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0:02it's the story of how God was seeking a
0:06bride for his son each book is different
0:09from every other book I'm trying to give
0:11you the keys for you to unlock it for
0:15[Music]
0:27yourself 10 years after Amos preached in
0:31betel or bethl another Prophet came who
0:35was to be God's last prophet to the
0:37northern 10 tribes of Israel God's last
0:40word his last warning his last appeal
0:44and it is as I already indicated a real
0:47contrast to amos's prophecy it's
0:50affection rather than accusation it's
0:54wooing rather than warning tender rather
0:57than tough Mercy rather than Justice
1:00and this is God's final final appeal
1:03before the 10 tribes
1:06disappeared so we pay very careful
1:08attention to it and there is a key word
1:11which unlocks the whole prophecy in
1:14Hebrews in Hebrew c h s e
1:20dth you pronounce the CH like the Scots
1:23pronounce
1:25l and this word is there is no exact
1:29English equival
1:30you see we don't have the Bible we have
1:32a translation of the
1:34Bible and that has certain limits and
1:38there are never quite the exact word
1:41equivalents to this worded in the Old
1:44Testament or Agape in the New Testament
1:47there isn't really an English word that
1:49communicates these unusual but very
1:52beautiful words let me try and fill it
1:54full of meaning it is essentially a
1:56covenant word it's not um it's not
2:00something you have for everybody it's
2:02something you have for those with whom
2:04you have a covenant
2:05relationship and the most common
2:07Covenant relationship we have is
2:09marriage but there are other Covenant
2:12relationships which are
2:14mutually uh
2:16committed so that there's a commitment
2:19in this word it does mean love but it
2:22has an awful lot of the word loyalty in
2:25it and true love is not true love unless
2:28it is loyal the the other synonyms that
2:31are used in the Old Testament for it are
2:33loving
2:34kindness or faithfulness even
2:38faithfulness is used 60 times for this
2:40word in our English Bible kindness is
2:43used about nine or 10 times it means
2:46unswerving love undying
2:49devotion it means to be so committed to
2:52someone you go on loving them whatever
2:54happens there is an Old English word
2:57that used to be used but is not now
3:00called
3:01tro t r o t h the only
3:07surviving example of that word is
3:10betrothed there's a commitment in it
3:13there's a loyalty in it and it may be
3:16very significant that that word has died
3:18because that kind of loyalty has died
3:21and love is something without loyalty
3:23now something you can enjoy for a bit
3:25with someone and then drop that's not
3:28CID that's not Covenant love the
3:31opposite of this word is
3:34unfaithfulness so in the marriage
3:36service not in the registry office but
3:38in a church marriage service there are
3:40usually words like keep thee only unto
3:43her or only unto him as long as you both
3:45shall live that's kth for better for
3:50worse for richer for poorer doesn't
3:53matter that's irrelevant to the
3:56commitment now the whole relationship
3:59between God God and Israel is a covenant
4:02love and therefore
4:05ath stay with it there was a man in the
4:08north of England whose wife shortly
4:10after their marriage left him and lived
4:13a pretty sinful life picked up disease
4:16and
4:18uh the friend of this husband said to
4:21him why don't you divorce her she
4:22doesn't care that much for you never
4:25work out and he said never speak to me
4:28like that about my wife I love her and I
4:31will love her as long as there's breath
4:32in her body and when she Lay Dying of
4:36the disease she' picked up from a sinful
4:38life his hands were held over her in
4:41prayer and he nursed her that's
4:44cth that's God's
4:47love that's what Hosea had to
4:49communicate to these people who didn't
4:52care about God's love at all so on
4:56Israel's side the Covenant meant loyalty
4:59to to his
5:00commands obedience that was their part
5:03of the Covenant his part was to look
5:05after them and to protect them and
5:06provide for them but their part was to
5:09obey him but what he was looking for was
5:12glad eager obedience that wanted to live
5:16the way he wanted her to live but that's
5:19what he didn't get there is a group of
5:21Jews
5:22today who find Delight in God's law
5:27they're the happiest group of Jews I
5:28know and very interesting what they
5:30called they called the
5:32hassidim spelled c h a s a d i
5:38Am and that's made up
5:42of those who Delight in God's law those
5:45who are happy to obey it not who do it
5:49grudgingly as a duty but who see it as a
5:52delight the longest Psalm in the Bible
5:54Psalm 119 is all about someone who
5:57Delights in God's law says it's great to
