Sam Bailey – Deborah and Barak – Class 6 – Exhortation – Christ – Leading Captivity Captive

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Now we’ll ask our brother Sam to
come forward and to speak to us

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to the theme Christ leading the
captive, captive bringing to a

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close his special effort.
Thank you.

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Well, good morning my dear
brothers and sisters in the Lord

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Jesus.
Christ.

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It’s been lovely to be able to
share this wonderful week

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together and to be encouraged,
mutually encouraged, by the

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wonderful things that we’ve been
considering.

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And the examples.
That you’ve all shown us in

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service and diligence in this
wonderful week.

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So we’d like to thank each and
everyone of you for all you’ve

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done for us over the course of
our studies on Deborah and

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Baywreq.
We’ve come to see this.

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Remarkable.
Way.

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In which leadership, and we’ve
used that term very carefully.

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Leadership by individuals can
motivate an entire nation.

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To change the course of history.
And we’ve seen the way in which

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the specific leadership
qualities of service

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demonstrated by a woman, a
prophetess, the mother in

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Israel, inspired and nervous and
worried, and an anxious warrior

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who was struggling with the
enormity of the task that he’d

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been called to and was failing
to stand up and take his

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responsibility.
And his responsibility was, as

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we’ve seen, to.
Lead a nation.

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To victory.
And to lead captivity Captive

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and Deborah’s well executed and
insightful leadership brothers

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and sisters in the nation
changed the entire oppression,

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reversing the problem and sparks
a military revolution that led

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Bairak to motivate 10,000 men.
And saw the nation shake off.

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Their oppressive overlords who
had mightily oppressed them for

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20 years.
All because their.

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Parents Generation.
Failed to transfer the truth to

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them in the wonderful things of
the inheritance that they’ve

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been blessed with.
And so this morning, brothers

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and sisters, by way of
exaltation.

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We want to draw our.
Thoughts.

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Together around the theme of
Deborah and Bayrack in jail.

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And we’re going to unlock the.
One expression I believe on the.

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Sisters, that sits in Deborah’s
song that is going to inspire

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David and the Apostle Paul to
talk about the way in which God

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works amongst the nation and the
way in which Christ’s leadership

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ought to change us.
You see, the psalmist in Psalm

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68 is going to take the
expression of leading captivity

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captive and to focus and apply
it in the in in in the context.

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Of Yahweh’s.
Great deliverance that David

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experienced amongst the nation
as they sought to seize their

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inheritance.
It’s going to be a phrase that.

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Paul chooses in Ephesians
chapter.

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Four to highlight the great.
Work of Yahweh’s.

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Deliverance through the work of
his Son and our Savior, the Lord

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Jesus Christ.
And it’s this phrase, leading

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captivity captive, that more
importantly for every single one

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of us is going to have
implications and moral

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responsibilities for us who are
the recipients of Yahweh’s

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salvation and deliverance
through Christ.

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It’s going to have a moral and
powerful implication for us.

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If we’re going to truly.
Understand this expression and

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this morning we want to
appreciate that this morning so

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the expression we want we.
Want to as we’ve alluded to, is

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found in Judges chapter 5 and
verse 2.

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Awake, awake Deborah, awake,
utter a song, arise by wreck

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and.
Lead.

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Thy captivity captive, thy son
of Ebenoim.

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You see the?
Essential problem of Bayrak’s

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time and Deborah’s time was the
challenge of leadership.

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The nation had failed.
Remember we saw that in verse 7.

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It says the inhabitants of the
villagers ceased.

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Really it’s just the word
villagers ceased and the word

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for villagers, the word for
chief or for rulers.

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There was no leadership in
Israel.

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The nation’s leadership had
failed the judges, who were

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supposed to be the chiefs in
each city.

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The rulers were supposed to be
there to help Israel understand

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the law and to save them, and it
was gone.

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And it was into this leadership.
Vacuum that we saw Deborah stand

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up to inspire and lead Bayreq
and the expression.

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To lead captivity captive.
Captures the desperation.

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Which with?
With which?

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Deborah approached Bayreq in the
very first place.

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Arise.
Awake.

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Awake.
We’ve got to get going.

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She says.
We’ve got to.

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We’ve got to shake off this idea
of sleeping and night time.

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We’ve got to wake.
This is their time to get going,

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she says.
She needed Bayrek to awake

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himself.
Stand up, get going, man up and

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take your responsibility.
Seriously, Bayrek.

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The entire nation was being
bound by oppression and in

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bondage, enslaved to a Gentile
king, lorded over by military

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commandment.
We’ve got to reverse this

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problem, she says.
And Deborah’s plea was that?

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Bayrak might stand up to.
Fulfill his God-given office as

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Yahweh’s.
Judge to deliver them and that

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he might lead an army against
those who are holding the nation

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hostage in captivity and total
oppression.

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They couldn’t move.
They were.

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They were under his vice like
grip.

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And that God might.
Free his people through the work

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of Bayrak.
And his men.

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By.
Taking captivity, sorry

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captivity captive sister and
Jabin were the source of the

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nation’s captivity, and Beirut
was to stand up to free his.

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People by taking their.
Captives.

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Captive.
And the result of Deborah’s

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Bayrack’s leadership.
Is seen in in verse 13 because

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it says in verse 13.
That.

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Bayrich’s leadership.
Inspire a remnant from amongst

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the people.
To.

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Join him in this conquest
against the represses and we

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saw, didn’t we, verse 13 that
the word literally that better

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translation is literally at that
time the remnant came to trample

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down the Lords and we saw that
it really means a unified people

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of Yahweh came.
To trample down the mighty ones.

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It was those that remained.
It was a.

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Remnant who responded.
It wasn’t everybody.

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As we saw.
Some tribes didn’t come at.

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All.
There was a.

