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Our Lord God. If it were
not for you, we would not know
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the way of your statutes and we
would constantly turn away from even the little
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bit that we can see. We
would not desire to obey with our hearts,
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but instead, with our hearts wholly
perverted, to fall after every wicked
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thing, to cast our eyes on
every worthless thing, to have our inclined,
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to incline our hearts toward every evil. And so this is why we
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are so desperately in need of the
power of your grace, of your work
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of love in our lives, to
teach us and to help us to see,
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to give us delight in your paths
and in your ways. Lord,
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we ask that you would help us, even now, as we come to
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the reading and preaching of your word
and is equal, that you would help
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us to have a better sense and
knowledge of you, of who you are,
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of what you've done, to not
think too smallly, of too small
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of you. We asked, Lord, that you would, in your word,
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confirm your promises to us, that
you may be feared, give us
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life, O Lord, in Jesus
Name. Amen. Let's turn remain standing,
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if you're able, I please,
and let's turn to Ezekiel, Chapter
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Twenty Eight, is Ekiel Twenty eight
versus twenty through twenty six, so that's
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twenty through the end of the chapter. Give your attention to the word of
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the Lord. Ezekiel, Chapter Twenty
Eight, Verse Twenty. The word of
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the Lord came to me, son
of man. Set your face towards Sidon
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and prophesy against her and say,
thus says the Lord God. Behold,
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I am against you, of Sidon, and I will manifest my glory in
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your midst, and they shall know
that I am the Lord when I execute
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judgments in her and manifest my holiness
in her, for I will send pestilence
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into her and blood into her streets, and the slain shall fall in her
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midst by the sword that is against
her on every side. Then they will
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know that I am the Lord,
and before the House of Israel there shall
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no more be a briar to prick
or a thorn to hurt them among all
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their neighbors who they have treated them
with contempt. Then they will know that
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I am the Lord God. Thus
says the Lord God, when I gather
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the House of Israel from the People's
among whom they are scattered and manifest my
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holiness in them, in the sight
of the nation's then they shall dwell in
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their own land that I gave to
my servant Jacob, and they shall dwell
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securely in it, and they shall
build houses and plant vineyards. They shall
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dwell securely when I execute judgments upon
all their neighbors who have treated them with
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contempt. Then they will know that
I am the Lord, their God.
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You may be seated. Oseekiel,
in this passage comes to yet another place
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where God calls upon him to prophesied
judgment against one of Israel's neighbors. You
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remember that for most of the book
of Ezekiel, up until just the recent
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few chapters, the word of the
Lord was against his own people. is
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against his own people, on for
their sins, for their many sins,
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and he promised destruction of Jerusalem and
there their country. He promised to scatter
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them to all the places and that
the blood that they shed would be shed
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by them. Their own blood would
be shed in for justice for the sins
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they had committed. But as Jerusalem
fell, Israel's neighbors saw it as an
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opportunity to treat them with contempt and
in various ways they saw an opportunity to
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make fun of them, to laugh
at them, to steal from them,
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to have pride in themselves instead of
humility for their own sins, instead of
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submission to the God who was bringing
this judgment. They thought they were above
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the judgment themselves. And for that
God is showing that he is righteous and
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fair and all his ways, and
he's bringing judgment on Israel's neighbors as well.
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And tonight he comes against Sidon and
he says, I will manifest my
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glory in your myths. He says
that they will know that I am the
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Lord. Israel will know that he
is the Lord. All the world will
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know that he is the Lord because
of about wow, about what he is
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going to do. If you remember, this is a phrase that's come up
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over and over and over again throughout
his seekul. God's desire is for us
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to know him, and it is
because of a rejection of him and not
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listening to him, a disobedience against
him, that he responds in this way.
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He says he is going to make
his glory known, and that is
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what I want to focus on this
evening. What does it mean to live
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life the midst and in the glory
of God. Well, there's not one
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answer to that. Really depends on
how you relate to God, but I
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want to think about that, think
about God's glory in light of this passage.
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Glory describes the magnificence of something,
the splendor of something. It's a
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it's an attribute of weightiness, of
heaviness. It's an attribute that lends,
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that lends, but leads to praise. Right, if you see something glorious,
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whether it's a mountain or a machine, work of art, a system
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the is built and human culture,
it's the kind of thing that you say,
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wow, that's amazing, that's awesome, that and you you be you
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feel almost this natural expression of desire
to praise that thing. That's what glory
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does. It leads us to pray. Something that is glorious, something that
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is magnificent, something that is splendor
filled of splendor, is something that we
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praise, we want to hold on
to. It can also make us fear.
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Right, glorious army when it's coming
at you, may be glorious,
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but it still might cause you to
run the other direction. A glorious thunderstorm,
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with all of its lightning strikes and
and heavy winds might be glorious and
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magnificent, but also terrifying in something
that you want to get away from.
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That thunderstorm image is something that God
even expressed himself at. It expressed his
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glory in that way when he gave
the Ten Commandments. Remember when God,
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I'm called Moses up to the mountain. He covered the mountain in thick smoke
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and flashes of lightning. The earth
was shaking and he commanded Israel not to
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even touch the mountain lest they die, and they didn't want to either.
