336: Peter Moore – Exhortation: When God Doesn’t Show Up

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Welcome to good Chris Delphian
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I’m Chris.

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Welcome to the good Chris
Adelphian Talks podcast.

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This is brother Brian.
This week’s talk is an

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exhortation that was given last
year by our brother Peter Moore

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of the Gosnells Ecclesia.
And the exhortation is called

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When God Doesn’t Show Up.
Brother Peter compares the

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accounts of God’s obvious divine
intervention in the lives of

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some believers to the experience
of others who find themselves

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still waiting for their
circumstances to change, if

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ever.
And it’s a great test of

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spiritual endurance for us to
consider.

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Is your faith paper thin,
needing a quick result?

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Or are you built to be able to
hang when God leaves you

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hanging?
Or so it may feel at times.

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I found it to be a good talk
because it’s thought provoking

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and it reminded me of another
great series on Job by Brother

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John Popel where one of the best
reminders is that God does not

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equal our happiness.
We can be fully miserable and

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feel abandoned, but that does
not alter the goodness and

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righteousness of who and what
God is doing.

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It’s great if we are feeling
blessed and should praise our

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Lord for our abundance, but true
rock solid faith and human

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feelings do not go hand in hand.
Brother Peter has a nice little

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gem in here about the three PS
that we need to be working on if

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we feel our faith is wavering
and we are discouraged.

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And while the overall topic is
definitely under the header,

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easier said than done, The
stories from the characters in

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the Bible are there so that we
can relate to them for our

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comfort when we are in times of
dark valleys.

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So, as always, we hope that this
strengthens your faith and

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brightens your day.
Brother Peter Moore when God

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doesn’t show up.
Some of the the the most

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memorable stories in the Bible
are those in which we see divine

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intervention on a very large
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Some of the most memorable
Sunday school stories that we

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that we learn of as we grow up
in the truth are those in which

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we see God’s might and God’s
power on display.

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Stories such as the plagues in
Egypt, the burning Bush, the

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destruction of the earth by
flood, Daniel and the lion’s

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dead, water gushing out of rocks
in the desert.

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And this is especially true when
we look at stories in which we

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see individuals or groups of
people facing seemingly

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impossible circumstances,
seemingly impassable trials,

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only to be rescued, saved by
some mighty act of God, some

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mighty act of divine
intervention.

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These are stories like Daniel’s
three friends who were thrown

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into a furnace.
So hot that the heats from the

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furnace killed the soldiers who
put them in there.

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And yet even in that situation
there was an Angel there with

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them in the flames and they were
miraculously saved with not even

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the smell of fire or smoke on
their clothes.

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The Bible is riddled with these
types of stories.

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We have the events which
unfolded in Joshua chapter 10

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where we have that coalition of
five kings who had who had

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amassed a mighty army and they
had made war against Gibeon.

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And even there in the face of a
seemingly impossible battle, God

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intervenes and he throws the
army into a panic.

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And and we have something
amazing happening in verse 13

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where we find that the sun stood
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its course until the nation took
vengeance from their enemies.

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And verse 14 goes on to point
out just how special that was.

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There has been no day like it
before or since when Yahweh

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hearkened to the voice of a man,
for Yahweh fought for Israel.

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What an incredible story of
divine intervention, much like

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the events when Israel left
Egypt under the leadership of

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Moses.
And there they are, trapped in

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between a impassable, raging sea
and the might of the Egyptian

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army.
Exodus points out that this

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wasn’t just one or two horses
and Chariots and a few foot

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soldiers.
This was all Pharaoh’s Chariots.

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All Pharaoh’s army was pursuing
them.

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And the people are beside
themselves with panic and

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despair and this sense of total
terror and hopelessness.

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And Moses stands up and he says,
be still and see the salvation

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of Yahweh.
And we know the story.

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The sea opens up and the people
cross on dry land.

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The Bible is full of these
stories which tell of impossible

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circumstances, situations which
are full of terror and despair

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and panic and hopelessness.
And then, well, then God shows

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up and does something
incredible.

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One of my favorite stories as a
as a young Sunday School student

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was the contest on Mount Carmel
in the days of Elijah, a story

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we find in first Kings 18.
And we have this almost

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theatrical drama unfold and and
the prophets of bail are are

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calling out to bail, to cut, to
hear them and burn up their

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sacrifice and, and they cry out.
And as they get more and more

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desperate, they start cutting
themselves.

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And the record points out that
blood began to gush out of them.

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That’s how desperate they be.
They became.

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And yet even then there was no
answer, no noise, no action.

