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From US history, remember?

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Something out of the American Revolution, one of

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the first encounters between the colonialists and the

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British.

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Don't fire until you see the whites over

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their eyes.

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I haven't said that or remembered that in

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over 30 years till now.

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What does that mean?

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What?

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I didn't hear that.

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I love to give sudden quizzes.

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Well, praise the Lord.

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The prophetic man is always asking, what does

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that mean?

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We had a birth in our community that

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came early, unexpectedly, where Simon and Naomi,

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one of our couples, began to have strange

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disturbance about the time of our summer prophetical

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school and convocation.

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And then she was rushed from one hospital

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to another and has just now had the

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birth of a child they thought would have

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to be, what's the word?

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C-section.

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C-section and prematurely encouraged.

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But they waited and she had a natural

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birth, a five and some pounds, some ounce

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baby, and with the largest placenta they had

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ever seen.

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So we're asking, what does this birth mean?

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The unusual circumstances of this birth, coming right

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at the time of our 25th anniversary and

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brought forth to no small extent by the

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intercession and the travail of the Ben Israel

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community itself for the birthing of a baby

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boy whose name is Micah.

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So we see him as a prophetic event.

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The birthing of a prophetic entity through travail,

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struggle, premature, great expense and the attendance of

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God is more than just a circumstantial thing.

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We're always looking, what's the meaning?

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What is God wanting to say?

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Which is not a bad disposition.

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I wish that the church would have it

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and not so readily dismiss its circumstances as

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just being circumstantial.

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Okay, well I'm happy for a Saturday morning

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with you guys.

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Isn't that a precious way to spend a

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Shabbat morning?

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So we thank you Lord, my Lord.

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What a privilege.

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Close us in with yourself.

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Cut us off at the pass.

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Quiz us.

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Bring up, my God, things that are upon

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your heart and have a full abandon to

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yourself.

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Enjoy yourself, my God, and romp and do

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what you will, where you will and we

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just thank you for the privilege.

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We'll follow so well as we can wherever

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you lead us, my God.

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And we thank you for the privileged use

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of a Shabbat morning.

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Even the Rosh Hashanah morning, my God, when

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Jews are going into their synagogues that we

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are here, my God, by your ordination.

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So come and guide us and take your

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full liberty, we pray.

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Receive our acknowledgement of how privileged we are

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to be closed in together with you and

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a sent servant.

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Thank you, Lord.

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We bless your name.

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Have your perfect way.

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First word to the last.

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In Jesus' name, Amen.

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Well, I want to look into this Psalm

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102 this morning but before we get there,

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I want to glean a little bit more

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from Hosea of last night's text that was

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so inadequately addressed.

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I looked at it again this morning and

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it came from my devotional reading and somehow

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a lot of things were quickened this morning

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that I was not in a position to

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either see or attend yesterday but it would

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be a pity to rush on and to

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miss it.

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So we're looking at a text in Hosea

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chapter 13, verse 15 kind of an ominous

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note about Jewish history.

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Although he may flourish among rushes, the east

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wind shall come, a blast from the Lord,

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rising from the wilderness, and his fountain shall

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dry up, his spring shall be parched, it

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shall strip his treasure of every precious thing.

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We just have to take a deep breath

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and a pause because the scriptures themselves are

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so unique, such another kind of literature.

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The Psalms are unique within that uniqueness and

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prophetic proclamation is equally unique.

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So much so, such a weight of things,

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so compressed and so terse a statement that

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it requires a very special attention and we

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have not been schooled to give to the

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scripture that kind of attention.

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We have been schooled by Gone with the

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Wind, by novels, by glib casual reading.

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We don't know how to invest ourselves in

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the word and the danger is we would

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just read through something like this and gain

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nothing.

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So let's just ponder this first to say

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again, this is such an echo, a statement

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that has resounded through the whole of Jewish

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history.

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Though we may have prospered for a season

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and what would be more a statement of

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that than German Jews.

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I wish that you could have been with

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me at the most recent visit to Berlin

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and the ruins of their reform synagogue, an

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elaborate piece of architecture even in its ruins

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and then the exhibits that go back and

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show, there was one photograph showing the stately

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congregation, somehow the building probably so vast as

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it was, was not adequately heated.

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They were sitting with their winter overcoats on

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but such overcoats with fur collars, with their

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fedoras, with their top hats, with their nice

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dark collars and ties and the women resplendently

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dressed.

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If ever you saw a picture of affluence,

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security, comfort, assurance, stateliness, it was this Jewish

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congregation.

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But you're seeing it in the ruins of

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their synagogue, devastated by the bombing of the

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World War II and probably also by Kristallnacht.

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You know that night in October was it,

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when every synagogue or many of them were

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set afire.

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Kristall is the German word for glass, the

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shattering glass.

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That came out of these synagogues as the

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Nazis rampaged through and then right on the

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heels of that was the setting in motion

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of the whole process of Jewish annihilation.

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So wherever we Jews have had opportunity to

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prosper, it's only for a season.

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And surely, sooner or later, the bottom falls

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out.

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If any Jewish community ever thought itself secure,

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it was the German Jewish community.

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Reform Judaism was born in Germany.

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That is a secular adaptation of Judaism that

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is acceptable to a mind that is offended

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by the supernatural.

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Can you guys follow me?

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How did they come to a mentality like

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this?

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Because they were German Jews.

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Because rationalism is a German mentality of that

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generation and they wanted to be accommodated to

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that civilization.

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Do you know that this generation of Jews

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was opposed to the reestablishment of a Jewish

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community in Palestine.

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They wanted to be integrated into their diasporic

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exile homes.

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They wanted to show the German nation that

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they were first and foremost German Jews, that

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they were first German citizens, that their first

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loyalty was to Germany and only secondarily as

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a cultural and historic response to their Jewishness.

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That's why Reform Judaism had its birth in

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Germany.

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And yet, however accommodating that community was, it

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was obliterated.

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And that's exactly what God is saying through

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Hosea.

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And it ought to be a somber warning

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for American Jews.

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What?

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You're comfortable here?

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You're secure here?

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You're respected here?

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Take note that wherever you have enjoyed that

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kind of security in the world, it has

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only been temporary.

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And there's a moment in which the axe

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falls and you find yourself again thrust out

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and suffering.

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So although he may flourish among rushes, you

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know what rushes are?

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Those reeds that grow by riverbanks.

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I don't know why this kind of metaphor

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is being used by the prophet.

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It's set in nature because the blast that

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comes is a natural phenomenon known in the

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Middle East.

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There's a special name for it, maybe somebody

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here knows it.

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Where this unexpected dry heat comes out with

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a wind and a gush unexpectedly and so

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blistering away that wherever it passes, it brings

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a devastation.

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You might have been abounding by the riverside,

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by access to water, by the rushes, but

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when this heat comes, everything withers.

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So God is using a metaphor of nature

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as a warning to Jewish communities, don't be

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deceived by your present affluence, security and comfort

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because that kind of affluence that you're enjoying

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is obtained independent of me.

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You have an obligation being the Israel of

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God to make me known, but your very

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lifestyle that is the expression of godlessness, of

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only a superficial Saturday accommodation to me, but

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that your main purpose and being is your

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own success and prosperity is contrary to the

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witness for which you are intended.

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And therefore though I allow you to enjoy

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the benefit of it for a season, there

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must come a time in which it will

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be judged.

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As I read this this morning, I thought

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that though this is set in time and

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in history, it's actually a warning of an

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eternal blast where everything withers, but it is

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irrecoverable.

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It is a final and ultimate judgment for

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which reason God gives preliminary judgments.

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I'll have to check, am I okay, am

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I coming through?

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Do you know the name Baselius Schlenk?

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If you don't, you need to.

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Talk about 20th century articles.

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This is the German founder of the Evangelical

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Sisters of Mary in Darmstadt, Germany, who is

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a prophetess and has written some remarkable books

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on repentance, on Israel.

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It's a German movement born out of the

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rubble and ruin of World War II where

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the firebombing that fell on Darmstadt was so

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horrendous, Darmstadt was not a military target.

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But it was firebombed just as...

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I'm trying to think of these other German

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cities.

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One was famous for its ceramics, Dresden, China.

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You know, it's nice to talk to a

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literate audience that knows something about history and

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can help a stumbling speaker who can't...

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The description in those places was the heat

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was so intense in the firebombing people in

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flight were caught in the melting asphalt and

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trapped and the air was sucked right up

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from the city so that tens of thousands

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died from asphyxiation before they were burned.

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And this movement interpreted that as a judgment

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upon Germany for being the diabolical rod of

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God's judgment upon Israel.

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And so the whole movement was born out

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of a repentant attitude toward the Jew.

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And indeed they have a home in Israel

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for surviving Holocaust victims and they had, I

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don't know if they still have it, on

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the Mount of Olives a precious little place

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where I used to bring groups whenever we

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conducted a tour to Israel to visit.

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And these are just sweet sisters.

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I'll tell you how remarkable an environment they

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have or had.

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That I'm told that David Wilkerson when he

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visited there threw himself on the compost pile.

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The sense of holiness was so great, so

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hallowed over there at Darmstadt property that, the

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story goes and I think it's true he

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flung himself upon the compost heap.

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I didn't move, I was not so moved

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myself but I was profoundly affected.

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The moment that I walked through that gate

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no longer in Darmstadt, you were in heaven.

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It was a hallowed atmosphere.

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And there was a time when they dispersed

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their women's movement.

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See this is outside of our American experience

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that there are pious communities of women who

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have chosen to be married to the Lord

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and have forsaken natural marriage.

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They wear wedding bands, they're married to the

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Lord.

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Very precious dedication.

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And when they dispersed and I had an

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occasion to visit their representation in Egypt I

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thought it's one thing to have a hallowed

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atmosphere in Germany but let's see you have

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it in Egypt, in Cairo.

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The city of 14 or 16 million that

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stinks from the dung of camels and oxen

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and goats and donkeys where in four lanes

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of traffic you have six to seven lanes

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of cars who move by sensor, by honking

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of horns they feel each other's presence.

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It's another environment you can't even begin to

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understand it coming from Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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The congestion, the filth, the air, the spitting,

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the nose blowing.

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You don't dare shake hands or extend a

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left hand to any person.

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It's considered an insult because that's the hand

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you use in tending to your hygiene after

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you have defecated in a land that does

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not know what toilet paper is.

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That's a luxury only the West can afford.

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Can you understand things like that?

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So I remember going up the steps of

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their apartment in Cairo thinking yeah it's one

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thing to maintain this pristine hallowed atmosphere in

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Germany.

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Let's see you pull it in Cairo.

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And the door opened and I was back

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again into heaven.

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So it's possible to bring heaven to earth

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and to maintain a heavenly environment even in

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the midst of congestion, traffic, noise, filth, and

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all the rest.

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Now how did that come in?

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What made me turn aside?

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About a movement born in repentance toward the

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Jew.

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So I commend Basilia Schlink, S-C-H

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-L-I-M-K, for your consideration.

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Her book on repentance, The Secret of the

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Joy-Filled Life is an all-time 20th

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century classic.

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And when I was asked once to recommend

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what one book would you recommend ought to

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be translated into Russian this was at a

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time when there was not much access in

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that nation for the church I said this

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one book on repentance, The Secret of the

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Joy-Filled Life.

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Because it came out of the hard school

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of judgment.

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Because they prophetically interpreted the calamity of the

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destruction of World War II on Germany as

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a statement of God's judgment for the mistreatment

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of Jews.

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They were prophetically attuned to interpret their history

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prophetically.

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And to explain that meaning to the nation

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itself.

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So would to God that we had a

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church in America and in the world that

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could explain to the Jewish communities within its

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midst the meaning of Jewish history.

