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Day 165, or June the 14th. God's church is unconquerable. Today's thought is rooted

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in Psalm 74 verse 8. They said in their hearts, We will crush them completely. They burned

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every place where God was worshipped in the land.

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First the big picture surrounding this verse. All of our Psalms today were written by one

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of the temple's worship leaders called Asaph. He wrote about a dozen Psalms, and they are

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all to be found in the latter two-thirds of the book of Psalms. The Bible tells us that

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Asaph was a true priestly Levite being descended from Gershon, the eldest son of Aaron. In

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those days this family history would have given him much credibility as well as demanding

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great respect. In a sense he was a member of the nobility who could trace his family

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tree right back to the Exodus when his ancestors left Egypt, led by the dynamic brothers Moses

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and Aaron.

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And now our action step for today. Even in these days of rampant atheism in the UK it

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seems as nothing compared to the suffering of many believers throughout the centuries.

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Asaph reminds us that three thousand years ago there was a considerable number of God's

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enemies who really tried their best to wipe God and his followers off the face of the

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earth. They failed, as will all other attempts, because our God is more powerful than all

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of his enemies put together, with lots of zeros added. I realize I will displease some

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of you when I say that I would prefer most disused church buildings to be demolished

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rather than converted into offices or houses. But they are glaring declarations to the world

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that the church is of yesteryear, and it isn't. The church world-wide is still expanding,

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and we are all part of the only thing on earth that will last longer than our planet. Remember

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this when you pass a disused church building. Remember, it was never a church, it was just

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the place where part of God's church met together to worship. It served its purpose

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for a season, but God's church will continue and last forever.