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I'm going to read God's Word and
I'm reading tonight from the 

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book of Isaiah and Isaiah 
chapter 17, and we're going to 

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read the first 11 verses, Isaiah
17. 

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For those in the Internet, the 
words have come up on screen. 

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Prophecy of Isaiah chapter 17. 
Commence reading at verse one. 

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Let's hear the word of God, the 
burden of Damascus. 

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Behold, Damascus has taken away 
from being a city, and it shall 

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be a ruinous heap. 
The cities of Aror are forsaken.

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They shall be for flocks which 
shall lie down, and none shall 

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make them afraid. 
The fortress also shall cease 

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from Ephraim, and the Kingdom 
from Damascus, and the remnant 

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of Syria. 
They shall be as the glory of 

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the children of Israel, saith 
the Lord of hosts. 

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And in that day it shall come to
pass that the glory of Jacob 

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shall be made thin, and the 
fatness of his flesh shall wax 

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lean. 
And it shall be when, as when 

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the harvest man gathereth the 
corn, and reapeth the ears with 

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his arm. 
And it shall be as he that 

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gathereth ears in the valley of 
Raphim, yet gleanings grapes 

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shall be left in it as the 
shaking of an olive tree, two or

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three berries in the top of the 
uttermost bow, four or five in 

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the outmost fruitful branches. 
Thereof, saith the Lord God of 

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Israel. 
At that day shall a man look to 

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his Maker, and his eyes shall 
have respect to the Holy One of 

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Israel, and he shall not look to
the altars the works of his 

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hands, neither shall respect 
that which his fingers have 

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made, either the Groves or the 
images. 

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And that day shall his strong 
cities be as a forsaken by, and 

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an uppermost branch, which they 
left because of the children of 

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Israel. 
And there shall be desolation, 

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because thou has forgotten the 
God of thy salvation, and has 

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not been mindful of the rock of 
thy strength. 

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Therefore shalt thou plant 
pleasant plants, and shall set 

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it with strange slips. 
In the day thereof thou shalt 

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make thy plant to grow, and in 
the morning shalt thou make thy 

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seed to flourish. 
But the harvest shall be a heap 

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in the day of grief and of 
desperate sorrow. 

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Amen. 
We know God will stamp with His 

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own approval and blessing this 
reading of His own precious, 

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infallible Word. 
Amen. 

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My text this evening is taken 
from Isaiah chapter 17, and I 

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want to focus on verses 10 and 
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It reads as follows. 
Because thou hast forgotten the 

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God of thy salvation, and has 
not been mindful of the rock of 

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thy strength, therefore shalt 
thou plant pleasant plants, and 

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shall set it with strange slips.
In the day shalt thou make thy 

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plant to grow, and in the 
morning shalt thou make thy seed

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to flourish. 
But the harvest shall be a heap 

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in the day of grief and 
desperate sorrow. 

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Now I've entitled this message 
The Folly of a Forgetful 

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harvest. 
Now this is our harvest 

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Thanksgiving service in 2025, 
and in past years I've made you 

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aware that the word harvest is 
mentioned in the Bible 53 times.

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The first reference, of course, 
you may be very familiar with is

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Genesis chapter 8 and in the 
verse 22. 

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While the earth remaineth, seed,
time and harvest and cold and 

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heat, summer and winter and day 
and night shall not cease. 

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From the beginning of time. 
There's always been a harvest. 

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Don't be afraid about climate 
change because there always will

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be a harvest, and there'll 
always be a harvest until the 

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end of days, until Jesus Christ 
returns. 

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In power and glory times, the 
harvest will be a bumper 

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harvest. 
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But there's always been a 
harvest season. 

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Now, the last reference to the 
harvest in the Bible is a 

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reference to the final harvest, 
Revelation 14 and 15. 

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And I think in past years we've 
preached on the subject the 

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final harvest. 
Now, in between these two 

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references, Genesis 822, 
Revelation 1415, there's another

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51 references about the harvest 
in the Bible. 

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So preachers can't tell me that 
they've nothing to preach on at 

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the harvest season. 
That usually happens when you 

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phone up a preacher and ask them
to come and preach. 

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Brother, I don't have any 
harvest sermons. 

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Brother, I'm out of harvest 
sermons. 

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Now. 
Our text mentions the word 

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harvest. 
I wonder, did you pick it up? 

