331: Mark Lloyd – Exhortation: When God’s Way Makes no Sense to Us (Hab. 3)

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Hello, this is brother Chris

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This week we’re listening to an
exhortation that was given by

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brother Mark Lloyd back in June
of 2022.

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The exhortation is based on a
reading out of Habakkuk chapter

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3 and is entitled When God’s Way
Makes No Sense To Us.

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This exhortation had been in our
suggestions for a little bit

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about a year or so and just kind
of randomly I decided to listen

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to it and I found it to be
really inspiring and

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encouraging.
It obviously is impactful with

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everything that’s going on in
the Los Angeles area with the

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fires that I’m sure many of you
have seen in the news.

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And I know the question had came
up a few times at work and in

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other situations where people
were asking where was God and

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all the craziness that was going
on in the world around us and

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seeing how this sort of chaos
happens.

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And I found Brother Mark’s
exhortation to be a really good

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reminder of the fact that there
are times where things happen in

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our lives that don’t make sense
to us and may not make sense for

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weeks, months, years, or even
won’t make sense until we can

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see the full picture in the
Kingdom when Christ returns.

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So I found this to be a really
encouraging expectation, a good

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reminder of the hope that we
have and the perspective that we

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need to always try to maintain
in our lives, no matter through

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the good times or the bad times.
And in his expectation, Brother

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Mark does a really great job of
pulling out a lot of different

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examples, different perspectives
of how to view God’s way being

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higher and different than our
own way of thinking, which I

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found to be really interesting,
just to enjoy listening to it.

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And then also very encouraging
for everything that is going on.

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I also just want to mention if
anybody is worried, to my

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knowledge, all the
Christadelphians in Southern

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California, nobody has had any
structural damage.

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There have been many people that
have been evacuated or lost

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power.
But overall, God has been with

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the brothers and sisters here
and have kept them safe.

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And we appreciate all the
prayers and thoughts that we’ve

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heard from people around the
world.

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I hope you find this expectation
by Brother Mark glory to be

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encouraging on your walk and a
good reminder to elevate our

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thinking and our view from what
is below our feet to what is

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going on around us as God is
working in our lives and in the

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world around us while we await
the return of His Son.

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So with that, I will turn it
over to our brother Mark Lloyd

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for his exhortation that was
given in June of 2022 entitled

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When God’s Way Makes No Sense to
Us.

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God does things in His own way.
He is the only all knowing, all

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wise, all powerful God, the
Creator of all that we can

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observe in nature around us and
all that is beyond our current

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observation.
Because of that, it’s His

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prerogative to do what He wants,
when He wants, and how He wants,

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and because His ways are above
ours and His thoughts are not

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our thoughts, sometimes God’s
way just does not make sense to

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us at all.
Man trips While walking close to

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the edge of a precipice, He
tumbles over the edge.

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As he fell, he managed to grab
hold of a Bush growing out of

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the face Cliff near the top.
After trying to pull himself up

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for several minutes, he
desperately calls out.

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Is anybody there?
In a few seconds, you heard a

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voice echoing all around us.
Yes, I’m here, the man pleaded.

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Please save me.
I can’t hold on much longer.

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After what seemed to be a long,
agonizing pause, the voice spoke

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again.
I will save you, but first you

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must let go of that Bush.
My hands will be under you.

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I will catch you.
Trust me.

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A terrified man looked over his
shoulder down the Cliff wall to

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see the valley far below, and
called out on a plaintiff little

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voice.
Is there anybody else out there?

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We’re often in the position of
that man, and we sometimes ask

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ourselves the exact same
question.

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Is there anyone else out there?
Because why would God let ask me

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to let go of that Bush?
It makes no sense to us at all

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to let go.
There must be another way to do

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this.
I’m not letting go.

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That branch is my salvation.
That branch is the only thing

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between me and death.
How wrong we are.

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That branch is our grip on this
world.

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It’s an illusion of security and
life.

