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Voddie Baucham - The Way We Look at BROKENNESS · Voddie Baucham Sermons

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  Speaker 1: Brokenness is the place where God stops us, where he
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  Speaker 1: halts our progress, where he causes us to see the
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  Speaker 1: end to which we will come if we continue to
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  Speaker 1: go down that road. Brokenness is the place to which
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  Speaker 1: we come when we recognize that That all that we are,
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  Speaker 1: all that we have, and all that we do in
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  Speaker 1: and of ourselves is sorely and miserably insufficient. God crushes
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  Speaker 1: us under the weight of our own sin. But I
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  Speaker 1: want to suggest to you tonight that brokenness is absolutely
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  Speaker 1: an appropriate response to sin. Let me take you to
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  Speaker 1: a couple of places in history. Place number one in
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  Speaker 1: history is that place where David sins with Bathsheba, where
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  Speaker 1: David is out on the roof of the king's palace
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  Speaker 1: during this very strange time in his life. The author
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  Speaker 1: says it was the springtime, the time when kings go
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  Speaker 1: off to war, but David stayed home at Jerusalem. David
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  Speaker 1: is a warrior king. That's how he made his name
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  Speaker 1: for himself. It's springtime. It's time to go to war.
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  Speaker 1: And he sends the fellas off. And just happens to
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  Speaker 1: be up on his roof. And just happens to look
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  Speaker 1: over at a beautiful woman who lives close enough for
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  Speaker 1: him to see her bathing on the roof.
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  Speaker 2: It just happens to work out that way.
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  Speaker 1: Wink, wink, nod, nod. Seduces this woman. depending on your
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  Speaker 1: reading of the text, rapes this woman. Has her husband killed.
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  Speaker 1: It's all this time later when he sits down and
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  Speaker 1: pens Psalm number 51. One of the most poignant, poetic,
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  Speaker 1: beautiful pictures of brokenness that you will find anywhere. right
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  Speaker 1: here in Psalm number 51.
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  Speaker 2: Let's read.
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  Speaker 1: Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love.
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  Speaker 1: According to your abundant mercy, blot out my transgression. Wash
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  Speaker 1: me thoroughly from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.
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  Speaker 1: For I know my transgression and my sin is ever
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  Speaker 1: before me. Against you, you only have I sinned and
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  Speaker 1: done what is evil in your sight so that you
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  Speaker 1: may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment. Behold,
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  Speaker 1: I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my
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  Speaker 1: mother conceived me. Behold, you delight in truth and the
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  Speaker 1: inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.
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  Speaker 1: Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean. Wash me,
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  Speaker 1: and I shall be whiter than snow. Let me hear
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  Speaker 1: joy and gladness. Let the bones that you have broken rejoice.
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  Speaker 1: Let the bones that you have broken rejoice. The bones
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  Speaker 1: that you have broken. Oh no, that's not God. God
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  Speaker 1: doesn't do that. God would never do anything against your will.
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  Speaker 1: I guess David asked to be broken by God. That
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  Speaker 1: the bones that you have broken rejoiced. Hide your face
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  Speaker 1: from my sins. Blot out all my iniquities. Create in
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  Speaker 1: me a.
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  Speaker 2: Clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
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  Speaker 1: Cast me not away from your presence and take not
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  Speaker 1: your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy
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  Speaker 1: of your salvation and uphold me with a willing spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Then I will teach transgressors your ways and sinners will
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  Speaker 1: return to you. Deliver me from blood guiltiness, O God,
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  Speaker 1: O God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing
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  Speaker 1: aloud of your righteousness. Oh Lord, open my lips and
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  Speaker 1: my mouth will declare your praise. Several reasons we see
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  Speaker 1: here that brokenness is an appropriate response to sin. We're
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  Speaker 1: talking about an appropriate response to a holy God when
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  Speaker 1: we recognize that we have offended him. The first one
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  Speaker 1: that he says here, he says, according to your steadfast love,
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  Speaker 1: according to your abundant mercy, blot out my transgression. That
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  Speaker 1: term blot out, that term wipe out is a word
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  Speaker 1: that's used a number of times in the Hebrew Bible.
