Welcome back again. Amen.
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And praise God
for your perseverance.
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Amen.
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I'm tempted to
say blessed are those
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who endeavor unto the end.
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The same shall be saved
because this is an endurance
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this weekend but
by the grace of God,
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we're more than
halfway through this
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exciting chapter
of Romans Chapter 5.
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And William has
graciously consented
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to lead us in
prayer this afternoon.
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Let's bow our heads together
as we begin, please, thank you.
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Dear Heavenly Father,
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I thank You that You
have brought us together
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and gathered us here
today to learn about Your word.
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I pray that You
would reveal everything
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that You desire to
show us about Your grace
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and about what
You have done for us.
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I ask these things in
Jesus' precious name, amen.
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We're almost done
with Romans 5:9 and 10.
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We've got the A statements
speaking of His atoning death.
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We have the B statements now,
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speaking of
salvation through His life.
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Here we have righteousness
imputed or credited to us
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and now we have
righteousness imparted to us.
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Amen.
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I appreciate those rousing
amens to such a statement.
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That's the kind of statement
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that normally
could awaken the dead,
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but it doesn't seem to
be moving the living saints.
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So let's repeat
it again, shall we?
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With the A statements we
have the righteousness of Jesus
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imputed or credited to us.
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Amen.
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And in the B statements
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we now have the righteousness
of Jesus imparted to us daily.
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Amen.
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God was faced with the dilemma.
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He had taken the burden
of sin away from sinners
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by placing it on Jesus.
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He lifted from us,
I'm repeating it again,
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our guilt, our condemnation,
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our judgment,
even our second death.
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Amen.
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He lifted all this from us
and placed it on His own Son
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who did not deserve
it but willingly took it
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and it crushed
Him, it killed Him.
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Amen.
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And now, because we believe
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that God was so generous
and loving and kind towards us,
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He still faced the problem of
the power of sin in our lives.
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How to break the power of sin?
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It's one thing to be
forgiven and declared righteous
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but you still got
people who are enslaved by sin.
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How to break the power
of God in the human heart?
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This was the
dilemma that God faced
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and it had to be
done righteously.
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The power of sin in
our lives, how to break it.
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Because sin was not
just a weight producing guilt
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and condemnation on us,
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sin was also a
power in our very lives,
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we were in slavery to sin,
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so God came up with
a remarkable solution,
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the most effective way
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to break the power of sin
in the human heart was to...
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Live in us.
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Joyce, you've got
to keep saying it here,
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this is a tough crowd.
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Jesus chose because of His
death He can now live in us.
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Amen.
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Thank you very much, Joyce.
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He is very
clear on these issues.
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Now that's a
little late for that now.
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Live in us, exactly.
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God decided the only way
to break the power of sin
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within the human heart
was to indwell sinful flesh.
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And this moves us into
the magnificent ministry
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of which member of the Godhead.
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This is the Holy
Spirit's ministry.
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Amen.
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The beautiful thing about
the ministry of the Holy Spirit,
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let's read it
in John Chapter 16.
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The ministry of the Holy Spirit.
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John 16:13 and 14.
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The thing I like
about the trine God is that
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the members of the Godhead
never elevate themselves.
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You can always tell when
God is indwelling a human being
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because they never
elevate themselves.
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One of the chief characteristics
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of the Godhead is
that they always lift up
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the other
members of the Godhead.
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When Jesus was on earth,
He never spoke of Himself,
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He pointed
always to... His Father.
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Jesus leaves, the
Holy Spirit comes,
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he doesn't speak of himself,
he only speaks of... Jesus.
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John 16:13 and 14.
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Who is sitting
there with a strong voice
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and a good translation?
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Such a rare combination.
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Here we've got her
over here, have you?
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New King James.
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Okay, the New King
James is fine, thank you.
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Reading John 16:13
and 14. Hallelujah.
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"However, when He, the
Spirit of truth, has come,
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He will guide
you into all truth,
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for He will not
speak on His own authority,
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but whatever He
hears He will speak,
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and He will tell
you things to come.
