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Episode 209 - The Power Of Eternal Life · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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Speaker 1: Blessed be the name of the Lord. From this time
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Speaker 1: forth and even forevermore. Our God is great, He is
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Speaker 1: greatly to be praised. We welcome you once again to
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Speaker 1: this another edition of End Time Revival Ministries USA Podcast.
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Speaker 1: I am your host, Pastor L. Zacharye. And again, as always,
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Speaker 1: we thank God for the breath of life that is
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Speaker 1: in our bodies. We thank God for help and hope
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Speaker 1: and a great, great, great, great salvation, Amen, that he
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Speaker 1: called us to in which we are eternally grateful. And
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Speaker 1: by the way, forward looking, forward looking, this is the
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Speaker 1: beauty of this great salvation. It's forward looking a man.
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Speaker 1: We're able to forget those things which are behind us,
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Speaker 1: put the past behind us, pressed toward the mark, as
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Speaker 1: the Bible says, the prize of the high calling, which
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Speaker 1: is in Christ, Jesus. Amen, God forgives, We forgive, We
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Speaker 1: are forgiven. We learn how to forgive others. We walk
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Speaker 1: in beauty and holiness and righteousness and godliness right here
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Speaker 1: in this present world, with a joy that is unspeakable
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Speaker 1: and full of glory, all because of what Jesus Christ
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Speaker 1: has done on our behalf. Thank God for his unspeakable gift,
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Speaker 1: the gift that is Jesus Christ our Lord. And again Amen,
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Speaker 1: as always, we are thankful that the Lord has called
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Speaker 1: us an appointed us for such a time as this
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Speaker 1: made us able ministers of the New Testament of the
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Speaker 1: Word of the Living God. And therefore we preach and
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Speaker 1: proclaim Christ, Jesus and Him crucified. Amen. The Gospel of
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Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, of which the apostle Paul says, I am
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Speaker 1: not ashamed, for it is the power of God unto
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Speaker 1: salvation to everyone that believes. Amen. And so again we
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Speaker 1: are blessed to be a part of this great hope
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Speaker 1: and calling that is in Christ Jesus our Lord, a
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Speaker 1: member of the sanctuary of the Kingdom, of the Church
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Speaker 1: of the Living God, of the Body of Christ. Amen.
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Speaker 1: Set apart, Amen for His glory and honor. Amen. All right,
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Speaker 1: God bless you again before we begin in our session
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Speaker 1: on today we continue in the Gospel of John Ter
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Speaker 1: number seventeen. If you have your bibles. Amen, We again
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Speaker 1: my prayer as the Apostle Paul Amen solicited prayers for
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Speaker 1: himself always, and please, by all means pray for me
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Speaker 1: as well, that God will continue to enable me and
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Speaker 1: strengthen me and keep me encouraged. Amen, in this, in
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Speaker 1: this in this race, and this faith, in this a
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Speaker 1: man journey and this pilgrimage. Amen, we pray, as the
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Speaker 1: Apostle Paul did, that the word of the Lord will
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Speaker 1: have free course. And I thank God that we have
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Speaker 1: the freedom to preach and to disseminate the word of
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Speaker 1: Living God. Amen, and pray that his word will be effectual,
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Speaker 1: that it will work. And that's why Amen, we are
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Speaker 1: in this calling, in this hope, and it is my
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Speaker 1: fervent prayer and desire to continually adhere, strictly adhere to
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Speaker 1: the Word of the Living God, the truth of God,
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Speaker 1: not my opinion a man, not my own personal bias. Amen.
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Speaker 1: But I want to speak plainly as the scriptures speak,
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Speaker 1: as the Word of God teaches, as Christ himself has spoken,
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Speaker 1: a man, adding nothing to it, taking nothing away from it. Amen.
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Speaker 1: That is our Amen, chief and gold to be found
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Speaker 1: faithful stewart over which God has entrusted to us. Amen.
