Unto Him who is able
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To keep you from stumbling
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And to present you
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Faultless before the presence
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Of His glory with exceeding joy
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To God our
Savior who is only wise
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Be glory
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And majesty
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Dominion and power
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both now and for ever
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Amen
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Amen
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Dominion and power
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Both now and for ever
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Amen
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Amen
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Our loving Father in heaven,
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we are overwhelmed by
Your generosity of grace.
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We confess our need,
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we have nothing
good in and of ourselves
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to offer to you, Father.
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We come because
of our ungodliness
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and our
unworthiness is overwhelming us.
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And we need all
that You have to offer us
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through the amazing grace
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You placed upon
the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Continue to open our
eyes tonight, Father,
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make the word alive within us,
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so we can live
filled with hope and joy.
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In Jesus precious name, amen.
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So reviewing where
we were previously,
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we are looking at
the four characteristics
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of human beings in
their natural state,
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as the grace of
God comes upon them.
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And the two
beautiful characteristics,
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not beautiful
in a positive sense
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but beautiful because they came
through with crystal clarity,
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two characteristics
have been merged,
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helpless without
strength and powerless
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and the second one
which blew us all away,
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God's grace is
poured out upon the ungodly.
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And I challenged you
all to raise up churches
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that will be attractive
and welcoming to sinners
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despite how far or how deeply
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they may have fallen into sin.
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Your church and your community
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should be a place of
refuge where sinners can come
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and find the grace of
God freely available to them.
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So we are
picking up again tonight
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with the third characteristic,
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let's see coming to this group
over the back over here please.
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William and his partner there,
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we are coming to you guys
for the third characteristic.
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Thank you.
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What verse would
you like to take us to?
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Verse 8.
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Thank you very much,
read out the verse, would you?
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"The God demonstrate
his own love towards us,
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in that while we
were still sinners,
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Christ died for us"
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So the big word
leaping out at you is?
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Sinners.
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Sinners, thank you
very much, sinners.
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Wow.
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Look at these
words as they line up,
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helpless, ungodly, sinners.
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Wow.
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And there is a fourth one yet,
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Cano, showed little movement
there before so jump in please.
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What verse would you
like to take us into?
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It's gonna be verse 10.
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Okay.
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"For if, when we were enemies,
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we were reconciled to God
through the death of his Son,
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much more,
having been reconciled,
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we shall be saved by his life."
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So enemies.
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Enemies, enemies. Wow.
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I hope you never
forget these words.
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Just a couple of months ago,
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I was out jogging
6:30 in the morning
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because I live in Palm Springs
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where at 6:30 in the morning
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it can be 90 degrees
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and if you wait another
hour it's gonna go over a 100.
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And there's a very
beautiful park nearby
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where I live and
it has exercise stops
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all the way around it.
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So it's one of my
favorite areas to jog
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and to walk and to exercise.
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Anyway I usually going
much wider than the park
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and I'd been
out for about a mile
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and came back around
through the park again
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and I'm jogging through the park
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and it's now nearly
seven o'clock in the morning
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and I notice a young man
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sitting on a
bench as I'm jogging by.
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And so I just kind of wave
like this as I'm jogging by
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and he spoke to me
and said, "Could we chat?"
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This happens to me all the time.
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I said once again Gods doing it,
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I'm out for exercise,
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He's got someone sitting here
seven o'clock in the morning.
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He has a guy-- young
man sitting on a bench
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in the middle of
this beautiful park,
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there's a lot of
people out exercising
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at that hour of the morning.
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So this guy
said, "Could we chat?"
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I said, "Well, why not?"
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So I jogged
back to where he was,
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and I sat down on
the bench next to him
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and he put out his hand
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and introduced himself as David.
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And I said I'm Bill.
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I said so what would
you like to chat about?
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He said, "Well...
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I'm in crises."
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I said, "Okay."
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This is a crises situation.
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People in crises are generally
quite receptive, aren't they?
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I said okay, so do
you want to talk about it?
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He said, "Well, yes."
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He said, "I picked
you out as a Christian."
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I said, "Well, was at
the way I was jogging?"
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I know it's a little peculiar.
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He laughed, he said no,
something just prompted me
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to believe that
you are a Christian.
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I said well, we know
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who does that kind of prompting.
