Will the Exile Work?

But please do have a seat and let's pray together.

Father God, we thank you so much for the God that you are,

for the grace that you've shown,

for the mercy you've poured out,

for the price that it cost you in your Son, the Lord Jesus.

So Lord, I pray this time together gathering in your word would be useful to us,

that we would hear you speak through your word,

that we would leave clinging to your Son, the Lord Jesus,

and we would do it all in the power of your wonderful Holy Spirit,

who lives in us to conform us to his glorious image.

So bless us and help us, be with us, give us attentive minds, open hearts,

malleable wills, and eyes ready to be fixed on Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.

Amen.

So we're in Daniel's world.

We're in the really tricky second half.

Today we're going to focus predominantly in chapter 9.

And the question I think that lies behind this chapter is,

will the exile work?

I wonder, have you ever been to prison?

Have you ever been to prison?

I've been to prison over 40 times.

But not as an offender, not in handcuffs or a jumpsuit.

I've been to prison about 40 times,

because when I was at university, I did some work in this place,

Crag Inches Prison, to the south of Aberdeen in the district of Torrey.

What we did in prison is, me and a load of mates from university,

we went in to play football with the inmates.

It was prison rules.

It was pretty brutal.

I wish I had more than one pair of shin pads on at the time.

But we would play football.

We would get to know the guys.

We would then sit around afterwards.

We would share some testimonies, short talks from the Bible.

We would drink Coke and eat Mars bars.

And we all had a great time.

And I remember one guy in particular called Harry.

Harry became a good friend.

I think he was also a good friend to a lot of the prison staff.

They saw him quite a lot.

And I remember we were talking about the next week and who was free to play.

And Harry said this to us,

I won't be able to play next week.

I'm getting released.

But I'll probably be able to play the week after.

And sure enough, we missed him for a week.

And then the next week, there he was in his Celtic top,

beaming from ear to ear,

ready to kick us up and down the park all over again.

It's a major issue, isn't it, in the criminal justice system.

Do we send people to prison for correction,

or do we just send them there for punishment?

Is it rehabilitation, or is it merely incarceration?

Does prison work?

Is it a suitable deterrent?

Do people come out with changed lives and changed attitudes?

It's a big question that's going around in our political system at the moment.

What is the purpose of prison?

And I think a very similar question lies behind Daniel chapter 9.

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Daniel chapter 9.

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Is it a real key period for Daniel and the people of Israel in Babylon?

They've been in exile.

It's not been a prison like crag inches, but it's kind of the same idea.

On account of their sin,

their repeated disobedience,

their failure to honor God and worship Him with all their heart, soul, mind, and strength,

God allowed them to be deported,

to be exiled in the grip of Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonian Empire.

And I don't think we truly appreciate the horror of this.

That in God allowing His people to go into exile,

God was kind of undoing what He had been doing for His people for the last thousand years.

That He promised Abraham that you would have a land,

that you would be my people and I would be your God,

that you would be a blessing.

And with the exile, it seems that everyone packs up,

and that plan that God had been working out amongst His rebellious people

goes back to the bottom of the pile.

So what we read in Daniel chapter 1 verses 1 and 2

Daniel 1:1

about Jehoiachin being taken captive

and people being exiled to Babylon is a national disgrace.

And people would wonder, why is this happening?

So I think if we get that in our minds,

that God's people have gone into exile as punishment,

then I think we start to get a bit more of a handle

and a bit more behind what's going on in chapter 9.

So let's have a look at Daniel chapter 9,

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and just the first three verses as we see Daniel's preparation.

In the first year of Darius, son of Xerxes,

a Mede by descent who was made ruler over the Babylonian kingdom

in the first year of his reign,

I, Daniel, understood from the Scriptures,

according to the word of the Lord,

given to Jeremiah the prophet that the desolation of Jerusalem would last 70 years.

So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and petition,

in fasting and in sackcloth and ashes.

It's the first year of King Darius.

This happens in the same year that Daniel goes into the lion's den.

We don't know whether this is before or after.

And Daniel is reading his Bible.

He's reading his Bible and he's most probably reading something from Jeremiah,

probably chapter 25 or chapter 29.

And as he reads, he discovers what the plan is.

