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Well, stand for the reading of 
God's word. 

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I'm going to read from the 
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and 10:33 read through 11 11 and
then we will look at Romans, 15 

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verses 12 and 13. 
Isaiah 10:33, behold. 

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The Lord. 
God of hosts will Lop the bowels

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with terrifying power, the great
and height will be hewn down and

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the lofty will be brought low. 
He will cut down the thickets of

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the forest with an axe and 
Lebanon will fall by The 

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Majestic. 
One, there shall come forth as 

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shoot from the stump of Jesse 
and a branch from his roots, 

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shall bear fruit and the spirit 
of the Lord Lord shall rest upon

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him, the spirit of wisdom and 
understanding the spirit of 

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counsel and might the spirit of 
knowledge and the fear of the 

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Lord and his Delight shall be in
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He shall not judge by what his 
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what his ears hear. 
But with righteousness, he shall

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judge the poor and decide with 
equity for the meek of the 

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earth. 
He shall strike the Earth with 

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the rod of his mouth, and with 
the breath of his lips, he shall

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kill the wicked. 
Righteousness shall be the belt 

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of his waist and faithfulness. 
The belt of his loins, the wolf 

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shall dwell with the lamb and 
the leopard shall lie down with 

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the young goat and the calf, and
The Lion, and the fattened, calf

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together. 
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them. 
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graze. 
Their young shall lie down 

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together and the lion shall eat 
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Like the ox, the nursing child 
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Cobra and the weaned child shall
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They shall not hurt, or destroy 
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Earth, shall be full of the 
knowledge of the Lord, as the 

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waters, cover the sea. 
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who shall stand as a signal for 
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nation inquire and his resting 
place shall be glorious in that 

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day. 
The Lord will extend his hand 

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yet a second. 
Time to recover. 

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The Remnant that remains of his 
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from path, Ross, from kis, from 
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Gnar, and from hamath and from 
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And then from Romans 15, 12 and 
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And again, Isaiah says, the root
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Rises to rule the Gentiles in 
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Will the Gentiles? 
Hope May the god of Hope fill 

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you with all joy and peace in 
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So that by the power of the Holy
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this is the word of the Lord. 
Thanks be to God, please be 

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seated. 
How many of you? 

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Have not yet. 
Sent your Christmas cards, raise

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your hand, good. 
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Not to send Christmas cards? 
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and you feel good that that's 
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I love, are we love? 
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receiving Christmas cards, many 
of you send us cards and our 

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tradition is whoever gets the 
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opening and looking at the 
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I never get to open the cards. 
They're open before I get home. 

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Our tradition is to look at them
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written? 
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scripture verses if they're on 
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And they usually are that a 
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selected. 
And then we throw the Christmas 

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cards into a massive Bowl. 
I mean, a big decorative Bowl 

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not Bowl sets on our coffee 
table, not just through the 

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season of Advent, and into the 
new year, but the whole year 

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until the next Advent and 
occasionally, we reach in pull a

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card out. 
Read it again, pray for that, 

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family, or those individuals. 
It's a sweet thing. 

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The verse that I read last Would
make a great verse for a 

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Christmas card. 
Let me read it again. 

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Romans, 15:13, May the god of 
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peace in believing. 
So that by the power of the Holy

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Spirit, you may abound in. 
Hope let me read that again. 

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May the god of Hope fill you 
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believing so that by the power 
of the Holy Spirit, That you may

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abound in Hope sometimes when I 
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the photo is of a large family, 
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I want to see more clearly, 
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And I don't know if you've done 
this or not, but though it's not

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digital, I pretend it is. 
And I take my fingers and I put 

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them on the card and try to 
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Try to zoom. 
It, does anybody do that? 

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Have you done that? 
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Thank you so much. 
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going to do with this verse. 
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at what hope Paul's talking 
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Isaiah 11. 
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have to zoom in but the 
understand it more fully we have

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to zoom out and in order to do 
that you're going to need a 

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Bible. 
I've been saying a lot this past

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semester, bring your Bible to 
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We have them in the You rack, so
grab one. 

