Participants: J.D. & Shelley Quinn (Host), Eric & Marylyn Durant, Luis & Xenia Capote, Jill Morikone
Series Code: TDYFW
Program Code: TDYFW015012A
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00:01 I want to spend my life
00:07 Mending broken people 00:12 I want to spend my life 00:18 Removing pain 00:23 Lord, let my words 00:30 Heal a heart that hurts 00:34 I want to spend my life 00:40 Mending broken people 00:45 I want to spend my life 00:51 Mending broken people 01:07 Hello, I'm Shelly Quinn. 01:08 And I'm JD Quinn. 01:10 And we welcome you to 3ABN's Family Worship. 01:14 You know, we were just talking, it's been a rather hectic week 01:18 and isn't it wonderful to have the Sabbath? 01:21 How precious it is that God gave us the Sabbath, 01:24 so that we wouldn't work ourselves to death. 01:27 Oh, we're so glad 01:29 that you're joining us again this Sabbath. 01:31 And we have, 01:33 I believe an exciting topic for you tonight, 01:36 we're going to be talking about Righteousness by Faith. 01:39 Amen. 01:40 And before we begin 01:42 let me introduce our 3ABN family here. 01:46 We're gonna start with Eric. 01:48 Eric and Marilyn actually Durant 01:50 and these are husband and wife. 01:52 Eric, you are in an Engineering Department. 01:54 Yes, I am. 01:56 And you used to work with Boeing, is that correct? 01:57 I used to work with Boeing. 01:59 So we're very blessed to have you here. 02:01 It's been the best thing I ever done in my life. 02:04 Praise the Lord. 02:05 Praise the Lord. 02:07 And Marilyn, you are the assistant manager 02:09 of our Call Center Department. 02:11 Correct. 02:12 And you came to here with a nice resume 02:14 of management experience. 02:17 You know, we met Marilyn and Eric 02:20 when we were in Israel two years ago, wasn't it? 02:23 And it was, we didn't realize 02:25 that they were thinking about coming to 3ABN 02:27 and I think they were there to check us out. 02:30 But we had such a wonderful time with them 02:32 other than Marilyn having a little sick spill there but-- 02:37 God blessed us anyway. 02:38 He blessed us. It was such a wonderful trip. 02:40 We talk about it to this day. 02:41 Wonderful. Amen 02:43 Well, we're very blessed to have you here. 02:45 And then on this side of me we have another precious couple 02:48 who are relatively newcomers to 3ABN. 02:52 And we've got our dear friend 02:54 Xenia Capote and her husband Luis Capote 02:58 and Xenia in our Accounting Department. 02:59 Yes, I am. 03:01 Louise you are the editor for Latino. 03:03 Latino. Correct. 03:04 The Latino Network I should say. 03:07 So we're very pleased to have you here. 03:09 It must be nice to be bilingual. 03:11 Oh, mercy. 03:13 Probably, even better would be trilingual. 03:15 That's true. 03:16 You know, but-- 03:18 You know, sometimes we joke and say that, 03:20 you know, Texans, 03:22 if we knew English we'd be bilingual. 03:26 But I don't want to forget Summer Boyd, 03:28 who is on the piano over there 03:30 and she really being a minute man. 03:32 she stepped in to play for us 03:35 and we're just very, very blessed 03:38 to have her pray-- play 03:41 and speaking of prayer, 03:42 JD, would you like to have our opening prayer? 03:44 Most certainly. 03:47 Father, first of all, 03:48 we just come to You in the name if Jesus 03:50 and we thank You Lord for Your many blessings. 03:53 We thank You Lord for this past week, 03:55 we thank You Lord, 03:56 we had a vineyard to go to work in 03:59 and we love working in Your vineyard, Lord. 04:01 And Father, as we approach the Sabbath, 04:03 we just ask Lord that You continue to energies us, 04:08 lead, guide, direct us where You want us to go. 04:10 We thank you for this evening's program, Lord. 04:13 There is only one righteousness 04:15 and that comes from You, Lord. 04:17 And, so Father, we just ask that You would continue 04:20 to be with each one of us, be with our families, Lord. 04:24 We love You and we thank You 04:25 and give all praise and glory to You. 04:27 In the name of your Son, Jesus, amen. 04:29 Amen. Amen. 04:31 Amen. Amen. 04:32 Well, we love to start with the song, 04:34 and so if we're going to have the lyrics 04:37 on the screen for you, but if you want to join us, 04:41 and you want to use your Hymnals, 04:43 we are going to be singing Hymn 522 in Adventist Hymnal. 04:47 And it's one of my favorite songs, 04:49 "My Hope Is Built On Nothing Less." 05:02 My hope is built on 05:05 Nothing less Than Jesus' blood and righteousness 05:11 I dare not trust the sweetest frame 05:16 But wholly lean on Jesus' name 05:21 On Christ the solid rock I stand 05:25 All other ground is sinking sand 05:30 All other ground is sinking sand 05:36 When Darkness seems to veil His face 05:40 I rest on His unchanging grace 05:44 In every high and stormy gale 05:48 My anchor holds within the veil 05:53 On Christ the solid rock I stand 05:58 All other ground is sinking sand 06:03 All other ground is sinking sand 06:09 His oath, His covenant and blood 06:13 Support me in the whelming flood 06:18 When all around my soul gives way 06:22 He then is all my hope and stay 06:27 On Christ the solid rock I stand 06:31 All other ground is sinking sand 06:36 All other ground is sinking sand 06:43 When He shall come with trumpet sound 06:47 O may I then in Him be found 06:51 Clad in His righteousness alone 06:56 Faultless to stand before the throne 07:01 On Christ the solid rock I stand 07:05 All other ground is sinking sand 07:11 All other ground is sinking sand 07:17 Amen. Amen. 07:18 And you're sounding good there at home. 07:22 We love to make a joyful noise to the Lord. 07:24 You know, something that's interesting, 07:26 as you get older, have you noticed how many, 07:28 how much lower, 07:29 how many lower keys we have to go to? 07:32 So we're trying to find here, 07:34 a key that we can all sing in together. 07:39 Oh, mercy. 07:40 Okay, now what we love to do when we begin our programs 07:44 is have a prayer of praise 07:47 and we just going to do this in no particular order. 07:52 We're going to just pray 07:54 as God puts that thankfulness and praise on our heart. 07:58 Just pray back to the Lord 08:00 and we just encourage you to join us at home. 08:03 We will ask you to start, JD. 08:04 Amen. 08:06 Father, as we come to you again in the name of Jesus, 08:08 we thank You, Lord. 08:10 We thank You for this week's blessing, 08:11 we thank You for the last blessings. 08:13 And Father, we just ask 08:15 as specifically ask Lord to be with other families. 