Class 2 from this series was used in GCT Episode 270.<\/p>\n
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\nSay unto your brethren, AMI, and
\nto your sisters Ruhamma, plead <\/p>\n
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\nwith your mother, plead for she
\nis not my wife. <\/p>\n
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\nSo it’s almost as if God is
\nsaying Go tell your son Jezreel <\/p>\n
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\nto stand up and plead a case
\nagainst her mother as if his <\/p>\n
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\nmother as if she was in in court
\nand we were in front of a judge.<\/p>\n
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\nAnd talk to her about how she’s
\nliving and the way she is <\/p>\n
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\ntreating her family and treating
\nher marriage. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd through through this acted
\nout parable in a man’s life, God<\/p>\n
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\nis showing Hosea and the nation
\nwhat it was that Israel put him <\/p>\n
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\nthrough.
\nNow when you look at the <\/p>\n
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\nprophets to Israel, they come
\nright at that end stage, the <\/p>\n
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\nlast few years of the existence
\nof the Kingdom of Israel and the<\/p>\n
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\nnorth.
\nAnd you, you would ask yourself <\/p>\n
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\nthe question, Why would God go
\nto the trouble when they <\/p>\n
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\nwouldn’t listen and just a tiny
\nremnant of them would survive? <\/p>\n
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\nWhy would he go to all this
\ntrouble? <\/p>\n
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\nWhy did Jesus offer Judas
\nIscariot the SOP? <\/p>\n
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\nHe knew he had betrayed him.
\nHe knew he wouldn’t turn from <\/p>\n
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\nwhat he was going to do.
\nHe knew that Judas would go all <\/p>\n
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\nthe way through, and even
\nknowing that and knowing that <\/p>\n
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\nScripture had predicted all
\nthese things, there is Christ <\/p>\n
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\nstill working with a brother,
\njust in case he can turn him <\/p>\n
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\naround.
\nHe did that because that’s the <\/p>\n
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\nway God is, because that’s the
\nway God was with this rebellious<\/p>\n
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\npeople.
\nGod. <\/p>\n
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\nGod knew them.
\nHe says it right in the chapter <\/p>\n
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\nthat was just read for us.
\nI know your heart, O Ephraim. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd yet he still sends a Hosea.
\nHe still allows this man to <\/p>\n
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\nplunge into the depths of
\nheartache and loss, All of those<\/p>\n
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\nthings because he loved Israel
\ndeeply, deeply. <\/p>\n
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\nSo it goes on in chapter 2 and
\nhe says, look, you need to do <\/p>\n
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\nthese things lest I strip her
\nnaked and set her as the day <\/p>\n
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\nthat she was born.
\nAnd surely some of you will be <\/p>\n
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\nthinking of Ezekiel chapter 16,
\nwhere God represents himself as <\/p>\n
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\nwalking along and he sees this
\nlittle baby girl. <\/p>\n
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\nShe still has the umbilical cord
\nattached to her. <\/p>\n
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\nShe’s thrashing around in her
\nblood. <\/p>\n
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\nShe’s just been born and pitched
\nout, rejected by the mother that<\/p>\n
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\nbore her.
\nHe picks up that baby in her <\/p>\n
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\nnakedness, in her blood, and he
\nsays live. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he cares for her and he
\nloves her. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so here he says, I need you
\nto talk to her so that her <\/p>\n
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\nthinking will change, so that I
\ndon’t have to put her back down <\/p>\n
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\nonto the ground, so that she can
\ncontinue to thrash in her blood,<\/p>\n
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\npitched out by the people who
\nshould have loved her and looked<\/p>\n
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\nafter her.
\nAnd so he goes on and he says, <\/p>\n
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\nas in the day that she was born,
\nand make her as a wilderness and<\/p>\n
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\nset it like a dry land.
\nLook at the attitude that Israel<\/p>\n
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\nhas.
\nIsrael looks at all of these <\/p>\n
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\nlovers that she has, and in the
\ncontext of the passage, it’s <\/p>\n
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\nabout the gods that she worships
\noutside of Yahweh, together with<\/p>\n
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\nworshipping Yahweh, that
\nhorrible, nasty amalgam of <\/p>\n
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\nreligion that she had.
\nAnd it says in verse 5 for she <\/p>\n
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\nsaid, I will go after my lovers
\nthat gave me my bread and my <\/p>\n
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\nwater and my wool and my flax
\nand mine oil and my drink. <\/p>\n
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\nLook at the repetition of that,
\nthat word, mine, mine. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s all about me.
\nIt’s this thing that belongs to <\/p>\n
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\nme that I have, that I’ve gotten
\nfrom my lovers. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd she hadn’t gotten it from
\nthose lovers. <\/p>\n
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\nShe’d gotten these things from
\nher actual God, Yahweh, her <\/p>\n
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\nhusband, that she’d spurned.
\nAnd then he goes on verse seven.<\/p>\n
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\nShe shall follow after her
\nlovers, but she shall not <\/p>\n
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\novertake them, and she shall
\nseek them, but shall not find <\/p>\n
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\nthem.
\nAnd just before he says that, <\/p>\n
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\nGod says I’m good, going to put
\na hedge in place so she can’t <\/p>\n
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\nfind her lovers anymore.
\nGod made it hard for Israel to <\/p>\n
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\nsin, but she still found ways.
\nNow it’s the same thing with us,<\/p>\n
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\nisn’t it?
\nGod puts in boundaries, things <\/p>\n
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\nin our conscience, things from
\nthe word of God, words our <\/p>\n
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\nparents have taught us or or or
\nor or told us as they were <\/p>\n
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\nraising us, the words of our
\nbrothers and sisters around us, <\/p>\n
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\nall these things.
\nAnd yet we still find ways to <\/p>\n
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\nsin.
\nEvery one of us. <\/p>\n
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\nWe know the bypass, we know how
\nto get under, get over, get <\/p>\n
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\naround that hedge.
\nBut God still puts a hedge in <\/p>\n
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\nplace.
\nHe still put something in place <\/p>\n
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\nthat provides A boundary line, a
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\nthose things we want to do.
\nBut Israel found a way around, <\/p>\n
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\nand it says in verse 9.
\nTherefore will I return and take<\/p>\n
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\naway my corn?
\nIt was mine. <\/p>\n
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\nIt wasn’t from the gods that she
\nworshipped in the time thereof, <\/p>\n
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\nand my wine in the season
\nthereof, and will pluck away my <\/p>\n
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\nwool and my flax, which should
\nhave covered her nakedness. <\/p>\n
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\nSo he corrects all the minds and
\nminds and he says all that <\/p>\n
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\nstuff, all those things, all
\nthat prosperity. <\/p>\n
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\nIt belonged to me.
\nI’m going to, I’m going to take <\/p>\n
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\nit all back.
