Class 5 from this series was used in GCT Episode 267.<\/p>\n
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\ndeliver the second class in the
\nseries on Bible Men the way they<\/p>\n
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\nwere entitled Balaam, A Man for
\nAll Seasons. <\/p>\n
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\nGood morning, everyone.
\nYou will remember well of. <\/p>\n
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\nCourse, the story of Balaam.
\nI realize that. <\/p>\n
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\nBut just as a starting point
\ntoday I will recollect. <\/p>\n
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\nFor you, the main scene, the
\nnarrative is. <\/p>\n
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\nConcerned with Balaam’s
\nrelationship with Balak king of <\/p>\n
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\nMoab, the border people of Moab,
\nthey lived. <\/p>\n
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\nOn the east side of the river
\nJordan and. <\/p>\n
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\nFrom time to time, of course,
\nthey came into contact with the <\/p>\n
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\nnation of Israel, indeed.
\nOne writer has suggested that <\/p>\n
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\nthe Moabites were to the people
\nof Israel. <\/p>\n
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\nRather, what the Red Indians
\nwere. <\/p>\n
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\nTo the first pioneers who
\nsettled this land as they passed<\/p>\n
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\nthrough Indiana.
\nWell, now it means that King <\/p>\n
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\nBalak had watched.
\nThe immigrant settlers winding <\/p>\n
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\ntheir way across the upland
\nterritories of his land and <\/p>\n
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\nconsequently he was more than
\nconcerned. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so he decided to invoke
\nsupernatural help, and he seeks <\/p>\n
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\nthe help of A.
\nCelebrated Holy man to curse the<\/p>\n
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\nPeople of Israel and He.
\nIs willing to pay a good price <\/p>\n
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\nfor the benefit.
\nEvidently Balaam is not a Hebrew<\/p>\n
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\nbecause he was in the land of
\nNoah. <\/p>\n
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\nBefore the Hebrews came.
\nIt’s a strange case, in a way, <\/p>\n
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\nof a man who is not a Hebrew but
\nhas a knowledge of and has <\/p>\n
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\ncontact with the Hebrews.
\nGod the narrative. <\/p>\n
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\nRevealed his contact with God
\nwas effective. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd in some way there was given
\nto Balaam the prophetic gift <\/p>\n
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\nthe.
\nOutworking of this relationship <\/p>\n
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\nbetween.
\nBalak and Balaam and God. <\/p>\n
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\nIs our means of forming a
\nconclusion about the Prophet <\/p>\n
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\nwho.
\nWas a man for all seasons and. <\/p>\n
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\nI hope.
\nProof that no man can serve too <\/p>\n
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\nmuch so.
\nWith that little introduction, I<\/p>\n
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\nbring you.
\nBrother and sisters to first of <\/p>\n
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\nall to the inspired judgement.
\nOf the New Testament on the <\/p>\n
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\ncharacter of Bailey, and it is
\ncontained in three passages <\/p>\n
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\nwhich I would like.
\nTo read to you and ask you to. <\/p>\n
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\nNotice the words carefully as we
\nread them. <\/p>\n
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\nThey are the words of the
\nApostle Peter of Jude and of <\/p>\n
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\nJesus 1st.
\nPeter Two Peter 2 verse 14 to 16<\/p>\n
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\nTwo Peter 2 verse 14 having eyes
\nfull of adultery. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd that cannot cease from sin,
\nenticing unsteadfast souls, <\/p>\n
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\nhaving a heart exercised in
\ncovetousness. <\/p>\n
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\nChildren of cursing, forsaking
\nthe right way, They went astray <\/p>\n
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\nfollowing the way of Balaam, the
\nson of Biore, who loved the hire<\/p>\n
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\nof wrongdoing.
\nBut he was. <\/p>\n
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\nRebuked for his own
\ntransgression, a dumb ass spake <\/p>\n
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\nwith a man’s voice and stayed
\nthe madness of the problem. <\/p>\n
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\nJude verse 11.
\nJude verse 11 Woe unto. <\/p>\n
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\nThem for they went in the way of
\nCain, and ran riotously in the <\/p>\n
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\nera of Balaam or higher, and
\nperished. <\/p>\n
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\nIn the gainsaying of Korah.
\nRevelation 2 verse 14. <\/p>\n
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\nWords of Jesus to Pergamum.
\nBut I have a few things against <\/p>\n
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\nthee, because there has there
\nsome that hold the teaching of <\/p>\n
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\nBalaam who taught Balaam.
\nTo cast the stumbling block of <\/p>\n
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\nall the children of Israel to
\neat. <\/p>\n
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\nThings sacrificed to idols and
\nto commit fornication. <\/p>\n
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\nWell, there you are.
\nThat is the inspired judgement. <\/p>\n
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\nOf the New Testament writers on
\nthe character of Balaam. <\/p>\n
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\nNow when you think about the
\nwords carefully, the words we <\/p>\n
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\nhave.
\nJust read, brothers and Sisters.<\/p>\n
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\nThere emerges clear evidence.
\nThat Balaam was not only a false<\/p>\n
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\nprophet, but indeed a wicked
\nman. <\/p>\n
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\nThe words are very.
\nSevere and the sentence passed <\/p>\n
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\nupon him is one of our mitigated
\ncondemnation. <\/p>\n
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\nBut here is something to ponder
\nI want. <\/p>\n
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\nTo submit to you that if you
\ncould have. <\/p>\n
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\nRead the story of Balaam in the
\nOld Testament. <\/p>\n
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\nTo never have read the New
\nTestament, comment upon it. <\/p>\n
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\nYou would.
\nHardly have come to such a <\/p>\n
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\nsevere judgement you might have.
\nThought that Balaam was a man of<\/p>\n
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\nweakness and in some sense a
\nvacillating character. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd you might have.
\nThought in some ways he was <\/p>\n
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\nrepulsive.
\nBut I feel sure. <\/p>\n
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\nThat the judgement of the New
\nTestament is not. <\/p>\n
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\nThe sentence that we would have
\npassed standing by ourselves. <\/p>\n
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\nWe might have said that though
\nBalaam had his weaknesses there,<\/p>\n
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\nthere is in his story something
\nwhich invites their sympathy. <\/p>\n
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\nVery often he is a man with like
\npassions with ourselves. <\/p>\n
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\nSome may have seen in him
\nevidence of conscientiousness. <\/p>\n
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\nYou could.
\nDiscern evidence of firmness in <\/p>\n
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\nthe face of the consistent
\ntemptations which came from the <\/p>\n
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\nbailout.
\nI mean when he realizes that he <\/p>\n
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\nis doing wrong immediately, he
\noffers to retrace his steps when<\/p>\n
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\nhe is about to undertake a
\njourney, and he will. <\/p>\n
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\nNot do it.
\nWithout first asking divine <\/p>\n
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\nguidance, he confesses earnestly
\nthat he can. <\/p>\n
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\nOnly do what God?
\nIntends, shall happen. <\/p>\n
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\nBeyond that, he has no power.
\nHe prays to die the death of the<\/p>\n
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\nrighteous.
\nHe could more than once have <\/p>\n
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\npracticed deception upon
\nbailout, but he will not do it. <\/p>\n
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\nIt seems that nothing will make
\nhim tell a lie. <\/p>\n
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\nSo there are things about him
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\nYet here we have. <\/p>\n
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\nThis.
\nWord on the page of the New <\/p>\n
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\nTestament, the inspired
\njudgement of the Lord. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd his apostles.
\nAnd when you read it. <\/p>\n
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\nYou are conscious that it tells
\nof melancholy, failure and dark.<\/p>\n
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\nDoom.
\nSo this is the first and <\/p>\n
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\ninteresting.
\nConclusion to draw right at the <\/p>\n
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\nbeginning.