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Remnant who responded.
Only a portion of the people

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came.
And these are referred to by

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Deborah as the.
People of Yahweh.

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And these are the ones who were,
as we saw.

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Were prepared to risk and to
jeopardize their lives for the

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sake.
Of their brethren, I want you to

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notice that expression, The
people.

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Of Yahweh.
What does that?

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Really mean?
Doesn’t sisters, the people of

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Yahweh.
What we’re going to see, brother

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sisters, is that David is going
to refer to them as Yahweh

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riding amongst them and.
In what way does that work?

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Well, you see, Yahweh was going
to be amongst them, a unified

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people of Yahweh.
Were going to be those 10,000

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men who.
Streamed down the heights of

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Mount Table, risking their.
Lives to save their brethren,

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that they might release the.
Oppression that mightily

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oppressed them.
In their nation they were.

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Prepared to give their lives to
save.

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And Deborah sees the event of
this day as remarkably

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reminiscent.
We’ve already seen this

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remarkably reminiscent of the
events that had gone before as

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Yahweh moved to save and deliver
his people from the bondage and

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the oppression of Egypt and
brought them to Mount Sinai.

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Because she says in verses four
and five.

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And I just want to.
Cover this because we’re going

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about to go back into.
Deuteronomy and we’re going to

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pick up some expressions and
carry them through into Psalms.

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So here we go Judges chapter 5,
verse four.

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Look what she says, Yahweh.
When their wentest out of seer.

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When their marchest.
Out of the field of.

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Edom, the earth dropped.
Sorry, the earth trembled and

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the heavens dropped.
The clouds also dropped water.

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The mountains melted from before
Yahweh, even Sinai from before

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Yahweh, Elohim of Israel and
Deborah’s now.

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Alluding back to the song and
the blessing of Moses and

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Deuteronomy 33, as we’ve already
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So just come back with me now to
Deuteronomy chapter 33.

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So I just want to reinforce this
idea of the unified people of

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Yahweh.
So here we are, Deborah’s song,

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and she sees not just the floods
of Yahweh’s judgement as

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they’re.
Poured out.

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From the heavens that.
Destroy the Chariots and the

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horses and the men that get.
Chewed up by the sword in terms

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of Bay racks men, but she saw
the water that melted the

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mountain as the nation of
Israel.

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With their 10. 1000 men as they
poured off that hill in

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metaphorical.
Language as the.

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People of Yahweh.
And so here she says she’s

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quoting from Deborah’s from
Moses song.

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Remember, Moses has just
finished.

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Talking about the nation’s
current situation, their

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blessings from the deliverance
of Egypt, the provision of food

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in the wilderness, the entry
into the fruitful land, the

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promotion of Israel as the head
of the nation’s riding, remember

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riding upon the.
High places of the earth as

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Yahweh’s.
People.

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It’s as he’s described.
That’s how Moses has described

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them in Jeremy 32 as Yahweh’s
people.

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And him riding.
Upon the high places of the

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earth.
And so we come to chapter 33,

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verse 1, and it says this is the
blessing with which Moses, the

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man of God, bless the children
of Israel before his death.

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Moses now concludes his song by
addressing the.

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Spirit that they would.
Need to receive forgiveness for

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their sins.
The need to call on Yahweh’s

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mercy with repentant hearts, He
says to them.

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Here’s the blessing, he said.
Look, just see this Yahweh.

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Came from Sinai, and rose up
from seer unto them.

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It dawned.
It dawned from seer unto them.

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He shined forth from Mount Poran
and came with 10,000 of his

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Saints, and from his right hand
winter fiery law for them.

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Yeah, he loved the people all.
His Saints are in thy hand, and

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they sat.
Down at thy feet.

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Every one of them shall receive
thy words.

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And here, Moses.
Poetically describes the

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deliverance.
Of Yahweh as He.

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Recounts the story of the
emerging glory coming forth from

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Egypt unto Mount Sinai as the
sun rising from the east, his

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beams breaking forth to the full
of the heavens and earth.

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And the 10,000 of his Saints,
pouring forth with a fiery law

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built for them to receive.
At the base of a mountain that

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burnt and shook.
And he says, yeah, here’s the

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motivation.
He loved the people.

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God loved those people.
It says he brought them out

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because he loved them all.
His.

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Saints are protected and
controlled.

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They are in thy.
Hands, says Moses.

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They’re being looked after and
being protected.

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Those that were his people and
they came, he says, and they sat

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down at his feet, every single
one of them, to receive his

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words and the point that Moses
is trying to say to the nation

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as he says, listen, God does
care.

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He does love his people.
He understands their need when

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they cry.
Yeah, they that understand him

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in response will come motivated
to sit down and to listen

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carefully to the words of the
law that he’s going to give.

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And Deborah saw the 10,000 men
at their time.

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At barracks motivated by
barracks.

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Leadership streaming down the
slopes of table as the

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reenactment of Yahweh’s
deliverance from the bondage of

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Egypt, the reestablishment of
Yahweh and His Law, which was

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not seen in any of their gates,
because instead war was there.

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Now, she says, we see the Law
again amongst the gates, and

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Deborah’s therefore pleading the
nation to once more pick up the

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book of the Law and to talk of
God’s wondrous acts.

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At the watering.
Holes and can now they can see

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God’s testimony of what he will
do.

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For them and Deborah’s pleading
with them to repent and to serve

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Yahweh once more as their God
and to become His.

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People that God might dwell
amongst them.

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The Psalmist is going to pick up
this thoughts, these

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expressions, the remnant of
Yahweh, Yahweh amongst his

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people, Yahweh, I’m, I’m riding
amongst them in Psalm. 68 Come

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with me now.
To Psalm 68, because David is

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going to see how God is working
amongst his people to establish

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his inheritance and to put his
people.