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I said that's
God at work in you.
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So obviously, I said
I would like to confirm
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what I'm hearing you say
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that this is not an
accidental encounter.
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It's seven
o'clock in the morning,
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I've been out
for an hour already,
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and I'm jogging through the park
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and you ask me to, if
I'd like to have a chat.
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This is and encounter
designed by God himself.
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Amen.
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And I've had lots of
these encounters over.
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The reason I
praise God for them.
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They do appear to be
in increasing however,
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which is good.
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So I said let's chat.
Tell me about yourself.
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And he said I'm frightened
to tell you about myself
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because if I do you'll probably
get up and want to leave.
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I said well,
I've got news for you.
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All we like
sheep have gone astray
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I wouldn't like my
past to be with nothing
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the sky at the moment,
I'll be honest with you.
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So I'm the kind of person
that can talk about anything.
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And by the grace of
God I'm not judgmental.
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In fact, I may
even have something
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to offer you, who knows.
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So please share with me.
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So the whole sad story.
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This guy is not as young
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as I thought he was,
he's in his mid 30's.
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I thought he is
probably in his mid 20's
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as he's a very
youthful looking guy.
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So he unfolded a story
from the age of 8 to 14,
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he was seriously sexually abused
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and we've all read the
stories of these kind of events.
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And he shared the pain
of this experience with me.
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And he said, it
affected my sexual orientation.
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I said of course it did.
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He said so for
the last 15, 20 years
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I've been practicing homosexual.
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I said, okay.
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He said, the
interesting thing is that
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I'm not really
all that comfortable.
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He won a huge lawsuit by the way
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against this
priest in the church
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that he
represented a huge lawsuit
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which is all gone
and he is now pennyless,
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homeless and needs
to go into drug rehab
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which ones before
he has attempted to do
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but did not succeed.
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So I'm
computing this whole thing
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and he looked at me
with so much pain in his face
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and he said is there
anything that can be done
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for somebody as bad as me?
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I said well,
interestingly enough
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there's a great
deal that can be done
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for somebody just like you
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because God specializes
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in pouring His grace out
upon people just like you.
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And because you've not hidden
from me your true condition
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I'm now prepare to offer
you all that God can offer you
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and I said once apart of time
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I would have
offered you celibacy
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which I'm sure is
such an attractive option
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to a young man like you,
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but I've got good news for you.
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I have moved into a
deeper understanding
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of the grace of God myself.
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He said, I know what
you're gonna offer me
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and he said it's
exactly what I'm looking for,
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that I didn't
realize it was even possible.
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I said, so you
are a prophet now.
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You know what I'm gonna say
and we had a laugh about this,
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this is a lovely young man.
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He said you are
about to offer me
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the privilege of
total restoration.
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I said, I was in deed.
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And he said I want you
to know that I'm hungry
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to spend the rest of
my life as a heterosexual.
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I would like to get married,
I would like to have children,
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I would like become a
normal functioning young man.
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All of this in a park.
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We knelt down
together in the park,
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I put my arm around his shoulder
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and I lifted this young
man up to God in prayer.
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He said, when
can we get started?
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I said well, the first thing
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you've got to do is got
to get into a drug rehab.
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I can't work with you
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if that's something
that is unaddressed.
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I said, I can put you in a motel
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for a few days only long enough
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for you to make arrangements
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to get into the drug rehab
program the one in riverside
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that I'm
recommending takes three months.
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It's residential, they're strict
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but if you are willing
to go through the program
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I will be willing to meet
you on the day that you get out,
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and we will begin growing you up
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into the fullness
of the grace of God
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and all that God
wishes you to become.
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So the good news is he
finished the drug rehab,
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he's living in what--
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I think they
call it a sober house
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or a transition house.
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He gets drug
tested every morning
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if there is even a slightest
traced he is kicked out.
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And he's just been
asked to be the person
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in charge of this residence.
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He's become so responsible
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and that offers him
free rent every month
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which is a great blessing.
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So we've just had a
fourth Bible study together.
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Amen.
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I wish I could just
play you on the phone here
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some of the
messages and voicemails
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that I'm getting from this
young man everyday of my life.
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Praise God. Amen.
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He is lifting up his
heart on the phone to me.