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Speaker 1: So again to that end we pray that you, Amen,
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Speaker 1: will share it with someone else. You, if you have
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Speaker 1: not already, will become a subscriber. This is not for
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Speaker 1: our personal gain or benefit or profit. Amen. We are
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Speaker 1: here to again, faithfully a man preach and teach the
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Speaker 1: Word of the Living God. Gospel of John chapter seventeen.
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Speaker 1: If you have your Bibles this Amen. Chapter of John
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Speaker 1: is at the end of Jesus' life on earth. As
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Speaker 1: he approaches the cross. Amen. On that faithful night in
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Speaker 1: which he has been, as we've been in the last
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Speaker 1: few sessions, of course, preparing his disciples for his eminent
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Speaker 1: departure out of this world, he prays a prayer. We
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Speaker 1: refer to this prayer as the high priestly prayer by
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Speaker 1: the way in which Jesus also prayed for us, those
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Speaker 1: of us who are now in this twenty first century church. Amen, Family,
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Speaker 1: Body of Christ. Christ prayed for us in this prayer.
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Speaker 1: So we're going to examine words a man that Jesus
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Speaker 1: a man spoke in his prayer. Words that are powerful,
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Speaker 1: words that are Amen, connecting to a man present existence
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Speaker 1: even now should give us boldness and confidence and assurance
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Speaker 1: a man when we take the heart these words that
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Speaker 1: Jesus a man prayed on our behalf. For the most part,
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Speaker 1: it was on our behalf. Amen. So again, actually I'm sorry.
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Speaker 1: Gospel of Judge, chapter seventeen. Before we begin, Let's take
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Speaker 1: just a quick moment, if you will, to invoke the
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Speaker 1: presence of the Lord and his power, Amen, through his word. Father. Again,
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Speaker 1: we take now this opportunity that you've given to us,
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Speaker 1: granted to us, to speak forth your word, and we
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Speaker 1: pray even now that somewhere, somehow someone will hear and obey.
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Speaker 1: Come to know you, be encouraged, be uplifted, Amen, and
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Speaker 1: be a man enthused if you will to continue, if
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Speaker 1: they are already in this race, to run on with patience,
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Speaker 1: with hope, with perseverance, with assurance, knowing that you are
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Speaker 1: with them, you are for them, you never leave them,
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Speaker 1: You'll never forsake them. God be glorifinding your people everywhere
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Speaker 1: as we amen, sing your praises and shout the victory,
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Speaker 1: and march on triumphantly until your glorious return. We thank
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Speaker 1: you now for all things in Jesus' name. Amen and Amen.
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Speaker 1: The power of eternal life is our subject title today.
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Speaker 1: If you will, the power of eternal life, and it
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Speaker 1: all happened, if you will, as we're going to examine
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Speaker 1: from the words of Jesus in an hour of glory,
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Speaker 1: in an hour of glory. Now, when we speak of
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Speaker 1: this hour of glory, we're not defining or confining, if
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Speaker 1: you will, the time in which Jesus would be on
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Speaker 1: that cross to a sixty minute hour. But Jesus used
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Speaker 1: the word hour in a man, representing, of course, the
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Speaker 1: time or the arrival of his imminent death and departure
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Speaker 1: a man out of this world, in the sense that
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Speaker 1: he was now going to the cross to lay down
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Speaker 1: his life, to give it up willingly, as he said,
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Speaker 1: no one takes my life from me. I lay it down,
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Speaker 1: Have the power to lay it down, have the power
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Speaker 1: to take it up again. Amen. And so the hour
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Speaker 1: of glory is about to take place. The power of
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Speaker 1: eternal life is our focus. Amen. The hour of the
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Speaker 1: murder of Jesus was indeed, of course, for the disciples,
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Speaker 1: it was an astonishing time of disappointment, sadness a man,
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Speaker 1: especially for those a man who had been with him
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Speaker 1: and devoted themselves to following Jesus, a man living in
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Speaker 1: the hope of his kingdom. He came preaching, remember, repent
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Speaker 1: for the kingdom of Heaven is at hand. And they
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Speaker 1: had the fervent belief a man in their hearts that
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Speaker 1: he was ushering in the kingdom now now as they
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Speaker 1: felt from the earthly perspective. And uh, it was certainly
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Speaker 1: disheartening for these men and women at this moment when
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Speaker 1: Jesus is now talking about his death, amen, his his
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Speaker 1: his dying, his betrayal, his amen, murder and essence. That's
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Speaker 1: what it was. He was. He was going to be murdered.
