Hello.
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I'm Shelley Quinn
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and welcome to
Exalting His Word!
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I'm so happy
that you could join us
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for this very special program!
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We'll be discussing
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the joy of repentance
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and how to receive
God's complete forgiveness
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and rejoice that
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His compassion's
are new every morning!
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First,
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let's review what
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the theme text
for this program is.
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That's Psalms 128:2
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And in that verse
the Bible says that
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God exalts His name
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and His word above all things
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and that He magnifies His word
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even above His name!
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What that means is that
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God as Commander and Chief
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has promoted His word to
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the highest rank of importance.
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Nothing is more
important to God.
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He has given His
word transforming,
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life-giving power
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and because of that
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we should Exalt
His Word as well!
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Let's go to the Lord in prayer
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and ask Him to
bless our study today.
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Heavenly Father,
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we ask in a
special way that you would
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send your Holy Spirit to
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anoint our ears
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and plow up our hearts Father.
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And help us Lord to plant
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Your promises in our hearts.
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In the Name of Jesus
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we ask that You would
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sanctify us by Your word, amen.
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Now, let's get started
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and look at our first
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Life Affirmation from Scripture!
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This one says...
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[affirmation on screen]
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Can you see what I've done here?
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Everything that's stated here is
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FROM SCRIPTURE.
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It is simply
taking the word of God
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and praying it back to Him.
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And you know,
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I noticed that
often when Jesus prayed,
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He prayed to God as
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the Holy and Righteous Father.
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So let's look at
this first line...
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"Holy and Righteous Father
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"please search
my heart and mind."
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That comes from Psalms 139:23-24
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which says,
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"Search me oh God
and know my heart.
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"Test me and know
my anxious thoughts.
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"See if there's
any offensive way in me
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"and lead me in
the way everlasting."
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And in Psalms 19:12 says,
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"Clear me from hidden
and unconscious faults."
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The next line of
our affirmation says
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"show me the areas in which
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"I fall short of Your glory."
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In Romans 3:23-24 it says,
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"All have sinned and
fall short of the glory of God
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"and are being
justified freely by His grace
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"through the redemption
that is in Christ Jesus."
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You know in the Greek that says,
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"All have sinned
and are falling short of
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"the glory of God."
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so we have to realize that
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daily we do fall
short of God's glory.
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But we want the Lord to
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show us where so that we can
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be lead to Godly
sorrow and repentance.
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And that's our
next verse or line.
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It says,
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"Please lead me to
Godly sorrow and repentance."
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That comes from 2
Corinthians 7:10 and it says,
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"Godly sorrow brings
repentance that leads to
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"Salvation and
leaves no regret."
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When God brings
you to Godly sorrow,
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He'll cause you to turn
around and turn back to Him.
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And you wont be
beating yourself up
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with guilt and condemnation.
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Romans 2:4 says this...
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"Do you despise the
riches of His goodness,
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"His forbearance,
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"and His longsuffering;
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"not knowing it is
the goodness of God that
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"leads you to repentance?"
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You see,
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even repentance
is something that
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we can't do on our own.
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God is always working
to draw us nearer to Him.
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The next line says,
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"Please wash me
thoroughly and repeatedly
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"in the precious
blood of Jesus Christ.
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"And cleanse me of my sin."
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That comes from Psalms 51:2.
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Where David was
praying and he said,
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in the Amplified it says...
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"Wash me thoroughly
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"and repeatedly from my iniquity
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"and from my guilt.
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"And cleanse me and make
me holy pure from my sin."
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And then in 1
John 1:7 it says...
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"If we walk in the
light as He is in the light,
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"then we have
fellowship with Him.
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"And we have
fellowship with one another.
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"And the blood
of Jesus Christ will
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"cleanse us from all sin."
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The next line of
our affirmation says,
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"I want to know Jesus Christ
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"and the power of
His resurrection."
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I wanna pause
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and I wanna tell you if
you pray that to the Lord,
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if you say "Lord
I want to know you.
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"I want to know the
power of His resurrection."
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I guarantee you
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you're praying
according to God's will.
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And the Bible says
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we know that we have the answer.
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That came from Philippians 3:10
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when Paul said,
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"and the power
of His resurrection.
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"I want to be more like Jesus."
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And that's our next,
um, line of our affirmation.
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And that comes from Romans 8:29.
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The Bible says that
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who God foreknew
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He also
predestined to be conformed to
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the image of His son.
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That Jesus might be the
first born among many brethren.
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Do you realize that
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your destiny is
to become like Jesus?
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If you've accepted
Christ as your Savior,
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that's God's plan for your life.
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He is going to conform
you to the image of Jesus.
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Hallelujah!
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And it doesn't happen overnight!
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It is a step by
step work in progress.
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Now, our next line
of our affirmation says,
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"Create in me a pure heart,
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"and consistent
actions of faith."
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And I got that
from Psalms 51:10.
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And there, David said,
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"Create in me a
clean heart oh God
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"and renew a
steadfast spirit within me."
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Then we went on on
our affirmation to say,
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"I rely on your power to be
made perfect in my weakness."
