The Lord Will Rejoice over You

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Desiring God

Christianity, Messages, Sermons, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Preaching, Desiring God, 163859, Religion & Spirituality, John Piper

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🗓️ 25 September 1982

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Every staff on which we try to lean in our pride will snap and pierce us through. One refuge will be secure: God.

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0:00.0	Please turn with me in your Bible or in the Bible in the pew in front of you to this morning's
0:07.0	text found in Zephania Chapter 3 verses 14 through 17.
0:14.0	Sing aloud, O daughter of Zion.
0:17.0	Shout, O Israel.
0:19.0	Rejoys and exult with all your heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.
0:24.4	The Lord has taken away the judgments against you.
0:27.7	He is cast out your enemies.
0:30.0	The King of Israel, the Lord is in your midst. You shall fear evil no more.
0:37.0	On that day it shall be said to Jerusalem.
0:40.0	Do not fear, O Zion. Let not your hands grow weak.
0:44.8	The Lord your God is in your midst, a warrior who gives victory.
0:50.7	He will rejoice over you with gladness. He will renew you in his love. He will exalt over you with loud singing as on a day of festival. Festival. I hope you keep your Bibles open now to Zephania and if you didn't open them for the text,
1:10.0	I hope you will for the message because we're going to be looking at the entirety of these three chapters.
1:18.0	According to Zephania Chapter 1, verse 1, the Prophet delivered this word from the Lord in the reign of Josiah, King of Judah.
1:30.0	Josiah reigned from 637 to 608 BC.
1:34.4	That means his reign came to an end
1:37.0	about 20 years before the sack of Jerusalem
1:42.1	by the Babylonians.
1:44.5	Josiah, you may remember, is the king who found the long lost book of the law
1:50.4	in the temple and saw how far the people were from righteousness and endeavored to reform the people according to the law which was probably the book of Deuteronomy.
2:01.0	Zephania therefore was probably part of that reform movement during those middle and latter years of
2:08.5	Zephania's or of Josiah's reign.
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