeling and you don’t get a

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forgiveness certificate for
every transfer given

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transgression, but I do think
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Guilt has a feeling we’ve all
felt that freezing kind of

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worried and debilitating
depression.

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Sometimes even physical illness,
perhaps the peace that comes

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from.
The absence of guilt is the only

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indication now forgiveness.
Perhaps it’s the act of

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forgiving others that teaches us
how it feels.

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If you forgiving others like God
does you, you may know what I’m

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referring to, but ultimately, to
believe this, we have to have

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faith.
God said it, we believe it.

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Romans 8 in 1, there is no
condemnation to them which are

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in Christ who walk not after the
flesh.

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But after the spirit, God’s
mercy, his forgiveness, we are

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forgiven by Our intention and
attempts to walk after the

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spirit So we have some extreme
descriptions of God’s

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forgiveness.
In Psalm 103 verse 11, he hath

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not dealt with us after our
sins, nor rewarded us, according

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to our iniquities.
God’s judgments for us are not

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legalistic.
We have a mandatory sentence

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here.
No, that’s not God.

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Verse 12 as far as the East is
from the West, so far, is his

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Mercy on us.
How far is that?

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Well, you keep going around the
circle.

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You’ll never find it.
It’s like the love of a father

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has for his children.
Are you measured that if you

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have children, you know it’s
immeasurable.

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Verse 17 for the mercy of God,
is from Everlasting to

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Everlasting.
Another immeasurable qualifier

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quantifier.
It’s beneficial to recognize the

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quality of God’s mercy.
Resulting in thankfulness Joy,

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confidence strength in
temptation.

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We claim it by Our intention to
turn from sin and follow through

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an in tempting, to be true to
this intention.

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So I have a guilt story.
My dad when he was a young man

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was a conscientious objector.
And he’s he went and did

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alternate service on farm camp
with other Christian Delphine

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young men and German prisoners
and when they are working in the

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field, they had a guard with a
machine gun standing over him.

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And the farmer used to stop his
truck on the way back from the

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fields when the day was over in
a specific spot.

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So that the locals could throw
rocks at these guilty cowards in

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the back of his truck.
Now, this is something that can

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happen to all of us, while we’re
on our scaffold platform of

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every Lasting mercy of God.
Well, we’re working on our

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temple building others, even
christadelphians will throw

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rocks at us guilty.
Sinners You know, that’s true.

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You wish it wasn’t.
Let them but keep building.

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You are on the scaffold of
Mercy.

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Keep building, not arguing or
defending yourself because you

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know, that God is the God of all
mercy and that’s what you stand

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on.
That’s the plat for you.

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Stand on that confidence.
I’m scaffolds lift you up above

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the guilt, they support you
through any momentary shame and

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promised forgiveness.
If you repent, it’s solid and

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you can stand on it.
Matthew 11.

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Jesus said come unto me all ye
that labor and I say building

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your spiritual house.
And are heavy laden and I say

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with guilt and I will give you
rest. there is not one of us

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here today, that doesn’t have
something they have done that

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they regret Feel guilt about.
Put that burden down.

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Now, stop carrying it repent and
climb up on this Mercy.

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Scaffold, and keep building.
Ignore others.

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Who won’t forgive you and throw
accusations at you in God’s.

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It is God’s forgiveness that
counts.

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Keep building.
And why did I choose this Force

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as a scaffold?
I chose it because I am a

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sinner.
I have things, I regret they

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bother me but only by believing
in.

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God’s mercy.
Can I move forward in building

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myself into a man of God?
Otherwise, my faith would

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suffer.
I might not feel worthy to even

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come to meeting.
I think of God’s character

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represented in the father of the
parable, in the parable of the

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Prodigal Son, which we read in
our readings this week.

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He was eager for his son to
return, to the family watching

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for him, a long way off, and he
sees him coming home and runs to

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him, he wasn’t interested in
hearing the guilty confession.

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He didn’t even let him complete
it.

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And when I read this, I say
that’s my God.

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By me standing on this elevated
scaffold pork from platform.

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God is made special to me.
I know that his Mercy for me,

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indoors forever.
It’s one of the reasons I

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worshipped him, it increases my
faith, my joy, my confidence, my

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spiritual energy, and I want to
serve a god like this, my last

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Last scaphoid platform verse is
this.

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Psalm 103 19.
The Lord hath prepared his

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throne in the heavens and his
kingdom ruleth Over All.

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Now, this seems like kind of an
ordinary verse especially in the

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context of Psalm 103 which has a
lot of those thunder and

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lightning crashing verses that
hit you heavily but I would

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suggest that this is a still
small voice.

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Verse that is so powerful.
We miss it.

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The key idea is that God has
complete plan and does what he

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says he will do.
It is absolutely sure.

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He is omnipotent.
And we wait for him.

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This is a confidence boost and
it follows a contrasting section

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in some 103 were everything.
Human is temporary.

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It says, things like man is as
the grass that withereth the

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wind that passes over it and is
gone.

