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I invite you to turn to Deuteronomy 29.

And I hope you will because we're going to look very detailed

at units of this text and I want you to see for yourself what's really here.

In the last two weeks, there have been several unusual providences in my life that have caused me to think that this text, at this time and this place before this audience is of special urgency.

Two weeks ago today I was in London speaking to the London Men's Convention.

And the text was assigned to me, just like it was assigned to me here. I didn't choose it. It was

First Kings 18, 16 to 46, the story of Elijah on Mount Carmel defeating the prophets of bail. And the main point of the

text was, if you men turn to God, God turned your heart.

Here's the verse. 1 Kings 1837, Elijah, answer me, O Lord, answer me that this people

may know that you, O Lord, are God, and that you have turned their hearts back.

That was the point of the encounter with Bale. Make Israel know when their hearts

turn to the living God who defeats these prophets, you turn their heart.

That's the point of the text in London for the men.

Now here we are in Indianapolis and the text was assigned to me

Deuteronomy 29 and 30. It's not for the men of London, it's for the women of TGCW 2018.

And the point is the same.

If you don't turn to God with all your heart and with all your soul and love him God didn't give you a heart to do that.

Chapter 29 verse 4, to this day the Lord has not given you a heart to

understand or eyes to see or ears to hear. But on the positive side if any

of you women do turn to God if you find rising up in these days in your heart a love for

God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength, God did that. Chapter 30

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