Jeremiah 29 puts it like this.

This is what the Lord says.

When 70 years are completed for Babylon,

I will come to you and fulfill my good promise to bring you back to this place.

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord,

plans to prosper you and not to harm you,

plans to give you hope and a future.

Then you will call on me and come and pray to me and I will listen to you.

You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

I will be found by you, declares the Lord,

and will bring you back from captivity.

I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you,

declares the Lord,

and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile.

So Daniel's reading his Bible.

As he reads his Bible, he learns of God's plans.

As he learns of God's plans, it drives him to prayer.

I wonder, does that happen in our lives?

That as we read of who God is, what he's done for us,

does that drive us to prayer?

Does our Bible reading fuel our prayer?

Because it certainly seems to work in Daniel's life and he's all the better and stronger for it.

So when Daniel's reading Jeremiah, he hears of this 70 years.

And the thing for Daniel is these 70 years are nearly running out.

Daniel is exiled in about 605 BC.

The first year of King Darius is about 539 BC.

Using my calculator this week, I realized that this is the 66th year of a 70-year exile.

They're nearly finished.

And when Daniel realizes that, he prays.

Daniel's been a remarkable man of prayer.

He prays in chapter 2 earnestly because his very life depends on him being able to interpret Nebuchadnezzar's dream.

He prayed after he got the interpretation of the dream,

giving thanks to God that he was the God who reveals mysteries.

In chapter 6, we learn that he repeatedly, habitually, perpetually set aside three times a day for prescribed prayers to seek his God.

Day after day, month after month, year after year, decade after decade for 66 years during his exile in Babylon.

And look at him, he's earnest.

This isn't sitting down for a quiet time with a cup of tea and your slippers on.

He does it with prayer and petition in fasting and in sackcloth and ashes.

It is an appropriate physical expression of the attitude he comes to God with.

He has come to do real business with the Lord.

This isn't ticking off the checklist of the day.

Oh, I should pray today. Check.

This is an emergency prayer offered in the heat of the moment.

This is a deliberate act to come before God for prayers and petitions with a penitent heart.

We see sackcloth and ashes in Nineveh.

At the preaching of Jonah when all the people of Nineveh repent.

We see it in Esther's time before Esther goes before the king.

They all put on sackcloth and ashes.

So their physical expression is a mark of their earnestness.

And I guess the question is, why then, if they're nearly home,

does Daniel spend so much of the chapter praying a prayer of confession?

Surely he would be singing, Daniel's coming home.

He's coming home.

He's coming home.

Daniel's coming home.

That's what we would do.

It's nearly over.

The time is nearly through.

But why does he spend so much time in confession?

Well, Leviticus 26, I think.

Moses foreshadowing the exile.

This is what it says.

If you still do not listen to me, says God,

I will turn your cities into ruins and lay waste your sanctuaries.

And I will take no delight in the pleasing aroma of your offerings.

I myself will lay waste the land so that your enemies who live there will be appalled.

I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out my sword and pursue you.

Your land will be laid waste and your cities will lie in ruins.

Then a little bit further down.

But if they will confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors,

their unfaithfulness and their hostility towards me,

which made me hostile towards them so that I sent them into the land of their enemies.

I will remember my covenant with Jacob and my covenant with Isaac

and my covenant with Abraham.

And I will remember the land.

But Moses says, exile is coming all that time before.

And he says, if they confess their sins, seek me with all their heart.

I'll remember them and bring them back.

So in chapter 9, there is real excitement about the return.

Exile has been really tough.

And yet Psalm 137,

And by the rivers of Babylon, we sat down and wept when we remember Zion.

This has been a difficult stint.

There's real excitement about getting home.

But there's real apprehension.

Will God's people have learnt their lesson from exile?

If sin caused their exile in the first place,

then are they going back as different people?

Or will the cycle just start all over again like Harry?

Goes to prison, comes out, goes to prison, comes out.

Will it be exile, sin, and then exile again?

That's what Daniel is worried about.

And so we see him in chapter 4, praying.

And so let us read this together.

I've written it out for you.

What I want you to do is all read the green bits.

The green bold bits.

The bits about sin, as it so happens.

