249: Russ Patterson – Exhortation: Joy

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Welcome to Good Graceffa and
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I’m Levi, and I’m Chris, and I’m
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We’re listening to an excitation
that was given June 18th just a

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few weeks ago which was also
Father’s Day here in the United

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States.
It’s this excitation was given

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by Brother Russ, Patterson at
the verdugo’s Ecclesia and was

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sent in by several people.
As a recommendation, brother,

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Russ pulled both from a special
reading that he requested.

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Psalm 103 and then also a him
that he requested as well.

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Him 395 out of the green hymn
book.

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So if you want to look at either
of those so you know some of the

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context of this excitation feel
free.

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A little background on this
because it this is a special

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excitation that brother.
Russ is giving brother, Russ has

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been a pillar of Verdugo Hills
for many many years.

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He makes a joke about being one
of the oldest exhort errs that

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the Ecclesia has ever had.
When he gave this extra tation,

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but he hasn’t exhorted ever, do
go and close to four years since

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the lockdown surrounding covid.
And the topic of his excitation

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is joy, and in a way this
excitation could almost be

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described as brother russes
approach to life in the truth

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and the way that he approaches
his hope and the joy that he

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feels because what he describes
in this excitation, Embodies who

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he is.
There is a joy and enthusiasm

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that rust brings to everything
that he does.

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He is just as outgoing and
friendly.

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Now, as ever whenever you see
him, he always wants to talk to

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you and wants to know how you
were doing, and he has this

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passion and enthusiasm about the
hope that we have.

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And the idea of sharing that
with everyone and anyone that he

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can, he can do that with.
So, if you haven’t met brother

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Russ before, and I realize a lot
of you may not have this

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excitation as a perfect
embodiment of who this brother

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is, and it is just an incredibly
encouraging, excitation one that

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I think I’ll come back to and
listen, especially when I’m

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feeling and struggling because
it is just a good reminder of

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what an amazing joy we have in
the hope that we all have

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together.
So thank you to those who

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recommended this excitation and
I hope that you enjoy it as much

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as they did and as much as I
did, when I got to listen to it.

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As always please.
Continue to send in any

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suggestions or recommendations
that you find whether they beat

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Bible classes, expectations or
series from about the Bible

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schools that will be going on
over this summer.

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Also one short programming note
as is become our tradition in

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the month of July.
We are going to have a guest

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host for part of the month, the
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sister.
Jamie O’Grady from New Zealand,

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she will start next week.
Sister Jamie has been helping us

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on the podcast, doing some of
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So we have been very thankful to
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with us and we’re very excited
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willing.
To be able to share some talks,

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that have some special meaning
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to hearing a few of those talks
from her with her intro starting

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next week.
So now with that programming

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note, out of the way, I will
turn it over to brother.

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Russ, Patterson, for an
excitation that I hope you enjoy

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as much as I did on the subject
of Joy.

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Good morning, everybody and
Happy, Father’s Day to all you

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wonderful father’s out there.
Apparently this is MM first,

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you’ve never had anybody that’s
as old as I am speak to you

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before, not from this place.
So this is a first and I hope

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when you get to you say well I’m
glad you came.

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Anyway Joy that’s a beautiful
subject, isn’t it?

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And my topic is rejoiced in the
Lord no that’s nothing.

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Yeah, the joy of it, the joy of
living in Christ and now and

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Beyond it is says in Philippians
4:4 rejoice in the lord always

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and I say rejoice and I thank
Kay for take him.

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Tackling that him.
She mentioned it was a tough one

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so take care of it.
Sure did it beautifully?

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The okay, it really worked out.
Good, well, the Bible mention is

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Joy.
Joyous joyfulness rejoicing at

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least In 15 times.
And that makes it sound pretty

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important, doesn’t it to me,
repeated that many times.

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And that’s a wonderful thought,
joy and so far.

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We’ve had a whole lot of Joy
already and the readings and

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that’s wonderful.
But I want to quote this one

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verse that soap.
I didn’t know where to put it in

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my agitation but I wanted to put
it in her someplace.

