Tukaj. Zvukam izgledano rečenčaka S whipped server, zelo več jaznjenja, da se je tudi prav dešli bo bo У nekaj evoje z vse, ne bočnje neče začetnjavne interfece in dejščke. Zrani sem glasba bil in tudi in mišljimo. Srečo, o srečenju, smo zelo vsečnji institut in Berlinu, prijev njih razdaj. Zanimar, projekto je sebexpejzroutor, ki je to še vsečnja, implementacija za srečenje, in je tudi nekaj referens in opensučnjej. We created a branch by 2005, during some, let's say, more political discussion within the old project, which was named OpenServe, and actually we discovered that you get a quite good and big project when someone suze you because they say you infringe some trademarks, so we had to change the name in Kamailio by 2008, because U.S. company claim we infringe the third trademark they have registered. However, although we started a branch in 2005, now we are working again with the original team under so-called SIPR Outer project starting by 2008, because we discovered that we can share a lot of knowledge and efforts in the SIP area, and we keep kind of direction, self-direction, mainly related to user provisioning and architecturing of the back ends as extensions. So, just to give you a feeling of how the web pages are looking for all these projects and sites, Kamailio org and SIPR Outer org, with short-to-screen shorts down. In terms of development, we are using Linux, we use C, because it's a real-time communication engine, we have to be fast, we focus on scalability, just to give you an idea, right now we are able to set up a couple of thousand calls per second, we talk here about set up, so imagine 10,000 people calling in the same time, and one usual server can deal with it, and we use all three tools available there to build very fast libraries in terms of parsing SIP messages, routing, doing list, cost routing, doing load balancing, doing location of the users, all those core features for a SIP server. As administration and organization of the project, we are very community-driven, there is no big company behind the project, we have kind of management board based on individuals from different companies, from different countries, so we are pretty worldwide established, and we don't have actually much activity there, because we try to focus on development, not on political discussions. Last year was a pretty good one, and we got some nice awards out there, and it was not by luck, because the project right now serves a couple of most biggest deployments, and we have some of those that are in charge or guilty by deploying this in some corners of this room. I want just to mention I290 in Germany, one-to-one that right now they have over 3 million subscribers, because they just integrated with FreeNet, so probably they are over 3, more close to 4. SIPgate, another very popular voice provider in Germany, it's using a solution based on this project, but also other projects that are present over here after my talk, like Asterix and other examples, just to give you an idea. Telio in Norway and Switzerland, Trufone, which is actually doing Voice Over IP for mobile devices, which is a very interesting right now, and mobile communication is going to grow more and more. Shorty about the features, because right now we have over 150 extensions, so I cannot list all of them. It's basically a SIP server, we don't deal with media, it's about signaling level and most of the work we do in the application is when the call is established to do authentication of the user, to do location discovery for the destination, to apply all these fancy rules, right now you want for your calls, if you are in vacation already directed to a voicemail or to your secretary or whatsoever, and applying a lot of filters, maybe you don't want to allow calls from the people that are not in your contact list and so on and so forth. And we are going more and more as an application server because communication is no longer voice or video, a lot of people like to add more instant messaging, presence like you saw in the previous presentation, these are very important aspects of today's communication and of course integration with social networking. We are not a SIP phone because there are other guys doing this better like Emil and the SIP communicator team and also we are not a media server or a PBX or a back-to-back user agent because there are others doing this good job and they are going to present after me. So we are somehow in the middle, we connect users with services and we tell platforms to the large number of subscribers. One of the most important as everywhere with the project is the interface because this allows to add a lot of features without affecting the core. We are in telecommunication business where the most important aspect is to be fast and connect because it's not like with email you stay and listen to massing for about 10 seconds you said, oh, what happens? You have to give a feedback quickly because this is real-time communication. Also telecommunication is for emergency services if someone is going to die, is not going to wait one minute to get okay, we are trying to find the closest service to you. So we try to keep a reliable small core and if you have fancy ideas you can implement it as module. We implement all these basic requirements from the CIP protocol, like CIP proxy redirect registrar, then we have extension for the telephony service like integration with enum numbering or connection to LDAP directories, advanced routing for list code routing, lot balancing, couple of variants, we do support a lot of transport layers. If you want to communicate secure, you can use TLS. If you have a smaller one, you can use UDP and we have a lot invest in the last month in the SCTP because skills in terms of multi-streaming, multi-homing, this kind of features. We are not tied to a specific backend because we have to host a lot of records. Think about username, password, blacklist, whitelist, where to redirect your mobile phones so you can use any kind of database which is more appropriate for you. You can interact with the service via control interface like XMRPC. We have some extension to gateway with XMPP and other open specified communication protocol. Now I'm going to present and this is the main topic for this presentation. The latest version, 30, which is three weeks old by now, which was actually the result of the collaboration within the CBRAUTER project just to give you a comparison with CBRAUTER project because now we have Kamaelio and CIP Express Router coming out of CIP Router project is more like with Linux distribution. We have the kernel, which is the parser, the router and then we have a set of modules that we package and release Kamaelio and there is another set of extensions that other team release as CIP Express Router. The first thing was to clean up a bit the architecture because there are a lot of deployments using the project on embedded systems to optimize the traffic, for example, in Wi-Fi networks to find the best path to a service and there you have to be very small. So we moved out a couple of core components as libraries to make it more flexible and smaller in footprint. So actually the core, if you think like Swedish buffet doesn't do much, it's like an empty plate and then if you want to be a very scalable load balancer to dispatch thousands of calls per second you just load dispatcher module. You need a list cause router to route calls to the cheapest alternative of your termination providers then you use appropriate module. So basically you can be very, very small in providing some services in footprint. As I said, a lot of effort was on the transport layer because in the past it was about voice. That was very easy, you just established a connection and hard job was done by the RTP. But now we have instant messaging, we have a lot of presence, we have people with hundreds of contacts so now we have to use more and more TCP to exchange this information and of course we have to protect their privacy so we actually have to use TLS. And now we have the platform bigger and bigger in terms of number of servers so inside the platform you can use a CTP with multi-homing, multi-streaming that gives a very good scalability service. Also in terms of hiding your internal network there is an extension to mask some privacy headers into the C messages topology hiding and also number portability as more and more prefer to take their number from provider to provider.  So we have here very good implementation to speed up all this one better control interface via XML RPC reload of the config, you don't need to restart if you want to change parameter of the configs. A better structure of the routing block via include files, dev and dev, some parts of the config, you know the C style of defines fallback from very fast or lower resource usage transport protocols like UDP to TCP or TLS if it's the case. So quite a lot of improvements it's hard to list all of them and beyond VoIP we do a lot of extensions in the terms of presence and instant messaging even enable all telephony devices via user location to show active online, offline states. Links if you want to check more about what's new and although it's like three weeks old by now it's still a lot of new for the upcoming release 3.1 and I invite you to visit the websites not all of them are listed here because in the last week we have like two other addition Python, API and debugger for the configuration file. So this is let's say quick run to the project because it's a lot to talk about it and I'm just in time I will take questions on side of the room or outside if you have. Thank you.