Lord, the great and awesome God who keeps his covenant of love

with those who love him and keep his commandments.

We have sinned and done wrong.

We have been wicked and have rebelled.

We have turned away from your commands and laws.

We have not listened to your servants, the prophets,

who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our ancestors,

and to all the people of the land.

Lord, you are righteous, but this day we are covered with shame.

The people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel,

both near and far,

in all the countries where you have scattered us because of our unfaithfulness to you.

We and our kings, our princes, and our ancestors are covered with shame.

Lord, because we have sinned against you.

The Lord our God is merciful and forgiving,

even though we have rebelled against him.

We have not obeyed the Lord our God or kept the laws.

He gave us through his servants and prophets.

All Israel has transgressed your law and turned away,

refusing to obey you.

Therefore, the curses and sworn judgments written in the law of Moses,

the servant of God, have been poured out on us,

because we have sinned against you.

You have fulfilled the word spoken against us and against our rulers

by bringing on us great disaster.

Under the whole heaven, nothing has ever been done

like what has been done to Jerusalem.

Just as it is written in the law of Moses,

all this disaster has come on us,

yet we have not sought the favor of the Lord our God

by turning from our sins and giving attention to your truth.

The Lord did not hesitate to bring the disaster on us,

for the Lord our God is righteous in everything he does,

yet we have not obeyed him.

Now, Lord our God, who brought your people out of Egypt with a mighty hand

and who made for yourself a name that endures to this day,

we have sinned, we have done wrong.

Lord, in keeping with all your righteous acts,

turn away your anger and your wrath from Jerusalem,

your city, your holy hill.

Our sins and the iniquities of our ancestors

have made Jerusalem and your people an object of scorn.

to all those around us.

It's pretty powerful stuff, isn't it?

He's not playing at that.

He's not whizzing through the adoration, confession, thanksgiving and supplication

that we so regularly structure our prayers around.

And notice that it's confession in two directions.

It is confession about God's goodness,

his rightness, his character,

and it is confession about their wrongness,

how far they've fallen,

how they have not only sinned,

but they have willfully refused to obey.

They've not done this in ignorance,

they've done it in arrogance.

And so they say things like verse 7,

Lord, you are righteous,

but this day we are covered with shame.

You are righteous,

we are covered with shame.

And that's the truth that lies at the very centre of the Bible.

That God is good and righteous.

And that we, on account of our sin,

willfully rebelling against him,

are covered with shame.

And until we get that,

until we get the depth of our sin,

we will never turn to God as a saviour.

Until we get that before a holy God,

we have fallen so short,

and are covered in so much shame.

Until we pray prayers like Daniel,

God can do nothing to help us.

You are righteous,

and we are covered with shame.

The very essence of Christianity

is that it is a rescue religion.

It is a religion where God rescues us.

Yet again, the kids talk falls so perfectly in line.

Why does God send Moses

to rescue his people from Egypt?

Daniel knows that the exile was thoroughly deserved,

but he is worried that the 70 years won't have worked.

They may get home,

but they are still just as sinful,

so they won't be home for good.

And Daniel takes time to contemplate his sin.

It's quite a long time in the chapter to pray.

It's a significant proportion

where he declares his sin

and the sin of his people.

He is not dodging it.

He is owning it.

This is Daniel,

who seemingly is the holiest guy

on the planet at the time.

He has been this model,

this example of what holiness looks like.

And he is here on his knees

in sackcloth and ashes and fasting,

saying,

I failed and we failed.

Face down,

broken on the floor on account of his sin,

pleading to God.

Not brushing over it,

not making excuses,

saying,

we have sinned.

And it's got to be something

that we cultivate in our hearts,

that we own our sin.

That as we own our sin

in relation to God's holiness,

it will cultivate a humility,

a dependence,

and a thankfulness

for the Lord Jesus.

Until we realize that our sin

is our biggest problem,

we will never cling to Jesus,

our final answer.

Jesus says,

Mark chapter 2,

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it is not the healthy

who need a doctor.

There's no one queuing up

at the Brunsfield doctor surgery

who is in fighting fit health.

It's not the healthy

who need a doctor,

but the sick.

I've not come to call

the righteous,

but sinners.

