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The scripture passage for this night is
the book of Obadiah. It is one
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of the twelve minor prophets. It
is near the end of your Old Testament.
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This is the vision of Obadiah.
Thus says the Lord God concerning Edom.
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We have heard a report from the
Lord and a messenger has been sent.
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Among the nations, rise up,
let us rise against her for battle.
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Behold, I will make you small
among the nations and you shall be
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utterly despised. The pride of your
heart has deceived you, you who live
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in the clefts of the Rock,
in your lofty dwelling, who say in
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your heart, who will bring me
down to the ground, though you soar
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aloft like an eagle, though your
nest is set among the stars. From
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there I will bring you down,
declares the Lord. If thieves came to
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you, if plunderers came by night, how would you have been destroyed?
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Would they not steal only enough for
themselves? If great gatherers came to you,
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would they not leave gleanings? How
Esau has been pillaged, his treasures
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sought out. All of your allies
have driven you to your border, and
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those it peep with. You have
deceived you. They have prevailed against you.
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Those who eat your bread have set
a trap beneath you, and you
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have no understanding. Will I not, on that day, declares the Lord
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destr Roy the wise men out of
Edom and the understanding out of Mount Esau,
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and your mighty men shall be dismayed, Oh Taman, so that every
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man from Mount Esau will be cut
off by slaughter because of the violence done
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to your brother Jacob. Shame shall
cover you and you shall be cut off
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forever. On that day, you
stood aloof on the day that strangers carried
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off his wealth and foreigners entered his
gates and cast lots for Jerusalem. You
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were like one of them. But
do not gloat over the day of your
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brother, in the day of his
misfortune. Do not rejoice over the people
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of Judah in the day of their
ruin. Do not boast in the day
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of distress. Do not enter the
gate of my people in the day of
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their clanity, and do not gloat
over his disaster in the day of his
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calamity. Do not loot his wealth
in the day if his calamity, do
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not stand the crossroads to cut off
Fusitives, and do don't hand over his
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survivors and the day of distress,
for the day of the Lord is near.
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Upon all the nations. As you
have done, it shall be done
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to you. Your deeds shall return
on your own head. For as you
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have drunk on my holy mountain,
so all the nations shall drink continually.
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They shall drink and swallow and shall
be as though they had never been.
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But in Mount Zion there shall be
those who escape, and it she'll be
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holy, and the House of Jacob
shall possess their possessions. The House of
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Jacob should be like a fire,
and the House of Joseph of flame and
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the House of Esau stubble. They
shall burn them and consume them, and
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there shall be no survivor for the
house of Esau, for the Lord has
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spoken. Those of negeb shall possess
Mount Esau, and those of Chavala shall
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possess the land of the Philistines.
They shall pal US possess the land of
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Ephraim and the land of Samaria,
and Benjamin shall possess Gilead. The exiles
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of this host of the people of
Israel shall possess the land of the Canaanites
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as far as zero faft, and
the exiles of Jerusalem, her and Sepharad
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shall possess the cities of Negeb.
Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion to
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rule Mount Esau, and the Kingdom
shall be the Lord's. This is the
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word of God. Please be seated. As I said, it is a
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very real blessing to me for me
to be up here with you today.
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Tuson is very near and dear to
my heart. I was not raised in
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the Christian church, but it's in
this city where the Lord found me at
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a ministry event of Campus Crusade for
Christ fifteen years ago, fifteen years ago,
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I think today. Actually I think
I moved down to Tucson. It's
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also there that I met my wife, my bride, whom I love.
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Where we dated, were we engaged, we were married in the city.
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We made our first home in the
city. This is where my eldest child
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was born. So my son,
Christian, is a Tusson native. And
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this is where I studied. I
went to the University of Arizona and I
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got a degree in history. So
it shouldn't be too suppressing if my introduction
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is going to be a story from
history. I'm actually going to draw you
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back to the battle of turnout,
which happened o over four hundred years ago.