\nIt was the story of a brother <\/p>\n
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\nwho had everything a person
\ncould want in this world. <\/p>\n
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\nHe’d worked hard, he’d
\naccumulated it, put it together.<\/p>\n
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\nIt was his life.
\nHe was full of it, full of <\/p>\n
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\npride.
\nBecause of all the things that <\/p>\n
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\nhe had, it lifted him in his
\nmind, above his brothers and <\/p>\n
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\nsisters.
\nHe became unapproachable, <\/p>\n
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\njudgmental, hard, critical,
\nedgy. <\/p>\n
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\nCircumstances changed in his
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\nhad.
\nHe was more destitute than the <\/p>\n
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\npoorest brother that he knew.
\nYou know who showed him the most<\/p>\n
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\nkindness?
\nThe people who had nothing, <\/p>\n
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\nnothing at all.
\nThey took what little food they <\/p>\n
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\nhad, what little clothing they
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\nhim.
\nThey gave him a place to stay in<\/p>\n
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\ntheir little tiny apartments,
\nand they slept on the floor and <\/p>\n
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\nput him in the bed.
\nAnd that brother realized I had <\/p>\n
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\nnothing when I had everything.
\nAnd now that I have nothing, I <\/p>\n
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\nhave everything, because now I
\nknow what my faith is. <\/p>\n
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\nNow I know who my brothers and
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\nThe brother still has almost
\nnothing, but he’s happier than <\/p>\n
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\nhe ever was when he had
\neverything. <\/p>\n
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\nIsrael had everything.
\nShe thought it was hers. <\/p>\n
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\nShe thought people gave it to
\nher that didn’t even exist. <\/p>\n
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\nGod takes that misunderstanding
\nand corrects it by taking <\/p>\n
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\neverything away from her.
\nNow these are the things he said<\/p>\n
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\nthat he would do to her.
\nBut she didn’t believe what he <\/p>\n
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\nwas saying.
\nShe didn’t listen to what he was<\/p>\n
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\nsaying, but he still tried.
\nHe still gave her that SOP. <\/p>\n
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\nHosea, go and talk to her.
\nJezreel, talk to your mother. <\/p>\n
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\nPeople, listen to me.
\nTake the SOP. <\/p>\n
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\nDo the right thing.
\nChange your ways. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so God, in the end, would do
\nall of these things. <\/p>\n
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\nHe would take away Israel’s
\nfeasts, festivals, sacrifices, <\/p>\n
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\ntemple.
\nHe’d take away all of that, <\/p>\n
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\nbecause out in the lands in
\nwhich she was, he was. <\/p>\n
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\nHe catapulted her.
\nHe sowed her like seed, strewn <\/p>\n
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\ninto the wind, out into foreign
\nnations. <\/p>\n
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\nShe couldn’t worship him.
\nShe wanted to, but she couldn’t.<\/p>\n
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\nShe couldn’t keep the feasts,
\nfestivals, fasts, any of those <\/p>\n
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\nthings she found Everything that
\nwas of value was taken away from<\/p>\n
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\nher at that time.
\nAnd so, as Brother Rob Stern was<\/p>\n
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\npointing out to me, there are
\nthree interesting uses or places<\/p>\n
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\nand contexts.
\nBut the word therefore is used <\/p>\n
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\nsomething, something therefore,
\nand then something else. <\/p>\n
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\nThe first one, then, or one of
\nthem is in verse six. <\/p>\n
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\nTherefore, behold, I will hedge
\nup thy way. <\/p>\n
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\nSo, because she has these
\nattitudes, my me, mine, and my <\/p>\n
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\nlovers, the idols that I
\nworship, gave this stuff to me. <\/p>\n
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\nTherefore, I’m going to put a
\nhedge between them and their <\/p>\n
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\nability to worship these things.
\nBut she wouldn’t have anything <\/p>\n
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\nto do with that hedge.
\nShe found a way around it. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd then in verse 9, verse nine,
\nhe talks about. <\/p>\n
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\nTherefore, because of the
\nattitudes I’m going to take <\/p>\n
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\naway, I’ll take those things
\naway, but it still doesn’t have <\/p>\n
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\nthe desired effect.
\nAnd then I put it to you. <\/p>\n
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\nThe real heart of God comes out
\nunderneath the discipline, <\/p>\n
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\nunderneath the correction,
\nunderneath the terror and <\/p>\n
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\ntragedy comes the love that is
\nunderneath all of that. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he says in verse 14,
\nTherefore the third. <\/p>\n
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\nTherefore, behold, I will appeal
\nto her. <\/p>\n
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\nI’ll bring her into the
\nwilderness and speak tenderly to<\/p>\n
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\nher.
\nAnd what God is saying is I’m <\/p>\n
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\ngoing to take her back to when
\nshe was my young bride. <\/p>\n
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\nI’m going to take her back to
\nthat first little apartment that<\/p>\n
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\nwe had, where the only furniture
\nin the place was stuff we found <\/p>\n
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\nthrown out in front of people’s
\nhomes or that had been given to <\/p>\n
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\nus by brothers and sisters,
\nwhere even the curtains were <\/p>\n
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\ngiven to us by brothers and
\nsisters. <\/p>\n
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\nWhere we had old pots and pans
\nthat didn’t match up, furniture <\/p>\n
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\ndidn’t match, but that’s where
\nwe started. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s where our love was young,
\nand where was the love of Israel<\/p>\n
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\nand Yahweh Young.
\nAnd he brought her out of Egypt <\/p>\n
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\ninto the wilderness.
\nAnd she followed him around <\/p>\n
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\nthrough the wilderness, even as
\nshe made her mistakes. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd a generation was lost.
\nBut a generation was gained and <\/p>\n
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\nbrought, brought into the land
\nof promise. <\/p>\n
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\nBut but that was their little
\napartment. <\/p>\n
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\nThat was their first time
\ntogether as a couple. <\/p>\n
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\nGod says she won’t respond to
\nthese other disciplines. <\/p>\n
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\nLet me take her back when she
\nwas my young wife and see if <\/p>\n
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\nthat will turn her around, and I
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\nThence and the valley of Ako for
\na door of hope. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, yes, he’s talking about how
\nhe’s going to deal with Israel <\/p>\n
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\nisn’t he?
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\nson Jezreel that he’s going to <\/p>\n
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\nsend and look at the wounds in
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\nof Acor which reminds them of <\/p>\n
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\nAcan and what had happened to
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\nAnd the cursing of that man when
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\ngarment and and the bars of
\ngold, and all the things of this<\/p>\n
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\nhim happiness and just gave him <\/p>\n
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\nturned around and Acor will
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\nfor this stubborn and resistant
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\nWith what things, what <\/p>\n
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\nmark that relationship? <\/p>\n
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\nkindness and in mercies?
\nI will even betroth thee unto me<\/p>\n
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\nin faithfulness.