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In their land.
And Psalm 68 picks up the

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blessing of Moses and this and
the song of Deborah and puts

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them both together in the
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And he’s going to show, firstly,
the majestic.

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Way in which?
God cares about his people.

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God does care, and therefore
he’s going to show the way in

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which God will bring about his
salvation.

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And by this is the context.
To Psalm 68 is is probably the

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time of the writings, probably
around the stories of Second

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Samuel 8 and 10, eight to 10, a
time when great conquests were

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about to be undertaken.
To extend.

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Israel’s control over.
The land that had been

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dominated.
By their oppressors around them.

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This is the Philistines, the
Moabites.

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The Syrians and the Edomites,
they’re oppressive people that

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sat around and that had chewed
into the inheritance of Yahweh’s

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blessing and.
David’s going to.

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Write a song about his army and
what his army’s going to do and

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how God is going to work with
his army to establish his

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inheritance.
Verse one, we don’t have time to

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do the entire Psalm.
We’ll just cherry pick along

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just to prove these points.
Look.

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Let God arise verse one, let his
enemies.

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Be scattered, let them also that
hate Him flee before Him.

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As smoke is driven away, so
drive them away.

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As wax melts before a fire, so
let the wicked perish at the

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presence of God.
But let the righteous, let the

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righteous be glad.
Let them rejoice before you,

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before God.
Let them exceedingly rejoice and

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sing unto God, sing praises unto
Him, His name extol him that

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rides upon the heavens by his
name Yah, and rejoice before

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Him.
So here we have the story of

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David as he sees this is what we
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He’s going to he’s going to do
all these wonderful things.

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The enemies are gone and we’re
going to sing just like Moses

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and sing just like Deborah.
Why are we going to sing?

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Well, look what he.
Sees, look at how much care

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God’s going to show.
Well, he’s it, says A.

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Father of the Fatherless.
And a judge.

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Of the widows, God does care
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Is God in His?
Holy habitation.

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God sets the solitary in
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He brings out those which are
bound with.

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Chains, but the rebellious dwell
in a dry land.

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Can you see how these themes are
picked up from Moses and from

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Deborah?
Because here’s your proof.

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Verse 70 God.
When thou wentest.

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Forth before thy people.
When they just marched through

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the.
Wilderness consider this.

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He says zela consider.
This the earth shook.

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The heavens also dropped at the
presence of God.

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Even Sinai itself was moved at
the Presence.

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Of God, the God of Israel.
So there’s your quote from

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Deuteronomy chapter 33.
That’s the quote from Judges

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chapter 5.
You see, here he was.

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We don’t have time to look at
it, but look he.

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This is the.
Way in which Deborah and Bayrack

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and Moses had understood the way
in which God worked and.

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David says.
Look at how it.

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Works for me.
It’s exactly the same way.

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And what happened?
Well, O thou descend a plentiful

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rain, whereby thou disconfirm
thy inheritance when it was

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weary.
Thy congregation hath dwelt

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therein.
O God, thou preparest thy

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goodness for the poor.
The Lord gave the word.

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Great was the.
Notice the margin.

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The army of those that published
it, You see, this was David

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announcing to the people, this
is what we’re about to do.

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And marching is God’s army.
King of armies did flee before

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them.
She that tarried at home divided

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the spoil.
Though ye have lined amongst the

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pots, yet shall ye be covered by
the wings of a dove, covered

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with silver in the feathers of
yellow gold.

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When Almighty scattered kings,
it was white as the snow of

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Salomon, and the hill of God is
as the hill of Bashan.

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The high hills of the hill of
Bashan.

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Why leap you, ye high hills?
This is the hill which God

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desires to dwell on.
Yeah, Yahweh will dwell on it.

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Forever and the.
High hills of Bashan that once

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had lit is a reference to the
opposing forces that had stood

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in David’s way as he conquered
the land, flattening them in his

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path and he removes.
The stranglehold of the

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surrounding nations.
Hood enslaved his people.

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And he sees himself and his army
taking full control.

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Over the land of the.
Philistines, the Moabites, the

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Syrians, the Ammonites.
And to take.

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Spoilers of Chariots and
horsemen and Shields of gold,

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Silver.
And brass.

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As he did in Second Samuel
chapter 8 and upon.

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These taking of the.
Territories, David Places.

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His own garrisons.
Bang, bang, bang, bang.

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This is mine.
This is God’s land.

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And they all became David’s
servants.

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And the psalmist likens these
campaigns and Yahweh’s

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deliverance to his people as it
happened in Mount Sinai and

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Table.
Look at what he says, verse 17.

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Don’t worry about the Chariots
of iron, He says.

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Look at Yahweh’s.
Chariots.

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The Chariots.
Of God are 20,000 even thousands

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of angels, Yahweh’s among them,
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Really, it means the Chariots.
Of Yahweh are myriads, thousands

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of charges, he says.
Don’t worry about the 9. 100

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Chariots of mine.
There’s nothing.

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Nothing, just.
Like a liceous servant, there’s

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nothing to be compared with the
way in which God can work.

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They’re Yahweh’s army and they
are innumerable, says David.

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Didn’t matter how many we had,
God was there.

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Right around us.
When God is for us, is David, no

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one’s going to stand in our way.
But note who’s among them.

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Brothers and sisters?
Who is among them?

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The Chariots of God are 20,000
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Thousands of angels, Yahweh as
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In this in in Sinai, as in
Sinai, in the holy place,

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Yahweh’s.
Among them, it’s Yahweh who’s

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riding.
Amongst them, who is that bill

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and.
Sisters, of course it’s Yahweh,

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but how?
How was Yahweh?

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Riding in the middle of this
army, how was Yahweh riding in

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the middle of of the 10,000 men?
How was Yahweh amongst the

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children of Israel?
Well, it was God manifest in

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them.
It was their characters.

