247: Harry Tennant – Exhortation: Hills and Valleys

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Welcome to good for selfie and
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now let’s talk more about this
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This week’s last is an
exhortation given by Brother.

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Harry tenant, we don’t have a
year on this, so this class was

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sent to us as a suggestion.
But I do think it was probably

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given in Sydney.
He mentions two things which

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will here, which I think is
evidence and it just feels like

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a class is giving to a I guess
for an audience to him.

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It’s a fantastic excitation.
It’s a kind of a study on the

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concept of Hills and Valleys and
how God is our God when we are

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high and when we are low, he is
still with us kind of and he

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kind of goes into the
Temptations that we have.

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When life is going good for us
or when life is going, you know,

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not not our way.
And yeah, it’s really beautiful.

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And I was what I was listening
to it.

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I was trying to think of, you
know why, what is it about

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brother Harry?
That is so good.

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I mean, we many of many, many
people who are listening to this

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podcast, might have memories of
hearing him in person or, you

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know, or have heard him before
on the show.

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This is his third or fourth time
on the podcast.

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And I think it I think it is
because we do you know in

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organizing and working on this
we do a lot of we listen to a

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lot of talks and I think it’s
that his content like his his

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study and his command of
scripture is is definitely in

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the a level like he is.
And he does it in this in this

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class.
He, he weaves together a couple

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of verses that are really cool,
I mean, a couple different

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concepts that, you know, that
would be worth noting in your

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Bible, but I think What’s really
striking about him is his use of

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words.
So kind of his his writing or

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his poetry, his kind of poetic
style and, and that with his use

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of volume and presentation.
Like, that is, what is I think,

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top shelf, top level in what I
could learn or many could learn

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from his example, but then also
he’s so relatable.

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And he says, a couple of things
in this excitation. you notice

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just two or three, very personal
stories that make him on the

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level with the audience and he’s
and he’s doing that and I think

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he was like that as a person, I
had one interaction with him as

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a child, he was in it was at
Simi Hills and I think it was

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the late 90s or very early 2000s
and I was maybe 10 11, 12 range

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and was introduced to him and
and just in that minute, you

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know, you just you get the These
first impressions with certain

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people were, this is a person
who, you know, who genuinely

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cares about you.
I’ve said that I’ve said this a

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lot of times in my life since I
think you can really tell the

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quality of people for how they
treat children.

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I think there’s a special
Warmness to people who, you

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know, who are willing to reach
down and get on the level with

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a, with a child, and I think so
maybe that’s a bias because I

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had this one experience and then
I listened for that in his

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classes.
But, but I think that is true

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from everything I’ve heard
about, who he was as a person.

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And I think that holds in this
class, this was just an

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absolutely beautiful
exhortation, definitely eggs are

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Tate of, you know, a very
uplifting and also lots to think

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about but also I think just a
treat to spend 20 minutes,

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listening to this person who was
a big servant to to the core

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self and community and into our
Lord Jesus and his father.

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So very excited to share this
one.

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I think it’s a classic and I’m
excited.

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I hope it’s hope.
It’s useful to anyone who gets

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it.
We thankful to the sister who

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sent this one in and here is
Hills and Valleys by Harry

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tenant in the first book of
kings and a chapter 20, if you

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would like to look, they’re not
what you imagined to be a likely

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place for a word of exhortation.
It’s one of those.

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Sections of the Old Testament
where war between Israel and her

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neighbors.
Causes us to imagine that the

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record is well somewhat
unsatisfying.

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But of course this is the word
of God and it’s never like that.

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And in verse 20 of this chapter,
we go right in First Kings, 20

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8:20 and a Slough.
Everyone his man and the syrians

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fled and Israel pursued them.
And then, hey, Dad the king of

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Syria escaped, On a horse with
the Horseman and the king of

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Israel went out and smoke the
horses and chariots and through

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the syrians with a great small
town, and the prophet came to

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the king of Israel and said unto
him, go strengthen thy self and

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Mark and see what thou doest for
at the return of the year.