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Of course that's
2 Corinthians 12:9
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when Jesus gave I think
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the most precious promise
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in the Bible when He said,
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"My grace is sufficient for you.
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"For My power is
made perfect in weakness."
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Now, that we've disassembled it,
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let's put it all
back together again
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and let's take another look at
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that Life Affirmation.
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This is what you
can pray to the Lord
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and know He will answer...
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[affirmation on screen]
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What a blessing!
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If you'll make this your prayer
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praying God's word back to Him.
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There is such
power in doing this
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and you can be
sure that He'll answer
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because you're
praying according to His will!
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And He watches over
His word to perform it.
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Please stay tuned!
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Well be right back with another
Affirmation from Scripture!
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is making a
difference in your life
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then you should know
about a special study guide
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written by Shelly Quinn.
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Exalting His Word
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and Life
Affirmations from Scripture
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is an in-depth
study of the word of God.
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Please send your love
gifts to Exalting His Word
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Now let's take another look at
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a Life
Affirmation from Scripture.
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This one says...
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[affirmation on screen]
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Boy!
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Now, isn't that a
very special Affirmation?
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That is what God's words says!
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And I believe that
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if you speak that over your life
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God is going to deliver you from
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that feeling that
you cannot be forgiven.
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You know the things I think that
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many people think that our
sins are bigger than our God.
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But it's not true!
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God is bigger than any sin
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and He not only
will forgive you your sin
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but he'll blot it out!
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So, let's take
this apart line by line
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and look at the
scriptural support.
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We started off by saying
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"With a humble heart
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"I daily confess my sins
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"and in sincere repentance..."
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It has to be sincere repentance!
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"And in turning away from sin
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"I AM forgiven and
the blood of Jesus Christ
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"cleanses me of
all unrighteousness!"
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Now I got back from
I John I:7-9 that says;
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"If we walk in the light
as He is in the light then
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"the blood of
Jesus Christ cleanses us
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"from all sin."
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And he goes on to say that
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"if we say we have no sin
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"we're deceiving ourselves
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"and the truth is not in us.
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"But if we confess our sins
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"He is faithful and just to
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"cleanse us from
all unrighteousness."
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Praise the Lord!
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Now the next verse
that I took this from is
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And there it says...
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"But if a wicked man
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"will turn from all of his sins
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"keep all of my statues
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"and do what is lawful and right
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"he shall surely live.
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"he shall not die."
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None of the transgressions which
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he has committed will
be remembered against him.
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Did you catch that?
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When you turn from your sin
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and confess it in
sincere repentance
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God says none of your wickedness
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will be remembered against you!
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And Ephesians I:7 says this...
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"In him we have
redemption through his blood,
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"the forgiveness of sins
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"according to the
riches of His grace!"
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Glory to God!
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I think it is so hard
for us to understand that
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God forgives and forgets,
that He literally blots out
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our sins from His record.
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But let's look at our
next line from our affirmation.
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It says, "He, God, cancels
and blots out my transgressions
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for His own sake." "His grace
is sufficient to cover all of my
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sins, and He
remembers them no more."
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Now let's look at the
scriptural evidence for this,
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and I have about
six scriptures here:
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Hebrew 8:10-12 "God said
now this is the covenant."
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"I will put My laws in their
minds, I will write them on
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their hearts, I will be their
God, and they will be my people.
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They will all know me He
said, and I will forgive their
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wickedness and will "listen,"
remember their sins no more."
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Glory to God!
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Then in Isaiah 43:25 "God says,
I even I am He who blots out
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and cancels your transgressions.
Why? For my own sake says
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the Lord, and then He says.
I will not remember your sins."
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Then Psalms 103:12
goes on along this line.
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"God says there as far as
the east is from the west,
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so far has He removed
our transgressions from us."
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Are you beginning to see
the picture that the Bible is
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painting for you and I?
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It is so amazing...
You know, there was times
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in the past that I would
come to the Lord repenting
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and I'd ask for forgiveness,
and I'd find that I was asking
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for forgiveness for the same
sin from way back in my past,
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over and over and over. I
didn't know how to receive God's
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forgiveness. I couldn't believe
that a Holy and righteous God
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truly had not only forgiven
me, but had blotted it out.
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So let's continue on
and look at a few more.
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In Isaiah 44:22 God says, "I
have blotted out like a thick
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cloud, your transgressions,
and like a cloud, your sins."
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So He is saying I
blotted it out from my memory,
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I blotted it out from my
book, your iniquity and your
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transgressions, and your sins,
and then goes on in that verse
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and "He says, return to
Me, for I have redeemed you."
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There is no reason why your
sins... If you have confessed
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your sins before the
Lord, and sincerely repented...
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Don't let guilt and condemnation
keep you from the Lord,
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He wants you to come back
to Him. He is a big God and He
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is bigger than any of our sins.
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In 1 Kings 14:8...Now
I want to tell you this
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before I read that,
This is what God said
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about David
after David had died,
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and if you are not familiar
with the record of King David,
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King David had a heart for
God. He was a man that truly
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wanted to please the Lord,
but boy, he stumbled and fell
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on several occasions.
