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Sunday, October 7, 2018

Exodus 4:18-7:13 - That You May Know the Lord is God

We are now three weeks into our study of the book of Exodus.

And we’ve already seen how God is always working to bring His plan to completion through the good, the bad and even ugly, sinful things of this world.  He is sovereignly working all things together to bring about the story of Exodus – the rescue and redemption of his people!

What we see through the many stories of the Bible is the sinful depravity of our own hearts and the God who forgives, calls, initiates, judges, pursues, and reveals himself.

Thus far in Exodus, we’ve seen God sovereignly lead the nation of Israel to the land of Egypt where he would multiply them greatly even as they would then spend 400 years in slavery.  Generation after generation lived and died in horrific slavery.  Yet God is working to show his power and his might to make known his glory among all the people.

In chapter three and the beginning of chapter four, God met with Moses on a mountain and spoke to him from a burning bush.  God told Moses to return to Egypt and lead his people out of slavery.  That’s where we pick up the narrative of Exodus so -

Turn in your Bible with me to the second half of Exodus chapter four

The end of Exodus four serves as an important bridge between God’s call to Moses in the wilderness of Midian and Moses’ encounters with Pharaoh back in the land of Egypt.

There are a couple of extremely important truths about God and his relationship with his people revealed in this short transition passage.

So, we are going to focus on two of those truths and see how we ought respond to those truths in our lives through both a positive and a negative example in the story of Exodus.

We’ll also quickly look at how these two truths continue to reveal the significance that Exodus plays God’s redemptive story as it unfolds through the rest of Scripture to point us to Jesus.

We begin in Exodus chapter 4:18 through the end of the chapter.

Exodus 4:18-31 - 18 Moses went back to wJethro his father-in-law and said to him, “Please let me go back to my brothers in Egypt to see whether they are still alive.” And Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.” 19 And the LORD said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, for xall the men who were seeking your life are dead.” 20 So Moses took yhis wife and his sons and had them ride on a donkey, and went back to the land of Egypt. And Moses took zthe staff of God in his hand. 21 And the LORD said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the amiracles that I have put in your power. But bI will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go. 22 Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the LORD, cIsrael is my dfirstborn son, 23 and I say to you, “Let my son go that he may serve me.” If you refuse to let him go, behold, I ewill kill your firstborn son.’” 24 At a lodging place on the way fthe LORD met him and gsought to put him to death. 25 Then hZipporah took a iflint and cut off her son's foreskin and touched Moses'3 feet with it and said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me!” 26 So he let him alone. It was then that she said, “A bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision. 27 The LORD said to Aaron, “Go into the wilderness jto meet Moses.” So he went and met him at the kmountain of God and kissed him. 28 And Moses ltold Aaron all the words of the LORD with which he had sent him to speak, and all mthe signs that he had commanded him to do. 29 Then Moses and Aaron nwent and gathered together all the elders of the people of Israel. 30 oAaron spoke all the words that the LORD had spoken to Moses and did the signs in the sight of the people. 31 And the people pbelieved; and when they heard that the LORD had qvisited the people of Israel and that he had rseen their affliction, sthey bowed their heads and worshiped.


We must remember that when we study the narrative portions of the Bible, the stories, we aren’t given every detail.  Under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit men were carried along to write the very words of God.   God only gave us what we need to know and he only gave us what we can handle!  But we must always remember, he has given us everything we need for life and godliness! (2 Peter 1:3)

Moses, near the very end of his life, after all that he had seen and experienced with God, he wrote several summary statements near the end of Deuteronomy.

One of them is found in Deuteronomy 29:29 “The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.”

There are clearly things that the infinite God hasn’t not revealed to us because it would blow every circuit in our brains!  But he has revealed things to us that we may learn to live in godliness for Him!

Here at the end of Exodus four, Moses had already encountered the fiery holiness of the LORD on the mountain, his life was forever changed.  He returned to his father-in-law after tending his sheep for 40 years and asked him if he could return to Egypt.