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I hear the voice oh,
Bill, if you can only know
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how grateful I'm to God today,
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for the fact that I'm forgiven.
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I've got in-- I've had
in take vows of celibacy.
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He's becoming cleaned up again.
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And every time I see
him which is once a week,
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he says to me how soon am
I gonna be totally restored?
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I said, it's
coming by the grace of God
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as you continue to grow
in the knowledge of Jesus,
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you will be totally restored.
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I believe you're gonna be a
normal functioning young man
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to the glory of God.
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And I'm just saying wow, wow.
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And if you could
have seen this kid
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fall down on his
knees and weep like a baby
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when he realized that
that's what I was offering him
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through the grace of God.
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I hope you're not
limiting Gods grace
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to any sinner, are you?
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There was a time
in the first 20 years
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of my ministry that I
would have just offered him
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celibacy for the
rest of his life.
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I'm now offering
sinners total rehabilitation.
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Total restoration...
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the fullness of becoming
a new creature in Christ.
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How's your faith this evening?
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Amen.
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And in order to get him there,
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which points do you
think I had to help him see?
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All four of them.
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We got our first study together
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and he dug these four
points out of Romans 5
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and we are sitting in
my living room together
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and God gave me a question
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that I've used once
before many years ago
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I used the same question on
him as I have used previously.
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I said this is the
condition of individuals
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upon who the grace
of God is poured out.
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And I said to this young man
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do you qualify to
receive the grace of God?
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He said, I
qualify in all four areas.
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I said well,
there's one more thing
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you need to know about,
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when Jesus was
hanging on the cross.
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He was heard to cry out,
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"My God, my God, why
hast thou forsaken me?"
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I said, why did
Jesus feel forsaken?
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The Bible said He had no sin
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but here He is
hanging on the cross
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and He feels forsaken.
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I said it's because
He changed His name.
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There was another name
written on His forehead.
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I'm gonna see if I
can spell it out for you,
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D-A-V-I-D.
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He said, that's
me. I said, yes and me.
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Jesus changed His name to David
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and when His own
Father looked at Him,
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He didn't see
Jesus, He saw David.
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And the Bible says that
Jesus became sin for us.
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So the God gave me
this beautiful Christian
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by this young man.
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If God looked
down on His own son
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and saw the name David
written on His forehead,
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what must God have
seen hanging on the cross
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in the person of Jesus?
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He shook his head.
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I said make it personal now,
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the name David is here
what must God have seen?
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He finally blurted it out.
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He said God would
have had to have seen...
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a 35 year old
practicing homosexual,
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drug addict, the
weakest of the weak.
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I said that's
exactly what God saw,
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and God said let him die.
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The good news
tonight is when Jesus died,
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that was your death
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to sin taking place in Him.
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Amen. Amen.
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I'm gonna repeat that
again in case you missed it.
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When Jesus died,
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He had your name
and my name upon Him.
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Whatever sin has done
to you was placed on Jesus.
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When He died you died to sin.
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I hardly know a dozen people
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that are appreciating
this everyday of their lives.
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The atoning death of Jesus
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is one of the most misunderstood
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and under
appreciated events in history.
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We are going to
start looking now
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at the atoning death of Jesus
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and we're going to
the magnificent love
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and generosity of God
in permitting His own son,
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who was holy and
righteous and without sin
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permitting Him to
take upon himself,
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everything that sin
had done to you and to me.
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And this young man
saw it just like that,
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and he fell down on his knees
and I couldn't stop the tears.
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He said, I had no idea
that God loved me that much,
00:20:09.46\00:20:13.49
that He would actually
replace me on the cross.
00:20:13.52\00:20:15.92
I said that's
exactly what He did.
00:20:15.95\00:20:18.39
Jesus felt forsaken not
because He had sins of His own
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but because He was been
treated as you deserved.
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So that ultimately you
might me treated as He deserved.
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The beauty of the cross
is the most compelling truth
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that we can ever
come to groups with.
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How's your faith today?
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I would like to
praise God tonight,
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because finally
I'm offering sinners
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the fullness of
all that God has done
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for them, in
them and through them.
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So we're about to launch now
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into a magnificent
passage of scripture.
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Its only two verses,
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but they are the most
incredible life changing verses
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that you could ever jump into.
