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We Need a New Heart | Pastor Daniel Batarseh (Gospel of Mark Bible Study Series) · Bible Study with Pr. Daniel Batarseh | Verse by Verse Series | Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago

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well, if you came today, Thinking that we're going to
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continue with Catholicism or other traditions.
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We won't be and one reason is because there's so much to say
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and eventually we're gonna have to stop at some point, right?
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We can talk about the papacy. We can talk about veneration of
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icons. We can talk about indulgences,
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we can talk about different shades of traditions and all
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really you can do from this point on though.
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We may revisit such a subject in the future is to be moved enough
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to not take things at face value.
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Value. It's not just assume what people
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have to say about what they believe, but to go deeper and to
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look deeper into study and realize where people stand.
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What differences do people truly have scripture tells us that my
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people perish, right? For a lack of knowledge, were a
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faith that prizes knowledge, we're not just running here out
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of sentiment and emotions everything.
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About what we believe is based on truth on And our arguments,
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our defense, Our Gospel, our presentation, everything that
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you and I experience is based on what has been revealed and so be
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inspired moving from this place moving on, from where we were
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left off in Mark, chapter 7 to grow in your knowledge of the
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word of God, of what you believe, and from there, from
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what others believe, and then to compare.
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And hopefully the Lord will use you as you are equipped to touch
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other people, I trust that he will.
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One of the things that Bless me from people in the past few
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weeks. Was I feel equipped?
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And that's the point I wanted you to feel more familiar with
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your gospel with R-Truth and also where other people stand.
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So that you would be more bold and courageous and willing to
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touch other people's lives with the truth will.
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All that being said, we're still in Mark chapter 7.
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And so, I need you to turn with me in your Bibles to this place
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and verse 14. This will be more preaching than
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teaching. There's a lot of quoting and
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reading past few weeks but I'm excited to have my head up more
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this afternoon. Mark chapter 7 verse 14.
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And he called the people to him again and said to them, hear me
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all of you. And understand, there is nothing
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outside a person that by going into, him can defile him, but
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the things that come out of a person or what defile him, And
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we entered the house and left. The people his disciples asked
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him about the parable and he said to them.
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Then are you also without understanding?
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Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside?
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Cannot defile him since it enters not in his heart, but his
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stomach and is expelled, thus, he declared all foods clean and
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he said, what comes out of a person is what defiles him for
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from within. Out of the heart of man.
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Come evil thoughts, sexual immorality theft murder,
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adultery coveting, wickedness deceit, sensuality Envy, slander
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Pride, foolishness all these evil things come from within and
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they defile a person Lord May the words of my mouth and the
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meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight and may
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our hearts and our ears also be acceptable in your sight.
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You promised that when the Holy Spirit would come there would be
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power power to testify of the truth.
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We appeal to that power, we depend on that power, we
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relinquish all eloquence. All craft all, even personality
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And we submit ourselves to The Sovereign work of God who
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bestows upon his servants, the ability to deliver and
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communicate your truth. So do so, in this moment, for
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your namesake in your namesake alone in Jesus name, amen.
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I'm sure that if you've been in any lengthy discussion, whether
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it was Evangelistic philosophical or theological,
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that it did not take much time for the problem of evil to arise
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in that conversation. Apart from the diseases and all
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the natural disasters that occur on a daily basis.
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The polluting immorality that plagues over humanity is very
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difficult to ignore. And for the most part is easily
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discerned. Now, it is true.
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That the Bible reveals that our discernment concerning, moral,
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evil and moral good. Can be skewed.
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Can be dulled can be warped. But you have to understand that
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there is a general understanding of morality.
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Among Us, most religions can say yes, there's categories of good
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and bad. There is right and wrong and
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even the staunch atheist unknowingly perhaps appeals to
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morality when he chooses to accuse and condemn a God that he
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doesn't even believe in. And you can imagine and you are
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fully aware that it's no surprise that many many Minds
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over the years. Many schools of thought to have
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a rose on this subject. Countless people over the
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centuries of try to make sense of this mystery called evil.
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But with all the opinions that have been passed down and that
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are continuing to be passed down in our institutions of learning
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and with all the great minds over the different civilizations
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and cultures that have stuffed our literature and our
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libraries, there is absolutely nothing more robust or accurate
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concerning the subject in of evil than the word of God
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itself. Nothing?
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One Theologian said very cleverly that none can deny the
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fact that men are not what they ought to be.
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None can deny. There was something that we
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intrinsically sense about ourselves that not everything is
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right there is something foundationally wrong.
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None can deny that we are not what we ought to be and yet no
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human wisdom can give us answers to why.
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But if you are looking for answers, if you are looking for
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a Clarity, then look, no further than what you have in your
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hands. Because God's word provides
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Insight concerning the origins of evil, the identity of evil.
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The activity of evil. The punishment for evil, the
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presence of evil, the consequences of evil.
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And yes, even the future fate of evil.
