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Morning Devotion from Hebrews: Once for All · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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  Speaker 1: So that's where we're at. Hebrews chapter 7, 27. Let's pray.
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  Speaker 1: And then after we pray, you can share this out
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  Speaker 1: the platform. So winners with a Z.org and live. So
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  Speaker 1: winners with a Z.org. Amen. So let's pray. Father, I
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  Speaker 1: thank you so much for your time, for your place here.
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  Speaker 1: and highly lifted up place in heaven, your throne, your mercy,
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  Speaker 1: your sacrifice, your ultimate sacrifice that was once for all.
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  Speaker 1: Your amazing grace, your proper authority that you deserve the honor, worship,
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  Speaker 1: and praise for. I thank you, Lord God, that you
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  Speaker 1: have done this once for all, that whosoever calls upon
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  Speaker 1: your name shall be saved and rescued. Thank you, Lord God,
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  Speaker 1: for your power, your authority, your grace, and your mercy.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Lord God, for saving us and rescuing us.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for keeping us. Thank you for your power
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  Speaker 1: and your display and evidence of your creation because of
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  Speaker 1: your footprint on every single one of us. We are
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  Speaker 1: created in your image. So thank you, Lord God. I
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  Speaker 1: can only thank you that you sacrificed once for all
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  Speaker 1: and given us an opportunity to experience eternal life in
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  Speaker 1: heaven with you. In Jesus' holy name, I pray this
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  Speaker 1: by faith. And those who agree, we say amen. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go for it. Let's get into these scriptures. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And we pray for no more distractions with this microphone
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  Speaker 1: and the audio system. Amen. So let's go. Hebrews, let's
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  Speaker 1: say chapter 7, verse number 27 in the scripture. To me,
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  Speaker 1: this is so clear, clear to me. Amen. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm inspired by Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit lives and dwells.
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  Speaker 1: We are the temple of God here on earth. those
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  Speaker 1: who follow and believe in Jesus, those who are filled
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  Speaker 1: with His Spirit. So maybe that's why it's so clear
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  Speaker 1: to us. But if it's not clear to you right
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  Speaker 1: now because you don't have a personal relationship, amen, I'm
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  Speaker 1: believing God in His way, in His perfect way, that
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  Speaker 1: He would give you understanding of what is being said
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  Speaker 1: right now. And then that will humble you enough to
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  Speaker 1: turn to Him as Lord and Savior. Hebrews 7.27 says,
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  Speaker 1: He has no need to offer sacrifices day after day
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  Speaker 1: as those high priests do. First for their own sins
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  Speaker 1: and then for the sins of the people. He, Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: sacrificed for sin once for all. When what? When he
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  Speaker 1: offered up himself. Notice that the Lord Jesus, this is
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  Speaker 1: who this scripture is speaking of, did not sin, but
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  Speaker 1: he sacrificed for sin. A high priest during those times,
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  Speaker 1: they first sacrificed for their own sins and then for
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  Speaker 1: the sins of the people. See the difference here? This
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  Speaker 1: is why it's so clear. But Jesus sacrificed for sin.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't sacrifice for his own sin because he did
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  Speaker 1: not sin, for sin once for all. Very powerful statement.
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  Speaker 1: Once for all, when what? When he offered up himself.
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  Speaker 1: There was no need for the Lord Jesus to sacrifice
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  Speaker 1: for his sin. Why? Because Jesus is not a sinner.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus never sinned. Jesus lived the perfect sinless. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: sin less. He was sinless. No sin. We, on the
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  Speaker 1: other hand, and the high priests in the old covenant,
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  Speaker 1: during the old covenant times and all of that that
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  Speaker 1: was going on with all the sacrifices, they had to
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  Speaker 1: sacrifice for their own sin and then for the sins
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  Speaker 1: of the people. Jesus is the ultimate high priest. He's
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  Speaker 1: the King of kings and Lord of lords, right? In
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  Speaker 1: the line of Melchizedek. That's another discussion. So Jesus paid
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  Speaker 1: it all. Once for all. Jesus paid the debt that
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  Speaker 1: we could not ever in a million trillion years afford
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  Speaker 1: to pay. off right the highest sin debt i've ever
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  Speaker 1: had in my life was paid off the highest sin
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  Speaker 1: debt that you will ever have in your life has
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  Speaker 1: been paid off and that's the sin debt so under
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  Speaker 1: the old covenant this is where hebrews is pointing back
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  Speaker 1: in this portion of scripture it's pointing back to the
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  Speaker 1: old covenant under the old covenant the priests had to
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  Speaker 1: offer sacrifices repeatedly for sin there's a lot of bloodshed
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  Speaker 1: a lot of animals a lot of sacrifice It's like
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  Speaker 1: kind of gory, right, if you think about it. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to spend a lot of blood on those altars, man.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the way the system was set up during
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  Speaker 1: the old covenant, the old promise, right? Good morning, Sister Joanne.