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Now, this is not a battle
that I expect you to be aware
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of. It was not large as
far as European warfare goes, and it's
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certainly not held and as high esteem, were considered as important as other battles
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you've heard of, like agincourt or
Waterloo. And yet, as Americans,
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we should feel a certain amount of
sympathy and connection to those men who fought
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in the battle of turnout, because
at this battle there were brave men who
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were fighting for independence, who are
fighting for a young democracy, a young
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republic, were fighting to defend the
ideas of freedom and liberty against a tyrannical
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foreign monarchy. Now, this young
republic was not America, but it was
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the Netherlands, the fledgling Dutch republic, and this tyrannical foreign monarchy was not
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England, but with Spain. And
this war they fought in, although,
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like our declaration, are sorry our
war of independence lasted quite a bit longer.
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Our war lasted eight years, whereas
the Dutch war of independence lasted for
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eighty years. It's colloquially referred to
as the eighty years war. I cannot
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fathom what it would be like for
eighty years of warfare, not only in
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some foreign, distant land, but
at home, in your backyard, in
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your neighborhood, with your father's and
your uncle's and your brothers and your son's
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fighting for your own nation. Indeed, one of the generals who fought at
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this battle called it not only a
battle for the Dutch nation but for the
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Dutch soul. So it can be
when our nation is at distress. It
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has a very real impact on our
own souls, on our own reality,
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and so I figured that this would
be a good thing to address this evening,
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as we live in a nation that
is in many ways in turmoil,
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certainly because of the pandemic that faces
us. We ask the Lord God humbly
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that it would not last for eighty
years, but also the general turmoil that
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we see every time we turn on
the TV, because the fact is,
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as Americans, we have not had
eighty years of struggle. Our longest war
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of continuous warfare was the Vietnam War, which lasted for nine years, and
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that's meaningful because that war ended in
many ways because the American people could no
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longer suffer it. We had grown
war weary and we demanded an end to
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that war after nine years. So
prolonged natural suffering, national crisis can have
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a very real impact on our souls, and the book of Obadiah speaks about
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this directly. It is a time
of great turmoil for the Nation of Israel
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and for the neighboring nation of Edom, and it's going to tell us a
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lot about what it means to belong
to a nation and what it belonged means
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to belong specifically to the nation of
the Lord, called here in this book
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the Kingdom of the Lord. I
think by understanding what it means to belong
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to the Kingdom of the Lord,
we can understand how to have rest when
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our nation is in unrest. So
we're going to have three points today as
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we go through this book. My
hope was, regardless of my own preaching
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ability, at least we read a
whole book of the Bible together today.
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That's a good thing. But we
will go through it together with three points.
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First Edam Safety, Second Edam Sin
and then Third Edam's destruction. So
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the verse the Bible begins in verse, And the vision of Obediah thus says
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the Lord Concerning Edom, we have
heard a report from the Lord. A
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MESSENGER has been sent up among the
nation's rise up. Let us rise against
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her in battle. I will make
you small among the nations and you shall
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be utterly despised. And in a
sense we can hear eatam speaking back,
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saying flippantly good luck. So Edam
is on the other side of the Dead
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Sea from Israel and many of its
villages were indeed up in the mountains,
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which an ancient war fin meant that
they were rather unassailable. They were very
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safe places. But what God says
is you've taken pride in these things and
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who you are and where you are, and they are nothing to me.
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The pride of your heart has deceived
you, and that's something certainly we can
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all relate to. This is why
John Calvin said our hearts are idol factories.
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They make it their business every day
to deceive us in our own pride.
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Now so it is with Edom.
We're in the high mountains, we're
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in the rocks, no one can
come and destroy us now. I asked
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my daughter permission to share the story. I don't usually share stories, but
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it was a very fun one because
a couple weeks ago my daughter went in
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to the doctor's office and because she's
five, that meant that she was going
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to get shots. She's a very
bold young woman. I love that about
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her. So Elizabeth goes up to
the doctor, the receptionist, I'm sorry,
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and knocks on the window, you
know for the reception of slides it
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up, says kind of help you
and she says yes, please, I
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would like to know where I can
hide when the doctor comes and gives me
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shots. Now that receptions did not
tell her where to hide, her boldness
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is cute, but part of what
makes the story funny is you can't hide
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in the doctor's office from the doctor. You've come here to get the shots.
