? (Theme Song) ?
? Jesus is worthy ?
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? oh yes, he's worthy
? ? worthy of all... ?
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? all the praise... ? (Music)
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Pastor Byrd: I get
concerned with church folk
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who think they're
better than somebody else,
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that they're more holy
than somebody else, that they're
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more spiritual
than somebody else.
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Just because you stand up here
in a suit and a tie does not
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make you more
spiritual than anybody else.
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You can be a Bible quoting,
Spirit of Prophecy toting,
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Sabbath school going
person and still be the biggest
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devil in town.
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Oftentimes, the only
difference between you
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and somebody else is that
they got caught and you didn't.
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You think that folk have
to live up to your own little
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standards just because you've
been delivered from something
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and you've got a certain area
in your life together, so you
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look down on everybody else
who has not been delivered in
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that area, like you don't have
some issues over here, and so
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you condemn everybody
over here, but what you don't
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realize is, your
standard is too low.
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You still have issues.
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You still have problems.
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Everybody in here
is an ex-something.
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The standard is not
you, the standard is Christ.
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Let me be real in 2013,
the day is over for folk who
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always walk around with
judgmental attitudes, talking
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about what other
folks aren't doing.
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Why don't you sweep around
your own front door before you
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try to sweep
around my front door?
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Okay.
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You don't drink
anymore, but you lie.
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You don't fornicate
anymore, but you lust.
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You don't steal from
your neighbor anymore,
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but you rob God.
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Yes, you keep the Sabbath,
but you're just as mean and cold
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and callous and disrespectful
to your fellow man.
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Preach, Pastor Byrd.
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I'm doing the best I can.
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Setting up all
these little standards.
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Let the record
reflect, I'm trying to follow
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His standards.
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The Bible says that when
the enemy comes in like a flood
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against me, God
didn't say he'd raise you up.
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God didn't say he'd raise me
up, but God said he'd raise up
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his standard.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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So Jesus begins
writing in the sand.
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Now don't get it twisted.
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Jesus despised adultery.
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Don't make it seem that
Jesus is an anything-goes God.
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It's not like he's
excusing the woman's behavior.
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Jesus despised adultery,
but Jesus also despised
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self-righteous judgment.
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That's why we need
balance as Christians.
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I said, that's why we
need balance as Christians.
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That's lesson number three.
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Balance.
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For if you have all
this justice without mercy,
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you have legalism.
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You've met folk like that.
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They don't ever want
mercy until they are in trouble,
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but when it's you in trouble,
it's all justice and no mercy.
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All justice with no mercy
becomes legalism, and then all
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mercy with no
justice becomes liberalism.
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Where anything goes.
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Everything is okay.
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Do your own thing.
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It's your thing, do
what you want to do.
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If it feels good, do it.
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No justice, just all mercy.
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Which, by the way, is
only good in the short term,
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because any parent will
tell you that if you let your
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children do whatever they want
to do, you will end up finding
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yourself in a precarious
position and actually they'll
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end up feeling unloved because
love is manifested through
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discipline.
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God chastises
those whom he loves.
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Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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A true sign--listen to me
good--a true sign of Christian
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maturity is to have balance
in your life, where you don't go
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to any extreme.
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You ought to pray for balance
this year in your Christian
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walk.
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That's why, and listen to
me good, Pastor, what's your
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vision?
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I want a balanced church.
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We need a balanced church.
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Don't be so quick to persecute
people who don't promote your
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preferences.
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We need balance.
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Oakwood does not
need to be one way.
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We need--getting quiet now-
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-we need something for everyone,
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both young and
old, black and white,
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student and church member,
new member and seasoned member,
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visitor and neighbor,
educated and uneducated.
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We need law and grace,
religion and relationship,
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cognition and emotion,
information and inspiration,
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integrity and intensity,
hymn music and Gospel music,
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the church chorale
and the children's choir,
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the Aeolians and Dynamic Praise.
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We need Amen and
Hallelujah, Holy Scripture
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and the Holy Ghost.
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I know some of
you don't like that.