08:18 Father, we thank You for our brothers and sisters, 08:23 we thank You for our mothers and fathers. 08:25 We thank You for our brothers and sisters in Christ. 08:28 And Father, I just ask to be with each one of us 08:30 as we continue to go through lives, 08:33 events-- lives episodes Lord, 08:36 and just ask that You continue to be a lamp to our feet. 08:40 Yes. Amen. 08:42 Heavenly Father, we, we glorify You 08:45 and we thank You so much for family, for friends. 08:49 We thank You for 3ABN. 08:51 We thank You for the opportunity 08:53 to be the part of Your ministry 08:54 sharing this message all over the world. 08:56 It's the greatest blessing one can have 08:59 and blessing all come from You. 09:02 Amen. 09:03 Thank you for Your salvation. 09:05 Thank you for your Son that came to die for us. 09:08 In a special way we want to ask for those people 09:11 that are suffering persecution in Your name, 09:14 that You uphold them and give them the strength 09:17 and Your Spirit be with them. 09:20 Lord, we thank You for the Sabbath day. 09:23 We thank You for giving us this time 09:25 to reconnect with You. 09:28 We pray that we can share ourselves 09:35 and Your word with others 09:38 and that-- 09:41 hopefully we can be an influence to those 09:44 that may not know You. 09:46 We thank You and we praise You, Lord. 09:49 Father, we're so glad to be here together 09:53 to be able to honor and glorify Your name. 09:57 After the difficulties of the week, 09:59 Lord, we can come and we can rest 10:01 and we can lean all of our troubles in You. 10:04 And Lord, You have shown us that You will give us the rest. 10:08 We thank You Lord for the individuals 10:10 that we get to share with as well, 10:12 those individuals that, 10:14 in their home they're, they are leaning on You, Lord 10:18 and they're experiencing your love 10:21 we ask for the Holy Spirit be poured upon us Lord 10:24 that we may rejoice and we may feel 10:28 that warm embrace of Your love and Your kindness. 10:31 Amen. 10:33 Father, we come to state you 10:36 just roll all of our burdens over on You, 10:39 to thank You Father that this Sabbath reminds us 10:43 that you're not only our Creator 10:45 but the one who recreates us in the image of Jesus, 10:49 that Lord, You are the one who sanctifies us 10:52 as you say in Exodus 31:13. 10:55 And Father, forgive us when we try to save ourselves. 10:59 We sometimes, Lord, 11:01 get into a performance mentality 11:03 and we forget it's all about relationship with You 11:06 and love with You. 11:08 And Lord, we come right now to ask for Your blessing 11:12 on everyone of our family members 11:15 who are watching by television. 11:18 Um, Lord whether there's someone 11:20 who's watching alone and has no family 11:23 let them feel like they're part of this family, 11:25 and they're welcome or whether Father, 11:27 there's a children in momma and daddy 11:30 that are sitting around watching this 11:33 or listening on the radio, Lord bless each person 11:37 who's participating in this worship. 11:40 And our prayer to You Father 11:41 is that we will be surrendered to You, 11:46 that You will lead us by the Holy Spirit 11:48 and make every thought, every word 11:50 that come from our mouth acceptable to You. 11:53 May our worship be acceptable to You. 11:55 Oh, Lord, You are worthy of worship. 11:57 And we thank You so much for this day. 12:00 In Jesus' name. 12:02 Amen. Amen. 12:03 Amen. Amen. 12:04 Well, the first song that we sang 12:07 is what I call like a praise song, 12:09 it's the song we singing about the Lord. 12:11 But now we have a prayer song to sing, 12:16 and this song is not in the hymnal 12:18 but the words will be on the screen. 12:21 And I'm sure that you heard this song, 12:23 probably many times before. 12:26 This comes from the Psalm, 12:29 and this is from the Psalm of David. 12:31 And we love this song. 12:33 So we are going to sing 12:35 "As The Deer Panteth For The Waters." 12:50 As the deer panteth for the water 12:55 So my soul longeth after You 13:02 You alone are my heart's desire 13:07 And I long to worship You 13:14 You alone are my strength, my shield 13:20 To You alone may my spirit yield 13:27 You alone are my heart's desire 13:33 And I long to worship you 13:40 You're my friend 13:42 And You are my brother 13:45 Even though You are a King 13:52 I love you more than any other 13:58 So much more than anything 14:05 You alone are my strength, my shield 14:10 To You alone may my spirit yield 14:18 You alone are my heart's desire 14:23 And I long to worship You 14:30 I want You more than gold or silver 14:36 Only You can satisfy 14:43 You alone are the real joy giver 14:48 And the apple of my eye 14:55 You alone are my strength, my shield 15:01 To You alone may my spirit yield 15:08 You alone are my heart's desire 15:14 And I long 15:16 To worship You 15:22 Amen. Amen. 15:24 Amen. Amen. 15:25 That's a beautiful, beautiful song. 15:27 Thank you, Jesus. 15:28 Amen. Amen. 15:29 Well, let's get into our study for the evening. 15:34 And we're going to the looking, taking our study 15:38 from Life Affirmation from scripture 15:40 and we're going to look at page 150. 15:44 While we turning there, 15:46 let me just explain what an Affirmation is. 15:50 An Affirmation is simply when you take the word of God 15:55 and affirm it over your life by praying it back to the Lord, 15:59 by speaking it over you life. 16:01 And what this tells is it let just God know 16:05 that you accept His Testimony 16:07 about who you are in Christ Jesus. 16:10 And there are three scriptures that I just love 16:12 Isaiah 55:11 says that, 16:14 "God's word does not return void 16:16 but accomplishes every purpose for which He sent it." 16:20 And Jeremiah 1:12 says that, 16:22 "God watches over His word to perform it." 16:25 So as we're praying it back, 16:28 He's watching over to perform it, 16:30 but Roman 4:17 says that, 16:33 "God is the God who gives life to the dead, 16:37 and calls things that are not as though they already were." 16:41 And that's exactly what we're doing. 16:42 Sometimes some scripture are hard to pray back 16:45 because you think "Oh, I'm not there yet, Lord." 16:48 But we're doing as God does, we're calling things 16:52 that are not as though they already were. 16:55 We're praying it back to the Lord and saying 16:58 "Father, I receive your Testimony 17:00 and I accept Your Testimony." 