\nWhen thinking about Balaam. <\/p>\n
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\nIt is possible, you see, for men
\nwho appear. <\/p>\n
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\nRespectable and conscientious
\nand honourable and gifted. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd religious and sincere and
\ncapable of uttering fine words. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s possible for them
\nnevertheless. <\/p>\n
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\nIn the sight of God.
\nTo be a failure and not A and to<\/p>\n
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\nbe heirs of prediction, it shows
\nus also that underneath the <\/p>\n
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\nexternals of Baalam’s character,
\nthere must. <\/p>\n
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\nHave been features which in the
\nsight. <\/p>\n
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\nOf God.
\nCaused him to deserve judgement <\/p>\n
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\nand became consequently an
\naccursed man. <\/p>\n
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\nNow our business this morning
\nthen is to try to see the things<\/p>\n
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\nwhich underlie the error of
\nBalaam in spite of what? <\/p>\n
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\nAt first sight, may seem to be
\nalive, not to reprehensible and <\/p>\n
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\nin some ways inviting our
\ncompassion. <\/p>\n
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\nWe’ve got to look.
\nUnderneath that we’ve got, as it<\/p>\n
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\nwere, to look more incisively
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\nWhat we are reading in the Old
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\nsuggest to you, therefore, that
\nthere were two. <\/p>\n
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\nElements in the era of Balaam,
\nwhich? <\/p>\n
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\nAnyway, is a revelation the
\nfirst error. <\/p>\n
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\nWas perversion, perversion and.
\nThe second was selfishness and I<\/p>\n
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\nshould try to show.
\nHow these two things are <\/p>\n
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\nmanifested in the life of this
\nman. <\/p>\n
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\nSo think first of all our
\nperversion. <\/p>\n
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\nMy perversion.
\nI mean, of course, the <\/p>\n
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\nperversion of the great.
\nGift of prophecy. <\/p>\n
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\nYou see, in ancient times there
\nwere men who set themselves <\/p>\n
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\napart to act as spell workers,
\neither to bless or curse or to <\/p>\n
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\nforetell events.
\nIt was quite a common thing and <\/p>\n
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\npeople.
\nUsed to go to these neat <\/p>\n
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\ncromancers to achieve their
\nends, or so they thought, in One<\/p>\n
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\nDirection or another.
\nSo it was with King Bailer he <\/p>\n
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\nsent to Pithor for bail.
\nOf course there were other <\/p>\n
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\nso-called prophets.
\nThey were impostors 12 men, <\/p>\n
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\nperhaps with unusual sagacity.
\nBut in this case the prophet <\/p>\n
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\nwhose services were being sought
\nwas a servant of God. <\/p>\n
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\nHis gifts were divinely
\nbestowed. <\/p>\n
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\nNow we know that it is always
\nthe purpose of the prophets of <\/p>\n
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\nGod to glorify.
\nHim. <\/p>\n
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\nThey didn’t represent themselves
\never as you’ve been as inspired <\/p>\n
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\nbecause they were better or
\nnobler than other. <\/p>\n
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\nPeople.
\nVery often they said they were <\/p>\n
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\nmore unworthy of the great
\nhonour than other men and they <\/p>\n
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\nshrank from it.
\nAnd always they were confessing <\/p>\n
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\nthat they were utterly dependent
\nupon God, and apart from him <\/p>\n
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\nthey will, they could do
\nnothing. <\/p>\n
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\nNow Balaam was one of God’s
\nprophets called. <\/p>\n
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\nAs it would seem to the holy
\nenterprise of glorifying God and<\/p>\n
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\nyet brothers, sisters, when you
\nread his story carefully. <\/p>\n
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\nIt seems to me you can’t escape
\nthe feeling that so much is <\/p>\n
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\nbeing done and so much is being
\nsaid to show the difference <\/p>\n
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\nbetween Balaam and other men.
\nThat is to say. <\/p>\n
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\nTo draw attention to himself to.
\nRepresent himself as a Mystic <\/p>\n
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\nman to portray.
\nHimself as one who has commerce <\/p>\n
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\nwith heaven, he builds.
\nAltars he he uses enchantments <\/p>\n
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\nthe whole process.
\nSeems more. <\/p>\n
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\nCalculated to glorify.
\nBalaam than to glorify God he. <\/p>\n
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\nLooks as though he wanted to be
\nadmire, he was glad. <\/p>\n
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\nTo be feared and sort of.
\nDo you not think that perhaps <\/p>\n
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\nBaylor had seen through
\nsomething of Balaam’s nature <\/p>\n
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\nwhen he said to him in verse 17
\nof Numbers 22 Am I not able to <\/p>\n
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\npromote thee unto honour?
\nAn interesting sentence. <\/p>\n
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\nAm I not able to promote thee
\nunto honour as though this was <\/p>\n
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\nsomething where Balaam could
\nmost easily be touched his <\/p>\n
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\nhonour?
\nIt mattered to him very much. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd almost you might catch a
\nglimpse of the fact that Balaam <\/p>\n
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\nhalf suspected his own weakness
\nwhen he said to Balak in verse <\/p>\n
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\n18 if Balak would give me his
\nhouse full of gold and. <\/p>\n
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\nSilver.
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\nYou see, sometimes men boast
\nabout that part of their <\/p>\n
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\nIn other words, they wish to
\nmake up in words what they lack <\/p>\n
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\nin strength and balaam.
\nWas saying, in effect, the very <\/p>\n
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\nlast thing you can do with me is
\nto tempt you with wealth. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know I’ve met.
\nMany of this, they say, don’t <\/p>\n
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\ndon’t offer me money.
\nWell, you just try it. <\/p>\n
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\nThe very thing then, secretly <\/p>\n
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\nthey hope for.
\nHave you ever met that? <\/p>\n
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\nSo it seems to me this is what
\nBailem is saying here. <\/p>\n
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\nThe last thing you can tempt me
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\nWell, do I say it’s happened,
\nMen. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s happened that many will
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\nNoble This noble and genuine
\nindifference to wealth and <\/p>\n
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\nworldly.
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\nsought after, Later on, when
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\nearth, step by step, bit by bit,
\nas it were they they gain <\/p>\n
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\npreeminence and and that first
\nand early love of the truth. <\/p>\n
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\nThat genuine consideration for
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\nlast.
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\nlove of the truth.
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\ninfluence and a.
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\nMaiden, I mean.
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\nHe loved the wages of <\/p>\n
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\nunrighteousness.
\nThat’s what Peter said, For the <\/p>\n
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\nsake of his own glory, he was
\nready to make. <\/p>\n
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\nHis prophetic gift, subservient
\nto the meanest purposes. <\/p>\n
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\nA man who wanted to please <\/p>\n
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\nHope that he would. <\/p>\n
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\nDefend God. <\/p>\n
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\nSeems to me to be a man who is
\nnot content with the first clear<\/p>\n
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\nindication of his duty, but one
\nsecond thoughts so as to justify<\/p>\n
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\nhimself.
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\nwhen he sought the Divine
\nguidance from God about. <\/p>\n
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\nIsrael what Mayak wanted him to
\ndo. <\/p>\n
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\nGod spoke to him quite plain,
\nsaid it’s in verse 12 of <\/p>\n
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\nNumbers. 22 He spoke to him
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\nshould not go with them.
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\nCurse the people, for they are
\nblessed. <\/p>\n
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\nNow nothing could be plain,
\nnothing could be more. <\/p>\n
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\nUnequivocal.
\nAnd yet when Balak sends again <\/p>\n
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\nBalaam goes back.
\nGoes back to God again and puts <\/p>\n
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\nit to God again.
\nIt’s evident that Balaam wanted <\/p>\n
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\nto get with me.
\nHe wanted to do. <\/p>\n
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\nseems that he would given a <\/p>\n
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\ngreat deal to be rid of the duty
\nthat had been imposed. <\/p>\n
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\nUpon him and.