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It's there from cover to cover and what you?
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And I just read in this text here.
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This afternoon shows us something about the Lord Jesus
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and his Insight concerning evil. A staggering inside a humbling
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insight about morality namely wickedness, iniquity rebellion.
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And All of that relates to you and I see human beings.
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And my aim today. Is to provide at least three
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simple thoughts, three simple thoughts of the Lord is
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conveying here, concerning that very topic and here's my desire,
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God, help us. Here's my desire that if you're
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in this, if you're in this place and you're a person who can
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identify through the Revelation, that is presented here today,
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that you need a new heart. That you would be moved by this
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truth enough to come before the presence of the king and say,
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God give me a new heart. And if you're a person in this
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place who has been born again, you can genuinely say, I have
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been transformed by the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
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That you also would be moved not to appeal for a new heart.
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But perhaps for a new Joy, a new Joy, a new praise a new song
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because you in this place are enjoying the miracle of the new
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birth because of his grace. And so the sinner in this place,
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this afternoon can glorify God through the repentance and the
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person who has experience this amazing gospel, you would also
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be able to glorify God by rejoicing afresh in his goodness
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over your life. And so, I have three thoughts
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for you today, and as I told you, it will be preached to you.
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It will be preached to you. If it feels Evangelistic, then,
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so be it. But let your heart be moved
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because even Christians need to hear the gospel then, not Paul
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say in Romans that it is through the preaching of Jesus Christ
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that we know strength. It is through this gospel and
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the preaching of Jesus Christ, not the world, but the Saints
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tap into a supernatural strength.
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We need to hear the gospel. We need to explore deeper truths
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of the gospel and here's Christ giving us an Insight concerning
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the gospel. But before we get to that truth,
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here's Point. Number one, point number one,
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the source of evil is from within What do we see here in
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verse 20? And he said, what comes out of a
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person is what defiles him, three staggering words in verse
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21 for from within for, from within in a Jesus before he
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displays this catalog of Filth that populates every person's
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inner being he prepares his listeners, he gets him ready,
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has he get him ready? Well, we're told here in verse
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14 here All of you and understand.
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Hey, pay attention, pay attention, and humble yourself
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to be willing to accept what I'm about to say.
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And then from there, he says something quite strange.
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Perhaps, to us. There is nothing outside a
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person that by going into, him can defile him.
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But the things that come out of a person or what defile him,
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what is Jesus, speaking about, we remember the wider context.
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Remember before we went into that mini-series on tradition
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where it all started from the Pharisees, came to Jesus and
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said, why do you disciples not wash their hands before they
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eat, they weren't concerned about their hygiene there.
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A concern over the fact that their disregard of the
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ceremonial and ritual cleansings.
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That were preached and taught and passed down to the masses.
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And that kind of tradition that had binding conviction on others
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is what Jesus challenged because it was based like a lot of
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tradition today. It was based on skewed theology,
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let me say this tradition is neutral.
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It can be used to highlight and honor a truth or it can be used
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to Eclipse a truth. And in this case, this idea of
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ceremonial cleansing eclipse, the truth, more than just
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eclipse the truth. It.
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Diverted people from the truth and put their focus on an
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external morality instead of true inner Holiness.
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And so Jesus challenges that thought and he provides clarity
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about it and he says, listen it's not about the externals
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because what were they were, what they were teaching was what
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you do with your body is what determines your standing in the
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The presence of God, what you eat, what you touch, how you
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protect your hands, how you protect your feet, all of that
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is ultimately going to determine you experiencing God's favor.
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And Christ comes on the scene again, and he exposes all of
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that. What Christ is essentially
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saying is listen, the primary polluting factor that blemishes
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souls and corrupt behavior is not external.
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It's in you It's in you. In other words, the primary
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thing that you and I should be concerned about is not what's
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outside, but what's inside? And this concept may be familiar
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to us, right? We've heard it all our lives.
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Most of us. In this place.
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I least I assume But because of the desperate lack of true
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teaching in Jesus day, even the disciples prove that this is
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very difficult to grasp. You've been trained and you've
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heard all your life that it's about.
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Don't do this, don't do that. And here now Christ comes and
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he's not presenting something new he's presenting what the
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heart of God was even in the old Covenant, it's your heart.
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It's what occupies Within. and I suppose that some people today
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have trouble acknowledging this truth as well since it is a
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humiliating Declaration of the condition of man and so contrary
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to Modern psychologists and philosophers philosophers
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pacifier generation with It's generally understood that the
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wrong. We commit is what the wrong that
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we commit is what makes us sinners.
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It's deeper than that. It's not the wrong that you
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commit, that makes you a sinner. We are not merely Sinners
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because we sin we sin because we're sinners.
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What'd you do to doesn't necessarily determine who you
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are though? There is a facet of Truth to
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that, but it's much more complex.
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You do what you do because of who you are.
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That's the essence of what Christ is saying.
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For, from within out of the heart of man, the heart of man.
