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minor affliction, but all the more, Lord, whatever

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weakness that has brought, that that would give

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greater opportunity for the expression of your strength.

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So we are made strong, my God, in

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you, and we're so jealous over this word.

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And I trust that it's your jealousy, and

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that nothing shall be lost to your people

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whom you've assembled, and beyond and through them

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to the larger congregation, the church, that a

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statement will come forth, Lord, of a continuing

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kind for what you gave us yesterday.

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That was precious.

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I've been around for almost 40 years.

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I would say yesterday was remarkably precious.

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And we just invite you to continue and

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bring that perspective, my God, to such a

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peak, and to dot the I's, cross the

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T's, show us its application, its implications, and

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whatsoever you will.

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We're so privileged, Lord.

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What shall we say to you?

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So privileged.

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So come and have your full sway.

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Thank you, my God, for your thoughts that

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are so unspeakably precious, full of wisdom and

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understanding and on time.

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So be with this piece of dust, Lord,

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and let your children not only hear your

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We thank and give you praise in Jesus'

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Amen.

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Well, among my many books, if I indulge

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anything, it's the purchase of books.

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And Inge says, are you going to read

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them all?

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When will you ever read them?

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any moment the Lord can finger what he

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will, what he wills, and I'll have it,

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the accessibility.

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I can't tell you what a privilege to

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have the complete work of Karl Barth, 14

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volumes of church dogmatics that no man in

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a single lifetime could ever read.

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But when someone alludes to a particular volume

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and you want to follow up that reference,

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there it is at your fingertips on the

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shelf.

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So I'm appreciating that.

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So somehow my eye was directed to a

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little booklet by Arthur Pink.

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How many people know that name?

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Oh, you need to read Arthur Pink's work

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on David.

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That's a milestone work.

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He's a British preacher, teacher, Bible commentator.

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And here's his little book on the Ten

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And so I thought, what has he to

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say on the commandment, thou shalt honor thy

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mother and thy father?

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as a statement in itself of all the

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things for which we could be commanded, that

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had sufficient priority in the wisdom and understanding

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of the Most High that it was included.

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I believe it's the fifth and right after

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the fourth, keeping the Shabbat.

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God, not only for the believing community, but

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for all mankind.

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every mouth confess that Jesus is Lord, the

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whole world will subscribe to the law and

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the commandments of righteousness of God, of which

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this will be a center.

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That somehow, because it's included, is the testimony

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in itself that it bears with him an

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uncommon weight that we would never give it

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as earthlings.

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is the way in which parental authority is

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not only ignored, but despised in our time.

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it pertained to youth, when he says, let

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us consider the duties of children to their

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fearful of offending due to respect they bear

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so that they abstain from whatever would grieve

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or offend their parents.

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divine alternative to adolescent promiscuity and to children

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one of the foundational data of our time

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is the promiscuity, the sexual ease with which

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the children of our generation fornicate.

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concerned about whether or not they offend their

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here was God's provision and so great wisdom

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to put a restraint on the youthful passions

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that claw and clamor for indulgence and that

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God's provision is you shall honor your father

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and your mother.

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yourself that gratification.

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That the issue of not offending the parents

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from your call to honor is a sufficient

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deterrent to any invitation or disposition to indulge

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your flesh.

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so clearly and conspicuously absent in our time.

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shooting in Colorado at that high school, and

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one of the young ladies who was not

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a victim, but she was turned back to

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the Lord by the demonstration of the faith

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of one who did suffer death.

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with rebellion against parents, witchcraft and curses and

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voodoo.

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of this middle class Protestant girl against loving

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Christian parents who gave no rise, no occasion.

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child abuse.

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another friend were meeting privately and nursing and

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cultivating and brooding in this demonic way against

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their parents.

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contrary, of course, to the wisdom and the

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counsel of God.

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the statistics of illegitimate children, of children having

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to honor thy father and thy mother.

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only to the literal father and mother, but

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it is to be applied to all our

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the Lord God desires the preservation of the

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order he has appointed, the degree of preeminence

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fixed by him ought to be inviolably preserved.

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as it's read, can you?

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good writer writes so compactly that it's hard

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to follow and hear it.

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we've lost an appreciation for words, words that

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bear weight and concept.

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something in a pointed way, we're unable to

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appropriate it.

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I'll read it again.

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He's saying that this commandment is rooted in

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the necessity to preserve order.

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is inherent in creation out of the wisdom

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of God is neglected, you'll have chaos, you'll

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have anarchy, you'll have devastation.

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from the home to society, where the respect

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for order, the respect for authority has declined.

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of collapse of order.

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since the Lord desires the preservation of the

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order he has appointed, this is the divine

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This isn't some human construct of something that

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we think will have a certain efficacy and

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keep things going.

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divine wisdom.

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preservation is thou shalt honor.

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statement not only for your actual parents, but

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any expression of those in the place of

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a superior authority.

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From a policeman to an elder, to the

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judge, to the president.

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I don't know if you've observed the cartoons

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and the way in which President Bush is

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depicted in cartoons.

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I think basically he's not a bad looking

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guy, but those cartoons are such a disfigurement.

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Jews ended up in the ovens began earlier

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with disparaging comments in German newspapers about Jewishness

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and of a tinctured anti-Semitic kind that

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became increasingly bold until it became flagrant.

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beards, hook-nosed, avaricious, greedy, lustful, protect your

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blonde daughters from these monsters.

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So that the disparagement of the Jew that

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made him a candidate for the oven, because

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he no longer was human but subhuman, began

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through a process of demeaning that began in

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the press through editorials, through comments, and through

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cartoons.

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We're seeing that now with Bush, and occasionally

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we see it with a reference to evangelical

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That the fundamentalists are becoming the ogres and

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the resistors of progress, and we will be

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depicted in a kind of a caricatured kind

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until we will be candidates for concentration camps

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or ovens.

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So all of that is a statement of

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disorder and disrespect and a lack of honoring.

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I remember saying to my youngest son one

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day in his adolescent displeasure, he came down,

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he didn't say a word, and I took

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a look at him and I said, fix

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your face.

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I'm not going to allow you to wear

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that expression.

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Merely because you have not verbalized it is

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not a reason that I can ignore what

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your face is saying.

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that statement is to encourage you to allow

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yourself to fester and to brood on that

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resentment.

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Fix your face.

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And you know what the remarkable thing was?

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He instantly fixed his face.

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He put away that spiteful, angry, resentment, sneering

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kind of thing and took upon himself a

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pleasant massage.

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But most parents would not ever make an

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issue of it.

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So long as it hasn't erupted to the

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verbal level of outright resistance or, what's the

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word, rebellion, they kind of look the other

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way.

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There's a fear.

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What a remarkable reversal.

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Instead of children fearing their parents with filial

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respect, parents are fearing their children.

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And so they don't want to, what's the

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word, they don't want to push the issue.

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way.

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But it's an issue that cannot be denied.

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And our unwillingness to exert our authority invites

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a greater resentment.

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Because it may well be that if we

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knew the cause of youthful and adolescent rebellion,

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it's an instinctive and intuitive complaint and cry

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against the failure for us to express the

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authority that they crave and need to have

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and that we're unwilling to express.

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So the moment I said, fix your face

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in the authority which is mine as father,

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which is an authority reflective of what is

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given me in the divine order, he instantly

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obeyed.

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So I hadn't thought to say all these

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things, but the best things that issue for

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me are the things that I hadn't thought

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to say.

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So I hope that there's some practical value

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for parents in this room and others who

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will be hearing these statements.

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So he says we should render honor, obedience

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and gratitude to anyone who is a father

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or holds a position of superiority or authority

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in the order of God.

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But this precept is exceedingly repugnant to the

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depravity of human nature, whose ardent desire of

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exaltation or self-exaltation will scarcely admit of

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subjection.

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Praise God for British writers.

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If they convey no other virtue than to

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show us how to use the English language,

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that's reason enough.

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That's English, folks.

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I want you to know that you're sitting

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on a great repository and a great treasure

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that is suffering neglect and erosion and corrosion

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because you're not employing words with significant meaning.

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So let's have less babble, less blah, blah,

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blah, and fewer words, but with more precise

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speaking and meaning and content.

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Listen to this.

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This precept, honor thy father and thy mother,

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is exceedingly repugnant to the depravity of human

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nature.

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Don't think because your kids have tagged along

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to church and are joining the youth section

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that that's the statement that they are born

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again by the Spirit of God.

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There's a lot of pseudo conversion and feigned

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Christianity, even feigned spirituality, which means that the

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Adamic nature is still regnant, is still on

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the throne, still in charge.

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And it will be that this commandment to

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that nature will be exceedingly repugnant because it's

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the ardent desire of the Adamic nature for

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self-exaltation, which will scarcely admit of subjection.

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To bend and to bow and to submit

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is that the real nexus of whatever remains

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in us that is Adamic.

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And when I gave that first statement last

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year on the Tent of Shem and that

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it was God's provision for Japheth, for Japheth

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left to himself unattended because of the enlargement,

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which his name means, would be a vehicle

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for destruction, which World War II and World

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War I have clearly revealed.

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But in order for Japheth to enjoy the

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benefit of Shem and whatever attends Shem and

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the environment in which Shem dwells because he's

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ever living and having his being in and

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before God, the whole issue of being a

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Shem is what Paul says at the conclusion

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of Romans 11, You want to know what

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a definition of a son of Shem is?

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One who lives for that alone.

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A son of Shem is his every thought,

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conduct, action, breath, and being is of him,

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through him, and for him, to whom belongs

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glory forever.

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Well, I'll tell you what, just to be

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close to anyone who lives like that has

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got to be a blessing.

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Anything that would exude from such a one,

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whether he speaks or is silent, has got

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to confer some kind of valence of heavenly

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things.

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And that's the blessing God intends for Shem,

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that will change him, it will mediate, take

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the rough edges, more than take the rough

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edges off, make him the full human being

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that in his enlargement can be a blessing

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and not a threat.

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And even a blessing to Shem himself.

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So, what's the catch?

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You have to bow to enter the tent.

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There's the tent, but you have to break

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your stiff posture and bend and bow in

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order to enter.

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And when I gave that invitation, all hell

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broke loose, because whatever was Adamic, whatever yet

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remained in man, balked and expressed what he

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writes here.

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It was exceedingly repugnant, because this exaltation of

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man will scarcely admit of subjection, of bowing.

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So may we be, what's the word, not

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just flexible, pliant.

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You guys are getting some good English words

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here.

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Pliant, that means ever disposed to bow.

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When there's a choice in the matter of

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whether you should stiffen and resist or bow

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and submit, choose to take the likely error

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of bowing rather than the error of resisting.

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Always to be pliant, always disposed before God

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to yield.

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Even when we're right, we're wrong.

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There's a precious word that came up a

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year or two ago, out of Colbert, that

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catches the spirit of when you're right, you're

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wrong.

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It'll come to me later.

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But I thought if the church could be

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characterized by that word and that disposition, that

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spirit, what a witness.

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And you know where the word was born?

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It's in the English language, but it came

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to me in a message in New Zealand

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over the issue of who really owns New

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Zealand.

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The Maoris, the indigenous people who were there

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some perhaps thousands of years before the advent

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of white settlers, and though they were primitive

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in their civilization and in their culture, and

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the white men came, just like the story

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of the American Indian here, within a couple

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of generations, they had built their cities and

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affected the economy and done more with that

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native soil than ever the Maoris had done,

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who were a hunting and fishing primitive community.

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So now the issue in the 20th century

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is whose land is it really?

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The white settlers who have developed it and

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obtained a commercial and economic progress or those

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who were there before you?

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Only the wisdom of Solomon could give an

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answer to a question of that kind, but

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it's a question that haunts the earth.

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This is not just New Zealand.

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It's also Australia.

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It's also the United States of America, wherever

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racial consciousness is being increased.

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The issue is the conflict between the colonizer

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and those who were there before.

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And so the Lord said something like, don't

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be insistent upon your claim, whether you are

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a Maori or a New Zealander.

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But even if you're right in your claim,

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you're wrong.

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Defer to the other and accommodate and condescend

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and bow before the other one, because I

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think it would do more to erase Maori

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rage, their indignation at white exclusion and white

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superiority by white men bowing, not necessarily concede

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the nation to the Maoris, but to give

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to this people a measure of respect and

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honoring.

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To the point where they might be so

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affected as to say, you know, it's really

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not all that matter, much of a question

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anyway, of who really, in fact, owns it.

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We, in fact, have really prospered by what

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you have done in your enlargement, in your

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Jafeth use of the land.

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So let's even forget whose it is and

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let's enjoy what God has given together.

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Your attitude toward me has broken my resistance

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toward you.

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There's something about submission that is so precious.

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But as Peter says to women in First

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Peter three, submit yourselves to your husbands with

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a chaste, how do you say, with a

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quiet spirit, with a meek and a quiet

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spirit.

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Which means that it's not a submission by

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which you clench your teeth and stop your

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indignation against this guy because you're so much

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superior to him.

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You're so much more spiritual than he is.

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He's a clod and he'll spend all day

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in front of the TV set watching a

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football game and you would much rather ruminate

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over the scriptures and you ought to submit

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to him.

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So you have everything that contends against what

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God requires, but he requires it.

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Okay, I'll do it, but I'll do it

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with clenched teeth.

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But God says, accept that it's with a

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quiet and meek spirit, which in his sight

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is of great price.

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It's not submission at all.

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In order for a woman to really be

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submitted to a clod like that, which by

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the way would be the very release of

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the man to move him from the foot

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from the TV set to the Bible is

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the demonstration that issues from his wife when

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it's authentic.

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But for it to be authentic is the

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issue of the cross.

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Bowing and going down before another is death.

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It's the cross.

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And the evidence of whether or not that

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has been truly affected is whether what issues

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from you is a quiet and meek spirit

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or just the quietness that comes because you

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have clamped your mouth shut.

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So he reminded me of a text.

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Maybe you want to turn to Luke chapter

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two of an example of the Lord himself

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in what honoring father and mother means, which

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was interestingly, the first message that I gave

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at a prophetical school of some four or

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five years ago, which I thought was a

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complete flop.

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I thought, Lord, what a minor note to

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sound.

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Is that the way you're going to ring

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in an historic prophetical school?

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Every school has got to be historic.

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And the message was from Luke 2, 51,

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when Jesus had gone up with his family

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to Jerusalem for the Passover and then disappeared.

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They didn't recognize his absence until they were

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on their return.

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And of course, they were panic stricken.

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Where is our son?

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And went back and inquired here and there.

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And finally, they found him.

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And when they saw him at verse 48,

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they were amazed.

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And his mother said unto him, son, why

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hast thou thus dealt with us?

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Behold, thy father and I have sought thee

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sorrowing.

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And he said unto them, how is it

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that you sought me?

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Didn't you know that I must be about

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my father's business?

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Here's a son of Shem speaking.

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There's only one purpose for my life.

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It's to honor and glorify the father.

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Didn't you know?

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And they understood not the saying which he

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spoke unto them.

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How dense can you be after the visitation

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of angels and yet to miss the clear

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meaning that issued from this boy's mouth.

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But here's the punchline.

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Verse 51, he went down with them.

