Mark Giordano – Class 5 – Comfort in Paradox – Restoration in the Kingdom

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The title of brother marks
exhortation, is comfort in

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Paradox.
Restoration in the Kingdom,

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please give me your careful
attention.

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we’ve looked at some pretty
heart-rending things this

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weekend, and you would think
that the focus on these

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afflictions is something that Is
reserved for certain times and

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places.
But is it really good for me to

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consider?
We’ve shown the contrast between

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Affliction and comfort?
And, and how Comfort is

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something that in a spiritual
sense, addresses Affliction, but

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through the strength, to take it
to endure through it and through

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the hope of the future.
You may not have realized this,

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if you are relatively new among
christadelphians, that what

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we’ve been speaking about the
entire time is the good news

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concerning the kingdom of God,
and the name of Jesus Christ.

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And it’s good news, because it
promises to rectify every issue.

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Every problem, every need that
men have in this world.

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Take everything that’s all
messed up in this world and

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straighten it out and make the
world.

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A place that is restored to its
original state.

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It was like a garden everywhere,
when the spirit of God, moved

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across the face of the deep.
And there was the presence of

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the Lord, as if he is with us.
That’s the idea of the kingdom

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of God.
You should ask yourself if this

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makes sense to me.
Do I have a place in that future

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but I like to help the Lord when
he becomes king, go to all

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places of the world and feed the
hungry, a way to deal with that

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question, for yourself, would be
wood.

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If I had the opportunity in the
power and the means the

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resources to do that now, and I
knew that there were millions of

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people starving in a foreign
country, or that there was there

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were girls, that could be
rescued from a horrible.

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Kidnapping, other there were
children who afraid to go to

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school.
If I had the power to help what

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I do that.
Look at the answer to that.

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Question is.
Yes, then all the more.

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So would you be able to affirm
the idea that God has offered

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you the power to do that in the
future?

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So when you are new among us, or
if you have not really seriously

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considered your place, in all
the things that we’ve been

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speaking about, you would give
serious consideration to the,

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the reality of having the
opportunity to do this in the

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kingdom of God.
And that would be sometime, not

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in the nebulous regions of
distant future.

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But in the very near future so
much prophetic evidence that the

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Lord is about, Return that this
promise that was embodied in the

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question that disciples asked
Jesus after he came back from

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the dead, they said there with
them for 40 days and they said

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will you at this time restore
the kingdom to Israel?

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And while he said, well, it’s
not for you to know the times

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and the seasons but God has
fixed everything in his purpose

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and then he was just taken away.
And they saw him go and they

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were standing there and they
said staring into the heavens.

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And there were two angels that
came there and they said Add

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this same Jesus.
Why are you standing staring

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into the clouds the same Jesus
that was taken up from you into

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heaven?
Shall so come in like manner.

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In other words, he left as a
physical personal being he will

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return as such not as a spirit
but his King.

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It’s a fitting King, somebody
who’s not all bound up in the

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ridiculous politics of this
world today, but somebody who is

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suited to the task of taking
this world and straightening out

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every problem that exists in
such way that it will bring

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peace on Earth and Goodwill
toward men and that’s the hope

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of restoration in the Kingdom.
Then again, after thinking,

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well, that’s all good news.
And I agree with you that is

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really good news, but I’ve
looked at religion.

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Kind of scene.
The pros and cons.

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I’ve seen more evil done in the
name of religion and any other

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thing in this world, even people
offering their children as burnt

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offerings in the name of some
religion.

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It seems like there have been
Wars throughout history that

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were fought for religious causes
And then on a more intimate

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level, I don’t know, a God, who
answers prayer necessarily I’ve

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made some prayers and it didn’t
seem to me that they came out

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the way.
I thought they would, those are

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very real questions.
They all have answers today.

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What we’re going to do is focus
on some of the paradoxes that

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come up in Affliction, where
everything you would normally

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think about prayer and about
God’s protection, and guidance

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is love and his Justice doesn’t
turn out to be the way it seems.

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It should be very easy for
example like job that when you

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get blindsided with an extreme
set of trials.

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In his case they were over the
top that you you call God’s

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justice and to question and you
you look at yourself and say why

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does this happen to me?
Why did this happen to those

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school children?
Why did it?

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Happen to these young girls that
were kidnapped.

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Why did it happen to that
Nation?

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Why is that Nation full of
rubble?

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When the people used to have
restaurants and houses and

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apartments and enjoy the
goodness, at least of their own

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natural lives in their land.
When all these things are looked

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at a lot of questions come up
than involved the paradoxes of

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Faith.
So we’re going to take a look at

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those paradoxes of the
afflictions that we go through

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personally.
And that may be a Part of the

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questions you have about God, is
he real?

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Is he really loving, is his
justice of a true thing?

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Or is it full of contradiction
that?

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I can see.
And then I don’t understand.

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Those are all the questions that
are at the root of Faith.

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They form the foundation of
faith when they are resolved.

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So we are here now to consider
the answers.

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As we look at this big picture
of restoration in the Kingdom,

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did you know, That in the Bible.
The word Affliction is also

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translated narrow.
And I mean everything, we’ve

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said about Affliction, would you
think that the same word that

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comes out in the English
language, as Affliction would

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come out in the English
language?

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As narrow?
What on Earth does narrow have

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to do with the kinds of things
that we’ve been thinking about?

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What you remember, Jesus, used
that particular word to describe

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what?
It’s like to have faith to

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follow him to say, you know, I
believe this and so I’m See if I

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can enter through the door that
he said, is now open to me and

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walk down a path that he said,
is the way to truth life.

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So he said in that context,
enter in at the strait gate.

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Wide is the gate and Broad is
the way that leads to

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destruction and many there be
which go in thereat, but the

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strait is the gate and narrow.
There’s that word, narrow is the

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way which leads unto life and
few there, be that find it.

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So would you have thought that
Jesus was saying that straight

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is the gate and Afflicted is the
way.

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The language way, the language
comes through in the English

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doesn’t really convey.
What Jesus is saying, it falls

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short of being clear, and that’s
not to say that Jesus was not

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very clear in everything.
He said, his words were perfect,

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they were perfectly Chosen.
And I think in many times when

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you have a case like this, where
you don’t really quite get the

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sense of what he’s saying, from
the English rendition of it, it

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still works on all levels.
So people think they get the

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idea that Live a life that
follows after Christ is going to

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be, you’re going to have to be
straight.

