Colin Badger – Class 3: Righteousness Belongeth unto Thee O YHWH

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This is Silver Star Bible
School. 1987, August 10th

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session 3.
Our speaker is brother Colin

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Badger.
His General theme is the

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effectual fervent prayer of a
righteous man availeth much.

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And the title of this class is
righteousness, belongs with unto

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thee o, Yahweh.
The reading is Daniel. 9 verses

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1 through 19, brothers and
sisters.

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I’d like to introduce our
analysis of this next Prayer, by

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Daniel, in chapter 9 by the
following quotation.

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From a very well known and
experienced brother.

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A man’s response to the needs of
the community.

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Of the body to which he has.
Supposedly given Allegiance, is

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often a measure of the true
character of the man himself,

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self-seeking and disregard for
the lasting well-being of the

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community.
Weakens the bonds, which are

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intended to be channels of
strength, rather than strife.

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Our attitude to the body is our
attitude to Christ.

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The Ecclesia is his body.
If we are superior to it, we

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lack humility.
If we are divisive within it, we

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deny the atonement by which we
have and were reconciled and

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made one.
If we neglect it, the body, we

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diminish, our affection for him.
If we serve it, we do him

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service.
If we edify it, we continue his

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work.
If we bind up its wounds and

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take care of the week, we
Fellowship his sufferings.

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That is the perspective of
Daniel chapter 9.

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Those are the principles in part
which permeate the attitude and

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govern, the content of Daniel
chapter 9.

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As this wise, men, this Godly
Man pours out his heart before

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Yahweh God of Israel.
Daniel, you see brothers and

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sisters, understood the doctrine
of the one body just as well as

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it has been articulated by a
brother in the 20th century, it

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was a Doctrine to which Daniel
gave more than just academic

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Ascent for as you analyze, the
contents of his outpouring and

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Daniel chapter 9, you can see
how he grasped the doctrine of

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the one body.
Just as well as is it expressed

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as it is expressed in many of
the New Testament Epistles, and

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how so much of what he says is
predicated upon Daniel’s belief

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and his understanding and his
application of the doctrine of

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the one body.
Daniel chapter 9.

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Let’s turn their brothers and
sisters and analyze the problem.

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First of all that was before,
Daniel for which he prayed.

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Daniel chapter 9 verse 2.
In the first year of his Reign.

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I Daniel understood by books,
the number of the years where of

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the word of Yahweh came to
Jeremiah the prophet that he

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would accomplish 70 years in the
desolations of Jerusalem and I

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set my face unto the Lord God to
seek by prayer and supplications

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with fasting, and sackcloth, and
Ashes.

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There we have spelled out very
clearly before us, what was

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before, Daniel he was in Babylon
with his people and he was

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agonizing over the Captivity of
his people.

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He yearned with all his heart to
go back to Jerusalem to return

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to the land of promise.
And he agonized to know,

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according to the prophecies that
had gone before him.

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He agonized to know how long O
Lord to use that expression in

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Revelation from The Souls under
the altar.

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How long O Lord You see for
Daniel the subject of Bible

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prophecy was not something that
had simply a cursory interest

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for him.
The subject of Bible prophecy

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was an integral part of Daniels
Bible study.

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He viewed Bible prophecy.
Seriously, in fact, he viewed

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it.
So seriously that he agonized to

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understand it and he applied
himself to it and he prayed

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about it.
And it wasn’t just.

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The matter of the, what and the
who of Bible prophecy you notice

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in verse 2, he was concerned
about the wind of Bible prophecy

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and of those three.
The what, The, Who, and the when

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today, increase the delphian
circles of those three, the one

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that is often stressed as being
least important one.

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That is regarded talked about
and viewed indirectly, even as

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being of only cursory concern is
the when Bible prophecy in terms

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of chronology and times and
seasons have for some time, lost

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the kind of urgent interest they
once held in our community.

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That’s a fact.
We have to admit it.

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It’s obvious in a, many, many
ways as we look out in our own

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Community, many are saying that
until certain events are

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fulfilled.
We do well, not to spend much

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time on the chronology of Bible
prophecy.

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That was not the perspective of
Daniel.

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That is not the example, Daniel
sets for us his prayer, betrays

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brothers, and sisters are
contrary you.

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He wanted to know on the basis
of the writings of Jeremiah who

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had gone before him, where he
was in time in relationship to

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the 70 year captivity and to
seek an answer to that.

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Despite the fact that he was a
Holy Spirit Gifted Man.

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Despite those privileges he
still had to do his Bible study

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and study, he did.
But we notice, he didn’t only

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study, he prayed about it.
Verse 3 again.

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Look at the words that stress
the attitude of Daniel.

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As he approaches this important
subject to him prayer,

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supplication fasting, sackcloth
and Ashes.

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He prostrated himself before the
books.

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And before his father in prayer
and in study prayerfully and

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carefully, he agonized to know,
and understand the words of

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these secrets verse four, he
begins a much larger prayer that

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broadens out into a much larger
concern than just knowing where

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he was in time.
And I prayed unto the Lord, my

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God and made my confession and
said, Oh Lord, the great and

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Dreadful God keeping the
Covenant, and mercy to them,

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that love him and to them that
keep his Commandments, we have

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sinned and have committed
iniquity and have done wickedly

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and have rebelled even by
departing from thy precepts and

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from thy.
Judgments neither have we

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hearkened unto thy servants, the
prophets, which spake, in thy

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name to our Kings.
Our princes and our fathers, and

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to all the people of the land.
Oh, Lord, righteousness, belongs

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with unto thee, but unto us
confusion of faces, as at this

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day, to the men of Judah, and to
the inhabitants of Jerusalem and

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to all Israel that are near and
that are afar off through all

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the countries, whether thou Hast
driven them because of their

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trespass that they have
trespassed against thee.

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Oh Lord, to wasp along with
confusion of faiths, to our

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Kings, and to our princes, and
to our fathers, because we have

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sinned against thee to the Lord,
Our God belong mercies and

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forgiveness says, though, we
have rebelled against him.

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Only the introduction of a very
long but very powerful prayer.

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We haven’t really the time to
analyze that prayer in all its

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details.
You see, the christadelphians

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prayer there for the Peace of
Jerusalem.

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Don’t you pray for the Peace of
Jerusalem?

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They shall prosper that love
thee.

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A very important aspect of his
prayer was just exactly that

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that he might have the blessing
of seeing Jerusalem glorified

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once again.
To go back and to put his feet

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in the land with his people and
we to pray for the same.

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But perhaps at times in our
prayers, the subject of

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Jerusalem is not as frequently
mentioned, as it used to be the

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background of the hope of
Israel.

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To the christadelphians
community as a precious one, the

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very fact that brother Thomas
began to express the gospel,

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through that term, the hope of
Israel.

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Paved and provided atone for our
approach, for many, many years

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in our lectures and the way we
addressed one another, in the

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way we express the truth, it was
the Hallmark of the expression

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of our community, the hope of
Israel to, which Paul was bound

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for a chain.
Brothers and sisters.

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We ought not to lose that
perspective.

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Because in some quarters, it is
disintegrating.

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There are emphases now creeping
into some of our writings

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emphasis only perhaps, which is
overshadowing, this very

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important background, our focus
on that land, our focus on that

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people, our focus on that City
and our prayers constantly

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privately publicly together as a
body for the Peace of Jerusalem.

