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Alright, guys, this week we're looking at Exodus 34, verses 6 and 7, where God describes his attributes. So let's go ahead and read Exodus 34, 6 and 7 in the New American Standard Bible 1995 edition. Then the Lord passed in front of him this is Moses and proclaimed the Lord. The Lord, god compassionate and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in loving kindness and truth, who keeps loving kindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression. So in these two verses God describes seven distinct attributes of himself. Yesterday we discussed two of the attributes, that's God is compassionate and God is gracious. Today we're going to the attributes, that's God is compassionate and God is gracious. Today we're going to focus on the next two God is slow to anger and God's loving kindness.

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So I'm going to go ahead and throw myself under the bus here with this one with the slow to anger thing, okay, so if there was like a drone, that was like following me around, like doing like a live stream of me at different points in my life, even though I've matured and come a long way in my sanctification process, I'm kind of the furthest thing from slow to anger. I more so have like Formula One anger or, like you know, drag racer anger. It's just one of those things where something small, even something big, will happen, but a lot of times something small, and I will just shoot through the roof. Now, used to, I would stay up in the stars, like in all my anger, but now I kind of come back down to earth pretty quickly. But this is just not something that's easy for me. And other ways to say this in terms of the context of this verse is that God is patient, okay. God is long suffering, okay. So think about how long he waits for all of us right, us dumb sheep to get our crap together. Okay, and just think about all the patience he's showing the Israelites throughout the entire book of Exodus. I mean, it's a tremendous amount of long-suffering patients and he just gives us chance after chance after chance. And this is actually convicting for me as a father of young boys, because if they don't do the thing I want, boom like immediately. Sometimes our reaction can be overly harsh and I have to remember wait, god was patient with me. I owe them patience. They're developing. They don't understand. I just need to give them a second right. And what is the point of God being slow to anger? It's because he wants us to repent, guys.

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So let's go to Romans 2.4. Or do you think lightly of the riches of his kindness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance? So think about that. But also let's talk about God's loving kindness. So my pastor, dr Mark Hitchcock of Faith Bible Church in Edmond, oklahoma, taught me that the word used here is the Hebrew word chesed, which can mean loyal love, and he even came across a definition of stubborn love.

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Okay, so again go back to Exodus 34, verse six. God is abounding in this loyal and stubborn love. And just think about the people that are in your life and some of you have a bunch of these people. They're just really hard to love that. They don't give you a whole lot of opportunities to love them, right. So maybe they keep making the same mistakes. Maybe they've stolen from you, maybe they've lied to you, maybe they cheated on you, maybe they just looked at you like you were a target. And just think about how hard it is to love those people Like it's really difficult. And God loves us in a way that is infinitely more love and more patient than any person that you've ever met, that any of us have ever met right.

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And look at what the writer of the book of Lamentations says in chapter three, verses 22 and 23. The Lord's loving kindness indeed never cease, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness. And, guys, the Psalms are just replete with more examples of God's loving kindness.

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Psalm 136, verse 1, give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his loving kindness is everlasting. Psalm 36, 7, how precious is your loving kindness, o God, and the children of men take refuge in the shadow of your wings. Psalm 100, verse 5. For the Lord is good, his loving kindness is everlasting and his faithfulness to all generations. Psalm 89, verses 1 and 2.

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I will sing of the loving kindness of the Lord forever To all generations. I will make known your faithfulness with my mouth, for I have said, loving kindness will be built up forever In the heavens. You will establish your faithfulness. Let's keep going. Psalm 143, verse 8. Let me hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Teach me the way in which I should walk, for to you I lift up my soul and we'll do one more. Psalm 107, verse 1. Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his loving kindness is everlasting. Guys, if you want to know the attributes of God, let's take him at his word. God is slow to anger and God is full of loving kindness. Keep that in mind today. Come back here tomorrow for more.

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