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Steve Webb: The common thread
was pride.

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Coming to you from Riverside,
California, this is the 300th

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episode of The Lifespring family
Audio Bible, season 12.

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Podcasting since 2004. I'm your
OG God caster Steve Webb. This

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is the daily show where we're
reading through the entire Bible

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in a year. Today's history
Tuesday and we'll read Second

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Chronicles 25 through 28. I've
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history for you. I've got some
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address is Steve at Lifespring
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Second Chronicles chapter 25.
Amaziah was 25 years old when he

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became king and he reigned 29
years in Jerusalem. His mother's

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name was Jehovah din of
Jerusalem. And he did what was

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right in the sight of the Lord,
but not with a loyal heart. Now

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it happened as soon as the
kingdom was established for him,

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that he executed his servants
who had murdered his father, the

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king. However, he did not
execute their children, but did

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as it is written in the law in
the book of Moses, where the

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Lord commanded, saying, The
fathers shall not be put to

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death for their children, nor
shall the children be put to

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death for their fathers, but a
person shall die for his own

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sin. Moreover, Amaziah gathered
Judah together and set over them

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captains of 1000s, and captains
of hundreds, according to their

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fathers houses throughout all
Judah and Benjamin, and he

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numbered them from 20 years old
and above, and found them to be

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300,000 Choice men able to go to
war, who could handle spear and

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shield. He also hired 100,000,
mighty men of valor from Israel

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for 100 talents of silver, but a
man of God came to him saying,

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Oh, King, do not let the army of
Israel go with you, for the Lord

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is not with Israel, not with any
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But if you go, be gone, be
strong in battle, even so, God

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shall make you fall before the
enemy, for God has power to help

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and to overthrow, then Amazon
has said to the man of God, but

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what shall we do about the 100
talents which I've given to the

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troops of Israel, and the man of
God answered, The Lord is able

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to give you much more than this.
So Amaziah discharged the troops

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that had come to him from F
freedom to go back home.

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Therefore, their anger was
greatly aroused against Judah,

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and they returned home in great
anger. Then Amaziah strengthened

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himself and leading his people,
he went to the Valley of salt

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and killed 10,000 of the people
of sere. Also, the children of

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Judah took captive 10,000 alive,
brought them to the top of the

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rock, and cast them down from
the top of the rock, so that

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they all were dashed in pieces.
But as for the soldiers of the

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army, which Amaziah had
discharged so that they would

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not go with him to battle, they
raided the cities of Judah from

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Samaria to Beth Horon, killed
3000 in them, and took much

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spoil. Now it was so after
Amaziah came from the slaughter

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of the Edomites, that he brought
the gods of the people of SEER

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set them up to be his gods, and
bowed down before them and

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burned incense to them.
Therefore, the anger of the Lord

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was aroused against Amaziah. And
he sent him a prophet who said

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to him, why have you sought the
gods of the people which could

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not rescue their own people from
your hand? So it was as he

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talked with him that the king
said to him, Have we made you

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the king's counselor, cease? Why
should you be killed? Then the

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Prophet ceased and said, I know
that God is determined to

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destroy you because you have
done this and if not heeded my

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advice. Now, Amaziah king of
Judah asked advice and sent to

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Joash, the son of Jehovah has
the son of Gu king of Israel,

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saying, calm let us face one
another in battle. And Joash,

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king of Israel sent to Amaziah
king of Judah, saying, the

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thistle that was in Lebanon sent
to the cedar that was in

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Lebanon, saying, give your
daughter to my son, his wife,

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and a wild beast that was in
Lebanon passed by and traveled

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the fissile indeed, you say that
you have defeated the Edomites

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and your heart is lifted up to
boast, stay at home now why

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should you metal with trouble
that you should fall you and

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Judah with you? But Amaziah
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God that he might give them into
the hands of their enemies

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because they sought the gods of
Edom. So Joash king of Israel

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went out and he and Amaziah of
Judah faced one another had Beth

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Shemesh, which belongs to Judah.
And Judah was defeated by Israel

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and every man fled to his tent.
Then Joash, the king of Israel

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captured Amaziah, king of Judah,
the son of Joash, the son of

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Jehovah has at Beth Shemesh, and
he brought him to Jerusalem and

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broke down the wall of Jerusalem
from the gate of Ephrem to the

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corner gate 400 cubits and he
took all the gold and silver all

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the articles that were found in
the house of God with Obed Edom,

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the treasures of the king's
house. Add hostages and returned

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to Samaria. Amaziah, the son of
Joash, king of Judah lived 15

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years after the death of Joash,
son of Jehovah has king of

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Israel. Now the rest of the acts
of Amaziah, from first to last,

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indeed are they not written in
the book of the kings of Judah

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and Israel. After the time that
Amaziah turned away from