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That would be the simple
interpretation of this, the

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straight language that were
using here and that the gate is

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straight.
In other words, straight, and

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narrow means it’s on course in a
simplistic interpretation of

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this line, but let’s take a look
at what Jesus really is saying.

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If he’s saying narrow is the way
there’s two words here, straight

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and narrow, the gate is straight
and narrow is the way.

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What’s the game, as we said
before the gatekeeper, and the

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gate is the Ingress.
And egress into the house of

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God.
He said, he’s got a big house

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and it’s a lot of venues all
over the world.

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And Jesus said in my father’s,
There’s house are many, venues

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its worldwide now that it’s been
taken out of Israel and offered

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to the Gentiles.
For 2000 years have been

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spreading all across the world.
It’s a big house because it’s a

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spiritual house or Temple, and
it has a lot of rooms in it or a

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lot of venues places where
people assembled to think about

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God just like today.
This is one of the runes in that

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house, the gate is the entrance
to that house and that would

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mean that when you come to the
door of God’s, House, a

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spiritual Temple and you think
about maybe going inside and

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staying inside, living inside
that house in one of those

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rooms, then what he’s saying is
there’s a certain characteristic

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to entering that gate.
And in this case, the word

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straight means it has obstacles
it almost, you wouldn’t get

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obstacles out of the word
straight anymore than you get

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Affliction of the word narrow,
but he’s saying it’s going to,

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there’s going to be an obstacle
to your entering that house.

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So, if you’ve stood on one side
and then come through, you know,

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that there are all sorts and
you’ve watched other people

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stand on one side of that gate
and then come through that gate

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into God’s house.
You know.

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There are obstacles in the way
the things you thinking, well,

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you know, maybe not right now.
I do not sure I want to walk in

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there and sit in there for the
rest of my life.

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Because on the outside of this
house, there are certain things

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and conditions that are working
on me.

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And on the inside of the house
that the other things in

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conditions, we’re going to kind
of like make maybe make

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restrictions, put me in an
uncomfortable position but

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nevertheless What, what you can
readily see in the reality of

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what he’s saying is, yeah,
there’s obstacles in the way of

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going through that gate.
And then the part that we don’t

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want to think about, we, it’s
hard to admit, but is as true as

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tomorrow.
And that is that the the way

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that you follow once beyond that
gate is full of Affliction.

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That’s the part that we’re
supposed to understand what he’s

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trying to get across to us.
So he says, beloved do not think

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it strange?
This is elsewhere coming from

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the inspired word of the Lord,
don’t think it’s strange.

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If there’s obstacles and
afflictions which in this

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context, he refers to as fiery
trials, don’t think that’s

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strange.
As if people who just live

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normal lives out in the world,
don’t have fiery trials, they

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do.
The difference is they don’t

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have any hope you come through
that gate and enter that way.

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The fiery trials are in the
context of a hope that anchors

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you in every respect for
anything that can come up and he

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is the God of All Comfort.
So he says, don’t think

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something strange has happened
to you but Rejoice to the extent

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that you are partaking of,
Christ’s sufferings that when

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his glory is revealed, you may
also be glad with exceeding joy

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in the point.
There is entering, discipleship,

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has obstacles.
Where’s Jesus?

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Put it to one, man.
It’s going to cost you.

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And he said elsewhere, but you
should count the cost.

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And once you’ve counted the
cost, you make the investment.

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And once you’ve made the
investment, you have to

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understand, you have everything
in the world, the game.

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Because if Jesus was promised,
the sense of the world as his

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inheritance and you are heirs
with him, according to the

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promises to Abraham, then that
promise conveys to you and you

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are an heir to the extensive the
world.

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In other words, you will take
part ownership in the entire

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planet Earth and if you hate the
way things are now and you love

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the theater, Off the idea of
this World Redemption, you would

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not be able to resist.
The offer of participating in

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that inheritance.
That is yours for the taking in

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faith.
But entering has obstacles.

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And the way is strewn with
afflictions, this was the path

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that Jesus followed two to sort
of lead the way.

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And he said, I am the way, the
truth and the life.

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He led the way and he proved to
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afflictions when you make when
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he did all kinds of things
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of that Affliction that are
worthwhile that provide hope

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that that flesh out this vision
of the future, that provide the

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details necessary to understand.
This is true, the truth, the

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whole truth and Nothing.
But the truth from the mouth of

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the Creator and sustainer of the
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So would be walking in his
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We’re going to experience the
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Let’s look at some discouraging
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And I got these mainly from, I
asked, Amy, what was it about

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your faith?
That didn’t work when Dominic

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died when everything fell apart
for you and you said, when

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everything you thought about the
way God was working with us,

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didn’t really turn out to be to
be what actually happened when

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you needed him the most.
It didn’t really seem like he

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was there when you thought he
was protecting your son, he let

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him die.
What were those paradoxes?

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What were the verses that seem
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this horrible tragedy?
And so, she told me, well, I had

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problem with this, I promise
this.

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I always thought this about this
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this once Dominic died.
I had prayed for his protection

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and God didn’t protect him.
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her to believe that she had a
certain kind of relationship.

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God, that would transfer to the
the watchful eye and protection

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of the Lord over her son.
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So that happens that can make
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Do I really want to go through
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Do I want to walk along that way
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Is that me or can I just go?
And I have my naked party out of

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my life and travel a lot, and
the world is my oyster and we’ll

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have some good meals would do
some good things will have some

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fun, I’ll make a little bit of a
difference in somebody’s life

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and then there you are, that’s
your life.

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And at the end of it, whatever
good you did fades in evaporates

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into the past.
When the memory of you phase

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after your demise So these were
some of these spiritual

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paradoxes that came up in that
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Comfort was first used in
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yet.
The problem with that whole

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story is God destroyed.
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earth and its only saved a
people’s where is there any

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comfort in that?
That’s a paradox.

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These are scriptural.
Paradoxes.

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Esau was comforted by thoughts
of Vengeance when he thought you

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were going to kill my brother.
He cheated me out of my hair.

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It has a kill the guy Jacob
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He had, he had to take off out
of there and Yet it says he was

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comforted by his Vengeance.
Does that sound like something

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that’s?
Good to you?

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There’s a paradox.
They’re going to take a look at

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that Comfort.
Seems little bit more elusive

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when you need it.
The most when aiming needed

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Comfort the most, there was no
Comfort to be found and this is

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common in the most severe of
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I mean, everybody works with
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Similarly, in some cases, in
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depending on how you’re wired
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things are, but it seems to be
not there. when you need it, the

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most If you live anytime in the
truth, if you follow after this

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way, you enter that gate and
you’re going to see that.

