00:00 Introduction and Revival Week

00:30 Revival Week Details and Preparations

02:07 Upcoming Sermon Series: First Peter

02:48 Discussion on Hosea and Judgment

05:05 Total Depravity and Common Grace Explained

09:39 God's Judgment and Israel's Idolatry

13:56 Call for Repentance and God's Compassion

18:57 Conclusion and Prayer

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hey.

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It's revival week.

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We just come off of VBS week

straight into revival week.

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That's right.

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Same people are going.

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Yeah.

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A lot of 'em are.

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I know.

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I was talking to some of our

leaders going, why did we do this?

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Why did we stack 'em like this?

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I don't know.

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I don't know if we were able

to do it much differently.

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Yeah, that's fair.

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That's fair.

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No, but they leave tomorrow.

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And if you were at church

yesterday, you saw some ways to

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be praying during announcements

for revival and for this retreat.

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We talked about it a couple days ago on

the podcast too, so just be doing that.

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It's gonna be awesome.

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Remind us, pastor Rod,

where's the team going?

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It's called Latham Springs.

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It's about two hours south of us and.

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Providentially two hours

north of Hill Country.

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Again, we're going to this place with

our sister, church Compass, Bible

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Church, hill Country new Braunfels area.

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So we're excited about this.

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They bring a lot of kids.

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They're bringing most of the servants

who are supporting things like worship

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and hospitality, things like that.

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So right now we're getting

to ride their wave.

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At some point in the near future,

though, maybe even as soon as next summer

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we're gonna have to pull some weight.

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And bring some of our people to do some

of these things because it really makes a

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big difference when you have an all hands

on deck, just like what we did for VBS.

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Yep.

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Having that same mentality for

our students at summer camp

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really unlocks the door for some

really great things to happen.

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Just think about the decor that you

saw this week, that stage with the

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doors and the shingles and everything.

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That was so cool.

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Yeah, it was.

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Now we do that, we have done that

historically for our students, our

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junior hires and high schoolers.

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We go all out to make this camp the

best that we can make it without dying.

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Yep.

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And we get pretty close

to the lines of years.

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So all that to say, they're gonna

Latham Springs, you can look up their

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website and see some of the cool stuff

that they'll have a chance to do.

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Yeah, and I'm sure we'll bring back

some videos and photos as well where

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you can get a sense of how it was.

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Yeah.

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But we're looking forward to it.

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We're praying for that.

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That's awesome.

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Yeah, it's gonna be a good time.

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Our rest of our staff is here though.

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So Lewis, our student ministries

director, he's leading the team.

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He's down there.

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Rest of our staff is here and

just plugging away and doing work.

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So we're happy to have VBS behind us.

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As great as it was it's great

to, as you were just saying

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off, it's great to be done.

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To be done.

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Yeah.

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Have a good tired of being like, okay.

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Alright, let's keep going.

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We're excited for that.

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We've, we got one more week in the

minor profits and then we're gonna have

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a transitional week, and then we're

jumping into first Peter in a few weeks

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here, so I can't wait for that series.

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I think just tackling full books

at a time, especially full minor

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prophets at a time, has made me

hungry to get into the traditional

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expository preaching mode again.

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But it's gonna be good.

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Yeah, I'm excited about that too, Peter.

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It's such a great book.

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You probably should read it.

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I, if you haven't read it in a while, pick

it up, dust it off, make sure you read

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it before you start the preaching series.

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It's just so good.

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It is.

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There's so many good themes in there.

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And I wonder if you're trying to

prophesy about our future here in Texas.

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Oof.

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I maybe.

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Yeah.

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Wow.

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I wear that kind of church nail, huh?

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Yeah.

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Read the book and you'll have to

figure out why that might be the case

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and why we might say Oof on that one.

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Yeah, man.

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Let's let's jump into our text for today.

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We are finishing Hosea,

so Hosea eight through 14.

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It's, uh, it's a lot.

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Hosea is not a small book, 14 chapters.

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We covered the first seven

yesterday, and though today

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we, we jump in and wrap it up.

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So in chapter eight, we are,

again, we're midstream, and so

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he's still in judgment mode.

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He's still in judgment mode

with his people and specifically

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with the northern kingdom here.

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And you'll notice he

says in verse four, they.

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The Northern Kingdom made

kings, but not through me.