6:01have
6:02this well that's quite an attitude isn't
6:04it the burden of hosea's message is very
6:06simple what's happened to our marriage
6:09says the
6:11Lord what's happened to our
6:14marriage there is still HTH on my
6:18side but there's none on your side now
6:22what went wrong simple message and it's
6:26torn out of the pain of unrequited love
6:30that is perhaps the most painful
6:32experience in the world to love someone
6:35and not have that love
6:36returned to want to love them and help
6:40them and they won't have
6:43it and I think maybe some of you have
6:46known that pain of UNR returned
6:49love well how could Hosea understand
6:54God's feelings so
6:56well the answer is God taught him in the
6:59school of
7:00experience whose colors are black and
7:03blue God often prepared a prophets
7:06through his marriage and gave him a
7:08personal experience of the feelings of
7:11God for example Jeremiah God told
7:14Jeremiah you must not marry you must
7:17remain a bachelor because you have to
7:19tell Israel that God is now a bachelor
7:22he doesn't have a wife
7:24anymore and so Jeremiah had to learn
7:28from the loneliness
7:30of not having a wife how God was
7:32feeling without Israel and that became
7:35his message or take Ezekiel and we shall
7:38be looking at him shortly Ezekiel was
7:41told your wife is going to die and you
7:45must not
7:48weep and through that experience Ezekiel
7:51was to tell Israel God has been bered of
7:54his
7:55wife but Hosea had the most
7:57extraordinary
7:59instruction in God through an experience
8:02of marriage I shared it with you when we
8:04looked at the song of songs but let me
8:07run through it again it's all in
8:08chapters 1 to3 which are
8:12autobiographical and various expositions
8:14of Hosea have been given interesting
8:16titles I've got two books on my shelf
8:19one is called the prophet and The
8:21Prostitute and the other is called love
8:23to the Loveless which is a little phrase
8:26out of a hymn but both those sum up
8:29perfectly what happened to this man
8:31again Scholars argue as to whether it's
8:34fact or fiction whether the order of
8:37events is right whether chapter 3 didn't
8:39come before chapter 1 whether Hosea knew
8:44what was happening beforehand or only
8:46realized afterwards what was happening
8:48all these things are matters of
8:50discussion and frankly you can get
8:52really bogged down in what I think is
8:55speculation let's take it in its
8:57plainest simplest meaning he married a
9:00prostitute they had three children at
9:03least one of whom was not his and was
9:06somebody else's she went back onto the
9:09streets he had to go and find her he
9:11brought her home put her through a
9:14period of discipline when he didn't know
9:16her as wife and then courted her and
9:18started all over again and loved her
9:21those are the facts and the names of the
9:23children are very interesting there were
9:26three the first was called jezrael or
9:30jezrael which means god SWS it and the
9:34biggest problem he had with that child
9:36was
9:37discipline a very rebellious unruly
9:40child that had to be disciplined the
9:43second child which was a girl the first
9:46was a boy the second child was a girl
9:48and that child was called Lor ruama
9:51which means not
9:53pied and that child was a deprived
9:57child didn't have love from the mother
10:01and that was the problem with the second
10:03child the third child was called Lo Ami
10:08which means not my people this was the
10:11child that Hosea didn't father she
10:14already had another man and this child
10:17was
10:18disowned and those three adjectives I've
10:21given you discipline deprived
10:24disowned all summarize how God was
10:28dealing with his people Israel
10:30the names of the children were so
10:33important I haven't met any Christian
10:35parents who used any of those three
10:36names for their
10:38children and certainly not when we get
10:40to Isaiah Mah shalal
10:43hashad I've never known a Christian
10:45coule we love Bible names for our
10:46children but not these names that's all
10:50in chapter one about the three children
10:52chapter two is about the
10:53wife it's very interesting there are
10:56three things about
10:58her but she was reproached by her own
11:01children for what she was
11:03doing her own children said you
11:05shouldn't be doing that
11:07Mommy so even the children could see
11:10what was going wrong and she was
11:13punished she was requited for her
11:17behavior but she was restored
11:20later those was the three hours for her
11:23reproached requited restored chapter 3
11:26is all about the husband
11:29and uh there were three things told us
11:31about him in chapter 3 that's Hosea
11:33first that he was faithful to
11:35her even when she was faithless to him