17:02 And you know, the thing about 17:04 speaking God's word over your life 17:06 is that it rewires your computer. 17:08 You know, Proverbs says that 17:10 "The power of the death and life 17:12 is the tongue." 17:13 And sometimes we speak 17:14 some pretty bad things about ourselves, 17:17 but if we speak God's word over our life, 17:20 then we know we're speaking truth and it's powerful. 17:24 So we're gonna be looking at Righteousness by Faith 17:28 and I read Affirmations 17:30 and I'm gonna let you all read the scriptures. 17:32 But this Affirmation 17:34 is based on all of the scriptures 17:37 that we're gonna be discussing tonight, 17:38 so let me read this. 17:40 "I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. 17:45 God has imputed or credited Christ's righteousness to me. 17:50 Righteousness by faith 17:52 is the only righteousness that exists. 17:56 Christ's robe of righteousness does not cover sin 17:59 that I refuse to confess and forsake. 18:02 God also imparts Christ's righteousness to me. 18:06 He fills me with His righteousness 18:08 which develops Christ's character in me 18:11 and causes me to conduct myself 18:13 according to God's right way of doing things." 18:16 Right there, 18:18 that is the definition of righteousness, by the way. 18:20 It's just God's right way of doing things. 18:25 That's what righteousness is. 18:27 "Therefore, I take heed to avoid the risk 18:30 of thinking I stand firm 18:32 when I am really on the shaky ground. 18:34 I pay attention to my conduct 18:36 to insure I'm not fooling myself. 18:38 I take a daily spiritual inventory to make certain 18:42 that I do not become disqualified. 18:45 Having been made righteous, I now put it into practice 18:49 by following God's way of thinking and acting." 18:53 Again, there's the definition of righteousness, 18:56 "Following God's way of thinking and acting." 18:59 "I'm obeying His Commandments by His righteousness within me. 19:04 By His abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness, 19:08 I reign in life through Christ. 19:12 The fruit of righteousness in my life is peace. 19:16 The results righteousness has in my heart 19:19 is a calm assurance forever." 19:23 So that's the Affirmation. 19:25 Now we're going to unpack that. 19:27 I hope you have your Bibles. 19:28 Bring your Bibles with you to Family Worship every Sabbath 19:32 because this is something that you may want to underline 19:36 or just have a note 19:37 and right down these scriptures. 19:39 We're to look at Righteousness by Faith 19:44 and actually Marilyn, let's begin with you. 19:47 Why don't you take 2 Corinthians 5:21? 19:53 Okay. 19:54 "God made Him, 19:56 who had no sin to be sin for us, 19:59 so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God." 20:05 What do you think of that scripture? 20:07 Well, what an act of love. 20:09 Yes. 20:11 You know, to send Your Son that has no sin 20:16 and be here for us, so that we can live like Him. 20:21 So what do you think He means when He, when Paul says, 20:25 "He made Him, who knew no sin to be sin for us." 20:28 When did Jesus, Jesus was sinless. 20:31 When did He become sin for us? 20:33 At the cross. At the cross. 20:36 When all the sins of the world were laid on Christ. 20:40 And He did that so that Christ's perfect record 20:47 could be credited to us. 20:49 You know, if you think about a bank account 20:52 and over here, you know, you've got this deficit. 20:54 If you're trying to reconcile your bank account, 20:56 and you've got this deficit that there's nothing to cover. 21:00 Our sin debt was great, 21:02 there was no way 21:03 we could have paid the sin debt. 21:05 But what God did 21:07 when Christ reconciled us to Him. 21:10 The way we reconciled is His righteousness, 21:14 the imputed righteousness is like, 21:16 He filled up our bank account. 21:18 He credited His perfect acts of obedience, 21:22 His perfect life, everything that He did 21:25 was credited to us 21:26 and what that ended up-- 21:29 The result of that is justification by faith. 21:33 It's like all that past, 21:35 all of that sins been wiped out. 21:37 Isn't that amazing? 21:39 Praise the Lord. 21:40 It's amazing when you really think about it. 21:43 All the thoughts that came through His mind at the cross 21:46 and through that cross, through all that time, 21:50 our name was the one that kept coming through. 21:54 If it was just for one of us, He would have done it. 21:57 You know, a lot of times we don't understand 21:58 what righteousness that God gives us, 22:01 but when we look at what He was willing to for us, 22:04 what He was willing to accomplish through His son 22:08 that we may be able to, to be like Christ 22:13 in a way through righteousness, it's mind boggling sometimes. 22:18 The joy that I feel sometimes whenever life may be difficult 22:23 or maybe I'm having a struggle, 22:25 all I have to just think is, what did Christ do for me? 22:28 Amen. 22:29 And how is that related to whatever instance 22:33 that I'm going through or whatever situation 22:35 that I'm going through. 22:36 And this verse pretty much lets you know 22:39 whatever iniquity, whatever things that you have 22:43 done in your life I've erased it all 22:45 and I've given you a clean slate. 22:47 Amen. 22:48 I thought He was really neat this morning. 22:50 Every Tuesday morning here at 3ABN 22:52 we have what we call Corporate Worship, 22:53 that's whenever everyone comes into one of our studios, 22:57 Studio B and together we have worship this morning. 23:00 Eric led out. 23:02 Had a fantastic topic, you know, Why Are We Here? 23:05 And then in closing you had the closing prayer. 23:08 And I know what I'm getting right to say, 23:09 but, boy, did it remind me that is, 23:12 Jesus is hanging on the cross, everyone of us, 23:16 every person on this earth went through His mind. 23:20 And, man, I just thought about, 23:22 boy, you talk about the latest computer, 23:24 how could that happen? 23:25 Because He was alive, 23:27 what four hours, five hours, you know. 23:29 But, boy, just that fast He was able to do that. 23:33 And everything was put into place. 23:36 I know what that young man is going to do. 23:38 Oh, I wish he wouldn't do that, but I love him anyway 23:41 and together we're gonna work this thing out. 23:44 But it was a great time. 23:45 Let me just use the question. 