His Father-in-law agreed and the Lord reaffirmed Moses decision by reminding him in verse 19 that “all the men who were seeking” to kill Moses, 40 years ago, were now dead.

Moses and his family then started the journey to Egypt.  At some point, the Lord again spoke to Moses in verse 21 and told him to do before Pharaoh all the miracles that God put in Moses power.

Now, if the Lord stopped there, the insinuation would be that Pharaoh would probably be awed by the powerful miracles and be convinced to let Israel go.

But look at the end of verse 21 - “But I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go.”

God would harden the heart of Pharaoh so that Pharaoh would not let the people go!

We’ll talk about the hardening of Pharaoh’s heart next week as we see this decree of God become a reality over and over and over again throughout the plagues.

For now, let me use another summary statement of Moses recorded for us near the end of Deuteronomy, to ground us in the truth of what has been revealed to us.

The Song of Moses in:
Deuteronomy 32:4 “The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he.”

God decreed that even though Moses would perform amazing miracles before Pharaoh, Pharaoh would not let Israel go!  Remember that!

Now on to the first of two truths from this passage about God and his relation to his people. Look at verse 22 - “Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord, Israel is my firstborn son’”

This is the first place we see the Lord refer to Israel as his “firstborn son.”

At first glance this seems like a throwaway comment that is just building the story to a more weighty truth, but this is the weighty truth!

Today, we might joke around about the stigma of birth order.  Often it’s the firstborn child who takes certain characteristics that reflect their first position among their siblings. They may be more responsible or more of a TYPE A personality, but that is not at all what significance the firstborn son in this culture meant.  In this culture, the firstborn son was the one who was often given a double portion of the father’s inheritance.  The firstborn son was the prized heir of the family’s prestige and power.

Here in Exodus 4:22 we learn our first truth:

I. God adopts His people as children (4:22)

Israel was not just one nation among all the nations of the world.  Israel, this nation of slaves and outcasts has been adopted as children of the living God!  Pharaoh wasn’t just oppressing another nation, he was oppressing the heir of God’s promises.

Hear this: The message of Exodus is not just a vague notion of how God hates oppression and brings freedom to oppressed people.   The story of Exodus is about God’s great, Fatherly love in action to rescue and redeem his children.

And because Israel was God’s firstborn son, if Pharaoh refused to let God’s son go, then at the end of verse 23, the Lord promised to kill Pharaoh’s firstborn son.
Remember this statement.  It, too, seems like insignificant, little aside, or even an empty threat. It is not! We’ll see it become a reality later in Exodus and, Lord willing, we’ll look at it together in a couple weeks.

Throughout the Old Testament, we see God portrayed as the father of his children, Israel.  Why? Because we can just begin to grasp God’s loving, caring, providing, protecting for his children, when we picture the loving, caring, providing, protecting that we ought see among fathers and their children in this world.

When you see a small child run to the open arms of their father who is there to rescue them from the scary shadows lurking in the closest. When you hear of a father who absorbed the bee sting to protect his child. When you learn of the father who worked his knuckles to the bone just to put food on the table so his children could eat. When you read of the father who pushed his child out of the path of a car and absorbed the fatal impact himself.

Only then can we just begin to grasp God’s love, care, provision, and protection for his children.

We’ll soon see the protection and provision that God will rain down in Egypt and we need look no further than the prophets too see the deep pain of God the Father as he watched his children rebel.

The very first words of prophesy recorded in the entire 66 chapters of Isaiah say this: Isaiah 1:2 “Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me.””

A little later in Isaiah 30:1 ““Ah, stubborn children,” declares the Lord, “who carry out a plan, but not mine, and who make an alliance, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin;”

God was the perfect parent to his beloved children whom he chose from among all the nations of the earth, whom he adopted as his own, yet his children rebelled.

