"Endurance and the Chastening of the Lord" Rescue Radio with Marjorie Cole

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Music.

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Rescue Radio, because there's a war for your soul.

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Yes, the war. The war goes on and continues, and even in every level of our existence.

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So, Father God, we pray for divine peace, protection, revelation,

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pulling us back from the grip and the edge of the cliff into the place of abiding in you, Lord God.

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We thank you that your will be done, O God, on earth and in and through us.

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As it's being done and declared in heaven.

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Teach us how to abide, teach us to endure, teach us to realize and believe and

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continue to believe that you are with us, you're for us,

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not against us, and that in all things, all things work together for good to

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those who love God and are called according to his purposes, Father God.

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And we thank you for Jesus Christ who endured the shame of the cross.

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Despising that shame, even that

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he might bring us to salvation and for the joy that was set before him.

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I pray, Father God, that you continue to give us great, that we would treasure our salvation,

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that we would treasure our lives, that we would look into a place where we can

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refine or explore those precious gifts that you've given us,

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and that we would come into a new place of fruitfulness in your kingdom.

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We bind the powers of darkness, witchcraft, charms, enchantments,

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sorcery, all kinds of things that the enemy has put on the heads and over and

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veils over the eyes of the people of the nations and the people individually.

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We come against those spirits of enchantment. We come against those deceivers.

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We come against the divination.

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We come against the powers of darkness with the blood of the Lamb of God and

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the Word of Jesus Christ.

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And we ask now for divine favor, blessing, protection, and Father,

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even promotion, that the things, the Word of God would be promoted in the midst

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of the earth, Father, in Jesus' name. Amen.

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Amen. Well, today we're going to be talking about, of course,

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endurance and the chastening of the Lord.

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This is a complicated subject because a lot of people don't,

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at first, at face value, if they don't really understand what's really at the

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root of or why we go through all these hard things.

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You know, when all is said and done in doing life, one of the most foundational

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things, the most important and critical things, is to decide who do you believe.

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What do you think and feel and have to believe?

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Do you believe what the God of this world is saying and teaching you and has

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kind of programmed and brainwashed us to believe?

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Or what the Lord God says, the God of the universe, the one who created us,

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the one who has revealed himself to us.

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When all is said and done, really, it becomes a matter of whose report do we believe?

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And with all that, many people are troubled, their minds are troubled,

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because they cannot figure out what life is all about.

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Because life is full of confusion, complications, it's layers,

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it's deceptions, it's games, it's all kinds of things, clever strategies that

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the enemy has used to entangle us, ensnare us,

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entice us, to cause us to actually waste the precious life that God has given us.

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With all of that, making decisions on how to follow God and stay the course,

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actually require a lot of endurance, determination to follow Him no matter what.

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Yeah, endurance. There was a famous NFL football coach named Bud Grant,

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coach of the Minnesota Vikings, and he said, the greatest ability is durability.

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And that's really true, what you're talking about, Marjorie,

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as far as endurance, and endurance is really.

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The critical factor, the critical factor, to keep going.

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And basically, endurance can be defined as to harden, to hold out.

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That doesn't mean harden our hearts, but just to keep going, to toughen up, right?

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Yeah. And keep going, to hold out, to last, to continue to stand,

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to bear pain without flinching.

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The ability to stand against distress, pain, and fatigue, and to keep, just to keep going.

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Keep going to perseverance. But you know, the thing about perseverance,

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and I agree with you, enduring means, again, to suffer something painful or difficult patiently.

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The Bible says to bear up under hardship. Endure with patience.

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Yeah, to withstand hardship, adversity, and persecution.

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But the thing is, if you're enduring something for the wrong reasons, it's a waste.

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You know, like, for example, there's, you know, you can be faithful and endure.

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If you're a hen trying to hatch some eggs and you can endure,

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you know, with hardship, you go without food. You sit there for 28 days or how

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many days it is, I don't remember.

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But if you're not sitting on eggs, you're sitting on doorknobs instead,

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trying to hatch doorknobs, you're enduring for the wrong reason.

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So, not that we're going to go there exactly, but to endure means with Christ

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and going through the Word of God. we look at Hebrews 12, where Jesus is enduring

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the suffering of the cross.

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Can you start with 12.1 and then go through 3? Yeah, Hebrews 1 through verse 3.