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Verse 11. 
But the harvest shall be a heap 

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in the day of grief and of 
desperate sorrow. 

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And that's why I've called the 
sermon The Folly of a Forgetful 

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Harvest. 
Now, the context here, and at 

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times the Bible's hard to 
understand young people, can be 

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a difficult book. 
But the context here is that the

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prophet Isaiah, the man of God, 
is warning Judah and it's king 

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against enter into an alliance 
with the city of Damascus. 

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He is strongly opposed to such 
an unholy, ungodly alliance. 

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His reason for doing so was 
this, that it's not the will of 

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God. 
But also he knows that such a 

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union will bring a disastrous 
consequence upon Judah and the 

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city of Jerusalem, namely, this 
unholy alliance, this 

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relationship that's being forged
will trigger an Insyrian 

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invasion into the land of Judah 
and into Jerusalem. 

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Isaiah's concerns, convictions 
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You see, he knew the principle 
well from the harvest. 

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What you sow, you reap, and you 
reap a lot more than you 

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actually sow. 
And that's the law of the 

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harvest. 
And he knows that if you reap 

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sin, sin will cost you more than
you want to pay and keep you 

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longer than you planned to stay.
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alliance with Damascus was a 
saying that it had actually 

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turned its back in God, and that
for some strange reason Judah 

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and Jerusalem, it's king and 
court, wanted to be like the 

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neighbouring nations all around 
them. 

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Yet those nations were Pagan and
heathen before the Lord. 

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And as I knew the consequences 
would lead to much distress, 

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bring tremendous sorrow and 
disappointment, cause a downward

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spiral, bring disaster into the 
land, so then he uttered these 

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words in the ears of the 
courtiers in the land of Judah. 

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Because that was forgotten the 
God of thy salvation, and has 

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not been mindful of the rock of 
thy strength. 

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Therefore shalt thy plant 
pleasant plants, and shall set 

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it with strange steps. 
In the day shalt thou make thy 

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plant the grow, and in the 
morning shalt thou make thy seed

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to flourish. 
But the harvest shall be a heap 

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in the day of grief and of 
desperate sorrow. 

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Now I'm very conscious of the 
historical analysis here in this

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chapter. 
I'm very well aware that these 

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events talked about and 
prophesied about 2600 years ago.

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Yet God's words, a living word, 
God's Word, has still a personal

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and practical application to us 
in the 21st century. 

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God's Word, young people, is 
true. 

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It's not erroneous. 
It's not false. 

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God's Word is certainly not a 
boring thing to ponder and 

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consider. 
God's word should be a lamp unto

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our feet and a light onto your 
path. 

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We should pray like David, Open 
thy mine eyes, that I may behold

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wondrous things out of thy luck.
God's word is relevant and and 

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is up to date. 
Reading here about a prophecy 

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against Damascus connected to 
Judah. 

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That's the context. 
Now. 

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Three things that come to mind 
today. 

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This was after the 3R time 
setting with the speed awareness

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guy. 
The charge that is pronounced. 

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Notice verse 10. 
Here's the charge that is 

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pronounced. 
Because thou has forgotten the 

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God of thy salvation and has not
been mindful of the rock of thy 

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strength, they will pause there.
Notice the word forgotten. 

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It's used in the King James 
Bible 46 times, and you know 

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what it means. 
It means to let slip away. 

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Let me illustrate. 
Think of a captain on a boat, 

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Captain strong here, and he's 
nearing the harbour and he's 

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trying to dock his boat and he 
throws the rope out of the boat 

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on to Mark and the quayside. 
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Mark forgets to tie up the boat.
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that the quayside that's not 
tied up to the little black 

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metal thing, but because of the 
tide, the boat begins to slip 

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away from the harbour. 
That's the picture here. 

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That's the meaning of the word 
forgotten, because thou has left

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slip the God of thy salvation 
and has not been mindful of the 

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rock of thy strength. 
That is the charge that is 

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pronounced. 
The children of Judah have let 

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something slip away. 
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It's the God of salvation. 
Now forgetfulness is an annoying

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problem, isn't it? 
All of us have faced the most 

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annoying problem of forgetting 
things. 

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Forgetting the mobile phone, 
where did I put it there? 

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Or forgetting the car keys, I 
try to put mine in the little 

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utility room in a little black 
box so I know that it's there. 