Parents, this ought be a terrifying yet strangely comforting truth for us. Terrifying, because we can be the perfect parent and our children may still rebel. Comforting because we’re not alone. God the father is well acquainted with the pain of watching a wayward child destroy their life. Comforting because God the father models the persistent, patient endurance waiting for repentance.

The prophet Hosea would also pick up this imagery of God as Father to Israel: Hosea 11:1 “When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.”

God, speaking through Hosea, points back to the parental love and bond that he has with Israel, that served as the basis for him rescuing is firstborn Son out of Egypt.

But, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, the Prophet Hosea has also provided for us a bridge to the Son revealed in the New Testament.

As the New Testament begins, the gospel of Matthew tells us that Joseph and Mary took their baby boy, Jesus, and fled to Egypt for refuge.  And then the end of Matthew 2:15b says “This was to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet, “Out of Egypt I called my son.””

Matthew gave a new understanding to the words of Hosea.  Israel was God’s chosen son by adoption, Jesus is God’s Son, conceived of the Holy Spirit.

Both Israel and Jesus ended up in Egypt to escape danger and both Israel and Jesus were called out of Egypt for a specific purpose that we’ll soon see.

It’s no coincidence that as Matthew’s gospel account unfolds we see continued comparisons between Israel and Jesus as God’s Son.

In Matthew chapter three we read about the baptism of Jesus who came up out of the waters of baptism and
Matthew 3:17 “and behold, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”

Immediately after this pronouncement that Jesus is the beloved Son, Jesus is led by the Spirit into the wilderness where he fasted for 40 days and 40 nights before being tempted by Satan himself.

In Exodus, Moses is to pronounce Israel as God’s firstborn son and then lead them into the wilderness.  Where Israel would fail in their obedience, Jesus would succeed!!!

And because Jesus succeeded, he has now provided redemption for all of God’s children through his blood, the forgiveness of sins. So that, as John’s gospel tells us “to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,” (John 1:12)

Just like Israel ultimately failed and rebelled against God, each of us has gone our own way. We all are born into sinful rebellion from God. We are dead in our sin, we cannot live a good enough life. We can never earn enough favor in God’s eyes to become one of his children. Becoming a child of God and receiving the promise of eternal life only comes through believing in the perfect Son of God.

Confess your failure to God. Confess your sin to him. Ask him to bring healing in your life, to free you from the searing pain of sin and you will become a child of God!

Listen to how the apostle Paul describes this beautiful truth in Galatians 4:4-7 “But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. 6 And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” 7 So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.”

We, as believers in Christ, Christians, are children of God who have been chosen by God (as Ephesians 1 tells us) before the foundation of the world. In love he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ and he has sealed us with the Holy Spirit who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory!

As his children, we can run to him when we are scared, we can cling to him when we are lonely, and we can find refuge in him when our life has fallen apart.

Having the confidence that God determined, decreed, before the creation that we would be “adopted as His sons.”

God decreed that we would be brought into his family and given the same rights as his Son Jesus so that we can call God our Father!  What a privilege!

God decreed. God pursued. God purchased us with the blood of His Son, through Jesus, that we can be adopted by him as Sons. PRAISE BE TO GOD!

Be Thou My Vision is a song that was written almost 1,000 years ago and it centers around this truth that Christians today are referred to as sons of God.  One line in particular says, “Thou my great Father and I, Thy true son;”

Now, for those of you who do not have the best early father, to say it mildly, I know that this can be a difficult picture.  For some of you, you read that God is a father to his children and a chill goes up your spine. Perhaps you’re even thinking: “I want nothing to do with that God.”  First, let me say, I’m sorry, I grieve with you for your pain. But second, let me also say, pour yourself into the Bible and pray that God would show you how a father ought to act with his children. Pray that God would be that Father who you’ve never experienced before.