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And then Elijah starts mocking
them and he says, you know, why

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don’t you cry a bit louder?
Perhaps your gods asleep and

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needs to be woken up, or perhaps
he’s on a journey, or perhaps

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he’s on the toilet and he mocks
them with this sarcasm.

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And then he, well, then he calls
the people to him and we know

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the story.
The fire of Yahweh fell and

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consumed the burnt offering and
the wood and the stones and the

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dust and even the water that was
in the trenches.

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An incredible power, a display
of God’s power, a faith

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affirming moment and a moment
not only for Elijah and the

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people who saw it that affirmed
their faith where they could

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look at and say that is evidence
that God exists, that that is

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evidence of God’s power.
But we can too, brothers and

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sisters, just like we can look
at all of these stories that

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we’ve mentioned and we can say,
wow, what an amazing God we have

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a God who is powerful, a God who
is magnificent and in the words

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of the psalmist, a God who is
awesome.

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But the reason that story’s been
one of my favourites and the

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reason that story resonates with
me is not because of the fire

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coming out of the sky.
It’s not because of the

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sarcastic humour of of Elijah.
It’s not because of even the the

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battle or the contest over Baal
that was won by Yahweh.

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The reason it’s been one of my
favourites over the years of my

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life is because, well, because
I’ve felt like that in times in

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my life that I have been like
one of those people running

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around crying out for an answer,
shouting out for an answer,

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pleading, begging, praying for
God to do something, to show up,

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only to have silence as a reply.
No noise, no action, just

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silence.
Because, brothers and sisters,

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so many times in our lives we
have seemingly impossible

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situations.
So many times in our lives we

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face incredible trials and
traumas.

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So many times in our lives we
can feel like we are stuck

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between an impassable sea and
the March of the Egyptian army.

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And sometimes we can feel like
we have nowhere to go.

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And instead of the sea opening
up for us and providing us with

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a path ahead, instead of a
miraculous visitation by an

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Angel, when we call out and cry
to God, and when we pray and beg

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and plead for God to do
something, sometimes, just

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sometimes, God doesn’t show up,
or so it seems at the time.

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In fact, sometimes we might even
ask ourselves, is God even

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there?
And when we’re in that frame of

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mind, when we are feeling like
that, listening to these amazing

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stories of divine intervention
can be really, really hard to

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read, can be really hard to
listen to well, because, well,

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because God didn’t show up when
we needed him to.

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And it’s all very well and good
for for Daniel’s friends and

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it’s all very well and good for
for Moses and Elijah, but when I

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needed that to happen in my
life, God didn’t show up.

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And that’s an incredibly
heartbreaking and an incredibly

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spirit breaking frame of mind to
face.

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And those of you who have been
there will know exactly what I

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mean.
So when we feel like that, when

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we are in a a time in our life,
brothers and sisters, when we

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feel like that, what is the
answer?

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Where do we go to?
Where do we look to if that’s

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how we’re feeling?
Well, God in his mercy has also

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read all the pages of his word
with other stories, stories

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which perhaps we might be able
to relate to if that’s how we’re

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feeling.
Stories where people faced

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terrifying challenges, where
people faced heartbreak and

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sorrow, where people faced
death, annihilation, prison,

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physical suffering, mental
language, disappointment,

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confusion, stress.
And in those stories, even in

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those circumstances, God didn’t
show up, or so it felt to them.

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And it’s in these stories where
we find the answer, the way

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forward, the road ahead on how
we cope, on how we find the

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strength to change our frame of
mind from wondering is God even

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there to doing what Moses says
and stand still and see the

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salvation of Yahweh.
And it’s in these, and it’s

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these stories that this morning
I want to briefly consider to

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draw out some encouragement and
exhortation because it’s in

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these stories, we’re going to
find 3 answers and they’re going

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to point perfectly to this man
we’ve come to remember.

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The three answers that we’re
going to look at point perfectly

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to the Lord Jesus Christ because
he will show us what those

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principles look like in a very
practical way.

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These are the stories like John
the Baptist who near the end of

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his life he found himself
imprisoned in the dungeon

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fortress of King Herod.
No doubt many prayers were

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offered, praying for his
release, his disciples

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faithfully praying, pleading
with God to send an Angel and

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loose his chains.
But instead of the sound of his

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chains falling in the prison
gates opening, he heard only the

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noise of the approaching
footsteps of his executioner.

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A sad, lonely, terrifying end to
the life of the one who came to

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prepare the way of the Lord.
These are stories like Esther,

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her people facing annihilation
at the hands of the Persians due

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to the wicked influence of
Haman.

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God’s own people are facing
annihilation.

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And yet in the whole book,
there’s no mention of God.