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\nthat he is going to God not to
\nlearn what. <\/p>\n
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\nGod’s will is.
\nBut to get it altered to suit <\/p>\n
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\nhis own case, see very often in
\nthe matter of duty. <\/p>\n
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\nOur first conception of it is is
\nthe right one. <\/p>\n
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\nOur first conception is very
\noften clear and certain. <\/p>\n
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\ninvolved in the mazes. <\/p>\n
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\nWishing and wanting. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd arguing and disputing that
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\nThere’s a.
\nGreat deal of truth. <\/p>\n
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\nthoughts are best.
\nAnd haven’t you noticed this <\/p>\n
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\nbrother sisters, that though at
\nfirst God said to Baalam he was <\/p>\n
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\nnot to go with Baalam when
\nBaalam. <\/p>\n
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\nKept trying to justify.
\nGoing, God allowed him to go. <\/p>\n
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\nNow that may seem to be a
\nstrange contradiction. <\/p>\n
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\nsaid.
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\nNot really. <\/p>\n
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\nprinciple.
\nWhich we ought always to <\/p>\n
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\nremember when we are thinking
\nabout the waywardness of the <\/p>\n
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\nhuman heart, which persistently
\nseeks that which is ungodly. <\/p>\n
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\nThe principle is this God.
\nSometimes sends a man on to reap<\/p>\n
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\nthe fruit.
\nOf his own willfulness, there’s <\/p>\n
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\na.
\nVerse in Psalm 18 verse 26. <\/p>\n
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\nSolemn words by David.
\nPsalm 18 verse 26 about God. <\/p>\n
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\nIt says with the pure.
\nThou wilt show thyself pure. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd with the flowered thou wilt
\nshow. <\/p>\n
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\nThyself.
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\nSpeaks to men clearly and is
\nvery patient with their slowness<\/p>\n
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\nto respond.
\nBut if. <\/p>\n
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\nThe voice of God is continually
\nand wilfully silenced in man’s <\/p>\n
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\nlife.
\nThen at last, the voice of God <\/p>\n
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\nutters a terrible.
\nPermission. <\/p>\n
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\nThe voice of God says.
\nYes, go go. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd a man goes on to reap the
\nfruit of his own. <\/p>\n
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\nWillful folly.
\nThere’s a sentence in. <\/p>\n
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\nThe New Testament, which tells
\nit. <\/p>\n
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\nGod gave them up, gave them up.
\nSo observe how the perversion <\/p>\n
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\nwilled by.
\nBalaam came at last to not only <\/p>\n
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\nthe perversion of his prophetic
\ngift, but indeed the. <\/p>\n
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\nPerversion of his own mind and
\nheart. <\/p>\n
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\nDid you notice those words in
\ntwo Peter two verse? <\/p>\n
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\n16 What they already said the
\ndumb ass speaking with a man’s <\/p>\n
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\nvoice for bad.
\nThe madness of the Prophet. <\/p>\n
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\nIn the Bible, the. <\/p>\n
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\nMadness of the Prophet The
\ninspired writer described <\/p>\n
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\nBalaam’s condition as madness,
\nthe dumb ass speaking with a <\/p>\n
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\nman’s voice just in passing I.
\nI I noticed, and when I was <\/p>\n
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\nreading this 22nd chapter
\nNumbers, I noticed Speaking of <\/p>\n
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\nthe speaking with a man’s voice.
\nI noticed what seemed to me to <\/p>\n
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\nbe a strange reversal of voices.
\nI hope you’ll forgive. <\/p>\n
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\nMe for this, what I’m going to
\nsay if you don’t forgive me, I <\/p>\n
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\nshould have to get out.
\nBut. <\/p>\n
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\nNumbers 22, verse 28, The Lord.
\nOpened the mouth of the ass, and<\/p>\n
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\nhe said unto Balaam, What have I
\ndone unto thee, that thou <\/p>\n
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\nsmitten me these three times?
\nBalaam said unto thee, Ass <\/p>\n
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\nbecause thou has smacked me, I
\nwould there would have sword in <\/p>\n
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\nmy hand.
\nFor now I have killed thee. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the ass said unto Balaam, Am
\nnot I thine ass upon which the <\/p>\n
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\nhas arisen all thy lifelong unto
\nthis day? <\/p>\n
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\nMust I ever want to do this unto
\nthee? <\/p>\n
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\nSo there is the ass speaking
\nwith the man ‘s And it looked. <\/p>\n
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\nTo me as though the man speaking
\nwith the asses voice, but all <\/p>\n
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\nhe.
\nCould say was. <\/p>\n
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\nNah.
\nWell, I say. <\/p>\n
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\nI hope you’ll forgive.
\nMe for that but. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s just.
\nBy the way, it just enforces the<\/p>\n
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\npoint.
\nWhat I wanted to say really was,<\/p>\n
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\nyou see here we have a man with
\na dislocated and unbalanced <\/p>\n
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\nmind, and it was this
\ndislocated, unbalanced mind <\/p>\n
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\nwhich was really directing his
\nsteps. <\/p>\n
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\nWhen you see what Balaam did,
\nyou see something which is <\/p>\n
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\ncommon in the case where men
\nhave committed themselves to a <\/p>\n
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\nfalse position when men have
\ncommitted themselves to a false.<\/p>\n
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\nPosition.
\nWhen obstacles stand in the way <\/p>\n
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\nof securing their false
\nambition, they they lay the <\/p>\n
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\nblame on others.
\nThis is common enough they they <\/p>\n
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\nlay the blame.
\nUpon circumstances, when really <\/p>\n
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\nall the time the blame is, is on
\nthemselves. <\/p>\n
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\nBail and blame the ass.
\nAnd in the course of it his <\/p>\n
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\njudgement and his equanimity
\ndeparted from him. <\/p>\n
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\nHe loses his temper.
\nHe vents his rage on the <\/p>\n
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\ninnocent animal, but I say, he
\nhas not seen it before. <\/p>\n
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\nBrethren, sisters, have you
\nnever seen it? <\/p>\n
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\nA grown.
\nMan when he is discovered in a. <\/p>\n
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\nWrong course.
\nAnd when he is opposed he begins<\/p>\n
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\nto reason like a child.
\nHe becomes furious and <\/p>\n
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\nunbalanced and and reveals the
\ndislocation which the wrong <\/p>\n
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\ncourse has worked in his soul.
\nI’ve seen it. <\/p>\n
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\nYou’ve seen it.
\nSo it was with Balaam, his <\/p>\n
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\noutward unreasonableness, his
\ncounterpart of his inward. <\/p>\n
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\nWrongfulness and then notice one
\nlast thing under this heading of<\/p>\n
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\nperversion, the Angel said.
\nGo on. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd even then, there was still
\nhope for Balaamy. <\/p>\n
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\nHe was to go on, but only to
\nspeak the word. <\/p>\n
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\nOf God faith.
\nHe was to do God’s will, <\/p>\n
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\ncareless of the consequences and
\nlooking back on the sad. <\/p>\n
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\nStory of Balaam.
\nWe see that he had been false so<\/p>\n
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\nlong, could not bring himself.
\nTo be. <\/p>\n
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\nTrue at last.
\nNow that is the terror of. <\/p>\n
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\nWas he? <\/p>\n
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\nHe hadn’t set the seal on his
\nown. <\/p>\n
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\nDune.
\nThat’s part of the tariff of <\/p>\n
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\nperversion.
\nMen sometimes complain that <\/p>\n
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\ntheir lives drive, sometimes
\ncomplain that their destiny <\/p>\n
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\ndrives them on, almost against
\ntheir will. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd they lay the blame on God,
\ncurse the circumstances which. <\/p>\n
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\nDrive them, and they too easily
\nforget that it was they <\/p>\n
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\nthemselves that put themselves
\nin the way of the very forces <\/p>\n
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\nwhich are now driving them on
\nthe. <\/p>\n
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\nAwful.