Until we own the fact

that we are sinners

covered in shame,

we will always be slow

to come to Jesus

and ask for help.

Until we realize

we're very lost,

we won't ever come

to the one who finds us.

Until we realize

we're eternally exiled

from God's presence,

we'll never come to Jesus

in order that we'll come home.

It's not just a first time thing.

Daniel is not an unbeliever.

He is a true Christian

who is serious about his sin,

who comes to God

pleading for help.

If we turn to Jesus,

then everything we have done

is given to Jesus

and everything he has done

is given to us.

That one of the beautiful things

about the gospel

is that I come as a sinner

and Jesus comes as a savior.

And as I come to Jesus,

he takes my sin

and gives me his salvation.

This is all over the New Testament.

There's some wonderful verses.

2 Corinthians 5, 21.

God made him who had no sin

to be sin for us

so that in him

we might become

the righteousness of God.

He himself, Jesus,

bore our sins

in his body on the cross

so that we might die to sins

and live for righteousness.

By his wounds

you have been healed.

If we confess our sins

he is faithful and just

and will forgive us our sins

and purify us

from all unrighteousness.

My fear for myself

and my fear for our church

is we're all too comfortable

with our sin.

We're all too ready

to keep on making

the same mistakes

day in, day out

and never take it seriously.

And yet the Bible says

we are to war

against our sin.

We are to hate our sin.

We are to put off

the old man

and put on the new self.

That we are to be

growing in holiness.

And I think for myself

and maybe some here

we're all too readily

defeated by sin

and just keep on going

in the same rut

doing the same thing.

And surely the first way

to wage war against sin

is to own it.

And to confess it to God.

And if we have trouble

then that's time

to bring in some accountability

and invite others.

Because until we get

serious about sin

we will never be

defeating it in our lives.

And that is one thing

that we see

loud and clear

from Daniel

that he is serious

about his sin

and is determined

to defeat it.

Because he knows

his very life

depends on it.

And whether he'll be

safely home

or not.

Second thing

is Daniel's confession.

Third

Daniel's petition.

This comes in the end

of the

chapter.

The end of the prayer.

Now Lord our God

who brought your people

out of Egypt

with a mighty hand

and who made for yourself

a name that endures

to this day.

We have sinned.

We have done wrong.

Lord in keeping

with all your righteous acts

turn away your anger

and your wrath

from Jerusalem

your city

your holy hill.

Our sins

and the iniquities

of our ancestors

have made Jerusalem

and your people

an object of scorn

to all those around you.

Now our God

hear the prayers

and petitions

of your servant

for your sake

Lord.

Look with favour

on your desolate sanctuary.

Give ear our God

and hear

open your eyes

and see the desolation

of the city

that bears your name.

We do not make

requests of you

because we are righteous

but because of

your great mercy.

Lord listen

Lord forgive

Lord hear and act.

For your sake

my God

do not delay

because your city

and your people

bear your name.

See how God

focused the petitioners.

Daniel is not there

saying

God we have done

our time

it is time

to let us out.

God I have been

so good for you

in Babylon

surely you could

just let me go home.

His concern

is for God's glory

and God's reputation.

It is your city

your holy hill

it is your people

the people

that bear

your name

it is your reputation

God that we want

to be seen

by the whole world

so would you

bring us home

to show that

you're not only

a right and good

God who punishes

his people

but you are a saving

God who is merciful

and forgiving

and who will bring

them home

and rescue.

It is a

God's glory

focused prayer.

This isn't Daniel

coming with a shopping list

would you do that

would you give me that

would you sort that out

he's saying

God would you glorify

your name

and that's massive

that is massive

for me when I look

at my own prayer life

and how me centered

it so readily

becomes.