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The king of Syria will come up
against the and the Servants of

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the king of Syria, said unto
him, their gods are gods of the

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Hill.
Therefore they were stronger

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than we.
Let us fight against them in the

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plane and sure.
My wish would be stronger than

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they verse 28.
And they came a man of God and

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spake unto the king of Israel
and said, thus, saith the Lord.

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Because the syrians have said
the Lord is God of the hills

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that he’s not God Of The
Valleys.

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Therefore, will I deliver all
this great multitude into thine

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hand and you shall know that I
am the Lord, very primitive

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mind.
Those syrians had resonance is

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just a very primitive mind to
imagine that the Lord God of

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Israel could beat them on the
Hills, but he couldn’t beat them

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in the Dallas and we smile in
our two and a half Millennia

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later that people could have had
such a primitive mind.

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As to imagine that God is
powerful in the Hills, but he’s

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not powerful in the valleys.
And yet this was not.

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So primitive a mind as you might
imagine what only has to bring

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this small incidents to today.
And to remember that, At times,

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when Brethren and sisters, say
that when all goes well, God is

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wisdom when something which
smites them brings them down.

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Then they ask is the Lord
amongst us or not.

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So the Lord, his god of the
hills, but is he got of the

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valley?
There’s not a brother alive,

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anywhere in all our world, who
doesn’t have Hills and Valleys

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did use our Human Experience,
indeed.

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This is one of the great trials
and Joy’s about living, Before

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God.
Oh, come on, Let Us Praise the

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Lord together.
Enter into his gates, with

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Thanksgiving and with praise.
And we danced with joy, with the

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psalmist and understand exactly
what he means.

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All people that on Earth, dude.
Well, sing to the Lord, with

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cheerful voice.
We know the in the Psalms well

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enough, and we fear our own
Hearts climbing to the top of

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the hill and looking out in joy,
and in delight and prays before

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God indeed, this is how it
should be.

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God intends us to have Who they
are part of our spiritual

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experience before.
God a baptism, a marriage, a

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sudden relief from disease, and
our hearts crime to the top and

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look out and all our sorrows
fall away.

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And we stand before God in
thankfulness is not for nothing

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that the Great Men of God in the
Old Testament and the new

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resorted to Mountains from time
to time.

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It’s not for nothing that God
chose Mountains from which to

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make his revelation.
They represent in some way the

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elevation of spirit but of
course elevation brings it

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trials.
It’s Temptation, it’s danger.

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The brother who gets a new job
called into the manager’s

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office.
I’ve decided to promote you

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Williams are, that’s the moment,
a Temptation, not to take the

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job, what he does with it when
he gets it.

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The student who graduates of
University, the girl who finds

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she thinks by her own, finding
an excellent start, Partner and

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has perhaps somewhat on which to
congratulate her.

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So all these are blessings.
How do we use them?

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Come to the 40th.
The second chapter of Isaiah and

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see how the prophet.
Now gives us here, A word of

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warning and a word of helped the
second coming of the Lord.

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Jesus Christ is designed to
produce a change a change.

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So vast in human Affairs, that
is described here in a whole

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variety of pictures.
In the second chapter of Isaiah.

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We begin Example at first 10
enter into the Rock and hide the

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in the dust for fear of the
Lord.

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And for the glory of his
majesty, the lofty looks of man

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shall be humbled and the
haughtiness of men shall be

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bowed down and the Lord alone
shall be exalted in that day.

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For the day of the Lord of hosts
shall be upon every one.

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That is proud and lost their and
when everyone that is lifted up

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and he shall be brought low and
upon all the Cedars of Lebanon

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that are high and lifted up and
upon all the oak.

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Observation and upon all the
high mountains and upon all the

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hills that are lifted up and
upon every high tower and every

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pencil war and upon all the
ships of tarshish and upon all

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present pictures, and the
loftiness of man shall be bowed

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down and the haughtiness of men
shall be made low and the Lord

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alone to be exalted in that day
and the idols.