God being our father is a good thing and not something to be avoided.  Ok, we really need to keep moving through the text.
Point 1 – God adopts His people as children.  Once you are adopted into any family, especially the family of God, you are given rights but you are also given responsibilities. Look at verse 23 of Exodus four where God is still speaking - Exodus 4:23 “and I say to you, “Let my son go that he may serve me.””

Here’s the second truth we’re focusing our attention on from this passage:

II. God requires obedience (4:23-26)

Israel and Jesus were both called out of Egypt. Both Israel and Jesus were led out into the wilderness by the Spirit of God to live in obedience to the Father!

God did not tell Moses to go to Pharaoh and say “Let my son go” period.  That’s only half the story!

God was going to free his people from servitude in Egypt so that they could serve him!

Remember the point of Exodus is not about a vague notion of how God hates oppression and brings freedom to oppressed people.   The story of Exodus is about God’s great, Fatherly love in action to rescue and redeem his children.

And in the new familial relationship between the father and the children, the Father has made certain promises to the children but the Father has also called the children to obedience!

As God’s son, Israel has an obligation to serve him and him alone. God’s demand for Israel’s release is not simply for Israel to be free from service to Egypt, but for Israel to be free to serve the Lord.

It’s the same for God’s children today!
In fact, one of the identifiers of who God’s children really are is whether or not they are living in obedience to the Father!  Our obedience to God never makes us his children, salvation is by grace through faith, but once you are a child of God, you will live to obey him!

We must never confuse justification, being made right before God, solely by the work of God, with sanctification, which is God’s continued work in us to conform us more to the image of Christ; in which we also have a responsibility to pursue Christlikeness.

Jesus said, “If you love me you will obey my commands!” (John 14:15)

Does that mean we will live in perfect obedience then?  Absolutely not!  In fact, no child of God, other than the perfect Son of God, Jesus, will live a perfect, sinless life this side of eternity.  In John’s first epistle, written to Christians, John said that… If we claim we have no sin we are lying! (1 John 1:8)

So how are we to strive for obedience?  How can we do it?  It begins with the proper motivation. Here’s how the apostle Paul laid it out for us in 2 Corinthians 5:14-15 “For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; 15 and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.”

You, Christian, are not freed from bondage to sin to live for your own kingdom but to live for the kingdom of God!  You pursue obedience to God not the desires of your own heart!

God requires obedience and it’s in this context of obedience that we encounter the strange events of verses 24-26. Moses was headed back to Egypt, obeying the command of the Lord and verse 24 says “the Lord met him and sought to put him to death.”

What happened?!?!

There is a lot going on in this situation that we aren’t told.  We are only given the information that we need to show us the emphasis God places on the obedience of his children!

God was about to bring about his covenant promises with his children and bring them into a land flowing with milk and honey. The one sign God gave to the people of Israel up to this point in redemptive history that was to signify, to mark them as recipients of the covenant, was circumcision (Genesis 17).

Yet as Moses was living as a sojourner in the land of Midian, he had failed to obey God’s command to circumcise one (or possibly both) of his sons.  And because of his failure to obey the one thing God had given him to obey - death.

So, Zipporah, his wife intervened on his behalf, perhaps while Moses lay there ill. She circumcised her son and touched the foreskin to Moses’ feet, which seems to be a symbolic act of substitution on behalf of Moses’ disobedience.

Obedience now replaces disobedience.

If Moses was going to lead God’s people out of bondage then he must model obedience before the people in all aspects!

Fellow Christian, don’t take your pursuit of godliness lightly!  Don’t take the failure to speak words that benefit those who hear lightly!  Don’t think that it’s a small thing to not pursue reconciliation and forgiveness in a broken relationship!  Recognize the significance of the interest of others above your own in humility.  Know the importance of submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ!  All responsibilities that God has clearly placed before us today!

Next, in Exodus 4:27 and following we see the reuniting of Aaron and Moses, brothers uniting after 40 years.