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It’s in Psalm 30 verse 5 weeping
may endure for a night but joy

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cometh in the morning.
And so that’s just a nice verse

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to remember, okay?
In the beginning, God tells his

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purpose in creating the Earth.
I’m going to quote for verses

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that show this.
First ones in Revelations 411,

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which says thou has created all
things and for thy pleasure or

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Joy, they are and were created.
And that’s a pleasure means his

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will or joy.
Isaiah 45:18, he created the

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Earth, not in vain, he created
it to be inhabited.

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Numbers 14. 21 is truly as I
live all the Earth shall be

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filled with the glory of the
Lord and habakkuk 2:14 for the

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Earth.
Shall be filled with the

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knowledge of the glory of the
Lord as the waters, cover the

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sea.
So we see created the Earth to

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bring pleasure and joy to
himself.

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And I think to others, it is
involved.

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People it involve the Earth, it
involves filling the Earth with

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his glory and involve people who
knew his purpose, that was why

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he created the Earth.
So this would happen, the Earth

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would be filled with his glory,
with people who knew him, and

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they understood his ways, people
who are committed to Glorifying

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him and to committing their love
to him.

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And so the Bible we find out is
a book of joy.

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If you don’t think that.
But it’s a book of Joy, which

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tells us how we can share in
that wonderful book are for

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wonderful Joy.
There’s much in the Bible as,

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you know, they doesn’t talk
about Joy.

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There’s a lot of things in there
that are not very joyous, but

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that’s not God’s fault.
That’s man’s fault for their

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wickedness.
Kept would keep God from

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fulfilling his purpose of
allotted to You so he had to

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stop it and he did once severely
with the flood.

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Didn’t he eight?
People were saved yet.

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God had to protect his wonderful
purpose to fill the Earth with

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his glory because if he’ll add
men to go on, that would be so

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wicked.
He would never happen.

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That’s why he brought the curses
in the flood and so forth on

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man.
But his goodness is always

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there.
An example of how God desires

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joy in our service.
To him is in Deuteronomy chapter

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28, it’s a chapter that deals
curses and wickedness for

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Israel, and is one verse it
tells why God had to bring those

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purpose, those curses, that’s
verse 47.

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It says, because thou service,
not the Lord, thy God with

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joyfulness.
And with gladness of heart, Now,

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the nation’s thought that they
were pleasing the Lord when they

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did sacrifices and things under
the law, but they did these

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things as ends unto themselves.
They didn’t do them unto God

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with joy.
So they weren’t serving God, out

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of joy, and the love in her
heart, therefore they receive

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curses.
And notice will how God says,

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what he says about their
religion and Isaiah 1.

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Verse 11, we see God’s reaction
to their offerings and this is

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really severe.
You all know what it is.

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Her to what purpose is the
multitude of your sacrifices

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unto me, says the Lord, I’m full
of burnt offerings of rams and

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the fat of fed Beast.
I Delight not in the blood of

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Bullock’s, or of lambs are
he-goats bring no more.

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Vain ablations insensitive is an
Abomination to him.

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That’s pretty severe statements,
isn’t it?

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Because they were doing things
but they were not doing them for

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the right reasons or for the
right purpose, there are doing

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them for themselves and not for
him, we need to remember that.

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But God gives us directions.
And how does serve him and they

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are not, as I said not ends in
themselves but directions to us

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as to how we can grow to please
him and fulfill his ultimate

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purpose.
A purpose to bring joy and

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praise and honor him One needed
to be faithful to God and his

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purpose and to be joyful for in
doing these things.

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His mind is transformed.
His, it says it must be in

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Romans 2, 12, the gospel is full
of joy.

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You know, Jesus lived for such a
short time.

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But in that three years, he did
so much joy, to people, he

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brought joy to hundreds, maybe
thousands, he cured so many

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people.
Are there problems, and if you

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just think of those, those
hearings and the healings that

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God did it brings joy to you.
Today, think of the blind man

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who was Who was cured, he can
see his wife and his children

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for the first time, he can see a
Sunset and the deaf, he could

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hear his children laugh.
And received Joy from his family

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and some others as he shared
ideas.

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And think of gyrus.
Who’s who can hold his little

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daughter on his lap once more
what joy that would bring?

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And all the other miracles to
all those who were cured, what

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Joy they had is their life was
changed because now they could

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work and they could walk and
they could do things that they

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couldn’t do before because of
their healing.