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He went down with them because Jerusalem, of

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course, is probably one of the greatest heights

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in Israel.

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Elevated.

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So they go up to Jerusalem for the

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three occasions in which the men of Israel

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are to attend to the Lord on the

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three feast occasions, Passover being one.

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And then when you return to your place,

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you go down.

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But you know the way we prophetically read

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that statement?

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He went down with them.

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He submitted himself to them.

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All the more galling when they couldn't even

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understand the simplicity of his statement.

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Didn't you know that I have to be

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about my father's business?

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Why were you concerned and apprehensive and anxious?

541
00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:11,920
Is this what I'm going to have to

542
00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:12,320
live with?

543
00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:13,920
That I have to give you an explanation

544
00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:15,580
every time I'm called to some obedience?

545
00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:18,140
If this is the way it's going to

546
00:26:18,140 --> 00:26:19,440
be, I can't cut that.

547
00:26:19,660 --> 00:26:21,800
That's not an atmosphere in which I can

548
00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:24,880
thrive and come into my full messianic being.

549
00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:26,900
That's what we would have said.

550
00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:28,680
But that's not what he said.

551
00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:31,000
He went down with them.

552
00:26:31,140 --> 00:26:34,020
It's more than just descending to the altitude

553
00:26:34,020 --> 00:26:35,040
of Nazareth.

554
00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:38,120
It's going down in humiliation to live with

555
00:26:38,120 --> 00:26:39,680
parents who will not understand you.

556
00:26:40,980 --> 00:26:42,320
How would you like to live with a

557
00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:44,220
husband who cannot understand you?

558
00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:46,840
How would you like to live with a

559
00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:49,800
wife who cannot understand you and wish that

560
00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:51,220
you were some other kind of preacher and

561
00:26:51,220 --> 00:26:53,200
funny like so-and-so?

562
00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:56,300
And why do you get people aggravated?

563
00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:02,580
But he went down.

564
00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:06,800
And I would submit that his going down

565
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:09,360
was the key, as the scripture will show

566
00:27:09,360 --> 00:27:12,720
us, to the whole sending forth of the

567
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,560
fully mature Son of God at this critical

568
00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:16,020
juncture.

569
00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:18,760
He went down with them and came to

570
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:19,140
Nazareth.

571
00:27:19,420 --> 00:27:20,480
Of course, what's Nazareth?

572
00:27:21,580 --> 00:27:23,620
Nazareth is scumsville.

573
00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:25,340
Nazareth is the bottom of the barrel.

574
00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:27,020
Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?

575
00:27:27,860 --> 00:27:29,180
Not only does he return with them, but

576
00:27:29,180 --> 00:27:30,360
to where does he return?

577
00:27:30,660 --> 00:27:33,100
To a city whose reputation is a stink

578
00:27:34,860 --> 00:27:38,320
and was subject unto them.

579
00:27:40,360 --> 00:27:41,220
Isn't that precious?

580
00:27:41,910 --> 00:27:46,260
Whether he's understood or not understood, he was

581
00:27:46,260 --> 00:27:51,320
subject unto them because his subjection unto them

582
00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:55,040
was not predicated upon their understanding of him

583
00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:55,760
or his call.

584
00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:59,820
They had not to display any virtue, any

585
00:27:59,820 --> 00:28:00,880
particular quality.

586
00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:02,820
They were simply parents.

587
00:28:03,940 --> 00:28:07,100
And God said, honor thy father and thy

588
00:28:07,100 --> 00:28:07,360
mother.

589
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:09,780
And he was subject unto them.

590
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:13,040
All the more significant when the parents don't

591
00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:13,600
understand.

592
00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:17,400
That kind of submission will yield a greater

593
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:20,340
spiritual reward than submission that is easier to

594
00:28:20,340 --> 00:28:22,620
give because the parents are in tune with

595
00:28:22,620 --> 00:28:24,180
you and do understand.

596
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:27,660
So if you're facing a circumstance like that,

597
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,260
whether it's on the job, under your roof,

598
00:28:30,360 --> 00:28:33,500
in your marriage, with children, relationship, there's a

599
00:28:33,500 --> 00:28:37,520
greater spiritual value to be subject to that

600
00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:41,800
one and to that condition, that circumstance, because

601
00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:44,560
it's difficult than it would be if it

602
00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:46,180
were accommodating.

603
00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:54,600
Verse 52, and Jesus increased in wisdom.

604
00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:55,660
Wow.

605
00:28:56,780 --> 00:28:59,060
Is that just a little, this verse follows

606
00:28:59,060 --> 00:28:59,660
that verse?

607
00:29:00,020 --> 00:29:03,000
Or is it that this verse follows the

608
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:04,500
spiritual logic of that verse?

609
00:29:04,940 --> 00:29:09,540
He was subject unto them and Jesus increased.

610
00:29:10,140 --> 00:29:11,120
You want to increase?

611
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:13,200
Increase by subjection.

612
00:29:13,700 --> 00:29:14,800
Increase by bowing.

613
00:29:15,220 --> 00:29:18,260
Don't increase by self-assertion and by striving.

614
00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:20,420
That's the spirit of the world.

615
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:22,440
It's not the spirit of Shem.

616
00:29:24,380 --> 00:29:27,440
Jesus increased in wisdom and stature and in

617
00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:28,960
favor with God and with man.

618
00:29:31,380 --> 00:29:33,440
So there we have the example of a

619
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:40,380
young Jesus honoring his father by honoring his

620
00:29:40,380 --> 00:29:40,760
father.

621
00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:44,080
By being subject, by going down.

622
00:29:49,420 --> 00:29:52,260
Here he says that King David, after he

623
00:29:52,260 --> 00:29:56,440
was anointed for the throne by Samuel, fulfilled

624
00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:58,780
his father's appointment by tending his sheep.

625
00:29:59,660 --> 00:30:01,900
You can come and say, look dad, up

626
00:30:01,900 --> 00:30:03,040
till now I didn't mind this.

627
00:30:03,620 --> 00:30:06,300
It's stinky and it's swarmed with flies and

628
00:30:06,300 --> 00:30:07,180
bugs and insects.

629
00:30:07,180 --> 00:30:09,700
I know that because I tried to go

630
00:30:09,700 --> 00:30:12,040
up to a spiritually elevated place when we

631
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:16,500
were immigrants in Israel years ago.

632
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:19,080
I rose early with the rising of the

633
00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:22,060
sun and I climbed up this thorny side

634
00:30:22,060 --> 00:30:25,240
in Galilee to find a place to sit

635
00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:27,140
on the rock and look out over the

636
00:30:27,140 --> 00:30:29,560
Galilean landscape and muse upon God.

637
00:30:30,180 --> 00:30:32,640
And there was the droppings of the sheep.

638
00:30:32,780 --> 00:30:38,080
Evidently the Palestinian shepherds had taken their flocks

639
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:40,500
up over those hills and wherever the droppings

640
00:30:40,500 --> 00:30:41,360
were, flies were.

641
00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:43,820
And when that sun came up and got

642
00:30:43,820 --> 00:30:45,780
warm, those flies were all around me.

643
00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:47,460
And I started to get bitten.

644
00:30:47,820 --> 00:30:49,480
And I had welts on my legs the

645
00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:50,620
size of a silver dollar.

646
00:30:51,060 --> 00:30:53,200
And I lost all my spiritual inspiration.

647
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:58,060
So I can see that Samuel having come

648
00:30:58,060 --> 00:30:59,980
and anointed and said, you're God's choice.

649
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:00,840
You're the chosen one.

650
00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:02,920
You're the king of Israel.

651
00:31:03,540 --> 00:31:04,860
He would come the next day and say

652
00:31:04,860 --> 00:31:07,160
to his dad, I have to submit my

653
00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:07,740
resignation.

654
00:31:08,260 --> 00:31:10,360
For me to continue to tend sheep after

655
00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:13,480
this would be uncomplimentary to the magnitude of

656
00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:15,160
the call that has come to me.

657
00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:16,240
Sure, son.

658
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:18,360
Not a word, not a whimper, not a

659
00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:18,680
complaint.

660
00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:19,900
He went back to the sheep.

661
00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:21,400
Isn't that precious?

662
00:31:22,660 --> 00:31:23,800
You have to pray for me.

663
00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:25,980
I guess I'm getting mellow in my older

664
00:31:25,980 --> 00:31:26,380
years.

665
00:31:26,980 --> 00:31:28,900
That kind of stuff touches me.

666
00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:30,300
I love that.

667
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:34,860
And it's exactly that quotient, that dimension of

668
00:31:34,860 --> 00:31:37,560
things that I feel is so absent from

669
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:39,100
our abrasive Christianity.

670
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:41,820
Because even when we're right, we're right.

671
00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:43,700
And we want the other guy to know

672
00:31:43,700 --> 00:31:46,340
it, no matter what kind of faction and

673
00:31:46,340 --> 00:31:47,620
friction it will cause.

674
00:31:49,180 --> 00:31:51,940
This is the spirit of the son of

675
00:31:51,940 --> 00:31:52,140
Shem.

676
00:31:52,260 --> 00:31:53,220
He went back to his sheep.

677
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:56,340
He went down to Nazareth and he was

678
00:31:56,340 --> 00:31:57,240
subject unto them.

679
00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:01,700
Pray for the restoration of the Ten Commandments

680
00:32:01,700 --> 00:32:03,920
and the fifth in a special way.

681
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:11,740
So children ought to hearken to their instructions

682
00:32:11,740 --> 00:32:14,520
and to imitate the godly practices of their

683
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:14,960
parents.

684
00:32:15,620 --> 00:32:18,880
Their language must ever be respectful and their

685
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:20,580
gestures be token submission.

686
00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:23,740
Where are you coming from, brother?

687
00:32:25,180 --> 00:32:27,420
Are you on the face of the earth

688
00:32:27,420 --> 00:32:29,360
that you would request and expect that this

689
00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:32,720
is a realistic expectation for children of our

690
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:36,520
generation, even in Christian homes, that their language

691
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:37,700
should be respectful?

692
00:32:37,700 --> 00:32:41,040
I know of instances where Christian parents are

693
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:44,700
cursed by their children and called every filthy

694
00:32:44,700 --> 00:32:47,680
name in the book, and somehow the parents

695
00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:49,740
take it and bear it.

696
00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:52,320
I don't call that love.

697
00:32:53,660 --> 00:32:55,860
So he says that if you're going to

698
00:32:55,860 --> 00:32:58,340
honor this commandment, your language must be respectful.

699
00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:01,740
And not only your language, but your gestures

700
00:33:01,740 --> 00:33:03,160
must be token submission.

701
00:33:03,980 --> 00:33:07,440
It mustn't stiffen your back and you'll take

702
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:09,100
out the garbage, but you'll let it be

703
00:33:09,100 --> 00:33:10,700
known that though you're taking it out, you're

704
00:33:10,700 --> 00:33:14,140
taking it out under, what's the word, under

705
00:33:14,140 --> 00:33:19,380
complaint, under duress, because you've got to.

706
00:33:19,380 --> 00:33:25,420
No, let your demeanor and your posture indicate

707
00:33:25,420 --> 00:33:27,900
that this is an act of submission that's

708
00:33:27,900 --> 00:33:30,540
genuine and heartfelt.

709
00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:34,740
So bring your body into compliance as well

710
00:33:34,740 --> 00:33:37,040
as your mouth, and then you'll be honoring

711
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:37,860
the commandment.

712
00:33:42,950 --> 00:33:45,670
And he speaks of Joseph that when he

713
00:33:45,670 --> 00:33:47,730
was long separated from his father, Jacob, and

714
00:33:47,730 --> 00:33:50,230
Jacob came to Egypt, where Joseph had now

715
00:33:50,230 --> 00:33:54,170
risen to such a state of excellency over

716
00:33:54,170 --> 00:33:57,470
the entire land, that not seeing his father

717
00:33:57,470 --> 00:34:00,070
all those years, he says, he bowed himself

718
00:34:00,070 --> 00:34:03,170
with his face to the ground before his

719
00:34:03,170 --> 00:34:03,510
father.

720
00:34:03,510 --> 00:34:06,530
I think the text may say three times.

721
00:34:09,790 --> 00:34:12,530
This is, again, not a little gesture of

722
00:34:12,530 --> 00:34:13,929
culture.

723
00:34:14,610 --> 00:34:18,630
This is heartfelt, deep recognition of the respect

724
00:34:18,630 --> 00:34:19,330
to his father.

725
00:34:19,929 --> 00:34:22,389
And that had not had opportunity to be

726
00:34:22,389 --> 00:34:24,590
expressed over a long separation.

727
00:34:25,330 --> 00:34:26,889
He bowed with his face to the ground.

728
00:34:26,889 --> 00:34:29,310
Can you imagine any kid in our generation

729
00:34:29,310 --> 00:34:32,750
doing that to a father or mother in

730
00:34:32,750 --> 00:34:36,699
our time, or the equivalent?

731
00:34:42,679 --> 00:34:44,659
And then he reminds us that of the

732
00:34:44,659 --> 00:34:46,400
wicked it is written, they are not afraid

733
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:48,820
to speak evil of dignitaries.

734
00:34:48,820 --> 00:34:50,860
Why are they wicked?

735
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:53,940
Because they're turning their back on the very

736
00:34:53,940 --> 00:34:57,520
clear commandment of God to honor authority by

737
00:34:57,520 --> 00:35:02,900
speaking evil of dignitaries, people in authority, and

738
00:35:02,900 --> 00:35:03,980
they're not afraid.

739
00:35:05,460 --> 00:35:08,020
The issue of not being afraid is not

740
00:35:08,020 --> 00:35:09,640
the issue of being afraid of the dignitaries.

741
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:11,260
It's not being afraid of God.

742
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:14,920
There's the want of godly reverence and fear

743
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:16,740
of the God who has spoken and the

744
00:35:16,740 --> 00:35:19,580
God who has given commandments, established his priorities,

745
00:35:20,020 --> 00:35:22,780
and has communicated to mankind what are the

746
00:35:22,780 --> 00:35:26,340
essential recognitions that must be maintained if order

747
00:35:26,340 --> 00:35:28,840
is to be maintained, and that there would

748
00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:31,320
be an habitation that is appropriate to men

749
00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:33,140
that I've created in my image.

750
00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:36,040
This goes all the way back to God.

751
00:35:36,420 --> 00:35:38,900
Respectful authority is the respect for God.

752
00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:42,280
Disrespect for man and the expression of that

753
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:46,220
has at its root an indignation and a

754
00:35:46,220 --> 00:35:50,340
disrespect for God who established this order.

755
00:35:52,740 --> 00:35:55,640
So strictly has God enjoined them to quiet

756
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:56,620
submission to their masters.

757
00:35:56,700 --> 00:35:59,540
He's speaking now about slaves, that even when

758
00:35:59,540 --> 00:36:01,640
a servant has given no just cause for

759
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:04,540
rebuke, yet he is to silently suffer the

760
00:36:04,540 --> 00:36:06,220
groundless anger of his master.

761
00:36:06,220 --> 00:36:13,140
Talk about equal rights and what do they

762
00:36:13,140 --> 00:36:17,820
call it to give Negro students a place

763
00:36:17,820 --> 00:36:19,540
of preference in the university systems?

