304: Chris Atwood – Exhortation: The Formula of Faith

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Welcome to good Krysofian talks.
I’m Levi.

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I’m Chris.
I’m good, Houston.

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this week’s talk.
Hello and welcome back.

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For this week I’m introducing
one of my own exhortations that

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I hope that you will enjoy.
This exhortation comes from a

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really important time in my
life.

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It was an exhortation I gave
right after I went on Truth Core

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for the second time in 2009 and
was given at the Simi Hills

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Ecclesia.
I also think it’s kind of funny

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that Levi picked an exhort that
he gave at my Ecclesia and in

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this time I’m giving an exhort
that was given at the Simi Hills

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Ecclesia.
So he and I sort of swap.

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This was the Sunday right after
Idyllwild, and this I think

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might be one of the most nervous
times I’ve ever had in terms of

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giving an exhortation just
because of the sheer number of

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people that were there,
especially around here, Southern

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California, the Sunday after
Idyllwild, there are a lot of

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extra visitors and people all
around the place.

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So I was 21 when I gave this
exhort and it was definitely

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nerve wracking when I remember
being asked to give the exhort

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right after Idyllwild.
But I’ll also say this

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exhortation was probably the
first exhortation that I ever

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recall writing where I looked at
it and I was like, oh, this felt

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like almost like an adult
exhortation.

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I don’t know how a better way to
describe it felt like I had kind

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of gone beyond what I did when I
was baptized when I was 16 in

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some of the early exhorts that I
made.

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So I really still connect with
the past Chris that gave this

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exhortation.
But part of what makes this

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exhortation particularly
powerful to me is in the example

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at the start of my exhort, I
talk about something that

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happened in my life that was a
demonstration to me of how God

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was working in my life, even
though I couldn’t necessarily

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see it at the time.
Little did past Chris know that

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within the next couple weeks
from when I gave this

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exhortation, things would be put
in motion in my life that would

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lead to me being married to my
wife Kristen.

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Because a couple months after I
gave this exhortation is when we

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started dating.
And at this exact same date that

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I gave this exhortation, which
was July 24th, we got engaged at

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Idyllwild.
And then the next year in 2011

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is when we got married.
And all of those were things

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that I did not foresee coming.
I remember at the time it being

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something that I was really
worried about, not knowing who I

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was going to marry and what I
was going to do with my life

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outside of the job that I talked
about during the beginning of

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this exhort.
But going back and listening to

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it, remembering what I was
worried about at the time, what

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I put into the exhortation.
The lessons in this exhortation

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are still just as relevant now,
and there are now dozens of

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examples from the time I gave
this exhortation when I was 21

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to now that only reinforce what
21 year old me said in this

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exhort.
I hope that this exhortation is

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encouraging to you, and that you
can find similar examples in

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your own life to the ones that I
will call out, and that you can

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recognize the formula of.
Faith, which is the.

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Title of my exhortation in your
own life, either by looking back

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or remember that formula and the
impact and the importance that

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it has when you’re going through
something in your life now or in

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the future.
So I hope this exhortation is

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encouraging to you and
uplifting.

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And with that, I will turn it
over to past Chris for my

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exhortation entitled The Formula
of Faith.

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Well, good morning my dear
brothers and sisters and young

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people.
I’m very happy to be able to be

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here to give you the word of
exhortation, and I bring the

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love and greetings of the 2009
Truth Core team and the

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ecclesias that we have visited
thus far, the San Luis Obispo

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Ecclesia, the Victoria Ecclesia,
and the Calgary Ecclesia.

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As Russ said, for my exhortation
this morning, we’re going to be

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looking at a formula that God
has in Scripture on how He works

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in our lives.
But before we turn that up, I

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want to share with you a story
from my life.

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Near the summer of last year, I
had lost my job as a campus Rep

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for Apple Computers.
And I was in the process of

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looking for another job.
And I went and filled out an

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application and went through an
interview process at the school

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district where I live for a
teacher’s assistant position.

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And I was going through
expecting to get a call back

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after I’d gone through
everything and found out where I

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placed on the list, expecting to
get a call back within about a

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month.
I never heard anything.

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And then I ended up making my
schedule to go to school and

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just kind of was like, all
right, well, I’ll just make it

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by without money for a little
bit and as hard as I can be.