Hey fashionistas, I'm Bianca Renee and you're watching Bianca Renee Today and today I'm going to be doing a huge try on haul with Boohoo. Boohoo is an online shopping store that I pretty much got 90% of my closet from. So thank you Boohoo for sponsoring this video. I picked out some super cute items that are giving me like spring festival concert vibes. So let's get started.  This little crop top is something that I wear probably once a week because it just completes every outfit. But my new item are these leather looking shorts. They have pockets so you know that's a major plus. They're really comfortable and they fit me just right. I'm really happy with the size that I got. These are a size six and I even can kind of cheat it and raise them up higher to make them high waisted shorts. If only I had a belt. Boom baby. Watch how I take these already cute shorts to the next level with this fringe studded belt. Oh my goodness I'm obsessed with this. You'll probably see it all the time. You can wear this with shorts, over a dress, over pants, over a body suit. Perfect for festivals, concerts, total rock star. Let's keep it funky with this toffee caramel colored zebra print blazer. I've always been a fan of animal print and this blazer is everything. I love how it fits, it's long, it's comfortable and you can make it casual like so or literally throw on some slacks and make it more business profesh. I also have super long arms so I'm happy that these are cap sleeves so it kind of just works for everybody. You also can put on a belt, this one I also got from Boohoo, a little snake print leather looking belt and put it over the jacket to make another look. And now we've got to try it the way that anybody that's anybody wears a jacket over the shoulder. Wearing your jacket like this means you're so bougie and so busy that you don't even have time to put your arms in your sleeves. And because this was so cute I got another blazer and a different print. So this is a gray and white snakeskin print. Snakeskin print is very on trend right now and I love how this one fits just instantly makes you feel like a boss. This one might be even longer than the other one and this is a full sleeve jacket also cute just as is casual or could be dressed up. One reason I love shopping at Boohoo is because they have a tall section so this is part of their tall collection meaning it's nice and long for my arms but still a size four making it still small enough to fit the rest of my body. My next top is this mocha satin bowling looking type shirt that says don't look back you're not going that way. So I'm all about that message that looked really cute love the color and it does have a color and a couple buttons down the middle but you can keep it open for a more casual no big deal just looking cute kind of day or you could button it up tuck it in your shorts or your pants for a whole different look. Now let me grab my new favorite secret weapon my belt make this more high waisted squeeze up the pants and maybe even unbutton the shirt a little bit get a little risque and with a little peek a boo of your bra or bra let it can really make it look sexy. Abra Kadabra my next top is another satin pattern shirt now funny enough I told you that I don't really like patterns you probably wouldn't believe me but I really stepped out of my comfort zone this time and I'm loving these prints that I got this shirt is a size two actually it still fit nicely but it was a little snug around the wrist but you could wear it down or you could tie it up and make it more of a cute crop top. Now I really really love it and of course you see that with the belt it still makes it look a little professional but cute or sexy or casual like it really just depends it's a really pretty blue with this chain detail and for those of us that have curly hair this satin is just like our satin pillowcase meaning it's going to make your curls just rub right off and won't create any frizz that's a major plus and if you want to make it even sexier you could lose the bra maybe get some double sided tape and just tuck the rest into your pants next this is giving me DJ Khaled vibes this shirt is so funky it's gold it has cheetah print on it like it's so extra such a standout piece you definitely have to have confidence to rock this one and I kind of tried this little half tuck or you could tuck in both sides either way looks really cute with it completely buttoned up this one is also satin so comfortable and great for the curls anyone who wears this shirt is obviously the life of the party and now let me show you how it looks when you tie it up just as cute so fierce the next trendy item that I got is this neon bodysuit everyone is wearing neon right now I also got this cute jeans skirt that you can wear with the flaps down or bring it up to make it high-waisted both of these items are a size 6 at first I thought the skirt was going to be too big but I just cranked the belt and then it fit perfectly the top is a one-piece bodysuit the back is a thong which I usually prefer the way you don't get any weird panty lines with whatever you're wearing and the bottom has two snaps you don't have to be totally naked when you go to the bathroom I also have a pretty long torso so this one is a good fit being a size 6 and because it has spaghetti straps I would recommend wearing one of those sticky bras that way you don't see any straps now let's try on another white bodysuit and some black jeans wait a minute ladies tall ladies look at the length of these jeans you know how impossible it is to find long jeans flooding is the worst so when I find a pair of long jeans I get really excited and I usually buy every color now I'm gonna grab two more belts that I got from boohoo this camel color and this black one because the waist could be a little bit tighter don't worry I'm gonna do my squats and they're gonna fit just perfect without him but they're so comfortable sometimes ripped jeans make these like slits on your legs because they're so tight and your skin's like bursting out of them but this one really gives you some wiggle room this bodysuit is also super cute it has these nice thick straps little gold tassels and a very straight line kind of square cut to the top this is a shirt that you'll probably wear all the time just as like a go-to basic top and it's also a thong with two buttons on the inside not only are the straps cute they're actually adjustable so they get fit your shoulders perfectly and after all the partying and concerts it's time to dress up and go to church I am ready for Easter Sunday your baby shower I'm ready to close the deal or sell your next home just when you thought all the blazers were done I got this really cute pink and white checkered blazer this is also part of their tall collection so fits my body and my arms perfectly if you don't wear any bottoms you can wear it as a cute dress or if you can make it more conservative they actually have matching pants on the website or you can wear it with just some white pants that you may have but if you want to keep it cute and casual you also could just keep it open and it's long enough to just be like a cute cover-up over a white top and some shorts so those are all of the items that I got from boohoo I cannot wait to wear them if you guys see them again on Instagram just give me that double tap and act like you've never seen it before not only do I 100% obviously recommend boohoo because I shop there all the time their prices are so good I think the most expensive thing you saw in this video were the blazers and those were $33 like what boohoo is always having sales that are like 50 to 80% off site-wide so if you guys want to buy any of the items that you saw today I'll make sure to put specific links to every item that I showed below in the description box but I want to know your favorite comment and let me know what was your favorite outfit or item that you saw in this video before you go make sure you give me a thumbs up and subscribe I post two new videos every week once on Friday and once on Sunday and if you want more fashion looks you gotta follow me on Instagram at Ms. Bianca Renee I'll see you guys next time thanks for watching Bianca Renee today