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That's all right anyhow.
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You didn't like everything
your momma put on your plate,
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but you ate it.
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Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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The woman is caught.
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She couldn't deny the act.
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She'd been seen.
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Jesus doesn't
beam them up to heaven.
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Jesus doesn't do
a disappearing act.
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Jesus doesn't kill the men.
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Jesus doesn't
send an earthquake.
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Jesus doesn't send a plague
of boils, a plague of frogs,
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a plague of lice.
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He writes in the sand.
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Now, Ellen White says in
"Desire of Ages," she said
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that the law actually said
that it was the husband's duty
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to take action against the
adulterous wife and the guilty
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parties were to
be equally punished.
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Which means, friends, that
the actions of the accusers were
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actually wrong.
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They were wrong and small.
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It was not their duty to
take action against the woman.
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The law just specified that
in punishment by stoning the
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witnesses in this case should
be the first to cast a stone.
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But Jesus doesn't say anything.
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Jesus doesn't argue.
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He doesn't quote the law.
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He doesn't preach a sermon.
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The Bible says he just acts as
if he doesn't hear them and he
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begins to write in the sand.
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I've learned, next lesson..
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you don't have to
argue with people.
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Folk come to me and they
say something, I just look
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at them, thank you for
sharing, and I keep it moving.
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You don't have to
debate with people.
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Truth needs no defense.
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If I hold my peace and
let the Lord fight my battles,
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victory shall be mine.
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But do you know
what they kept doing?
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They kept murmuring.
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They kept complaining.
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They kept debating.
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And then, the Bible
says, Jesus stands up--I could
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preach a whole sermon on that.
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When Jesus stands up.
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Somebody knows what
happens when somebody stands up.
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Because, you see, you could
be sitting down at a table,
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but when you stand
up, you mean business.
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Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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When Jesus stands up wrongs
are made right, the lame are
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made to walk, the dumb are
made to talk, the blind are
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made to see.
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When Jesus stands up,
and at the end of time
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when Michael stands up.
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Jesus stands up and he
begins to look at the plotting
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Pharisees, and he
says, he that is without sin
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among you, let him
cast the first stone at her.
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He then stoops down and
he begins to write again.
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Now, understand, thats
why I love me some Jesus,
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Jesus does not do
aside with the law.
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Jesus does not usurp
the authority of Rome.
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From the oldest to the
youngest, he just writes
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in the sand the
sins of her accusers.
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Embarrassed that their
lives are now an open book,
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they drop their rocks
and they quickly disappear.
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And that's just like God.
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Next lesson, number
five, God will deliver you
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in front of your enemies.
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You don't even have to
lift a finger and fight.
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Somebody knows
what I'm talking about.
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That's the kind of God we serve.
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What a mighty God we serve.
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Angels bow before him,
heaven and earth adore him,
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what a mighty God we serve.
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God will deliver you when
your enemies are all around you.
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Come here, Hebrew boys,
I'll deliver you from a fiery
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furnace when your
enemies are all around you.
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Come here, Brother Daniel,
I'll deliver you from a lion's
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den when your
enemies are all around you.
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Come here, Paul and Silas,
I'll deliver you from a prison
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cell when your
enemies are around you.
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But come here, Jesus.
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You do remember how
Jesus was put in a tomb.
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Soldiers were
placed around the tomb.
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The soldiers didn't even
know that Jesus was raised
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from the dead.
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They didn't even
know what happened.
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But God will deliver
you when your enemies
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are all around you.
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Her enemies disappeared.
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They had come to convict
the woman, but they went away
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convicted, the Bible
says, by their own conscience.
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They left the scene, fearing
the guilty sins of their own
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closets would be revealed to
the multitudes, and, now, all
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of a sudden, it's
just the woman and Jesus.
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With the jury and the
prosecuting attorneys gone,
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this courtroom now just
has the defense attorney
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and the judge.
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But let me give you
some good news today.
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The defense attorney and
the judge are one in the same
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person, which means the
same person who's defending you,
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is the same person
who will decide your case.