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And while I was at school, I got
my schedule all set up and while

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I was there, a whole bunch of my
classes got totally messed up.

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I had classes cancelled.
I had classes that for some

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reason I, I got dropped out of
because of like some sort of

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error and I couldn’t get back
in.

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So I’d start with my classes all
kind of spread out all over the

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entire day.
And I ended up with all of my

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classes in the evening.
And I had all this time in the

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morning and I was kind of like,
what am I going to do?

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This going to be all this time,
you know, and I, I live about

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1/2 an hour away from my school.
So it’s like, great, I’ll just

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have to drive a lot more.
And then what happened was right

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after I went to one of my
classes, I came back and there’s

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a phone call from the school
district and they’re saying that

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we have a job opening.
Would you be interested in

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applying?
And it was at a school called

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Schroeder Elementary, which is
the school that I went to when I

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was in elementary school.
And I’ve been volunteering there

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since my senior year of high
school because my sister went

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there, much to her chagrin.
I was volunteering in her

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classroom for many years.
And they called me up and said,

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we have an opening there.
Would you be interested in

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interviewing?
I was like, absolutely.

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So I went in for the interview
and I got the job and it’s a

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permanent position and I feel
incredibly blessed.

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And I want to have you guys
remember that story while we

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look through God’s formula
because I can see in that story

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in my life that formerly being
put into place.

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So we’re going to start in
Romans chapter 5.

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This is going to be kind of the
focus of my expectation this

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morning and we’ll kind of jump
around and look at some other

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verses.
The formula that God has laid

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out for us is and verses three
and four Russ read the 1st 2

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verses, so we’ll read those
again we’ll just for the context

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and says therefore, being
justified by faith, we have

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peace with God through our Lord
Jesus Christ, by whom also we

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have access by faith into this
grace wherein we stand and

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rejoice in hope of the glory of
God.

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And not only so, but we glory in
tribulation, knowing that

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tribulation worketh patience and
patience, experience and

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experience hope, and hope maketh
not ashamed because of the love

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of God is shed abroad unto our
hearts by the Holy Spirit which

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is given unto us.
We’re going to look at each of

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these different things.
We have trials, we have

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patience, we have experience,
and we have hope.

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We’re going to look through
those four things and see how

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God works in our lives, using
each of these different aspects

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to make us into better servants.
So the first one on the list is

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trials.
And often times and many of the

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classes this past week at
Idyllwild, we’re sort of

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covering the same thing as to
why we should rejoice in trials.

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And any good point bears
repeating.

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So we’ll go over to Proverbs
chapter 3 and reading from verse

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12 and said whom the Lord
loveth, he correcteth even as a

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father, the Son in whom he
delighteth.

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That’s the reason why we need to
rejoice in trials.

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God only puts trials in our
lives and the people of the

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lives that he cares about to try
to mold them, to try to build

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them.
And he cares for us all.

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Everyone of us here God cares
about.

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He wants to make us to be better
servants for Him.

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And often times we won’t face
the aspects of our lives that

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are the difficult aspects unless
something is put there to force

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us to face it.
A dear brother of mine once said

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that we all have our little
cherished corners of darkness

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that we all like to hide and
pretend aren’t there.

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But God puts trials in our lives
to force us to face those

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trials, to bring those little
bits in the darkness into the

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light and actually look at them
because it’s often those things

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are the things that are holding
us back from being the best

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servants we can for God.
So for each of these ones, I’m

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also going to look through at an
example in Scripture of someone

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who was in this stage of their
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So for trials, whenever I think
of someone who went through

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tremendous trials, I think of
Joe.

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So we’ll turn over to Job
chapter 42.

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So, and we all know the story of
Job, how the, the tremendous

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trials that he went through in
his life, he lost all of his

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possessions, his children, his
health, even his own wife was

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asking him, telling him to curse
God so he could die.

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But because he remained faithful
at the end of his life, he was

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rewarded for his faithfulness.
So we go over when we read at

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the end of chapter 42 and it
says, so the Lord blessed the

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latter end of Job more than the
beginning for he had 14,000

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sheep, 6000 cabals, 1000
Yokovacs and 1000 Shias’s.

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He also had seven sons and three
daughters.

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And then skipping down to verse
16 after this lived Job 140

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years and saw his sons and his
sons, sons even 4 generations.

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So Job died being old and full
of years.