764
00:36:20,140 --> 00:36:21,120
Affirmative action.

765
00:36:21,140 --> 00:36:24,800
Affirmative action is completely contrary to what Paul

766
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:27,600
has written of how a servant in a

767
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:30,720
submitted and inferior relationship is to relate to

768
00:36:30,720 --> 00:36:31,300
his master.

769
00:36:31,300 --> 00:36:35,080
Not ever is there a whisper or an

770
00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:38,600
intimation by Paul or by Jesus that a

771
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:42,560
man who is subject to slavery should rise

772
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:45,700
against it, but to submit to that condition.

773
00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:48,900
And the scripture says in whatsoever condition you're

774
00:36:48,900 --> 00:36:51,800
called therein remain, even if it's the condition

775
00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:54,880
of slavery, because in that relationship you have

776
00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:57,780
perhaps more opportunity to glorify God the Father

777
00:36:57,780 --> 00:37:00,300
than if you were in a free condition.

778
00:37:00,300 --> 00:37:04,400
How you relate to your master in subjection

779
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:07,400
will give more occasion to display the grace

780
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:09,620
of God in you, which is to say

781
00:37:09,620 --> 00:37:12,020
God as God, than if you were free

782
00:37:12,020 --> 00:37:14,220
just to be your own master and call

783
00:37:14,220 --> 00:37:15,020
your own shots.

784
00:37:15,460 --> 00:37:16,960
Therefore remain in that condition.

785
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:20,260
But in that condition don't murmur, don't complain,

786
00:37:20,500 --> 00:37:25,180
don't retaliate, certainly don't use violence to extricate

787
00:37:25,180 --> 00:37:28,500
yourself, nor employ it in speech, nor even

788
00:37:28,500 --> 00:37:32,300
exhibit an attitude of contempt to the master

789
00:37:32,300 --> 00:37:37,200
because he's misusing his privileged superiority over you

790
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:38,160
in a way to be abusive.

791
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:39,140
Bear it.

792
00:37:40,620 --> 00:37:42,040
Well, I have to say at this point,

793
00:37:44,070 --> 00:37:46,770
there's a black brother and I came to

794
00:37:46,770 --> 00:37:48,070
his home on one of my trips.

795
00:37:48,850 --> 00:37:51,670
He was the head of a fellowship and

796
00:37:51,670 --> 00:37:53,610
I don't know how it came up in

797
00:37:53,610 --> 00:37:55,290
conversation, but I think the Lord was already

798
00:37:55,290 --> 00:37:58,910
turning these thoughts over in my own spirit.

799
00:37:59,430 --> 00:38:01,110
I said, the greatest thing you can do

800
00:38:01,110 --> 00:38:01,790
for the black church.

801
00:38:01,870 --> 00:38:04,990
He was complaining about the congregation, the larger

802
00:38:04,990 --> 00:38:08,190
congregation where he was a member, how hokey

803
00:38:08,190 --> 00:38:11,210
it was and that the minister was a

804
00:38:11,210 --> 00:38:14,050
kind of a prima donna who was a

805
00:38:14,050 --> 00:38:17,550
flashy dresser and had an expensive wardrobe and

806
00:38:17,550 --> 00:38:21,550
demanded and required all kinds of attention and

807
00:38:21,550 --> 00:38:23,030
repetitious in his messages.

808
00:38:23,030 --> 00:38:24,510
I don't know what his complaints were.

809
00:38:25,430 --> 00:38:27,070
And he wondered whether he should even submit

810
00:38:27,070 --> 00:38:28,330
to such a one or go off in

811
00:38:28,330 --> 00:38:29,470
some independent direction.

812
00:38:30,170 --> 00:38:31,550
You know what I said, the best thing

813
00:38:31,550 --> 00:38:33,390
you can do for the black church and

814
00:38:33,390 --> 00:38:36,190
the black church is desperately in need is

815
00:38:36,190 --> 00:38:37,430
be an Uncle Tom.

816
00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:42,880
You need to show the black church and

817
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:45,140
the black church needs to show the white

818
00:38:45,140 --> 00:38:48,920
church in America what true submission is, that

819
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:51,820
the greatest figure in American history, in American

820
00:38:51,820 --> 00:38:54,780
literature, the most Christlike figure in American literature

821
00:38:54,780 --> 00:39:00,580
is Uncle Tom, who patiently bore suffering at

822
00:39:00,580 --> 00:39:04,100
the hands of those to whom he had

823
00:39:04,100 --> 00:39:06,620
fallen in slavery and bore it in so

824
00:39:06,620 --> 00:39:09,740
Christlike a demeanor that he exuded the very

825
00:39:09,740 --> 00:39:11,160
radiance of God.

826
00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:15,200
He condemned an entire generation and likely won

827
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:17,300
others to the knowledge of God, whom he

828
00:39:17,300 --> 00:39:21,620
exemplified in his own suffering patience.

829
00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:24,220
When I suggested to him that the greatest

830
00:39:24,220 --> 00:39:26,780
role that he could take upon himself was

831
00:39:26,780 --> 00:39:28,960
to become an Uncle Tom, this was a

832
00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:32,020
man who was on an upward social mobility.

833
00:39:32,820 --> 00:39:36,600
He was really coming into professional recognition with

834
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:39,620
a salary of an appropriate kind, his own

835
00:39:39,620 --> 00:39:40,060
home.

836
00:39:40,060 --> 00:39:43,820
And every instinct and every impulse in a

837
00:39:43,820 --> 00:39:46,740
black American who has known any degree and

838
00:39:46,740 --> 00:39:50,840
measure of deprivation because of his race yearns

839
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:54,580
instinctively to show the other guy who has

840
00:39:54,580 --> 00:39:56,320
clamped him down that he could be his

841
00:39:56,320 --> 00:39:58,340
equal, not only his equal, but play the

842
00:39:58,340 --> 00:40:00,220
game better than he and succeed at it

843
00:40:00,220 --> 00:40:01,060
better than he.

844
00:40:01,780 --> 00:40:04,460
So tell such a man who's already tasting

845
00:40:04,460 --> 00:40:07,400
this success, why don't you forsake that and

846
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:11,860
take on a deeper call and walk in

847
00:40:11,860 --> 00:40:14,520
the role of an Uncle Tom?

848
00:40:15,100 --> 00:40:15,960
You know what that man did?

849
00:40:16,900 --> 00:40:19,700
He went down on the kitchen floor in

850
00:40:19,700 --> 00:40:20,880
slobbering tears.

851
00:40:21,710 --> 00:40:25,360
He wept like a baby because he knew

852
00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:26,940
that what was coming to him was not

853
00:40:26,940 --> 00:40:30,860
a human suggestion, but a divine call and

854
00:40:30,860 --> 00:40:32,980
he could not receive it.

855
00:40:33,860 --> 00:40:39,100
He cried like a grown man weeping because

856
00:40:39,100 --> 00:40:41,820
the call was greater than anything he could

857
00:40:41,820 --> 00:40:42,340
have conceived.

858
00:40:42,340 --> 00:40:44,820
He would serve God at any level, he'll

859
00:40:44,820 --> 00:40:49,640
be himself a minister, a shepherd, he did

860
00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:51,880
have a small body of souls connected with

861
00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:54,600
him, he was a teacher and he'll do

862
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:58,260
this, he'll serve, but to forsake this identity

863
00:40:58,260 --> 00:41:03,160
of equality and to voluntarily choose to come

864
00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:06,860
into a submitted relationship of that which was

865
00:41:06,860 --> 00:41:09,380
known in the earliest time of slavery.

866
00:41:10,240 --> 00:41:13,660
And that that somehow will be a convey

867
00:41:13,660 --> 00:41:15,560
the greatest sense of the reality of the

868
00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:18,440
kingdom to a generation who have not known

869
00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:18,760
it.

870
00:41:19,140 --> 00:41:20,580
That's what I'm unwilling.

871
00:41:22,620 --> 00:41:25,560
The end of the story is not long

872
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:28,440
after he ran off with one of the

873
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:30,280
young women in the small circle of souls

874
00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:33,420
of which he was the overseer, the entire

875
00:41:33,420 --> 00:41:37,340
fellowship was devastated, the marriage ended in divorce,

876
00:41:37,540 --> 00:41:40,740
the children are devastated, are out of the

877
00:41:40,740 --> 00:41:43,220
faith and only the Lord will know the

878
00:41:43,220 --> 00:41:46,820
consequences of what has taken place.

879
00:41:46,820 --> 00:41:49,920
And I'm not saying that his rejection of

880
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:55,500
the call led automatically to a sexual transgression

881
00:41:55,500 --> 00:41:57,860
and to the collapse of the fellowship and

882
00:41:57,860 --> 00:42:00,540
marriage and so on, but I wouldn't put

883
00:42:00,540 --> 00:42:01,660
it past God.

884
00:42:01,660 --> 00:42:04,220
I wouldn't say it could not be related,

885
00:42:04,460 --> 00:42:06,640
that when a call comes of an ultimate

886
00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:10,600
kind and you'll not submit yourself and subject

887
00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:12,980
yourself and go down and bow to receive

888
00:42:12,980 --> 00:42:15,660
that, that the arrogance that keeps you from

889
00:42:15,660 --> 00:42:18,900
that acknowledgement and submission will have its consequence

890
00:42:18,900 --> 00:42:21,120
in the other areas and aspects of your

891
00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:21,440
life.

892
00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:29,010
You know something, the way some people see

893
00:42:29,010 --> 00:42:34,380
Uncle Tom is having never read the book

894
00:42:34,380 --> 00:42:35,600
Uncle Tom.

895
00:42:37,060 --> 00:42:39,880
We see Uncle Tom, blacks see Uncle Tom

896
00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:44,560
as people that submit to the white man

897
00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:47,180
in the sense that they tell on others.

898
00:42:47,180 --> 00:42:49,880
In other words, he's sort of a one

899
00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:51,260
that's weak.

900
00:42:52,220 --> 00:42:55,160
He's an Uncle Tom in my view is

901
00:42:55,160 --> 00:42:58,840
one that's weak and he'll, he leans, he

902
00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:00,200
fears the white man.

903
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:02,740
So he tells and rats on the other

904
00:43:02,740 --> 00:43:06,400
people and not someone that's submitted in a

905
00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:07,300
Christlike view.

906
00:43:07,300 --> 00:43:09,760
So the black view of an Uncle Tom

907
00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:12,820
is totally different from reading the book Uncle

908
00:43:12,820 --> 00:43:12,980
Tom.

909
00:43:13,020 --> 00:43:14,260
I'm glad you said that.

910
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:16,440
That means that that man, if you would

911
00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:20,040
assume that call knows that he's going to

912
00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:21,800
be abjectly misunderstood.

913
00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:25,240
He'll be understood in the way that the

914
00:43:25,240 --> 00:43:27,460
phrase Uncle Tom has come to be understood

915
00:43:27,460 --> 00:43:29,340
by black people as sellout, as cop out.

916
00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:32,920
And yet willing to do it, knowing that

917
00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:35,140
you're going to be misunderstood would be the

918
00:43:35,140 --> 00:43:39,260
greater submission to God and the greater virtue.

919
00:43:40,220 --> 00:43:43,920
So yes, bowing before God is costly.

920
00:43:45,660 --> 00:43:48,640
Even in the sense that, like you were

921
00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:53,420
saying, John the Baptist said, be content with

922
00:43:53,420 --> 00:43:53,900
your wages.

923
00:43:54,340 --> 00:43:55,500
Don't ask for a raise.

924
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:57,280
I had an opportunity to do that and

925
00:43:57,280 --> 00:43:58,820
I couldn't raise.

926
00:43:59,140 --> 00:44:01,600
And you had a tape out on slavery,

927
00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:02,680
which was real good.

928
00:44:03,420 --> 00:44:04,680
What's the name of that tape?

929
00:44:05,220 --> 00:44:06,840
I can't remember the name of it.

930
00:44:08,060 --> 00:44:09,520
Simon has it in those.

931
00:44:10,040 --> 00:44:10,980
It's a real good.

932
00:44:11,140 --> 00:44:13,060
Oh, yeah, it goes with this.

933
00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:14,360
Oh, I'm just saying.

934
00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:17,520
Oh, thank you for reminding me.

935
00:44:17,700 --> 00:44:19,880
You know where that message was spoken of

936
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:22,200
all places in Russia.

937
00:44:23,040 --> 00:44:24,820
I don't know if Oleg was there.

938
00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:28,340
It was the first message when Brother Paul

939
00:44:28,340 --> 00:44:29,640
had collected those ministers.

940
00:44:30,940 --> 00:44:33,000
And I'm before the Lord.

941
00:44:33,100 --> 00:44:34,060
I don't know what to speak.

942
00:44:34,180 --> 00:44:35,980
What do you say to these men in

943
00:44:35,980 --> 00:44:39,940
a place of being ministers in Russia with

944
00:44:39,940 --> 00:44:43,560
the threat of a renaissance of communism again?

945
00:44:44,360 --> 00:44:45,000
What's the word?

946
00:44:45,180 --> 00:44:46,600
So you begin by beginning.

947
00:44:46,820 --> 00:44:47,500
And what was the word?

948
00:44:48,440 --> 00:44:49,960
Paul's word.

949
00:44:50,620 --> 00:44:52,180
I forgot in what book.

950
00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:54,380
It's like a minor note.

951
00:44:54,460 --> 00:44:55,940
I was almost embarrassed to speak it.

952
00:44:55,940 --> 00:44:57,280
I said, this is a little minor.

953
00:44:57,580 --> 00:44:59,920
Paul speaking about widows and slaves.

954
00:45:00,540 --> 00:45:02,740
I said, but that little pinprick of a

955
00:45:02,740 --> 00:45:06,720
hole emits a light of the deepest kind

956
00:45:06,720 --> 00:45:08,700
in the revelation of what it means to

957
00:45:08,700 --> 00:45:09,460
be apostolic.

958
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:14,400
Paul's attitude about slaves and about widows was

959
00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:19,240
a minuscule view of the macrocosm of what

960
00:45:19,240 --> 00:45:20,540
apostolicity is.

961
00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:22,240
You know what happened after that?

962
00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:24,040
They never came to another meeting.

963
00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:28,420
They never came to another meeting.

964
00:45:29,740 --> 00:45:31,720
And so all of the morning meetings for

965
00:45:31,720 --> 00:45:33,020
ministers were nothing.

966
00:45:34,420 --> 00:45:36,340
At night we had public meetings.

967
00:45:36,460 --> 00:45:37,980
They didn't even come to the public meetings,

968
00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:41,380
though they were anointed because of the offense

969
00:45:41,380 --> 00:45:43,920
of that word about Paul and his attitude

970
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:46,360
toward widows and slaves.

971
00:45:46,360 --> 00:45:49,020
And I think that the thing that turned

972
00:45:49,020 --> 00:45:49,780
them off was this.

973
00:45:50,060 --> 00:45:53,360
They were expecting some really high powered statement

974
00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:55,820
from an American speaker on how to succeed

975
00:45:55,820 --> 00:45:56,420
as ministers.