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Shall he utterly abolished?
The can be no doubt about what

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the property is trying to get
over to us here.

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And if we Take the message
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We should be amongst those who
at this time will be desolate

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before the Lord.
The second chapter of eyes are,

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you know, very well begins.
But in the last days, the

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mountain of the house of the
Lord should be established in

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the top of the mountains and All
Nations shall flow unto it.

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This is the north exalted.
And all these other things that

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have exalted themselves against
God, will be brought down.

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And every man has to look when
he comes to the breaking of

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bread, to his own heart, to see,
what elevations he has against.

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God, which are idolatry.
I remember my wife and I lived

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in Scotland runs and we had a
house that overlooked the

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Estuary to the river Tay and I
used to read this second chapter

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of Isaiah where it says that the
Lord of hosts shall be against

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all present pictures.
The window was so delightful to

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look out from lot that we
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The time came and we had to
leave it.

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We left it with tears.
You know how it is.

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How attack you get and the chat.
Came back to my mind.

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Again, there are things which we
become attached to in this life,

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which have to fall away in our
service to God in our moving

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from place to place.
And if we’ve got things

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elevated, if you elevate, your
wife to the detriment of the

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Lord, Jesus Christ, your home,
your job, your career yourself.

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And that’s the greatest danger.
If you’re just an idle on a

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Mountaintop then come down
before, it’s too late, the

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Mountaintop Fox spiritually.
Speaking, the exhilaration is to

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broaden the view.
You don’t go into The Valleys to

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get a broader view.
We’re intended in the mountains

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to get a wider view of life.
Let’s take advantage of this

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morning so to do in our
gathering together as a family,

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a large family, a small family
part of the larger family of

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God.
But finally they will be

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revealed in the day of the Lord
Jesus Christ and so it is with

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our experiences from time to
time.

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Some this morning’s this morning
are on the hill.

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Some summer down, deep in The
Valleys the balance.

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Where there is no life where the
fission seems to be restricted

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on the show.
Cramp, and we wonder we wonder

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sometimes whether God has left a
specialized, whether the valets

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are a punishment, whether we are
Forsaken and I would like,

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especially in the feelings of
one or two, this morning, who

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are experiencing that, which
comes to every family.

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Sometimes sooner than later, a
feeling of intense sorrow of

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loss, is got nearer?
Or is he further away?

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What our answer to be?
Come to the 95th song.

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In Psalm, 95 bow, just one of
the nature Psalms, you know, in

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the Old Testament.
So some people would have us

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believe that the psalmist was
merely looking at nature.

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The psalmist never looked at
nature without looking at God,

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never in all his sitting force
of nature.

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He’s not just describing the
Crimson Sunset, the green of

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trees, the rush of rivers, the
breath of wind, the glory of the

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sun Lautner’s everywhere.
You will find him on every

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occasion, taking To bring forth
his God.

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So verse 10 come let us sing
unto the lon it is.

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Make a Joyful Noise to the rock
of our Salvation.

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Let us come before his presence
with Thanksgiving, and Make, a

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Joyful Noise unto him with
Psalms.

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For the Lord is a great God.
When the Great king above all

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gods in his hand, to the place,
the are the Deep places of the

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earth, strength of the hills is
his also to see, is he made it

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his Transformed the dry land.
And so we go on and the kind of

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monotonous repetition of nature
but Brethren and sisters, the

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psalm is alive with meaning.
He’s not talking only about

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nature and I think some of us
sometimes read our Bibles with

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our eyes closed and our heart
cut fast.

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Designation here powerful.
See it verse 4 in his hands of

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the deep places of the earth
when we’re in the His hands are

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underneath, you can’t fall
through.

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It’s the cup of his hand and
none consistent.

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From my father’s hands.
Says, Jesus taking up the door,

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and sometimes we imagine that
our safety is the hilltop.