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I’m not going to spend a great
deal of time on that point other

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than to underscore its
fundamental importance here as

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the prayer of a man of God who
was wise And distress as we have

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now, the importance of not
losing that perspective.

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Secondly, other elements of this
prayer deserve attention.

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There is an attitude of Mind
here that attitude is described

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for us as we’ve already seen in
verse 3.

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It’s an attitude of humility and
attitude of coming before the

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father.
And in both mind.

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And in body prostrating oneself
in humility before the throne of

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grace of that, attitude of Mind
in prayer requires careful

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preparation, it’s not a facade.
It’s not what someday someone

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does.
The last few minutes of the day,

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when one is weary and tired and
then finally slips off into

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sleep before the Is done.
That is the posture of a wise,

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man of a man who was Godly in
his approach to prayer.

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You can’t go through that kind
of exercise and have that kind

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of attitude, of mind and prayer,
without being very Vigilant

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about being awake and what
you’re doing.

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Every one of those steps
describes an important attitude.

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It in fact is the attitude
described to the prophet Joel.

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I’d like just to turn there
because it’s not obviously the

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external that is important in
the ashes, in the sack cloth, in

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the external prostrating of
one’s body before, the throne of

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grace it is whether or not that
same is found from within.

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It was no doubt with Daniel.
Notice what is said in Joel

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chapter 2 and this regard?
Spells it out very nicely.

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Verse 12.
Therefore, also now saith the

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Lord tourney, even to me, with
all your heart, and with

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fasting, and with weeping, and
with morning, and Rend your

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heart, and not your garments and
turn unto the Lord your God for

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he is gracious, and merciful
slow to anger and of great

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kindness and repented him of the
evil.

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You see that phrase in verse 13
is he the tearing of ones

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garment putting on ashes and
sackcloth meant nothing.

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Unless that was an expression of
an inward prostration of an

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inward attitude of humility
before the throne of grace, it

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was a symbol of urgency and dire
distress.

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It was a symbol of morning and
Daniel is morning from within.

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He is agonizing.
Not only to know and And the

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meaning of Jeremiah’s prophecies
but he’s agonizing over the

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plight of his nation and on the
basis of the doctrine of the one

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body.
Daniel identifies himself

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brothers and sisters completely
with the body of Israel.

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Good and bad.
He merges himself in his prayer

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with the nation.
The language is that of we and

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us and our, do you notice how
many times those expressions are

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studied through his prayer?
We have sinned, we have done

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this, we have done that, our
fathers, our sin us, Very

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important perspective based on
his understanding of himself and

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his Nation, being one body with
many members, like the language

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of the Apostle Paul and with
that perception and

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understanding, Joel chapter 2,
expands that attitude of mind

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for in his Agony.
He agonized for his Nation as

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well as for himself.
He rent his garments but he had

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rent his He came to offer
repentance on behalf of his

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Nation as well as himself.
And the objective, the objective

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in verse 13 of Joel to to turn
unto the Lord, your God.

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For he is gracious in turning
their selves themselves from

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their plight from their sins,
their Disobedience and turning

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to the father, Daniel and Joel
remind us that in doing.

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So we turn to one.
Who is gracious, who is willing

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and wanting to forgive?
Who in fact is slow to anger,

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unlike us.
Who is of great, kindness, which

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at times is not the
characteristic of us and who is

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willingly one to repent and
forgive unlike us.

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Many of the times in our
dealings with one another We go

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back to Daniel chapter 9.
There is the problem.

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And there is the attitude of
Mind before the prayer can be

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fully analyzed. there is also,
as we notice in verse 4, The

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element of Praise.
Now, this element of Praise is a

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subject on its own.
We will analyze it in a little

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more detail in one of the other
prayers during the week,

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sufficient to note in verse 4.
That like the Lord’s Prayer, the

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introductory statements of his
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attitude of Mind before.
The father is not only one of

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confession, but verse 40, Lord,
the great and Dreadful.

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God, Dreadful there, by the way,
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It’s a statement of reverence,
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trepidation and fear.
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reverential fear, yes, but not
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father.
Oh, Lord, the great and Dreadful

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God one with awe and wonder
deserves respect, keeping the

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Covenant and mercy to them, that
love him and to them that keep

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his Commandments, there is irony
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how at the beginning of his
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He attributes to the father.
What he denies to the nation

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later on in his prayer for to
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the one that keepest by Covenant
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Keep us thy Commandments.
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In verse 5 of the people, what
have human beings and verse 6

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and 7?
And so on down through what

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about verse 11, all Israel have
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By law.
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have departed from the Covenant,
but to the father he says

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though, he passed by Covenant.
It’s a statement of reverence

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and respect for the stability.
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will.
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conviction to do with his
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people have not been loyal to
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the rest of the prayer, we see
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keep the terms of that Covenant
and how they have turned their

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back on God though, God has
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And for that he Praises his
father it is an expression of

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sacrifice under the law of
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There was an offering that had
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There are expressions in the
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about.
Let us offer the calves of our

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lips.
As though What comes forth from

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those lips and praise and True.
Praise is a kind of Sacrifice

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from our words and down into our
heart as the source will come

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back to that.
But notice how it appears up

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front in his prayer.
It is very important to capture

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that as part of Daniel’s
attitude to the father and we

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remind ourselves of its parallel
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from the Sun.
Our Father who art in heaven,

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Hallowed be thy name, thy
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Earth as it is done, Heaven.
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An attitude of Mind.
Careful preparation before

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coming to the father in prayer.
But let’s return again to that

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important theme of, we like to
underscore how often it occurs

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verse 5.
And perhaps, if you have a

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pencil it deserves circling
these pronouns.

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The corporate picture of Daniel
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five.
We have sinned verse 6.

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Neither have we?
Hearkened Verse 8, towards the

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end of the verse because we have
sinned against thee verse 9.

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At the end, we have rebelled
against thee verse 11.

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The last phrase because we have
sinned against him verse 13 as

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it is written.
In the law of Moses, all the

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siebel has come upon us yet,
made we not our prayer verse 15,

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at the end of game.
We have sinned.

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We again have done.
Wickedly Lee. verse 20, and

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whilst I was praying and
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and the sin of my people now
think about what Daniel is

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saying and implying, by that
term, we had Daniel really

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committed those iniquities as
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him.
Could we say in verse 5 that

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Daniel had committed iniquity
and done.

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Wickedly had Daniel rebelled and
verse 5 against the Covenant

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himself.
Had he departed from the

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precepts and from the judgments
Did he deserve those kind of

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indictments?
if not, why does he say we and

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not, they Once again, it betrays
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It betrays his understanding of
how he, as any faithful man.

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And in part mediator is to
identify himself fully with the

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sins and the weaknesses, the
wounds and the sicknesses of the

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body that we is not what we
would call The Royal we but in

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Scripture it is the priest like
we for that is the attitude of a

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priest.
It is the attitude of one who

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identifies himself with the
people as the people of Israel

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were to put their hands on the
Levites and identification of

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their role and how the levite
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with the people he represented.
it is also, of course, seen in

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the law of Moses and so many
other ways, where the priesthood

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officiates on behalf of and for
the people where in the

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Tabernacle services, like the
language in Hebrews, the high

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priest himself made an offering
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the people We know in scripture,
surely that this isn’t something

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unique to Daniel that term.
We is found.