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This is one of the most
perplexing Parts about life in

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the truth.
Especially if you go way down,

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you’re going to be looking for
deliverance, from God.

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And just doesn’t seem to be
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When you need comfort just done
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another Paradox.
Another one is, we’re promise,

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whatever we ask in prayer and
then the answers, turn out to be

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different.
So, how do you make sense out of

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that Paradox?
Amy had prayed while Dominic was

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in college for her son for God
to protect her son, while he was

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away from home and he dies in an
accident down there in 15

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minutes.
Was that mean?

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We’re promised whatever we ask
in prayer, what happened?

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It doesn’t seem to be true to
the Bible lie to me.

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You know, Amy could not figure
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If she prayed for his protection
God, let him die when he

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promised the answer to her
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So that’s a paradox that needs
to be resolved, it doesn’t it?

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And then there was this promise
that there’s an angel of the

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Lord that camps around you and
will deliver you.

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And yet you have one fiery trial
after another, there are Peaks

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and valleys in life.
The Peaks are pretty nice but

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the valleys are awful and you
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So where’s the encamping angel?
If where was that angel?

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When I was in the pits of
despair, Let’s take a look at

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these and see if we can make a
simple.

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Resolution, to what we’re
thinking about, take these

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paradoxes, put them in context
of scripture and resolve them in

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context in context, not only of
their immediate context in

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scripture, but in the context of
everything we’ve been talking

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about using hope for strength.
Instead of core Deliverance, how

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can it be said that Noah was a
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I mean, this was from his birth.
The idea about Noah and his name

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was, he was going to be a
comfortable.

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And then everybody in the world
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He saves animals instead of men
and they’re only eight people

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saved.
This is where the idea of

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comfort and the name of Noah
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In Genesis 529 Noah’s name means
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He was named rest specifically,
because way Max said his dad,

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this one will Comfort us, a sort
of a prophetic side to this

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concerning.
Our work in the toil of our

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hands because the of the ground,
which the Lord has cursed, just

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two things going on this way.
Max seem to understand that

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there would be a prophetic
comfort that would come from

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Noah.
God, had cursed the ground.

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So there’s a relationship
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and the comfort that Noah would
provide and what is that

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Comfort?
Well, it turns out on everybody

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knows how the story ends that.
Once they had the ark came to

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rest, God came to Noah and he
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When I bring a cloud over the
earth and the rain bow shall be

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seen in the cloud and I will
remember the Covenant, which is

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between me and you and every
living Living creature of the

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earth and the waters shall
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Again, Destroy All Flesh.
The rainbow shall be in the

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cloud and I, and I will look on
it to remember the Everlasting

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coffin, Covenant, when the
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So this is was the beginning of
God’s promise to save everybody,

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instead of destroy everybody.
And again, it was in the context

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of This Global Affliction of the
destruction of the flood.

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So that’s how it’s Noah became a
comfort.

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It was to know that God began to
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salvation of the earth and its
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So then there’s the Paradox of
Vengeance being there in Esau in

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the form of comfort.
How is there any comfort in

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vengeance?
This is where this comes up and

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the words of Esau her older son
back as older, son were told to

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Rebecca.
So somebody came and they said,

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that’s what he saw said.
So she sent and called Jacob or

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younger said and said to him,
surely your brother.

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He saw Comforts himself
concerning you by intending to

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kill you while there was nothing
righteous about that.

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That was just all about jealousy
and the absence of faith and

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Esau and the trickery of the
deception and the goat skin on

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his arm.
And he saw selling his His

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inheritance is birthright, which
was embodied in the promises of

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God for a bowl of soup and, you
know, all that there’s no

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righteousness in Esau’s
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So, how do you, how do you take
this Paradox that she would use

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the word comfort in connection
with his Vengeance and make it

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and turn it into a scriptural
principle?

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I would you do that?
Well, here’s how you do it.

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Look at how in righteousness
Justice actually provides

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Comfort.
Because what Esau was looking

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for with Justice, however,
perverse in his ark?

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It’s still Justice.
When he said, when Jesus says

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this G, this is speaking of
Jesus in Isaiah and he quoted

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this of himself, the spirit of
the Lord, God is upon me because

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the Lord has anointed me to
preach Good Tidings unto the

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meek.
So there’s good news, that’s

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what we’ve been talking about.
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to people who are Meek enough to
listen to it and understand in

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the honesty of their hearts that
this is for them.

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He has sent me to bind up the
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So, there’s the answer to all
the suffering in the world, why

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he is the God of All Comfort,
because Jesus has been sent to

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bind up the Brokenhearted, And
to proclaim the acceptable year

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of the Lord.
And look, what makes that year

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acceptable.
What he says next and the day of

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Vengeance of our God.
He doesn’t doesn’t stop there.

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There’s the acceptable year of
our Lord and he made a reference

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to himself with that.
I’d side of the verse in

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Nazareth and then they thought
of throw him over the cliff for

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saying that and then he comes
along and he stopped and Isaiah,

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the completion of that thought
is the day of Vengeance of our

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God to comfort all who mourn.
In other words, there’s going to

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be a day of recompense.
There’s going to be a Day of

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Reckoning of where the justice
of God comes into this world,

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through the judgments of Jesus
and takes care of all the

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oppressors, and all those people
have caused the trouble in this

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world and wipes them out.
And that, that will be the

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remedy of this world, and it
will Comfort this world in the

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same way that people who watch.
An execution of some horrible

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person that took the innocent
member of their family out of

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their lives when they sit in
that execution there.

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Some kind of justice that they
get from realizing that justice

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has been found and met with this
person and they are comforted by

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it’s an execution that Comforts
them because they know this

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person will never harm anyone
else.

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Again, the same thing will be
true of the oppressors of this

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world.
The people who make the wars,

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the people who caused all the
Horrible things to happen in the

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viciousness of their violence,
in the noise of their violence,

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it will be a great comfort.
All the people have suffered at

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the hands of these, evil men to
know that they have been dealt

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with.
By God, that Justice will have

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been served in that time, that’s
the resolution of Vengeance and

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comfort.
But what happens when Comfort is

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needed?
And it’s the last thing that is

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found you just, it’s just
doesn’t seem to be there where

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even hope doesn’t address the
sorrow.

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That is so deep.
In the Affliction, when sorrow

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overwhelms comfort.
God understands.

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But when you feel this way, his
understanding doesn’t even help.

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Knowing that he understands
doesn’t help.

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I mean, it should help it kind
of applies to the intellect and

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later on maybe it helps but not
me media.