\nAnd thou shalt know Yahweh. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so he’s he’s he’s looking
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\nthis nation. <\/p>\n
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\nhorror of what the Assyrians are<\/p>\n
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\nBut he looks forward to the time
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\nunited as one people with <\/p>\n
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\nGentiles to become the bride of
\nhis son and his people forever. <\/p>\n
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\nSo it goes on in this chapter
\nand it says in verse 23. <\/p>\n
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\nNow just look at this as
\nexquisite verse, and puzzle it <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I will sow her unto me in <\/p>\n
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\nupon her that have not obtained <\/p>\n
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\nnot my people, Thou art my
\npeople, and they shall say, thou<\/p>\n
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\nart my God.
\nNow now look at look, look at <\/p>\n
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\nWell, what does that remind you <\/p>\n
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\nof First Corinthians 15?
\nThe seed sown in the earth, the <\/p>\n
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\ndead in Christ in the earth,
\nthat seed that is sown unto me, <\/p>\n
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\nbecause they’ll be raised and
\nafter judgment will be God’s <\/p>\n
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\neverlasting, ever living
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\nSo God is not just looking at
\nwhat’s going to happen to Israel<\/p>\n
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\nwhen the resurrection has <\/p>\n
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\noccurred through his son
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\nGo talk to your mother, the
\nnation, when they will be raised<\/p>\n
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\nThose people who were sown, he’d<\/p>\n
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\nsown them like seed amongst Jews
\nand Gentiles, to be his children<\/p>\n
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\nforever.
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\nand just just when you think you<\/p>\n
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\ncannot take any more, God adds
\nanother trial. <\/p>\n
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\nOn top of that, this this man
\nHosea had two terrible jobs. <\/p>\n
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\nHe had to marry a wife that <\/p>\n
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\nlive with somebody else.
\nNow when that happens, your <\/p>\n
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\nheart is broken into little
\nsplintered bits. <\/p>\n
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\nYou wake up in the morning and
\nyou don’t want to wake up. <\/p>\n
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\ncannot sleep. <\/p>\n
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\nYou wake up exhausted. <\/p>\n
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\nBut then as time goes by,
\nthere’s a a kind of healing, a <\/p>\n
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\ngoes off in our minds. <\/p>\n
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\nYou never get over.
\nThe loss of the person you love.<\/p>\n
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\nYou just slowly get used to the
\nfact that they’re not there <\/p>\n
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\nanymore.
\nThat hole is never filled. <\/p>\n
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\nThat was them in your life, but
\nyou grow used to it. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd then you begin to forget the
\nthe sound of their voice. <\/p>\n
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\nwhat they look like, except for <\/p>\n
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\nNow you get to that stage, <\/p>\n
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\nAnd then Lord God Almighty says <\/p>\n
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\nThis is literally, literally <\/p>\n
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\nGo again. <\/p>\n
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\nExclamation point, love,
\nexclamation, or whatever the <\/p>\n
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\nHebrew equivalent is.
\nTwo strong ordered commands. <\/p>\n
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\nGo again, love.
\nSo what he’s telling him is it’s<\/p>\n
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\nnot over with that woman, son.
\nNot not. <\/p>\n
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\nCommentators do backflips and
\nall kinds of things that they <\/p>\n
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\nread into a woman loved of her
\nfriend, who is the friend that <\/p>\n
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\nshe is loved by.
\nAnd it’s Hosea. <\/p>\n
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\nHe never got over that love for
\nhis, for his wayward wife. <\/p>\n
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\nHe never stopped loving her.
\nHe he he was without the stress <\/p>\n
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\nof her being with him and
\nwandering for a while. <\/p>\n
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\nBut then God said you have to do
\nit like me. <\/p>\n
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\nGo continue to love her.
\nShe is beloved of you, and yet <\/p>\n
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\nshe is an adulteress.
\nAnd this is how you need to love<\/p>\n
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\nher.
\nWhat? <\/p>\n
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\nI want you to love each other as<\/p>\n
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\nI love you.
\nAnd that was a new commandment. <\/p>\n
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\nWell, how is it new?
\nHow is it new that they would <\/p>\n
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\nWell, what was new was the <\/p>\n
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\nknew what Christ had to look <\/p>\n
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\npast to love them, and he still
\nloved all of them. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd God essentially is saying
\nthe same thing to Hosea. <\/p>\n
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\nI want you to love her like I
\nlove Israel. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s what God is saying to
\nhim, according to the love of <\/p>\n
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\nthe Lord toward the children of
\nIsrael now. <\/p>\n
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\nSo he goes out to find his wife,
\nand he knows where she is. <\/p>\n
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\nthis. <\/p>\n
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\nyoung Comer. <\/p>\n
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\nlike Israel was faithful to God,<\/p>\n
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\nas Jeremiah chapter 2 says.
\nBut then her eye wandered and <\/p>\n
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\nshe thought she could do better.
\nThen she spurned him and <\/p>\n
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\nhe was to her. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd she went out with one man
\nand another man and another man.<\/p>\n
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\nAnd of course she was beautiful.
\nSo that could happen and <\/p>\n
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\ncontinue until as time went by.
\nShe wasn’t beautiful anymore. <\/p>\n
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\nShe wasn’t young anymore.
\nNow now look what has to happen.<\/p>\n
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\nI bought her to me for 15 pieces
\nof silver and a Homer of barley,<\/p>\n
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\nand a half Homer of barley.
\nNow why this mixture of silver <\/p>\n
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\nand and and and a Homer and half
\nof barley? <\/p>\n
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\nNow of course we might read into
\nit’s silver having to do with <\/p>\n
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\nthe Lord Jesus Christ, the <\/p>\n
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\noffering reminding us of the <\/p>\n
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\nbread that’s in the bread of
\nbread and wine that represents <\/p>\n
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\nwhat a Homer of barley was <\/p>\n
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\nkings during whose time Hosea <\/p>\n
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\nto 30 pieces of silver, the <\/p>\n
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\nBecause he gave everything he <\/p>\n
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\nHe had nothing else to give. <\/p>\n
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\nbecause he didn’t have that kind<\/p>\n
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\nSo he he supplemented what he <\/p>\n
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\nHe had everything he had to give<\/p>\n
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\nwith all the food he had so that
\nhe could redeem his beloved <\/p>\n
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\nsinful wife.
\nDoes remind you of another <\/p>\n
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\nOf course it does. <\/p>\n
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\nthis room right now. <\/p>\n
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\neverything he had for that. <\/p>\n
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\nlisten to these words. <\/p>\n
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\nhe takes Gomer is broken, <\/p>\n
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\nchastened, demoralized, depleted
\nwoman who is now a slave in <\/p>\n
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\nsomeone of no value, mistreated <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he takes her back home. <\/p>\n
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\nWould you do that for your wife?