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They saw the need to which they
applied themselves and saw God’s

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Word and his law, and it
emanated.

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Forth as they manifested Him
and.

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All his glory.
Wasn’t about them.

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Yahweh.
Rode.

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Among them and the.
Point that David sees is whilst

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it was David.
And his army that went to take

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Yahweh’s oppressors it was.
God.

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In them doing the work.
They were motivated because they

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saw what God had done for them.
And they responded as they.

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Fought for him with his power,
his support, his blessing.

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And they were there for his
people.

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He was their God who was amongst
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And exactly as he rode from
Sinai into the sanctuary, as

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Josh had conquered the land, so
the nations melted before them.

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And it was God doing the work,
not them.

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David.
Says, oh, we fought it, but on

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us and the psalmist now.
Quotes.

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The every song but it says verse
18.

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Thou.
Has descended on high.

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Thou hast lead captivity
captive.

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Why?
Well, thou has received gifts

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for men, for the rebellious
also, that Yahweh might dwell

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among them.
Thou has descended on high.

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David had brought the Ark to
Zion.

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Second Samuel, chapter 6.
And then proceeded to take

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captivity captive. 2nd.
Samuel chapter 8 You see, God

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was dwelling among them, but.
It wasn’t just an ark, was it,

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brothers and sisters?
It was the ark of God amongst

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their hearts, just as Moses had.
Just as Moses had inspired the

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people through God’s presence,
Bear it did the same.

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The psalmist adds some
additional detail.

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Thou hast received gifts.
Four men, really.

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Literally there has received
gifts.

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Consisting.
Notice the margin.

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Four says well.
In the man what has changed?

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And the answer is that they
received gifts of men.

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Or.
Consisting of men.

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Or inside men.
What were these gifts?

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You see, David needed the nation
to see that.

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Following.
God and choosing to respond was

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seeing themselves as a gift in
response of service and that God

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had inspired people who would
serve because they appreciated

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what God had done.
That was the gift, says David.

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A nation of people whom Yahweh
was walking amongst.

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Where does David get this idea
from?

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Well, I think the idea of the
gift of people being given for

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God in response to seeing what
God’s done and to being

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motivated by him, why it’s not
taken from anywhere other than

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Exodus chapter 32, is it?
You see, what was the gift of

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men that Moses saw dedicated to
God in response to his

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deliverance?
You recall in Exodus 32, as

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Moses descends Mount Sinai, I
wouldn’t think idolatry of the

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golden calf.
He smashes the table of stone in

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disgust.
And he demands the nation.

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In Exodus 32 verse 26, he says,
who’s on the Lord’s side?

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Who is it?
Who will soon let them come to

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me?
And who responds?

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Brothers and sisters, Well, the
answer was it was all.

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The sons of Levi.
Who responded and gathered

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themselves to him and Moses says
to them in Exodus 32 we don’t

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have time to look at it.
Verse 29 consecrate yourselves

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today to Yahweh.
He says you take yourself aside

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and you.
Dedicate your life to Yahweh,

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every man upon his son and upon
his brother, that Yahweh might

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bestow upon you a blessing.
This Day Excess 32, verse 29.

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And what was that blessing?
Those are sisters.

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What was the blessing of the
Levites?

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From Exodus 32 verse 29.
Well, the blessing would come in

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the form of a special role the
sons of Levi would perform in

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service unto Yahweh by being
gifted to Aaron’s sons.

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Come with me to Numbers Chapter
8.

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Here’s the proof.
Numbers chapter 8, verse 17 The

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gifts consisting of men in
Moses.

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‘S time what?
Was that it’s the Levites, he

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says.
Numbers chapter 8, verse 17 for

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all.
The.

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First born of the children of
Israel, the mine, says God.

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So we have the establishment of
the blessing of the 1st.

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Born both man and beast on.
Every day that I smote.

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Every first.
Born in the land of Egypt, I

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sanctified them for myself.
Then he sees this.

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And I have.
Taken the.

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Levites for all the 1st.
Born of the children of Israel.

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So he said.
I’m just.

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Switching them out.
So I had asked that I give every

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first.
Born, he says.

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I’m We’re going to change this.
We’re going to switch.

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This out, we’re going to have
the Levites now.

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That are going to be taken for
all the first born of the

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children of Israel Why well I’m
taking those says God do you

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know what I’m doing with him
verse 19 I have.

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Given the Levites.
As a gift to Aaron and his sons

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from among the children of
Israel to do 2 things.

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The first one, notice what it
says.

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To do the service of the
children of Israel in the

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Tabernacle of the congregation.
That’s the first job to do the

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service of the children of
Israel on the Tabernacle.

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And the second.
Thing they’re going to do.

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Is they’re going to make an
atonement?

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For the children of Israel?
What for?

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That there be no plague among
the children of Israel when the

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children of Israel come.
Nigh unto the sanctuary.

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It was their service from the
incident of Exodus chapter 32

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that ensured Yahweh’s blessing
in being gifted to Aaron and his

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sons.
For the service note of the

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entire nation, that there be no
plague amongst the people when

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they come to worship.
They were going to be Yahweh’s

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special gift for service to His
people.

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Come with me back to Psalm 68.
What is David saying in the

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song?
What’s David saying in this

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00:28:10,280 –> 00:28:11,800
song?
What had David been taught?

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You see thou?
Has.

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Descended on high thou has
leptivity captivity captive

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there has to receive gifts of.
Men.

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Yeah, for the rebellious, that
Yahweh.

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Might dwell among them in the
lesson that.

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David was being taught.
Was it that although David had

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led his people to victory, it
was their service as gods,

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ministering people that God was
with them?

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You see, this was.
Beyond the Levites.

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Now, as the Sisters, these gifts
of men had expanded from being

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just the ones that served in the
sanctuaries, the ones that

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served in every part of the
empire.