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Now if you didn't, it's blue, 
there's not enough for everyone.

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So share with the person next to
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all over the scriptures this 
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And the reason we're going to do
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for us, I believe is meant to be
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that's what Romans 12 13 is, 
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he's praying to the god of hope.
There's one God of Hope anything

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else you're seeking to put your 
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It will fail you, but this God 
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And so, Paul prays May, the god 
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And peace in believing so that 
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you may abound in hope I'm 
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Believer, those who believe in 
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Are you abounding? 
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What that means is, is Hope 
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look at the world. 
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when you consider the Dynamics 
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happening, are you as a Believer
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think about that? 
Paul's prayer. 

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And therefore a prayer we should
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would be our reality. 
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circumstances that are hard and 
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the result of sin should be 
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But even while we're dealing 
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his people can abound in Hope. 
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Different than many think to 
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We need to understand this whole
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bulletin go to the front page 
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It's we're preaching through the
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Ons, we've come to the third 
petition and the text is what we

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seeing in the great Christmas 
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Probably the oldest Christmas 
Carol, we sing and we this 

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morning saying, O Come, Thou Rod
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Satan's tyranny. 
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What is the rod of Jesse mean 
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Like that are ones that we grow 
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grow in our faith we may begin 
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what is there. 
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hope that Paul is praying for 
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us to have has a lot to do with 
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Rod of Jesse, it's what I do. 
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11, But to understand it, we 
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Genesis. 
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Bible, turn to Genesis 2. 
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what we're going to do is 
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the history of redemption. 
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history of trees and the history
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So let's begin in Genesis 2 at 
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Now this is going to feel a 
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Some of you love history and 
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tempted to check out. 
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We're going to read a lot of the
Living Word of God and it's all 

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easy to understand but it's a 
powerful Narrative of why this 

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phrase the stump of Jesse the 
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much. 
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Genesis 2 verse 8. 
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created everything, the Lord God
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East there. 
He put the man, whom he had 

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formed and out of the ground. 
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every tree. 
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every flower and it continues to
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God has created Adam was the 
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He was the first human being to 
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The Lord describes it. 
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midst of the garden and the tree
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Evil verse 15. 
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put him in the Garden of Eden, 
to work it, and keep it and the 

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Lord. 
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The man saying, you may surely 
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but of the tree of the knowledge
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You shall not eat for in the day
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You shall surely die. 
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It's clear, God has no problem 
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wanted from his creation from 
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image and soon after woman 
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he is clear about what he wants 
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given for life, it's not giving 
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limit life, it's given for life.
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We're going to see how clear he 
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Just a moment as we moved to 
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The serpent is Satan and Satan 
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come and he's going to begin to 
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Now, the serpent was more crafty
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field that the Lord God had made
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So it says he said to the woman,
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God actually, say you shall not 
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That's the first question in the
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And the first question in the 
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from Satan and it's a question 
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It's a question against what God
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it's the same question. 
The enemy continues to use this 

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day. 
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Did God? 
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Did God really say? 
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first, two, and the woman said 
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the fruit of the trees in the 
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not eat of the fruit of the 
fruit of the tree that is in the

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In the midst of the garden. 

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Neither shall you? 
Touch it, lest you die. 

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But the serpent said to the 
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for God knows that. 
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will be opened and you will be 
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So when the woman saw that the 
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that it was a delight to the 
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And that the tree was to be 
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To make one wise, she took of 
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She also gave some to her 
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ate then the eyes of both were 
opened and they knew that they 

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were naked and they sewed fig 
leaves together and made 

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themselves loin cloths. 
God comes into the garden, make 

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himself known again, they hear 
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He asked his first question but 
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and said to him, where are you? 
He said I heard the sound of you

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in the garden and I was afraid 
because I was naked and I hid 

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myself. 
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He said, who told you that you 
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And gods, third question, have 
you eaten of the tree of which I

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have not that I've commanded you
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And now you see the consequences
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consequences of sin as soon as 
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they disobeyed what God had told
them, as soon as they took from 

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this tree, the only tree, they 
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their eyes were open. 
They realized they were naked. 