23:47 Why is it important 23:49 that we're standing in righteousness, 23:51 if we're gonna stand in front of God? 23:54 Do you remember what we said 23:56 when we're talking about the love of God that, 23:59 1 Thessalonians 3:12, 13 talks about 24:02 how God establishes us in holiness by His love. 24:06 His love is established in holiness. 24:09 His love, which is the essence of His being 24:13 is this burning love, 24:20 His divine love that, sin, it consume sin. 24:24 Sin can not stand in the presence of God. 24:27 So it's important 24:28 and we're gonna be talking about our righteousness, 24:32 not only the imputed righteousness 24:34 that credited to us, 24:36 but we're also gonna talk about 24:37 how Christ imparts His righteousness. 24:39 Without righteousness by faith 24:41 we couldn't stand in front of God. 24:43 Why don't you pray that Scripture back, Marilyn? 24:47 Lord, we thank You for making Him 24:50 who had no sin to be sin for us, 24:53 to give the ultimate act of love 24:56 and to give His life 24:59 so that we may surrender to Him and believe in Him 25:02 that we may have righteousness. 25:04 Amen. Amen. 25:05 Amen. 25:06 Okay, Eric, why don't you take 1 Corinthians 1:30? 25:11 "But it is from Him 25:13 that you have your life in Christ Jesus, 25:16 whom God made our righteousness 25:18 thus making us upright and putting us 25:20 in right standing with God." 25:24 When I read this verse, every time I can't help 25:28 but imagine Christ on the cross and what He gave for me 25:31 and what he gave for Marilyn and gave for my friends 25:34 and my family and the people that I love, 25:36 even the people that I don't know. 25:38 He gave it all for us 25:40 and sacrificed a bit of Himself on that cross 25:45 because He was no longer omnipotent. 25:51 He was-- I don't think he was, somehow He changed, 25:54 He transformed Himself on that cross 25:56 into not only human in God, 26:02 but in our eyes, we now know He loves us. 26:08 Before that there was always a question, 26:10 there was a controversy between Christ and Satan 26:14 and the angels had the question 26:16 and humanity had the question and the universe had a question 26:19 and God answered that. 26:21 Jesus on the cross, 26:23 where He was no longer 26:25 a question mark in anyone's eyes. 26:27 He transformed Himself into our Savior, our King. 26:31 And as the scripture says, it's in Him that we have life. 26:36 That we have no spiritual life, 26:38 no eternal life other than Christ Jesus. 26:40 But I love that the New Testament says, 26:43 "Christ is our righteousness." 26:45 Just as a moment we'll see that God was considered 26:50 their righteousness in the Old Testament. 26:52 Righteousness by faith 26:54 has always been the only kind of righteousness there is. 26:58 So you want to pray that one back please? 27:02 Dear heavenly Father, 27:03 thank You for our lives through Christ Jesus. 27:08 Thank You for erasing all the question marks 27:11 that anyone ever had, 27:13 be it angels or fallen-- un-fallen worlds 27:17 that You are Christ and You are the King 27:20 and You are the one that loves us. 27:23 You are our righteousness. 27:25 Watch over us, keep Your umbrella over us 27:28 and be merciful that we might stand one day 27:32 with You and the Father on the sea of glass. 27:34 Amen. Amen. 27:35 Amen. Amen. 27:37 Luis, you want to take Romans 9:30? 27:40 It says, "Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness 27:45 have attained to righteousness, 27:48 even the righteousness of faith." 27:52 This shows me God's patience. 27:55 This shows me God's patience. 27:57 It says, you know, 27:59 even though you're not looking after me, 28:01 even though you're not seeking me, 28:04 do you know, I'm gonna make sure 28:05 that I will implant in your heart enough faith 28:09 that then I will change you. 28:12 I will change you into My character 28:14 which would be the righteousness of God. 28:17 So we can reveal 28:18 Christ's character in everybody. 28:20 But, what I like is that, He's trying to say that 28:25 righteousness will always be available to you. 28:30 Amen. 28:31 You just have to make sure that you believe 28:34 that you have the faith. 28:36 A lot of the times like you were mentioning earlier, 28:38 that individuals that do not elevate themselves, 28:41 individuals that look down on themselves, 28:44 they don't quite understand what it means to be righteous. 28:47 They don't quite understand 28:48 what it means to be loved by God so much 28:51 that He no longer is looking at us. 28:54 He's looking at Christ in us 28:57 and that's what I love about this particular part. 29:00 And He says, I'm going to make sure 29:02 that I open this for everyone to have availability 29:08 of accepting and enjoying my righteousness. 29:13 And do you think maybe that Paul, 29:14 since he's kind of picked out the gentiles here saying, 29:21 they weren't pursuing righteousness, 29:22 but they attain this righteousness by faith. 29:26 What would be the contrast of that? 29:29 Jews were seeking righteousness. 29:31 That's right. 29:33 They were trying to be righteous 29:37 by their own merit, by their own actions. 29:40 They were trying, even like with the Sabbath, 29:43 look at how many laws they added to the Sabbath, 29:46 trying to keep everything perfectly. 29:48 So here, they were trying to workout their own salvation 29:52 without faith in God for this. 29:55 And I think this is one of the things that, 29:57 to me, Paul is saying. 29:59 Hey, Jews, you've been trying so hard to be righteous. 30:04 Don't you know that the Bible says God is righteousness? 30:09 And yet, now here, your gentile brothers, 30:11 who you used to make fun off, they have come along. 30:15 They weren't even pursuing righteousness. 30:17 They received Christ as their Savior 30:20 and now they have been made righteous by faith. 30:22 Amen. I love it. 30:24 You know, Shelley, when I was an early Christian, 30:27 before I became a Seventh-day Adventist, 30:30 I still had an engineering mindset. 30:31 And the engineering mindset is, make it happen. 30:35 And I was always pursuing different paths 30:39 and doing the right things, not for the right reason, 30:42 but because I was trying to make something happen. 30:44 And it's funny that we have a discussion on faith 30:46 because I had all of the actions, 30:49 but I didn't have any of the faith. 30:52 Yeah. That is... 30:54 We could all, at someplace identify with that. 30:58 The Bible says that it's for the just and the unjust. 