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following the Lord, they made a
conspiracy against him in

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Jerusalem, and he fled to Lake
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Lake ish and killed him there,
then they brought him on horses

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and buried him with his fathers
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Second Chronicles chapter 26.
All the people of Judah took

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Uzziah, who was 16 years old and
made him king in place of his

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father, Amaziah Uzziah, rebuilt
the laugh and returned it to

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Judah after King Amaziah lay
down and death with his

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ancestors. Uzziah was 16 years
old when he began to rule and he

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ruled for 52 years in Jerusalem.
His mother was Jack Elia from

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Jerusalem. He did what the Lord
considered right as his father

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Amaziah had done, he dedicated
his life to serving God and the

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days of Zechariah, who taught
him to fear God. As long as he

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dedicated his life to serving
the Lord. The Lord gave him

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success. As I went to wage war
against the Philistines, he tore

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down the walls of gaff Jamna and
Ashdod. He built cities near

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Ashdod and elsewhere among the
Philistines. God helped him when

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he attacked the Philistines, the
Arabs who lived in gerbil, and

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then the unites the Ammonites
paid taxes to Uzziah and his

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fame spread to the border of
Egypt because he became very

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powerful. Uzziah built towers in
Jerusalem at corner wall Valley

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gate and the angle and he
reinforced them. He built towers

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in the desert, he dug many
cisterns because he had a lot of

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herds in the foothills in the
plains. He had farmers and

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vineyard workers in the
mountains in the fertile fields

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because he loved the soil. As I
had an army of professional

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soldiers, they were ready to go
to war in their companies based

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on the number organized by the
scribe dial and the officer may

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Asiya. They were commanded by
Hannah Nyah, one of the kings

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officials. The total number of
family heads among these

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warriors was 2600. Under them
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They were a powerful force that
could support the king against

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the enemy. For the entire army
as I have prepared shields,

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spears, helmets, armor, bows,
and stones for slings. In

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Jerusalem, he made machines
designed by inventive people.

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The machines were placed on the
towers and corners to shoot

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arrows and hurl large stones, as
his fame spread far and wide

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because he had strong support
until he became powerful. But

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when he became powerful, his
pride destroyed him. He was

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unfaithful to the Lord his God,
he went into the Lord's temple

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to burn incense on the incense
altar. The priest as Araya went

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in after him with 80 of the
Lord's courageous priests, they

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opposed King Uzziah they said to
him, Uzziah You have no right to

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burn incense as an offering to
the Lord. That right belongs to

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the priests, Aaron's descendants
who have been given the holy

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task of burning incense. Get out
of the holy place because you

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have been unfaithful. The Lord
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Uzziah, who held an incense
burner in his hand became angry.

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While he was angry with a
priests a skin disease broke out

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on his forehead. This happened
in front of the priests and the

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Lord's temple as his eye was at
the incense altar. When the

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chief priest Azariah and all the
priests turned toward him. a

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skin disease was on his
forehead. They rushed him away.

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Uzziah was in a hurry to get out
because the Lord had inflicted

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him with the disease. King
Uzziah had a skin disease until

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the day he died. Since he had a
skin disease. He lived in a

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separate house and was barred
from the Lord's temple. His son

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Joseph was in charge of the
royal palace and governed the

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country. Everything else about
Uzziah from beginning to end is

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recorded by the prophet Isaiah,
son of Amos Uzziah lay down in

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depth with his ancestors and was
buried with them in a field

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containing tombs that belonged
to the kings. People said he had

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a skin disease. His son Jonathan
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Second Chronicles chapter 27.
Jonathan was 25 years old when

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he began to rule he ruled for 16
years in Jerusalem. His mother

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was Jerusalem daughter is a doc
he did with the Lord considered

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right as his father Uzziah had
done, but unlike his father, he

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didn't illegally enter the
Lord's temple. Nevertheless, the

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people continued their corrupt
ways. Jonathan built the upper

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gate of the Lord's temple and
did extensive building of the

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Wall at The Oval. He built
cities in the hills of Judah and

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he built forts and towers in the
wooded areas. He fought with the

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king of the Ammonites and
conquered them. That year, the

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Ammonites gave him 7500 pounds
of Over 60,000 bushels of wheat,

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and 60,000 bushels of barley.
The ammonites gave him the same

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amount for two more years. Joven
grew powerful because he was

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determined to live as the Lord
his God wanted everything else

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about Joe thumb, all his wars
and his life is written in the

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book of the kings of Israel and
Judah. He was 25 years old when

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he began to rule as king. He
ruled for 16 years in Jerusalem.

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Jonathan lay down in depth with
his ancestors, and they buried

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him in the city of David, his
son, he has succeeded him is

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king.