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Hallelujah, somebody.
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Your defense attorney, your
judge, Jesus, stands up, looks
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at the woman dead in the
eye and says, woman, where are
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thine accusers?
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Hast no man condemned thee?
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Trembling, the
woman says, no man. Lord
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Jesus says,
neither do I condemn thee.
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Go and sin no more.
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Go and sin no more.
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This is now the beginning
of a new life for this woman.
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A life of purity
and a life of peace.
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The world has for this
woman contempt and scorn.
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Jesus has for this
woman comfort and hope.
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The world has for this
woman sin and perdition.
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Jesus has for this
woman salvation and joy.
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The world has for this
woman romance and Romeos.
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Jesus has for this
woman a robe of righteousness
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and a crown of life.
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Jesus performed the greater
miracle of writing in the sand
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that in healing the most
grievous physical disease
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he cured the spiritual
malady which was eternal death
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Jesus dealt with the chief
thing that the woman stood in
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need of, the
immediate forgiving of her sins.
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He does not condone sin,
nor lessen the sense of guilt.
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He seeks not to
condemn but to save.
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God is not willing, thank you,
Jesus, that any should perish
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but that all
should come to repentance.
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But let me say this,
repentance must be honest
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and sincere.
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Don't ask God to do for you
what you're not willing to do
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for yourself.
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You can't want to lose weight
and then eat ice cream late at
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night.
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You cannot want a new house
or a new car and then not return
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to the Lord an honest tithe
and give a liberal offering.
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You can't want to stop smoking
and still buy cigarettes.
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You can't want to stop
gossiping and then still hang
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with negative low life, low
down, trifling gossiping folk.
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You can't want to stop lusting
and fornicating but then stay
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up late at night and
watch late-night foolishness.
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Well, Pastor Byrd preaching
σσ real and wrong today.
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Repentance must be
honest and sincere.
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The woman not
only has to be sorry
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for her sin, but she
has to turn away from it.
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Listen.
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Repentance which consists
in nothing more than feeling,
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talking, professing,
wishing and hoping is worthless
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in the sight of God.
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Until a man ceases to do
evil and turns from his sins,
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he really doesn't repent.
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But, if we confess our sins,
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he is faithful and just
to forgive us of our sins
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and cleanse us from
all unrighteousness.
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The wages of sin is death,
but the gift of God is eternal
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life through
Jesus Christ our Lord.
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For God so loved the world
that he gave his only begotten
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son that whosoever believeth
in him shall not perish
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but have everlasting life.
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For God sent not his son into
the world to condemn the world,
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but the world
through him might be saved.
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If any man be in
Christ he's a new creature.
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All things are passed
away, all things become new.
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Forgetting those things
which are behind and reaching to
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those things which are before.
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I press, I said, I
press, I press towards the mark
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of the high calling
of God in Jesus Christ.
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Let me tell you something.
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Last year is last year.
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Yesterday is yesterday.
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Let bygones be bygones.
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God is trying to
do a new thing in you.
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So, I press toward the
mark of the high calling of God
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in Christ Jesus.
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I may not be all that I should
be, but I praise God I'm not
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what I used to be.
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I press toward the
mark of the high calling.
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I'm not going to
worry about my setbacks.
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My setbacks are just
set up for come back.
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I press toward the
mark of the high calling
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of God in Jesus Christ.
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There are going to be some
doors slammed in your face,
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people that will call
you crazy, the world is not
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going to get better.
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You may not, young people,
make the grades you want,
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people will walk out of
your life and leave you hanging,
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but press.
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You'll be between a rock
and hard place, but press.
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You'll be between deliverance
and depression, but press.
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You're going to be between
breakthrough and breakdown,
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but press.
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I've learned in life,
folk will talk about you,
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people won't understand you,
church folk won't forgive you,
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but whatever you
do, keep on pressing.
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You see, despite what folk
have done to me, despite how
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folk have misunderstood me,
despite what folk have thought
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about me, I'm pressing on.