976
00:45:56,780 --> 00:45:57,520
How do you do it?

977
00:45:57,720 --> 00:45:58,920
You guys are doing it in America.

978
00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:01,500
You've got big churches and great budgets.

979
00:46:01,780 --> 00:46:03,140
And now let us know.

980
00:46:03,140 --> 00:46:07,420
So here comes this jerk talking about Paul

981
00:46:07,420 --> 00:46:13,020
on slavery and widows was a complete disappointment

982
00:46:13,020 --> 00:46:17,860
and disillusionment and a rejection, which indicates that

983
00:46:17,860 --> 00:46:20,720
even though as ministers, they did not respect

984
00:46:20,720 --> 00:46:23,360
the authority of this servant prophetically.

985
00:46:24,700 --> 00:46:27,940
And that in respecting, they would say, we

986
00:46:27,940 --> 00:46:30,980
don't understand why God would have chosen as

987
00:46:30,980 --> 00:46:34,420
esoteric a subject as this that has no

988
00:46:34,420 --> 00:46:38,280
visible relevance to our situation in Russia.

989
00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:41,440
But we have to assume that if you

990
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:44,200
bear this kind of place in God and

991
00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:47,540
have this kind of calling that what issues

992
00:46:47,540 --> 00:46:50,020
from you is from God and he will

993
00:46:50,020 --> 00:46:51,800
later show us the significance of that.

994
00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:54,740
At any rate, we will not allow our

995
00:46:54,740 --> 00:46:57,560
indignation to have such sway as to cut

996
00:46:57,560 --> 00:46:58,880
you off completely hereafter.

997
00:47:00,220 --> 00:47:03,140
In that they have written, what shall I

998
00:47:03,140 --> 00:47:05,660
say, death sentence on their own ministries.

999
00:47:06,260 --> 00:47:08,380
Certainly it's got to have an implication for

1000
00:47:08,380 --> 00:47:09,100
all their future.

1001
00:47:11,380 --> 00:47:14,240
Because when you reject the prophetic way, the

1002
00:47:14,240 --> 00:47:16,640
prophetic man, it's often God's last provision.

1003
00:47:18,300 --> 00:47:20,780
And what follows in the history of Israel

1004
00:47:20,780 --> 00:47:21,360
is judgment.

1005
00:47:24,240 --> 00:47:26,780
So I don't want to surmise what the

1006
00:47:26,780 --> 00:47:27,780
consequence would have been.

1007
00:47:27,780 --> 00:47:31,540
Just remembering, maybe Simon can help me here.

1008
00:47:32,820 --> 00:47:36,240
When you returned from that trip to Russia,

1009
00:47:36,700 --> 00:47:38,720
you brought that word in our living room

1010
00:47:38,720 --> 00:47:41,320
that following Sunday, your first Sunday back with

1011
00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:41,560
us.

1012
00:47:42,500 --> 00:47:44,480
And I remember you concluded the message with

1013
00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:46,660
the statement, embrace your chains.

1014
00:47:47,560 --> 00:47:50,100
And it was a glorious gush of the

1015
00:47:50,100 --> 00:47:50,660
spirit of God.

1016
00:47:50,660 --> 00:47:53,260
One of my favorite messages that you spoke

1017
00:47:53,260 --> 00:47:55,300
on a regular Sunday with us that it

1018
00:47:55,300 --> 00:47:57,600
came out of that Simon, just to commend

1019
00:47:57,600 --> 00:47:58,980
that tape to some of these that are

1020
00:47:58,980 --> 00:47:59,180
here.

1021
00:47:59,300 --> 00:48:00,100
What was the name of that?

1022
00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:04,960
Did you call it Widows and Slaves?

1023
00:48:05,780 --> 00:48:12,640
The price has just gone up because it's

1024
00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:16,260
so richly develops what's only being touched here.

1025
00:48:18,460 --> 00:48:21,240
One statement I would like to also suggest

1026
00:48:21,240 --> 00:48:21,840
you write down.

1027
00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:23,800
I wrote it down and I found Art

1028
00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:25,660
using the exact word that I was writing,

1029
00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:26,840
which he had not used before.

1030
00:48:27,500 --> 00:48:28,980
So because of that and a little bit

1031
00:48:28,980 --> 00:48:32,040
of call it superstition on my part, I

1032
00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:34,960
was writing the statement, call of an ultimate

1033
00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:38,880
kind requires that one bow in costly submission.

1034
00:48:38,880 --> 00:48:40,740
At the very moment I was writing the

1035
00:48:40,740 --> 00:48:42,740
word costly, Art was saying costly.

1036
00:48:43,500 --> 00:48:45,060
And so I would urge that you underline

1037
00:48:45,060 --> 00:48:45,940
the word costly.

1038
00:48:46,540 --> 00:48:52,200
A call of an ultimate kind requires that

1039
00:48:52,200 --> 00:48:54,760
one bow in costly submission.

1040
00:48:54,760 --> 00:48:56,840
If it's not costly, you can well question

1041
00:48:56,840 --> 00:48:58,000
whether it's submission at all.

1042
00:48:58,880 --> 00:49:00,220
It's got to be costly.

1043
00:49:00,700 --> 00:49:02,780
It's got to run across the natural grain

1044
00:49:02,780 --> 00:49:06,160
of your own life and preference and disposition

1045
00:49:06,160 --> 00:49:08,580
or it's not submission.

1046
00:49:11,410 --> 00:49:15,570
And the true affecting of that submission is

1047
00:49:15,570 --> 00:49:17,670
not something that you can perform out of

1048
00:49:17,670 --> 00:49:20,970
well-meaning intention or charismatic religiosity.

1049
00:49:21,750 --> 00:49:24,010
It has got to be the grace of

1050
00:49:24,010 --> 00:49:24,290
God.

1051
00:49:25,070 --> 00:49:26,690
It has got to be the life of

1052
00:49:26,690 --> 00:49:26,930
God.

1053
00:49:27,330 --> 00:49:27,870
And you know what?

1054
00:49:28,550 --> 00:49:30,650
This is the nature of that life.

1055
00:49:31,270 --> 00:49:32,990
The nature of the life of God is

1056
00:49:32,990 --> 00:49:33,630
to be submitted.

1057
00:49:33,630 --> 00:49:35,070
Can you believe that?

1058
00:49:35,370 --> 00:49:37,910
The most high God, the creator of the

1059
00:49:37,910 --> 00:49:40,370
heavens and the earth has as the most

1060
00:49:40,370 --> 00:49:44,470
intrinsic disposition of his own nature submittedness.

1061
00:49:45,590 --> 00:49:49,730
He gave himself without spot and blemish as

1062
00:49:49,730 --> 00:49:51,330
a sacrifice.

1063
00:49:52,730 --> 00:49:55,470
The last act of Jesus is the summation

1064
00:49:55,470 --> 00:49:58,190
of all of Jesus and all of Jesus

1065
00:49:58,190 --> 00:49:59,990
is the summation of all of God, the

1066
00:49:59,990 --> 00:50:00,370
father.

1067
00:50:01,110 --> 00:50:03,830
He demonstrated what is the nature of the

1068
00:50:03,830 --> 00:50:07,410
father who stands at the door of a

1069
00:50:07,410 --> 00:50:08,330
heart and knocks.

1070
00:50:10,850 --> 00:50:14,250
So, you cannot perform this without the grace

1071
00:50:14,250 --> 00:50:14,750
of God.

1072
00:50:15,030 --> 00:50:16,770
The grace of God is the life of

1073
00:50:16,770 --> 00:50:18,650
God and the life of God is not

1074
00:50:18,650 --> 00:50:22,750
only the enablement, but in the enablement is

1075
00:50:22,750 --> 00:50:24,750
the expression of the character of that life.

1076
00:50:24,750 --> 00:50:27,990
So, when you submit in true submission with

1077
00:50:27,990 --> 00:50:30,330
a quiet and mixed spirit, something is being

1078
00:50:30,330 --> 00:50:33,750
expressed of very God himself that that husband,

1079
00:50:33,910 --> 00:50:36,070
though he is not submitted to the word,

1080
00:50:37,010 --> 00:50:40,970
will nevertheless bow to God without the word

1081
00:50:40,970 --> 00:50:44,330
by the demonstration of the chaste and obedient

1082
00:50:44,330 --> 00:50:45,690
wife who is without fear.

1083
00:50:47,200 --> 00:50:49,200
Isn't that a remarkable statement?

1084
00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:52,860
And that's not only a statement for wives,

1085
00:50:53,240 --> 00:50:55,880
that's the statement for the church in its

1086
00:50:55,880 --> 00:50:59,060
final and eternal identity as the bride of

1087
00:50:59,060 --> 00:50:59,460
Christ.

1088
00:50:59,740 --> 00:51:01,940
Are we going to be a bride adorned

1089
00:51:01,940 --> 00:51:05,220
for this bridegroom whose very nature is submission

1090
00:51:05,220 --> 00:51:07,880
when we ourselves shall come with some kind

1091
00:51:07,880 --> 00:51:11,920
of residue of self-exaltation and reservation and

1092
00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:15,200
indignation and you can't tell me and I...

1093
00:51:16,100 --> 00:51:18,200
It's an incompatible match.

1094
00:51:18,680 --> 00:51:20,460
So, God has got to deal with us

1095
00:51:20,460 --> 00:51:22,900
in this life and fit us in this

1096
00:51:22,900 --> 00:51:28,460
life to come to that purity of that

1097
00:51:28,460 --> 00:51:32,060
woman, that bride, the heart of which is

1098
00:51:32,060 --> 00:51:33,920
expressed in 1 Peter 3.

1099
00:51:35,230 --> 00:51:38,710
Okay, just off the top of my head

1100
00:51:38,710 --> 00:51:40,150
I'm trying to think what would be the

1101
00:51:40,150 --> 00:51:42,270
most galling requirement that God can make of

1102
00:51:42,270 --> 00:51:45,550
a church in demonstration of this kind of

1103
00:51:45,550 --> 00:51:49,050
willingness to be submitted or subjected to another

1104
00:51:49,050 --> 00:51:52,870
than being submitted or subjected to the Jew.

1105
00:51:53,770 --> 00:51:57,550
To bow before a spiritual inferior who is

1106
00:51:57,550 --> 00:52:00,050
even outside the faith and has not yet

1107
00:52:00,050 --> 00:52:02,950
come to the recognition of Jesus and yet

1108
00:52:02,950 --> 00:52:04,670
that God would require of us to be

1109
00:52:04,670 --> 00:52:06,930
blessed to see that we have a disposition

1110
00:52:06,930 --> 00:52:10,150
toward this people of a truly submitted kind,

1111
00:52:10,530 --> 00:52:13,230
respecting them because they are the fathers of

1112
00:52:13,230 --> 00:52:15,830
our faith who are in present darkness.

1113
00:52:18,310 --> 00:52:19,010
Think of that.

1114
00:52:19,110 --> 00:52:21,010
Maybe you can think of some greater requirement

1115
00:52:21,010 --> 00:52:23,310
but I think for most Christians that would

1116
00:52:23,310 --> 00:52:23,730
be galling.

1117
00:52:24,560 --> 00:52:26,090
How can I ask this?

1118
00:52:27,330 --> 00:52:29,970
Maybe not galling when you consider Jews in

1119
00:52:29,970 --> 00:52:32,670
the abstract but when you consider Jews in

1120
00:52:32,670 --> 00:52:33,710
their actuality.

1121
00:52:34,070 --> 00:52:37,270
It's another story as you can find out

1122
00:52:37,270 --> 00:52:39,750
from any person in the Venezuelan community who

1123
00:52:39,750 --> 00:52:42,090
waited on my mother here in the year

1124
00:52:42,090 --> 00:52:43,670
that she was with us before her death.

1125
00:52:44,510 --> 00:52:47,710
It was galling for me and I'm Jewish

1126
00:52:47,710 --> 00:52:51,210
and I'm her son but when this 96

1127
00:52:51,210 --> 00:52:54,330
-year-old lady is telling me who already

1128
00:52:54,330 --> 00:53:00,830
is a senior citizen, she's barking out orders

1129
00:53:00,830 --> 00:53:02,650
at me as if I'm some 10-year

1130
00:53:02,650 --> 00:53:04,830
-old little snot-nosed kid that can be

1131
00:53:04,830 --> 00:53:05,590
bandied about.

1132
00:53:05,590 --> 00:53:09,250
Hey, my dignity, my age, my car.

1133
00:53:11,210 --> 00:53:14,450
I have to say I felt the chasing.

1134
00:53:15,850 --> 00:53:17,890
The Lord let me know that there's a

1135
00:53:17,890 --> 00:53:20,250
residue that yet remains with me with my

1136
00:53:20,250 --> 00:53:22,630
own Jewish mother as a Jew.

1137
00:53:22,630 --> 00:53:26,270
How then will it be for Gentiles with

1138
00:53:26,270 --> 00:53:29,730
Jews who are alien to them when they

1139
00:53:29,730 --> 00:53:31,890
shall have to bear the same kind of

1140
00:53:31,890 --> 00:53:35,090
irritableness that we got from my mother barking

1141
00:53:35,090 --> 00:53:36,990
orders and this is not good enough or

1142
00:53:36,990 --> 00:53:37,930
how about this or that.

1143
00:53:38,290 --> 00:53:39,490
How will they take it?

1144
00:53:40,270 --> 00:53:42,790
What will issue from them from their blind

1145
00:53:42,790 --> 00:53:45,550
side when they're hit with that kind of

1146
00:53:45,550 --> 00:53:47,870
relationship for which they've had no preparation?

1147
00:53:48,870 --> 00:53:52,610
What will they exhibit at that moment will

1148
00:53:52,610 --> 00:53:56,930
be altogether telling and historically and eternally significant

1149
00:53:56,930 --> 00:54:01,090
because the final episode of the whole redemptive

1150
00:54:01,090 --> 00:54:04,590
drama of Israel is what they encounter in

1151
00:54:04,590 --> 00:54:09,030
the wilderness of their final uprooting and being

1152
00:54:09,030 --> 00:54:11,650
casted through the nations when God says in

1153
00:54:11,650 --> 00:54:13,830
Ezekiel 20, I will meet with you in

1154
00:54:13,830 --> 00:54:16,670
the wilderness of the nations face to face

1155
00:54:16,670 --> 00:54:19,170
and there you will come under the rod

1156
00:54:19,170 --> 00:54:25,570
of my authority and come into the dimensions

1157
00:54:25,570 --> 00:54:26,370
of my covenant.

1158
00:54:27,010 --> 00:54:28,790
Something is being scheduled.

1159
00:54:29,530 --> 00:54:32,550
The final conclusion to the drama is an

1160
00:54:32,550 --> 00:54:36,390
encounter by Jews in their final flight in

1161
00:54:36,390 --> 00:54:38,370
the time of Jacob's trouble in the wilderness

1162
00:54:38,370 --> 00:54:41,070
when God will meet with them but meet

1163
00:54:41,070 --> 00:54:42,270
with them face to face.

1164
00:54:42,270 --> 00:54:45,810
They'll not be looking at surly Gentile faces

1165
00:54:45,810 --> 00:54:49,830
who are screwing up their countenances.