My mother and my father were refugees and I haven't read from This collection and quite some time because it's not really relevant relevant I tend to write about dogs and my mother and obscene ways and And this is you know, this was me being serious in my first thesis. So oh, I should This is how I'm all the time. I'm just like a basket case when I'm reading. Okay Usually I'm drunk and now I can't get drunk. So So now I ramble Okay, there we go A primary color reach. Thanks to him. Okay So again, my parents are refugees. I'm Vietnamese and I'm only reading this because for some reason it seems timely I will not for some reason. We all know why it's timely. Okay a Primary color reach. Oh, and it looks like this.  She insists but barely I Built her a story with a frame one size too small and so shallow at streams to curve above the water It's always threatening to capsize There's a picture of my mother standing near Niagara Falls. It's a good picture. She's good-looking It's her honeymoon and she's in her late 30s. Her hair is curled and the photo is circa 1977 she's dressed in a beige polyester suit a small scarf tied around her neck whips up Laps like a current to her chin the force of the water falling flickers the hem of her pants The scarf is probably polyester too. I mentioned this fabric only because it's cheap and despite that it shimmers like water can I Find myself referring to water whenever I talk about her bobbing in an expanse unending and eternal a point where everything is blue and breaking There is breaking near a boat Water dribbles in and people are vomiting crudely over the edge taking their time The boat is old skin peels the mind loses to insomnia the sweat of worry Anxiety floating through an indecipherable direction My mother's headache splits between the eyes and she cannot see the end to the circumference of blue water on blue sky And always the distance trembles together with the undulating heat of the horizon Eternity is blue an infinite breaking and swelling and I can see her arms waving from a pile of bodies heaped in fatigue Water can wear anything down Water breaks against the hull Splits apart and recedes a woman's water breaks and her legs slit open and she feels like she's ripped all the way to the Mouth where she's trying not to scream Everyone's afraid they'll die if she says anything, but then a baby Gray and marbled they toss this stillborn overboard and from afar they can see the eyeless infant Flapping through the clouds its long arms waving the umbilical curls from the belly and vanishes to the Sun I'm not on the boat The boat disappeared 40 years before I was born Bits of it are floating somewhere tipping over with people My mother her brother and 823,000 people fall out of it, and I don't know what to do with them stroke My mother wants me to learn to swim urgently. She never knew how she's afraid I would become like her afraid of water and surrounded by it So I went to the YMCA and they pushed me in I Choke on chlorine my throat burns.  I don't want to go back the next day But I do it I do it until my mother sees me swim laps I say the backstroke is fun, but even in the heated pool the water is cold Submerged nothing sounds louder than your lungs or as lonely At least I like my bathing suit. It's blue. It sparkles. It surrounds me. I Imagine I'm skipping I imagine her apology to her mother and her father for never seeing them again Imagine her hunched forward and holding on to the ridge of the boat as she does to a framed picture of her dead parents in our living room And then there's like more, but you know why okay? I'm going on to more fun stuff. Thank you Yeah, oh, yeah, right. Thank you. Yeah, right, okay Sorry, I'm I'm always okay Um, yeah so in memory of As the title in memory of the mind bends to the body in the slightest ways I think of you I think of you in the oblique moments when I am tired and there's nothing but the day ending The lights turned off and the soft sound of the heater humming and enduring string of reminders The rest is lost, but the body is still warm still continuous And and now we're going to my more funny ones So I have a whole bunch of dog poems and then a dog mother poem But I'm not gonna okay joy my dog licks his anus.  I know that's like not good thing to say because but I'm Asian and I can say it so You know Okay, private parts. This is always a crowd favorite private parts. I tell my mother she smells Her vagina specifically and could she crack the window and we all know it's hot, right? So and could she crack the window so that I could get some fresh air in the backseat? And also could they turn up the radio because I love this song Blink 182 is like so cool Naturally my stepdad the driver turns quiet.   What is wrong with me? So on I told her I was just being honest Geez, I have a feeling that my own kids will be like that some day Really because I'm like pregnant now, and I'm afraid And that decades from now I might over clean my vagina Afraid of my own odors and instead hear my kids complain about my bad breath or my hairy armpits Or my long toenails instead and then I'll think of my mother and everything will feel fitting She'll be a smelly older woman by then and every part of her will fall over Her teeth her hair her anus and the assortment of scents and ocean Freely sailing through the air each morning a new diaper a new rank I will smell all of her as she forgets the car the seat belt the way she told me I was made from her and when I'm done She'll ask me to open the window and let her out into the world and when I leave her bedside I will smell my sweat my hands, and I will recognize myself Hey So it's like really good for my ego Thanks Let's so like being pregnant makes you not feel like doing anything but sleeping and eating tacos and burritos and like Jamba juice, and so I haven't been writing very much. So your clapping is really nice. So thank you.    My dog doesn't have hands He has the intelligence of a four-year-old He can't understand what I'm doing or why I'm doing it or why he should feel naked or if it's even possible without clothes But I've humiliated him and he has no idea of that either I'm manhandling him and while by consent or not he needs to be cleaned He needs to be taken care of he will be me one day or how my mother will be soon I will need to bathe her and touch everything and remain quiet Thank you


A $42 million upgrade for the PISA ammunition storage areas, railways and docks was unveiled at Camp Darby. This infrastructure represents a tremendous investment that will significantly increase our ability to support operations both in Europe and in Africa. I'd just like to say that I have a lot of personal and professional gratitude for the people that live and work here, for our partners in the Navy and the Air Force that helped make this project happen and especially for our local, regional and national Italian partners who with patience and hard work enabled us to make this happen. Working with my brethren and sister in services and then just contributing to the stability of NATO Alliance and US mission over here makes coming to work every day worthwhile. Staff Sergeant Brandon Rickert, Camp Darby, Italy.