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  Speaker 1: I see you. Good morning. God bless you. Welcome back
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  Speaker 1: to the Morning Devo, my sister and my friend. But
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  Speaker 1: Jesus came as our perfect high priest, our perfect high priest,
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  Speaker 1: and offered something No other priest could offer. No other
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  Speaker 1: priest could offer what Jesus offered. Jesus himself offered up
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  Speaker 1: himself as the ultimate sacrifice for my sin and for
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  Speaker 1: your sins. For our sins, plural. He was the ultimate sacrifice.
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  Speaker 1: He offered. He laid down his life for us. This
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  Speaker 1: is a display God demonstrated his own Love in this,
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  Speaker 1: that while we were still haters of God, that while
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  Speaker 1: we were still sinners, while we were still mockers, right?
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  Speaker 1: Jesus still died for us so we could experience the
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  Speaker 1: gift of life, eternal life. So Jesus did not have
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  Speaker 1: to return to the old covenant ways, right? Jesus didn't
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  Speaker 1: have to return to the cross day after day every
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  Speaker 1: time he saw his people mess up. Every day he
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  Speaker 1: sees me mess up. Imagine every time that he sees
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  Speaker 1: us mess up that he has to go back to
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  Speaker 1: the cross. What kind of system would that be? What
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  Speaker 1: kind of kingdom of God would that be? What kind
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  Speaker 1: of God would that be? What kind of Lord and
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  Speaker 1: Savior would that be? That every single time that we
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  Speaker 1: mess up, he says, oh man, I got to go
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  Speaker 1: back to the cross again. No, he did it once
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  Speaker 1: for all, right? His sacrifice was complete. It is finished,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said. Not he was finished. It, the sacrifice, the
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  Speaker 1: sin debt was paid off, right? The transaction, that eternal
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  Speaker 1: transaction was paid off once for all. The sacrifice was complete.
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  Speaker 1: His sacrifice was more than enough. That word sufficient, more
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  Speaker 1: than enough. And it was final, right? The gavel, bam, final.
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  Speaker 1: This is what happens. And this is for all eternity. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: The father was pleased to see his own son being sacrificed.
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  Speaker 1: That's what the scriptures says. I'm paraphrasing. Because why? Because
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  Speaker 1: it was final. The sin debt was paid. Now we
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  Speaker 1: have the benefits of eternal life. Now we have the
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  Speaker 1: benefits of being clean, close, and called by the Lord
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. Amen? Because of his bloodshed, the final sacrifice,
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  Speaker 1: the ultimate sacrifice, Through his death and resurrection, because he
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  Speaker 1: didn't stay dead, ladies and gentlemen. He rose from the grave.
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  Speaker 1: Through his death and resurrection, he, Jesus, opened the way
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  Speaker 1: for us to have a relationship with the Father. A
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  Speaker 1: relationship with Yahweh. A relationship with God the Father. Amen?
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  Speaker 1: By way of his Holy Spirit and because of the
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  Speaker 1: ultimate sacrifice that the Lord completed on the cross. Defeating
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  Speaker 1: the works and the power of the devil as well.
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  Speaker 1: on that cross. He did that too, defeated the devil.
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  Speaker 1: And now we have the ability and now we have
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  Speaker 1: the benefits of serving the Lord because of his completed work. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: We're benefiting off of that. Amazing, right? Jesus didn't have
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  Speaker 1: to return to the cross day by day, sacrifice animals
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  Speaker 1: day by day. He didn't have to do what the
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  Speaker 1: old covenant priest had to do day after day, right?
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  Speaker 1: They had to sacrifice first for their own sins and
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  Speaker 1: then for the sins of the people. Didn't have to
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  Speaker 1: do that. Why? Because he's other. He's highest. He is ultimate.