31:02 Yes. 31:04 So when he comes here it says gentiles, 31:06 but it's for the just and the unjust 31:08 because we can't be unjust within the church, you know. 31:13 You know, I love what Paul says 31:14 to the Galatians in Galatians 3:3 31:17 when he says, "You foolish, Galatians, 31:19 who's bewitched you 31:21 that you should not obey the truth, 31:23 before whose eyes Christ Jesus was clearly portrayed 31:26 among you is crucified. 31:27 I'm thinking of Colossians 3:3. 31:28 Anyway, He says, having begun in the spirit, 31:32 do you think that now you can be perfected in the flesh? 31:37 You can't be. 31:38 In Galatians here, if I could find it 31:40 and that's just how tired I am. 31:42 Galatians 3:3. No. 31:43 I'm trying to think of what... Where Paul says that, 31:47 if you try to be saved through works, 31:55 through obeying the law, you have become... 31:59 You've fallen from grace 32:00 and you are estranged from Christ. 32:02 So it's always righteousness by faith. 32:04 You want to pray that? We need to get on. 32:06 Our loving Father, we thank You 32:08 because You give us the opportunity. 32:09 Lord, that even though 32:11 we may not be seeking You by faith, 32:14 You're always gonna be tugging at our hearts. 32:16 We thank You, Lord, because You're showing us 32:18 that there is nothing that we can do of our own, 32:21 that it is You who's going to do the work in us 32:24 and it is through You who's going to fill us 32:26 with Your righteousness. 32:28 We thank You in Christ name, amen. 32:30 Amen. Amen. 32:31 J.D. 32:32 I'm gonna to Isaiah 64:6. 32:37 And this is an interesting, interesting scripture 32:41 because we are looking at what we can do good. 32:46 But this is saying that 32:48 "we are all like an unclean thing. 32:51 And all our righteousness are like filthy rags." 32:55 That will knock the wind out of your sails. 32:57 Yes. 32:58 You know, you jump in the shower every morning, 33:00 you get the soap out and you just scrub, 33:02 scrub, scrub, thinking that, oh, I'm coming out, 33:05 I'm like a, like I'm feeling good, I'm new. 33:09 And it's saying here, I don't care 33:10 where you are I'm your walk on this earth, 33:14 you are no more than like a filthy rag. 33:20 And don't you think that... 33:22 I mean, if you think about this, coming into... 33:24 The closer you get to the Lord, you know, 33:27 it's easy to not look at yourself as a sinner 33:30 when you are not close to God. 33:31 But the closer you get to God, the more, 33:35 in the brilliance of His unapproachable light, 33:38 the more you notice how dingy, you know, it's like, 33:42 you all, you women will identify with this. 33:46 You wash a sock and you think you may use Clorox 33:49 or I use hydrogen peroxide and vinegar in my wash. 33:52 And you think this is, 33:54 oh, I got the mud of this white sock, 33:56 it's looking good. 33:58 Then you put it into the sock door next to a new sock 34:01 and you're going, wow, this is dingy. 34:05 So no matter how much we do, 34:09 no matter how good we think we are, 34:10 compared to God, 34:12 our righteousness is like a filthy rag. 34:14 That's right. 34:16 That's... But what is perfectly white? 34:21 And that is the robe of Christ's righteousness. 34:23 Amen. And that is His gift to us. 34:26 So it really, we are all like an unclean thing 34:29 and all our righteous are like filthy rags. 34:31 Yes, we are. 34:33 But, we have the opportunity 34:38 to wear that robe of righteousness. 34:40 Amen. Amen. 34:42 Amen. So, amen. 34:43 That's the righteousness by faith. 34:44 Amen. Eric. 34:47 I'll pray that. Oh, I'm sorry. 34:49 Father, as we come together today in the name of Jesus, 34:52 we thank You for the robe of righteousness, dear Father. 34:55 For that your robe and Father, we know that bad begets bad 35:00 and we don't want to go there, Lord. 35:02 We want to turn it to all over to You 35:04 because it's you that empowers us, 35:06 it's You that infuses 35:07 Your inner strengthened into us 35:09 to be what we could be in the name of Jesus. 35:12 We thank You and we love You. Amen. 35:15 Amen. Okay. 35:17 Jeremiah 23:6. 35:20 "Now this is His name, the Lord our Righteousness." 35:25 Excuse me. 35:26 Where is that Book of Jeremiah found? 35:28 That's in the Old Testament, isn't it? 35:30 It is. 35:32 So what is it saying? 35:35 The Lord our Righteousness. 35:37 He's always. 35:38 It's always been righteousness by faith. 35:39 That's right. 35:41 You could never... 35:42 I mean, Isaiah is the one who said, you know, 35:44 that's the Old Testament too. 35:46 You know some people try to make it sound like 35:48 there was a different system in the Old Testament 35:52 that you worked for your salvation, 35:54 that you worked for your righteousness. 35:57 They are not studying the same I'm studying. 36:00 I mean, really, we've got to see 36:03 it's always been salvation by grace. 36:05 It's always been righteousness by faith. 36:08 Only kind of righteousness there is. 36:11 When I grew up, my mother gave me a Bible. 36:16 And had I not read that Bible, 36:19 I wouldn't have understood as time went on, 36:23 it's difficult to say it, but how filthy you are. 36:25 Yeah. 36:27 If you don't read that book, you can say well, 36:29 I have all my I is dotted and all my T is crossed 36:33 and everything is going well. 36:34 I'm okay everything is fine. 36:36 But you suddenly read that book 36:37 and you compare yourself to Jesus, 36:40 that's when you found out who you really are 36:43 and that's when the change begins to take place. 36:45 And that's when my search really began. 36:48 Amen. 36:50 Sometimes, as we're looking in the mirror, 36:51 we need to clean that mirror off 36:52 'cause the cleaner you get that mirror 36:54 the better image you see. 36:56 And then you see how handicapped you are. 36:59 Amen. Yes. 37:01 You know, when you were talking earlier,... 37:04 if you look at the rituals that we had to do, 37:06 that the Israel's had to do before, 37:07 to get their sins forgiven, 37:10 it was such a humbling experience. 37:12 You actually had to take a life yourself. 37:15 So if it's not by righteousness, 37:17 that it was all throughout, what was it? 37:21 Because a lot of times we look at, 37:22 oh, how hard that was. 37:24 How terrible it was that they actually had to put, 37:26 lay their hands on a lamb 37:27 and then take the poor lamb's life. 37:30 But it's actually a humbling experience 37:32 because you know 37:33 that everything was poor there. 