Gods Truth

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Gods Truth
Daniel 11.2-35
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Gods Truth concerns Israels future trials.

• He understood that the vision concerned events
  certain to happen in the futuretimes of war and
  great hardship. ... Now I am here to explain what
  will happen to your people in the future, for
  this vision concerns a time yet to come.
• 10.1 14 (NLT)

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The predicted events of Daniel 11.2-35 have been
fulfilled in history.

• They concerns our historical period of the
  Medo-Persian and Grecian Empires.

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Israels TimelineDaniel 9.24-27
Messiahs 2nd Coming
Messiahs Birth 1st Advent
Daniel 11.2-35
Daniel 11.36-12.4
62/7s 434 yrs
7/7s 49 yrs
1/7 7 yrs
3.5
3.5
Tribulation or Jacob's Trouble Jeremiah 30.7-9
444 BC Command to rebuild J. wall
33 AD Israel rejects Jesus their Messiah
Medo-Persia Greece Rome Modern
Nations
Based on 360 day Biblical year
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Gods prophecies are true and always come to pass.

• ...the vision concerned events certain to happen
  in the future
• 10.1 (NLT)

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Knowing God brings strength and faithfulness.

• But the people who know their God will be strong
  and will resist him.
• 11.32 (NLT)

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Knowing God produces strength and endurance under
trials.

• Knowing God come through our relationship with
  Jesus Christ.
• Now this is eternal life that they may know you,
  the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you
  have sent.
• John 17.3 (NIV)

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Suffering purifies Gods faithful people.

• And some of the wise will fall victim to
  persecution. In this way, they will be refined
  and cleansed and made pure until the time of the
  end, for the appointed time is still to come.
• 11.35 (NLT)

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Persecution purities Gods Children.

• Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles come
  your way, consider it an opportunity for great
  joy. For you know that when your faith is tested,
  your endurance has a chance to grow. So let it
  grow, for when your endurance is fully developed,
  you will be perfect and complete, needing
  nothing.
• James 1.2-3 (NLT)

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God knows what is best for you.

• Our fathers disciplined us for a little while as
  they thought best but God disciplines us for our
  good, that we may share in his holiness. No
  discipline seems pleasant at the time, but
  painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest
  of righteousness and peace for those who have
  been trained by it.
• Hebrews 12.10-11 (NLT)

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God is our Refiner

• He will sit like a refiner of silver, burning
  away the dross. He will purify the Levites,
  refining them like gold and silver, so that they
  may once again offer acceptable sacrifices to the
  Lord.
• Malachi 3.3 (NLT)

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James 1.2-3

• Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles come
  your way, consider it an opportunity for great
  joy. For you know that when your faith is tested,
  your endurance has a chance to grow. So let it
  grow, for when your endurance is fully developed,
  you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing.

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Tis So Sweat to Trust in Jesus

• Verse 1
• Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus, Just to take Him
  at His word Just to rest upon His promise,
  Just to know, Thus saith the Lord.

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Tis So Sweat to Trust in Jesus

• Verse 2
• O how sweet to trust in Jesus, Just to trust His
  cleansing blood Just in simple faith to plunge
  me Neath the healing, cleansing flood!

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Tis So Sweat to Trust in Jesus

• Verse 3
•  Yes tis sweet to trust in Jesus, Just from sin
  and self to cease Just from Jesus simply taking
  Life and rest, and joy and peace.

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Tis So Sweat to Trust in Jesus

• Verse 4     
• Im so glad I learned to trust Him, Precious
  Jesus, Savior, Friend And I know that He is
  with me, Will be with me to the end.

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Tis So Sweat to Trust in Jesus

• Chorus     
• Jesus, Jesus, how I trust Him! How Ive proved
  Him oer and oer! Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus!
  O for grace to trust Him more!