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  Speaker 1: But perhaps the most pertinent one is that's precisely what
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  Speaker 1: God says he's going to do in the flood.
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  Speaker 2: The same Hebrew verb. God sent the flood out.
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  Speaker 1: In order to wipe the slate clean and start all
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  Speaker 1: over again. David says, I need the slate washed clean.
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  Speaker 1: I need you to take all of this away from me.
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  Speaker 1: I need it to wash it away, just like you
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  Speaker 1: cleansed the earth with the flood. There's a second term
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  Speaker 1: that he used here. He said, wash me thoroughly from
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  Speaker 1: my iniquity. Now that verb is more akin to a
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  Speaker 1: woman washing clothes down at the river and scrubbing them
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  Speaker 1: and dipping them and plunging them again and again into
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  Speaker 1: the water and scrubbing them on a washboard.
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  Speaker 2: Scrub me. as though you were washing clothes on a washboard.
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  Speaker 1: So wipe it off the record, scrub me, make me clean.
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  Speaker 1: And then the final word he says, and cleanse me
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  Speaker 1: from my sin. That word that he uses is a
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  Speaker 1: reference to a ceremonial cleansing, making something ready for religious use.
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  Speaker 1: So in other words, David understands that what he has
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  Speaker 1: done has scarred him, has stained him. We heard it
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  Speaker 1: earlier today. God says in Isaiah 1, and we're going
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  Speaker 1: to read it. Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean.
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  Speaker 2: It stains us. It scars us.
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  Speaker 1: And we ought to be broken when we sin because
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  Speaker 1: we recognize what we have done. We recognize what we
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  Speaker 1: have brought upon ourselves. We recognize that we have just
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  Speaker 1: attached something to us that has consequence. We ought to
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  Speaker 1: be broken over our sins because it scars us, because
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  Speaker 1: it stains us. And when we have a flippant attitude
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  Speaker 1: towards sin, when we don't experience brokenness, when we are
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  Speaker 1: not crushed under the weight of our own sin, one
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  Speaker 1: of the reasons is that we do not understand the
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  Speaker 1: consequences of sin.
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  Speaker 2: We don't get it.
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  Speaker 1: We think that, especially for believers, we think, okay, Jesus
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  Speaker 1: died for my sins, for all of my sins, past, present,
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  Speaker 1: and future.
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  Speaker 2: They're paid for.
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  Speaker 1: And yet, there's scar tissue. The sin also creates memories
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  Speaker 1: that remain with us. Now stay with me on this one.
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  Speaker 1: Because oftentimes when we talk about this, you want to
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  Speaker 1: get people upset. Just talk about this. The idea that
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  Speaker 1: sin creates memories that stay with us.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no, no, no, no, no, brother. As far as.
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  Speaker 1: The east is from the west, that's how far away
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  Speaker 1: it takes my sins from me. Yep, but you remember them. No,
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  Speaker 1: he cast them into the sea of forgetfulness. Yeah, see,
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  Speaker 1: here's the interesting thing about that. God can forget stuff.
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  Speaker 2: You, not so much. That's not the way we were created.
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  Speaker 2: It's not.
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  Speaker 1: It's not. And so people come up all the time
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  Speaker 1: and they just, I don't know what to do. I
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  Speaker 1: pray and I pray and I pray and I just
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  Speaker 1: keep having thoughts about this horrible thing.
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  Speaker 2: That I did.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Well, what do I do?
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  Speaker 1: Recognize that sin creates memories that stay with you. People
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  Speaker 1: actually believe that you can give them a magic formula
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  Speaker 1: and the heinous things that they do should be erased
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  Speaker 1: from their mind and they should no longer be broken
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  Speaker 1: over them. Folks, did I remind you that he wrote
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  Speaker 1: this a year after his sin? And look at what
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  Speaker 1: he says in verse 3. For I know my transgression
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  Speaker 1: and my sin is ever before me. A year later,
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  Speaker 1: I know my transgression and my sin is ever before me.