\nProcess whereby at last men are <\/p>\n
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\ncompelled to be opened what they
\nare in. <\/p>\n
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\nThe wine Press of the life.
\nThe terror of perversion. <\/p>\n
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\nThis was the error of them and
\nhaving so much. <\/p>\n
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\nPreferable perversion Let’s
\nthink now of. <\/p>\n
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\nThe other element in his
\nfailure. <\/p>\n
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\nMy suggestion to you that was.
\nSelfishness. <\/p>\n
343
\n00:23:25,080 –> 00:23:32,280
\nNow he went with Balak.
\nHe built his altars. <\/p>\n
344
\n00:23:32,920 –> 00:23:37,920
\nHe offered sacrifices.
\nHe tried his enchantments to <\/p>\n
345
\n00:23:37,920 –> 00:23:42,280
\ndiscover whether God would
\npermit him to curse Israel, and <\/p>\n
346
\n00:23:42,280 –> 00:23:45,400
\nknew without doubt that he could
\nnot curse Israel because God <\/p>\n
347
\n00:23:45,400 –> 00:23:49,520
\nsaid they were to be blessed.
\nAnd as you know, he. <\/p>\n
348
\n00:23:50,200 –> 00:23:53,440
\nHe looks down from the hilltop
\nand sees the camp of Israel in <\/p>\n
349
\n00:23:53,920 –> 00:23:57,400
\nin fine array.
\nThe tents are gleaming in the <\/p>\n
350
\n00:23:57,400 –> 00:24:02,440
\nsunlight and and he realizes the
\nsolitary grandeur of God’s <\/p>\n
351
\n00:24:02,440 –> 00:24:05,120
\npeople.
\nThis is in Numbers 23. <\/p>\n
352
\n00:24:05,640 –> 00:24:09,960
\nHe wanted to know the reference
\nnumbers, 23 verse nine, he says <\/p>\n
353
\n00:24:09,960 –> 00:24:12,520
\nabout them.
\nThat they shall dwell alone, and<\/p>\n
354
\n00:24:12,520 –> 00:24:13,960
\nnot be reckoned among the
\nnation. <\/p>\n
355
\n00:24:14,800 –> 00:24:18,800
\nOut of the mouth of Balaam a
\nwonderful truth is compound <\/p>\n
356
\n00:24:20,160 –> 00:24:23,640
\nverse 923 numbers.
\nThey shall dwell alone and not <\/p>\n
357
\n00:24:23,640 –> 00:24:27,520
\nbe reckoned among the nation.
\nAnd he really realizes that they<\/p>\n
358
\n00:24:27,520 –> 00:24:31,840
\nare a nation far too numerous to
\ngive Balak any hope. <\/p>\n
359
\n00:24:31,840 –> 00:24:36,440
\nOf victory over them, he said in
\nverse 10, numbers 23, Who can <\/p>\n
360
\n00:24:36,440 –> 00:24:40,280
\ncount the dust of Jacob and then
\nand the number of the fourth <\/p>\n
361
\n00:24:40,280 –> 00:24:44,280
\npart of Israel.
\nHe realizes that there are no <\/p>\n
362
\n00:24:44,280 –> 00:24:47,600
\nenchantments which can offset
\nthe righteousness which God <\/p>\n
363
\n00:24:47,600 –> 00:24:52,320
\nintends for his elect.
\nIn verse 23 he says, surely <\/p>\n
364
\n00:24:52,640 –> 00:24:56,480
\nthere is no enchantment against
\nJacob, neither is there any <\/p>\n
365
\n00:24:56,480 –> 00:25:01,360
\ndivination against Israel.
\nNumbers 23, verse 23. <\/p>\n
366
\n00:25:02,440 –> 00:25:06,840
\nAll this he realizes and all
\nthis he proclaims as he looks <\/p>\n
367
\n00:25:06,840 –> 00:25:08,920
\ndown on the camp of the Lord’s
\nhouse. <\/p>\n
368
\n00:25:09,920 –> 00:25:16,200
\nAnd yet here is a strange thing.
\nBalaam knowing all this and <\/p>\n
369
\n00:25:16,200 –> 00:25:19,920
\nproclaiming.
\nIt goes on to try to blind <\/p>\n
370
\n00:25:19,920 –> 00:25:24,240
\nhimself to the truth.
\nHe himself would not utter A <\/p>\n
371
\n00:25:24,240 –> 00:25:27,680
\nfalsehood.
\nAs I said before, he could well <\/p>\n
372
\n00:25:27,680 –> 00:25:29,760
\nhave.
\nDeceived bailout the beginning <\/p>\n
373
\n00:25:29,760 –> 00:25:33,120
\nby uttering some strange
\nincantation and performing some <\/p>\n
374
\n00:25:33,120 –> 00:25:35,760
\nenchantment.
\nAnd could have. <\/p>\n
375
\n00:25:35,760 –> 00:25:38,560
\nCollected the reward, knowing
\nquite well that the outcome <\/p>\n
376
\n00:25:38,560 –> 00:25:40,480
\nwould not be altered.
\nOne which he could have done <\/p>\n
377
\n00:25:40,480 –> 00:25:44,520
\nthat, but he didn’t.
\nIn this respect, I suppose you <\/p>\n
378
\n00:25:44,520 –> 00:25:48,880
\ncould say he was a man of
\narrest, but when he is faced <\/p>\n
379
\n00:25:48,880 –> 00:25:51,800
\nwith the.
\nTruth about his He tries. <\/p>\n
380
\n00:25:51,800 –> 00:25:55,560
\nTo blind himself to you.
\nRemember what he did. <\/p>\n
381
\n00:25:55,560 –> 00:25:59,640
\nHe went to another hymn where he
\nwill not see the camp of Israel <\/p>\n
382
\n00:25:59,640 –> 00:26:04,840
\nso well, nor to such startling
\nadvantage, so that he may be <\/p>\n
383
\n00:26:04,840 –> 00:26:07,920
\nable to feel, perhaps, that the
\ntruth about Israel’s blessing is<\/p>\n
384
\n00:26:08,240 –> 00:26:10,680
\nis not so real.
\nIt’s not so enforced upon its <\/p>\n
385
\n00:26:10,680 –> 00:26:14,280
\nimagination.
\nHe thinks that if he can get to <\/p>\n
386
\n00:26:14,280 –> 00:26:16,080
\na position where.
\nThe glory of Israel is <\/p>\n
387
\n00:26:16,080 –> 00:26:19,240
\ndiminished in some way.
\nThen he might be able to get rid<\/p>\n
388
\n00:26:19,240 –> 00:26:24,160
\nof the stubborn realization that
\nwhatever he does, they are to be<\/p>\n
389
\n00:26:24,160 –> 00:26:27,080
\nbliss.
\nHe’s trying to blind himself to <\/p>\n
390
\n00:26:27,080 –> 00:26:34,960
\nthe truth, a man who is in some
\nrespects true and yet willing to<\/p>\n
391
\n00:26:34,960 –> 00:26:37,160
\nunlearn the truth for for
\nselfish. <\/p>\n
392
\n00:26:37,160 –> 00:26:40,240
\nEnds now.
\nThis is the story of human <\/p>\n
393
\n00:26:40,240 –> 00:26:42,840
\nnature.
\nHe is a man of like passions <\/p>\n
394
\n00:26:42,840 –> 00:26:45,960
\nwith ourselves.
\nIn a way, this is Bible men the <\/p>\n
395
\n00:26:45,960 –> 00:26:49,880
\nway they.