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That's a reminder to us that they

are not the covenant people of God.

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That they are not the Davidic line

in the north, that the Davidic line

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went through the southern kingdom,

went through the kingdom of Judah

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and not the kingdom of Israel.

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And that's why the Kings of

Israel were those that always

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did evil in the side of the Lord.

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They were not.

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Of him, they were not part of the

lie that he had established there.

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God's judgment is coming against

them verses four and five.

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It talks about the idols that they

made even to their own destruction.

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And this is the start

of this was with ome.

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And Ome set up this golden calf and he

says, I've spurned your calfs five oh

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Samari, my anger burns against them.

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How long will they be

incapable of innocence?

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And that's even a reminder to us

of something that we refer to as.

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Total depravity, incapable of

innocence, and nobody is born innocent.

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And and with a nation like Israel, their

rebellion just heaps guilt upon guilt

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as they continue to drift from the Lord.

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And he is indicting the

idolatry of them again.

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Verse seven, they sow to

the wind and they reap.

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The whirlwind the sowing to the wind, it

seems to be a reference to just the vanity

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of their worship, the vanity of their

kingdom, the vanity of their existence.

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And what they're gonna reap

is the storm, and that's the

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whirlwind that's gonna come in.

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And so instead of getting the favor

that they were hoping to get from these

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false guys, these false idols, they're

gonna get a storm, they're gonna get

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God's judgment in response, and they're

gonna turn to the, these other nations,

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but they're not gonna find help there.

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And God's not gonna forget

their iniquity, but remember it.

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And Assyria is gonna become their

new Egypt, and that's verse 13.

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And so if you remember back to the

beginning of Israel being enslaved in

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Egypt, now it's gonna be a different one.

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He's gonna remember their

inequity and punish their sins.

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They would show return to Egypt,

not Egypt specifically, but

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they're gonna go into exile.

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And they're gonna be enslaved,

and that's gonna come through the

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people of Assyria In the short term

here you mentioned total depravity.

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Let's quickly camp on that, just

a few brief moments here, because

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I wonder if people understand that

theology as well as they should.

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Does total depravity mean that I'm

as sinful as I could possibly be?

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And is that also true for my neighbors?

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Yeah, good question.

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No, the answer is we are not as totally

depraved as we possibly could be.

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And that's why people re reject

this doctrine at the outset,

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is they misunderstand that.

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They'll say, okay, but there's, I can

point to this person's more evil than

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I am, and so how can I be totally

depraved if I haven't done the same

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things that Hitler did or that these

other evil people over here did?

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Total depravity is.

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You can think about it as saturation

that we are as human beings, saturated

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with the guilt of Adam from the word go.

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And so we are totally depraved in the

sense that we don't have a, an inherent

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righteousness or even a neutrality in us,

that we are born with this opportunity

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to live a good life that would be

policing to the Lord We are born.

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At odds with the holy God, because

Adam was our representative head,

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and we all, as the Bible says,

sinned in him when he sinned.

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So that's the inheritance that we get

from our first father, from Adam, which

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inclines our heart always to evil unless

Christ comes in, into our life and

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through the Spirit, enables us now to

be set free from sin and to choose him.

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So it's a matter of breadth and not depth.

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Everything that, that's a

good way to put it, is touched

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by our humanity is infected.

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With the sickness called sin,

but we're not as bad as we could

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be in every conceivable way.

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And that's true for

every human being, right?

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There are ways in which God

has protected us from that.

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He restrains our wickedness so that we're

not as evil as we possibly could be.

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How does that concept connects

to the idea of common grace?

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What is common grace then, and how does

that interact with our total depravity?

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So common grace is the idea that.

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The rainfall.

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This is just one common example,

no pun intended, that the rain

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falls on the good and the evil.

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So God provides things that are

good on those, for those that are

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still inherently evil and wicked.

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The fact that there's food provided

for some of the corrupt people that

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they can eat and even be satisfied

and eating is a common grace.

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Now, common grace.

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Is intended by God to point people

towards him as the provider.

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But apart from Second Corinthians four,

the God re removing the scales from our

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eyes to be able to see that common grace

is probably for the believer more of

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an instrument of judgment against him.

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Passage judgment, though it may be than it

is something that is a blessing for him.

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It's misinterpreted right

now as a blessing man.

