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>>Announcer: It has
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Joey Prusak was a 19 year old,
working at Dairy Queen to make a
few extra dollars. That day,
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work was like any other day.
Then something happened. There
was a blind man in his line. He
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made his order and then was
going to pay. As he drew his
monies out of his pants, a 20
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dollar bill fell on the ground.
I'm sure its happened to you,
it's happen to me. You have too
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many things in your pocket and
pull something out and other
things fall to the floor.
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Because the man was blind, he
didn't notice. The woman
standing behind the blind man
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picked up the 20 dollar bill and
placed it in her purse. Joey was
astonished and asked her to
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return the money, but she
refused. He then gave her an
ultimatum. Return the money or
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leave the store. She actually
left without returning the
money. Joey Prusak was so
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astonished, yet moved in his
heart. 19 year old Joey Prusak
couldn't stand for such an
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injustice.he took 20 dollars of
his own money and gave it to the
blind man. It is a true story
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that speaks volumes of the sad
state of our society, yet gives
us a glimpse of something more.
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I don't know if Joey Prusak is a
Christian or not, but he
demonstrated in this act of
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kindness the
love of Jesus Christ.
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Law actually exists out of love.
God's law, the ten commandments
exist because God loves us. Yet
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his law also defines our love
response to Him John 14:15, the
words of Jesus Himself. What
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does Jesus say?
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You see, the law is freeing. The
law is not restrictive. And love
always leads to obedience.
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Now, I need to be very clear so
I'm not misunderstood. We obey
God not in order to be saved. We
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obey God because we are saved. I
hope that makes sense. See, we
don't obey to be saved, because
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obedience, the Bible tells us,
will not save us. What or who
will save us? Jesus will save us
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and His righteousness. But God
calls upon us as we enter into
relationship with Him, because
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we love Him, to be obedient to
His instructions, His
commandments. 1 John 2, verses
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3 and 4 are much more pointed:
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While that may sound harsh, here
is fundamentally what we must
understand. Grace and God's
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law are not contradictory ideas.
So what is the role of God's
law? Put simply, this is what it
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is. According to Paul in
Romans chapter 3 and verse 20:
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I want you to picture in your
mind a mirror. You see, the law
is like a mirror. When we look
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into the law, what do we see? We
see our reflection. And when we
look into God's law, it tells us
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what the imperfections are in
us. But let me ask you a
question: Most of us, on a
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regular basis, visit a mirror.
When you come to the mirror and
you notice, "I have a blemish on
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my face, my hair is receding,"
or whatever the mirror may tell
you - which is sometimes
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depressing, when you look into
the mirror and you notice your
hair is a little bit of a mess,
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does the mirror fix your hair
for you? No. No, the mirror
simply tells you that your hair
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needs fixing. Now, here's the
other question: When you're
looking in the mirror, if you're
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standing in front of the mirror
and you're far away, how helpful
is that mirror, usually? Not
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very helpful. So I want you to
imagine for a moment that I put
a mirror 25 meters away, and I
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looked at myself in the mirror
from that distance. Everything
looks okay. But you see, as we
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get closer to the mirror, what
happens? You begin to see. "I
don't have as much hair as I did
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when I was 18. I maybe had too
many visits to TimHorton's this
month." So on and so forth. Are
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you following me so far? You
see, the closer we are to God's
law, the closer we are to God,
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the more revealing it is to
us. Paul said in Romans 7:7:
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The law defines sin for us. So
there is no floating definition
of sin; the law clearly
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identifies what sin is.
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Why is it then that there are
many Christians who say that the
law is done away with? That we
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are under grace and not the law.
Does it really need to be one or
the other? What then is the role
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of law and grace? Follow the
logic. If there is no law,
there's no sin.Because sin
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cannot be defined. And before we
stand up and clap and cheer, if
there's no sin, there's no
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grace. Now some of you are
saying, "How is that possible?"
The book of Romans says, where
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sin abounds, grace abounds even
more. You see, if we don't know
that there's sin, there is no
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need for grace. By the way, if
there is no grace, there is no
cross. And if there is no cross,
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there is no salvation. And if
there is no salvation, there is
no saviour. And dear friends,
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that would be very bad news. But
the Bible says there's good
news. And the good news is,
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there is a saviour. And that
saviour came to bring salvation,
and that saviour who brought
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salvation brought grace. And the
same saviour who brought
salvation and brought grace is
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the one who wrote the law in the
stones that were given to Moses,
but He's also the one who
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authored the law in aeons and
ages in the past to govern the
universe, and He's the one that
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can save us from that and from
our sin. So then, what is the
role of grace? Ephesians 2:8 and
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9 says this:
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You see, God's grace is
unmerited. It is the key to the
Jerusalem factor. It means we
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don't deserve it. But it's God
freely giving mercy, pardon,
forgiveness, but also love, and
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the power. What kind of power?