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And they had given their lives
for their brethren.

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And David says, I see these not
just as the Levites anymore that

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had gifted for the service to
make an atonement, but they

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offered their lives.
For the nation, this was the

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Army, brothers and sisters.
The 10. 1000 men of Bairak.

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This wasn’t Levites, it was the.
Spirit of the.

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Levites, though, that had
instilled a change in their

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hearts.
And David says, I’ve seen this

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expansion from those that were
just those that served in the

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sanctuary, that there’d been my
plague amongst the children of

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Israel, to the entire army, that
they ensured that there’d be no

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enemies left.
They each would lead.

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In response to seeing what God
had done for them in their own

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ways, to serve in God’s nation
and to serve Him in purity of

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mind, to dedicate their lives to
worshipping Him.

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They were God’s gift to serve
Him and His people.

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Do you know you proved?
That rather than says, look at

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the last verse of Psalm 68, look
what it says, Oh God, thou art

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terrible out of thy holy places.
The God of Israel, the power,

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the ale of of Israel is he that
giveth.

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Strength and power unto.
His people.

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00:30:15,920 –> 00:30:19,800
God had transferred.
To his nation, blessed be God,

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00:30:19,800 –> 00:30:23,040
says the psalmist.
What a remarkable thing, says

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00:30:23,040 –> 00:30:24,960
David.
Look at how this this army

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responds and serves.
That’s the spirit with which

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00:30:27,360 –> 00:30:32,160
they fought out the inheritance.
What a marvellous response.

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00:30:32,760 –> 00:30:34,120
To seeing what God had done for
them.

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00:30:38,960 –> 00:30:43,800
So Paul’s not going to pick up
these things in Ephesians

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chapter 4.
He’s going to say wow, look at

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how God works amongst the people
in Exodus.

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00:30:53,040 –> 00:30:55,840
Look.
At how God works amongst.

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The.
Time of Deborah and Bayrek look

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at how God works and how people
respond.

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00:31:01,560 –> 00:31:07,760
Amongst the time of David, he
says, Well, what do you think we

514
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ought to do?
On the back of what?

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00:31:10,360 –> 00:31:17,280
Christ has done.
And Paul’s now going to pick up

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and show that the work of Christ
was the ultimate way, brothers

517
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and sisters, in which.
God.

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00:31:22,160 –> 00:31:24,000
Would.
Bring about redemption and

519
00:31:24,000 –> 00:31:25,800
deliverance.
From the bondage of sin.

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And death.
That for all the as we saw in

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our first exhort, that all our
lifetime was subject to bondage.

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00:31:32,600 –> 00:31:35,680
Says Hebrews chapter 2.
What has Christ freed us?

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00:31:35,680 –> 00:31:38,160
From and how?
Should we respond?

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00:31:40,120 –> 00:31:43,120
Paul was going to show how
Christ’s leadership should

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00:31:43,120 –> 00:31:46,000
inspire us and.
Inspire.

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People to serve as his people.
Ephesians chapter 4 verse one

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00:31:51,600 –> 00:31:54,840
look at how Paul starts and
perhaps now in this context and

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the reason why we’ve waited to
give this study to the very end

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is to see how all these themes
Paul’s going to just drop in

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00:32:00,840 –> 00:32:03,480
words in Ephesians chapter 4.
Look what he says.

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I therefore and never wondered.
Why it says?

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The prisoner.
Of the Lord.

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00:32:11,840 –> 00:32:14,200
Oh.
Now we have a word rich and.

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00:32:14,200 –> 00:32:17,240
Meaning, don’t we, brothers and
sisters, a prisoner?

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00:32:17,800 –> 00:32:24,400
Of the Lord He’s bound, but he’s
not bound by sin, He’s bound by

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00:32:24,400 –> 00:32:28,000
service.
Beseech ye, therefore he says,

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00:32:28,440 –> 00:32:35,400
that ye walk worthy of the
conversation wherewith ye are

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00:32:35,400 –> 00:32:38,240
called.
In what spirit, in what way are

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00:32:38,240 –> 00:32:43,080
we to respond, to walk worthy of
the calling wherewith we’ve

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00:32:43,080 –> 00:32:44,440
been?
Called well, he says, well, the

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00:32:44,440 –> 00:32:46,880
spirit that we’ve got to have is
not one that says, oh, how?

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00:32:46,880 –> 00:32:49,400
Great am I?
Look how amazing I am as a

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00:32:49,400 –> 00:32:51,360
leader.
Look at me up the front, it’s

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00:32:51,360 –> 00:32:52,760
got nothing.
To do with that he says look

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00:32:53,160 –> 00:32:55,400
verse two he says this is what
the spirit of Christ should do

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00:32:55,400 –> 00:33:01,880
for you he says with.
All lowliness and meekness, with

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00:33:01,880 –> 00:33:07,040
long-suffering for bearing one
another in love, endeavoring at

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00:33:07,040 –> 00:33:10,560
all times, he says, to keep the
unity of the Spirit in the

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00:33:10,560 –> 00:33:14,040
bottle of peas.
It was to be a calling.

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00:33:14,280 –> 00:33:17,840
That requires a spirit of self
sacrifice.

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00:33:17,840 –> 00:33:19,600
As we have.
Seen a spirit that was willing

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00:33:19,600 –> 00:33:24,800
to give their lives for the
brothers and sisters, willing

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00:33:24,800 –> 00:33:29,240
care for all of God’s people
because God’s working in all of

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00:33:29,240 –> 00:33:32,360
their lives, says Paul.
It’s that spirit because why

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00:33:32,640 –> 00:33:34,040
there’s only one?
Body.

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00:33:34,760 –> 00:33:38,080
There’s only one spirit, there’s
one hope of your calling.

