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ah
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book by book i'm richard buse inviting
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you to join with us in the study
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of the old testament book of nahum
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that's where we are
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and i'm joined here on the banks of the
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river thames you can see the thames
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outside here
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and here is paul blackham my colleague
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and we also have our special guest
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gordon bridger and gordon you've served
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god in all sorts of
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times in cities in england in cambridge
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and in
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norwich and in edinburgh and here we are
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in london
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thank you very much indeed for coming to
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join us the delight to be here richard
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it's wonderful let's have a look then at
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book of nahum
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and we'd study number two i'm going to
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still read in the first chapter
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verses two and three here we are the
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lord
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is a jealous and avenging god
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the lord takes vengeance and is filled
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with wrath the lord takes vengeance on
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his foes
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and maintains his wrath against his
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enemies the lord
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is slow to anger and great in power
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the lord will not leave the guilty
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unpunished his way
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is in the whirlwind and the storm and
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clouds
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are the dust of his feet and he we'll
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leave the reading there
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as we look on now in our second study
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and first of all this idea about god as
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a jealous and
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avenging god jealousy paul why don't we
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think about
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the fact that he's jealous that comes
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hard on the modern ear
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a jealous god it does and critics of the
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bible go
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look at this this god of the old
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testament with all this jealousy and
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anger and all this jealousy is a
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terrible thing
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well no it depends really because
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jealous there is a sinful jealousy and
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we fall into that
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where we want what doesn't belong to us
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and we're jealous for it in that way
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like an envy really
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and that is a sinful and wrong thing but
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there is a kind of
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righteous jealousy where you you um
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mourn for what does belong to you but
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has been wrongfully taken away
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and there we have the lord god who is
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the
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really the husband of his wife his wife
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the church
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that's so important and his and i mean
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gordon
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it doesn't it has this brilliant bit in
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the commentary it's on
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is it on page 101 richard i i forget the
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page numbers it's on
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i think it's on page 101 yeah the lord
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is so committed to us
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that he is jealous for our complete love
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and loyalty to himself see isn't that
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helpful thank you for that gordon
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because that's brilliant that point
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that he our affections are loved
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belong to him he's the husband the
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church is his wife
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and when that the affections of the
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church in any age
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are taken away by false gods and false
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objects
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it's terrible and the thing of nineveh
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and he's jealous for that because he
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rightly expects the church to love him
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properly he's
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laid down everything for the church so
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that
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we give him his love asabanipal had
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brought
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the the ruler of the assyrians i into
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kings 17
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to king 17 we hear how when he conquered
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israel
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and he took the people of israel away
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into exile he brought into israel
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people from all sorts of different
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nations with all the false religions and
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false
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gods which had a terrible effect
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bringing about objects of false worship
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so for all these reasons this lord god
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who loves with great passion
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is jealous for his people
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and that that makes a lot of sense to us
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once we think that
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god is in love with his people his bride
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the church and of course he's jealous
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so there is jealousy but then gordon
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look at this there's also vengeance
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verse two
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lord god it's an avenger god that is
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actually said three times
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that again does that sound a little bit
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wrong to modern ears
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well it sounds wrong if we if we are the
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ones to take vengeance because we will
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have all the wrong motives we won't know
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all the facts
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and we're likely to be very capricious
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and hostile and vindictive so
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it is quite right that the scripture
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says in many places that
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we shouldn't take vengeance because
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vengeance belongs
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to the lord so that the mark of a
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christian i mean at his or her best is
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that we don't take vengeance yes it's
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interesting isn't it that's one
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one of the great characteristics of
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christians they don't take vengeance
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because it's so clear in scripture that
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vengeance belongs to the lord
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and his vengeance is pure it's his
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uh the reaction of his holiness to sin
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he's intolerant of sin
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he won't sweep it under the carpet um he
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judges
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sin i think the prophet habakkuk said
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he's a fairer eyes than to behold evil
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cannot look on iniquity so
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we know that he knows the whole
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situation that he knows it's serious
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and has to be dealt with and that he's
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determined that justice will be done
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and be seen to be done in this world
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which is a great encouragement that
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there is a
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standard there which we have to take
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note of
