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ah book by book here we are once again
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i'm richard buse
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joined here by you as we look at the
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book of nahum in the old testament
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coming to study number three and once
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again i'm joined by
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my friend and colleague paul blackham
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and then by our special guest gordon
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bridger
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who is a preacher and a writer and
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actually a trainer of preachers because
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paul was once in his study
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absolutely gordon was the principal of
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oak hill theological college here
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in london here we are in uh this
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wonderful book
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of nahum in the old testament it's one
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of what are called the
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minor prophets they're only minded
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because they're quite short
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and as we come to now our third study
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let's just take one or two sentences
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again from this first chapter
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look at verse seven the lord is good a
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refuge in times of trouble
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he cares for those who trust in him but
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with an overwhelming flood
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he will make an end of nineveh he will
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pursue his foes into darkness
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whatever they plot against the lord he
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will bring to an end
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verse 12 this is what the lord says
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although they have allies
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and are numerous they will be cut off
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and pass away
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although i have afflicted you o judah i
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will afflict you no more
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i will break their yoke from your neck
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and tear your shackles
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away we're looking really at nahum in
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chapter one here verses 7 to 15 and
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really i think we ought to first of all
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think about
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if the lord as we learned earlier is
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full of vengeance and
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anger and power it says then we must ask
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is there some way by which
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that we can endure all of that well i
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think that nam tells us that
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it's only through the lord himself he
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says the lord is good but certain
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a refuge in times of trouble so the lord
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himself can save us from
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the judgment that we all deserve and i
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think he uses a number of terms to
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describe
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that judgment which i think point us to
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the new testament and to the cross
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so for instance he talks about verse
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eight he will pursue his phase into
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darkness
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and we think of jesus on the cross
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darkness coming over the face of the
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earth
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a symbol of the sin of the world
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being upon him and he endured the
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darkness we deserved that
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we might walk in the light and have
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fellowship with god
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so that's one picture but there's
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another one they will be entangled verse
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among thorns and that may well refer
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back to genesis as
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a part of the curse or condemnation of
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god upon
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humankind because of adam and eve's
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rebellion
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and disobedience and the new testament
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tells us that
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christ became a curse for us in
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galatians 3 13 this is
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he became a curse for us that he might
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redeem us
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from the curse of the law so again we're
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secure in him
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because of the cross and just one more
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um
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they will be entangled among thorns
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verse 10 and drunk from their wine
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that may refer to a picture that occurs
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a lot in the bible
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of drinking the cup with wine the wine
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of god's wrath
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upon humankind for its sinfulness and
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rebellion and disobedience again
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and christ we know in the garden of
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gethsemane prayed that if possible this
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cup might pass from him
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he shrunk from it but went in obedience
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drank to the dregs a cup of wrath
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so that we could drink by faith the cup
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of salvation
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so the lord is good he is our refuge oh
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god it's wonderful that we can
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fill out our understanding of the old
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testament by again and again by
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reference to the new testament
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and you know the our study guide i think
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we ought to draw those
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the attention of our friends who are
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sharing in this study to the study
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guides that accompany absolutely these
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studies
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so if you get the dvd of course you can
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also get with it the study guide it
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comes automatically
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and that is fills out a little bit of
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what we're attempting
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in this sort of brief study time that we
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have right now
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actually as we have to follow on from
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where you left off gordon
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i mean how does nahum hold together the
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beginning then
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of verse 2 the jealous and avenging god
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with the beginning of verse 7 which as
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you were quoting the lord is good
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a refuge for those in time of trouble
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yeah that's for me i think
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the the way that the lord because you
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think the lord's good
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we like that jealous and a vengeance
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again sometimes people go that's a
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contradiction
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it isn't a contradiction that you know
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the lord is both
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good and angry and so on
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because of his passion for people
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his passion and love for people because
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he's got these
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um his love and purposes for the world
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and he sees all the evil
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and it bothers him and he won't have it
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and he hates it and he'll drive it away
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and we think about ourselves that we can
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become
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so sort of hard-hearted and apathetic
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about things
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we can i mean i always think about it