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Speaker 1: Wait a minute. You you save others, as they would
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Speaker 1: of course later ridicule him. You save others yourself, you
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Speaker 1: cannot save well, Wait a minute. We thought you were
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Speaker 1: the messiah, We thought you were the conquering king a man.
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Speaker 1: We thought you were going to overthrow the Roman government
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Speaker 1: and deliver the kingdom into our hands, and we're going
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Speaker 1: to sit and rule and reign with you. But now
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Speaker 1: you're telling us you're gonna die. Little did they see
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Speaker 1: in their sadness there was great glory and the suffering,
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Speaker 1: the agony, the pain, and the death that Jesus would incur,
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Speaker 1: and the death of their sorrow. They could not fathom
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Speaker 1: the power of eternal life that was in Jesus and
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Speaker 1: that would emanate from him in this death, the death
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Speaker 1: of the one by the way who had raised others
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Speaker 1: from the dead. They just witnessed the resurrection by the
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Speaker 1: way of Lazarus being raised from the dead just a
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Speaker 1: few days prior that witnessed Lazarus, who was four days
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Speaker 1: in the grave dead. Jesus at that moment said, I
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Speaker 1: am the resurrection and the life. But now he's going
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Speaker 1: to die. Jesus, what they did not understand fully was
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Speaker 1: about to enter into an hour of glory. It was
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Speaker 1: an hour of glory for which he came into the world.
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Speaker 1: It would be an hour of glory in which the
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Speaker 1: power of eternal life would now become a realization for
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Speaker 1: all of mankind who were under the sentence of death,
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Speaker 1: the actualization of what had been promised from the beginning
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Speaker 1: of Adam's fall. When you go back to the Book
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Speaker 1: of Genesis, chapter number three. The promise, the promise, the
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Speaker 1: prophecies that went on and on and on throughout the
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Speaker 1: Old Testament, about this one who would come, the Savior
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Speaker 1: of the Redeemer of the Messiah, the suffering servant, the
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Speaker 1: branch you name it, the lion of the tribe of Judah.
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Speaker 1: All of what had been promised would now be fulfilled,
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Speaker 1: and hour of glory when the eternal life of the
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Speaker 1: eternal Son would be released to forever eradicate the death
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Speaker 1: sentence that sin enforced upon all men. Remember Romans chapter six.
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Speaker 1: The wages of sin is death, but the gift of
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Speaker 1: God is eternal life. That's what Jesus said, by the way,
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Speaker 1: I've come, that you might have life. Life. He came
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Speaker 1: into the world to save sinners, amen, to restore what
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Speaker 1: was lost by Adam. These words are recorded John's Gospel,
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Speaker 1: chapter seventeen. I'm just going to read the first three verses,
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Speaker 1: and you're hearing from the King James version. These were
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Speaker 1: words spake Jesus and lifted up his eyes to heaven
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Speaker 1: and said, Father, the hour is come. Glorify thy son,
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Speaker 1: that thy son also may glorify thee that's a message
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Speaker 1: in and of itself. Firse two, as thou hast given
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Speaker 1: him power over all flesh, that's another message that he
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Speaker 1: should give eternal life to as many as thou hast
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Speaker 1: given him. And this is life eternal, that they might
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Speaker 1: know THEE, the only True God, and Jesus Christ, whom
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Speaker 1: thou hast sent power. Jesus power over all flesh. Jesus
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Speaker 1: gives eternal life. Jesus power over all flesh. Jesus gives
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Speaker 1: eternal life. So in these few words beginning words of
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Speaker 1: this prayer, as recorded in the Gospel exclusively by the
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Speaker 1: way in the Gospel of John, we understand from these
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Speaker 1: words that it is Jesus alone who has the power
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Speaker 1: of eternal life in his hands. In him self, he
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Speaker 1: has the power over all living flesh. And it is
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Speaker 1: through him alone that there is forgiveness of sins. As
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Speaker 1: Jesus would say already had already spoken these words to
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Speaker 1: the Jews, Hey man, if you do not believe that
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Speaker 1: I am He, you will die in your sins. It
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Speaker 1: is through Jesus alone that there is forgiveness of sins
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Speaker 1: through his atonement, his blood sacrifice. Remember, the Bible teachers
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Speaker 1: without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin.