11:39he was faithful to her went looking for
11:41her after she left him with the children
11:45secondly he was firm with
11:47her and for a period he did not treat
11:51her as his wife he brought her
11:53home but didn't share the bed with her
11:57for a period and and that was
12:00representative of the period of
12:02discipline in the Exile that God was
12:03going to put the Jews through before He
12:06restored her and then
12:09thirdly he was feared there was a
12:13healthy fear in the wife afterwards so
12:17she
12:18trembled she feared
12:20him and that was not a phobia not a
12:24terror but it was a healthy fear that
12:26she had which would uh bring respect and
12:30loyalty back into her life well now
12:33those are chapters 1 to three purely the
12:36story from then on chapters four to the
12:39end were into the message that grew out
12:40of that because God was able to say now
12:43Hosea you've got your message now you're
12:47ready to go and tell Israel that's how I
12:49feel about
12:51her and so we can summarize the message
12:55of Hosea again it's made up of different
12:58sermons he preached different prophecies
13:00he gave all jumbled together so it's not
13:02easy to analyze it nevertheless we can
13:06put it together under various headings
13:09which give us the bones of it as it were
13:12and enable us to read it with
13:14understanding everything he says centers
13:17around these two headings human
13:20unfaithfulness and divine
13:23faithfulness it is the contrast between
13:26this
13:27HTH and the very opposite in the people
13:31that forms the theme of his whole
13:34prophecy God's controversy with Israel
13:38is this his compassion for them comes
13:40out in this those are the two words that
13:43Hosea uses God's God has a controversy
13:46with Israel but he has compassion for
13:49them this is God's problem what do you
13:52do with a people that you love but who
13:54are unfaithful to you it's a real
13:57problem so we have a mixture of divine
14:00Justice and and divine mercy again but
14:03the emphasis is going to be down here
14:06however let's look at all this up here
14:08this doesn't represent the amount of his
14:11prophecy it's just that this side is
14:13more detailed than this first of all he
14:16does concentrate on seven
14:19sins of which they are really guilty we
14:22can call them the seven deadly sins of
14:24Israel and show God's detailed knowledge
14:28of what is going going on number one
14:32infidelity they have become Unfaithful
14:34in their marriages as well as unfaithful
14:37to God and that invariably
14:40follows they are guilty of
14:42harlotry they're going after other gods
14:45like hosea's wife went after other men
14:49secondly they are guilty of
14:51Independence God's chosen government was
14:55in
14:57Jerusalem but they had created ated
14:59their own Royal Line they had set up
15:02their own independent Kingdom which is
15:04the essence of sin we will not have you
15:07to rule over us we will have our own
15:09kingdom and they were in Rebellion
15:12against God's chosen King in the South
15:16so Independence was a major sin
15:19Intrigue there were lies and deceit and
15:22people were making
15:24treaties outside the people of God
15:27getting unequally yolked with unbelief
15:29Believers but there was a whole lot of
15:32conspiracy people talking behind each
15:34other's backs people going behind each
15:37other and making secret agreements a lot
15:39of
15:40intrigue fourthly idolatry this golden
15:43calf of Samaria figures
15:45large in hosea's Prophecy the bull was a
15:50symbol of fertility still
15:54is next
15:56ignorance that when they should have
15:58known about God they didn't they
16:00couldn't be bothered to read their
16:03Bibles they didn't want to know about
16:06God I feel that's happening in our
16:08country you know we've had Christianity
16:11here for nearly 2,000 years and people
16:14don't want to
16:15know soon as a religious program comes
16:19on TV thousands of sets switch off and
16:23you can see how they're fighting to keep
16:26religious interest on TV so often Often
16:29by cheapening it I feel but there's a
16:31very interesting little good program on
16:34Sunday morning called the good book
16:36guide I hope you've seen some of that is
16:38the Bible is being presented in a very
16:40popular way but by someone who is
16:43breaking the Commandments of God who's
16:46living with a woman who's not married to
16:48he's the one presenting the Bible to the
16:51nation what a crazy mixup World we're in
16:55when you can choose a man living in
16:58adultery
16:59or fornication rather in God's sight
17:02who's chosen to present the word of God
17:04to people but you see it's very
17:07reminiscent of all this idolatry
17:10ignorance immorality
