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For over twenty-five years Dr. Betters preached God is the builder of broken bridges and brings beauty from ashes. But in the horror of the loss of his sixteen-year-old son, could God make a way to a place of peace and comfort? In this series preached not long after the death of his son, Dr. Betters does not shy away from asking the hard questions and sharing his own faith struggles to reconcile God’s love with His sovereignty.

The following sermon by Dr. Chuck F. Betters was preached as part of the God Will Make a Way series.

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Welcome to In His Grip with Dr. Chuck F. Betters, produced by Mark Inc. Ministries. Each In His Grip message is designed to help you turn your hearts toward Jesus and equip you to walk by faith. Let's join Dr. Betters as he preaches the series, God Will Make a Way.

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This is the second of a two-part series, God Will Make a Way. We are looking at selected significant milestones in the history of God's redemptive program. Points at which God worked the impossible where there seemed to be no other way. Where the people of God were backed up against the wall with no way of escape, no direction to look but up. And yet it is at each of these points, each of these touchstones, that God gives us a revelation of his program of redemption. He shows us another piece of a wonderful, majestic puzzle, a mosaic that he is painting for us. All of it, of course, will culminate one day when he comes again. But as we study the Bible, as we look at the books of Scripture, with each ensuing book, there is another dimension, another aspect of God's revelation of his divine program. We look at the people of God, men and women who did not know what God was doing, but in faith responded to the voice of God. In faith responded to the call of God. Sometimes when they hadn't the faintest idea as to why he had asked them to do certain things, or why he hadn't responded or acted in another way. We began last week by looking at some of those touchstones. The first that I'd like to bring to your attention in God's redemptive program is the birth of Isaac. You see, it was with the birth of Isaac that God established in one family, and then ultimately in one nation, his formal covenant, where he would call to himself one nation out of all the nations on the face of the earth. He chose one nation, the least of the nations, the most powerless of the nations, the weakest of the nations, and in the birth of one boy, he worked a mighty miracle in beginning that process by which he would call this people Israel to himself, the birth of Isaac. We looked at that the last time we were together. The second touchstone was when the people of God were brought to the point of the Red Sea. When they were released out of Egypt, God brought them to a certain point, a specific geographical point, at which point Pharaoh's armies began to pursue. On the right hand side were mountains, on the left hand side were mountains, to the rear was the army of Pharaoh, and to the front was the Red Sea. An impossible situation. And a wonderful, wonderful deliverance took place as the result of God's miracle-working power when the people of God had no other direction to look but up. Touchstone number three was the Davidic kingship. That is, God established a kingship through which he himself one day would come to establish his rule in his kingdom spiritually on earth, spiritually in heaven, ultimately throughout the entire universe. And yet God began that redemptive program of kingship through one person, and that was David. Remember, we talked about the marriage of Ruth to Boaz, that little seemingly insignificant book of Ruth in the Old Testament, talks about this wonderful marriage, courtship, this story of Ruth and her mother-in-law Naomi, and the death of her husband, and then the ensuing marriage of Ruth to Boaz. And we look at that and we say, What is God doing here? You'll find that significantly in that book, you see that the marriage relationship between Ruth and Boaz saw the birth of Obed, and he was the father of Jesse, who was the father of David, and thus the line of David is being established in the book of Ruth. But there's another significant point in this kingship, in this touchstone of David, and you'll find that in 1 Samuel chapter 17. I'd like you to turn to 1 Samuel chapter 17. I'd like you to look with me at verse 4. Now you want to talk about an impossible situation. Here it is. A champion named Goliath, who was from Gath, came out of the Philistines' camp. He was over nine feet tall. You thought Sean Bradley was tall. He had a bronze helmet on his head and wore a coat of scale armor of bronze weighing five thousand shekels. On his leg he wore bronze graves, and a bronze javelin was slung on his back. His spear shaft was like a weaver's rod, and its iron point weighed six hundred shekels, roughly about four hundred pounds, I believe. His shield bearer went ahead of him. Goliath stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, Why do you come out and line up for battle? Am I