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Series Code: TDYFW
Program Code: TDYFW210029S
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00:01 I want to spend my life
00:07 Mending broken people 00:12 I want to spend my life 00:18 Removing pain 00:24 Lord, let my words 00:30 Heal a heart that hurts 00:34 I want to spend my life 00:40 Mending broken people 00:46 I want to spend my life 00:51 Mending broken people 01:09 Hello and welcome to 3ABN Family Worship. 01:13 We are so excited that it's the Sabbath hours 01:17 and we are excited that you are 3ABN family 01:20 are joining us as we're going to dive 01:22 into some scriptures. 01:23 And just talk about the Lord tonight. 01:26 I'm Shelley Quinn. I'm JD Quinn. 01:29 It's great to be here, Shelley. Amen. 01:30 It's great to spend Sabbath with you, 01:32 every Sabbath, you know. 01:33 Amen. And our special friends. 01:36 We love both of these people 01:38 because they're servants of the Lord. 01:40 Amen. And two energized people. 01:42 Yes. 01:43 I mean, it's hard to keep up with either one of you. 01:46 Dee Hilderbrand? 01:48 Oh, it's a joy to be here 01:49 and I am extra grateful 01:50 for those Sabbath hours when I can relax. 01:54 Amen. 01:55 And Don Owen? Yes. 01:56 What a blessing, you know, we were just talking about, 01:58 we prayed earlier about mending broken people 02:00 and how God uses us as broken people 02:03 to reach out to other broken people 02:04 and inspire ourselves. 02:06 So it's really important. Indeed He does. 02:08 And, you know, we did pray. 02:09 We always pray before we begin, 02:11 but we want to include you in that prayer. 02:13 So, honey, you want to pray. Amen. 02:16 Father, as we come together today 02:18 in the name of Jesus. 02:19 We want to thank You, Lord, for this Sabbath time. 02:21 Thank You, Lord, that we can bathe, 02:24 bathe our hearts with You and, Father, 02:27 just open up to tonight's topic, 02:30 Father You're there to defend our cause. 02:33 And, Father, thank you so much that we can depend upon you. 02:36 Empty us of us, Lord, and fill us with You. 02:40 Thank You again for being with us. 02:42 We ask this in the name of Jesus. 02:44 Amen. Amen and amen. 02:46 You know, tonight, 02:48 we are going to talk about God defends my cause. 02:53 And let me read to you an affirmation. 02:57 This comes from 02:58 life affirmations for scripture. 03:00 And an affirmation is simply 03:02 when you take God's Word 03:04 and you speak it over your life, 03:07 you pray it back to God. 03:08 You affirm His Word. 03:11 So here is the affirmation. 03:14 And then we're going to touch on the scriptures 03:18 that went into the affirmation. 03:20 God vigorously defends my cause. 03:24 I am still before Him. 03:25 And He makes the justice of my cause 03:28 shine like the noonday sun. 03:29 He contends with those who contend with me. 03:33 No weapon formed against me will prosper or prevail. 03:36 He opens doors that no one can shut. 03:39 He closes doors that no one can open. 03:43 My Lord performs on my behalf. 03:47 If God is for me, who can be against me? 03:51 All of these thoughts come from scriptures. 03:54 And we're just going to dive into this because it is true. 03:59 God defends your cause. 04:03 And so, honey, you want to read Jeremiah 50:34 04:07 from the New King James Version. 04:09 I will, "Their Redeemer is strong, 04:13 the Lord of hosts is His name. 04:15 He will thoroughly plead their case 04:18 that he may give rest to the land." 04:19 All right. 04:21 Now I'm going to read it from the Amplified 04:24 because they've really taken the Hebrew 04:27 and they've stretched it out. 04:29 Listen to this. 04:30 "Their Redeemer is strong. 04:34 The Lord of hosts is his name. 04:37 He will surely and thoroughly 04:40 plead their case and defend their cause." 04:45 So let's look at the who, what, why of that? 04:49 Their Redeemer is strong. 04:52 Did you know? 04:53 This is interesting, in the Hebrew Redeemer is Goel 04:59 and it's translated redeemer, 05:01 kinsman, revenger, avenger. 05:06 So who is it that is going to plead our case 05:10 and defend our cause? 05:11 Our Redeemer. 05:13 Can you think of someone in the Old Testament? 05:18 There is a concept of kinsman-redeemer. 05:22 This is what this is all about. 05:25 Remember Ruth... Both Ruth and Boaz. 05:27 Ruth and Boaz. 05:28 So what did a kinsman-redeemer do? 05:32 A kinsman-redeemer would buy back his kin 05:37 who'd been sold into slavery or sold himself into slavery. 05:41 He'd buy back their property. 05:44 He would pay off their debts. 05:46 He restored their rightful inheritance. 05:50 He would even, the kinsman-redeemer was either 05:53 like a brother or a father 05:56 or maybe an uncle or a brother-in-law, 06:00 but he would even become the husband, 06:06 marry the widow. 06:08 So, Dee? 06:10 It's like God, your Redeemer brings you 06:13 back up to the position that 06:17 God created you to be in. 06:19 Your Redeemer makes you whole again 06:23 with everything that, 06:25 that goes along with the concept. 06:27 And I've been thinking, I thought of you, Isaiah 54:5, 06:32 says, "The Lord of hosts is your husband." 06:36 Yes. 06:38 And as a widow, you've found that God has been your husband. 06:43 God has stepped in 06:45 and taken the place of my husband 06:48 in a supernatural way in the fact that 06:52 he could actually heal me more than my own husband. 06:56 My husband loved me. 06:58 I loved David. We were of one together. 07:01 And yet my husband was human flesh 07:05 with shortcomings, just like I had shortcomings, 07:09 but God as my husband actually filled 07:13 in broken places of me that my husband couldn't not 07:17 because he didn't want to, but humans just cannot. 07:21 A human cannot heal you like your Redeemer can. 07:24 Amen, very well put. 07:26 And something that touches me is Psalm 68:5 that says, 07:30 "God is a father to the fatherless." 07:34 My father died when I was six years old. 07:36 He was killed in a plane crash. 07:39 And it took me to about 07:42 the age of 26 to really understand, 07:45 I knew Jesus as savior, but I didn't know the Father. 07:49 And finally God really reached down to me 07:53 and I understood God as my Father. 07:56 He is a Father to the fatherless, 07:58 but how do we know, 07:59 I mean, does it hit you, 08:01 as I was thinking about this, Jesus, 08:06 the person of Jesus Christ became our Redeemer. 08:10 God came down to earth and became a man. 08:15 That's incredible. 