At the Presbyterian Church
in Elizabeth Town, New Jersey,
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Pastor James Caldwell rose
to deliver the morning sermon.
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He placed his bible in
the middle of the pulpit
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and then he took out of
his coat a loaded pistol
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and he put it on
one side of his bible,
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and then he
reached into his coat again
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and he took
another loaded pistol
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and he put on the
other side of his bible.
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And then he proceeded
to address the congregation
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and deliver the morning sermon.
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Now Pastor
Caldwell was not concerned
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about angry church members,
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or people who might disagree
with his sermon that day.
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No, Pastor Caldwell was
concerned with something
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much more dangerous than that.
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You see, Pastor Caldwell was
part of the group of patriots
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in the 13
colonies who were rebelling
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against the tyranny
of England at that time.
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Here is a flag from
the revolutionary war.
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Notice the 13 stars on this flag
representing the 13 colonies.
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The words
across the bottom read,
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"Resistance to
tyrants is obedience to God,"
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an indication of how strongly
they felt about the war effort.
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The year was
1780 just four years
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after the
declaration of Independence
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and the American revolutionary
war was in full swing.
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The Americans had unfortunately
suffered a series of defeats
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and they were
retreating across New Jersey.
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And as they did so
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many of Washington's sick and
wounded soldiers found refuge
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in the Elizabeth
Town, Presbyterian Church.
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Not only had Pastor
Caldwell allowed his church
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to be used as a
barracks and a hospital
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but he himself had
become part of the war effort.
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Besides being a Pastor,
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he served as a Chaplain
in the continental army.
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He was even appointed
Assistant Commissary General
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and as such he
obtained food, and clothes,
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and other
supplies for the troops.
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The British had some
names for Pastor Caldwell.
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They called him
"The Rebel Priest"
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and "The High
Priest of the Rebellion"
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and they offered a
reward for his capture.
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And now you know
why Pastor Caldwell
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had two loaded pistols,
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one on each side of his bible,
as he preached that morning.
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Well, the British Army followed
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the retreating
American across New Jersey
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and they made a night
raid on Elizabeth Town,
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in order to
capture American soldiers.
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In that raid they
burned Pastor Caldwell's
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Presbyterian
Church to the ground.
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Now as Pastor
Caldwell preached his sermon
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he looked out at a
congregation gathered
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in a converted red barn.
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Cornelius Hethfield
Senior owned this barn
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which was located
just across the river
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from the old church
which was burned down.
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Ironically, Hethfield's three
sons were British sympathizers
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and they had guided the soldiers
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who raided the town
and burned the church.
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About four months
later, the British Army,
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encouraged by a victory at
Charleston, South Carolina,
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marched on
Washington in New Jersey.
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The Americans fell
back from Elizabeth town
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towards Connecticut
farms in Springfield.
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Now Connecticut farms
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is where Pastor Caldwell
had his house, the parsonage.
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As the British soldiers
advanced into Connecticut farms,
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a soldier
walked by the parsonage
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and looked through
the window and found
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Pastor Caldwell's
children surrounding his wife.
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According to one report,
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as the Pastor's wife
surrounded by her children
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and holding a baby in her
arms looked out the window,
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the soldier took aim
and shot her in the chest.
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After she died, the soldiers
dragged her body outside
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and then burned the
house to the ground.
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A month later,
the battles continued
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in the area of Springfield.
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The American soldiers ran
out of wadding for their guns.
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James Caldwell immediately rode
to a nearby Presbyterian church
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and gathered up all
the hymnals he could.
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He rode his horse
out to the battle field
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and distributed the
hymnals to the soldiers saying,
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"Let's put
Watts into them boys."
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'Course Isaac Watts wrote
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most of all of the
hymns in that hymnal.
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And here we see a
water colored picture
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of Pastor Caldwell handing
out the hymnals to the soldiers.
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They ripped the
pages out of the hymnals
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and used each page for wadding
and stuffed it into their guns.
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James Caldwell and his
wife fought for freedom.
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They along with many
others paid the price
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for our freedom,
here in this country.
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There is one who
sacrificed far more
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in order to give us freedom.
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Not just freedom in this
life, but freedom forever.
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"For God so loved the
world," says John 3:16,
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"that he gave
his one and only Son,
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that whoever believes in him
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shall not perish
but have eternal life.