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Second Chronicles chapter 28.
Ahaz was 20 years old when he

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began to reign and he reigned 16
years in Jerusalem, and he did

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not do what was right in the
eyes of the Lord as his father

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David had done, but he walked in
the ways of the kings of Israel.

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He even made metal images for
the bales and he made offerings

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in the valley of the son of
Hinnom, and burned his sons as

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an offering according to the
abominations of the nations whom

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the Lord drove out before the
people of Israel. And he

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sacrificed and made offerings on
the high places and on the hills

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and under every green tree.
Therefore, the Lord his God gave

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him into the hand of the king of
Syria, who defeated him and took

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captive a great number of his
people and brought them to

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Damascus. He was also given into
the hand of the king of Israel,

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who struck him with great force.
For pica, the son of Rama Leia

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killed 120,000 from Judah in one
day, all of them men of valor,

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because they had forsaken the
LORD the God of their fathers

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and Zick cry the mighty man of
Ephram killed me a sia the king

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son, and as her crib the
commander of the palace, and El

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Cana, the next in authority to
the king, the men of Israel took

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captive 200,000 of the
relatives, women, sons and

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daughters, they also took much
spoil from them, and brought the

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spoil to Samaria. But a prophet
of the Lord was there whose name

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was Odette, and he went out to
meet the army that came to

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Samaria and said to them,
Behold, because the Lord the God

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of your fathers was angry with
Judah, he gave them into your

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hand, but you have killed them
in a rage that has reached up to

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heaven. And now you intend to
subjugate the people of Judah

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and Jerusalem, male and female
as Your slaves. Have you not

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sins of your own against the
LORD your God. Now hear me and

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send back the captives from your
relatives whom you have taken

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for the fierce wrath of the Lord
is upon you. Certain chiefs also

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of the men of Ephram, Azariah,
the son of Joe Hainan Barraca,

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the son of Michela moth, to
Hezekiah, the son of Shallum,

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and a mesa the son of Hadley
stood up against those who were

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coming from the war and said to
them, You shall not bring the

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captives in here for you propose
to bring upon us guilt against

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the Lord, in addition to our
present sins and guilt, for our

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guilt is already great, and
there is fierce wrath against

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Israel. So the armed men left
the captives and the spoil

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before the princess and all the
assembly. And the men who have

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been mentioned by name rose and
took the captives and with the

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spoil, they closed all who were
naked among them. They clothed

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them, gave them sandals,
provided them with food and

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drink and anointed them and
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them on donkeys. They brought
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Jericho, the city of palm trees,
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At that time, King Ahaz sent to
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for the Edomites had again
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carried away captives. And the
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the cities in the Showfield and
the Negeb of Judah, and it taken

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Beth Shemesh Aijalon get her off
SOCO with its villages Timnah

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with its villages, and Gimpo
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settled there for the Lord
humbled Judah because of Ahaz

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king of Israel, for he had made
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very unfaithful to the Lord. So
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came against Him and afflicted
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him, for Ahaz took a portion
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the house of the king of the
princes, and gave tribute to the

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king of Assyria, but it did not
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distress, he became yet more
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King Ahaz for he sacrificed to
the gods of Damascus that had

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defeated him and said, because
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helped them, I will sacrifice to
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they were the ruin of him and of
all Israel. And he has gathered

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together the vessels of the
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the vessels of the house of God,
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house of the Lord. And he made
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of Jerusalem. In every city of
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make offerings to other gods
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God of his father's. Now the
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ways from first to last, behold,
they are written in the book of

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the kings of Judah and Israel,
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fathers and they buried him in
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did not bring him into the tombs
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Hezekiah his son reigned in his
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Well, beloved, in these three
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of Amaziah, Uzziah, Jotham, and
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were descendants of David, of
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previous episodes, coming from a
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that the next generation will
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also true. Coming from a non
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necessarily mean that the next
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saw that in these kings, and I'm
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seen this in our own families.
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is that I believe that many of
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are parents, take it for granted
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believing home, that they will
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their Savior. Beloved, if we do
that, we make a terrible

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mistake, we can never assume
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fate as their own, there will
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choose to believe, just as we
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to have to choose. As parents,
we have to be very deliberate in

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showing them in 1000 different
ways. Why believing in Him is

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the very best thing they could
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that our faith is real, that
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lives, and that he matters, not
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And we have to talk to them
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has to match our walk. Our
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missions field. Now, back to
today's chapters. As is common

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to most people, the first two of
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had their good points and their
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victories and spiritual
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strengths and weaknesses. It's
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tells us though, that the wages
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than perfection, anything less
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means that we fall short of the
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need a savior. This is a common
thread that was evident in the

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chapters we read today with the
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Ahaz. Each one of them sinned in
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thread was pride. Pride
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even to people who showed great
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days. Once we begin to believe
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from our own abilities, we're
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to anyone at any age, I've
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susceptibility to sin is still
alive, even after more than 50