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It’s not a reality.
There is no other way.

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God tells us to put His trust,
our trust, in Him.

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There is nothing that God wants
more of us than to exercise our

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faith and trust in Him.
He will do nothing to undermine

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that faith and trust.
He has said He will always help

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us.
His way may not always make

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sense to us, but we have to
remember that His way is best.

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His way is right.
There is no one else out there

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who can save us.
We either cling to an illusion,

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an ultimate death, or we trust
what God says and let go of the

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branch to experience His
reality.

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Not the world now, but the world
to come, eternal life.

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So what is trust?
We all know the quote in Hebrews

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11 verses one to three.
Trusting is being confident of

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what we hope for, convinced
about things we do not see.

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It was for this that Scripture
attested the merit of the people

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of old.
By trusting, we understand that

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the universe was created through
a spoken word of God, so that

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what is seen did not come into
being out of existing phenomena.

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Trusting is being confident of
what we hope for, convinced

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about things we do not see.
It was a tightrope Walker who is

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getting ready to cross, to walk
across Niagara, pushing a

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wheelbarrow.
He asked those watching if they

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thought he could do it.
Oh, yes, they said.

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You’ve done similar feats
before.

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You’ll have no trouble.
The wind is calm, all is ready.

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Go ahead.
We have faith in your ability to

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do it.
Fine, he said.

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Which one of you will ride in
the wheelbarrow?

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Our faith or trust is complete
confidence in something even

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when there is no absolute proof
of it’s reality.

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It’s holding fast even when the
evidence and circumstances would

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have us bail out and quit.
It’s firmly deciding to trust

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God even when He has not
provided answers to our

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questions, even when His way
seems to make no sense to us at

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all.
There’s no better illustration

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of this trusting faithfulness
than as seen in Hebrews 11 verse

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35 to 40.
Again, we know the quote very

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well.
Described in it are men and

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women who persevered in their
faith under the most extreme

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circumstances.
They suffered every hardship for

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the sake of the truth.
Some were tortured, imprisoned,

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flogged, stoned, sword and half,
and put to death in other

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hideous ways.
They were destitute, mistreated,

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persecuted.
They wandered in the deserts and

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the mountains.
They existed in caves and holes

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in the ground, and they died not
receiving what had been promised

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to them.
Even so, they held onto their

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faith and trusted God to the
point of death, even though God

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had not explained to them what
He was doing, even when God’s

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way did not make sense to them
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There are many instances that we
can read about where God what

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God did, either directly or
through an agency, makes no

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sense to those looking on.
Jairus’s daughter is a case in

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point.
Jairus speaks to Jesus and

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states that his daughter is at
the point of death.

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The Gospel of Mark says he
besought him greatly.

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The word means to beg, to
entreat, beseech, and he did

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that greatly.
And the word has the meaning not

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of big, but of many.
Jairus speaks, begs Jesus over

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and over and over again to come
and heal his little girl.

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Now, why didn’t Jesus just speak
and hear her?

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He did that with the nobleman’s
son and with a centurion

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servant.
It would make perfect sense to

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do that in this case, as his
progress forward was all but

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stopped by the great crowd
around him.

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He also had no intention of
healing her in front of a large

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crowd because when he finally
got to the house he told

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everyone to leave except for her
parents and three of his

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disciples.
So going to Jairus place instead

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of just speaking the word to
heal the child makes no sense to

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us at all.
And as we said before, Jesus was

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hindered by an extremely large
crowd around to making forward

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movement almost impossible.
On top of that, God then hinders

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Jesus further by not telling him
that he was going to send a

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woman to touch his garment and
be healed, and in so doing

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halting any further movement.
You can imagine Jairus and

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patiently pushing the crowd
apart to make Jesus progress

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faster, only to turn around and
find Jesus has stopped and he’s

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asking the crowd who are
pressing into him, who touched

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him, and then he stands there
and waits for an answer.

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All of this makes no sense to
Jairus.