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And what the pattern of it is that

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however successful a season we may enjoy and

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rise to places of prosperity, affluence and security

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you always need to remember that the pattern

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is that there's a day that comes when

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the east wind blows and brings a withering

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blast and dries up and removes all of

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the treasure that you have obtained.

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And why is that?

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Because the treasure that you have obtained you

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have obtained independently of God.

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It's through your own striving, your own effort,

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your own energy and you have assumed that

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God has gone behind to bless and condone

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or consecrate but you're living out of your

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own independence from God.

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And he allows you a season of prosperity

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some kind of an acceptance even the thought

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that maybe finally we have found a home

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where we can have a security, the United

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States of America.

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Germany, what is the United States next to

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what Germany had meant for Jews?

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The land of Goethe, G-O-E-T

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-H-E Fichte, Hegel, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer great philosophers,

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Kant, K-A-N-T ethical philosophy, the

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ideals the land of reformation, the land of

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culture, the land of history that such a

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nation can one day fail to provide the

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kinds of amenity of civilization that its culture

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suggests and that within a decade that whole

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thing can come tottering down and that nation

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that is most esteemed for its civilization can

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become the most brutal, the most vile that

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the death, it was not just a systematic

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death but the cruelty of that death the

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stripping of their identity as human beings the

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giving of a number, not even a name

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and the whole relentless persecution of Jews right

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through to ashes was out of the land

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of Goethe, Fichte, Hegel, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Wagner Mendelssohn,

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all of the great names of music, philosophy

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culture, poetry, literature, art and if that could

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happen within a decade in a nation of

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that history what could happen then in America?

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what kind of assurance and security can Jews

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have here?

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where our civilization is only skin deep and

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if Jews are enjoying any sense of assurance

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or security how much confidence can they have

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and how much would it take to bring

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the whole thing down and that's what we're

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being warned of in the scripture although he

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may flourish among rushes the east wind shall

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come notice the prevalence of the word shall

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shall come a blasphemy of the Lord rising

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from the wilderness and his fountain shall dry

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up his spring shall be parched it shall

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strip his treasure of every precious thing this

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shall is irrevocable finality it's unassailable certainty shall,

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it's inevitable, must come God is speaking, it

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shall there's no if or maybe or I

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guess or it shall come whatever you're enjoying

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now there's a moment that shall come a

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blast out of the wilderness even the image

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out of the wilderness like German civilization turned

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to a wilderness civility turned to brutality something

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coming unexpectedly will take all of your prosperity

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all that you've enjoyed and bring a blight

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and make it to be parched and strip

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this treasure of every precious thing it's a

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fearful statement and what in fact is hell

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but this this is a statement of what

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could happen in historical time but it is

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also a statement of what will happen eternally

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and it's for that reason that God allows

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preliminary judgments where you're stripped of your treasure

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in this life that you might recognize the

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hand of God in it because it says

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the Lord, a blast from the Lord not

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from Hitler not from Nebuchadnezzar a blast from

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the Lord, not from Arafat from the Lord

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it's a judgment from the Lord in historical

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time in order that you might be awakened

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to the fact that you're under double jeopardy

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as Jews you have a double indictment you

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have a double obligation you're the only singular

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covenantal nation I have not spoken to any

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other nation as I have spoken to you

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I have not called any other nation to

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the kind of relationship to which I've called

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you to the Jew first blessing but also

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curse you have a double obligation and you

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suffer a double consequence so if I allow

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these things to befall you in time and

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in history it's a warning of what will

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be a final and irrevocable judgment that will

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be eternal where you'll be stripped of every

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treasured thing what does it mean to be

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prophetic?

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it is to understand history and contemporary events

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as a statement of that which points to

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what is eternal Baselius Schlinck speaks of the

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judgments in time as being preliminary judgments because

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what is the ultimate judgment?

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hell itself eternally in which there's no recovery

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no second chance there's a finality and if

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this is not at the foundation of our

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perspective we have no ground to see ourselves

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as being a prophetic church if we do

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not understand the issues of time as seen

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in the context of eternity we do not

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see and this is the character of our

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American Christianity it is not set in the

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context of eternity there's no solemn sense that

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these things are coming from God as forewarning

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of a time in which there will be

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a final and irrecoverable judgment that this is

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a preliminary to save you from that well

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that's so remarkable a way to understand time

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and history and circumstance that's so unusual that

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is prophetic that's God's own seeing that's the

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way God sees and that's the way he

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would communicate and commend reality to men what

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is the church?

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it's God's agent in the earth to communicate

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to an unseeing and a world that is

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unwary, unsuspecting the truth and the meaning of

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its own history, life and eternal future because

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it can't be expected to see as you

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see it has not your advantage it has

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not the spirit of God it has not

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the scriptures they're secular, they're lost, they're blind

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they think that this life is everything they're

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caught up in material things and success and

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they're living a fool's paradise they don't know

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that there's going to be a blast coming

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out of the wilderness that will strip their

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treasure of everything and that the author of

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that blast is not accident but God himself,

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the Lord in judgment that there's a sword

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of Damocles over their head that can fall

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at any moment there needs to be a

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warning proclaimed it's a fool's paradise to think

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that your treasure is secure whether you're a

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Jew or a Gentile or a prosperous nation

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the blast of God can come at any

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moment of his choosing and deserves to come

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and it's not because he's malicious but because

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he's just and merciful that that blast comes

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now while we have yet to understand it

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and bring us to a place of repentance

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because the treasure that we have accumulated we

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have accumulated independent of him and have made

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it our idolatrous substitute for him and so

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he allows the blast to come that we

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might recognize this is the hand of God

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and repent and be saved from an eternal

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blast where we're stripped of all treasure eternally

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this is prophetic seeing this is definitive reality

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this is the way in which the church

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and every nation should understand its own history

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and circumstance and be able to relate to

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the nation this understanding for it is God's

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and it is intended for their repentance the

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drought in the southwest when I flew over

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Midland, Odessa my God was it barren why?

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all of the freaky weather circumstances inundation with

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so much rain and flood in one place

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and absolutely out in another reversal patterns all

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kinds of adversities and crises are preliminary judgments

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are you saying every single thing?

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well, why not?

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isn't God sovereign over every single thing?

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and if there are exceptions in which it

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is caprice in which it is an accident

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and not the deliberated judgment of God at

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least from our point of view as believers

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our first consideration is that it is from

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the hand of God as judgment and if

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it proves not to be that then we're

541
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free to consider other speculation and other thought

542
00:29:42,550 --> 00:29:46,870
but our first disposition always ought to be

543
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to see things coming as from God which

544
00:29:53,410 --> 00:29:56,210
is not itself a cruelty but a grace

545
00:29:56,830 --> 00:30:00,310
to save us from a greater judgment that

546
00:30:00,310 --> 00:30:04,630
is eternal and irrecoverable I'm giving you the

547
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broadest parameter of how reality itself is to

548
00:30:09,550 --> 00:30:13,750
be understood prophetically for to understand it in

549
00:30:13,750 --> 00:30:16,310
that way is to understand it in God's

550
00:30:16,310 --> 00:30:22,030
way that's our calling as church and to

551
00:30:22,030 --> 00:30:25,130
understand it so that we might proclaim it

552
00:30:25,890 --> 00:30:30,790
to those who are completely naive and unsuspecting

553
00:30:30,790 --> 00:30:33,190
and lost what does lost mean?

554
00:30:33,630 --> 00:30:38,530
you're in a darkness of misconception and deception

555
00:30:38,530 --> 00:30:40,190
about the meaning of your own life and

556
00:30:40,190 --> 00:30:43,730
existence you're not interpreting it rightly you're living

557
00:30:43,730 --> 00:30:45,690
a fool's paradise you think this is going

558
00:30:45,690 --> 00:30:47,930
to go on forever and you'll enjoy this

559
00:30:47,930 --> 00:30:51,850
kind of lavish lifestyle that is itself morally

560
00:30:53,110 --> 00:30:56,770
an offense but the day will come that

561
00:30:56,770 --> 00:30:58,550
there's a blast that will come out of

562
00:30:58,550 --> 00:31:01,350
the wilderness and it will strip your treasure

563
00:31:01,350 --> 00:31:08,510
of everything if God gives us that to

564
00:31:08,510 --> 00:31:10,750
understand he gives it to us that we

565
00:31:10,750 --> 00:31:14,330
might proclaim it to the unsuspecting but how

566
00:31:14,330 --> 00:31:18,770
shall we proclaim it with prophetic credibility if

567
00:31:18,770 --> 00:31:21,530
we ourselves are living in that fool's paradise

568
00:31:22,630 --> 00:31:23,430
see what I mean?

569
00:31:23,490 --> 00:31:27,310
we're robbed of credibility if we ourselves are

570
00:31:27,310 --> 00:31:30,890
enjoying that prosperity and living that lavish lifestyle

571
00:31:31,550 --> 00:31:33,530
in a way that is hardly to be

572
00:31:33,530 --> 00:31:36,330
distinguished from the world itself we can only

573
00:31:36,330 --> 00:31:39,150
speak prophetically as one coming out of the

574
00:31:39,150 --> 00:31:42,970
wilderness with a loincloth you understand?

575
00:31:44,390 --> 00:31:48,070
as being separated from that world that is

576
00:31:48,070 --> 00:31:50,270
having a ball at the expense of God

577
00:31:50,270 --> 00:31:52,910
without any acknowledgement of him but if we

578
00:31:52,910 --> 00:31:55,650
ourselves are playing their game we're robbed of

579
00:31:55,650 --> 00:31:59,250
any testimony of any credibility we cannot pronounce

580
00:31:59,250 --> 00:32:01,890
a warning and therefore their blood will be

581
00:32:01,890 --> 00:32:08,350
upon our hands church is not a picnic

582
00:32:09,170 --> 00:32:13,170
it's a responsibility it's a profound calling the

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00:32:13,170 --> 00:32:18,110
church has as its intrinsic call this prophetic

584
00:32:18,110 --> 00:32:21,850
function what, are we to be all Atatzis?

585
00:32:22,130 --> 00:32:23,270
all Elijahs?

586
00:32:25,230 --> 00:32:29,890
no but as a corporate entity, yes we

587
00:32:29,890 --> 00:32:32,490
have a function in the corporate life as

588
00:32:32,490 --> 00:32:35,550
the prophetic presence of God in the community

589
00:32:35,550 --> 00:32:38,770
and nation in which we're placed and this

590
00:32:38,770 --> 00:32:41,410
is how we need to perceive reality because

591
00:32:41,410 --> 00:32:43,690
we have the privilege of the scripture to

592
00:32:43,690 --> 00:32:46,990
instruct us but you see how that has

593
00:32:46,990 --> 00:32:47,530
to be read?

594
00:32:48,790 --> 00:32:51,530
I'm almost embarrassed for last night and the

595
00:32:51,530 --> 00:32:57,570
feebleness in which this scripture was introduced but

596
00:32:57,570 --> 00:33:00,430
this morning we're hoping to do it a

597
00:33:00,430 --> 00:33:04,770
little bit more justice and in this to

598
00:33:04,770 --> 00:33:07,010
give you an example of how the scripture

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00:33:07,010 --> 00:33:10,670
itself needs to be understood needs to be

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00:33:10,670 --> 00:33:13,450
searched that we cannot bring our gone with

601
00:33:13,450 --> 00:33:15,910
the wind reading mentality to the word of

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00:33:15,910 --> 00:33:20,210
God and brrrr I show my mother something

603
00:33:20,210 --> 00:33:22,550
in the Psalms I said, mom, read Psalm

604
00:33:23,030 --> 00:33:25,590
whatever it was current at that time 118,

605
00:33:25,710 --> 00:33:28,470
I forgot so she read, right through 118

606
00:33:28,470 --> 00:33:32,830
right through 125 in about 15 minutes yes,

607
00:33:32,870 --> 00:33:36,410
she read it she mechanically read it she

608
00:33:36,410 --> 00:33:39,330
gained nothing I said, what?