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And our desolation, the valley.
It’s only.

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We can remember that beneath the
God’s hands.

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We shall never fall through.
You’re in perfect safety.

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Underneath are the Everlasting
Arms.

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Resting God.
In The Valleys, The Valleys of

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the place of growth that the
price of chastisement, the

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places of decision, they are in
ordinary life.

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You fly over land, something
like this land and have a look

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at it.
A land that is smitten with

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drought.
You see the ribbons of green

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amidst, the brown Earth.
And where are they on the

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Mountaintop?
Of course, not in The Valleys.

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Where do people cross over from
one place to another from

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Mountaintop to Mountaintop?
No in The Valleys.

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These are the places of Vision.
Affording the fussing over a man

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who enters into that into The
Valleys in his life will find

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that.
These are the places of

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opportunity go to the 84th Sam.
You see it here says for a

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little more clearly, at least
little more clearly after a

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moment or two, not all that.
Clear to begin with.

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Marvelous song, we could spend
all morning all day in this

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Psalm and not exhaust.
Its meaning, I know some of us

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have come here this morning.
Just as little cameras outside

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people, we feel that we’re only
only little in the truth.

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Well, that’s how all of us
should feel but I know sometimes

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many of us feel inadequate.
Of course, the meeting couldn’t

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get on without those who are on
the platform.

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We think the worship Springs
from all of us and God has

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designed his word.
Had to take care for all of us,

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every one of us.
And if you look at the opening

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of this Psalm, you may not have
look carefully before you see

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something where God is trying to
teach us.

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You know, there are so many
Brethren and sisters who imagine

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that the depth of the word of
God has to be in a kind of way,

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got out of a mine that there
must be some special equipment

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by which Treasures from the word
of God should be extracted.

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Now, this is quite true, there
are pressures in the word.

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Not in this way to be hunted
out.

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It is the glory of God to
conceal a matter on the honor of

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Kings to find it out.
It is quite true, but God didn’t

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write his word.
In that way, you didn’t write

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the gospels in that way.
He’s written his word in a way

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where even the simplest mind can
glean something if only we will

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keep our eyes open.
So you may not have seen this

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this very simple lesson here
brother and sister.

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Once you’ve seen it, you say
that’s it.

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I don’t mind which I am of those
two, I’m safe.

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Look in verse two.
Then my so long as ye even

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fainted for the courts of the
Lord, my heart and my flesh, try

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it out for the Living God.
Well, that’s the cry and if it

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doesn’t do that, they were not
among the children of God.

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Yay!
The sparrow of found in house

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and the swallow, a nest for
herself where she may lay her

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young even thine altars, O Lord
of hosts my king and my God,

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which are you Espero or swallow?
It doesn’t matter.

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Some of us have got to be
sparrows.

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That’s how we are made and some
will be swallows, but both of

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them find a place before God.
Some of us are going to be large

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vessels and some of us are going
to be small, you can’t put drops

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in your eye from a bucket.
There are times when the small

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vessel must be used on.
There are times when the large

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vessel must be used, and God
uses both the sparrow and the

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swallow, are you go through the
word of God?

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And you’ll find him constantly
telling you this.

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Looking, but he might think of a
sparrow and think of the swallow

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provided, we are in God’s caught
by his Tabernacles at his altar,

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we should be safe.
So brother.

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If you’re only a sparrow God
called you and brother, if your

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swallow be careful that you
don’t fly away, hear the word of

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God, become a little further in
this Psalm because there is a

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beauty here about The Valleys
that have to come out, has to

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come out for us, is in verse 4
onwards.

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It’s not very clear in the
authorized version.

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I’m sure you will agree blessed.
Are they that?

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Dwell in thy house.
So that’s clear enough, they

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will still be praising thee.
Blessed is the man whose

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strength is in thee in, whose
heart are the ways of them are

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very clear, is it that hunt that
for a little while to find out

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its meaning, just listen to the
touch of the revised version,

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brings it out marvelously.
Blessed is the man whose

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strength is in the in whose
heart are the highways messiaen,

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what a transformation property,
highways design.