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And that attitude is found in
the prayers of all the Great Men

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of the Bible.
Great now, not so much in the

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sense of their faith, not so
much in the great Deeds that

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they did.
Like the Samson’s and others

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like him, who did Mighty acts in
war but greatness in a different

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sense.
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like we, let’s just sample how
Daniels prayer harmonizes with

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these sentiments elsewhere.
For example, Ezra.

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This is a pertinent reference
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at least it’s at a time that
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it’s when the nation have gone
has gone back in part under

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Ezra’s leadership, as a result
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Having suffered this, The Plight
for the same kind of are right.

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Ezra chapter 9.
Don’t just be like, just to look

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at verses 5 to 7.
Think of Daniel as you read this

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description and see the
parallels verse 5 of Dan of Ezra

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9.
And at the evening sacrifice, I

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rose up from my heaviness,
having rent, my garment, and my

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mantle, I fell upon my knees and
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My God and said, oh my God.
I am ashamed and blush to lift

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up my face to thee.
My God.

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For our iniquities are increased
over our head and our trespasses

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grown up unto the heavens.
Since the days of our fathers,

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have we been in a great trespass
on to this day for our

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iniquities have we, our Kings
and our priests being delivered

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into the land of the kings of
the lands, to the sword to

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captivity and to a spoil.
And Confusion of face as it is

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this day.
There’s a great deal that we can

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see in Ezra’s prayer that
parallels, that of Daniel

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perspective.
Number one, we and our and us

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had Ezra done those things.
Really had he committed

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iniquity.
Had he trespassed?

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And had his trespasses
personally, grown up into the

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heavens and he committed.
The great press trespass onto

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this day in verse 7.
Then why does he pray that way?

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It wasn’t a superficial
identification with his people.

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It wasn’t false humility or
modesty.

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It was the sincere genuine
outpouring of a man of God who

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Blended himself with the body
who saw himself part of a nation

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and an Ecclesia that needed
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It wasn’t the distance of the
Pharisee described in the gospel

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who stood a great while off or a
great distance off from The

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Sinner beside him.
And who prayed with the personal

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pronoun i’.
I this and I that and who said

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I?
Thank the God that I am not as

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other Sinners, that’s a
pharisaic latitude, in contrast

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to these Great Men Who
understood what Under of men and

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women, they were the same
sentiment is expressed, of

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course, by Nehemiah the same as
expressed also, by Moses, the

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great mediator in Exodus 32
where he wishes to have himself

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blotted out rather than the
nation being blotted out, where

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Moses steps as it were between
Israel and God between them both

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and pleads to God, that his life
might be removed rather than God

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is sponging.
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him that he could create a new
nation, Moses stepped in between

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and asked that his life be taken
had Moses.

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Done wrong.
Did Moses deserve to be stoned

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as the nation did as an
adulterous woman.

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No.
But Moses Daniel Ezra Nehemiah

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understood.
This fundamental Doctrine in

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their identification with their
Brethren and their problems.

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How about David?
Second Samuel.

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Chapter 24.
At the time of the senses when

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the nation is being punished.
Although David no doubt could

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not be absolved from Total.
Blame careful study.

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We Believe shows that he was
less blameworthy for a plague

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that broke out in the nation
that is sometimes suggested not

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absolving, David, totally.
However, but in the midst of

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this punishment and plague, look
at David’s petition verse 17.

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And remember what, you know,
from your readings only in the

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last few weeks.
Remember what you know about the

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condition of is At the time of
David by Israel.

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I mean the whole nation over 17
and David spake unto Yahweh.

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When he saw the angel that smote
the people said lo, I have

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sinned and I have done wickedly
but these sheep.

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What have they done?
Let thine hand.

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I pray thee be against me and
against my father’s house.

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What had the house of the?
Son of Jesse done, It was a

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Godly house David had misjudged
and certainly not to be totally

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absolved from blame in this
circumstance.

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But what of that statement,
these sheep, what have they

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done?
Plenty David.

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A study of the time of David
through the book of second.

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Samuel or first, Samuel shows us
a nation.

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That was still only partly drawn
out of the darkness of the time

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of the judges.
When every man did that which

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was right in his own eyes, the
reforms of Samuel indicate how

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twisted and how sick part of
that nation was the response to

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Israel as they worked for Saul
in part their fickleness the

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Intrigue that encircle Dave In
the time of his Rebellion all

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show that the nation as a whole
and the leaders were not to be

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absolved from blame by any
means.

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But David views them as sheep.
That’s the great Shepherd.

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That’s the greatness of David.
It’s the greatness of Daniel and

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Moses.
He viewed them as sheep.

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The Sheep.
What have they done?

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Well, they had done plenty.
But that attitude of Mind, was

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that of Daniel and his prayer.
R and the others that we’ve

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seen.
Look at the Apostle Paul.

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And speaking about Israel, the
same object the same Nation as

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the prayer of Daniel and see
what Paul says in Romans.

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See how typical this is.
Of the attitude of great

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shepherds in the Bible.
Romans chapter 9.

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Verse 1 I say the truth in
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Also bearing me witness in the
holy spirit that I have great

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heaviness and continual sorrow
in my heart.

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For, I wish that myself were
accursed from Christ for my

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brethren, my Kinsmen, according
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This was a nation that had
crucified their Messiah.

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This is a nation that up to this
point when he penned the epistle

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to the Romans had been
continually stubborn and

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hard-hearted, it was a
denomination that really

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deserve.
Not Mercy from the human point

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of view, they had been given
their chants Messiah had walked

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in their midst.
They had with cruel hands

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crucified him, they had dealt in
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With the early Ecclesia, they
had expelled the faithful and

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continue the work of the Apostle
Paul through other bloody hands

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was this a nation that deserved
continual sorrow and grief was

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this a nation that deserved to
still be called my brethren,

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though?
They were still Brethren only

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after the flesh.
Was this, a nation that you and

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others and myself at this point
in the New Testament times would

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have stood up and prayed that
you should.

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Be accursed.
Would you have said that with

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sincerity?
I could wish that myself were

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accursed from Christ.
Would you put yourself in that

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spot willing to sacrifice
yourself for that?

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Kind of people would you Most of
us would buy that point in New

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Testament times, have said let
them be disfellowship them,

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write them off, forget about
them, we would have perhaps

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drawn, our coats around us as it
were and kept her distance,

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shaking her head in disgust
pointed the finger and left

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them.
We would have said, patience

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00:33:12,000 –> 00:33:14,600
runs out.
We would have said they’ve had a

439
00:33:14,608 –> 00:33:15,500
chance.
Many.

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00:33:15,700 –> 00:33:18,300
Chances.
We would have said perhaps that

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00:33:18,300 –> 00:33:23,500
we’re past Seventy Times Seven.
Israel deserves, no such concern

442
00:33:23,500 –> 00:33:27,700
and such love still.
But in the Apostle, Paul’s

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00:33:27,700 –> 00:33:32,100
vowels there was such Mercy.
There still was such a yearning

444
00:33:32,700 –> 00:33:34,800
still.
Such concern for the rebellious

445
00:33:34,800 –> 00:33:40,000
Nation with such a morbid track
record even going right back to

446
00:33:40,000 –> 00:33:42,700
the days of Daniel as he could
have to our days as we look in

447
00:33:42,708 –> 00:33:49,000
this study, that’s the mark of a
shepherd. that is a true

448
00:33:49,000 –> 00:33:53,000
Christian delphian that is one
who truly understands, what that

449
00:33:53,000 –> 00:33:57,600
name stands for Brethren of
Christ for, that’s the Crusade

450
00:33:57,600 –> 00:34:00,800
delphian who doesn’t
disassociate himself from the

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00:34:00,800 –> 00:34:04,900
body when he looks at it closely
and sees this the problems

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00:34:06,400 –> 00:34:09,000
That’s not the attitude that
says I will form a new

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00:34:09,000 –> 00:34:11,500
Fellowship.
I will split the meeting.