1166
00:54:50,130 --> 00:54:51,630
How long do I have to suffer this?

1167
00:54:52,170 --> 00:54:53,290
These people are terrible.

1168
00:54:53,790 --> 00:54:56,370
They're mean-spirited and their language is vile.

1169
00:54:56,370 --> 00:55:04,110
You hear an old lady 96 cursing who

1170
00:55:04,110 --> 00:55:05,290
gives to the B'nai B'rith and

1171
00:55:05,290 --> 00:55:09,710
to Hadassah and every kind of Jewish cause.

1172
00:55:11,270 --> 00:55:12,930
God has seen to it that we're going

1173
00:55:12,930 --> 00:55:17,110
to be severely thoroughly tested and the greatest

1174
00:55:17,110 --> 00:55:18,890
test that can come to us to come

1175
00:55:18,890 --> 00:55:20,770
to us from the adversary of our faith,

1176
00:55:21,110 --> 00:55:23,270
the enemies of the gospel for our sake.

1177
00:55:23,270 --> 00:55:25,810
So know that it's coming and that it

1178
00:55:25,810 --> 00:55:28,910
cannot be met on any imagined ground but

1179
00:55:28,910 --> 00:55:32,790
authenticity itself, which is a synonym for that

1180
00:55:32,790 --> 00:55:36,370
which is apostolic to show forth the nature

1181
00:55:36,370 --> 00:55:38,710
of God when they shall press us and

1182
00:55:38,710 --> 00:55:39,430
test us.

1183
00:55:39,430 --> 00:55:41,850
And after we have extended ourselves to them

1184
00:55:41,850 --> 00:55:45,650
in kindness and find that it's unappreciated and

1185
00:55:45,650 --> 00:55:47,210
that they have mean things to say when

1186
00:55:47,210 --> 00:55:51,390
we have expended ourselves at risk, you'll have

1187
00:55:51,390 --> 00:55:55,310
every ingredient that will lend itself to justifying

1188
00:55:55,310 --> 00:55:57,790
yourself in some explosive rejection.

1189
00:55:57,790 --> 00:55:59,790
Well, that's the way you're going to be.

1190
00:56:00,150 --> 00:56:00,890
Forget it.

1191
00:56:01,450 --> 00:56:03,250
And if we have come to that, we

1192
00:56:03,250 --> 00:56:04,150
will have missed a moment.

1193
00:56:04,890 --> 00:56:07,230
So you know what, dear saints, it would

1194
00:56:07,230 --> 00:56:12,270
not be exaggeration to say you need to

1195
00:56:12,270 --> 00:56:16,470
seize every occasion now in preparation for that

1196
00:56:16,470 --> 00:56:17,030
one moment.

1197
00:56:17,030 --> 00:56:20,970
Because as we said yesterday, there comes sometimes

1198
00:56:20,970 --> 00:56:23,190
in a lifetime a single moment.

1199
00:56:23,530 --> 00:56:25,950
And in that moment, everything is at stake

1200
00:56:25,950 --> 00:56:26,870
and all is revealed.

1201
00:56:27,790 --> 00:56:29,190
That was the issue in the moment that

1202
00:56:29,190 --> 00:56:33,410
came with Noah's drunkenness and revealed the truth

1203
00:56:33,410 --> 00:56:34,190
of his sons.

1204
00:56:34,190 --> 00:56:36,650
It's the moment that will come for us

1205
00:56:36,650 --> 00:56:42,830
and the moment of Israel's final destitution that

1206
00:56:42,830 --> 00:56:44,250
will reveal the truth of us.

1207
00:56:44,910 --> 00:56:47,370
And if that truth not be revealed, there'll

1208
00:56:47,370 --> 00:56:49,070
be no Jew that will be coming returning

1209
00:56:49,070 --> 00:56:52,130
to Zion with everlasting joy upon their heads.

1210
00:56:52,130 --> 00:56:55,610
It's the issue of their salvation that they

1211
00:56:55,610 --> 00:56:58,250
will see their God as he is exhibited

1212
00:56:58,250 --> 00:57:02,730
through us in patient forbearance and subjecting ourselves

1213
00:57:02,730 --> 00:57:05,930
to them in all of their unmanly and

1214
00:57:05,930 --> 00:57:09,370
uncivil behavior when it shall cost us even

1215
00:57:09,370 --> 00:57:10,550
to make that demonstration.

1216
00:57:10,550 --> 00:57:11,650
Can you follow me?

1217
00:57:12,570 --> 00:57:12,850
Okay.

1218
00:57:13,530 --> 00:57:15,490
And doesn't the church, the body of Christ

1219
00:57:15,490 --> 00:57:18,610
that is the church, give ample opportunity almost

1220
00:57:18,610 --> 00:57:21,710
daily for such response?

1221
00:57:22,610 --> 00:57:24,570
If you're not experiencing it almost in a

1222
00:57:24,570 --> 00:57:26,350
daily way, you're out of the faith.

1223
00:57:27,130 --> 00:57:29,290
You're out of the context of the faith.

1224
00:57:29,290 --> 00:57:35,430
You're in some kind of glass house euphoria

1225
00:57:35,430 --> 00:57:40,150
of unreality that saves you from these humiliating,

1226
00:57:40,350 --> 00:57:43,670
embarrassing, and irritating collisions with the saints and

1227
00:57:43,670 --> 00:57:44,970
with the authority that's in the body.

1228
00:57:44,970 --> 00:57:47,950
We learned this lesson years ago in the

1229
00:57:47,950 --> 00:57:50,450
formation of this community where we were so

1230
00:57:50,450 --> 00:57:54,750
desperately poor living beneath the government's prescribed poverty

1231
00:57:54,750 --> 00:57:57,170
level that if anything came to us in

1232
00:57:57,170 --> 00:57:59,370
the mail or by any means, we were

1233
00:57:59,370 --> 00:58:03,750
so desperate for food, insulation, housing, pregnant women

1234
00:58:03,750 --> 00:58:08,090
with inadequate housing that we trembled over how

1235
00:58:08,090 --> 00:58:09,990
any dollar should be spent.

1236
00:58:10,470 --> 00:58:13,150
And when you're an elder and announce that,

1237
00:58:13,490 --> 00:58:15,290
well, we have just received a gift, but

1238
00:58:15,290 --> 00:58:17,110
it's going to be employed for an overseas

1239
00:58:17,110 --> 00:58:22,090
trip, it's like hitting someone in the solar

1240
00:58:22,090 --> 00:58:22,550
plexus.

1241
00:58:22,630 --> 00:58:22,830
What?

1242
00:58:22,950 --> 00:58:24,030
I've got a pregnant wife here.

1243
00:58:24,730 --> 00:58:26,890
My children are not being adequately fed.

1244
00:58:27,090 --> 00:58:28,290
They have dental problems.

1245
00:58:28,410 --> 00:58:29,970
They're not rightly clothed.

1246
00:58:30,030 --> 00:58:31,470
And you're going to take that money for

1247
00:58:31,470 --> 00:58:32,330
an overseas trip?

1248
00:58:32,910 --> 00:58:35,850
That's a luxury that we can't enjoy, cats.

1249
00:58:35,850 --> 00:58:37,770
And who are you to say so anyway?

1250
00:58:39,090 --> 00:58:41,130
We had questions about your eldership.

1251
00:58:41,770 --> 00:58:42,910
Have you seen your marriage lately?

1252
00:58:44,310 --> 00:58:45,530
Yes, every day.

1253
00:58:46,850 --> 00:58:48,310
So you see what I'm saying?

1254
00:58:49,050 --> 00:58:52,330
It's the tensions of life together that reveal

1255
00:58:52,330 --> 00:58:54,330
the very truth of our condition.

1256
00:58:54,990 --> 00:58:57,310
And if that's not happening for you now,

1257
00:58:57,550 --> 00:59:01,150
can you have the spiritual audacity to pray

1258
00:59:01,150 --> 00:59:01,590
for it?

1259
00:59:02,310 --> 00:59:04,410
Lord, lead me out of these safe regions

1260
00:59:04,410 --> 00:59:07,750
of conventional Christendom and bring me into that

1261
00:59:07,750 --> 00:59:09,950
quality relationship of the kind that you intend

1262
00:59:09,950 --> 00:59:14,370
by which your redemptive work can take place.

1263
00:59:14,370 --> 00:59:16,870
That when I shall be tested along with

1264
00:59:16,870 --> 00:59:19,090
the church in the last days by this

1265
00:59:19,090 --> 00:59:23,430
Jewish people in the intemperate condition in which

1266
00:59:23,430 --> 00:59:26,010
they will be brought by the suddenness of

1267
00:59:26,010 --> 00:59:28,670
their uprooting and their being again cast through

1268
00:59:28,670 --> 00:59:31,370
nations, we will not be found wanting.

1269
00:59:32,070 --> 00:59:34,110
That they will indeed see in us the

1270
00:59:34,110 --> 00:59:34,770
face of God.

1271
00:59:35,610 --> 00:59:37,790
And indeed my salvation, if you read Ben

1272
00:59:37,790 --> 00:59:40,270
Israel, has everything to do with seeing the

1273
00:59:40,270 --> 00:59:42,430
face of God in this Gentile girl whom

1274
00:59:42,430 --> 00:59:45,990
I met overseas and brought my whole umbrage

1275
00:59:45,990 --> 00:59:50,070
and superior Jewish superiority, intellectual superiority to bear

1276
00:59:50,070 --> 00:59:52,250
on this little girl from Kansas who's just

1277
00:59:52,250 --> 00:59:54,730
a little believer on vacation having completed high

1278
00:59:54,730 --> 00:59:55,010
school.

1279
00:59:56,350 --> 00:59:59,230
And kind enough to walk with me in

1280
00:59:59,230 --> 01:00:01,970
the path surrounding the city and probing her

1281
01:00:01,970 --> 01:00:02,470
motives.

1282
01:00:03,030 --> 01:00:03,990
Why are you being kind?

1283
01:00:04,090 --> 01:00:06,430
Because though I'd been a Marxist and social

1284
01:00:06,430 --> 01:00:08,450
activist, I didn't know what kindness was.

1285
01:00:09,590 --> 01:00:13,270
And she answered every question, well, it's the

1286
01:00:13,270 --> 01:00:13,870
love of God.

1287
01:00:15,450 --> 01:00:16,750
What a pathetic answer.

1288
01:00:17,370 --> 01:00:18,610
And she kept saying the love of God,

1289
01:00:18,670 --> 01:00:21,330
the love of God as my level scale

1290
01:00:21,330 --> 01:00:22,390
of indignation rose.

1291
01:00:22,390 --> 01:00:25,250
And finally I thought, she says love of

1292
01:00:25,250 --> 01:00:26,530
God one more time, she's going to get

1293
01:00:26,530 --> 01:00:26,730
it.

1294
01:00:27,190 --> 01:00:28,810
I'm not going to withhold, I'm going to

1295
01:00:28,810 --> 01:00:30,990
let go of that same blast that every

1296
01:00:30,990 --> 01:00:33,470
Christian has received from me in so-called

1297
01:00:33,470 --> 01:00:35,990
witnessing and I've reduced them to dust.

1298
01:00:36,410 --> 01:00:37,550
So what is this little girl?

1299
01:00:38,130 --> 01:00:39,350
And sure enough she mentions God.

1300
01:00:39,630 --> 01:00:41,370
I said, look kid, you're a nice girl,

1301
01:00:41,930 --> 01:00:43,710
but I can't stand this God talk.

1302
01:00:44,530 --> 01:00:46,390
Answer me a question that no Christian has

1303
01:00:46,390 --> 01:00:47,790
ever been able to answer for me.

1304
01:00:48,210 --> 01:00:49,570
You're talking about God, how do you know

1305
01:00:49,570 --> 01:00:50,070
that he is?

1306
01:00:50,590 --> 01:00:54,210
Oh, she said, without hesitation, I know that

1307
01:00:54,210 --> 01:00:55,690
he is because he lives in me.

1308
01:00:56,690 --> 01:00:59,510
And when she said that, the big hulk

1309
01:00:59,510 --> 01:01:03,470
went down in one sagging collapse in the

1310
01:01:03,470 --> 01:01:06,950
dust like a felled ox because that word

1311
01:01:06,950 --> 01:01:08,550
hit me with power.

1312
01:01:09,190 --> 01:01:12,730
I know because, and when I finally recovered,

1313
01:01:13,450 --> 01:01:16,130
what hit me, what she said was not

1314
01:01:16,130 --> 01:01:18,150
theological, wasn't even intellectual.

1315
01:01:18,150 --> 01:01:20,030
What gave it its power?

1316
01:01:20,470 --> 01:01:22,990
What gave it its power was that she

1317
01:01:22,990 --> 01:01:24,910
had the face to prove it.

1318
01:01:25,370 --> 01:01:26,510
And I want to say to you dear

1319
01:01:26,510 --> 01:01:29,830
non-Jewish believers, I don't call you Gentiles

1320
01:01:29,830 --> 01:01:33,530
because there's been a radical change in that

1321
01:01:33,530 --> 01:01:34,050
status.

1322
01:01:37,300 --> 01:01:39,600
You're the people of Israel, a non-Jewish

1323
01:01:39,600 --> 01:01:44,220
people, you can't change that generic factor, but

1324
01:01:44,220 --> 01:01:46,840
there's nothing like seeing the face of God

1325
01:01:46,840 --> 01:01:48,800
through a Gentile face for a Jew.

1326
01:01:50,180 --> 01:01:51,460
That's all I can tell you.

1327
01:01:52,280 --> 01:01:55,360
To see the face of God expressed through

1328
01:01:55,360 --> 01:02:01,060
snub-nosed, freckled face, black, is a revelation

1329
01:02:01,060 --> 01:02:03,920
of the utmost kind, the uttermost kind, in

1330
01:02:03,920 --> 01:02:07,560
keeping with the scripture that this is the

1331
01:02:07,560 --> 01:02:10,160
light that lightens the Gentiles and the glory

1332
01:02:10,160 --> 01:02:11,020
of the people of Israel.

1333
01:02:11,640 --> 01:02:13,380
When we see the glory of the people

1334
01:02:13,380 --> 01:02:14,900
of Israel, which we have not known as

1335
01:02:14,900 --> 01:02:16,900
the people of Israel, in the light that

1336
01:02:16,900 --> 01:02:19,520
lightens the Gentiles, we are saved.

1337
01:02:20,440 --> 01:02:23,100
And it's that demonstration which is the capstone

1338
01:02:23,100 --> 01:02:25,500
and the conclusion of our age, for which

1339
01:02:25,500 --> 01:02:28,820
we need to be in conscious anticipation and

1340
01:02:28,820 --> 01:02:29,760
willing preparation.