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For God did not send
his Son into the world
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to condemn the world,
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but to save the
world through him.
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Whoever believes in
him is not condemned,
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but whoever does not
believe stands condemned already
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because he has not believed
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in the name of
God's one and only Son."
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Who was this Son of God?
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Who was this Jesus?
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who paid the
price for our freedom?
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It's one thing
for Pastor Caldwell,
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who by the way died
before the war was over
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and his wife who was shot
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while
surrounded by her children.
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It's one thing for two
patriots to die for our freedom.
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We can in a sense
say that they died
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so that we could be free.
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But of course,
it took the deaths
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of many, many, many other people
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in order to accomplish the
goal of the Revolutionary War.
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We can't say that
Pastor Caldwell and his wife
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are completely and
totally and solely responsible
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for our freedom.
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It took a lot of
other people, besides.
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So how is it that Jesus Christ
is qualified to be our Savior?
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How could his death set us free?
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What is the price of freedom?
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And what qualified Jesus
Christ to pay that price?
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Well, we've got a lot of
text in the bible to consult,
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in order to find the
answer to this question.
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And we're going to turn
first of all to Philippians 2:5,
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Philippians 2,
beginning with verse 5.
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Here Paul says, "Your
attitude should be the same
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as Jesus Christ, Who,
being in very nature God,"
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listen to his language
here, "in very nature God,
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did not consider equality with
God something to be grasped,
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but made himself nothing,
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taking the very
nature of a servant,
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being made in human likeness.
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And being found in
appearance as a man,
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he humbled himself and
became obedient to death,
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even death on a cross."
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You see, there's basically
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two groups of
texts in the bible.
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One group of text says that
Jesus was like us, He was human.
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This text Philippians 2:5-8
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is the first text
in that group of texts.
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Jesus was like us. He
was completely, 100% human.
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There's another group of
texts which we will get to,
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in a moment that says, Jesus
was not like us. He was sinless.
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Let's turn now to Romans 8:3.
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Romans 8:3.
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"For what the law
was powerless to do
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in that it was
weakened by the sinful nature,
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God did by sending his own Son
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in the likeness of
sinful man to be a sin offering.
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And so he
condemned sin in sinful man.
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" Now notice the language here,
"the likeness of sinful man."
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The bible here, the original
Greek text does not indicate
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that He just looked like a man.
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The likeness of sinful man
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meant that He was
really a man, completely a man.
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Combined with the
previous text in Philippians,
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we know that Jesus Christ was
not just pretending to be human.
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He didn't just
look like He was human,
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He really was human.
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And if you need more evidence,
let's turn to Hebrews 2:11.
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Hebrews 2, verse 11.
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"Both the one who makes men holy
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and those who are made
holy are of the same family."
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That's pretty plain,
isn't it? Let's read on.
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"So Jesus is not
ashamed to call them brothers.
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He says, 'I will declare
your name to my brothers.
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In the presence
of the congregation
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I will sing your praises.'
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And again, 'I will
put my trust in him.'
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And again He says,
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'Here am I, and the
children God has given me.'
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Since the children
have flesh and blood,"
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Listen to this, "Since the
children have flesh and blood,
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he too shared in their humanity
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so that by his
death he might destroy him
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who holds the power of
death, that is, the devil,
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and free those
who all their lives
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were held in slavery
by their fear of death.
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For surely it is
not angels he helps,
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but Abraham's descendants.
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For this reason
he had to be made,"
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watch this closely "like
his brothers in every way,
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in order that he might become
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a merciful and faithful
high priest in service to God,
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and that he might make atonement
for the sins of the people.
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Because he himself
suffered when he was tempted,
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he is able to help
those who are being tempted."
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There is no room to doubt.
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Jesus was like us in
every human way possible.
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He was
completely and 100% human.
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But there is a
second group of texts
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and we need to
discuss those right now.
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The second group of texts says
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that Jesus was not
like us, He was sinless.
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And those texts
include 2 Corinthians 5:21,
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1 John 3:5, and John 14:30.
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Let's turn to our first
one, 2 Corinthians 5:21.
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2 Corinthians 5:21.
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"God made him who had
no sin to be sin for us,
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so that in him we might become
the righteousness of God."
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Notice that there is a
distinct difference between
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Jesus' humanity and our humanity
and that has to do with sin.