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What about the TV remote? 
Or what about this? 

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Where did I park my car? 
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Hospital and which floor was it?
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And you go out there maybe in 
the 7th floor and there's a row 

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of white cars and you're trying 
to fumble your key to make sure 

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yours is the one that opens. 
One time I actually went to the 

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wrong car and was thinking why 
is this car not opening? 

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I was going to phone my son 
James. 

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James, this car is not opening. 
Then I realised, you know that's

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not my car. 
It was a Land Rover, it was 

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white and I just assumed it was 
Lily but it wasn't mine. 

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What about the day I forgot my 
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Three times Sammy and he stood 
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put the number in, refused 3 
times and the third time it 

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wouldn't give me the card back. 
I'd got the number wrong. 

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You see, as we get older, yes 
that's true, we can become more 

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forgetful. 
Young people, I say to you, you 

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know, that's laughable. 
You can maybe think of us oldies

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as good forgetters. 
We're not great remembers, but 

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young people remember this, 
understand this. 

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There'll come a time when you 
will also be a good forget her 

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as well. 
I know what's most annoying. 

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That last Sunday morning, 
whenever Mr and Mr Vicar came, 

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Jackson and Jean and I knew the 
face standing in the hall there.

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I hadn't seen Jackson Macvicar 
for almost 40 years. 

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And I I remembered the face. 
But, but could I put a name to 

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it? 
And you see, it's not true of 

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all of us. 
We lament, we get upset. 

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There's things we should 
remember. 

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Forgetting things is annoying. 
However, there's a more serious 

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kind of forgetfulness, and that 
serious kind of forgetfulness is

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found here in verse 10. 
Because thou was forgotten the 

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God of thy salvation, Now you 
know it's not a good thing to 

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forget something that's 
important. 

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I want to tell you the most 
important thing that is 

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forgotten today is God himself. 
It's the person of God, it's the

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provision of God, and it's the 
power of God. 

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Jeremiah the prophet said this 
in the book of Jeremiah, in 

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Jeremiah chapter 2 and in the 
verse 13, My people have 

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committed 2 evils. 
They have forsaken me. 

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The fountain of living waters 
and few demote cisterns, broken 

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cisterns that hold no water. 
The grievous sin that the 

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children of Israel committed, 
the children of Judah, was not 

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only did they forget God, but 
having forgotten him and let him

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slip as far as his person and 
provision and power was 

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concerned, then they forsook him
and young people, One of the 

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most grievous sins today that's 
manifest in our society is 

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forgetting God. 
And not just any God, the God of

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thy salvation. 
There's a comedian one time 

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stopped by the police. 
He was over the speed limit. 

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He said to the police officer, 
well, I forgot to look at the 

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say at one time. 
He then talked about being late 

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for work and he told the boss I 
forgot to set the alarm. 

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The tax man contacted him one 
time and he says to the tax man,

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I forgot to pay my taxes. 
Now that's not a good excuse. 

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That is absurd by simply saying 
I forgot. 

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But I want to tell you there's 
nothing funny about forgetting 

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God, especially the God of thy 
salvation. 

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You see, this forgetting is 
wellford and deliberate. 

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Let let me put it this way. 
Think about a captain of the 

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ship again. 
He's out in the high seas and he

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expects storms, he expects wind,
he expects to be tossed about in

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the high seas. 
But suppose that captain is 

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drunken, and that captain is 
told by members of the crew that

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there's Breakers ahead captain, 
and that captain forgets to 

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change course in his drunken 
stupor. 

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He holds the course. 
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there's a loss of the crew 
himself. 

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The captain brought the 
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crew upon his head. 
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a ship under the influence of 
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madness and folly. 
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Drunken captain crashes ship. 
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The drunken captain? 
We'll change it, right? 

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Think of a banker. 
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There's lots of money. 
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Maybe he's a gambling problem or
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steals the money from the bank. 
The bank, of course, starts an 

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investigation. 
The Bible has told him thy shall

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not steal, but he has chosen to 
steal. 

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He commits forgery, commits 
embezzlement. 