08:16 So that he could be our kinsman-redeemer. 08:21 And what does 1 Peter 1:18-19 say? 08:24 "We are redeemed," what? 08:27 "By the blood of the Lamb." 08:30 That's how much we're worth to God. 08:31 Okay. 08:33 Now let's look at the second part of that. 08:35 The Redeemer is strong. 08:38 The Lord of hosts is His name. 08:43 Do you know what Lord of hosts is? 08:46 The highest of high. 08:48 It is. 08:49 It's the most majestic title that there could be. 08:52 Yes, omnipotent. Omnipotent. 08:54 Amen. 08:55 He has all of these forces at His command. 08:59 He is over all the angels. 09:02 He's got the armies of heaven. 09:04 So, boy, when we're talking about who's doing this, 09:09 He says, I'm the first, I'm the last, I'm the only God, 09:12 there is no God besides me, 09:14 and God is our Redeemer. 09:19 The Lord of hosts is His name. 09:22 And what does He do? 09:24 He will surely and thoroughly plead their cause. 09:30 Who has a thought on that that He pleads our cause? 09:34 You know, I'm reminded of Zachariah 3 09:37 really comes to my mind on that, 09:38 you know, in that judgment scene. 09:40 Amen. 09:41 But, how, I don't know how I put this. 09:44 It's like we're so, we sense and know that we're unworthy, 09:47 but we realize in His eyes, 09:49 if this is the master that created the entire universe, 09:53 He wanted so much, He's so compelled 09:54 because He loves us so much that 09:56 He wants us not to be missing in that kingdom. 09:58 If you don't make it in that kingdom, 09:59 it's like a piece of Him is gone. 10:02 It's not so, He's going to plead for us 10:03 because He wants us there in that kingdom. 10:05 He wants what He's created home. 10:07 He wants that piece back. 10:09 Amen. Amen. 10:10 JD? 10:11 It also tells us in Hebrews, right? 10:13 Hebrew 7:25. 10:14 Amen. Favorite scripture. 10:15 That the King of kings, the Lord of hosts, 10:21 He is our advocate. He is. 10:23 And being our advocate what it tells us in Hebrews 10:26 is therefore he is also able to save us to the uttermost 10:32 who come to God through him. 10:34 He is our advocate. 10:36 Because why I is, as our advocate, 10:38 Hebrew 7:25 says he lives to make intercession for you. 10:43 Do you realize the person of Jesus Christ 10:48 is at the right hand of the Father? 10:52 He is pleading your cause. 10:54 He is making intercession for you constantly. 10:59 He lives to make intercession in 1 John 2:1, 11:03 says that we have an advocate with the Father. 11:08 And what does advocate mean? 11:10 It's your defender. 11:11 Well, it's a defender, 11:13 but also He knew He walked on this earth, 11:16 He did walk in our shoes. Amen. 11:19 He does, He understands in a way that 11:21 no one else can of what it is to be a human. 11:25 And yet if I allow Him to, 11:29 He will stand between me and Satan 11:31 or between me and anything or anyone else 11:34 that tries to prevent Him from having, 11:38 or prevent me from being part of His kingdom 11:41 in the end if I allow it. 11:44 So you just kind of segued into, 11:47 He pleads our case, 11:49 but He defends or maintains our cause. 11:52 And that cause is to get us into heaven. 11:57 JD, read 1 Kings 8:49. 12:01 1 Kings 8:49. 12:02 Yeah. 12:04 1 Kings 8:49, "Then hear in heaven 12:07 your dwelling place their prayer 12:09 and their supplication, and maintain their cause." 12:12 So as the prayer is being lifted up. 12:17 Amen. 12:18 He's saying, oh, hear, O Lord, 12:20 in Your dwelling place in heaven. 12:22 Hear us and maintainer our cause. 12:26 Hebrews 1:3 says that Jesus upholds, 12:30 He maintains, He does everything 12:33 by His mighty word of power. 12:35 Maintain means to take action advance, 12:38 bring forth or accomplish. 12:40 And this is what's exciting is that it it's used, 12:46 it's a verb maintained 12:47 that's used in many ways, 12:49 but when it's used of God, 12:51 it is always talking about how God maintains the cause 12:55 for His entire created world but also for individuals. 13:00 Now I'm going to ask you please, 13:05 Don, would you read Joshua? 13:08 Let's go to Joshua 23 and 24. 13:14 So Joshua comes right after Deuteronomy. 13:17 He's the one, but if you will just read 23, please? 13:21 Joshua 23, I mean 14. 13:24 Joshua chapter? Fourteen. 13:28 Chapter 23 and verse 14, 13:31 because this just hit me 13:34 and it's so amazing. 13:37 23:24? 13:39 23:14. Joshua 23:14. 13:42 And the reason I want to do 13:43 this is God's acts in His words, 13:47 always perfectly correspond. 13:50 God, what He says He does. 13:54 Anything He does is what He's already said. 13:58 So look at Joshua 23:14 14:04 And says here, and this is of the King James Version. 14:06 And behold, this day I am going the way 14:11 of all the earth." 14:13 So Joshua was praying. He's about to die. 14:15 And you know, "In all your hearts 14:16 and in all your souls that not one thing, 14:19 hath failed of all the good things 14:22 which the Lord, your God speak concerning you. 14:25 All are come to pass unto you 14:27 and not one thing hath failed thereof." 14:31 So the way the New King James says, 14:35 "All have come to pass for you. 14:37 Not one word of them has failed." 14:43 So everything that God promised them all the good, 14:47 He brought it to pass. 14:50 And you know, if you've watched 3ABN long, 14:53 you know, that part of my ministry 14:56 is teaching people the power 14:58 of returning the Word of God to Him 15:00 because it doesn't return to Him void. 15:03 He watches over His Word to perform it. 15:06 And here's Joshua saying, you know in your heart, 15:09 you know in your soul, nothing that God said, 15:13 all this good He said He was going to do for you, 15:16 He's done it. 15:18 Not one word of the Lord has failed, 15:20 but now I'm going to read the next verse, 15:23 because this is an eye-opener. 15:26 Therefore it shall come to pass, 15:30 in another words, 15:31 the therefore is saying God's word is sure. 15:35 Not one word has failed. 15:36 "Therefore it shall come to pass that 15:38 all the good things that have come upon you, 15:40 which the Lord your God promised you. 15:42 So the Lord will bring upon you all the harmful things 15:48 if you transgress his covenant." 15:50 And the reason I want to point that out. 15:53 Isn't that, I mean, 15:54 there is a powerful juxification there. 15:57 Sometimes we think the Word of the Lord, 16:00 we want to cling to the promises 16:03 but we cannot, 16:05 all of His warnings are promises too. 16:09 If you do this, there's consequences for it. 16:12 This is going to happen. 