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What is the heart of, man? It is the essential part of your
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personality is the very thing that defines your affections,
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your Ambitions, your convictions, your attitudes.
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The inner seat that inspires your thoughts, your words, your
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decisions, It is that core element that makes you you.
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And what Christ is saying, is that thing that makes you, you
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is a fountain of wickedness. And it is desperately fractured.
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The human heart is broken. The human heart is deceptive.
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It is perverted. It is selfish.
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It is stubborn. It is a theater that endlessly
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plays evils Ten Thousand Times, Ten thousands, it is a tireless
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Idol manufacturer, it is a cesspool of corruption.
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Happy Father's Day, right? To which some might say.
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Excuse me, preacher. Yeah, you with the suit it would
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being a little extreme, aren't you?
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Huh? I would say that I'm a good
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person. I'm a good dad, I provide for my
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family. I'm not like other fathers who
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run away from their wives and their responsibilities.
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I pay the bills, I take my family on vacation, I sacrifice
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my own sleep, my own hobbies to serve my own.
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I'm a good mother, you know what I have to do on a day-to-day
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basis to train my children raise up my children.
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I'm not like other 20s, I'm not like Millennials there.
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I'm not like gen Z who have wasted their lives and their
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youth and debauchery and shame. I've preserved myself, I've kept
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myself, I pay my taxes. I'm good to my neighbor's, I
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obey the laws of the land. How dare you ascribe to me?
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Such horrific descriptions? And my answer to you is twofold,
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if those thoughts have traveled through your mind, as I preach
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in this microphone and here's the first thought to what
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measure, what standard of goodness are you comparing your
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goodness? Do you see what Jesus mentioned
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first in this list of sins and verse 21 for from within out of
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the heart of man? Come, here's the first thing
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evil thoughts. Evil thoughts.
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Now most of us, if not, all of us outside of Christ would never
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entertain the idea that evil thoughts would be an offense.
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Why it's intangible? Their imaginations.
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Within the boundaries of my imagination.
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They're just they're just ideas, they're not harming.
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Anybody, they're not defiling, they're not hurting.
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There's just being rehearse from within And yet, it's a very
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first thing that Jesus underscores.
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As a violation. Why?
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Because what we consider innocent is actually in
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primarily offensive to the one who inhabits heaven and knows
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the heart of all men. You see sin is not measured by
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how harmful it is to others. What our words, our actions due
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to our companions are family members or friends or even our
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enemies. There is a vertical reality to
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our morality That we often ignore.
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In our self assessment, pay attention to this, our personal
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scorecards of Holiness would look a lot different if God was
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the one grading them. Our personal score cards of how
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good we are. Would have a different grade of
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God was the one who determined whether you pass or fail.
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And Jesus mentions evil thoughts, because that's where
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everything is birth from, right? It starts with the imagination
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before becomes manifestation and so there's even Insight here
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concerning the order of things. Evil, thoughts, evil thoughts
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But evil thoughts. I mean what's the big deal?
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Well, it's a big deal to God. Secondly here's my second
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objection to your objection. Are you pleased?
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If you're a good person and you have to be honest, are you
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honest enough to look at human history and admit that are
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books. That are documentaries.
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Testified that are potential to do.
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Evil is so great. As men and women so great.
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I know your immediate temptation is to distance yourself from
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ancient civilizations and barbaric, societies and
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ideologies. But do you doubt that under
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certain circumstances and desperate situations if the
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temperature is right? If the government permits in the
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culture, accepts it that you too, can become a beast?
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If you're unhinged, if what you have in your heart is merely a
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seed. And if that seed is water, just,
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right? It can become a bed of weeds and
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more few and transform you into something that you yourself
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would never be able to recognize.
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You don't even have to look too far.
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The 20th century has been declared the bloodiest and most
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destructive Century of all of human history.
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The 20th not the first, not the second, not the 18th to the
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20th. Just a few Generations ago, we
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have slaughtered more people than any time since the
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Inception of this very world. So much for Progressive, right?
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So much for men, developing right so much with all our cures
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and all our discoveries and all our inventions.
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Those things don't prove anything.
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If anything they just give us more instrument and more ways to
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be evil. And amazingly, the Bible itself
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has been authored by God to be what a history book.
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God didn't give us a book of systematic theology, where you
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go to a concordance, or you go to some index and say, okay,
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what is justification mean? And you come and you see a list
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of the definitions of justification?
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No. There is some truth to that
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there is some element of that but you have a history book in
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your hands and I believe there's one specific purpose among many
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for that turn with me to Galatians 4:4 in your Bibles.
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I want you to see something with me.
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Maybe someone that you've never thought about.
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Galatians 4:4. but when the fullness of time had come God
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sent forth his son, born of a woman born under the law to
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redeem those who were under the law so that we might receive
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adoption as Sons. Glory be to God.