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But it's far more absurd to think
you can hide from the Lord in
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the world that he's made. The
Bible says it's the Lord God who raised
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up the mountains. He set their
foundations before you existed. But now Edam
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says to the Lord, into the
people of Lord, I'm going to hide
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in the hairy mountains you made and
I'll be safe. So this can happen
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in our own hearts and the hearts
of the nation's what we what Edam,
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safety is is really the pride of
their own heart and how prophetic it is.
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Especially earlier this week and I saw
it with it, we were going
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to be reading Psalm fifty three.
Because the fool says in his heart there
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is no god. The fool says
in his heart that justice will not come
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to me because I am safe.
Now there are homes in the Catlina mountains,
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just like there are homes back in
Phoenix on Campel Back Mountain. They're
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very wealthy. It's a good picture
that in modern society, for us it's
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very often wealth that we presume will
hide us from our sins, and it
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can seem for us that often the
rich do get away and they do hide.
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But here, in no small part
in the book of a die,
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the Lord is reminding us no one, no one, can escape my justice,
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not the wealthy in their homes with
their vast panoply of resources, not
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the fortresses high up in the mountains, because it all belongs to God.
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The psalmist themselves says, where can
I go to escape from you? If
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I go up to heaven, you
are there, and if I make my
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bed and shield, you are there. So a god first says about Edam's
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safety is that they have none,
and so it is with all of the
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enemies of God. They have no
safety. And this is further drawn out
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by the Lord saying how much more
full his plundering of Eden will be,
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because if thieves had come, they
would have left something. Now I don't
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know if any of you have been
robbed. I do not consider it an
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attack on this fine city, but
the only time I was robbed was at
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speedway and Campbell at about one in
the morning. Maybe I shouldn't have been
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at at one of the morning.
That's a good lesson for young men.
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Nothing good happens at in the morning. But I was simply going to friends
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house and someone jumped out and demanded
money. Whether or not it was just
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an aggressive, mentally ill person or
true robbing, I don't know. I
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was afraid. I gave them my
wallet and then I made tire tracks up
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Campbell. The thing about being robbed
is how much it penetrates you, how
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much it makes you feel vulnerable for
days, weeks, months years after,
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because it's strips away this veil of
security that you had that it doesn't happen
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to me, and then you realize
something as simple as driving down the road,
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I can get robbed. But God
saying that would have been better for
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you, because the thief didn't take
my car, and even if he had
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taken my car, he wouldn't have
gone to my house and take my computer.
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Even if he goes to my house
and takes my computer, you wouldn't
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have pundered my bank aout. There
would have been something left over. So
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it is with the grape gatherers.
They would have left something, they would
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have left the stock. The Lord
says, Here's the problem with your pride.
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Not only do you think you're safe, but you've lied to yourself about
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the totality of my punishment, to
which there is no end, and that's
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something that we need to hear,
because we we can kind of newter the
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justice and punishment of gone and consider
it something less than an all consuming fire.
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It would be better for you for
thieves to rob you, because when
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I come with my punishment, nothing
will left your main. So the first
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part this of this champ of this
book, is that Edom has enough safety,
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and the next part is edam sin
and in contrast to that, God
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says you have a lot of sin, you have no safety. Have a
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lot of sin, specifically because of
the violence against your brother Jacob. And
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here it's a good time to go
a little further back in history. In
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this book, Esau and Edom are
used interchangeably his names, because we know
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Edom is the nation that came of
Esau, Jacob's brother, the son of
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Isaac. Now it is my hope
that, as men and women who would
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call ourselves reformed, the story of
Jacob and Esau comes quickly to our mind.
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It is very often that when we
come to study and understand the doctrine
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of election, we turned to the
book of Romans, where God uses as
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a specific example of his election.
What but the story of Jacob and Esau.