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There’s no prayers recorded.
There’s no religious sacrifices

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or rituals.
There’s no fire coming down from

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the sky.
There’s no miraculous divine

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intervention.
In fact, it appears as if God

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isn’t even there.
King David anointed king at a

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very young age.
God’s anointed king, but his

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life didn’t pan out like he
might have thought.

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He was forced into hiding in the
deserts and forests and caves of

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the earth, being hunted like a
wild animal by a merciless and a

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mad king, all the while losing
his friends and his close

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acquaintances and his mentors
and people he loved.

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Times in his life where he felt
totally forsaken, totally

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forgotten.
And year after, year after year,

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King Saul reigned on, whilst
David, God’s anointed king, kept

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hiding.
No miraculous fix, no obvious

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way forward.
We see the same story in

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Israel’s own history.
God gave Abraham a promise that

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his son, that his seed, would go
on to be as multitudinous as the

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stars in the heaven and sand on
the seashore, and in them all

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families of the earth will be
blessed.

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And this was a promise which
Abraham believed, which Isaac

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believed, which Jacob believed.
And yet within just a few

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generations, that seed found
itself under the control,

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subdued as slaves, under the
might of the of the Egyptians.

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Slaves, the most powerful nation
on the earth.

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Slaves for 400 years.
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wandering in the wilderness.
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into the promised land, they’ve
still got to deal with the with

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the nations around them who are
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And then Babylon comes and drags
them off into captivity and

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destroys their cities and burns
their crops.

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And then the Persians, and then
the Grecians, and then, well,

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then the Romans.
And it’s a never ending story of

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subjugation under foreign rule.
Thousands of years go by and how

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is that in line with God’s
promise to Abraham?

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If you are a Jew living in those
times, how does that line up

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with God’s promise?
Where is God in any of that?

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Why didn’t God show up and stop
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Put yourselves in the shoes of
a, of a Jewish man or woman in

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the time of Christ, living
faithfully through some very

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difficult times on the back of a
400 year period of all of, of

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nothing of no Bible stories of,
of a falling away from the truth

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and, and the creeping in of, of
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And there you are as a brother
or sister in Christ, and you are

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looking and longing for the
coming of Messiah, the one

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spoken of in Isaiah 9.
For years you’ve had these words

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of Isaiah 9 ringing in your
ears.

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You’re encouraging your family,
you’re encouraging your ecclesia

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not to give up because the
Messiah is coming.

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And you’re citing these words to
them.

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For unto us a child is born,
unto us a son is given, and the

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government shall be upon his
shoulder, and his name shall be

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called.
Wonderful Counsellor, the mighty

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God, the everlasting Father, the
Prince of Peace, of the of the

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increase of his government and
peace.

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There shall be no end upon the
throne of David and upon his

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Kingdom, to order it and to
establish it with judgment and

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with justice from henceforth,
even forever.

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That is your hope, brothers and
sisters, that’s what you’re

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you’ve been waiting for your
whole life.

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But years go by, and finally the
Messiah is born, but to a poor

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family, conceived under dubious
circumstances, born in squalid

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conditions in a place no one’s
even heard of.

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And then 30 years, nothing
happens.

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And instead of coming in and and
overthrowing the Romans and

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establishing his Kingdom as
Isaiah 9 promised, he operates

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on the outskirts of society.
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social outcasts, tax collectors
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That doesn’t match up with
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Why is God letting this happen?
And not only that, but now the

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Romans are preparing to crucify
the very man you have waited

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your life for.
But even still, you cling on to

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hope.
Well, because you know the

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stories, you know that God can
intervene, you know that he’s in

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these very circumstances, that
God shows up with might and

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power and awesome displays of
strength.

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Surely he’s going to send his
legions of angels to rescue

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Messiah off the cross.
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whole ecclesia, praise and begs
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Nothing.
No answer.

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Only silence and darkness and
the image of your dead Lord

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slumped on the cross on Calvary.
You’ve only got one question.

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Why didn’t God show up?
And is God even there?

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We could go on and on and look
at these stories to prove the

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point.
But this morning I want to look

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at three stories in particular
because it’s in these three

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stories that we find the answer
to that question.

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Why didn’t God show up?
These are the stories that will

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provide the answers we so
desperately need in those times

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in our lives when when it
appears if God isn’t there,

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those times in our lives when it
feels like he doesn’t show up,

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when the first of these stories
is that of Job.