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And while that is happening, he
gets the news that his daughter

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is dead.
A wasted trip, he would say.

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If Jesus insists on still coming
to his house, why bother to

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come?
She’s dead.

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It’s pointless.
Sometimes God’s way just doesn’t

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make sense to us.
The Sierra Phoenician woman

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whose daughter was sick is
another case.

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She openly acknowledged who
Jesus was, the son of David, a

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title that stated very clearly
to those hearing it that he was

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the Messiah.
She, like Jairus, also kept

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begging Jesus to heal her
daughter.

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Hers was not unreasonable
request.

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Jesus had gone to that region
knowing that it was a Gentile

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town.
He did preach and he did heal

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there.
Yeah, his response is one that

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is unlike him and makes no
sense.

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He totally ignores her, and when
he does speak, he dresses his

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response to her by again
ignoring her and talking to his

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disciples.
And when he finally does speak

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to her directly, he calls her a
dog.

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Sometimes God’s way just makes
no sense to us.

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We’ll know the story of Lazarus.
Mary, Martha and Lazarus were

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all special to Jesus.
Now everyone is who follows

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Jesus is special to him.
But in this case, he was very

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close to those 3.
Jesus hears that Lazarus is sick

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and Mary and Martha are begging
him to come.

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What does he do?
He stayed where he was for two

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days and did nothing.
That’s what’s that does not make

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sense.
Why would you do that to people

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who you loved?
Why would you wait days before

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going to see them?
Then he announces to his

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disciples that he’s going into
Judea.

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Well, that made no sense.
The disciples, you wait here

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till Lazarus is dead.
Then you want to go back to the

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place where people want to kill
you.

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That’s madness.
Sometimes God’s way makes no

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sense to us at all.
Yet in all of these cases, we

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see a wonderful outcome.
Two people are raised from the

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dead, and a very sick little
girl is cured.

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God’s way, even when it makes no
sense to us at all, is better

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than our way.
Now why is that?

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Have a look at Ephesians chapter
3, Ephesians chapter 3, and

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verse 20 to 21.
Here Paul tells us why God’s way

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is better than our way.
Now unto Him who is able to do

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more abundantly than all that we
ask or think, according to the

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power at work within us, to him
be glory in the ecclesia and in

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Christ Jesus, throughout all
generations, forever and ever.

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Amen.
That’s the whole point of God’s

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way of doing things.
It may not make sense to us, but

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everything He does is for His
glory, to display His Majesty,

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to show His greatness.
It’s done for us to learn to put

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our hope and trust in Him.
His interest is for our

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salvation by the gift of
immortality.

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This life is not the reality.
It may have an illusion of

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stability, but it’s only that,
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We are here to give God the
glory, and to achieve that we

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have to accept His way, even
when sometimes His ways don’t

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make sense to us at all.
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Let’s just turn back to
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It’s an interesting little book.
Habakkuk the The problems that

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Habakkuk faced are very relevant
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Habakkuk was a prophet who lived
around six O 5 BC after the

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death of King Josiah and during
the early reign of wicked king

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Jehoiakim.
Judah at this time was heading

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back to their old ways of doing
things, corruption, immorality

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and idolatry.
Habakkuk sees this and he pleads

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for God to do something about
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And in chapter 1 verses one to
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How long shall I cry for help?
And you will not hear or cry to

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you violence, and you will not
save.

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Why do you make me see iniquity,
and why do you idly look at

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wrong?
Destruction and violence are

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before me.
Strife and contention arise, so

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the law is paralysed and justice
never goes forth.

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For the wicked surround the
righteous, so justice goes forth

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perverted.
Judah needed to be turned around

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from their godless ways,
punished if necessary.

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But God, please have a carken
frustration.

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Please do something.
We’ve all been there or known

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someone who has experienced a
lot of pain and suffering.

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We will all come up at some
stage in our lives against a

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problem where we can see no
human solution to it.