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They didn't know they were 
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There was no shame and their 
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another unclothed. 
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the fruit fear came, shame came 
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Came the consequences of sin had
entered into the world and those

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consequences were great. 
God speaks, where are you? 

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Adam says. 
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gave to be with me. 
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and I ate You see present their 
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Eve, the Brokenness between Adam
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even God, the Brokenness is 
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relationships. 
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Every sin that has been done 
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of this sinful world, we live in
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decay, all the sin that is 
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thought failed to do. 
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To this tree. 
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they fell and that condition has
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the shedding of to animal skins 
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They have two boys, one murders,
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get worse and worse. 
Turn in your Bible, just a 

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couple pages over to Genesis 6. 
Continuing to think about the 

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Theology of trees, the history 
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redemption. 
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world just Now, the sixth 
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these are the generations of 
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Noah was a righteous man 
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Noah walked with God, that's 
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three sons, Shem, ham and 
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It was evil was corrupt. 
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Earth was corrupt in God's 
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with violence. 
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it was corrupt for all the flesh
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Earth and God said to Noah. 
I've determined to make an End 

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of All Flesh for the Earth is 
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them. 
And behold, I will destroy them 

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with the Earth. 
Make yourself an ark of gopher 

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wood. 
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above their crib. 
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all over our house and Noah 
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realistic, every child would 
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decided to destroy it. 
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are you? 
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Adam and Eve was he was 
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parts of the Bible. 
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He said, I am going to preserve 
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eight, people know his wife, his
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They are going to get into this 
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Think what Noah heard? 
I'm going to destroy everything.

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humanity, I'm going to save you 
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you need to go and build me an 
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are given and it's going to be 
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Now I want you to think for a 
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looked at the trees that he 
would, then cut down our have 

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cut down. 
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he is begin, going to playing 
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That's going to hold these, 
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different pairs of animals, 
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trees have been taken down that 
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the Ark, all the stumps that 
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moves like in Moore? 
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My mother was in that one 
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Every tree gone. 
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devastation. 
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where Noah was just chopping 
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history of redemption. 
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the water finally receded. 
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Let's move forward. 
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God has commanded a way, it's to
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leaders that would follow him 
followed by leaders. 

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Who wouldn't and leaders would 
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wouldn't follow him. 
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oppression, and then Deliverance
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part of the people of God, 
sinning falling short, then the 

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oppression that would come from 
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wrath followed by Deliverance. 
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think about Moses. 
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They have one but they don't 
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Earthly King like all the other 
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So God calls the king named 
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And solve false and this picks 
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In first Samuel turn, their 
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And if you're new to the Bible, 
and right now you are fumbling 

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through, not knowing where to 
go. 

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I'm so glad you're here and 
don't be embarrassed. 

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Look in the table of contents. 
Find it, you'll be in. 

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Good hands, we're moving into 
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history of Israel. 
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will fall as the king and David 
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through this anointing is going 
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Jesse originates. 
That's why we're doing this in. 

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This really matters. 
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Samuel, 16, the Lord said to 
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How long will you grieve over 
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I have rejected him from being 
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with oil and go. 
Go. 

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I will send you to Jesse the 
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provided for myself. 
A king, from among his sons. 

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Do you see that? 
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Bethlehem. 
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All of his sons are going to 
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illuminated by the holy spirit, 
it's going to decide which one 

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it will be. 
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of oldest to youngest because 
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But you will begin to see that 
the way in which God does things

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is, often not the way we would 
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Can you imagine Jesse? 
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there. 
One of your son's is going to be

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the king to replace all friends.
Let that soak in. 

