Sermon #S022 - I've
Got Receipts - (Part 2)
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Welcome to the Breath of Life
Television Ministries broadcast
with Pastor Debleaire Snell!
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In today's episode, Pastor Snell
will share Part Two of the
powerful message entitled “I've
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Got Receipts” Let learn more
about God's power through the
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study of His Word. Pastor Snell:
See I need yall to get that one
thing about human nature and
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it's not just you, it's human
nature. Human nature has a bend
toward evil. Are you all still
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with me, church?
[Congregation: Amen]
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We have a natural inclination
toward sin and not just saying
but the covering of our sin.
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The problem with sometimes is
that God is so merciful that God
won't let you blow up the first
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time. What he will do is he will
allow some grace. But what
happens is we confuse grace as a
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license for sin.
[Congregation: Amen]
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And what should be helping us
turn around actually makes us
bolder in our dirt. You are all
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acting brand-new today?
[Congregation: Amen/Clapping]
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Because it's quite as it's kept,
though nobody gets caught the
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first time.
[Congregation: Laughing]
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Come on, tell the truth. That's
what you told your parents, but
nobody gets pregnant the first
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time. There are some scares
along the way, but we didn't
turn around am I telling the
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truth, like, nobody goes to jail
for the first crime they commit.
In other words, there are
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usually. They can
anybody look back at their life
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and realize that there were some
times there was some margin
where God gave us to turn
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around. But the problem is that
some of us will not turn around
until certain things are drawn
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from the darkness.
[Congregation: Amen]
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And put into the light. And so I
need us to understand something
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about the truth. Like for those
that are living with a lie right
now, I need you to know man, the
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truth is the one element that
cannot die. [Congregation: Amen]
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I mean, the truth is like that
blade of grass that burst
through the concrete crack.
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And I want to encourage somebody
that is living with a painful
lie, I need you to know,
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the one thing about secret
sin is that it's strongest in
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secret. And that's what God
has done certain things hit the
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light because it is not until it
hits the light that we can find
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our salvation. I need us to kind
of think through this with the
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scriptures because I needed to
know that some of the greatest
blessings in the scripture are
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when some people got caught. And
you see, the blessing of the
woman is not just when she was
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forgiven, it was when she got
caught. I can see you all still
are not convinced. Let's look at
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my man Samson. He had gotten
away with it, and he always had
his strength but he didn't turn
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around and depend on God until
he got caught and that's when he
realized that his help came from
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God. You all still aren't
convinced. Remember your boy,
Jonah was doing good, running
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from the presence of God but he
didn't realize his full
potential until he got caught in
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the belly of a whale and then he
made supplication unto God.
Okay, you'll be convinced here.
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Remember there was a thief on
the cross who is out there
living his best life
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and had gotten away with it. But
one day he was caught and put on
the cross next to Jesus,
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and it was there on the cross
that he met his savior, we're
saying today I say unto you that
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you will be with me in paradise.
In other words, God blesses some
by covering, and sometimes he
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saves you by letting it come to
the light. [Congregation: Amen]
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The third thing that teaches us
is that Jesus applies justice
evenly. The one thing about my
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Jesus, he is the God who
balances the scales. In this
text, as much as Jesus is a
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moral advocate, I need you all
to get that he is also a justice
advocate. I didn't even realize,
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do you realize that this story
actually has social justice
implications to it?
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The one thing that is
interesting about Jewish law at
this time is that Jewish law
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kind of overlapped with civil
law so much so that you could be
punished civilly. Because there
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was no separation of church and
state. You can be punished
civilly for moral indiscretions.
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Are you all still with
me? [Congregation: Amen]
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And it's amazing because you
could be stoned to death if you
are found guilty of the act of
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adultery. But this is where
Jesus is essentially trying to
even the scales and the
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distribution of justice. Because
when they bring this woman and
they say, listen, we found her
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Jesus, we caught her in adultery
in the very act. The question
should immediately be raised.
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Wait a minute. How do you just
go catch one person in adultery,
but the other person goes
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scot-free? I mean, Rob Base told
us in the 90s, it takes two to
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make... [Congregation: You've
been saved all your life[?]]