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  Speaker 1: It's always there. Don't believe me? Ask a woman who's
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  Speaker 1: had an abortion. Somebody convinced her that it would be okay.
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  Speaker 1: You could erase it as though it never happened. And
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  Speaker 1: then you can go on with your life. And then
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  Speaker 1: a year later, she sees a baby who's about the
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  Speaker 1: age her baby would have been.
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  Speaker 2: And she crumbles. Why?
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  Speaker 1: We were not created to forget things. But by the way,
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  Speaker 1: that's good. Let me give you at least three reasons
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  Speaker 1: why that's good. that we're not created to forget things.
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  Speaker 1: Number one, if you could forget your sin, you could
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  Speaker 1: never testify of the goodness of God. Amen?
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  Speaker 2: Do you have a testimony of the goodness of God?
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  Speaker 2: You know what?
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  Speaker 1: I think I used to one time, but I can't
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  Speaker 1: remember any of my sin. Therefore, I really can't testify
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  Speaker 1: to the goodness of God. Do you hear how ridiculous
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  Speaker 1: that is? But again, people walk around all the time
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  Speaker 1: talking about forgetting their sins.
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  Speaker 2: It's not the way human beings were put together.
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  Speaker 1: And we ought to be broken over our sin because
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  Speaker 1: when we sin, we.
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  Speaker 2: Create an HDD.
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  Speaker 1: Blu-ray picture in our mind that will be there for
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  Speaker 1: years and years and years how many individuals even in
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  Speaker 1: the church how many testimonies have you heard of individuals
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  Speaker 1: who came to Christ late in life had sexual partners
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  Speaker 1: before they got married and now absolutely wish that they
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  Speaker 1: could erase the faces, the familiar sense, the memories of
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  Speaker 1: their former partners so that they could enjoy their spouse
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  Speaker 1: more thoroughly. How many of us have heard those testimony?
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  Speaker 1: How many of us could give that testimony We ought
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  Speaker 1: to be broken over our sin because it creates memories
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  Speaker 1: that stay with us. And first and foremost, if we
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  Speaker 1: couldn't remember our sin, we couldn't testify. Here's the second thing.
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  Speaker 1: If we couldn't remember our sins, we wouldn't be warned
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  Speaker 1: against doing them again. Could you imagine if we could
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  Speaker 1: literally forget that fire was hot? It should be walking
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  Speaker 1: around a bunch of crispy people, you know. What's the matter?
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure, man. These things just keep on coming
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  Speaker 1: on my hands.
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  Speaker 2: Folks, that's what we would be like towards sin if
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  Speaker 2: we couldn't remember it.
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  Speaker 1: God.
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  Speaker 2: gives us the gift.
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  Speaker 1: Of the memory of our sins so that it continues
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  Speaker 1: to remind us of the consequence.
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  Speaker 2: And he uses us, uses that.
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  Speaker 1: To urge us, to correct us, to corral us, to call.
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  Speaker 2: Us to repentance, to call us to brokenness.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the other thing. We couldn't rejoice in our victories.
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  Speaker 1: If we couldn't remember. We couldn't see growth that the
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  Speaker 1: Spirit has produced in us if we couldn't remember.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't that good?