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He committed adultery, he
was guilty of having a man
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murdered, he disobeyed the
Lord and numbered the troops
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when God had told him
directly not to do that.
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But yet, David repented
sincerely before the Lord
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and he turned away from his
sin. Now listen to 1Kings 4:8,
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what God said about
David, after David died.
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He said, He was sending
a prophet to King Jeroboam,
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and here is what He
told the prophet to tell
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King Jeroboam. "You have
not been as my servant David
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who kept my Commandments
and followed me with all of
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his heart, to do only
what was right in my eyes."
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Do you see God forgot what
David asked Him to forgive,
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and this scripture demonstrates
that. No wonder the Bible says
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in 2Corinthians 12:9,
"Jesus said, my grace is
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sufficient for you." Oh, let's
put this all back together,
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because I believe that
if we get this in our hearts
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and in our minds, God
can give us a new start,
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His compassions
are new every morning.
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Now let's look at this
life affirmation from scripture.
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We've seen all the
scriptural evidence,
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let's look at it again and
see that we can really literally
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claim these things in our life.
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That makes my feet
want to do a little dance
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I have to tell you. It
just gets me so excited,
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and I want to go on to the
next one before I go off to deep
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on this, because they
all kind of tie in together.
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If we understand that
God will forgive and forget,
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if we don't try to limit
God's love for us, we will find
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such joy in our life,
and such joy in repentance.
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So let's look at this next
life affirmation from scripture.
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and it says:
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Now let's take
that apart line by line.
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That comes from Romans
8:1-2, and there Paul said,
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"There is therefore no
condemnation to those who are
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in Christ Jesus, who do not
walk according to the flesh,
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but according to the spirit."
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For the law of the spirit of
life that is in Christ Jesus has
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made us free from the law
of sin and death. Halleluiah!
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Then our affirmation goes on
to say: I am quick to recognize
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when I am not pleasing
God, and even quicker to repent.
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Let me pause for just a
second there, because this is
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important. The more we
hide God's Word in our heart,
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the more we speak
God's Word over our life.
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The more we see that
God's Word is our life,
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God will do something
special in each one of us.
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You know, it is the Word
that brings that recognition
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that we aren't pleasing
God, and it's interesting that
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when that Word's in your heart,
if you start to go do something
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that was an old
practice that wasn't pleasing
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to the Lord. Boy, I will
tell you, the Holy Spirit will
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bring that verse up in your
mind, and immediately you will
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recognize that you are not
pleasing God, and you will find
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that you are
very quick to repent.
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So let's look at this scripture
that talks about recognizing
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and being quick to repent.
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This comes from
Revelation 3:1-3,
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and this is what the Bible says:
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These are the Words of Him
who has seven spirits of God.
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That's the seven
fold Holy Spirit of God,
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and here is what Jesus
said: "I know your record and
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what you are doing. You
are supposed to be alive,
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but in reality, you are
dead." And then He councils us
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and He says, "Rouse yourselves
and keep awake and strengthen
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and invigorate what remains
and is on the point of dying.
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For I have not found a
thing that you have done,
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not any work of yours that
meets the requirements of my God
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or that is perfect in His sight.
So He says, call to mind the
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lessons that you have received
and heard. Continually lay them
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in you heart and obey
them and repent. And He goes on
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and He says: In case you
will not rouse yourselves and
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keep awake and watch, I
will come upon you like a thief
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and you will not know or
suspect at what hour I come."
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Then the next line
of our affirmation says:
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I receive His
abundant forgiveness.
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Are you receiving
God's forgiveness?
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Acts 5: 30-31, is one
of the scriptures I use to
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support this. And that says
that the God of our forefathers
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raised up Jesus, and God
exalted Him to His right hand
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to be Prince and Leader
and Savior and Deliverer and
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He is our Preserver in order to
grant repentance and to bestow
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forgiveness and
release from sins.
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Then 1 John 1:9 says
this: "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 purify us from
all unrighteousness."
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The then the final part or
sentence of this affirmation
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says that I rejoice at His
compassion isnew every morning.
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That comes from Lamentations
22-23, and there is says
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Because of the Lords,
great love, we are not consumed
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for His compassions
never fail, they are new
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every morning. Great is
your faithfulness O Lord.
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Well, let's put this
back together now and see
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what we can claim over
our life as a Life Affirmation
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from God. Untied with Christ.
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When the Lord gave
me this Life Affirmation
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it was an interesting thing
because, what happened for me
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is, I was speaking this
over my life and suddenly He was
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bringing it to that
point that it was real,
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and I was quick to recognize
that and quicker to repent.
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And I learned to receive
God's forgiveness, and rejoice
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in the joy of repentance.
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Well, I hope you
enjoyed today's study,
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and I hope you will
also join us next time
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We are going to be discussing
how we can Leave the Past Behind
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and get plugged
in to God's power.
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May God multiply his Mercy,
His Love, and His Grace to you,
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and may He watch over His
Word to perform it in your
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lives as you cooperate with Him.
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Please remember to spend
your time on that which is most
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important to God, the
very thing that is also
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most important to
you. Get into His Word
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and start Exalting His Word.
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