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that we can watch an advert
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on television and be moved to tears then
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we'll see you know just some trivial
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sentimental thing can move us
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and then we'll watch the news that has
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real tragedy and
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evil and suffering and just be
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completely blank and unmoved by it well
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the lord god isn't like that he cares
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passionately about people and won't and
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won't be all hard-hearted and
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indifferent about it
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and i always think about the fact that
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the lord will not have sin he will not
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have it
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and will never compromise or let it go
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and i think about the sin in my own life
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that i can get comfortable with but i
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think it's great news to know the lord
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isn't like that
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and i i do because because of my the the
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spirit and the new nature that i've
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received in jesus
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i hate the sin even that i do and so
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i love the fact that the lord says will
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not have it we'll get rid of that once
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and for all
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and that that sort of way in which i go
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that's wonderful
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the lord is good and he will not
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tolerate evil
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and i love that i love i long for the
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day when i myself he'll drive out all
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the evil from in my own heart you know
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wretched man that i am who will deliver
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me
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from the sin that's in me he will
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because he's a good god who cares
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passionately
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oh absolutely it's one of i love the
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three tenses of salvation
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he has delivered us from the past
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penalty of sin
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by a crucified savior he is delivering
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us now from the power of sin
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by a risen savior and he will deliver us
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from the very presence of sin
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by a coming savior wow and that's the
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thing that we can hold on to with great
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confidence
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wow hey gun as we look on at verses 8 to
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11 why is it such good news then when
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nahum promises the end of nineveh it is
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good news isn't it yes it is because
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syria and other tyrannical powers have
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caused a great deal of distress and have
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murdered people and
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committed atrocities and it's good that
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such
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nations that behave in this way are
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judged by god as paul's been saying
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um and they they
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they fall dramatically i was watching on
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television
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a program about adolf hitler and the
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rise of nazism in germany
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and uh the best that he made the part of
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a speech
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claiming that germany would would rule
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the world
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and in the end he's defeated
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and he dies takes his own life in a
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bunker in berlin he ends up in about
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just ends up
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powerful that's it i know so all of
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these
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we learn from history and of course
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supremely we learn from the scriptures
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i mean perhaps all this reminds us of
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the book of daniel actually do you
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remember
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does he face nebuchadnezzar of babylon
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what do you think about do you remember
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that book
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what you do i do i know you love the
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book of daniel and i can't read it
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without thinking of your sermons and
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writings on daniel
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because and that's another example of
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the because of the assyrians came
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and then they were destroyed by the
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babylonians weren't they really a
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sort of an alliance in the babylonian
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then they came up and they thought
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no were there what were the empire
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that's always going to be around
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we're going to rule the world in history
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and there's daniel
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and he's in the middle of that and it's
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no he discovers the same
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all the empires come and go you get you
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know you get assyria
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babylon then you get the median persians
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then you get the greeks
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the seleucid kingdom then you get the
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iron fist of rome one after one after
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and each one of them
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in the day seemed as if it would last
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forever and here's we've got the thames
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behind us and you think
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over all the hundreds of years that
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ships have come and gone here
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all the different ships coming from all
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these different empires and kingdoms
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many of them don't even exist anymore so
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and sometimes they do but they're small
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and i always think that with daniel and
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there and i love that vision isn't it
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where there's a stone that's a little
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stone
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and it rolls down and there's this
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statue that represents
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all those empires it's glorious daniel
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chapter two the little stone
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that hits the great statue that
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resembles all the
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different kingdoms that are coming yeah
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and they all end up pulverized
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what's it that's the kingdom of god the
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kingdom of god the stone that became
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a mountain you know i think nahum's
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reminding us of that same
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great truth that here they seem
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impossibly big and we're frightened of
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them
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and they may take the lives of us and
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other christians and things
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but even when we die even if we were
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martyred by them
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in our minds we trust the lord jesus and
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his kingdom and we're
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safe in him absolutely hey go on let's
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look on
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uh where are we 12 15. 15
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yes i think let's look at that well
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nineveh is seen to trust in its allies
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as we read earlier and it's god's in
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verse 14.