not a Philistine? And are you not the servants of Saul? Choose a man. Have him come down to me, if he is able to fight and kill me. We will become your subjects. But if I overcome and kill him, you will become our subjects and serve us. Sounds like a good deal, doesn't it? Then the Philistines said, This day I defy the ranks of Israel. Give me a man, let us fight each other. On hearing the Philistines' words, Saul and all the Israelites were dismayed, terrified. Now David was the son of an Ephertite named Jesse. Remember him? That was the one we read about in Ruth, who was from Bethlehem in Judah. Jesse had eight sons, and in Saul's time he was old and well advanced in years. Jesse's three oldest sons had followed Saul to war. The firstborn was Aliab, the second Abinadab, the third Shama. David was the youngest. The three oldest followed Saul, but David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father's sheep at Bethlehem. For forty days the Philistines came forward every morning and evening and took his stand. Now you want to talk about an impossible situation. Here it is. A man nine feet tall wants to enter into hand-to-hand combat with any Jew that Saul would put forward. Any man. Bring him forward. We'll have a fight. He can bring his weapons. And I'll bring my weapons. And let's go hand to hand. Let's get into the ring. Let's fight it out. Don't you wish international crises and national crises could be solved that way? Get the presidents of the various countries to get into the ring and fight it out. Wouldn't that be wonderful? I'm tempted, but I won't say it. Be that as it may, there wasn't one Israelite who could stand against this Philistine. He was nine feet tall, carrying around hundreds and hundreds of pounds of armor. In one giant swoop of his hand, he would have wiped out any Jew. That's an impossible situation. There he stands, mocking and mocking and mocking the God of Israel, mocking the Israelites for their faith. I call this a touchstone because you see, what happens next forms the basis for David, who was the grandson of Obed, for David to become the king of Israel and establish the Davidic dynasty. And without the Davidic dynasty, we do not have nationalistic Israel, and we do not have the line of Jesse, and we do not have Messiah. You see what's going to happen in this battle, what's going to happen in this confrontation is God working a mighty miracle and putting together another piece of the mosaic in this redemptive plan of history, in his program of redemption for his people. Now you know the story. You heard it in Sunday school. You've read it a thousand times. David comes out and says, What's this big mouth talking about? Why is this man taunting our God? He looks at his brothers and says, What's with you guys? Don't you have any faith? Don't you believe in the God of Israel? What is with you men that this man could taunt us? Now that's my paraphrase. You can read it later in the passage. He says, I'll go out and fight him. His brothers say, Now, David, sit down, cool off. He'll make mincemeat out of you. You're nothing but a little child. And finally, he convinces Saul to let him go out and fight Goliath. And Saul says, Wait a minute, boy, before you go, you need some armor. And he takes his own armor and puts it on him. And David can't even walk in that armor because it's so heavy. He says, I don't need this armor. And he throws that armor off. All I need is the God of Israel who has promised to establish his dynasty here on earth. He picks up five smooth stones because the Philistine Goliath had four brothers. And he wasn't going to be content with slaying just Goliath. And he goes out with a slingshot and a stone. Now you want to talk about an impossible situation. You mean to tell me you are going to fell a nine-foot giant with all of that armor, with a stone, with a pebble, and a slingshot. Now, friends, in and of himself, we realize that David could not possibly have slain Goliath with that slingshot. It wasn't the slingshot, and it wasn't the stone that killed Goliath. It was the Holy Spirit that killed Goliath. It was the Spirit of God that directed that stone right into his brain and killed him. So that as you read at the end of 1 Samuel 17, right around verse 51, he killed him. He cut off his head with the sword. And when the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they turned and ran. Typical, by the way, of Satan. Satan is a loudmouth, he is a coward at heart. Satan likes to yell and scream and throw giants at us. He likes to throw impossible situations from which we seem to have no way of escape. Painful situations or afflictions or trials where we don't seem to understand or we seem to think that God has lost control and cannot understand why these things are happening, and Satan stands there and whispers in our ear. Yes, shouts in our ear, the same shouts that you heard from the giant. Your God is too small. This pain is too big. You are a hopeless case of failure. You are weak. I am strong. You are nothing, I am everything. Your God has failed you. And he whispers and he whispers and then he shouts and he shouts. And the more we cower down, as Saul and his