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Esaw, the older brother, Jacob, the supplanter, the Steeler,
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but Jacob have I loved and Yesaw, I hated, and at that moment
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of God's divine not because of the
merit of the men, and that's going
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to be very important understand for the
rest of the book. God didn't choose
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Jacob because he knew Jacob to be
better. Jacob doesn't do a lot of
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great and his life. He's a
liar, he's a stealer. God chooses
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him, but we do see is. How does he saw respond in the
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book of Genesis? What is his
mother say to Jacob? You need to
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leave, or else what he will
kill you. I think that's a very
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intentional callback in genesis to the story
of Kane and Abel Right, because this
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first great sin after the fall is
fratricide. Is a brother, out of
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jealousy and anger, murdering his brother
and God saying his blood cries out to
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me for justice. There's a very
real sense it in the Bible. Fratricide
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is the picture of evil. It's
your brother, whom you love, who
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you are bonded to, who you
have this divine connection, and you kill
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him. Is a crime against God
himself. It is so wrong. And
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yet that's what Esau wanted to do
to Jacob, was murder. And so
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from that time forward Edom has been
a nation of trouble to Jacob, whom
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we know that God renames Israel.
So from that first end, then he
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between Jacob and Esau. Then through
the generations, through hundreds and hundreds of
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years, the story is basically Esau
continuing trying to kill Jacob. And we
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know even more so is that this
story was actually promised and prophesied in genesis
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chapter three, because when God promises
Eve that her offspring would crush the head
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of the serpent, the promise is
that the seat of the serpent will try
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to bruise his heel, and sets
in motion across the whole of the Bible
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the seat of the serpent trying to
snuff out the seat of the woman.
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And so Esaw seat of the serpent, hater of his brother, murderer in
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his heart, does not get to
snuff out the line. We know that
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Christ comes from Jacob comes from Israel. But even now, all these long
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years, Edam has been plotting the
destruction of the seat of the woman.
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And now, at this moment,
Edam is taking its chance. And there's
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two really important ways that this takes, and this is important. It's in
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our confession. So we said eat
him. Safety hasn't a see if he
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eat eatam. Sin Is great because
it's both sinned, an omission and comission.
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On that day you stood aloof the
day the strangers carried off the wealth
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of Jacob, that foreigners entered his
gates and cast off lots for Jerusalem.
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You were like one of them,
which should be particularly galling, because he's
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saying you should have known better.
You were his brother. So you committed
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what we call a sin of omission, and the Westminster shorter catechism puts this
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brilliantly. It's a very well worded
document. We are fans of that here.
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What is sin, and we save
sin, is first a lack of
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conformity to the law of God.
Here's what he's saying. You didn't do
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basic goodness. EVIL, murderous villains
came to your brother. We're plundering his
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gates, were killing his people,
we're stealing as well. Then you stood
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there and you watched. Now it's
a very important hermoneutic for prophecy. I
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had a professor say this. It
was very helpful for me. The prophecy,
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as we read it, should be
more about the promise than the fulfillment,
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and oftentimes we can be very we
can try to find the fulfillment right
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where. We want this to mean
this, and that can be dangerous because
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the Lord will reveal in time the
fulfillment. But it's hard and same time
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we see clear principles, and what
we have to see the book of Obedi
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saying is that the sin of a
mission is not some small thing that matters
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less. We live in a nation
where our federal government does not actively murder
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millions of babies, but God does
not hold it guiltless because abortion for most
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people is a sin of omission.
The federal government lets it happen and I
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don't think any of us here would
say that's any less of a sin because
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it's a sin of omission. sinsible
mission are terrible, awful things where people
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are letting evil happen, they are
encouraging it when they could stop it,
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and so Edam's sin is terrible.
The Great Gall and anger in our hearts
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when we think about our federal governments
sin of omission and allowing abortion happen is
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the gall and anger that we should
feel against Edom. They are allowing the
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murder of innocence and they are doing
nothing. So we don't want to blow
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by that quickly because it happened a
long time ago. That's what Edom is
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doing. And then it's committing a
sin of comission because you said you're like
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one of them. What are they
do? They gloat over the day of
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your brother, they rejoice over the
people of Jerusalem, they enter the gate
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of the people, they gloat over
the disaster. They lute his wealth,
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they stand at the crossroads and they
cut off his fugitives. Now this has
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happened before and the book of numbers
there are fugitives that the book of Edom
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cuts off from the people of Jacob. So this is a repeated sin of
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now comission by Edom. We're not
only are they allowing the murder of innocence,
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but they're using it to profit.