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He will glorify Me, for
He will take of what is Mine
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and declare it to you."
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Oh, that's the New King James,
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does anyone have
the Old King James here?
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Oh, Lou Ann, thank you,
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if you'd read that also
in the original King James,
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thank you.
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"How be it when he, the
spirit of truth is come,
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he will guide
you into all truth,
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for he shall not
speak of himself,
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but whatsoever he shall
hear, that shall he speak,
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and he will show
you things to come.
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He shall glorify me, for
he shall receive of mine,
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and shall show it unto you."
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There's a very
interesting little phrase there,
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Lou Ann, did you pick it up?
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I think it makes
the King James Version
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very strong on
verse 13 especially.
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What's the phrase that
should be gripping you?
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We can see it's
gripping you to such a degree,
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she is beginning
to shake there, yeah.
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Well, I like the part that He
will guide you into all truth,
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He will not speak of Himself.
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Well, let's say that a
little more emphatically
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in light of the
discussion we're having.
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He doesn't ever
speak of Himself.
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The King James
translates it there,
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He does not speak of Himself.
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I think it's stronger
than the modern translations
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where it'd say He does not
speak on his own initiative.
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He does not speak of Himself.
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Well, what a surprise,
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that Godhead never
speak of themselves,
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they all always lift up
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the other
members of the Godhead.
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What a lesson
for all of us, huh?
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Amen.
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Imagine if every church
was to magnify this, wow.
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So if Christ is in you,
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you will never be
lifting up yourself.
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Amen. Amen.
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I know, this is
not that long ago
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the Review and Herald,
a well known church paper,
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did an article on ministry
groups in Washington DC,
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where I lived for over 20 years
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and had the
privilege of raising up
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all those ministry groups
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in the downtown
area of Washington
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in government departments
and major corporations.
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Many of them
continuing to this day.
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And they were
interviewing a world leader
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who used to work in Washington
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who had nothing to do
with these ministry groups,
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so they asked him the question.
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So how did you get
the vision to raise up
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all these ministry
groups in Washington DC?
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Oh, he said it wasn't easy.
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And I said to myself
absolutely it was not easy.
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And when I read the
article, I went ooh...
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And once again God rebuked me.
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You know what God said to me?
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So you raised
up all those groups
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just so you could
receive the credit, is that it?
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God said to me I thought
you raised up all those groups
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because you
wanted to glorify Me.
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Amen.
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So once again I repented
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and realized that I
don't have any need,
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God said let the credit go,
you didn't do it for credit.
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If he wishes to take
the credit, so be it,
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but don't let your
nose get out of joint.
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You have the
reward of doing that
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and seeing it
develop to the glory of God,
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that should be sufficient.
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I don't know about you,
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but I keep
relearning these lessons
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and I immediately let it go.
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I let it go and realize that
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once again of
course God is right.
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He usually is,
have you noticed that?
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He has such wisdom.
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So the Holy Spirit's
ministry is to lift up Jesus,
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to take the things of Jesus
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and make them available
to us, that is His ministry.
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And now I want
you to slip over to--
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oh, no, there's
one thing left here,
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then we can erase this.
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There's two little words now
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that compare the A statements
with the B statements.
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There are two
words in the verses
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that's repeated twice
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that compares the A statements
now with the B statements.
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Who is picking it
up? The two little words.
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Much more.
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Thank you very
much, Ann. Much more.
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Ann, read us the verse
emphasizing those words,
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would you?
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Read both verses
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placing the emphasis on
the right syllable for us.
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"Much more than having now
been justified by His blood,
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we shall be saved from
the wrath of God through Him,
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for if while we were enemies
we were reconciled to God
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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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Thank you very much.
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So I ask all of
you this afternoon
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much more than what?
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The atoning death of Jesus.
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Much more than the
atoning death of Jesus Christ.
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Amen.
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And the resulting justification
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and reconciliation
there's something,
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when I first read
this I said no way.
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What could be greater than
the atoning death of Jesus?
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And what is it?
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The fact that we
are saved by His life.
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Jesus died so
that we might live.
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Amen.