17:13drunkenness was rif promiscuity and
17:16violence those are the three things that
17:19Hosea picks out which was making it less
17:22and less safe for people to walk the
17:24streets at night in Israel
17:29and finally above all in
17:32gratitude I redeemed you and you're so
17:36ungrateful there's no thanks in
17:39you and in a series of
17:42pictures which would really stick in
17:45their minds he says you like mixed dough
17:49that's when you mix flour with olive oil
17:51just for cooking it but if you leave it
17:54and you don't cook it it goes Rd and
17:57it's horrible he said that's what what
17:59you're like he says you're like a heated
18:02oven your passions like a heated oven he
18:05says you're like an unturned cake that's
18:08getting all burnt on one side and is
18:09uncooked on the other because they used
18:12to cook the cakes on the top of an iron
18:13sheet on the fire like a
18:16griddle he said you're like a fluttering
18:18Dove trapped in a
18:20net Vivid picture
18:22language but then he accuses the four
18:26groups of people responsible for this
18:28condition
18:29he says the priests are the first ones
18:32responsible they should know God and
18:35they don't they should be telling the
18:36people about God and they don't he said
18:39the prophets there were plenty of
18:41prophets in the northern part of Israel
18:43but they were all false prophets telling
18:46people not to worry that God wouldn't do
18:49these Dreadful things that's what the
18:50people wanted to hear and a false
18:52prophet always says peace peace when
18:54there is no peace see false prophets say
18:57don't worry it may never happen that's a
18:59false prophecy there were plenty of
19:01prophets saying thus sayth the Lord but
19:04just telling the people what the people
19:05wanted to hear and I know I had to
19:07battle with this I think the battle's
19:09over for me largely now but you got to
19:11be on your guard all the time it is so
19:13easy for preachers to tell people what
19:15they want to
19:16hear to want people to say what a nice
19:19sermon thank you so
19:21much but God needs men who will tell the
19:23people what they don't want to hear see
19:27and it's costly to do that
19:29there were plenty of prophets who are
19:31giving them what they wanted to hear the
19:34princes this Royal Line they set up they
19:37also were responsible and the other
19:40group that he singles out for particular
19:43condemnation are the
19:45propers who were making money out of
19:48real
19:49estate and who were making money at the
19:53loss of other people who were
19:55poorer that's happening today
19:58I think it's very doubtful if a
20:01Christian can be in money
20:03exchange shifting Millions around with
20:07the turns of the market it is the poor
20:10who lose out every time it's at the
20:12expense of the third world every time in
20:15other words when we gain money there
20:17should be a fair exchange of goods or
20:20services in
20:22value so that both gain but in fact
20:25there's an awful lot of gain going on
20:28that is purely at others losses and they
20:31don't get anything in return making
20:34money making money as it were I just
20:36throw that out this was what was
20:38happening here and josea singles them
20:40out as the corruptors of
20:43society now he says suffering is coming
20:46to
20:46you and he says three particular sorts
20:50will come first of all
20:53barrenness there'd be
20:56miscarriages women would not even
20:58conceive they'd lose their
21:00babies that's pretty tough that God can
21:03do
21:04that and then he said Bloodshed will
21:07come loss of
21:09life
21:11attacks but ultimately the same as Amos
21:15banishment from your land now that's the
21:18sever side of hea's Prophecy but it's
21:21not his main thrust his main thrust is
21:24that God is still
21:26faithful there's a statement in the New
21:29Testament uh about our relationship to
21:31Jesus it's in Timothy and it says if we
21:34deny him or if we disown him he will
21:37disown us but if we are faithless to him
21:41he remains
21:43faithful that might have been lifted
21:45straight out of Hose well let's look at
21:47this last bit here's the good news his
21:49compassion for them unlike Amos except
21:53for amos's very final message this is
21:56the real heart of hosea's word and it's
21:59when I read these passages that uh I am
22:04deeply moved by God's faithfulness I use
22:08the three letters of the word god g o d
22:11not quite in the right
22:12order uh I'm taking them in the order in
22:15which Hosea takes him God's love for you
22:18cannot let you
22:19off cannot let you go and cannot let you
22:23down let me read some verses to
22:26you first of all about
22:29God hanging on to them sorry about God
22:32punishing