And there is something so particularly sidious
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about profiting from evil. And yet, as you sit there in your chairs,
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I know you can think in your
minds a hundred examples of people in
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this world who profit from evil,
who search out the darkness and Sordid deeds
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of this world and then monetize it
and trade market and brand it and are
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proud of it. And in fact
God says in the book of Romans that
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this is a sign that I've given
them over destruction, that they not on
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even do evil, but that they
approve of it. So again we see
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an example in modern conducts, if
sin of omission, comission, and when
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we're reading these small prophets, one
of the most important who hermoneuter keys,
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that we can hold on to is
that we have to take the sin seriously
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and it can be so easy when
we're reading it at three in the morning
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and we haven't gotten the coffee in
our system yet and maybe our daughters will
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gone up a little bit earlier than
we had planned, which happened to me
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today, and maybe gets into my
quiet time when I hadn't planned it,
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and we just read about all the
sin. There's this violence. Oh,
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I guess that's bad. Moving on, every awful and wicked thing that we
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mourn in our country now we need
to see in you. They're letting the
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innocent die, they are capitalizing off
its wealth, they're committing the evil themselves.
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We should be outraged, and I'm
going to quote Calvin again. It's
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not just because I'm from Calvin Presbyterian
Church. Calvin says a dog will bark
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when someone attacks it's master, it's
master. How can I not say anything
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when someone attacks my Lord? And
what's clear in the scripture is that the
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people of God belonged to him,
and attack on them as an attack on
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the Lord, like a dog at
the least we should be furious, we
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should bark, we should be upset. So Israel Safety? They have none.
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It's our EDEM's sin. They have
none edem's wow, I said both
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of those wrong. I got a
little excited. I Apologize. EDEM safety.
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They have none edem's sin. It
is great. You know where that
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story is going. If someone has
committed great and terrible sin and they have
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no safety to pretend them, what's
coming? Destruction. Destruction like we can't
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imagine. We can't imagine any user's
war. We can't imagine the ferocious destruction
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that God brings on his enemies,
starting in Verse Fifteen, for the day
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of the Lord is near upon all
of the nations. As you have done,
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so it shall be done to you. Your deeds show return on your
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own head. For as you drunk, you have drunk on my Holy Mountain.
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So all the nations sell drink continually. They shall drink and swallow,
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and it shall be as though they
had never been. The WESTMAN's a confession.
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When it's talked about, scripture has
this beautiful line. Why do we
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believe? The scriptures the word of
God, and says they're we believe in
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the word of God because the testimony
of spirit, but then also comments on
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the beauty of its composition. And
this is as good of poetry I and
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I like poetry a great deal.
This is as good a poetry as you
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will find. As you have done, so it shall be done to you.
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Your deeds shall return to your own
head. You have drunk on my
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Holy Mountain. So all the nation
shall drink continually. But they're not drinking
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good things, are they? They
had come to Jerusalem to drink of the
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wine of the people of God,
and instead they will drink the wrath of
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the Lord God Almighty. And that
is the beautiful symmetry in God, that
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the power of his Providence, the
creativity of his plan, that God's punishment
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on the nation is, in a
sense giving them what they wanted. And
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we see that in our own sins. So often our sins can form us
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into their own image and then they
kill us. So what happens when you
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are gluttonists and you overeat, but
that you become gluttony and then the food
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itself begins to kill you? What
happens when you give yourself the sexual immorality,
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in that you are around people who
are sexually immoral and the sins that
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you've committed against others are now committed
against you by the very people that you
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surround yourself with? What happens when
you are full of anger. But the
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you become angry to people who see
you, they see the dark clouds on
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your shoulder, they see the hatred
and the lack of joy in your eyes.