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I get to eat, I get to

drink, I get to be satisfied.

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I'm happy.

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I live a long life.

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And I reject God and yet all of that

is a common grace that he's gonna

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have to answer for 'cause God's gonna

say, you misinterpreted all of these

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gifts and use them for yourself.

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You worship the creature

rather than the creator.

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It's Romans one in so many different ways.

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Absolutely.

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That's a helpful insight.

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So total depravity, you're not

as sinful as you possibly could

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be, but it does touch everything.

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It's about breadth, not depth, common

grace, the ways in which God gives

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rain and sunshine and food and.

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Oxygen to all of humanity.

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It is common and it's not special.

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Okay.

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Last clarifying question.

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Yeah.

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Common grace in contrast to special grace.

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Yeah.

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What's the difference?

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So special grace or specific

grace, however you wanna put it.

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Yeah.

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Special grace is salvific.

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It is the grace that we receive as

believers to believe in Jesus Christ.

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It is the free gift that is salvation.

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It's regeneration.

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It's having our eyes that we're blind

to God open so that we can see him.

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It's the ability to.

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Exercise faith in him.

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And so that, that's at its core that

the foundation of special grace.

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There are other elements of grace

that are unique to believers.

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And I think, so you see some of that

even in some of the ordinances in

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the church with the administration

of communion and baptism and

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even the preaching of the word.

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Gathering together in fellowship

with brothers and sisters in Christ.

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Those are elements of God's grace

that are uniquely enjoyed by

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Christians that can't be enjoyed

by somebody who's not a believer.

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And so that's why they are special in that

sense to be enjoyed within the church.

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Now, the difference between us

and the Catholic Church is we

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don't believe that those are.

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Necessary for salvation.

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In other words, we don't believe that

there is something that is conveyed

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in communion or baptism or the

preaching of the word that completes

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a grace that you first receive when

you first chose to believe in Jesus

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Christ as your Lord and Savior.

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The grace that God gave you

when he regenerated you is

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sufficient for your salvation.

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This is more of.

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Perhaps a sanctifying grace.

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It's a progressive grace that he

continues to bestow upon us that is

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good and right, and I would even say

necessary for us as Christians, but not

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necessary to our position as whether

or not we're saved in Christ superb

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and all of that in the middle of Hosea.

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You never expected that.

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There we go.

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You're welcome.

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Yeah.

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I think Jose, chapter nine, man,

the opening words rejoice not what

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struck me here is just the principle

that godly people grieve over sin.

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And that's what Isaiah is calling for.

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He's saying, rejoice not

over your current state.

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Don't rejoice in your

rebellion against God.

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You should be grieving over this.

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And chapter nine goes into what's

coming for Israel, which is the

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exile that they are going to,

into exile, into foreign lands.

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And again, Egypt is

signified here, but it's.

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It's symbolic in verse six, for behold,

they're going away from destruction.

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But Egypt shall gather them.

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Memphis shall bury them.

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In other words, you're gonna be buried

in foreign lands, and that's not gonna

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be Egypt proper, but that's gonna

be the Assyrians that are gonna come

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in and do this on behalf of them.

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So why does he use Egypt?

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I think he uses Egypt because it

was such a tangible and symbolic.

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Memory for the people of Israel

that this is, the exodus was huge.

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It was massive, right?

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Slavery, all of that captivity to

suggest that it's coming back again is

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more impactful for them than to say,

Hey, Assyria is gonna come and do this.

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He says, describing their view

of these messages in verse

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seven, the prophet is a fool.

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The man of the spirit is mad.

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So these are stubborn people refusing

to listen to the warnings of God.

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And he says that the judgment is coming.

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Verse 15, every evil

of theirs is in Gilgal.

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Gilgal was the center of idol

worship in the northern kingdom.

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That's why it's there.

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That was their main sanctuary.

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That's where it was

located there in Gilgo.

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So when you read Gilgo, that's why it's

being indicted here in chapter nine.

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Chapter 10, then we get more of this

and similar again the vine language.

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Israel is a luxurious vine

that yields its fruit.

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The more its fruit increase,

the more altars he built.

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And so this is a, I think Isaiah

five the vine prepared by God.

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And yet, when God came and looked for

good grapes, what did they produce?

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They.

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Wild grapes.

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And so the imagery is similar.

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Here we find the calf

imagery again in verse five.

