"Every Valley Shall Be Filled" Luke 3:1-2

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"Every Valley Shall Be Filled"Luke 31-2

• Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of
  Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of
  Judea, Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, his
  brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and the region
  of Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,
  while Annas and Caiaphas were high priests, the
  word of God came to John the son of Zacharias in
  the wilderness.

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"Every Valley Shall Be Filled"Luke 33-6

• And he went into all the region around the
  Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the
  remission of sins, as it is written in the book
  of the words of Isaiah the prophet, saying "The
  voice of one crying in the wilderness 'Prepare
  the way of the Lord Make His paths straight.

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"Every Valley Shall Be Filled"Luke 33-6

• And he went into all the region around the
  Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the
  remission of sins, as it is written in the book
  of the words of Isaiah the prophet, saying "The
  voice of one crying in the wilderness 'Prepare
  the way of the Lord Make His paths straight.
  Every valley shall be filled And
• every mountain and hill brought low The crooked
• places shall be made straight And the rough ways
• smooth And all flesh shall see the salvation of
  God.'"

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"Every Valley Shall Be Filled"Luke 35

• This was a fit time to begin preaching the
  baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.
• The moral and political conditions did not keep
  the Voice of the prophet from being fulfilled.
• Verse 5 is a symbolic description of the work
  that was to be begun by John and completed in
  Christ.

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"Every Valley Shall Be Filled"Luke 35

• Commentators give detailed application of this
  prophecy, and, following their example, we may
  regard the Pharisees and Sadducees as mountains
  of self-righteousness, needing to be thrown down,
  and thereby brought to meekness and humility the
  outcasts and harlots as valleys of humiliation,
  needing to be exalted and filled with hope and
  the publicans and soldiers as crooked and rough
  byways, needing to be straightened and smoothed
  with proper details of righteousness.

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"Every Valley Shall Be Filled"Luke 35

• But the application is general, and not to be
  limited to such details. However, civil tyranny,
  and ecclesiastical pride must be leveled, and the
  rights of the common people must be exalted
  before for kingdom of God can enter inJ W
  McGarvey (Four-Fold Gospel)

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"Every Valley Shall Be Filled"Luke 35

• This was a fit time to begin preaching the
  baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.
• The moral and political conditions did not keep
  the Voice of the prophet from being fulfilled.
• Verse 5 is a symbolic description of the work
  that was to be begun by John and completed in
  Christ.
• But even today there are many valleys to be
  filled by the Lord.

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The Valley of Darkness

• The valley is a fitting symbol of darkness.
• It is dark in the valley when the sun is shining
  on the mountain top.
• It is often too dark in the valleys to take
  photos.
• Our valleys are often dark when the sun is
  shining on the everlasting hills of God.
• We cannot see our way.

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Jeremiah 1023

• O Lord, I know the way of man is not in himself
  It is not in man who walks to direct his own
  steps.

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The Valley of Darkness

• The valley is a fitting symbol of darkness.
• It is dark in the valley when the sun is shining
  on the mountain top.
• It is often too dark in the valleys to take
  photos.
• Our valleys are often dark when the sun is
  shining on the everlasting hills of God.
• We cannot see our way.

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The Valley of Darkness

• The valley is a fitting symbol of darkness.
• Christ came to fill our valleys with light.
• He is our light.

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John 812

• Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, "I am the
  light of the world. He who follows Me shall not
  walk in darkness, but have the light of life."

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The Valley of Darkness

• The valley is a fitting symbol of darkness.
• Christ came to fill our valleys with light.
• He is our light.
• He will give us light.

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Ephesians 514

• Therefore He says "Awake, you who sleep, Arise
  from the dead, And Christ will give you light."

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Psalm 119105

• Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my
  path.

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The Valley of Darkness

• The valley is a fitting symbol of darkness.
• Christ came to fill our valleys with light.
• He is our light.
• He will give us light.
• He brought life and immortality to light.

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2 Timothy 18-11

• Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of
  our Lord, nor of me His prisoner, but share with
  me in the sufferings for the gospel according to
  the power of God, who has saved us and called us
  with a holy calling, not according to our works,
  but according to His own purpose and grace which
  was given to us in Christ Jesus before time
  began, but has now been revealed by the appearing
  of our Savior Jesus Christ, who has abolished
  death and brought life and immortality to light
  through the gospel, to which I was appointed a
  preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the
  Gentiles.