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You become anger and it kills you. We know that anger has a
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very real biological effect on the human
heart. It tears it apart. Stress
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does it does it to the brain. Anxiety, fear, a lack of
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Rust in God begins to create problems
in our neurological interface. It has a
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real effect in a brain. God
is saying, if you want sin,
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you can have it and it will
destroy you and what you've come seeking,
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you'll find it and it will be
your ruin. We again see this in
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Romans one. The punishment for sin
is often what but more sin. So
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Edom's given to the sin they wanted. They drink what they didn't know what's
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coming. And then I think there
are two key verses to this book and
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one of them is the bottom of
verse eighteen, when it says there shall
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be no survivor for the house of
Esau. Another word for that, if
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we were not believers, would be
genocide. They will be no survivors in
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this house those who belong to the
House of Esau I will snuff out,
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and he says that repeatedly in this
book. And I think we've come to
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we've talked about Edam's safety. There
is none edem sin. There is Great
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Edam's punishment. There are words that
apply to this. It is terrible and
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awful in the truest sense the word
awful. It should fill us with awe
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and it grates against the modern non
Christian conscience. And you will see many
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who hate God, the fools who
say in their heart there is no god.
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They will say that this is proof
that God is bad, which is
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insane, because we have established that
the Edomites are murderers, that they are
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liars, that they are war profiteers, that they are the worst of the
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worst. So God says, I
will punish him, and then the world
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looks at God and says he's a
genocideal maniac, because the world is full
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of fools. Instead, we remember
what Psalm fifty three is told us,
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that there are none who do good, but instead a nation of people who
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have hated God. What's interesting about
Obadi is how it reflects on the book
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that immediately precedes it, which is
the book of Amos. The Book Amos
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also talked about the destruction of Edom, but it says this. In that
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day I will raise up the booth
of David that has fallen and repair its
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breeches and raise up its ruins and
rebuild. It is in the days of
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old that they may possess the remnant
of Edom. Now we have here what
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we should call in a parent not
a real but an apparent contradiction, because
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an Obadiah says the house of Yesha
shall be destroyed, but in the book
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of Amos it says, but there
will be a remnant of Edom that is
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possessed in the use of David.
So I think to understand that we need
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to keep going forward, and I
will tell you this is my small amount
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of biblical wisdom I've earned. That
is almost always the answer in the Bible.
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Keep moving forward. Right the Scriptures
interp the scriptures. So here are
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the next three verses. Those of
neigheb shall possess Mount Esau and those of
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Safala shall possess the land of the
Philistines. They shall possess the land of
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e Fra Him and the land of
Samaria, and Benjamin shall possess Gilead,
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the exiles of this host of the
people of Israel shall possess the land of
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the Canaanates as far as zero feff, and the exiles of Jerusalem, who
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are in Sarahid, shall possess the
cities of Negeb. So we have this
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basically to the north, south,
east and West. The people of God
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will inhabit what God's given them.
Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion to
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rule Mount Esau. But whose kingdom
is now ruling? The Kingdom is the
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Lord's. So what he's saying is
the Kingdom of Edom will be destroyed and
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although I can't always tell you what
problems be filled, you can fulfill that.
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You can look at this ones for
film yourself. Go get to map
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and find eat'em on it. It's
not there, but we know neither is
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the ancient Israeli kingdom. There is
now a nation there the calls of Israel,
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but a very cursory level of history
will tell you that there are some
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stuff that happened in between. The
Kingdom is the Lords. The Kingdom of
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Edom is destroyed, but what God
promises is a remnant of Edom that can
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exist only in so far as they
no longer belong to edom they have one
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hope that they belong to the kingdom
that is the Lord's. So what is
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the Kingdom of the Lords? What
is the only hope of the Edomites to
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survive this burning hot fire punishment this
to come? Well, I want to
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go back to this battle of turn
out, turnouts, excuse me, where
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it was a Protestant and reformed in
Netherlands, by and large, that was
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fighting against Catholic Spain. And even
the most secular of historians admit that the
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main cause of the Dutch were of
independence was this and edict by the King
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of Spain, pronounced in the low
countries that Protestant worship was not allowed,
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not for a period of time because
it infectious disease, but forever. It's
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wrong, you can't go to church. And so the Dutch people rebelled.
