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It's a great pleasure to be with
you all. 

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Again, I was here a few weeks 
ago and this week I also brought

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my wife with me and my wife. 
Christina is back there with our

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son Donovan. 
We take you. 

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Yes, they deserve a round of 
hearty Applause. 

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Normally we would be a Church of
the Resurrection and a Sunday 

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morning where I'm part of the 
clergy team there. 

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If you don't know me, my name is
Steve like and but I'm delighted

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to be here and help serve you 
all this morning. 

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It's great to be here. 
Once upon a time, there was a 

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thing called a global pandemic. 
And there was a man there are 

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those who call him, Jim, who 
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it. 
Jim was leading his rather 

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humdrum life when the pandemic 
hit, but he quickly found 

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himself in what seemed like a 
rather favorable position, 

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despite the Raging pandemic 
around him, he could work from 

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home, he got a pandemic, pay 
raises and bonuses to keep him 

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from Quitting his job, he got 
stimulus checks from the 

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government. 
So, flush with new cash and sick

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of the same old, same old at 
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He bought a new 4K TV for those 
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took out a loan and added. 
A new addition to his home And a

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few months later as things open 
back up, he put an expensive 

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vacation on his credit card. 
We earned it. 

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He thought, after all we've been
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his wife, Jessica that 
everything will be fine. 

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After all, his retirement 
investment account was growing 

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in Leaps and Bounds as Market 
soared flush, with stimulus 

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cash. 
And he thought I've got a good 

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paying job. 
We can easily pay off this 

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additional debt. or so, he 
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pandemic waned life seemed to 
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but Jim's company now faced 
desperate circumstances High 

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interest rates and soaring 
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The bottom line. 
Hard Jim came to work one Friday

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morning. 
Sorry, his boss said you can go 

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home early. 
And not come back. 

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Initially Jim was too proud to 
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off and he had not really kept 
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finances. 
Either things were looking a 

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little more grim. 
So we went away on a weekend 

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getaway with his buddies, he 
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process to decompress and 
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especially at a time like this, 
they went to a buddy's cabin in 

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the woods and right down the 
road from a newly-opened casino.

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Feeling lucky and a bit touched 
by the spirit, Jim tapped into 

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the last bit of his family 
savings to ante up at the 

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blackjack table. 
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Here he thought and a big chunk 
of those debts will be paid off.

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or so, we thought until he lost 
and he lost and he drank, and he

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drank until on the drive, back 
to the cabin, he saw in his 

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rearview mirror, those 
unmistakable flashing lights, 

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his foolishness and his sins 
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caught up with him. 
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In many ways, Jim is a parable 
for what Israel had become in a 

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time of the Prophet Zechariah 
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our society, in general, and for
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day, they had foolishly 
squandered the great provision 

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of the Lord in a return to the 
land from Exile and a rebuilding

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of the Temple. 
They had foolishly and sinfully,

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followed false prophets. 
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the bill would never come? 
Do you could live life as you 

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wished? 
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the idolatrous worship of 
Canaanite Gods, which 

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incidentally, offering featured 
Temple sex, a much more enticing

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form of worship than of the Lord
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Yahweh, No Doubt. 
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How many folks, and how much of 
our society, in a way finds 

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itself in a similar situation? 
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replaced. 
Responsibility. 

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Were squandered opportunities 
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That the bill would never come 
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Having bowed at the idols of 
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It's easy to fall into that 
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It's easy for all of us. 
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material and the Indulgence of 
ourselves to deceive ourselves 

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and maybe others around us at 
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That destruction is not around 
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She said here this morning, is 
there any part of you that looks

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like Jim? 
If so, I have some bad news for 

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you. 
It's probably going to get worse

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before it gets better. 
For the gyms of this world. 

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That's a sad truth. but, The 
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Join with him in telling you 
that there is one good step, one

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Surefire bet, you can make this 
day that will inevitably lead 

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you to better times. you can 
embrace the failure in the pain 

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and confess your sins in the 
Lord will forgive And as ours 

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reading from Zakaria tells us 
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With people stuck in precisely 
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In fact, as we open our reading 
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14, verse 1, the children of 
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plundered from the Invaders 
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He knew not what to do. 
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Invaders were sent in judgment 
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But the Lord is a god of mercy 
and forgiveness and he provides 

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a way of Escape for those who 
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We still May face the 
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responsibilities for our 
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Zechariah 14 is that's not the 
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For a season. 
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ruin of our own choices at the 
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God is good. 
He is faithful. 

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And just, not only to forgive 
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who confess and return to him in
place of a finite, human bank 

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account that will inevitably run
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We have in the Lord Jesus 
Christ, an infinite bank account

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hope And God's faithfulness in 
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Amen. 
Praise the Lord. 

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I think that's good news and 
Zechariah 14 tells us here for 

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ways in which we can draw upon 
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faithfulness for ways that God 
himself wants to replace the 

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desperation of our situation 
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him. 
Way, number one and you load in 

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our passage. 
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there in or in our bulletin, 
it's punctuated by a series of 

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on that day, each one kind of 
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another depth to, which the 
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will come to those who face 
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situations. 
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You read in verses 3 through 5. 
The Lord leads his people out. 