16:14 That's pretty powerful. 16:15 It's a little slogan that Lord put in my head, 16:17 God can't bless what you make a mess. 16:20 Yeah, that's good. 16:21 God can't bless what you make a mess. 16:23 That's kind of what you're touching on 16:24 more or less. 16:25 Yeah. We're making a mess of it. 16:27 We need to take, you know, He's going to plead our cause. 16:31 He's going to defend our cause, 16:35 but, boy, I guarantee you, 16:37 we need to walk in obedience in the Lord. 16:41 All right, Dee? We have to say yes to Him. 16:43 Yeah. 16:45 That, that's our God, 16:47 even though God is so powerful, 16:49 He could force our will, 16:51 but He never does because of His love for us. 16:54 We have choices to make. 16:56 And this, Psalms 37:6-7. 17:01 I love this. 17:03 I already had it marked in my Bible, 17:04 but I want to make sure that I do it in context. 17:06 I'm going to read the verses first of what His promise is. 17:10 Okay. Starting in 6. 17:12 All right. Okay. 17:13 So Psalms 37:6, it says, 17:17 "He shall bring forth your righteousness 17:19 as the light and your justice as noon day, 17:25 rest in the Lord and wait patiently for Him." 17:29 God is saying, He's giving us a promise 17:32 of what He's going to do for us. 17:35 And when we have, when we choose Him, 17:39 when we're walking in His will, 17:41 when we are under His guidance and His love, 17:47 He takes what we do, 17:50 because the very best that I do is rags. 17:53 But He takes the very best that I can do under His power. 17:57 And He makes my righteousness his, 18:00 either should say His righteousness. 18:02 Right. 18:03 It makes His righteousness as light. 18:06 And it makes His justice as noon day. 18:10 Because if you read this whole chapter, 18:12 He is, He starts out telling us we should trust in Him. 18:15 It's telling us what if we do this, 18:19 if we will do good, if we'll dwell in the land, 18:21 if we'll feed on His faithfulness, 18:23 if we'll delight ourselves in the Lord. 18:26 It's letting Him know, 18:28 He shall give you the desires of your heart. 18:30 So He's letting us know if we choose. 18:33 If we choose this, if we choose certain things, 18:36 if we choose to love Him, 18:38 if we choose Him, this is what He'll do for us, 18:42 because my righteousness is pretty bad at its very best, 18:48 but He will actually use it 18:51 and let it shine to win someone else to Him. 18:53 Amen. 18:55 When my righteousness doesn't shine, 19:00 when I step away from Him. 19:03 When I think of what the Lord does for me, 19:07 when we've talked about before that His love 19:10 for me, He fights for me. 19:12 He's up there pleading for my cause. 19:16 And then when I let go of His hand 19:20 and I act in my own power and disappoint him, 19:25 when I do something inappropriate or I fall, 19:29 I stumble and fall, my first thought is that 19:34 I've disappointed my Lord and Savior, 19:36 my Redeemer. 19:37 He paid such a price for me. 19:40 His love is so overwhelming. 19:43 So when I disappoint Him, I just feel crushed. 19:48 And then I worry about 19:49 the other people that I've hurt, 19:51 but God always will forgive me. 19:57 Even if others don't, 19:59 He will forgive me if I will turn back to Him, 20:03 if I will trust in the Lord and do good. 20:06 Once again, if I will walk with Him 20:08 and with Him, 20:09 no matter how many times I stumble, 20:11 He shall use His righteousness to shine for others. 20:15 Amen. 20:16 He will put justice as the noon day. 20:20 He will continue to keep these promises as long as 20:24 I keep what He has asked of me. 20:27 Amen. 20:29 And what He asked of me 20:31 is to give me the very best life 20:32 I could have, my happiness. 20:35 You turn to a scripture when she said about falling. 20:38 Where'd you turn? Yes. 20:40 When she said falling, it's Hebrews 6:6 20:42 just came to my mind, it says, 20:44 "If they shall fall away, to renew them again 20:46 unto repentance, 20:48 seeing they crucify to themselves 20:49 the Son of God afresh, 20:50 and put him to an open shame." 20:52 You know, I read that and I just think about 20:54 we can easily do that because we, 20:56 I think sometimes 20:58 we take relationships for granted. 21:00 It's so easy to do that. 21:01 And think while God's not going to care, 21:03 doesn't see anyway, so I'll do this 21:05 and He's watching at all times, He's recording everything. 21:07 And what you're saying is, 21:08 but speaking to me is that 21:09 Christ is like our umbrella if you can put it that way. 21:12 And He stands before the Father. 21:14 So the Father sees through Christ. 21:16 He sees us through Christ, 21:18 not us standing there, but He sees us through Christ. 21:21 That's amazing how He sees us through Him. 21:23 And that's His character 21:24 is now transferred to our character. 21:26 Yeah. 21:27 So that's the most beautiful thing 21:28 that He covers us, even though we walk away and, 21:30 but He still accepts us back. 21:32 And, Dee, the thought that I had, 21:34 when you mentioned about falling, 21:35 I immediately thought of Micah 7:8, 21:39 which is in 9, which some of my favorite. 21:42 It says, Micah says, 21:44 "Do not rejoice over me my enemy, 21:47 when I fall, I will arise. 21:50 When I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to me. 21:54 I will bear the indignation of the Lord 21:56 because I've sinned against Him. 21:58 Until He pleads my case 22:03 and executes justice for me, 22:07 He will bring me forth to the light. 22:11 I will see His righteousness." And you know what? 22:14 I didn't even have that scripture 22:16 on our syllabus. 22:17 But you know, 22:18 when you think both in Psalm 37:6-7, 22:21 and here, when it's talking about 22:24 God bringing forth justice, 22:27 it could mean it's going to happen 22:29 during the psalmist's life. 22:30 Or it could be the future justice 22:34 of the Lord will be like a rising sun, 22:36 because God says, vengeance is mine, you know? 22:39 But justice is going to happen. 22:42 What do you think He means 22:44 when in Psalm 36:7, he says, 22:47 "Be still before with the Lord and wait patiently for Him." 22:53 In that kind of, I mean, I know to be still, 22:56 it can mean that you're quieting yourself 22:59 in the presence of the Lord. 23:01 To me here, I think you're waiting 23:03 on God's justice instead of taking it on. 23:06 Yeah, you have to, I cannot, 23:11 real justice is that 23:12 you're totally healed and it didn't really happen. 