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He tries to covers his tracks, 
but he's detected because Sid 

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will always find you out. 
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The banker himself. 
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but I was working in a fancy 
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He can't blame the bank and say,
well, it it had too much money 

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anyway and and I'm against 
capitalism, down with 

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capitalism. 
No, no, he has to take 

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responsibility for himself. 
You see, we often times in the 

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journey of life forget that our 
sinful choices can have serious 

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consequences. 
Sin pays wages, and that's true 

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in 1001 areas. 
But here's the chief sin of 

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Judah at this time. 
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with Damascus, they forgot the 
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that's God's indictment upon 
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You see, God's the planner of 
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of the Lord. 
God's the executioner of 

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salvation, because the cent has 
only begotten Son into the 

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world, that whosoever believeth 
an end should not perish, but 

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have everlasting life. 
God's the revealer of that 

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salvation because He's the one 
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our eyes, our ears, our hearts. 
He's the maintainer of that 

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salvation. 
We're kept by the power of God 

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through faith unto salvation. 
Did you notice in the text it's 

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not only the God of thy 
salvation and has not been 

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mindful of the rock of thy 
strength? 

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The rocks are reference to 
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That's his identity. 
Christ is the rock of Aegis. 

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The rock here speaks of 
stability. 

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A rock has of course got a solid
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You can stand on the rock. 
It speaks here of immensity. 

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It speaks of security. 
It's not going to be easily 

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moved. 
Jesus said upon this rock, I'll 

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build my church in the gates of 
Hells and not be really against 

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it. 
That that rock, of course, was 

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Christ. 
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point out is this. 
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forgetfulness. 
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This is not just something 
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upsetting. 
This is serious stuff. 

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This is willful and deliberate. 
Thou hast forgotten you've let 

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slip, You forgot the glory of 
God's person. 

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You forgot the goodness of God 
in his provision. 

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You forgot the greatness of God 
in his power. 

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You forgot the grace of God in 
his purpose. 

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And I want to tell you tonight, 
this is not just a mere 

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historical phenomena. 
True of Judah, yes. 

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True of the inhabitants of 
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nation of Israel, not just the 
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Kingdom. 
But it's bang up the date in the

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book of Psalms. 
The psalmist said this serious 

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verse, the wicked shall be 
turned into hell and all nations

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that forget God. 
You think of the rich, the poor,

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the educated, the uneducated, 
the high born and the low born, 

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millions of souls in the United 
Kingdom, they're living out 

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their lives. 
God has been good because God 

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has given them physical life and
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God has blessed them with loads 
of material provision and yet 

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Despite that life that God has 
given the very breath that they 

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breathe as they get from him, 
food for their belly and clothes

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on their back and and an 
abundance of material 

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possessions, yet deliberately, 
habitually and wilfully they've 

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chosen to forget God. 
God is not in all their 

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thoughts. 
The reality is they do not know 

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Him, They don't love him, they 
don't serve Him. 

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The bottom line is they don't 
want him in their life. 

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The majority live as if there's 
no God. 

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The Bible says the fool have 
said in his heart there is no 

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God. 
Psalm 14 verse one. 

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But it's not just an atheistic 
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The word there is in the King 
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They were added by the 
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But the real sense is not 
atheism. 

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The real sense is 1 of 
rebellion. 

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The fool have said in his heart,
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mindset. 
So I asked tonight, conscious of

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time, do you know him? 
Do you testify that He is the 

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God of my salvation? 
Is Jesus Christ to you, the Rock

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of Ages? 
Or are you guilty of this most 

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serious wilful sin? 
Only you can answer. 

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You have to make a choice. 
This is a serious matter. 

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Don't be guilty of this gross 
treachery. 

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Don't forget the God who made 
you, the God who give you life. 

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The God has blessed you with so 
many blessings. 

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I was thinking tonight we should
be singing Count your blessings.

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Name them one by one, and that 
will surprise you what God have 

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done. 
An abundance of physical 

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blessings, material blessing. 
And we'll add in spiritual 

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blessings and we'll add in 
national blessings, days of 

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revival and days of deliverance 
from God's hand whenever prayer 

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was sought, when the enemy was 
at the gate. 

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And yet God has come time and 
time again with so many 

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blessings, and yet the vast 
majority of our people live 

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without Him and do not want Him 
in their life. 

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And His call tonight is this 
Isaiah 4522. 

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Look unto me and be saved all 
the ends of the earth. 

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Not look to the church. 
Good to go to church. 

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Very important. 
But it's not the church that 

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saves, not even this church. 
It's not look to the preacher. 

