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Now who in the world was the choir

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singing about?

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I'm really interested.

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Oh, do you think that they were singing

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about anybody in this meeting?

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They that wait upon the Lord.

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Now who are they?

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Let's see if the Bible says anything about.

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Oh, yes.

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It also talks about those who don't wait

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upon the Lord.

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And you know, it is marvelous how the

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Bible gives us clear answers to these questions.

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Who is it?

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My God, my God.

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God does something for people who wait upon

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Him.

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And He does something very wonderful for them.

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They that wait upon the Lord.

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Of course, you know where that's found, that

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text, that great chapter that begins with these

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words, Comfort ye, comfort ye my people.

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Do you know which it is?

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Isaiah 40.

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Isaiah is called the miniature Bible.

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How many books are there in the Bible?

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Come on.

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Right.

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That is Sheynkhundir Hensin.

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Sixty-six books.

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And Isaiah has sixty-six chapters.

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And of course, the Bible is divided into

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two sections.

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The Old Testament has thirty-nine chapters, and

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speaks of the law, and speaks of the

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backsliding of God's people.

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and speaks of the glorious revelation of the

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Son of God, and the power of His

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resurrection.

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Bible, because it seems to have the same

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division.

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The first thirty-nine chapters speak about the

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backsliding of Israel.

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the glory of the coming of Jesus Christ.

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And that's how it begins.

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Comfort ye, comfort ye my people.

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Set your God.

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Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto

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her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her

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iniquity is pardoned.

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For she hath received of the Lord's hand

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double for all her sins.

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The voice said, Cry.

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And he said, What shall I cry?

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Of course, that's spoken of John the Baptist.

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Now you better be careful what kind of

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a sermon you preach.

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People won't like it if you don't sprinkle

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rose water on them.

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If you don't tell them something that they

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like, something that tickles them behind the ear

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and under their third chin.

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Why, they won't like it.

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If you're going to be a preacher, you

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better go to a seminarian, and learn how

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to preach homiletically correct sermons.

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And by all means, don't tell the truth,

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because they'll turn away their ears from the

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truth.

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Having itching ears, he says, What shall I

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cry?

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All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness

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please, or undress yourself, or do anything you

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Powder your nose.

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flower of the field.

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All this boasted of civilization, and science, and

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all this business, is like the flower of

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all nations are as a drop of a

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You know how much that is.

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All the nations in all the world, that's

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how much they amount to.

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Oh John the Baptist, you better be careful.

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And when he was preaching, you know, this

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delegation from the temple.

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Pharisees and scribes had elected a delegation, with

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dog collars and all, to investigate this fellow

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that didn't even have a diploma, no BA

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degree, no doctor of theology, had not studied

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in their schools.

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you better be careful.

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The Pharisees are here.

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They're watching you.

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He said, And who is that brood of

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vipers?

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Who told them to come around here?

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Who has warned you to flee from the...

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You're too strong.

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You preach too strong.

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You better quit it.

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You better go to school and learn how

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to preach nice sermons.

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After I'd been on Seneca Avenue for a

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few months, a preacher came to me.

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elocution.

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preaching.

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Firstly, secondly, thoidly, and pious cough.

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And finally, Oh John the Baptist, what shall

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I preach?

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What shall I...

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Nobody wants to hear that.

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Nobody wants to hear that.

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Even though it is appointed unto man, wants

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to die.

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They don't want to hear that.

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And yet, Brooklyn is full of cemeteries, full

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of graves, full of tombstones.

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So full you can't escape this glorious truth

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that it is appointed unto man, wants to

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die.

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And after this, the judgment.

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But people don't want to know the truth.

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But thank God for this wonderful word of

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which Jesus Christ says to the Father, Father,

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sanctify them.

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They are not of the world, even as

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I am not of the world.

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Sanctify them through thy truth.

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Thy word is the truth.

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It's a fine road map.

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It shows you the way of life.