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actually look on the verse 3 you see i'd
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like to think about
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you know let's think about this why is
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it such good news
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to hear that the lord is slow to anger
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and great in power
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let's think about that i love that
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richard slow to anger
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great in power we're used to different
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sorts of com
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combinations we will have people who are
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quick to anger
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and great in strength so we might think
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about
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um you know a husband or father who
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loses temper and commits domestic
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violence and everyone lives in the
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family
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in fear of them because it has a quick
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temper and he'll use his fists and
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things like that so we know that sort of
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thing and that's a horrible thing
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but we also maybe know people who are
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slow to anger and
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weak in power and so they are always
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compromising always looking for
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easy solutions placating the evil people
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and then they betray the trust of the
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widow and the orphan and the needy and
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they press and they never help them
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that's a horrible thing as well and in
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some ways even more destructive on a
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global scale
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but the lord he's slow to anger
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he's um he's he's like in control do you
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say he's like a um
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i remember he's in your commentary where
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he's it's like a master of anger like he
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knows how to deal with it sort of thing
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he's he he's in charge of the anger he
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doesn't get overwhelmed with his
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emotions and fly into a fit of rage
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no he he's in control of it uh he's slow
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to anger he does it properly but he's
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got the power
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so that when it comes to showing his
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anger and and bringing vengeance and all
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that
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he's able to do it and no matter how big
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the bully
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the lord can bring them down to size
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absolutely
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which is encouragement then when i mean
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when we think about the
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the the nature of the lord god himself
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the name of the lord the covenant god
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maybe even the name do you think reveals
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something of his
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character faithfulness yes i think it's
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wonderful that in that first chapter he
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mentions nineveh once
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but he mentions the lord ten times this
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particular title of the night yes i
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hadn't tweaked that
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uh which we we read about in in exodus
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for example when
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moses is not sure what to tell the
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pharaoh in egypt
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about god and doesn't feel he's a
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theologian and understands these things
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and god says well tell them what you
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know and he reveals himself
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as i am that i am it's a title that
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relates to the verb to be
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or it could be translated i will be what
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i will be
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and it seems to mean that the lord is
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immediate
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present uh with us in every situation
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there available for us it's great
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sufficient for us
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now and always the same yesterday today
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and forever wonderful and it's it's a
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bit like
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the word jesus for the christian the
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lord is jesus
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and uh as a christian we gain tremendous
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encouragement tonight he is always
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immediate with us present i
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heard a story that moved me a lot a few
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years ago about
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uh preparatory webb peplo a clergyman
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quite well known i knew his son
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did you uh and he had a terrible
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accident with the family one of his
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children was killed
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he went back to his study where in his
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parish church
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and he knelt in the study tears down his
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face
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desperate to get the grace and strength
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that he felt god could give him
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the pleading that he might give it and
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then his eye caught
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a motto on the mantle shelf
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and it was simply the words my grace is
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and the word
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is was in bold capitals
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and a different color stood out my grace
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is
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sufficient for you and he found his
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prayer was changing from
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pleading that he might be given grace to
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saying
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you promised now immediately that there
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is grace
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sufficient for me he claimed that and it
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was a great help to him
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wow in fact i've read that story in
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your commentary yes and haven't you
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bought it
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i like your commentary because well you
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can read this commentary because it's
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got stories
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it's got as well as the explanation of
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everything it's of course from
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intervarsity fellowship into varsity
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press i should say
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and they they like to preach to bring
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out commentaries that
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help the preachers help the speakers
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people are coffee mornings or bible
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studies
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think okay this is readable so we're
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very grateful for this
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hey look on the verses 46 thinking of
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the salvation
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and the judgment of the lord through
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scripture look at the
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second part of verse five and into six
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how does
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nahum prove that the lord has the power
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and authority
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to deliver his judgments what do you
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think about that framework oh
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yeah this is a great bit because his
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ways in the whirlwind and the storm
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clouds of his feet
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rebukes the sea drives it up rivers run
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dry all of those things
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which in themselves i mean we could look
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at nature and think when you're in a
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storm it's