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And so the battle of turnout,
although it was a battle for Dutch independence,
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was, at its core, not
reading into it, a battle for
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the right of people to God,
to worship. And so that's why,
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after it was over, the survivors
of the battle rode to him called we
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gather together, because for them the
benefit of that battle was not that the
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Dutch nation exists. The benefit of
that battle was that they could gather together
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and be the people of God in
Evere Real Sense. They weren't fighting for
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the Kingdom of the Netherlands, they
were fighting for their right to participate in
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the Kingdom of God. They were
not fighting to establish a kingdom of God
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in this swamp in northern Europe.
No offense, it's a swamp. That's
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a geological reality. They wanted to
participate in the king of Lord. Calvin
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says this. Calvin says that when
we call God king, it is not
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an empty title. For God to
be King it means three things. God
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is King where there are people who
serve him, people who are ruled by
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his word and people who are silent
in front of him. So I ask
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you where the Kingdom of the Lord
is now, and the answer is here
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on Santa Rosa Avenue, and that
is amazing. Although we come full of
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Sin Ourselves, we come here in
submission to our king, we come here
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to be ruled by his word and
we are silent in his face because he
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is truly our king. And so
again, as jeating this passage, Calvin
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says the saviors that go up to
Mount Zion follow after this savior who went
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up to Mount Zion. Now my
son's name is Christian. I named him
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after the pilgrim's progress, which is
my favorite book. But what is Christian
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literally mean? It Means Little Christ, which was their way of saying Christ
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follower. And again and again the
scripture say this. If you love me,
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feed my sheep. The bride of
the Lord is the prize for which
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he died. The church fathers have
said, if you want God is your
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father, you must love the church
as your mother. The one hope for
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Edom to exist is the Kingdom of
the Lord not to belong to their prideful
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worldly kingdom, which had no safety
and which had many sins, and not
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even by becoming a part of the
militaristic kingdom of Israel in his day.
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There one chance is that the savior
of the Lord Would Ascend My Zion and
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would put under his feet, as
God had promised to his mother Eve,
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that God would put the nations under
his feet, including the mountain of Edom.
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The thing that they thought was their
safety has to be the thing that's
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removed for them if they have a
chance to live. So I'll end with
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this, if you ask me,
my favorite sermon of all time until about
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a couple months ago. There's a
wonderful sermon that is very applicable here.
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It's called the curse Motif for the
appointment by ARCI Sproul, and in it
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he explains what it is to be
cursed by God, and that's what this
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is describing. That's what Edom's fad
is. That's what all of our fate
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is, unless we are in the
Kingdom of the Lord, which is the
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church. But then that changed when
I heard a sermon by Pastor Wanghee of
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early reign church in China, and
I believe this was several months ago.
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I should say I didn't hear till
more recently. We know our brothers and
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sisters in China being persecuted, but
we know, like the s year war,
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that persecution has gone on for decades, since the communist regime has taken
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root in that nation. The Church
of Christ has been known our persecution for
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now pretty close to eighty years,
and in China it is a state crime.
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It is treason to say the China
sinful. The book of Obadiah preached
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against China is sinful, despite China
having no safety and having many sins and
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it's punishment coming. It's a sin. And so what our brother did as
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he went and preached a sermon,
and the point of that sermon was that
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the president of China, geeseping,
is a sinner. So I would encourage
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you. You will hear at least
one good sermon this evening if you go
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home and watch it. It's on
Youtube. There is a translation to it,
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and he says that the only hope
that geeseeping has is for us to
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tell him that he's a sinner.
The only way he can escape the burning
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hot wrath of the Lord, coming
as sure for him as it came for
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Edom, is to acknowledge that he's
a sinner, to abandon the the deceit
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of his pride, to abandon his
worldly kingdom and run to the Kingdom of
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the Lord. And as little Christ's
follow up on Mountain Zige at, that's
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his only chance. And for that
the church was rated and destroyed. For
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that his wife was beaten in imprisoned. For that he himself is in prison
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now and for all likelihood, for
the rest of his life. We should
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not draw one to one comparisons.