All right. Today we're in Malachi chapter 2. We're looking at verses 10 through 17. We're looking at abominable marriages. Now somebody says, I already have that. Why do we have to talk about that? But we will be looking at that subject. And it really is a very important subject to look at. And so we'll be looking at verses 10 through 17. And the portion of scripture that we're looking at today, the Lord is going to emphasize that it's his desire to have godly offspring. And so let's begin reading together Malachi chapter 2 at verse 10. I'll read to verse 17 and we'll get into our study. Malachi chapter 2 beginning at verse 10, reading to verse 17. Have we not all one father? Has not one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously with one another by profanning the covenant of the fathers? Judah has dealt treacherously and an abomination has been committed in Israel in Jerusalem for Judah has profaned the Lord's holy institution which he loves. He has married the daughter of a foreign God. May the Lord cut off from the tents of Jacob the man who does this being awakened aware and who brings an offering to the Lord of hosts. And this is the second thing you do. You cover the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping and crying so he does not regard the offering anymore nor receive it with good will from your hands. Yet you say for what reason?  But did he not make them one having a remnant of the spirit? And why one? He seeks godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit and let none deal treacherously with the wife of his youth for the Lord God of Israel says that he hates divorce for it covers one's garment with violence as the Lord of hosts. Therefore take heed to your spirit that you do not deal treacherously. You have worried the Lord with your words yet you say in what way have we worried him? In that you say everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the Lord and he delights in them or where is the God of justice? As we've been going through Malachi we've noted that the priesthood, the Jewish priesthood has been radically condemned by God through the prophet Malachi. And as we've been going up to this point here from chapter one into chapter two we've seen how that the Lord has made it very clear that the priesthood has misrepresented God in a variety of ways and the nation is suffering because of what they've done. The ultimate result has been that God's true religion was transformed into a sham. Now interestingly enough today it's popular to speak down about religion. We in my generation we Jesus freaks the Jesus movement people. One of the things that we would say very clearly and quite often and very loudly was that we don't have a religion, we have a relationship. All of us as in one way or another probably said that. And you know the point we were trying to make was that we're not part of some system of religious belief. We don't simply identify ourselves by a particular denominational identification. We don't say that we are of this denomination or that. That's what we were trying to say at that time. We're trying to say that God isn't wanting us to have simply what would be called a religious faith because there is a true faith and there is a faith that is actually spoken of in the book of James as being what we would call devil faith. The demons believe in fear. You know James made that clear he said you believe in one God that's good but do you not know that the devils the demons themselves believe and they fear? So there is something that has been called devil faith or demon faith that's simply an acknowledgement the reality that there is a God and that demons are subject to him even as the scripture says every knee shall bow every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. Now that includes everything created.  So demons have an awareness of who God is and so when we were young and when we were saved we would say you don't want to have just a religion you want to have a relationship. But you need to remember also that there is a false religious belief but there is a true religion also. There is such a thing as true religion and I'm not talking about you know pants or a store or whatever. There is true religion. True religion is built on a solid foundation the solid foundation of loving God and obedience to his word. In Psalm 119 the Psalmist said blessed are the undefiled in the way who walk in the law of the Lord. You see God is loving and merciful and God reveals himself to us in the word as being compassionate and God desires us to also receive his kindness and when you have received the kindness of the Lord and when you are walking in his way it's revealed in how you treat other people it demonstrates that you really have been connected to the God of this universe who is rich in mercy who refers to himself as being kind. In 1 John in chapter 3 verse 17 John said whoever has this world's goods and sees his brother in need and shuts up his heart from him how does the love of God abide in him? In James 1 27 James said pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this to visit orphans and widows in their trouble and to keep oneself unspotted from the world. There was an occasion where the Lord Jesus Christ was asked a question the question he was asked is what is the great command in the law? We've all read that portion of scripture we all remember that and when this question was asked of him Matthew tells us in chapter 22 verses 37 through 40 that Jesus speaking to the one who asked the question said you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart with all your soul with all your mind this is the first and great commandment the second is like it you shall love your neighbor as yourself on these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets what is the great commandment love God, love your neighbor love God on this all along the prophets will be fulfilled you need to love because that is a demonstration that you have a relationship with the God who is called love so God's true religion is a religion of compassion and love a religion of love of his word and a concern for people and it was being polluted this true religion is being polluted by an unfaithful priesthood their misrepresentation of the Lord has had a terrible effect on the nation because God himself is being ridiculed the offerings that were being offered to him are actually considered defiled and he's being held in contempt even as Malachi has been saying he's been held in contempt by the people of Israel now the priests according to verse 8 had corrupted the covenant of Levi they had done so by their false interpretation in teaching of the law and by their bad examples they corrupted the covenant through inattention to its demands and what they've been doing is bad enough but the Lord has even more that he needs to deal with now as we look at this just briefly let's remember something here let's remember that Malachi isn't making this up from his own heart this is not a message that Malachi just looking out there at the condition of the nation this isn't a message that he kind of sat down and invented saying now what would be the answer or the solution to this problem he wasn't trying to create a message of some sort simply because he had a burden for how people were acting and all of that because this message didn't originate in his own mind it wasn't something that he invented you see false prophets and false teachers will give stories to people that they have made up because they have intent to draw these people after themselves and therefore many times they'll say things that they think people want to hear in order that they might draw disciples after themselves you see that in the old and you see that in the new Malachi was not a person making up or inventing this he was actually giving a message that God had given to him but false teachers will say something to draw people to themselves you see it in Jeremiah 14 verse 14 where it reads the Lord said to me the prophets are prophesying lies in my name I have not sent them or appointed them or spoken to them they are prophesying to you false visions, divinations, idolatries and the delusions of their own minds God is saying they bring in a message to you that they're claiming this from me but I'm telling you I didn't say that you see that in the Old Testament you can actually multiply that many times you also see it in the New Testament in the book of Titus for example in chapter 1 verses 10 and 11 where Paul said there are many who rebel against right teaching they engage in useless talk and deceive people this is especially true of those who insist on circumcision for salvation they must be silenced by the wrong teaching they have already turned whole families away from the truth such teachers only want your money I know we don't have any teachers like that today this is just something that now Melachi Melachi was a genuine messenger of the Lord he was a genuine prophet of God when you look at verse 7 of chapter 2 verse 7 makes it clear that the priests were in reality God's messengers it says there Melachi 2.7 the lips of