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Okay, all right, you've all been
saved all your life, okay, I
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hear you. But did you realize
friends that in the Jewish law,
specifically, the Talmud that a
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man could not be guilty of
adultery, that only a woman
could be found guilty of
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adultery? And in other words,
they dragged her out the bed and
your boy sitting there with a
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cigarette like, man, you better
get right with God.
[Congregation: Amen]
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In other words, the only one
that could be found guilty of
adultery was a married woman.
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And if a single woman messes
with a married, man, guess what?
Then the woman would be found
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guilty of adultery. And see what
happened, in a patriarchal
society where the men had all
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the power, they set up rules
that would punish a segment of
those without the power.
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While those with the power to
commit the same crime or do the
same deed and not experience the
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same consequence. And see
friends of mine, I need us to
understand that Jesus came to
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show us what God was like. One
of the things that Jesus does in
this story is when he says, let
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him who is without sin. And
notice when Jesus says this, he
is not talking about general
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sin, he said to let him who is
without the same sin, cast the
first stone. In other words, he
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is saying, let's have a stoning
party up in here but we are
going to stone everybody.
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[Congregation: Clapping/Amen]
That's committed the sin. I need
you to understand that Jesus
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doesn't just deal with the issue
here. Remember in Matthew
Chapter 5, when Jesus teaches on
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the mountain, he says, "Thou
says, the Bible says, Thou shalt
not commit adultery,"
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and Jesus says that he that
looks upon a woman with lust has
already committed adultery with
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her in his heart. And the
radical part is not just that he
raises thought to the level of
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adultery, the radical part is
that he says, even you all
brothers can be found guilty.
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Are you all hearing the
word today? [Congregation: Amen]
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So Jesus says, let him who is
without sin cast the first stone
at her first and see, remember
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Jesus says, I didn't come to
destroy the law and the
prophets, he says, I came to
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fulfill the law. In other words,
he says, I come to make sure
that everybody is judged by it
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equally. And see what Jesus is
teaching us friends, is that he
is the god that champions the
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cause of the oppressed, that he
is the God that stands with the
marginalized. He is the God that
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stands up for those who have no
voice. He is the God that stands
in the gap and advocates for
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those who have no advocate. And
I just want to say to anybody
that is on the wrong side of
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oppression that we serve a God
who has made it his mission to
make sure that evens the scales
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of justice. And I need you
to know that you might be on the
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wrong side today, but God is
going to make all things equal
in time. Are you all hearing me
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today, friends?
[Congregation: Amen]
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I needed us to know beloved
because God is saying, listen,
we're going to do this thing
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right because I got
receipts. [Congregation: Amen]
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As I need us, no friends of mine
that the scales of justice are
still uneven in our time.
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Do you realize that this
patriarchal stop structure is
even alive in our time?
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Pew Research Center states that
5 out of 25 women state that
they earn less than their male
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counterparts, even though they
do the exact same work, at the
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same job. Do you realize friends
of mine that women make 84 cents
for every dollar that their male
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counterparts make? Do you
realize that in our own church,
you have female pastors that
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preach and they visit and they
minister, and yet they're
classified differently than
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their male counterparts that do
the exact same thing? Do you
realize that in the justice
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system, a black man and a white
man can commit the same drug
offense but the wet black man's
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sentence is going to be two
times as long? Do you realize
that during the crack epidemic
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they pronounce the war on drugs
and stiff penalties, but during
the opioid crisis, we created
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rehab centers and it was treated
as mental illness Do you realize
that blacks are three times more
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likely to be pulled over by the
police, that blacks report that
there are times that when
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they're in a position of
administration, they will train
a white counterpoint only to
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have that same white person,
I'll get promoted ahead of them
and they find themselves
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answering to the one they train.
Blacks rate twice as long in
emergency rooms with charge more
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for bail. We get less access to
loans when we have the same
credit score. Ain't it crazy,
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how a black person can be put
in jail for using an EBT card,
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but Brett Favre can steal five
million dollars from the welfare
fund to give to his alma mater,
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and yet, no charges have
been leveled against him or the
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governor. [Congregation: Amen]
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And what I'm saying today
friends, is that on this side,
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there is always a powerless
minority that's going to have
the scales of justice in this
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place in an uneven way. But I
love the promise of Isaiah
chapter 40, as it related to the
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Messiah, and Isaiah 40 verses 1
through 4, he declares that
there's going to be one that
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cries out in the wilderness that
makes a highway in the desert.