Daniel's pleading

because God

has attached

his name

graciously to his

people

to Jerusalem

and to the temple

and he says

God

restore your glory

and let everyone

see it.

and see how he

comes

verse 18

this is an

incredible verse

one that I think

we could keep

right in the

forefront of our

minds as we pray

we do not make

requests of you

because we are

righteous

we're not coming

to cash in

our good things

we have no right

to request

anything

but we come

humbly

before you

because you

God are great

in mercy

that would

revolutionize

our prayer lives

if we don't

come as

dependent

children

who have

kind of

earned our

way

God I did

five quiet

times this

week

it's now

time for

the blessing

it's not

a slot

machine

we don't

make these

requests

because we

are righteous

but because

of your

great

mercy

and these

short

statements

Lord

listen

Lord

forgive

Lord

hear and

act

God

you're in

charge

you're the

Lord

you're the

creator

I am the

creature

you're the

you're the

boss

all the

stuff that

I've learnt

through so

far being

in Babylon

is that

you're the

boss

and so I'm

coming to

say listen

forgive

hear

and act

will it

work though

have God's

people been

reformed

will they be

home for

good when

they get

back

from Babylon

well let's

see God's

reaction

verse 20

while I was

speaking and

praying

confessing my

sin and the

sin of my

people Israel

and making my

request to the

Lord my God

for his holy

hill

while I was

still in

prayer

Gabriel

the man I

had seen in

the earlier

vision of

chapter 8

came to me

in swift

flight about

the time of

the evening

sacrifice

he instructed

me and said

to me

Daniel I

have now

come to

give you

insight and

understanding

as soon as

you began

to pray a

word went

out which

I have

come to

tell you

for you

are highly

esteemed

therefore

consider the

word and

understand the

vision

this is such

an encouragement

to pray I

think before we

get into all

the weeks and

what it means

I think there's

some real gold

to encourage us

in these three

verses

I remember

I had coffee

with Fraser

last Friday

and his watch

was still on

Boston time

which was

slightly unhelpful

as I did need

to know what

the time was

and had no

idea what

the time

difference was

that was

because Fraser

had been in

Boston recently

Daniel has

been in

Babylon for

66 years

and yet he's

still on

Jerusalem time

do you see

that

about the

time of the

evening sacrifice

he is in

Babylon but

he's definitely

not of Babylon

he is still

holy God

it's great

isn't it

God is so

infected his

vision and

his life

that he runs

his whole life

depending on

God

verse 23

as soon as

you began

to pray

God wasn't

even waiting

for Daniel

to finish

his prayer

before he

sent the

answer

I just get

the sense

from this

that God

is so eager

to hear

and answer

our prayers

he's like

in the starting

blocks

eager to hear

desperate to

hear from his

people

longing

that we would

turn to him

and pray

there seems to

be a more

eagerness in

God to hear

our prayers

than there are

in his people

to be eager

to pray

I think that

is wonderful

if we could

grasp that

that God

is eager

to hear

our prayers

he's not

just tolerating

us

he's not

just like

oh there

goes John

again

he needs

some help

but he

is eager

as soon

as soon

as you

started

to pray

a word

went out

if that

doesn't put

a bit of

fuel

and energy

into our

prayer lives

I don't know

what will

and then look

what he says

end of verse

23

as soon as

you began

to pray

a word

went out

which I

have come

to tell

you

for you

are highly

esteemed

that God

highly

esteems

Daniel

that Daniel

has been

in Babylon

for 66

years

loads of

what he's

done has

been behind

the scenes

as far as

we know

we've only

got details

of a few

days

of his

life

and yet

throughout

it all

he has

been consistent

he has

been loving

God

he has

been

pursuing

holiness

he has

been

prayerfully

inclined

and God

says you

are highly

esteemed

because I've

seen it

all

it's an

encouragement

isn't it

to do

stuff

behind

the scenes

and then

we get

this vision

this vision

that seems

that more

people have

written about

than you

could ever

imagine

no one's

very clear

I'm not

very clear

this is the

blind leading

the blind

I feel like

I'm leading

you all across

a frozen

lake where

the ice is

very thin

and some of

us stand

every chance

of falling

in but

this is

what I've

gleaned

so far

God's

solution

let's

read it

let's

read verse

24

first

seventy

sevens

are decreed

for your

people in

your holy

city

to finish

transgression

to put an

end to sin

to atone

for wickedness

to bring in

everlasting

righteousness

to seal up

vision and

prophecy

and to

anoint the

most

holy

place

I think

that is

the summary