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  Speaker 1: Has anybody ever gone back home with those folks and
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  Speaker 1: just had God put you in a closet where you
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  Speaker 1: laid down on your face and said, God, thank you
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  Speaker 1: for removing me from this place. Thank you for getting
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  Speaker 1: me out of here. I remember the first time as
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  Speaker 1: a grown man going back to the streets in South
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  Speaker 1: Central LA where I was raised. I'll never forget that
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  Speaker 1: time and I'll never forget the time in April of
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  Speaker 1: 2006 when I went back and buried my father who
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  Speaker 1: was dead at 55 years old because of an addiction
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  Speaker 1: to cocaine. I'll never forget riding around those streets. I'll
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  Speaker 1: never forget going back home and realizing that that the
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  Speaker 1: gang's not all there. The guys I ran with, the
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  Speaker 1: guys I grew up with, they're not all there. I
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  Speaker 1: stood and preached at my father's funeral. I just had
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  Speaker 1: to go away afterwards in a corner by myself and
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  Speaker 1: lay on my face and weep and weep I remembered
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  Speaker 1: who I was before God saved me You can't have
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  Speaker 1: the memory of my sin I won't let you take
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  Speaker 1: it It reminds me of God's goodness to me. It
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  Speaker 1: reminds me of his grace in my life. It reminds
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  Speaker 1: me of where I was and where I never want
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  Speaker 1: to be again. It reminds me that his work in
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  Speaker 1: me may not be.
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  Speaker 2: Complete, but it is effectual. I'm not who I ought
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  Speaker 2: to be, but hallelujah, I'm not who I was.
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  Speaker 1: Brokenness is an appropriate response when you understand that. That
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  Speaker 1: you create a memory. You create a snapshot and it
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  Speaker 1: stays with you. And not so that we can dwell
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  Speaker 1: on it and beat ourselves up. But brokenness is important. Thirdly,
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  Speaker 1: brokenness over our sin is appropriate because our sin is
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  Speaker 1: an affront to a holy God Listen to what he says.
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  Speaker 1: Against you and you only I have sinned and done
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  Speaker 1: what is evil in your sight so that you may
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  Speaker 1: be justified in your words and blameless in your judgments. Behold,
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  Speaker 1: I was brought forth in iniquity and in sin did
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  Speaker 1: my mother conceive me. Behold, you delight in truth in
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  Speaker 1: the inward being. You, you teach me wisdom in the
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  Speaker 1: secret heart. In other words, here's what God desires and
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  Speaker 1: God delights in, and yet, against you I've sinned. Notice
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  Speaker 1: he didn't say against Bathsheba I've sinned. Against Uriah I
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  Speaker 1: have sinned. No, against you, God, and ultimately against you
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  Speaker 1: only I have sinned. Because who was Uriah but the
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  Speaker 1: man that you created? Who was Bathsheba but the servant
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  Speaker 1: of the Most High God I sinned against? That's what
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  Speaker 1: worries me about the rebels of the world. That's what
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  Speaker 1: worries me about those who don't want to preach on
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  Speaker 1: sin because people already know that they're bad.
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  Speaker 2: No, we don't. No, we don't.
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  Speaker 1: We watch the nightly news and we think those people
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  Speaker 1: are bad, not us. We don't recognize that we have
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  Speaker 1: sinned against the holy and righteous God.
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  Speaker 2: We don't get that. We don't see that.
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  Speaker 1: But I despise the picture that's painted in our culture
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  Speaker 1: of this sissified, needy Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Amen? And that's who he is.
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  Speaker 1: He's a sissified, needy Jesus. He's just yearning for you.
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  Speaker 1: He's longing for you. He wants friendship and relationship with you.
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  Speaker 2: He needs you.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you're breaking his heart. No, he's going to break you. Newsflash.
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  Speaker 1: By definition, God is self-sustaining, self-existent, and self-sufficient. Therefore, by definition,
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  Speaker 1: he needs nothing else. God does not need you. And
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  Speaker 1: he's going to prove it one day because you're going
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  Speaker 1: to die and the world's going to keep on spinning
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  Speaker 1: at the same rate it was before you were here.
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  Speaker 1: And somebody's going to get all your stuff. He's waiting
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  Speaker 1: for you, all right. Revelation 19, beginning of verse 11.