And the Bible says that when he
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comes that every hill and
mountain is going to be brought
low, and every valley is going
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to be filled and that the rock
places are going to be made
smooth. I don't know if somebody
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realizes what he's saying, is
that when the Messiah comes
mountains will be brought low
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and valleys are going to be
filled. In other words, those
that are up high are going to be
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brought low, and those that are
in the valley are going to be
raised up. And guess what?
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It's not going to matter
your color, your gender, or your
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creed because the ground is
going to be leveled at the foot
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of the cross. Is there anybody
thankful that the wall of
partition has been torn down,
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and that there is no Jew, no
Gentile, no Greek, no male, no
female, no bond, no free, but we
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are all one in Jesus Christ?
[Congregation: Amen/Clapping]
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And that's why Amos says that
before the Lord comes that
justice is going to roll on like
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a river and righteousness like a
mighty stream, and know that
nobody gets away with it
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forever.
[Congregation: Amen/Clapping]
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Because everybody has to appear
before the judgment seat of
Jesus Christ. Now, just a point
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of information. You all know
that they don't care anything
about this woman's morality.
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They're just using her to get to
Jesus. I want to be clear
friends that the miracle of the
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story, is not the abandonment of
the law. That's not what is that
work here. Your takeaway from
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this particular story should not
be that Jesus overlooks or
nullifies the law. No, your
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takeaway from the story ought to
be that there is only one that
is worthy to act as judge.
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[Congregation: Amen] And it is
the sinless Son of God. Are you
all with me today, friends?
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[Congregation: Amen]
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So listen, they come to Jesus.
They're like listen, Lord, we
caught this woman in adultery in
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the very act and say, I need you
to get this job. Like they
pretty much think they got Jesus
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in a bind. In other words, they
feel like they are in a win-win
situation because guess what if
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Jesus then on omits or nullifies
the law then they'll be able to
condemn him as a lawbreaker. But
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then, if Jesus has the woman
stoned, then guess what his
movement of mercy is going to
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lose all of its credibility. So
if they stone her, they win, if
they release her, they win and
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they feel like they've got Jesus
up the creek without a paddle
but they don't know who they
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messing with. My savior is like
okay, you all came from me even
when I didn't send for you all,
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you all want to have our
conversation about the law.
Let's have a law-and-order
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jamboree in this joint.
[Congregation: Amen/Clapping] He
said okay, you all want to be
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about the law. Let's execute the
law in all your functions.
Remember, he says, I didn't come
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to destroy the law or the
prophets, I came to fulfill the
law. You all don't even realize
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I'm the embodiment of the law. I
am literally the only one that's
kept the law in all of its
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points. So, if you want to talk
about the law, you came to the
right one today. [Congregation:
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Amen] Are you all
with me today, friends?
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[Congregation: Amen]
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So, essentially now, what Jesus
says, he's like, okay, men
listen, let's have a law party.
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Let's implement it in a very
particular way. I want to
listen, this is not in the
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Bible, but I believe Jesus sees
some stones and he grabs some
stones. And he goes and gets one
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to this person and he goes and
gives one to that person and he
goes and gives one to the other
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person and then it gets a big
stone and gives to a big man.
And he says, listen, when you
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throw this, don't forget to wind
up a long way and make sure you
aim good at the woman. And he
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says, he who is without sin cast
the first stone. And when the
woman, here's Jesus says it's
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okay to cast a stone, I can see
her ball up in the fetal
position. [Congregation: Amen]
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She is bracing herself to get
what she deserves. She's trying
to figure it out. Do I cover my
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head, but if I cover my head, I
leave my organs exposed? If I
cover my organs, I leave my face
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exposed. If I cover my face,
I leave something else exposed.
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And in this moment of trying to
brace it becomes clear that the
sinner cannot cover themselves.
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[Congregation: Amen/Clapping]
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So, Jesus is walking around and
he's just hanging out stones.