\nYes, you would. <\/p>\n
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\nI know you would be thinking of <\/p>\n
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\nand said about you and said <\/p>\n
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\nblackened your reputation, <\/p>\n
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\nruined your name, how she hurts
\nyou to the core, how many years <\/p>\n
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\nBut when you see her in the <\/p>\n
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\nremember the love you have for <\/p>\n
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\nthan what Hosea did here for <\/p>\n
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\nGomer and what God did for
\nIsrael, and what Christ did for <\/p>\n
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\nHow could you do otherwise? <\/p>\n
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\nthe brother or sister that fails
\nbeside you in the ecclesia? <\/p>\n
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\ndecisions or actions they’ve <\/p>\n
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\neveryone to see. <\/p>\n
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\nWould you do that for them?
\nWould you do that for your child<\/p>\n
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\nyou? <\/p>\n
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\nrelated to, For, for your aunt, <\/p>\n
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\nyour uncle riddled with disease,
\nwhose life has fallen apart into<\/p>\n
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\ndrugs and alcohol and all kinds
\nof degradation? <\/p>\n
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\nWould you do that for them?
\nYou see, we’re all fine <\/p>\n
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\nupstanding, well dressed
\nbrothers and sisters in Christ. <\/p>\n
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\nBut every one of these suit
\njackets covers a broken person, <\/p>\n
338
\n00:28:45,640 –> 00:28:52,080
\nbroken because of sin, broken
\nbecause of all the folly and <\/p>\n
339
\n00:28:52,080 –> 00:28:58,400
\nfrailty that we carry about in
\nourselves, in our hearts, in our<\/p>\n
340
\n00:28:58,400 –> 00:29:02,800
\nminds.
\nAnd sometimes when someone’s <\/p>\n
341
\n00:29:02,800 –> 00:29:09,400
\nbrokenness becomes public, we
\npull back from them, so none of <\/p>\n
342
\n00:29:09,400 –> 00:29:14,920
\nit splashes up unto us.
\nBut that’s our flesh and blood. <\/p>\n
343
\n00:29:16,320 –> 00:29:21,040
\nIsaiah 58 talks about the fact
\nthat we cannot hide ourselves <\/p>\n
344
\n00:29:21,800 –> 00:29:26,760
\nfrom our own flesh and blood.
\nWhen the leper came up to Christ<\/p>\n
345
\n00:29:26,760 –> 00:29:30,280
\nand said, if you will, you can
\nmake me clean, he didn’t step <\/p>\n
346
\n00:29:30,280 –> 00:29:32,240
\nback and say yes.
\nStand back a bigot, will you? <\/p>\n
347
\n00:29:32,240 –> 00:29:33,480
\nYes.
\nBe clean. <\/p>\n
348
\n00:29:33,800 –> 00:29:41,240
\nHe put his hand on him and by
\nevery tradition and social norm <\/p>\n
349
\n00:29:41,440 –> 00:29:44,960
\nof Israeli life, rendered
\nhimself utterly unclean by <\/p>\n
350
\n00:29:44,960 –> 00:29:49,640
\ntouching that man.
\nBut he touched him so that he <\/p>\n
351
\n00:29:49,640 –> 00:29:54,840
\ncould show you.
\nYou’re connected to me. <\/p>\n
352
\n00:29:56,480 –> 00:29:59,600
\nWhat you have on you that
\neveryone can see on the outside,<\/p>\n
353
\n00:30:00,880 –> 00:30:08,440
\nI have in the nature I bear, and
\nI do want to make you clean, and<\/p>\n
354
\n00:30:08,440 –> 00:30:11,880
\nI do want to treat you with
\nhonor and respect. <\/p>\n
355
\n00:30:11,880 –> 00:30:19,880
\nSo that man picked up his
\nbroken, pitiable wife in his <\/p>\n
356
\n00:30:19,880 –> 00:30:26,200
\narms, and he took her home.
\nAnd he said to her when he took <\/p>\n
357
\n00:30:26,200 –> 00:30:31,520
\nher home, Thou shalt abide for
\nme many days. <\/p>\n
358
\n00:30:33,360 –> 00:30:38,200
\nThou shalt not play the harlot.
\nThou shalt not be another man’s.<\/p>\n
359
\n00:30:39,280 –> 00:30:46,480
\nAnd so will I also be for thee.
\nFor the children of Israel shall<\/p>\n
360
\n00:30:46,480 –> 00:30:51,520
\nabide many days without a king,
\nwithout a Prince, without a <\/p>\n
361
\n00:30:51,520 –> 00:30:55,800
\nsacrifice, without an image,
\nwithout an ephod, without <\/p>\n
362
\n00:30:55,800 –> 00:30:59,960
\nTerrapin, and afterwards shall
\nthe children of Israel return <\/p>\n
363
\n00:31:00,320 –> 00:31:04,520
\nand seek the Lord their God, and
\nDavid their king, and shall fear<\/p>\n
364
\n00:31:04,520 –> 00:31:10,280
\nthe Lord and his goodness in the
\nlatter days. <\/p>\n
365
\n00:31:11,640 –> 00:31:18,400
\nAnd so this, this picture is not
\njust about a man and what God <\/p>\n
366
\n00:31:18,400 –> 00:31:22,000
\nput him through so he could
\nunderstand what it’s like to <\/p>\n
367
\n00:31:22,000 –> 00:31:24,960
\nthink like God, to feel like
\nGod. <\/p>\n
368
\n00:31:25,520 –> 00:31:29,200
\nAnd you, some commentators say
\nyou know this this business <\/p>\n
369
\n00:31:29,200 –> 00:31:32,720
\nabout these feelings God is
\nexpressing, Well, that’s not <\/p>\n
370
\n00:31:32,720 –> 00:31:36,360
\nreally what God feels.
\nGod is trying to explain his <\/p>\n
371
\n00:31:36,360 –> 00:31:40,560
\nemotions and terms that we
\nordinary humans can understand, <\/p>\n
372
\n00:31:40,840 –> 00:31:43,880
\nand that’s rubbish.
\nWhere do you think those <\/p>\n
373
\n00:31:43,880 –> 00:31:46,520
\nfeelings and us came from?
\nMums. <\/p>\n
374
\n00:31:46,520 –> 00:31:49,040
\nWhere do you think your motherly
\nfeelings came from? <\/p>\n
375
\n00:31:49,960 –> 00:31:55,240
\nFrom God?
\nFrom God, all of these feelings <\/p>\n
376
\n00:31:55,240 –> 00:32:01,720
\nhurt, love, sadness,
\ndisappointment, elation, joy. <\/p>\n
377
\n00:32:02,720 –> 00:32:10,160
\nThese feelings come from God and
\nare in us too. <\/p>\n
378
\n00:32:11,360 –> 00:32:14,920
\nSo God did feel hurt and
\ndisappointment. <\/p>\n
379
\n00:32:15,720 –> 00:32:20,520
\nGod did feel a deep sense of
\nloss with Israel. <\/p>\n
380
\n00:32:20,960 –> 00:32:25,520
\nIt’s not just that He’s talking
\nin language so we mortals can <\/p>\n
381
\n00:32:25,520 –> 00:32:28,320
\nunderstand, but that’s not
\nreally how he feels. <\/p>\n
382
\n00:32:28,320 –> 00:32:36,000
\nThat is exactly what he feels.