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And when we go back and we look
at the letter that James wrote

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in chapter 511, he says that Job
was then known for his patience

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because he was patient through
the trials that God put in his

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lives.
So before we connect over to the

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next one in the sequence, we’re
going to turn over and read from

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James reading from verses two
and three and says, my brethren,

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count it all joy when you fall
into diverse temptations,

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knowing this, that the trying of
your faith worketh patience when

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these trials are put into our
lives and we’ve all have

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different sorts of trials that
we face that forces to look at

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our aspects of our lives that we
may not be able to look at on

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our own.
We have to wait often for these

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trials to be resolved in God’s
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Often times when something
difficult has been into our

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lives, and I know for myself
especially, there’s a problem.

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As a guy, I want to fix it right
away.

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And often times that’s not what
God wants us to do.

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The trials and the things that
we endure in our lives may take

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weeks, months, or even years to
resolve, but there’s something

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that we have to patiently work
with and wait for God to work in

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our lives.
In fact, if we turn over to

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Hebrews chapter 12, we see that
if we choose not to wait and not

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to let God work in our lives in
the way that he sees fit, He can

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have actually the opposite
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So starting at verse seven says
if you endure chastening, God

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dealeth with you as with sons,
for what son is he whom the

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Father chasten us not?
But if ye be without chasement,

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then ye are not partakers and
wherefore you are partakers and

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you’re bastards and not sons.
The trials that God puts in our

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lives are not something that we
should reject.

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It’s something we should accept,
that we should embrace.

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In fact, if we turn just one
chapter over to Hebrews 11, when

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we look at an example of someone
who was patient, tremendously

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patient for what he was going
through, we think of the story

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of a life of Abraham.
So at reading in verse 17 of

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Chapter 11, it says by faith
Abraham when he was tried

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offered up Isaac and he that
received the promises offered up

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his only begotten Son, of whom
it was said that in Isaac shall

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thy seed be called accounting,
that God was able to raise him

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up even from the dead, from
whence also he received him a

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figure.
So we see that Abraham never

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received the promises that God
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He had to wait, he had to be
patient.

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And as a result through that the
trials that he went through in

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his life, the things that God
asked of him, he grew and became

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a more faithful person.
And it is a countenant to him

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for righteousness because of the
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The next stage in the formula
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experience.
Because after when we go endure

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trials and we endure those
trials patiently, we grow and we

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learn more.
Experience can come from many

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different ways.
It can come from working out the

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trial in God’s time.
It can come from observing

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someone else go through a trial.
Sometimes trials are put into

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our lives not necessarily for
our benefit that we will grow

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from it, but also for the
benefit of those around us and

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they when they watch and see how
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For my example of someone who
had to be patient and through it

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gained experience, I thought of
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So if we go over to first Samuel
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So we all know about David, he
was anointed king while he was

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still a relative youth while
Saul was still ruling over the

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Kingdom of Israel.
However, instead of scrambling

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to take what he could have seen
is rightfully his seeing that he

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was the the next king and
wanting to accelerate that and

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take take what was his right
away, he decided to wait to

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serve the king that he’d swore
to serve to honor his

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commitment.
So if you look over at verse 7

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of 26 and first Samuel, it says
so David and Abhishai came to

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the people by night and behold,
Saul lay sleeping within the

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trench and his spear stuck in
the ground at his bolster.

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But Abner and the people lay
around about him.

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Then said to Abhishai to David,
God hath delivered that enemy

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into thine hand this day.
Now therefore let me smite him,

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I pray thee with the spear even
to the earth once and I will not

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smite him a second time.
And David said to Abhishai,

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destroy him not, for who can
stretch forth his hand against

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Lord’s anointing and be
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David said, Furthermore, as the
Lord liveth, the Lord shall

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smite him, or as day shall come
to die where he shall perish, or

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he shall descend into battle and
perish.

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The Lord forbid that I should
stretch forth my hand against

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the Lord’s anointed.
But I pray thee, take now the

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spear that is at his bolster,
and the cruise of water, and let

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us go.
So David took the spear and the

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cruise of water from Saul’s
bolster, and they got them away,

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and no man saw it, nor did they
know it, because a deep sleep of

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the Lord had fallen upon them.
David had.