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  Speaker 1: Then I saw heaven opened and behold, a white horse,
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  Speaker 1: the one sitting on it called faithful and true. And
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  Speaker 1: in righteousness, he judges and makes war. He judges and
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  Speaker 1: makes war. It's my God. Yeah, I've got some issues,
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  Speaker 1: but that's all right. His eyes are like a flame
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  Speaker 1: of fire. On his head are many diadems. And he
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  Speaker 1: has a name written that no one knows but himself.
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  Speaker 1: He's clothed in a robe dipped in blood. And the
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  Speaker 1: name by which he is called is the word of God.
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  Speaker 1: And the armies of heaven arrayed in fine linen. white
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  Speaker 1: and pure were following him on white horses from his
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  Speaker 1: mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down
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  Speaker 1: the nations and he will rule them with a rod
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  Speaker 1: of iron he will tread the wine press of the
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  Speaker 1: fury of the wrath of the god almighty on his
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  Speaker 1: robe and on his thigh he has a name written
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  Speaker 1: king of kings and lord of lords that's my jesus
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  Speaker 1: That's the God whom I serve, not the sissified Christ
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  Speaker 1: that's preached in pulpits around the United States of America.
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  Speaker 1: I serve the great God of the universe who gets
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  Speaker 1: angry and pours out his wrath.
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  Speaker 2: I serve the great God of the universe who.
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  Speaker 1: Demonstrated his wrath when he poured it out on his
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  Speaker 1: own son. And it amazes me that we believe this,
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  Speaker 1: that God would crush and kill.
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  Speaker 2: His own son, but let you slide. Not for a minute.
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  Speaker 1: The spotless, sinless lamb of God suffered and bled and
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  Speaker 1: died because of the wrath of God. That propitiation, the
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  Speaker 1: satisfaction of the righteous wrath of God, that's what was
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  Speaker 1: experienced on the cross. How dare we take that lightly?
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  Speaker 1: That's the one against whom you've sinned. Not this sissified
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  Speaker 1: Jesus with hair like the brick. girl with a lamb
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  Speaker 1: across his shoulders. Hands look like he never worked a
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  Speaker 1: day in his life. Uh-uh. When we sin, we sin
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  Speaker 1: against the almighty creator of the universe. the maker of
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  Speaker 1: heaven and earth. And here's the kicker. Though he should
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  Speaker 1: have killed me in my sleep for what I thought, said,
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  Speaker 1: and did on yesterday, yet by his grace, he has
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  Speaker 1: allowed me to live another day. Oh, I think brokenness
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  Speaker 1: is very appropriate. I think when we understand that, Brokenness
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  Speaker 1: is an extremely appropriate response. In fact, what other possible
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  Speaker 1: appropriate response is there but brokenness when we understand that
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  Speaker 1: about our God? Fourthly, and we'll spend a minute here,
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  Speaker 1: not only is sin an affront to a holy God,
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  Speaker 1: but sin is a hindrance to the true worship of God.
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  Speaker 1: brokenness is an appropriate response to sin because sin is
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  Speaker 1: a hindrance to the true worship of God. Now, listen
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  Speaker 1: to what he says here in verses seven through nine.
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  Speaker 1: Don't miss this, please. He says, purge me with hyssop
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  Speaker 1: and I shall be clean. Wash me and I shall
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  Speaker 1: be whiter than snow. Let me hear joy and gladness.
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  Speaker 1: Let the bones that you have broken rejoice. There's no rejoicing,
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  Speaker 1: there's no joy, there's no gladness. He needs that and
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  Speaker 1: only God can provide that. Look at this, verse 9.
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  Speaker 1: Hide your face from my sins and blot out all
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  Speaker 1: my iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God,
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  Speaker 1: and renew a right spirit within me. Away from your
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  Speaker 1: presence and take not your Holy Spirit from me. Restore
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  Speaker 1: to me the joy of your salvation. Here's the problem.
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  Speaker 1: We've created this system and here's how it goes. We
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  Speaker 1: look upon men as consumers to be satisfied. And we
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  Speaker 1: create services designed for those consumers. And sometimes in these churches,
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  Speaker 1: what we do is we poll the consumers to find out,
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  Speaker 1: what would you like for us to sing for you?