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He took the weight of sin
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that we could learn to
let him indwell us everyday
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and bring His Holy and
righteous life into ours.
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Amen.
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What a remarkable thing that is,
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I'm gonna say it
again this afternoon,
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that the only people I know
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that are really
growing up into Jesus
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and developing maturity
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and wisdom and
spiritual discernment
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and becoming filled
with love and joy and peace
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are those individuals
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who are coming to
the cross every day.
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Amen.
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And they're looking at
the incredible benefits
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of the atoning death of Jesus
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and they're
lifting up their hearts
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and they're saying to
the Father, thank You.
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Thank You for
lifting this from me
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and placing it on Jesus.
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Amen.
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Thank You for taking
this or granting me this
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just through His death
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so our first
assignment this afternoon,
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I can now erase all this.
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So our first
assignment this afternoon,
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we're going to compile a
list of the amazing benefits,
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of His atoning death.
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Then I say we can
pull out maybe ten of them
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or even seven would be good.
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Two of them have already
emerged from verses 9 and 10,
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one of the two benefits
that have emerged already.
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Reconciliation. Reconciliation.
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Justification.
And justification.
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Both ours through the
atoning death of Jesus,
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we've got nothing to earn them,
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nothing to deserve
them, they are our by faith
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as we look at the
atoning death of Jesus
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as a substitution for our own.
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We have the
privilege everyday of our lives
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of being declared righteous.
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Just to confirm that by the way,
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slip over to
Hebrews 10 for a moment
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and look at an
amazing verse, Hebrews 10.
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Paul compacts so
much into one small verse.
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Hebrews Chapter 10,
I'm looking at verse 14.
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The verse begins,
For by one offering,
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a reference to what
event, one offering...
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the atoning death of Jesus,
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by one offering He has...
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I hope you're hearing it.
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He has made perfect or
perfected for how long?
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Forever. Forever.
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And now if you've got a
really advanced version,
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it will show the continuous
tense in the next statement,
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it's a
continuous tense in Greek.
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It's an action that
continues on and on.
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Who's reading a version
that brings that tense out?
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Most versions have missed
it, have you got it there?
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Let's hear.
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They that are sanctified.
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Yes, but I'm not
hearing the tense,
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the tense is a
continuous action.
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Marty has arisen from
the dead, let's rejoice here.
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"For by one offering He
has perfected for all time
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those who are being sanctified."
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Oh, hallelujah. The
tense is picked up here.
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What version is that? The NISV.
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Oh, praise the Lord.
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Those who are being sanctified
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because sanctification
is an ongoing process.
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What about perfection?
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What is the
source of our perfection?
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Grant wants a chance to jump in.
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Perfection is an
accomplished fact
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and the source is in Jesus.
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If you were pulling it out
of the verse we would have hope.
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Okay.
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But I didn't hear the
verse come into that, come on,
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let it come from the
word of God, let's recur it.
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For by one
offering he has perfected,
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this is past tense,
it's an accomplished fact,
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for all time those
are being sanctified.
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So let me ask
the question again.
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Well, I'm gonna give you
away the answer now if I ask it.
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Let's hear your answer again.
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For by one offering,
referring to the offering,
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the sacrifice of
Jesus on the cross,
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He has perfected for all time
those who are being sanctified.
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So the death of Jesus on
the cross has granted us...
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Perfection.
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Perfection, for
how long? Forever.
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Forever.
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I'm so weary of
meeting the perfectionists
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who are trying so
hard to become perfect
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and they can never measure up.
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And they become equally
as judgmental on others.
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In fact they love
to meet other people
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who were not
doing as well as them.
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It gives them a
degree of satisfaction.
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Christianity is
the only religion
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where you begin with perfection.
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Amen.
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You don't seek perfection.
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It is yours on the basis
of the atoning death of Jesus.
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And for how
long are you perfect?
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Forever.
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Some of you are
not hearing this yet,
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or you're refusing
to be touched by it,
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so let me repeat it again.
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The atoning death of
Jesus has guaranteed you
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the privilege
in the sight of God
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of being perfect forever.
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Amen. Forever.