The power to overcome. When God
came to this world by sending
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His Son Jesus Christ, He came
bringing grace, not to take us
away from the law, but rather,
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to pay the penalty that is
demanded by the law. He came to
live perfectly obedient to
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demonstrate to us that through
Him, we can live victorious
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lives in Him. So does God's
grace do away with the law? No,
of course not. Romans 3:31 says,
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Let me illustrate exactly what I
mean. I was driving one day. I
was going to preach at a church,
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which is the sad part of the
story. And as I entered the
expressway, I was going faster
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than I needed to be going. And
at first, I saw it, and then I
heard it. You know, it's the
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thing you don't like to see in
your rear-view mirror when
you're driving. But there as I
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was driving along, I saw in the
rear view mirror the lights, and
then I heard the sirens. So I
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pulled over, and when I pulled
over, the officer came to the
window, "Can I see your licence
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and registration?" And he said
to me, "Do you know that you
were speeding?" And I said,
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"Yes, I know." So he took my
license and registration and
went back to his car and he was
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taking a long time, and you
know, it's not an exhilarating
experience right before you're
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supposed to preach to have
somebody give you a ticket
because you broke the law. It's
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kind of, you know,
counterintuitive. And so I sat
there and waited, and then he
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came back and he peeked his head
in. And he says to me, "Where
were you on your way to today?"
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"I'm on my way to church." "What
were you going to do there?"
"I'm the preacher." He handed me
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my driver's license and my
registration and he said,
"Pastor, you have a good day,
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and slow down." Don't miss the
point. See, the law was clear.
There was a limit to my speed,
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and I had broken the law. Don't
miss it now. Grace was that the
officer did not have to allow me
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to leave. His grace was that he
let me go despite my breaking of
the law. And now here's the
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key piece. What do you think I
did when I drove away? I drove
the speed limit, below it, all
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the way there, because grace did
not change the law. Grace simply
allowed me not to receive the
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just penalty that the law
demanded because the officer
granted me grace to not inflict
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upon me.
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Then here's the fundamental
question that I must ask those
that tell me, "But you don't
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understand, preacher, Jesus
changed the law": Friend, Why
would God send His Son to suffer
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the cruel death that He did if
all God had to do, with a magic
sweep of a wand, was change the
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law? You see, the demand of the
law, the demand, the wages -
because rememberRomans 6:23 says
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the wages of sin is deathAnd how
do we define sin? Sin is defined
by the law. You see, the demand
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of the law is death, which is
why Jesus had to die. Why would
God send His Son to suffer such
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a cruel death if all He needed
to do was say, "You know what?
Let me just tweak those
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commandments from 'You shall
not' to 'You should not.'" But
God did not do that. You see,
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Psalm 19:7 says the law of the
Lord is perfect. Does something
that is perfect need to be
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changed? No, see, the law of
God is perfect. Psalm 119 says:
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How long is forever? Forever!
Forever is forever, which is -
it sounds silly to say that. But
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forever is everlasting. It never
changes. God's Word is settled
in heaven forever. It may not be
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settled in our mind, it may not
be settled in our heart, but
know for sure, in heaven, it's
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settled. Jesus Himself said:
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But what did He come to do? To
fulfill. How was He fulfilling?
By living a perfectly obedient
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life on this earth and receiving
the penalty that the law
demanded. You see, God's Word is
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clear. The law is everlasting.
And had God's people kept the
law, we would've never been in
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the predicament that we now
face. Proverbs 29:18 has this
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simple statement: Think about
that. Happy. How many of you
like being happy? You see, you
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probably even smiled when I
asked. None of us like being
sad. I've never met anybody in
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my life that said, "You know, I
really wish - I was really
wishing that today I could feel
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more sad." I've never heard that
in my life. If you do feel that
way go to our youtube channel
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and see the programs "Depression
the Way Out." But the promise of
God is as follow Romans 6:14
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says this: And so we see this,
and this is how many Christians
today interpret this, that the
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law's been done away with
because we're under grace. So
that means when you come to
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Jesus, you can live your life
however you want to live your
life and you have no
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accountability to Him. Is that
what that means? What does it
mean to be under the law? You
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see, if we're under the law, it
means this: It means that we are
under the law as a method of
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salvation. Can the law save us?
No, the law simply tells us that
we need to be saved. Does that
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make sense? The law is the
mirror. The law tells us, tells
us, "This is sin," and tells us,
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when we see it, and we say,
"This is sin, and I have
sinned," it tells me what? I
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need a saviour. What does it
mean to be under grace? To be
under grace means that we accept
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Christ's pardon, receive
Christ's forgiveness, and are
filled with His power. His power
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to do what? His power to be
obedient to Him and live a
Christ-centred life in this
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world, because the proverb says,
"Happy is he who keeps God's
law." Revelation says, "Here is
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the patience of the saints."
Here are those that keep the
commandments of God, that we can
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demonstrate on this earth what
it really means to be a follower
of Jesus Christ. The beauty of
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God's law and the beauty of the
Bible is that the law is all
about the grace of Jesus Christ.
