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good morning my brothers and sisters

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it is a good morning i want to thank our

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brother richard patterson for trying to

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set the record straight last night

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he had a lapse of memory

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[Laughter]

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he talked about

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the musical horns that my car had

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he forgot to explain to you that he put

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them in

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[Laughter]

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i ordered these musical horns from a

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mail order catalog

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and they came in a box

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these great big three horns and all

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these little wires and diagrams and of

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all the things i'm not

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i'm not an engineer the most

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and he is

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so i invited him up to the house we were

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just 16 years old we were just kids

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and he spent the night with me and we

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worked on the car

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well he worked in the car and i handed

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him tools

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he'd say what do you you know here i

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gave you a screwdriver a pair of pliers

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and he put in the horns

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and we learned how to play mary had a

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little lamb very well

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[Laughter]

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i'm sorry you forgot that

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it took

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10 years

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to conquer the land

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god could have done it in one minute

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but that's that's not the way he does

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things

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joshua sent two spies

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into jericho

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to spy out the land

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god sent two men into jericho

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to find

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a woman

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the story of rahab is very beautiful

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story and it shows how that god is still

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calling out of the gentiles a people

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for his name

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and god calls people that we might not

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have called

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we

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probably wouldn't have chosen rahab

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to be one of the great great great great

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great grandmothers

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of the lord jesus christ

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but god

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looks upon the heart

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and god knew

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what she really was like inside

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in spite of the type of life

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that she had been living

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and i think we want to learn a lesson

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from that is that we must not judge

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other people

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we must not decide that someone is swine

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and so we're not going to tell them

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about the truth

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aren't you glad god called you

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isn't it wonderful that of all the

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teeming millions and millions of people

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that are on the earth that

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god

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picked you

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no man can come to me said jesus except

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the father which hath sent me

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draw him

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so there isn't anyone in this room that

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just what do you know i just happen to

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bump into a christian dolphin i am one

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it doesn't work like that

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god has reached down

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and hand-picked you out of all the

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multitudes of people and called you now

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not everybody that's called accepts the

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call

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and of course not everyone is called

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is chosen

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but god wants each of you to be in his

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kingdom

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and he's called you

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to his glory

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mark was just telling me how he met

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robin they both had lived in panama they

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never met in panama

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but they came to houston and they had a

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reunion of people who used to live in

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panama and he went and she went

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and they met for the first time in

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houston the common thing they had in

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common was they both had lived in the

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canal zone though they had never met

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but when he became interested in her she

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let him know that she was interested in

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the lord

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you can't

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have anything to do with me till you

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learn about my god

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was the way she explained it

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he loved her

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he loves her god

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and her god is his god

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and so it wasn't an accident that they

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went to that particular reunion of ex

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panamanian workers in the canal zone

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god was calling him there although he

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did not know it at the time

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god calls us in different ways and it's

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a thrill to when we hear the stories of

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how some of us

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have been called

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to become a brother

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and a sister of the lord jesus christ

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now if i were to ask you a question

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who is

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the mother-in-law

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of ruth what are you going to say

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naomi and you'll be right

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because naomi is the second most

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important woman

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in the book of ruth

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but do you know that ruth had another

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mother-in-law

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rahab

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and we don't think of rahab as being the

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mother-in-law of ruth

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but she was

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brother tenet took us to hebrews 11 this

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morning in his class

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and rahab

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is in hebrews

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a chapter 11.

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i i like to think of

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the 11th chapter of hebrews

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as god's hall of fame

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cooperstown new york

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hall of fame for baseball canton ohio

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hall of fame for football springfield

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mass hall of fame for basketball hebrews

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chapter 11 god's

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hall of fame

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by faith verse 31 the harlot rahab

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perished not

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with them that believed not

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when she had received the spies

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with peace

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and james

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the half-brother of the lord jesus

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christ

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likewise also was not rahab the harlot

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justified by works

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when she had received the messengers and

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sent them out another way faith

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in hebrews 11 works in james she had

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faith

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she had worked show you my your faith

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without my works i'll show you my faith

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by my works

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said james

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and so

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rahab was a person who had great faith

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great works

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it's amazing what rahab

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knew

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and we were pleased to have read for us

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this morning

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joshua chapter

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2. if you'd like to open your bibles

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there we will see that rahab

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knew something that changed

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her life

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chapter 2

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going in at verse 8

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and before they were laid down she came

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up unto them upon the roof that's

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the two spies and she said to the men i

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know

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that the lord hath given you the land

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and that your terror is fall upon us and

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that all the inhabitants of the land

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faint because of you for we have heard

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who's the we here all the people who

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lived in jericho right i mean this is a

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this is a a we includes all the in

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heaven we have heard how the lord dried

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up the water of the red sea for you when

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you came out of egypt how long ago had

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that happened

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40 years ago

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they're still talking about something

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that happened 40 years ago you are you

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still talking about what happened in

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1952 what happened to 52 i don't even

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remember what happened in 52

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you were born

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okay so you have an event that reminds

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you i have a son that was born in 52

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also i shouldn't forget it myself

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but the point is

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we don't really talk about things that

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40 years ago

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the gulf war was just a year ago and

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people are already forgetting about it

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this event happened 40 years now i don't

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think she was born

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most people who are prostitutes are

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young

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she's talking about an event that

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happened 40 years ago now when this

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event happened it was not covered by

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there was no instant replay of the water

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going back

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it was not in the jericho news and world

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there were no pictures of this event it

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happened 40 years ago

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and nobody in jericho saw it

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and yet everybody in jericho knew it

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and everybody in jericho was frightened

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because of it we have heard

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and verse 11 and as soon as we had heard

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these things our hearts did melt

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neither did there remain any more

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courage in any man because of you

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for the lord your god he is god in

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heaven above and an earth beneath so

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question number one how many people in

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germa and jericho knew this

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everybody knew it how many in jericho

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did something about it

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one person

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a lesson

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how many in this room know that the lord

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jesus christ is going to absolutely

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positively return to this earth

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everybody knows it

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how many of you are doing something

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about it

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again i hope all the hands go up

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because to know and not to do is not to

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know

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it isn't that we know and we must do

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after we know we must be doers of what

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we know

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there are a lot of people who know thump

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something and they don't do anything

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about it

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and you're actually worse off knowing

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about it and not doing something about

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it than if you didn't know about it

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and so

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what

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actions are being produced in our lives

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because of what we know

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we're seeing an action that was produced

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in rahab's life

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because of what

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she knew

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and so we have to make sure that our

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knowledge

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which has brought us responsibility

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is now being acted out

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in our life

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we need to respect

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the great faith of this woman

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who really stood alone

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because nobody else in jericho

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who knew what she did

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who did what she did

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do you think that god would have saved

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anybody else in jericho besides rahab

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and her family yes

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anyone in jericho who would have turned

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to god would have been saved you see

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there's nobody that perishes

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they never had a chance

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people say

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god isn't fair for god to allow all the

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people in the darkest of africa the

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little pygmies in the center it isn't

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fair to let them live and die

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who worked out to reply against god

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there is nobody in this world who would

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have obeyed the truth and been a

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faithful follower of the lord jesus

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christ who dies without ever having

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heard that truth and having had an

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opportunity to have abated god's never

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made a mistake

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everybody that god wants is called

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and those that don't come

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not god's fault therefore

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when the flood came along there was 1

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billion 30 million people drowned

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if you don't believe there's 1 billion

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30 million people it's in the bible in

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my margin

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[Laughter]

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i remember having that worked out for me

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i was privileged to go to the echo lake

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ecclesia

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members of that pleasure are here today

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and a brother

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worked that out for us mathematically

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and i put it in the margin of my bible

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and they i can prove it to you if i was

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a mathematician

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somebody like dick patterson who still

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could do that he likes math but there

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was five members in each family just

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working out mathematically a billion how

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many people

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out of a billion thirty million survived

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eight

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small fraction don't worry about being

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in the minority

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were the babies that drowned yes

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were there ten-year-olds that drowned

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yes

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were there people who lived a little

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ways off you did drown yes did anybody

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drown that shouldn't have drowned no