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The golden calves that ome

set up, the calf of Beth Haven

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for it is departed from them.

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The calf is gone.

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It's gonna be carried to Assyria.

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And that's where we know, and

that's why we say this is not Egypt.

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This is gonna be Assyria.

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And.

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History bears that out too.

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But this is God indicting their

past and their present idolatry.

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He says, when I please, I will

discipline them, and nations shall

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be gathered against them when they're

bound up for their double iniquity.

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I think a lot of people, myself included,

would say that double iniquity is probably

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an illusion to their idolatry in the past.

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The things that their forefathers did

and the things that they themselves are

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doing currently here, and God is saying

I'm not gonna put up with it anymore.

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I'm bringing judgment against it.

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Yeah, a couple quick

notes here in Chapter 10.

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The first few verses that you refer

to here, I just wanna point out

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to you in verse one, it says, the

more his fruit increased, the more

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alters he built, which is interesting

because you wouldn't expect that.

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You would expect that God blesses them.

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They receive a harvest, they're doing

well, and they would be more committed

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to the Lord, but instead by contrast,

they are further from the Lord, which

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always reminds me that prosperity is

not necessarily a gift because your

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temptation will always be to trust the

prosperity and not to trust the Lord.

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Of the prosperity.

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He is the ultimate good

gift, not the stuff.

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Keep that in mind.

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Number two in verse 12.

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He says Here, you reap what you sow.

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You've heard this in

Galatians chapter six here.

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So for yourselves righteousness,

reap steadfast love.

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There's a connection there between your

righteous standing in Christ and the

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steadfast love that you'll experience

break up the fallow ground for it is

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the time to seek the Lord that he may

come and reign righteousness upon you.

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So think about the satisfying effects

of rain upon a dry in parched land.

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He's saying, look, you want.

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Spiritual satisfaction while the way

that you do that is you break up the

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fallow ground of your heart, break

up all of that compacted soil and

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prepare to receive his righteous reign.

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This is a beautiful image for us to take

note of because it really calls us to

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have a tender heart before the Lord.

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And I would encourage you before

you go to church, before you open

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up your Bible in the morning or in

the evening, whenever you do that.

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Make sure you're breaking

up the fallow ground.

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Make your heart ready to receive it.

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Have you ever read your

Bible or gone to church?

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Yes.

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And you felt man, it was, yes.

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I hope so.

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And felt I didn't benefit from that.

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Yeah.

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I, my heart was hard.

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I was distracted, or he was saying

good things, or the Bible was giving

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me interesting insights, but I

just didn't feel like I walked away

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having experienced it the way that

I want to, the way that it should.

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I wonder if maybe it's because

we're not preparing our hearts.

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We're not breaking up the fallow

ground, the ground in our hearts and

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our minds and our lives that we just

let alone, as opposed to saying, man,

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I wanna shake things up so that I

can truly encounter God's presence.

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Hosea chapter 10, verse 12 is a good

place for you to start to say, I

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wanna be ready to encounter the Lord.

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That's good.

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That's good.

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Chapter 11, we get into

some contrast here.

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God is lamenting almost and also grieving

over the current state of Israel.

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And at the same time, looking forward

to this time of future redemption.

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And this is where we get aligned that.

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Is applied to Christ in 11 verse one.

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When it says out of

Egypt, I called my son.

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So contextually it fits

what he's about to do.

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He's about to send Israel into captivity.

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So in the immediate context, he's

saying, there's gonna be a future

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when I'm gonna deliver you again from

captivity and even from the northern

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kingdom, though the northern kingdom

is not gonna be a thing anymore.

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The faithful remnant, those that

are part of the northern kingdom,

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those are part of those tribes.

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They will still be there.

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And in fact, when we go

to the very end of time.

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During the millennial kingdom.

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And during the tribulation period,

there are 144,000 Jews that are gonna

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be sealed, and those Jews are gonna be

12,000 from every single tribe in Israel.

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That tells us that these northern

tribes are god's not done with them,

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and so he's going to bring them back.

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That's what's being alluded to

there in that opening verse, but

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also this is applied to Jesus in

the New Testament out of Egypt.

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I called my son when Jesus was first born.

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And the help me out.

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Herod was trying to

kill the children there.

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Herod.

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It was Herod.

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Thanks.