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years of being a follower of
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him, if I begin to rely on my
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quickly find that I cannot walk
his path on my own. As the old

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hymn says, I need the every
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Bryan Duncan: I need thee every
hour, most gracious Lord, no

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tender voice like Thine, can
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Steve Webb: To his credit of the
four kings we read about today,

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only Joe thumb seems to have had
a lifelong record of following

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God's direction. Verse six of
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grew powerful because he was
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his God wanted, man, what a
legacy. My legacy will

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unfortunately not be without a
list of failures. But I'm

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determined to keep my eyes on
the prize, because I longed to

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hear my savior say on that day
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face. Well done, good and
faithful servant. What are your

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thoughts? Let me know at
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Tomorrow is Psalms Wednesday,
we'll read Psalms 125 through

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I've got some people to thank
today for helping to bring the

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episode 302 yet, we've got a
distinguished producer today

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here from A Servant of Christ,
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Country. They sent in $300. And
they said, Let's round out the

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year. Well, let's do that. Yes,
thank you and God bless you. And

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I'm going to make an executive
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Sean of San Pedro an executive
producer. He sent in this

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donation last week before I
announced that we were going to

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do anything special for this
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with this note, he said for S 12
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milestone, and we have a praise
report. We're having a boy.

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Well, thank you for the
donation. Sean. God bless you

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for that. And congrats to you
and Brittaney, we shared in your

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joy when you found out that God
was going to be adding a new

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little life to your family, your
first child. And now that we

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know it's a boy, we rejoice over
that now with you too. And as I

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said, I'm going to credit you as
an executive producer on this

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episode because you've been
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almost from the day that I
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activated that feature. Not to
mention you're doing the

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chapters for the show and
working on a very cool web app

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that makes the job easier. So
Shawn, you have undoubtedly

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earned this executive producer
credit. Thank you for your

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donation of time, talent and
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of associate producers today.
Rob Brink from Troy, Michigan

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sent in $50, and he said, Thanks
for the podcast. Well, Rob,

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thanks for the donation. If I'm
not mistaken, this is Rob second

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donation. So brother, I thank
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And Kevin Schneider from
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$33.33. He's been a Lifespring
family member for some time now

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and he's donated several times.
Kevin, thank you very much. And

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God bless you. I truly
appreciate each one of you that

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sent in a special episode 300
donation today and it just warms

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my heart thank you.

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On this date in church history,
June 28 1851, Eliza ie Hewlett

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was born she was an American
Presbyterian Church worker and

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Singer: When we all get to
heaven, what a day of rejoicing

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devotional author. Four of her
hymns are still sung today: Will

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There Be Any Stars, More About
Jesus Would I Know, Sunshine In

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that will be, when we all see
Jesus, we'll sing and shout the

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The Soul, and When We All Get To
Heaven.

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victory

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Steve Webb: Let's pray. Our
Heavenly Father, we thank you

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for your grace. We know that we
are unable to live sinless lives

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and we confess our sins now.
Help us to cling to you and to

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say NO to temptation. Help us to
always remember that we cannot

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make it on our own and that we
need you every minute of every

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day. We truly do need you every
hour. Help us to remain humble

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and to be aware when pride
begins to creep in. We only want

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to serve you and bring glory to
your name. And we thank you and

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we rejoice with Sean and
Brittaney as they await their

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new baby boy, I pray that he'll
be healthy and strong and most

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of all, that he would grow up to
be a man of God. Give mom and

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dad wisdom and love as they
raise him and may the Holy

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Spirit guide them and feel them
and may their home be a place of

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peace with you at the center. I
thank You, Lord for the

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Lifespring family in the
brothers and sisters who pray

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with me and for me, and for
those who sacrifice to help

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support the show. I pray that
you'll bless them and each and

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every one who allows me to come
to this microphone every day to

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share your word. I pray this in
Jesus name, amen. If you have a

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prayer request or a praise that
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Send me an email at Steve at
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much to the team Kirstie Sean of
San Pedro and Denise I thank God

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for you each and every day. And
thanks to a servant of Christ

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from somewhere in the North
Country Sean of San Pedro Rob

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Bragin Kevin Schneider for your
very generous donations to help

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celebrate this 300th episode of
season 12 of the Lifespring

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family Audio Bible. And beloved,
thank you for inviting me into

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your life today. Wherever you
are, I sure hope you'll be with

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me for the remaining 64
episodes. And no matter how long

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you've been hanging around these
parts, I thank you and I commend

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you for your commitment to read
the Word of God with me. Let's

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finish strong, shall we? keeping
our eyes on the prize? Support

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the show at Lifespring
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tomorrow may God bless you
richly. My name is Steve Webb.

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Bye