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Look at those first few words but when the fullness of time
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had come the Holy Spirit through Paul indicates that at the
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appropriate time at the perfect time, the Son of God became man
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he became man to become our substitute and there is much
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debate and speculation about God's choice of the timing in
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human history for the Incarnation of Christ. and it
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would be a whole message in itself, to consider the
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heart-stirring reasons, why Jesus came when he came Why
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Jesus came when he came because according to God, he came at the
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perfect time at the bullseye Mark and there's an element of
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God's choosing of that time. That is Sovereign and hidden and
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veiled from our understanding, that makes God God and you and I
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creatures. Oh, but from time to time, he
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gives us a glimpse into his wisdom so that we can have more
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Outburst of Joy concerning his glory.
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At the fullness of time, I believe one of the reasons why
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Christ came when he came is because it has to do with the
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patient development of Israel's history, as a testimony to the
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world about our desperate condition and need for a savior,
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did you catch that? After so many manifestations
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after so many miracles after God had raised up so many men
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throughout the generations to visit this Covenant people after
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establishing a very unique relationship, with this one,
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people group, and giving them a very powerful law along, not
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just to be kept to themselves, but to shine in the world with
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its warnings and with his blessings.
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After all of that, showering of sovereign Mercy.
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You have a nation who over and over again, rebelled disobeyed
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turned their backs, worshiped other gods.
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And in God's great wisdom. When you pick up this book and
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read through it before, you would come and meet with Christ.
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In the gospel of Matthew, you would have already been
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confronted and convinced of how deplorable and twisted we really
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are. Is that the sense you get?
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When you read the Old Testament, when you go through the Book of
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Judges and you see that after all these saviors, and all these
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super naturally empowered men, and even woman, we still go back
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to our sin. We still go back to our vomit.
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Okay, fine. No, judges.
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Here are some Kings and then you read, why.
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After one king following the? Next very, very little were able
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to be consistent and even in their consistency, they still
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fail because there man. And then you come to the
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prophets, Major Prophets, Minor Prophets.
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And you see even in these prophets though, they were
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Sanctified vessels, they were vessels still and the people
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still did not respond to the pleas of these men who are
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passionate for the glory of God and so you're overwhelmed by
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that. And you look at Israel and
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you're tempted to condemn Israel because we think to ourselves
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well, if I was at Mount Sinai and I saw the glory of God come
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down like that. I would serve God my whole day
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life, all my days, every second. Oh really.
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And we convinced ourselves in that one.
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That's not the intention of why it's there in your Bibles is to
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show you. This is you This is you and it
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would be a testament to Future Generations.
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Yes, even in 2023 that if you dare to care for your soul
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enough to read this Bible, you would read it.
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And you again be confronted with your depravity and mine.
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When the fullness of time had come Christ comes with the
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backdrop. Of a Nation who fractured and
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shattered. Any possibility of standing and
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right with God. And interestingly, when you read
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the Bible, You also see that it's not just about a past
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reality but even testifies of a future reality, what do I mean
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by that? You have some who say who would
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be very upset with this message very upset.
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We're inherently good. We're inherently good.
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And this is what you hear in modern messages, you're a good
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person. You're just a victim of your
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environment, right? And this is what we're preaching
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in our culture. This is what our government is
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flirting with, if we just abolish poverty all together,
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and if we give equal opportunity to all then, we will know
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Utopia. We will know a great, if not a
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total decrease in crime, we will know Harmony, we will know
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peace. We will know true joy and
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happiness. And the Bible knowing our
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foolish thinking doesn't just help us by looking to the past.
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It points us to the Future because do you know that the
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Bible predicts and tells us and prophesize that there is a date
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to come in this world. Not having in this day, where
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Christ will come establish, his Rule and Reign and because of
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his government that will be headquartered there in
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Jerusalem, there will be a peace and prosperity in this world
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like this world has never known never known.
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It will be an addenda kind of Revival, you will have an
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atmosphere and you will have a from corner to corner across the
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globe. A renewing of what was lost
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there in Genesis 1 and 2. And that excites us we a say,
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Amen to that, we look forward to that.
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But despite that Holy atmosphere, the Bible reminds us
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yet. Again of How Deeply rooted your
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sin and mine is as Sons. And Daughters of Adam, let me
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prove it to you. Go to Zechariah Chapter, 14 is
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Zechariah. 14 is one of the most descriptive text that details.
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What it will be like when Christ comes to this world.
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Again, maybe you don't know. This Christ is coming back, not
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to take us to heaven, and keep us there.
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There is going to be a period of 1,000 years where he has to
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fulfill some promises that he made first. namely to Israel and
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namely to a person named David And Zechariah 14 17 to 18.
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Now, this is just one puzzle to a grand puzzle of what that
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Millennial reign will look like and most of it is glorious.
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It's exciting. I mean, the lion lying down with
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the lamb, right? Children being able to play with
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serpents. You have the geographical You
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have the animal kingdom. You have politics and
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governments. Every aspect of our universe
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will be influenced by Christ's physical presence here in glory.