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they

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heard noah preach

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and refused to go why did god make the

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ark so big you say well because of all

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the animals

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there was room

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for more people

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than those who went in

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there's room for more people to come to

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the knowledge of the truth today

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than those that are accepting it but it

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isn't

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god's fault

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when someone refuses to listen any more

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than it was god's fault

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that all those people who perished in

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jericho perished they knew it wasn't

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that they didn't know as soon as we had

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heard these things our hearts that's the

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whole city did melt

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and she makes this declaration of faith

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for the lord your god he is god in

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heaven above

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and in earth beneath

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so many people know

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there is a god

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but they don't listen to him

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how can you believe there is a god and

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then not listen to it

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one of my approaches when i talk to

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people i says

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i ask them if about their faith and they

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say they don't have any faith or they

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don't believe in god and i said

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either there is a god or there isn't

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would you accept that

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nobody can deny that there either is or

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there isn't if there isn't a god you

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don't have to obey him right because

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there's no god to obey

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if there is a god either he has said

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something or he's never said him did you

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buy that everybody agrees with him

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you give them simple little choices of

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which they can't just disagree with you

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now if there is a god and he never said

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anything you don't have to do what he

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said because he never said anything

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right

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but if there is a god and he said

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something

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and you don't listen

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is that very smart

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if he wrote a book and you don't read it

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and he wrote it

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you think he wrote it just to be doing

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something or for you to

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read it

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try to keep it very simple

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and try to make it appealing to those

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that you meet

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hopefully that god will be calling

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someone

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that you're meeting

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i have a lot of friends that i know

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work associates people that i think a

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lot of from a worldly viewpoint

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honest

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good living people

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who god evidently

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has not called

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but god did not make a mistake and i

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don't know who he's calling who he

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hasn't so our job is to just sow the

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seed and try to tell everybody we know

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of our hope

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and try to share our good news with all

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that we come in contact with

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rahab was one of those people

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that god wanted and nobody

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would have ever known it

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except god

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now joshua was no sleepyhead

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and he had gotten up in the morning

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and he had

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sent them over uh

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to

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verse chapter three and verse one

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joshua rose early in the morning and

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they came removed from him and came

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to jordan

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and all the children lodged there before

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they passed over

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then he commanded them saying when you

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see chapter 3 verse 3

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when you see the ark of the covenant

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i won't ask you to do it but the ark of

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the covenant

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i just colored them in my bible in

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chapter 3 and in 17 verses

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you find the word ark 10 times god is

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trying to put make a point whenever he

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repeats something that often this ark of

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the covenant is very

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very important

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and

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joshua rose early in the morning

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some of us have more trouble rising

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early than others

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but the scriptures speak many many times

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if you again look up early in the

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morning in your concordance you'll find

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that

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many many people rose early in the

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morning jesus rose before daybreak

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but to pray mary magdalene came to the

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sepulcher early in the morning david

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said oh god thou art my god early will i

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seek thee that morning is the best time

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of the day

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and

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use it to your advantage whenever

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possible you have to set your alarm

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early a lot of people redo their bible

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readings early in the morning art and

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eleanor we're explaining that's the

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first thing they do when they get up in

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the morning they do their bible they

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start off the day with god

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and it's a very wonderful way

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to begin

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the day

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and so joshua early in the morning

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arises and he tells the people to be

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ready

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to march

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and he commanded the people saying when

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you see the ark of the covenant the lord

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your god and the priest the levites

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bearing it then ye shall remove from

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your place and go after it you are to

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follow the ark of the covenant

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the ark was a symbol of christ

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he is our ark

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the ark of the covenant was to precede

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the people jesus said follow me

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and there shall be a space says verse 4

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chapter 3

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between you and it about 2 000 cubits by

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measure come not near to it that you may

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know the way by which you must go for

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you have not passed this way here to

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four the ark was to go ahead of the

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people about two thousand cubits

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now just assume that a cubit represents

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a year

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how far ahead of us has the our arc gone

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before us

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1992

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about 2 000 years

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jesus has gone ahead of us 2000 years

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and we are to follow jesus into the

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promised land as the children of israel

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were to follow their ark and joshua into

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the promised land

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and so

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joshua says sanctify yourselves for

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tomorrow the lord will do wonders among

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you

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and they were got ready to march

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what what a wonderful exciting event

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that was about to take place here

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and the problem is the jordan river

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was overflowing its banks

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in flood

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now if you we were down at the ocean

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yesterday and as you walked out we

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didn't walk out hardly far enough we did

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get overhead if you walk far enough you

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had to go quite a ways

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but when you carry something heavy on

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you and you walk out into deep water you

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pretty soon that's the end of you

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now this ark was heavy

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and they were carrying it and they were

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to walk into this flood water carrying a

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heavy ark and there's no way you could

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keep your head above water and not drown

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carrying something that heavy on your

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shoulders into this overflowing river it

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took faith

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and you had to keep walking toward that

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river and you could see the river and

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you can see how deep it was and you've

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got this

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on your shoulders and you go forward it

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took faith

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it takes faith for us

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to go forward in the

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face of the adversities

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and the floods of evil that sometimes

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face us but god is able to do

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exceedingly abundantly above all that

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you are asking they just do it and so

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that's what they did they did it

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verse 15 the bottom of the verse jordan

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over forth all these banks all the time

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of harvest

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and so

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as they walk toward this river

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they verse 15 and they they bear the ark

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that we were come under jordan and the

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feet of the priests that bear the ark

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were dipped in the brim they didn't have

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to get their heads wet just the minute

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their feet hit the water something

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happened

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and the thing that happened

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is a marvelous thing because it's

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something that doesn't ever happen

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except with god's control

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the water turned around

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and flowed uphill

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backwards

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and it flowed back

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to adam

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verse 16. that the water switch came

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down from above stood up and rose up