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  Speaker 1: He is uber God, right? Sometimes we carry the weight.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes we carry the weight of past mistakes, right? I
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  Speaker 1: always say that we're carrying around a dead corpse. The flesh,
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  Speaker 1: which is old and dead because we became new creations
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  Speaker 1: in Christ. We have a new heart, a new mind.
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  Speaker 1: We have eyes that we see in the spirit now.
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  Speaker 1: We have ears that we hear the voice of God.
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  Speaker 1: And now we can speak the oracles, the promises, the miracles,
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  Speaker 1: the miraculous ways of God. We have that authority. We
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  Speaker 1: have that power. It was a blessing given to us,
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  Speaker 1: a gift given to us by the Lord Jesus. He
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  Speaker 1: sent his Holy Spirit to dwell inside of his living body. temples.
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  Speaker 1: We are the living temple of God here on earth.
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  Speaker 1: Once the Holy Spirit is removed from this planet earth,
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  Speaker 1: this planet earth, the people here are going to really
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  Speaker 1: see evil and darkness when we're removed from the earth. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: That's a scary thought. For those who are not saved,
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  Speaker 1: you should be worried about that. Amen. You should be
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  Speaker 1: really concerned about when the Holy Spirit is out of
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  Speaker 1: this earth, then what's really going to happen. All hell
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  Speaker 1: will literally break out on earth. We're not going to
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  Speaker 1: be here. brothers and sisters in the Lord, family of God,
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  Speaker 1: the kingdom of God, we're out of here. We're coming
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  Speaker 1: back with Jesus. Amen. With the new heaven and new earth.
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  Speaker 1: So sometimes we carry the weight of past mistakes, which
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  Speaker 1: allows guilt and shame to convince us that we are
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  Speaker 1: beyond being forgiven, that we are beyond being transformed, that
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  Speaker 1: we are beyond the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: And that's a satanic, hold on people. That's a demonic
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  Speaker 1: hold on people that they're convinced that they're not enough,
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  Speaker 1: they're not worthy enough, and they can never be forgiven
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  Speaker 1: from God. That's a lie from the devil, a lie
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  Speaker 1: from the pit of hell. It smells like smoke. Wake up,
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  Speaker 1: be released from that lie in the powerful name of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: But Hebrews 7, 27, we read it just now, reminds
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  Speaker 1: us that Jesus, the Lord Christ, the Mashiach, our Messiah,
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  Speaker 1: has already done What we couldn't do for ourselves. So
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  Speaker 1: religion will tell you, you have to do all these
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  Speaker 1: things to line up and to get your favor with
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  Speaker 1: the Lord. But the relationship of God and the gospel
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  Speaker 1: and Jesus, his word says that he's already done the
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  Speaker 1: hard work. Amen. He's done the work that was necessary
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  Speaker 1: and that was final and complete for us to live
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  Speaker 1: in abundance, for us to be saved, for us to
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  Speaker 1: be born again. Again, for us to live a life
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  Speaker 1: that's fruitful, not fruitless. Amen. So don't carry that weight
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  Speaker 1: around no more. In the name of Jesus, be free
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  Speaker 1: from the guilt and shame in the powerful name of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: We're covered by his blood. We are redeemed. We're restored.
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  Speaker 1: We're renewed. We're forgiven. Right? We're saved. We're born again. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: God has done an amazing transformative work in your heart
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  Speaker 1: and in my heart. in your mind and in my mind.
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  Speaker 1: So let's live according to how Jesus wants us to live.
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  Speaker 1: And whoever wants to criticize or whatever like that, let
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  Speaker 1: them do what they want to do. But as long
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  Speaker 1: as we're concerned, right, let's follow the Lord Jesus. You
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  Speaker 1: don't have to earn God's forgiveness. That's impossible. You can't
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  Speaker 1: earn God's love. You can't earn God's forgiveness. You can't
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  Speaker 1: earn God's favor. That's all religious jargon. That's all religions
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  Speaker 1: We don't have to earn God's forgiveness through all these
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  Speaker 1: efforts and all these tasks and all these things and
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  Speaker 1: all this churchianity. No, we don't do that. You don't
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  Speaker 1: have to punish yourself either for the sins that you
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  Speaker 1: have confessed and you keep on struggling with. Don't punish yourself.