609
00:33:39,630 --> 00:33:41,610
you read all through that in so short

610
00:33:41,610 --> 00:33:41,930
a time?

611
00:33:42,050 --> 00:33:44,210
yeah, but my mother checks out eight books

612
00:33:44,210 --> 00:33:46,930
a month in the library large print edition

613
00:33:46,930 --> 00:33:50,110
of every piece of romantic pap that you

614
00:33:50,110 --> 00:33:53,830
can imagine full of erotic detail for a

615
00:33:53,830 --> 00:33:59,290
95 year old woman she's ruined by the

616
00:33:59,290 --> 00:34:02,010
reading pattern of a lifetime in which she

617
00:34:02,010 --> 00:34:06,770
reads through the books retains nothing it's an

618
00:34:06,770 --> 00:34:10,090
amusement and a moment's distraction and brings this

619
00:34:10,090 --> 00:34:16,590
reading habit to the scripture gains zero because

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00:34:16,590 --> 00:34:20,250
she does not know how to dwell how

621
00:34:20,250 --> 00:34:25,090
to ponder how to ruminate word for word

622
00:34:25,090 --> 00:34:27,409
that this is not gone with the wind

623
00:34:27,409 --> 00:34:31,850
this is wholly writ this is the word

624
00:34:31,850 --> 00:34:35,190
of God to teach us how to understand

625
00:34:35,739 --> 00:34:39,290
and how to live rightly and not only

626
00:34:39,290 --> 00:34:42,050
to avoid judgment but to save others from

627
00:34:42,050 --> 00:34:46,469
it who are totally naive and unwary and

628
00:34:46,469 --> 00:34:49,030
are on a collision course not only in

629
00:34:49,030 --> 00:34:59,980
time but in eternity although

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00:34:59,980 --> 00:35:05,380
he may flourish the east wind shall come

631
00:35:05,380 --> 00:35:06,640
see what I've done here?

632
00:35:07,140 --> 00:35:11,360
every shall is yellow marked I want it

633
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:13,160
to leap off at me from the page

634
00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:16,740
shall, no if and or but it's not

635
00:35:16,740 --> 00:35:20,400
a speculation it's a possibility that maybe it's

636
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:27,160
an inevitability shall come it's irrevocable you can't

637
00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:30,920
fight against it be warned by the word

638
00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:34,620
it shall come live now in anticipation of

639
00:35:34,620 --> 00:35:37,780
that shall do now what will save you

640
00:35:37,780 --> 00:35:39,520
from that blast because the word of God

641
00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:42,700
says shall do you read it that way?

642
00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:49,020
this is high seriousness that this is making

643
00:35:49,020 --> 00:35:52,260
this the measure of all things this is

644
00:35:52,260 --> 00:35:55,960
taking God's word to heart because he's not

645
00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:57,520
a man that he should lie he doesn't

646
00:35:57,520 --> 00:36:02,840
play with words we do words and communication

647
00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:08,040
are cheap trivial but when God says something

648
00:36:09,060 --> 00:36:11,500
we need to heed it and if we'll

649
00:36:11,500 --> 00:36:14,720
heed God in his speaking then how much

650
00:36:14,720 --> 00:36:16,580
more will we be tempered in our own

651
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:19,900
how much more will we be saved from

652
00:36:19,900 --> 00:36:24,980
triviality from cheap unctuous how you doing brother

653
00:36:24,980 --> 00:36:29,740
blah blah blah our words will be measured

654
00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:35,340
sane significant it will be a blessing it

655
00:36:35,340 --> 00:36:37,720
will be a sacrament to hear a word

656
00:36:37,720 --> 00:36:41,180
coming from a saint because we know that

657
00:36:41,180 --> 00:36:44,240
it will be well chosen and well spoken

658
00:36:44,240 --> 00:36:47,300
because the saint by his training will avoid

659
00:36:47,300 --> 00:36:52,580
anything that is trite it's a grace to

660
00:36:52,580 --> 00:36:55,900
hear the word from a saint in conversation

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00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:01,260
because we have been schooled and raised up

662
00:37:01,260 --> 00:37:05,060
by the Lord about the significance of speaking

663
00:37:05,060 --> 00:37:10,320
words by him who is the word and

664
00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:20,190
it affects everything phew well what I would

665
00:37:20,190 --> 00:37:23,110
give Lord to be speaking this to a

666
00:37:23,110 --> 00:37:27,310
congregation of my own people on the Shabbat

667
00:37:27,310 --> 00:37:30,270
morning in their synagogue where we're blocked out

668
00:37:30,270 --> 00:37:34,570
and the rabbis hold full sway who endorse

669
00:37:34,570 --> 00:37:37,430
the lifestyles of their congregants because they receive

670
00:37:37,430 --> 00:37:42,930
the benefit Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur is a

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00:37:42,930 --> 00:37:46,950
fashion show go into your local synagogue you

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00:37:46,950 --> 00:37:49,710
should be there and see what they come

673
00:37:49,710 --> 00:37:52,750
like we in our Easter finery they in

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00:37:52,750 --> 00:37:57,950
their Yom Kippur best and all nicely what's

675
00:37:57,950 --> 00:38:03,730
the word sanctimoniously endorsed as appropriate lifestyle by

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00:38:03,730 --> 00:38:08,170
the paid flunkies who give them a little

677
00:38:08,170 --> 00:38:11,590
seasonal encouragement until next year so long as

678
00:38:11,590 --> 00:38:16,710
they pay their dues it's a system of

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00:38:16,710 --> 00:38:21,990
lie and deception to reinforce men in their

680
00:38:21,990 --> 00:38:24,650
mode of life that they have chosen independent

681
00:38:24,650 --> 00:38:28,650
of God and slightly sanctified by a casual

682
00:38:28,650 --> 00:38:32,330
allusion to him on high holy day occasions

683
00:38:32,330 --> 00:38:36,470
where there is no solemn searching of one's

684
00:38:36,470 --> 00:38:40,250
soul or being contrite before God in failure

685
00:38:40,250 --> 00:38:44,090
because they have no knowledge and just to

686
00:38:44,090 --> 00:38:46,470
suggest that you need to examine your lifestyle

687
00:38:46,470 --> 00:38:49,450
and that is being lived independently of God

688
00:38:49,450 --> 00:38:52,470
and your good deeds and your charities are

689
00:38:52,470 --> 00:38:54,710
only throwing a bone to the most high

690
00:38:54,710 --> 00:38:57,390
that man would be out the next day

691
00:38:58,070 --> 00:39:01,330
and his $150,000 a year income with

692
00:39:01,330 --> 00:39:04,790
him and whatever other benefits which by the

693
00:39:04,790 --> 00:39:09,110
way bears a remarkable comparison with our own

694
00:39:09,110 --> 00:39:13,130
Christianity we have flunkies of our own who

695
00:39:13,130 --> 00:39:15,990
are well paid and handsomely rewarded so long

696
00:39:15,990 --> 00:39:20,190
as they don't raise the questions about the

697
00:39:20,190 --> 00:39:25,130
truth of our life it's a stink before

698
00:39:25,130 --> 00:39:29,410
God the whole filthy system of it but

699
00:39:29,410 --> 00:39:30,310
where is the cry?

700
00:39:30,850 --> 00:39:32,750
where is the cry coming up out of

701
00:39:32,750 --> 00:39:33,270
the earth?

702
00:39:34,110 --> 00:39:37,410
where is the prophetic anguished cry of God

703
00:39:37,410 --> 00:39:38,570
about this?

704
00:39:38,890 --> 00:39:40,490
where is the blowing of the whistle and

705
00:39:40,490 --> 00:39:41,810
the whole fraudulence of it?

706
00:39:42,710 --> 00:39:44,710
that it's a mock that it's against God

707
00:39:44,710 --> 00:39:46,970
and that there will be an eternal comeuppance

708
00:39:46,970 --> 00:39:48,850
that there's a blast that will be coming

709
00:39:48,850 --> 00:39:51,110
out of the wilderness that will be an

710
00:39:51,110 --> 00:39:53,330
eternal blast and all treasure will be lost

711
00:39:53,330 --> 00:39:57,650
and men will rue and lament for eternity

712
00:39:59,290 --> 00:40:03,910
their misshaped misbegotten mislived lives too late to

713
00:40:03,910 --> 00:40:05,610
remedy anything where's the cry?

714
00:40:15,420 --> 00:40:19,660
it's a blast from the Lord oh dear

715
00:40:19,660 --> 00:40:23,960
saints if we will not see in the

716
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:27,560
adverse circumstances that come to us that come

717
00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:29,980
to the nation that come to the world

718
00:40:29,980 --> 00:40:32,340
that come to Israel as coming from the

719
00:40:32,340 --> 00:40:34,900
Lord we don't see if we don't see

720
00:40:34,900 --> 00:40:37,360
God in judgment we don't see and if

721
00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:39,260
we don't see God in judgment we don't

722
00:40:39,260 --> 00:40:43,260
know God we have created a fiction of

723
00:40:43,260 --> 00:40:46,080
our own and put the label Jesus upon

724
00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:50,300
it that satisfies our own carnal hearts and

725
00:40:50,300 --> 00:40:53,140
in no way is the truth of himself

726
00:40:53,140 --> 00:40:57,000
unless we understand that the blast comes from

727
00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:01,120
God this is the deepest respect for God

728
00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:06,180
in judgment to allow that to be dismissed

729
00:41:06,180 --> 00:41:10,660
as accident or the aberration of history a

730
00:41:10,660 --> 00:41:13,460
Hitler who comes to power or an Arafat

731
00:41:13,460 --> 00:41:17,180
or whatever as somehow not coming from God

732
00:41:17,180 --> 00:41:19,660
is to do the gravest injustice to God

733
00:41:19,660 --> 00:41:22,280
himself it's to say that he's not sovereign

734
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:27,600
it's to say that it's accident and caprice

735
00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:30,000
that rules in life and God is somewhere

736
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:32,940
obscure he has set the thing in motion

737
00:41:32,940 --> 00:41:35,300
it's ticking away but he's no way involved

738
00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:39,120
or intervening or present in the history of

739
00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:42,060
what takes place in his creation and with

740
00:41:42,060 --> 00:41:45,880
mankind and with Israel what a slight, what

741
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:50,160
an offense to discount God as God while

742
00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:53,660
seeming to pay him an honorable respect and

743
00:41:53,660 --> 00:41:55,460
yet not to see him as a viable

744
00:41:55,460 --> 00:41:58,900
presence in his own creation and moving it

745
00:41:58,900 --> 00:42:07,240
toward his own end so if you don't

746
00:42:07,240 --> 00:42:10,020
bring this perspective to the Jews of Tulsa

747
00:42:10,020 --> 00:42:10,480
who will?

748
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:15,520
they surely don't have it if you don't

749
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:17,140
bring it to the church at large who

750
00:42:17,140 --> 00:42:17,500
will?