569
00:20:58.720 --> 00:21:01.909
upon a heap very far from the city adam

570
00:21:01.919 --> 00:21:04.950
that is beside zeratan and so here we

571
00:21:04.960 --> 00:21:08.310
have water flowing down from jordan

572
00:21:08.320 --> 00:21:10.149
from the sea of galilee down the jordan

573
00:21:10.159 --> 00:21:12.070
into the dead sea and suddenly it turns

574
00:21:12.080 --> 00:21:14.830
around and goes back

575
00:21:14.840 --> 00:21:17.430
to adam

576
00:21:17.440 --> 00:21:21.510
and psalm 114 verse 3 says jordan

577
00:21:21.520 --> 00:21:23.190
was driven

578
00:21:23.200 --> 00:21:24.630
back

579
00:21:24.640 --> 00:21:25.830
now there's a

580
00:21:25.840 --> 00:21:27.909
nothing that god has written for us is

581
00:21:27.919 --> 00:21:29.909
just by accident and and the symbols and

582
00:21:29.919 --> 00:21:32.950
the types are beautiful

583
00:21:32.960 --> 00:21:35.590
now in israel there are

584
00:21:35.600 --> 00:21:37.190
again you i'm so

585
00:21:37.200 --> 00:21:38.630
glad you already know this but i'm

586
00:21:38.640 --> 00:21:40.149
stirring up your pyramids by way of

587
00:21:40.159 --> 00:21:42.630
remembering but there are two seas in

588
00:21:42.640 --> 00:21:44.710
israel there's a little sea called the

589
00:21:44.720 --> 00:21:46.950
sea of galilee and it's 600 feet below

590
00:21:46.960 --> 00:21:48.870
sea level

591
00:21:48.880 --> 00:21:50.950
and then the jordan river leaves that

592
00:21:50.960 --> 00:21:52.870
sea and it winds its way it's a very

593
00:21:52.880 --> 00:21:55.110
windy twisty river it goes down to the

594
00:21:55.120 --> 00:21:58.070
dead sea which is 1290

595
00:21:58.080 --> 00:22:00.470
feet below sea level

596
00:22:00.480 --> 00:22:03.270
and the river jordan that flows out of

597
00:22:03.280 --> 00:22:06.070
the sea of galilee is a pretty big river

598
00:22:06.080 --> 00:22:07.909
there's also a jordan river that flows

599
00:22:07.919 --> 00:22:09.909
into the sea of galilee

600
00:22:09.919 --> 00:22:11.750
but it's a very little river

601
00:22:11.760 --> 00:22:13.510
in fact as i looked at i thought if i

602
00:22:13.520 --> 00:22:14.950
got a running jump i think i could just

603
00:22:14.960 --> 00:22:17.350
about get a jump across it it's such a

604
00:22:17.360 --> 00:22:19.430
small river but the river that flows out

605
00:22:19.440 --> 00:22:21.430
is a great big river and they have huge

606
00:22:21.440 --> 00:22:22.549
boats

607
00:22:22.559 --> 00:22:23.990
steep

608
00:22:24.000 --> 00:22:27.590
flowing sailing in that in that water

609
00:22:27.600 --> 00:22:28.870
now

610
00:22:28.880 --> 00:22:31.430
the lesson is this the sea of galilee is

611
00:22:31.440 --> 00:22:33.510
very generous

612
00:22:33.520 --> 00:22:35.430
all the water that comes into the sea of

613
00:22:35.440 --> 00:22:36.870
galilee

614
00:22:36.880 --> 00:22:39.110
it gives away it doesn't keep it it's

615
00:22:39.120 --> 00:22:40.950
not selfish

616
00:22:40.960 --> 00:22:41.909
it's

617
00:22:41.919 --> 00:22:44.549
giving of itself all the water you give

618
00:22:44.559 --> 00:22:46.230
me says the sea of galilee i'll give it

619
00:22:46.240 --> 00:22:48.630
away i'll let it flow out i'll just be a

620
00:22:48.640 --> 00:22:50.630
conduit let it come into me and i will

621
00:22:50.640 --> 00:22:52.710
share it with the fish and the fishermen

622
00:22:52.720 --> 00:22:55.430
and the life and i'll give it away

623
00:22:55.440 --> 00:22:56.950
and the sea of galilee is a beautiful

624
00:22:56.960 --> 00:22:59.190
little sea it's full of life and fish

625
00:22:59.200 --> 00:23:01.590
are there and even today you can see

626
00:23:01.600 --> 00:23:04.070
fishermen fishing on the sea of galilee

627
00:23:04.080 --> 00:23:07.190
and then this water flows out of the sea

628
00:23:07.200 --> 00:23:09.590
of galilee and it flows down this big

629
00:23:09.600 --> 00:23:10.549
river

630
00:23:10.559 --> 00:23:13.510
down to the dead sea

631
00:23:13.520 --> 00:23:16.470
and the dead sea is a big sea

632
00:23:16.480 --> 00:23:18.789
lots of people in the dead sea always

633
00:23:18.799 --> 00:23:20.390
more people that are wicked than people

634
00:23:20.400 --> 00:23:22.630
that are righteous the one sea is little

635
00:23:22.640 --> 00:23:24.549
but it's very giving and the other sea

636
00:23:24.559 --> 00:23:27.029
is very big but it's very selfish and

637
00:23:27.039 --> 00:23:28.789
the elder water which goes into the dead

638
00:23:28.799 --> 00:23:31.110
sea the red sea says come on boy you're

639
00:23:31.120 --> 00:23:33.190
not getting i have no outlet i'm gonna

640
00:23:33.200 --> 00:23:36.390
keep everything i got i'm selfish water

641
00:23:36.400 --> 00:23:40.070
comes to me it can't get out

642
00:23:40.080 --> 00:23:42.149
so all the water that goes into the dead

643
00:23:42.159 --> 00:23:43.110
sea

644
00:23:43.120 --> 00:23:45.110
is stuck

645
00:23:45.120 --> 00:23:46.950
and the only way it gets out is by

646
00:23:46.960 --> 00:23:48.950
evaporation

647
00:23:48.960 --> 00:23:52.070
and so that sea is so thick

648
00:23:52.080 --> 00:23:54.870
that nothing can live in it

649
00:23:54.880 --> 00:23:57.350
and nothing can grow around it

650
00:23:57.360 --> 00:23:59.350
because it's so big

651
00:23:59.360 --> 00:24:05.830
and so selfish and so dead

652
00:24:05.840 --> 00:24:08.549
and brothers and sisters

653
00:24:08.559 --> 00:24:12.630
everybody is one of those two seas

654
00:24:12.640 --> 00:24:14.950
we're either the sea of galilee and

655
00:24:14.960 --> 00:24:16.630
everything that we get

656
00:24:16.640 --> 00:24:19.269
we're willing to share and give away

657
00:24:19.279 --> 00:24:21.669
and give to others

658
00:24:21.679 --> 00:24:24.230
or we're selfish

659
00:24:24.240 --> 00:24:28.070
and want to keep everything that's mine

660
00:24:28.080 --> 00:24:31.190
we're either living and giving

661
00:24:31.200 --> 00:24:33.669
and we're selfish

662
00:24:33.679 --> 00:24:36.549
and dead

663
00:24:36.559 --> 00:24:38.870
so we have to decide

664
00:24:38.880 --> 00:24:41.029
by the way we live

665
00:24:41.039 --> 00:24:42.630
whether you want to be

666
00:24:42.640 --> 00:24:45.029
like the sea of galilee

667
00:24:45.039 --> 00:24:48.789
or like the dead sea

668
00:24:48.799 --> 00:24:51.430
and unfortunately most people that's why

669
00:24:51.440 --> 00:24:52.789
it's bigger

670
00:24:52.799 --> 00:24:54.149
choose

671
00:24:54.159 --> 00:24:55.669
death

672
00:24:55.679 --> 00:24:58.070
rather than life and you see we were all

673
00:24:58.080 --> 00:24:59.750
born to die

674
00:24:59.760 --> 00:25:02.549
we were born into adam the city of adam

675
00:25:02.559 --> 00:25:04.310
that's where this water came from come

676
00:25:04.320 --> 00:25:05.350
came from

677
00:25:05.360 --> 00:25:08.710
and we leave adam and we flow

678
00:25:08.720 --> 00:25:11.110
down the river of life

679
00:25:11.120 --> 00:25:12.710
to death

680
00:25:12.720 --> 00:25:14.950
and that's the end of nearly everybody

681
00:25:14.960 --> 00:25:17.590
that's ever born they are born

682
00:25:17.600 --> 00:25:20.549
to die

683
00:25:20.559 --> 00:25:23.430
but when the ark

684