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  Speaker 2: How long would you like for us to preach to you?
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  Speaker 2: 20 minutes? Fine. We'll do it in 17. What kind
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  Speaker 2: of songs do you like?
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  Speaker 1: And so what they do is they'll get a band
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  Speaker 1: up here, you know, they get a bunch of young kids,
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  Speaker 1: you know, their mother's hairdo. Guys who know every member
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  Speaker 1: of U2, but don't know who Horatio Spofford was. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you know, those guys, they get those guys up there
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  Speaker 1: and they'll rock out for you and play all the
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  Speaker 1: stuff that you like to hear. And you can, you know,
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  Speaker 1: come on, enjoy. It'll be man-centered. And even when it's
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  Speaker 1: not man-centered, that there'll be enough mantras and repetition in
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  Speaker 1: it that you won't even mind that it's not man-centered.
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  Speaker 1: Even then, musically, it'll be man-centered. Even when it's not
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  Speaker 1: lyrically man-centered, we'll do all that for you. We'll keep
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  Speaker 1: changing it for you. We'll keep updating it for you
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  Speaker 1: so that we can continue to satisfy and continue to
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  Speaker 1: keep you coming. Why? Because apart from brokenness, you're incapable
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  Speaker 1: of authentic worship.
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  Speaker 2: You think you're owed something.
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  Speaker 1: And so you come in looking to be satisfied, looking
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  Speaker 1: to be appeased.
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  Speaker 2: But God has a little something to say about that.
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  Speaker 2: In Isaiah chapter one, beginning at verse 10.
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  Speaker 1: He writes, Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers
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  Speaker 1: of Sodom. Give ear to the teaching of your God,
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  Speaker 1: you people of Gomorrah. By the way, Sodom and Gomorrah
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  Speaker 1: are toast already. He's talking to Israel. What to me
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  Speaker 1: is the multitude of your sacrifices, says the Lord? I've
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  Speaker 1: had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat
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  Speaker 1: of well-fed beasts.
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  Speaker 2: I do not delight in the blood of bulls or
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  Speaker 2: lambs or goats. Does that sound familiar?
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  Speaker 1: That's what's happening at the end of Psalm 51. When
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  Speaker 1: you come to appear before me, who has required of
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  Speaker 1: you this trampling of my courts? That's what God calls it.
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  Speaker 1: Trampling of my courts. That's what's happening all.
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  Speaker 2: Over our land.
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  Speaker 1: Trampling of my courts. That's what God calls it. People
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  Speaker 1: call it relevant.
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  Speaker 2: Contemporary.
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  Speaker 1: Now. Now. And again, I'm not talking about the age
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  Speaker 1: of a song. That's not what I'm talking about here.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about a theology of worship that is completely man-centered.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about a service that is openly identified as
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  Speaker 1: having lost sinners as its target and not the God
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  Speaker 1: of the universe who is the only one worthy of
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  Speaker 1: our worship. That's what I'm talking about. You see, without
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  Speaker 1: a sense of brokenness over our sin, all we have
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  Speaker 1: is the appeasement of the.
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  Speaker 2: Tyrannical old man. And appeasement never works for long.
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  Speaker 1: It is only when we experience genuine brokenness that authentic
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  Speaker 1: worship makes any sense at all.
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  Speaker 2: Then and only then does it make sense.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, it's when we come to that place of brokenness,
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  Speaker 1: where we come to the end of ourselves, where we're
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  Speaker 1: crushed under the weight of our own sin, that we're
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  Speaker 1: actually able to magnify the Lord. But when we come
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  Speaker 1: to the end of ourselves, it's only then that we
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  Speaker 1: see the matchless majesty of Christ. And it's only then
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  Speaker 1: in our brokenness that we recognize the answer to our problem.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll do this. Just look at this for me,
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  Speaker 1: if you will. Go back to our text. And I
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  Speaker 1: want you to look at the verbs here. Verse one,
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  Speaker 1: have mercy, blot out. Verse two, wash me. Verse seven,
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  Speaker 1: purge me, wash me. Verse 8, let me hear. Verse 9,
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  Speaker 1: hide your face. Verse 10, create in me. Verse 11,
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  Speaker 1: cast me not. Verse 12, restore to me. Verse 14,
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  Speaker 1: deliver me. Verse 15, open my lips. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: what's happened? David recognizes that everything.