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The Lord himself comes in 
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You might feel stuck Wherever 
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But the Lord knows and he cares 
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What's really striking In this 
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Does it just like send his 
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doesn't raise up. 
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to help deliver his people out 
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literature. 
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This one is stunning. 
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end of every intervention that 
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has on behalf of the children of
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haven't read, it happens a lot. 
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In the midst of their 
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and he is present. 
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to do his work. 
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sell his only begotten son. 
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mystery of the Gospel. 
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heart of the prophetic, 
literature of the Old Testament,

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none other than the Lord God 
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even if the consequences you are
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probably deserve, Lord, Jesus 
Christ goes before you sending 

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himself as your savior and 
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A great example of this in my 
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a teenager. 
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an ill-advised drive with some 
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again with the headlights going 
like this, in the rearview 

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mirror and a cop threatening to 
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but three tickets for drag 
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Another car for running a red 
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the town of we knew annoy true 
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They arrived for us to go to 
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Dad decided to come with me. 
Which, you know? 

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Yeah. 
I'm seeing Rick there. 

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Gulping. 
That could be a gulp of moment. 

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This was the best moment you can
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Because my dad showed up and 
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and speak to the judge. 
My dad said judge, if you 

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wouldn't mind, I'd like to say a
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A, my dad in effect took it all 
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I got court supervision. 
The tickets eventually went 

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away. 
But I had come to my dad and my 

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moment of need I had confessed 
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A my dad showed up like a figure
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for me. 
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that's what the Lord is here to 
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He makes away and what was 
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was just to have the presence of
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What he wasn't there to condemn,
her judge me, but he was there 

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to advocate for me is presence, 
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world and so too. 
Does the Lord's presence in your

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life in the context here though 
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also does is he says he stands 
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a cleavage in the Mount of 
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Tours of Valley opens up. 
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the big deal with that? 
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geography, the Mount of Olives 
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anybody who would escape a 
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East Side, everyone can't get 
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enough. 
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But what Zakaria the image here 
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here, if it requires separating 
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opening up, a flat Valley for us
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do it. 
Just like you know, you remember

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when he separated the Seas of 
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dry ground, remember that? 
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his faithfulness is self-evident
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people are just like that. 
In our sin, we didn't deserve 

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yet. 
The Lord comes and he dies upon 

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a cross and takes it all the sin
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So, whatever your situation is, 
we have got Red Sea cleave 

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cleavage in the Mount of Olives.
And across standing on a hill 

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outside of Jerusalem. to tell us
that the Lord is about making 

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ways where it seems impossible 
Final point to notice in this 

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first one its key is we're going
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The other ones are quicker, 
trust me, but notice at the end 

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of this in verse 5 Pete the Lord
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He's going to lead his people 
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He says, for all the holy ones 
with him, this is key. 

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Don't overlook this part. 
Because the Lord's salvation is 

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not just free cheap Grace for 
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It comes at the cost of true 
repentance. 

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True amendment of life in the 
context of Israel, there were 

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those who had succumbed to the 
idolatrous worship to the way of

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their age. 
Was that Remnant, that righteous

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remnant. if you truly trust and 
put your faith in the Lord to 

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where you step forward, trusting
in Him and obeying him, The 

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Lord's. 
Deliverance is a sure as the day

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is in the morning. 
So the message here is clear, 

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are you one of the Holy ones? 
Have you sought that forgiveness

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from the Lord for your 
foolishness or sins or from 

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others who you might have wrong 
or who you might have impacted? 

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That's a good practical way to 
line up and get ready for the 

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Deliverance of the Lord, on the 
day of the Lord. 

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Second on the day of the Lord 
comes with what is amazing here.

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A miraculous light, not just the
light of the Dawn, but a light 

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that will illuminate the night 
as well. 

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When the Lord comes it, often 
comes with miraculous 

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Supernatural power, even over 
the forces of nature where 

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again, Things seemed impossible 
like Red Seas in your way. 

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All of a sudden there is a way. 
And this way, that the prophet 

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Zechariah stresses, here is a 
way of light and illumination, 

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indeed where the presence of the
Lord is there is light. 

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So if you confess your sins and 
you are reunited with him his 

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presence, his power will bring 
you that True Light. 

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We in our family had a reminder 
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member in our extended family 
have been going through a really

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difficult local time and lacked 
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care for one of their immediate 
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amount of money they needed for 
this person's care came through,

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in an unexpectedly, large bonus 
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Praise the Lord. 
Light in a dark place where it 

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seems hopeless mer Miracle. 
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happen but I can tell you, maybe
you think, hey, look, I've never

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had a miracle in my life and I 
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subject to your own 
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Let me just tell you one Miracle
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every day. 
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the illumination of the Holy 
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When we turn to the word of God,
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lamp unto our feet and a light 
unto our path. 