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"Him who had no sin,"
says 2 Corinthians 5:21.
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Okay, now we're going to turn
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almost the end of
the bible to 1 John 3:5.
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1 John 3 verse 5.
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"But you know that he appeared
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so that he might
take away our sins.
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And in him is no sin."
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Once again, there is
a distinct difference
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between the humanity of
fallen, sinful human beings
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and the humanity of Christ.
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Jesus is just as much human
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as we are with one
important exception
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and that is He
did not have any sin.
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He didn't have any sin on Him.
He didn't have any sin in Him.
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One more text, John 14:30.
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This is the gospel of John now.
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John 14 verse 30.
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This is Jesus speaking.
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He's been
comforting His disciples.
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This is a talk that He
was having with His disciples
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just before He
went to the cross.
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"I will not speak
with you much longer,"
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He says "for the prince
of this world is coming."
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Now notice what He says next.
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"He has no hold on me."
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You say, what does that mean?
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What does it mean,
"He has no hold on me?"
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The prince of this
world is the devil,
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Satan, that
terrorist of the universe.
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And because of
our fallen natures,
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because of our sinful condition
Satan has a hold on us.
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He has something in us
he can take advantage of.
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But that condition did
not exist in Jesus Christ.
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Jesus himself said, the
prince of this world is coming,
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but he has no hold on me.
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Now if we put all this
together, what do we have?
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We know that
Jesus was 100% human.
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We also know that
He was a 100% divine.
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Now this isn't supposed
to make Mathematical sense,
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in the human sense of the word,
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but we-- we go by
what the bible says.
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He was 100% human
and He was sinless.
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But the question is, how
does all this give us freedom?
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How does this qualify Jesus
to be our All Sufficient Savior?
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Why does Jesus'
sacrifice on the cross
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pay the price for our freedom?
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First, Jesus was the
only person in the universe
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that could do
anything about our freedom.
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He was uniquely qualified.
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He was fully
human and fully God.
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He was completely human like us,
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but He was unlike us in
that He was without sin.
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1 Corinthians 15:45,
describes Him this way.
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"So it is written, 'The first
man Adam became a living being,'
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the last man Adam,
a lifegiving spirit."
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You understand the
significance of that text?
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Jesus is called the second Adam.
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In other words He won the
battle where Adam lost it.
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What Adam lost in
the Garden of Eden
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because of the temptation
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through the serpent in
the tree and his wife Eve.
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Where Adam was tempted and fell,
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Jesus Christ came
and won the battle.
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Not only that,
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He went to the cross
and bore the results,
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not of His own sin
because He didn't have any.
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But He bore the
results of your sin and my sin
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He paid the
price for our freedom.
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Romans 5:6-8.
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Romans 5:6-8 says, "You
see, at just the right time,
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when we were still powerless,
Christ died for the ungodly.
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Very rarely will anyone
die for a righteous man,
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though for a good man someone
might possibly dare to die.
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But God demonstrates
his own love for us in this,
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While we were still
sinners, Christ died for us."
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So you see, Jesus
Christ was imminently qualified
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to pay the
price for our freedom.
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First because He
was both God and man,
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second because He did not fall.
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He did not lose the
battle where Adam did.
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And third because
He went to the cross
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and He bore the sins of
the whole world on Himself.
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In Him was no sin
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but there was our sin on Him.
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This gives us peace. Why?
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When you're in
the middle of a war,
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we say there's no
peace because we're in war.
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But what if you knew that
the battle was already won?
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What if you knew the
outcome before it ever happened?
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Wouldn't that give
you a sense of peace,
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even in the midst of the war?
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And that's how Jesus Christ
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gives us peace in
our everyday lives now.
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Because of what He did on
the cross the battle is won.
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We have freedom that has
been paid for with His blood.
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And because we know through
His sacrifice on the cross
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we know the end
result of this battle
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with the terrorist
of the universe, Satan,
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we can have peace.
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Notice the words
of the gospel of John.
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John 16:33.
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John 16:33 says, "I
have told you these things,"
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this is Jesus talking, "so
that in me you may have peace.
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In this world you
will have trouble.
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But take heart. I
have overcome the world."
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In spite of the fact, that
we live in a war zone today,
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we know that we can
have peace and victory
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because what Jesus
already did for us on the cross.
