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ah
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i'm richard buse welcoming you to
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another study in our series on the book
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of nahum
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in book by book thank you very much for
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joining us
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i'm joined here by paul blackham whom we
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work with regularly
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and then by our very special guest
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gordon bridger who
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goes around a lot of england helping
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training
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speaking and now also writing in his
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commentary which is uh
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our great commentary on obadiah nahum
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and zephaniah well it's nahum we're
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studying
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right now and as we come to the fifth in
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our series
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we're looking at chapter two i'm going
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to read a few sentences here
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starting at verse 13 i am against you
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declares the lord almighty i will burn
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up your chariots in smoke
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and the sword will divide your young
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lands i will leave you no prey on the
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earth
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the voices of your messengers will no
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longer be heard
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woe to the city of blood full of lies
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full of plunder
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never without victims the crack of whips
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the clatter of wheels galloping horses
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and jolting chariots i am against you
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verse 5
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declares the lord almighty well that's
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the theme of course of our study
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i am against you as mentioned more than
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once
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well as we come to our study uh this is
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a phrase
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i am against you repeated gordon what
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does it really mean
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would you think to call the living god
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it says the lord almighty says this
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what does it mean to call him by that
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name or the lord of hosts we sometimes
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say
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yes as you said sometimes translate as
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lord of hosts
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and i think i've always felt that it has
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meant
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that it refers to the resources that god
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can call upon
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heavenly resources the legions of angels
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jesus referred to
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when he was in the garden and being
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arrested and that
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in contrast to the idols that the
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syrians worshipped
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that were made by human hands were
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carried about
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and had no power whatever paul and i
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were struck actually by
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your comment when we're looking
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preparing for this study
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earlier you're on page 151
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where you state in your commentary that
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the lord in his own nature
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is not a bear quote one but a
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multiplicity
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in unity so the quote hosts
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within the divine nature are as you
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predict the persons of
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the trinity father son and holy spirit
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wow
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well yes that's another interpretation
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which i think
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has a great deal of truth about it and i
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i think what
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seems to be going on which so often
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happens in studying the old testament is
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that
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new testament truth is concealed it is
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hinted at
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yes but it's not revealed until we get
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to the new testament
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so when we come to the new testament uh
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we see that
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it's filled out isn't it filled out like
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in john 14 jesus says
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the spirit will come to you he says i
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will come to you
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and in the same passage he says my
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father and i we will make our about
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with you so he uses those terms
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interchangeably you can say god is in
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you jesus is in you the spirit is in you
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so there's this multiplicity in unity
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there's the triune god who's saying
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to assyria this evil superpower i'm
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against you yes
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i mean another example of that is is the
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hebrew word elohim
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for god oh yes which is the most common
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word but it's a plural word
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so um let us make man in our own
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us yeah so there's the hint again of
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this plurality
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in the one godhead right through from
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the beginning of the bible right through
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yes yeah we worship and i think it's
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here in that phrase lord of hosts
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glorious do you like that poem i love
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that i love that
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i mean then maybe we should recognize
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that across you know
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all of history there's nothing more
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terrifying really than to have the lord
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of hosts
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declare that he's against us oh no i
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agree
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i am against you declares the lord of
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hosts
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i mean that has got to be the most
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terrifying thing to ever hear and we
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think like there's the puffed up bully
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at school
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or anything and they seem so big and
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powerful till the teacher arrives
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and then they're like oh you know and
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then they look they're just a little boy
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then
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and it's the same here as great and
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powerful as the assyrians ever seen
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when the lord of hosts arrived they're
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rejuve we see them in the proper
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perspective they reduce right down to
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size
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and this lord of hosts stands up for the
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widows and the orphans and the needy and
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he wills and he hears the
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cry the scriptures tells us that so
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these bullies and tyrants
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once they mess with the with the church
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most of all and the lord
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really takes it personally when the
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world attacks the church
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he's coming and the lord of hosts is
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against anyone who's against him and his
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church
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and it's so that you we often think if
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you know if god is
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for us who can be against us that's in
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the bible
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but what if if god is against us
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who can possibly be for us and all the
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allies in the world and that is actually
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described about you can have all the
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allies
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all the military all the fortresses if
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god is against you it's useless it's
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useless and you think there's the lord
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jesus christ he sustains
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all things by his powerful word if he's
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against you
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it's over yes and so that means that
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when
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peter the disciple was in the garden of
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gethsemane
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and drawing his sword actually he didn't
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need to do that at all
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the lord stopped him and said he who
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lives by the sword will perish by the
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sword
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so we could ask ourselves of course how
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far is it permissible
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uh and right to pride that apply that
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principle
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to a city as in what verses one to three
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where we read
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word of the city of blood full of lies
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what do you think
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well i think nam goes on to say that the
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the city that acts in that kind of way
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and turns its back upon the living god
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goes
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further and further in corruption
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and immorality and
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is as name says a city of blood full of
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lies
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and i think we need to take notice that
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if the violence of the assyrians led to
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such disasters for their nation
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that we should look very carefully at uh
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glorifying
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violence yes in our own culture yes
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today and we seem to do that in
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video games and in entertainment as well
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as in other ways
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i know we do and we need to watch that
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yeah we do
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and actually when you think of it i mean
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history seems to have been full of
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warnings on this line
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so there is a syria it goes in one day
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bomb gone
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and it happened to babylon when you
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remember the writing on the wall
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suddenly finished in one night we think
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of the roman empire later
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august the 24th 410 a.d
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gone in one day sucked by the visigoths
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so the
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superpowers cannot say to themselves
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we're going to go on forever they don't
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even
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filter out slowly often they go bang in
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one day
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which is incredible yeah to us and yet