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Have you ever had that 
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Where if you sit with the word 
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open it suddenly illuminates, 
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that's a miracle that's waiting 
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Whether you've experienced it or
not, you can go back to the word

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of God and you will find light 
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that miraculous light is through
prayer. 

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I always pray with my journal 
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Ready to grab that idea. 
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sometimes get the most amazing 
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before it flits away from my 
ADHD addled brain. 

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But prayer, again, another free 
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of light. 
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Take away your light might not 
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provision of resources, like it 
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mine, but it might come from the
inner illumination of the word 

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of God or through prayer, 
through listening, more deeply 

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to the Lord. 
To the one who saved in your 

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moment of need. 
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buy your actions confess, hope 
in God, salvation through his 

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word and through prayer, I can 
guarantee you the light of his 

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presence and illumination will 
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As surely as the dawn of the 
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There's an one more on that day 
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Number three. 
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high point of the entire 
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Zechariah, as it turns out, it's
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Lord as King in verses 8 and 9. 
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How? 
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fulfilled. 
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who is someone else other than 
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But the Lord himself. 
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This is the coronation that is 
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of days, but it's a coordination
event that happened on another 

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Hill outside of Jerusalem. 
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kingly crown in terms of a crown
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And what's wonderful In this 
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of the King, right? 
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seated upon his throne, that is 
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political life as well as in 
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Now of justice and peace, come 
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Where there was disorder and 
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rule of law where there was need
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There was peace and true, 
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it symbolized here. 
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prophecy. 
Ask streams of Living Water that

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flow from Jerusalem to the East 
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continually, to great seas. 
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Mediterranean and the other on 
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You see this King that we have. 
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He himself is true, man. 
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provision. 
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spectacular one. 
That this kingship, which has 

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already initially come in the 
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the burial and resurrection of 
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in its fullness and it is a 
source of unending provision and

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comfort symbolized by this 
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In other words, when you in the 
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hopeless. 
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Palestine, he's coming again. 
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his ultimate coronation? 
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is going to be set, aright do in
the midst of it, get to present 

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minded on your own circumstance 
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scripture always. 
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It happens throughout the Old 
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through the New Testament. 
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dynamic of the now, and the not 
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come, and it's great. 
It's great stuff. 

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To whatever your circumstances. 
Don't be too burdened by it. 

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It's your kid just bask in the 
glow that Lord. 

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You have done this before you're
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Amen. 
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happen. 
That's what's going to be. 

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Our Fate is to dwell with our 
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very end in verses 20 and 21. 
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there where there's talk of pots
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like, okay pots and bowls, I 
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What do you what do you kitchen 
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Have to do with this right? 
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If you don't understand the 
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most common kind of mundane 
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like the sacrificial meat for 
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sacrifice, in the temple. 
But bowls were sacred 

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instruments of worship where you
could bring forward sacrifices 

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lamps as well as incense and 
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It would be big bowls of it, but
right, just FYI. 

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But what's interesting, what's 
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In this, In this passage, it 
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bowls. 
Something that's profane kind of

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common in ordinary on that day 
will be turned into something 

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sacred. 
You get what their lord is 

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saying here? 
The Lord is going to completely 

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restore that which is ordinary 
broken and profane is going to 

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transform it into something, 
wonderful. 

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A situation that Zacharias 
people found themselves in was 

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desperate. 
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the Lord's presence is going to 
provide them ways of 

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transforming desperate, things 
into things, why there's 

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something new. 
I myself went through a few 

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years ago, a pretty desperate 
time of my life where I found 

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myself, unemployed. 
And I can tell you some of the 

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sit ordinary things, like, 
getting up in the morning and 

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praying going for a walk and 
exercising began to transform my

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life. 
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there was some Glory that 
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As the Lord took things that had
previously not really noticed or

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worked on and use them for his 
glory. 

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In their day, it was so key 
because their worship have been 

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corrupted by following false 
teachers into idolatrous worship

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their worship, a been rendered 
ineffectual and phony. 

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It would like, come to offer 
sacrifices to the Lord after 

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first, having gone to the 
Canaanite gods, and if that 

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didn't work, then maybe they 
would go try the Lord. 

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For these idolatrous faiths and 
for us in our broken ways, we 

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sometimes treat worship as 
merely transactional as kind of 

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a way of appeasing, an Angry God
or seeking his favor. 

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This passage tells us live your 
life on your knees before. 

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The Lord don't come each Sunday 
looking for a quick fix come 

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here looking truly to meet the 
Lord in a new way so that Monday

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isn't just like Monday Monday is
like Sunday. 

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Tuesday is like Sunday, everyday
is like a day. 

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Spent dwelling with the Lord. 
And you truly will experience 

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the transformation of the 
ordinary and mundane things of 

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your life. 
Whatever is sinful in, you will 

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be re me new after the image and
glory of the God who comes to 

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say in the name of the Father, 
the Son, and the Holy Spirit, 

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after the image and glory of the
God who comes to say in the name

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of the Father, the Son, and the 
Holy Spirit,