23:15 We want justice, 23:17 but God is the only one that can bring justice. 23:20 God is the only one that can bring righteousness, 23:23 bring the light. 23:25 And when we, when my, 23:29 when I stumble, when my ugly comes out, 23:32 I know almost immediately. 23:34 And my heart is broken for hurting my Lord. 23:39 But you know what, Dee, 23:40 I've known you for 20 years and I guarantee you what? 23:44 You... 23:46 We all have certain personality types, 23:47 you are a jump in 23:49 and let's make it happen kind of person. 23:51 But you know what? 23:52 You very rarely stumble and fall anymore. 23:56 That's, it's a rare... 23:58 When I do it's a honey dough, but I know that the Lord, 24:02 what I do accept His forgiveness. 24:05 I've learned to... 24:08 I've learned that when I stumble and fall 24:11 and when I disappoint Him, 24:13 I've learned to say, the Lord knows my heart, 24:17 He can, that's why Jesus can stand 24:19 between me and the Lord. 24:21 And He can redeem me and He can plead my cause 24:24 because He sees my heart. 24:25 He knows that it crushed me that I hurt Him. 24:30 So He will redeem me 24:32 and He will allow His righteousness 24:35 to shine through me again. 24:37 Amen. He will bring that forth. 24:39 He will lift me up to be the person He wanted me to be. 24:44 But the hardest thing I had to learn 24:46 was to let Him do that and to accept it 24:48 because we all want to beat ourselves up 24:51 because look how old I am. 24:53 I should have learned by now. 24:55 Why should I still be stumbling? 24:57 When I think I've overcome, you're right, I'm quick to, 25:00 I'm real quick. 25:02 And I need to wait patiently for the Lord. 25:06 I need to filter those words before they come out. 25:11 But He did create me to be very focused 25:14 and to get the job done. 25:16 Yeah. 25:17 Let me, just, what I like about 25:19 these two verses is that is involving Him, God and us. 25:24 We're cooperating here. Yes. 25:26 He shall bring, 25:28 Jesus shall bring forth your right doing 25:31 as the light, Him. 25:34 Then now what is our part? 25:36 Rest in the Lord and wait patiently for Him. 25:39 So if we understand, look at the dial of a watch, 25:43 you know, 12, 3, 6, 9, 12, 3, 6, 9. 25:48 So here he's sitting here saying, 25:50 Hey, I will assist you in right doing, 25:53 but be patient and let Me, you do your part just rest, 25:59 you know, you know what's right. 26:02 Rest in Me. Yeah. 26:04 So anyway... 26:05 I was just thinking when you said that, 26:07 JD, you know, it comes to my mind, 26:08 I watched a Christian movie 26:09 just recently and this woman it's just a movie, 26:11 it's not true. 26:12 But anyway, she had lost her husband 26:14 in Afghanistan. 26:15 He died. 26:17 So for two years she was trying to fix things. 26:19 She was trying to fix everything by herself 26:21 and it was getting her annoyed. 26:22 Everybody talked to her, said, she said, I got this. 26:24 No, I've got this. 26:26 And she kept doing over and over and over, 26:27 she was losing her house, her mortgage was back. 26:30 She couldn't pay for it. She said, no, I got this. 26:31 I'm going to take care of, I'm fine working. 26:33 You know, three shifts of this diner 26:35 couldn't take care of her daughter, 26:36 couldn't put food on the table. 26:38 She says, I've got this, I've got this. 26:39 And I think we often find ourselves. 26:40 Then I think that, that says be still before the Lord. 26:43 You know, we try to fix things 26:45 and He wants to sit there and fix it. 26:47 And we're always trying to run ahead and fix things. 26:48 And we're making a mess. 26:50 I had a gym I worked for years ago 26:51 and he said, smarter, not harder. 26:53 I'm like, what is that supposed to mean, 26:55 you know? 26:56 And it took me a long time to figure out, it's like, 26:58 we're, if we just be still and be on the Lord, 27:00 He's going to do it the smart way where we make it. 27:02 We're just, 27:03 I know stupid is not a great word, 27:05 but just we make a mistake 27:06 and just mess it all up and just let Him make it. 27:09 Oh, I can't remember which proverb it was. 27:11 But I found a proverb that said that 27:13 if you love knowledge or instruction, 27:17 you love knowledge. 27:18 But if you hate correction, you're stupid. 27:20 That's what exactly what it said. 27:21 Right. 27:23 If you hate correction, you're stupid. 27:24 No, that's great. 27:26 If people who love you will correct you, 27:28 they will help you. 27:30 And if you will accept that 27:31 and so then you grow and you get better. 27:34 So the Lord wants us to grow. 27:36 How do your children get better if you don't correct them? 27:39 When you look at little children, 27:42 I mean, if you're doing a arithmetic, 27:44 when you're in the first grade, 27:45 your teacher has to correct you 27:47 to show you how to get it right. 27:49 The Lord has to correct us. 27:52 That's how we grow. 27:53 That's how we get better is through correction. 27:55 Amen. 27:57 So what happens, Don, if we keep messing up, 28:00 what does he tell us in Isaiah 49? 28:03 Wow. Good one. Isaiah 49 was it 25 here? 28:07 It says, "But thus saith the Lord, 28:09 even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, 28:12 and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: 28:14 for I will contend with him 28:16 that contendeth with you or thee, 28:18 and I will save your children." 28:21 I really thought about 28:22 one of the stories that touched my heart 28:24 and I share this a lot on prayer line 28:25 is a lot of people 28:26 feel like their backs against the wall. 28:28 They feel so oppressed. They can't get out. 28:30 They just feel like they can't break. 28:31 And I tell them the story about 28:32 when, you know, 28:34 Pharaoh was holding over Israelites 28:36 just in bondage and holding them down, 28:39 wouldn't let them free. 28:40 Well, finally, God, of course, 28:42 He does all these things to get Pharaoh's attention. 28:44 And Pharaoh's finally is like, 28:45 get out here, just get out here, 28:47 just leave, take your stuff. 28:48 So then they end up leaving and going to the desert 28:49 and they find they're stuck at the Red Sea 28:51 and this mountain, like we're done. 28:54 We got nowhere to go. 28:55 And here's the Egyptians coming behind us. 28:57 We're done. 28:58 Why'd you lead us out here, Moses, what was this all about? 29:00 And then it says that, he says, 29:02 stand and you'll see the salvation of your Lord. 29:03 And in verse 14, Exodus 14, 29:06 it says "The Lord shall fight for you 29:07 and you'll hold your peace." 