37:36 You actually literally had to feel 37:39 how strong the forgiveness truly was. 37:41 And it's actually through righteousness 37:43 that we feel that. 37:44 It's God put in that in us it says, I love you so much 37:47 that even though you have to go through 37:48 this tough ritual, you can see 37:52 how the humility of the sacrifices 37:55 and how filthy you truly are. 37:59 And you know, something that we learned 38:00 when we were in Israel. 38:01 And I remember when we went to the homes 38:03 and we saw how they actually, part of the home 38:07 was were the lamb's were reared, remember? 38:10 And so you have got this little lamb 38:13 and you had to have, 38:14 you had to be without blemish and special. 38:16 So just imagine loving and caring 38:18 for this little lamb and then you recognize 38:22 that this lamb, when you sin, 38:24 that you got to give the life of that little lamb. 38:27 He has to be your substitute. That's right. 38:29 Well, I'll tell you that would certainly 38:31 make you think about... 38:33 I think it would be harder to hold on to a cherished sin 38:37 if you realize that you're constantly 38:39 having to sacrifice a life for that, yet, 38:42 that's what happened with Jesus. 38:44 It seems to me too. 38:45 Every time you sacrifice, 38:47 you have to put Christ before yourself. 38:48 Amen. 38:50 Because yourself, you don't want to do 38:51 that to that dear animal, 38:54 but when you do that you're putting Christ 38:55 before your personal feelings. 38:58 And that for me, I was always raised 39:01 "don't never surrender, don't never give up, 39:04 always push forward, don't give into anything." 39:08 And when I start reading my Bible, it said surrender. 39:11 Give up. 39:12 That's the only way you're gonna become 39:13 truly righteous and it changed my life. 39:16 J.D. found a great word the other day 39:17 that helped him... 39:19 Yes. I was talking about surrender. 39:22 And I had trouble with that word and that, 39:25 I guess I'm a typical guy. 39:28 You know, just I give up. 39:31 And maybe I was watching 39:32 too many black and white cowboys, 39:34 I don't know but the bad guy, you know, would give up. 39:37 But we brought up. I think Mitch Owen brought up. 39:39 He was reading it in... 39:41 He was reading, I think in one of Miss White's Books. 39:45 And it used the word consent. 39:49 Oh, man, I just changed it all with sudden, you know, 39:52 rather than saying, I surrender. 39:57 It's easier for me to say I consent. 39:59 Because I immediately with my interpretation 40:03 I sense the difference. 40:05 It's basically you're just giving God permission. 40:07 Either way you're giving God permission 40:09 to be in control of your life. 40:10 Yes. All right. 40:12 Well, we're gonna need to move on. 40:13 So you want to pray that, please? 40:15 Dear heavenly Father, thank You 40:16 for being our righteousness. 40:17 Thank You for leading to us a true surrender. 40:20 Please continue the work on our hearts and to guide us 40:23 to that faithful day, in Jesus' name. 40:26 Amen. Amen. 40:27 Okay, Xenia. Psalms 23:3. 40:31 "He restores my soul. 40:33 He leads me in the path of righteousness 40:36 for His name sake." 40:39 He restores my soul. I mean, that's really deep. 40:43 You know, it's like how renewed energy, 40:48 and renewed attitude, renewed everything, 40:52 being a new person in Christ. 40:55 And the interesting part it says here. 40:58 He leads me in the path of righteousness. 41:02 Which path is this? 41:05 As Christians 41:08 to be in the path of righteousness is to do, 41:11 to be about being what Christ wants us to be, 41:18 doing those things that He requires of us, 41:24 that He gave us in the Bible. 41:26 So He in a way is telling me 41:28 that the way I can be restored, 41:31 my soul can be new. 41:33 If I give in to the leading of God 41:36 to be and to do His will in my life. 41:39 Amen. Amen. 41:40 And to be led by the Holy Spirit. 41:42 Yeah. 41:43 You want to pray that one back for us please? 41:46 Dear Heavenly Father, thank You so much 41:48 for restoring our souls 41:51 and we ask You in a special way 41:53 that You continue to lead us in the path of righteousness, 41:57 so one day we can be with You in eternity. 42:01 In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. 42:03 Amen. Amen and amen. 42:05 Xenia, I think you've got the next one as well. 42:08 Haven't you? Isaiah 61:10. 42:11 I think it's the continuation of this of the previous verse. 42:16 Because it says, "My soul shall be joyful in God." 42:20 After we've been restored in God, 42:22 after we've been following His ways, 42:25 He's leading 42:27 His righteousness, there will be joy. 42:30 Amen. 42:31 We'll be so... 42:33 There will be joy to have a new life to be, 42:35 to be a new song in our hearts. 42:37 Amen. 42:38 And then He continues to say. 42:41 "For he has clothed me with the garments of salvation 42:46 and He has covered me in the robe of righteousness." 42:50 So in a way he's reiterating the same concept, both times. 42:55 We're getting new clothes. 42:58 Like, like you were mentioning before, you know, 43:00 it's like this white garments, where do we get them? 43:03 Well, here it is. This is where we get them. 43:06 We get them from God, the righteous person, 43:09 the righteous being that we ought to be like Him. 43:14 That's the way we obtain righteousness, 43:16 by doing and being and what He requires of us. 43:20 Yeah. 43:22 But we have to always put the emphasis on, 43:24 it's acquired by faith because it's God 43:27 who's working in us 43:29 to willing to do His good pleasure. 43:30 That's the imparted righteousness. 43:34 You know, in Ephesians chapter 3 43:36 he says that Christ lives in our heart through faith, 43:39 by the power of the Holy Spirit. 43:41 And, so, as the Holy Spirit is poured into us, 43:45 God works in us to line our will up with His will 43:48 and then to cause us to do His good things. 43:51 So I do want to point out once again. 43:54 Isaiah 61:10 is an Old Testament scripture, 43:57 talking about how God clothes you 43:59 with a garment of salvation, 44:01 it covers you with the robe of righteousness. 44:03 Why don't you pray that? 44:06 Dear Heavenly Father, we want to you thank you 44:08 so much for the garment of salvation, 44:11 for the robes of righteousness 44:13 that you bestow upon us. 44:15 We would only follow You. 44:18 Give us that joy, Lord, 44:19 that joy that only comes with You, from You, 44:23 by knowing You, in Jesus' name, amen. 44:26 Amen. Amen. 44:27 Amen. 44:28 Right. Eric. 44:30 Okay. 1 Corinthians 10:12. 