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This is a human man sandals, a 
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This is what God wants. 
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going to be one of your sons. 
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rejected, they're not the one, 
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The Lord is not chosen these. 
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send your said to Jesse are all 
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there remains yet the youngest, 
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Sheep. 
He's a Shepherd, how powerful 

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and Samuel said to Jesse sending
get him for. 

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We will not sit down till he 
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brought him in and the Lord said
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Is he Samuel does with the Lord 
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David is the king and it's from 
this line that the King Jesus is

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going to come. 
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This line that Christ is going 
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I want you to hear what's going 
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This section is titled. 
The Lord's Covenant with David. 

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And then we're going to move 
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Nathan is speaking to David. 
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12, when your days are fulfilled
and you lie down with your 

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father's, I will raise up your 
Offspring. 

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After you shall come from your 
body and I was established his 

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kingdom. 
He shall build a house for my 

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name and I will establish the 
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God speaking these words to 
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and he shall be to me a son when
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It is so immediately. 
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This is another Earthly King. 
There will be many Earthly Kings

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in this line, but this one in 
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Would you like the others? 
I will discipline him with the 

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rod of men with the stripes of 
the sons of men but my steadfast

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love will not depart from him. 
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put away from before you and 
your house and your kingdom 

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shall be made. 
Sure forever. 

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Before me, your throne shall be 
established Established forever 

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in accordance with all these 
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And in accordance with all this 
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here's why that matters time and
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anointed and they would fall. 
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and then they weren't some were 
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that, whenever the people of 
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Disobedience to God, there would
come God's judgment. 

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It's Is righteous, it's perfect 
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And so the rod that were 
speaking it would be the rod 

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that the Lord would use to bring
righteous judgment against this 

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people. 
But always, he would preserve a 

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Remnant always, he would save a 
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So go to Isaiah 11 now, instead 
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reading this morning with Isaiah
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bit and the reason is because 
what comes before? 

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11:1 says, there shall come 
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Jesse So what well, what's 
missing in this translation is 

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the simple three-letter 
conjunction and an end is used 

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at the beginning of every one of
these verses because I believe 

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Isaiah wanted the people reading
this have a heartbeat, that 

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would begin to go a little 
faster. 

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Is they begin to see describe 
for the Messiah that's coming? 

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This Messiah is not going to be 
a normal Messiah, he's not going

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to be a normal teacher. 
He's going to Be something far 

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far greater. 
So to understand it, you got to 

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look at 10:33, just go to versus
up. 

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Behold the Lord, God of hosts 
will Lop the boughs with 

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terrifying power, the great and 
height will be hewn down in the 

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lofty. 
Will be brought low. 

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He that's God, will cut down the
thickets of the forest with an 

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axe and Lebanon will fall by The
Majestic one. 

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What does that mean? 
Assyria was the enemy. 

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It was the rod, the nation God 
was using to discipline and 

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punish his people. 
So they would repent and come to

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saving Faith again in the Lord. 
Assyria was rounding them up, 

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ready for the attack. 
And what God is saying is I'm 

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going to bring judgment against 
those, even those that I'm using

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to bring judgment against you. 
And there will be a time when 

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you see the Assyrians and they 
are nothing but stumps these 

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trees, these massive trees. 
Of of incredible power will be 

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lopped off. 
There will be nothing there, but

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stumps, but that which is true 
of them is also going to be true

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of my people because of this 
judgment. 

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When you see my people it's 
going to also look like a bunch 

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of stumps. 
But from this picture, there is 

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a Stomp. 
While it looks, and Isaiah wants

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to see this completely hopeless.
There's a stump. 

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Called the stump of Jesse. 
And from the stop is going to be

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a shoot and that shoot is going 
to come from that, which is 

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alive underneath, which is the 
roots. 