a priest should keep knowledge people should seek the law from his mouth for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts you should go to a spiritual leader expecting to receive spiritual insight he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts and so people ought to go to the priest who as we saw last time were together who keeps knowledge and I mentioned to you that the priest was supposed to protect or guard the knowledge of God that's what he did and the people when they came to him should be seeking the law from his mouth they should be seeking from him instruction concerning how to live in a way that pleases God that's the reason people should go in the church age that's the reason why people should choose a fellowship to attend it's so that they would hear the word of God and seek knowledge of the word of God when they go to church not everybody does that unfortunately today but that's what we're supposed to do you see the priests were God's messengers and they were intended to communicate clearly and soberly what it is that pleases the Lord you see that in the Old Testament book of Leviticus in chapter 10 verses 8 through 11 where it says the Lord spoke to Aaron saying do not drink wine or intoxicating drink you know your sons with you when you go into the tabernacle of meeting lest you die it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations that you may distinguish between holy and unholy and between unclean and clean and that you may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the Lord has spoken to them by the hand of Moses you're not to be imbibing you're not supposed to be getting drunk and then going out there trying to present the things of God he said stay away from that you're supposed to be teaching them the things that God has said and so Malachi is a genuine messenger of the Lord of hosts even as we have seen it in the very first verse of chapter 1 when he spoke of the burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi so he was bringing God's word a messenger of the Lord of hosts and so what has happened is because the priests have been preaching the Lord God says I'm dealing with you and we saw that in verse 9 when he said to the priests I also have made you contemptible and based before all the people because you have not kept my ways but have shown partiality in the law and so he's making it very clear that because the priests were corrupt God humiliated them before the people they had degraded the Lord by their ungodly lives and he's humiliated them before Israel and so as we see this they're continuing this and so he now begins to speak in verse 10 by saying have we not all one father has not one God created us why do we deal treacherously with one another by profanying the covenant of the fathers Judah has dealt treacherously and an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem for Judah has profaned the Lord's holy institution which he loves he's married the daughter of a foreign God may the Lord cut off from the tents of Jacob the man who does this being awake and aware and who brings an offering to the Lord of hosts so Malachi now begins to confront he begins to confront the nation concerning another sin and I want you to see this I'm going to be looking at this in some detail today it's a sin that is very grievous before the Lord this is a sin that has classically been referred to as abominable marriages now the term abominable marriage relates to what is recognized as unsanctioned and unholy marriages we need to remember let me lay a foundation for you here as we look at this together the marriage vow is one of the most sacred and holy promises that a human being can make the marriage vow is one of the most sacred promises that a human being will make it is a binding vow you see when you look at vows and all when you see oaths and oaths and a vow is the same basic word when somebody becomes a naturalized citizen in the United States this person will take a vow they take an oath of faithfulness to the country if somebody came from another country and they come to the United States and they go through the process to become a naturalized citizen after going through whatever it is that they need to do in order to be made eligible they ultimately are going to take an oath of faithfulness and this is what they will say they repeat this when the judge is bringing them into citizenship this is what they say this is the vow that they take I hereby declare on oath that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince potentate state or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen that I will support and defend the Constitution in laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic that I will bear truth, faith and allegiance to the same that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law that I will perform noncombatance service in the armed forces of the United States when required by law that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by law and that I will, that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion so help me God that's the oath that people take when they become citizens here in the United States they take an oath but here's something about that oath a naturalized citizen can legally renounce that vow and they become what is called an expatriate so even though they went through all of the various hoops and jumped through all those hoops and all and became an American citizen and even took an oath of faithfulness to the nation and at a certain point should they decide without any duress and understand the consequences they can renounce their citizenship they can renounce that oath even though they said so help me God the United States allows that that's a vow that is being made that the United States allows to be broken but a marriage vow is not a temporary vow a marriage vow is not to be renounced because when I was married I made a promise I made a promise not just to the minister who was officiating not just to the witnesses who were standing there making sure I didn't run away not just to the beautiful young lady who was holding on to me making sure I didn't run away not simply in front of the group of people who assembled that day in that backyard there in Norwalk when we got married at my parents house I know how to spend money on parties the chairs we got were from a place called Chapel of Memories which is a funeral home they let you have the chairs for free anyway when I made that vow it wasn't just to Marie it wasn't to the witnesses it wasn't simply to the minister it was to God it was to God I said to Marie as I vowed to God as I made a pledge in an oath as I made this statement I said I will be with you in sickness and in health for richer and for poorer forever that was the vow and I have to tell you when I took that vow I was very serious and I was very scared as much as I knew that I cared about this young lady that was such an oath that was so powerful it was so real that I actually stammered out I still remember I opened up the book of Ephesians chapter 5 I started to read to Marie and the words seemed to swim on the page in front of me as I was reading it it was such a powerful moment where it seemed as if the Lord was pressing upon me this is not simply something you're saying this is not going to be a marriage you try out and it doesn't work you're just better at the next one because today we have a term in our society called starter marriages and some of you have heard that starter marriages what that's simply talking about is well if it doesn't work this way it's our starter marriages like I'm going to buy two houses the first house I'll get so I just kind of break in and then I'll sell it make something and then I'll get the house that I really like and maybe well that's kind of how some people are looking at marriage today that's how many are it's this well if it doesn't make it I mean listen there are programs today where they're getting married at first sight I think that's the name of a program or something like that they're getting married without even knowing why because we have devalued marriage to the place that we make it into a reality TV program today that's what's happened in the United States you know I wish I could give you the source this is from memory and thus I don't remember the exact source though I do have it on file somewhere how that one of the people I was reading is it relates to marriage years ago now was pointing out that atheists have a less of a divorce rate than those who claim to be born again Christians atheists remain faithful in marriages at a greater degree than evangelical Christians think about that for a minute think about that for a moment someone who doesn't even believe the vow that they're making is to God is more faithful than the one who claims to have a relationship with God so what we're looking at is we're looking at how God speaks about and teaches us related to marriage marriage is not a temporary vow when I made my vow it was not a temporary vow it was a promise and it was to God in Numbers 30 verse 2 the writer says Moses said if a man makes a