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Since this comes through, in the
words of Jeremiah, when he said,

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when I would comfort myself
against sorrow, my heart is

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faint within me.
It also comes through in the

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Psalms where, David says, I cry
aloud to God and he, he will

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hear me.
So, David knew that God heard

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his prayer, but if he hears the
prayer, where’s the comfort is

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this?
The idea here?

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Because he says I sought the
Lord in my day of trouble and I

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refuse to be comforted.
Sometimes Comfort is only found

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in hope when there is nothing
left to bring Comfort into your

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heart.
When your heart is broken.

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Hope is the only thing that can
enter in as comfort.

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And the issue the issue that
people have with hope is it

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doesn’t take the misery away but
what hope does do as we’ve said,

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repeatedly in this whole series,
is it offers strength to endure

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through the Affliction and that
then converts into a comfort?

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That’s not the same kind of
comfort as natural comfort.

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00:25:51,900 –> 00:25:54,900
And then there’s if God is
silent, Jesus said, ask and you

436
00:25:54,900 –> 00:25:59,500
will receive seems like a
promise that applies to all

437
00:25:59,500 –> 00:26:03,200
prayer but the answer turns out
to be something entirely

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00:26:03,200 –> 00:26:06,200
different, you pray for
protection and all you get is a

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00:26:06,200 –> 00:26:10,300
fatal accident.
So the principle is this, that

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God hears prayer.
I’ma show you why I say this,

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but he’s not the servant of your
prayer.

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God is a mighty God.
He stands as a Supreme Being of

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this universe and he doesn’t,
he’s not there to serve our

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prayers.
That is not his purpose.

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00:26:29,100 –> 00:26:32,100
It’s not the purpose of prayer.
He’s not the servant about

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00:26:32,100 –> 00:26:37,000
prayers, even Jesus.
The son of God, this guileless

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00:26:37,000 –> 00:26:42,100
soul is perfect man.
Receive different answers from

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00:26:42,100 –> 00:26:44,900
his prayers.
This is the account of that.

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00:26:46,100 –> 00:26:48,900
And he went a little further and
fell on his face and prayed.

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00:26:50,300 –> 00:26:53,700
Saying, O my father.
If it is possible, let this cup

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00:26:53,700 –> 00:26:58,000
pass from me.
Nevertheless not as I will but

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00:26:58,000 –> 00:27:01,000
as thou Wilt and he went on to
his crucifixion.

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00:27:01,000 –> 00:27:04,200
He went on to the horrible
torture of being nailed to a

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cross first being beaten to a
pulp, all the energy drained

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from him carrying across across
across town.

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Falling under his weight.
Having Cyrene Simon of Cyrene

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00:27:15,600 –> 00:27:19,300
pick it up for him, taken to the
place where he laid himself down

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upon that cross.
They went drove nails through

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his hands and through his feet
and you understood what he was

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Doing he prayed that it wouldn’t
happen but now the very thing,

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00:27:29,700 –> 00:27:32,100
he prayed against his happening
to him.

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00:27:33,000 –> 00:27:37,100
Does does this not show that God
is not the servant of prayer?

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00:27:37,100 –> 00:27:42,400
God serves his purpose and his
purpose, involves all the things

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that we may not understand that.
We understand in the first place

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that we may not understand in
our relationship with God.

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00:27:50,500 –> 00:27:52,100
In other words, our prayers
don’t control.

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00:27:52,100 –> 00:27:56,800
God God controls our prayers and
their answers.

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00:27:56,900 –> 00:28:01,100
He’s in total control as he was
with the Lord Jesus Christ.

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And then there’s a question of
the Angel of the Lord this

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camping around us and should be
delivering us.

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That’s the idea we asked to be
delivered from Evil, even in the

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00:28:12,300 –> 00:28:14,700
Lord’s Prayer.
Jesus said, pray like this lead

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me not into temptation and
Deliver Us from Evil, right?

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00:28:18,900 –> 00:28:22,300
So we think that That for a
correlates to the promise that

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the angel of the Lord encamps
around them that fear him.

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So that’s the Paradox is what
happens when that didn’t appear

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00:28:28,200 –> 00:28:31,300
to be the case.
Well, let’s look at this a

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00:28:31,300 –> 00:28:34,000
little bit more closely.
There’s the verse the angel of

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the Lord encamps around all who
fear Him and delivers them.

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That seems to be straightforward
enough.

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Does the bible mean what it says
or is God, you know, kind of

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00:28:41,708 –> 00:28:44,600
like playing with us with words,
then really keep his world.

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00:28:45,500 –> 00:28:47,400
Well, if it depends on the
meaning of the word,

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00:28:47,400 –> 00:28:49,400
Deliverance, the answer to this
Paradox.

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00:28:50,100 –> 00:28:52,800
If we think delivers means it
prevents it from happening,

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00:28:52,800 –> 00:28:55,700
that’s one outcome.
But if Deliverance actually

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00:28:55,700 –> 00:29:00,600
means to arm us to fortify us
our hearts when they are broken

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00:29:00,600 –> 00:29:04,800
to equip us with what is
necessary to withstand the

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00:29:04,800 –> 00:29:08,500
weight of this burden to
strengthen Us in the He’s of a

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00:29:08,500 –> 00:29:14,500
horrible weakness and to prepare
us even in advance, and for the

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00:29:14,500 –> 00:29:20,000
outcome of a tragedy, then, the
Deliverance that is offered by

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the angel of the Lord is
different.

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00:29:21,800 –> 00:29:24,100
Let’s see if we can find an
example of this.

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00:29:25,000 –> 00:29:29,100
How Angels, provide Deliverance
best place to look is in the

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Life of Christ.
Here’s a promise that was made

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00:29:32,900 –> 00:29:35,200
Eames.
Even seems to be more clear than

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00:29:35,200 –> 00:29:37,400
the one we were just looking at
about.

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00:29:37,500 –> 00:29:41,500
General Angelic protection.
This is what was said of Christ

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00:29:41,500 –> 00:29:43,000
and it came up in the
wilderness.

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00:29:43,300 –> 00:29:45,900
A thousand may fall at your side
and ten thousand at your right

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00:29:45,900 –> 00:29:47,900
hand, but it shall not come near
you really.

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00:29:47,900 –> 00:29:49,800
Is that what happened?
The crucifixion is that the,

503
00:29:49,800 –> 00:29:51,800
what was that?
His exchange with the Pharisees?