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So we can’t judge God by human
standards.

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God is God and not a man.
Now we could choose to focus on

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the fragility of life, we could
say well let’s make the most of

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it, we’re not here for very
long.

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Let’s eat drink and be merry for
tomorrow.

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We die or we could stand on that
platform confidence in God’s

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word.
Our Hope knowing that God’s

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kingdom is coming and we need to
make ourselves into that man of

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God that can dwell with him.
In eternity.

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So, picture yourself on the
scaffold.

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The righteous surety of God.
The wind may be shaking your

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scaffold, it may be vibrating,
but the righteous shirdi of God

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is solid and sure, earthquakes
happen.

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Sith sickness happens.
Just cord happens, but God’s

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kingdom is sure.
He is already created in heaven

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and we wait for his right moment
for his New Jerusalem to come

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down from heaven, and hope
brings strength as we build.

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God talks about his plan is if
it’s already happened.

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Isaiah 46, God is one who can
declare the end from the

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beginning.
And from ancient times, the

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things that are not yet done
saying my counsel shall stand

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and I will do all my pleasure.
Now no human could claim that

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God is elevated.
Could claim this at God is

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elevated in my mind.
So do you believe it?

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Do you believe that his kingdom
is coming in it?

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It’s sure.
How do I know it’s true?

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It takes faith and God can help
you with your unbelief.

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If you, if that’s your problem,
we build in face.

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The Bible says it’s true and the
Bible to me is an absolutely

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inspired work.
The prophecies about Israel, how

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it all holds together.
Its central theme carried

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throughout by many authors and
thousands of years.

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Stoke, the fires of my belief
nature tells me that God exists.

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Life experience has taught me.
That God’s hand is at work in my

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life in ways to Divine to be
coincidental.

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So, I believe it’s true, but I’m
need to remind myself often, and

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pray for it.
Thy kingdom, come our sure.

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Hope is our scaffold platform.
I have an apology for you.

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There is a part of the Jewish
calendar with three important

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Feast that is the Feast of
trumpets Rosh, Hashanah 10 days

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later the day of atonement Yom
Kippur and 15.

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Liters days later, the Feast of
Tabernacles.

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We this season of feast just
happened.

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And I think it’s possible that
Jesus will return on the Feast

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of trumpets.
It’s supported by several verses

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Matthew 7 and Thessalonians and
First Corinthians 15.

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So the Feast of trumpets is also
called The Feast of new

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beginnings, new year, a new
moon.

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And I thought maybe this was the
year.

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This was the month in September
and that was the day.

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And yet, I said nothing.
Nothing to you, my brethren.

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Nothing to my friends.
I just sat and waited and

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expectation.
I even started listening to

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Handel’s Messiah.
The famous Aria was the trumpet,

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shall sound and the dead in
Christ.

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Shall rise Incorruptible and my
spirit was elevated, but I said

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nothing.
So for this, I’m sorry I turned

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out to be wrong about the time.
But I owed my brother and

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sisters better.
So, what is the power of this

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scaffold?
The power of this scaffold is

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expectation, and we need to
create that expectation in our

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loved ones, and our friends, in
our acquaintances, and our

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workers.
Telling someone who listen there

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are strengthened of it being
fully committed, not with one

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foot on the scaffold and another
waving in the breeze.

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David said, in Psalm 71, I will
go in the strength of the Lord.

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I will make mention of thy
righteousness.

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That phrase thy righteousness is
the is salvation plan.

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So, why did I pick this versus a
scaffold?

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I picked it because it elevates
God.

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I encourage you to think of
God’s attributes and to bless

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His holy name.
There is nothing.

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Sure in humanity.
Nothing like God and His Plan of

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Salvation.
God will do what he said he

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would.
I believe, it’s sure and we

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worship him for this when we
build on this, our scaffold when

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the wind shakes, it we have joy
and confidence over.

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We keep initiate, we keep
building ourselves as men and

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women of faith.
In response to it.

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So now as we end our extrication
and we turn our attention to

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these emblems, where is Jesus in
this idea of scaffolding?

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Well, we know that he we are
told that we are to build on the

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Rock, which is Christ, and that
he is the Cornerstone.

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But I believe that Jesus is with
us on each of these scaffolds.

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The first one Christ is with us
on the scaffold of all good

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things.
When we contemplate all things

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work for good, we sometimes
think of things that you could

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label as bad, they turn out to
be good what fits this more than

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the death and resurrection of
Christ, the cruel death and

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Resurrection became life for
Humanity so he is with us on

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that scaffold.
The mercy of God our second

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scaffold platform is no more
strongly exercise than in the

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Forgiveness provided by Jesus
victory over sin.

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And God sure Plan of Salvation.
Our Hope Jesus was part of it

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from the very beginning.
All through God’s Plan of

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Salvation and it’s through him
that God will realize it from

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the very beginning. so as we
share these emblems, visualize

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yourself on the three, scaffold
platforms with Jesus, by your

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side worship, God for, who he is
and what he has done

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