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After trying fruitlessly to sort
it out, we lash out at God and

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frustration.
Why don’t you do something about

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it?
God?

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I can’t.
I’ve tried so hard to sort it

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out, but I just can’t do it.
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I can’t do any more for this
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So please God, you do something.
Now what did God, what did

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Habakkuk think God was going to
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Well, probably raise up another
good king to lead the people

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back to God.
So you can imagine his shock

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when he hears God’s reply.
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God says, Look among the nations
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Wander and be astounded, for I
am doing a work in your days

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that you will not believe
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But behold, I am raising up the
Chordians, that bitter and hasty

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nation who marched through the
breadth of the earth to seize

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dwellings not their own.
They are dreadful and fearsome.

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Their justice and dignity go
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Their horses are swifter than
leopards, more fierce in the

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evening wolves.
The horsemen press proudly on.

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The horsemen come from afar.
They fly like an eagle swift to

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devour.
They all come for violence, all

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their faces forward They gather
captives like sand.

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At kings they scoff, and at
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They laugh at every fortress,
for they pile up earth and take

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it.
Then they sweep by like the wind

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and go on.
Guilty men whose own might is

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their God.
Now to Habakkuk, that made no

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sense at all.
Why on earth would God do that?

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So he replies to God in verses
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He says, wait a minute, you God
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You cannot look on evil, so how
can you send that nation whom

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you have described as wicked,
evil men who rely on their own

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might to achieve their goals?
How can you send them to destroy

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Judah?
We might be wicked, but by

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comparison, we’re far more
righteous than them.

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That makes no sense to me at
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Everyone knows what they are
like.

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They will totally destroy all
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There is no sense in what you’re
doing.

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God then chapter 2 verse 1 he
states that he will wait for

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God’s answer because he cannot
see how God can justify a

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response like that to his
request for help.

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God replies to him in the rest
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He says, Habakkuk, it will
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I will send the Babylonians
against Judah, not because

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they’re any more righteous than
you.

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In fact there are proud people
and not righteous at all.

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And because of that I’m going to
punish them as well for all

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their godless ways.
I know what I’m doing, Habakkuk.

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I won’t destroy all Judah.
No, there is a group that will

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not be punished, the just
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The just shall live by his
faith.

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And Habakkuk, God says in verse
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So you keep silent about how I
do things.

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Sometimes God’s way doesn’t make
sense to us, but no matter,

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because we are the just and we
live by faith, not by sight.

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God might not act to prevent
this person from having an

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horrific Rd. accident.
He might not act to save another

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from disease that takes their
life even though they have a

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young family.
He may allow things to happen in

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our lives that just don’t make
sense.

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So what do we do about it?
How do we understand what is

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being done?
Was I gives us the answer.

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He says this about the very
situation that we’re talking

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about.
Isaiah 55 verse 6 to 9.

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Seek Yahweh while he may be
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Call upon Him while he is near.
Let the wicked forsake his way

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and the unrighteous man His
thoughts.

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Let him return to Yahweh, that
He may have compassion on him

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and to our God, for he will
abundantly pardon.

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For my thoughts are not your
thoughts, neither are your ways.

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My ways, declares Yahweh.
For as the heavens are higher

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than the earth, so are my ways
higher than your ways, and my

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thoughts than your thoughts.
And Habakkuk finally recognises

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this.
Chapter 3.

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He records his reply prayer to
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He praises God for His Majesty
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He recognizes God and his
judgement against those who

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refuse to obey him, verse 4 to
15, while saving his anointed

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people, those who heard his word
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He accepts that God’s way is
right, even though it scares him

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and he doesn’t understand it.
Verse 16 And finally he states

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that whatever happens, he will
give glory to God because

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salvation comes through his
ways, however senseless they may

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be to US.
Verses 17 to 19 So how do we get

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our heads around God’s ways when
they don’t make sense to us?

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We need to do what Habakkuk did.
It’s not our position to

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question God in what he in what
or how He does.