1341
01:02:30,280 --> 01:02:32,320
By letting the Lord turn up the juice

1342
01:02:32,320 --> 01:02:35,240
now, tighten the screws now, give us those

1343
01:02:35,240 --> 01:02:38,540
difficult situations now, test us now in the

1344
01:02:38,540 --> 01:02:41,780
areas of subjection, submission, and that when the

1345
01:02:41,780 --> 01:02:43,380
time comes and we have to listen to

1346
01:02:43,380 --> 01:02:45,340
some Jew berating us, for whom we have

1347
01:02:45,340 --> 01:02:47,780
extended ourselves at the risk of our life,

1348
01:02:48,120 --> 01:02:50,500
will not so much as even change our

1349
01:02:50,500 --> 01:02:53,480
face, will not so much as lose our

1350
01:02:53,480 --> 01:02:56,400
affection and esteem for them, because it's not

1351
01:02:56,400 --> 01:02:58,500
predicated on what they are or what they

1352
01:02:58,500 --> 01:03:01,460
have attained, because it's the esteem of God

1353
01:03:01,460 --> 01:03:03,080
and his love for that people in whatever

1354
01:03:03,080 --> 01:03:05,820
their condition, and therefore it cannot be lost

1355
01:03:05,820 --> 01:03:07,020
even when they are ungainly.

1356
01:03:07,740 --> 01:03:10,180
Can you relate to Christians like that, now,

1357
01:03:11,300 --> 01:03:14,320
that you'll still accord to them an esteem

1358
01:03:14,320 --> 01:03:17,220
and an affection independent of their track record?

1359
01:03:17,720 --> 01:03:19,580
And if they fail you in your expectation

1360
01:03:19,580 --> 01:03:23,440
and in your disappointment, there'll be no alteration

1361
01:03:23,440 --> 01:03:24,440
of your love and esteem?

1362
01:03:26,520 --> 01:03:30,200
So the church is now the fulcrum for

1363
01:03:30,200 --> 01:03:32,600
all the future if we but recognize it

1364
01:03:32,600 --> 01:03:33,820
and utilize it.

1365
01:03:34,800 --> 01:03:36,380
Which brings me to the next subject.

1366
01:03:38,520 --> 01:03:40,060
What a man will do when he's entirely

1367
01:03:40,060 --> 01:03:43,740
free to do what he wills is what

1368
01:03:43,740 --> 01:03:45,900
he in fact is, as we said yesterday.

1369
01:03:45,900 --> 01:03:52,090
That opportunity, that testing of Shem and Japheth

1370
01:03:52,090 --> 01:03:56,150
to see a helpless naked father, where everything

1371
01:03:56,150 --> 01:03:59,170
that is human wells up in you to

1372
01:03:59,170 --> 01:04:02,250
take advantage of the weakness of that one

1373
01:04:02,250 --> 01:04:05,270
that is now displayed in shame, and even

1374
01:04:05,270 --> 01:04:07,310
to elevate yourself at the expense of the

1375
01:04:07,310 --> 01:04:09,510
fallen one and say, well, now he's totally

1376
01:04:09,510 --> 01:04:09,830
discredited.

1377
01:04:09,830 --> 01:04:12,810
I have every right now to come into

1378
01:04:12,810 --> 01:04:14,370
my own as the son who has come

1379
01:04:14,370 --> 01:04:16,790
of age and he's had his time and

1380
01:04:16,790 --> 01:04:19,210
now I will take over and I will

1381
01:04:19,210 --> 01:04:22,750
be the object of God's attention and the

1382
01:04:22,750 --> 01:04:23,670
vehicle of his use.

1383
01:04:25,250 --> 01:04:27,650
That's exactly the temptation that came to the

1384
01:04:27,650 --> 01:04:28,950
church with the fall of Israel.

1385
01:04:29,510 --> 01:04:30,990
Now we will take over.

1386
01:04:30,990 --> 01:04:33,790
They had their chance, now they're naked and

1387
01:04:33,790 --> 01:04:36,810
destitute in their weakness and now we will

1388
01:04:36,810 --> 01:04:40,190
be for God and we just shunned them

1389
01:04:40,190 --> 01:04:40,790
to the side.

1390
01:04:41,450 --> 01:04:45,090
That was an historic tragedy and it was

1391
01:04:45,090 --> 01:04:48,130
only possible because the church of that hour,

1392
01:04:48,250 --> 01:04:50,230
like the church of this hour, was not

1393
01:04:50,230 --> 01:04:51,670
Shem-like in its character.

1394
01:04:53,130 --> 01:04:56,890
We failed the test and we'll suffer the

1395
01:04:56,890 --> 01:04:59,730
consequence of that failure even now until we

1396
01:04:59,730 --> 01:05:02,730
identify with those who committed it as being

1397
01:05:02,730 --> 01:05:04,890
one with them in that failure and in

1398
01:05:04,890 --> 01:05:05,370
that sin.

1399
01:05:06,670 --> 01:05:09,330
Time does not alter anything, nor distance, nor

1400
01:05:09,330 --> 01:05:09,750
history.

1401
01:05:09,750 --> 01:05:13,110
We are with them as Christians in that

1402
01:05:13,110 --> 01:05:20,630
rejection of Israel that was not expressed by

1403
01:05:20,630 --> 01:05:23,470
Shem with his fallen father.

1404
01:05:26,530 --> 01:05:28,490
So there needs to be a release for

1405
01:05:28,490 --> 01:05:30,910
us that comes by an acknowledgement that we

1406
01:05:30,910 --> 01:05:34,670
stand guilty with the church that still continues

1407
01:05:34,670 --> 01:05:37,870
to see itself as the Israel of God,

1408
01:05:37,970 --> 01:05:40,230
still continuing the arrogance against which Paul had

1409
01:05:40,230 --> 01:05:40,550
warned.

1410
01:05:40,550 --> 01:05:42,610
I would not have you to be ignorant

1411
01:05:42,610 --> 01:05:45,030
of this mystery, brethren, lest you become wise

1412
01:05:45,030 --> 01:05:45,890
in your own conceit.

1413
01:05:46,470 --> 01:05:51,720
And all of our inflated charismatic carryings on,

1414
01:05:52,320 --> 01:05:55,200
pick up any issue of, what's the magazine?

1415
01:05:56,920 --> 01:05:57,400
Charisma.

1416
01:05:58,760 --> 01:06:00,820
And just see the advertisements for the conferences

1417
01:06:00,820 --> 01:06:02,720
is enough to make you gag.

1418
01:06:02,720 --> 01:06:11,620
The advertisements, the loud, bold statements of what

1419
01:06:11,620 --> 01:06:13,680
they believe that conference is going to be

1420
01:06:13,680 --> 01:06:17,940
with multicolored and the array of ministers who

1421
01:06:17,940 --> 01:06:19,440
are now doctors, by the way, if you've

1422
01:06:19,440 --> 01:06:19,760
noticed.

1423
01:06:21,180 --> 01:06:21,660
Bishops.

1424
01:06:21,900 --> 01:06:22,320
Bishops.

1425
01:06:23,840 --> 01:06:27,060
Your stomach knots when you turn those pages,

1426
01:06:27,220 --> 01:06:28,540
which is the reason I don't turn them.

1427
01:06:28,540 --> 01:06:31,660
But it's exactly what Paul warned.

1428
01:06:32,160 --> 01:06:33,660
And I think that the root of it

1429
01:06:33,660 --> 01:06:36,180
is the reaction of the church to the

1430
01:06:36,180 --> 01:06:36,920
fallen Israel.

1431
01:06:37,880 --> 01:06:40,480
And we'll continue to suffer this arrogance until

1432
01:06:40,480 --> 01:06:42,780
we acknowledge with brokenness that we missed it

1433
01:06:42,780 --> 01:06:43,880
at that historic point.

1434
01:06:44,240 --> 01:06:46,220
And that we want to be free of

1435
01:06:46,220 --> 01:06:48,040
the sins of our fathers.

1436
01:06:48,040 --> 01:06:51,420
And acknowledge and give credit to a people

1437
01:06:51,420 --> 01:06:54,520
whom God has not cast away, who are

1438
01:06:54,520 --> 01:06:56,180
only temporarily set aside.

1439
01:06:56,820 --> 01:06:58,440
And maybe not the least reason for which

1440
01:06:58,440 --> 01:07:00,480
they have been temporarily set aside was to

1441
01:07:00,480 --> 01:07:01,140
test us.

1442
01:07:01,920 --> 01:07:04,140
What will you do when you see them

1443
01:07:04,140 --> 01:07:05,480
down but not out?

1444
01:07:06,800 --> 01:07:07,840
Noah was not out.

1445
01:07:07,940 --> 01:07:08,760
He was only down.

1446
01:07:09,500 --> 01:07:12,440
But that being down was sufficient occasion to

1447
01:07:12,440 --> 01:07:14,200
test the heart of his sons.

1448
01:07:14,200 --> 01:07:17,480
And Israel's being down has been sufficient occasion

1449
01:07:17,480 --> 01:07:18,900
to test that of the church.

1450
01:07:19,420 --> 01:07:20,660
And it tested still.

1451
01:07:22,240 --> 01:07:24,300
So the tent of Shem was established in

1452
01:07:24,300 --> 01:07:26,640
the moment of entering the tent of another

1453
01:07:26,640 --> 01:07:27,600
as one's own.

1454
01:07:28,460 --> 01:07:31,920
There's something about being a mediator of intercession,

1455
01:07:32,060 --> 01:07:35,580
being identification, that the son identified with the

1456
01:07:35,580 --> 01:07:36,560
father in his shame.

1457
01:07:37,440 --> 01:07:39,420
He did not turn away from his father,

1458
01:07:40,440 --> 01:07:42,760
not gauging on him because of a superior

1459
01:07:42,760 --> 01:07:46,340
spirituality that cannot be offended.

1460
01:07:47,000 --> 01:07:47,880
Understand what I'm saying?

1461
01:07:48,060 --> 01:07:50,660
He wasn't guarding his spirituality that if I

1462
01:07:50,660 --> 01:07:51,780
look at my father and see him in

1463
01:07:51,780 --> 01:07:54,280
that despicable condition, there'll be some spiritual loss

1464
01:07:54,280 --> 01:07:54,680
to me.

1465
01:07:55,160 --> 01:07:57,320
No, it was respect not to look upon

1466
01:07:57,320 --> 01:08:00,200
him in that condition because he was identified

1467
01:08:00,200 --> 01:08:00,940
with him.

1468
01:08:01,500 --> 01:08:03,260
There but for grace of God go I.

1469
01:08:03,260 --> 01:08:06,220
If my father who is the righteous preacher

1470
01:08:06,220 --> 01:08:09,140
of his generation and was faithful to God

1471
01:08:09,140 --> 01:08:12,340
through decades of building the absurdity of an

1472
01:08:12,340 --> 01:08:15,420
ark and was a preacher to a generation

1473
01:08:15,420 --> 01:08:18,580
doomed to destruction because it had given its

1474
01:08:18,580 --> 01:08:22,120
over to a total iniquity.

1475
01:08:23,060 --> 01:08:26,100
How can I allow this one instance to

1476
01:08:26,100 --> 01:08:31,859
discredit the whole faithfulness of a man throughout

1477
01:08:31,859 --> 01:08:33,300
his lifetime?

1478
01:08:33,760 --> 01:08:36,080
So I have to recognize in that that

1479
01:08:36,080 --> 01:08:40,160
however faithful he has been yet being man,

1480
01:08:40,600 --> 01:08:45,660
there's a place of vulnerability and weakness to

1481
01:08:45,660 --> 01:08:47,979
which I myself also am subject being man.

1482
01:08:47,979 --> 01:08:50,580
So my coming into his tent is coming

1483
01:08:50,580 --> 01:08:51,540
into his situation.

1484
01:08:51,960 --> 01:08:53,819
I'm not just coming for an expediency.

1485
01:08:54,080 --> 01:08:55,960
It's a statement of my identification.

1486
01:08:56,180 --> 01:08:58,580
I'm one with him in the abject condition

1487
01:08:58,580 --> 01:08:59,340
in which he's fallen.

1488
01:09:00,460 --> 01:09:02,319
That's why when Noah came out of his

1489
01:09:02,319 --> 01:09:06,240
drunken stupor and he prophetically made statements.

1490
01:09:06,580 --> 01:09:08,220
It was so out of the heart of

1491
01:09:08,220 --> 01:09:08,460
God.

1492
01:09:08,899 --> 01:09:12,260
Blessed be the God of Shem because he

1493
01:09:12,260 --> 01:09:14,520
recognized that this what his son had done

1494
01:09:14,520 --> 01:09:16,040
is more than just politeness.

1495
01:09:16,880 --> 01:09:21,160
It's more than just expediency, exigency of something

1496
01:09:21,160 --> 01:09:22,520
that a man would do in a moment

1497
01:09:22,520 --> 01:09:24,760
out of a kind of religious cleverness.

1498
01:09:25,020 --> 01:09:26,899
It was the very act of God himself.

1499
01:09:27,580 --> 01:09:29,340
God himself would not have done other than

1500
01:09:29,340 --> 01:09:29,960
what Shem did.

1501
01:09:30,979 --> 01:09:33,660
And Shem did it by God because his

1502
01:09:33,660 --> 01:09:35,859
life is of him, through him and to

1503
01:09:35,859 --> 01:09:37,479
him to whom be glory forever.

1504
01:09:38,520 --> 01:09:40,740
I don't think it's too exaggerated to say

1505
01:09:40,740 --> 01:09:43,819
that the issue of the tent of Shem,

1506
01:09:43,899 --> 01:09:46,060
the advent of the tent of Shem came

1507
01:09:46,060 --> 01:09:49,240
by Shem's act by entering into his father's

1508
01:09:49,240 --> 01:09:53,600
circumstance, his father's shame, his father's humiliation and

1509
01:09:53,600 --> 01:09:54,220
to cover him.

1510
01:09:54,760 --> 01:09:57,900
If that's true, then what is the point

1511
01:09:57,900 --> 01:10:00,660
of entry for the tent of Shem in

1512
01:10:00,660 --> 01:10:04,300
the last days and the historical situation to

1513
01:10:04,300 --> 01:10:05,440
which we are already moving.

1514
01:10:05,440 --> 01:10:09,880
But us, sons and daughters of Shem, entering

1515
01:10:09,880 --> 01:10:13,180
the tent not of Noah but of Jewry.

1516
01:10:14,280 --> 01:10:17,000
And there down and out last days humiliation.

1517
01:10:17,560 --> 01:10:21,700
They will be stretched out and unbelievably exposed.

1518
01:10:22,620 --> 01:10:26,820
Those things that civilization and its amenities confer

1519
01:10:26,820 --> 01:10:31,080
keep from the exposure of the truth of

1520
01:10:31,080 --> 01:10:31,620
our condition.

1521
01:10:32,200 --> 01:10:33,600
You're living in a penthouse.

1522
01:10:33,600 --> 01:10:40,200
There's something about being rich that covers the

1523
01:10:40,200 --> 01:10:41,540
truth of your condition.

1524
01:10:41,940 --> 01:10:45,720
You can hedge yourself about by luxury, by

1525
01:10:45,720 --> 01:10:48,080
men bowing before you, respecting you for your

1526
01:10:48,080 --> 01:10:50,020
great cleverness by which your wealth was obtained.

1527
01:10:50,520 --> 01:10:53,420
Your library is impressive and is everywhere about

1528
01:10:53,420 --> 01:10:53,680
you.

1529
01:10:53,940 --> 01:10:55,520
You own objects of art.

1530
01:10:55,600 --> 01:10:56,380
You have antiques.