We know that. We know not to
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dare to be a Daniel. We
know not to pick up our stones and
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slay the Goliathe in their life,
which is unemployments. We know the scriptures
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more full than that, because what
it's saying to us today is you,
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who belonged to the Kingdom of the
Lord, tell this world that their kingdom
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is not safe. Tell this world
that their kingdom is full of in and
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the punishment is coming, because there
will be a day, to quote Calvin's
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definition of a king, there will
be a day when everyone will listen to
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his voice. There will be a
day when every knee will follow his word,
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there will be a day when everyone
will be silent in front of him.
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Until that day, the only hope
of the nation's the only hope of
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Tucson, the city that I do
dearly love, the only hope is Christ.
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But what's so interesting is in so
many of the prophets they end beautifully.
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Maliki, example, the coming of
the Messiah. This is about the
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coming of Messiah, but it says
that that scene in the church. So
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this is an encouragement as much as
the charge. This city has no safety,
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the city is full of sin.
It's punishment's coming. And it's only
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hope, and a very real sense, is you, because this here is
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the Kingdom of the Lord. This
here is the safe place that will be
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spared the wrath of God. This
here is Zion, where we follow the
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king. So my encouragement to you
is that the word of the Lord does
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not return void. Jewish tradition holds, amazingly, that Obadiah was not an
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Israelite, that he was an Edomite, that that's who God sent to tell
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the people that you're not safe,
your sins are many, your only hope
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is in the day of the Lord. So that is my encouragement to you,
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you who belong to the Kingo of
God. Just as Obadai and EATA
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might with sent out to his own
people, we are sent to minister,
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to this city, who guidd so
many wonders for me and as I'm sure
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he's done for you. Also tell
them the hope and security we have in
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the to come in Kingdom of the
Lord. And then, last I'll do
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send on this because this is a
very unpopular that's the best way to end
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the sermon. Isn't a very unpopular
note. It is right and good to
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remember ourselves when we are persecuted,
that God will punish those who who persecute
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us. Now we do that with
the healthy, deep well of humility,
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knowing such also were some of you
by brothers and sisters. Now and in
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the coming years, I think we
confess quite freely that they will be those
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who glowed over you. They will
be those who laugh at your misfortune.
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They will be those who plunder your
gates. There will be those who come
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to hurt you. God will save
some of them in His mercy and bring
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them into this kingdom, just as
he brought Paul, the persecutor of the
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church, into their own brotherhood.
We need to be ready for that persecutor
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to come in. We know in
the book of acts that it's difficult for
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some. They see Paul right when
Paul shows up. That's who God brings.
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He brings the ones that persecute us, the ones that kill us,
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and so we can rest that God
will punish those who hate him, who
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hate us, but also rest easy
knowing that he's going to bring those here.
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And the brothers and sisters, there's
nothing you can do to get Edem
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to like you. You can't do
that. God chose Edom for destruction.
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God passed over Edom Jacob. He
chose Jacob, he's loved Edom, hates
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Jake, and there's no amount of
being winsome that's going to make the world
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suddenly like the Church of Christ.
It's just not going to happen. Our
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Lord, Jesus Christ, said they
hated me, they will hate you.
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So my unpopular encouragement is that the
world is going to hate you, but
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they hated our savior to and our
hope is not to win their friendship or
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to convince them to like us.
Our hope is to tell them that there
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is a way out of the coming
wrath here in the Kingdom of the Lord,
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here were God's people gather together.
And so let's after we pray,
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let's respond by singing that him,
celebrating not only God's freeing a certain group
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of our brothers and sisters to worship, but our own freedom to gather together
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in the Kingdom of the Lord.
We no longer belong to eat him.
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We no longer, believing, belong
to France, Sir Ireland or even America.
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We belong to the Kingdom of the
Lord, and that's a great thing.
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Please pray with me,