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And we know all these stories
very well, so we’ll just touch

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on them briefly.
We know the extensive list of

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list of sufferings that Job
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We’re aware of his terrible
losses, the people he loved who

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died, his own family, let alone
the material losses he endured,

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and finally, intense physical
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And as time goes on and his
suffering goes on for weeks and

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months, he gets to the point in
chapter 23 where he’s beginning

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to feel like he’s all alone.
He’s already pointed out in Job

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19 that all his close friends
and those whom he loved, even

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his own wife had becoming
strange to him, forgotten him,

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forsaken him.
But now in chapter 23, he’s

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reached a new level of despair
and he’s looking for God

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everywhere.
And and he cries out with this

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utter sense of total despair in
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And he says, if only I knew
where to find God.

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Verse 8 and 9 I go, I go forward
and he’s not there.

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I go backward.
I cannot perceive him on the

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left hand where he doth work,
and I cannot see him.

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He hides himself on the right
hand that I cannot see him.

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He’s saying I’ve searched N
southwest and even E even in the

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east where God is sure to be
found.

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But even there he’s nowhere to
be found.

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In spite of my many prayers, in
spite of my continued searching

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and calling out for God, I’ve
not been able to find him.

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He hasn’t shown up.
So what does Job do from here?

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Does he give up?
Does he conclude that since God

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didn’t show up, since his
circumstances continue to get

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worse with no sign of
improvement, perhaps God isn’t

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even there?
Well, in total contrast to that,

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Job actually goes on and gives
us an insight into how each one

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of us should respond when we
feel that way.

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When we feel like God hasn’t
shown up and we we begin to

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question is even there.
The answer to that question is

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found in verse 10 of Job 23.
Because Job continues his

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dialogue and he says even though
I’ve searched the four corners

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of the earth for God, even
though I have, I’ve searched for

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signs that God is at work.
Even though I’ve prayed and

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pleaded and begged and cried for
God to show up, even though I

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don’t know where he is.
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Even though I don’t know where
God is, He knows where I am.

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So the answer from Job, the
answer from his story is

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perspective.
And that’s our first word this

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morning.
Perspective.

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We have to have the perspective
that Job had that even though we

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might not be able to see God
working, even though we might

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not see God show up and do
something, even though we might

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not know where He is in our
problems or in our lives, He

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knows where we are.
So the first answer Scripture

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gives us for when we feel like
we can’t see God working in our

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lives or when we feel like God
isn’t there is get your

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perspective in line with the
perspective that Job had.

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The second story where we find
an answer is the story of

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Joseph.
As we know as a young man,

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Joseph had dreams that one day
his brothers and his family

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would bow down to him.
He was hated by his brothers

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because of his dreams and
because of the love shown to him

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by his father Jake.
And due to this, he was nearly

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murdered by his own brothers.
He was thrown into a pit, he was

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sold to slave traders, he was
shipped off to to Egypt, and he

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wound up after false
accusations, being in the

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dungeon prison of the captain of
the guard.

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Not particularly how Joseph
would have imagined his life to

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go, especially after the dreams
he had as a young man.

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We find Joseph in Genesis
chapter 40 run at the end of

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chapter 40 in prison totally
forgotten about it says there in

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verse 23.
Yet did not the chief Butler

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remember Joseph but forgot him?
Joseph would have been well

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within his rights to feel like
God had forsaken him, that

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everyone had forgotten him.
But because of Joseph’s

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perspective, that he was able to
see that just because his

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situation was less than ideal,
just because his face may be

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hidden from view for a moment,
it didn’t mean that God wasn’t

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there, and it didn’t mean that
God wasn’t working.

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And we can see what this
perspective looks like when we

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turn the page to chapter 41 and
we see what Joseph has to say

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when finally the chief Butler
does remember him.

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Because in verse 16, Joseph
answered Pharaoh.

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It is not in me God will give
Pharaoh a favorable answer.

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I find that absolutely
incredible, that after years of

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rotting away in prison, having
been totally forgotten, having

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been through so many trials, so
far away from home, suffering

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false accusations, injustice,
cruel treatment, having been

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praying for so long with no
apparent answers, with no sign

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of God’s intervention, with no
sign that his circumstances were

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going to improve, that Joseph’s
perspective was such that he was

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still absolutely confident that
God would give Pharaoh an

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answer.
Notice he doesn’t say.

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Maybe God will answer.
You don’t notice he doesn’t say.

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Well, Once Upon a time I would
have been confident, but God

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hasn’t been listening to me
recently.

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So let’s give it a crack and see
how we go.

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He doesn’t say that.
He says God will give you an

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answer.
And he was able to do that,

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brothers and sisters, because
Joseph had the right

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perspective.
And one of the beautiful

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messages that comes out of the
reading of the story of Joseph

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is numerous times that said God.
It says God was with Joseph and

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that even when things go wrong,
it says God was with Joseph.