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Like Pastor James Caldwell
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who had to preach
with two loaded pistols
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on his pulpit and like his wife
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who was shot to
death, we live in a war zone.
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It is a temporary war
zone, but it's still a war zone.
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The good news is
we know who wins.
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Jesus has already
paid the price of victory.
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Because of that
we can be at peace,
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even though we're
still at war with the enemy.
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Satan will throw
everything he can at us,
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to convince us
that we're not free.
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But don't be fooled,
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in spite of what
happens in this world,
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the only real freedom
is found in Jesus Christ.
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In 1873, a businessman
named Horatio Spafford
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was recovering from
his financial losses
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resulting from the
great Chicago fire of 1871.
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He and his wife felt
that they needed to get away
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and so they planned a
trip to Europe together.
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Spafford and his
wife had four girls,
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four daughters ranging in
age from 18 months to 12 years.
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Something came up
at the last moment
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just before he was to sail
with his family off to Europe.
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And so he sent his wife and
his children on ahead of him.
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And so they got on
the boat and headed out,
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out of the
harbor towards Europe.
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They sailed on a ship
called the "Ville Du Havre"
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which just as it went
past the coast of Newfoundland
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struck another English ship.
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It collided and they
sank within a half an hour.
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Anna Spafford was rescued
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but all four of
their girls were lost.
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Anna Spafford says that the baby
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was literally
washed from her grasp.
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In those days, news didn't
travel as fast as it does today.
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And so, Mr. Spafford didn't know
anything until ten days later
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when the survivors
finally arrived in Wales.
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Finally, his wife Anna was able
to send a cable to her husband
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and the message contained
just two words, "Saved alone."
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Well, Mr. Spafford
immediately packed his bags
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and sailed to
England to be with his wife.
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And together they tried to
find some consolation by meeting
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with the very famous
Evangelist Dwight L. Moody.
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Moody reported that he
did his best to comfort them,
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but he also noted that
the couple although grieving
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was able to trust God.
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"It is well," Mr. Spafford said.
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"The will of God be done."
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Would you be able to say
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that in the phase of
such horrendous tragedy?
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It's hard to know how one would
react in a situation like that.
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But I believe in
such extreme cases,
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grace is given when it's needed.
00:22:27.58\00:22:31.84
And Horatio
Spafford and his wife Anna,
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although suffering the complete
loss of their little family,
00:22:34.53\00:22:37.53
their four
girls, were able to say,
00:22:37.56\00:22:40.95
in spite of their grief,
00:22:40.98\00:22:43.12
"It is well,
God's will be done."
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Upon returning to
the United States,
00:22:47.09\00:22:49.31
Mr. Spafford took the two
word' cable, "Saved alone"
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and had it framed
and put up in his office.
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A rather strange
memento, you might think.
00:22:58.84\00:23:01.94
But two years later, Ira Sankey,
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who was the musician that
worked with Dwight L. Moody,
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came through the area
and visited with Horatio.
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And once again they sat down
00:23:11.75\00:23:13.15
and they discussed
this horrible tragedy
00:23:13.18\00:23:14.95
that had
happened two years before.
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Once again,
00:23:17.92\00:23:19.43
Horatio expressed his
complete trust in God.
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And then a very
interesting thing happened,
00:23:26.24\00:23:29.37
Horatio out of
his, out of his grief
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and remembering
this horrible tragedy
00:23:33.78\00:23:36.35
when all four of his girls
00:23:36.38\00:23:38.64
had simply been
swept out of his life,
00:23:38.67\00:23:42.74
but also, at the same time
00:23:42.77\00:23:45.71
relying completely on God
00:23:45.74\00:23:48.57
who has paid the
price for our freedom,
00:23:48.60\00:23:53.13
who gives us peace even
in the midst of a war zone.
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Horatio Spafford sat down
and began to write a song.
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"When peace like a
river, attendeth my way,
00:24:02.27\00:24:07.28
When sorrows
like sea billows roll,
00:24:07.31\00:24:10.71
Whatever my lot, Thou
hast taught me to say,
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It is well, it is
well, with my soul."
00:24:14.14\00:24:19.54
Whenever you sing that hymn,
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I hope you remember
00:24:20.97\00:24:22.42
Horatio Spafford
and his wife Anna.
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Songs like this were not
written out of easy times.