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Now, I have many reasons for
great joy, as a result of

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knowing God sent and I’m going
to share my reasons with you and

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I think you may agree with me
most of the time.

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Anyway, hope all the time.
First of all, I’m filled with

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joy because of, you know, it’s a
blessing to have people who

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share your faith and to, you can
share their other things with.

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It’s a joy to know and love you.
That’s number one.

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Next, it’s a blessing for me.
To know that God is, always

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merciful and loving.
That is Measles so much to me.

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The Risen Lord reveals himself
as merciful gracious,

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long-suffering and abundant in
goodness and Truth.

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Keeping Mercy for thousands
forgiving iniquity and

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transgression and sin.
And we’ll know by.

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And by no means clear.
The guilty as courses and exodus

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34 that you you’re familiar
with, there’s another route

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reference.
I’m going to refer to it.

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Is almost the same things but it
adds one thought that I want you

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to remember.
And tonight, the 718.

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As I said, there’s one Addiction
in this reference.

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And I can see why in that
Edition why God is merciful and

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forgiving, God has given me.
Who is a god like unto thee that

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partner with iniquity and passes
by the transgression of his

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remnant of his Heritage?
He returns not his anger forever

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because he delighteth in Mercy
that’s the key, he Delights in

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Mercy, he wants to extend Attend
Mercy to us.

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Now, isn’t that a wonderful
thought he wants to extend Mercy

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to us.
He Delights in it.

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He wants to forgive me of my
sins.

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He almighty God, cares enough
for me to want to forgive my

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sins and wants to give me a
place in the Kingdom.

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Now, I’m not perfect.
I’m some of you may know that

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you all know I’m not perfect.
And so might think well I don’t

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deserve all this.
Well that’s true.

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I don’t I don’t deserve God’s
mercy because I’m not worthy of

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it but because if his love and
care, I have that blessing to

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look forward to.
And have forgiveness and notice

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how complete now, God spends a
lot of time to show how his

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forgiveness is.
So complete, he wants us to be

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sure of it.
Well, we read this verse this

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morning in 100 and 703 like as a
father PDFs or has compassion

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for his children.
So the Lord has Compassion or

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loves them that fear Him.
Um, our God is like a father who

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loves his children.
We can understand their

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relationship, especially those
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And father is day, you can
understand that relationship

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that God has with us.
He loves his children and loves

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each one.
Knowing that God is a merciful,

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and long-suffering father brings
great joy to me, I just when

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would it be that?
So, I rejoice in all my serving

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knowing that in all of God’s
commands, his purpose was to

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prepare me for the joy that he
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He Delights in Mercy.
Now notice how he deals with

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sins.
We read this in the some 103.

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Also, he will not always chide,
not only one.

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Always care about that.
Neither will he keep his anger

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forever?
He hath not dealt with us and

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hasn’t dealt with me after my
sins, but rewarded me, according

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to my iniquities.
If he did, remember my sins,

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there would be no hope.
Now this idea is repeated in

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Psalm 130, and I like to know
this, it Psalm 103 in Psalm 131

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3 and 0, same place, same idea.
And there it says as far as if

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the Lord should ask Mark
iniquities, who should stand My

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sins are totally disposed of
going back to the Sami red, as

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far as the East is from the West
so far.

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Has he removed our
transgressions from me?

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I am so glad.
And so happy to realize That I

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can serve a God who is a
forgiving father.

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He suffers when I suffer.
He rejoices, when I rejoice In a

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recent article, in the tidings,
in a, an article about morning

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about the Dead, the offer author
mentioned that when he lost his

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22-year old daughter in an
accident that God grieved along

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with him.
Isn’t that a nice thought God

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Grieves when we grieve?
And I’m beginning to appreciate

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this that God is part of my
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When I do, well, he’s happy, he
has great joy.

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When I do well poor, he’s
saddened It’s a closeness that

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we have and we’re blessed to
have with our guy.

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And I’m also have great joy
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Jesus, who lived a life
overcoming sin, who lived his

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life, doing well, who suffer in
the cross is a perfect sacrifice

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for my sins.
Now as we mentioned, I can only

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be content counted righteous
because I am in Christ and

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because of their great mercy and
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It’s not something that I earned
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It’s only through the undeserved
love of God and his son Jesus

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and by their Grace and I have
hope in any future life but I do

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have hope because of them.
Thank you, Jesus.