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So, look with me at 11 1. 
Isaiah says there shall come 

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forth a shoot from the stump of 
Jesse, and a branch from his 

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roots, shall bear. 
Fruit Del Ralph Davis says, 

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don't move too quickly off this 
phrase. 

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The shoot And The Roots. 
He says, I believe, Isaiah has 

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much for us to see here and 
here's what it is. 

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The shoot and the route point to
both the human and the divine 

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nature of Christ. 
Here's how this is amazing. 

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Jesus. 
Is the seed of Jesse, he is in 

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this davidic line, but more than
just being another king, he's 

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the new David just like, he was 
the new Adam. 

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He's the new David, the perfect 
David, he is the seed of Jesse. 

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But he is also the source of 
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creation. 
He is God, he is fully God. 

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He is fully man. 
So that when Isaiah goes on to 

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describe, who this Messiah is, 
we see this much greater than 

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just the human deliverer. 
It's truly God. 

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He is the seed of Jesse. 
But also the source of Jesse. 

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He is The Offspring of Jesse but
also Jesse's origin. 

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Let that sink in. 
When we begin to read about who 

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he is, Isaiah tells us in verse 
2 of Isaiah 11 and the spirit of

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the Lord shall rest upon him, 
the spirit of wisdom and 

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understanding the spirit of 
counsel and might the spirit of 

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knowledge and of the fear of the
Lord. 

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That same spirit. 
The holy spirit is the one who 

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lives inside us. 
That same spirit is the one who 

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illuminated your heart and mind 
at some point to believe the 

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truth about Jesus. 
And for some of you that might 

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actually be today, It also tells
us what he's going to do verse 

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3. 
His Delight shall be in the fear

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of the Lord. 
He shall not judge by what his 

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eyes, see, or decide to speech, 
by what his ears hear. 

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But with righteousness, he shall
judge the poor and decide with 

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Equity. 
The words also Justice for the 

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meek of the earth, and he shall 
strike the Earth with the rod of

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his mouth, and with the break of
his lips, breath of his lips, he

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shall kill the wicked 
righteousness, shall be the 

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belt. 
Of his waist and faithfulness 

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the belt of his loins. 
This is what he's going to do. 

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This is a promise of the coming 
Messiah. 

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His first coming. 
But then with his activity who 

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he is, filled with the spirit, 
what he does, what follows is 

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peace. 
I'm not going to unpack all of 

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this for you today children, go 
home with your parents friends. 

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Talk about this, over lunch. 
Read, what is said in verses 6 

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through 9, this incredible 
picture of the piece that exists

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between that which we be natural
enemies. 

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One of the things to see here is
that there was a natural 

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disconnect between the Jews and 
the Gentiles and this wasn't 

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just a message that would come 
when Jesus arrived and Paul the 

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Apostle help spread the gospel. 
It's taking place here and 

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here's how we know go to verse 
10 and that day the root of 

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Jesse who is that it's Jesus 
he's the root of Jesse the seed 

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but also the source. 
He's The Offspring, but also the

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origin. 
And that day, the root of Jesse 

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who, shall stand as a signal for
the peoples of him, shall the 

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nation's and choir, and his 
resting place shall be glorious 

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in that day. 
The Lord will extend his hand 

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yet a second. 
Time to recover. 

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The Remnant that remains of his 
people, but it's not just from 

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Israel. 
It's not just from Judah. 

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It's from a Syria, Egypt page, 
Ross, Kush. 

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Elin shinar kamath and the 
coastlines of the sea. 

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So that's why when we sing about
this Rod of Jesse the stump of 

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Jesse. 
We see this powerful history of 

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the of trees in the history of 
redemption. 

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And Palvin says may the god of 
Hope fill you with all joy and 

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peace in believing. 
So by that so that by the power 

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of the Holy Spirit, you may 
abound in, hope this is not just

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for the Jews. 
It's also for the Gentiles 

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that's why before that Paul said
the root of Jesse will come even

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who arises to rule the Gentiles 
in him. 