00:25:23.440 --> 00:25:25.190
touches

685
00:25:25.200 --> 00:25:26.230
us

686
00:25:26.240 --> 00:25:28.950
if we will go into the waters of baptism

687
00:25:28.960 --> 00:25:30.070
if we will

688
00:25:30.080 --> 00:25:32.230
obey the commandment if we will follow

689
00:25:32.240 --> 00:25:35.190
our ark who went ahead of us about 2 000

690
00:25:35.200 --> 00:25:37.990
cubits if we will follow him into the

691
00:25:38.000 --> 00:25:39.830
water

692
00:25:39.840 --> 00:25:41.750
then our life

693
00:25:41.760 --> 00:25:44.870
which was flowing from life

694
00:25:44.880 --> 00:25:46.470
to death

695
00:25:46.480 --> 00:25:48.310
is reversed

696
00:25:48.320 --> 00:25:50.470
and we flow back

697
00:25:50.480 --> 00:25:51.750
to life

698
00:25:51.760 --> 00:25:53.909
eternal life

699
00:25:53.919 --> 00:25:57.669
life forever with our art the lord jesus

700
00:25:57.679 --> 00:25:58.870
christ

701
00:25:58.880 --> 00:26:00.310
in his kingdom

702
00:26:00.320 --> 00:26:02.070
but we have to decide whether or not we

703
00:26:02.080 --> 00:26:04.230
will follow

704
00:26:04.240 --> 00:26:07.029
the ark and go down

705
00:26:07.039 --> 00:26:09.430
down into the waters

706
00:26:09.440 --> 00:26:13.830
of baptism and come out

707
00:26:13.840 --> 00:26:15.269
changed

708
00:26:15.279 --> 00:26:17.269
turned around

709
00:26:17.279 --> 00:26:20.789
going now now now not back to death down

710
00:26:20.799 --> 00:26:23.110
to death but back up

711
00:26:23.120 --> 00:26:24.870
to life

712
00:26:24.880 --> 00:26:27.110
to life eternal

713
00:26:27.120 --> 00:26:29.830
now if it weren't for paul

714
00:26:29.840 --> 00:26:32.070
some of the beautiful symbolisms

715
00:26:32.080 --> 00:26:33.029
which we

716
00:26:33.039 --> 00:26:36.870
read about as facts in the old testament

717
00:26:36.880 --> 00:26:39.029
would not be known to us as having a

718
00:26:39.039 --> 00:26:41.430
spiritual nature and so in first

719
00:26:41.440 --> 00:26:43.029
corinthians 10

720
00:26:43.039 --> 00:26:44.630
paul tells us

721
00:26:44.640 --> 00:26:47.190
that i would not have you to be ignorant

722
00:26:47.200 --> 00:26:49.190
how that all our fathers were under the

723
00:26:49.200 --> 00:26:51.750
cloud and all pass through the sea

724
00:26:51.760 --> 00:26:53.190
that this is the

725
00:26:53.200 --> 00:26:55.510
the red sea

726
00:26:55.520 --> 00:26:58.470
and all were baptized into moses in the

727
00:26:58.480 --> 00:27:00.390
cloud

728
00:27:00.400 --> 00:27:09.990
and in the sea

729
00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:13.350
it went through the the

730
00:27:13.360 --> 00:27:14.950
the red sea

731
00:27:14.960 --> 00:27:17.350
were symbolically baptized

732
00:27:17.360 --> 00:27:19.190
now it's interesting that

733
00:27:19.200 --> 00:27:22.149
rahab knew all about this incident

734
00:27:22.159 --> 00:27:23.669
and not only she knew it they all knew

735
00:27:23.679 --> 00:27:25.750
it and yet we have people today with a

736
00:27:25.760 --> 00:27:28.310
straight face will say you know

737
00:27:28.320 --> 00:27:30.310
it really wasn't the red sea

738
00:27:30.320 --> 00:27:32.310
it was the reed scene

739
00:27:32.320 --> 00:27:33.830
and

740
00:27:33.840 --> 00:27:35.990
there was no no big thing about it they

741
00:27:36.000 --> 00:27:38.310
just waited to it because it's very

742
00:27:38.320 --> 00:27:41.029
shallow i mean it didn't really part and

743
00:27:41.039 --> 00:27:42.389
open up

744
00:27:42.399 --> 00:27:43.750
and here we got all these people in

745
00:27:43.760 --> 00:27:47.029
jericho worried about people who waded

746
00:27:47.039 --> 00:27:48.070
through

747
00:27:48.080 --> 00:27:49.669
ankle deep water

748
00:27:49.679 --> 00:27:51.190
and they also have another problem the

749
00:27:51.200 --> 00:27:52.310
egyptians

750
00:27:52.320 --> 00:27:59.190
drowned in a wading pool

751
00:27:59.200 --> 00:28:01.669
you see it's so strange how people will

752
00:28:01.679 --> 00:28:04.070
take

753
00:28:04.080 --> 00:28:06.070
as truth

754
00:28:06.080 --> 00:28:07.750
and then change it

755
00:28:07.760 --> 00:28:09.190
still acknowledge that they went through

756
00:28:09.200 --> 00:28:11.830
something but try to take away the glory

757
00:28:11.840 --> 00:28:13.510
of god the

758
00:28:13.520 --> 00:28:14.870
people of jericho would not have been

759
00:28:14.880 --> 00:28:16.950
petrified with fear

760
00:28:16.960 --> 00:28:18.230
if they had just heard they waited

761
00:28:18.240 --> 00:28:20.470
through the reed sea

762
00:28:20.480 --> 00:28:21.350
but

763
00:28:21.360 --> 00:28:23.990
paul now says that this was a type of

764
00:28:24.000 --> 00:28:25.669
baptism

765
00:28:25.679 --> 00:28:26.950
and so

766
00:28:26.960 --> 00:28:28.470
we now know

767
00:28:28.480 --> 00:28:30.549
that all these were symbolically

768
00:28:30.559 --> 00:28:31.990
baptized

769
00:28:32.000 --> 00:28:34.070
in the sea

770
00:28:34.080 --> 00:28:35.750
and in the cloud

771
00:28:35.760 --> 00:28:37.750
and then in first corinthians 15 and

772
00:28:37.760 --> 00:28:39.909
verse 22

773
00:28:39.919 --> 00:28:41.909
we're told that for as an adam all die

774
00:28:41.919 --> 00:28:43.590
even so in christ shall all be made

775
00:28:43.600 --> 00:28:45.669
alive

776
00:28:45.679 --> 00:28:47.830
so christ

777
00:28:47.840 --> 00:28:49.430
is our ark

778
00:28:49.440 --> 00:28:51.669
and we believe that those

779
00:28:51.679 --> 00:28:54.070
that went through the jordan were again

780
00:28:54.080 --> 00:28:55.990
it was a whole new generation other than

781
00:28:56.000 --> 00:28:57.269
two people

782
00:28:57.279 --> 00:28:59.350
all those over 20 that they were

783
00:28:59.360 --> 00:29:01.669
baptized

784
00:29:01.679 --> 00:29:03.669
symbolically in

785
00:29:03.679 --> 00:29:05.430
the jordan

786
00:29:05.440 --> 00:29:08.630
and so now their lives were changed

787
00:29:08.640 --> 00:29:11.430
they came across this river

788
00:29:11.440 --> 00:29:13.990
they came up the other side

789
00:29:14.000 --> 00:29:15.669
they were

790
00:29:15.679 --> 00:29:18.549
now in the promised land

791
00:29:18.559 --> 00:29:20.549
and they were now

792
00:29:20.559 --> 00:29:22.070
to conquer

793
00:29:22.080 --> 00:29:25.350
the land that was promised to abraham

794
00:29:25.360 --> 00:29:27.029
to isaac

795
00:29:27.039 --> 00:29:28.230
and

796
00:29:28.240 --> 00:29:30.470
to jacob

797
00:29:30.480 --> 00:29:32.389
and

798
00:29:32.399 --> 00:29:34.950
to you

799
00:29:34.960 --> 00:29:37.510
because if you're in christ

800
00:29:37.520 --> 00:29:40.470
then the promises that god made

801
00:29:40.480 --> 00:29:42.470
abraham

802
00:29:42.480 --> 00:29:44.149
when made

803
00:29:44.159 --> 00:29:47.430
to you so all these wonderful things

804
00:29:47.440 --> 00:29:50.630
that he has in store for them

805
00:29:50.640 --> 00:29:53.190
he has them in store for you too

806
00:29:53.200 --> 00:29:54.710
and the happy news is that we can

807
00:29:54.720 --> 00:29:57.669
receive them the very same day

808
00:29:57.679 --> 00:29:59.990
that they receive them

809
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:02.630
the day that abraham receives the