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Speaker 1: In the blood of bulls and goats, animals could not
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Speaker 1: take away sin. So, therefore God manifested in Christ Jesus.
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Speaker 1: The body, the body, the fleshly body, was prepared for
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Speaker 1: the express purpose of offering up blood. If you're undefiled, sinless,
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Speaker 1: guiltless blood that would forever atone for sin. If there
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Speaker 1: is no shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness of sins.
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Speaker 1: If there is no forgiveness of sins, man is under
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Speaker 1: the sentence, under the condemnation of death. And because Jesus
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Speaker 1: alone is the propitiation, the only acceptable sacrifice, an offering
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Speaker 1: for sins, exclusivity through Jesus alone is how is the
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Speaker 1: way that our sins are remitted and that we are
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Speaker 1: pardoned from the death that we have incurred. Remember Adam,
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Speaker 1: in the day that you eat, that shall surely die.
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Speaker 1: Jesus has the power to forgive sins, and we can
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Speaker 1: see this demonstrated by the way long before, perhaps even
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Speaker 1: three years before or more at the beginning early on
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Speaker 1: in this ministry, Jesus is in the Gospel of Luke.
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Speaker 1: Let me give you that example. I'm going to give
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Speaker 1: you two examples in Luke where Jesus forgave sins. Wow,
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Speaker 1: this is not at the cross, this is not in
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Speaker 1: this hour. This is this is the power, the power
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Speaker 1: to forgive sins. And this is why we have to
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Speaker 1: understand that the forgiveness of sins and eternal life are intertwined.
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Speaker 1: If there is no forgiveness of sins, we die. We
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Speaker 1: have earned earned death. The wages of sin is death.
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Speaker 1: And the only way that we can avoid death, escape
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Speaker 1: death is through the forgiveness of our sins, being washed away,
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Speaker 1: being remitted, being covered. And that's only by Jesus. Now watch,
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Speaker 1: Jesus has the power to forgive sins. The Gospel of
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Speaker 1: Luke rather chapter number five, I want you to well,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to read from verse eighteen beginning the version
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Speaker 1: of eighteen. Now, Jesus is in a house, a house
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Speaker 1: that is packed full. He's teaching, and there's no way
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Speaker 1: for anyone else to get inside of the house. And
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Speaker 1: so the Bible says that there were men who were
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Speaker 1: bringing a friend of theirs to Jesus for this man
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Speaker 1: to be healed by Jesus, and it could not get
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Speaker 1: into the house, so they creatively went up on the
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Speaker 1: roof of the house, on the top of the house,
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Speaker 1: and they made an opening so that they could let
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Speaker 1: their friend down into the house in the presence of Jesus.
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Speaker 1: It was an example of their faith, their their belief,
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Speaker 1: their trust, their determination. See, you need, you need, you need,
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Speaker 1: you need to We need we all need that. We
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Speaker 1: need that perseverance, we need that determination, we need that faith,
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Speaker 1: we need that uh uh trust. When coming to Jesus.