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And because of Joseph’s
perspective, he was able to see

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that even though God’s presence
in his problems didn’t seem to

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change his situation, even
though God’s presence in his

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life didn’t seem to lessen the
hardships he had to endure,

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because he was just able to see
that God was there.

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He was able to persevere through
them.

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And that’s our second answer,
the second lesson that comes out

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of Scripture that will help us
when we feel like God isn’t

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there, when we feel like he’s
not listening to us.

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First, we have to have the right
perspective, and then we have to

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persevere.
And Joseph was a brilliant

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example of someone who
persevered through trials, even

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though his circumstances didn’t
seem to improve for long periods

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of time.
And I’ve got a a note in my

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Bible which is attributed by the
Dan Jolly from many years ago.

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Don’t look nervous, Dan, but it
actually highlights this point

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because it was a lesson that
Joseph learned and that was that

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the wheels of God’s purpose may
turn slowly, but they do turn

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and that is perseverance.
One O 1.

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So King David actually writes of
this same lesson in Psalm 23

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where he writes, though I walk
through the valley of the shadow

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of death, I will fear no evil,
for you are with me.

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Your rod and staff comfort me.
Notice David doesn’t say because

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you’re with me and because your
rod and staff comfort me, I

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don’t have to walk through the
valley.

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God’s presence in our lives does
not mean we don’t have to walk

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down some incredibly tough,
scary, terrifying, and sometimes

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heartbreaking roads.
But if we have the right

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perspective, we will be able to
persevere because we’ll be able

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to see that God is with us even
in those times.

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The final story I want to touch
on this morning is that of

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Jeremiah.
Jeremiah shows us just how

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critical it is to have
perspective and perseverance,

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but he completes the lesson by
adding one more, by providing

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one more answer.
We all know Jeremiah, the

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prophet who appeared to just get
absolutely smashed on every

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side.
We he suffered probably,

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probably more than any other
prophet.

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He personally suffered along
with his people and it had a

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profound impact on his writings,
which we’ve been blessed to have

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access to.
And he and, and, and his story

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this morning takes us to
Lamentations Chapter 3.

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We read of the facts which led
up to the background of

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Lamentations 3, But you don’t
need to turn there.

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But we find them in Second Kings
25, verse 8, where I’ll read

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them for you.
It says they slaughtered the

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sons of Zedekiah before his
eyes, and they put out the eyes

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of Zedekiah and bound him in
chains and took him to Babylon

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in the 5th month, in the 7th day
of the month.

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It was the 19th year of King
Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon,

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Nebu Zaraida.
And the captain of the guard, a

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servant of the king of Babylon,
came to Jerusalem.

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And he burned the House of
Yahweh in the King’s house.

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And all the houses of Jerusalem,
every great house he burned

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down.
And all the army of the

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Chordians who are with the
captain of the guard, broke down

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the walls around Jerusalem.
And the rest of the people who

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were left in the city and the
deserters who had deserted to

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the king of Babylon together
with the rest of the multitude,

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Nebu Zahraidan carried into
exile.

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So that’s the context to these
words of Jeremiah.

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That’s the context.
This is the destruction, the

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slaughter, and the desolation
which Jeremiah writes about in

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Lamentations.
And poor old Jeremiah has now

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got to the point where he feels
like God is actively causing his

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00:30:46,640 –> 00:30:48,880
troubles.
That that even though God not

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only was God not answering his
prayers, perhaps God was

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actually causing his problems.
Look what he writes in verse 8

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of Lamentations.
Three though I call and cry for

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help, he shuts out my prayer.
He has blocked my ways with

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blocks of stones.
He has made my paths crooked.

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He is a bear lying in wait for
me, a lion in hiding.

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He turned aside my steps and
tore me to pieces.

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He has made me desolate.
Jeremiah feels like God is not

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only ignoring his prayers and
his desperate cries for help,

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but God is like this bear got
this lion lying in wait, ready

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to tear him into pieces.
So just like Job and Joseph, we

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ask the question, what does
Jeremiah do when he feels like

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that?
Does he give up on God?

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Turn the page because he gives
us the answer in verse 25, which

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is worth highlighting because he
shows us what his answer is.

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And the answer Jeremiah gives to
complete the lesson is Yahweh is

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good to those who wait for him,
to the soul who seeks him.

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It is good that one should hope
and wait quietly for the

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salvation of Yahweh.
Isn’t that exactly what Moses

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said to the people?
Be still and see the salvation

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of Yahweh.
The answer Jeremiah gives.

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The lesson Jeremiah teaches us
is the need for patience.

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It is good that we wait quietly
for the salvation of Yahweh.