810
00:30:02.640 --> 00:30:03.669
promise

811
00:30:03.679 --> 00:30:05.430
is the same day that you and i receive

812
00:30:05.440 --> 00:30:09.029
it if we're in christ and so now they've

813
00:30:09.039 --> 00:30:11.110
come up on the other side

814
00:30:11.120 --> 00:30:13.350
and they're while the water was missing

815
00:30:13.360 --> 00:30:15.430
while the water was out of there joshua

816
00:30:15.440 --> 00:30:17.990
tells them something they have to do

817
00:30:18.000 --> 00:30:20.549
the chapter 4 of joshua came to pass

818
00:30:20.559 --> 00:30:22.230
when all the people were clean passed

819
00:30:22.240 --> 00:30:23.830
over jordan that the lord spake in the

820
00:30:23.840 --> 00:30:25.909
most under joshua was saying take you

821
00:30:25.919 --> 00:30:28.630
twelve men out of the people one out of

822
00:30:28.640 --> 00:30:31.269
every tribe and command them saying take

823
00:30:31.279 --> 00:30:33.190
your hence out of the midst of jordan

824
00:30:33.200 --> 00:30:35.350
out of the place where this priest's

825
00:30:35.360 --> 00:30:38.389
feet stood firm 12 stones you shall

826
00:30:38.399 --> 00:30:40.870
carry them over with you and leave them

827
00:30:40.880 --> 00:30:42.630
in the lodging place where you shall

828
00:30:42.640 --> 00:30:43.669
lodge

829
00:30:43.679 --> 00:30:45.190
this night

830
00:30:45.200 --> 00:30:46.389
so

831
00:30:46.399 --> 00:30:49.029
what shape stones would these have been

832
00:30:49.039 --> 00:30:51.110
that have been living

833
00:30:51.120 --> 00:30:54.470
in the bottom of the river all this time

834
00:30:54.480 --> 00:30:55.990
smooth

835
00:30:56.000 --> 00:30:58.870
stones and they're smooth because

836
00:30:58.880 --> 00:31:00.310
they've been washed

837
00:31:00.320 --> 00:31:01.990
by the water

838
00:31:02.000 --> 00:31:03.750
and so when we're baptized we're washed

839
00:31:03.760 --> 00:31:05.430
by the water

840
00:31:05.440 --> 00:31:06.710
and we're supposed to have some of our

841
00:31:06.720 --> 00:31:09.669
rough edges taken off of us as the rough

842
00:31:09.679 --> 00:31:11.350
edges were taken off of these stones at

843
00:31:11.360 --> 00:31:13.590
least those were to be a memorial so

844
00:31:13.600 --> 00:31:15.909
that when they and it must have been you

845
00:31:15.919 --> 00:31:17.990
can see it took 12 men and you can

846
00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:20.310
picture a stone is a pretty heavy thing