armies did, as David's brothers did, the more we slink down like little worms underneath our comfortable pews. The more we cower away, the more we back off, the more we listen to that voice, the louder it gets, louder and louder and louder, until we can't hear anything else, certainly not the scriptures. And Satan whispers and the whispers turn to the shouts and the shouts turn to screams. And all along God is saying, pick up the stone. Pick up the stone and take four more for four of his friends. Put him to flight in the power of the Holy Spirit. Put him to flight. Face it head on. Look it straight in the eye. Defy it to have victory over you. Honestly don't know where the better's family would be if we didn't believe that. And I must confess to you, we struggle with it every week. Every week. Satan's whispering in my ear right now. It's not true. It's not true. It's not true. Why are you telling these people this? It's not true. I can hear you whispering in my ear. It's not true. How can you defy death? How can you stand at a cemetery and defy it to have victory over you? How can you defy the problem or trial or testing that's going on in your home right now? How can you defy the spirit of anger or bitterness that you're carrying around right now? How can you defy Satan who has become so loud and so boisterous in your ear? You know what God tells you to do? He tells you pick up the stone. Pick up the rock. Of course, you know who the rock is in Scripture, don't you? The rock clearly is defined for us in the Word of God as none other than the Lord Jesus Christ. Pick him up. You see, if you go out against Goliath, that is Satan yourself, he'll chew you up and spit out the bones. You're no match. He is a powerful angel of light. He is the most powerful of all of the created angels. He was bold enough until the death of Christ to have access to heaven, where he stood day and night and accused the saints before God. But friends, Satan in the death of Jesus Christ, has been bound. He has been cast from heaven. He is a defeated foe. And he is at heart a coward and a murderer and a liar. And in Christ, you are greater and more powerful than that Goliath could ever be. Apart from Christ, he will chew you up and spit you out. The mosaic is starting to come together. You know what happens as the result of this? God makes certain messianic promises. Look over in 2 Samuel chapter 7. 2 Samuel chapter 7. What is going to happen with this little boy who flung this slingshot and was able to slay this Philistine giant? What's going to happen? What's God going to do here? 2 Samuel 7, verse 12. When your days are over and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up an offspring to succeed you. Who will come from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom. He is the one who will build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. Now some say, well, that's Solomon, the son of David. That Solomon was going to be the one through whom the kingdom would be established. But I want you to note something. The kingdom is to be established forever, and Solomon in 1 Kings 11 dies as the result of his own apostasy. So go over to Matthew chapter 1 and let's see if we can fit the pieces together. Who is this one that would come out of the loins of David? Who is this seed that will succeed him and establish his kingdom on earth? Matthew 1.1. What I have called the most boring chapter in the Bible. You know why it's so boring? Because we're too lazy to read it and understand what it's saying. Matthew 1.1, a record of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of who? David, the son of Abraham. Now notice what he does. He takes you not only back to David, he takes you back to Abraham. Remember, the birth of Isaac was our first touchstone. So you're seeing how Jesus Christ is now a part of the mosaic that goes all the way back to Abram. Look at verse 6. Giving the genealogy, and Jesse, the father of King David, David was the father of Solomon, whose mother had been Uriah's wife. You know that story of David and Bathsheba, showing you that Jesus is fully identifying himself, not with royal priests and kings, not with righteous people, but with sinners and adulterers. You'll also find, by the way, in the genealogy of Christ, Rahab the harlot. You'll find her listed in the genealogy, showing Jesus' full identification with sinners, but specifically with King David, verse 17. This is the summary of it now. Fourteen generations in all, from Abraham to David, fourteen from David to the exile in Babylon, and fourteen from the exile to the Christ. By the way, you'll find the touchstones that we're going to be dealing with in those generations. Look at verse 20. But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, Joseph, son of who? David. Do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. Notice the connection to the Son of David. Turn over to Matthew chapter 12. Look with me at verse 23. Matthew 12, verse 23. All the people were astonished. And what did they say? Could this be the son of David? What are these people talking about? The Jews in the day of Jesus fully expected and anticipated that when Messiah