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This glory of God is truly awesome. On light of that glory, there's
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really upple ways to live. One
way is described in Romans chapter one,
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and I'll turn there, Romans Chapter
One, versus twenty two and twenty three
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in particular, but I'll pick up
just a little bit before that. We're
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going to start in verse eighteen.
For the wrath of God is revealed from
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Heaven Against All ungodliness and unrighteousness of
men who, by their unrighteousness, suppress
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the truth. For what can be
known about God is plain to them because
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God has shown it to them.
For his invisible attributes, namely his eternal
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power and divine nature, have been
clearly perceived ever since the creation of the
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world in the things that have been
made. So they are without excuse,
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for although they knew God, they
did not honor him as God or give
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thanks to him, but they became
feutile in their thinking and their foolish hearts
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were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory
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of the immortal God for images resembling
mortal man and birds and animals and creeping
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things. Paul picks up the language
of creation. Let us make man in
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our in our own image, after
our own likeness. Let him have dominion
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over the fish of the sea and
over the birds of the heavens and over
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the live stock and over all the
earth and over every creeping thing that creeps
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on the earth. This this Lang
which that God made everything and all that's
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in crowned it with man made in
his image, a reflection even of his
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glory. Man then takes that creation
and turns it all on its head.
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Instead of giving glory to God,
it treats it as God. This is
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one way people live. In light
of the glory of God, claiming to
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be wise, they are fools and
they exchange God's glory for false glory.
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The other way to live is described
in first chronicles sixteen twenty four. In
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this command declare his glory among the
nation's, his marvelous works, among the
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people. One exchange is the glory
of God for created things. The other
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attributes glory to him and to him
alone. Now we might choose one of
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these two paths, but in one
sense it doesn't really matter, because in
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this sense God is not changed by
it either way. His glory and his
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magnificence is his alone and it's not
dependent on what we think of him.
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Isaiah Forty two eight says this.
I am the Lord, that is my
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name, my glory. I give
to no others, nor my praise to
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carved idols. So we might choose
to glorify other creatures, we might choose
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to go after idols of our own
making, but this does not weaken God
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in any way. This does not
make God ineffective or make him lose his
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glory in some way. He's not
threatened by it or undone by it in
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any way. No, he simply
says I'll make my glory known, and
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we see an example from that right
here in Sidon. Sidon did not glorify
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the Lord Got Sidon, did not
follow him and glorify him and behold his
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marvelous works. That they had,
if they had just seen the fall of
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Jerusalem, they would have repented,
sackcloth and ash as Lord, save us
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from your wrath, from your holiness, from Your glory. Instead, they
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mocked Israel, they laughed and contempt
they saw her. She saw herself as
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above her sister city. And so
God said, does hear what he promises
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to do? And as Isaiah Forty
Eight, I am the Lord, that
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is my name, my glory.
I give to no others, nor my
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praise to carved idols. Is Ekiel, is Ekiel, twenty eight, twenty
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one. Behold, I am against
you, O side, and then I
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will manifest my glory in your midst. God will make himself known. And
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how is he made known? Insidon, he's made known in his power,
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in his might, as he executes
judgments and Sir, as he sends pestilence
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and blood in her streets, as
the slain are fallen, as the slain
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fall in her midst, as the
sword goes against her on every side.
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God, in his mighty power,
take a moment and imagine the most powerful
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thing you can, the biggest machine
you've ever seen, the strongest storm wave,
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maybe a great wind that knocked over
something you once saw, a big
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tree or something like that. All
of these things are just creations of God.
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These things are are nothing to him. He, in his power,
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can move any tree, any mountain, any nation, any king, any
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heart. God in his power can
move planets, can create planets. God
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in his power can become incarnate,
rise from the dead. God in his
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power is beyond anything that we can
know, anything we can compare it to.
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His glory will be made known when
he desires to make it known,
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and it is made known here in
his power. Side and will not be
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able to say no side and will
not be able to put up a defense
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to hold God off a little bit
longer. When God decides to do what
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he wants to do, he simply
does it. That is the glory of
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God, the power of God.
God's glory is also made manifest in His
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Holiness. In some ways they're very
similar ideas and we see them parallel here.
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He says they shall know that I'm
the Lord when I execute judgments in
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her and manifest my holiness in her. Holiness is perfection. Holiness is perfect
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purity, ultimate morality, perfect in
every way, spotless. We see the
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holiness in the glory of God.
Together in another passage, like Isaiah,
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six, three and one called to
another, that is, angels in the
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Heavens and said Holy, Holy,
Holy, is the Lord of hosts.
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The whole Earth is full of his
glory. The glory of God is manifested
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in His Holiness and His Holiness is
manifested in his glory and in every single
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other aspect of God's character. We
see God's holiness is perfection in his wisdom,
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in his works, in his justice, in his benefits and his promise.
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There's nothing that God does that isn't
holy. Men, when we try
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to do things all the time,
are are even the best of our deeds
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are tainted. Our wisdom is not
perfect, our works are not perfect,
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are justice is not perfect. They
promises that we make are not perfect.