557
00:33:38,080 –> 00:33:41,960
There’s one Lord, 1 faith, one
baptism, one God and Father of

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00:33:41,960 –> 00:33:44,200
all.
Who is above all?

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00:33:45,040 –> 00:33:49,160
Through.
All and in you all says.

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00:33:51,200 –> 00:33:55,240
Paul, all brothers and.
Sisters, that Yahweh might be

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00:33:55,640 –> 00:34:02,600
among them, that God is above.
All through all.

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00:34:04,120 –> 00:34:07,280
And in you and every single one
of us, says Paul, that’s what it

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00:34:07,280 –> 00:34:12,480
should be.
You see that Psalm 68, verse 18,

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isn’t it?
That Yahweh might dwell among

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00:34:17,320 –> 00:34:21,120
them, that Yahweh, Elohim might
be in us?

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00:34:21,360 –> 00:34:23,320
How?
Brothers and sisters, it’s not

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00:34:23,320 –> 00:34:24,840
an indwelling of the.
Spirit is it?

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00:34:25,600 –> 00:34:28,199
It’s a manifestation of what we
do.

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00:34:30,120 –> 00:34:36,679
So Paul is saying in Ephesians,
God’s called you to that.

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00:34:38,760 –> 00:34:40,880
How many of us might be bare
acts by the sisters?

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00:34:44,199 –> 00:34:45,639
How many of us might be
Deborah’s?

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00:34:49,199 –> 00:34:56,719
How many of us might be James?
Paul says you’ve got to walk

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00:34:56,719 –> 00:35:02,840
worthy and that walking should
show care for one another and

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00:35:02,840 –> 00:35:08,520
the Spirit would be seen by
fighting to bond together to

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00:35:08,520 –> 00:35:12,960
remain united.
That’s what he says so that God

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00:35:12,960 –> 00:35:18,160
might be seen as the unified.
People of Yahweh, do you get the

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00:35:18,160 –> 00:35:22,080
point, Brothers and sisters, the
unified people of Yahweh said.

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00:35:22,080 –> 00:35:23,600
Deborah, the Remnant.
That came.

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00:35:23,800 –> 00:35:26,000
That’s what we need to see, says
Paul.

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00:35:27,360 –> 00:35:29,720
Paul says now that This is why
you should respond.

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00:35:29,800 –> 00:35:32,080
There’s something really
special, something incredible

582
00:35:32,080 –> 00:35:34,040
that’s been given to us to
assist us in our walk.

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00:35:34,040 –> 00:35:38,840
What is it, verse 7?
And it’s not just given to one.

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00:35:38,840 –> 00:35:40,960
Or to two or to three of.
US.

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00:35:41,480 –> 00:35:48,680
No, he says, verse 7 but unto.
Every one of us is given grace.

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00:35:49,400 –> 00:35:51,920
According to the measure of the
gift of Christ, what does he

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00:35:51,920 –> 00:35:55,320
mean by that under?
Every one of us is given the

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00:35:55,320 –> 00:35:58,200
grace according to the measure.
Of the gift.

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00:35:58,320 –> 00:36:01,320
Of Christ.
The point that Christ is Paul is

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00:36:01,320 –> 00:36:02,960
making.
Was this not the?

591
00:36:02,960 –> 00:36:06,080
Spirit doesn’t assist this.
Wasn’t the Holy Spirit in any

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00:36:06,080 –> 00:36:09,480
stretch of the imagination?
They had all received the

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00:36:09,480 –> 00:36:12,840
freedom.
That Christ.

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00:36:13,520 –> 00:36:17,440
Had given them they.
‘D all received grace.

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00:36:17,440 –> 00:36:20,360
According to the measure of the
gift of Christ.

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00:36:20,640 –> 00:36:25,440
That all received freedom.
Each and every one of them had

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00:36:25,440 –> 00:36:30,960
been given the freedom from sin
and death Christ has apportioned

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00:36:30,960 –> 00:36:34,360
to each and everyone of us.
But how we?

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00:36:34,360 –> 00:36:39,040
Respond is how much we
appreciate how much we’ve been

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00:36:39,040 –> 00:36:44,800
given.
So what should that inspire us?

601
00:36:44,800 –> 00:36:46,520
Well, Paul sees.
It and should inspire.

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00:36:46,520 –> 00:36:49,840
Us in the same way that David
inspired he saw his inspired,

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00:36:50,440 –> 00:36:52,640
says verse 8.
Wherefore he says.

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00:36:53,280 –> 00:36:58,320
When he ascended up on high, he
led captivity captive, and gave

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00:36:58,320 –> 00:37:02,480
gifts unto men, gifts consisting
of men.

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00:37:03,160 –> 00:37:09,640
Paul says, OK, Christ led by
example, submitting to death and

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00:37:09,640 –> 00:37:13,400
suffering for the Saints.
He descended first, he says Now

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00:37:13,400 –> 00:37:16,960
that he ascended, what is it but
that he first descended into the

609
00:37:16,960 –> 00:37:22,440
lower parts of the earth?
He descended first, you see,

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00:37:22,440 –> 00:37:25,400
whilst the volunteers and
Deborah and and and Bayrek and.

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00:37:25,400 –> 00:37:29,840
David’s time had jeopardized
their lives unto death.

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00:37:29,840 –> 00:37:37,360
Christ actually gave his
entirety in service for His

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00:37:37,360 –> 00:37:40,160
brethren, and He descended
first.

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00:37:41,240 –> 00:37:42,840
But God didn’t allow him to stay
there.

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00:37:42,840 –> 00:37:47,040
In fact, he lifted up on high.
He’s now ascended far above all

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00:37:47,040 –> 00:37:51,440
the heavens, that he might
fulfil all things.

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00:37:53,360 –> 00:37:54,800
So who were the gifts?
Says Paul.

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00:37:54,800 –> 00:37:58,280
Well, just have a look in your
ecclesia.