\nWere how often have the men <\/p>\n
396
\n00:26:49,880 –> 00:26:52,560
\nbeing willing to benefit from
\nthat which is false and wrong, <\/p>\n
397
\n00:26:52,560 –> 00:26:54,760
\nso long as they don’t have to
\ncome face to face with the <\/p>\n
398
\n00:26:54,760 –> 00:26:57,080
\nsource of their benefit or they
\ngain. <\/p>\n
399
\n00:26:57,560 –> 00:27:01,680
\nHow often it was so in this I
\nsay it with respect. <\/p>\n
400
\n00:27:01,680 –> 00:27:05,320
\nIt was so in in, in the days of
\nthe slave trade in this land, <\/p>\n
401
\n00:27:06,560 –> 00:27:10,280
\nand indeed in great.
\nBritain There were religious men<\/p>\n
402
\n00:27:10,280 –> 00:27:13,920
\nin England praising.
\nGod in their churches. <\/p>\n
403
\n00:27:14,840 –> 00:27:18,400
\nAnd becoming rich through the
\nsale of other men’s bodies and <\/p>\n
404
\n00:27:18,400 –> 00:27:20,720
\nnot bothering to ask very much
\nabout it. <\/p>\n
405
\n00:27:23,360 –> 00:27:26,720
\nMany a landlord in the bad old.
\nHe has received the rent from <\/p>\n
406
\n00:27:26,720 –> 00:27:30,760
\nhis agent without wishing to ask
\nhis agent what methods he used <\/p>\n
407
\n00:27:30,760 –> 00:27:34,400
\nto get it from the poor tenant.
\nWhat black man he used. <\/p>\n
408
\n00:27:37,000 –> 00:27:41,360
\nThere are those who take very
\ngreat care not to know too much <\/p>\n
409
\n00:27:41,360 –> 00:27:43,560
\nabout the source of the things
\nwhich benefit them. <\/p>\n
410
\n00:27:45,160 –> 00:27:47,400
\nThey are ready.
\nSecretly to Blind themselves to <\/p>\n
411
\n00:27:47,400 –> 00:27:50,320
\nthe truth for the sake of
\npersonal advancement. <\/p>\n
412
\n00:27:51,440 –> 00:27:54,720
\nNow Balaam was like this.
\nThis is the nature of his <\/p>\n
413
\n00:27:54,720 –> 00:27:59,600
\nselfishness.
\nAnd then at last it was <\/p>\n
414
\n00:27:59,600 –> 00:28:01,560
\nmanifested, perhaps, in the
\nworst thing of. <\/p>\n
415
\n00:28:01,560 –> 00:28:06,320
\nAll the last experience to gain
\nhis will. <\/p>\n
416
\n00:28:09,920 –> 00:28:16,920
\nWhen he realized that he could
\nnot change God, he tried to <\/p>\n
417
\n00:28:16,920 –> 00:28:21,320
\nchange Israel so that God.
\nWould cease to love them and <\/p>\n
418
\n00:28:21,640 –> 00:28:26,840
\ncease to bless.
\nThem it’s in numbers. <\/p>\n
419
\n00:28:27,160 –> 00:28:35,160
\nThe the the evidence is in
\nnumbers 31 verses 15 to 16 where<\/p>\n
420
\n00:28:35,160 –> 00:28:40,040
\nyou.
\nCan draw the conclusion that. <\/p>\n
421
\n00:28:41,840 –> 00:28:51,760
\nJust look at it.
\nMoses said unto them, Have you <\/p>\n
422
\n00:28:51,760 –> 00:28:55,760
\nsaved?
\nAll the women alive, behold <\/p>\n
423
\n00:28:55,760 –> 00:28:57,800
\nthese cause the children.
\nOf these are the. <\/p>\n
424
\n00:28:57,800 –> 00:29:02,360
\nWomen of Moab see, behold, these
\ncause the children of Israel <\/p>\n
425
\n00:29:02,720 –> 00:29:06,680
\nthrough the council of bail it
\ndrops. <\/p>\n
426
\n00:29:06,680 –> 00:29:10,720
\nOut.
\nIt drops out almost. <\/p>\n
427
\n00:29:11,120 –> 00:29:15,520
\nHeartlessly now these cause the
\nchildren of Israel, through the <\/p>\n
428
\n00:29:15,520 –> 00:29:19,280
\nCouncil of Balaam, to omit.
\nTrespass against the Lord in the<\/p>\n
429
\n00:29:19,280 –> 00:29:22,560
\nmatter of peal and.
\nSo the plague was. <\/p>\n
430
\n00:29:22,560 –> 00:29:24,360
\nAmong the congregation of the
\nLord. <\/p>\n
431
\n00:29:26,160 –> 00:29:28,960
\nNow therefore care every.
\nMale among the little ones and <\/p>\n
432
\n00:29:28,960 –> 00:29:31,440
\ncare every.
\nWoman that hath no man by lying <\/p>\n
433
\n00:29:31,440 –> 00:29:35,760
\nwith him.
\nHe recommended to Baalak to use <\/p>\n
434
\n00:29:35,760 –> 00:29:39,560
\nthe fascination of the women.
\nOf Mao to entice the Israelites <\/p>\n
435
\n00:29:39,560 –> 00:29:43,920
\ninto our dark.
\nHe tries to reverse God’s will <\/p>\n
436
\n00:29:43,920 –> 00:29:46,320
\nby reversing the character of
\nGod’s people. <\/p>\n
437
\n00:29:48,600 –> 00:29:53,240
\nGod will not bring curse upon
\nthose who are good, and <\/p>\n
438
\n00:29:53,240 –> 00:29:57,640
\ntherefore Balaam.
\nTries to make them bad in order.<\/p>\n
439
\n00:29:57,680 –> 00:30:02,040
\nTo achieve his ends, he tries to
\nmake the people of God. <\/p>\n
440
\n00:30:02,040 –> 00:30:04,400
\nBring curse upon themselves
\nsince he cannot do. <\/p>\n
441
\n00:30:04,400 –> 00:30:09,520
\nIt directly himself, and to some
\nextent he succeeded. <\/p>\n
442
\n00:30:11,720 –> 00:30:14,000
\nThis, perhaps, was the worst.
\nAct of all. <\/p>\n
443
\n00:30:15,040 –> 00:30:17,960
\nThis was perhaps the.
\nMost ignoble manifestation of <\/p>\n
444
\n00:30:17,960 –> 00:30:18,600
\nhis.
\nSelf. <\/p>\n
445
\n00:30:19,760 –> 00:30:25,080
\nReady to doom a whole nation so
\nas to secure his own ambition. <\/p>\n
446
\n00:30:28,920 –> 00:30:32,280
\nIs it not a strange thing that?
\nIn some things. <\/p>\n
447
\n00:30:33,200 –> 00:30:39,520
\nBalaam was careful.
\nTo do right and yet in this one <\/p>\n
448
\n00:30:39,520 –> 00:30:42,200
\ngreat thing.
\nHe was diabolically careless. <\/p>\n
449
\n00:30:43,960 –> 00:30:47,160
\nNo wonder revelation.
\nTwo speaks. <\/p>\n
450
\n00:30:47,160 –> 00:30:50,040
\nSo sternly of this.
\nFinal act of folly. <\/p>\n
451
\n00:30:51,400 –> 00:30:59,360
\nDo you remember what it said the
\nreference was? <\/p>\n
452
\n00:31:00,400 –> 00:31:03,200
\nWhat is it?
\nRevelation 2 verse 14. <\/p>\n
453
\n00:31:03,840 –> 00:31:13,840
\nRemember what it said?
\nSo I have a few things against <\/p>\n
454
\n00:31:13,840 –> 00:31:16,840
\nyou because there has there some
\nthat hold the teaching of Baum <\/p>\n
455
\n00:31:17,280 –> 00:31:20,800
\nwho taught.