22:33them you see God can't stand their
22:36professions of repentance and God says I
22:39will tear Ephraim and Judah as a lion
22:42rips apart its prey I will carry them
22:44off and Chase all Rescuers away I will
22:47abandon them and return to my home until
22:50they admit their guilt and look to me
22:53for help again because as soon as
22:55Trouble Comes they say come let us
22:58return to the Lord it is he who has torn
23:00us he will heal us he has wounded he
23:03will bind us up in just a couple of days
23:05or three at the most he will set us on
23:07our feet again to live in his kindness
23:10oh that we might know the Lord let us
23:13press on to know him and he will respond
23:15to us as surely as the coming of dawn or
23:17the rain of early
23:19spring I've read that in a sarcastic
23:21tone of voice because that's how it
23:23should be read this is God saying that's
23:25the kind of thing you say oh ephra aan
23:29Judah what shall I do with
23:32you for your love vanishes like morning
23:36clouds and disappears like Dee I sent my
23:40prophets to warn you of your doom I've
23:43slain you with the words of my mouth
23:44threatening you with
23:46death I don't want your
23:49sacrifices I want your
23:52love I don't want your
23:55offerings I want you to know me
23:59can you feel God's heart in that that's
24:02the love that cannot let them off he's
24:05got to punish them but now listen to
24:07this when Israel was a child I loved him
24:10as a son and brought him up out of Egypt
24:13but the more I called to him the more he
24:15rebelled sacrificing to Bal and burning
24:18incense to Idols I trained him from
24:21intimacy infancy I taught him how to
24:24walk I held him in my arms but he
24:26doesn't know or even care that it was I
24:32who raised him
24:34up oh how can I give you up my
24:38Ephraim how can I let you go my heart
24:42cries out within me how I long to help
24:45you no I will not punish you as much as
24:48my Fierce anger tells me to for I am God
24:53and not man I am the Holy One living
24:57among you and I didn't come to
25:02destroy sense that you can't read this
25:05without emotion and here's his final
25:08appeal oh
25:10Israel return to the Lord your God for
25:13you have been crushed by your sins bring
25:16your petition come to the Lord and say
25:19oh Lord take away our
25:22sins that's the kind of prayer he wanted
25:24not the prayer oh he'll get us out of
25:27trouble but oh Lord take away our sins
25:30plenty of people cry to God when they're
25:32in
25:33trouble they don't ask him to take away
25:35the cause of the trouble see be gracious
25:40to us oh Lord in you alone the
25:43fatherless find
25:46Mercy then I will cure you of idolatry
25:51and
25:52faithlessness and my love will know no
25:56bounds or eort IM stay away from
26:01Idols I am living and strong I look
26:05after you and I care for you I'm like an
26:08evergreen tree yielding my fruit for you
26:11throughout the year my mercies never
26:17fail then it finishes with a
26:20statement whoever is wise let him
26:23understand these
26:25things and whoever is intelligent let
26:28him listen for the paths of the Lord are
26:31true and right and good men walk along
26:35them but Sinners trying it will
26:41fail that's one of the strongest appeals
26:44that is in the whole of the Bible to
26:47people who don't want to know about
26:50God's
26:51love so let's just look finally at the
26:54application of this how do we apply AAR
26:58and Hosea
27:00today there is one huge difference
27:02between our situation and that to which
27:05they spoke and prophesied and we need to
27:08think this through very
27:10carefully in Israel the church and the
27:14state were one and the same
27:17thing it's what we call a
27:20theocracy and to be born into the state
27:23was to be born into the church and vice
27:25versa it was one and the same thing the
27:27people of God were the same as the
27:30state that does not apply in the New
27:34Testament in the New Testament church
27:37and state are
27:39separated and that may be summed up by
27:41Jesus words render to Caesar the things
27:44that are Caesars and to God the things
27:46that are gods and so in a sense we now
27:50live in two kingdoms I'm a citizen of
27:53the United Kingdom according to my
27:55passport I'm also a citizen of the
27:57kingdom of God they are not one and the
27:59same thing therefore we have to be
28:02rather careful applying Prophecies of
28:06the Old Testament to a secular state
28:10today do you understand what I'm
28:13saying now we suffer from the
28:15complication of the fact that since the
28:18emperor
28:19Constantine Europe has tried to combine
28:23church and state tried to create
28:26Christendom in which which the kingdom
28:28of God and the kingdoms of men are one
28:30and the same