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00:29:52,700 –> 00:29:55,200
No evil shall befall you.
Would you say that of reading

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00:29:55,200 –> 00:29:57,500
the account of Jesus?
Was it not even with did the

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00:29:57,500 –> 00:29:59,100
gospel not break?
His heart?

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00:29:59,300 –> 00:30:01,000
Did he not die of a broken
heart?

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00:30:01,100 –> 00:30:03,100
How could he say that?
No evil would befall him.

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00:30:03,100 –> 00:30:05,700
Jesus knew this was true.
How do you make it true?

510
00:30:05,700 –> 00:30:07,400
How do you resolve the ferret?
The paradox.

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00:30:08,500 –> 00:30:10,200
Nor shall any plague come near
you.

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00:30:10,200 –> 00:30:12,100
Your dwelling.
For he shall give his angels

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00:30:12,100 –> 00:30:15,900
charge over you to keep you in.
All your ways in their hands.

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00:30:15,900 –> 00:30:19,500
They shall bear you up.
Lest you dash your foot against

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00:30:19,500 –> 00:30:21,200
a stone when he was Into the
Wilderness.

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00:30:21,600 –> 00:30:25,700
This very verse came up as a
Temptation because it didn’t

517
00:30:25,700 –> 00:30:28,600
seem to be occurring quite like
this.

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00:30:28,800 –> 00:30:32,000
This sounds like full protection
and yet, where’s the full

519
00:30:32,000 –> 00:30:34,000
protection?
If you have nothing but

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00:30:34,000 –> 00:30:37,300
accusation false accusation men
who are seeking to destroy you

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00:30:37,300 –> 00:30:41,400
people that First and you, and
in the end, your persecution and

522
00:30:41,500 –> 00:30:43,700
crucifixion, you die like a
common criminal.

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00:30:44,400 –> 00:30:48,900
So he knew that, and this was a
looming, temptation to Jesus.

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00:30:49,300 –> 00:30:52,000
So, how where is the Angel of
the Lord and all this, that

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00:30:52,000 –> 00:30:54,400
would encamp around him and
deliver him?

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00:30:54,800 –> 00:31:00,400
How was Jesus delivered?
Well, He was visited by Angels,

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00:31:00,500 –> 00:31:02,800
both in the wilderness and in
the garden.

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00:31:02,800 –> 00:31:07,100
This is how they delivered him
in the wilderness and the devil

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00:31:07,100 –> 00:31:09,100
left.
Him Temptations were gone.

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00:31:10,100 –> 00:31:14,400
And immediately Angels Came.
And began to serve him.

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00:31:15,600 –> 00:31:19,900
They made food for him.
I think they hugged him, they

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00:31:19,900 –> 00:31:22,400
sat down, they said, sit down.
Let’s talk about all this.

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00:31:22,400 –> 00:31:27,600
Now they served him, they helped
him understand the meaning of

534
00:31:27,600 –> 00:31:29,700
his Temptations.
They took them a little bit

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00:31:29,700 –> 00:31:34,900
further, and as a result of that
intercourse, I think his

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00:31:34,900 –> 00:31:38,100
Temptations departed from them,
they didn’t come back until the

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00:31:38,100 –> 00:31:41,200
garden and in the garden he’s
got the worst temptation of all,

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00:31:41,300 –> 00:31:43,800
he doesn’t want this to happen.
He knows exactly what’s going to

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00:31:43,800 –> 00:31:45,200
happen.
He had read Psalm, 22, and

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00:31:45,200 –> 00:31:48,500
Isaiah 53.
He knew that he was going to be

541
00:31:48,500 –> 00:31:52,500
reduced to the basest of
conditions in the hatred of

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00:31:52,500 –> 00:31:55,200
evil.
Men Bulls of Bashan, dogs

543
00:31:55,200 –> 00:32:00,100
surrounding him spitting at him,
cursing and mocking him killing

544
00:32:00,400 –> 00:32:02,900
and glad to do it.
Happy to destroy this.

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00:32:02,900 –> 00:32:10,800
Innocent love. young man, but
they were there, these angels of

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00:32:10,800 –> 00:32:15,600
the Lord and they delivered
saying father, if thou be

547
00:32:15,600 –> 00:32:21,800
willing remove this cup from me,
Nevertheless not my will but

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00:32:21,800 –> 00:32:24,500
thine be done.
There appeared, an angel unto

549
00:32:24,500 –> 00:32:27,200
him from Heaven.
Strengthening him angel came

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00:32:27,200 –> 00:32:30,200
down, probably put his arm
around, may have been the same

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00:32:30,200 –> 00:32:31,700
one.
He would have recognized him for

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00:32:31,700 –> 00:32:35,200
that time in the desert.
And he said something to him

553
00:32:35,200 –> 00:32:39,500
that strengthened him, maybe
just sat with him and maybe he

554
00:32:39,500 –> 00:32:42,800
took his hand in his.
Maybe he hugged him.

555
00:32:44,300 –> 00:32:47,500
We said it’s almost done but
think of what you will do, if

556
00:32:47,500 –> 00:32:50,800
you if you go through with this
think of it, you know the

557
00:32:50,800 –> 00:32:53,300
prophecies.
You know what, God’s purpose is

558
00:32:53,300 –> 00:32:56,400
in this.
Let’s have the strength to go

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00:32:56,400 –> 00:32:59,700
through there.
He was comforted because the

560
00:32:59,700 –> 00:33:03,100
angel of the Lord was in camping
right around him and deliver

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00:33:03,100 –> 00:33:05,700
him, but he didn’t take the
crucifixion away.

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00:33:06,000 –> 00:33:09,900
That’s the big point for you.
And your Affliction, he will be,

563
00:33:09,900 –> 00:33:11,900
comforted, the angel of the Lord
will be there.

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00:33:12,600 –> 00:33:15,600
So who is this Angel?
We would say, well, that’s fine

565
00:33:15,600 –> 00:33:18,100
for Jesus.
We know an angel visit him, he’s

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00:33:18,100 –> 00:33:21,200
the son of God, there’s these
and Angelic visitations their

567
00:33:21,200 –> 00:33:25,000
literal but don’t recall ever
seeing an angel of the Lord come

568
00:33:25,000 –> 00:33:28,700
and visit me when I need ya to
hear, have a conversation with

569
00:33:29,100 –> 00:33:31,800
an Angel.
It doesn’t happen that way, with

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00:33:31,800 –> 00:33:34,800
us knows.
It doesn’t happen with us.