vow to the Lord or swears an oath to bind himself by some agreement he shall not break his word he shall do according to all the proceeds out of his mouth when you make a vow to God you don't break your word you do what you said in Deuteronomy 23 verse 23 that which has gone from your lips you shall keep and perform for you voluntarily vowed to the Lord your God what you have promised with your mouth you see the marriage vow is a vow made to God it's also of course made to a person it's made to that spouse and it's of utmost importance so to make the vow and then break it with little or no concern is condemned by God now in verse 10 Melachi asks have we not all one father has not one God created us so men and women have been created in the image of God as such they both stand in relationship with the God who created them now as Jews both male and female stood in a special covenant relationship with God in Isaiah 43 verse 1 it reads but now thus says the Lord created you O Jacob and he who formed you O Israel fear not for I have redeemed you I have called you by your name you are mine so they had a covenant relationship with God and this relationship that Israel had with their God was intended to be permanent and it's God who created this unity you see in allowing the divorce of Jewish wives the Jewish wife might marry a heathen Israel was bringing division into the nation and that violated God's requirement for them to remain separate from unbelievers as his people you see when God was beginning his dealings with the nation of Israel he gave them all these laws in the Old Testament you know sometimes we speak about the laws that God gave to Israel and we may think in terms of like 10 laws the 10 commandments but there were some 613 specific commands that God gave to the nation and when you think concerning those commandments and all that God gave to them he gave them a commandment for them to remain his special people unique people that were to have a relationship with him they were different than all the nations on the face of the earth and that's what you read in Deuteronomy 7 when it says in verses 1 through 4 when the Lord your God brings you into the land which you go to possess and has cast out many nations before you the Hittites, Gurgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Parasites, Hibites, Jebusites, Sagulites, Termites, Uptites and Adesites I just never can I just I fall into that temptation every time I read thoseites 7 nations greater and mightier than you and when the Lord your God delivers them over to you you shall conquer them and utterly destroy them you shall make no covenant with them nor shall mercy to them nor shall you make marriages with them you shall not give your daughter to their son nor take their daughter for your son why? they will turn your sons away from following me to serve other gods so the anger of the Lord will be aroused against you and destroy you suddenly why are you not to have a marriage with an unbeliever? God says because they'll turn your heart away from me and I will judge you for it you see God gave specific instructions regarding marriage and marriage was to be entered in into with only other believers Exodus chapter 34 verses 12 through 16 take heed to yourself lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going lest it be a snare in your midst but you shall destroy their altars break their sacred pillars cut down their wooden images for you shall worship no other God for the Lord whose name is jealous is a jealous God lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land and they play the harlot with their gods and make sacrifice to their gods and one of them invites you and you eat of his sacrifice and take of his daughters for your sons and his daughters play the harlot with their gods and make your sons play the harlot with their gods don't intermarry why? because they will take your heart away from me intermarriage is forbidden because it was safeguarding the nation of Israel against the importation of idolatry into the nation remember the wisest king in the Old Testament you remember his name King Solomon King Solomon God was speaking to King David's beloved son Solomon and paraphrasing said to him ask of me anything you will you can ask as high as the heavens and I'll give it to you what do you want do you remember how Solomon spoke to the Lord and said again paraphrasing he said I'm just a child I don't even know how to go out and come back in how am I going to be able to lead such a great nation that belongs to you if you give me anything give me wisdom give me wisdom and the Bible tells us that God was so pleased with the prayer of Solomon that he said you didn't ask for the life of your enemies you didn't ask for riches untold because you didn't ask for these kinds of things and you wanted wisdom I will give you wisdom as well as the things you didn't ask for and he became the legendary wisest man who ever lived and yet in 1 Kings chapter 11 verses 1 through 4 King Solomon loved many foreign women as well as the daughter of Pharaoh women of the Moabites, Amonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites the nations of whom the Lord had said to the children of Israel you shall not intermarry with them nor they with you surely they will turn away your hearts after their God Solomon clung to these in love he had 700 wives he's not that wise he had 700 wives, princesses and 300 concubines and his wives turned away his heart for it was so when Solomon was old that his wives turned his heart after other gods and his heart was not loyal to the Lord his God as was the heart of his father David he started out well started out well but as he grew older his heart was turned away exactly as God had warned them so the result was the importation of idolatry into the nation of Israel the Bible tells us in 1st Kings chapter 11 verses 7 and 8 Solomon built a high place for Chimash the abomination of Moab on the hill that is east of Jerusalem and for Molech the abomination of the people of Ammon and he did likewise for all his foreign wives who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods in Nehemiah in chapter 13, 25 through 27 you are not to give your daughters in marriage to their sons nor are you to take their daughters in marriage for your sons or for yourselves was it not because of marriages like these that Solomon king of Israel sinned among the many nations there was no king like him he was loved by his God and God made him king over Israel but even he was led into sin by foreign women must we hear now that you too are doing all this terrible wickedness and are being unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women so in the Old Testament it is very clear that the children of Israel were not to intermarry with the heathens somebody says well that's the Old Testament well the command against that kind of marital relationship is still in effect Paul spoke of this in the New Testament in 2 Corinthians chapter 6 he says that verses 14 through 16 do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers for what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness what communion has light with darkness what is Christ with Belial or what part has a believer with an unbeliever and what agreement has the temple of God with idols for you are the temple of the living God as God has said I will dwell in them and walk among them I will be their God they shall be my people God in the old as well as the new forbids what he calls abominable marriages when Paul was being asked a series of questions in 1 Corinthians one of the questions related to if a woman's husband dies is she free to remarry and Paul answered that question in 1 Corinthians 7 verse 39 when he says if her husband dies she is at liberty to be married to whom she wishes only in the Lord so yes you have freedom to remarry but only in the Lord somebody said if you willfully disobey God and marry a non-Christian do not be gall yourself with the belief that you will be the cause of your husband or wife's conversion by the grace of God that may possibly happen but it usually does not mixed marriages usually end in great unhappiness or divorce and even if that is not the case you will certainly bring much unnecessary sorrow upon yourself by disobedience and that's true I remember a young woman who came into my office no she called me up and she said pastor I'd like you to pray for me she was in high school and I said what can I pray for and she says well I met this guy and I really like him and I'd like to have him for my boyfriend can you pray for me I said I'm not match.com I said I said you want me to pray that you might have a boyfriend she says oh yeah and I said may I ask a question she said yes I said is this young man that you want to date this young man that you want as your boyfriend is he a believer in Christ no he's not a believer no but you want me to pray that God will give you a relationship with this young man yes I said why do you think I should pray that she says because Jesus said if you ask anything I will do it so she knew enough Bible to be confused but you know what that is