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It doesn't deceive you.

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It doesn't mislead you.

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I told you how when we were in

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Yugoslavia, we got a road map.

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We had to go from Zagreb down to

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Novi Sad.

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to find the best road.

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But there was a preacher there and he

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knew better.

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That's what's the matter.

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That little boy used to sing, and the

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power of God is just the same today.

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It doesn't matter what the preachers say.

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But this preacher said, no, I know a

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better way.

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And you know, we nearly lost our lives

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in that better way.

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We sure got stuck in the mud.

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We cut our tires through about three times

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because we didn't follow the road map.

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But oh, here's this wonderful, thy word is

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truth.

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Oh, how I need the truth in view

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of eternity.

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Where will you spend eternity?

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You're on an express train and you're going

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there just as fast as this express train

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time can carry you.

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And as sure as we're here tonight, in

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a little while we'll stand before the judgment

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seat of Christ to receive the things we've

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done in this body.

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No, God's word is the truth.

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Thank God for the Bible.

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Thank God for the Bible.

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When you talk to people about the word

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of God, use that word Bible.

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They don't know what the word of God

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is.

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Talk about the Bible.

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This is the book, the only book that's

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worth to be called a book.

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Oh, thank God.

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Now John the Baptist, cry all flesh is

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grass.

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as a drop of a bucket.

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And he says, look at me, lift up

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your eyes on high and behold who has

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created these things that bringeth out their host

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by number.

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He calls them all by names, by the

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greatness of his power, not one fail to

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think of it.

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And now astronomy has discovered that there are

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many, many, many, many, many more constellations and

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blazing suns than we ever expected and ever

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a fraction of it.

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Oh, these wonderful worlds, which Jesus Christ has

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hurled into space, that they might give light

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and that they might speak of his power

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and of his majesty.

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Oh, praise the Lord.

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high and behold.

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Did you see the full moon last night?

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He was smiling for a change.

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Usually he looks sour, but last night he

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was smiling.

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But oh, how raha ala bhoja, rega dungos

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ala julubini pyatalo.

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How it thrills your heart to see and

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to think and to know that by him

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were all things created that are in heaven

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and that are in earth visible.

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tremendously, marvelously created, what will the invisible world

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be like, which is eternal?

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That which is seen is temporal, but that

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which is not seen is eternal.

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Oh my God, you're very great.

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You are very, very wonderful.

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My soul lives within me when I think

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of my wonderful God.

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in heaven, my God, thou art my God,

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early will I seek thee.

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Now, who is the choir singing about?

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Well, you can soon find out in your

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own life.

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They that wait upon the Lord will find

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that this great God, who calls them all

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by names, by the greatness of his power,

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he calls you by name.

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His eyes run to and fro throughout the

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whole earth, looking for hearts that look for

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him, that want him.

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Tell me, is there a more worthy occupation

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for any human being than to come to

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God, really to meet God by faith, in

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prayer?

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Hallelujah.

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wait upon my God and know that he

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giveth power to the faint and to them

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that have no might, he increases strength.

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Oh, the wonder of having a God that

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watches for me, that loves me, that has

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promised to give me power, to make me

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mount up with wings as eagles, to run

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and not to be weary, to walk and

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not faint.

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When Hitler came to power, he took the

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babes from the cradle.

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He wanted to create a super-rafe.

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And they tell me there on the walls

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and where we put up our tent, they

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had their practice, they had their calisthenics and

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their physical training.

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a wonderful sight it was, these thousands of

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brown backs stooping and rising up and exercising.

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And they felt that that was the best

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thing for Germany, to have an army of

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young soldiers that were strong and good muscles

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and healthy bodies.

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Now, here's my God.

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Oh, my Lord and my God.

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And he wants me to be strong in

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the Lord and in the power of his

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might.

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He's building me for eternity to reign with

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Christ, not a thousand years, but throughout the

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ages of eternity, to be with him upon

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his throne, to judge angels.