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The upward way, new
heights I'm gaining every day,
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still praying as
I'm onward bound,
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Lord plant my
feet on higher ground.
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Today it's time
for the brand new you.
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Every person in this sanctuary
right now, everybody watching,
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you are defined by a set
of experiences and these past
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experiences in your life
have trained you, shaped you
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and molded you.
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They have created you
into the person you are today.
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You've done some things right
and you've done some things
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wrong, but today you are
here as a product of those
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experiences.
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And as you draw from
these experience, you've learned
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from the things that you've
done wrong and your conclusion
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should always lead you to the
fact that this should be a new
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day in your life.
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And not just a new
day and a new year,
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but a new day in your
life, because there are some
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things in your life, some of
you don't even know it, there
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are some things that are
getting ready for change in
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your life, people that are
on their way out in your life.
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This year you're going
to delete some cell phones
00:18:30.96\00:18:33.16
numbers.
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I know I am.
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You're going to
un-friend some folk on Facebook.
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Somebody's going to
cancel their Twitter account.
00:18:40.60\00:18:43.93
Somebody needs to
know your entire life
00:18:43.93\00:18:47.66
is beginning to change.
00:18:47.66\00:18:48.66
You may be 75 years
old, but your life is getting
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ready to change.
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There's a reason that God has
allowed you to stay here this
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long because God is
trying to do something to you.
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You may be 25 years
old, but your life is getting
00:19:00.16\00:19:03.83
ready to change.
00:19:03.83\00:19:04.83
God has kept you around.
00:19:04.83\00:19:05.83
He's getting
ready to do a new thing.
00:19:05.83\00:19:09.73
You've cried long enough, been
broke long enough, been sick
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long enough.
00:19:14.76\00:19:16.66
You've played long enough.
00:19:16.66\00:19:18.56
You've been
depressed long enough.
00:19:18.56\00:19:22.40
You've struggled with
self-esteem long enough.
00:19:22.40\00:19:24.96
You've dealt with
trifling folk long enough.
00:19:24.96\00:19:28.90
You've dealt with
fake friends long enough.
00:19:28.90\00:19:32.83
You've had people
that used you long enough.
00:19:32.83\00:19:37.33
You've had a surface
religion long enough.
00:19:37.33\00:19:41.43
God is getting ready to do a
new thing and you're not going
00:19:41.43\00:19:45.23
back into yesterday, but
today is going to be a new day.
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Yesterday for somebody
may have been dark, but your
00:19:49.40\00:19:51.63
future looks bright, your
walk is getting ready to change,
00:19:51.63\00:19:55.93
your talk is getting ready
to change, the places you go are
00:19:55.93\00:20:00.33
getting ready to change,
the people you hang out with
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are getting ready to change.
00:20:03.43\00:20:05.13
No mess this year.
00:20:05.13\00:20:07.26
No drama this year.
00:20:07.26\00:20:12.26
No pessimism this year.
00:20:12.26\00:20:15.76
No gossip this year.
00:20:15.76\00:20:18.70
No negativity this year.
00:20:18.70\00:20:21.76
No fault finding this year.
00:20:21.76\00:20:24.90
No finger pointing this year.
00:20:24.90\00:20:27.43
No stealing this year.
00:20:27.43\00:20:30.90
No adultery this year.
00:20:30.90\00:20:34.16
No "I can't" this year.
00:20:34.16\00:20:36.83
The best is yet to come.
00:20:36.83\00:20:39.70
Your latter is going to
be greater than your past.
00:20:39.70\00:20:44.40
You are here, hallelujah, by
the grace of God, because God
00:20:44.40\00:20:49.50
has ordained it that you
would be in this city, in this
00:20:49.50\00:20:52.43
place, in this seat to
listen to this Word this day.
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And the devil is so foolish
that he allowed you to get
00:20:55.30\00:21:01.53
here today, because the devil
knows he should have killed
00:21:01.53\00:21:04.23
you when he had the chance.