751
00:42:17,820 --> 00:42:20,320
for the church doesn't have it the world

752
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:24,720
is secularized it's devoid of God it's full

753
00:42:24,720 --> 00:42:29,400
of its own ruminations and speculations but God

754
00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:34,640
is not a consideration it's a horrendous denial

755
00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:37,940
to the God who is creator and coming

756
00:42:37,940 --> 00:42:48,660
king it

757
00:42:48,660 --> 00:42:57,800
shall unassailable certainty from the Lord unquestionable source

758
00:43:02,490 --> 00:43:07,230
humankind here's the commentary of Eugene Peterson praying

759
00:43:07,230 --> 00:43:11,850
with the prophets humankind cannot hope to salvage

760
00:43:11,850 --> 00:43:14,330
anything from its sin God will wipe out

761
00:43:14,330 --> 00:43:16,810
both the sin and its so-called benefits

762
00:43:16,810 --> 00:43:19,290
in much the same way as the dread

763
00:43:19,290 --> 00:43:21,930
east wind comes out of the desert and

764
00:43:21,930 --> 00:43:26,510
dries up everything in its path he says

765
00:43:26,510 --> 00:43:28,970
humankind and I wrote over it that's what

766
00:43:28,970 --> 00:43:32,770
Jewry is that's what Israel is why is

767
00:43:32,770 --> 00:43:36,050
Israel the object in the textbook of God's

768
00:43:36,050 --> 00:43:39,590
instruction for us all because it is the

769
00:43:39,590 --> 00:43:45,430
summation of mankind it is the personification of

770
00:43:45,430 --> 00:43:51,450
man this is man in his independent self

771
00:43:51,450 --> 00:43:55,670
-will and rebellion it's an instruction for all

772
00:43:55,670 --> 00:44:07,190
nations in God's dealing with that nation God

773
00:44:07,190 --> 00:44:08,930
will wipe out both the sin and its

774
00:44:08,930 --> 00:44:11,870
so-called benefits this is the blast from

775
00:44:11,870 --> 00:44:16,650
the Lord because God is the supreme causative

776
00:44:16,650 --> 00:44:23,090
agent in history believest thou this God I

777
00:44:23,090 --> 00:44:27,390
wrote this in the supreme causative agent in

778
00:44:27,390 --> 00:44:30,850
history not only in nations but in your

779
00:44:30,850 --> 00:44:35,270
history you see God as the supreme causative

780
00:44:35,270 --> 00:44:42,970
agent unless we see God like that we

781
00:44:42,970 --> 00:44:47,210
do not give him the respect and acknowledgement

782
00:44:47,690 --> 00:44:50,210
that is his what then is our praise

783
00:44:50,210 --> 00:44:52,830
what then is our prayer what is our

784
00:44:52,830 --> 00:44:55,190
so-called worship if we have not seen

785
00:44:55,190 --> 00:44:59,710
God in this way it's hollow it needs

786
00:44:59,710 --> 00:45:01,930
to be aided and abetted by overhead projectors

787
00:45:01,930 --> 00:45:06,530
and sound equipment the praise of Israel that

788
00:45:06,530 --> 00:45:10,030
knew God did not need any electronic assistance

789
00:45:10,810 --> 00:45:15,670
it bellowed up it gushed it was a

790
00:45:15,670 --> 00:45:18,030
testimony they knew that they knew that they

791
00:45:18,030 --> 00:45:21,870
knew this is before the advent of modernity

792
00:45:23,070 --> 00:45:25,550
in ancient times before there was such a

793
00:45:25,550 --> 00:45:29,110
thing as evolution they knew that they knew

794
00:45:29,110 --> 00:45:32,810
God is the causative agent why did God

795
00:45:32,810 --> 00:45:41,770
bring Abraham from Ur of the Chaldeans to

796
00:45:41,770 --> 00:45:43,390
a land of promise follow me in the

797
00:45:43,390 --> 00:45:46,190
land that I will show you what was

798
00:45:46,190 --> 00:45:48,170
Ur, what was Chaldea what was the whole

799
00:45:48,170 --> 00:45:52,630
Mesopotamian civilization the fertile crescent fertile for what

800
00:45:52,630 --> 00:45:58,570
reason rivers the mighty Euphrates and the Tigris

801
00:45:58,570 --> 00:46:03,310
along which Ur was located you know those

802
00:46:03,310 --> 00:46:06,230
rivers moved their banks over the course of

803
00:46:06,230 --> 00:46:08,870
time so much as 10 miles those civilizations

804
00:46:08,870 --> 00:46:14,650
fail he called Abraham from a land that

805
00:46:14,650 --> 00:46:17,930
looked down to rivers as the source of

806
00:46:17,930 --> 00:46:21,130
their economy their traffic, their commerce their civilization

807
00:46:21,130 --> 00:46:23,750
to a land where there was only one

808
00:46:23,750 --> 00:46:28,290
river hardly worth talking about the Jordan no

809
00:46:28,290 --> 00:46:31,890
more than a glorified stream the Jabbok where

810
00:46:31,890 --> 00:46:34,630
Jacob wrestled with the angel these are not

811
00:46:34,630 --> 00:46:40,190
major tributaries they are only significant spiritual waterways

812
00:46:40,190 --> 00:46:42,850
but you don't derive your economy from them

813
00:46:43,990 --> 00:46:47,410
you don't look down for your Nile to

814
00:46:47,410 --> 00:46:49,610
overflow its banks and to bring its sediment

815
00:46:49,610 --> 00:46:52,990
and its riches you look up to the

816
00:46:52,990 --> 00:46:56,530
heaven hence cometh your early rain and your

817
00:46:56,530 --> 00:46:59,810
latter rain if you are indeed being blessed

818
00:46:59,810 --> 00:47:02,330
by the God who issues it in your

819
00:47:02,330 --> 00:47:07,390
covenantal faithfulness to his way you see the

820
00:47:07,390 --> 00:47:11,310
radical shift for Abraham from looking down to

821
00:47:11,310 --> 00:47:14,830
looking up to see God as the causative

822
00:47:14,830 --> 00:47:18,550
agent for these early and latter rains are

823
00:47:18,550 --> 00:47:23,350
not geophysical phenomena they are a blessing that

824
00:47:23,350 --> 00:47:25,990
comes down by a God who sees a

825
00:47:25,990 --> 00:47:28,950
people living in the consciousness of him and

826
00:47:28,950 --> 00:47:33,530
are faithful in their covenant responsibility we've lost

827
00:47:33,530 --> 00:47:37,850
that sense we've lost it we're seeding clouds

828
00:47:37,850 --> 00:47:42,070
with airplanes and creating rain or trying to

829
00:47:42,070 --> 00:47:44,630
assuage the lack of rain we don't see

830
00:47:44,630 --> 00:47:47,230
God as causative agent this is the age

831
00:47:47,230 --> 00:47:52,750
of science, modernity, man this ancient view needs

832
00:47:52,750 --> 00:47:56,510
to be restored for this is very truth

833
00:47:56,510 --> 00:47:59,150
and you're going to do it in your

834
00:47:59,150 --> 00:48:01,330
occupation, in your field of endeavor with your

835
00:48:01,330 --> 00:48:05,490
sophisticated colleagues where you'll be an anachronism you'll

836
00:48:05,490 --> 00:48:07,810
stick out like the proverbial sore thumb you'll

837
00:48:07,810 --> 00:48:09,550
be looked upon as freaky they'll be whispering

838
00:48:09,550 --> 00:48:13,730
about you behind the water cooler he's gone

839
00:48:13,730 --> 00:48:15,210
strange, he used to be a nice guy

840
00:48:15,210 --> 00:48:16,530
he was a Christian but he was a

841
00:48:16,530 --> 00:48:20,630
nice guy now he's so suffused with God

842
00:48:20,630 --> 00:48:23,090
everything is God, God, God he sees God

843
00:48:23,090 --> 00:48:26,110
in everything come on, give us a break

844
00:48:28,290 --> 00:48:33,510
you become strange and indeed that's what we're

845
00:48:33,510 --> 00:48:38,030
called to be strangers, pilgrims, and sojourners in

846
00:48:38,030 --> 00:48:40,670
the earth if we're not strange and we're

847
00:48:40,670 --> 00:48:44,930
acceptable we are out of the faith Christianity

848
00:48:44,930 --> 00:48:49,410
has only become a commonplace that they can

849
00:48:49,410 --> 00:48:53,950
well afford to tolerate, and even give us

850
00:48:53,950 --> 00:48:58,210
tax benefit and deductions because it threatens nothing

851
00:48:59,450 --> 00:49:03,070
but validates a whole system that is anti

852
00:49:03,070 --> 00:49:07,750
-God and we're just a little little something

853
00:49:07,750 --> 00:49:10,190
to ordain the opening of sessions of Congress

854
00:49:10,190 --> 00:49:12,690
and for the candidates to say that they

855
00:49:12,690 --> 00:49:19,560
believe God or that they're born again to

856
00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:21,860
take this view of God as causative agent

857
00:49:22,690 --> 00:49:25,580
and that he's already bringing preliminary judgments into

858
00:49:25,580 --> 00:49:28,640
the earth as a forewarning of a soon

859
00:49:28,640 --> 00:49:32,760
coming and final irremediable judgment that is called

860
00:49:32,760 --> 00:49:36,180
Hell and that is eternal and unchanging and

861
00:49:36,180 --> 00:49:40,080
fixed is to mock you as queer you're

862
00:49:40,080 --> 00:49:44,980
strange, you're out of it that's why they

863
00:49:44,980 --> 00:49:47,620
took believers and brought them to mental institutions

864
00:49:47,620 --> 00:49:50,980
in Russia under its communist rule and gave

865
00:49:50,980 --> 00:49:53,060
them shock treatments and put them in straitjackets

866
00:49:53,580 --> 00:49:55,420
because they had this strange devotion to an

867
00:49:55,420 --> 00:50:00,620
invisible deity didn't you know that?

868
00:50:03,380 --> 00:50:06,360
it's a kind of insanity that society needs

869
00:50:06,360 --> 00:50:09,060
to cure by drugs and shock treatments because

870
00:50:09,060 --> 00:50:11,820
here's this stupid people in deference to an

871
00:50:11,820 --> 00:50:14,700
invisible deity and living as if he's true

872
00:50:14,700 --> 00:50:17,120
and as if he has spoken and has

873
00:50:17,120 --> 00:50:21,180
called us to another way in opposition to

874
00:50:21,180 --> 00:50:25,260
the way that is demarcated by the secular

875
00:50:25,260 --> 00:50:28,680
political authorities who are in the know and

876
00:50:28,680 --> 00:50:32,180
have all the marbles these people trust this

877
00:50:32,180 --> 00:50:37,140
invisible God they hope in him that their

878
00:50:37,140 --> 00:50:39,440
physical condition and their own well-being is

879
00:50:39,440 --> 00:50:41,240
not the issue of the state but the

880
00:50:41,240 --> 00:50:45,800
issue of a God that's insanity or its

881
00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:48,640
highest sanity, one or the other and it's

882
00:50:48,640 --> 00:50:50,260
a sanity of a kind that will save

883
00:50:50,260 --> 00:50:54,780
a nation from looking to man by a

884
00:50:54,780 --> 00:50:58,500
people who not only affirm that as truth

885
00:50:58,500 --> 00:51:00,940
but live it as so and if it's

886
00:51:00,940 --> 00:51:03,320
not so, they're willing to perish they would

887
00:51:03,320 --> 00:51:06,960
rather perish in a failed God than succeed

888
00:51:06,960 --> 00:51:11,740
according to a system that's been a witness

889
00:51:11,740 --> 00:51:18,720
unto me oh...

890
00:51:20,090 --> 00:51:22,190
Doug wasn't with me on this trip to

891
00:51:22,190 --> 00:51:23,870
Russia you know what I found out?