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  Speaker 1: God himself is not punishing us. So why are we
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  Speaker 1: punishing ourselves, right? Amen. Be aware. Be alert. Yes, repent. Yes, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: But don't punish yourself. for the sins that you've confessed
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  Speaker 1: and turned away from. You realize that once you were
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  Speaker 1: saved and once I was saved, we are delivered, right?
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  Speaker 1: You realize that. Problem is the flesh wants to disobey,
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  Speaker 1: wants to go against the word of God, wants to
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  Speaker 1: war with the spirit of God, right? That's why I
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  Speaker 1: believe the soul is saved, right? But the flesh is
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  Speaker 1: not saved. The flesh is not going to inherit the
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  Speaker 1: kingdom of God. We're not going to walk in heaven
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  Speaker 1: with this bag of flesh and bones. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: walk in heaven with a saved soul and a spirit
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  Speaker 1: of God. Instead, instead of weighing yourself down, instead of
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  Speaker 1: trying to be a good person, instead of trying to
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  Speaker 1: gain favor with God or trying to be forgiven all
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  Speaker 1: the time, instead of punishing yourself, instead of all of that,
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  Speaker 1: trust God. Trust in the finished work of our Lord
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ and walk forward, right? In the grace that
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  Speaker 1: only he could provide for us. And his grace is amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Like so amazing that I'm blown away by the grace
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  Speaker 1: of God daily, like literally in my personal life and
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  Speaker 1: in the life of others. I was like, wow, God's
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  Speaker 1: grace is upon all of us. He's no respect of persons.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, oh, I'm going to have more grace on
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  Speaker 1: Sam than I'm going to have on Joanne. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to have more grace on Joanne than I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: have on this person. God is not doing that. Not
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  Speaker 1: his word. It's not his way. Amen. He says he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't favor anyone. He doesn't have favorites. Amen. He doesn't
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  Speaker 1: pick and choose one person above another. What he does
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  Speaker 1: is invites all. Once for all. His sacrifice is once
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  Speaker 1: for all. And everybody, it's an open invitation. Amen. For
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  Speaker 1: whosoever calls. On the name of the Lord shall be saved.
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  Speaker 1: What must you do? You must admit that you're a sinner,
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  Speaker 1: believe in his word, and confess Jesus. How? Believe in
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  Speaker 1: your heart that Jesus, the Lord, the Father, sent the Son.
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  Speaker 1: The Son died on the cross. Believe this, right? In
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  Speaker 1: your heart. And he rose again. And confess Jesus as
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  Speaker 1: personal Lord and Savior. The Bible says when you do that,
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  Speaker 1: confess him with your heart. Believe in your heart. Confess
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  Speaker 1: with your mouth. Excuse me. Romans 10, 9 through 11,
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  Speaker 1: around there. Then the Bible says you'll be saved. Saved
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  Speaker 1: from what? Saved from the wrath and the due penalty
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  Speaker 1: that was due for us because of sin. We're saved
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  Speaker 1: from that. Jesus did the payment. He paid off the
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  Speaker 1: sin debt, and that was once for all. So you
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  Speaker 1: don't have to earn God's forgiveness through endless efforts. Don't
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  Speaker 1: do that, and don't punish yourself. Just remember, your salvation
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  Speaker 1: isn't based— my salvation— And your salvation is not based on
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  Speaker 1: how perfectly we perform. Thank you, Jesus. If this was
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  Speaker 1: all about performance, amen, there's enough actors in this world.
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  Speaker 1: There's enough actors in religion. There's enough actors in the church.
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  Speaker 1: There's enough actors in leadership of churches. We don't need performers.
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  Speaker 1: We don't need performance. I know it sells a lot
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  Speaker 1: of tickets. I know it gets a lot of stream
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  Speaker 1: clicks and views online. I know it's popular to perform, right?
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  Speaker 1: To have that charisma and to go up in front
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  Speaker 1: of thousands of people and speak a certain way, walk
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  Speaker 1: a certain way, act a certain way, dress a certain way,
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  Speaker 1: flaunt your belongings, your possessions, and call it blessings from God.
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  Speaker 1: It could very well be, right? But we don't boast
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  Speaker 1: about what we have. We boast about who God is
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  Speaker 1: in us. We boast about the Lord over here, at
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  Speaker 1: least as soul winners. So just remember, your salvation is
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  Speaker 1: My salvation is not based on performance or how perfect
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  Speaker 1: you are, right? Because we're not perfect. Our salvation is
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  Speaker 1: based on the perfect, just sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ, right?