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It may not seem right, fair, or
just to our eyes, but that’s the

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point.
We’re looking at God’s ways

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through our eyes.
We need to look at God’s ways

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through God’s eyes.
And even after that, if we don’t

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understand what He’s doing, we
need to accept that He is in

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control and this life is just an
illusion, not the reality.

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We are looking for a better life
to come, a real life immortal

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life.
Turn up another quote we all

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know very well Romans chapter 8,
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As I said, it’s a quote we all
know very well, but we often

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find it hard to accept this in
our lives.

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Romans 8 verse 28.
Furthermore, we know that God

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causes everything to work
together for the good of those

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who love God and are called in
accordance with His purpose,

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which those who mean you in
advance, He also determined in

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advance would be conformed to
the pattern of His Son, so that

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He might be the first born among
many brothers.

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And those whom He thus
determined in advance He also

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called.
And those whom He called He also

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caused to be considered
righteous.

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And those whom He caused to be
considered righteous, He also

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glorified.
All things work for good to

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those who love God, even when
that way is God’s way and does

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not make sense to us at all.
God’s way is for our good.

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We trust God, don’t we?
So don’t try to make sense of

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it.
Don’t try to analyse what God is

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doing.
We might not know why, but He

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does.
As hard as it seems, as

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difficult as it may be, trust
God’s way because He gets it

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right 100% of the time.
And on top of that, He has

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promised that He will never give
us trials greater than we can

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bear. 1st Corinthians 10 verses
verse 13 1st Corinthians 10

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verse 13 says it’s a verse which
again we know probably fairly

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well, but often is
misunderstood.

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There is no such temptation that
taketh you, but as but such as

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is common to man.
But God is faithful who will not

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suffer you to be tempted above
that you’re able, but will with

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the temptation also make a way
of escape, that you may be able

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to bear it.
Now this verse is not talking

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about temptation, it is talking
about trials.

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Look at what it says towards the
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He will with the temptation or
trial, also make a way to escape

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that you may be able to bear it.
God gives us an escape and

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that’s through the trial.
He doesn’t give us a way of

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escape to avoid the trial.
He allows us to escape by going

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through the trial.
He will always provide our

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strength or others around us who
have the strength to help us

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through our trials.
If they’re too big for us, we

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need to ask this question.
Have I left God out?

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No trial is too big for Him and
with His help, we can and will

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get through them.
That’s the loving and powerful

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God that we worship.
We also need to remember that

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we’re only part of the big
picture when it comes to

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understanding what God is doing.
We like ants on a painting.

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We tend to focus on the here and
the now.

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We crawl, crawl across the dark
brown and think all life is dark

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brown.
Then we hit green and think, oh,

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this is better.
Now all is green.

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Then comes the dark blue and a
splash of yellow, or a streak of

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red and then another patch of
brown and on we go from one

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colour to another, forgetting
that God is actually painting a

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masterpiece in our lives using
all the colours of the palette.

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One day we will discover that
every colour had its place,

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every colour had a reason,
nothing was wasted or out of

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place.
Just as there is a time and a

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season for everything, there is
also a colour at every stage of

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our life.
When the painting is finished,

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we will discover that we were
part of God’s masterpiece from

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the beginning, even though what
was being done made no sense to

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us at all.
We need to stand back and see

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the entire picture.
And that’s God is not just

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saving you, He’s saving a
multitude.

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Countless millions and millions
of people make up the

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masterpiece God is creating.
We are but a speck in that

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masterpiece, and He holds the
brush, not us.

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We also need to keep in mind
that God isn’t limited to what

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we think He ought to do.
We continually make the mistake

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of thinking that our plans and
God’s plans are the same plans.

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They aren’t wise person.
Put it this way.

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Write your plans and pencil and
give God the rubber.

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If God always does what we want,
how are we ever going to learn?

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How are our characters going to
be built and strengthened in

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God’s way when we have
everything and nothing bad

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happens to us?
How are we ever going to learn

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to think like God thinks if all
He does is our bidding?