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Speaker 1: The Bible says, he that comes to God must believe
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Speaker 1: that he is, and He's a reward of them that
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Speaker 1: diligently seek him. So now these four men, I believe
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Speaker 1: it was, brought their friend to Jesus. The Bible says,
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Speaker 1: I'm picking up in version of eighteen. Behold, men brought
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Speaker 1: a man in a bed, a man which was taken
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Speaker 1: with a palsy. And they sought means to bring him
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Speaker 1: in and to lay him the man that is before Jesus.
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Speaker 1: And when they could not find by what way they
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Speaker 1: might bring him in because of the multitude, they went
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Speaker 1: up on the housetop and let him down through the
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Speaker 1: tiling with his couch into the midst before Jesus. And
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Speaker 1: when he saw their faith there it is, ladies, gentlemen,
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Speaker 1: without faith. When God sees faith, he is pleased. When
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Speaker 1: he saw their faith, he said, unto him, man, Now
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Speaker 1: watch this. They brought the man there for a healing. Well,
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Speaker 1: what does Jesus say to this man, man, thy sins
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Speaker 1: are forgiven? Thee Now in the midst of the congregation,
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Speaker 1: if you will, you had the scribes and the Pharisees
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Speaker 1: who were there, the Bible says in verse twenty one.
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Speaker 1: They begin to reason, saying, who is this which speaketh blasphemies?
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Speaker 1: Who can forgive sins? But God alone? Ladies and gentlemen.
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Speaker 1: They are absolutely right, They are absolutely correct in that
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Speaker 1: last statement, that is, who can forgive sins? But God alone?
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Speaker 1: Jesus is God, ladies and gentlemen, He and he alone,
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Speaker 1: is the one who forgives sins. Yes, yes, yes, not
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Speaker 1: a matter of focus. I was not. My focus is
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Speaker 1: not on the man being healed and all. Jesus of
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Speaker 1: course told the man take up his bed and walk
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Speaker 1: and all that. But the biggest, the most problematic, the
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Speaker 1: weightiest condition in our world, the plague, the scorge, the
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Speaker 1: bane of our existence, ladies and gentlemen, is sin sin man,
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Speaker 1: thy sins are forgiven thee woo. You know what you
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Speaker 1: know the blessedness of it. David understood it in the
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Speaker 1: Old Testament. Blessed ps I'm thirty two is the man
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Speaker 1: who sins are forgiven. Blessed is the man to whom
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Speaker 1: the Lord will not impute, put to his charge no
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Speaker 1: longer on him. It's a weight, it's a debt that
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Speaker 1: we cannot pay, we cannot carry, we can't handle.
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Speaker 2: See, only God can do this. Who can forgive, who
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Speaker 2: can remit, who can wash away? Who can take away?
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Speaker 2: Who can pardon? Who can do this?
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Speaker 1: Only God? Let me give you one more quick example.
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Speaker 1: In the same Gospel of Luke, chapter number seven, there's
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Speaker 1: a woman who comes into a house again the house
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Speaker 1: of Pharisee. I believe it was man by the name
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Speaker 1: of Simon is hosting Jesus at his house, and this
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Speaker 1: woman comes into the house. She's a sinner, she knows
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Speaker 1: she's a sinner. And the woman comes in and she
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Speaker 1: she washes the feet of Jesus. Watch, let me let
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Speaker 1: me pick it up. I'm just gonna you may be familiar,
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Speaker 1: but I'm just gonna read from verse number forty four,
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Speaker 1: Jesus turned to the woman and said, unto Simon the host,
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Speaker 1: do you see this woman I entered into thine house,
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Speaker 1: Thou gavest me no water for my feet, But she
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Speaker 1: hath washed my feet with her tears and wipe them
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Speaker 1: with the hairs of her head. Thou gavest me no kiss.
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Speaker 1: But this woman, since the time I came in, hath
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Speaker 1: not ceased to kiss my feet. My head with oil.