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00:34:11,900 –> 00:34:14,600
I will walk out of the arranging
meaning because I can’t have it

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00:34:14,600 –> 00:34:18,000
my way.
That’s not the Chrissa Delphine

456
00:34:18,000 –> 00:34:21,000
arranging board.
That says, because there is

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00:34:21,000 –> 00:34:26,000
sickness in the body, I will
disassociate myself from it, I

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00:34:26,000 –> 00:34:29,100
will walk off and form a
reclusive.

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00:34:29,400 –> 00:34:33,600
Secretive were formed a small
group to keep myself from the

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00:34:33,600 –> 00:34:38,400
sins of the people.
That mentality is becoming more

461
00:34:38,400 –> 00:34:41,199
and more prominent in our
community and only in the last

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00:34:41,199 –> 00:34:45,300
few months on this continent.
We have seen a rather sad case

463
00:34:45,300 –> 00:34:48,800
of it.
As one member of our community,

464
00:34:49,300 –> 00:34:53,300
I say member, I mean, achalasia
has been afflicted by that, very

465
00:34:53,300 –> 00:34:56,900
kind of mentality.
In contrast to these examples

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00:34:56,900 –> 00:35:01,300
were just considering, don’t
think as we should not think

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00:35:01,800 –> 00:35:04,900
that the attitude of that
particular geographic location

468
00:35:04,900 –> 00:35:10,600
on this continent is a typical.
Because things said at arranging

469
00:35:10,600 –> 00:35:14,400
board meetings and things said
in general conversation between

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00:35:14,400 –> 00:35:18,700
christadelphians, often are
miles from this attitude.

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00:35:20,000 –> 00:35:25,100
It is too often our reflex in
our own thinking and our own

472
00:35:25,100 –> 00:35:27,500
attitude.
When we meet problems in our

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00:35:27,500 –> 00:35:32,900
body to take an attitude that is
diametrically opposite from the

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00:35:32,900 –> 00:35:35,200
attitudes expressed by these
Shepherds of Israel.

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00:35:35,500 –> 00:35:39,800
These true Shepherds of Israel,
we read them and we admire them

476
00:35:40,200 –> 00:35:42,800
and we perhaps applaud their
Grace and the goodness and the

477
00:35:42,800 –> 00:35:45,900
sentiments of their prayers.
But that means nothing.

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00:35:45,900 –> 00:35:48,900
Brothers and sisters if and are
arranging meetings.

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00:35:49,300 –> 00:35:50,800
In our discussion of the
problems.

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00:35:50,800 –> 00:35:56,600
In our bodies, Our words and
thinking, and our actions betray

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00:35:56,600 –> 00:35:59,600
it.
It’s a fact as we look at The

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00:35:59,600 –> 00:36:02,800
Parables of the master in
Matthew and Luke, especially

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00:36:03,600 –> 00:36:06,900
that as we analyze them.
And ask the question, what is

484
00:36:06,900 –> 00:36:09,700
being implied by these Parables
about the unforgiving?

485
00:36:09,700 –> 00:36:12,300
Servant and many others?
Like them, like the Good

486
00:36:12,300 –> 00:36:14,800
Samaritan.
What’s being implied about human

487
00:36:14,800 –> 00:36:17,600
nature?
Why is the Lord stressing the

488
00:36:17,600 –> 00:36:19,300
need to be a good samaritan?
Ian.

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00:36:20,000 –> 00:36:24,500
Why is he stressing the parable
of the unforgiving servant for

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00:36:24,500 –> 00:36:26,900
what is the master saying about
human nature?

491
00:36:27,900 –> 00:36:31,500
Is he saying that we are
naturally more patient than

492
00:36:31,500 –> 00:36:34,800
impatient?
Is he saying that we are more

493
00:36:34,800 –> 00:36:38,700
naturally inclined to
forbearance and longsuffering

494
00:36:39,300 –> 00:36:44,500
than we are to a lack of it.
Those parables are telling us

495
00:36:44,500 –> 00:36:48,900
something implicitly about the
Lord’s concern concerning for.

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00:36:49,100 –> 00:36:53,300
Dolphins, he’s telling us.
That patients doesn’t naturally

497
00:36:53,400 –> 00:36:58,000
come to the body of Christ.
He’s implying that people are

498
00:36:58,000 –> 00:37:01,100
not naturally as
christadelphians and Servants of

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00:37:01,100 –> 00:37:06,700
God for bearing, he is telling
us that we need the excitation

500
00:37:06,700 –> 00:37:11,400
along those lines, especially
Now perhaps you’re thinking,

501
00:37:11,400 –> 00:37:13,000
well, what’s the implication
here?

502
00:37:13,700 –> 00:37:17,600
Is this an excitation to over
tolerance is it’s an excitation

503
00:37:17,600 –> 00:37:20,400
to turn a blind eye to
imperfections and problems in

504
00:37:20,408 –> 00:37:24,000
the body is this an excitation
for every man to do that which

505
00:37:24,000 –> 00:37:28,900
is right in his own eyes.
It is not, it is not a matter of

506
00:37:28,900 –> 00:37:32,100
Tolerance.
It’s a matter of working with

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00:37:32,100 –> 00:37:35,000
the problem doing something
about it.

508
00:37:36,300 –> 00:37:38,100
It’s not a matter of writing
letters about it.

509
00:37:38,700 –> 00:37:41,600
It’s not a matter of pointing
fingers and phoning people up.

510
00:37:42,200 –> 00:37:45,300
It’s not a matter of standing in
the corner and talking about,

511
00:37:45,300 –> 00:37:50,200
they the Vancouver, Ecclesia,
the Scarlet, Road, Ecclesia the

512
00:37:50,200 –> 00:37:55,200
English Brethren the Australian,
Brethren The Shield, the logos

513
00:37:55,200 –> 00:37:58,500
the CMP, a and all the other
catch phrases, which we use in

514
00:37:58,508 –> 00:38:02,400
such dialogues.
It’s not talking about they with

515
00:38:02,400 –> 00:38:04,800
a label on them, with an
abstraction.

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00:38:05,700 –> 00:38:08,600
It’s talking about those
problems, not turning a blind

517
00:38:08,600 –> 00:38:16,600
eye to them, as part of we it’s
us, it’s my body, it’s my

518
00:38:16,600 –> 00:38:22,000
brother. you see the vein
betrays, the very opposite

519
00:38:22,400 –> 00:38:26,600
disposition of what we see in
these prayers and when we use

520
00:38:26,600 –> 00:38:30,100
these fabricated labels for the
sake of convenience in our

521
00:38:30,100 –> 00:38:35,600
dialogues and in our writings,
If that is part of our real

522
00:38:35,600 –> 00:38:40,200
Thinking Inside and we think
that these Brethren is chips off

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00:38:40,200 –> 00:38:43,000
of the body as segregated
departments.

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00:38:43,800 –> 00:38:47,500
Then without us knowing it,
perhaps we take the mental,

525
00:38:47,500 –> 00:38:50,700
internal posture of the men in
the parable.