\nSo that means when God saw his <\/p>\n
383
\n00:32:36,160 –> 00:32:45,960
\nchild, his baby, pinned to that
\ncross, he felt everything. <\/p>\n
384
\n00:32:45,960 –> 00:32:55,960
\nA father would feel everything.
\nEvery pang his child felt, he <\/p>\n
385
\n00:32:56,000 –> 00:33:01,400
\nfelt it too.
\nSo like Abraham and Isaac, they <\/p>\n
386
\n00:33:01,400 –> 00:33:07,000
\ntoo went along together.
\nAnd when that great darkness <\/p>\n
387
\n00:33:07,000 –> 00:33:15,640
\nunfolded around that scene on
\nGolgotha, it was God coming <\/p>\n
388
\n00:33:15,800 –> 00:33:21,960
\ndown, some presence representing
\nhim there with his child. <\/p>\n
389
\n00:33:22,640 –> 00:33:27,920
\nJust like that same cloud had
\ncome down upon Mount Sinai, just<\/p>\n
390
\n00:33:27,920 –> 00:33:31,600
\nlike that same cloud had come
\ndown on the Mount of <\/p>\n
391
\n00:33:31,600 –> 00:33:36,480
\nTransfiguration, just like that
\nsame cloud had filled up the <\/p>\n
392
\n00:33:36,480 –> 00:33:41,520
\ntemple and pushed the priests
\nout because of its presence. <\/p>\n
393
\n00:33:43,640 –> 00:33:51,480
\nIt was right there with his
\nchild, feeling every pang with <\/p>\n
394
\n00:33:51,480 –> 00:33:55,560
\nhis child and that’s how he is
\nwith you. <\/p>\n
395
\n00:33:58,000 –> 00:34:03,520
\nSo I know brother or sister, you
\nhave a hard life, you have to <\/p>\n
396
\n00:34:03,520 –> 00:34:08,000
\nlive.
\nAnd I understand the loneliness <\/p>\n
397
\n00:34:08,760 –> 00:34:15,239
\nthat goes with that life.
\nI understand those long, long <\/p>\n
398
\n00:34:15,239 –> 00:34:19,639
\nevenings.
\nJust know that you are not <\/p>\n
399
\n00:34:20,159 –> 00:34:28,840
\nalone, that your God is with
\nyou, that your God cares so much<\/p>\n
400
\n00:34:29,080 –> 00:34:34,000
\nfor you and what you feel and
\nwhat you’re going through, That <\/p>\n
401
\n00:34:34,000 –> 00:34:39,560
\nHe will never let you go.
\nHe’s always there with you. <\/p>\n
402
\n00:34:41,840 –> 00:34:45,600
\nChapter four.
\nHe goes through all the evils of<\/p>\n
403
\n00:34:45,600 –> 00:34:50,199
\nthe nation.
\nHe says in verse 6, my people <\/p>\n
404
\n00:34:50,199 –> 00:34:51,400
\nare destroyed.
\nFor what? <\/p>\n
405
\n00:34:52,199 –> 00:34:57,120
\nFor lack of knowledge.
\nBecause thou hast rejected <\/p>\n
406
\n00:34:57,360 –> 00:35:01,840
\nknowledge, I will also reject
\nthee that thou shalt be no <\/p>\n
407
\n00:35:01,840 –> 00:35:04,840
\npriest to me.
\nSo this is like the words in <\/p>\n
408
\n00:35:04,840 –> 00:35:10,800
\nMalachi, where God is rebuking
\nthe priest and they were to be <\/p>\n
409
\n00:35:10,800 –> 00:35:16,120
\nthe sources of knowledge and
\nteaching in the nation. <\/p>\n
410
\n00:35:16,400 –> 00:35:20,280
\nThe prophets came and went.
\nThe priests were supposed to <\/p>\n
411
\n00:35:20,320 –> 00:35:25,960
\nalways be there, teaching,
\nleading, reaching into the <\/p>\n
412
\n00:35:25,960 –> 00:35:28,320
\nnation, showing them out of the
\nlaw. <\/p>\n
413
\n00:35:28,600 –> 00:35:32,840
\nAnd you know, brethren, that’s
\nour job today. <\/p>\n
414
\n00:35:33,280 –> 00:35:36,800
\nAnd sisters who teach Sunday
\nschool, that’s your job with the<\/p>\n
415
\n00:35:36,800 –> 00:35:41,280
\nkids.
\nThis is part of what Psalm 78 <\/p>\n
416
\n00:35:41,280 –> 00:35:45,880
\ndescribes.
\nGeneration, passing things on to<\/p>\n
417
\n00:35:45,880 –> 00:35:51,080
\ngenerations after them.
\nAnd if if we don’t have the word<\/p>\n
418
\n00:35:51,080 –> 00:35:55,080
\nof God right in the center of
\necclesial life and it’s so easy <\/p>\n
419
\n00:35:55,080 –> 00:35:59,080
\nfor it to be pushed off, you
\njust just think the ecclesia <\/p>\n
420
\n00:35:59,080 –> 00:36:04,000
\ngets together, everybody is
\nplaying games, having fun, and <\/p>\n
421
\n00:36:04,000 –> 00:36:05,960
\nthe word of God is pushed off to
\nthe side. <\/p>\n
422
\n00:36:05,960 –> 00:36:09,560
\nMay or may not even be read.
\nPerhaps if it’s read, it’s just <\/p>\n
423
\n00:36:09,560 –> 00:36:12,160
\na short passage, no comments.
\nAnd on to the games. <\/p>\n
424
\n00:36:13,120 –> 00:36:16,240
\nWell, the the the problem is
\nthat’s appealing to flesh. <\/p>\n
425
\n00:36:18,400 –> 00:36:20,760
\nIf the word of God is not kept
\nin the center. <\/p>\n
426
\n00:36:22,480 –> 00:36:27,720
\nAnd brothers, you might listen
\nto speakers travelling through <\/p>\n
427
\n00:36:28,360 –> 00:36:33,640
\nlike, oh, it’s so easy for that
\nbrother to get up there and say <\/p>\n
428
\n00:36:33,640 –> 00:36:36,640
\nthis or that.
\nI couldn’t do that. <\/p>\n
429
\n00:36:38,000 –> 00:36:42,120
\nYou are making for yourself, the
\nbiggest cop out an excuse <\/p>\n
430
\n00:36:42,120 –> 00:36:49,880
\nimaginable.
\nThousands of hours of Labor are <\/p>\n
431
\n00:36:49,880 –> 00:36:56,440
\npoured by speakers into the
\nspeaking that they do up till <\/p>\n
432
\n00:36:56,440 –> 00:37:00,400
\n2:00 in the morning.