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  Speaker 2: He needs can only be found in God.
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  Speaker 1: But before we come to brokenness, we believe that we
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  Speaker 1: can make it happen. Are you right with God? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I prayed a prayer. Are you right with God? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I've rededicated my life. Are you right with God? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I've been having my quiet time. Are you right with God?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I've been, I, I, I, I, I. David says no.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: There's no I.
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  Speaker 1: I can't do this. I've seen what I can do.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want what I can do. I'm sick of
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  Speaker 1: what I can do. I'm broken over what I can do.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm not letting go. I'm not giving up. Because
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  Speaker 1: I've also seen what you can do. I need you
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  Speaker 1: to watch me. I need you to cleanse me. I
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  Speaker 1: need you to purge me. I need you to restore me.
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  Speaker 1: I need you to create in me. I need you
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  Speaker 1: to make me whole. I need you to love me.
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  Speaker 1: I need you to forgive me. I need you to
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  Speaker 1: save me. I need you to wash me. I need
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  Speaker 1: you to pick. I need you, you God, because in
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  Speaker 1: and of myself, all I can do is continue to
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  Speaker 1: crumble under the weight of my own blood guiltiness.
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  Speaker 2: How is that ever going to happen?
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  Speaker 1: How is it ever going to happen when we continue
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  Speaker 1: to paint this picture of the sissified Christ who.
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  Speaker 2: Is so empty and weak and needy How's it going
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  Speaker 2: to happen?
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  Speaker 1: If we are actually communicating to people that brokenness is
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  Speaker 1: not of God. It's actually an inappropriate response to sin.
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  Speaker 2: You're a Christian. You're beyond that. May it never be.
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  Speaker 1: May I never get over the fact that God saved
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  Speaker 1: a wretched sinner like me. May I never get over
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  Speaker 1: the fact that he allowed me to see another day
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  Speaker 1: May I never get over the fact that he's patient
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  Speaker 1: with me, that he's long-suffering with me, and that in
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  Speaker 1: me dwells nothing, nothing that can satisfy him. May I
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  Speaker 1: never get over being broken over my sin. May I never,
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  Speaker 1: ever become complacent. May I never, ever Stop realizing the
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  Speaker 1: incredible distance between me and my Jesus because that's the
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  Speaker 1: only way I appreciate the distance he traveled to make
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  Speaker 1: me his child. Yes, brothers and sisters, brokenness is an
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  Speaker 1: appropriate response to sin. It's the only appropriate response to sin.
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  Speaker 1: Not to wallow in it. Because the beauty in this
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  Speaker 1: picture is he's crushed under the weight of his sin,
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  Speaker 1: but God doesn't keep him there. It's only there that
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  Speaker 1: he is able to worship rightly. Brokenness is not just
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  Speaker 1: for you to feel bad. Brokenness is to get you
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  Speaker 1: in the place where you understand the magnitude of God's
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  Speaker 1: grace and mercy. And this is what's so sad about
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  Speaker 1: what's going on. In the name of grace, people are being.
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  Speaker 2: Robbed of it. Because what grace.
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  Speaker 1: Is there in the God who needs me so badly,
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  Speaker 1: yearns for me so desperately? No, I'm the one who
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  Speaker 1: just showed grace to him because he was so needy
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  Speaker 1: before I came along. You can have that, Jesus, all day,
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  Speaker 1: every day, and twice on Sunday. Give me the one
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  Speaker 1: on the white horse.