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They fled down to Egypt.

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And then what happened?

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God, after the death of Herod

he and called Joseph and

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Mary and Jesus to come back.

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Into the region where Jesus was going

to minister during his earthly ministry.

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So this is applied to Jesus as well.

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All that to say but this chapter is

really about the jealousy of God.

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Verse five, they shall not return

to the land of Egypt, but assy

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shall become the king because

they've refused to return to me.

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But then he goes on and

you see the love for God.

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How can I give you up om and

remember Jose one through three?

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Because here I think we see it, Jose.

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It.

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I assume, had a love for

Gomer that grieved him when

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she was unfaithful to him.

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And I think that's what we see here.

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Now.

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God's saying that's me and Israel.

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Yes, I'm gonna judge Israel because

that's what justice demands, and

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I'm jealous for their affection.

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But at the same time, man, how can

I completely de, I can't quit you.

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I can't completely destroy you.

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I can't give you up because you

are still part of the people that

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I've chosen for my own possession.

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I think that's chapter 11 there.

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Yeah.

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I just love that.

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The words that he uses here, he

says, my heart recoils within me.

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My compassion grows warm and tender.

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I will not execute my burning anger.

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I will not again destroy Ephrem four.

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I am God and not a man.

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The holy one in your midst,

and I will not come in wrath.

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God is appealing to his godness

to say, I am faithful and I can't

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be anything other than that.

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I love that because it means

our salvation is secure.

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If he was this way with Israel,

with the covenant that he made with

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him unilateral covenant, surely he

will be even more so through Christ.

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If there was glory in the old

covenant under Moses, then surely.

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There is more glory in Christ

under the new covenant.

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Praise God for that.

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That's amazing.

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Yeah, for sure.

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Chapter 12 is really a summary

chapter for us, and it's a summary

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chapter of Israel's rejection of

God and of their idolatrous ways.

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Verse 14, the end of chapter

12, here it says, EEM again.

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The northern kingdom has given bitter

provocation, so the Lord will leave his.

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Blood guild on him and will repay

him for his disgraceful deeds.

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So chapter 12, interjects here with

this summary of what's going on.

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And then that yields in, in

chapter 13, more judgment.

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More judgment that's coming from God.

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Verse four, he says, I am the Lord

your God, from the land of Egypt.

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No God but me and besides

me, there's no savior.

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Their activity, in other

words, was an act of treason.

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That they were rebelling against

the only true God, against the

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God that had redeemed them.

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They were his people and

they were rebelling against

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him as an act of treason.

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And he says in verse six, this

emerged because they had grazed

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in the land and become full.

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And they were filled with their

heart and their heart was lifted up.

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Therefore they forgot me.

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This is that contempt breeding,

complacency, breeding familiarity.

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And that's something that we

have to be careful too as well.

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We are in a.

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A, a good season right now of church

planting and setting up and tearing down.

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We just did a lot of that this past

weekend and it's easy for us with

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that and thankfully so to depend

upon God and say, man, God, this is

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hard and there's, we don't like it.

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There's a lot of sacrifice we don't like.

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This is hard, but.

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There, Lord willing, will come a time

when we are in a permanent facility

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and it's gonna get easy for us to grow

comfortable and to have full bellies and

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to have a nice place and air conditioning

and not have to set up and tear down.

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And we might be tempted to forget

how dependent upon God we are.

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Whereas right now we're in

a season where we're mindful

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of how to dependant upon God.

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We are.

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And so let's make sure that we

hold fast that 'cause Israel didn't

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and they drifted into complacency

and they rebelled against.

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It forgot God.

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Yeah.

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Prosperity is not always a gift,

and adversity is not always a curse.

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Sometimes it's the very gift that

God uses adversity that is suffering

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to sharpen us and to make us more

aware of our dependency upon him.

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What does Paul say in Second

Corinthians chapter 12?

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It is in weakness that I realize I'm

strong in Christ when we're strong

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and we're living our best life

now and we're on our A game with

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our disciplines and our spiritual

habits, and everything is wonderful.

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The temptation is always gonna be.

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I love myself.

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I trust myself.

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I'm doing a great job.

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I'm fat and happy, spiritually speaking,

and God doesn't want us ever to be there.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Chapter 14, as the book lands it,

it lands with another call for

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repentance, this urging for repentance.