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But God, in His Holiness,
always is, and this is how he
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will manifest himself in these and even
in these darker works of pestilence, of
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blood, of people dying in the
street, of armies and swords. It
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can be hard for us to imagine
sometimes that this justice is an aspect of
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God's glory and of God's character.
How could God do these kinds of things?
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How could God kill people? But
that sense of justice that we have,
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or sorry, the sense of justice
that God to place here. We
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can see the his holiness in it
in a couple of ways. One way
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we see it is in as he
UN vindicates himself for these things. God,
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when he acts, never acts with
just cruelty or spitefulness. He doesn't
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act ever in any way except because
of perfect fairness and justice. We have
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a hard time imagining God acting that
way because we don't, because we don't
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act that way. We don't act
in perfect holiness when it comes to justice.
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But we long for it, don't
we, when justice isn't done,
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when things are unfair and all,
you know, topsy turvy on their heads
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and we cry out with longing hot
who's going to make this right? This
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is not fair, and those moments
we sense that justice can be good,
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that justice is right, and justice
sometimes needs to be very, very strong,
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partly because justice sometimes, maybe all
the time, not only upholds a
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standard for justice, but it also
protects people. Justice protects those who would
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be harmed otherwise, if someone steals
from you, for example, someone goes,
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let's say, over to your house, steals your car and takes it
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away on let's say that person is
is caught and prosecuted and and and the
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car is impounded and gotten back and
all of that. That's done for the
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sake of justice. Right with that? It's right for up that person to
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be punished, but it's also done
to get you your car back, and
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that's maybe what we want most of
the time anyway. We want a sense
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of fairness, but we also want
to be protected from evil things. We
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want to be protected from unfair things, from unrighteous things, from evil things,
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and God, in his great king
be kingly power, in his great
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glory, executes that Justice. And
we see him doing that here for his
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people. He will condemned, condemns
Sidon and tire and these other places.
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And why? And one of the
reasons he does it, he says in
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Verse Twenty Four, is so that
in it so that for the House of
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Israel there shall know me more be
a briar or a prick or thorn to
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hurt them among all their neighbors who
have treated them with contempt. They will
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know that I and the Lord,
and so we see at the end of
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this passage is something that we see
a lot in scripture, is that judgment
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is salvation, that judgment is salvation, that when God comes and judges a
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sin, when God comes and Judges
Evil, God come conquers his enemies.
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It is salvation for all those who
belong to God. When God saves us
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from our sin, he is a
conquering God. When God saves us from
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this from Satan, he is a
conquering God. In order for us to
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be saved from evil, God must
defeat evil, and that's what we see
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in a passage like this. I'll
close with this. The place where we
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see this the best and the place
where we see this the most is,
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of course, the Cross, where
judgment and salvation come perfectly together in one
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person, where the judgment of God
is poured out even on himself, so
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that he can save us from our
sins. Imagine if God had spared judgment
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on the cross. Where would we
all be? If God had decided not
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to pour out his wrath for sin, if God had not decided decided to
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with whole justice, where would all
of us be? We would not have
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a sacrifice for sins, we would
still be our sins, we would still
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be in slavery to our sins and
to death. But because God was just,
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because God brought his judgment, we
know that we are saved. But
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he also gaves US grace, because
he didn't pour the judgment out directly on
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us. He poured it out on
himself, on the Sun. When we
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live in the glory of God,
we do right to keep these things in
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mind. To Live for the glory
of God and in the glory of God
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is to keep in mind who he
is in all of his magnificence, in
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his wisdom and his power, in
his works. We consider the splendor and
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the magnificence of all that he is, how praise is due to him in
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every way. We consider his strength
and his justice and His Holiness, his
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might. And as we consider these
things and as we look to the Cross
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of Christ, we see our salvation. there. We see that when he
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comes again into the world to judge
the living and the dead, we will
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have no need to fear because judgment
is already passed for us. The Salvation
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is all ours. And then when
we see the glory of God, as
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Paul Rights in the face of Jesus
Christ, our Savior. We put our
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faith in him and we follow him
and live in him and by his every
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word. So let that be your
prayer tonight. As we come to greater
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understanding of who God is in his
glory, and as we come to greater
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desires to live for him, let's
look to the Lord Jesus, so that
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we might find salvation from our sins
and not find ourselves on the side of
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Sidon, but instead on the side
of Israel, through God's own son,
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and Israel provided for us. Let's
pray our heavenly father, we thank you
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for your word to us and we
thank you for Your Majesty and Your Glory.
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Indeed, there is no god like
you. All of the idols that
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we would worship in this world pale
and comparison. They don't even, we
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can't even compare them to who you
are and to all that you are capable
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of doing. Lord, we ask
that, as we come to see your
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glory in the Cross of Christ,
that you would help us to live in
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light of it. Let us always
look to Jesus as as the author and
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perfector of our faith and live only
in and through him, giving him all
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glory and honor and power and praise. Lord, we ask that you would
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teach us these things and help us, help us to rest in them,
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knowing that you, in the glories
of your grace, are for us and
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not against us. We pray this
in Jesus name. Amen.