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00:38:00,200 –> 00:38:03,080
Well, he gave if you just get a
pencil colour in the word, he

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00:38:03,080 –> 00:38:05,960
gave gifts unto men.
And you link verse 11.

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He gave some apostles.
Some prophets, some evangelists

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00:38:12,680 –> 00:38:15,320
and some passes and some
teachers.

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00:38:15,320 –> 00:38:17,840
You know, Paul doesn’t say, oh,
he gave the gift of the

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00:38:17,840 –> 00:38:19,480
exposition.
He gave the gift of faith.

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00:38:19,480 –> 00:38:21,160
He gave the gift.
And it’s got nothing to do with

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00:38:21,160 –> 00:38:23,600
the Spirit, says Paul.
It’s got to do with what they

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00:38:23,600 –> 00:38:26,240
did with it, and it’s what they
served with.

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00:38:26,600 –> 00:38:31,120
He gave some apostles, he gave
some prophets, some evangelists,

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00:38:31,120 –> 00:38:34,200
some passes and teachers.
He gave people who served.

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00:38:36,400 –> 00:38:40,360
They were touched.
By the grace that they’d

631
00:38:40,360 –> 00:38:43,680
received as a response to that,
they.

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00:38:43,680 –> 00:38:45,920
Rose up to work and Yahweh’s
service.

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00:38:46,520 –> 00:38:47,960
Every single.
One of them.

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00:38:48,360 –> 00:38:53,440
As Yahweh’s people.
Responding to the call with one

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00:38:53,440 –> 00:38:54,560
purpose.
What for?

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00:38:54,560 –> 00:38:56,960
He says, Well, not for their own
personal glory.

637
00:38:57,760 –> 00:39:02,400
Verse 12.
For the perfecting of the

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00:39:02,400 –> 00:39:10,200
Saints, for the work of the
ministry, for the edifying of

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00:39:10,200 –> 00:39:11,680
the body of Christ.
That’s what they were.

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00:39:11,680 –> 00:39:13,640
Trying to do.
They were trying to build a

641
00:39:13,640 –> 00:39:16,600
unity amongst them.
To try and help.

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00:39:16,600 –> 00:39:23,480
Them stand up and to give see
each of them for the perfecting

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00:39:23,480 –> 00:39:26,200
of the Saints, for the work of
the ministry, for the building

644
00:39:26,200 –> 00:39:28,520
up of the body of Christ.
He says.

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00:39:28,520 –> 00:39:33,320
They were all there willing
volunteers motivated by grace

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00:39:33,480 –> 00:39:37,720
for the care and the maturing,
maturing and the working of

647
00:39:37,720 –> 00:39:43,880
building up their accusers.
And what were they trying to do?

648
00:39:45,800 –> 00:39:49,880
What’s your theme for the year?
They were trying to assist the

649
00:39:49,880 –> 00:39:53,680
Saints to come.
In the unity.

650
00:39:53,680 –> 00:39:59,360
Of the faith, the unified people
of Yahweh, amongst them in the

651
00:39:59,360 –> 00:40:03,120
unity of faith and in the
knowledge of the Son of God.

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00:40:04,280 –> 00:40:09,560
Unto a perfect man.
Unto the measure of the stature

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00:40:10,320 –> 00:40:14,360
of the fullness of Christ.
Why?

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00:40:14,960 –> 00:40:19,440
So that we don’t be tossed to
and fro by everything going on

655
00:40:19,440 –> 00:40:22,920
around us, every wind of
doctrine, by the slight of men

656
00:40:22,920 –> 00:40:25,680
and the cunning craftiness that
they’re trying to lie and to

657
00:40:25,680 –> 00:40:26,480
deceive.
There are people.

658
00:40:26,480 –> 00:40:30,080
Seeking self aggrandisement and
self glory, he says no, no, no.

659
00:40:30,680 –> 00:40:33,640
He says if we really understand
what God’s done for us, he says,

660
00:40:33,840 –> 00:40:39,560
we will speak the.
Truth in love.

661
00:40:40,040 –> 00:40:46,480
They’re pursuing truth in love.
So that we may grow up into him,

662
00:40:47,560 –> 00:40:50,760
into all things, which is the
head.

663
00:40:51,760 –> 00:40:54,680
Even Christ, from whom the whole
body?

664
00:40:55,080 –> 00:40:58,640
Fit be joined together and
compacted by that which every

665
00:40:58,640 –> 00:41:02,200
joint supplies, according to the
fictional working of the measure

666
00:41:02,200 –> 00:41:07,960
of the part maketh increase.
Of the body unto the edifying of

667
00:41:07,960 –> 00:41:13,760
itself and love.
So he says, mate, walk not as

668
00:41:13,760 –> 00:41:16,080
other Gentiles walk in the
vanity of their mind, but you

669
00:41:16,080 –> 00:41:19,640
focus on taking.
Off all of those former lusts.

670
00:41:20,000 –> 00:41:23,280
Renew in the spirit of your mind
that you might be a new man,

671
00:41:23,720 –> 00:41:28,840
which after God has created in
righteousness and true holiness.

672
00:41:30,240 –> 00:41:36,400
You see, these brothers and
sisters threw themselves into

673
00:41:36,400 –> 00:41:43,080
the work of the truth because
they each individually valued

674
00:41:44,200 –> 00:41:46,720
the fact that they had been
freed from.

675
00:41:46,720 –> 00:41:49,080
Sins captive grasp.
That they had been.

676
00:41:49,080 –> 00:41:53,520
Freed by like the captain’s
incredible victory, responding

677
00:41:53,520 –> 00:41:59,120
with vigor as willing volunteers
motored by love to show that

678
00:41:59,120 –> 00:42:01,720
love.
To their bridge.