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Therefore, we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses,

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let us lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily ensnares us,

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and let us run with endurance.

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King James Version says patience, endurance, the race that is set before us,

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looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.

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One translation says the pioneer and the perfecter of our faith,

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who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame,

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and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

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For consider him who endured such hostility from sinners against himself,

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lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls.

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Yes, it's amazing. If we think about endurance suffering patiently.

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Jesus' pain, the physical, biological pain in his body at that time,

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was not the main thing, I think, that he was having to endure because he had to endure the grief,

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the sorrow of seeing when he came here in the beginning to see the rejection,

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the rebellion, the resistance, the degradation, the idolatry,

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the religious perversions of his father's word that had taken over the human race.

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Even when, you know, in Matthew 23, when it talks about he wept over Jerusalem,

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you know, all of the things, and this was just right before the crucifixion.

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So he's got all these things, on his mind.

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And, you know, the thing is, enduring means there's something very difficult

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that you're going through.

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And we see, obviously, he endured it. He despised the shame.

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In other words, he wasn't even worried about what it looked like.

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That wasn't despising the shame.

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He endured the sufferings because that was the most important thing.

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Yeah. And endurance, you know, in sports, almost any sport, you need,

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especially sports that have a lot of physical movement.

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You have to develop endurance. There's physical conditioning,

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and it gets to be some painful things, some— In the weight room, stuff like that, yeah.

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In the weight room, running, whatever, different exercises. Going beyond what's comfortable.

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To build up endurance so when you're actually in the game, you're not going

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to just wear out and fizzle out.

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Well, I believe that Jesus was physically fit when he went to the cross,

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but I don't think that was the thing.

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You know he says he despised the shame that

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word means take no thought for or minimize or

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make it of a little it's little the shame

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was a little thing it wasn't you know shame means

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i am bad i am bad because guilt says i did something bad but jesus was not bad

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he knew the shame was not for him or him but he he looked to everyone who was

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watching him very very ashamed i mean And stripped and beaten and mocked. Right.

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I mean, hanging naked, just like a torn up piece of meat on the cross,

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in all due respect. But this is who he was.

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But what he was doing is he was doing it for us.

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He was bearing all our sin.

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And basically the wrath of God against sin that is ours was placed upon him.

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Yeah, in the Old Testament, they had sin offerings, they had burnt offerings,

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and they had all kinds of offerings.

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But Jesus became the offering for sin, the trespass offering, all of it.

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And yet, we see that he's using this, the writer of Hebrews is using this to

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explain to us that we should not grow weary or, you know, weak or despise the chastening of the Lord.

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He says, my son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, nor be discouraged

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when you are rebuked by him.

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In other words, don't become overwhelmed.

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Don't make it a big thing. Don't get offended.

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Don't get bitter. I think chastening, you know, the temptation when someone

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is being corrected or chastened or trained up is to become bitter.

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But you notice the athlete does not become bitter when he's going through the

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hard things to endure, learn and temper his body to endure. He shouldn't.

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The student doesn't become bitter against the teacher.

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The inductee doesn't become bitter against the drill sergeant because they are

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really willing there to submit to the challenges, to learn, to be tempered, strengthened,

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so that they will prevail in the task that they've set themselves to.

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And the coach or the drill sergeant, they're not the enemy of the person.

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They're the ones that are preparing them. They're the ones that are helping

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them develop endurance because they want them to succeed in what they're doing.

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And the only way you can do it is through hardship.

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And chastening. Chastening. Correction.

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And sometimes people don't want to take correction because you think a correction

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that's given is an assault against you personally, which is not an assault.

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It's correction from the Lord. It's done in love because you're seeing that

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this is going to harm you later on.

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You need to know about this. You need to do it this way instead of this way.

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And so that correction is part of developing endurance.

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And character. And, you know, with that too, with correction, you said from the Lord.

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Yeah, we can all take correction from the Lord and it's okay.

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But when God uses someone else to correct us, like maybe a donkey,

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for example, in the Old Testament, or he uses a person who's not perfect themselves

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to draw something to our attention, to correct us,

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we then get offended rather than realizing that even though the correction is

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coming from a negative source or someone who doesn't love us or someone who's

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jealous of us or whatever it is,

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that the chastening, the difficult thing that you're going through,

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whatever it is, whether it's financial, emotional.