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He says, return verse one, oh, Israel

to the Lord your God, for you have

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stumbled because of your iniquity.

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This is interesting.

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He says, take with you words

and return to the Lord.

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I think there's something here that's

indicative for how we should repent.

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That it's important for us to confess, to

use our words to before the Lord, to say,

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Lord and I identify our sin before him.

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It seems to be what the prophet

is calling them to do here.

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Don't.

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Don't leave your words behind,

bring your words with you.

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Confess these things

turn from these things.

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Now again, to go back to the difference

between what the Catholic church has made

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that out to be and what we're talking

about here, the Catholic Church would

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say, you have to come into the church

and sit down in a confessional and you

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need to use your words to confess to a

human being and tell this human being,

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here's all the sin I've done, and that

human being is then gonna tell you, okay,

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here, you need to go pray this many Hail

Marys and do this many, much penance.

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Penance and so forth and so on.

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We would say that's not only

wrong, but it's unbiblical.

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It's a misunderstanding.

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It sets aside everything that's written

in Hebrews about the fact that we

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have one mediator between God and man,

and that's Christ Jesus, and he is

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sacrificed once for all time and is

seated at the right hand of God, but.

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This is speaking to the person

that goes God understands that I've

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sinned and that I'm sorry for it.

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So I don't really need to bring anything

up and I can just move on with my life

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and soothe my conscience that way.

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I think this is, I think it's good

for us to sit before our holy God and

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to name our sins before him and to

ask for forgiveness for these things.

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And that seems to be what's

being called for here in Jose 14.

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Yeah.

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I love the idea of being intentional

with the way that you approach God and

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one of the benefits of being in our

particular strain our tradition of.

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Christianity is that we're

not as casual, not casual.

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We're not as formal or as

liturgical as some of the other high

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churches, as we often call them.

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And one of the downsides is

that we can come too casually.

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We can come to the Lord with a

blase attitude that doesn't fit

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who he is and what he's about.

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And so it's helpful for us to have a

mental corrective to say the Lord is the

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holy and righteous one of all the earth.

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He's the king.

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He's not only just the king,

he's the king of kings.

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And it's good for us to have a high view

of God as we try to promote all the time.

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It's one of our distinctives, it's

one of our values, and I think.

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Hosea 14, two highlights that take words

with, ahead of time, what to say, know

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what you're going to say to the Lord.

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Because you're prepared,

you're thinking about it.

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It would be like dating your spouse or

interacting with a high ranking official.

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You probably will put work

into thinking ahead of time.

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What would be a good.

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Mode of conversation.

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What should we say?

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What should we what kind of

things should we discuss?

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I think that's what Jose is getting at.

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Don't just show up in front of God show

up, ready to have that conversation.

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In particular, in this case, most

directly words of repentance.

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Yeah.

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And the good news for us is.

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Verse four, I will heal their apostasy.

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I will love them freely for

my anger has turned from them.

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John says, if we confess our sins,

he's faithful and just forgive them.

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So we can know that we can go

before God with these things

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and he will indeed forgive us.

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And that's such good news.

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And so we can repent, we can return to

the Lord, we can press on and know him.

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All of these good things that Jose

has been talking about for us.

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We can take these things away and say,

okay, Lord, help us to apply these things.

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Let's pray and then we'll be

done with another episode.

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God help us to have that mindset.

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We want the high view of you.

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We want to not approach you overly,

casually, even as Pastor Rod was saying

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earlier in this episode, we want to

break up the fallow ground of our hearts

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before we come before you, before we

pray, before we read your word, before

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we come to church and sing songs with

our brothers and sisters in Christ.

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We don't wanna do so just to go

through the motions and think that

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you're gonna be pleased by that.

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Just because we're here

and checking the box.

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And so help us to have a view of

you that, that sees you as holy,

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even as Isaiah, which we're gonna

be talking about again tomorrow.

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Holy is the Lord God Almighty.

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We wanna have that view of you and

at the same time, understand that you

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have made a way for us to draw near to

you and what a joyful paradox that is.

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And so we're grateful for that and

we just pray that we would never grow

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complacent and comfortable and and.

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To grow contemptuous over that, but

that we would always be so grateful

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and humble about that as we do come

before you, as our Heavenly Father.

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So we thank you, we pray

these things in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen, keeper in your Bibles.

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