Moses told Aaron all that the Lord had told him to do and the signs that the Lord had given him back at the beginning of chapter four: (1) the turning of his staff into a snake (2) hand becoming leprous (3) the turning of water into blood

In verse 29 they went and gathered all the elders (the leaders) of the people of Israel together.

And here at the end of chapter four and beginning of chapter five we see the contrasting responses of those who are adopted as children of God and those who are not.

There are only ever two responses to the revelation of God which we see evidenced here in the text.

So the first response:

When the elders of Israel were gathered verse 30 tells us that Aaron repeated what Moses had told him and he did the signs in the sight of the people and 4:31 – “and the people believed”

What did they believed the signs? They believed that Moses was sent by God to provide deliverance!

How do we know? Because there’s something else that happened that is unmistakably connected with them believing the message of Moses.

We, as the reader, have now read explicitly, twice (back at the end of chapter two and the beginning of chapter three), that God had seen the oppression of the Egyptians. God heard the groaning of the Israelites. God saw them in their sorrow. God knew all that they were experiencing and God came to deliver his people.

But the Israelites knew none of this until this moment at the end of chapter four.

Was God always at work?  Absolutely. Did God ever leave His people behind or abandon his promises to them?  Never!  Even when he seemed silent from the perspective of his people. God is ever-present! All-knowing!

He is the covenant-keeping God who keeps his promises!

There in the middle of verse 31 we read that the people then realized that God had visited and seen their affliction.

In the midst of sorrow and despair, now the people of Israel have learned God has visited them in their affliction.

And here we see response #1: belief / worship

Surely the people thought, “This is it!  Rescue has arrived!”

Then we come to chapter five and the first of two confrontations with Pharaoh in chapters five through seven where we’ll see the second response.

After this joyous news arrived to the people and they responded so well, Moses and Aaron had to be feeling pretty confident.

Look at the beginning of chapter five with me.
Exodus 5:1-2 - Afterward Moses and Aaron went and said to Pharaoh, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘Let my people go, that they may hold ta feast to me in the wilderness.’” 2 But Pharaoh said, u“Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and moreover, vI will not let Israel go.”

Moses and Aaron told Pharaoh to let the Israelites go that they may hold a feast to God (i.e. serve him). Worship him in the wilderness.

And how did Pharaoh respond?  WHO IS THE LORD?!

There’s the second response: Response #2: unbelief / defiance

Pharaoh doesn’t know who the LORD God is!

Now, remember last week back in chapter three, this was Moses fear with the people of Israel, that he would go to the people and they would say: what is God’s name?  How do we know this God whom you claim to represent??

Here, Pharaoh basically says the same thing - Who is the LORD?

Why is it that the godliest people know the Lord the best?  Because those who know him are driven to obey him because we see his power, we see his mercy, and we see his grace.

Pharaoh didn’t know God, he wasn’t going to obey Him!

Pharaoh was indignant and multiplied the burdens upon the Israelites!  He said they had to keep making the same number of bricks but that they would also have to find their own straw to use in the making of the bricks!

Things went from bad to worse for the people of Israel. Where was the deliverance?!  Where was God?!

Skip down to the end of chapter five and look at the response of the people and the response of Moses.

Exodus 5:20-23 -  They met Moses and Aaron, who were waiting for them, as they came out from Pharaoh; 21 and dthey said to them, “The LORD look on you and judge, because you have made us stink in the sight of Pharaoh and his servants, and have put a sword in their hand to kill us.” 22 Then Moses turned to the LORD and said, “O Lord, why have you done evil to this people? Why did you ever send me? 23 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has done evil to this people, and you have not delivered your people at all.”

Why should Moses have been surprised!?  The Lord had already told Moses that Pharaoh would not let the people go!

Yet Moses was not only surprised but said, “Why did you ever send me?”  Moses actually blamed God for doing evil to his own people! Once again, God could have hit the smite button, but he didn’t.