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In your heart, for the highways
of Sydney, which are they you

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know your weight is dire better
than your way about your own

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City or not.
Do you do I know my way to Zion

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better than I know my London.
This is the question is your

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heart filled with the highways
of Zion?

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Is it directed?
There are we turning it fast

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every day or are we groveling in
the great cities of the world

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with that interminable squalor
of immorality.

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Their utter Christmas.
They have.

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No hope that without God in the
world.

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If they haven’t got something to
the highways desire.

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How about verse 6 who passing
through the Valley of Baca they

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make it a well, the rain also
Phyllis the pool again, not very

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clear.
No, but listen again to the

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revised version and you find it
just nicked, something out for

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us who passing through the
valley of weeping they make it a

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place of Springs.
Yeah.

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The early rain Covers it with
blessings and haven’t you

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noticed this?
But you can get to Brethren two

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sisters hit by identical
trouble.

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And the reaction is so
different.

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You get the brother who becomes
bitter in his soul, everything

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is now, turned sour for him.
And the sister who hit by the

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same trouble, suddenly produces
a sympathetic, sweetness of

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understanding.
That when others have trouble,

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they go to her.
This is Island on which side do

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you go when your Trials, Come
bitter complaining or are you

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malleable in God’s fingers?
Can he change your shape

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pattern?
You know you a new draw you out

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before him.
Well here’s the lesson.

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There are some of us who just
catch out tears in great

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buckets, underneath our eyes and
there are some of us who take

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out two years and make them
Water of Life for other people

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who have to the bitterness of
our experience produce.

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Refreshing for others.
You will never get companionship

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from a man who lives all the
time.

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On the top of the mountains.
It’s the man whose walk through

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the valet walk through the
valley.

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That’s Thomas scripture, isn’t
it?

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Yes.
The Lord is my shepherd.

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I shall not want yay, though.
I walk through the valley of the

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shadow of death.
I will fear.

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No evil for thou art with me.
And here it is.

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The Lord is with us in our
valleys, all weepy Through his

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ballet Brethren and sisters.
We now come to the breaking of

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bread and our minds passed from
our own Hills and Valleys, we

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come to those of the Lord and
Master Jesus Christ, the son of

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God, who himself, had his valid
and his mountains, the Mount of

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Olives, the Mount of
transfiguration, you remember

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them, these moments.
He spent with God, didn’t

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Mountaintop and he had his
balance deep dark, Dreadful of

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all died, Dreadful ax O Lord.
We sang it this morning, and

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this is the most Dreadful that
we.

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Now remember the death of the
Son of God.

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He wasn’t president sisters
crucified in a valley.

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They couldn’t do that.
And I, if I be lifted up will

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draw all men unto me.
He’s Valley was a mountain.

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He transformed it it’s only an
inversion that’s all man in his

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magnificence of spirit, the
deepest possible declare ever

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see in his life.
Came the highest elevation that

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man has ever known.
Witness this very moment with

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his, he calls us to himself.
Had started to give Jerusalem

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down here in its Southwestern
corner where the river key drawn

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road closed.
The Mount of Olives.

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Stand on this side round, here
is the other Valley Valley,

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which is gehenna, you’ve got to
make your choice.

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I’ve got to make my choice.
Where am I going to end in that

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Valley of Destruction when
everything is thrown out of the

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city?
Or do I go into this with him

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and share his sorrows and become
acquainted with his grief?

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Do I have fellowship with his
sufferings with like that?

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I might know the power of his
resurrection.

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If so then I shall understand
when that last day we stand

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before him and he looks upon us
with eyes that Brook.

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No Veil upon our heart.
What do we say before him?

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My beloved is the rose of
Sharon.

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And I am the lily of the valley.
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