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You see, the law can be
summarized in one word: love.
And Jesus said that Himself.
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What were the
those two commandments?
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You see, love. The law of God
can be defined as - by the way,
look at the Ten Commandments.
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The first four are about our
vertical relationship: love to
God. The last six, about the
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horizontal relationship: our
relationships and love to one
another. You see, love God and
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your fellow man. Jesus came to
this earth not to change the
law, but to fulfil the law and
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to demonstrate to us what a life
of obedience looks like, to
demonstrate to us what a life
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living for Him looks like. And
to further emphasize this point,
Hebrews chapter 8 and verse 10,
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which is quoting
the new covenant:
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In Exodus chapter 20, the Bible
records God writing the law in
stone. In the new covenant, God
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wants to take the law and not
write it in stone; He wants to
write it on our fleshy heart,
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that we would look like Him,
that we would act like Him, that
we would exude love, love to
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Him, love to our fellow man.
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I asked this question in our
last program, what would happen
in Canada, what would happen in
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the world if everyone had
engraved in their heart the very
law of God? There would be no
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news articles about so-and-so
killing so-and-so; ISIS would
cease to exist; Al-Qaeda would
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cease to exist; terrorism would
cease to exist; murders would
cease to exist; robberies would
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cease to exist, because the love
of God and the grace of God has
changed us to bring us perfect
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peace and happiness. You see,
God's law, the Bible, is a
roadmap to happiness, because
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His grace, when it enters our
life, breaks the chains free
Today, friend, are you
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struggling? Today, are you
wrestling with something in your
life? Today, are you distant
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from God? Today, Jesus says, "My
law is a gift to you and a
demonstration of the grace that
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I have for you. And if you
receive my grace and love me
fully, I will break the chains
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so that you might be obedient
and live life to its fullest.
It's the power of the gospel,
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the power of the grace of God.
He gave His law, not intending
to restrict us, but He gave His
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law to give us freedom, freedom
in Him to live life to its
absolute fullest.It is the
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Jersusalem factor. Jesus who is
in heaven in the sanctuary made
by God, ministering on our
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behalf now. Today if you want to
say, give me Jesus, join me in
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prayer. Heavenly Father, we are
grateful that when You wrote in
that stone that You gave Moses,
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"Thou shalt not kill." You were
thinking of me, You were
thinking of all of us. Before
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You wrote it in stone, when You
simply had it as the very
foundation of the government,
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You looked down the ages and saw
each of us as individuals and
said, "This is going to give
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them perfect happiness." So
today, as we leave, we give our
hearts fully into Your hand. We
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ask that Jesus would enter our
heart, that we would receive His
grace, His unmerited favour,
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that we would be saved in Him,
and that we would have those
chains of sin broken, and that
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You would give us the power to
live a life to its fullest in
You. We pray this in Jesus'
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name, amen.
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I try to reach
out for you but I fall
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Sometimes you seem
so close and yet so far
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Lord I need another chance
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I need to know your mercy
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Just give me the
strength to change within
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I know that I am
not all that I can be
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My weakness seems
to get the best of me
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But as long as you are here
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I know that I can make it
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Every step along the way
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Please hear my prayer
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A heart like yours, is my desire
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A heart like yours, is
what I am searching for
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Full of compassion,
nothing wrong within
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Please help me Lord,
give me a heart like yours
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So much grace, so much kindness
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So much faith, forever true
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Strong as the
wind, soft as the shadows
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If only one day,
I could be like you
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A heart like yours, is my desire
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A heart like yours, is my desire
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A heart like yours, is
what I am searching for
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Full of compassion,
nothing wrong within
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Please help me Lord,
give me a heart like yours
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Please help me Lord,
give me a heart like yours
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A heart like yours, is my desire
00:27:08.29\00:27:14.30
A heart like yours, is
what I am searching for
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Full of compassion,
nothing wrong within
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Please help me Lord,
give me a heart like yours
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Please help me Lord,
give me a heart like yours
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Dear friends, God's law brings
true freedom in Him. I'd like to
give you three offers today -
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the first of those offers is a
little booklet called "Does
God's Grace Blot Out The Law".
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In it, it will answer many of
the questions you may have about
the relationship between law and
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grace. 2nd, I would like to
offer you the "Discover Bible
Lessons", those lessons will
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help you draw nearer to Jesus -
both of those offers are
absolutely free! And then for
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any size donation, I want to
offer you the full DVD set - 8
parts of "The Jerusalem Factor".
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Here's the information you
need to receive today's offers.
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Friends, that is what a
relationship is all about -
Love. His law is all about love.
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If you would like to draw nearer
to him I would invite you to go
to www.ItIsWrittenCanada.ca and
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there you can find resources
that you would come closer to
Jesus Christ. I hope, I hope you
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found peace in Him today through
this program. I'd invite you to
join us again next week. Until
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then remember, It Is Written,
man shall not live by bread
alone but by every word that
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proceeds from the mouth of God.
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