Notice this!  Obedience does not necessarily lead to our earthly definition of “success.” Or to say it another way, perceived earthly success is not a measure of our obedience.

Wayward children, strained relationships, jobs that are perhaps not what we would have desired are not necessarily an indicator of our obedience.  Yet, obedience is what matters, the faithfulness in the day-to-day tasks the Lord has called us to, is what counts.

What would have happened if Moses had simply given up because Pharaoh refused to let the people go on the first chance?  You don’t give up, either, if your life, your marriage, your ministry is not what you wanted it to look like by now.  God is concerned with your faithful obedience to Him.

Thankfully the Lord didn’t hit the “smite button” with Moses, he could have but he didn’t.  He gently pointed out, yet again, that this has been the plan all along.

Look at the opening verses of Exodus chapter six.
Exodus 6:1 - But the LORD said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for with a strong hand he will send them out, and with ea strong hand he will fdrive them out of his land.”

Now the stage was set. Now the pieces were almost in the right places to make the move.

Then God rehearsed his promises to Moses one more time to remind his people that he is the covenant-keeping God.

Exodus 6:2-9 (notice the pronouns point us to God)- 2 God spoke to Moses and said to him, g“I am the LORD. 3 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as hGod Almighty,1 but by my name the iLORD I did not make myself known to them. 4 jI also established my covenant with them kto give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they lived as sojourners. 5 Moreover, lI have heard the groaning of the people of Israel whom the Egyptians hold as slaves, and I have remembered my covenant. 6 Say therefore to the people of Israel, m‘I am the LORD, and nI will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from slavery to them, and oI will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment. 7 I pwill take you to be my people, and qI will be your God, and you shall know that mI am the LORD your God, who has brought you out nfrom under the burdens of the Egyptians. 8 I will bring you into rthe land that I sswore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. I will give it to you for a possession. mI am the LORD.’” 9 Moses spoke thus to the people of Israel, but they tdid not listen to Moses, because of their broken spirit and harsh slavery.

God is doing the action!  Just as God promised to act with Abraham in Genesis 12. God promises to act with Moses and the Israelites. Look at the litany of things God promises to do starting in verse six: I will bring you out… I will deliver you… I will redeem you… I will take you… I will be your God… I will bring you… I will give it to you…

And God’s action has a singular purpose:  Exodus 6:7 “you shall know that I am the Lord your GOD”

God acts so that his children know that he is our Father.

God also acts so that even those who oppose him must one day submit to his judgment and power.  We see this in Exodus 7:5 “The Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord”

He’s not their God but he is still their Lord.

Is the Lord your God today?

Perhaps you’ve said you believed but you haven’t continued in obedience, you haven’t even tried because you “prayed a prayer” or you “walked an aisle.” Do you really know?!

I’m not talking about stumbling into sin from time to time, we all do! But what ought concern you is when you stumble into sin or live in outright defiant sin and you don’t care. If you can say “I know it’s not right but I don’t care” then I plead with you to come to your senses and escape the snare of the devil (2 Timothy 2:26).
 “Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith.” (2 Corinthians 13:5)

Because once you know God, you want to follow him.  Do you stumble? Absolutely. Do you have to fight off sin the rest of your life? Certainly. But those who are God’s children strive for obedience, for holiness, which is our spiritual act of worship (Romans 12).

What about those of you who are like the Israelites in Exodus 6:9?
6:9 “Moses spoke thus to the people of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses, because of their broken spirit and harsh slavery.”

Maybe today you’re not listening to the Word of God because your spirit is broken and your in the midst of what feels like harsh slavery.

As with the Egyptians, God may continue to bring wave after wave after wave of trial and plague and adversity because he wants you to know him as Father!

Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.

The suffering and trials of this life refine and reveal saving faith.

Listen to this concluding guidance from the apostle Paul:

Romans 8:15-17 “For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” 16 The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 17 and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.”




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