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God has given me so many
blessings which bring me joy and

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security.
I think of some 34-7, the angel

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of the Lord, encamps around
about them, that fear Him and

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delivers us in.
God sends his angels to Watch

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Over Me.
What a blessing that is and I

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know there are many times on
that angel must have been

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embarrassed to save me from my
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And there are times when I met,
I realize there are times when I

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think the angel did his job and
delivered me, but he’s always

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there.
And he delivered me from my

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mistakes and errors or
situations.

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The Lord has said in Hebrews 13
and 5, I will never leave you,

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neither will I forsake, you
He’ll never leave me.

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Never forsake me.
You’ll never forget me or you.

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And that brings me.
Great, joy and security he won.

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He remembereth that I am dust.
He understands human nature of

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course because he made it.
He knows how I struggled to

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overcome sin, you know.
Tragedies in my life.

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He knew when I house burned to
the ground and he knows any

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cares.
Praise God.

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I need to be joyful.
Oh, this is a new thought.

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I need to be joyful sometimes
when I shouldn’t be joyful.

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My brother says James in chapter
1, cut it all joy when you fall

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into divers Temptations, knowing
this that the trying of Faith

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worketh patience Temptations,
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But one, I remember what they do
for me if I properly think about

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them, I realize how to react to
trials and temptations.

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Trials, give me patience and
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It says, so I rejoice in my
trials, I try to.

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And when I realized that, when I
realized that, they helped to

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prepare Me For Greater Joy for
the kingdom of God, that is to

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come.
So, trials in that way.

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And that’s Light are a blessing
and I can rejoice in them knife.

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Have difficulty with?
Yes, because it’s not rejoice

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when things are not going well,
but if we stop and remember

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that, they’re there for a
purpose and God may bring them

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right upon us, or sometimes it’s
our own willfulness, it brings

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about our problems and that’s
why we can understand how Paul

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and Silas could do.
What they did, they were doing

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what God wanted to do, but they
were beaten by the Jews and with

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many stripes and your feet
fashion, in the stocks, their

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backs bleeding and their body
hurting.

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They prayed and saying, praises
to God, in all that difficulty,

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they sang praises and thanks to
God and we know that The, Jailer

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heard them doing this and
wonderful things happened after

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that.
And it’s the only way I can

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understand how Jesus could say
about his crucifixion.

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It’s a versatile that day that
what’s-his-name back here, gave

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his prayer.
You know, that happens when you

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get all three things block out,
I’ve known Christian for 50

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years and yet I can’t remember
his name, but he quoted this

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verse in Hebrews 12 and 2.
Looking unto Jesus, the author

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and finisher of our faith.
Who for the joy that was set

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before him, endured the cross
despising, the shame and is set

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down at the right hand of God of
the Throne of God and despised.

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He managed to take down upon or
not.

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Be worried about.
He wasn’t concerned about the

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embarrassment that he was
already hanging on a cross.

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For everybody to see that was
around, he didn’t even think

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about that.
But there was Joy set before him

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and the results of his ordeal, I
think he was thinking that

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through his sacrifice Millions
along with me and you would be

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redeemed to their creator in the
earth.

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Should be filled with people
reflecting God’s glory.

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So I can just keep thinking
about all these things and I

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think God does love me.
He reminds me of that in many

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places.
We talked about one already.

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He doesn’t have to do that big
is, but he does because that’s

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who he is.
So I’m shit joyful that I’m

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consider cure in his love and he
loved me before I loved him.

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That’s first.
John four.

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That’s what you would read last
night in your release of you

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read.
This verse brings me joy.

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I have the assurance that
nothing can separate me from the

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love of God.
Nothing can separate you from

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that.
We read in Romans, chapter 8,

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all whole list of things.
None of these things can

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separate us from the love of
God.

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And I’ll read them to you shall
tribulation no distress

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persecution or famine or
nakedness or Peril or sword.

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Bram, persuaded that neither
death nor life, nor angels, nor

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principalities nor powers nor
things present, nor things to

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come.
Getting kind of redundant.