679
00:42:04,160 –> 00:42:07,040
That’s what Christ’s sacrifice,
brothers and sisters.

680
00:42:07,680 –> 00:42:12,600
Should have done for them, and
should also do for us.

681
00:42:14,640 –> 00:42:19,040
And so, brothers and sisters,
now, as we turn our mind to the

682
00:42:19,080 –> 00:42:25,320
emblems of His love, we now have
time to examine ourselves.

683
00:42:26,840 –> 00:42:31,080
For we too, as the Ephesians,
have received and been.

684
00:42:31,080 –> 00:42:35,880
Gifted in abundance, abundant
grace by our Saviour’s

685
00:42:35,880 –> 00:42:40,480
sacrifice.
The question we have to ask

686
00:42:40,480 –> 00:42:47,960
ourselves is how have we
responded to that grace?

687
00:42:49,440 –> 00:42:52,200
What have we done in response to
His love?

688
00:42:52,200 –> 00:42:53,600
How have we?
Given.

689
00:42:55,080 –> 00:43:01,200
As we’ve received, brothers and
sisters, it’s a litmus, a litmus

690
00:43:01,200 –> 00:43:02,200
test question.
Sorry.

691
00:43:02,280 –> 00:43:08,000
It’s the science.
If we think about how much we’ve

692
00:43:08,000 –> 00:43:13,560
given, well, that’s just a
measure of how much we

693
00:43:13,560 –> 00:43:17,800
appreciate we’ve been given.
It’s quite simple.

694
00:43:19,000 –> 00:43:22,000
Isn’t it?
If we truly value what someone

695
00:43:22,000 –> 00:43:25,800
gives for us as a gift, oh we
should look to try and return

696
00:43:25,800 –> 00:43:28,120
that with.
Love to the same degree.

697
00:43:29,240 –> 00:43:34,080
That’s the test, isn’t it?
So the question is, are we like

698
00:43:34,080 –> 00:43:36,440
Bayrak and Debra in jail?
The willing volunteers, the

699
00:43:36,440 –> 00:43:40,480
10,000 men who volunteered and
jeopardised their lives unto

700
00:43:40,480 –> 00:43:42,360
death to save the president?
Are we like that, buzzing

701
00:43:42,360 –> 00:43:44,920
sisters?
Are we like?

702
00:43:44,920 –> 00:43:48,480
The Levites who stood by Moses’s
on the Lord’s side to do the

703
00:43:48,480 –> 00:43:50,760
service of the children of
Israel, to make atonement for

704
00:43:50,760 –> 00:43:52,320
the nation that there.
Be no plague.

705
00:43:52,520 –> 00:43:53,560
Is that the?
Spirit.

706
00:43:54,360 –> 00:43:57,440
That we have.
Are we the willing volunteers

707
00:43:57,960 –> 00:44:01,040
like Paul’s in his time and in
Aracleses to?

708
00:44:01,040 –> 00:44:05,240
Serve one another in whatever
capacity we can for one goal,

709
00:44:05,240 –> 00:44:08,240
not just for self, but to
perfect one another, to push

710
00:44:08,240 –> 00:44:11,160
each other to the Kingdom, to
work in administration in

711
00:44:11,160 –> 00:44:13,280
aracleses, and to build up the
body of Christ.

712
00:44:13,480 –> 00:44:17,240
Is that our response?
Because, brothers and sisters,

713
00:44:17,240 –> 00:44:20,480
if that answer isn’t a
resounding yes, then Paul says

714
00:44:20,480 –> 00:44:22,440
we need to check ourselves to
see if we’re walking.

715
00:44:22,440 –> 00:44:28,240
Worthy of the vocation wherewith
we’ve been caught, you see, it

716
00:44:28,240 –> 00:44:30,240
requires, says Paul, the.
Whole body.

717
00:44:30,240 –> 00:44:34,880
Not just a couple, not just 20%.
The whole body needs to work so

718
00:44:34,880 –> 00:44:39,120
that being fitly joined together
and united by the means of every

719
00:44:39,120 –> 00:44:43,040
assisting joint according to the
proportionate energy of each,

720
00:44:43,040 –> 00:44:45,360
every single part.
Because we can’t all do it.

721
00:44:45,520 –> 00:44:47,080
We can’t all do the same.
We can’t all.

722
00:44:47,080 –> 00:44:49,640
Be a Deborah.
We can’t be a Bareac, we can’t

723
00:44:49,640 –> 00:44:52,800
all be a jail, but every part
can help, says Paul.

724
00:44:52,960 –> 00:44:55,360
The whole thing needs to be all
working together.

725
00:44:56,640 –> 00:44:59,280
By the proportionate energy of
each and every single.

726
00:44:59,280 –> 00:45:03,560
Part that it might.
Affect and desist the growth of

727
00:45:03,560 –> 00:45:07,480
the body for the building up of
itself in love.

728
00:45:09,560 –> 00:45:15,080
Christ’s work, brother, and.
Sisters demands us all to give

729
00:45:15,080 –> 00:45:17,760
our.
So as we break.

730
00:45:17,760 –> 00:45:21,480
Bread and drink wine together
this morning in unity.

731
00:45:23,600 –> 00:45:27,200
Let’s each one of us commit
ourselves to be one of the

732
00:45:27,200 –> 00:45:30,680
10,000 of Yahweh Saints that
Yahweh might be seen among us,

733
00:45:31,920 –> 00:45:36,160
so that we commit ourselves to
walk to show our leadership in

734
00:45:36,160 –> 00:45:39,680
any way we can, as willing
volunteers in our Lord’s

735
00:45:39,680 –> 00:45:42,160
service.
To truly.

736
00:45:42,160 –> 00:45:50,320
Care for one another and to give
as we’ve been given, that Yahweh

737
00:45:50,320 –> 00:45:51,280
might dwell among us.