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00:38:51,300 –> 00:38:56,700
Who says I, thank the God that I
am not as other men.

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00:38:57,300 –> 00:38:59,400
The Vancouver.
Ecclesia, the Scarlet.

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00:38:59,400 –> 00:39:02,000
Road ich lesion.
The English brother in the

529
00:39:02,000 –> 00:39:06,800
Australian Brothers, the AIDS.
We are not brothers and sisters,

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00:39:06,800 –> 00:39:09,400
cultivating.
The disposition of Danny.

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00:39:10,700 –> 00:39:14,300
It’s easy to go through that
prayer and be so admiring of the

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00:39:14,300 –> 00:39:18,600
contents of his outpouring.
What what does that mean to you?

533
00:39:18,600 –> 00:39:22,600
And I, what does it mean in
terms of the disposition you and

534
00:39:22,600 –> 00:39:25,200
I have got to develop in our
ecclesial affairs?

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00:39:26,800 –> 00:39:30,300
We are to see the problems.
We are not to use rose.

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00:39:30,300 –> 00:39:34,300
Colored glasses are not to see
through Darkness.

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00:39:34,600 –> 00:39:37,100
We are to identify the problems
of the body.

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00:39:37,100 –> 00:39:40,700
We are to know that they are.
There we are to cultivate

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00:39:40,700 –> 00:39:44,200
spiritual Godly discernment to
know, good and wrong.

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00:39:45,100 –> 00:39:48,300
We are to recognize the disease
when its present, and not

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00:39:48,300 –> 00:39:52,600
turning back from it.
But we are to address the

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00:39:52,600 –> 00:39:56,700
disease, we are to do something
about the sickness.

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00:39:57,200 –> 00:40:01,400
We are to do something about the
wounds and the broken body that

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00:40:01,400 –> 00:40:06,100
we might see in our Ecclesia and
in the community at large, not

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00:40:06,100 –> 00:40:10,000
to write letters necessarily
about it and not simply at a

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00:40:10,008 –> 00:40:12,600
distance to describe the
problem.

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00:40:13,300 –> 00:40:16,500
Now, there’s many ways we can do
it communication with bragging

548
00:40:16,700 –> 00:40:20,100
does have its part communicating
and writing back and forth.

549
00:40:20,600 –> 00:40:25,400
For a Positive Purpose has its
part providing our motive is

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00:40:25,400 –> 00:40:29,300
right and our method is right
and providing of course that

551
00:40:29,300 –> 00:40:35,200
what we are doing for sure is
going to pour oil and wine as

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00:40:35,200 –> 00:40:38,200
the Good Samaritan did on The
Afflicted body.

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00:40:39,100 –> 00:40:44,000
Let us measure our methods and
evaluate what we’re doing in the

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00:40:44,000 –> 00:40:48,200
way we’re doing it only you know
the motives I can’t judge.

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00:40:48,200 –> 00:40:52,100
You can’t judge me, of course.
So it’s not an excitation to

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00:40:52,100 –> 00:40:55,100
tolerance or to spiritual
blindness.

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00:40:55,900 –> 00:41:00,100
It’s not a matter of letting
anything go in the Ecclesia but

558
00:41:00,200 –> 00:41:05,000
it’s an excitation to patience
and long-suffering turn to the

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00:41:05,000 –> 00:41:13,900
last chapter of Chronicles.
This is the meat of Daniel’s

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00:41:13,900 –> 00:41:19,800
prayer, if we don’t capture all
the other details and we do

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00:41:19,800 –> 00:41:22,600
capture this.
We’ve captured something very

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00:41:22,600 –> 00:41:28,800
tangible.
Second Chronicles chapter, 36.

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00:41:28,800 –> 00:41:32,200
The very last chapter of the
book of Chronicles and this is

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00:41:32,200 –> 00:41:34,300
not divorced from the study of
Daniel.

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00:41:34,400 –> 00:41:40,300
It’s pertinent because this is
the beginning of the end before.

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00:41:40,300 –> 00:41:44,300
The people were taken to Babylon
the situation which Daniel later

567
00:41:44,300 –> 00:41:47,200
found himself.
When Daniel Prayed for the

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00:41:47,200 –> 00:41:51,200
fathers and the Forgiveness of
his Nation when he admitted

569
00:41:51,200 –> 00:41:53,200
their transgressions in their
iniquities.

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00:41:54,400 –> 00:41:57,200
He was referring back to this
kind of language and second

571
00:41:57,200 –> 00:42:00,500
chronicles 36.
Here’s a Nebuchadnezzar coming

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00:42:00,500 –> 00:42:05,100
down in verse 13 and he also
rebelled against King

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00:42:05,100 –> 00:42:09,100
Nebuchadnezzar.
Who had made him swear by God.

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00:42:10,000 –> 00:42:14,600
But he stiffened his neck and
hardened his heart from turning

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00:42:14,600 –> 00:42:18,100
onto the Lord, God of Israel.
Moreover, all the chief of the

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00:42:18,100 –> 00:42:22,400
priests and the people
transgress very much.

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00:42:22,800 –> 00:42:26,000
After all the Abominations of
the Heathen and polluted the

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00:42:26,000 –> 00:42:28,500
house of the Lord, which he had
Howard in Jerusalem.

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00:42:29,000 –> 00:42:32,900
The Lord God of their fathers
sent to them by his Messengers.

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00:42:32,900 –> 00:42:37,600
Rising up, betimes means early
and often and and sending

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00:42:37,600 –> 00:42:40,900
because he had compassion on his
people and on his Dwelling

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00:42:40,900 –> 00:42:44,600
Place, How long did God do that?
Brothers and sisters?

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00:42:46,300 –> 00:42:49,000
For a good number of years.
It goes into the hundreds.

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00:42:50,000 –> 00:42:53,400
It was over the course of
hundreds of years that God

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00:42:53,400 –> 00:42:56,300
raised up the prophets, the
period of the Kings, and the

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00:42:56,308 –> 00:42:59,100
period of what we call the
prophets covers hundreds of

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00:42:59,100 –> 00:43:02,400
years.
God was patient, God was

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00:43:02,400 –> 00:43:06,400
long-suffering but see God as
the example.

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00:43:07,300 –> 00:43:10,000
It’s not that he turned his back
on the sins of his people or

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00:43:10,000 –> 00:43:14,300
tolerated them.
But in seeing them, he did his

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00:43:14,300 –> 00:43:17,400
best.
God did to work with the nation.

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00:43:17,600 –> 00:43:21,800
He did something about it.
He Sent His prophets Heroes them

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00:43:21,800 –> 00:43:26,900
up early and frequently and he
had compassion on his people,

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00:43:26,900 –> 00:43:32,000
his Brethren, but verse 16, the
recalcitrant attitude of the

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00:43:32,000 –> 00:43:35,400
hard-hearted nation.
But they mocked The Messengers

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00:43:35,400 –> 00:43:40,200
of God and despised his words
and misused His prophets until

597
00:43:40,200 –> 00:43:43,200
the wrath of Yahweh arose
against his people.

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00:43:44,000 –> 00:43:49,700
To there was no remedy margin,
notice it.

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00:43:51,000 –> 00:43:55,300
Tiller was no healing.
Till there was no healing.

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00:43:56,100 –> 00:43:58,000
It’s the language of
personification.

601
00:43:58,800 –> 00:44:01,500
What is implied by that
figurative speech until there

602
00:44:01,500 –> 00:44:04,600
was no healing?
It implies sickness.