29:09 Amen. That just really speaks to me. 29:11 You know, it's like, we try to, like, 29:13 I'm saying, we try to fight ourselves, 29:14 do our own thing, 29:15 and God has already got the plan, 29:17 answer and the plan. 29:18 And we just got to be in His plan 29:20 and follow His answer. 29:21 So I think... 29:22 You know, I use that verse a lot to encourage parents 29:25 because he says, 29:27 I will contend with him who contends with you. 29:29 And I think of Satan more than anything. 29:33 When, who is the one that's contending with us, 29:35 but he says, and your children I will save. 29:39 So that's a great promise for the... 29:45 It's just a great promise. 29:47 It's one that a lot of parents need to hear a lot. 29:50 All of us need to hear is that He is fighting for us. 29:54 He's pleading our case and defending our cause. 29:56 Amen. 29:58 Well, I think about that with how Egypt and how, 30:00 if God didn't remove the Egyptians 30:02 from that situation 30:03 where would Israel ended up with, 30:05 well, generations later, they finally got to Canaan. 30:08 So He was defending even 30:09 the youth all the way back then. 30:11 Yeah. 30:12 It's like He did that to protect the youth, 30:13 so they could go into the Promised Land. 30:15 Amen. 30:16 When I find myself, when I'm confident that I'm, 30:21 have made the decisions that is in God's will, 30:25 to go a certain direction or to take care of something, 30:28 no matter how it looks, 30:31 whatever boundaries might be in the way 30:35 I have discovered that 30:36 if I will not try to fix it myself, 30:39 there's certain situations I don't try to fix. 30:41 I'm like, I've learned the wisdom, 30:46 of situations that I cannot fix. 30:49 You know, a lot of times it's good to ask ourselves, 30:53 can I fix this or can I not? 30:56 If it's something I can fix, then yes, 31:00 I'm going to go forward and do what I need to do. 31:04 But if this is something that I can't fix, 31:06 I have learned to stand back 31:09 and let God take care of it in His time. 31:13 And that is the most freeing decision 31:18 that you can make is when you're like, 31:21 I can't fix this. 31:22 I've got to let it go. 31:24 When I was moving here, 31:26 I saw many things that I'm like, 31:28 I don't see how this is going to work, 31:30 but I know that 31:32 God is leading me in this particular decision. 31:35 So I let go and I just went forward 31:37 and God took care of all of it. 31:40 And I still do that in certain situations. 31:43 It's like God's going to have 31:46 to take care of this, because I can't. 31:47 Amen. 31:48 And if I'll get out of His way, He will, He will. 31:51 And, boy, that part of segue into Isaiah 54:17. 31:56 You want to read that, Don? 31:58 Sure. Yes. 31:59 So this is of the Amplified. I like the Amplified. 32:02 Let's read it first out of the New King James, 32:04 and then let's read the Amplified. 32:06 Sure. 32:08 Because I think sometimes it helps to hear 32:12 the condensed version and then we understand 32:15 all the Amplified versions doing 32:17 is taking you to the Hebrew 32:19 or the Greek and stretching it out 32:21 with all of its meaning. 32:22 Let me read it, 32:24 then you read it in the Amplified. 32:25 Okay? 32:27 This is Isaiah 54:17 and the King James, 32:31 or New King James Version. 32:33 "No weapon formed against you shall prosper, 32:37 and every tongue 32:38 which rises against you in judgment you shall condemn. 32:42 This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, 32:45 and their righteousness is from Me, saith the Lord." 32:50 Amen. From me, that's great. 32:52 Amplified puts it this way, "But no weapon that is formed 32:56 against you shall prosper, 32:58 and every tongue that shall rise 32:59 against you in judgment 33:01 you shall show to be in the wrong." 33:04 This, and this is, I guess in brackets here. 33:06 "Peace, righteousness, security, 33:10 triumph over opposition." 33:11 Boy, I love that. 33:13 "Is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, 33:15 those in whom the ideal Servant of the Lord 33:19 is reproduced," 33:20 wow, "this is the righteousness 33:23 or the vindication which they obtain from Me, 33:26 this is that which I impart to them 33:28 as their justification, says the Lord." 33:31 Wow. I like that word reproduce. 33:33 That's great. 33:34 Those to whom the ideal servant of the Lord is reproduce. 33:37 He's wanting to reproduce in us His righteousness. 33:39 Amen. 33:41 But you know I love it because no weapon that 33:43 is formed against you shall prosper. 33:46 Now, you know, some people, 33:48 when it says every tongue that rises against you, 33:51 I've got to say some people forget 33:54 that it says in judgment, 33:56 so it's formal accusations that it's talking about. 34:01 That's not just little gossip and everything that's going on, 34:05 but God will defend your cause against any formal accusation. 34:10 And you know 34:11 who is the accuser of the brethren? 34:13 Yeah. Satan. 34:14 Satan. 34:16 And so, you know, but what he's saying here 34:20 is that evil men and even demons 34:25 cannot prevail against us 34:28 because God sets boundaries 34:30 and God is going to vindicate the people 34:36 and He is going to pronounce them innocent 34:39 and deliver them. 34:40 Yeah. It reminds of Psalms 118:6. 34:43 Amen. Yes. 34:45 "The Lord is on my side, I will not fear." 34:49 What can man do to me? "What can men do to me?" 34:52 That's great, I love it. 34:53 That God's righteousness is for you. 34:55 Amen 34:56 I had a gentleman, just the other day 34:58 we were just coming out of our church. 34:59 I don't know why this happened, but as gentleman drove past, 35:01 as we're coming out 35:03 I thought he was waving to me, but he stuck his hand out 35:05 and gave me something else. 35:07 Wasn't very kind. 35:08 I was like, what on earth? 35:10 And you know I'm waving him all nice and happy. 35:12 He's giving me this other nice little gesture. 35:14 But just the fact that, you know, God will, 35:17 He vindicates those that are being persecuted 35:21 by those who are, I don't know 35:22 if there's so much animosity or anger towards 35:24 those who maybe they attend a church 35:26 or whatever, but just this interest 35:27 how God will vindicate those who are like you said, 35:30 obedient and faithful to Him. 35:32 So if we stay obedient and faithful, 35:33 no matter what somebody throws at 35:34 or does to us, 35:36 whatever they do, God will deliver. 