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Perspective is the key to
perseverance, and perseverance

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00:32:23,960 –> 00:32:28,720
requires patience, which is the
key to waiting for the salvation

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of Yahweh.
It might feel like that

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salvation is a very, very long
way away, brothers and sisters.

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It might feel like we have been
persevering for an awfully long

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time.
We might be feeling like we

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00:32:41,000 –> 00:32:45,440
can’t persevere anymore.
And if that’s the case, Jeremiah

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encourages us, don’t give up, be
patient and wait for the

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salvation of Yahweh.
Once again, this is something

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00:32:54,920 –> 00:32:57,680
that David writes of in the
Psalms where he says in Psalm

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37, be still before Yahweh.
Wait patiently for him.

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It’s a lesson he personally had
to learn.

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00:33:03,840 –> 00:33:07,280
He writes in Psalm 130, verse 5,
I wait for Yahweh.

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My soul waits for the Lord more
than Watchmen for the morning.

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So this story, the story of
Jeremiah, the story of Joseph,

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the story of Job, shows us the
answers on how to cope when we

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are feeling like God isn’t even
there.

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00:33:25,560 –> 00:33:28,120
When we are feeling like God
didn’t show up when we needed,

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00:33:28,240 –> 00:33:30,880
when we needed him to.
When we feel like he’s not

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00:33:30,880 –> 00:33:34,080
answering our prayers.
When circumstances in our lives

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00:33:34,080 –> 00:33:38,320
are spiraling out of control
with no sign of God at work.

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When we don’t know what to do
next, When we don’t know the way

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00:33:41,840 –> 00:33:45,200
forward.
The answer is found in three

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00:33:45,200 –> 00:33:50,000
words, perspective,
perseverance, and patience.

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00:33:51,920 –> 00:33:55,920
We may not know where God is,
but He knows where we are.

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00:33:56,920 –> 00:34:01,920
We got God’s presence in our
life may not stop us from having

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to walk down some very dark,
scary valleys of the shadow of

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00:34:06,120 –> 00:34:08,320
death.
And it may feel like we have

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00:34:08,320 –> 00:34:12,520
been persevering for an
incredibly long time with no

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00:34:12,520 –> 00:34:15,760
sign of God.
But if we persevere and wait

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00:34:15,760 –> 00:34:18,960
patiently, God will show up,
brothers and sisters.

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00:34:18,960 –> 00:34:22,120
And when he does, he will bring
with him the salvation that he

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00:34:22,120 –> 00:34:27,159
has promised to those who wait.
So we’ve looked at Job, Joseph,

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and Jeremiah.
We’ve seen the lessons their

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00:34:28,880 –> 00:34:31,920
stories teach perspective,
perseverance, and patience.

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00:34:32,120 –> 00:34:35,880
But there’s one more story which
beautifully ties these

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00:34:35,880 –> 00:34:38,280
principles together.
And that, of course, is the

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00:34:38,280 –> 00:34:42,520
story of our reading in Luke 22,
the story of the man we’ve all

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00:34:42,520 –> 00:34:47,159
gathered this morning to
remember our Lord Jesus Christ.

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And it’s in this story, in his
life, that he showed the perfect

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example of these three
qualities.

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Let’s begin our short look at
his story in Luke 22 and read

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from verse 41.
And he withdrew from them about

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00:35:05,480 –> 00:35:09,800
a stone’s throw and knelt down
and prayed, saying, Father, if

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00:35:09,800 –> 00:35:11,680
you are willing, remove this cup
from me.

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Nevertheless, not my will, but
yours be done.

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00:35:16,160 –> 00:35:19,040
And there appeared to him an
Angel from heaven, strengthening

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00:35:19,040 –> 00:35:22,920
him, and being in agony, he
prayed more earnestly, and his

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00:35:22,920 –> 00:35:26,280
sweat became like great drops of
blood falling down to the

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00:35:26,280 –> 00:35:30,680
ground.
Here we find our Lord in one of

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the lowest points of his life.
Here he is in combat in a

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struggle, a struggle between his
own will and the will of his

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00:35:39,880 –> 00:35:43,720
Father, which was the will that
he came to perform, as it says

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in Hebrews 10.
Here is our Lord in anguish, in

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00:35:47,800 –> 00:35:49,760
agony.
Matthew says very heavy.

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The word for agony is to be
completely overwhelmed with

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00:35:57,520 –> 00:36:00,640
anguish.
The word is used in the Greek

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00:36:00,640 –> 00:36:06,400
language to describe the most
extreme form of anguish which

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00:36:06,400 –> 00:36:13,160
the soul can feel.
It’s an excruciating anxiety and

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00:36:13,160 –> 00:36:17,880
a torture of spirit.
That’s how our Lord is feeling

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00:36:17,920 –> 00:36:21,320
in this moment as he prays in
the garden whilst his closest

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00:36:21,320 –> 00:36:25,360
friends sleep.
At this moment, brothers and

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00:36:25,360 –> 00:36:28,320
sisters, our Lord was a hair’s
breadth away from failure.