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The Valley of Doubt and Fear

• All men walked through the valley of doubt and
  fear before the Lord came.
• People had doubts about a resurrection and life
  beyond.

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Job 1414

• "If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days
  of my hard service I will wait, Till my change
  comes."

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The Valley of Doubt and Fear

• All men walked through the valley of doubt and
  fear before the Lord came.
• People had doubts about a resurrection and life
  beyond.
• There were doubts about how man should worship.

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John 419-20

• The woman said to Him, "Sir, I perceive that You
  are a prophet. Our fathers worshiped on this
  mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is
  the place where one ought to worship."

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The Valley of Doubt and Fear

• All men walked through the valley of doubt and
  fear before the Lord came.
• People had doubts about a resurrection and life
  beyond.
• There were doubts about how man should worship.
• There were doubts among the Jews. There were
  many sects because of their differing views.

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Acts 236-8

• But when Paul perceived that one part were
  Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out
  in the council, "Men and brethren, I am a
  Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee concerning the
  hope and resurrection of the dead I am being
  judged!" And when he had said this, a dissension
  arose between the Pharisees and the Sadducees
  and the assembly was divided. For Sadducees say
  that there is no resurrection--and no angel or
  spirit but the Pharisees confess both.

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The Valley of Doubt and Fear

• All men walked through the valley of doubt and
  fear before the Lord came.
• People had doubts about a resurrection and life
  beyond.
• There were doubts about how man should worship.
• There were doubts among the Jews. There were many
  sects because of their differing views.
• There was a constant fear of death. Nothing to
  look forward to.

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The Valley of Doubt and Fear

• All men walked through the valley of doubt and
  fear before the Lord came.
• Jesus came to fill our valley with confidence and
  hope.
• He gives us confidence that we will live again.

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John 1125-26

• Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the
  life. He who believes in Me, though he may die,
  he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in
  Me shall never die. Do you believe this?"

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The Valley of Doubt and Fear

• All men walked through the valley of doubt and
  fear before the Lord came.
• Jesus came to fill our valley with confidence and
  hope.
• He gives us confidence that we will live again.
• He gives assurance to all believers in Him of
  being accepted with God.

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John 1423-24

• Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves
  Me, he will keep My word and My Father will love
  him, and We will come to him and make Our home
  with him. He who does not love Me does not keep
  My words and the word which you hear is not Mine
  but the Father's who sent Me."

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Hebrews 419-22

• Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who
  has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of
  God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do
  not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with
  our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as
  we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come
  boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain
  mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

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Hebrews 1019-22

• Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the
  Holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and
  living way which He consecrated for us, through
  the veil, that is, His flesh, and having a High
  Priest over the house of God, let us draw near
  with a true heart in full assurance of faith,
  having our hearts sprinkled from an evil
  conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

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The Valley of Despondency

• Men often settle in this valley.
• Israel drifted into it and their bones were dried
  up.

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Ezekiel 371-3

• The hand of the Lord came upon me and brought me
  out in the Spirit of the Lord, and set me down in
  the midst of the valley and it was full of
  bones. Then He caused me to pass by them all
  around, and behold, there were very many in the
  open valley and indeed they were very dry. And
  He said to me, "Son of man, can these bones
  live?" So I answered, "O Lord God, You know."

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Ezekiel 374-7

• Again He said to me, "Prophesy to these bones,
  and say to them, 'O dry bones, hear the word of
  the Lord! Thus says the Lord God to these bones
  "Surely I will cause breath to enter into you,
  and you shall live. I will put sinews on you and
  bring flesh upon you, cover you with skin and put
  breath in you and you shall live. Then you shall
  know that I am the Lord." ' " So I prophesied as
  I was commanded and as I prophesied, there was a
  noise, and suddenly a rattling and the bones
  came together, bone to bone.