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The same chapter Romans 5,
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but we are now going to
focus on verses 9 and 10.
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In theological circles
verses 9 is a parallelism.
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Paul uses this
technique frequently,
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in verse 9, verse 9.
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We have two
statements by Paul again
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to call them an A
and a B statement.
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And in verse 10,
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he also has two statements
an A and the B statement.
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And when you
compare the A statements
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they give you the whole picture
00:21:56.81\00:21:58.41
of what it is
that he is presenting,
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and when you
compare the B statements
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in the two verses,
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you get a
totally different picture
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coming towards a
very exciting way
00:22:06.78\00:22:09.84
that Paul has over writing.
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So your assignment tonight,
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is to open your
Bibles now to Romans 5: 9, 10
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and I want you to go
ahead and fill in for me
00:22:20.70\00:22:23.76
the two statements in verse 9
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and the two
statements from verse 10,
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and then we're
going to compare them
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and see what great truths
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Paul wants to draw
out of this parallelism.
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So go ahead with your partner.
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This is the
communal project now.
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Please talk to your partners.
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Don't go into vision
don't act independently,
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communicate with one another.
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If you write
anything down without sharing
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and we're gonna
call you to repentance.
00:22:58.33\00:23:00.84
All right, let's have
your attention please.
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Let's get the first
statements from verse 9.
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Let's see, who will
I-- yes over here, okay.
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Two very philosophical
looking people here,
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okay, first of all the
A statement from verse 9.
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"Much more then, having now
been justified by His blood."
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Okay, so having
now been justified
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by His blood and give me
the B statement as well now.
00:23:52.69\00:23:58.20
"And then having
being reconciled,
00:23:58.23\00:24:00.15
we shall be saved by his life.
00:24:00.18\00:24:02.49
Justified by His
blood we shall be saved
00:24:02.52\00:24:04.84
from wrath through Him."
00:24:04.87\00:24:06.08
Okay, now we've got to--
00:24:06.11\00:24:07.47
thank you, save
from wrath through Him.
00:24:07.50\00:24:13.90
Now we have it,
thank you very much.
00:24:13.93\00:24:16.71
Okay, excellent.
00:24:16.74\00:24:19.89
Excellent.
00:24:23.10\00:24:24.20
So we've got an A and
a B statement in verse 9.
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Let's jump over now to verse 10.
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Verse 10, let's see
down the front here verse 10,
00:24:32.43\00:24:37.06
give me the A
statement first of all
00:24:37.09\00:24:39.18
from verse 10, thank you.
00:24:39.21\00:24:41.21
"For if, we were enemies,
00:24:44.57\00:24:48.89
we were reconciled to God
through the death of His Son."
00:24:48.92\00:24:53.64
Okay, we will reconcile to God
through the death of his son.
00:24:53.67\00:24:58.02
Okay, now the B statement.
00:24:58.05\00:25:00.01
"Much more,
having been reconciled,
00:25:00.04\00:25:02.60
we shall be saved by His life."
00:25:02.63\00:25:05.35
Saved by His life.
00:25:05.38\00:25:08.47
Excellent work
here. Thank you very much.
00:25:08.50\00:25:12.64
Now we are on the verge
of a great discovery here
00:25:12.67\00:25:16.07
and unfortunately,
we're gonna have to wait
00:25:16.10\00:25:18.35
to the next thrilling episode
00:25:18.38\00:25:21.18
to hear what discoveries
are taking place here.
00:25:21.21\00:25:25.40
But Lue Ann and
Larson this evening
00:25:25.43\00:25:28.85
has graciously volunteered
to lead us in prayer.
00:25:28.88\00:25:32.89
So the
microphone will miraculously
00:25:32.92\00:25:34.97
come to you, Lue Ann.
00:25:35.00\00:25:36.86
Here it comes right now.
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Let's bow our heads
together please, thank you.
00:25:38.58\00:25:41.79
Heavenly Father,
thank You so very much
00:25:41.82\00:25:44.17
for opening Your
word to us this evening.
00:25:44.20\00:25:46.81
And Father, we are so grateful
00:25:46.84\00:25:48.98
for what You've
offered each one of us
00:25:49.01\00:25:51.16
the fantastic gift of Your Son.
00:25:51.19\00:25:55.08
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