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And yet, with all of that, it almost it almost feels like
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heaven when you read about it. It's not heaven entirely.
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Because despite the king's presence and his perfect
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leadership, there will be a population who have not yet been
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renewed and resurrected. And here's a glimpse of that
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verse 17. This is about the millennial
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Reign. This is not today.
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This is the millennial Reign it's to come.
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And if any of the families of the earth, do not go up to
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Jerusalem to worship the king, the Lord of hosts, there will be
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no rain on them. And if the family of Egypt does
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not go up and present themselves, then on them, there
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shall be no rain. There shall be a plague the
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plague with which the Lord afflicts the Nations that do not
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go up to keep the Feast of booths.
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We look at that, we say, oh, that's interesting.
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No, no, it's theological. So I understand that What will,
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what will populate the world, who will populate the world in
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part will be the resurrected Saints, but it's not just going
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to be the resurrected Saints. You're going to have those who
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have been Preserved from judgment.
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Even the final judgment to come in this world that will also
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populate this world. And they have not been
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regenerate, and they will reproduce.
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And even again under this amazing government, you will
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still have people who resist the king.
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Because the king will demand for Global acknowledgement of who he
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is. And there will be pilgrimages to
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Jerusalem were Kings and people from Nations, will come not to
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hear a preacher talk about Jesus, but to see Jesus himself.
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And yet there will be families of the earth who don't go up.
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We're not going up to worship him.
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We're not going up to acknowledge Him, we're not going
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up to honor his command, we're staying right here.
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I mean, look how powerful his government is.
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No government can do this. Find you don't want to come.
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No rain on you guys. No rain Supernatural authority.
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Over nature itself. And you know what?
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I find even more. Fascinating Revelation, 20, you
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have to turn there gives us another insight about what will
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be like during that time. And we were told that Satan
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himself would be subdued for a thousand years.
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He'll be Chained and placed in an abyss and he will not be able
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to freely roam around. Like he confessing Job chapter 1
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to deceive and to tempt. His influence will be
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relinquished and yet those Satan's presence and his minions
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are put in a place where they cannot have, what they've had
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for. So long in our world, you still
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have people who will resist the king.
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You still have people who say I don't want to worship him I
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don't want to come near him. Why how huh?
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Because the human heart? j.c.
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Ryle said we need no bad company to teach us and no devil to
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tempt Us in order to run into sin, we have within us the
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beginning of every sin under heaven So, go away with that
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idea of environment can environment influence us?
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Yes, can people arouse us? Yes, candyman's causes do
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things. Yes, but the source, The
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Fountainhead, the mouth of where it all comes from is in your
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heart. Yeah, even behind that, pretty
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little blouse. A nice tailored suit.
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The source of evil is from within Point number to, the
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problem of evil is universal. Jesus, very few specific and
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what he said here in Mark chapter 7 for from within out of
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the heart of men not? Amen.
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Not some men, not a people group, not a specific race.
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Not criminals only but mankind, as a whole is infected with this
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poison. So whether your Society, your
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status in society is high or low, whether your bank account
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is Fuller empty. Whether you're educated or
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Porter poorly read, whether you are famous or unknown, whether
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you have accomplished much or little all men, According To,
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Jesus are inclined to do that. Which God says, do not do.
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There is not one part of this world you can run to, where this
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isn't true. There is not one culture or
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ethnicity. Where there are not infected
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with this disease, wherever you go, you will find this problem.
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Whoever you meet, they have the same diagnosis.
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I want you to think about that. You can't escape from it.
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You can't run from it. There's not one part of this
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world. That is untouched.
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And have you ever stepped back and asked why Have you ever just
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paused and looked at the universality of sin and said,
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how is this true? Why is this?
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Why are we all the same? only a fool would deny that
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there is not something wrong with us in our wiring, And this
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observation is yet another point that defensive veracity of the
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word of God. Because it's in the word of God,
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where we get the answer that tells us why it is.
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All of us are the way we are, and why sin itself encompasses
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all men and all women. You know, this verse, you can
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turn there if you'd like. But in Romans 5:12 Paul says
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therefore just that sin came into the world through one man
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and death through sin, so death. Has spread to all men because
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all sinned. Through one man.
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I notice Paul's being very specific, he saying, just as Sin
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came into the world. Paul is describing this sin in
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our world. He's not talking about the
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origins of sin because John tells us about the origins of
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sin. And first John 380 tells us
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about the devil, who was sinning from the beginning even before
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the world was created. And that's a mystery in itself,
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right? How did Satan's in, I get it but
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we're not here to answer that. Well, Paul is here addressing is
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sin in our world. And it happened through one man.
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One man, one man brought sin universally one man, brought
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about death universally, that's why we all die.
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I've wondered this, you might make fun of this kind of thing.
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But I thought to myself, how is it that we we all die?
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Why is it that some don't die if this is just all happenstance
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and where the product of goo and a collision?