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Ezekiel 378-10

• Indeed, as I looked, the sinews and the flesh
  came upon them, and the skin covered them over
  but there was no breath in them. Also He said to
  me, "Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of
  man, and say to the breath, 'Thus says the Lord
  God "Come from the four winds, O breath, and
  breathe on these slain, that they may live." ' "
  So I prophesied as He commanded me, and breath
  came into them, and they lived, and stood upon
  their feet, an exceedingly great army.

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Ezekiel 3711-13

• Then He said to me, "Son of man, these bones are
  the whole house of Israel. They indeed say, 'Our
  bones are dry, our hope is lost, and we ourselves
  are cut off!' Therefore prophesy and say to them,
  'Thus says the Lord God "Behold, O My people, I
  will open your graves and cause you to come up
  from your graves, and bring you into the land of
  Israel. Then you shall know that I am the Lord,
  when I have opened your graves, O My people, and
  brought you up from your graves.

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Ezekiel 3714-16

• I will put My Spirit in you, and you shall live,
  and I will place you in your own land. Then you
  shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken it and
  performed it," says the Lord.' " Again the word
  of the Lord came to me, saying, "As for you, son
  of man, take a stick for yourself and write on
  it 'For Judah and for the children of Israel,
  his companions.' Then take another stick and
  write on it, 'For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim,
  and for all the house of Israel, his companions.'

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Ezekiel 3717-20

• Then join them one to another for yourself into
  one stick, and they will become one in your hand.
  "And when the children of your people speak to
  you, saying, 'Will you not show us what you mean
  by these?'-- say to them, 'Thus says the Lord
  God "Surely I will take the stick of Joseph,
  which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes
  of Israel, his companions and I will join them
  with it, with the stick of Judah, and make them
  one stick, and they will be one in My hand." '
  And the sticks on which you write will be in your
  hand before their eyes.

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Ezekiel 3721-22

• Then say to them, 'Thus says the Lord God
  "Surely I will take the children of Israel from
  among the nations, wherever they have gone, and
  will gather them from every side and bring them
  into their own land and I will make them one
  nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel
  and one king shall be king over them all they
  shall no longer be two nations, nor shall they
  ever be divided into two kingdoms again.

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Ezekiel 3723-24

• They shall not defile themselves anymore with
  their idols, nor with their detestable things,
  nor with any of their transgressions but I will
  deliver them from all their dwelling places in
  which they have sinned, and will cleanse them.
  Then they shall be My people, and I will be their
  God. "David My servant shall be king over them,
  and they shall all have one shepherd they shall
  also walk in My judgments and observe My
  statutes, and do them.

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Ezekiel 3725

• Then they shall dwell in the land that I have
  given to Jacob My servant, where your fathers
  dwelt and they shall dwell there, they, their
  children, and their children's children, forever
  and My servant David shall be their prince
  forever.

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Ezekiel 3726-28

• Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with
  them, and it shall be an everlasting covenant
  with them I will establish them and multiply
  them, and I will set My sanctuary in their midst
  forevermore. My tabernacle also shall be with
  them indeed I will be their God, and they shall
  be My people. The nations also will know that I,
  the Lord, sanctify Israel, when My sanctuary is
  in their midst forevermore."'"

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The Valley of Despondency

• Men often settle in this valley.
• Israel drifted into this valley and their bones
  were dried up.
• They could not see a way out of this helpless
  condition so far removed from Jerusalem and their
  homeland.
• People often become despondent when they feel
  that the Lord is not with them.

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The Valley of Despondency

• Men often settle in this valley.
• Jesus came to fill our valley with strength and
  deliverance.
• Paul's valley was so filled.

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Philippians 413

• I can do all things through Christ who
  strengthens me.

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2 Timothy 310-11

• But you have carefully followed my doctrine,
  manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering,
  love, perseverance, persecutions, afflictions,
  which happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at
  Lystra--what persecutions I endured.

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2 Timothy 310-11

• But you have carefully followed my doctrine,
  manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering,
  love, perseverance, persecutions, afflictions,
  which happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at
  Lystra--what persecutions I endured. And out of
  them all the Lord delivered me.

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The Valley of Despondency

• Men often settle in this valley.
• Jesus came to fill our valley with strength and
  deliverance.
• Paul's valley was so filled.
• The Lord will be with us and will help us.