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Speaker 1: Thou didst not anoint, But this woman hath anointed my
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Speaker 1: feet with ointment. Wherefore, when I watched this, watch watch
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Speaker 1: watch it verse forty seven. Wherefore I say, unto thee
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Speaker 1: her sins which are many. By the way, God knows
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Speaker 1: everything about all of us, the sins of omission, the
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Speaker 1: sins of commission, the sins of the thoughts, the sins
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Speaker 1: of the heart. He knows them all. This woman, perhaps outwardly,
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Speaker 1: had sins that were well known, documented, perhaps from the
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Speaker 1: outward perspective. And Jesus says, her sins, which are many,
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Speaker 1: are forgiven. See you see that. See see some people,
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Speaker 1: you know, they want to keep up with the numbers,
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Speaker 1: and they count, you know, But see see what what? What? What? What?
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Speaker 1: What is God looking for? What does God want brokenness, contrition,
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Speaker 1: godly sorrow. That's that's what gives, that's what leads to repentance,
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Speaker 1: if you will. This is this is, this is how
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Speaker 1: God has moved a broken heart and a contrite spirit.
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Speaker 1: This woman comes into and I don't want to linger
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Speaker 1: on this too long. Just understand the necessity of our
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Speaker 1: sins being forgiven. It requires that we are godly sorrowful.
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Speaker 1: Acknowledging this. This is what this woman is doing. She's acknowledged.
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Speaker 1: She's coming to Jesus weeping. And it's not just about
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Speaker 1: the tears, necessarily, it's about the fact that her heart
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Speaker 1: is sorrowful, and she knows that she's a sinner, and
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Speaker 1: she recognizes and she understands that this one Jesus, he
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Speaker 1: can do something about my sins, about my guilt, about
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Speaker 1: the death sentence that's hanging over my head. So I'm
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Speaker 1: coming to him. Her sins, which are many, are forgiven.
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Speaker 1: For she loved much, but to whom little is forgiven.
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Speaker 1: The same loved little. And so Jesus. Now he's talking
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Speaker 1: to Simon, but now he turns to the woman, and
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Speaker 1: he's said that unto her, thy sins are forgiven. Limits one, two, three, four,
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Speaker 1: four words, ladies and gentlemen, that ever you think, these
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Speaker 1: are four words you really want to hear. These are
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Speaker 1: four words you really we all need to hear these
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Speaker 1: words from the Lord. Thy sins are forgiven. Thy sins
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Speaker 1: are forgiven. And of course again there are those who
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Speaker 1: are there, in their lack of understanding, lack of faith,
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Speaker 1: lack of knowing who Jesus is. The Bible says they
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Speaker 1: that sat at meat with him began to say within themselves,
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Speaker 1: just came to my mind. Of course, now, of course
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Speaker 1: they were familiar. They should have been familiar with all
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Speaker 1: the prophets Elijah, perhaps as a premier example, Elisha Moses,
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Speaker 1: those who had performed miracles by the power of God,
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Speaker 1: who were considered to be prophets, great men of God
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Speaker 1: used by God. And many of these people, by the way,
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Speaker 1: saw Jesus in that same light. Remember what Jesus would
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Speaker 1: ask of the disciples, and who the men say that
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Speaker 1: I am? Some say that you are this and that
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Speaker 1: Elijah or some great prophet and death people who even
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Speaker 1: right now by way to this day, give that same
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Speaker 1: kind of lip service, and not to say that Jesus
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Speaker 1: wasn't a prophet, because he was, but they only want
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Speaker 1: to relegate him to that status as being a great prophet.