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He says, listens you get a stone
and you get a stone and you get
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a stone. Make sure your aim is
good to make sure your wind up
right, he says he who is without
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sin cast the first stone.
But before you throw it...
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Let me show you some receipts.
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[Congregation: Amen/Clapping]
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As the word says that he just
starts writing on the ground. He
acts as if he doesn't even hear
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them. And then the Bible says,
he writes some stuff in the
ground. Then he says, before you
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throw it, realize you got to be
without sin before you cast the
first stone. You see the right
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Jesus begins writing in the
ground, and the servant of the
Lord says that Jesus begins to
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write their names.
[Congregation: Amen]
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And a list of all their sins.
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[Congregation: Amen]
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And God is saying before
you throw it, remember, I got
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receipts.
[Congregation: Amen/Laughing]
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Can you imagine what it's like
when you see your name in the
sand, and it says, Sam, March,
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23rd 7 p.m. at the Howard
Johnson, oh yall not hearing me?
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[Congregation: Amne]
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He says, Joe, Aug 24th, 2:24
p.m. on your lunch break with
your secretary. Devante March,
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17th at 12 p.m. you thought
nobody saw. But I saw, oh, Bill,
I saw you on December 23rd, you
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crept the day before Christmas
Eve. But guess what? I still saw
you. And as they look at the
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list of their sins in the sand,
they start acting like good
Baptists. [Congregation:
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Amen/Clapping] They put that
finger up, and the word says
that they walk out from the
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oldest all the way down to the
youngest. I love the way Jesus
does this. Because not only does
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he not expose the woman, he
doesn't even expose the man.
There are two times when we see
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God writing in
Scripture. [Congregation: Amen]
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Oh where Bible folf at?
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[Congregation: Amen]
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We see Jesus take the same hand,
and we see him right down the
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Ten Commandments.
[Congregation: Amen]
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He takes the same sand, and as
hand and he writes the sins in
the sand. You all didn't catch
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it. He wrote the Commandment in
stone. He wrote sins in the sand
so that when they walk through
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the list of sins can be
wiped away. [Congregation:
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Amen/Clapping] I'm grateful
that the law cannot be changed.
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[Congregation: Amen/Clapping]
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But I'm thankful that
my sins can be wiped away.
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[Congregation: Amen/Clapping]
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They can be erased.
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[Congregation: Amen]
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They can be blotted out.
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[Congregation: Amen/Clapping]
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They can be removed.
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[Congregation: Amen/Clapping]
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Thank God, he didn't write them
in ink, in concrete, he wrote
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them in the sand.
[Congregation: Amen/Clapping
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Are you hearing the word today?
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[Congregation: Amen/Clapping]
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I love this thing because
the woman is still there bracing
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herself. [Congregant: Amen]
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Jesus has to tell the woman to
get up. She said, bracing one
side and covering the other
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side, and she knows she's done
because there's something that
is left exposed. And he says
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woman, where are your accusers?
And she finally looks up and
says none. And he says, neither
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do I condemn thee and what he's
saying to the woman is wake up,
stop covering yourself. You
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ain't got to cover yourself
because I got you covered from
now on. [Congregation:
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Amen/Clapping] I got you
covered. Anybody thankful to be
covered in his righteousness and
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his blood, in his mercy, and
in his goodness. [Congregation:
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Amen] So he does not omit the
law. He simply evenly
distributes it and he shows
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mercy by showing that none of us
are good, none of us are
deserving, but the same woman
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stood under the same judgment
that the Pharisees did and they
could all only be made whole in
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him. I do want to say. One quick
thing before I close is that
some of the more than most
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powerful statements in the word
it is not just neither, do I
condemn you. We shout out there
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and we go home but Jesus says
something even greater to the
woman. He says go...
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[Congregant: Amen/Hallelujah]
...and sin no more.
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[Congregant: Amen/Hallelujah]
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The problem is we see that as
just a religious instruction.