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00:33:36,400 –> 00:33:39,900
Well, the several things we can
think about to resolve this

572
00:33:39,900 –> 00:33:41,600
particular Paradise.
I think this is the biggest

573
00:33:41,600 –> 00:33:45,200
Paradox of all Is that high
priest?

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00:33:45,500 –> 00:33:48,800
There’s an angel in heaven.
Who said, I will be with.

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00:33:48,800 –> 00:33:51,800
You always, I’ll be with you
right to the end.

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00:33:52,600 –> 00:33:55,500
I’ll be near to you.
I’ll be so near that.

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00:33:55,500 –> 00:33:59,300
When you say a prayer, I will be
the intermediary between you and

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00:33:59,300 –> 00:34:01,600
God, and your prayers will
always be her.

579
00:34:02,100 –> 00:34:04,600
I know how you feel.
I was touched with the feeling

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00:34:04,600 –> 00:34:08,100
of your infirmities.
I’m there for you.

581
00:34:09,699 –> 00:34:12,400
Surely, they are my people.
Isaiah says speaking.

582
00:34:14,400 –> 00:34:17,300
On the surface about Israel and
the angel that led them through

583
00:34:17,300 –> 00:34:19,400
the Wilderness.
But prophetically because of its

584
00:34:19,400 –> 00:34:23,800
context and Isaiah 63 of Jesus
and his high priesthood.

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00:34:24,400 –> 00:34:28,400
They are my people children who
will not lie in all their

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00:34:28,400 –> 00:34:30,900
Affliction, he was afflicted in
the angel of his presence.

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00:34:30,900 –> 00:34:33,400
Save them.
So let’s translate this into a

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00:34:33,400 –> 00:34:38,400
prophecy.
Who are his people, this high

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00:34:38,400 –> 00:34:41,300
priest, this would people like
you and me who loved him for

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00:34:41,300 –> 00:34:43,199
what?
He know he did for us who

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00:34:43,199 –> 00:34:45,400
dedicate Our Lives to make a
public confession.

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00:34:45,400 –> 00:34:48,500
We get baptized show everybody.
We this is the turning point of

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00:34:48,500 –> 00:34:50,400
our lives were turning it over
to Jesus.

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00:34:51,500 –> 00:34:54,600
Those are his people, these are
children who will not lie and

595
00:34:54,600 –> 00:34:56,800
they won’t lie because they love
the truth.

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00:34:57,100 –> 00:34:59,000
If it’s true, they’re all for
it.

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00:34:59,000 –> 00:35:06,100
If it’s aligning won’t have it.
The children are and the way is

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00:35:06,200 –> 00:35:11,300
is strewn with with obstacles
with afflictions in all their

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00:35:11,300 –> 00:35:17,000
affliction.
He was afflicted, high priest.

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00:35:18,500 –> 00:35:20,600
And the angel of his presence
saved them.

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00:35:20,700 –> 00:35:23,200
Who’s the angel of his presence
for us?

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00:35:23,200 –> 00:35:27,300
Now, if it’s not the comforter,
it’s a high priest in heaven.

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00:35:27,300 –> 00:35:30,100
Who is there?
Immediately there to provide

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00:35:30,100 –> 00:35:33,100
what is needed in the form of
strength as an angel that in

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00:35:33,100 –> 00:35:38,500
camps around us and delivers us
with hope in his love and in his

606
00:35:38,500 –> 00:35:40,700
pity?
He redeemed them.

607
00:35:41,000 –> 00:35:43,800
Speaking of things that haven’t
happened yet as though they were

608
00:35:44,300 –> 00:35:47,900
this is you and me in his love
and in his pity.

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00:35:48,600 –> 00:35:53,600
He redeemed them and he bore
them and he carried them all the

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00:35:53,600 –> 00:35:56,700
days of old and he delivered
them into the kingdom.

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00:35:57,200 –> 00:36:01,700
Just like a child is born from
the womb, we have the hope of

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00:36:01,700 –> 00:36:05,100
being born in the spirit of God
into the kingdom.

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00:36:06,500 –> 00:36:08,700
There’s another aspect, Angelic,
encampment.

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00:36:08,700 –> 00:36:11,600
And that is you may not have
realized this, but you might be

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00:36:11,600 –> 00:36:15,100
someone’s Angel.
You could be an elder in

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00:36:15,100 –> 00:36:18,200
Ecclesia, you could be appear,
you could be a young person.

617
00:36:18,900 –> 00:36:21,700
You could find somebody whose
heart is totally broken.

618
00:36:22,200 –> 00:36:24,500
You could find somebody who
really needs God but they don’t

619
00:36:24,500 –> 00:36:27,000
know how to find him.
They didn’t know, they know much

620
00:36:27,000 –> 00:36:29,800
about the Bible and you are
their messenger.

621
00:36:30,600 –> 00:36:34,000
But in Revelation it is very
clear that the Elders of the

622
00:36:34,008 –> 00:36:37,600
churches were referred to as
Angels, because they were

623
00:36:37,600 –> 00:36:42,600
Messengers who were carrying the
message of God to the fold.

624
00:36:42,600 –> 00:36:48,700
Jesus fold in his household.
Their messengers of Hope and

625
00:36:48,700 –> 00:36:50,200
strength.
And that’s what makes them

626
00:36:50,200 –> 00:36:54,100
Angels think about it.
I know what happened with Amy

627
00:36:54,700 –> 00:36:58,100
and with Dawn and with the other
sister, who was abused in our

628
00:36:58,100 –> 00:37:01,600
Ecclesia, there were Angels
there they take, they had no

629
00:37:01,600 –> 00:37:04,400
wings, they weren’t from Heaven,
they didn’t appear and

630
00:37:04,400 –> 00:37:08,700
disappear.
They came to her and Josh, and

631
00:37:08,700 –> 00:37:13,700
they put their arms around her.
They they, they spoke to her.

632
00:37:15,500 –> 00:37:18,900
With words of assurance with
words of hope, they understood

633
00:37:18,900 –> 00:37:21,500
sometimes, they just sat and
cried with her.

634
00:37:22,600 –> 00:37:28,300
Whatever it was, it was
messengers of Hope coming to

635
00:37:28,300 –> 00:37:31,600
these people in the form of
people who understood the

636
00:37:31,600 –> 00:37:35,100
message.
So don’t ever think that you may

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00:37:35,100 –> 00:37:37,900
not be the angel many have met
under two entertained angels.

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00:37:37,900 –> 00:37:40,400
Unawares.
Did you ever think that those

639
00:37:40,400 –> 00:37:42,700
angels might not be the kind
from Heaven?