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Speaker 1: And so by all of the miracles and wonders, of
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Speaker 1: course that Jesus had done, they could not deny at least,
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Speaker 1: they could not deny him the status of being a
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Speaker 1: great prophet. And they even respected him to some degree
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Speaker 1: as being a rabbi and a teacher. And now, of
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Speaker 1: course many of the Pharisees and Sadducees and of the
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Speaker 1: religious leaders in crowds, they were jealous. They were they
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Speaker 1: were terribly jealous and enemys of Jesus, of course, But
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Speaker 1: nevertheless they understood at least that this power that he
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Speaker 1: had was other worldly, if you will. But now now
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Speaker 1: he says to this woman, thy sins are forgiven. Now
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Speaker 1: Moses didn't do that, Elijah didn't do that, Elisha didn't
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Speaker 1: do that, Jeremiah didn't do that. Now they prayed and
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Speaker 1: interceded that they did not pronounce or confer upon anyone guiltlessness, blamelessness, faultlessness,
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Speaker 1: forgiveness of their sins. You know why, they knew, and
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Speaker 1: they were not God, woman, Thy sins are forgiven. Who
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Speaker 1: is this that forgiven sins? Also, Jesus said to the woman,
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Speaker 1: further thy faith hath saved thee goal in peace? Who
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Speaker 1: I love it? Now we have peace with God through
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Speaker 1: our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have received the
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Speaker 1: Atonement Romans, chapter five. Listen, your sins can only be
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Speaker 1: forgiven by God. And furthermore, please understand it's not just
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Speaker 1: in the forgiveness, it's the abolition. Jesus has the power
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Speaker 1: to forgive sins. Jesus has the power to abolish sins,
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Speaker 1: our sins. The Bible says, as far as the east, oh,
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Speaker 1: I love it, old Testament stuffy, This is old Testament stuff.
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Speaker 1: As far as the east is from the west, So
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Speaker 1: far hath he removed our transgressions from he abolished first
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Speaker 1: Second Timothy two Timothy tewod Timothy chapter number one, three,
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Speaker 1: verses three verses Paul writing to his son in the
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Speaker 1: Gospel Timothy, I want you to see this, I want
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Speaker 1: you to hear this. I'm gonna pick it up. A
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Speaker 1: verse number eight, he says, be not thou therefore ashamed
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Speaker 1: of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner.
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Speaker 1: But be thou partaker of the afflictions of the Gospel
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Speaker 1: according to the power of God, who hath saved us
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Speaker 1: listen carefully and called us with and holy calling. Not
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Speaker 1: according to our works, that's another message in itself, but
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Speaker 1: according to his own purpose and grace, which was given
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Speaker 1: us in Christ Jesus, before the world began. But is now, Oh,
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Speaker 1: watch it in the fullness of time, God send forth
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Speaker 1: his son may. Oh, I don't mean, let me go,
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Speaker 1: let me I'm sorry, let me continue, But is now
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Speaker 1: made manifest by the appearing of our savior, Jesus Christ. Look, listen, listen,
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Speaker 1: listen carefully by Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death and
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Speaker 1: has brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel.
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Speaker 1: Oh man, oh man, I could go. Oh my God,
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Speaker 1: I could go, but I gotta go. I gotta go.
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Speaker 1: I can Oh man, I could go with that, Oh man,
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Speaker 1: listen he the detext the scripture. The verse says he
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Speaker 1: abolished death. But wait a minute, I said he abolished sin. Well, yes, well,
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Speaker 1: you can't abolish death if you don't abolish sin. The
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Speaker 1: cause of death is sin. The abolition of sin abolishes
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Speaker 1: death and that's what Jesus did by taking away our sins,
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Speaker 1: by forgiving us of our sins, by remitting our sins
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Speaker 1: and putting them upon himself and transferring by the way,
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Speaker 1: at the same time his righteousness to us, death was abolished.