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Beloved, you wouldn't know that except for the

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Bible.

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The Bible tells us that.

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That's why it says, they that wait upon

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the Lord, they're bound to be different.

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They have to be different.

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Jesus Christ says, I don't pray for the

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world.

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I pray for those whom thou hast given

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me.

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Here is the Father and the Son and

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the Holy Ghost expending their power.

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My God, it's too wonderful for words.

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It's too wonderful for thoughts.

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The Holy Ghost must quicken my understanding and

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give me life by the power of the

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spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge

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of him.

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And beloved, the Bible also tells us what

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happens to those who don't wait upon the

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Lord.

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They may be strong in muscles.

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They may be strong in intellect.

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He says, even the youth, the very prime

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of life, the very strongest, the very wisest,

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the best educated, they shall fail.

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Even the youth shall faint and be weary.

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Don't you see that in the world today?

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Doesn't the world look like a great big

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haystack ready for the fire?

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Where are those who are strong in the

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Holy Ghost?

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Thank God they're sprinkled all over the world.

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They're there, but they're few and far between

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in comparison to the great world of unbelievers,

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an unbelieving church.

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They're faint, they're weary, they shall utterly fall.

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And when theologians today bring out books entitled

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God is Dead, then you know that they

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have not only utterly fallen, but they've fallen

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into the bottomless pit.

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The God of this world has blinded the

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minds of them that believe not, lest the

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light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who

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is the image of God, should shine unto

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them.

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Now there's the difference.

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On one hand, God stooping to those that

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faint.

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Isn't that wonderful?

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That's me.

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Oh, to feel your nothingness, to feel your

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utter helplessness.

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My God, how healthy it is to faint,

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to be weary, to be without strength.

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Paul says, I glory in my infirmities, that

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the power of Christ might rest upon me.

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Because when I feel my infirmity, and I

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feel my faintness, I have a place to

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come to.

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I come to the fountain of living water,

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and that fountain is nobody else but God

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only.

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God, thou art my God.

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Listen, is he your God?

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Is he your God?

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What in the world have you got?

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Well, I got a little Ford, I got

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a little Ford machine, I got a little

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house, I got a wife, I got a

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child, I've got a something else, and what

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else have you got?

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What have you got?

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If you haven't got God.

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I said to God before coming to meeting,

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comes to my mind now, my Lord, whom

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have I in heaven but Thee?

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Nobody.

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And there's none upon this earth that I

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desire beside Thee.

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Wenn ich nur Dich habe, so frage ich

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nichts nach Himmel und Erde.

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Aber ich habe Dich, was will ich mehr?

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O beloved they that wait upon the Lord.

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The great tragedy today among people of God

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is that they don't believe God.

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Waiting upon the Lord is no fun.

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I know I've experienced it.

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It's a hard job, because it strips you

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of your self-esteem, and it strips you

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of all your own activity, and makes you

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realize how nothing you are.

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But oh, and that glory of God descends,

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and when God reacts, He giveth power to

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the faint.

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But what happens to those that don't wait

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upon the Lord?

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Well, you know.

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You know what happens.

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They shall utterly fall.

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They shall faint.

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Oh, you feel very strong, like Peter did,

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when he said, I'll go into prison and

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into death with you.

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But my goodness, when darkness came upon him,

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and the trial came, and the test came.

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Beloved God wants all of us up there.

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He says, Thou therefore my son, be strong.

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You can't be strong any other way.

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You could be strong in the flesh, and

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that flesh will be eaten by worms after

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a while.

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But you can be strong in the Lord,

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and in the power of His might.

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You can.

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God will give you strength.

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Oh, how my God is, thank God, He's

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not forgotten those whom He has created.

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And He's not given up His job to

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have sons that are like Himself.

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Man in our likeness, God's never given up

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the job.

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And here's our opportunity, mine and yours, thank

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God, to renew our strength.

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Amen.