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00:44:05,300 –> 00:44:08,000
How do you describe sickness
about a group of people that are

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00:44:08,000 –> 00:44:11,300
a nation?
Only on the basis of one

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00:44:11,300 –> 00:44:14,300
Fundamental Bible Doctrine.
And that is the Vaught the

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00:44:14,300 –> 00:44:19,000
doctrine of the body.
It views, the nation of Israel

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00:44:19,200 –> 00:44:24,500
Judah as a body and they were
sick and God by sending his

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00:44:24,500 –> 00:44:27,700
profits and doing what he could
and rising up early.

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00:44:27,800 –> 00:44:31,500
And having compassion on them
was really showing the parable

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00:44:31,500 –> 00:44:36,700
of the Good Samaritan for.
He poured wine oil out to them

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00:44:37,100 –> 00:44:39,600
through the words of the
prophets he desired.

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00:44:39,700 –> 00:44:43,500
To effect a remedy.
And after six months, he didn’t

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00:44:43,500 –> 00:44:47,000
come to his fellow profit To His
prophets and tell them to

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00:44:47,000 –> 00:44:50,600
extinguish the nation.
God laboured for hundreds of

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00:44:50,600 –> 00:44:54,800
years with a sick body.
Look at the language of Isaiah,

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00:44:55,600 –> 00:45:01,000
chapter 1.
This is the nation in the days

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00:45:01,000 –> 00:45:05,700
of Hezekiah.
How does it describe the nation?

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00:45:08,600 –> 00:45:11,000
The prophet describes it in
lurid details?

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00:45:13,900 –> 00:45:19,100
Isaiah chapter 1.
Appealing to Israel in verse 2

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00:45:19,100 –> 00:45:24,100
in the language of Deuteronomy.
Hear o heavens and give ear o

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00:45:24,100 –> 00:45:28,900
Earth for the Lord hath spoken.
I have nourished and brought up

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00:45:28,900 –> 00:45:31,900
children, look at how God views
his people.

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00:45:31,900 –> 00:45:33,500
It’s the language of David,
isn’t it?

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00:45:33,500 –> 00:45:35,500
These poor sheep.
What have they done?

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00:45:36,200 –> 00:45:39,500
I have nourished and brought up
children and they have rebelled

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00:45:39,500 –> 00:45:42,300
against me.
God’s position is that of a

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00:45:42,300 –> 00:45:46,000
father?
A parent they are viewed as

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00:45:46,000 –> 00:45:50,700
children.
Then first for all, sinful

629
00:45:50,700 –> 00:45:56,100
Nation, a people Laden with
iniquity a seed of evildoers

630
00:45:56,100 –> 00:45:59,300
children that are corrupters.
They have forsaken, the Lord,

631
00:45:59,400 –> 00:46:01,500
they have provoked.
The Holy One of Israel on to

632
00:46:01,500 –> 00:46:03,900
anger.
They are gone away backward.

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00:46:04,500 –> 00:46:09,000
Now, the language of the body
that sick verse 5, why should

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00:46:09,000 –> 00:46:12,900
you be stricken anymore?
Ye will Revolt more and more.

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00:46:12,900 –> 00:46:17,300
The whole head is sick and the
whole heart is faint.

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00:46:17,900 –> 00:46:20,700
From the sole of the foot.
Even unto the head.

637
00:46:20,700 –> 00:46:24,300
There is no soundness in it.
But wounds and bruises and

638
00:46:24,300 –> 00:46:27,700
putrefying sores.
They have not been closed.

639
00:46:27,700 –> 00:46:30,300
Neither bound up nor mollified
with ointment.

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00:46:30,400 –> 00:46:33,900
By the way, there’s the Old
Testament, Good Samaritan.

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00:46:34,400 –> 00:46:36,600
That’s the language of the Good
Samaritan for which that

642
00:46:36,600 –> 00:46:38,700
Parable.
No doubt is drawn in part.

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00:46:39,400 –> 00:46:43,500
That is the nation.
That is sick from head to foot

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00:46:44,400 –> 00:46:47,000
yet, still in the days of
Hezekiah, God, Sent His

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00:46:47,000 –> 00:46:49,500
prophets.
And it wasn’t until the days of

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00:46:49,500 –> 00:46:53,700
zedekiah in second chronicles 36
which we just read that

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00:46:53,700 –> 00:46:57,700
described the nation as having
really now no remedy for their

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00:46:57,700 –> 00:47:02,300
healing and still many years
were to pass from these days.

649
00:47:02,400 –> 00:47:07,000
Many years were to pass from
these days and even then, when

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00:47:07,000 –> 00:47:10,700
God took them into captivity
with Daniel, there were still

651
00:47:10,700 –> 00:47:16,900
Daniels praying for that Nation.
There is the true Shepherd

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00:47:18,000 –> 00:47:22,500
despite such a morbid condition.
There is the god.

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00:47:22,500 –> 00:47:27,000
Who is patient with the patient?
It is true.

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I believe brothers and sisters
that we as christadelphians are

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often better surgeons than we
are nurses or therapists.

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00:47:36,500 –> 00:47:40,300
It’s true.
There is a greater inclination

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00:47:40,300 –> 00:47:46,100
at times to use the scapula then
to use the ointment and the

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00:47:46,100 –> 00:47:51,200
curing medicine, the one takes
patience, the one takes careful

659
00:47:51,200 –> 00:47:56,700
and prayerful Administration.
The one that of patients with

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00:47:56,700 –> 00:48:01,300
the patient requires a
willingness to accept sometimes

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00:48:01,300 –> 00:48:03,300
and Improvement in the
temperature and health of the

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00:48:03,300 –> 00:48:07,100
body that sick and sometimes the
decline And at times the

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00:48:07,100 –> 00:48:10,600
temperature of that body and
it’s fever will fluctuate up and

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00:48:10,600 –> 00:48:14,600
down, they will be advances and
they will be regressions.

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00:48:15,300 –> 00:48:18,400
They’ll be frustrations and
working with such a sick body as

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00:48:18,400 –> 00:48:21,700
there were no doubt for the
father, for as Isaiah says

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00:48:21,700 –> 00:48:24,300
elsewhere, and all their
afflictions.

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00:48:24,300 –> 00:48:29,600
He was afflicted, he sympathized
and he identified with his

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00:48:29,600 –> 00:48:33,000
people who were his children
talked about them as part of his

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00:48:33,000 –> 00:48:37,900
body. so, often in our own
relationships with one another,

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We are lacking in that kind of
forbearance.

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00:48:43,400 –> 00:48:49,000
We reach for the knife, perhaps
a little more impulsively than

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00:48:49,000 –> 00:48:52,900
we do for the bomb and the oil
and the wine figuratively

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00:48:52,900 –> 00:48:57,600
speaking.
The one does tax Us in requires

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00:48:57,600 –> 00:49:01,100
the attitude of a nurse, the
attitude of a nurse.

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00:49:02,300 –> 00:49:04,700
Look at the Apostle Paul and
dealing with the first century

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for wasn’t long.
After the Inception of the first

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Ecclesia has that certain types
of sickness did creep in, even,

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in the time of the first
century.

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00:49:16,100 –> 00:49:19,900
And how does Paul view himself
in relationship to this body

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with all its many needs.
Well, first of Thessalonians

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00:49:23,900 –> 00:49:32,300
chapter 2, Verse 1.
This is Daniel this is the real

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00:49:32,300 –> 00:49:35,600
meaning in practical application
of what Daniel prays for.