\nBalak, the caster stumbling. <\/p>\n
456
\n00:31:21,600 –> 00:31:25,520
\nBefore the children of Israel,
\nreaching sacrifice to idols and <\/p>\n
457
\n00:31:25,520 –> 00:31:27,360
\nto commit.
\nFornication, we have <\/p>\n
458
\n00:31:27,360 –> 00:31:29,680
\nconfirmation right there.
\nHe. <\/p>\n
459
\n00:31:29,960 –> 00:31:33,000
\nHe.
\nHe. <\/p>\n
460
\n00:31:35,200 –> 00:31:40,920
\nEntice Balak to cast this
\nstumbling block before. <\/p>\n
461
\n00:31:40,920 –> 00:31:43,720
\nGod speaking so that they
\nbecame. <\/p>\n
462
\n00:31:43,720 –> 00:31:49,240
\nIdolaters and born again.
\nThat was his final act of life. <\/p>\n
463
\n00:31:50,840 –> 00:31:55,440
\nAgain, this is true to life.
\nThis is thou men are. <\/p>\n
464
\n00:31:56,000 –> 00:31:58,400
\nThere are those who would not
\nwish to do a thing. <\/p>\n
465
\n00:31:58,800 –> 00:32:00,440
\nOr a wrong thing?
\nOpen. <\/p>\n
466
\n00:32:01,600 –> 00:32:05,160
\nYet they are glad to win wrongly
\nif the wrong is kept secret. <\/p>\n
467
\n00:32:05,160 –> 00:32:10,680
\nHave you never seen it?
\nNo, they’re careful not to do <\/p>\n
468
\n00:32:10,680 –> 00:32:16,680
\nsomething openly.
\nVery careful, but they’re quite <\/p>\n
469
\n00:32:16,680 –> 00:32:20,360
\nsatisfied to.
\nBenefit from the wrong. <\/p>\n
470
\n00:32:21,120 –> 00:32:24,560
\nIf it’s secret.
\nAnd there are. <\/p>\n
471
\n00:32:24,560 –> 00:32:28,160
\nThose who would strongly.
\nResent being called traitors. <\/p>\n
472
\n00:32:29,400 –> 00:32:31,960
\nAnd yet nevertheless.
\nThey will nurse in their own <\/p>\n
473
\n00:32:31,960 –> 00:32:35,000
\nlives, the very thing which.
\nThe ’cause they are. <\/p>\n
474
\n00:32:35,000 –> 00:32:40,160
\nSupposed to be fighting for, is
\nseeking to to outlaw. <\/p>\n
475
\n00:32:41,080 –> 00:32:42,840
\nIn their own lives, they will
\nnurse. <\/p>\n
476
\n00:32:42,840 –> 00:32:44,880
\nThe very thing which they’re
\nsupposed to be. <\/p>\n
477
\n00:32:44,880 –> 00:32:46,800
\nOutlawing and.
\nThat’s a traitor. <\/p>\n
478
\n00:32:48,000 –> 00:32:48,960
\nA traitor?
\nIs not a man. <\/p>\n
479
\n00:32:48,960 –> 00:32:51,480
\nWho fights?
\nAgainst you in the open, he <\/p>\n
480
\n00:32:51,480 –> 00:32:53,920
\nisn’t anyway.
\nBut not a traitor. <\/p>\n
481
\n00:32:54,960 –> 00:32:58,280
\nA man is a traitor.
\nIs a man who being with you. <\/p>\n
482
\n00:33:00,600 –> 00:33:05,440
\nOn your side let’s.
\nIn one of your enemies secretly,<\/p>\n
483
\n00:33:05,720 –> 00:33:14,120
\nthat’s a Trade 2.
\nFaced and double minded, willing<\/p>\n
484
\n00:33:14,120 –> 00:33:15,440
\nto work their.
\nWrong through the. <\/p>\n
485
\n00:33:15,440 –> 00:33:19,360
\nWeakness of other me.
\nNow this was back. <\/p>\n
486
\n00:33:19,960 –> 00:33:21,560
\nThat’s what I’m saying.
\nThis was back. <\/p>\n
487
\n00:33:23,440 –> 00:33:26,200
\nNow observe the master cause
\nwhich lies at the root of all. <\/p>\n
488
\n00:33:26,200 –> 00:33:28,840
\nBalaam is far, I’m saying to you
\nit is selfish. <\/p>\n
489
\n00:33:30,280 –> 00:33:35,600
\nThat’s it.
\nBalaam’s self The honour of <\/p>\n
490
\n00:33:35,600 –> 00:33:38,600
\nBalaam.
\nThe reputation of Baam. <\/p>\n
491
\n00:33:39,520 –> 00:33:43,520
\nThe wealth of Baam.
\nThe destiny of Baam. <\/p>\n
492
\n00:33:45,680 –> 00:33:48,680
\nSo at.
\nLast, he is forced. <\/p>\n
493
\n00:33:49,320 –> 00:33:51,760
\nNot to desire that goodness and
\nrighteousness. <\/p>\n
494
\n00:33:52,800 –> 00:33:55,360
\nThat’s the awful thing.
\nHe is a prophet. <\/p>\n
495
\n00:33:56,040 –> 00:34:01,240
\nHe is supposed to desire that
\nthe things which are good and <\/p>\n
496
\n00:34:01,240 –> 00:34:05,200
\nnoble and true should prosper
\nand should be established. <\/p>\n
497
\n00:34:07,840 –> 00:34:10,080
\nBut as I say.
\nIn the end, he is forced to be. <\/p>\n
498
\n00:34:10,080 –> 00:34:12,600
\nOpposite he is, he is forced not
\nto desire. <\/p>\n
499
\n00:34:12,600 –> 00:34:16,360
\nThat goodness and righteous
\nnational prosper, and the reason<\/p>\n
500
\n00:34:16,360 –> 00:34:18,679
\nis.
\nBecause his own personal selfish<\/p>\n
501
\n00:34:18,679 –> 00:34:21,800
\ninterests.
\nAre best favored by the failure <\/p>\n
502
\n00:34:21,800 –> 00:34:23,120
\nof.
\nOthers and the failure of <\/p>\n
503
\n00:34:23,120 –> 00:34:25,159
\ngoodness.
\nWhat an awful thing to be. <\/p>\n
504
\n00:34:25,400 –> 00:34:31,480
\nWhat an awful, inexorable
\nsituation to be in your own. <\/p>\n
505
\n00:34:31,600 –> 00:34:34,360
\nSelfish ends if they.
\nAre to be achieved must be <\/p>\n
506
\n00:34:34,360 –> 00:34:38,440
\nachieved by the failure of.
\nGoodness the failure of. <\/p>\n
507
\n00:34:38,440 –> 00:34:41,080
\nThose who ought to be true and
\nwill be true, you leave him <\/p>\n
508
\n00:34:41,080 –> 00:34:42,960
\nalone.
\nA man who? <\/p>\n
509
\n00:34:42,960 –> 00:34:45,159
\nCould not forget himself in
\nGod’s pause. <\/p>\n
510
\n00:34:46,120 –> 00:34:48,760
\nWho could not resign himself to
\nGod’s purpose because? <\/p>\n
511
\n00:34:48,760 –> 00:34:52,840
\nHe was compelled.
\nBut of his own nature to think. <\/p>\n
512
\n00:34:52,840 –> 00:34:56,040
\nFirst of himself and his own
\nadvancement. <\/p>\n
513
\n00:34:57,560 –> 00:35:01,920
\nSo how shall we sum up the
\nerror? <\/p>\n
514
\n00:35:04,680 –> 00:35:09,160
\nWell this is what I have put
\ndown as a summation. <\/p>\n
515
\n00:35:11,280 –> 00:35:13,360
\nHe was a.
\nMan, who knew God? <\/p>\n
516
\n00:35:14,520 –> 00:35:16,360
\nAnd had communication with.