comes, he would come out of the lineage of David. He would come to reestablish his kingdom on earth. The Davidic dynasty would come to earth. That is, Messiah would come out of the line of David. That's what the Jews were talking about. Is this him? Is this the Messiah? Look at chapter 15 of Matthew. Matthew 15, verse 22. A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him crying out, Lord, son of David, have mercy on me. My daughter is suffering terribly from demon possession. You see, in that day they also believed that when Messiah came, he would come from the line of David, and he would have power to exercise demons. This woman knew that. Turn to Matthew chapter 20. Look at verse 30. Matthew chapter 20 and verse 30. Two blind men were sitting by the roadside, and when they heard that Jesus was going by, they shouted, Lord, Son of David, there it is again, have mercy on us. The crowd rebuked them and told them to be quiet, but they shouted all the louder, Lord, son of David, have mercy on us. You see, they also knew when Messiah came, he would have power to cast out demons, and he would have power to restore sight to the blind. But he would come out of the line of David and would establish his kingship on earth. Next chapter, chapter 21, look at verse 9. Remember that great palm Sunday? The crowds that went ahead of him, verse 9, and shouted, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David. Blessed is he who comes in The name of the Lord, Hosanna in the highest. Messiah would be from the lineage of David. He would be the fulfillment of the Davidic dynasty. He would succeed where Solomon failed. Look at verse 15. When the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did, and the children shouting in the temple area, Hosanna to the son of David, they were indignant. Sounds like Saul. Remember the story when the people were shouting for David to become king? Saul was the king. What did Saul do when he heard all of the shouting about David being the one who would receive all the praise and the glory? What did Saul do? He became jealous. He became indignant. So you see, the story is being repeated again. But now Jesus is the fulfillment of everything that David was pointing to. Next chapter, chapter 22, look at verse 41. Comes to a climax. Matthew 22, verse 41. While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he? The son of David, they replied. Now that was very clear. When Messiah comes, who's he going to be? Whose son is he going to be? The son of David. He said to them, How is it then that David, speaking by the Spirit, calls him Lord? For he says, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet. If then David calls him Lord, how can he be a son? No one could say a word in reply, and from that day no one asked him any more questions. You see, what Jesus is doing is taking them back to the promise that God had given to David. And what he's trying to show is that David himself was not going to come to be king, that the kingdom was not going to be a political kingdom, that the kingdom was going to be a spiritual kingdom where the Lord of David, who is none other than Jehovah God himself, that God would become the one who would establish his own theocracy and his own kingdom on earth. That it would not be a political kingdom, but would be a spiritual kingdom. And you see, Jesus is bringing them into confrontation with this issue. And they were confused and walked away. We know what the angels said to the shepherds, today in the town of David, a Savior has been born to you. He is Christ the Lord, the town of David. John 7, 42, does not the scripture say that Christ will come from David's family and from Bethlehem, the town where David lived? You see, you can't miss it. You can't miss it. You cannot understand, by the way, the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John and the lineage of Jesus, unless you understand the mosaic peace that God handed out to us when he established the Davidic kingdom. And that Davidic kingdom was formed in an impossible situation when a young shepherd boy was eyeball to eyeball, nose to nose with a giant. Had he not slain Goliath, there would have been no Davidic kingdom. There would have been no dynasty. That's why when he started whirling around that old slingshot and he flung that rock, the Holy Spirit directed that rock right into the brain of Goliath. Why? Because God has a program. God has a plan. And he's putting the pieces of that plan together. Well, now David establishes his kingdom. You've got the kingship of David, our warrior king. You see the wonderful stories. He dies an old man, hands on his kingdom to Solomon. Solomon in all of his glory, all of the wonderful majesty of Solomon's kingdom, ended in despair, ended in despondency, and brings us to the next touchstone. I simply call this the nation in exile, the nation divided, and the resultant prophetic witness. Now see what happens here? In 931 BC, 931 years before Christ, that kingdom that David established, that kingdom that was so glorious under Solomon was divided. It is the lowest point in Israel's history. They didn't get any lower than they were at that point. After the glory