28:31thing uh so that to be born into England
28:35is to be born into the
28:36church and we have centuries of an
28:40established Christianity behind us
28:44actually that may well probably cease in
28:47the near
28:48future uh the longest word in the
28:50English language is back on the agenda
28:52anti-
28:54disestablishmentarianism and we may well
28:56see the separation of church and state
29:00in the next 10 20 years could easily
29:03happen and then we would be back in a
29:05more New Testament
29:08position now when therefore we see these
29:11prophecies which Amos and JIA applied to
29:14both church and state
29:16together we can't just take that and
29:18throw it at our
29:20government that's rather important the
29:24pattern I believe is this what God Said
29:27through through these people to the nonp
29:30people of God can be used as a prophecy
29:34to the
29:35government do you follow me the
29:38inhumanity the riding rough shot over
29:40human rights the legislation that makes
29:43the rich richer and the poor poorer
29:45there are a whole lot of things in there
29:47that we can apply validly but we must
29:51not expect the government to try and
29:54make people Christian by
29:56law God has has higher standards for his
29:59people than he has for
30:03others and it's a delicate line I think
30:06the Sunday trading issue is a classic
30:08case in
30:08point uh we can agitate for keeping
30:13Sunday special on a humanitarian basis
30:16but not on a sabari basis do you follow
30:20me in this and so when we read these
30:23prophecies I'm afraid some people are
30:25too eager to take all of amos's warning
30:28and throw them at John Major I think you
30:30got to be careful about doing that he's
30:32not a believer in stanle and at the
30:34moment we have a very great shortage of
30:37Christian
30:38leaders uh but we shouldn't try and
30:40expect them to establish Christian
30:44standards but there are moral standards
30:47which are known to the conscience of
30:48humanity which we can expect and can
30:51agitate
30:52for so I'm I'm just saying this in other
30:56words these prophecies or
30:58primarily to be applied to the
31:02church and that's where our Prime
31:05prophetic message should be I fear that
31:08it's much easier for Christians to point
31:10out to the world and say what Wicked
31:11people you all
31:13are very easy to do that but in fact I
31:17believe that the prophetic word is more
31:19needed inside the church than outside
31:22right now and that if the church were
31:25what it ought to be that would begin to
31:28clean the nation up but I'm afraid we're
31:31getting known as a church that's all
31:32muddled up inside and trying to put
31:35everybody outside
31:36right well be careful when we read
31:39prophecies we do see an amazing
31:42reflection of our
31:44society out there but judgment begins at
31:47the house of God and we got to put these
31:50things right inside before we start
31:53trying to tell the world and frankly
31:56it's ridiculous to be telling the world
31:58to read the
31:59Bible by a man who's not even living by
32:01it
32:02himself see that's where the world sees
32:04the hypocrisy of the whole thing and
32:07they see through it and when that
32:09knowledge is common as it was in the
32:11papers last week world says ridiculous
32:15and they despise a people of God who
32:17don't practice what they preach so let
32:21us when we read the prophecies apply
32:23them to the people of God
32:25first and get our own house in order
32:28then we are in a
32:30position to say to
32:32society God condemns you for your
32:35inhumanity for your
32:38insensitivity to human beings created in
32:40His image that's just a word I felt I
32:43ought to
32:45add I think Graham Kendrick's best song
32:49of all and the most prophetic is written
32:52and thank God for a hym writer today we
32:55got plenty of chorus writers he's
32:57writing some
32:58contentful hymns but I think his most
33:01prophetic and his best hymn begins oh
33:04Lord the clouds are gathering do you
33:06know that
33:07song It's a song for the people of God
33:11and that song reminds me very much of
33:13amamos who says away with the noise of
33:17your songs I will not listen to your
33:20music but let Justice roll on like a
33:25river and righteousness like like a
33:28never failing stream it's too easy to
33:31throw that at the world let Justice and
33:33righteousness flow like a river inside
33:35the church among the people of God
33:39that's where it must begin and we need
33:41prophets and thank God for Amos and
33:44josea who went to a foreign land to them
33:48where they would not be acceptable and
33:51they preach the truth fearlessly and
33:56lovingly amen
34:02[Music]
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