\nYour eyes can barely stay open. <\/p>\n
433
\n00:37:01,000 –> 00:37:04,440
\nYou just have to get through a
\nfew more words in the passage to<\/p>\n
434
\n00:37:04,440 –> 00:37:08,720
\nunderstand What is this saying?
\nWhat does it mean? <\/p>\n
435
\n00:37:09,440 –> 00:37:12,280
\nHow can I bring it out to my
\nbrothers and sisters? <\/p>\n
436
\n00:37:13,080 –> 00:37:19,800
\nThe labor, the back breaking
\nlabor that goes into study, It’s<\/p>\n
437
\n00:37:19,800 –> 00:37:23,720
\nnot easy for anyone What what
\nyou’re saying effectively in <\/p>\n
438
\n00:37:23,720 –> 00:37:27,920
\nthat cop out is this, oh, study
\nis easy for some kinds of flesh.<\/p>\n
439
\n00:37:28,600 –> 00:37:31,720
\nAre you crazy or something?
\nCrazy, by the way, is not a <\/p>\n
440
\n00:37:31,720 –> 00:37:34,400
\ndiagnostic term that clinicians
\nuse today. <\/p>\n
441
\n00:37:34,960 –> 00:37:37,280
\nYou don’t say, well actually
\nyour mother is crazy. <\/p>\n
442
\n00:37:37,880 –> 00:37:41,640
\nThey don’t use that term.
\nBut are you crazy that you think<\/p>\n
443
\n00:37:41,640 –> 00:37:44,680
\nthat we just throw it together
\nbecause we’re talented? <\/p>\n
444
\n00:37:45,640 –> 00:37:49,760
\nThere’s no such thing.
\nIt’s all work. <\/p>\n
445
\n00:37:50,520 –> 00:37:54,160
\nSo put in the work.
\nThe priests weren’t putting in <\/p>\n
446
\n00:37:54,160 –> 00:37:58,040
\nthe work.
\nThe truth was lost for lack of <\/p>\n
447
\n00:37:58,040 –> 00:38:01,640
\nknowledge.
\nThe ecclesia was falling apart, <\/p>\n
448
\n00:38:01,640 –> 00:38:06,200
\nperishing without anchor.
\nThis direction, that direction <\/p>\n
449
\n00:38:06,200 –> 00:38:10,600
\nand away and away from God.
\nAnd don’t think it couldn’t <\/p>\n
450
\n00:38:10,600 –> 00:38:14,160
\nhappen to you.
\nDon’t think it couldn’t happen <\/p>\n
451
\n00:38:14,160 –> 00:38:19,240
\nto your Ecclesia.
\nSo this is an excitation to us. <\/p>\n
452
\n00:38:19,720 –> 00:38:23,920
\nThat’s for us to be able to look
\nat and learn from. <\/p>\n
453
\n00:38:25,000 –> 00:38:30,560
\nAnd then chapter 5, hear this.
\nSo you priests hack in the House<\/p>\n
454
\n00:38:30,560 –> 00:38:38,040
\nof Israel, O House of the King
\ngave ear, he says for judgment <\/p>\n
455
\n00:38:38,040 –> 00:38:44,280
\nis towards you because you have
\nbeen a a snare on this path and <\/p>\n
456
\n00:38:44,280 –> 00:38:48,080
\na net spread upon table.
\nNow he’s using very famous <\/p>\n
457
\n00:38:48,080 –> 00:38:52,840
\nlocations in Jewish history and
\nhe’s saying instead of you being<\/p>\n
458
\n00:38:52,840 –> 00:38:58,960
\nthe kind of people who in those
\nhistorical circumstances were <\/p>\n
459
\n00:38:58,960 –> 00:39:03,040
\nheroes of the nation and helped
\nto save the nation who trusted <\/p>\n
460
\n00:39:03,040 –> 00:39:09,680
\nin God, you’re spreading a net
\nto trap your people like birds <\/p>\n
461
\n00:39:10,480 –> 00:39:12,800
\nand to kill them, he says in
\nverse three. <\/p>\n
462
\n00:39:13,440 –> 00:39:19,240
\nI know Ephraim and Israel is not
\nhid for me. <\/p>\n
463
\n00:39:20,000 –> 00:39:23,120
\nAnd so brother, that’s that’s a
\nmessage to you and me, brothers <\/p>\n
464
\n00:39:23,120 –> 00:39:25,680
\nand sisters.
\nGod knows us. <\/p>\n
465
\n00:39:26,520 –> 00:39:30,760
\nWe might pretend to be one
\nperson to our people at large, <\/p>\n
466
\n00:39:31,160 –> 00:39:33,400
\nbut inside with somebody
\ncompletely different. <\/p>\n
467
\n00:39:35,520 –> 00:39:38,320
\nAnd what God is saying is you
\ncan’t pretend with me. <\/p>\n
468
\n00:39:39,320 –> 00:39:41,240
\nYou can’t make like you’re
\nsomebody you’re not. <\/p>\n
469
\n00:39:41,240 –> 00:39:45,840
\nI know you.
\nI know who you are with <\/p>\n
470
\n00:39:45,840 –> 00:39:48,680
\neverything that’s good and bad
\ngoing on inside of you. <\/p>\n
471
\n00:39:49,320 –> 00:39:52,160
\nAnd I still love you.
\nAnd I still love you. <\/p>\n
472
\n00:39:53,720 –> 00:39:55,520
\nAnd so God talks about the
\nrebuke. <\/p>\n
473
\n00:39:56,240 –> 00:40:02,000
\nHe even says in verse 5 Judah
\nalso shall stumble with them. <\/p>\n
474
\n00:40:02,880 –> 00:40:08,040
\nSomething about the mentality of
\nprosperous, sinful, heedless, <\/p>\n
475
\n00:40:08,120 –> 00:40:12,160
\nstubborn Israel affected Judah
\nas time went by. <\/p>\n
476
\n00:40:13,200 –> 00:40:15,520
\nWe want to be prosperous like
\nJudah too. <\/p>\n
477
\n00:40:16,400 –> 00:40:20,200
\nMaybe what they worship, maybe
\nthe way they live is OK. <\/p>\n
478
\n00:40:20,480 –> 00:40:24,760
\nMaybe if we’re more like them
\nwe’ll be as well off as them. <\/p>\n
479
\n00:40:25,680 –> 00:40:28,120
\nAnd Judah started to slip and
\nslide. <\/p>\n
480
\n00:40:28,480 –> 00:40:32,480
\nAnd God is saying, look, even
\nJudah is going to stumble <\/p>\n
481
\n00:40:32,840 –> 00:40:34,400
\nbecause of you people.