847
00:31:20.320 --> 00:31:22.710
i can picture 12 big husky men picking

848
00:31:22.720 --> 00:31:24.950
these stones up and piling them up but

849
00:31:24.960 --> 00:31:26.870
he also did another thing

850
00:31:26.880 --> 00:31:29.110
he took 12 stones that were not in the

851
00:31:29.120 --> 00:31:31.509
river and put them in the river now what

852
00:31:31.519 --> 00:31:33.029
kind of what shape would those stones be

853
00:31:33.039 --> 00:31:34.549
they would be rough

854
00:31:34.559 --> 00:31:35.830
because they were stones that had been

855
00:31:35.840 --> 00:31:37.350
out in the weather

856
00:31:37.360 --> 00:31:39.029
and so those stones were put in the

857
00:31:39.039 --> 00:31:39.990
river

858
00:31:40.000 --> 00:31:41.509
so when the water came back over them

859
00:31:41.519 --> 00:31:43.190
and if you ever look at a river where

860
00:31:43.200 --> 00:31:44.950
there's where there's

861
00:31:44.960 --> 00:31:46.950
rocks under you can even though the

862
00:31:46.960 --> 00:31:48.310
rocks are not visible you can see the

863
00:31:48.320 --> 00:31:50.389
turbulence of the water as a result of

864
00:31:50.399 --> 00:31:53.990
the rocks that are underneath uh the

865
00:31:54.000 --> 00:31:55.750
water that even though they may not be

866
00:31:55.760 --> 00:31:58.310
sticking up and so those stones would

867
00:31:58.320 --> 00:32:01.509
then become smooth as well

868
00:32:01.519 --> 00:32:04.070
ephesians chapter 5 keep your finger in

869
00:32:04.080 --> 00:32:07.269
joshua don't believe that

870
00:32:07.279 --> 00:32:09.509
but

871
00:32:09.519 --> 00:32:12.070
paul tells us in grace this is ephesians

872
00:32:12.080 --> 00:32:13.669
5

873
00:32:13.679 --> 00:32:20.310
and 26

874
00:32:20.320 --> 00:32:22.470
that he might sanctify and cleanse it

875
00:32:22.480 --> 00:32:24.870
with the washing of water

876
00:32:24.880 --> 00:32:26.710
by the word

877
00:32:26.720 --> 00:32:28.870
so we are to

878
00:32:28.880 --> 00:32:30.549
have

879
00:32:30.559 --> 00:32:32.310
the water

880
00:32:32.320 --> 00:32:33.669
of the word

881
00:32:33.679 --> 00:32:35.430
wash us

882
00:32:35.440 --> 00:32:39.190
and water changes things water changes

883
00:32:39.200 --> 00:32:40.710
stones

884
00:32:40.720 --> 00:32:43.750
stones that were rough and unhewn

885
00:32:43.760 --> 00:32:46.549
and jagged become smooth

886
00:32:46.559 --> 00:32:48.470
because of water and brothers and

887
00:32:48.480 --> 00:32:50.630
sisters we have submitted to the waters

888
00:32:50.640 --> 00:32:53.269
of baptism and it should have changed us

889
00:32:53.279 --> 00:32:55.590
we should be smooth

890
00:32:55.600 --> 00:32:58.070
and round and not sharp and jagged we

891
00:32:58.080 --> 00:33:00.630
should be different than we were before

892
00:33:00.640 --> 00:33:02.230
and if we're not doing our readings

893
00:33:02.240 --> 00:33:03.430
faithfully

894
00:33:03.440 --> 00:33:04.870
it will

895
00:33:04.880 --> 00:33:07.110
be a problem because we will not be

896
00:33:07.120 --> 00:33:10.710
smooth by the washing of the ward word

897
00:33:10.720 --> 00:33:13.350
and it doesn't just you just take a a

898
00:33:13.360 --> 00:33:15.190
stone and put it in the water and take

899
00:33:15.200 --> 00:33:17.990
it back out it doesn't have much chance

900
00:33:18.000 --> 00:33:20.549
to be changed but daily

901
00:33:20.559 --> 00:33:23.830
hourly water washing over a rock will

902
00:33:23.840 --> 00:33:25.029
change it

903
00:33:25.039 --> 00:33:27.029
and so joshua told us that the reason

904
00:33:27.039 --> 00:33:28.789
they were to do this was so that the

905
00:33:28.799 --> 00:33:31.750
children when they asked chapter 4 verse

906
00:33:31.760 --> 00:33:33.830
6 and joshua again

907
00:33:33.840 --> 00:33:35.669
that this may be a sign among you that

908
00:33:35.679 --> 00:33:37.430
when your children ask their fathers in

909
00:33:37.440 --> 00:33:38.950
time to come saying

910
00:33:38.960 --> 00:33:41.350
what mean ye by these stones

911
00:33:41.360 --> 00:33:44.230
children do ask questions don't they

912
00:33:44.240 --> 00:33:45.190
i mean

913
00:33:45.200 --> 00:33:47.669
sometimes parents get

914
00:33:47.679 --> 00:33:50.710
upset because children keep asking why

915
00:33:50.720 --> 00:33:52.389
mother why day

916
00:33:52.399 --> 00:33:55.430
but we want our children to ask us

917
00:33:55.440 --> 00:33:57.909
questions in deuteronomy chapter 6 thou

918
00:33:57.919 --> 00:33:59.830
shalt teach them diligently unto thy

919
00:33:59.840 --> 00:34:01.669
children and shall talk of them when

920
00:34:01.679 --> 00:34:03.430
they'll citizen thine house when they

921
00:34:03.440 --> 00:34:05.350
walk us by the way and when the alliance

922
00:34:05.360 --> 00:34:07.909
down will now rise a step

923
00:34:07.919 --> 00:34:09.750
and so we want to be teaching our

924
00:34:09.760 --> 00:34:11.589
children that's why bible schools like

925
00:34:11.599 --> 00:34:13.190
this are so wonderful

926
00:34:13.200 --> 00:34:15.270
not only are we benefiting from our

927
00:34:15.280 --> 00:34:18.310
classes but the children are learning to

928
00:34:18.320 --> 00:34:19.589
love god

929
00:34:19.599 --> 00:34:21.669
in their little classes from every age

930
00:34:21.679 --> 00:34:22.869
on up

931
00:34:22.879 --> 00:34:24.069
and so

932
00:34:24.079 --> 00:34:26.869
it's a wonderful effect that the study

933
00:34:26.879 --> 00:34:29.270
of the bible will have on us

934
00:34:29.280 --> 00:34:32.550
so joshua puts 12 stones in

935
00:34:32.560 --> 00:34:33.669
that you may

936
00:34:33.679 --> 00:34:35.990
he says in verse 7 here that when they

937
00:34:36.000 --> 00:34:38.069
ask you this question as you say to them

938
00:34:38.079 --> 00:34:39.829
that the waters of jordan were cut off

939
00:34:39.839 --> 00:34:41.190
before the ark of the covenant of the

940
00:34:41.200 --> 00:34:43.030
lord when it passed over jordan the

941
00:34:43.040 --> 00:34:45.109
waters of jordan were cut off and these

942
00:34:45.119 --> 00:34:47.109
stones shall be for memorial under the

943
00:34:47.119 --> 00:34:49.030
children of israel forever

944
00:34:49.040 --> 00:34:50.950
and the children of israel did so as

945
00:34:50.960 --> 00:34:53.030
joshua commanded and took up 12 stones

946
00:34:53.040 --> 00:34:54.710
out of the midst of jordan

947
00:34:54.720 --> 00:34:56.950
and then he took verse nine he set up

948
00:34:56.960 --> 00:34:58.710
twelve stones in the midst of jordan and

949
00:34:58.720 --> 00:35:00.069
the place where the feet of the priests

950
00:35:00.079 --> 00:35:02.550
had been so twelve stones came out

951
00:35:02.560 --> 00:35:05.190
and 12 stones went in

952
00:35:05.200 --> 00:35:06.790
and as you study

953
00:35:06.800 --> 00:35:10.150
the book of joshua and judges you may

954
00:35:10.160 --> 00:35:11.910
find that unfortunately even in those

955
00:35:11.920 --> 00:35:13.910
days they defaced stones but what would

956
00:35:13.920 --> 00:35:15.270
happen to the stones in the middle of

957
00:35:15.280 --> 00:35:16.390
the jordan

958
00:35:16.400 --> 00:35:19.349
nobody could deface those stones

959
00:35:19.359 --> 00:35:21.750
they were safe

960
00:35:21.760 --> 00:35:24.150
and so that's a wonderful thing

961
00:35:24.160 --> 00:35:26.069
to think that uh

962
00:35:26.079 --> 00:35:27.510
those those were protected from

963
00:35:27.520 --> 00:35:30.069
vandalism so to speak and so both groups

964
00:35:30.079 --> 00:35:32.630
of stones were a memorial

965
00:35:32.640 --> 00:35:34.710
uh to god

966
00:35:34.720 --> 00:35:35.990
and so now

967
00:35:36.000 --> 00:35:37.349
when they come up

968
00:35:37.359 --> 00:35:41.750
they come to gilgal

969
00:35:41.760 --> 00:35:43.750
and the people came up out of jordan is

970
00:35:43.760 --> 00:35:45.990
in chapter 4 verse 19

971
00:35:46.000 --> 00:35:47.750
on the 10th day of the first month and

972
00:35:47.760 --> 00:35:49.670
encamped in gilgal

973
00:35:49.680 --> 00:35:51.270
in the east

974
00:35:51.280 --> 00:35:53.750
of jericho

975
00:35:53.760 --> 00:35:54.790
and that

976
00:35:54.800 --> 00:35:57.589
word gilgal means rolling and that's

977
00:35:57.599 --> 00:36:00.950
where they rolled away the reproach

978
00:36:00.960 --> 00:36:02.390
that they had had

979
00:36:02.400 --> 00:36:04.950
and verse 21 again he speaks with your

980
00:36:04.960 --> 00:36:06.950
children shall ask their fathers what

981
00:36:06.960 --> 00:36:09.670
mean these stones and you shall let your

982
00:36:09.680 --> 00:36:12.470
children know saying israel came over

983
00:36:12.480 --> 00:36:14.790
this jordan on dry land

984
00:36:14.800 --> 00:36:17.030
they were to remember we

985
00:36:17.040 --> 00:36:19.109
were teaching our children upstairs to

986
00:36:19.119 --> 00:36:21.109
remember their creator

987
00:36:21.119 --> 00:36:22.710
in the days

988
00:36:22.720 --> 00:36:24.630
of their youth

989
00:36:24.640 --> 00:36:26.950
and it's important that we

990
00:36:26.960 --> 00:36:29.190
give our children the right things to

991
00:36:29.200 --> 00:36:30.710
remember they're going to be remembering

992
00:36:30.720 --> 00:36:32.150
something

993
00:36:32.160 --> 00:36:33.990
what will they remember the good times

994
00:36:34.000 --> 00:36:35.670
they've had at bible school

995
00:36:35.680 --> 00:36:37.510
or some television program that they've

996
00:36:37.520 --> 00:36:38.950
seen or some

997
00:36:38.960 --> 00:36:40.069
i was talking to the young people

998
00:36:40.079 --> 00:36:41.990
upstairs

999
00:36:42.000 --> 00:36:43.430
and they were telling me that they don't