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Speaker 1: Death was abolished in the removed. And now that's why
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Speaker 1: we have eternal life. For God so loved the world
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Speaker 1: that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believed
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Speaker 1: in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. So,
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Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, now, in this very hour that Jesus
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Speaker 1: is speaking of, he said, the hour has come. The
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Speaker 1: hour has come. So in this very hour of power,
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Speaker 1: by the way, while Jesus hung upon that cross, remember
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Speaker 1: I'll give you this final example. There were two convicted
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Speaker 1: criminals who, by the admission of one of them, deserved
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Speaker 1: the condemnation, deserved, well earned the sentence of death because
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Speaker 1: the man said to Jesus, one of them, in that
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Speaker 1: moment of repentance. He said, we deserve to be here,
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Speaker 1: We deserve to die by the way. That's what every
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Speaker 1: sinner needs to recognize, needs to own up to and
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Speaker 1: contrition and brokenness and confession. I deserve to die. I
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Speaker 1: love the prayer. By the way, I'm just having all
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Speaker 1: kinds of can help it. I love this prayer. Old
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Speaker 1: Testament Jacob, in a prayer to the Lord, said, I
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Speaker 1: am not worthy of the least of your mercies. Man,
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Speaker 1: this thief acknowledged that he deserved death, and within that
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Speaker 1: hour of power we saw a prelude of the power
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Speaker 1: of eternal life given to one of these malefactors. This
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Speaker 1: man turned to Jesus in repentance, in acknowledgment of his
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Speaker 1: guilt that had brought upon him, and his guilty, convicted conviction.
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Speaker 1: The criminal on the other side of Jesus their death sentences.
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Speaker 1: But ladies and gentlemen, the one who was not guilty,
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Speaker 1: the one in whom was no guile, the one who
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Speaker 1: had done absolutely nothing deserving of death, the one who
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Speaker 1: had been tried before Pilot, the one who had the
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Speaker 1: supposed power to release Jesus or to sentence him. This man,
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Speaker 1: Pilot said publicly, I find no fault in him. I
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Speaker 1: have found nothing in this man that is worthy of death.
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Speaker 1: So you have here the one who was not guilty,
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Speaker 1: the one who is innocent, the one in whom was
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Speaker 1: no guile, the one who had done absolutely nothing deserving
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Speaker 1: of that, the one in whom is the power to
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Speaker 1: atone for and to forgive sins. He did for this repentant, convicted,
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Speaker 1: worthy of death, sinner, the unimaginable. In that hour of glory.
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Speaker 1: The man was, in that very moment, just like that
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Speaker 1: man who was sick of the palsy, just like that
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Speaker 1: woman who came to Jesus weeping and washing his feet.
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Speaker 1: In that very moment, that man was forgiven. He was pardoned,
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Speaker 1: and facing an imminent death, he was transferred from guilt
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Speaker 1: and kindation to now being granted the power of eternal life.
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Speaker 1: And let me say it emphatically, let me say it
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Speaker 1: again and again and again and again and again. Only
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Speaker 1: Jesus can do it. The power of eternal life is
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Speaker 1: only in Jesus. The power of eternal life is given
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Speaker 1: only by Jesus. The power of eternal life is in
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Speaker 1: knowing the only true God. And knowing the only true
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Speaker 1: God is only by knowing Jesus Christ, the Son of
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Speaker 1: the Living God, the Son of the True God, the
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Speaker 1: son who is in the Father and the Father in Him,
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Speaker 1: who is God, manifested in the flesh, the one who
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Speaker 1: came down from glory, making himself of no reputation, taking
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Speaker 1: on the form of a servant, and willingly submitting his will,
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Speaker 1: surrendering his life to save all who will believe in him.
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Speaker 1: For God so loved that he gave Jesus, so you
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Speaker 1: don't have to die but live. Father, we pray that now,
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Speaker 1: even now, somewhere, someone somehow we're hearing, come to know,
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Speaker 1: be moved by your spirit, Be moved by your word,
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Speaker 1: by the Gospel, by your goodness that leads us to repentance,
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Speaker 1: to come to the foot of the cross, to come
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Speaker 1: in brokenness and contrition, and acknowledging that they are in
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Speaker 1: dire need of a savior, the one, the one and
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Speaker 1: only one who can forgive sins, watch them, renew them,
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Speaker 1: and make them new creations. In You. We pray now
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Speaker 1: in Jesus' name that it will be so for your glory, majesty, honor,
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Speaker 1: and kingdom. Amen and Amen.