44:33 "That him who think he stands take heed lest he fall." 44:37 And this goes back to what I was talking about before. 44:41 You think you're standing, 44:42 you have everything in place and lined up. 44:46 And praise the Lord, He sends that for all, that reminds you 44:51 exactly who you are, you're human. 44:56 You are not righteous except by my blood, 44:57 Christ said and that is so true. 45:00 I wrote down. 45:02 "Pride goes before destruction 45:03 and the hardy spirit before stumbling." 45:05 And that is something to be reminded of everyday. 45:09 Yeah. Yes. 45:12 Paul was certainly one who constantly checked on himself 45:19 to make sure that he was in. 45:22 And we should take... 45:23 We should put a finger on our spiritual pulse 45:26 from time to time, you know, and see 45:28 how much time are we spending in prayer? 45:30 How much time are we spending in Bible study? 45:31 How much do we really... 45:33 How is our, our relationship with the Lord advancing? 45:39 Do we really love Him 45:40 or are we forgetting our first love? 45:41 So... 45:43 He said He died daily, everyday. 45:45 You know, who He was, He died 45:48 so He can become who God wanted him to me everyday. 45:51 Yes. 45:52 This reminds me of the pastor's sermon 45:54 Trials and Temptations that, you know, a lot of times 45:58 we're thinking, oh, we got this 46:00 and then all of a sudden a trial comes in. 46:02 And you know, we need to rely on God and we need to say, 46:05 okay,Father, you know I was all confident yesterday, 46:08 I need to be confident again today, you know. 46:11 And this is where, where it's difficult sometimes, you know 46:15 and sometimes God needs to do those things for us. 46:17 He needs to bring us to a place 46:18 where we humble ourselves, where we say, "Okay. 46:21 Is it you or is it me?" 46:23 Because if it's you then my Father can't see you. 46:26 So let me come. 46:28 Let my righteousness be, fill You, 46:30 so my Father can bless you. 46:32 Amen. Amen. 46:34 That's exactly right. Okay. 46:38 Dear Heavenly Father, thank You 46:39 for being there when we fall. 46:41 Thank You for being a reminder of who Jesus is and who we are 46:45 and of His righteousness and of His saving grace. 46:48 Please continue to remind us every day and help us to die 46:51 to ourselves in Jesus' name, amen. 46:54 Amen. Amen. 46:55 Amen. Okay. J.D. 46:56 Yes. 46:58 This is Paul speaking in 1 Corinthians 9:27. 47:01 "I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, 47:04 lest, when I have preached to others, 47:07 I myself should become disqualified." 47:11 I know that there's a lot of athletes that are watching. 47:14 I know there's a lot of wanna be athletes 47:16 out there that are watching. 47:18 Probably the better athletes 47:19 are the one that disciplines themselves. 47:22 And they workout hard, they put the time in 47:27 and because as Paul is bringing out here 47:31 in this particular scripture, talking about the perfecting, 47:35 a perfect timing, 47:39 an event of that particular day 47:42 and that is dealing... 47:44 Mostly the people are thinking about racing. 47:48 Now some talk about boxing. 47:49 I don't know which it is, 47:51 but the principle is still the same. 47:53 So consequently he's saying, discipline yourself, 47:56 but don't just talk the talk, walk the talk. 48:00 Don't be the one that makeup the rules and then you sit 48:04 and kind of go, kind of chew a little bit 48:06 to go pass those rules to kind of get around. 48:09 So it says, hey, be all that you can be in Jesus. 48:13 That's what it's said because the last thing 48:16 that you want to be is whenever you, 48:19 whenever you set yourself up that you're the one 48:24 that's disqualified and you're the one 48:27 that dropping the flag to race. 48:30 In other words, he's saying 48:32 practice what you preach, right? 48:34 He's checking it out. Practice what you preach. 48:35 It's exactly right. Okay. 48:36 You want to pray that one, honey? 48:38 Yes Father, I thank You Lord, 48:39 that we can bring all things to You. 48:41 Father, don't let us get so caught up in ourselves 48:43 and establish the directions 48:47 and then be the chief of sinners. 48:50 Father, we want to turn it to all over to You 48:52 and allow You to work through us. 48:54 We thank You, Lord, that we can call upon 48:56 Your name, Amen. 48:58 Amen. 48:59 You know that... 49:00 Well, that scripture also, if he's worried 49:02 about being disqualified, 49:03 that shows it's not once saved always saved, doesn't it? 49:05 Exactly right. All right. 49:06 Xenia, you want to take 1 John 2:29. 49:09 1 John 2:29 says, "If you know that He is righteous, 49:15 you know that everyone 49:16 who practices righteousness is born of Him." 49:22 So the only way we can be born-again 49:25 is practicing His righteousness. 49:30 And like we said, you know, 49:32 we have to have that right relationship with God 49:36 in order to follow His righteousness. 49:41 And it's Him working in us. Yes. 49:43 You know, but this, 49:44 this is something in this scripture... 49:49 I love this scripture because a lot of people think 49:51 that once you've been saved, 49:54 you don't need to worry about obedience. 49:55 And if you talk about obedience, 49:57 that you're being legalistic. 49:59 But I believe that obedience is by grace. 50:01 That's right. 50:02 It's only as the Holy Spirit is working in us 50:05 that we can even obey God. 50:06 And right here He tells us. Hey, don't fool yourselves. 50:11 He's righteous if He's living in you. 50:14 You're gonna be practicing righteousness. 50:16 We don't obey to be saved, 50:19 but we obey because we are saved. 50:21 So if we've been born-again, 50:23 we're going to practice righteousness. 50:26 How do we practice righteousness? 50:28 It's said here at the beginning. 50:29 It's thinking and acting like God. 50:33 Amen. Amen. 50:34 And then, so... As He... 50:35 And the only way we know that is reading the scripture 50:37 because we don't know what perfect is. 50:40 We don't know what righteous is. 50:42 Only God is righteous. Amen. 50:45 Pray that back please. 50:49 Thank You heavenly Father, 50:51 where You have shown us Your righteousness, 50:55 help us to practice that in such a way 50:57 that we might be born-again in You. 51:00 In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. 51:01 Amen. Okay. 51:03 Psalms 85:13. 