892
00:51:23,950 --> 00:51:26,550
I'm a celebrity people were falling on my

893
00:51:26,550 --> 00:51:29,370
neck on the streets who have read reality

894
00:51:30,370 --> 00:51:33,790
apostolic foundations, spirit of truth it changed their

895
00:51:33,790 --> 00:51:37,370
lives I was telling Doug and Laurie this

896
00:51:37,370 --> 00:51:40,310
morning I addressed them as a deep-souled

897
00:51:40,310 --> 00:51:43,710
people it's a wood to God that your

898
00:51:43,710 --> 00:51:45,710
history and your tradition as a deep-souled

899
00:51:45,710 --> 00:51:48,370
people you know, when you go down into

900
00:51:48,370 --> 00:51:50,530
the underground in the metro, in Moscow, in

901
00:51:50,530 --> 00:51:53,630
St. Petersburg the subways are not like New

902
00:51:53,630 --> 00:51:56,610
York there's no stink, there's no mess, there's

903
00:51:56,610 --> 00:52:00,490
no graffiti they are places of marble and

904
00:52:00,490 --> 00:52:05,510
tiles, and art, and decor, and cleanliness and

905
00:52:05,510 --> 00:52:07,570
people hanging on their straps in the car

906
00:52:07,570 --> 00:52:12,870
are reading hard-bound books I'm not talking

907
00:52:12,870 --> 00:52:15,270
about the sport page or a little sneaky

908
00:52:15,270 --> 00:52:20,630
pornography they're reading Tolstoy, Turgenev, Gogol they have

909
00:52:20,630 --> 00:52:23,390
a literature, and they read it they're readers,

910
00:52:23,730 --> 00:52:26,690
they're deep-souled people no wonder they responded

911
00:52:26,690 --> 00:52:29,210
to my books as they did I've never

912
00:52:29,210 --> 00:52:31,270
seen that kind of response in the French

913
00:52:31,270 --> 00:52:34,050
edition, in the English edition but the Russian

914
00:52:34,050 --> 00:52:38,850
edition they are the hope of their nation

915
00:52:43,730 --> 00:52:55,270
so, you

916
00:52:55,270 --> 00:52:59,370
know that line from Shakespeare from Hamlet where

917
00:52:59,370 --> 00:53:03,170
the returning prince is watching the grave digger

918
00:53:03,170 --> 00:53:08,370
preparing the place for Ophelia Hamlet's girlfriend, unbeknownst

919
00:53:08,370 --> 00:53:11,290
to him she had committed suicide and he

920
00:53:11,290 --> 00:53:13,110
comes and he sits by the graveside while

921
00:53:13,110 --> 00:53:15,530
this man is digging up and they're having

922
00:53:15,530 --> 00:53:19,750
one of their beautiful philosophical conversations and he

923
00:53:19,750 --> 00:53:23,190
strikes a skull and it's the skull of

924
00:53:23,190 --> 00:53:26,650
the old court jester Yorick, Y-O-R

925
00:53:26,650 --> 00:53:29,930
-I-C-K and Hamlet holds the skull

926
00:53:29,930 --> 00:53:32,650
because he had one time been bandied on

927
00:53:32,650 --> 00:53:35,550
the knee of this court jester and Shakespeare

928
00:53:35,550 --> 00:53:37,990
puts into his mouth this great line where

929
00:53:37,990 --> 00:53:43,750
be your jibes and your gambles now where

930
00:53:43,750 --> 00:53:45,930
are your jokes now where are those things

931
00:53:45,930 --> 00:53:48,330
that were once so entertaining that you set

932
00:53:48,330 --> 00:53:50,990
the whole court to with ripples of laughter

933
00:53:51,440 --> 00:53:53,890
now it's a vapor, it's gone and here

934
00:53:53,890 --> 00:53:55,990
you are, skull where are your jibes and

935
00:53:55,990 --> 00:53:59,710
gambles now that's what we need to be

936
00:53:59,710 --> 00:54:04,410
saying to Jews where's your prosperity now Steven

937
00:54:04,410 --> 00:54:07,470
Spielberg and your dream factory and your multi

938
00:54:07,470 --> 00:54:10,570
-million billion dollar corporations you're not just millionaires,

939
00:54:10,690 --> 00:54:13,950
you're billionaires you're rolling in it but where

940
00:54:13,950 --> 00:54:16,030
will it be one day when the blast

941
00:54:16,030 --> 00:54:18,630
comes out from the wilderness in the heat

942
00:54:18,630 --> 00:54:21,590
of God to bring your treasure to ruin

943
00:54:21,590 --> 00:54:26,330
and you'll lose everything may God give me

944
00:54:26,330 --> 00:54:30,350
the personal privilege of having Steven Spielberg come

945
00:54:30,350 --> 00:54:33,770
up our muddy road in northern Minnesota in

946
00:54:33,770 --> 00:54:36,050
flight from southern California and up into Canada

947
00:54:36,050 --> 00:54:38,650
and down through us that I might personally

948
00:54:38,650 --> 00:54:41,310
consult him and explain to him the meaning

949
00:54:41,490 --> 00:54:47,610
of his present misfortune it's going to happen

950
00:54:47,610 --> 00:54:50,990
saints and if it doesn't happen I'll be

951
00:54:50,990 --> 00:54:53,410
surprised but we ought to live as if

952
00:54:53,410 --> 00:54:56,070
we expect it to happen because that is

953
00:54:56,070 --> 00:55:00,790
living that is serious living and that is

954
00:55:00,790 --> 00:55:03,950
speaking the warning that's proclaiming an alert that's

955
00:55:03,950 --> 00:55:06,990
setting before men the things that they need

956
00:55:06,990 --> 00:55:09,850
to understand whether or not it takes place

957
00:55:09,850 --> 00:55:12,450
in their generation we have every reason to

958
00:55:12,450 --> 00:55:15,190
believe it will take place because this is

959
00:55:15,190 --> 00:55:17,490
the end of the age are you living

960
00:55:17,490 --> 00:55:17,930
like that?

961
00:55:18,990 --> 00:55:20,450
do you believe this is the end?

962
00:55:20,970 --> 00:55:23,270
and does your lifestyle and manner of living

963
00:55:24,330 --> 00:55:25,810
express that belief?

964
00:55:28,310 --> 00:55:32,090
when people are confronted by you or come

965
00:55:32,090 --> 00:55:34,850
in touch with you is there something implied

966
00:55:34,850 --> 00:55:37,390
by the way you conduct yourself that this

967
00:55:37,390 --> 00:55:40,430
life is coming to its conclusion this age

968
00:55:41,170 --> 00:55:46,430
is running down it's irrecoverable morally it's degenerate

969
00:55:46,430 --> 00:55:49,150
it's becoming a Sodom and Gomorrah but I'm

970
00:55:49,150 --> 00:55:52,290
looking up for my redemption the Lord is

971
00:55:52,290 --> 00:55:53,910
at hand the judge is at the door

972
00:55:53,910 --> 00:55:56,630
we're coming to the conclusion of the ages

973
00:55:56,930 --> 00:56:02,670
and it's marked with a final apocalyptic judgment

974
00:56:02,670 --> 00:56:05,610
and burning and a great heaving of nations

975
00:56:06,170 --> 00:56:10,410
in a final last gasp before the new

976
00:56:10,410 --> 00:56:14,710
and everlasting and enduring kingdom comes and this

977
00:56:14,710 --> 00:56:18,030
is the predicate of my life this is

978
00:56:18,030 --> 00:56:20,730
the foundation of all my understanding I'm only

979
00:56:20,730 --> 00:56:23,590
a transient resident here I'm a pilgrim, stranger

980
00:56:23,590 --> 00:56:25,950
and sojourner in this earth I'm looking for

981
00:56:25,950 --> 00:56:27,850
a city whose maker and builder is God

982
00:56:33,250 --> 00:56:35,250
I'm not giving you a new gospel this

983
00:56:35,250 --> 00:56:39,050
is definitive faith why haven't we had it

984
00:56:39,050 --> 00:56:39,310
Art?

985
00:56:39,830 --> 00:56:43,730
because we haven't had prophetic men to proclaim

986
00:56:43,730 --> 00:56:48,130
it to restore it to speak of these

987
00:56:48,130 --> 00:56:54,190
verities that are unchanging that we might ourselves

988
00:56:54,190 --> 00:56:57,330
proclaim it to the unsuspecting and the unwary

989
00:56:57,330 --> 00:56:59,990
who will soon have to face this God

990
00:56:59,990 --> 00:57:04,970
in a terrifying moment when he comes and

991
00:57:04,970 --> 00:57:15,760
at the throne of his judgment so

992
00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:17,820
I write little notes do you do that?

993
00:57:20,600 --> 00:57:22,940
whenever I come to another country and there's

994
00:57:22,940 --> 00:57:25,820
an interpreter and he opens his bible and

995
00:57:25,820 --> 00:57:29,620
it's unmarked my heart sinks what?

996
00:57:29,660 --> 00:57:30,500
an unmarked bible?

997
00:57:30,680 --> 00:57:32,180
what kind of interpreter can he be?

998
00:57:33,660 --> 00:57:36,360
he's never marked his bible there's never anything

999
00:57:36,360 --> 00:57:38,680
that has caught his attention that he wants

1000
00:57:38,680 --> 00:57:41,180
to put in brackets with an asterisk and

1001
00:57:41,180 --> 00:57:44,240
an arrow how can you read without a

1002
00:57:44,240 --> 00:57:44,920
pen in your hand?

1003
00:57:48,160 --> 00:57:53,560
and write marginal notes like this so should

1004
00:57:53,560 --> 00:57:55,540
the church see and see in order to

1005
00:57:55,540 --> 00:57:58,620
proclaim and make known the perspective of God

1006
00:57:58,620 --> 00:58:04,780
to the unsuspecting and unwary Tulsa, Oklahoma 7am,

1007
00:58:04,780 --> 00:58:09,920
8am September 30th, year 2000 are you writing

1008
00:58:09,920 --> 00:58:10,240
notes?

1009
00:58:12,700 --> 00:58:14,720
are you commenting your margins?

1010
00:58:15,060 --> 00:58:18,360
are you in the scriptures on the morning

1011
00:58:18,360 --> 00:58:20,640
of September 30th, 2000?

1012
00:58:24,020 --> 00:58:26,100
do you have a morning devotional time?

1013
00:58:28,200 --> 00:58:31,400
when you get up early, inconveniently and look

1014
00:58:31,400 --> 00:58:33,260
at the scriptures for that day you're reading

1015
00:58:33,260 --> 00:58:36,020
the psalm for that day the chapter of

1016
00:58:36,020 --> 00:58:38,580
the book of Proverbs your devotional readings I've

1017
00:58:38,580 --> 00:58:40,900
got four devotional readings that I go through

1018
00:58:40,900 --> 00:58:43,280
every morning not the least of which is

1019
00:58:43,280 --> 00:58:47,260
Oswald Chambers, my utmost for his highest how

1020
00:58:47,260 --> 00:58:49,240
many people in this room have never read

1021
00:58:49,240 --> 00:58:51,620
Oswald Chambers, my utmost for his highest?

1022
00:58:51,840 --> 00:58:56,200
come on only two?

1023
00:58:56,620 --> 00:58:57,360
everybody else?

1024
00:58:57,520 --> 00:59:04,540
three get thee to a bookstore today and

1025
00:59:04,540 --> 00:59:08,060
demand a copy Oswald Chambers, my utmost for

1026
00:59:08,060 --> 00:59:11,500
his highest there is a selection every day

1027
00:59:11,500 --> 00:59:16,020
and what a selection I don't know of

1028
00:59:16,020 --> 00:59:19,760
another writer with greater depth of insight into

1029
00:59:19,760 --> 00:59:23,120
the subtlety and intricacies of the spiritual life

1030
00:59:23,120 --> 00:59:27,940
than he every morning you should be reading

1031
00:59:27,940 --> 00:59:29,720
what the Lord has spoken through this man

1032
00:59:30,520 --> 00:59:32,840
whose life was taken when he was 36

1033
00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:36,640
or 38 but his wife kept fastidious notes

1034
00:59:36,640 --> 00:59:51,160
of all his utterance it's so precious and

1035
00:59:51,160 --> 00:59:54,880
here's Eugene Peterson who's not dead either God

1036
00:59:54,880 --> 00:59:56,660
will wipe out both the sin and its

1037
00:59:56,660 --> 00:59:59,740
so-called benefits in much the same way

1038
00:59:59,740 --> 01:00:01,760
as the dread east wind comes out of

1039
01:00:01,760 --> 01:00:04,920
the desert and dries up everything in its

1040
01:00:04,920 --> 01:00:07,660
path where be your jibes and gambles then?