35:37 And you never know 35:38 what difference that could make. 35:40 It may be, you know, 35:41 that the next to me passes by someone. 35:43 Let's just say, somebody says, oh, yes, you know, 35:45 when you pass by that church, da, da, da. 35:47 And then he may turn around and says, you know, 35:50 I passed by there the other day. 35:51 And the guy was so friendly. 35:53 He waved at me, you know, and so they're good people. 35:55 I like them. 35:56 Because God can use things that 36:03 we do and let people see them, 36:05 your righteousness shown through 36:07 by just waving and smiling. 36:09 And you don't know what that person actually saw. 36:12 He saw what God wanted him to see 36:15 because it was God's righteousness 36:17 that was coming through you 36:18 because that's not a normal reaction 36:21 to someone being mean to us. 36:24 If someone is cruel to me, 36:27 our natural reaction is to defend ourselves 36:31 or to retaliate, but it is God's righteousness 36:36 if I don't. 36:37 Right. It is His... 36:41 It is Him shining through me, His righteousness. 36:44 And you're right, God can take that righteousness 36:48 if we allow Him to use it 36:49 and He can influence that person later, 36:52 it's a seed that can be planted. 36:54 That's where it says He makes His light shine. 36:57 So if we will control our desire for justice 37:03 and let God's justice shines through us 37:05 and react in kindness and love. 37:08 And then He can use that later on to let our light shine 37:14 and His light shine and change a life. 37:17 Have you, has anyone here ever been in a situation 37:22 where a tongue rose against you in judgment, 37:25 where it was like, 37:28 and I'm not talking about gossip, 37:30 but where someone made an attack and it was like, 37:35 you had to stand back 37:37 and let God fight that battle for you? 37:40 Dee? 37:42 I was involved in a court case and someone 37:46 and the person on the other side said, why... 37:52 I did not press charges against them. 37:54 The state pressed charges against them. 37:57 And what this person said is I didn't hurt her 38:01 and I'm thinking, 38:03 but I had to allow the court system 38:06 to make that decision. 38:07 I couldn't stand up and say, 38:10 oh, you did this, this, this and this. 38:12 I was, he was not being prosecuted by me. 38:17 It was the state that was prosecuting him, 38:19 but I could not defend myself. 38:21 I had to allow the... The judge. 38:24 The public defender and the judge defend me 38:30 and say whether he was right or wrong. 38:35 You know, when you just said that 38:36 it occurred to me, Jesus is our advocate. 38:40 He is the one 38:41 who is vigorously pleading our case. 38:45 But you know what? 38:46 Advocate is more than being our defender, 38:49 our public defender, our lawyer. 38:52 In the Hebrew system, 38:56 the advocate was also the judge. 38:59 So the one that's standing up to defend you is the judge. 39:03 Can you imagine that? 39:05 It's just, it's mind boggling to me. 39:09 See, what I love about that is that God is not only, 39:13 Jesus is my defender and my judge, 39:16 and everything like that. 39:17 But the thing is that He really knows me. 39:22 He knows what's in my heart. 39:23 He knows the truth. 39:25 See, human beings we don't always know the truth. 39:29 We can't read the heart, but I can trust Jesus, 39:34 because He really does know my heart. 39:36 He knows the truth 39:40 Few years ago... 39:41 I'm trying to think 39:43 if I can even share this without sounding, 39:44 but I was in a situation 39:47 where I wasn't going to allow somebody to, 39:53 they wanted me to sign all copyright 39:56 to a teaching to them. 39:57 And I said, no, I'll give you this was 39:59 with a different network. 40:01 And in the early part of my ministry, 40:03 and I told them, 40:04 I'll let you have broadcast rights 40:06 and everything, 40:07 but I can't sign copyright over to you 40:10 because then I could never teach 40:12 from this again. 40:13 It totally belong to you. 40:16 And so the gentleman 40:18 who was like a general manager accused, 40:21 I mean, he went ballistic and accused me 40:24 of trying to ruin their ministry and everything. 40:28 And it was amazing. 40:30 And the interesting thing is this. 40:33 I went back and as I'm thinking 40:36 about all of this, 40:37 I was ready to say, you know, 40:39 I told him that's not my intent, 40:41 da, da, da. 40:42 And I wanted to just go back and say, okay, I'll sign it. 40:45 And God stopped me. 40:47 Amen. 40:48 And they canceled it live that I was on for that night. 40:51 But guess what happened? 40:53 In the place of that live they aired in program. 40:56 And I saw the error 40:59 that was being perpetuated 41:04 by that particular place. 41:06 And God let me know. 41:08 And He had told me 41:09 before we even left that 41:10 He was calling me out of where I was. 41:13 I thought I was going to move there. 41:14 We were going to move there. 41:16 He was calling me out. 41:17 So what I'm trying to say to you is sometimes, 41:21 like you said, 41:22 if we don't wait patiently for the Lord and be still, 41:26 sometimes we are ready to even compromise 41:30 or be coerced. 41:31 We've got to let God defend our cause. 41:34 Look what God did. 41:36 I mean, He brought me to 3ABN just about a year later. 41:40 So it's amazing 41:44 how no weapon 41:47 that's formed against us shall prosper. 41:49 God is going to contend with those who contend with us. 41:53 Yeah. 41:54 I had a, years ago when I worked at a place, 41:56 it was like a farm and a supply store. 41:59 A gentleman mock made fun of me because I was cleaning a shelf. 42:01 He said, either you're praying 42:03 to your God or blah, blah, blah kind of thing. 42:05 So he kind of made fun of me 42:06 and it wasn't too long maybe a few months later 42:08 I pulled up to the store and they had the gates shut. 42:10 I'm like, what's going on here? 42:12 There was no cars in the parking lot or anything. 42:14 And a gentleman approached me, one of the coworkers. 42:15 He said, something happened here. 42:17 It's major. 42:18 Go in the manager's room, you'll find out what happened. 42:21 Some literally broke inside the building 42:23 on the side and stole the safe. 42:24 I don't know how they got it out there. 42:25 But somehow they found the manager was the one 42:27 that was guilty and he got fired. 42:29 He was out the door. 42:30 So it was like, God does defend us. 42:32 It's crazy. It's just amazing. 