years of Solomon, ending in Solomon loving many strange women and the kingdom being divided as the result, we have this gloomy despair and the judgment of God upon the people of God, and the prophets come into the picture. Now God is bringing us another touchstone, another piece of the puzzle as he raises up the prophets during this lowest point in Israel's history. Their message was very clear. They took the people of God back to the first five books of the Bible or the Torah, the law books. They took them back to the rule of David and to the Davidic dynasty. And the ministry of the prophets begins to emerge. You see the Isaiahs and the Jeremiah's and the Amoses and all of these other prophets standing up and preaching to the people of God. Why are you in such sin? Why are you in such apostasy? Has not God taken the kingdom from you? Is not God going to work a mighty work? But you must first repent. And the message or the tension between obedience and disobedience is tied in with the patience of God and the judgment of God. You see the preachers standing up, the prophets, and saying, as you're disobedient, God will bring judgment. As you are obedient, God will be patient. And that message, that tension is constantly seen in the prophets. What do they talk about? They talk about the day of the Lord. And you see, as Israel's history developed, the day of the Lord became something that was glorious, something that was exciting, something that was going to bring benefits, yet they missed the central message of the prophets. That on the other side of that coin, on the other side of that wonderful day of the Lord was judgment. And Jesus was the coming Messiah who would bring that judgment. That's why when you read the Gospels, it speaks of Jesus coming as a two-edged sword. He speaks of dividing between brother and sister, between mother and daughter. He speaks of a decisiveness in his coming that you can't be neutral with the coming of Christ. So the day of the Lord and the promise of the day of the Lord is a two-sided coin. And the prophets stand up and preach this in impossible situations. What do we have here in this divided kingdom? We have twelve tribes. And from each of these twelve tribes, God would choose a remnant. He would take out of those twelve tribes a remnant and restore that remnant to the land. He would restore to that remnant the Davidic dynasty. He would restore the covenant promise that he made to Abraham. He would restore the theocracy. And yes, he would even expand and include within that covenant promise the nations of the world or the Gentiles. By the way, all of these stories, the way in which the kingdom was divided is recorded for us in the books of Kings and Chronicles. You can read in Kings and Chronicles the different ways in which God raised up these prophets. Even to the inclusion of the Gentiles, the story of the queen of Sheba coming to visit Solomon is a prototype of the inclusion of the Gentiles later on. The story of the widow at Zarephath is an illustration of the inclusion of the Gentiles. The healing of Naaman the Aramean is a prototype of the inclusion of the Gentiles. And you can read about those stories in Kings and Chronicles. When you go to the book of Kings, for example, look at 1 Kings chapter 8. 1 Kings chapter 8. By the way, Kings is a commentary on the theological importance of the Davidic promise. Draped in moral failure, out of kings there is a call to repentance. And that is best illustrated in 1 Kings chapter 8, when Solomon prayed this prayer. Solomon stands up and says, This is the essence of who we are as the people of God. This is it. 1 Kings chapter 8, look at verse 46. Solomon's praying. When they sin against you, for there is no one who does not sin, and you become angry with them and give them over to the enemy who takes them captive to his own land, far away or near. And if they have a change of heart in the land where they are held captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their conquerors and say, We have sinned, we have done wrong, we have acted wickedly. And if they turn back to you with all their heart and soul in the land of their enemies who took them captive, and pray to you toward the land you gave their fathers, toward the city you have chosen and the temple I have built for your name. Then from heaven, your dwelling place, hear their prayer and their plea, uphold their cause, forgive your people who have sinned against you, forgive all the offenses they have committed against you, and cause their conquerors to show them mercy, for they are your people and your inheritance. Now that's the tension in this period, summarized by the prayer of Solomon. We have people who have fallen away, and as the result of their sin, they have been taken captive. They are now in exile. You have them divided. You have two kingdoms. You have a kingdom in the north, ten of the tribes are in the north. And the history of Kings and Chronicles shows us they had nine dynasties, and all of them were evil. They had no affiliation with the temple in Jerusalem. They were acculturated into the Sumerian culture. They bought into the Sumerian humanism. Financially, they