1041
01:00:08,620 --> 01:00:10,700
where's your stock market result then?

1042
01:00:11,460 --> 01:00:13,560
where's your hope for retirement then?

1043
01:00:13,820 --> 01:00:16,300
and all of the other things that have

1044
01:00:16,300 --> 01:00:19,520
invested a false confidence and have celebrated idols

1045
01:00:19,520 --> 01:00:21,680
where will it be then when that east

1046
01:00:21,680 --> 01:00:23,040
wind blast when that comes?

1047
01:00:25,880 --> 01:00:30,960
your so-called benefits are only ephemeral e

1048
01:00:30,960 --> 01:00:33,040
-p-h-e-m-e-r-a-l

1049
01:00:33,560 --> 01:00:42,200
which means momentary and subsiding everything in this

1050
01:00:42,200 --> 01:00:46,360
world will turn to dust or rust but

1051
01:00:46,360 --> 01:00:48,820
your treasure that is in heaven hey these

1052
01:00:48,820 --> 01:00:54,260
are not quaint little spiritual aspersions this is

1053
01:00:54,260 --> 01:00:57,500
truth and we ought to live as if

1054
01:00:57,500 --> 01:01:00,120
we believe that the things that are eternal

1055
01:01:00,120 --> 01:01:03,880
are the things that are abiding and that

1056
01:01:03,880 --> 01:01:06,840
which that you can handle and see will

1057
01:01:06,840 --> 01:01:11,240
be corrupted in passing Paul said I how

1058
01:01:11,240 --> 01:01:19,090
does he say it in first Corinthians beholding

1059
01:01:20,250 --> 01:01:26,250
that which is invisible and eternal makes my

1060
01:01:26,250 --> 01:01:31,190
present affliction both momentary and light in view

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01:01:31,190 --> 01:01:37,450
of the eternal weight of glory whew my

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01:01:37,450 --> 01:01:39,910
lord if that doesn't leave us hanging limp

1063
01:01:39,910 --> 01:01:42,750
on the ropes what kind of a distorted

1064
01:01:42,750 --> 01:01:46,290
perception of reality is that that the thing

1065
01:01:46,290 --> 01:01:49,350
that is invisible is eternal and that he

1066
01:01:49,350 --> 01:01:51,450
beholds it in such a way that it

1067
01:01:51,450 --> 01:01:55,430
makes his present affliction momentary and light that

1068
01:01:55,430 --> 01:01:58,850
he sees something with so acute an appropriation

1069
01:01:59,410 --> 01:02:02,450
that it affects his present condition he does

1070
01:02:02,450 --> 01:02:06,990
not feel pain like others it's light and

1071
01:02:06,990 --> 01:02:08,990
how much pain has he had to bear

1072
01:02:09,670 --> 01:02:12,950
much in every way because of his apostolic

1073
01:02:13,590 --> 01:02:18,450
suffering but he doesn't feel it it's like

1074
01:02:18,450 --> 01:02:20,830
Stephen the stones bounced off of him he

1075
01:02:20,830 --> 01:02:22,470
was hardly aware all he saw was the

1076
01:02:22,470 --> 01:02:24,750
heaven opened and Jesus standing by the glory

1077
01:02:24,750 --> 01:02:29,010
of God the father this is either madness

1078
01:02:29,630 --> 01:02:33,010
or this is definitive sanity that's not for

1079
01:02:33,010 --> 01:02:35,130
us in a final moment of martyrdom but

1080
01:02:35,130 --> 01:02:45,490
all our moments oh saints, saints, saints and

1081
01:02:45,490 --> 01:02:49,570
that's not a casual seeing that's the result

1082
01:02:49,570 --> 01:02:52,910
of an intention of an intense and personal

1083
01:02:52,910 --> 01:02:56,210
kind that looks, that puts aside the things

1084
01:02:56,210 --> 01:02:58,190
that are visible does not give them the

1085
01:02:58,190 --> 01:03:00,410
kind of credence that they think that they

1086
01:03:00,410 --> 01:03:04,250
command it's a false reality and you just

1087
01:03:04,250 --> 01:03:07,570
give it a passing acknowledgement only to the

1088
01:03:07,570 --> 01:03:10,410
measure that it's required but your real attention

1089
01:03:11,130 --> 01:03:12,690
is focused on the thing that is invisible

1090
01:03:12,690 --> 01:03:16,770
and eternal that's what you see and that

1091
01:03:16,770 --> 01:03:21,490
seeing is definitive it's a choice that needs

1092
01:03:21,490 --> 01:03:25,030
to be continually maintained because have we ever

1093
01:03:25,030 --> 01:03:28,270
lived in a civilization, in a society that

1094
01:03:28,270 --> 01:03:30,590
has made more of a demand upon our

1095
01:03:30,590 --> 01:03:34,850
natural seeing and feeling and sensibility than this

1096
01:03:34,850 --> 01:03:39,170
generation listen, how many people share my age

1097
01:03:39,520 --> 01:03:41,910
how many can remember the depression years the

1098
01:03:41,910 --> 01:03:44,830
little corner grocery store before the advent of

1099
01:03:44,830 --> 01:03:48,610
the supermarket and corridors with goods and merchandise

1100
01:03:48,610 --> 01:03:51,590
and foods stacked up with boxes in the

1101
01:03:51,590 --> 01:03:55,190
most appealing colour and attraction which men have

1102
01:03:55,190 --> 01:03:59,750
psychologically determined even the level of at which

1103
01:03:59,750 --> 01:04:01,470
level your eye is going to fall upon

1104
01:04:01,470 --> 01:04:11,210
it don't you understand

1105
01:04:11,210 --> 01:04:14,570
there's a psychology of merchandise there are men

1106
01:04:14,570 --> 01:04:16,990
who give their lives to studying the principles

1107
01:04:16,990 --> 01:04:20,270
by which human beings can be drawn to

1108
01:04:20,270 --> 01:04:23,930
buy, to purchase to have, to possess and

1109
01:04:23,930 --> 01:04:25,970
unless you're consciously aware of that and are

1110
01:04:25,970 --> 01:04:28,830
resisting it and touching it only in a

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01:04:28,830 --> 01:04:31,750
minimal way you're going to be sucked into

1112
01:04:31,750 --> 01:04:34,030
that and that will be the predicate of

1113
01:04:34,030 --> 01:04:39,870
your reality you will be made unable to

1114
01:04:39,870 --> 01:04:42,470
contemplate the things that are invisible and eternal

1115
01:04:42,470 --> 01:04:44,370
they'll have no meaning for you the word

1116
01:04:44,370 --> 01:04:49,470
eternity itself will have only a shallow faint

1117
01:04:49,470 --> 01:04:52,170
kind of ring if it has anything at

1118
01:04:52,170 --> 01:04:54,130
all it will be one of the most

1119
01:04:54,130 --> 01:04:56,390
idle words that can be spoken eternity?

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01:04:56,870 --> 01:04:59,790
I'll think about that when I die or

1121
01:04:59,790 --> 01:05:03,090
will you be thinking too late the church

1122
01:05:03,090 --> 01:05:05,850
that is the church takes eternity into its

1123
01:05:05,850 --> 01:05:21,700
profoundest consideration and it affects every consideration well

1124
01:05:21,700 --> 01:05:24,620
I'm so reluctant to let this text go

1125
01:05:24,620 --> 01:05:26,920
I want to wring it out every drop

1126
01:05:28,440 --> 01:05:32,720
God forbid we should miss any iota of

1127
01:05:32,720 --> 01:05:37,100
God's intended meaning because this is not just

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01:05:37,100 --> 01:05:39,300
a little piece of policy, this is out

1129
01:05:39,300 --> 01:05:41,940
of the blood sweat and tears of a

1130
01:05:41,940 --> 01:05:45,220
nation this is out of the tragedy of

1131
01:05:45,220 --> 01:05:50,240
a failed apostate Israel again and again and

1132
01:05:50,240 --> 01:05:54,480
again in its history whether it's 586 B

1133
01:05:54,480 --> 01:05:57,000
.C. and the destruction of Jerusalem where the

1134
01:05:57,000 --> 01:05:58,660
blood was up to the bridles of the

1135
01:05:58,660 --> 01:06:01,680
horses over a million were slain the whole

1136
01:06:01,680 --> 01:06:05,320
nation was cast into exile the loss of

1137
01:06:05,320 --> 01:06:07,240
the temple the holy city one of the

1138
01:06:07,240 --> 01:06:11,700
greatest tragedies of Jewish history or 70 A

1139
01:06:11,700 --> 01:06:19,960
.D. under Rome or the recent holocaust even

1140
01:06:19,960 --> 01:06:24,860
the article of this Romanian Jewish playwright and

1141
01:06:24,860 --> 01:06:27,000
what was happening in Romania in the World

1142
01:06:27,000 --> 01:06:31,160
War II time to Jews again and again

1143
01:06:31,160 --> 01:06:34,340
and again that blast has come out of

1144
01:06:34,340 --> 01:06:39,220
the East and will come yet again one

1145
01:06:39,220 --> 01:06:45,340
final time even in America wherever Jews have

1146
01:06:45,340 --> 01:06:48,700
enjoyed their prosperity there will be the time

1147
01:06:48,700 --> 01:06:53,040
of Jacob's trouble because they have not lived

1148
01:06:53,040 --> 01:06:56,580
as Israel they have lived as Jacob schemers

1149
01:06:56,580 --> 01:07:00,520
and manipulators who have not yet met God

1150
01:07:00,520 --> 01:07:02,820
and wrestled with him in a final night

1151
01:07:03,700 --> 01:07:07,520
a Jacob's trouble must come who's warning them?

1152
01:07:07,900 --> 01:07:09,320
who's preparing them?

1153
01:07:09,820 --> 01:07:11,960
who's inviting them even now to come into

1154
01:07:11,960 --> 01:07:14,420
the arc of safety in the Messiah who

1155
01:07:14,420 --> 01:07:16,960
awaits them with open arms even in the

1156
01:07:16,960 --> 01:07:22,320
Yom Kippur season because the making of mitzvot

1157
01:07:22,320 --> 01:07:24,100
the good deeds in the day of fasting

1158
01:07:24,100 --> 01:07:29,060
avails nothing who's pleading with them to understand

1159
01:07:29,060 --> 01:07:29,420
that?

1160
01:07:31,540 --> 01:07:33,540
and what will your reward be for your

1161
01:07:33,540 --> 01:07:34,100
effort?

1162
01:07:34,840 --> 01:07:40,980
scorn and rejection anger even hatred you're willing

1163
01:07:40,980 --> 01:07:41,740
to suffer that?

1164
01:07:42,020 --> 01:07:44,040
to suffer the misunderstanding of men?

1165
01:07:45,580 --> 01:07:48,360
because you can't remain silent and it's not

1166
01:07:48,360 --> 01:07:49,920
the issue whether you're going to succeed or

1167
01:07:49,920 --> 01:07:52,180
not but the issue is that you cannot

1168
01:07:52,180 --> 01:07:55,480
remain silent and still maintain an integrity before

1169
01:07:55,480 --> 01:07:59,560
God the eternal destiny compels you to play

1170
01:07:59,560 --> 01:08:05,720
the fool with your Jewish neighbor or acquaintance

1171
01:08:05,720 --> 01:08:08,500
or business associate or whosoever and if you

1172
01:08:08,500 --> 01:08:11,020
don't have them all the more shame on

1173
01:08:11,020 --> 01:08:12,360
you how is it you don't have them?

1174
01:08:13,600 --> 01:08:15,200
why have you not a Jewish contact?

1175
01:08:15,899 --> 01:08:17,460
why have you not sought it?

1176
01:08:18,240 --> 01:08:20,779
why have you not visited their synagogue or

1177
01:08:20,779 --> 01:08:24,819
their cultural institutions and prayed Lord bring me

1178
01:08:24,819 --> 01:08:27,439
contact you know how Richard Wurmbrand was saved?

