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2 Corinthians chapter 3 · Scripture Unscripted

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  2nd Corinthians chapter 3 Let us pray.
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  Our Lord, our God, our King, you are our everything.
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  Yes, we love you. Father, we love you so much.
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  We love everything about you. God, let your Kingdom come, let
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  your will be done. God, we only want you and you
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  alone. Father, we want your will and
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  your Kingdom, God on this earth. And Lord, I pray that we are the
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  ministers of reconciliation, God, that we are the
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  peacemakers. God, I pray in the name of Jesus
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  that will be the ministers and the preachers and the prophets.
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  God, I pray in the name of Jesus, that will be your hands
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  and feet unto this wicked and dark and perverse world.
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  God, I pray that we are the ones that you have placed your mark
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  and your seal upon. We have tasted and meaning that
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  you are good and Lord, We have counted the cost and we are
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  coming God boldly into the throne room of grace.
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  God, boldly into the holiest of holy places.
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  God, we want to see Jesus. We want to see him lifted up
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  high above the courtroom, high above the law of the land, high
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  above all of our situations that we find ourselves in, our
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  workplaces, God, schools, God, jurisdictions, God,
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  principalities, Father, rulers. God, I pray in the name of Jesus
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  that you will get your glory. Father, that the whole world
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  will be sold out to you. God, I pray for representatives
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  on every continent, every people group, every tribe, every
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  nation, every tongue. God, in the name of Jesus, bring
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  them into the fold. Lord, let them come, God, into
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  the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ as their Lord and their
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  Savior. And God, we just want more of
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  you. We want to know the depths of
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  your love. We want to come to the heights
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  and be seated there with you in heavenly places.
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  God, I pray for you to come soon.
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  Lord, come, Maranatha, we cry out.
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  Lord, we love everything about you.
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  And this in Jesus Christ, holy and precious name that I pray.
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  Amen. Let's start in verse one.
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  Do we begin again to commend ourselves or need we as some
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  others, epistles of commendation to you or letters of
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  commendation from you? He's saying, are we really going
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  to need some kind of letter of recommendation or do we need to
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  send letters of recommendation? He's saying that you the
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  Corinthian church are the letter of recommendation that Paul here
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  does not need to try and show them his authority that he does
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  not need to try and show them the truth of if he is a an
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  apostle or not. He is telling them that they are
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  the proof of his apostleship and how ridiculous would it be for
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  the very ones that he got going through God through the Holy
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  Spirit, through the help of the Lord Jesus Christ and the
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  ministry of the Lord. Paul went and started this
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  church and now some way his credentials are being called
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  into question. Verse 2.
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  You are our epistle, written in our hearts, known and read of
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  all men. That is what you need to
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  understand is that the byproduct of true preaching, the byproduct
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  of true following after the Lord Jesus Christ, will naturally
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  produce the character and the witness.
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  It will naturally produce out of the overflow, out of the
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  abundance of the heart. You will see the obedience flow
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  from that verse 3/4 as much as you are manifestly declared to
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  be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not
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  with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in tables of
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  stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
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  So we know that God whenever you get saved, God takes the Stony
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  heart, God takes the reprobate mind and he writes his law.
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  He writes his grace on our hearts and our minds and we
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  operate in that same reality. We do not go back to all of our
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  futile thinking in ways we are a new creation.
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  If any man is in Christ, friends, and that is the reality
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  that Paul is pinning to them, saying, listen, you will know
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  that you know that you know that you know that you are born
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  again, because you will not hear things the same way that you
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  used to. You will not see things the same
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  way that you used to. You will not go back into your
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  carnal fleshy ways, friends. And when you do not if, but when
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  you do, you will feel the conviction immediately and you
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  will start closing the gap and you will no longer keep relying
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  on your emotions and keep relying upon your feelings.
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  And you'll replace all the lies that the enemy is sowing into
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  your life and all the things that you've been pre programmed
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  and indoctrinated with. You'll start replacing every
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  single one of them with the truth of God by taking every
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  thought captive and making it obedient unto Christ.
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  And that is the mark of a sold out, born again, blood bought
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  believer who's going to bust heaven wide open for in such
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  trust have we through Christ to God word.
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  That is the whole point of the whole matter.
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  Friends, you must have a personal relationship with God
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  through his Son Jesus Christ. It is the Holy Spirit that
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  empowers us to live the Christian life.
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  It is not because we're so clever and our Q is so high, or
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  the degrees that we have hanging on the wall.