640
00:37:42,700 –> 00:37:44,200
They might be the kind from
Earth.

641
00:37:45,400 –> 00:37:48,100
You’re talking to somebody about
the kingdom there, in the

642
00:37:48,100 –> 00:37:52,200
company of a messenger who is
like an angel, they’re hearing

643
00:37:52,200 –> 00:37:56,800
words of Salvation, they’re not
aware of it, they don’t know

644
00:37:56,800 –> 00:38:01,700
that this messenger that is, you
are this angel of Truth.

645
00:38:03,200 –> 00:38:06,600
The point is that Angels
strengthen hope but they don’t

646
00:38:06,600 –> 00:38:09,900
prevent trials.
So in conclusion, let’s look at

647
00:38:09,900 –> 00:38:14,000
the Restoration in the Kingdom.
We have this absolute Assurance

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00:38:14,000 –> 00:38:19,500
from God That we saw in this
Paradox of Noah, there’s an

649
00:38:19,500 –> 00:38:23,900
Everlasting Covenant of life and
peace.

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00:38:24,500 –> 00:38:28,600
If you take everything out of
all, all the details, the

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particulars that are in volume
too much to take in at once and

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00:38:33,000 –> 00:38:36,800
simplify everything that we’ve
talked about down to this idea.

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00:38:37,800 –> 00:38:40,900
What do I want in my life?
I know it’s not going to be

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perfect.
All the way through, this is

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00:38:42,707 –> 00:38:44,700
going to be trials and
tribulations.

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One after another Until it’s
resolved somehow in the future.

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00:38:49,200 –> 00:38:55,400
Do I want life?
And peace because Jesus is the

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00:38:55,400 –> 00:39:00,500
Prince of Peace.
He is the author of life for you

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00:39:00,500 –> 00:39:06,100
now because he’s been given all
authority in Heaven and Earth in

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00:39:06,100 –> 00:39:09,700
his request, his father for your
life.

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00:39:11,100 –> 00:39:13,700
So there’s a day of rain and you
know, this is such an

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00:39:13,700 –> 00:39:15,900
interesting passage, let’s read
this together and just think

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00:39:15,900 –> 00:39:19,400
about it for a moment in
closing, I saw as it were

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00:39:20,000 –> 00:39:23,700
appearance of fire, this is in
Ezekiel, where Ezekiel is,

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00:39:23,700 –> 00:39:28,000
looking at God’s judgments on
the Earth City to city as Christ

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00:39:28,000 –> 00:39:31,300
and the Saints move in.
They are in their miraculous

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00:39:31,300 –> 00:39:34,400
presence across the face of the
Earth, judging the nation’s

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00:39:34,400 –> 00:39:37,400
either positively or negatively.
He says, I saw is that worthy

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00:39:37,400 –> 00:39:39,800
appearances environment had
brightness roundabout.

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00:39:39,900 –> 00:39:43,500
So this is the Of God,
manifested in Jesus and the

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00:39:43,500 –> 00:39:47,000
Saints.
As the appearance of a bow that

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00:39:47,000 –> 00:39:49,400
is in the cloud in the day of
rain.

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00:39:49,900 –> 00:39:52,500
So is the appearance of the
brightness round about.

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00:39:52,800 –> 00:39:57,500
This was the appearance of the
likeness of the glory of the

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Lord.
We know that that the that Glory

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00:39:59,600 –> 00:40:01,500
will fill the Earth as the
waters cover the sea.

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00:40:01,500 –> 00:40:04,400
But have you ever thought about
what that Glory really is?

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00:40:05,100 –> 00:40:07,300
Glory is a beautiful word but
it’s just used.

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00:40:07,800 –> 00:40:11,600
So, cliche akal these days that
it’s I think it’s meaning gets

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lost.
The Lord of hosts.

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00:40:14,100 –> 00:40:20,100
He is the king of glory, David
says, in Psalm 24, so The glory

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00:40:20,100 –> 00:40:23,900
are the hosts.
If the whole Plan of Salvation

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00:40:23,900 –> 00:40:27,100
involves God manifestation in a
host of people, who in the end

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00:40:27,100 –> 00:40:30,500
will fill the Earth.
Those people are his glory,

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00:40:30,800 –> 00:40:33,000
which means the Saints are That
Glory.

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00:40:33,300 –> 00:40:35,700
So let’s read this.
Again in the day of rain, when

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the appeared with the
appearance.

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00:40:36,900 –> 00:40:38,800
So was the appearance of
brightness round about.

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00:40:38,800 –> 00:40:41,800
This is the Light of Christ
filling the Earth with the

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00:40:41,800 –> 00:40:44,200
promises of God through his
Covenant.

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00:40:44,600 –> 00:40:48,300
This was the appearance of the
likeness of the glory.

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00:40:49,400 –> 00:40:52,900
Of the Lord, the likeness is the
likeness of Christ.

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00:40:52,900 –> 00:40:56,700
The glory of the Lord, are those
people who are in his likeness,

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00:40:59,000 –> 00:41:06,300
And the Lord is, I am who I am.
I will be manifested in you Who

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00:41:06,300 –> 00:41:10,500
would walk away from that idea?
So I don’t know what the day of

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00:41:10,500 –> 00:41:13,600
rain is, it may, it may be the
day that rains righteousness

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00:41:13,600 –> 00:41:16,100
upon the Earth and causes all
the fruit to grow in the

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00:41:16,100 –> 00:41:20,800
sunshine of Christ’s life or it
may be the rain that puts out

699
00:41:20,800 –> 00:41:24,500
the fire of Christ judgments
when they go from City to city

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00:41:24,700 –> 00:41:28,100
and burn up the ones that were
unrighteous like Malachi said,

701
00:41:28,600 –> 00:41:31,900
at any rate, this day of rain
will be like a paradoxically

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00:41:31,900 –> 00:41:35,700
like a morning without clouds.
It will be such a beautiful

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00:41:35,700 –> 00:41:39,600
sunrise.
We will return to Paradise The

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00:41:39,600 –> 00:41:43,500
Earth will be restored every
source of Affliction, every

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00:41:43,500 –> 00:41:46,800
route that we can suffer from
physical Affliction, emotional

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00:41:47,900 –> 00:41:51,100
Affliction, mental Affliction.
Spiritual Affliction will

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00:41:51,100 –> 00:41:54,500
resolve in the comfort of what
is restored, the renewal of life

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00:41:54,600 –> 00:41:58,200
in the Kingdom.
There will be recovery from

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00:41:58,200 –> 00:42:01,500
sickness.
There will be Triva love tragic

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00:42:01,500 –> 00:42:04,800
loss when Dominic rises again
and looks into his mother’s

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00:42:04,800 –> 00:42:07,000
eyes.
There will be recompensed to the

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00:42:07,000 –> 00:42:08,800
abusers who made people
miserable.