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Why is it that we all have the same fate?
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And there's something unnatural about death, something doesn't
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feel right about there's something in all of us that
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resisted that. If you're still saying you you
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protect yourself from danger, anything that would threaten you
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the very reflexes of your body attest to that right?
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You blink, and you Flinch. Why why?
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Why is it that there's no Academy in our world?
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Why is it that there's no school or University or
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pre-kindergarten her kindergarten class that teaches
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you to do? Evil come and learn how to lie
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come learn, how to steal come learn, how to be selfish.
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Because it's in you. You don't need to be taught.
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You know exactly how to do it. Because of one man, he explains
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that our first parents namely Adam was granted a unique
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responsibility ones that's not to be repeated apart from Christ
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but a unique responsibility and his responsibility is to govern
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or was to govern and nurture the world.
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And he assumed the role of man's representative and the decisions
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he made would have consequences for the rest of us.
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And the natural world that he was called to take care of and
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one preacher, put it this way. Adam did not sin as a man.
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Adam sinned as man. Big difference because the
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implications of that are massive and here is one of them.
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As long as there are humans, there will be sin.
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As long as there are humans, they're obese in.
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Take a dozen people, six men, six woman, train, them, and
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develop the technology to be able to colonize another planet
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stuff, them in a rocket, blow it up into the atmosphere.
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Let them land on Mars. And create a new world.
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Let's start fresh, right. If this is really about our
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environment. If this is about all these other
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tricks and ideas, then let's just get a blank canvas, maybe
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that's the real solution, we just need a fresh start.
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Surely we have your learned after thousands of years of
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scars Upon Our Land and Upon Our people, we've learned enough to
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say if we got it, if we get a new chance at it, we can do it
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right. And what would you have if we
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took over another planet and try to do it all over again?
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You would have Earth 2.2 or 2.0. That's what you would have.
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Because it's not about. How you do things, what you
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learn, what programs you develop.
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It's about the heart. And here's the funny thing, we
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actually tried that and it didn't work.
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We tried going to Mars. No, I'm not talking about that.
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We tried restarting in this world and failed.
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Remember the flood that that's what it was all about.
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Again, it's a history book to show you that, that kind of idea
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itself is not even worthy to be entertained.
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God takes one family, puts him on an arc, and close them and
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protects them. And he washes this world squeaky
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clean. He takes just a remnant of the
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animals of every kind, puts him in that boat as well.
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And he scrubs this place from east to west north to south that
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our lands and this family exits, that our God makes a covenant.
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With this family that feared God, during a generation that
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had absolutely no regard for God.
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And what do you have in the very opening chapter of that new
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start in history? Noah following in the footsteps
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of Adam. Adam, sinned with the fruit.
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No, Ascend with a fruit, different fruit.
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But Same Heart. He gets drunk before we can even
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enjoy our new world. And his sons at least one of
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them, shames him and embarrasses them, and it just all goes
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downhill from there. So what's the solution?
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It's not to put man in a new environment.
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It's not to get a reset button. It's to give man a new heart.
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And how is that to be done? Exactly.
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Let me give you a couple verses before we close and Ezekiel
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chapter 18 verse 31. Ezekiel 18:31.
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The Lord says, cast away from you, all the transgressions that
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you have committed and make yourselves a new heart.
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And a new spirit. Why will you die o House of
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Israel? That looks like good news,
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right? That looks hopeful.
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Yeah, it is. God doesn't want you to die in
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your sin. But is it really hopeful that
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what I just read to you excite you?
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If you read it carefully. It should plunge you into deeper
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despair. Hypothetically, you come into my
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office and I'm a doctor and you sense something strange in your
40:32
body. So you go through a series of
40:34
tests and we do those tests and we discovered that in your body
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is a burning cancer. That is soon to eat away at your
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flesh. It is lethal and you will die.
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No, cure, no answer, no remedy. Your fate is sealed.
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And you because you cherish your life because you have enough
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awareness of your own life and realize that there is something
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wrong with, you are willing to accept that news and you feel
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that that pit in your stomach and there's a cold sweat that
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covers your brow. But there's a sense in which you
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are also grateful because you discovered this, right?
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Someone someone describe what this message was up to.
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This point is Harsh. But do you do that with your
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doctor? When he tells you honestly,
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what's wrong with your body or do you think him?
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Can you come to the proper prescription?
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Before an honest diagnosis. That is exactly why Jesus says
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what he says. That's exactly why this is being
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preached. And so there's a sense of
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relief, right? Okay.
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This is what I have. This is what I'm struggling
41:44
with, but doctor, you're a doctor.
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Surely you have something? And the doctor looks at you and
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he says, here are some tools. Go back to your house and get
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the cancer out yourself. How would you feel?
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How would you feel? Here are some instruments.
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Good luck. You know, you have this cancer.