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Songs like this are not written
00:24:30.89\00:24:32.77
by--by people with
circumstances that are
00:24:32.80\00:24:39.18
just blessed all time.
00:24:39.21\00:24:42.03
Songs like this are
written when faith is tested
00:24:42.06\00:24:47.46
and when you don't
have anywhere else to go,
00:24:47.49\00:24:50.86
but to Jesus.
00:24:50.89\00:24:52.97
You can know that He has already
paid the price for your freedom.
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And because Jesus,
00:24:59.61\00:25:01.69
that perfect
human being, 100% human,
00:25:01.72\00:25:07.21
100% God and completely sinless,
00:25:07.24\00:25:11.24
because He
voluntarily went to the cross
00:25:11.27\00:25:15.05
and because He bore all
the sins of the whole world.
00:25:15.08\00:25:18.99
It means that you and I know,
00:25:19.02\00:25:20.75
that in spite of the fact
00:25:20.78\00:25:22.15
that we live in the
midst of a war zone.
00:25:22.18\00:25:24.16
In spite of the fact
00:25:24.19\00:25:25.56
that horrible
things happen, people die,
00:25:25.59\00:25:28.85
children are swept
away from their parents.
00:25:28.88\00:25:32.36
In spite of that we know
that this is not the end.
00:25:32.39\00:25:36.78
We know that there
is a better day coming.
00:25:36.81\00:25:39.13
We know that the Son of God
00:25:39.16\00:25:41.69
went to the cross
because He couldn't live
00:25:41.72\00:25:44.94
without you and me for eternity.
00:25:44.97\00:25:47.97
And because of that, we can
sing just like Mr. Spafford,
00:25:48.00\00:25:52.88
"When peace like a
river, attendeth my way,
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Whatever my lot, Thou
hast taught me to say,
00:25:57.35\00:25:59.90
It is well, it is
well, with my soul."
00:25:59.93\00:26:05.88
What does it take to
be able to sing that song
00:26:05.91\00:26:11.08
in the phase of the most
horrible personal tragedy?
00:26:11.11\00:26:15.56
I'll tell you what it is.
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When you know Jesus,
00:26:17.42\00:26:18.86
when you know the kind
of person that He really is,
00:26:18.89\00:26:22.10
when you know that Jesus
00:26:22.13\00:26:24.73
didn't go to the cross
because God was angry with us.
00:26:24.76\00:26:29.52
He didn't lay down his
life because God was mad at us.
00:26:29.55\00:26:33.43
He went to the cross because
the heart of God was breaking,
00:26:33.46\00:26:36.67
because his children
were going to be lost unless,
00:26:36.70\00:26:40.58
he undertook a rescue mission.
00:26:40.61\00:26:42.97
And he knew the
rescue mission was risky.
00:26:43.00\00:26:45.80
He knew that it would be costly.
00:26:45.83\00:26:47.59
He knew that it would
require the ultimate price.
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Some people go into battle
not knowing what will happen.
00:26:53.41\00:26:59.16
But I can tell you Jesus knew
00:26:59.19\00:27:02.50
what was going to happen
when He went into battle.
00:27:02.53\00:27:05.59
When He bowed in
grief, and sorrow,
00:27:05.62\00:27:10.21
and loneliness there in
the Garden of Gethsemane
00:27:10.24\00:27:14.19
and when he prayed,
00:27:14.22\00:27:15.87
"Father if it's your will,
let this cup pass from me."
00:27:15.90\00:27:20.45
You can be sure
that Jesus knew exactly
00:27:20.48\00:27:23.08
what the price of
our salvation was.
00:27:23.11\00:27:27.48
But Praise God,
He paid it for us.
00:27:27.51\00:27:30.37
Praise God, He was not afraid
00:27:30.40\00:27:33.47
to face the devil
on his turf, even.
00:27:33.50\00:27:36.11
Praise God that He
could go to the cross
00:27:36.14\00:27:38.59
and not only die on the cross,
00:27:38.62\00:27:40.30
but go to the tomb and be
resurrected for you and me.
00:27:40.33\00:27:46.14
Knowing that Christ has
paid the price of freedom,
00:27:46.17\00:27:50.07
that He has won the war already,
00:27:50.10\00:27:52.34
we can know that no
matter what happens,
00:27:52.37\00:27:55.26
It is well with my soul.
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