1179
01:08:28,160 --> 01:08:29,460
you know who Richard Wurmbrand is?

1180
01:08:30,680 --> 01:08:33,760
13 years in solitary confinement the most Christ

1181
01:08:33,760 --> 01:08:37,200
-like figure I have ever seen in my

1182
01:08:37,200 --> 01:08:40,500
36 years of believing I was reminiscing the

1183
01:08:40,500 --> 01:08:44,399
other day I was only saved months and

1184
01:08:44,399 --> 01:08:46,859
back again in Oakland California back into the

1185
01:08:46,859 --> 01:08:49,020
teaching profession and invited to a local meeting

1186
01:08:49,020 --> 01:08:53,040
through a Jewish missionary I came into the

1187
01:08:53,040 --> 01:08:55,180
room and I panned the room and there

1188
01:08:55,180 --> 01:08:57,100
was my eye stopped at a man sitting

1189
01:08:57,100 --> 01:08:59,700
on the piano bench I couldn't go beyond

1190
01:08:59,700 --> 01:09:01,700
that I looked at that man I was

1191
01:09:01,700 --> 01:09:05,540
riveted I said that's if ever I would

1192
01:09:05,540 --> 01:09:07,100
see Christ this is what he's got to

1193
01:09:07,100 --> 01:09:13,069
look like it was Richard you know how

1194
01:09:13,069 --> 01:09:13,770
he got saved?

1195
01:09:13,990 --> 01:09:21,470
a shoemaker with a minimal education barely literate

1196
01:09:21,470 --> 01:09:27,250
himself a tradesman in a Transylvanian village in

1197
01:09:27,250 --> 01:09:30,069
Romania had one prayer before the Lord all

1198
01:09:30,069 --> 01:09:33,350
his believing life long Lord give me one

1199
01:09:33,350 --> 01:09:37,590
Jew let me be your instrument and agent

1200
01:09:37,590 --> 01:09:40,750
in salvation to one Jew and the Lord

1201
01:09:40,750 --> 01:09:45,649
brings this atheist Richard Wurmbrand to this shoemaker

1202
01:09:45,649 --> 01:09:48,010
and the man speaks to him about the

1203
01:09:48,010 --> 01:09:50,910
Lord and brings him into the reading of

1204
01:09:50,910 --> 01:09:54,090
the New Testament for the first time and

1205
01:09:54,090 --> 01:09:57,790
Richard is zapped he takes the New Testament

1206
01:09:57,790 --> 01:10:00,670
to a rabbi and the rabbi reads it

1207
01:10:00,670 --> 01:10:02,010
for the first time and he says in

1208
01:10:02,010 --> 01:10:05,950
Yiddish Wie schön, wie schön how beautiful, how

1209
01:10:05,950 --> 01:10:11,830
beautiful because of a shoemaker I've got one

1210
01:10:11,830 --> 01:10:16,150
photograph in my study and it's not my

1211
01:10:16,150 --> 01:10:18,830
natural father or any other figure like that

1212
01:10:18,830 --> 01:10:20,770
it's a man whom I've never met a

1213
01:10:20,770 --> 01:10:25,710
German man and I got the one of

1214
01:10:25,710 --> 01:10:28,770
two pictures from his daughter who's the historian

1215
01:10:28,770 --> 01:10:31,430
of the village in which this German man

1216
01:10:31,430 --> 01:10:34,590
lived who was kicked out of his own

1217
01:10:34,590 --> 01:10:38,390
state Lutheran church because of the radicalness of

1218
01:10:38,390 --> 01:10:41,950
his testimony and in the Hitler time Jews

1219
01:10:41,950 --> 01:10:43,850
used to come at night the village was

1220
01:10:43,850 --> 01:10:46,930
65% Jewish there's a cemetery to this

1221
01:10:46,930 --> 01:10:50,070
day that still exists and the daughter knows

1222
01:10:50,070 --> 01:10:52,270
every address of which Jew lived in what

1223
01:10:52,270 --> 01:10:54,530
house where the synagogue was, where the mikveh

1224
01:10:54,530 --> 01:10:59,850
was now occupied by Germans and when they

1225
01:10:59,850 --> 01:11:03,370
forbade Jews to buy anything from stores they

1226
01:11:03,370 --> 01:11:04,990
would come at night and he would give

1227
01:11:04,990 --> 01:11:10,910
them food he was himself a shoemaker but

1228
01:11:10,910 --> 01:11:12,410
he had a garden, he had an animal

1229
01:11:12,410 --> 01:11:13,610
he had milk, I don't know what he

1230
01:11:13,610 --> 01:11:16,970
had and he warned them to get out

1231
01:11:16,970 --> 01:11:18,850
while the getting is good as many as

1232
01:11:18,850 --> 01:11:21,650
heeded him fled and their lives were saved

1233
01:11:21,650 --> 01:11:24,450
as many as disregarded him perished you ought

1234
01:11:24,450 --> 01:11:26,930
to see this portrait of this man talk

1235
01:11:26,930 --> 01:11:31,050
about a visible saint how many times was

1236
01:11:31,050 --> 01:11:34,350
he interrogated by the Gestapo as Basilea Schlinck

1237
01:11:34,350 --> 01:11:37,410
herself was and they never laid a hand

1238
01:11:37,410 --> 01:11:41,450
on him it's the one picture that I

1239
01:11:41,450 --> 01:11:45,610
have in that room of the man so

1240
01:11:45,610 --> 01:11:51,970
God can use a shoemaker and in fact

1241
01:11:51,970 --> 01:11:54,130
that's the reason for your existence as the

1242
01:11:54,130 --> 01:11:56,690
church you shall be a witness unto me

1243
01:11:57,210 --> 01:11:59,530
you shall move them to jealousy by your

1244
01:11:59,530 --> 01:12:02,230
mercy they may extend mercy it's the mystery

1245
01:12:02,230 --> 01:12:05,410
of God to raise up a church of

1246
01:12:05,410 --> 01:12:08,950
an essential gentile kind to be to them

1247
01:12:08,950 --> 01:12:12,390
the testimony of their God that in seeing

1248
01:12:12,390 --> 01:12:14,730
you they would be moved to jealousy and

1249
01:12:14,730 --> 01:12:18,730
realize what they have forfeited by their ersatz,

1250
01:12:19,090 --> 01:12:24,810
synthetic and artificial rabbinical religion or secular pursuit

1251
01:12:25,490 --> 01:12:27,930
because they see in you the reality of

1252
01:12:27,930 --> 01:12:30,350
their God that's all I got saved since

1253
01:12:31,490 --> 01:12:34,290
you never had a more rabid anti-christian

1254
01:12:34,290 --> 01:12:38,610
than this guy was you would have avoided

1255
01:12:38,610 --> 01:12:41,610
me at a hundred yards angry because I

1256
01:12:41,610 --> 01:12:43,830
saw the holocaust as being a christian crime

1257
01:12:45,250 --> 01:12:47,170
but the Lord put them in my path

1258
01:12:47,710 --> 01:12:55,010
precious, transparent guileless saints girls high school graduates

1259
01:12:55,010 --> 01:13:00,510
with no credential of an intellectual kind that

1260
01:13:00,510 --> 01:13:02,290
would be of interest to me that I

1261
01:13:02,290 --> 01:13:05,330
should have turned on my heel and walked

1262
01:13:05,330 --> 01:13:08,210
away in contempt but I could not there

1263
01:13:08,210 --> 01:13:13,050
was something magnetic something I couldn't identify that

1264
01:13:13,050 --> 01:13:16,670
came through this transparency this guilelessness, this innocence

1265
01:13:18,090 --> 01:13:22,130
the willingness even to walk with me with

1266
01:13:22,130 --> 01:13:25,070
a pack on my back hitchhiking through Europe

1267
01:13:25,630 --> 01:13:29,010
34 years old looking for philosophical answers and

1268
01:13:29,010 --> 01:13:31,730
I meet this little girl on vacation in

1269
01:13:31,730 --> 01:13:34,630
Switzerland who had graduated from the midwest some

1270
01:13:34,630 --> 01:13:39,410
place a wasp, white anglo-saxon protestant the

1271
01:13:39,410 --> 01:13:41,930
deadliest kind that a jew could ever encounter

1272
01:13:43,810 --> 01:13:46,570
but something about that girl and she's walking

1273
01:13:46,570 --> 01:13:48,510
with me and I'm probing her motives hey,

1274
01:13:49,750 --> 01:13:50,850
what are you doing this?

1275
01:13:52,290 --> 01:13:53,470
aren't you afraid of me?

1276
01:13:53,870 --> 01:13:56,150
no, she said it's the love of God

1277
01:13:59,610 --> 01:14:00,830
how come you're being kind?

1278
01:14:00,930 --> 01:14:03,010
it's the love of God every question is

1279
01:14:03,010 --> 01:14:04,230
the love of God, the love of God

1280
01:14:04,230 --> 01:14:05,750
what are you trying to do, drive me

1281
01:14:05,750 --> 01:14:06,290
up a tree?

1282
01:14:06,630 --> 01:14:09,510
I can't stand this God talk it's cheap

1283
01:14:11,230 --> 01:14:13,470
so this kid mentions God one more time

1284
01:14:13,470 --> 01:14:16,510
she's had it she engaged Christians in debate

1285
01:14:16,510 --> 01:14:19,050
and wiped them out and sure enough she

1286
01:14:19,050 --> 01:14:20,570
mentions God again how could she not?

1287
01:14:21,410 --> 01:14:23,970
I said, ok kid, look you sweet girl

1288
01:14:23,970 --> 01:14:27,230
that I can't stand this God talk answer

1289
01:14:27,230 --> 01:14:29,270
me the one question that no Christian has

1290
01:14:29,270 --> 01:14:32,270
ever been able successfully to answer you're talking

1291
01:14:32,270 --> 01:14:33,670
about God how do you know that he

1292
01:14:33,670 --> 01:14:34,030
is?

1293
01:14:34,970 --> 01:14:37,170
got her now what is she going to

1294
01:14:37,170 --> 01:14:37,470
tell me?

1295
01:14:37,510 --> 01:14:40,130
some little thing that she's learned in Sunday

1296
01:14:40,130 --> 01:14:40,510
school?

1297
01:14:40,950 --> 01:14:46,010
I've got my steam engine rolled up no

1298
01:14:46,010 --> 01:14:48,090
hesitation this little snub-nosed, freckled-faced, sandy

1299
01:14:48,090 --> 01:14:53,970
-haired thing she said Archie said I know

1300
01:14:53,970 --> 01:14:58,170
that God is he lives in me and

1301
01:14:58,170 --> 01:15:02,330
down went the ox boom, one blow that

1302
01:15:02,330 --> 01:15:06,010
one statement and I was crunched lives in

1303
01:15:06,010 --> 01:15:14,880
me and I thought I don't know how

1304
01:15:14,880 --> 01:15:17,600
long it took me to recover what hit

1305
01:15:17,600 --> 01:15:20,680
me it wasn't even theological let alone intellectual

1306
01:15:21,620 --> 01:15:24,220
anyone can say I know God, he lives

1307
01:15:24,220 --> 01:15:26,100
in me what's the power?