of what

is to

come

that God

says

this is

what will

happen

Daniel is

worried

that the

exile won't

be what he

wants it to

be and they'll

be back in

exile and God

says

actually I'm

working on a

far longer

time period

it is not

now we're

home after

seventy years

but he says

seventy seven

sometimes translated

seventy weeks

I am working on a

far longer

time scale

than

than you

and I know

you haven't

changed

so it is

going to be

me

who's going

to do these

things I'm

going to

finish

transgression

I am going

to put an

end to sin

I'm going to

atone for

wickedness I'm

going to bring

in everlasting

righteousness I'm

going to seal up

vision and

prophecy which

it takes to

mean fulfill

it all so

there's no

more mystery

and I'm going

to anoint the

most holy

place

this is what

God will

ultimately do

all the

things that

caused God's

people to go

into exile he

will bring an

end to

he will do it

himself it'll be a

gracious act

some of it has

been done in the

Lord Jesus that

we'll see

that the

penalty for sin

was conquered

by the Lord

Jesus but

transgression and

sin and wickedness

still is prevalent

he will bring in

everlasting

righteousness

that'll be a

perfect kingdom

where God rules

and reigns

forever he will

seal up vision

and prophecy that

everything will be

clear it will no

longer be looking in

a mirror dimly it

will be seeing face

to face and to

anoint the most

holy place which I

take is the

ultimate end of

what the temple was

meant to be God

dwelling in the

middle of his

people not

symbolically but

forever

forever

it's a wonderful

vision

and then we get

the weeks which

you know I think

that's the main

thing and the

plain thing this is

what I've got we

can disagree at the

door and fight

afterwards if

necessary

not to seven weeks

hope returns

seven to 62 weeks

the city is rebuilt

but in distressing

times

after 62 weeks

Messiah is killed

the anointed one

will be put to

death and we'll

have nothing

the city will

then be destroyed

the final week

there'll be

opposition distress

difficulty this

ruler will rise

he will make a

covenant pulling

people away from

God and then in

the end there'll be

an end of sin

an end of God's

enemies and he

will rule and reign

all the things that

he promises to do

in verse 24

so Daniel is

worried he says

God will it work

will the exile

mean that we're

finally home

and God says no

I am working on a

far longer time

scale

you thought 70

years was enough

I'm talking about

70 sets of seven

however long they

are

and then you'll

finally be home

and safe

forever and I

will ultimately be

your God face to

face and you will

be my people in

perfect obedience

and you will be in

the place that I'm

establishing forever

not because you were

righteous but because

God is great in

mercy and now a

little bit further

along than Daniel

was we see the

true depth of that

mercy as God would

enact his plan to

send his only son

to live a perfect

life we failed to

live the only man

who didn't need to

pray Daniel's prayer

who never turned

away who always

obeyed God even

to the point of

giving up his life

on a cross so

that we who have

disobeyed can be

treated as those

who always obeyed

and those who

deserve to be

exiled forever can

be welcomed in

God's presence

I think this

passage encourages

us to be more

honest about our

sin to own it

and to confess it

it encourages us

to admit all the

things that are

true about God

that he is

righteous and good

and merciful and

forgiving that we

might turn to God

for forgiveness

we might cling to

the Lord Jesus

with all we've got

so that we might

be home forever

with God because

of the Lord Jesus

let me pray

Father God we

come to confess

to you that we

have not been the

people we should

have been

we have arrogantly

disobeyed you

Father we know

what is right

what is good

what is holy

what is pleasing

to you

and we have

turned away

we've refused

to listen

we've stubbornly

disobeyed

Lord we are

covered in shame

and yet Lord

we come

pleading

asking that you

would be gracious

to us not because

we are righteous

but because of the

great mercy you've

shown us in your

son the Lord Jesus

that our sin was

indeed deeper than

the sea and your

grace went deeper

still

and so Lord

cleanse us

give us a pure

heart

Father give us a

real desire to

wage war against

our sin let us do

it dependently

on your Holy

Spirit working in

us

that Jesus might be

an example to

us

and that we might

live all of life

that you might be

pleased

and we might be

those of whom you

say you are highly

esteemed

because of your

love and devotion

to the Lord Jesus

Father bless us

and help us

discomfort us

where necessary

and comfort us

where we need it

and we ask this

all for Jesus

sake

and in his name

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