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  Speaker 1: And that sacrifice was made for me and that sacrifice
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  Speaker 1: was made for you. Everybody you know and everybody you
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  Speaker 1: don't know. Because it was once for all. The sacrifice
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  Speaker 1: was once for all. He doesn't have to return to
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  Speaker 1: the cross. Amen. If you read Hebrews chapter seven, the
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  Speaker 1: whole chapter, you're going to see why this is so important.
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  Speaker 1: The whole word of God is important. Amen. But when
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  Speaker 1: we're dealing with his sacrifice, how he offered himself up,
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  Speaker 1: read the whole chapter where we're camping on a verse
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  Speaker 1: 27 of Hebrews chapter seven. But if you have a chance,
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  Speaker 1: read the whole chapter of Hebrews chapter seven, so you
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  Speaker 1: can check it for yourself. Right. So ask yourself, are
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  Speaker 1: you still carrying around this guilt and shame? Are you
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  Speaker 1: still carrying around something that you think that Jesus cannot
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  Speaker 1: remove from you? Are you still carrying guilt for something
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  Speaker 1: that you've done or have I done, right? Still carrying
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  Speaker 1: around guilt for something, right, that you know, One way
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  Speaker 1: or another, you brought this guilt and shame to the
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  Speaker 1: Lord already. Or are you trusting in the power of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord's finished work? He removed the sin. He removed
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  Speaker 1: the guilt. He removed the shame off of us. Amen?
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  Speaker 1: So if we're carrying something around like that, we might
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  Speaker 1: have to do a self check, right? To see we're
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  Speaker 1: still in the faith. To realize that, listen, if I'm
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  Speaker 1: clean because of the I'm close because Holy Spirit living
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  Speaker 1: inside of me. And I'm called because whosoever calls on
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  Speaker 1: the name of the Lord shall be saved. And many
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  Speaker 1: are called, but few are chosen. And I'm also chosen.
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  Speaker 1: So what's going on here? I could suggest that it's
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  Speaker 1: the flesh, right? That's trying to fool us, deceive us,
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  Speaker 1: our own sinful desires. Of course, the enemy is not
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  Speaker 1: going to tell us the truth. The devil doesn't have
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  Speaker 1: any truth in him. He's going to send demonic influence.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to send people to distract, to try to kill, steal,
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  Speaker 1: and destroy all of that. That's his job. So we
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  Speaker 1: could make adjustments in our lives according to the scriptures
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  Speaker 1: and live how God wants us to live. by way
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  Speaker 1: of his Holy Spirit. He gives us everything we need
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  Speaker 1: to live a righteous and godly life. God doesn't leave
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  Speaker 1: anything uncovered in our lives. Amen. He doesn't force us
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  Speaker 1: to do anything, but at the same time, he's a
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  Speaker 1: loving father. He sent a loving Jesus to Christ, a
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  Speaker 1: And now we have the loving, leading, the leadership of
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit living inside of us. So if we stay
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  Speaker 1: on the righteous path, we stay focused on the purpose,
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  Speaker 1: be encouraged, we're transformed, right? We have faith in the
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  Speaker 1: Lord Jesus Christ and we know that he did this
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  Speaker 1: sacrifice once for all. You stay on that line of thinking, amen,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to make it. And you're going to keep
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  Speaker 1: on moving forward and moving upward and know that you're
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  Speaker 1: humble enough To admit that we need Jesus day by day,
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  Speaker 1: every day. We need God. We need his word. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: We need his church. We need the body of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: We need to be staying connected with one another. So
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  Speaker 1: trust in the power of the Lord's finished work. Are
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  Speaker 1: you trusting in Jesus, his finished work? Or are you
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  Speaker 1: trusting in your circumstances? And you're trusting in his world system. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: You have to decide that for yourself. And that's a
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  Speaker 1: day-to-day decision. When you're driving your car, you're making a
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  Speaker 1: day-to-day decision, moment-to-moment decision. You're making hundreds of decisions to
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  Speaker 1: try to get to your destination safely. Every other thing,
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  Speaker 1: like the mechanical failures, a breakdown, a flat tire, an accident,
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  Speaker 1: all that, is out of your control. But guess who
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  Speaker 1: has that? authority over all those mechanical issues, over your tire,
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  Speaker 1: over the traffic, over you getting into an accident or
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  Speaker 1: me getting into an accident. That's right. The Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: So I rely on him daily. Amen. I don't have
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  Speaker 1: any control outside of that, outside of what God is
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  Speaker 1: doing in my life. Amen. I don't even have control
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  Speaker 1: over that. I'm just available. You could just be available.