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Try to deal with it yourself. what you're supposed to feel is
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in even deeper pit in your stomach and a fresh, showering
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of that cold sweat over your brow, to realize, I can't I
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can't you're asking me to do something.
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That is impossible. I can't perform surgery on
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myself. I don't know the deepest parts
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of what. I'm not familiar with my anatomy
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to dig deep in there and remove that lump.
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There is just no way. And that's exactly the aim of
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this charge in Ezekiel 1831. It's not to inspire you to try
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to work your way out of your depraved condition.
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It's to bring you to a point where you say create in myself,
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a new heart, Make a new Spirit In My Own Strength.
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I can't. You're asking something that's
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impossible of me. I'm finished.
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I'm done. Let me put my house in order.
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Let me eat drink and be merry for tomorrow.
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I die. But Ezekiel doesn't finish with
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his revelation. Because you keep reading in that
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prophets writings and you come to 36:26.
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In the Lord says through him and I will give you a new heart.
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I not you. I will give you a new heart and
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a new spirit. I will put within you and I will
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remove the Heart of Stone from your flesh and give you a heart
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of Flesh. And I will put my spirit within
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you and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to be
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obey my rules. How many times do you have to
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say? Aye aye.
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Aye. You can't write, I can't.
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You can't get the cancer out of your.
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I can't get the cancer out of me.
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Then I'll do it. Come to the foot of the cross.
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Come filthy broken. And lay there in humility and
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repentance Faith submit to my righteousness and allow me to
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perform in you, what you are. Nobody else can do.
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This is point number three. Yes.
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Point number one is, as a source of evils within Point number
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two, is that the problem of evil is universal and point number
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three, is this, that the remedy of your sin is not within but
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outside, it's not within its in him.
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I will do it. That is Our Gospel appeal.
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Is to raise up, the mirror of God's word in front of you, to
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show you God, standard and to press you and to help.
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You see, just how depraved and Lawson deplorable.
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You really are, not in light of your neighbor, not in light of
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society, and unlighted, the crazies that are dominating
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social media. No, no, and light of a holy God,
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And for you to say, well, that's me.
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And then you feel the temptation of your hand reaching for a
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knife. Reaching for your own Works,
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reaching for your own efforts, reaching for your own ideas,
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reaching for what you even see the commands in this word and to
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apply them to yourselves and to bleed that sin out of you and to
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bruise yourself into righteousness and to be molded
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into the very image that God requires of you in order to be
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accepted by him and that is not where God wants you to go before
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you reach out your hand. He halts it and he grabs your
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wrist. And he gets your attention with
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the Gospel of Jesus Christ and he says, not with your hands.
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But with my pierced hands now, where you go with your feet but
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where my feet have gone. Now, what you do with your mind,
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but with what, this Crown of Thorns have done to this face.
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It's me, it's what I have done. It's what I will do for you.
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And when he does this something Supernatural happens, I will
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give you a new heart. How do I know if I'm born again
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preacher? Well, how do you know if you
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actually had physical heart surgery?
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Would, you know, you would know Even if everybody else in this
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whole world, told you, that you didn't get it, you have a scar
46:48
to prove it. Is it any different with
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spiritual surgery? Some would say yes, some would
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say that you can come into contact with this gospel and not
47:00
be changed because it's just this idea.
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It's just a mere confession. No, it's a supernatural
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transformation. The means is Faith.
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The supply is Grace. But the result is powerful.
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It's tangible. It's observable first in you,
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and in another's. And I want to just give you one
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Glimpse and I'm finished here. I'm going to give you one
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glimpse of just a description of why it is that this is
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Supernatural First Corinthians 6 verse 17.
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It's not really a text referred to to give some kind of color.
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To the transformation that occurs with this new heart
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transplant. But let me give you this one to
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consider. 1st Corinthians 6:17. But he, who is joined to the
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Lord becomes one spirit with him.
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He who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.
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Pulses at the heels of describing what happens when a
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man and a woman come together and sexual union to become one
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flesh. And he describes the the
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profound bond that that really is.
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And then he goes from there to give us a more deeper Bond.
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Yeah, you become one flesh with another human being, but when
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you come to Christ and are joined to him, you become one
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spirit. The innermost part of Who You
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Are. Is joined to the Lord.
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Now, hold on, joined to the Lord and you didn't change.
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Union with the spirit of God. And you don't have any desire to
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obey his commands, you have no inclination to adore him.
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You have no part of you that wants to worship Him and love
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him. How how?
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Please? Tell me how please I'm lost.
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Tell me how how Join with the Lord in the spirit unphased
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unchanged the same. Someone's not telling the truth
49:20
here. But I go with what the Bible
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says. and we must present a gospel that doesn't cheapen the
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gospel but provides man, The only solution.
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What is the solution? Christ.
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Is that too simple for you, does that offend you?
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You know, going through Ministry even for this short amount of
49:51
time. I've realized that all these
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ideas and all these Newfound studies and all these tricks and
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all these programs. They're powerless, powerless.