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Relational, physical, it is all,

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The original originator of that chastening or the permitting that chastening

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to come to you is the Lord.

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And whether it comes to a system or a person that you can find fault with doesn't matter.

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Jesus could have found fault with everybody who was correcting him that day,

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correcting his religious beliefs because he wasn't traditionally touting the

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traditions of the elders.

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He could have, but he didn't despise it because he knew that the Father was

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permitting it because the Father was perfecting him and also setting before

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him joy, eternal joy and a position at the right hand of the Father.

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So, again, looking at that word chasing and how it comes to us,

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we can always find fault with how the corrections are coming.

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So we fail, we wimp out, we melt away when it comes to enduring because we are

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offended. at me because why is this happening to me?

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How dare you say this to me? Because look at who you are.

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Or, you know, again, just that defensiveness, that being offended,

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defensive, all those things are maybe exactly what God is causing this chastening

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and endurance to root out of us.

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And you think of back in the day when you were in school, maybe you are in school

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now, but the people you really learn from are not the people that the teachers

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are just going to let you get by with everything,

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but the ones that are tough on you, and sometimes they think they might be really

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mean, and there are some teachers that are just plain mean,

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but those that are strong and strict and demand and want you to get better,

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those are, I think of that, teachers that I had back in school,

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even elementary school and high school,

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the ones that were the toughest,

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they cared about us, they wanted to develop us. Make sure you learn something.

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And you learn from those and not from the ones that let you get by with everything.

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Well, yeah, and the word chastening in itself means correction.

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And I think no one really likes to be corrected.

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And chastening, Jesus was, he was enduring.

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He didn't need to be corrected. No, he didn't. There was no sin in him,

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but he was enduring the pain of all of our sin and our rebellion against God.

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So when God chastens us, he wants to bring us to the place of training, endurance,

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The truth, walking in the power and strength of the truth.

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When Jesus told the parable of the sower and the soils, he said there's some

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that, some when they hear the word, like in Mark 4, 16.

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He said, the ones sown on stony ground, they hear the word and immediately receive it with gladness.

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They think, oh, this is good. Yeah, praise God, I got this.

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But then verse 17 says, and they have no root in themselves,

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and so endure only for a time.

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Afterward, when tribulation or persecution arises for the word's sake,

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immediately they stumble.

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Enduring, yeah. We've seen a lot of this in our day.

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People that start out fine and they don't endure for very long.

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Because there's no trouble in the beginning. There's no death.

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There's no depth of, what is it, talk about? To persevere. Depth of earth, right?

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And they just keep, for a little while, they have no root in themselves.

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And so without, they can't endure. Well, it means to be strong,

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to be firm on wavering, to persevere beneath a heavy or a difficult burden or something that's long.

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I think of Abraham who endured his faith.

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He did not waver in his faith, even though it was a very, very long time that God had promised him.

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It was 25 years. 25 years. And the promise still hadn't shown up.

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And I think some of us are in these kinds of, And that is a chastening in a

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way, but also what you do in that chastening is you determine,

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declare, decide that you're going to continue on no matter what it looks like

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and no matter how long it lasts.

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Because we have to know that in a trial, a tribulation, God is also in the midst

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of that trial, like with Job.

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God was in the midst of it to strengthen Job and cause him, give him grace to endure.

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Job was able to prevail. He didn't get bitter. He didn't, you know,

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succumb to the chastening of his friends who were, you know.

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Examining him and saying, what have you done that made God so mad at you?

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So an endurance is an ability to continue with your commitment to remain faithful

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to God despite what it looks like and feels like.

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And the seed that was sown in these stony places, there was no resistance.

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The seed was sown on top of the ground, basically. The seed did not have to

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break through an inch or two of soil to sprout.

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And it had no root because it had no resistance. And so if there's no resistance, there's no root.

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And so we have to realize that with God, we have to be rooted deep in the revelation

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of His love and truth. And so, for some of you, you're going through fiery trials, long trials.

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Some of you, they're shocking. Some are sudden. Sometimes their trials are so...

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They just spring up from nowhere. But we have to realize in all of this,

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in every tribulation, in every trial, God is faithful to keep us and to complete his work in us.

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And he is actually the one also walking.

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He is afflicted with us. This is when he was afflicted with the children of

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Israel when they were afflicted.

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He went with them in those afflictions. God also suffers.