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00:42:09,200 –> 00:42:11,400
I thought they were getting away
with it but there’s a Day of

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00:42:11,400 –> 00:42:14,600
Reckoning in front of them.
There will be reconciliation for

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00:42:14,600 –> 00:42:16,300
all the problems that couldn’t
be resolved.

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00:42:16,300 –> 00:42:19,800
In marriage that couldn’t be
resolved in families or Ecclesia

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00:42:19,800 –> 00:42:23,600
is or enter occlusal or
fellowships or even on a larger

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00:42:23,600 –> 00:42:29,500
level International
irreconcilable differences, in

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00:42:29,500 –> 00:42:32,700
this case of ideologies and
covetousness.

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00:42:34,100 –> 00:42:37,000
All of that faces, the
restoration of the kingdom.

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00:42:37,000 –> 00:42:39,300
And it will be a highly
organized Paradise.

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00:42:40,300 –> 00:42:45,100
Not just Gardens, but a temple
temple of such magnificent

723
00:42:45,100 –> 00:42:48,900
Beauty in such Grandeur in size.
That is like a city and the

724
00:42:48,900 –> 00:42:53,100
organization in that Temple is
just so marvelous to consider

725
00:42:53,400 –> 00:42:56,600
highly organized as the Dew of
Herman and is the do that

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00:42:56,600 –> 00:43:00,000
descended upon the mountains of
Zion for their the Lord

727
00:43:00,000 –> 00:43:05,500
commanded the blessing, even
life forevermore Behold bless

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00:43:05,500 –> 00:43:08,200
the Lord.
He’s made all these promises to

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00:43:08,200 –> 00:43:09,200
you.
Bless him.

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00:43:10,100 –> 00:43:13,900
Take them into your heart and
convert them to a blessing for

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00:43:13,900 –> 00:43:15,400
the god, that loves you that
much.

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00:43:15,500 –> 00:43:18,200
All you Servants of the Lord,
which by night stand in the

733
00:43:18,200 –> 00:43:21,500
house of the Lord, lift up your
hands in the sanctuary and bless

734
00:43:21,500 –> 00:43:24,200
bless the Lord.
The Lord that made Heaven and

735
00:43:24,200 –> 00:43:27,500
Earth bless the out of Zion
praise, ye the Lord, praise the

736
00:43:27,500 –> 00:43:30,600
name of the Lord, praise him
because that name is your glory.

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00:43:30,600 –> 00:43:32,700
His glory is in your
manifestation.

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00:43:33,700 –> 00:43:36,200
Oh, ye Servants of the Lord.
You stand in the house of the

739
00:43:36,200 –> 00:43:38,900
Lord in the courts of the House
of our God.

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00:43:40,100 –> 00:43:43,600
Did you notice this?
Did you see this?

741
00:43:44,700 –> 00:43:46,400
Which by nightstand in the house
of the Lord?

742
00:43:46,500 –> 00:43:49,200
I don’t know about you, but my
understanding of people during

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00:43:49,200 –> 00:43:52,100
nighttime is they lay down, they
fall asleep.

744
00:43:52,100 –> 00:43:54,900
So something about these people
that doesn’t appear to need to

745
00:43:54,900 –> 00:43:58,500
lay down there Standing By Night
In The House of Lord.

746
00:43:58,500 –> 00:44:02,000
My own idea about this is I’m
hope, this is really it, but

747
00:44:02,200 –> 00:44:04,600
that there are people all over
the world who are now in Mortal

748
00:44:04,600 –> 00:44:07,800
who are governing in all the
provinces of the earth who

749
00:44:07,800 –> 00:44:09,700
returned to the temple by night
in.

750
00:44:09,900 –> 00:44:12,800
When it’s nighttime in their
area and there they meet in the

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00:44:12,800 –> 00:44:14,700
inner portion and they are
tables are set.

752
00:44:14,700 –> 00:44:18,000
They have meals with and they
commune with people like Abraham

753
00:44:18,000 –> 00:44:21,500
Isaac and Jacob maybe that’s the
role of the 24 Elders or commute

754
00:44:21,500 –> 00:44:23,000
with each other.
I got a problem in Brazil.

755
00:44:23,000 –> 00:44:25,500
I got a problem in Norfolk and
got a problem in Pittsburgh.

756
00:44:25,700 –> 00:44:27,100
What are we going to do to solve
this problem?

757
00:44:27,100 –> 00:44:29,300
Well, did you consider this
Joseph?

758
00:44:29,300 –> 00:44:30,900
What would you do?
Well, here’s what I would do is

759
00:44:30,900 –> 00:44:33,300
what I learned in, Egypt,
Daniel, what would you do?

760
00:44:33,300 –> 00:44:35,700
Well, let me tell you what, I
learned in Babylon, Nehemiah,

761
00:44:35,700 –> 00:44:36,500
what would you do?
Want me?

762
00:44:36,500 –> 00:44:39,000
Tell you, we were trying to
build a wall in that, restore

763
00:44:39,000 –> 00:44:42,300
the Wallen Jerusalem.
All these things are seem to be

764
00:44:42,300 –> 00:44:45,700
a part of a life in the Kingdom.
When We Stand By Night in the

765
00:44:45,700 –> 00:44:50,300
house of the Lord, when the Lord
restored, the fortunes of Zion,

766
00:44:50,300 –> 00:44:56,300
we were like those who Dream.
It’s a dream come true and our

767
00:44:56,300 –> 00:44:59,000
mouth was filled with laughter,
and our tongue, with shouts of

768
00:44:59,000 –> 00:45:01,000
Joy.
They said, among the nation’s,

769
00:45:01,000 –> 00:45:02,800
the Lord has done great things
for them.

770
00:45:03,700 –> 00:45:05,700
The Lord has done great things
for us.

771
00:45:06,600 –> 00:45:10,200
We are glad.
The Lord will Comfort, Zion.

772
00:45:12,200 –> 00:45:15,000
This is the bottom line of all
of our considerations.

773
00:45:16,000 –> 00:45:18,800
The Lord will Comfort Zion and
you will be there when he does.

774
00:45:20,100 –> 00:45:25,500
He will Comfort all her waste
places. in the restoration of

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00:45:25,500 –> 00:45:26,500
the kingdom of God,