1531
01:10:56,880 --> 01:10:59,120
You have on your wall millions of dollars

1532
01:10:59,120 --> 01:11:01,520
worth of paintings that belong in public museums

1533
01:11:01,520 --> 01:11:03,300
because you've been a collector and can afford

1534
01:11:03,300 --> 01:11:03,520
it.

1535
01:11:03,720 --> 01:11:06,140
And you have a certain dignity appropriate to

1536
01:11:06,140 --> 01:11:07,660
your wealth, to your station in life.

1537
01:11:07,940 --> 01:11:09,960
On top of that, you're Jewish and you

1538
01:11:09,960 --> 01:11:11,960
have given millions in charity to the state

1539
01:11:11,960 --> 01:11:14,340
of Israel and you've endowed the Jewish theological

1540
01:11:14,340 --> 01:11:17,000
seminary so that squirts like me could come

1541
01:11:17,000 --> 01:11:19,660
and take a course and so on.

1542
01:11:20,320 --> 01:11:23,320
But when that is suddenly stripped, here's the

1543
01:11:23,320 --> 01:11:27,140
point, and it will be, what is exposed,

1544
01:11:27,780 --> 01:11:29,380
but what had been up to that moment

1545
01:11:29,380 --> 01:11:32,880
concealed by the amenities of civilization and wealth?

1546
01:11:33,940 --> 01:11:34,440
Can you understand?

1547
01:11:34,560 --> 01:11:35,720
We're living in a lie, saints.

1548
01:11:35,860 --> 01:11:37,180
The whole world lives in a lie.

1549
01:11:38,300 --> 01:11:40,360
And we're kept from the recognition of the

1550
01:11:40,360 --> 01:11:41,280
truth of our condition.

1551
01:11:42,160 --> 01:11:43,500
And that's why there's got to be the

1552
01:11:43,500 --> 01:11:45,280
severest stripping in the last days for the

1553
01:11:45,280 --> 01:11:45,960
people of Israel.

1554
01:11:46,520 --> 01:11:48,280
For how shall they enter into their priestly

1555
01:11:48,280 --> 01:11:50,400
function and be the blessing to all the

1556
01:11:50,400 --> 01:11:52,480
families of the earth if they themselves are

1557
01:11:52,480 --> 01:11:53,580
yet in the place of deception?

1558
01:11:53,580 --> 01:11:56,880
So everything that is contrary to truth has

1559
01:11:56,880 --> 01:11:58,260
to be removed and it's going to happen

1560
01:11:58,260 --> 01:11:58,780
suddenly.

1561
01:11:59,340 --> 01:12:01,020
We're going to find them in a condition

1562
01:12:01,020 --> 01:12:03,800
more despicable than what Noah experienced.

1563
01:12:05,120 --> 01:12:08,760
They will be exposed and naked and the

1564
01:12:08,760 --> 01:12:11,200
object of derision and contempt of all the

1565
01:12:11,200 --> 01:12:13,840
Gentile world that is waiting for its opportunity,

1566
01:12:14,100 --> 01:12:17,540
for every Gentile that has been chafed at

1567
01:12:17,540 --> 01:12:19,780
the expense of a Jew, either in fact

1568
01:12:19,780 --> 01:12:22,340
or in imagination, because of their wealth and

1569
01:12:22,340 --> 01:12:24,600
because of their success, that moves the natural

1570
01:12:24,600 --> 01:12:27,220
man to envy, will finally have his opportunity,

1571
01:12:27,720 --> 01:12:31,600
as Canaan and Ham did, to say, Now

1572
01:12:31,600 --> 01:12:32,880
you finally got it.

1573
01:12:33,040 --> 01:12:34,600
I'm superior to you.

1574
01:12:34,960 --> 01:12:37,140
You who have always made me feel inferior.

1575
01:12:37,580 --> 01:12:39,320
Now I can look down on your public

1576
01:12:39,320 --> 01:12:42,100
and open disgrace for you are proliferated throughout

1577
01:12:42,100 --> 01:12:42,540
the world.

1578
01:12:42,920 --> 01:12:45,240
You've been uprooted and you've been cast to

1579
01:12:45,240 --> 01:12:47,180
all nations and you don't even know what

1580
01:12:47,180 --> 01:12:51,100
tomorrow will bring and your fortune is done

1581
01:12:51,100 --> 01:12:51,560
in a day.

1582
01:12:51,680 --> 01:12:52,800
It brings you nothing.

1583
01:12:53,880 --> 01:12:56,240
The exact plight that fell upon German Jews

1584
01:12:56,240 --> 01:12:59,560
in the Nazi time, suddenly and overnight, who

1585
01:12:59,560 --> 01:13:03,840
found themselves evicted from their professorships, their position

1586
01:13:03,840 --> 01:13:08,920
as judges in the courts and publishers of

1587
01:13:08,920 --> 01:13:12,620
newspapers, places of eminence in German society, to

1588
01:13:12,620 --> 01:13:14,300
find themselves not only out of their professions,

1589
01:13:14,420 --> 01:13:15,420
but out of their homes.

1590
01:13:15,420 --> 01:13:18,620
I can't remember what city it was, where

1591
01:13:18,620 --> 01:13:23,900
there's a monument of the synagogue that existed

1592
01:13:23,900 --> 01:13:25,900
in this neighborhood, but you ought to see

1593
01:13:25,900 --> 01:13:28,060
the houses that yet remained in that neighborhood,

1594
01:13:28,480 --> 01:13:32,480
now occupied by Germans, formerly occupied by Jews,

1595
01:13:33,140 --> 01:13:34,940
that had room for their servants.

1596
01:13:36,480 --> 01:13:41,000
I mean, they lived well, beautifully, luxuriously, but

1597
01:13:41,000 --> 01:13:44,280
overnight it was stripped and removed and the

1598
01:13:44,280 --> 01:13:47,380
same ones found themselves with their hair shorn,

1599
01:13:48,080 --> 01:13:50,900
their clothing removed, and finally in their death

1600
01:13:50,900 --> 01:13:53,500
even their gold fillings removed and all that

1601
01:13:53,500 --> 01:13:54,360
they had was a number.

1602
01:13:54,980 --> 01:13:57,340
They were deprived even of the dignity of

1603
01:13:57,340 --> 01:13:58,720
the identification of a name.

1604
01:13:59,960 --> 01:14:03,280
In fact, have experienced since some kind of

1605
01:14:03,280 --> 01:14:06,480
inferior status to the Jew to finally have

1606
01:14:06,480 --> 01:14:10,040
a vengeance and to enjoy that falling condition.

1607
01:14:10,640 --> 01:14:13,120
The only non-Jew who will not share

1608
01:14:13,120 --> 01:14:18,480
that global celebration of Jewish fullness will be

1609
01:14:18,480 --> 01:14:19,060
the church.

1610
01:14:19,380 --> 01:14:21,480
Because like Shem, they will come into that

1611
01:14:21,480 --> 01:14:21,780
tent.

1612
01:14:22,560 --> 01:14:25,540
Like Shem, they will share an identification with

1613
01:14:25,540 --> 01:14:26,280
the fallen one.

1614
01:14:26,900 --> 01:14:28,740
Because if we don't, we can't cover them.

1615
01:14:29,600 --> 01:14:31,520
Don't think that covering them is some kind

1616
01:14:31,520 --> 01:14:33,800
of clinical thing that we can perform by

1617
01:14:33,800 --> 01:14:34,840
just draping something.

1618
01:14:35,580 --> 01:14:41,200
Covering is a divine act, but it cannot

1619
01:14:41,200 --> 01:14:44,020
be performed without an identification with the stricken

1620
01:14:44,020 --> 01:14:44,500
one.

1621
01:14:45,360 --> 01:14:46,260
All right.

1622
01:14:46,640 --> 01:14:48,940
Hal Lindsey in his book, The Road to

1623
01:14:48,940 --> 01:14:53,280
Holocaust, asked the question, could the atrocities of

1624
01:14:53,280 --> 01:14:56,140
Nancy Europe have ever taken place in a

1625
01:14:56,140 --> 01:15:01,040
Europe that had not cultivated that, well, you'll

1626
01:15:01,040 --> 01:15:02,980
know it by the name, replacement theology?

1627
01:15:03,480 --> 01:15:07,360
That perspective was in a way uncovering Israel,

1628
01:15:07,480 --> 01:15:11,260
exposing it to the free access of the

1629
01:15:11,260 --> 01:15:12,780
powers of the air that was working through

1630
01:15:12,780 --> 01:15:13,720
that German government.

1631
01:15:14,620 --> 01:15:16,780
And just quickly, there's a cryptic passage, it's

1632
01:15:16,780 --> 01:15:18,900
in Daniel chapter 11, where it uses this

1633
01:15:18,900 --> 01:15:21,200
revealing phrase, and it's not even a matter

1634
01:15:21,200 --> 01:15:23,740
particularly of context or exegetical meaning, but it

1635
01:15:23,740 --> 01:15:25,060
just captures the spirit of this.

1636
01:15:25,220 --> 01:15:28,900
It says, and this is the revealing messenger

1637
01:15:28,900 --> 01:15:30,760
speaking to Daniel, it says, the robbers of

1638
01:15:30,760 --> 01:15:34,320
your people will establish themselves or exalt themselves

1639
01:15:34,320 --> 01:15:35,520
to establish the vision.

1640
01:15:35,520 --> 01:15:38,540
And, of course, Daniel's vision was the vision

1641
01:15:38,540 --> 01:15:40,740
of the kingdom of God, which John, of

1642
01:15:40,740 --> 01:15:42,200
course, told us would last for a thousand

1643
01:15:42,200 --> 01:15:42,600
years.

1644
01:15:43,440 --> 01:15:47,520
Hitler's whole spirit was to restore the Third

1645
01:15:47,520 --> 01:15:49,620
Reich that would rule a thousand years.

1646
01:15:50,200 --> 01:15:52,360
The people who have exalted themselves to establish

1647
01:15:52,360 --> 01:15:54,280
the vision will be seen again in the

1648
01:15:54,280 --> 01:15:56,720
last day's siege of Jerusalem when Antichrist will

1649
01:15:56,720 --> 01:16:01,560
lead his forces to again occupy the place

1650
01:16:01,560 --> 01:16:05,600
of God's rest and usurp that holy hill

1651
01:16:05,600 --> 01:16:07,820
from its appointed calling and destiny.

1652
01:16:08,500 --> 01:16:10,100
And so there's something deep even in the

1653
01:16:10,100 --> 01:16:14,260
church in its uncovering that has permitted this

1654
01:16:14,260 --> 01:16:18,200
exposure that has left Israel to the ravages

1655
01:16:18,200 --> 01:16:20,440
of the powers of the air without a

1656
01:16:20,440 --> 01:16:22,500
prophetic protest even.

1657
01:16:23,300 --> 01:16:25,120
And there's something in which the church also

1658
01:16:25,120 --> 01:16:28,420
has fulfilled that role of exalting themselves to

1659
01:16:28,420 --> 01:16:31,960
establish the vision and also been not in

1660
01:16:31,960 --> 01:16:34,020
the same way that the Germans were the

1661
01:16:34,020 --> 01:16:36,160
robbers of your people confiscating their goods to

1662
01:16:36,160 --> 01:16:37,880
the point of this Arab word they used.

1663
01:16:38,480 --> 01:16:40,040
But how about the way in which the

1664
01:16:40,040 --> 01:16:42,220
church has exalted itself to establish the vision

1665
01:16:42,220 --> 01:16:44,480
when the whole book of Daniel opens with

1666
01:16:44,480 --> 01:16:46,640
the promise that this will be given not

1667
01:16:46,640 --> 01:16:47,760
to another people.

1668
01:16:48,220 --> 01:16:50,380
This is the people that God has appointed

1669
01:16:50,380 --> 01:16:53,220
that the vision will be established and it

1670
01:16:53,220 --> 01:16:56,760
is a presumption and a usurpation of the

1671
01:16:56,760 --> 01:16:59,800
highest order that the church has stumbled into

1672
01:16:59,800 --> 01:17:03,740
in their triumphal replacement.

1673
01:17:05,740 --> 01:17:07,600
To show that we're not talking out of

1674
01:17:07,600 --> 01:17:09,280
our hats or that this is a mere

1675
01:17:09,280 --> 01:17:12,700
theorizing or just a perspective that's particularly dear

1676
01:17:12,700 --> 01:17:15,200
to us in some subjective way but that

1677
01:17:15,200 --> 01:17:18,120
it is altogether grounded in scripture I want

1678
01:17:18,120 --> 01:17:20,120
us to examine one text briefly before the

1679
01:17:20,120 --> 01:17:21,480
break in Psalm 102.

1680
01:17:28,310 --> 01:17:30,490
You can get the tape where I've spoken

1681
01:17:30,490 --> 01:17:34,510
on this subject at greater length and read

1682
01:17:34,510 --> 01:17:38,150
this text at your own leisure carefully because

1683
01:17:38,150 --> 01:17:41,050
the first half of the text sounds like

1684
01:17:41,050 --> 01:17:45,830
a psalmist in a concentration camp describing almost

1685
01:17:45,830 --> 01:17:49,010
in vivid terms exactly what Jews suffered in

1686
01:17:49,010 --> 01:17:51,110
the Nazi time in those camps where your

1687
01:17:51,110 --> 01:17:54,990
skin becomes blackened and parched and you can't

1688
01:17:54,990 --> 01:18:00,090
eat and you're alone in your destitution where

1689
01:18:00,090 --> 01:18:01,650
he says in verse 11 my days are

1690
01:18:01,650 --> 01:18:04,550
like a shadow that declines and I'm withered

1691
01:18:04,550 --> 01:18:07,510
like grass but thou, O Lord here's where

1692
01:18:07,510 --> 01:18:12,130
the whole poem shifts and changes that even

1693
01:18:12,130 --> 01:18:16,250
in his broken and destitute condition there's some

1694
01:18:16,250 --> 01:18:18,470
kind of a faith of hope that rises

1695
01:18:18,470 --> 01:18:21,450
in God at the most abject time when

1696
01:18:21,450 --> 01:18:24,890
there's least occasion to believe for it but

1697
01:18:24,890 --> 01:18:28,690
thou, O Lord shall endure forever I'm turning

1698
01:18:28,690 --> 01:18:32,810
to dust I'm decaying my body is wasting

1699
01:18:32,810 --> 01:18:34,610
away I'm nothing I've been stripped of everything

1700
01:18:35,190 --> 01:18:39,150
but you, O Lord shall endure forever and

1701
01:18:39,150 --> 01:18:42,030
thy remembrance unto all generations thou shalt arise

1702
01:18:42,030 --> 01:18:45,530
I always love these the word arise suggestive

1703
01:18:45,530 --> 01:18:50,930
of the great theme of resurrection and have

1704
01:18:50,930 --> 01:18:54,150
mercy upon Zion for the whole issue of

1705
01:18:54,150 --> 01:18:55,370
God at the end of the age with

1706
01:18:55,370 --> 01:18:57,990
Israel is the revelation of his mercy for

1707
01:18:57,990 --> 01:18:59,690
he will have mercy upon whom he will

1708
01:18:59,690 --> 01:19:04,270
have mercy which means totally undeserved attention and