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I can't save anyone. 
I can help people. 

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It's not looking to your good 
works. 

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The works of your hands 
mentioned was made here at that 

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day shall a man. 
This is Speaking of a tiny 

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remnant of people in Judah look 
to his Maker and his eyes shall 

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respect to the holy wonder of 
Israel, and he shall not look 

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here's the negative to the 
altars. 

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The works of his hands, neither 
shall respect that which his 

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fingers have made, either the 
Groves or the images. 

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Look to Christ, the Lamb of God,
which taketh the way, the Son of

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the world, the one who said I am
the way, the truth, the life. 

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No man comes unto the Father but
by me. 

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That's how we can know God. 
And I want to tell you this, the

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greatest knowledge in the world 
that you can have is the 

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knowledge of God. 
And if you have a true knowledge

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of God, you have a true 
knowledge of self. 

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And that was one of the 
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so that there is the charge that
was pronounced. 

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I want you to think very quickly
of the consequence that is 

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pictured. 
It says, And if you look again 

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at our text, therefore shalt 
thou plant pleasant plants, and 

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shall set it with strange slips.
In the day shalt thou make thy 

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plant to grow, and in the 
morning shalt thou make thy seed

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to flourish. 
See, the picture here is is of 

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horticulture. 
The picture here is of a 

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gardener taking his pleasant 
plants and setting them with 

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strange slips. 
The present plants is a picture 

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pictorial of Judah, the strange 
slips as Damascus, Syria, and 

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the Assyrians, and you're 
joining them together. 

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And initially all seems good, 
because it says in the day that 

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thou shall make thy plants to 
grow, and in the morning shalt 

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thou make thy seed to flourish. 
In other words, you'll be happy.

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But once there's a forgetting to
God, sadly, there's a looking in

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the other direction for help and
blessing. 

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And the enemy is so subtle. 
And initially, of course, 

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there's tremendous pleasure and 
plenty. 

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All is good, Things go well, 
things look well, there's a 

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great appeal and a greater 
attraction. 

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But the enemy is subtle, and the
enemy of our souls knows this, 

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that if God is not in the throne
of our life, if Jesus Christ is 

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not King of kings, Lord of 
Lords, then other objects will 

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take over the life. 
And he knows that we'll enjoy 

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temporary success, but that 
temporary success will not last.

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It will lead to pain, it will 
lead to poverty. 

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You see, many live without God 
and they live in pleasure, They 

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live in planting. 
That's true of the individual. 

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Let me tell you this very 
quickly. 

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I remember being in Donega D1 
day, knocking on a man's door 

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and I was giving out little 
invitations to the Donega D 

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church. 
And he'd come out and he, he put

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his hand at his glass door, He 
put his hand up. 

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It was letting me know he was 
there. 

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And he walked back in again and 
he thought, where's this boy 

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going? 
And he came back out with a 

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biscuit tin and he opened the 
door and he said to me, have a 

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biscuit. 
Do you know what they were? 

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Chocolate digestive. 
That's my favourite and I said I

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will. 
He said take another one. 

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I said that's great, thanks very
much. 

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And I was about to open my mouth
to say something else and he 

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says now stop. 
If you're here to preach to me 

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about God, I don't want it. 
He says, look around you, do you

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see that boat right there? 
That's my boat. 

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You see those cars there? 
I own in those cars. 

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One of them's a BMW. 
You know, we see that B flat 

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there to the side of our house. 
That's a granny flat that my 

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mother-in-law lives in there. 
See this house and this garden, 

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this is all mine. 
And he says, now you have the 

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cheek to come to my door and 
tell me that I need God. 

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I have everything I need. 
And I said to him as I walked 

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away, Sir, you might be rich in 
this world's goods, but you're 

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not rich toward God. 
And it'll all come to poverty, 

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it'll all come to pain. 
See, the bottom line is that is 

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true of the individual. 
It's also true of a church, but 

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it's also true of a nation. 
The consequences that is 

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pictured. 
I wanted to apply that in so 

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many areas, but I'm not. 
I want you to think, thirdly, as

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we finish the crops, that is 
perished. 

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If you look at the text that 
says but the harvest shall be in

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heap in the day of grief and of 
desperate sorrow. 

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The harvest is a heap in the day
of grief. 

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What does that mean? 
Literally in the Hebrew it means

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but the harvest shall be removed
in the day of inheritance. 