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unbelievable the power of the lord god
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and he's showing that
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or in a flood or anything like that but
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i think there is
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probably reference here to great acts of
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judgment in the past
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so of course the people of nineveh the
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assyrians might be thinking
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ah it's just words there won't be any
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judgment these prophets are always going
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on like that
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and jonah of course did say they'll be
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judgment and that time it didn't come
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but nahum is saying right from the word
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go listen
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what about noah and the storms and rain
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that came then
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and flooded the whole world the lord was
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able to do that
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or what about um the crossing of the red
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sea maybe here he
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rebukes the seed rise it up the
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egyptians
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they thought he couldn't judge them the
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lord judged them or even the crossing of
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joshua
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across the jordan when again the river
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and that enabled them to go across off
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the river jordan
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and all those people in the land of
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canaan they probably thought we're too
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strong to be
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judged we're well the lord judged them
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too
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all of these previous tyrannical abusive
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empires and kingdoms that had killed
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people and cruelty
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thought they were safe and then right
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from the
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saying really this lord god is slow to
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anger
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great in power and he can judge you and
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he will
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i remember a man who is a pastor in
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uganda
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on easter day when uh some of edr armen
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the great dictator
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some of his assassins came in to kill
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him and uh he said to them
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you are in far greater danger than i am
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and ended up with them each of them
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joining his church
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wow but that was his conviction you're
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you're the weak ones
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i yeah i'm all right i'm secure in god
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that sounds like was it polycarp who
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said something like that didn't he where
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he sort of said to the emperor
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you can burn me now with this fire
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you're urine danger of
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a greater fire to come that way in which
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that sense of the lord god isn't it
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absolutely it just it says so actually
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gordon how far
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you know how fair is it do you think to
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say that
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neymar is looking forward beyond the
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destruction of assyria because
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all this is a prophecy yes beyond the
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destruction of assyria to the final day
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of judgment
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is that a feasible way of looking at it
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i think so because the language of
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for instance malachi 3 2 and revelation
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6 16 to 17
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is very much the language of nahum they
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call to the mountains and rocks fall on
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us
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hide us from the face of him who sits on
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the throne
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and from the wrath of the lamb and then
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for the great day of their wrath has
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come and who can stand
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that very much echoes what liam is
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saying and i think that's true right
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through the bible that the judgments
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that come upon these nations
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are kind of warnings to the rest of us
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that one day there'll be a final
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judgment it's particularly clear
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in jesus teaching in matthew 24
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and in mark 13 luke 21 about
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the fall of jerusalem in 1870 which took
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place in 1870
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but he mixes up teaching about that
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we're teaching about the end of the
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world because the one judgment
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prefigures the final judgment that's
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such a helpful way of putting
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anything to add to that paul well it's
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just that verse isn't it nahum one verse
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six
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who can withstand his indignation who
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can endure his fierce anger
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i mean that is that sense isn't it that
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however big we think we are
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he is coming the lord jesus is coming
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to judge the world and on that day no
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one can stand in themselves
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the only place of safety is him and if
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we try to stand in our own strength when
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that day comes
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we've had it absolutely this has been a
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useful study
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as we close off i mean let me ask you
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whoever you may be from different part
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of the world may be
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are you under pressure from somebody
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maybe from your government
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maybe from your president maybe from
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your boss at work
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try and see that oppressor in his or her
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underclothes in the long pants you know
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under
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or with his duodenal ulcer or with his
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ingrowing toenails
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see him with his you know the problems
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he got with his
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mother-in-law or with his little love
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affair that have all gone wrong
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i remember a great evangelist uh
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from argentina luis palau once telling
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me of a particular
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breakfast he had to go to speak at and
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the president of that particular country
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was there and said to him beforehand
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palau
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what's your subject and palau said
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the crisis of the spirit the president
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said to him
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crisis let me tell you about my crisis
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it is right there in his own family it
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just helps us to understand
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that there is more in us than there is
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in them greater is are those who are
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with us
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said elijah than those who are with them
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and you are speaking of the oppressors
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hold on to that
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let's be encouraged together more next
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time god bless you
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