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In Jer. 29, a few years after Habakkuk, there are still 57 years left of the Babylonian captivity. The encouragement to those in Babylon is to build houses, plant vineyards, marry your children, and to grow so that they would increase in Babylon. Many of those encouraged to be faithful in captivity would never see the return to Jerusalem, but they needed to remain faithful for the benefit of the next generation. We need to commit to teach the next generation so they will have a blessed kingdom to inherit when we are gone.

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In the concluding chapter of Habakkuk, we see this man’s personal revival of faith. He goes from burden, complaining, perplexity, to prayer for revival, then ends up at faith, joy, and praising the Lord by singing. In like manner, we can have our faith revived and end up at joy despite what circumstances we are in when we trust God in the midst of trials.

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Elder Tim McCool contrasts the king of Sodom who makes of think of the devil and the world with Melchizedek, the king of Salem, the king of righteousness, who points us towards Jesus Christ. Which king do you want to serve? We should seek to serve Jesus Christ, the king of righteousness who loves his children and walks among them.

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Elder Buddy Abernathy considers two types of believers and two types of unbelievers, particularly the children of God who have been blinded by the devil lest they should believe the glorious gospel of Christ. Many children of God can get distracted by the temptations of Satan to not believe the true gospel as they ought to.

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Elder Tim McCool gives us the picture of the ascent of the ark back to Jerusalem from Psalm 24. That points us towards the true picture of the ark, which was Jesus Christ who was our mercy seat to bring forgiveness for the broken law. As we seek up today unto Mount Zion, we invite the King of Glory to come down and fellowship and commune with us.

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Elder Morgan Sims reminds us that what children of God need is the simple truths of the milk of the word of election, predestination, and God’s sovereignty in salvation. In addition, we are especially sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise when we believe in the gospel of our salvation.

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