common I can multiply that story I have others that are very much the same very much the same where somebody wanted something contrary to what God's word actually says and they thought they could circumvent that that they were going to be the people who actually proved that that scripture wasn't saying what it actually did say God in the Old Testament and the New Testament refers to marriages where a believer voluntarily is marrying a non-believer he calls that abominable it's wrong it's not pleasing to him what does light have in common with darkness when a Christian is showing an interest in dating somebody who doesn't know the Lord they're revealing their real relationship with God they're revealing that what what in common does someone who is in love with Jesus have with someone who doesn't care that Jesus died on the cross for them something that was said many years ago that has stayed within me and I say it often is when we voluntarily enter into sinful relationship when we know that God's word has already said do not do that it is like kissing the tip of the spear that was driven into the body of Jesus that's what we're doing we're joining the crowd that said crucify him that's what we're doing because we don't care because what we want right now is much more important than what he has done for us and that reveals where I really stand with the Lord Jesus Christ I want you to notice in verse 11 that God refers to marriage as his holy institution it is his holy institution it is his holy institution marriage was not invented by men I remember something by a what we used to call a woman's liver now we just call them women but a woman's liver where she said that yeah men invented that because you license dogs, cars and women and that's all they thought you know marriage wasn't invented by a man to enslave women the bible says it very clearly that God refers to it as his holy institution it is a holy institution that God created and as such he loves this institution and so as he speaks concerning this this holy institution he goes on in verse 12 and he says may the Lord cut off from the tents of Jacob the man who does this being awakened aware and who brings an offering to the Lord of hosts so he says may the Lord cut off from the tents of Jacob this man this is a man who is described as being awake and aware that's an interesting phrase, awake and aware being awakened aware awakened aware is a term that was used to refer to a teacher and pupil awakened aware because they've been taught and they know better and because and here's the thing because they have been taught and they know better how accountable for what they know and the penalty is may the Lord cut them off may they be separated or excommunicated may the Lord cut off the tents of Jacob that means that their offerings will not be acceptable because they have an unrepentant heart the Lord isn't going to receive it and you bring your offering to the Lord and you remember you have a brother or you remember a brother has out against you you first go and reconcile with the brother then you bring your offering that's how it works even in the New Testament Jesus taught that so he says they have an unrepentant heart this isn't something that God is going to accept and then he goes on into verse 13 and he says and this is the second thing you do you cover the altar of the Lord with tears with weeping and crying so he does not regard the offering anymore nor receive it with good will from your hands they're not only guilty of divorcing in order to marry heathens but he says you're also acting as hypocrites they thought they could willfully and blatantly disregard God's word and still be blessed they brought offerings they wept at the altar they expected God to bless their sinful lives their insincere worship was not accepted by God because repentance had to come first I have had many conversations and so have you more than likely who say I don't understand why my life isn't being blessed anymore it was at one time it's not anymore and then when you begin to ask what's going on and they begin to share with you the things they've been doing and sometimes they've been practicing sinful lives and they're just not walking with God and but they don't understand why they're not being blessed be not deceived God is not mocked whatsoever a man so is that also shall he reap if you sow to the flesh from the flesh you will reap corruption the scripture says so do the spirit from the spirit you receive life but if you sow to the flesh from the flesh you shall reap corruption you are going to reap what you sow and people sometimes don't understand that they thought that their insincere worship at least we're there we're showing up he says no I'm not receiving it you need to repent he says in verse 14 that you say for what reason because the Lord has been witness between you and the wife of your youth with whom you have dealt treacherously yet she's your companion your wife by covenant but did he not make them one having a remnant of the spirit and why one he seeks godly offspring therefore take heed to your spirit and let none deal treacherously with the wife of his youth so you say verse 14 for what reason he says the Lord is a witness between you she is your companion she is your wife by covenant you can't discard her you can't discard her marry a heathen and then come back and expect to be blessed he says you have dealt with it treacherously the word treacherously speaks of deceitfully or faithlessly you have been deceitful and unfaithful now in verse 15 the question is asked but did he not make them one by having a remnant of the spirit did he not make them one there's one man there's one woman there's one couple in him did he not make them one the two shall become one flesh the original intent of the Lord obviously was one man Adam one woman Eve and one lifetime when he says having a remnant of the spirit what does he mean God could have created many women for Adam he had enough power to do that it wasn't that he was limited to only having the creative ability to create one man and one woman he said that's it I can't do anything else he created one man and one woman though he had the power to create 10,000 women had he wanted to he chose not to because what he wanted to do was to have the foundations of what a family actually is with the intent of producing godly offspring children who worship and love the Lord that's what God wants in verse 15 did he not make them one having a remnant of the spirit and why one he seeks godly offspring and the best way to have a potential for many children is to have a husband who loves the wife and remains together for a lifetime loving the Lord that's the best way I I want to make it clear right here at this point that I do not in any way and I don't think any of you think that I would but I'm saying it anyway just because I should I would never judge and do not judge any person who's ever to a horrible divorce of broken marriage and the broken heart that goes along with that forgive me if you even would think that I don't my heart goes out to people who got married made their vows and divorced it didn't just break your heart though did it it broke the heart of others it broke the heart of a mom who had prayed for you it broke the heart perhaps of a dad who had prayed for you and it breaks the heart of the children that were born to a union that was shattered through divorce I really believe very strongly the Bible teaches this very specifically that God intends to show us how great he is in our marriages and that God can give us the ability to to overcome with him we can why did Moses command that people should get a divorce and Jesus no he didn't command it he permitted it and he permitted it because of the hardness of your hearts not because that was God's design or God's will but because you have callous hearts and you didn't allow God's spirit to work or for whatever reason you weren't able to see that he could I have spoken to young people some very young people who have gone through divorce who have known me very well and I have said to them you may not have had a real good example when your mama and your daddy were together and divorced but I would encourage you I have said and this may be misunderstood but I have said this I would encourage you to use Marie and me as an example because we've gone through so many things together and with Jesus we've always made it through we can be an example to you we have been in love and worked at our marriage for a long time and we can say God is able and as much as as it could be misunderstood when I speak of marriage and people could think that I think I've got the greatest marriage I do but I have a great wife I have a great wife I've told Marie I've said you could have married a man like Hitler and you'd still been a great great woman and that's a fact that's a fact I mean I know that I'm very blessed and I say that with all humility I've got a great wife but she has a husband who loves her and together we can make it together we can make it and what has kept us together our faith in Christ our vows to God our desire to serve