But how many of us know that
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Jesus' word is not just
instruction, his word is also
the will to carry it out? Oh,
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you all didn't catch that. The
problem is we've been treating
the word like just this law of
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codes that is without us or
outside of us, but I need us to
know that the word of God, is
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alive, active, and sharper than
a double-edged sword and it is a
discerner of the thoughts and
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the intents of the heart. And
what I'm saying to somebody
today is that his word is not
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just an instruction, his word is
the real, it is the force. It is
the power to perform what it is
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that he is asking for you to do.
In other words, there are times
when we read what God desires in
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the word and we pray to God,
give me the power to do what's
in the word, know if you just
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internalize the word.
[Congregation: Amen] Then you've
already got the power. See you
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all still see the word as just
syllables. The Bible says, in
the beginning, was the Word, and
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the Word was with God, and the
Word was God, and the Word
became flesh and dwelt amongst
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us. So that when I caught the
word in me, I'm getting an
infusion of Jesus so that the
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same power that caused him to
overcome is the same power that
allows me to walk in the newness
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of life. So if I'm going to
overcome, I've got to be like
Jesus and say it is written.
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[Congregation: Amen/Clapping]
Man shall not live by bread
alone, but by every word that
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proceeds from the mouth of God.
I need somebody to know that
there's power in the Word.
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[Congregation: Amen] Snell: Help
me, Holy Spirit. There is
authority in the pages of
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scripture. There is something
supernatural in the 66 books
that have been canonized.
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The problem is you're praying
for the power to act on the Word
when you ought to just be
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activating the power that's
already in the word.
[Congregation: Amen/Clapping]
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Okay, thank you, Holy Spirit.
The problem is we've been the
Word, like hardware, instead of
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software. Oh, God. Let me talk
to the deacons. In other words,
hardware is the tool that I use
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because I got to work hard to
make something change, that's
hardware. But when I get the
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software and it's downloaded on
my phone, the operations do so
automatically because it is
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inscribed on the tablets of the
device? And when his word is
inscribed on my heart
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righteousness becomes an
automatic byproduct of having my
operating system change from
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Windows to Mac OS. Are you all
hearing what I'm saying today?
[Congregation: Amen] The word is
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software, not hardware.
[Congregation: Amen/Clapping]
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I'm excited friends that
Jesus says I've got receipts.
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[Congregation: Amen]
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Now, some of you all are here
that Jesus got receipts and you
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get scared.
[Congregation: Laughing/Amen]
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You know why I'm glad Jesus has
receipts, any redeemed folk in
this room with me yet?
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[Congregation: Yes]
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Any folk that now
you saved by grace.
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[Congregation: Amen]
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You're the reason, I'm glad
Jesus got receipts, is because
receipts are proof of purchase.
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[Congregation: Amen/Clapping]
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Receipts are not
proof of what you did wrong.
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[Congregation: Amen]
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It's the evidence that
you've been brought by somebody.
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[Congregation: Amen]
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So that if I have something, and
somebody says it's mine and I'm
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saying, it's mine, the proof
and what breaks the tie is I got
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receipts.
[Congregation: Amen/Clapping]
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I got something that says where
been brought it. Where is been
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brought? The last four numbers
in my credit card statements?
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[Congregation: Amen]
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The devil says they sinned.
The devil says they're mine.
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[Congregation: Amen]
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The devil says they belong to me
but Jesus stands up in dispute.
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The enemy accuses. God is
covering. Satan says they're
mine. Jesus says they belong to
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me. [Congregation: Amen]
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But then Jesus, rolls up his
sleeves, and shows the nails in
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his hands.
[Congregatnt: My Lord]
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Opens up his coat. Show his
nails on his side, takes his
shoes off, shows the nails on
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his feet, and says, I've got the
receipts. [Congregations:
Hallelujah/Amen/ Clapping]
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I know when I bought, I didn't
purchase them with corruptible
things, such as silver or
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gold... [Congregation: Amen]
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...but with the
precious blood of Jesus.
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[Congregation: Amen]
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If you're thankful,
he's got the receipt.
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[Congregation: Amen]
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Praise the Lamb, give him glory.
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[Congregation: Amen/Clapping]
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Thank him, that he knows you,
that he purchased you and that
our God knows your name.
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[Congregation: Amen/Clapping]
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(Breath of Life Theme Music)
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