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Hebrews 135

• Let your conduct be without covetousness be
  content with such things as you have. For He
  Himself has said, "I will never leave you nor
  forsake you."

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The Valley of Conflict

• Many a biblical battle was fought in a valley.
• Israel fought in the Valley of Aijalon.

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Joshua 1012-13

• Then Joshua spoke to the Lord in the day when the
  Lord delivered up the Amorites before the
  children of Israel, and he said in the sight of
  Israel "Sun, stand still over Gibeon And Moon,
  in the Valley of Aijalon." So the sun stood
  still, And the moon stopped, Till the people had
  revenge Upon their enemies. Is this not written
  in the Book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in
  the midst of heaven, and did not hasten to go
  down for about a whole day.

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The Valley of Conflict

• Many a biblical battle was fought in a valley.
• Israel fought in the Valley of Aijalon.
• Both Saul David fought in the Valley of Elah.

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1 Samuel 172

• And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered
  together, and they encamped in the Valley of
  Elah, and drew up in battle array against the
  Philistines.

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1 Samuel 218-9

• And David said to Ahimelech, "Is there not here
  on hand a spear or a sword? For I have brought
  neither my sword nor my weapons with me, because
  the king's business required haste." So the
  priest said, "The sword of Goliath the
  Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of
  Elah, there it is, wrapped in a cloth behind the
  ephod. If you will take that, take it. For there
  is no other except that one here." And David
  said, "There is none like it give it to me."

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The Valley of Conflict

• Many a biblical battle was fought in a valley.
• Israel fought in the Valley of Aijalon.
• Both Saul David fought in the Valley of Elah.
• Many battles were fought in the Valley of
  Megiddo.

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The Valley of Conflict

• Many a biblical battle was fought in a valley.
• Israel fought in the Valley of Aijalon.
• Both Saul David fought in the Valley of Elah.
• Many battles were fought in the Valley of
  Megiddo. So much so that Armageddon became
  symbolic for the place of spiritual warfare.

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Revelation 1616

• And they gathered them together to the place
  called in Hebrew, Armageddon.

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The Valley of Conflict

• Many a biblical battle was fought in a valley.
• Israel fought in the Valley of Aijalon.
• Both Saul David fought in the Valley of Elah.
• Many battles were fought in the Valley of
  Megiddo. So much so that Armageddon became
  symbolic for the place of spiritual warfare.
• We have many battles to fight in life. The life
  of a Christian is a battle.

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2 Timothy 46-8

• For I am already being poured out as a drink
  offering, and the time of my departure is at
  hand. I have fought the good fight, I have
  finished the race, I have kept the faith.
  Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of
  righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous
  Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me
  only but also to all who have loved His
  appearing.

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1 Timothy 612

• Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on
  eternal life, to which you were also called and
  have confessed the good confession in the
  presence of many witnesses.

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The Valley of Conflict

• Many a biblical battle was fought in a valley.
• Jesus came to bring victory in our valley.
• He is the captain of our salvation.

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Hebrews 210

• For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all
  things and by whom are all things, in bringing
  many sons to glory, to make the captain of their
  salvation perfect through sufferings.

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The Valley of Conflict

• Many a biblical battle was fought in a valley.
• Jesus came to bring victory in our valley.
• He is the captain of our salvation.
• He has given us armor for the conflict.

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Ephesians 610-13

• Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and
  in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor
  of God, that you may be able to stand against the
  wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle against
  flesh and blood, but against principalities,
  against powers, against the rulers of the
  darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of
  wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore take
  up the whole armor of God, that you may be able
  to withstand in the evil day, and having done
  all, to stand.

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Ephesians 614-18

• Stand therefore, having girded your waist with
  truth, having put on the breastplate of
  righteousness, and having shod your feet with the
  preparation of the gospel of peace above all,
  taking the shield of faith with which you will be
  able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked
  one. And take the helmet of salvation, and the
  sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God
  praying always with all prayer and supplication
  in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with
  all perseverance and supplication for all the
  saints--

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2 Corinthians 104-6

• For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but
  mighty in God for pulling down strongholds,
  casting down arguments and every high thing that
  exalts itself against the knowledge of God,
  bringing every thought into captivity to the
  obedience of Christ, and being ready to punish
  all disobedience when your obedience is
  fulfilled.