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By the way this
is your privilege
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while you are being...
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Sanctified. Sanctified.
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I hope you're hearing it.
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It's only another
way of saying justified,
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you're perfect forever,
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please do not spend your
life trying to be perfect.
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By all means
seek to become mature.
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Holy sanctified
in the sight of God
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but perfection is the term
that really belongs to God.
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We have fallen way
short of His perfection.
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Even at our highest
level of development,
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if we ought to,
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if we were to compare
ourselves with Jesus Christ,
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we would recognize
our own imperfections,
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surely you've noticed that.
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If you're expecting to
feel perfect, I wish you luck.
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This goes actually so
well with the second big point
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that you brought,
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all time that we are
growing into likeness of Jesus
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that is process
of sanctification
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we are not condemned
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and this is verse
Hebrews 10:14 says...
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It's the supporting
text for that, Grant,
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thank you very much.
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Say that again a little
more slowly and emphatically,
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would you in your
best evangelistic style?
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Well.
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Don't change any comma.
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This verse Hebrews
10:14 is just going so well
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in parallel
supporting each other
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the second big statement
that came up at this seminar
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saying that all time we
are growing into the likeness,
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growing up into
the likeness of Jesus
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that is sanctification process,
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we are not
condemned, that is because
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we are being perfected,
we are perfected forever
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while we're in a
process of being sanctified.
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If I'm not spending my
life trying to be perfect,
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I'm claiming the privilege
of being perfect forever
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through the
atoning death of Jesus.
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By the grace of God.
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I'm seeking to become mature
and Christ like in my life
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but the word perfection
is not in my vocabulary
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because it's
mine by faith already,
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through the death of Jesus.
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How's your faith this afternoon?
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Amen.
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Do we have a
generous God or what?
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Amen.
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By the way the morning sacrifice
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which was the sacrifice for sin
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in the camp of
Israel was offered...
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at the sanctuary on the morning
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of the Day of Atonement.
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Right up until the
morning of the Day of Atonement
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which in Israel
was the Day of Judgment
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was a cutting of time.
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What does that tell us?
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That the morning sacrifice
was still available right up
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until the very morning
of the Day of Atonement,
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he's actually hearing that,
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what is the
implication of this, Ken?
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Hang on, take the mike please
before Grant grabs it, okay.
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Even at the very last
minute right before Jesus comes,
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people can still be saved.
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We could make a
mistake, that's what it means,
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we could make a mistake
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and still have a
sacrifice for sin
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right up until the
close of probation.
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There's always the possibility
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that God's
children could mess up.
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I'm reminded of that old saying
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it's the set of the
sail and not the gale
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that determines
the path you take.
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One of my favorite
scriptures in the Old Testament,
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I'm gonna read it to you today
as we conclude this session.
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Psalms 103.
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Those how have strength should
turn to this, Psalms 103...
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11 to 14, beautiful words here.
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"For as high as the
heavens are above the earth,
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so great is His loving kindness
toward those who fear Him.
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As far as the
east is from the west,
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so far has He removed
our transgressions from us.
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Like as a father
pitieth his children,
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so the Lord
pitieth those who fear Him.
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For He knows our
frame, He remembers we are...
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Dust. Just dust."
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This is a gracious God. Amen.
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There is still a
sacrifice for sin
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right up until the
closing of probation's door.
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Amen.
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I hope that tells you that
God is recognizing our frame.
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He knows we're only dust.
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We're not opening the door
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for continuing in
habits of sin here,
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but I'm simply showing you that
the possibility of messing up
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even at the
last moments of time,
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are fully understood
and prepared for by God.
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Dear kind loving
Father, thank You again
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for this opportunity
that we've had to just come,
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spend time in Your
word and dig out the truths
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that are there
and waiting for us.
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I pray that, Father, that
You just continue to be with us
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and may Your spirit
dwell in us, dear Father,
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so we can live the way
that You want us to live
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and not having to
worry about being perfect
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because
perfection is always in You.
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Thank You again for the message
and be with us this evening.
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I pray in Jesus'
name. Amen. Amen, amen.
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