became interdependent on Samaria. Politically, socially, culturally. And as the result of that, the ten tribes in the north, the kingdom split, the kingdom divided, hadn't even the faintest recognition whatsoever, not the faintest resemblance whatsoever to what the people of God should be. They were enmeshed into the world in which they lived, and virtually the covenant was suspended in those ten tribes. Where are they? They're nowhere to be found. Then you go to the south, where two of the tribes were. They had one dynasty rooted in the Davidic house. There were good and bad kings. Solomon's temple, conservative, if you will. Elijah and Elisha became the main prophets in the south, salvaging a remnant. And then in the year 722 BC, the ten tribes in the north fell to Shalmanazar the Fifth and to Sargon II. They were utterly destroyed, devastated the land, and exiled the people. Now all of a sudden, the prayer that Solomon prayed years before was coming to fruition. The people of God were in virtual bondage. Virtual bondage. They were accursed. They were forced to live among the nations. But it was interesting that Sargon left a small remnant behind who were invited by the holy kings from the south, Hezekiah and Josiah, to join them. A small remnant was left. God always has that remnant. I want to show you that, and then we're going to close. Turn to 2 Kings chapter 25. This picture of devastation. We're going to close with this. You've got a divided kingdom. Ten tribes in the north sacked by Sargon V. Two tribes in the south struggling to remain and to keep their identity under two holy kings, Hezekiah and Josiah. The remnant is virtually lost. Nobody can even recognize who the people of God are. They're in virtual oblivion. Lost seemingly forever. And you stop and think as you read Bible history, you look at it and you say, Well, I thought God made a promise. I thought he was going to establish the kingdom. I thought he was going to do this, that it was all going to culminate. How could the people of God be lost? How could they be vanquished? How could they be obliterated? The lowest point in Israel's history. And there's a very obscure verse of scripture. We read over it very fast because we don't understand it. In the midst of that devastation, in the midst of that oblivion, in the midst of that invasion of those two heathen kings, 2 Kings chapter 25, look at verse 27. In the 37th year of the exile of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, in the year evil Meredok became king of Babylon, he released Jehoiakim from prison. Notice how God is specific here. On the 27th day of the 12th month, he spoke kindly to him, gave him a seat of honor higher than those of the other kings who were with him in Babylon. So Jehoiakim put aside his prison clothes and for the rest of his life ate regularly at the king's table. Day by day, the king gave Jehoiakim a regular allowance as long as he lived. Now you look at that, you say, what does that have to do with anything? Who in the world is this Jehoiakim? He would become the very heartbeat of God recapturing and salvaging the remnant that would lead us up to Judaism at the birth of Christ. If this evil king does not release Jehoiakim from prison, he dies in prison, and the remnant is absolutely obliterated. That seemingly insignificant act that happens on the 27th day of the 12th month, this man somehow found favor with this evil king. He released him out of prison, set him down beside him, and there, in that one Jehoiakim, the dynasty of David was preserved. Without that release from prison, the whole of Israel's history comes to a dramatic close. Isn't our God a marvelous God? Isn't the Bible a marvelous illustration, page by page by page, of the faithfulness of God in painting for us that mosaic, that wonderful mosaic, that our God is a sovereign God and He will make a way. I hope you believe that this morning. I hope in your own life, as you go through whatever tragedy you're going through, I hope you can begin to see how replete the Bible is with illustration after illustration of the faithfulness of God to do what God said He's going to do, even in the insignificant life of some character you probably never heard of before. In that one person, God would preserve his remnant. Would you stand with me, please? Join hands with those around you. Let's close in prayer. Father, thank you for this time together. Thank you for the privilege of worship. Thank you for your love for us, your goodness to us. Thank you, Lord, for your faithfulness day in and day out, for the way in which you promise us every day that you will remain faithful in all that we do. Thank you for the cross of Jesus Christ. Thank you that when we survey that cross, we see how wonderful and how glorious you really are. Thank you for loving us with an everlasting love.

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Now may the grace of God, the love of our Lord and our Savior, Jesus the Christ, the very presence, person, and power of his Holy Spirit abide with each of you now until Christ comes again and forevermore. And all God's people said.

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