\nHim. <\/p>\n
517
\n00:35:17,160 –> 00:35:21,000
\nAnd.
\nProphesied in God’s name, he had<\/p>\n
518
\n00:35:21,000 –> 00:35:25,320
\na clearview of how much better
\nis the blessing of God and <\/p>\n
519
\n00:35:25,320 –> 00:35:27,280
\nrighteousness.
\nThan the mere. <\/p>\n
520
\n00:35:27,280 –> 00:35:29,640
\nGaining of temporary honour and
\nwealth. <\/p>\n
521
\n00:35:30,760 –> 00:35:35,840
\nAnd yet we discover, we discover
\nhim wanting to use the highest <\/p>\n
522
\n00:35:35,840 –> 00:35:41,360
\ngifts for the meanest purposes,
\nfor the sake of human honour <\/p>\n
523
\n00:35:41,360 –> 00:35:42,560
\nand.
\nSelfish day. <\/p>\n
524
\n00:35:44,200 –> 00:35:45,880
\nThat is.
\nWhy the New Testament? <\/p>\n
525
\n00:35:46,040 –> 00:35:49,680
\nJudgement is so severe.
\nWith the desperation of a <\/p>\n
526
\n00:35:49,680 –> 00:35:53,080
\ngambler, he went on.
\nIn a course which he must have <\/p>\n
527
\n00:35:53,080 –> 00:35:57,440
\nknown was fraught with danger,
\nhe was driven by selfishness to <\/p>\n
528
\n00:35:57,440 –> 00:36:01,600
\nat last he was responsible for.
\nTempting a nation to sin and to <\/p>\n
529
\n00:36:01,600 –> 00:36:08,120
\nruin.
\nHe thought of himself as a man. <\/p>\n
530
\n00:36:08,120 –> 00:36:11,760
\nSuperior to others.
\nAnd as he must have known that <\/p>\n
531
\n00:36:11,760 –> 00:36:13,520
\nBala could judge him to be a
\nman. <\/p>\n
532
\n00:36:14,120 –> 00:36:17,560
\nWho had his peace?
\nAnd so he came to be. <\/p>\n
533
\n00:36:17,560 –> 00:36:20,520
\nDespised at last by those who
\nwere his infest. <\/p>\n
534
\n00:36:22,080 –> 00:36:24,680
\nAnd at last in and this is a
\nstrange. <\/p>\n
535
\n00:36:24,720 –> 00:36:27,880
\nThing, isn’t he?
\nAt last, in wonderful words of <\/p>\n
536
\n00:36:27,880 –> 00:36:30,080
\nfeeling and.
\nPoetry he was. <\/p>\n
537
\n00:36:30,080 –> 00:36:33,400
\nForced to prophecy about a
\ngrandeur and a righteousness and<\/p>\n
538
\n00:36:33,400 –> 00:36:38,320
\na destiny for the people of God,
\nin which he himself had no shit.<\/p>\n
539
\n00:36:39,000 –> 00:36:41,160
\nAnd in which.
\nHe himself could possibly have <\/p>\n
540
\n00:36:41,160 –> 00:36:45,520
\nno power.
\nSo in the end, the very themes <\/p>\n
541
\n00:36:45,520 –> 00:36:50,720
\nwhich he had brought at all his
\nlife, as it were the the very <\/p>\n
542
\n00:36:50,720 –> 00:36:57,000
\nthemes for which he had brought
\nat all his future, were lost and<\/p>\n
543
\n00:36:57,000 –> 00:37:00,880
\ndisciplined.
\nIndeed, the final act of his <\/p>\n
544
\n00:37:00,880 –> 00:37:09,240
\nstory epitomizes the whole the
\nbattle with Israel, which Bailak<\/p>\n
545
\n00:37:09,240 –> 00:37:13,080
\nfeared would one day come to
\npass, came to peace. <\/p>\n
546
\n00:37:14,480 –> 00:37:19,960
\nAnd in that battle, Bailing
\nfought and he fought on the side<\/p>\n
547
\n00:37:19,960 –> 00:37:25,520
\nof Balak against God.
\nYou can read the end of the <\/p>\n
548
\n00:37:25,520 –> 00:37:31,240
\nstory in Numbers 31, verse 8,
\nNumbers 31, verse 8. <\/p>\n
549
\n00:37:32,160 –> 00:37:35,000
\nA.
\nSad sentence. <\/p>\n
550
\n00:37:36,720 –> 00:37:39,720
\nAnd Israel ward against.
\nThe Midianites, as the Lord <\/p>\n
551
\n00:37:39,720 –> 00:37:41,040
\ncommanded.
\nMoses. <\/p>\n
552
\n00:37:42,160 –> 00:37:49,520
\nAnd they slew all the males.
\nAnd Balaam also the son of Beor.<\/p>\n
553
\n00:37:50,960 –> 00:37:59,080
\nThey slew the show this story.
\nOf the man. <\/p>\n
554
\n00:37:59,080 –> 00:38:02,200
\nFor All seasons is a story with
\na sad ending. <\/p>\n
555
\n00:38:05,200 –> 00:38:06,800
\nAnd how, at last, brother and
\nsister? <\/p>\n
556
\n00:38:06,800 –> 00:38:12,960
\nShall we measure it?
\nBut it seems to me that first <\/p>\n
557
\n00:38:12,960 –> 00:38:17,200
\nand last one thing appears of
\npromotion in revelation, this <\/p>\n
558
\n00:38:17,200 –> 00:38:22,920
\nnarrative at the risk of
\nwearying, I stress it again. <\/p>\n
559
\n00:38:24,200 –> 00:38:33,840
\nBalaam’s self the honour of
\nBalaam as a true prophet, So he <\/p>\n
560
\n00:38:33,840 –> 00:38:38,960
\nis careful not to lie the wealth
\nabandoned. <\/p>\n
561
\n00:38:40,000 –> 00:38:44,080
\nTherefore, the nation of Israel
\ncan be sacrificed in order to <\/p>\n
562
\n00:38:44,080 –> 00:38:47,320
\nsecure it.
\nAnd and and I’m. <\/p>\n
563
\n00:38:47,320 –> 00:38:50,560
\nFortified in this assessment by
\nreturning to the words of the <\/p>\n
564
\n00:38:50,560 –> 00:38:53,120
\nNew Testament, remember what
\nPeter said. <\/p>\n
565
\n00:38:53,880 –> 00:38:56,520
\nHe loved the wages.
\nNotice the word. <\/p>\n
566
\n00:38:58,080 –> 00:39:01,400
\nHe loved the wages of
\nunrighteousness. <\/p>\n
567
\n00:39:03,280 –> 00:39:08,080
\nAnd in June, 11 world have ever
\nrun greedily. <\/p>\n
568
\n00:39:09,120 –> 00:39:13,680
\nAfter the error of faith, love
\nthe way it. <\/p>\n
569
\n00:39:13,680 –> 00:39:17,720
\nIs.
\nGreedily, after the error of <\/p>\n
570
\n00:39:17,720 –> 00:39:20,480
\nfaith, So at the root of his
\nfaith was this. <\/p>\n
571
\n00:39:20,480 –> 00:39:25,560
\nCurse of selfishness.
\nEven in his sublimeness visions,<\/p>\n
572
\n00:39:25,560 –> 00:39:28,800
\nhis egotism breakthrough, let me
\ndie. <\/p>\n
573
\n00:39:28,800 –> 00:39:31,880
\nThe death of the righteous I
\nshall behold. <\/p>\n
574
\n00:39:31,880 –> 00:39:36,520
\nHim but not none.
\nSee the noble apocalypse of <\/p>\n
575
\n00:39:36,520 –> 00:39:39,360
\nIsrael.