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  Speaker 1: Show up. Sometimes all you got to do, I said
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  Speaker 1: this a thousand times, all you have to do is
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  Speaker 1: show up and let God use you. Amen. He has
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  Speaker 1: the perfect plan, the perfect purpose for us. And he
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  Speaker 1: showed it. He offered himself up. He didn't have to
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  Speaker 1: do what the high priest did. They had to first
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  Speaker 1: sacrifice for their own sin. Well, Jesus did not sin,
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  Speaker 1: so therefore he didn't have to sacrifice for his own sin.
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  Speaker 1: He sacrificed for the sins that we committed, right? Once
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  Speaker 1: for all. He offered himself up once for all. That's
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  Speaker 1: a love story right there, man. If you don't see
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  Speaker 1: the gospel as a love story, if you don't see
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  Speaker 1: the scriptures as an act of God's love, then I
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  Speaker 1: can't help you. Amen. From Genesis to Revelation, he's showing
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  Speaker 1: us his grace and mercy. He's showing us his redeeming work,
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  Speaker 1: his redemptive work all through the scriptures. The prophecies were
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  Speaker 1: pointing to our Lord and our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: He's more than a prophet, right? He's more than a
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  Speaker 1: good teacher. He's more than a rabbi. He's the high priest,
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  Speaker 1: the sinless, perfect priest. Amen. And we have evidence and
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  Speaker 1: proof of that. And we can testify because he's done
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  Speaker 1: a work in our hearts and on our minds. So
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  Speaker 1: I know a lot of theologians that are against the scriptures,
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  Speaker 1: even within Christianity, that's saying that Jesus is not God.
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  Speaker 1: I saw a debate yesterday on a woman, Dr. I'll
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  Speaker 1: show whatever her name is. Amen. Very interesting show. She
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  Speaker 1: has women on her show. She's a woman. So she debates.
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  Speaker 1: And there was a Christian, says she was a Christian,
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't believe that Jesus is God and doesn't believe
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  Speaker 1: in the triunity of God. Well, that's another discussion, right?
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  Speaker 1: So the challenge is to let go of guilt and
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  Speaker 1: shame in our own lives. Let it go. Let it go.
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  Speaker 1: it will free you up from so many things, right?
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  Speaker 1: That keeps you looking backwards because you notice that every
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  Speaker 1: time you sin and every time I sin is because
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking back. Have you noticed that? When you fall
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  Speaker 1: into certain areas of sin, it's because you're not looking forward,
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  Speaker 1: you're looking back. You can get into an accident while
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  Speaker 1: you're driving. If you turn your head back while you're
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  Speaker 1: driving forward, you might get into an accident. Same way
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  Speaker 1: with our lives. We keep on looking back at the past,
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  Speaker 1: Past mistakes, past sins, past situations, you might fall into
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of treacherous things. Receive God's forgiveness today, right now, right?
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  Speaker 1: Learn from our mistakes, but receive God's forgiveness for those
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  Speaker 1: mistakes and take the next step in faith. And that
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  Speaker 1: next step is to know and trust that Jesus paid
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  Speaker 1: it all. It's not just a saying, it's the truth, right?
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  Speaker 1: Live like you believe that. And let God do a
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  Speaker 1: work in your life. Amen. So share this word out
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  Speaker 1: once and for all. Hebrews chapter 7, 27. Jesus made
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  Speaker 1: the ultimate sacrifice for our sins. You don't have to
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  Speaker 1: earn his love or live trapped in yesterday's failures, right?
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  Speaker 1: Trust in his finished work. Walk in his grace. And
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  Speaker 1: remember that the price has been paid once for all.
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  Speaker 1: I hope you enjoyed today's word. Amen. This morning, Devo.
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  Speaker 1: And let God inspire you, move you forward. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: out of here. I'm out of time. But thank you
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  Speaker 1: so much for hanging out with me. It's an honor
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  Speaker 1: and privilege to be a part of your day. So
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  Speaker 1: God bless you all. God keep you all. And remember
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  Speaker 1: always that God is good. Peace.