Yahweh

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Yahweh

• Take these shoes
• Click clacking down some dead end street
• Take these shoes
• And make them fit
• Take this shirt
• Polyester white trash made in nowhere
• Take this shirt
• And make it clean, clean
• Take this soul
• Stranded in some skin and bones
• Take this soul
• And make it sing

Yahweh, Yahweh Always pain before a child is
born Yahweh, Yahweh Still I'm waiting for the dawn
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Yahweh

• Take these hands
• Teach them what to carry
• Take these hands
• Don't make a fist
• Take this mouth
• So quick to criticize
• Take this mouth
• Give it a kiss

Yahweh, YahwehAlways pain before a child is
bornYahweh, YahwehStill I'm waiting for the dawn
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Yahweh

• Still waiting for the dawn,
• the sun is coming upThe sun is coming up on the
  oceanThis love is like a drop in the oceanThis
  love is like a drop in the ocean

• Yahweh, YahwehAlways pain before a child is
  bornYahweh, tell me nowWhy the dark before the
  dawn?

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Yahweh

• Take this city
• A city should be shining on a hill
• Take this city
• If it be your will
• What no man can own, no man can take
• Take this heart
• Take this heart
• Take this heart
• And make it break

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Yahweh

• Exodus 346-7 Yahweh passed before him, and
  proclaimed, Yahweh, Yahweh, a God merciful and
  gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in
  steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping
  steadfast love for the thousandth generation,
  forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, yet
  by no means clearing the guilty, but visiting the
  iniquity of the parents upon the children and the
  children's children, to the third and the fourth
  generation.

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Yahweh, Yahweh

• Slaves Delivered
• A Special Relationship Promised Gods first
  name
• Yet, when Moses delayed . . . the golden calf was
  substituted for Yahweh

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The Golden Calf
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A God Merciful and Gracious

• Yahweh as Merciful rachum
• 1. The nominal root means womb, the adjective
  can be translated motherly affection towards a
  child
• 2. Yahweh is a God who relates to His people as a
  loving parent with compassion.

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A God Merciful and Gracious

• Yahweh as Gracious chen, - favor (Exod
  33.12-17, 34.9 over 6 times)
• 1. Noah and all living
• 2. Moses and all of Israel

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Slow to Anger

• Yahweh is Slow to Anger literally, long
  nostrils so that the wrath cools off
• 1. In response to Moses request to turn His
  burning anger from the people who had sinned
  (Exod 32.12).
• 2. The idea is Yahwehs patience

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Abounding in Steadfast Love and Faithfulness

• Steadfast Love chesed
• 1. Generally
• 1.1 Not for things
• 1.2 It involved an action
• 1.3 Done for someone you already know
• 2. Gods Chesed
• 2.1 Uncoerced
• 2.2 Leads to forgiveness

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Abounding in Steadfast Love and Faithfulness

• Faithfulness constancy, stability or truth.
• The combination of terms expresses Gods
  absolute and eternal dependablility in dispensing
  His benefactions. (Sarna)

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Keeping Steadfast Love for the Thousandth
Generation

• Keeping Steadfast Love
• 1. The only term repeated in this list is
  Yahwehs chesed
• 2. Keeping means that God preserves and guards
  His acts of chesed
• 3. Yahwehs chesed is unconditional and for an
  unlimited duration.

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Forgiving Iniquity and Transgression and Sin

• Forgiving . . . .
• 1. Not the word that means simply forgiven
• 2. Here it is literally, to lift up, to
  carry, to bear
• Iniquity, Transgression and Sin (uncleanness)
• 1. Although there are over 50 words in the Old
  Testament to express different shades of sin .
  . . .
• 2. Here the three basic categories are listing,
  implying all and every variety of sin.

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Yet by No Means Clearing the Guilty

• Not Clearing the Guilty
• 1. Yahwehs steadfast love does not mean sinners
  get off free without consequences.
• 2. . . . but visiting the iniquity of the
  parents upon the children and the children's
  children, to the third and the fourth
  generation.
• 3. The comparison of the 3rd/4th generation to
  thousands of generations is at least 250 to 1
  (500 to 1).

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Yahweh
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