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The Valley of Conflict

• Many a biblical battle was fought in a valley.
• Jesus came to bring victory in our valley.
• He is the captain of our salvation.
• He has given us armor for the conflict.
• He will give us victory.

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Romans 724-25

• O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me
  from this body of death? I thank God--through
  Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I
  myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh
  the law of sin.

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1 Corinthians 1551-53

• Behold, I tell you a mystery We shall not all
  sleep, but we shall all be changed-- in a moment,
  in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.
  For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be
  raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
  For this corruptible must put on incorruption,
  and this mortal must put on immortality.

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1 Corinthians 1554-57

• So when this corruptible has put on incorruption,
  and this mortal has put on immortality, then
  shall be brought to pass the saying that is
  written "Death is swallowed up in victory." "O
  Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is
  your victory?" The sting of death is sin, and the
  strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God,
  who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus
  Christ.

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1 Corinthians 1554-57

• So when this corruptible has put on incorruption,
  and this mortal has put on immortality, then
  shall be brought to pass the saying that is
  written "Death is swallowed up in victory." "O
  Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is
  your victory?" The sting of death is sin, and the
  strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God,
  who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus
  Christ.

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The Valley of Evil and Corruption

• Much of the evil found among men is done in the
  low places of the world .
• The Valley of Hinnom was such a place. It was
  literally filled with corruption and is a symbol
  of such.
• Even the people of Judah offered their children
  to strange gods in the valleys.

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2 Chronicles 331-3

• Manasseh was twelve years old when he became
  king, and he reigned fifty-five years in
  Jerusalem. But he did evil in the sight of the
  Lord, according to the abominations of the
  nations whom the Lord had cast out before the
  children of Israel. For he rebuilt the high
  places which Hezekiah his father had broken down
  he raised up altars for the Baals, and made
  wooden images and he worshiped all the host of
  heaven and served them.

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2 Chronicles 336

• Also he caused his sons to pass through the fire
  in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom he practiced
  soothsaying, used witchcraft and sorcery, and
  consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much
  evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to
  anger.

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Isaiah 571-3

• The righteous perishes, And no man takes it to
  heart Merciful men are taken away, While no one
  considers That the righteous is taken away from
  evil. He shall enter into peace They shall rest
  in their beds, Each one walking in his
  uprightness. "But come here, You sons of the
  sorceress, You offspring of the adulterer and the
  harlot!"

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Isaiah 574-5

• "Whom do you ridicule? Against whom do you make a
  wide mouth And stick out the tongue? Are you not
  children of transgression, Offspring of
  falsehood, Inflaming yourselves with gods under
  every green tree, Slaying the children in the
  valleys, Under the clefts of the rocks?"

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The Valley of Evil and Corruption

• Much of the evil found among men is done in the
  low places of the world.
• Jesus came to fill our valley with cleanness and
  purity.
• He turned people from idolatry to God and
  purifies the hearts of all who obey Him.

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1 Thessalonians 19-10

• For they themselves declare concerning us what
  manner of entry we had to you, and how you turned
  to God from idols to serve the living and true
  God, and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He
  raised from the dead, even Jesus who delivers us
  from the wrath to come.

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The Valley of Evil and Corruption

• Much of the evil found among men is done in the
  low places of the world.
• Jesus came to fill our valley with cleanness and
  purity.
• He turned people from idolatry to God and
  purifies the hearts of all who obey Him.
• He taught love for children and to bring them up
  in the nurture of the Lord.

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Ephesians 61-4

• Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this
  is right. "Honor your father and mother," which
  is the first commandment with promise "that it
  may be well with you and you may live long on the
  earth." And you, fathers, do not provoke your
  children to wrath, but bring them up in the
  training and admonition of the Lord.

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The Valley of Weeping

• David spoke of those in the valley of weeping.

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Psalm 846

• As they pass through the Valley of Baca, They
  make it a spring The rain also covers it with
  pools.

"Weeping"
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The Valley of Weeping

• David spoke of those in the valley of weeping.
• Men wept in defeat in the valley of Megiddo.