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Don't you think that if you have a child and your child is suffering and you

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have to train them, maybe even discipline them or punish them or whatever,

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that you are not also suffering.

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Yes, you're suffering. And of course, you're suffering with them because you

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don't want to see them do something that will destroy them.

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And so we go through not only on both ends of the endurance and suffering to

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correct and be corrected.

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In Romans 5, beginning with verse 1, it says, Therefore,

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having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus

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Christ, through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we

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stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

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And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations.

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Wow. I mean, most of the time we just, we hate those things.

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They say, this is the piss. This is terrible.

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But he says, we glory in tribulations. Why?

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Why can we glory in trouble? because knowing that tribulation produces perseverance.

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Perseverance, character, and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint because

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the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

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So when you know what you're going through is building perseverance and character

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and hope, character is what you really are.

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It's basically developing the development of Christ-like qualities within you.

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We call it the fruit of the Spirit.

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I believe that Satan is testing our faith. He is despising us and wanting to

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pull us away from God, call us to a place of failure and shame and humiliation.

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So endurance comes from using the grace of God.

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And one of the things that often happens, even when you look at Jesus,

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going back to Hebrews 12, verse 1, 2, and 3, that he endured the shame and the

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humiliation of the violent injustices of the cross.

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When it says he despised the shame, that means he made little of it,

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minimized it, did take no thought of it. He didn't take it personally.

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And I think that the humiliation was nothing compared to the joy that he knew he had in his heart.

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He knew God was faithful to bring forth that joy and that peace.

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But one of the reasons that chastening and endurance are, you know.

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A primary—difficult, I should say—they're difficult because many times the suffering

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is coming through an injustice.

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And someone's wronged you, robbed you, ripped you off, shamed you,

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stole your place, made you look stupid, betrayed you.

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So the injustice becomes a big part of the issue.

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Jesus could have sat on that cross, hung on that cross, and been just offended

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to the max, been so upset.

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I don't deserve that. Because everything about that cross was an injustice. Everything.

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How they treated you. Yet it was an injustice, yet, but justice was accomplished.

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Because Jesus forgave them. That was the critical piece.

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Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. And I think many times

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this is exactly what needs to be said.

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Forgive them. I release them from my judgment.

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I forgive them because they have no clue about what they're doing.

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And that was the truth when they were mocking him and screaming at him to come

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down off the cross. So when you're in this place of being chastened.

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What is God really testing?

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What is he bringing forth? Our faith as pure gold. But what does that mean?

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That means that he is allowing what is real and solid and precious to come forth

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and what is dross and offense and defensiveness and bitterness and all that to be burned off.

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So, what's left is goodness and purity and holiness, and that your heart is

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right with God because it's a heart of integrity, so everything that's not,

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full of the goodness of God, is being purged out of us through the chasing.

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So in the chasing, you have to stay in the fire.

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That's the endurance part. You have to stay in the fire, stay on the altar.

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What is it, Romans 12, 1 and 2, present yourself a living sacrifice?

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Holy and acceptable to God. Yeah, don't jump off the altar in the middle of

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it and say, I can't do this. This is too much.

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I can't take this anymore. And a lot of times it's, the question is,

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is the length, how long, Lord?

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I want to read just from Psalm 13.

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He says, how long, O Lord, will you forget me forever?

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You know, how long will you hide your face from me?

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How long should I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily?

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How long will my enemy be exalted over me?

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Consider and hear me, O Lord, my God, enlighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep

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of death, lest my enemies say I have prevailed against him, lest those who trouble

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me rejoice when I am moved.

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But I have trusted in your mercy. My heart shall rejoice in your salvation.

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I will sing to the Lord because he has dealt bountifully with me.

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That's the question that we ask oftentimes. How long?

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I mean, it just seems like you're there. Have you forgotten about me?

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Have you hidden your face from me?

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I can't do this anymore. How long am I going to have this sorrow?

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How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?

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We see that it seems like the enemies are riding roughshod over us and riding

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roughshod over this world.

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But he comes to the place here. He says, I have trusted in your mercy.

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My heart shall rejoice in your salvation. So this is part of the endurance is

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just the weight where it just, you know.

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God gives us the grace and strength to do that. You know, we want everything just fast and quick.

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Take care of it now. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, zip with our technology and

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stuff. Faster internet and everything.