1308
01:15:26,720 --> 01:15:28,820
the power was, it was true and she

1309
01:15:28,820 --> 01:15:30,620
had the face to prove it and when

1310
01:15:30,620 --> 01:15:32,740
we Jews see that in a snub-nosed,

1311
01:15:32,960 --> 01:15:38,140
freckled, sandy-haired gentile face we're finished it's

1312
01:15:38,140 --> 01:15:42,080
unarguable it's the ultimate testimony of the reality

1313
01:15:42,080 --> 01:15:49,820
of that our God lives because look so

1314
01:15:49,820 --> 01:15:51,760
here I am, 36 years later because of

1315
01:15:51,760 --> 01:15:56,280
that little girl and many have benefited in

1316
01:15:56,280 --> 01:16:00,760
Africa, Indonesia, in Singapore in Egypt, in Israel

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01:16:00,760 --> 01:16:04,480
all over the world, Scandinavia you name it

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and I've been there in behalf of the

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Lord who saved me through a gentile face

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so Lord, precious God on high may

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01:16:23,240 --> 01:16:25,160
the Jews coming out of their synagogues today

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01:16:25,160 --> 01:16:27,780
who think that they have done you service

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01:16:27,780 --> 01:16:31,580
have filled the religious requirement once a year

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01:16:34,840 --> 01:16:38,720
who have a solemn and religious piety for

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the moment on their faces see a face

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01:16:41,480 --> 01:16:45,360
of another kind bring them somewhere my God

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01:16:45,360 --> 01:16:49,240
in collision with a saint who knows you

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01:16:49,920 --> 01:16:53,660
and can make you known not because they're

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sophisticated because they have all answers but because

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they are what they are by the grace

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of God because they've made you first and

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foremost because you've heard their prayer Lord give

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01:17:03,260 --> 01:17:10,610
me a Jew mercy precious God Lord how

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01:17:10,610 --> 01:17:14,290
many Yom Kippur's have we left before the

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bottom falls out before that east wind blows

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how long will it take before their treasure

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is dried up and that suddenly and no

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one has pronounced a warning no one spoke

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01:17:26,310 --> 01:17:28,610
of judgments to come that are the very

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grace of God grant

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01:17:39,430 --> 01:17:41,690
us grace my God to be a prophetic

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church a statement in our community of how

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01:17:45,730 --> 01:17:50,570
to read reality how to understand history how

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01:17:50,570 --> 01:17:52,150
to see the scripture as just a little

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01:17:52,150 --> 01:17:55,170
bit more than a Sunday adornment the flippant

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thing that we can go through in a

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01:17:56,450 --> 01:17:59,210
moment how to get into it and how

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01:17:59,210 --> 01:18:01,790
for it to get into us to change

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us to see as you see so that

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we might proclaim as you would proclaim to

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those who would otherwise perish unwary and unsuspecting

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01:18:13,430 --> 01:18:17,370
victims when the east wind when the blast

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01:18:17,370 --> 01:18:21,010
comes not knowing what hit them and not

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01:18:21,010 --> 01:18:24,350
even any expectation that that very storm is

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01:18:24,350 --> 01:18:40,780
brewing now oh

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precious God Lord thank you Lord help us

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01:18:45,420 --> 01:18:47,520
break us up in our deeps my God

1358
01:18:48,260 --> 01:18:52,240
show us how defunct we have been how

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time serving and convenient our present Christianity is

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01:18:57,940 --> 01:19:00,660
how content we were to go along and

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01:19:00,660 --> 01:19:03,700
enjoy our services and not to in any

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01:19:03,700 --> 01:19:07,140
way constitute a threat to the status quo

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01:19:07,780 --> 01:19:14,100
because we are not threatened so I pray

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01:19:14,100 --> 01:19:18,920
for my brother at the water cooler in

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the office in the place of business or

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01:19:20,640 --> 01:19:24,860
profession wherever these children are placed strategically by

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01:19:24,860 --> 01:19:30,300
you in the neighborhood where there is life

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01:19:30,300 --> 01:19:33,880
and death issues to be propounded that they

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will not withhold that they will be willing

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to be Christ's fool willing to be misunderstood

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01:19:39,540 --> 01:19:42,260
willing to bear reproach willing to be looked

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upon as strange even to the point where

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01:19:44,360 --> 01:19:50,580
it threatens their own security because the time

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01:19:50,580 --> 01:19:52,120
is short and they're living as if they

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01:19:52,120 --> 01:19:54,640
believe that and if they should lose their

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01:19:54,640 --> 01:20:01,100
present position and security because of this radical

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01:20:02,160 --> 01:20:06,220
obedience to you they'll learn by faith that

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01:20:06,220 --> 01:20:10,240
that doesn't preclude a source of another kind

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01:20:11,040 --> 01:20:13,580
and they're willing to have their lifestyle altered

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01:20:16,000 --> 01:20:18,540
so we bless you Lord we're privileged people

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01:20:19,560 --> 01:20:22,180
you don't talk like this to everybody we

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01:20:22,180 --> 01:20:24,160
even prayed this morning that you would address

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01:20:24,160 --> 01:20:26,440
us as sons and daughters that you would

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01:20:26,440 --> 01:20:29,940
give us your deepest heart on this Rosh

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01:20:29,940 --> 01:20:34,000
Hashanah Yom Kippur season that we would hear

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01:20:34,000 --> 01:20:36,020
from your heart what where your heart is

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01:20:36,020 --> 01:20:41,940
what is your present ache and we thank

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01:20:41,940 --> 01:20:47,020
you for the privilege of it Lord God

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01:20:47,020 --> 01:20:48,760
forbid we should dab at our eyes and

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01:20:48,760 --> 01:20:53,660
go back to life as usual afterwards but

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01:20:53,660 --> 01:20:55,500
that being a proper people who have been

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01:20:55,500 --> 01:20:58,440
addressed by the Lord and given the privilege

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01:20:58,440 --> 01:21:01,220
of hearing his heart would say what would

1394
01:21:01,220 --> 01:21:03,280
you have for me to do how might

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01:21:03,280 --> 01:21:07,440
I factor this in how is this to

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01:21:09,300 --> 01:21:12,660
be understood in my daily life what now

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01:21:12,660 --> 01:21:13,820
Lord how do I go from what do

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01:21:13,820 --> 01:21:16,540
I do with this if you can use

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01:21:16,540 --> 01:21:19,680
a shoemaker how will you use me I

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want to be used I don't want to

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01:21:23,600 --> 01:21:25,460
be embarrassed in the day of eternity that

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01:21:25,460 --> 01:21:28,120
I live beneath the high privilege of God

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01:21:28,120 --> 01:21:30,540
in Christ and have not much to show

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01:21:30,540 --> 01:21:34,440
for my days I've never led anybody to

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01:21:34,440 --> 01:21:37,780
the Lord I've never challenged anybody to ask

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01:21:37,780 --> 01:21:40,560
me what's with you I've been a nice

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01:21:40,560 --> 01:21:42,660
guy I'm one of the boys I've had

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01:21:42,660 --> 01:21:50,300
all this and Christianity too help us to

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01:21:50,300 --> 01:21:52,040
live our present life in the light of

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01:21:52,040 --> 01:21:55,200
eternity that we need not fear your coming

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01:21:55,630 --> 01:21:58,380
as retribution and as judgment for a failed

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01:21:58,380 --> 01:22:02,480
Christian life but a joyous anticipation that when

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01:22:02,480 --> 01:22:04,460
you come you bring your rewards with you

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01:22:04,460 --> 01:22:07,620
and give to each man according to his

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01:22:07,620 --> 01:22:10,880
labors let there be labors by God issued

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01:22:10,880 --> 01:22:13,920
and released because of this morning because of

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01:22:13,920 --> 01:22:16,260
this time of visitation that would not have

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01:22:16,260 --> 01:22:18,160
taken place if you had not taken the

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01:22:18,160 --> 01:22:21,680
initiative to shake us and to call us

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01:22:21,680 --> 01:22:26,460
to reality in the light of eternity thank

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01:22:26,460 --> 01:22:28,140
you Lord put a seal on this let

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01:22:28,140 --> 01:22:34,080
it be fruitful this is a small congregation

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01:22:34,080 --> 01:22:37,460
this morning let others be affected break the

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01:22:37,460 --> 01:22:40,100
heart of your church my God your church

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01:22:40,100 --> 01:22:43,680
in Oklahoma your self-satisfied church that counts

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01:22:43,680 --> 01:22:50,120
its blessings its little institution its nomenclature its

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01:22:50,120 --> 01:22:53,520
particular pet perspective and theory and doctrine whatsoever

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01:22:53,520 --> 01:22:57,360
that they think is their distinction come my

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01:22:57,360 --> 01:22:59,660
God let your voice be heard in the

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01:22:59,660 --> 01:23:05,300
earth your testimony go forth through a people

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01:23:10,890 --> 01:23:14,650
thank you my God break our hearts for

1432
01:23:14,650 --> 01:23:18,110
the Israel in our midst whom we have

1433
01:23:18,110 --> 01:23:22,070
allowed to languish in their ignorance and patted

1434
01:23:22,070 --> 01:23:24,890
them on the back and paid them compliments

1435
01:23:24,890 --> 01:23:30,030
of a deceptive kind and have not told

1436
01:23:30,030 --> 01:23:32,330
them the truth of their condition that there

1437
01:23:32,330 --> 01:23:36,030
is no man good no not one we've

1438
01:23:36,030 --> 01:23:40,250
been cowards we've been afraid my God of

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01:23:40,250 --> 01:23:43,650
their reproach but we have not been afraid

1440
01:23:43,650 --> 01:23:52,850
to disappoint you so before these days are

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01:23:52,850 --> 01:23:56,870
out even these very days Lord let something

1442
01:23:56,870 --> 01:23:59,410
go forth to the Jewish community in Tulsa

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01:24:00,390 --> 01:24:02,790
that would not otherwise have taken place if

1444
01:24:02,790 --> 01:24:04,870
you had not spoken let something happen at

1445
01:24:04,870 --> 01:24:08,650
the campus there at the State University of

1446
01:24:08,650 --> 01:24:13,610
Oklahoma at Stillwater before Jewish intellectuals and faculty

1447
01:24:13,610 --> 01:24:17,630
members and orthodox Jews and unsuspecting secular kids

1448
01:24:17,630 --> 01:24:21,490
because somewhere in Tulsa in those days a

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01:24:21,490 --> 01:24:25,490
travail of birth was taking place among believers

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01:24:26,530 --> 01:24:29,210
who were willing for the inconvenience and the

1451
01:24:29,210 --> 01:24:32,350
pain of it because they knew eternity is

1452
01:24:32,350 --> 01:24:36,010
at stake that art is not going in

1453
01:24:36,010 --> 01:24:41,830
his little ability as if he's got a

1454
01:24:41,830 --> 01:24:46,070
handle on something he's being borne up by

1455
01:24:46,070 --> 01:24:48,570
the prayers of the saints that know he's

1456
01:24:48,570 --> 01:24:51,790
on a headlong collision with powers of darkness

1457
01:24:51,790 --> 01:24:53,790
that if they could they would chew him

1458
01:24:53,790 --> 01:24:56,410
up and spit him out that there's a

1459
01:24:56,410 --> 01:24:59,530
struggle a conflict of an ultimate kind between

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01:24:59,530 --> 01:25:04,530
kingdoms that the university campus is itself a

1461
01:25:04,530 --> 01:25:12,930
worldly stronghold powerful in pride intellectual pride that

1462
01:25:12,930 --> 01:25:16,350
needs to be penetrated by the poles of

1463
01:25:16,350 --> 01:25:20,930
our generation in Mars Hill encounter because they're

1464
01:25:20,930 --> 01:25:25,030
sent and buoyed and sustained by the prayers

1465
01:25:25,030 --> 01:25:30,770
of saints who know thank you Lord we

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01:25:30,770 --> 01:25:33,310
bless you for this morning you're taking us

1467
01:25:33,310 --> 01:25:35,810
by surprise we don't know how to go

1468
01:25:35,810 --> 01:25:39,090
further maybe we should not go further we

1469
01:25:39,090 --> 01:25:42,890
just call upon you even ourselves repentantly for

1470
01:25:42,890 --> 01:25:53,030
our failed Christianity for our shortcomings thank

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01:25:53,030 --> 01:25:53,530
you Lord