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00:49:39,700 –> 00:49:43,900
This is the patient Sheppard.
First 2 Thessalonians chapter 2.

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00:49:46,800 –> 00:49:51,800
For yourselves Brethren verse 1
know that our entrance in unto

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you that it was not in vain.
Verse 34, our excitation was not

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00:49:57,200 –> 00:50:05,300
of Deceit, nor of uncleanness,
nor in guile. verse 7, but we

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were gentle among you.
Even as a nurse, cherish it her

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00:50:13,300 –> 00:50:21,100
children a nurse.
The Apostle Paul a nurse.

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00:50:21,600 –> 00:50:25,100
Oh, perhaps we view him as a
father, which he was, but a

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00:50:25,107 –> 00:50:30,600
nurse it describes Paul’s
attitude to the Sheep like that

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00:50:30,600 –> 00:50:33,200
of David.
It describes the attitude of

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00:50:33,200 –> 00:50:37,500
Daniel who could not only
identify the sicknesses of the

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body and the problems that were
part of that body to which he

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00:50:40,600 –> 00:50:45,800
belonged, but it speaks for
action in the Ecclesia in the

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00:50:45,808 –> 00:50:48,800
community.
And for the Jewel.

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00:50:48,800 –> 00:50:52,000
That we know of, in our
equation, our family, the family

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00:50:52,000 –> 00:50:56,200
of Christ, it speaks for action.
It’s not a matter of Simply

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00:50:56,200 –> 00:51:00,500
sitting back and the tolerant
way he says, we were gentle as a

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00:51:00,500 –> 00:51:02,700
nurse.
But what does the nurse do

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00:51:03,400 –> 00:51:07,400
honours administers Care on,
nurses patient.

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00:51:07,900 –> 00:51:10,200
And a nurse is working with a
patient.

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00:51:11,500 –> 00:51:14,100
But she works.
She nourishes.

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00:51:14,600 –> 00:51:18,500
She does things positive.
She tries to remedy the problem.

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00:51:18,500 –> 00:51:22,100
She doesn’t ignore it.
She works with it, but she’s

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00:51:22,100 –> 00:51:25,900
patient.
And that disposition is the

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00:51:25,900 –> 00:51:28,500
disposition of the Apostle Paul,
which he needed.

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00:51:28,600 –> 00:51:31,700
So very early on, when these
equations were established,

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00:51:32,800 –> 00:51:38,100
Let’s go back to the Gospels.
This too, is the attitude of

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00:51:38,100 –> 00:51:41,600
Daniel and it’s part and parcel
of the problem.

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00:51:42,300 –> 00:51:47,400
He dealt with Matthew chapter 9.
Now you’ll be surprised to see

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00:51:47,400 –> 00:51:50,800
how closely, how closely this
does touch.

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00:51:50,800 –> 00:51:56,100
On the time of Daniel.
Matthew 9.

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00:52:01,500 –> 00:52:06,700
Verse 11.
And when the Pharisee saw it,

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00:52:06,700 –> 00:52:10,900
they said unto his disciples.
Why doth your master with

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00:52:10,900 –> 00:52:16,600
publicans and sinners.
And when Jesus heard that he

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00:52:16,600 –> 00:52:20,800
said unto them, they that be
whole need not a physician, but

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00:52:20,800 –> 00:52:24,700
they that are sick.
But go ye and learn what that

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00:52:24,700 –> 00:52:26,700
meaneth.
I will have mercy and not

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00:52:26,700 –> 00:52:32,200
sacrifice Prime not come to call
the righteous, but the Sinners

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00:52:32,200 –> 00:52:36,100
to repentance you would think
sometimes by the response of

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00:52:36,100 –> 00:52:41,300
christadelphians to potential
converts that such is not the

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00:52:41,300 –> 00:52:44,200
case that for some potential
converts.

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00:52:44,200 –> 00:52:47,700
There is no hope that for some
potential converts.

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00:52:48,400 –> 00:52:51,200
We are saying, we’re only
calling the righteous today.

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00:52:52,200 –> 00:52:56,100
We’re not In The Sims.
But that’s not what the Lord

727
00:52:56,100 –> 00:53:00,000
calls through the gospel.
He calls the Sinners to

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00:53:00,000 –> 00:53:03,800
repentance, and he describes the
nation implicitly, as needing a

729
00:53:03,808 –> 00:53:08,200
physician he describes the
nation implicitly as being sick,

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00:53:08,200 –> 00:53:12,400
and not whole and he quotes his
point from Hosea.

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00:53:14,400 –> 00:53:20,000
Back to Hosea.
That’s the Old Testament

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00:53:20,000 –> 00:53:22,200
context.
That brings us full circle to

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00:53:22,200 –> 00:53:27,000
Daniel for the condition that
Daniel describes in chapter 9 of

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00:53:27,008 –> 00:53:33,200
his prayer, is the condition
that is spoken of in Hosea.

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00:53:33,900 –> 00:53:38,200
When the prophet just prior
really to Daniel, not too far

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00:53:38,200 –> 00:53:41,400
prior to Daniel speaking.
As he was, of course to the

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00:53:41,500 –> 00:53:45,700
northern nation in part, as well
as Judah spoken warn, the people

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00:53:45,700 –> 00:53:49,600
of these are Some of the words
that’s referred to in Chronicles

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00:53:50,000 –> 00:53:53,000
that God, rose up, prophets
early and frequently and sent

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00:53:53,000 –> 00:53:57,100
them to the nation.
What Daniel praise about as he

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00:53:57,100 –> 00:54:00,200
looks back into the past of the
history of his Nation, goes back

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00:54:00,200 –> 00:54:03,400
to the times of Isaiah.
Now, before we look at the

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00:54:03,400 –> 00:54:08,200
direct quotation in context,
just go to Hosea 5 and Lead

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00:54:08,200 –> 00:54:11,200
towards it.
Look at how this harmonizes with

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00:54:11,200 –> 00:54:15,700
the language of Isaiah 1.
The healing mentioned for which

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00:54:15,700 –> 00:54:19,800
there was no remedy in second
chronicles 36 and the sickness

747
00:54:19,800 –> 00:54:24,600
described in Daniels prayer,
verse 13 of Hosea 5.

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00:54:24,900 –> 00:54:29,300
Whenever IAM saw his sickness
and Judah, saw his wound.

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00:54:29,700 –> 00:54:33,200
Then went, if reham to the
Assyrian and sent to King

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00:54:33,200 –> 00:54:40,900
jeroboam yet, could he not heal
you nor cure you of your wound.

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00:54:41,100 –> 00:54:43,400
It’s the language of Chronicles,
isn’t it for?

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00:54:43,400 –> 00:54:46,500
I will be unto Ephraim as a
lion, and as a Young Lion to the

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00:54:46,500 –> 00:54:50,800
house of Judah, I even, I will
tear and go away.

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00:54:51,000 –> 00:54:53,200
I will take away and None Shall
rescue him.