\nSeek to lose themselves in the <\/p>\n
576
\n00:39:39,400 –> 00:39:43,000
\nglory of their revelation, so
\nthat their own personalities are<\/p>\n
577
\n00:39:43,000 –> 00:39:46,400
\nforgotten.
\nIndeed, Moses, when he thought <\/p>\n
578
\n00:39:46,400 –> 00:39:50,640
\nGod would destroy the people,
\nsaid, Yet now if thou would <\/p>\n
579
\n00:39:50,640 –> 00:39:54,480
\nforgive their sins, block me, I
\npray thee out of my book. <\/p>\n
580
\n00:39:55,560 –> 00:39:58,560
\nMoses was willing to be nothing,
\nto be forgotten, to be lost, for<\/p>\n
581
\n00:39:58,560 –> 00:40:01,360
\nthe sake of others, and.
\nPaul said the same. <\/p>\n
582
\n00:40:01,360 –> 00:40:03,280
\nThing I have.
\nContinuous sorrow in my. <\/p>\n
583
\n00:40:03,320 –> 00:40:07,760
\nHeart for I could wish myself.
\nHold a curse on Christ for my <\/p>\n
584
\n00:40:07,760 –> 00:40:11,720
\nbrother, my kinsman, According
\nto the flesh, you are Israeli, <\/p>\n
585
\n00:40:15,160 –> 00:40:16,200
\nbut this?
\nIs not the. <\/p>\n
586
\n00:40:16,200 –> 00:40:22,160
\nAnxiety of Balaam Balaam’s
\nanxiety is how will it advance <\/p>\n
587
\n00:40:22,160 –> 00:40:25,480
\nme?
\nHe loved. <\/p>\n
588
\n00:40:25,480 –> 00:40:29,280
\nThe wages of unrighteousness.
\nHe ran greedily. <\/p>\n
589
\n00:40:32,720 –> 00:40:35,720
\nIt seems that not for one moment
\neven the sublimity. <\/p>\n
590
\n00:40:36,760 –> 00:40:45,040
\nCan bail and forget himself.
\nSo you see, we are driven with <\/p>\n
591
\n00:40:45,080 –> 00:40:48,640
\nhim for the conclusion that the
\nroot failure of his life after <\/p>\n
592
\n00:40:50,320 –> 00:40:53,280
\nhe perverted the noble gift to
\nprophecy. <\/p>\n
593
\n00:40:53,280 –> 00:40:58,280
\nBut the root failure of his life
\nwas selfishness. <\/p>\n
594
\n00:41:01,240 –> 00:41:08,600
\nAt heart he was a compromiser.
\nDriven to compromise by greed, <\/p>\n
595
\n00:41:10,800 –> 00:41:15,120
\nand this character is a strange
\ncomplexity of opposing forces. <\/p>\n
596
\n00:41:16,800 –> 00:41:21,080
\nAnd how can I put it to you
\nthere? <\/p>\n
597
\n00:41:21,960 –> 00:41:26,280
\nThere are not realities which
\nyou can clearly identify. <\/p>\n
598
\n00:41:26,320 –> 00:41:32,000
\nAre they not anywhere but but
\nsemblances of this? <\/p>\n
599
\n00:41:32,000 –> 00:41:35,440
\nAnd.
\nI mean, he seems to be a man of <\/p>\n
600
\n00:41:35,440 –> 00:41:37,560
\nintegrity in it somehow.
\nHe’s not. <\/p>\n
601
\n00:41:39,480 –> 00:41:42,720
\nHe looks like an obedient
\nprophet, and yet he’s willing to<\/p>\n
602
\n00:41:42,720 –> 00:41:46,440
\ndisobey.
\nHe says Israel will triumph, and<\/p>\n
603
\n00:41:46,440 –> 00:41:48,360
\nyet he’s.
\nTempting the nation to sin. <\/p>\n
604
\n00:41:48,600 –> 00:41:51,880
\nAnd crime and ruin.
\nAnd at last. <\/p>\n
605
\n00:41:51,880 –> 00:41:54,320
\nForced to tell of the grandeur,
\nwhich he couldn’t share. <\/p>\n
606
\n00:41:54,320 –> 00:41:57,240
\nIn the righteousness in.
\nWhich he would have no part. <\/p>\n
607
\n00:41:58,080 –> 00:42:00,120
\nAt last, his mind.
\nIs like his love. <\/p>\n
608
\n00:42:00,120 –> 00:42:03,480
\nTorn and.
\nDistracted and and distorted. <\/p>\n
609
\n00:42:05,240 –> 00:42:07,240
\nAnd you can imagine him rushing
\nat last. <\/p>\n
610
\n00:42:07,240 –> 00:42:10,400
\nWith insane frenzy.
\nRealizing that all was. <\/p>\n
611
\n00:42:10,400 –> 00:42:13,240
\nLost and and the.
\nThings which he parted his life,<\/p>\n
612
\n00:42:13,240 –> 00:42:17,600
\nas I said before, and now gone,
\ncomes to his end upon the Spears<\/p>\n
613
\n00:42:17,600 –> 00:42:20,200
\nof the people he he sought to
\ncorrupt. <\/p>\n
614
\n00:42:21,040 –> 00:42:25,800
\nSo let’s learn the truth from
\nthe failure of failing. <\/p>\n
615
\n00:42:25,800 –> 00:42:30,360
\nAnd what is it?
\nWell, this. <\/p>\n
616
\n00:42:32,160 –> 00:42:35,040
\nIt is one thing to have great
\nopportunities. <\/p>\n
617
\n00:42:36,880 –> 00:42:38,720
\nIt is one.
\nThing to have access. <\/p>\n
618
\n00:42:38,720 –> 00:42:43,840
\nTo great powers, it is one thing
\nto have sublime feelings and <\/p>\n
619
\n00:42:43,840 –> 00:42:49,880
\ngreat passions, but it is
\nanother thing to live truly. <\/p>\n
620
\n00:42:50,360 –> 00:42:55,480
\nAnd humbly and.
\nSelflessly and after the two my <\/p>\n
621
\n00:42:55,480 –> 00:42:58,960
\ncomrades, the latter is the
\nvital thing. <\/p>\n
622
\n00:43:00,560 –> 00:43:03,840
\nFor you may have great
\nopportunities and great powers <\/p>\n
623
\n00:43:04,040 –> 00:43:10,080
\nand sublime feelings and great
\npassions, and utterly, that’s <\/p>\n
624
\n00:43:10,080 –> 00:43:14,800
\nthe message let us therefore
\ntake. <\/p>\n
625
\n00:43:16,760 –> 00:43:22,200
\nAnd let us.
\nTake stock with reverend fear. <\/p>\n
626
\n00:43:24,680 –> 00:43:27,040
\nSee how a man may ought to find
\nwords. <\/p>\n
627
\n00:43:28,320 –> 00:43:31,040
\nSee how a man may hold Orthodox
\nbooth. <\/p>\n
628
\n00:43:33,200 –> 00:43:35,280
\nAnd yet.
\nSomehow, in the inmost part of <\/p>\n
629
\n00:43:35,280 –> 00:43:39,720
\nhim, he’s untouched and
\nunredeemed by the very. <\/p>\n
630
\n00:43:39,720 –> 00:43:42,680
\nThings he is saying and
\nportrayed. <\/p>\n
631
\n00:43:44,520 –> 00:43:48,160
\nI suppose it’s an awful thing
\nfor a man to talk about the <\/p>\n
632
\n00:43:48,160 –> 00:43:52,760
\ntruth and speculate about it.
\nNever do it. <\/p>\n
633
\n00:43:54,080 –> 00:43:58,440
\nHe is forced.
\nThrough and. <\/p>\n
634
\n00:43:58,440 –> 00:44:07,120
\nThrough now.
\nThis really was the error of the<\/p>\n
635
\n00:44:07,120 –> 00:44:09,520
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