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Will the Gentiles hope? 
Praise God. so, back to my first

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question, Are you a believer? 
Abounding in Hope. 

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If you're a non-believer. 
I already know that answer. but 

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if you're a Believer and you 
would say I'm not abounding and 

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Hope, God's grace is sufficient 
to restore you and restore me to

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the place. 
We should be no matter the 

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circumstances. 
But here's the truth. 

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There are times in this life. 
When we look out and we see the 

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darkness and we see the Decay, 
we see the corruption. 

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There are times when we're quiet
enough to look at what's going 

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on inside us. 
And we see the darkness and 

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decay and what it looks like is 
the forest of stumps. 

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Where there's been nothing but 
destruction. 

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Nothing that's beautiful. 
It just looks really bad. 

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It might be because of where 
we're at physically, or 

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emotionally, or spiritually, or 
relationally. 

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It might be where our children 
are in those categories. 

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It might just be the way you 
think about the way our country 

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is is operating The World At 
Large. 

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It looks like stumps. but for 
the Christian, When we see that 

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Devastation, we can abound in 
Hope because of this route. 

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The root of Jesse. 
And so when Paul says may the 

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god of Hope fill you with all 
joy and peace in believing so 

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that by the power of the Holy 
Spirit, you may abound in Hope. 

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He's reminding people what he 
has shown them already. 

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Then the history of trees and 
the history of redemption, it 

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never looked more dark than more
devastating. 

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Then, when there was a stump, 
That was the base of a tree that

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was cut down that would become 
across. 

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In which our savior. 
Who was laid in a Manger. 

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Meek and Mild. 
Would hang. so that you and I 

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who deserved that. 
Could be set free from Satan's 

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tyranny for all eternity. 
This Side of Heaven, they're 

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going to be dark days when it 
just looks like a field of 

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stumps. 
But it was never darker that 

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day. 
Never. 

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But in God's Providence, in 
God's plan. 

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That stump of Jesse that route, 
that hope. 

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Gave birth. 
To Hope. 

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Hope that abounds. 
Is a person. 

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And the person is Jesus. 
Hope. 

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Is from God. 
Hope is God. 

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Is he living in you? 
And no matter how dark or how 

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many stumps you see, he is 
alive. 

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You and I are part of his 
remnant. 

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If you cannot confidently, say 
yes, he's in me. 

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I know I'm a Believer and I 
praise God that you've heard 

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this message and it may have 
seemed a little bit like 

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freshman history. 
But it's the Living Word of God 

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showing you the history of 
redemption. 

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If you want to know that you're 
in Christ, please come and talk 

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to me or Bill or somebody else 
that's here. 

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And the person I would ask if 
you don't want to talk to me is 

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somebody that you can see who's 
abounding and Hope. 

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And Christian Christian, if 
that's not you. 

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Don't try to make yourself 
suddenly about a no. 

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You can't. 
But you can come to the Lord. 

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With open arms. 
And pray. 

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Give me hope. 
And he will. 

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Jesus, thank you for the 
patience of the flock today. 

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Thank you for the power of your 
word. 

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Thank you, that we will be 
singing. 

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Later today as well as at the 
conclusion of this service. 

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About the good news. 
Of the stump of Jesse. 

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Father I pray that if there's 
any here who longed to know 

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they're saved they want 
salvation they have not known 

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your promise that even now 
friend. 

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You would just simply confess 
that you're a sinner in need of 

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a savior. 
That you would trust Jesus for 

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salvation alone. 
Receiving him alone. 

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As our Lord. 
You make that decision. 

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Tell somebody that's here. 
Father, may you bless us with 

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this abounding, hope? 
Even in the midst of bitter 

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Providence, maybe not see it 
primarily as an emotion, but is 

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a reality and we thank you, 
Father. 

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We thank you so much for sending
your son. 

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And whose name we pray. 
Amen.