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00:54:54,000 –> 00:54:58,300
Verse 15, I will go and return
to my place till they

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00:54:58,300 –> 00:55:01,700
acknowledge their offense and
seek my face in their

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00:55:01,700 –> 00:55:06,400
Affliction, will they seek me
early, then comes the call Verse

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00:55:06,500 –> 00:55:11,300
1 of chapter 6.
Come and that is returned unto

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00:55:11,300 –> 00:55:15,400
Yahweh for he hath torn.
Remember what Jesus said

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00:55:15,400 –> 00:55:19,400
including Hosea before he said
it they that are whole need not

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00:55:19,400 –> 00:55:22,800
a physician.
The nation wasn’t whole they

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00:55:22,800 –> 00:55:29,900
were torn and he will heal us.
He had smitten and he will bind

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00:55:29,900 –> 00:55:32,800
us up.
What was the language of his

764
00:55:32,800 –> 00:55:36,100
quotation to Hosea?
I will have mercy and not

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00:55:36,100 –> 00:55:39,300
sacrifice is not what he said
now where did he say that from

766
00:55:40,000 –> 00:55:43,600
will look at down at now at
verse 6 here it is in context.

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00:55:44,000 –> 00:55:46,800
This is what Jesus quotes to the
nation and to the leaders.

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00:55:47,200 –> 00:55:51,900
Verse 64, I desired mercy and
not sacrifice and the knowledge

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00:55:51,900 –> 00:55:53,600
of God, more than burnt
offerings.

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00:55:53,900 –> 00:55:56,900
But they like men have
transgressed the Covenant

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00:55:56,900 –> 00:56:00,900
language of Annual there, have
they dealt treacherously against

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00:56:00,900 –> 00:56:03,500
me?
You see the Lord quotes and

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00:56:03,500 –> 00:56:07,400
context by telling them to go
back and read what it mean?

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00:56:07,400 –> 00:56:10,800
If from Hosea, doesn’t just mean
to go back and read Hosea six

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00:56:10,800 –> 00:56:16,200
and six the context of that
whole passage shows the nation

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00:56:16,400 –> 00:56:23,200
sick, torn, broken, Afflicted
and in need of healing in need

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00:56:23,600 –> 00:56:27,100
of Mercy.
And thus his rebuke to the

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00:56:27,100 –> 00:56:30,500
Pharisees who thought that they
were above all, that an

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00:56:30,508 –> 00:56:33,200
Untouched by it is ever so
pertinent.

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00:56:33,800 –> 00:56:36,400
Finally, let’s go back to Daniel
and close.

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00:56:36,400 –> 00:56:40,400
There we said that we are not
going to analyze.

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00:56:40,400 –> 00:56:44,200
We can’t analyze all of the
themes that run through Daniels

783
00:56:44,200 –> 00:56:48,200
prayer.
But this surely is one of the

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00:56:48,200 –> 00:56:52,100
most pertinent to our community
in these days and to ourselves

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00:56:52,100 –> 00:56:55,600
as disciples.
It’s comforting to see verse 20

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00:56:55,600 –> 00:56:58,100
of Daniel 9 as we close brothers
and sisters.

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00:57:01,300 –> 00:57:05,500
Daniel 9 verse 20.
Whilst I was speaking and

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00:57:05,500 –> 00:57:09,400
praying and confessing my sin
and the sin of My People,

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00:57:09,400 –> 00:57:13,100
Israel, and presenting my
supplication before the Lord, my

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00:57:13,100 –> 00:57:15,400
God for the Holy Mountain of my
God.

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00:57:15,400 –> 00:57:18,200
Yay!
Whilst I was speaking in prayer,

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00:57:19,100 –> 00:57:23,200
even the man Gabriel whom I had
seen in the vision at the

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00:57:23,207 –> 00:57:26,600
beginning being caused to fly
swiftly touched me.

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00:57:27,200 –> 00:57:31,300
But the time of the evening
oblation at the time of the

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00:57:31,300 –> 00:57:35,000
evening sacrifice, when the
burdock, Frame for the evening.

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00:57:35,000 –> 00:57:37,900
That was to go right through the
hours of Darkness was being

797
00:57:38,400 –> 00:57:43,800
prepared, head body, internal,
organs washed and cleansed and

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00:57:43,800 –> 00:57:47,000
place piece by piece in order on
the Altar.

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00:57:47,400 –> 00:57:50,500
And as at the same time,
simultaneously, the incense was

800
00:57:50,500 –> 00:57:54,500
being burnt for the nation as
that was to be done and it

801
00:57:54,508 –> 00:57:57,400
wasn’t being prepared although
of course not in the days of

802
00:57:57,400 –> 00:58:01,100
Daniel.
But at that time Gabriel comes

803
00:58:01,100 –> 00:58:05,600
and responds to Daniel’s prayer
showing The Surety of the answer

804
00:58:05,600 –> 00:58:11,200
of prayer, and for a man who
sin, who confessed rather the

805
00:58:11,200 –> 00:58:16,100
sins of his Nation, who sought
relief for transgression and sin

806
00:58:16,500 –> 00:58:19,500
and confessed such depravity of
his Nation.

807
00:58:19,900 –> 00:58:27,100
Who does God send, which angel
of all of them, He sends Gabriel

808
00:58:28,700 –> 00:58:31,600
why Gabriel what’s Gabriel to
tell him?

809
00:58:32,100 –> 00:58:37,800
Gabriel is to tell him in verse
24 of the 70 weeks prophecy that

810
00:58:37,800 –> 00:58:41,700
would bring Messiah and an
answer to Daniel’s prayer in

811
00:58:41,700 –> 00:58:44,600
verse 24.
What will Messiah do?

812
00:58:44,700 –> 00:58:46,500
He will finish the
transgression.

813
00:58:47,100 –> 00:58:50,500
He will make an end of sins.
He will make reconciliation for

814
00:58:50,500 –> 00:58:53,000
iniquity.
He will bring in Everlasting

815
00:58:53,000 –> 00:58:56,300
righteousness.
Messiah will address the

816
00:58:56,300 –> 00:59:00,100
contents of Daniels prayer.
Daniel Prayed for the

817
00:59:00,100 –> 00:59:04,800
Forgiveness of transgression
iniquity and sin, and Messiah

818
00:59:04,800 –> 00:59:07,600
will answer that, he will be the
atonement.

819
00:59:07,800 –> 00:59:11,700
He will be the answer.
And when Messiah is to be born

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00:59:12,400 –> 00:59:20,500
of all the Angels whom does God
send Gabriel how incredibly

821
00:59:20,900 –> 00:59:24,800
divinely appropriate.
That the one who comes to Joseph

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00:59:24,800 –> 00:59:31,100
and Mary is the one who came to
Daniel and gave him the hope for

823
00:59:31,100 –> 00:59:35,000
the sins of his people.
Here was one in Messiah.

824
00:59:35,000 –> 00:59:38,900
That was the great Shepherd.
The one who truly showed

825
00:59:38,900 –> 00:59:42,600
patience and who was the great
physician that quoted Hosea

826
00:59:42,600 –> 00:59:46,700
chapter 6.
Let us rejoice brothers and

827
00:59:46,700 –> 00:59:51,200
sisters.
In the wisdom and in the

828
00:59:51,200 –> 00:59:55,500
sureness of God’s answer to
Daniel’s prayer and two hours

829
00:59:56,100 –> 00:59:59,300
for we too, must identify with
that Nation as Daniel did.

830
01:00:00,000 –> 01:00:04,200
And in Messiah, who was cut off,
we find the one who is the

831
01:00:04,200 –> 01:00:09,800
prince of us, one who was to be
the prince of the world and in

832
01:00:09,800 –> 01:00:12,900
whom we have received the
atonement