42:34 Absolutely. Okay. 42:35 Even when it's just minor, I learned many, many years ago. 42:40 If someone lies about you, you cannot defend yourself. 42:45 Even before I was a Christian, I understood that 42:49 if someone gossips or lies about you, 42:51 you cannot defend yourself. 42:53 It's a matter of people believing 42:55 what they want to believe. 42:57 You have to just simply live and trust in the Lord. 43:02 So I don't care whether you're in church 43:04 or if a lie is told about you, it will not prosper, 43:09 but you may have to wait upon the Lord 43:12 to make things right 43:14 And be still and let Him fight the battle, and that's hard. 43:16 Do not defend yourself. 43:18 Just, if you're asked questions, honest, 43:22 answer truthfully, 43:23 but you have to just live 43:27 who you are and let God fix it. 43:29 Amen. You cannot fix it. 43:31 All right. Let's move on. 43:32 I've got a scripture that I want 43:34 because to share, as far as God, 43:39 our Redeemer pleading our case and defending our cause. 43:45 And this is Revelation 3:7-8. 43:51 And here's what, these are the words of Jesus. 43:56 "These things says He who is holy, 43:59 He who is true, 'He who has the key of David, 44:04 He who opens and no one shuts, 44:08 and shuts and no one opens: I know your works. 44:13 See, I have set before you an open door, 44:19 and no one can shut it." 44:21 Because I'm pleading your case, I'm defending your cause. 44:24 "For you have a little strength, 44:28 have kept my word and have not denied My name." 44:33 Now, when we talk about the key of David, 44:36 there is an interpretive rule. 44:39 And the... 44:41 When you look at the Bible, 44:42 there is this interpretive rule, 44:45 a way you can interpret stuff. 44:47 And it's the law of first mention. 44:51 So let's look at Isaiah 22:22, 44:54 because people talk about the key of David 44:57 being all kinds of things 44:59 and they twist this scripture around. 45:02 But I want to show you what it really means. 45:03 If we go to Isaiah 22:22, 45:07 the prophecy of Eliakim, it says, 45:12 "The key of the house of David 45:15 I will lay on his shoulder. 45:18 So he shall open and no one shall shut." 45:21 And it's speaking of Eliakim. 45:24 "And he shall shut and no one shall open." 45:28 So who this guy was? 45:31 He was appointed to have supervision 45:34 over all of the house of David. 45:36 He controlled access to the king. 45:40 He had the authority to let people in the door. 45:43 He could open it. 45:44 No one could shut it or he had authority to shut it 45:47 and they couldn't get in. 45:49 And not only in the house of David, 45:53 but also in the house of God. 45:55 So that when Revelation 3 46:00 is speaking about Christ 46:02 possessing a key figuratively 46:07 what it is talking about is Christ's jurisdiction 46:11 over the church. 46:13 Christ is the one who opens the door 46:17 and we can come in and He's the one who closes it. 46:22 But here's the good thing. 46:24 He is going to carry out 46:28 His plan of redemption. 46:32 Hebrew 7:22, a lovely scripture. 46:35 It says, "By so much more, 46:38 Jesus has become the surety of a better covenant." 46:43 The word surety Jesus is our guarantor. 46:47 He's more than just the person, our advocate. 46:50 He's more than the one who's pleading our case. 46:53 He's the guarantee 46:55 because He's the guarantor from God to us. 46:59 2 Corinthians 1:20 says, 47:00 "All of God's promises are yes and amen in Christ Jesus." 47:05 So He's the guarantee from God to us. 47:09 But He's the guarantee from us to God 47:12 because Philippians 2:12 says that 47:15 He's going to work in us to will 47:17 and to do His good pleasure. 47:20 And so, He's going to complete the good work He's begun in us. 47:23 So we will walk in obedience to the Lord 47:27 as we allow Him to work in us. 47:31 So Jesus is constantly defending our cause 47:35 Amen. 47:36 And that reminds me, Shelley, of Psalms 57:2. 47:40 Okay. Psalms 57:2. 47:45 And I, here again, we're involved. 47:48 This is David talking. 47:49 "I will cry to God Most High." 47:53 God, who's the supernatural God, 47:56 who is King of kings, Lord of hosts, 47:58 who performs on my behalf and rewards me. 48:02 When He's talking about performs on my behalf 48:05 and rewards me. 48:07 He's talking about that 48:08 what He's starting that He will complete. 48:10 Amen. Okay? 48:12 So this is one that we need to remember 48:15 because we're talking about God is there to defend us. 48:19 When we need His defending, He knows it ahead of time. 48:22 I think He loves hearing from His children. 48:24 Oh, yes. 48:25 So I think that ball is 48:26 put in our court, Daddy, help me. 48:28 And so it says here 48:29 I will cry to the God Most High, 48:31 the one that is supernatural, 48:33 the one that created the universe 48:36 and who in spite of knowing 48:39 everything that's going on, 48:42 at the same time He knows me. 48:46 And to me that's amazing. 48:47 You know, Shelley is always, and I told her, 48:50 here we have God, 48:53 Jesus in heaven gave up that opportunity. 48:59 He was, and He was still God. 49:00 And He came down and took on the person of Jesus Christ. 49:03 I mean it, boy, you study that out 49:05 and it's just absolutely amazing, 49:07 because that is so counterintuitive to us 49:11 on this earth, 49:13 because you can figure that out. 49:16 But here I will cry to God Most High, 49:19 who performs on my behalf and rewards me. 49:22 And in the Amplified, 49:24 who brings to pass his purposes for me 49:26 and surely completes them. 49:29 So what He starts, He will complete, anyway. 49:34 I love it because it's... 49:36 He's God Most High, He's transcendent. 49:39 He's elevated above everything yet He's intimately involved. 49:43 As a matter of fact, would you read Psalm 138:8? 49:48 And, Donald, 49:50 would you look up Philippians 1:6 49:54 because He's talking about, He performs on my behalf. 50:00 He brings it to completion. 50:03 That's why I cling to that verse 50:06 that I can't quote it right. 50:09 What I have started, I will finish. 50:11 Philippians 1:6. Yes. 50:13 I cling to that constantly because it's like, Lord, 50:17 I chose You and You promised 50:18 You would finish what You started in me. 50:20 He who has begun a good work in you, 50:23 He will be faithful to complete it. 50:26 So in Psalms 138:8, 50:29 "The Lord will perfect that which concerns me, 50:33 Your mercy, O Lord, endures forever. 