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Zechariah 1211

• In that day there shall be a great mourning in
  Jerusalem, like the mourning at Hadad Rimmon in
  the plain of Megiddo.

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The Valley of Weeping

• David spoke of those in the valley of weeping.
• Men wept in defeat in the valley of Megiddo.
• How many times have we wept in our own valleys
  when overwhelmed with sorrow?
• Jesus came to fill our valley with rejoicing.
• We rejoice in the forgiveness of our sins in Him.

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Acts 839

• Now when they came up out of the water, the
  Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, so that
  the eunuch saw him no more and he went on his
  way rejoicing.

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Acts 1634

• Now when he had brought them into his house, he
  set food before them and he rejoiced, having
  believed in God with all his household.

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The Valley of Weeping

• David spoke of those in the valley of weeping.
• Men wept in defeat in the valley of Megiddo.
• How many times have we wept in our own valleys
  when overwhelmed with sorrow?
• Jesus came to fill our valley with rejoicing.
• We rejoice in the forgiveness of our sins in Him.
• We rejoice in Him always.

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Philippians 31

• Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. For me
  to write the same things to you is not tedious,
  but for you it is safe.

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Philippians 44

• Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say,
  rejoice!

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The Valley of Death

• Men were in the valley and shadow of death when
  Jesus came.

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Matthew 413-14

• Now when Jesus heard that John had been put in
  prison, He departed to Galilee. And leaving
  Nazareth, He came and dwelt in Capernaum, which
  is by the sea, in the regions of Zebulun and
  Naphtali, that it might be fulfilled which was
  spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying

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Matthew 415-16

• "The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, By
  the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of
  the Gentiles The people who sat in darkness have
  seen a great light, And upon those who sat in the
  region and shadow of death Light has dawned."

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The Valley of Death

• Men were in the valley and shadow of death when
  Jesus came,.
• All men were in this valley.

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Romans 512-13

• Therefore, just as through one man sin entered
  the world, and death through sin, and thus death
  spread to all men, because all sinned-- (For
  until the law sin was in the world, but sin is
  not imputed when there is no law.

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The Valley of Death

• Men were in the valley and shadow of death when
  Jesus came.
• All men were in this valley.
• All outside of him today are in it.

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Ephesians 21, 12

• And you He made alive, who were dead in
  trespasses and sins, ... that at that time you
  were without Christ, being aliens from the
  commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the
  covenants of promise, having no hope and without
  God in the world.

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The Valley of Death

• Men were in the valley and shadow of death when
  Jesus came.
• All men were in this valley.
• All outside of him today are in it.
• Jesus came to fill our valley with life.
• This is what He came to do.

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John 1010 1125

• The thief does not come except to steal, and to
  kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may
  have life, and that they may have it more
  abundantly. ... Jesus said to her, "I am the
  resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me,
  though he may die, he shall live."

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The Valley of Death

• Men were in the valley and shadow of death when
  Jesus came.
• All men were in this valley.
• All outside of him today are in it.
• Jesus came to fill our valley with life.
• This is what he came to do.
• He will lead us out of this valley if we will
  follow him.

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Psalm 231-3

• The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want. He
  makes me to lie down in green pastures He leads
  me beside the still waters. He restores my soul
  He leads me in the paths of righteousness For His
  name's sake.

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Psalm 234-6

• Yea, though I walk through the valley of the
  shadow of death, I will fear no evil For You are
  with me Your rod and Your staff, they comfort
  me. You prepare a table before me in the presence
  of my enemies You anoint my head with oil My
  cup runs over. Surely goodness and mercy shall
  follow me All the days of my life And I will
  dwell in the house of the Lord Forever.

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John 141-6

• "Let not your heart be troubled you believe in
  God, believe also in Me. In My Father's house are
  many mansions if it were not so, I would have
  told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if
  I go and prepare a place for you, I will come
  again and receive you to Myself that where I am,
  there you may be also. And where I go you know,
  and the way you know." Thomas said to Him, "Lord,
  we do not know where You are going, and how can
  we know the way?" Jesus said to him, "I am the
  way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the
  Father except through Me."

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Let Jesus fill your valley.
Do you have a valley that needs to be filled?