him and our awareness that our children need an example to follow on one occasion one of my sons approached me and he was speaking to me this was when they were in high school and they used a word that is a word I feel is an improper word it wasn't a huge terrible dirty word they don't swear in front of me but he used a slang word I didn't like and I looked at him and I said I don't like that word and he he was filling his oats that day I guess you know well so and so uses it so when you woke up we talked some the conversation continued so I said so and so uses that word he goes yeah I said is so and so your dad I said then you don't use him as your example do you you use me do I speak like that no dad you don't I said and neither do you because I am your example so I take these things very seriously my children growing up as I've said this before had devotions five nights out of the week five nights the other two nights they were in church they were on Wednesday night and when I was teaching Sunday nights they were in Sunday nights seven days out of the week my children had prayer when they would go to school in the morning little kids from kindergarten up into high school we would hold their hands I'd lay hands on them Monday through Friday as I went to school in Jesus name remember who you are may God be with you today my children that's the kind of dad I was but I still held on with all of my might through their teen years they decided they were going to form their own testimony and see how far they could go and still be Christians was it hard yes did we weep yes was our heart broken more than once yes I have awakened myself in tears for my children crying in my sleep why am I telling you this I'm going to take an offering in a minute for my kids because it's a battle it's a war all you need to do is think of your children when they were small if you're a parent or drive by a school I drive by the school here at the corner Monday through Friday you see these beautiful little babies about six years old riding their little bicycles and playing and I look at them I look at them I love those babies I really do I love those I love those little children there's something in my heart I see the precious sweet innocence of those babies and I realize in 10 years where will they be what will they be doing some of those kids those little precious little girls mama combs their hair so pretty and puts on that pretty little dresser outfit they're 13 they're going to be having sex they're maybe having a baby by the time they're 14 some of those little guys who are playing cowboy they're going to be carrying a gun someday and they're going to shoot somebody if somebody is going to do that they're going to kill somebody that's just a fact that's a stat so my heart gets burdened for them God loves our children he desires godly children and when a husband and a wife do not take the marriage about seriously their children will not take a relationship with God seriously they don't they do what daddy does not what daddy says so many times if you have a little girl little boy and a mama who loves Jesus and a dad who's kind of like so so they're going to be more like dad than mom that's what happens when a husband leads the home children know there's a strength there they know that there's a leader in that home they know that this matters and that mama that mama respects that man for his godliness God gave me an exceptionally godly woman that's a fact I don't say that with a weird boastfulness it's a fact I didn't make her that way but if you asked her she would tell you this because she just said it recently in a marriage thing that we did together she said what drew me to Jesus Christ she said this was the love of con that I experienced at the bible study that David was teaching they had love and I didn't and she said I married a man who loves the Lord and that's what makes me a strong woman it's a fact I didn't say that she did I'm just capitalizing on it to make myself look good tonight but it's a fact husbands we love our wives what we love them even as Christ loved the church and he gave himself for it God's desire in marriage is not just for the husband and the woman to have relationship but for them to give that relationship to their children so that their children would grow up and he's saying they would grow up to know him but if you're going out and divorcing there's just no future for your children and then he says in verse 16 and we'll move to a closing the Lord God of Israel says he hates divorce it covers one's garment with violence as the Lord opposed therefore take heed to your spirit that you do not deal treacherously you have worried the Lord with your words yet you say in what way have we worried him and that you say everyone who does evil is good in the side of the Lord and he delights in them or where is the God of justice notice the Lord God of Israel verse 16 says he hates divorce why? it covers one's garment with violence now it's interesting when you read the Bible the Bible actually says things that God hates you might find this interesting for example in Proverbs chapter chapter 6 verses 16 through 19 it says there that God hates certain things he hates hotty eyes a lying tongue hands that kill the innocent a heart that plots evil feet that race to do wrong a false witness who pours out lies and a person who sews discord among brothers isn't that interesting he hates people who gossip and divide he hates that and he says these things I hate these things I detest these six things I hate yeah he's seven these are destructive sins and he says I detest these things I hate these things but it's interesting he hates divorce why? notice he says it covers one's garment with violence now what do you mean it covers one's garment with violence a garment is a picture of protection it's a picture of security it can even be used as a picture of love in the book of Exodus in chapter 22 verses 26 and 27 it says if you ever take your neighbor's garment as a pledge you shall return it to him before the sun goes down for that is his only covering it is his garment for his skin what will he sleep in and it will be that when he cries to me I will hear for I'm gracious it's his garment for his skin what will he sleep in it's a picture of protection it's a covering he's saying divorce removes the symbol of love and protection that marriage was to have put in that relationship and it ends up destroying life that's what happens it destroys lives and then he finally says in verse 17 you've worried the Lord with your words you've argued that you could remain doing what you've been doing and still be blessed you don't even admit that you worry him but you have and you will be judged now when it says where is the God of justice just because he hasn't moved yet it does not mean he will not move I don't know how many parents I have in this room here but if you're a parent and your child's old enough perhaps you identify with this sometimes when my kids were small they do something that really deserved a quick response sometimes you should move quickly but other times they did something that I thought I'm going to give them a moment maybe a little time to think acting and reacting quickly I'll give them a little bit of time so they'll think just because I didn't move quickly didn't mean I wasn't going to move I just waited because who knows maybe they'll come to their senses and and I can unchain them from their wall I don't know maybe they'll wake up they're cruising they're moving in a direction they're not going to be happy when they get dealt with so you would wait but just because you don't move quickly doesn't mean you're not going to move and just because somebody does something seems to get away with it doesn't mean they will always get away with it because the Lord is patient he's long suffering he's not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance and sometimes he'll give you some time in Romans 2 verse 4 the question is asked not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance don't you realize that God hasn't come down hard on you yet because he loves you and he's giving you time so that you can actually come to your senses and turn to him and say God be merciful to me a sinner aren't you glad that God gave you however long it was until that day came that you said yes to him for me it was 20 years for me it was 20 years that's a lot of patience for others it's a lot longer others it could be 30 40 50 we had a man get saved in this church who was in his 80s that's a lot of patience that little old man that little old sinner man there's no sinner like an old sinner I promise you and God has patience and so they're saying well where's the God of justice he hasn't done anything yet if you say this is so wrong well that doesn't mean that he won't move just because he hasn't so you don't say that at all he's saying you won't even admit you weird him but you have and if you don't repent you will be judged well that's a sober warning from the prophet who's got a word from the Lord to the nation of Israel and he says you need to turn and you need to come back