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Almost there’s so many things
that shows it won’t separate us

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nor height nor depth nor any
other creature shall be able to

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separate me from the love of
God, which is in Christ Jesus

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our lord, nothing nothing can
separate me or you from his

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love.
If that’s not something that he

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brings a bit of Joy, I don’t
know what else she could have.

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And the Very promise of the
kingdom is another great reason

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for Joy excitement for that day
to come gets more and more

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exciting as you.
We see the things happening

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around and Israel and other
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Now And that blessing is
described in 1, Timothy 2:9.

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If you want to make it see this
again you look it up.

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I have not seen ears have not
heard neither hath it entered

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into the heart of man, the
things which God has prepared

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for those who love him.
Return.

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We can’t really cope.
Least.

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I can’t really comprehend.
What that will be.

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It’s beyond me.
You haven’t ever seen it area or

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even heard about it.
But God has prepared it for

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people like me.
How wonderful it would be

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something I can’t imagine.
Shout for Joy.

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What a joyous occasion.
This is going to be if you’re

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part of that, thank him for his
unspeakable love.

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Now, I’m going to conclude this
little talk by two verses in the

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little bitty book of Jude.
Now either was never fond of the

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book of Jude, but these two
verses set it aside and make it

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so important.
To me and I think to you, Jude

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verses 24 and 25, you’ll all
recognize it because we have it

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in him.
Now unto him, that is able to

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keep me from falling and to
present Me faultless Before the

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Throne of his presence of his
glory and he does it with

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exceeding Joy.
From that phrase, God wants to

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do it, he desires to do it
because he loves those who

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follow him.
No, I’m not faultless, but God

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says, he’ll keep me faultless.
Maybe that involves the angels

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are God’s intervention in my
life.

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And he presents me though.
He keeps me from falling.

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That’s from the angels, and from
the idea in my life.

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And he appears, that’s me,
faultless, and that’s gotta mean

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that he forgives me.
Anybody in here, fought us know.

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I guess if we’re forgiven, we
are faultless.

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That’s what he’s telling about,
he’s going to forgive us and he

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does it all with exceeding Joy.
Now, the word exceeding means

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greater.
Greater Joy with exceeding Joy.

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Think about God.
He wants to do this.

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It brings him Joy.
There’s Heaven.

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There’s joy in heaven when a
city, when his sinner repents,

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And so there’s joy.
You think about joy in heaven

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when we’re doing what’s right?
I think that happens.

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God is close to all of us and
he’s happy.

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He’s pleased when we do what’s
right?

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And so, I’m convinced.
Though, I don’t deserve it.

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That God loves me, he’s
concerned about me, I’m

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important to him, and that’s
important to me, too.

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He goes along with Micah when I
tell you about it.

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God Delights to show Mercy.
Praise the Lord.

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You two have the same Joys as I
have.

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That’s a joyful thing, isn’t it?
now, we’re going to break bread

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and drink wine in memory of our
Salvation, how it came about

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Jesus lived a life of doing good
for others, a life without sin.

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He went about doing good.
Setting a pattern for me to

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follow his blood was shed as he
suffered on the cross so that my

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sins can be forgiven.
How blessed I am.

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As I Rejoice together with you
and God’s undeserved, mercy more

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could be said But we have joy
and so many things, but in these

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last days, he wait for the
coming of Jesus, I didn’t dwell

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on this.
I think without this hope things

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would be a lot more dreary
wouldn’t say we wouldn’t have

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something to look forward to out
of this morass of sin and death

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and wickedness that we live in.
People continue to be more evil

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and destructive as they shoot
each other and kill each other

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and do main thing.
Things all the time.

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But to have God in my life today
in the middle of stress and

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wickedness.
It brings me joy and peace.

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To know and it’s hope that has
both sure.

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And steadfast and as I projected
the time of the Kingdom, my joy

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will be beyond my comprehension
by the grace of God and that

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day, Jesus will say to me by his
grace and to you.

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Well done.
Good and faithful servant.

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You were Faithful over.
A few things.

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I will make you ruler over many
things enter into the joy of

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your lord.
Think of it, enter into God’s

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joy.
His original purpose to plan

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this Earth to be filled with his
joy and we can hitter into that

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great joy.
What Greater Joy could we ever

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have?
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