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God is, he can be very fast, but he can be very slow, it seems to us.

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In Psalm 102, he talks about, but you, O Lord, shall endure forever and the

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remembrance of your name to all generations.

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And he goes on many places in that Psalm to talk about the endurance of the

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Lord to keep us. That's what his endurance is, to keep us, to be faithful,

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to keep us in the midst of these fiery trials, in the midst of this snake pit.

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That God is faithful because he loves us. And it says in verse 26 of Psalm 102, He says.

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They shall perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will grow old like

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a garment. He's talking about our enemies.

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Like a cloak, you will change them, and they will be changed.

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But you are the same, talking about God. And your years will have no end.

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The children of your servants will continue, and their descendants will be established before you.

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So all of the chastening and the endurance is for that one thing,

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to establish us before the Lord and our descendants. So ultimately,

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eternity is at stake here, and life is temporary on this end.

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The time that we're in our lifespan on this earth is of a limited number of

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years or days or whatever weeks.

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But God in His eternity endures forever, and what He's doing right now is good

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for us, even if it doesn't seem like it's good for us.

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And if there is some, you know, it says the curse without a cause does not come.

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If there is a curse in operation, which there more than likely is because Satan

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is using any opportunity he can to bring a judgment against us and bring calamity

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against us and then blame it onto God.

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Even in all of that confusion, in all of the devil's intentions to kill us,

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God still ultimately gets the last move.

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God is ultimately the one who says, that's enough. And so it is the love and

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mercy of God that endures forever, his faithfulness that endures forever.

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That is how Jesus got through his test, because he was looking to eternity.

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He was looking to the faithfulness and the goodness and the justice of God.

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And the only way you can get the justice of God is to forgive the people who

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Satan is using to torment you and who God is permitting Satan to use to torment you.

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In 2 Timothy 2, verse 1, it says, You, therefore, my son, be strong in the grace

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that is in Jesus Christ, the favor that is in Jesus Christ, the favor,

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the power that is in Jesus Christ.

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And the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses,

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commit these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.

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And then he says this, he says, verses 3 and 4, You, therefore, must endure hardship.

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As a good soldier. Of Jesus Christ. Are we in a war?

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Oh, yeah. No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this

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life. Don't get too entangled, people.

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It's all going to pass away. If you're in the army, you're not a civilian. Yeah.

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That he may please him who has enlisted him as a soldier. You know,

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and he talks about the athletes.

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He's not crowned unless he competes according to the rules, and he's got to

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have endurance. And the farmer. The farmer has to endurance.

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He waits for the crops. He waits for the crops. He believes.

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And a lot of times, not only we're waiting, it seems like things go so long.

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It says in the last verse, 10, verse 10, he says, Therefore I endure all things

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for the elect's sake that they also may obtain salvation, which is in Christ

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Jesus with eternal glory.

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So, this is the case that Jesus endured for us, and Paul is enduring for his

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people, and we are enduring for those around us, our families and children, loved ones.

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We have to stand faithful because our endurance, our strength becomes courage and strength for them.

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And in verses 11 and 12 there, it says, 2 Timothy 2, This is a faithful saying,

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for if we died with him, we shall also live with him.

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If we endure, we shall also reign with him.

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If we deny him, he will deny us.

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If we are faithless, he remains faithful, and he cannot deny himself.

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So basically, we endure with him. We're going to reign with him.

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And another part of endurance, Marjorie, is that we trust him when we don't understand.

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There's a lot of things that come to us that we just don't understand why.

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We can ask why, why, why, but, you know, the best thing to do when we're tempted

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to ask why is just, Lord, I'm trusting.

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You know, interesting is we are built by God to trust Him in our spirits.

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In our souls, we waver and we vacillate and we go into double-mindedness if

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you use your mind, will, and emotions.

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But if you go into your spirit and His spirit is bearing witness with your spirit,

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you already were created by God to know that He is trustworthy.

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He doesn't lie. He's honorable. he's good in,

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that he loves us. God loves us.

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And this is a very hard concept for us to grasp when we're going through chastening,

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when we're trying to endure because we don't get it.

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Why, why, why? Why me, God? What did I do?

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So we're assuming that we did something wrong, which isn't necessarily always

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the case. I don't believe chastening always comes because you've done something wrong.