1000
00:36:43.440 --> 00:36:45.670
know a single child

1001
00:36:45.680 --> 00:36:47.349
in any other school

1002
00:36:47.359 --> 00:36:50.150
that doesn't swear

1003
00:36:50.160 --> 00:36:53.750
not sad that every child that they know

1004
00:36:53.760 --> 00:36:55.589
and they come from different parts

1005
00:36:55.599 --> 00:36:58.069
every one of them swears

1006
00:36:58.079 --> 00:36:59.750
this is the kind of environment our

1007
00:36:59.760 --> 00:37:01.430
young people are growing up in

1008
00:37:01.440 --> 00:37:03.349
it's so important that we give them the

1009
00:37:03.359 --> 00:37:05.670
right things to remember and help them

1010
00:37:05.680 --> 00:37:07.910
not to be influenced by the people

1011
00:37:07.920 --> 00:37:09.270
around them because we're living in a

1012
00:37:09.280 --> 00:37:12.069
wicked world just prior to the coming of

1013
00:37:12.079 --> 00:37:13.829
the lord jesus christ

1014
00:37:13.839 --> 00:37:15.750
and so we've got to be

1015
00:37:15.760 --> 00:37:17.829
very much on guard

1016
00:37:17.839 --> 00:37:20.470
that we don't let the world

1017
00:37:20.480 --> 00:37:22.470
squeeze us down

1018
00:37:22.480 --> 00:37:24.550
into its mold

1019
00:37:24.560 --> 00:37:26.870
and so as we come to chapter 5

1020
00:37:26.880 --> 00:37:29.030
we find that

1021
00:37:29.040 --> 00:37:32.069
they have come to gilgal again in verse

1022
00:37:32.079 --> 00:37:35.430
9 and the lord said unto joshua this day

1023
00:37:35.440 --> 00:37:38.310
have i rolled away the reproach of egypt

1024
00:37:38.320 --> 00:37:40.550
from off you wherefore the name of that

1025
00:37:40.560 --> 00:37:42.870
place is called gilgal

1026
00:37:42.880 --> 00:37:44.390
under this day and the children of

1027
00:37:44.400 --> 00:37:46.710
israel encamped in gilgal and kept the

1028
00:37:46.720 --> 00:37:49.109
passover on the 14th day of the month

1029
00:37:49.119 --> 00:37:51.430
and even in the plains

1030
00:37:51.440 --> 00:37:53.670
of jericho

1031
00:37:53.680 --> 00:37:59.750
and so

1032
00:37:59.760 --> 00:38:01.910
they

1033
00:38:01.920 --> 00:38:04.470
kept the passover first time they ever

1034
00:38:04.480 --> 00:38:06.390
kept the passover

1035
00:38:06.400 --> 00:38:08.069
when they left egypt

1036
00:38:08.079 --> 00:38:10.069
second time they kept the passover

1037
00:38:10.079 --> 00:38:11.270
signing out

1038
00:38:11.280 --> 00:38:13.910
third time they kept the passover here

1039
00:38:13.920 --> 00:38:15.990
in between they had not kept it jews

1040
00:38:16.000 --> 00:38:17.190
today

1041
00:38:17.200 --> 00:38:19.589
orthodox jews keep it every year but

1042
00:38:19.599 --> 00:38:22.550
back then this was only the third time

1043
00:38:22.560 --> 00:38:25.670
that they had ever kept the passover

1044
00:38:25.680 --> 00:38:28.550
now they just think what's happened

1045
00:38:28.560 --> 00:38:31.109
they have crossed the jordan

1046
00:38:31.119 --> 00:38:33.190
they have camped right under the nose of

1047
00:38:33.200 --> 00:38:34.790
all their enemies

1048
00:38:34.800 --> 00:38:37.270
and then god does something that

1049
00:38:37.280 --> 00:38:38.390
you would

1050
00:38:38.400 --> 00:38:40.550
you would never do

1051
00:38:40.560 --> 00:38:42.470
if you were a general

1052
00:38:42.480 --> 00:38:44.630
you would never take your army and march

1053
00:38:44.640 --> 00:38:47.430
it up to the gates of your enemies

1054
00:38:47.440 --> 00:38:50.870
and totally incompassive incapacitate

1055
00:38:50.880 --> 00:38:52.390
uh every member

1056
00:38:52.400 --> 00:38:54.550
of your of your army

1057
00:38:54.560 --> 00:38:57.829
at that time says chapter 5 verse 2

1058
00:38:57.839 --> 00:39:00.710
the lord said unto joshua make

1059
00:39:00.720 --> 00:39:04.230
the sharp knives and circumcise again

1060
00:39:04.240 --> 00:39:07.190
the children of israel the second time

1061
00:39:07.200 --> 00:39:08.550
now

1062
00:39:08.560 --> 00:39:09.910
he explains

1063
00:39:09.920 --> 00:39:12.550
the second time all the jews that had

1064
00:39:12.560 --> 00:39:15.349
left egypt were circumcised

1065
00:39:15.359 --> 00:39:18.310
all the jews that were born in the

1066
00:39:18.320 --> 00:39:21.510
wilderness were not circumcised verse

1067
00:39:21.520 --> 00:39:23.349
five now all the people that came out

1068
00:39:23.359 --> 00:39:25.270
were circumcised but all the people that

1069
00:39:25.280 --> 00:39:26.630
were born in the wilderness by the way

1070
00:39:26.640 --> 00:39:29.109
as they came forth out of egypt them

1071
00:39:29.119 --> 00:39:32.069
they had not circumcised and so god is

1072
00:39:32.079 --> 00:39:33.190
saying now

1073
00:39:33.200 --> 00:39:34.790
circumcise

1074
00:39:34.800 --> 00:39:37.829
every male

1075
00:39:37.839 --> 00:39:39.910
right under the nose

1076
00:39:39.920 --> 00:39:41.190
of their enemies

1077
00:39:41.200 --> 00:39:43.670
oh if the people in jericho had only

1078
00:39:43.680 --> 00:39:44.790
known

1079
00:39:44.800 --> 00:39:46.710
they were putty in their hand keep your

1080
00:39:46.720 --> 00:39:48.870
finger here go back to genesis chapter

1081
00:39:48.880 --> 00:39:50.470
34

1082
00:39:50.480 --> 00:39:52.230
and verse 25

1083
00:39:52.240 --> 00:39:55.270
and you will find that

1084
00:39:55.280 --> 00:39:58.230
two sons of jacob really did a terrible

1085
00:39:58.240 --> 00:40:02.069
sneaky thing

1086
00:40:02.079 --> 00:40:03.750
they talked

1087
00:40:03.760 --> 00:40:05.670
shechem

1088
00:40:05.680 --> 00:40:07.510
the high bite

1089
00:40:07.520 --> 00:40:08.950
into

1090
00:40:08.960 --> 00:40:11.030
having all the people of shechem

1091
00:40:11.040 --> 00:40:14.950
circumcised levi and simeon did this

1092
00:40:14.960 --> 00:40:18.309
in chapter 34 and verse 25 and it came

1093
00:40:18.319 --> 00:40:20.470
to pass on the third day when they were

1094
00:40:20.480 --> 00:40:24.309
sore that with all the menachekum

1095
00:40:24.319 --> 00:40:25.270
that

1096
00:40:25.280 --> 00:40:28.470
two of the sons of jacob simeon and levi

1097
00:40:28.480 --> 00:40:29.990
diana's brethren

1098
00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:31.910
each took his sword and came upon the

1099
00:40:31.920 --> 00:40:35.030
city boley and slew all the males can

1100
00:40:35.040 --> 00:40:37.670
you imagine two people

1101
00:40:37.680 --> 00:40:40.470
killing all the men in a city

1102
00:40:40.480 --> 00:40:42.950
they were helpless they could not defend

1103
00:40:42.960 --> 00:40:44.069
themselves

1104
00:40:44.079 --> 00:40:46.630
a man recently circumcised can't even

1105
00:40:46.640 --> 00:40:49.670
walk it's pain is excruciating that's

1106
00:40:49.680 --> 00:40:51.990
why they do it normally when people are

1107
00:40:52.000 --> 00:40:54.069
when little boys are born

1108
00:40:54.079 --> 00:40:57.030
because uh a grown man to be circumcised

1109
00:40:57.040 --> 00:41:00.150
is just helpless until he heals

1110
00:41:00.160 --> 00:41:03.670
and here god has taken his whole army

1111
00:41:03.680 --> 00:41:06.550
and he's put it right under the nose

1112
00:41:06.560 --> 00:41:07.510
of the

1113
00:41:07.520 --> 00:41:08.550
enemy

1114
00:41:08.560 --> 00:41:10.710
and made every man unable to defend

1115
00:41:10.720 --> 00:41:11.670
himself

1116
00:41:11.680 --> 00:41:15.510
now why would god do that

1117
00:41:15.520 --> 00:41:18.950
god is trying to teach us a lesson

1118
00:41:18.960 --> 00:41:20.870
he's saying trust in me with all your

1119
00:41:20.880 --> 00:41:22.150
heart and don't lean under your own

1120
00:41:22.160 --> 00:41:24.150
understanding and always acknowledge me

1121
00:41:24.160 --> 00:41:26.470
and i'll direct your paths i'm in charge

1122
00:41:26.480 --> 00:41:28.630
i am the host of the army captain of the

1123
00:41:28.640 --> 00:41:30.550
army i

1124
00:41:30.560 --> 00:41:32.710
can protect you and he did

1125
00:41:32.720 --> 00:41:35.670
and you know he can do that for us

1126
00:41:35.680 --> 00:41:38.150
the angel of the lord encounters round

1127
00:41:38.160 --> 00:41:41.430
about them that fear him

1128
00:41:41.440 --> 00:41:43.510
and delivers him

1129
00:41:43.520 --> 00:41:45.990
now we either believe it or we don't

1130
00:41:46.000 --> 00:41:48.550
believe it but if we believe it we

1131
00:41:48.560 --> 00:41:51.349
believe that wherever we go

1132
00:41:51.359 --> 00:41:53.829
there is an angel of the lord

1133
00:41:53.839 --> 00:41:55.750
that goes with us

1134
00:41:55.760 --> 00:41:58.710
do we live like we believe that we have

1135
00:41:58.720 --> 00:42:01.349
an angel of the lord going with us

1136
00:42:01.359 --> 00:42:02.630
and do you

1137
00:42:02.640 --> 00:42:04.150
have faith

1138
00:42:04.160 --> 00:42:06.550
that that angel is able

1139
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to protect you if that's god's will

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00:42:09.839 --> 00:42:12.069
or are you frightened when you ought to

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00:42:12.079 --> 00:42:15.589
be brave

1142
00:42:15.599 --> 00:42:18.390
do you ever take your angel

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00:42:18.400 --> 00:42:19.990
where angels

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00:42:20.000 --> 00:42:23.349
ought not go

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i i'm i feel very

1146
00:42:27.200 --> 00:42:29.190
i don't i want to say this in the right

1147
00:42:29.200 --> 00:42:31.030
way

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00:42:31.040 --> 00:42:33.030
i'm