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00:36:28,880 –> 00:36:33,120
He was a hair’s breadth away
from cracking and, and there he

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00:36:33,120 –> 00:36:36,280
is praying in agony.
He’s experiencing the most

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00:36:36,280 –> 00:36:40,880
extreme form of excruciating and
torturous sorrow.

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00:36:41,280 –> 00:36:47,000
And he calls out to his father.
He cries out, ABBA, dad, please,

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00:36:47,200 –> 00:36:49,080
if you’re willing, remove this
cup from me.

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00:36:49,280 –> 00:36:52,440
And his father, recognizing what
was going on, he, he turns to

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00:36:52,440 –> 00:36:54,920
his Angel and he says to his
Angel, you get down there right

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00:36:54,920 –> 00:36:58,240
now and strengthen my son
because he is this close to

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00:36:58,240 –> 00:37:02,480
cracking.
You get down there and

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00:37:02,480 –> 00:37:05,720
strengthen my boy.
And there was the Angel, Luke

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00:37:05,720 –> 00:37:09,080
points out, strengthening him.
And there, in the midst of these

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00:37:09,080 –> 00:37:13,440
incredible moments, our Lord
wins the struggle right there in

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00:37:13,440 –> 00:37:15,640
the garden, before he’s even
been arrested.

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00:37:15,640 –> 00:37:18,800
Right there He has won that
combat because his perspective

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00:37:19,160 –> 00:37:21,000
was in tune with his Father’s
will.

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00:37:21,280 –> 00:37:26,720
Nevertheless, not my will, but
thine be done for this, ’cause I

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00:37:26,720 –> 00:37:29,680
have come to do your will, O
God, as it was written of me in

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00:37:29,680 –> 00:37:33,840
the scroll of the book.
Jesus our Lord, in these

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00:37:33,840 –> 00:37:39,200
terrifying moments showed the
importance of perspective.

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00:37:40,520 –> 00:37:43,720
And because his perspective was
right, he was able to persevere

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00:37:43,720 –> 00:37:46,440
through the rest of that
terrible night because he knew,

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00:37:46,440 –> 00:37:49,200
he trusted.
He was convinced that just

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00:37:49,200 –> 00:37:53,800
because God was with him, just
because the Angel had come down

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00:37:53,800 –> 00:37:57,800
to strengthen him, didn’t mean
he still wasn’t going to have to

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00:37:58,240 –> 00:38:00,880
endure what was to come, the
cross.

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He understood that although
God’s presence wasn’t going to

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00:38:04,040 –> 00:38:09,080
change his circumstances in the
short term, he had to persevere

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00:38:10,320 –> 00:38:13,680
and keep his perspective right
and God would hear his cries.

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Hebrews 5 verse 7 says, Who in
the days of his flesh, when He

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00:38:18,040 –> 00:38:21,720
offered up prayers and
supplications with strong crying

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00:38:21,720 –> 00:38:27,320
and tears unto him, who was able
to save him from death, heard

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00:38:27,320 –> 00:38:30,040
was heard in that He feared.
This is referring to these

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00:38:30,040 –> 00:38:33,280
terrible moments that we’ve just
read of in the garden in Luke

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00:38:33,280 –> 00:38:36,920
22, when He offered up prayers
and supplications with strong

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00:38:36,920 –> 00:38:41,000
crying and tears, not just unto
God, but unto the very one who

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00:38:41,000 –> 00:38:47,320
was able to save him from death.
And even though the answer

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00:38:47,320 –> 00:38:50,280
wasn’t the one his natural mind
would have wanted, even though

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00:38:50,280 –> 00:38:53,560
God didn’t send that legion of
angels to to take him from the

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00:38:53,560 –> 00:38:57,520
cross, even though there was no
fire coming out of heaven and

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00:38:57,520 –> 00:39:01,000
some awesome display of divine
intervention, He persevered.

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00:39:01,880 –> 00:39:06,280
He kept on praying and Hebrews
assures us he was hurt.

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00:39:07,480 –> 00:39:11,240
God sent the Angel, and even
though He still had to die on

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00:39:11,240 –> 00:39:13,600
that cross, the grave could not
hold Him in.

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00:39:13,600 –> 00:39:17,680
The answer to that prayer came
in the form of resurrection to

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00:39:17,680 –> 00:39:22,240
eternal life.
And finally He demonstrated

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00:39:22,240 –> 00:39:26,280
patience, patience in the most
extreme form.