50:37 Do not forsake the works of your hands." 50:41 I cling to that in my deepest pain 50:47 is when I count, call out Abba, Abba, my Father, 50:52 and it's like mercy, please. 50:54 His mercy endures forever. 50:56 And He will not forsake the work He started in me. 50:59 And... 51:01 And let me spell that out 51:02 because I got in trouble once for using Abba. 51:04 Somebody told me I was calling on Allah, 51:07 we're not saying Allah, we're saying Abba, A-B-B-A. 51:12 Which is what Jesus cried out, and this is Abba Father. 51:19 It's like, it's an intimate name. 51:22 It's like Papa. 51:24 And I mean, isn't that amazing that 51:27 God gives us permission to call on Him as Abba. 51:32 Because when you're in tears or in pain, 51:35 in a ball of a mess on the floor, you need, 51:38 you don't start out, dear heavenly Father. 51:41 No. 51:42 You're like Abba, just pull me onto Your lap 51:46 and wrap Your arms around me and help. 51:50 Amen and amen. 51:51 But I love Psalm 138 51:54 because He's going to perfect what concerns me. 51:59 What a promise? 52:02 That's amazing. 52:03 I've just, we're talking about this. 52:05 Philippians 1:6, which you guys 52:06 already quoted being confident of this very thing 52:09 that he which has begun a good work in you 52:11 will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. 52:14 And when you guys were discussing that, 52:16 you know, this idea of calling on Abba Father. 52:19 He's the one 52:20 who hung the stars in their spaces. 52:22 And He's the one 52:23 who put the plants in their places. 52:24 And this is the God 52:26 who is so intimately connected with you. 52:27 It's just, it's incredible. 52:29 When you think about 52:30 He's put all this galaxy together 52:31 and this same God wants to spend time with you. 52:33 It's just, it just really blows your mind that, 52:36 this, it's an amazing thing. 52:37 And then I thought about Hebrews 12, 52:39 kind of follows through with his Hebrews 12:2, 52:43 it says, "Looking unto Jesus, 52:44 the author and finisher of our faith, 52:46 who for the joy was set before him endured the cross, 52:49 despising the shame is set down 52:51 at the right hand of throne of God." 52:52 So there's that kind of again, 52:54 that judge sitting down judging us. 52:56 So I just really, I'm just impressed 52:58 by the concept that God would consider us so valuable. 53:03 I love that word valuable that He would stoop down 53:05 to become like one of us 53:06 and that He would literally lay Himself down to says that 53:10 shepherd lays down his life for the sheep 53:12 and He raised Himself back up 53:13 so He could take on humanity 53:15 and in a divinity and become one of us. 53:19 It's just... It's amazing. 53:20 It blows your... I mean. 53:22 Yeah, I know. 53:23 And you know, we, JD can attest to this. 53:26 Every night I thank God as we're praying. 53:29 And I'll say, Lord, I'll say, 53:32 "Father, thank You that 53:33 You humiliated Yourself to become a man. 53:38 That You took on our flesh." 53:40 To me, that's a greater sacrifice 53:42 and I'll say that it's a greater sacrifice 53:44 because it was a permanent sacrifice. 53:46 He's in flesh. 53:47 It's glorified flesh now. 53:49 But to think that he stoop 53:52 so low and that's what, you know, 53:54 what, that's what the scholars call it, 53:56 is the humiliation of God. 54:00 He came down and became 54:02 the person of Jesus Christ. 54:04 And then He died for us. 54:05 And to think that this Redeemer, 54:09 this God Most High, 54:12 the captain of the host is the one 54:15 who pleads our case continuously 54:20 is the one who defends our cause. 54:24 Mercy. JD, what does Romans 8:31 say? 54:30 Because when you pull all of this together, 54:33 what an amazing Savior we have. 54:38 What it says in the NIV is 54:41 "What then shall we say in response to this." 54:45 Here we've talked about how God is there to defend us. 54:49 The bottom line is as we keep dissecting, dissecting, 54:53 dissecting, if God is for us, 54:56 then who can be against us? 54:59 I want to just read this real quick. 55:02 This is out of the Clear Word. 55:04 Sure. Okay. 55:05 I was looking at this and I just, 55:08 I enjoy reading the Clear Word, it simplifies. 55:12 And what scripture is this? 55:14 This is Romans 8:31. Okay. 55:16 And I'm going to read, I read 31. 55:18 I'm going to go to 30 to 32. Okay. 55:22 "So He gives all the help that we need. 55:24 He being God, He gives us all the help that we need. 55:27 Therefore however, how therefore, 55:31 whoever responds to God's call 55:34 and believes in His Son he justifies." 55:37 Justifies, what does justify mean? 55:39 It means that He counts our sins no more. 55:42 Amen. 55:43 And those whom He justifies, He intends to glorify him. 55:47 Amen. What does that mean? 55:49 He's going to raise us up and be like Him. 55:51 Amen. 55:52 So what shall we say in response to all of this? 55:55 If God is for us, who can be against us? 55:58 And then in verse 32, 56:00 "If God loved us so much that 56:06 He did not spare His own Son, 56:10 but let Him suffer for us all. 56:12 Wouldn't He be willing to do anything else to help us?" 56:16 You know, I can't believe our time has gone so rapidly. 56:20 And that's what I look at is when you focus on 56:24 God's love how great it is 56:27 and how powerful He is. 56:29 And you put those two together, 56:30 how can it not break you and want you to turn to Him. 56:33 And each one of us here, 56:35 I just want to repeat, 56:38 just read Isaiah 54:17 that, 56:44 excuse me, Isaiah, 56:46 We started off what was our, Jeremiah 50:34. 56:50 That God, your Redeemer, 56:52 the Lord of hosts is pleading your cause. 56:55 He is the one who's going to defend your cause. 57:00 And this is something that 57:03 we're going to be talking about throughout eternity. 57:06 Thank you so much for joining us. 57:07 It's been a blessing. 57:09 I've got so much I'd like to say, 57:10 but we're out of time. 57:12 We want to wish all of you at home 57:15 a very, very blessed 57:18 and refreshing Sabbath rest in our Lord. 57:22 You know, Sabbath isn't about resting perfectly, 57:25 but it's about resting in the one who is perfect. 57:28 Amen. 57:29 And our prayer for you is that 57:31 the grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, 57:34 the love of the Father 57:35 and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit 57:37 will be with you always. 57:39 God bless you. |
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