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God is nobody’s servant.
He’s God.

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He does whatever he pleases,
however senseless it is to us.

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Then some unbelieving Jews came
from Antioch and Iconium.

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They went over the crowds,
stoned Paul and dragged him

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outside the city, thinking he
was dead, but as the disciples

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gathered around him, he got up
and went back into the town.

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The next day he left with
Barnabas for Derby.

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After proclaiming the good news
in that city and making many

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people into disciples, they
returned to Lystra Iconium

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Antioch, strengthening the
disciples and encouraging them

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to remain true to the faith and
reminding them that it is

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through many hardships that we
must enter the Kingdom of God.

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Sometimes God’s way makes no
sense to us at all.

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How often have we asked God in
prayer to do something for us

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and then proceeded to tell him
what he should do?

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God’s bigger than us.
He tells us what to do, not the

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other way around.
Habakkuk didn’t understand that

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because he thought he knew what
God should do.

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He was wrong twice.
First, when he thought God was

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ignoring Judah’s sin, and 2nd
when he couldn’t believe that

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God would use the Babylonians to
judge his own people.

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God is way, way bigger than our
puny ideas.

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We don’t have the perfect plan,
although we think we do.

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So why then are we surprised
when God does the exact opposite

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to what we expect them to do?
God does what He wants, how He

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wants and when He wants.
We need to keep that in mind.

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His way is always right, however
wrong it looks to us.

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To help us understand that we
need to have a close

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relationship with God, we need
to keep in mind that even though

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He is millions of miles away
from us and seems uninterested

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00:34:17,800 –> 00:34:20,679
in our affairs, He is close
enough to touch us personally.

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Never assume that our Heavenly
Father’s silence and apparent

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00:34:26,080 –> 00:34:30,239
inactivity in our lives is
evidence of His absence or

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disinterest.
Salvation delayed is not

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00:34:33,719 –> 00:34:38,159
salvation withdrawn.
We need to have our minds

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00:34:38,199 –> 00:34:43,920
focused, redirected, and renewed
to that of Jesus Christ and His

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00:34:43,920 –> 00:34:47,000
Father’s.
We need to look at this world

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through their eyes.
Think how they think.

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Hebrews 13 and verse 5 to 8.
Let’s have a look at that one.

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Hebrews 13, verse 5 to 8.
Jesus assured us that He would

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always be with us, even to the
end of the world.

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God works in our lives in His
own way, even though it may not

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make sense to us at the time.
Trust God.

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He does watch over us, and He
does hear our prayers even when

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we don’t see an apparent answer.
And that’s delayed.

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Is not God’s work withdrawn?
Hebrews 13, verse 5.

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Keep your life free.
No, that’s right, keep your

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life.
I’m reading from a different

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00:35:50,480 –> 00:35:52,200
translation just through me for
a second.

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Keep your life free from love of
money and be content with what

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you have.
For he has said I will never

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leave you nor forsake you.
So we can confidently say the

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Lord is my helper.
I will not fear what man can do

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to me.
Remember your leaders, those who

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spoke to you the word of God.
Consider the outcome of their

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way of life and imitate their
faith.

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Jesus Christ is the same
yesterday and today and forever.

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Without the mind of God and us,
the sacrifice of Jesus just

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doesn’t make any sense at all.
We’re coming here to remember it

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00:36:36,600 –> 00:36:41,400
this morning.
If you knew nothing about the

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way of God, about the wise and
wherefores of this sacrifice

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00:36:48,960 –> 00:36:53,280
that makes no sense left to us,
we would do things very

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00:36:53,280 –> 00:36:56,120
differently to what was done
well.