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00:39:26,720 –> 00:39:29,320
Once again, it’s Hebrews that
points it out for us in chapter

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12, which we know well.
Consider Him.

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Verse 3 says.
Consider him who endured such

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contradiction of sinners against
Himself.

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We find the word endured in
verse 2 as well.

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And the word endured comes from
the root word meno, which means

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00:39:43,720 –> 00:39:47,440
to patiently stand.
It’s the same word we see in

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00:39:47,440 –> 00:39:52,120
Romans 12, verse 1212, verse 12
that says be patient in

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00:39:52,120 –> 00:39:54,640
tribulation, continuing instant
in prayer.

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00:39:55,240 –> 00:39:59,000
In fact, Lamentations 3 actually
points out to us the patience

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that Jesus was going to
demonstrate, because you’ll see

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in your margins.
The Lamentations 326, which

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00:40:04,400 –> 00:40:07,800
tells us to wait patiently for
the salvation of Yahweh, links

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00:40:07,800 –> 00:40:13,160
us to Isaiah 53, verse 7, which
describes a suffering servant in

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this way.
He was oppressed and He was

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00:40:16,800 –> 00:40:20,200
afflicted, yet He opened not His
mouth.

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00:40:20,400 –> 00:40:23,160
He was brought as a lamb to the
slaughter, and as a sheep before

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00:40:23,160 –> 00:40:26,480
her shearers is done, so He
openeth not His mouth.

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That is patience in its most
extreme form.

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00:40:31,280 –> 00:40:34,400
It’s one thing to be patient in
tribulation, like Romans 12

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00:40:34,760 –> 00:40:37,280
tells us to do.
It’s quite another thing to be

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00:40:37,280 –> 00:40:40,960
patient and wait for the
salvation of Yahweh as you were

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00:40:40,960 –> 00:40:45,240
being oppressed and afflicted
and LED to your own slaughter.

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The Lord Jesus Christ, who we’ve
come to remember has shown

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perfectly in His own life in the
most extreme way, in the way He

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00:40:55,120 –> 00:41:00,040
responded to intense agony and
excruciating anxiety, how to get

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00:41:00,040 –> 00:41:02,560
through those times in our
lives.

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Don’t give up on God.
Perspective, perseverance and

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00:41:09,200 –> 00:41:12,600
patience.
Those are the keys to endurance.

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00:41:12,600 –> 00:41:16,520
Those are the keys that open up
the door in front of you.

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00:41:17,120 –> 00:41:19,760
Those are the keys which help
you get through the darkest

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00:41:19,760 –> 00:41:23,160
moments in your lives.
The stories of Job, Joseph,

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Jeremiah highlight the
importance of each one of these

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00:41:26,160 –> 00:41:27,720
lessons.
And the example of our Lord

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00:41:27,720 –> 00:41:32,280
Jesus Christ demonstrates for
them, demonstrates them for us

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00:41:32,280 –> 00:41:40,160
in a practical way.
Well, we’ve referred to Hebrews

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a number of times this morning,
and I want to finish in Hebrews

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because I think that Hebrews
sums it up really nicely for us.

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It encourages us so that when we
are going through dark moments

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in our lives, when we are facing
the valley of the shadow of

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00:41:58,840 –> 00:42:04,560
death, when we are in the lion’s
den or in the fiery furnace.

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When we are touched with
physical or mental traumas.

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00:42:08,280 –> 00:42:11,640
When it feels like God is not
answering our prayers and our

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00:42:11,640 –> 00:42:15,200
circumstances are spiralling
into a very dark hole.

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When it seems like God doesn’t
show up, when it feels like

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00:42:19,960 –> 00:42:25,200
perhaps he isn’t even there.
If that’s how we are feeling

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when when that’s how we are
feeling.

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00:42:29,400 –> 00:42:34,560
Hebrews 10 verse 35 sums up the
lessons that we’ve considered

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and we’re going to finish with
this.

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Hebrews 10 verse 35 Do not throw
away your confidence which has a

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great reward for you have need
of endurance so that when you

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have done the will of God, you
may receive what is promised.

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Don’t throw away your faith when
things get tough, when you feel

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like God isn’t there.
Hebrew says you need to have

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patience, you need to persevere,
you need to to have the

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00:43:06,400 –> 00:43:11,200
perspective of the Lord Jesus
Christ who came to do God’s

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00:43:11,200 –> 00:43:14,880
will, not his own.
And if you and I can do that,

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then we will receive what is
promised, the salvation of

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Yahweh.
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