00:21:04.23\00:21:05.43
But the devil is a liar
and the fact that you're here
00:21:05.43\00:21:09.83
today is evidence that
God is getting ready to create
00:21:09.83\00:21:12.03
a brand new you.
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And so, Jesus is
writing a message to you.
00:21:13.73\00:21:30.40
But today he writes not
in the sand, but he writes
00:21:30.40\00:21:37.60
his message on the cross.
00:21:37.60\00:21:40.33
He writes not with his hand,
00:21:43.46\00:21:45.46
but he writes
today with his Blood.
00:21:48.60\00:21:51.10
And he says to every
one of us today, I love you,
00:21:51.10\00:21:59.40
my grace is sufficient,
your sins are forgiven,
00:21:59.40\00:22:05.70
whatever you did last night,
whatever you did last week,
00:22:05.70\00:22:13.53
whatever you did last month,
whatever you did last year
00:22:13.53\00:22:19.73
is covered in my blood.
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Let me close this way.
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What I love about this story
and I could preach it a bunch
00:22:27.10\00:22:29.36
of ways.
00:22:29.36\00:22:30.36
My wife and I were talking
this morning about different
00:22:30.36\00:22:32.36
ways it could be
preached in different sermons.
00:22:32.36\00:22:34.36
But what I love about John,
Chapter 8 is that it reminds
00:22:34.36\00:22:37.80
me that by the time you get
to Jesus, he's already begun
00:22:37.80\00:22:44.50
to do something.
00:22:44.50\00:22:45.50
You all don't hear me.
00:22:45.50\00:22:51.53
By the time you get to Jesus,
even before you come down this
00:22:51.53\00:22:55.36
aisle today, Jesus has
already begun to do something
00:22:55.36\00:22:59.03
in your life.
00:22:59.03\00:23:01.10
He's already begun
writing in the sand.
00:23:02.23\00:23:05.40
He's already begun
your rescues, already begun
00:23:05.40\00:23:10.16
your deliverance.
00:23:10.16\00:23:11.16
He's already working
something in you before you
00:23:11.16\00:23:18.16
ever get to him.
00:23:18.16\00:23:19.16
So, everybody else took
advantage of me, everybody
00:23:19.16\00:23:24.20
else has taken something
from my life, but the only thing
00:23:24.20\00:23:26.86
Jesus is going to do is take
away your sins, take away your
00:23:26.86\00:23:36.16
stony heart, take away
your guilt, your hurt, take away
00:23:36.16\00:23:42.26
your past, take away your pain
and he's going to make you a
00:23:42.26\00:23:48.66
new creature, a new man, a new
woman, a new boy, a new girl.
00:23:48.66\00:23:59.96
But then the converse,
the opposite of that is, the
00:23:59.96\00:24:02.36
opposite of taking is giving.
00:24:02.36\00:24:08.36
Jesus will never
take without giving.
00:24:10.63\00:24:18.16
And so Jesus has not only come
to take some stuff from your
00:24:18.16\00:24:23.06
life, but Jesus has come
today to give you something.
00:24:23.06\00:24:29.10
He's come to give you life.
00:24:29.10\00:24:32.56
Life that you might
have it more abundantly.
00:24:32.56\00:24:39.80
My question as I take
my seat is, do you want it?
00:24:39.80\00:24:51.33
Do you really want new life?
00:24:51.33\00:24:58.33
We talk that stuff,
but do you really want it?
00:24:58.33\00:25:03.03
Do you really want
new life from Jesus?
00:25:03.03\00:25:06.96
Do you really,
really want Jesus to come?
00:25:06.96\00:25:11.06
Do you really want
Jesus to change some stuff
00:25:11.06\00:25:14.10
in your life?
00:25:14.10\00:25:15.70
Do you really want the
Lord to remove some stuff
00:25:15.70\00:25:19.50
in your life?
00:25:19.50\00:25:20.40
Do you really want it?
00:25:20.40\00:25:29.70
Carlton Byrd is chief
sinner, chief, but in my ears
00:25:29.70\00:25:38.90
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00:25:38.90\00:25:52.96
go and sin no more.
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