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Am I put myself in a position to be accused of being simplistic.
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But when you realize what Christ can do to the human heart wide,
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look elsewhere. It applies to your marriage, it
50:24
applies to your habits, it applies to your addiction, it
50:26
applies to your trauma. It applies to absolutely
50:30
everything. You know, over the years you see
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what the gospel can do. This is the story that came to
50:40
mind on my way here and I thought I would I would share
50:42
because for whatever reason, the image when reflecting upon the
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profoundness and the power of this truth, this is the image
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that came to me. A few of us early in our walk
50:53
with the Lord were invited to go to a few Catholic high schools
50:57
and Catholic high. Schools and Canada are no
51:00
different than public schools, really?
51:02
I went to them. I went to a Catholic elementary
51:04
school. I went to Catholic High School.
51:09
And we are invited to go into these classrooms, these
51:11
religious classrooms. I did this day, I have to figure
51:14
out because I don't understand how it happened, where they
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invited a group of friends to come into classrooms and to
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share testimonies and ultimately the gospel, the true gospel.
51:27
To this day, the group of people that were participating, that
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participating that are just, we recognize the miraculous element
51:32
of it. And in one particular school,
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they put us in there, Chapel there, Catholic Chapel room, and
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one class after the other all day just came through and we had
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a little system because there was a group of us, maybe five of
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us, four of them would share their testimonies and Powerful
51:47
testimonies. I mean, testimonies are being
51:49
delivered from drugs and gangs and violence and perversion
51:54
unforgiveness. One of the brothers who You're
51:57
visiting us. His brother was murdered right
51:58
in front of his eyes, held his dead body there in the streets.
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After partying in the bar and he was able because of Christ.
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After that saying what happened to my brother?
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Where is he? He found Christ and he found
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Christ in a real way. When he found Christ in a real
52:12
way, he was able to look at those murders in that courtroom
52:14
and forgive them publicly, those kind of testimonies And they
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were profound testimony. There are moving testimonies,
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but we made it every single time.
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We settled it. That the gospel would be
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presented at the end. And can I tell you something?
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When the gospel would go forth? I looked at those faces from
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time to time and I've never seen them more gripped, more touched,
52:45
more moved, despite everything that we said, despite the
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Charisma that was there in that room, despite the drama of those
52:53
stories, when the gospel was presented, It, paralyzes those
52:58
students. Because there's no other news
53:01
like it. It's the only thing that brings
53:04
a solution. It's the only thing that brings
53:06
an answer and in the sheer Silence of that place we didn't
53:11
know what the results of those meetings were on one day.
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We got a box full of these letters from these students and
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we open them one by one and each one of those.
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What you said, gave me hope what you said.
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Help me realize I have another chance.
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What you said? Help me not kill myself.
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What you said? Helped me realize that there is
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a love outside of my abusive father and neglecting mother.
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What you said what was that? The gospel was said For it is
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the power of God unto salvation, my friend.
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I end here. I said that 10 minutes ago, I
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mean it this time. Is your heart changed.
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Is it changed? Have you experienced what?
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I am speaking of have you come to the end of yourself, where
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you realize, just how dark your heart is and how deceiving it as
54:08
been to you. And enough is enough.
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The pattern, my life has testified that my ideas and my
54:16
concepts of my convictions have failed me.
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Have you come to that point? Now, if you have what is your
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solution because if you're not careful, that same perverted
54:25
hard, that is deceived you with your sin can Really trick you
54:28
about how you can be free from your sin and so be careful.
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I make an appeal to a real appeal.
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My appeal is this come to Christ today?
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Be saved today today? Yes, Father's Day Meet Your Real
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Heavenly Father, come to him. Repent of your sin trust in him.
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I even dare you to not leave this place and lay flat on the
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ground and cry out to him until you're a transformed creature.
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He'll do it. He will do it.
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He will give you a new heart. You can't go anywhere else, you
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can't do anything for yourself. If you choose not to do so
55:04
today, which I think is a tragic mistake.
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Never forget those words call upon his name and you shall be
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saved. Call upon his name and you shall
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be saved Lord. We thank you for this word.
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And we ask Gardens time, we would rejoice in our salvation.
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Maybe we become dull concerning the gospel, maybe we have fallen
55:29
into the Trap of thinking that the gospel needs some help.
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But thank you for reminding us. You alone can give a new heart.
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Even if there's one person in here.
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Who doesn't have that new heart? We thank you for speaking to
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them and we asked that they would be changed. we pray that
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they would be desperate enough to say, Heal me, save me, change
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me. Lord.
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I am a poor preacher week stammering.
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You have to do it by your spirit.
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You have to Lord. And we give you the glory for
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it, and look for the Saints in the land.
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We rejoice in this gospel, we give you praise, we lift our
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hands. We lift our voices, and we say
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thank you. That we can look back at a
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moment and say that was the day. My heart was changed.
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Receive more glory for that Jesus name, amen.