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so why is this issue of trust and
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security so
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very central here well i think nem seems
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to be saying that
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you if you trust in certain gods the
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result will be
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that you'll follow their ways uh of
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corruption and destruction
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uh and it matters what
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whom you serve and whom you worship and
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whom you put first in your life
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and it affects the whole of your life
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yes
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yes yes and of course i i like it how
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you meant well you mention a lot of that
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on page 122. right we won't read all of
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it because
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because 120 to 129 seven pages
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several pages you take up this theme of
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you know
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what you worship you will actually
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become like yes and this is
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what have we seen i'm afraid in many
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parts of the world
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and have done so right through the way
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through history and and those gods of
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the babylonians they were sort of of
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you know like sex and violence really
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isn't it i think some of them they had
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those sort of things and
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it re it's reflected in the lives of the
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yes is that
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the babylonians yeah and the cruelty of
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them
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i know yeah so yes that's right in the
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second part of verse 15 the people of
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judah can look forward
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to celebrating their feasts again and
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that's
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that's encouraging uh for a soldier to
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remember and to hold on to
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um and that idea isn't it of the that
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you think it's strange that the idea
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that when
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there was this terrible destruction of
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nineveh
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that might have been reported in the
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news like terrible war in assyria
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but over in the church over in israel
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hey it's feasts and festivals and
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there's that sense of that isn't it
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quite right
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quite right absolutely exactly so
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i mean now yeah look uh the first part
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of verse 15
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uh seems to have come straight from
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isaiah 52
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7 about the looking on the on the
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they're on the mountains the feet of one
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who brings good news who proclaims peace
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yes it does look like that why doesn't
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nahim kind of remind us of that prophecy
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do you think
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well that's taking it seems to be yeah
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though
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that link up with isaiah because isaiah
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had promised
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i don't know was it maybe 80 years
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earlier sort of time
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yeah maybe that sort of time that he and
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the isaiah had said this assyria these
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are syrians they'll be gone
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and then all that time people are like
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oh isaiah he's
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he's lost it there's no way that assyria
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is going to be destroyed
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well of course in the book of isaiah
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itself you see that way in which the
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lord was able to defeat the assyrians
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and nahum recalls that to them said you
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remember what isaiah promised
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that the assyrians will be destroyed and
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do you remember what happened
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during the life of isaiah the assyrians
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when they came to jerusalem
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the angel of the lord came and sent them
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back in and it's all like that and
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here's another then and nahim's giving
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the same gospel message
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because what's wonderful about isaiah is
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he's not just talking about politics and
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world empires
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above it all he holds up the lord jesus
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christ
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and he has that incredible prophecy of
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his cross and resurrection and new
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creation glory
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so that's what give that's how we know
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that it's gonna come true because
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there's this
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lord jesus christ at the center of it
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all isaiah 53
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you know gordon earlier was talking
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about how the cross is there
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implicitly in all these but of course
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isaiah
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it's just like the most incredible
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description of the cross of jesus isaiah
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53.
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so i think it's good whenever we read
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these prophets but nahum is actually
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saying to us
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i hope you've read isaiah because you
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need you want you want to get all the
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isaiah truth
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i'm building on it but you know read
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isaiah is telling us
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oh my word i think we're just about at
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the end of our little study
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study number three i mean when we think
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then about the
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endurance of the church and god's people
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right down the centuries from early
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times right through to the church of
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today
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we should take encouragement actually i
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can think
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of if you go to paris in france
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and to the musee d'orsay which is one of
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the great art museums
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you see there in one of the pictures a
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an enormous
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woman she just dominates the canvas it's
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a large canvas
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this woman dressed in somber clothes
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dominating
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looking actually pretty terrifying as
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well
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but at her feet the artist has painted
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his name was andre
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russo he painted in 1897 he's painted
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at her feet a little cat playing with a
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ball of wool
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and when i think about that well it
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isn't actually three seconds
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before your eyes irresistibly drawn to
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the little cat
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so as we wind up now this study i mean i
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would say that
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that's something of a picture of the of
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of the church
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really often dismissed across the
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from early times as being nothing but
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scum and all the rest of it
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but actually it's the church like the
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cat in russo's
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painting that somehow captivatingly
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stayed you know and in prosperity's view
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despite all of the
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opposition that there is and despite
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every formidable
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rival that there is on the campus of
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history you know from
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ashuburnipal of assyria right through to
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nero
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right through to hitler as you were
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mentioning earlier
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and far beyond the church is still there
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the church is going to outlast every
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body
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every group of people every kingdom
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in sight if we're part of that
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amazingly we're on safe secure ground
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god bless you we're going to come back
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with another study before long
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you
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