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Thank God it was not left up to
us because the very thing that

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does not make sense to us has
given opportunity for the world

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to have salvation.
God’s way has freed us from the

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00:37:08,320 –> 00:37:12,760
law of sin and death.
What does not make sense to us

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00:37:12,760 –> 00:37:19,720
makes perfect sense to God in
First Corinthians one, verse 18

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00:37:19,720 –> 00:37:23,480
to 30.
For the word of the cross is

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00:37:23,480 –> 00:37:27,400
folly to those who are
perishing, but to us who are

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00:37:27,400 –> 00:37:29,680
being saved, it is the power of
God.

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00:37:30,880 –> 00:37:34,520
For it is written, I will
destroy the wisdom of the wise,

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and the discernment of the
discerning I will thwart.

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Where is the one who is wise?
Where is the scribe?

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00:37:43,320 –> 00:37:45,080
Where is the debater of this
age?

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00:37:46,360 –> 00:37:49,120
Has not God made foolish the
wisdom of the world?

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00:37:49,120 –> 00:37:55,000
For since in the wisdom of God
the world did not know God

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00:37:55,000 –> 00:37:59,040
through wisdom, it pleased God
through the folly of what we

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00:37:59,040 –> 00:38:01,600
preach to save those who
believe.

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00:38:03,160 –> 00:38:07,920
The Jews demand signs and Greeks
seek wisdom, but we preach

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00:38:07,920 –> 00:38:12,000
Christ crucified.
A stumbling block to Jews and

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00:38:12,000 –> 00:38:16,320
folly to Greeks.
But to those who are called both

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00:38:16,320 –> 00:38:20,560
Jews and Greeks, Christ, the
power of God and the wisdom of

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00:38:20,560 –> 00:38:23,520
God.
For the foolishness of God is

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wiser than men, and the weakness
of God is stronger than men.

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For consider your calling,
brothers.

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Not many of you are wise
according to worldly standards.

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Now many are powerful, not many
are noble of birth.

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00:38:39,480 –> 00:38:43,200
But God chose what is foolish in
the world to shame the wise.

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God chose what is weak in the
world to shame the strong.

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00:38:47,600 –> 00:38:51,040
God chose what is low and
despised in the world, even

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00:38:51,040 –> 00:38:55,680
things that are not to bring to
nothing, things that are, so

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00:38:55,680 –> 00:38:59,200
that no human might boast in the
presence of God.

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00:39:00,520 –> 00:39:04,800
And because of Him, you are in
Christ Jesus, who became to us

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00:39:04,800 –> 00:39:11,200
wisdom from God, righteousness,
sanctification, and redemption.

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00:39:13,760 –> 00:39:20,440
Sometimes God’s wages does not
make sense to us at all, never

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00:39:20,440 –> 00:39:25,080
mind we walk by faith, not by
sight.

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00:39:26,680 –> 00:39:29,560
Put your confidence and trust in
Him.

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00:39:30,480 –> 00:39:33,640
And when you come to those times
where you don’t understand what

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00:39:33,640 –> 00:39:38,160
God is doing, let him carry you
through them.

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00:39:40,560 –> 00:39:46,040
These things I’ve spoken unto
you, that in me you might have

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00:39:46,040 –> 00:39:52,000
peace in the world you will have
tribulation, but be of good

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00:39:52,000 –> 00:39:55,760
cheer.
I have overcome the world.

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00:39:56,840 –> 00:40:01,080
So fear not, little flock, for
it is your Father’s good

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00:40:01,080 –> 00:40:03,040
pleasure to give you the
Kingdom.

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00:40:05,800 –> 00:40:10,280
So let God get on with His work
and stop hindering him with our

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00:40:10,280 –> 00:40:16,480
puny wise and wherefores.
He crucified His Son so that we

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00:40:16,480 –> 00:40:20,760
can have eternal life.
That is enormous.

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00:40:22,440 –> 00:40:27,320
If we suffer just a little bit
and don’t understand why it is

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00:40:27,320 –> 00:40:33,320
happening, is that too much to
ask for in light of the gift He

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00:40:33,320 –> 00:40:52,820
has given to all of us?
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