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full of
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of uh important understanding so
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it seems to me that verse four now here
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um with reference to harlots and
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sorceries shows us also another side of
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the syria's
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sins did you think i do and it's first
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of all when you read it
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it looks if it's about sexual immorality
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but actually
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it's something much worse than sexual
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immorality it's about
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spiritual immorality so that what
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assyria has done and again we get that
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in two kings chapter 17
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where they exported all these false
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religions
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around the world and you know they put
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them into
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into israel and and and brought
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nations with all their false gods and
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things and this
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reliance on um sorceries the occult
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all and witchcraft and things it's like
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for all the military power and things
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they've got all this kind of
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superstition and magic and spells
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why because they trust in these things
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you know we
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pray and say lord god you the one who
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has all the power
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they believe in casting spells because
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it's about their power you know we have
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this sort of a cult power
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of magic we can bewitch the world with
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all these things
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it's deep because i think the thing is
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about and today we get that don't
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we we have people who are supposed to be
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so sort of
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clear thinking and then they'll have
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under the some sort of crystal
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to ward off evil energies or or to
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me make sure they're healthy or to to
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bring good luck charms and things
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and it's what's that really about is the
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spiritual adultery
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that's why there's that language of
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prostitution and adultery and things
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because we belong to the lord god that's
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the issue isn't it
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we were created to be married to the
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living god
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and when we marry ourselves or unite
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ourselves to
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rubbish like occult and false gods and
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false rouges and idols and all these
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things
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that's adultery much and you know how
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incredibly
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where people's lives are heartbroken
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with you know
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human adultery that is only a small
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picture of the
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terrible offense of spiritual adultery
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oh and we take our warnings again and
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again from this book
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looking on actually verses five to seven
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i mean
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nineveh would be visualized in ruins
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no one to mourn for her why does the
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lord of hosts then use such
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shocking language against niva and the
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assyrians here
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it's barely worth well it's bad we can
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barely read it for the shock
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it's part of god's word yes i sometimes
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think that
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maybe he has to use shocking language to
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get us to think
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seriously about sin and evil because we
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think too lightly about it and maybe
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it's the awakeness
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to that yes um i think there's an
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element too
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isn't there of the punishment fitting
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the crime
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the assyrians had dealt with their
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enemies in this kind of way god said if
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you do that then
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it rebounds on you judgment will come in
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a similar way to you
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yes and i think you know what if man
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says he reaps
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that's true individually but it's true
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of nations as well
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righteousness exalts a nation but uh
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disobedience and corruption
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lead to further corruption and it means
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no one looks anymore with favor on her i
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mean looking at verse seven
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you know when it says nineveh is in
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ruins who will mourn for her
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so maybe it tells the children of the
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resurrection something about that final
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day of judgment
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yeah well it does because sometimes and
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i've heard quite often people say to me
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oh i just couldn't bear that day of
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judgment and the new creation future and
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things because
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what about all the people i've known or
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been friends with
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and they're taken away in judgment uh
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you know they've refused to find refuge
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in jesus
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i it would i that would be horrible and
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all and they're very anxious about that
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final day
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and i can understand that to a degree
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but if we can
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how could we enjoy the new creation if
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people are shut out forever
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i think there's a clue here that all who
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see this
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total fall of the assyrian empire uh
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they'll they'll free and they'll they'll
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rejoice nineveh is in ruins who will
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mourn for
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and there's something of that in
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revelation isn't that when babylon falls
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which is the same
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imagery that's coming up babylon is the
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city there
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and that represents all the godless
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corruption of the world and when babylon
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falls
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okay the godless people of the world are
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mourn it we'll stand over her graves we
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stand over and there's rejoicing among
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the righteous and the poor and the
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innocent who've relied on the lord
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though yay
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babylon's fallen and heavens there's a
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party going on in heaven
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i think we've got to remember that and
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hold on to that and think you see then
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when the full
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evil of everything is exposed and we see
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the corruption of sin for what it is and
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the sinfulness of sin and how bad
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everything is
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and when the light switched on and the
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lord jesus comes and we see with his
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clarity
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i i just think there's going to be
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enormous rejoicing
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and i don't i don't think we'll be like
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lot's wife and we'll look back and say
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oh i wish i was back in the world as it
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was
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we'll be always looking forwards into
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that bright new creation future saying
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no glaze hooray that that
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age has ended now is the age of home of
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righteousness forever and ever
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i know so as we think about
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the fall of these nations and also think
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of the chaos that they've caused for so
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many believing people
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today i would like to ask as we close
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off
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you who are sharing in our study are you
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part of a prayer fellowship
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do you have a prayer meeting at your
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church
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do you in your prayer meeting remember
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the sisters and brothers of the
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christian family worldwide even if you
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don't already
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know their names those suffering in
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prison for their beliefs
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you know it was kate booth of the
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salvation army years ago
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she was the oldest daughter of general
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booth and
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many many years ago when she took her
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hallelujah lashes from the salvation
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army onto the streets of paris
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she was a very very brave witness and
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preached to people in the dives and the
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brothels and so on
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so brave was she they gave her a
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military title they called her
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la marechal the mary show and when she
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got to switzerland her preaching again
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was so strong in the streets
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that they put her in prison for
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disturbing the peace but in prison
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she wrote a song that went worldwide it
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was called
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the mary charles prison song best
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beloved of my soul
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i am here alone with thee and my prison
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is a heaven since thou sharest it
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with me if there's somebody sharing in
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our study and you've been
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in prison or under heavy pressure for
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your beliefs
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we want to tell you from this little
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studio here in london
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we love you and you inspire us
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to live better for the kingdom that will
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never die
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god bless you
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you
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