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Punishment might come that way, but chastening is a correction or a deepening

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of the understanding, the comprehension, the maturity level,

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the endurance, the faithfulness, so that you will be able to be entrusted with

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even more things from the Lord in His kingdom to do for Him.

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Yeah, you mentioned about the farmer later, earlier here.

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1 Peter chapter of James, rather, 5, 7. Therefore, be patient,

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brethren, until the coming of the Lord.

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See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth,

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waiting patiently for it until it receives the early and latter rain. You also be patient.

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Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

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Do not grumble against one another, brethren, lest you be condemned.

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Behold, the judge is standing at the door. My brethren, take the prophets.

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Verse 10 there of James 5. My brethren, take the prophets who spoke in the name

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of the Lord as an example of suffering and patience.

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And indeed, we count them blessed who endure.

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You have heard of the patience, the perseverance.

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Patience King James says, New King James, perseverance of Job.

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And seeing the end intended by the Lord, that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful.

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And being confident of this very thing, Paul writes to the Philippians,

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that he who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

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So our salvation is up to him, and we are in his hands.

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He has not forsaken. He has not forgotten us. So be encouraged in the Lord,

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and we thank God for his faithfulness.

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Yeah, and let me just, as we close here today.

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Galatians chapter 6, verses 9 and 10.

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And let us not go weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.

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Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those

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who are of the household of faith. He says, don't grow weary,

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don't give up, don't let it all go.

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Just keep going while doing good. because in due season, at the right time,

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there's a harvest coming. There's a reward. There's a reward coming.

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There's a reward for endurance. Amen.

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So, Father God, we thank you for giving us grace and strength.

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It is your example on the cross that you endured the shame, despised the shame,

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didn't come down from the cross.

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For the sake of us, Lord, and thank you for giving us that same spirit of encouragement,

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faithfulness, endurance, that you are the one working in us,

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both the will and do of your good pleasure.

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And we will not grow weary in well-doing, for in due season we will reap if we do not faint.

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Lord, I just pray for those that are listening today, some that maybe are going

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through some of the deepest trials of their life. Amen.

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Just agony and confusion. And Lord, we pray for encouraging and your encouragement

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that somehow this, what we share today will encourage them, will lift them up.

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And there are some that are just in a place of confusion say

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what is going on some that maybe just have

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had such a sudden attack of ill health or something else Lord that bad news

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that's come their way we pray that they will just not freak out not lose heart

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not be shaken by this but they will just say Lord I'm trusting you,

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Give me wisdom. Show me what I need to do here in the midst of all this.

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Thank you, Father, for ministering your love, your truth, your mercy,

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your grace, your encouragement to everyone.

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People that are just kind of ready to give up or weary, tired,

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frustrated, Lord, let them just get with it again.

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Amen. Just begin to pick themselves up by your grace and move forward with you.

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In Jesus' name. Amen. And I want to pray for someone who I see right now has,

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there's pain between your eyes. Your eyes are in pain.

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There's a lot of pain for whatever reason, I don't know, physical pain in your eyes.

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And it's kind of coming together right in the bridge of your nose where your

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eyes, there's a pain there.

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There's something going on there with the pain in the eyes and the bridge of the nose.

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And so I pray right now, Father, for this one or one many, that this affliction,

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I come against that affliction.

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It's a fiery sword against that with the blood of Jesus Christ.

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I command the enemy the demonic judgment.

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Satan is put against your vision. I command you, enemy, take those burning firebrands

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out of their eyes in the name of Jesus Christ.

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I come against you, separate you from this person's vision,

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their eyes by the blood of Jesus Christ and the sword of his word And Father,

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we release them into a fullness of miraculous healing, that they won't have

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to go any further in investigating what's going on, but that you'll simply just

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lift this burden and this fear off of them now.

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Father God, clear up their vision, remove the pain in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen.

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So I have a book that might be of interest to people who want to understand

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the justice and the chastening of God. As a matter of fact, it is called A Case

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for Justice, and you can get it on our website, liferecovery.com.

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It talks about chasing. It talks about testing.

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It talks about Job.

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It talks about the various members of the Bible, well-known characters who were

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tempted in trials, chastened.

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And so, again, the book is A Case for Justice.

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There's a lot of answers in that book. And the main issue we discuss is if God is so good, then why?

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So, again, liferecovery.com.

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We enjoy being with you, and thank you for joining us.

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