1709
01:19:04,270 --> 01:19:06,850
grace from God for the time to favor

1710
01:19:06,850 --> 01:19:09,410
her yea, the set time has come now

1711
01:19:09,410 --> 01:19:12,670
here's the key point what makes it the

1712
01:19:12,670 --> 01:19:15,850
set time that releases God to express mercy

1713
01:19:15,850 --> 01:19:19,370
to Jews in a destitute concentration camp condition

1714
01:19:19,370 --> 01:19:22,850
in which they are without any hope of

1715
01:19:22,850 --> 01:19:27,470
anything but death it's because your servants take

1716
01:19:27,470 --> 01:19:31,050
pleasure in her stones and favor the dust

1717
01:19:31,050 --> 01:19:37,420
thereof unlimited volumes could be written in commentary

1718
01:19:37,420 --> 01:19:40,800
on this one verse it's cryptic, it's poetic

1719
01:19:41,640 --> 01:19:44,200
it's laden with meaning but it has to

1720
01:19:44,200 --> 01:19:46,640
be drawn out but here's the point to

1721
01:19:46,640 --> 01:19:48,740
give you a help in drawing it out

1722
01:19:50,000 --> 01:19:53,680
it's not Israel itself who affects the point

1723
01:19:53,680 --> 01:19:57,000
at which time God will favor Zion the

1724
01:19:57,000 --> 01:20:01,100
destitution depravity unto death is not the turning

1725
01:20:01,100 --> 01:20:04,620
point the set time comes because not of

1726
01:20:04,620 --> 01:20:08,420
what is revealed in Israel's condition but is

1727
01:20:08,420 --> 01:20:11,860
revealed through his servants which is the church

1728
01:20:11,860 --> 01:20:15,160
it's a mystical reference to the church because

1729
01:20:15,160 --> 01:20:17,360
the word church could not be employed by

1730
01:20:17,360 --> 01:20:21,120
the psalmist writing this thousands of years before

1731
01:20:21,120 --> 01:20:31,540
Christ but when my servants shall have pleasure

1732
01:20:31,540 --> 01:20:35,000
in her stones and favor the dust thereof

1733
01:20:35,000 --> 01:20:38,400
because it will be reduced to dust Israel

1734
01:20:38,400 --> 01:20:41,560
is going to experience devastation, the great cities

1735
01:20:41,560 --> 01:20:45,360
and rising towers of Tel Aviv will come

1736
01:20:45,360 --> 01:20:47,600
down it will all crumble, the whole thing

1737
01:20:47,600 --> 01:20:51,460
will be a devastation, a place without habitation

1738
01:20:51,460 --> 01:20:54,540
the land has become, it says in Isaiah,

1739
01:20:54,780 --> 01:20:58,640
our destruction it will be dust but what

1740
01:20:58,640 --> 01:21:01,800
is our attitude when Israel will have failed

1741
01:21:01,800 --> 01:21:05,260
our expectancy when we had hoped it would

1742
01:21:05,260 --> 01:21:08,020
have been this Israel that would have restored

1743
01:21:08,020 --> 01:21:10,140
the glory of God, that this Israel would

1744
01:21:10,140 --> 01:21:13,040
have been the fulfillment of prophetic expectation and

1745
01:21:13,040 --> 01:21:14,540
we had all along sought for it and

1746
01:21:14,540 --> 01:21:16,260
we made trips and we planted trees and

1747
01:21:16,260 --> 01:21:19,320
we made contributions and we prayed against Arafat

1748
01:21:19,320 --> 01:21:20,880
and all those kinds of things and in

1749
01:21:20,880 --> 01:21:23,540
the end despite all that it comes down

1750
01:21:23,540 --> 01:21:26,240
and it comes down in so abject and

1751
01:21:26,240 --> 01:21:29,160
terrible a way that the world gloats at

1752
01:21:29,160 --> 01:21:31,640
it and rubs its hand with glee at

1753
01:21:31,640 --> 01:21:33,980
what has fallen upon this proud arrogant people

1754
01:21:35,180 --> 01:21:38,480
but the servants of God take another attitude

1755
01:21:38,480 --> 01:21:42,420
completely they find favor in the stones they're

1756
01:21:42,420 --> 01:21:45,160
identified with the judgment, that's what that means

1757
01:21:45,160 --> 01:21:48,460
it's not the stones per se this is

1758
01:21:48,460 --> 01:21:53,720
not antiquarian, this is not archaeological this is

1759
01:21:53,720 --> 01:21:58,720
symbolic the stones if you can identify with

1760
01:21:58,720 --> 01:22:00,920
the stones what then is your identification with

1761
01:22:00,920 --> 01:22:03,060
the people who once were housed in those

1762
01:22:03,060 --> 01:22:05,740
stones, see what I mean if they found

1763
01:22:05,740 --> 01:22:09,120
favor because it was the stones of Israel

1764
01:22:09,120 --> 01:22:13,260
because an identification with this people all the

1765
01:22:13,260 --> 01:22:15,240
more of such a kind that has caught

1766
01:22:15,240 --> 01:22:19,620
the attention of God it is so unrealistic

1767
01:22:19,620 --> 01:22:22,380
to expect it that while all the world

1768
01:22:22,380 --> 01:22:25,380
is gloating at Israel's collapse because you can

1769
01:22:25,380 --> 01:22:29,620
understand Israel become increasingly arrogant in defying the

1770
01:22:29,620 --> 01:22:32,040
world in its own necessity to preserve itself

1771
01:22:32,040 --> 01:22:35,120
that's already an accusation why can't they be

1772
01:22:35,120 --> 01:22:37,940
more accommodating why can't they agree to these

1773
01:22:37,940 --> 01:22:40,920
terms ok so they're making some concession they've

1774
01:22:40,920 --> 01:22:43,620
taken out a few watchtowers from some of

1775
01:22:43,620 --> 01:22:46,160
the settlements but will they uproot the settlements

1776
01:22:46,160 --> 01:22:48,980
themselves and will they do this in order

1777
01:22:48,980 --> 01:22:50,980
to obtain that or will they insist no

1778
01:22:50,980 --> 01:22:53,320
this is our land and it's alright and

1779
01:22:53,320 --> 01:22:55,780
you guys have got to live I believe

1780
01:22:55,780 --> 01:23:00,860
Israel become increasingly intractable they must because their

1781
01:23:00,860 --> 01:23:02,700
confidence in being bailed out by the United

1782
01:23:02,700 --> 01:23:05,400
States certainly not the United Nations can ever

1783
01:23:05,400 --> 01:23:08,000
be a true confidence they will have to

1784
01:23:08,000 --> 01:23:10,840
depend upon themselves and in doing so they'll

1785
01:23:10,840 --> 01:23:13,660
make themselves less attractive in the world, more

1786
01:23:13,660 --> 01:23:17,620
objectionable more difficult, more Jewish more stubborn, more

1787
01:23:17,620 --> 01:23:20,660
stiff necked more recalcitrant so that by the

1788
01:23:20,660 --> 01:23:23,460
time of their devastation the world that has

1789
01:23:23,460 --> 01:23:25,580
had enough of them and have been threatened

1790
01:23:25,580 --> 01:23:28,480
by the lack of peace that issues out

1791
01:23:28,480 --> 01:23:31,220
of the Middle East crisis will enjoy their

1792
01:23:31,220 --> 01:23:33,940
plight but what is the set time to

1793
01:23:33,940 --> 01:23:37,160
favor Zion when my servants have found favor

1794
01:23:37,160 --> 01:23:42,770
in her stones and pleasure in her stones

1795
01:23:42,770 --> 01:23:45,010
and favor the dust thereof you may have

1796
01:23:45,010 --> 01:23:47,370
it expressed a little differently in your Bible

1797
01:23:47,930 --> 01:23:51,170
it's the issue of identification for the issue

1798
01:23:51,170 --> 01:23:55,550
of identification is the issue of intercession it's

1799
01:23:55,550 --> 01:23:57,970
the issue of coming into their tent suffering

1800
01:23:57,970 --> 01:24:01,630
their shame their identification and in fact if

1801
01:24:01,630 --> 01:24:03,890
they're going to be pursued worldwide, the time

1802
01:24:03,890 --> 01:24:06,050
will come when Jews will be as hated

1803
01:24:06,050 --> 01:24:09,630
globally as they were hated in Europe and

1804
01:24:09,630 --> 01:24:11,830
sought out and found that if you had

1805
01:24:11,830 --> 01:24:14,950
so much as one great grandfather, 164th Jewish

1806
01:24:14,950 --> 01:24:17,730
blood, you were a candidate for the ovens,

1807
01:24:17,730 --> 01:24:21,550
if that same kind of anti-Christ demonic

1808
01:24:21,550 --> 01:24:24,030
hatred of the Jew will now have full

1809
01:24:24,030 --> 01:24:27,610
expression globally, what will be the fate of

1810
01:24:27,610 --> 01:24:31,390
those Christians who will identify with them not

1811
01:24:31,390 --> 01:24:33,310
just in their minds but with their bodies

1812
01:24:34,010 --> 01:24:37,050
their identification will be an act every bit

1813
01:24:37,050 --> 01:24:39,390
as much as it was the act of

1814
01:24:39,390 --> 01:24:43,650
Shem for his father coming in so Ham

1815
01:24:44,430 --> 01:24:47,330
comes out and tells, gives the report to

1816
01:24:47,330 --> 01:24:49,890
the two brothers our father is in drunken

1817
01:24:49,890 --> 01:24:54,690
condition naked, what they do with that report

1818
01:24:54,690 --> 01:24:57,110
is the key to the whole of the

1819
01:24:57,110 --> 01:25:02,110
future instead of just commiserating or feeling sorry,

1820
01:25:02,190 --> 01:25:04,330
waiting for the guy to sober up or

1821
01:25:04,330 --> 01:25:07,110
even joining Canaan and Ham in their delight

1822
01:25:07,110 --> 01:25:09,530
over the father's condition they come into the

1823
01:25:09,530 --> 01:25:19,370
condition empathy pathos identification mutuality the servants

1824
01:25:19,370 --> 01:25:22,230
are Gentiles but they are one with God

1825
01:25:22,230 --> 01:25:25,010
in identification with the fallen people this is

1826
01:25:25,010 --> 01:25:28,930
beyond sentiment what Shem had for his father

1827
01:25:28,930 --> 01:25:33,870
was beyond sentiment, even beyond filial obligation it

1828
01:25:33,870 --> 01:25:36,370
was his identification with God of the father,

1829
01:25:36,490 --> 01:25:38,650
the heart of the father that cannot bear

1830
01:25:38,650 --> 01:25:42,330
to allow one's father to suffer a humiliation

1831
01:25:42,330 --> 01:25:44,170
and shame and lay uncovered in his own

1832
01:25:44,170 --> 01:25:46,810
tent that's the kind of thing that will

1833
01:25:46,810 --> 01:25:49,490
end the history as it began the history

1834
01:25:49,490 --> 01:25:52,590
the commencement of Shem has its conclusion with

1835
01:25:52,590 --> 01:25:54,690
the church being to Israel what the son

1836
01:25:54,690 --> 01:25:56,910
Shem was to his father and the ironic

1837
01:25:56,910 --> 01:25:59,290
thing is that I need to find that

1838
01:25:59,290 --> 01:26:02,170
identification myself, being born a Jew does not

1839
01:26:02,170 --> 01:26:04,390
automatically fit me to be a Jew with

1840
01:26:04,390 --> 01:26:07,250
the Jews I could be superior even in

1841
01:26:07,250 --> 01:26:09,710
my Jewishness over and against my own people

1842
01:26:10,310 --> 01:26:13,810
so it's not a racial ethnic thing it's

1843
01:26:13,810 --> 01:26:17,670
a spiritual thing it's the Shem thing and

1844
01:26:17,670 --> 01:26:19,110
it's the thing to which we're called and

1845
01:26:19,110 --> 01:26:21,610
to which we're moving so we bless you

1846
01:26:21,610 --> 01:26:24,710
Lord, what a remarkable mystery, what a majestic

1847
01:26:24,710 --> 01:26:28,190
conclusion to the age and that your servants

1848
01:26:28,870 --> 01:26:32,470
isn't that remarkable, we're talking about servants find

1849
01:26:32,470 --> 01:26:39,010
favor in her stones and empathy compassion with

1850
01:26:39,010 --> 01:26:42,150
her dust thank you precious God, and when

1851
01:26:42,150 --> 01:26:44,290
you see that the set time has come,

1852
01:26:44,490 --> 01:26:47,530
you will arise and deliver Israel from that

1853
01:26:47,530 --> 01:26:50,490
predicament, for nothing else will suffice, nothing that

1854
01:26:50,490 --> 01:26:52,990
man or religion can perform, certainly that a

1855
01:26:52,990 --> 01:26:55,030
Jew can perform in his stricken condition or

1856
01:26:55,030 --> 01:26:57,210
any condition, but only that you can perform

1857
01:26:57,210 --> 01:26:59,130
when the set time has come, you will

1858
01:26:59,130 --> 01:27:01,710
arise let it come soon Lord we pray

1859
01:27:01,710 --> 01:27:03,630
and let it come if it's not too

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shameful of boasting all the more in degree

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and proportion because of these days that we're

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enjoying together that what is being spoken, what

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is being reviewed here and considered here will

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not fall to the ground it will not

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just be an enjoyment for those whom you've

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gathered, it will find its way in to

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the body, those who have no present consciousness

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of the Jew at all and in fact

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have lingering anti-Semitic dispositions, will be met

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by this word, and it will set in

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motion that preparation for such a people such

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a servant people for which you wait thank

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you Lord that we're privileged to be participants

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in this, come out of a sick bed

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and sit down and you unfold this remarkable

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thing, and in fact it seems like a

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sick bed and a weakness would be a

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necessary requirement for the unfolding and the bringing

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forth of it and not any man's expertise

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or vain strength so we bless you that

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even in the communication of the mystery, the

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mystery itself is being propounded and enacted right

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before our eyes and that is what a

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prophetical school is that's what propheticism itself is,

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that's what to be prophetic is and so

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we thank you Lord for the event we

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bow if you don't give us another word

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if I have to go back to the

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hospital today and we take another turn and

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the school is dismissed it's not what we

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had hoped to have in full we would

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say we have received full measure thank you

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Lord, precious what you've given us is precious

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beyond all speaking we almost have to imagine

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we're growing up in the hearing of this

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there's a maturity that comes in the very

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hearing, it compels us to rise up with

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such a word, and we thank you Lord

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what a history, what a destiny what a

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call is the church of Jesus Christ of

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the last days toward this people and it

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will take millennia to rejoice and to celebrate

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the majesty of this so great wisdom and

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will that will be perfected and established because

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you have said thank you Lord so, receive

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our gratitude continue to keep us my God

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in the environment, the atmosphere which you have

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established by your own presence, the high seriousness

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of God, and that even though we take

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a break and walk about it will not

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be lost and we'll come back to it

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my God as readily as we have left

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it so, bless us together bring a conclusion

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to this morning's time and seal it we

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thank you and give you praise for the

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privilege of it, in Jesus name, Amen