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And this is the second
opportunity that David was given

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where he could have killed Saul
and almost no one would have

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known about it except for him
and the men that were with him,

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and he could have
instantaneously been ascended

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into king.
But he decided not to.

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He waited.
And as a result, because of it,

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the people respected him.
Because he had served Saul

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faithfully, he had gained more
experience in knowing how to

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rule the nation of Israel as
God’s representative.

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And so when we get this
experience, we go through the

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trials that we go in our life,
we patiently let God work in our

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lives in the manner that He sees
fit, and we gain experience

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through it.
From that experience, we get an

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amazing hope.
Whenever I look back on my life,

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and I’m sure you all have
circumstances where you can do

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that too.
You can look back and at the

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time you just had something
difficult going on in your life

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and you couldn’t make sense of
why it was happening.

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But then after the fact, you
could look back and you could

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see with that eye of faith that
God had been working in our

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lives.
When I try to think of something

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that I could see as a tremendous
way to build hope, I can think

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nothing better than Bible
prophecy.

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So we’re going to look at a
couple different things that

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I’ve noticed recently that we
can look at and see prophecy

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being fulfilled as a way of
building the hope, just in the

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same way that we can see God
working our lives to build up

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our faith.
So if we go over to the first

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one, go over to Matthew 24
starting at verse 32.

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Jesus was talking to his
disciples when he said, now

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learn a parable of the fig tree
when his branch is yet tender

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and put us forth leaves.
You know that summer is nigh.

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So likewise you, when you see
all these things, know that it

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is near even at the doors.
So this was talking about Israel

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being a nation, being reformed
as a nation.

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And we were able to see that.
Well, I wasn’t able to, I wasn’t

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alive, but some of the people
here were able to see that

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happen.
And we’re able to see the nation

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of Israel continue to thrive to
this day, continuing to go

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strong even despite the fact
that they’re surrounded on all

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sides.
In fact, they’re surrounded on

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all sides by nations that want
to destroy them so much that if

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we go over to Ezekiel, I saw an
article that was talking about

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Israel trying to build up the
wall in the West Bank to try to

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separate themselves from the
people that are attending

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suicide bombers, trying to
destroy their people.

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And in a way this was prophesied
in Ezekiel chapter 38.

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Starting at verse 11, it says
thou shalt say I will go up into

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the land of unwalled villages.
I will go to them that are at

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rest, that dwell safely, all of
them dwelling without walls,

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neither having bars nor gates.
Then we jump down to verse 14,

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says therefore, Son of man,
prophecy and Santa go thus saith

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the Lord God.
And that day when my people of

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Israel dwell safely, shall they
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Shall thou not know it?
And thou shalt come from thy

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place out of the north part,
thou and many people with thee,

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all of them riding upon horses,
a great company in a mighty

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army.
And thou shalt come up against

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my people Israel as a cloud
cover the land.

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And it shall be in the latter
days that I will bring thee

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against my land, and that he
didn’t know me when I shall be

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sanctified in the O Gog before
their eyes, Israel is trying to

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figure out a way to have safety.
And when I saw the article, when

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they were talking about trying
to build up a wall, and their

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idea was to try to separate
themselves from the people that

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were trying to destroy them, I
could think right now each house

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in there has their own little
individual fortifications that

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they build up to secure
themselves.

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But if they try to make some
sort of secure border control,

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they wouldn’t need necessarily
all those individual

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fortifications.
So you could come to this point

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where each individual town is no
longer fortified, but instead

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it’s the border.
So that was one thing that I saw

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the other one.
And this is something that’s

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really interesting.
If you turn over to Psalms

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chapter 83, starting at verse
one.

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Keep not thou silence, O God,
Hold not thy peace.

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Be not still, O God, for LO, thy
enemies make a tumult, and they

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hate thee that lift up their
head.

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They have taken crafty counsel
against thy people and consulted

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against thy hidden one.
They have said come let us cut

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them off from being a nation,
that the name of Israel may be

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remembered no more, for they
have consulted together with one

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consent.
They are confederate against it.

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I wanted to read you a few
quotes that I found from

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different Islamic groups when it
comes to referring to to Israel.

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In 1968 a man by the name of
Hassan Albana of the Muslim

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Brotherhood said if the Jewish
state becomes a fact, the Arabs

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will drive the Jews who live in
their midst into the sea.