\nVerse 12. <\/p>\n
482
\n00:40:34,880 –> 00:40:39,480
\nTherefore will I be unto Ephraim
\nas a moth into the House of <\/p>\n
483
\n00:40:39,480 –> 00:40:43,000
\nJudah as rottenness.
\nAnd of course that ties up with <\/p>\n
484
\n00:40:43,120 –> 00:40:47,880
\nJames, doesn’t it?
\nYour moth eaten gold and silver <\/p>\n
485
\n00:40:49,200 –> 00:40:50,880
\nand and and what he’s saying is
\nthis. <\/p>\n
486
\n00:40:51,080 –> 00:40:53,920
\nIt’s the story of that brother I
\ntold you who lost everything. <\/p>\n
487
\n00:40:54,800 –> 00:40:58,200
\nHe says I’m going to take
\neverything away from you now. <\/p>\n
488
\n00:40:58,240 –> 00:41:03,720
\nFirst Corinthians.
\nFirst Corinthians 14. <\/p>\n
489
\n00:41:04,440 –> 00:41:07,800
\nLet’s go there for a minute.
\nYou are so tired this evening, <\/p>\n
490
\n00:41:07,800 –> 00:41:12,160
\nbrothers and sisters, I am
\nstanding here and looking at <\/p>\n
491
\n00:41:12,160 –> 00:41:17,760
\nyou, and you look terrible.
\nSee. <\/p>\n
492
\n00:41:17,760 –> 00:41:19,520
\nNow you’re up a little bit more,
\nright? <\/p>\n
493
\n00:41:21,040 –> 00:41:26,880
\nOK, so let’s see if I can find
\nit not just by memory, but <\/p>\n
494
\n00:41:26,880 –> 00:41:28,840
\nactually find the passage I’m
\nlooking for. <\/p>\n
495
\n00:41:29,600 –> 00:41:31,360
\nMight have to do a little bit of
\ndigging around. <\/p>\n
496
\n00:41:31,360 –> 00:41:37,520
\nStill, just bear with me here.
\nSee if I can find that passage. <\/p>\n
497
\n00:41:37,760 –> 00:41:40,640
\nThere it is.
\nOK, First Corinthians, Chapter <\/p>\n
498
\n00:41:41,200 –> 00:41:45,360
\n11.
\nAnd let’s end with this, shall <\/p>\n
499
\n00:41:45,360 –> 00:41:49,000
\nwe?
\nSo that you can just rest a <\/p>\n
500
\n00:41:49,000 –> 00:41:51,280
\nlittle.
\nI know it’s been a long day. <\/p>\n
501
\n00:41:52,880 –> 00:41:57,160
\nSo, First Corinthians, Chapter
\n11, verse 31. <\/p>\n
502
\n00:41:58,520 –> 00:42:04,840
\nThere are three forms of
\njudgment, OK, If we would judge <\/p>\n
503
\n00:42:04,920 –> 00:42:07,960
\nourselves, we should not be
\njudged. <\/p>\n
504
\n00:42:10,240 –> 00:42:15,080
\nSo the rebuke of the word of God
\nis not to make us feel down. <\/p>\n
505
\n00:42:15,600 –> 00:42:20,640
\nIt’s to give us the incentive to
\nchange, to look at ourselves, <\/p>\n
506
\n00:42:21,000 –> 00:42:24,160
\njudge ourselves, and say, look,
\nI I can’t be like this anymore. <\/p>\n
507
\n00:42:24,880 –> 00:42:27,360
\nI can’t do things this way or
\nthat way anymore. <\/p>\n
508
\n00:42:27,680 –> 00:42:32,520
\nI have to change that, right?
\nSo if we would judge ourselves, <\/p>\n
509
\n00:42:33,400 –> 00:42:35,560
\nthen God is not going to have to
\njudge us. <\/p>\n
510
\n00:42:35,560 –> 00:42:40,520
\nAnd what judgement is that?
\nIt’s the correction, it’s the <\/p>\n
511
\n00:42:41,440 –> 00:42:47,760
\nthe experiences we go through in
\nthis life where God takes who we<\/p>\n
512
\n00:42:47,760 –> 00:42:55,200
\nare and confronts us with
\npainful and difficult <\/p>\n
513
\n00:42:55,200 –> 00:42:59,480
\ncircumstances.
\nThat’s that’s what the second <\/p>\n
514
\n00:42:59,480 –> 00:43:02,160
\njudgment is.
\nAnd why do we receive that <\/p>\n
515
\n00:43:02,160 –> 00:43:05,520
\nsecond judgment?
\nWhy did God put Israel through <\/p>\n
516
\n00:43:05,600 –> 00:43:09,400
\nall the terrible things He put
\nher through so that she wouldn’t<\/p>\n
517
\n00:43:09,400 –> 00:43:13,760
\nhave to undergo that final
\njudgment, which is rejection at <\/p>\n
518
\n00:43:13,760 –> 00:43:18,640
\nthe judgment seat of Christ?
\nSo we we have these three <\/p>\n
519
\n00:43:19,040 –> 00:43:23,440
\njudgments, and the first is
\nreading the word of God, being <\/p>\n
520
\n00:43:23,920 –> 00:43:26,400
\nrebuked and chastened by what it
\nsays. <\/p>\n
521
\n00:43:27,240 –> 00:43:28,880
\nAnd it’s not going to happen if
\nwe’re not reading it. <\/p>\n
522
\n00:43:29,560 –> 00:43:32,360
\nSo if we’re not doing the
\nreadings or reading the word of <\/p>\n
523
\n00:43:32,360 –> 00:43:37,480
\nGod in a systematic, continuous,
\ndaily way, it doesn’t have the <\/p>\n
524
\n00:43:37,480 –> 00:43:42,880
\nchance to work on us that way.
\nAnd then so what’s left then is <\/p>\n
525
\n00:43:43,720 –> 00:43:47,680
\ncorrection in this life through
\ncircumstances we go through. <\/p>\n
526
\n00:43:47,680 –> 00:43:51,640
\nNow what we have to avoid is
\nthis. <\/p>\n
527
\n00:43:54,040 –> 00:43:58,120
\nThere are many tragic
\ncircumstances that attend our <\/p>\n
528
\n00:43:58,120 –> 00:44:01,720
\nlives.
\nThat does not mean when someone <\/p>\n
529
\n00:44:01,920 –> 00:44:05,520
\ngoes through those things that
\nGod is rebuking a person or <\/p>\n
530
\n00:44:05,520 –> 00:44:11,000
\ncorrecting them.
\nIt may just be a genetic <\/p>\n
531
\n00:44:11,360 –> 00:44:17,600
\ninheritance that a person has a
\npredisposition for cancer, for <\/p>\n
532
\n00:44:17,600 –> 00:44:20,400
\ninstance.