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00:42:33.040 --> 00:42:35.270
aware of my angel i don't mean i'm

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00:42:35.280 --> 00:42:37.750
chummy or offhand with him

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00:42:37.760 --> 00:42:39.589
but i really believe it when i'm in the

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00:42:39.599 --> 00:42:41.990
car i just believe that my angel is

1153
00:42:42.000 --> 00:42:44.550
there i've never seen him obviously

1154
00:42:44.560 --> 00:42:45.430
but

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00:42:45.440 --> 00:42:46.950
if we have an angel then he goes

1156
00:42:46.960 --> 00:42:48.630
everywhere you go

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00:42:48.640 --> 00:42:51.190
and if you're walking down the street

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00:42:51.200 --> 00:42:52.550
and you come to a place where there's

1159
00:42:52.560 --> 00:42:55.109
loud music going on inside and it's dark

1160
00:42:55.119 --> 00:42:56.630
and the doors swing in and the doors

1161
00:42:56.640 --> 00:42:59.109
swing out and you're like oh that looks

1162
00:42:59.119 --> 00:43:01.349
like a lot of fun going on in there you

1163
00:43:01.359 --> 00:43:03.750
like the sin store

1164
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i think i'll

1165
00:43:05.119 --> 00:43:07.589
i'll i'm going for a while can you see

1166
00:43:07.599 --> 00:43:11.430
wait out here will you i'll be right

1167
00:43:11.440 --> 00:43:13.829
because angels ought not go in places

1168
00:43:13.839 --> 00:43:15.349
like that

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00:43:15.359 --> 00:43:17.829
have you ever taken your angel anywhere

1170
00:43:17.839 --> 00:43:19.910
or tried to take him where angels ought

1171
00:43:19.920 --> 00:43:22.470
not go i have a feeling that if you keep

1172
00:43:22.480 --> 00:43:24.150
going to places and doing things which

1173
00:43:24.160 --> 00:43:26.710
angels ought not go and do that maybe

1174
00:43:26.720 --> 00:43:28.790
your angel will not be there when you

1175
00:43:28.800 --> 00:43:30.710
come back out

1176
00:43:30.720 --> 00:43:32.950
so we ought to live our life in such a

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00:43:32.960 --> 00:43:35.829
way that we are always conscious

1178
00:43:35.839 --> 00:43:38.829
of our angel being with

1179
00:43:38.839 --> 00:43:42.309
us david says he knows when i sit down

1180
00:43:42.319 --> 00:43:44.390
when i stand up when i he knows my

1181
00:43:44.400 --> 00:43:47.030
thoughts before i speak them this is too

1182
00:43:47.040 --> 00:43:49.270
wonderful for me do we live and act

1183
00:43:49.280 --> 00:43:50.630
brothers and sisters as if we have an

1184
00:43:50.640 --> 00:43:51.990
angel of the lord and camping around

1185
00:43:52.000 --> 00:43:53.670
about the age of the lord was camping

1186
00:43:53.680 --> 00:43:55.589
around about these people and although

1187
00:43:55.599 --> 00:43:57.270
they were totally helpless and couldn't

1188
00:43:57.280 --> 00:43:59.750
couldn't defend themselves god was in

1189
00:43:59.760 --> 00:44:01.910
control

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00:44:01.920 --> 00:44:05.030
is he any less powerful today than he

1191
00:44:05.040 --> 00:44:07.990
was then the god that we serve is the

1192
00:44:08.000 --> 00:44:09.910
god of israel

1193
00:44:09.920 --> 00:44:12.790
and he is just as a powerful and just as

1194
00:44:12.800 --> 00:44:18.710
able to save us as he was to save them

1195
00:44:18.720 --> 00:44:21.030
and so brothers and sisters

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00:44:21.040 --> 00:44:22.309
our

1197
00:44:22.319 --> 00:44:24.390
closing thought

1198
00:44:24.400 --> 00:44:27.670
for this morning is that that

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believe

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00:44:29.839 --> 00:44:32.870
that your angel

1201
00:44:32.880 --> 00:44:35.270
is always with you if you will never

1202
00:44:35.280 --> 00:44:37.030
forsake him if you forsake him forsake

1203
00:44:37.040 --> 00:44:38.390
you

1204
00:44:38.400 --> 00:44:40.150
but if you will draw an eye to him he

1205
00:44:40.160 --> 00:44:42.950
will drawn out you

1206
00:44:42.960 --> 00:44:45.750
live

1207
00:44:45.760 --> 00:44:47.030
as if

1208
00:44:47.040 --> 00:44:48.829
your angel is always there because i

1209
00:44:48.839 --> 00:44:53.030
believe because the angel of the lord

1210
00:44:53.040 --> 00:44:57.589
encompassed round about them that

1211
00:44:57.599 --> 00:44:59.910
fear him

1212
00:44:59.920 --> 00:45:08.870
and delivered

1213
00:45:08.880 --> 00:45:11.670
uh two announcements brother and sisters

1214
00:45:11.680 --> 00:45:13.910
who close

1215
00:45:13.920 --> 00:45:15.829
with prayer by our brother

1216
00:45:15.839 --> 00:45:17.270
david williams

1217
00:45:17.280 --> 00:45:34.710
of the cult secretia in india

1218
00:45:34.720 --> 00:45:37.109
our gracious and our loving father in

1219
00:45:37.119 --> 00:45:41.829
heaven hallowed be thy name

1220
00:45:41.839 --> 00:45:43.990
we come before thee father so very

1221
00:45:44.000 --> 00:45:46.150
thankful for all thy mercies and

1222
00:45:46.160 --> 00:45:48.230
blessings

1223
00:45:48.240 --> 00:45:52.630
we do pray for the peace of jerusalem

1224
00:45:52.640 --> 00:45:56.230
we long for thy son's return father

1225
00:45:56.240 --> 00:45:58.630
for that wonderful time when he shall

1226
00:45:58.640 --> 00:46:02.470
rule the earth in righteousness

1227
00:46:02.480 --> 00:46:06.390
we long for that time when every man

1228
00:46:06.400 --> 00:46:08.710
and every woman

1229
00:46:08.720 --> 00:46:11.430
will render unto thee

1230
00:46:11.440 --> 00:46:12.630
the honor

1231
00:46:12.640 --> 00:46:17.670
and the majesty that thou dost deserve

1232
00:46:17.680 --> 00:46:22.069
we thank thee father for thy word

1233
00:46:22.079 --> 00:46:24.230
we rejoice together and that we have

1234
00:46:24.240 --> 00:46:25.990
been able

1235
00:46:26.000 --> 00:46:31.430
to share thy word this afternoon

1236
00:46:31.440 --> 00:46:33.750
we thank thee father

1237
00:46:33.760 --> 00:46:35.750
for thy son

1238
00:46:35.760 --> 00:46:38.950
the word made flesh

1239
00:46:38.960 --> 00:46:42.390
and we marvel with thy love

1240
00:46:42.400 --> 00:46:44.870
sinners though we be

1241
00:46:44.880 --> 00:46:46.870
for we have the hope

1242
00:46:46.880 --> 00:46:48.790
of being in that wonderful kingdom to

1243
00:46:48.800 --> 00:46:52.309
come

1244
00:46:52.319 --> 00:46:55.030
we do pray father that in some

1245
00:46:55.040 --> 00:46:58.230
manner we might reflect thy son

1246
00:46:58.240 --> 00:47:00.550
to all those that we come in contact

1247
00:47:00.560 --> 00:47:04.870
with

1248
00:47:04.880 --> 00:47:07.109
we now desire to thank thee for the

1249
00:47:07.119 --> 00:47:10.550
natural food which we will receive

1250
00:47:10.560 --> 00:47:13.030
and we realize that all good things come

1251
00:47:13.040 --> 00:47:14.870
from thee

1252
00:47:14.880 --> 00:47:17.030
and we come to thee through thy beloved

1253
00:47:17.040 --> 00:47:18.230
son

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00:47:18.240 --> 00:47:37.829
our lord and savior jesus amen

1255
00:47:37.839 --> 00:47:39.920
you