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The charter of Hamas, the
terrorist group, states that

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their their aim is to liberate
Palestine from Jordan to the sea

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and that Israel will continue to
exist until Islam obliterates

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it.
Another spiritual leader in them

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named Hassan Naral says there is
no solution to the Arab Israeli

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conflict except the
disappearance of Israel.

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And then one of the prayers that
this same man made, he said, O

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Allah, destroy America that is
controlled by Zionist Jews.

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Allah will avenge in the name of
the Prophet the colonious

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settlers who are the descendants
of monkeys and pigs.

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So we can see in the statements
of the people surround the

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nation surrounding Israel are
making a fulfillment of what was

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being said in Psalm 83.
The nations around Israel are

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joining together because they
want to wipe Israel out.

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They want them to be completely
eliminated.

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The ultimate prophecy that we
all want to see fulfilled is

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over.
In Revelation 21 and reading the

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1st 7 verses, it says I saw a
new heaven and a new earth, For

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the 1st heaven and the first
earth were passed away, and

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there was no more sea.
And I, John, saw the holy city,

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New Jerusalem, coming down from
God out of heaven, prepared as a

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bride adorned for her husband.
And I heard a great voice out of

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heaven saying, Behold,
Tabernacle of God is with men,

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and he will dwell with them, and
they shall be his people, and

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God himself shall be with them
and be their God.

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And God shall wipe away all
tears from their eyes, and there

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shall be no more death, neither
sorrow nor crying, neither shall

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there be any more pain, for the
former things are passed away.

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And he that sat upon the throne
said, Behold, I make all things

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new.
And he said unto me, right, For

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these words are faithful and
true.

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And he said unto me, it is done.
I am the alpha and the Omega,

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the beginning and the end I will
give unto him that is a thirst

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fountain of the water of life
freely.

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He that overcometh shall inherit
all things, and I will be his

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God, and he shall be my son.
So ultimately that’s that’s the

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prophecy that we all wanted to
see fulfilled.

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And we can see through the
different things that are

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happening in the world, signs
that that prophecy is coming

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closer to being fulfilled.
It’s with the hope, with that

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eye of faith that we gain
through the patiently waiting

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through the trials and the
experience we gain from those

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trials that were able to see
God’s hand in the world around

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us.
We’re able to see different

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prophecies being fulfilled, see
the signs that the Kingdom is

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going to come soon, that He
could come at this very moment.

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We can all look forward to that
wonderful time when that’s going

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to be established.
We should remember the words

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that were said when Paul wrote
to the Romans in chapter 8 says

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we know that all things work
together for the good of them

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that love God to them who are
called according to his purpose.

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We need to remember that
everything that we go through,

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whether it be wonderful or
painful or sorrowful, isn’t just

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put there for happenstance.
It isn’t just something that God

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kind of throws it out there just
to have something happened to us

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so we have something going on.
He’s molding us.

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He’s trying to make us better.
He’s trying to make us to be

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faithful followers.
And so instead of seeing these

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as trials, they’re like, oh,
these are so difficult.

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Instead, we should see these as
little tweaks that God is making

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in us so that we can be better
servants for him, so that we can

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be more capable to serve him, to
fill the earth with his glory,

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to take away all the falseness,
all the lying, all the sin, to

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be able to eliminate that.
So ultimately, that’s the reason

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why every Sunday we gather here
together to partake of the bread

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and the wine, to renew the
promise we made when we were

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baptized.
We come here to ask God for the

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strength to face the trials that
are in our lives.

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We are here to ask God for the
patience to have these trials

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resolved in His time.
We’re here to reflect on the

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experience of enduring those
trials that we’ve received.

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To be able to see when God is
working our lives, to be able to

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gain the hope that we were able
to gain from that experience and

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being able to see God’s hand in
the world around us until the

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time does come.
And I pray that it comes soon

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that we were all able to sing
and dance and and be in

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Jerusalem together with our Lord
Jesus Christ.

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That I pray that God will be
with you in your trials, that he

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will grant you the patience to
endure the trials that we all

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face.
That it will gift you the

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experience from your patience.
And that he will bless you with

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renewed hope and faith until the
words written at the end of

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Revelation by John are
fulfilled.

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Which reads, he which testifieth
these things saith, surely I

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come quickly, Amen.
Even so, come Lord Jesus, the

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grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
be with you all.

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