\nWhen a person develops cancer, <\/p>\n
533
\n00:44:20,760 –> 00:44:23,920
\nis it then right for you or me
\nto say, well, God is teaching <\/p>\n
534
\n00:44:23,920 –> 00:44:26,840
\nthat person this or that, that’s
\nwhy they have cancer? <\/p>\n
535
\n00:44:26,840 –> 00:44:33,120
\nNo, no.
\nGod knows when he’s correcting <\/p>\n
536
\n00:44:33,120 –> 00:44:36,560
\npeople in particular ways.
\nBut sometimes it’s just the <\/p>\n
537
\n00:44:36,560 –> 00:44:43,400
\nexperience of human life,
\nfrailty, loss, disease and these<\/p>\n
538
\n00:44:43,400 –> 00:44:48,240
\nthings that we we all go through
\nand that we all have to endure <\/p>\n
539
\n00:44:49,200 –> 00:44:56,480
\nas brothers and sisters, right?
\nSo other times, God acts <\/p>\n
540
\n00:44:56,480 –> 00:44:59,800
\ndirectly.
\nGod does something to stop you <\/p>\n
541
\n00:44:59,800 –> 00:45:06,760
\nfrom going too far, and that
\nusually involves loss or pain or<\/p>\n
542
\n00:45:06,760 –> 00:45:11,800
\nsome experience that is not easy
\nto bear up under, but it can <\/p>\n
543
\n00:45:11,800 –> 00:45:15,880
\nhave the effect of cutting you
\noff at a point where you would <\/p>\n
544
\n00:45:15,880 –> 00:45:20,240
\ngo too far.
\nBut if you still do not take <\/p>\n
545
\n00:45:20,240 –> 00:45:27,200
\nheed, well then there is the
\njudgement seat when we will be <\/p>\n
546
\n00:45:27,200 –> 00:45:30,640
\ntold so.
\nIf, brother, you, you mistreat <\/p>\n
547
\n00:45:30,640 –> 00:45:38,200
\nyour wife, you disrespect her,
\nyou make her life a life full of<\/p>\n
548
\n00:45:38,200 –> 00:45:44,160
\npain, a veil of tears, and and
\nyou read in scripture about the <\/p>\n
549
\n00:45:44,160 –> 00:45:47,600
\nway a man should behave, and now
\nwe should love his wife as his <\/p>\n
550
\n00:45:47,600 –> 00:45:50,680
\nown body.
\nAnd you don’t take heed to that,<\/p>\n
551
\n00:45:51,560 –> 00:45:53,200
\nand you continue to behave that
\nway. <\/p>\n
552
\n00:45:54,920 –> 00:46:00,160
\nYou will hear about it at the
\njudgment seat, and that’s not <\/p>\n
553
\n00:46:00,160 –> 00:46:01,520
\nwhere you want to hear about
\nthat. <\/p>\n
554
\n00:46:03,560 –> 00:46:07,800
\nBut Israel would not listen.
\nGod loved her. <\/p>\n
555
\n00:46:09,040 –> 00:46:15,360
\nGod gave her so much.
\nGod gave her his beloved Son, <\/p>\n
556
\n00:46:16,680 –> 00:46:22,440
\nand she still put him to death.
\nBut sections of the nation <\/p>\n
557
\n00:46:23,200 –> 00:46:30,880
\nbelieved those 5000 that didn’t
\nbow, the knee to bow, the bow of<\/p>\n
558
\n00:46:31,200 –> 00:46:35,840
\ntradition and the priesthood and
\nthe Roman authority. <\/p>\n
559
\n00:46:36,600 –> 00:46:40,320
\nThey believed in Jesus and
\ncontinued as his brothers and <\/p>\n
560
\n00:46:40,320 –> 00:46:46,360
\nsisters.
\nSo here we are, the broken bits <\/p>\n
561
\n00:46:46,360 –> 00:46:49,360
\nand pieces of the bride of
\nChrist. <\/p>\n
562
\n00:46:50,200 –> 00:46:55,240
\nAll of us working with different
\nforms of trouble, addiction, <\/p>\n
563
\n00:46:56,240 –> 00:47:01,240
\nwrong headed notions,
\nstubbornnesses, difficult areas <\/p>\n
564
\n00:47:01,240 –> 00:47:03,080
\nto change.
\nEvery one of us. <\/p>\n
565
\n00:47:03,320 –> 00:47:05,840
\nI’ve got my things, You’ve got
\nyour things. <\/p>\n
566
\n00:47:06,400 –> 00:47:08,640
\nMany of us have certain things
\nin common. <\/p>\n
567
\n00:47:09,040 –> 00:47:13,600
\nYou know there’s a brother here.
\nAnd this just it is unfortunate <\/p>\n
568
\n00:47:13,600 –> 00:47:16,080
\nfor you that I have so many
\ndistractions that run across my <\/p>\n
569
\n00:47:16,080 –> 00:47:20,080
\nhead while I’m speaking.
\nThere’s a brother in this in <\/p>\n
570
\n00:47:20,080 –> 00:47:26,360
\nthis room today, who was born on
\nthe same day of the same month, <\/p>\n
571
\n00:47:26,960 –> 00:47:28,840
\nof the same year that I was
\nborn. <\/p>\n
572
\n00:47:31,840 –> 00:47:35,600
\nPeter Osborne.
\nWe’re twins. <\/p>\n
573
\n00:47:35,600 –> 00:47:41,680
\nIt’s pretty sad, isn’t it?
\nSame day, different sides of the<\/p>\n
574
\n00:47:41,680 –> 00:47:45,040
\nearth and part of the same
\nfamily in Christ. <\/p>\n
575
\n00:47:45,520 –> 00:47:49,000
\nAnd he’s my brother.
\nAnd you’re my brothers and my <\/p>\n
576
\n00:47:49,000 –> 00:47:51,680
\nsisters.
\nAnd whatever trouble we’re going<\/p>\n
577
\n00:47:51,680 –> 00:47:57,520
\nthrough, God is at work.
\nGod does love you. <\/p>\n
578
\n00:47:58,360 –> 00:48:01,440
\nThe pain in your life is not
\nevidence of the opposite. <\/p>\n
579
\n00:48:03,000 –> 00:48:08,720
\nHe loves you in that pain,
\nworking with you through it to <\/p>\n
580
\n00:48:08,800 –> 00:48:13,600
\nto to shape you into the gem
\nthat you are. <\/p>\n
581
\n00:48:15,120 –> 00:48:18,440
\nJob did not go through what Job
\nwent through because God didn’t <\/p>\n
582
\n00:48:18,440 –> 00:48:22,560
\nlove him.
\nGod absolutely loved him. <\/p>\n
583
\n00:48:23,480 –> 00:48:26,320
\nSo hold on to that.
\nThis evening when you go to <\/p>\n
584
\n00:48:26,320 –> 00:48:32,280
\nsleep, thank him for his love,
\nand thank that woman or man <\/p>\n
585
\n00:48:32,280 –> 00:48:34,840
\nbeside you for their love for
\nyou.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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