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It's not just the harvest is 
destroyed, The harvest 

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completely disappears expecting 
a bountiful harvest, but at the 

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last there's nothing but 
despair, decay, and destruction.

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A blighted harvest leads to 
better, better disappointment. 

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And that's true of Judah because
it ended up going into captivity

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under the Babylonians in six O 
9, 597. 

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And of course in 586 BC. 
Three times King Nebuchadnezzar 

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came and eventually in the last 
time, Jude and Jerusalem was 

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completely destroyed. 
And at that point in history, at

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that point in history, Jerusalem
and Judah and the territory that

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we know to this day as Israel 
was under Gentile occupation, 

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and it remains so until 1948 in 
the Balfour Declaration and the 

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state of Israel was reborn. 
I believe that was God's 

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prophetic input in that time. 
But the crops that were perished

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were a St Remember what Isaiah 
the prophet went on to say. 

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And I'd wrap this up now. 
And Isaiah chapter 55, we read 

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this in verse 8, verse 7. 
Let the wicked forsake his way, 

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and the unrighteous man his 
thoughts, and let him return on 

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to the Lord, and he will have 
mercy upon him and to our God, 

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for he will abundantly pardon. 
For my thoughts are not your 

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thoughts, neither are your ways 
my ways, saith the Lord. 

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For as the heaven are higher 
than the earth, so are my ways 

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higher than your ways, and my 
thoughts than your thoughts. 

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You see, Judah did what was 
right in it's own eyes. 

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And that was like the time of 
the judges. 

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They also did that which is 
right in their own eyes. 

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And they had hoped for a great 
day. 

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They, they, they had high hopes 
for plenty and promotion and 

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provision. 
But it was a day of grief. 

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It was a day of sadness. 
And that was true for Judah when

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they were carried away captive 
into another land. 

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But I want to finish. 
Let me go back to the Psalm that

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I mentioned to you, Psalm 9, 
verse 17. 

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The wicked shall be turned into 
hell and all nations that forget

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God. 
You see, that peels into 

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insignificance that that was a 
a, a, a, a real judgement. 

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But we could really say in a 
sense it was a temporal 

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judgement, even though it lasted
almost 2000 years for Judah. 

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But it peels into insignificance
in light of the day of judgement

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to come. 
See, God is holy, God is just, 

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God is true, God is love. 
God has made the greatest 

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provision of all, not just for 
food for our bellies and clothes

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for our back. 
His greatest provision of all 

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was his salvation, the salvation
through His Son Jesus Christ. 

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For God so loved the world that 
he gave his only begotten Son, 

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that whosoever believeth in him 
should not perish, but have 

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everlasting life. 
And the Bible calls us to 

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repent, be sorry enough for our 
sins to come and confess them to

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God and, and, and ask God to 
forgive us on the ground of the 

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Saviour's blood. 
And, and, and we're urged be 

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reconciled to God because we're 
strangers to God. 

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We don't know God, we don't love
God, we don't serve God, we 

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don't obey God until we're 
brought into your right 

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relationship with him. 
And that's our greatest need. 

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And then we're to receive God's 
salvation. 

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How do we receive it? 
That just shall live by faith. 

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That was something that was 
rediscovered in Reformation time

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but preached by Paul. 
We're not just see it by faith, 

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but the whole of the Christian 
life is by faith. 

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And what is faith for seeking 
all. 

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I trust him. 
That's what the word believeth 

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means. 
He that believeth hath 

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everlasting life. 
The word believeth means to 

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trust in. 
Have you trusted in Christ, 

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adhered to Christ and and they'd
rely on them TAR the tower. 

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Think of the the tower in the 
road. 

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It sticks. 
The crops that perished were a 

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sign of God's displeasure and 
judgement, but it peels into 

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insignificance in that last day 
of judgement. 

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When we stand before God, every 
one of us will give an account 

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of himself to God. 
And imagine God saying to anyone

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from Northern Ireland, church 
goer, non church goer, I never 

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knew you, depart from me, ye 
that work iniquity and 

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everlasting fire. 
The falling of forgetting God 

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has serious consequences. 
May you take this charge to 

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heart. 
May you think about the 

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consequence as pictured. 
May you think about the crops 

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that perished. 
The Lord bless you tonight. 

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Thank you for coming. 
Thank you for listening.