51:07 "Righteousness will go before Him, 51:11 and shall make His footsteps our pathway." 51:16 You know I've always looked back in my life... 51:18 I've moved up 23 times. 51:20 I've been four different countries, 51:21 five different states, two different provinces 51:24 in Canada and all the time I'm always marveled 51:28 at how my life was pre-moved to how God has shown me 51:35 that He has always set an opened doors for me. 51:39 And we forget those things sometimes. 51:41 And most of the times when we're going 51:42 through trials tribulations, we're saying, "Why me God? 51:45 Why me? Why now? 51:46 Why this? Why that?" 51:47 But then afterwards we look at this part. 51:49 It says, I've gone in-front. 51:51 I've gone before you and I have re-set the path, 51:54 all you have to do is just place your foot 51:57 where I have shown you and that is 51:59 what is so wonderful about this part. 52:01 We have to do nothing, 52:03 but just completely rely on Him and He will show us. 52:09 We don't have to guess. 52:10 We just have to just put, 52:12 like that, foot in the sand, the story. 52:15 It's so beautiful when it says, 52:17 I was carrying you when you only see one foot, you know. 52:21 And that's where we need to understand. 52:23 What this is trying to say is that, 52:26 take it easy because I've got it under control. 52:29 Amen. Absolutely. 52:30 It's almost like when you're on a path, 52:33 there's distractions to the left 52:35 and there's distractions to the right 52:37 and God says, don't go wandering off 52:38 after those distractions. 52:40 Stay on the path. 52:42 And I always try and remember that, that sort of analogy. 52:46 You know, and 1 John 2:6 says that "If we are in Christ, 52:49 we must walk as He walks." 52:50 So he's saying here that He will show us the way. 52:54 Do you want to... 52:55 We've only got a few minutes left 52:57 and I like to get to couple of more scriptures. 52:58 Would you like to pray that? 52:59 Our Loving Father, 53:01 I'm so thankful that You go before us. 53:04 I'm thankful that You give us the righteousness, 53:06 but You show us the way. 53:08 You guide us all the way through, Lord. 53:11 So God can see Your marvelous character in each one of us. 53:15 In Christ's name, amen. 53:17 Amen. Amen. 53:18 Marilyn. Okay. 53:20 1 John 3:7, 8. 53:25 "Little children, let no one deceive you. 53:28 He who practices righteousness is righteous, 53:32 just as He is righteous. 53:35 He who sins is of the devil. 53:37 For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, 53:41 that He might destroy the works of the devil." 53:44 Now wait a minute. 53:45 I thought we were talking about righteousness by faith. 53:47 And here John saying, 53:49 don't be deceived, it's only 53:51 he who practices righteousness is righteous. 53:56 So is that still righteousness by faith? 54:00 Yes, it is. 54:01 Amen. It is. 54:02 It's only by faith that you can practice it. 54:04 Yes, It's by grace... 54:05 As God's working in us to will and to do. 54:08 Yes. That's right. 54:09 But once again, this shows that 54:13 obedience is the pathway to God's blessings, isn't it? 54:18 And,you know, there's always going to be people 54:20 that are trying to pull you in a different direction. 54:23 But it's up to us to stay on that narrow, 54:28 straight narrow path in order 54:30 to have that gift of eternal life with the Lord. 54:35 Amen. Yes. 54:36 Amen. Okay. 54:38 You want to pray that back please? 54:40 Lord, I pray that You will not let 54:44 any of us be deceived by the devil 54:47 and that you will continue to work in us 54:51 and lead us on the path of righteousness, 54:53 in your name I pray, amen. 54:54 Amen. Amen. 54:56 You know, we only have two minutes left 54:58 and you all were complaining 55:00 because I didn't take scripture. 55:01 So I'm gonna take too real quickly here. 55:03 These are two of my favorites 55:05 and one is Romans 5:17 it says, 55:09 "Those who receive abundance of grace 55:13 and of the gift of righteousness 55:15 will reign in life through Christ Jesus." 55:18 I love to pray that and say, Father, thank You 55:20 that You've given me an abundance of grace. 55:23 Thank You Father, that You've given me 55:25 the gift of righteousness. 55:27 And thank You that you cause me 55:30 to reign in life through Christ. 55:31 I love that scripture. 55:33 The other is Isaiah 32: 17 that says... 55:37 And I used to claim this is my life first. 55:40 "The work of righteousness will be peace, 55:43 the effect of righteousness, 55:45 quietness and assurance forever." 55:49 Amen. 55:50 And what a precious thing that righteousness... 55:53 And once again, if you've been joining us tonight, 55:55 I hope you're just getting a little glimpse 55:58 that righteousness is by faith. 56:01 There's nothing you can do, 56:02 but also grace doesn't release you from obedience 56:06 because we saw 56:07 that only those who practice righteousness are righteous. 56:11 So it's all by God's power. 56:13 But it's such a joy and such a blessing. 56:16 J.D., would you like to have our closing prayer? 56:18 We only have about a minute left. 56:21 I want to... 56:22 You will have our closing prayer. 56:24 Well, I have a closing thought. 56:25 Okay. 56:26 Father, we thank You once again, 56:28 Lord, that we can talk about You, 56:30 speak about You Lord, 56:31 and so that we can stand on Your promises. 56:35 We love You and we thank You 56:36 and give you all praise and glory 56:37 for what You do in our lives, may we be a blessing to others 56:41 in the name of Jesus, amen. 56:42 Amen. Amen. 56:43 Well, Marilyn and Eric, 56:46 thank you so much for joining us. 56:47 And for you two over here, for Xenia and Luis, 56:52 we're so grateful that you joined us as well. 56:55 And for those of you at home, we're just really, 56:58 really thankful you're part of our 3ABN family. 57:01 We want to give a special shout out to all 57:04 that are on the Go Evangelistic team. 57:06 But we pray that you have, 57:09 have a blessed Sabbath 57:11 or that you've had a blessed Sabbath 57:13 depending on when you are watching this program. 57:17 And just rely on Jesus' righteousness. 57:21 Just thank Him for His abundance of grace 57:24 and gift of righteousness. 57:26 And our prayer of you 57:27 is that the grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, 57:30 the love of the Father and the fellowship 57:31 of the Holy Spirit will be with you always. 57:35 Amen. Amen. |
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