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  Friends, it does not save us. It is only by the blood of the
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  Lamb that we are marked and sealed for all time sake.
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  And then it is the receiving of the Holy Spirit, the down
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  payment, friends, that helps us to live out the Christian life
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  towards God through Christ. 5 Not that we are sufficient of
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  ourselves to think anything as of ourselves, but our
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  sufficiency is of God. There's nothing good in us.
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  All of our righteousness is filthy rags.
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  There is none good, no, not one. And all have fallen short of the
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  glory of God. And we desperately need to be in
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  dwelled and filled with the Holy Ghost to be able to operate in a
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  way that is pleasing unto God Almighty.
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  And you need to understand that yourself, salvation is not
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  behavioral based when you have the indwelling of the Holy
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  Spirit friends, that is what helps you to operate within this
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  world and to do the things that please God.
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  But it is not the salvation. Salvation is only by placing
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  your trust in the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  It is not of works so that any man should boast.
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  Our sufficiency is of God. Six, who also has made us able
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  ministers of the New Testament, not of the letter but of the
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  Spirit. For the letter kills, but the
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  Spirit gives life. That is what you need to
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  understand. The New Testament complements
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  the Old Testament. It does not abolish the Old
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  Testament. The Old Testament is fulfilled
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  through the life of Christ, friends, and you need to
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  understand that the Spirit filled life will fully satisfy
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  all of the law, Friends. 7 But if the ministration of death,
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  written and engraven in stones was glorious, so that the
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  children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of
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  Moses for the glory of his countenance, which glory was to
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  be done away, so that is what you need to understand.
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  As Moses came down from Mount Sinai and he had spent time with
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  God, his face was shining like the sun that the children of
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  Israel asked him to put a veil, veil over his face.
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  But then Moses kept the veil over his face to keep the
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  children of Israel from seeing that that glory was fading and
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  passing away. And so we know that now this
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  glory does not pass away. It is bright, as shining as the
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  sun. It does not fade, friends.
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  And He is showing that in the Law it was never able to save
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  us. The Law was placed there for one
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  purpose and one purpose alone. The entirety of God's law in the
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  Old Testament was to point us in the direction of Jesus Christ
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  and that we could. It was to show us that we could
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  never save ourselves. We could never satisfy all of
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  the requirements of God to save ourselves.
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  There is not one single human being that has ever been born,
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  is living, or will be born that could ever uphold every single
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  facet, every single jot and title of the law.
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  There is no not one. Only Christ came and lived a
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  perfect life and completely satisfied all of the law and
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  then satisfied all of the wrath of God on the cross.
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  It was all poured out on Him. Friends, 8 How shall not the
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  ministration of the Spirit be rather glorious?
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  The the ministration, the ministry of the Spirit is more
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  glorious than any of the glory of the law is what is being said
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  here. 94 If the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more
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  does the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
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  So that is what you need to understand.
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  All of the law pointed towards our need for Christ, every
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  single bit of it. And when we come into the saving
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  knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, all of the law is
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  fulfilled, all of the wrath of God is fulfilled, and blessed is
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  the man whose sins will never be counted against him.
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  And that is the glory of the Spirit that dwells inside of us
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  is we're going to stand before Almighty God and he's not going
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  to see a single one of our sins, not a single one of our sins.
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  They are thrown as far as the east is from the West.
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  Friends, infinitely gone, never to be remembered when you are
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  indwelled with the Holy Spirit and whenever you have placed
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  your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and the Lord Jesus Christ
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  alone and not in sin and not in self, not in this world and not
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  in works. Friends, it is in Jesus and
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  Jesus and Jesus alone that we find salvation 10/4.
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  Even that which was made glorious had no glory in this
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  respect by reason of the glory that excels.
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  It is the glory of the Spirit that indwells us, that far
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  exceeds any of our works, any of our deeds.
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  We can know that we know that we know that.
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  We know that we are going to get into heaven because of what
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  Christ did and not of anything that we have done. 11 For if
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  that which is done away was glorious, much more that which
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  remains is glorious. It is much more glorious
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  whenever we're not trying to work our way into heaven, when
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  we rest in the finished work of the cross 12 seeing then that we
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  have such hope, we use great plainness of speech.
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  We do not need to try and sound very learned.
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  We do not need to try super to be super eloquent friends.
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  We make it plain, we use plain speech.
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  Jesus is Lord, Jesus is King, Jesus is the Lord of Lords and
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  Jesus is the King of kings and we should not wait on another.
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  He is the all sufficient sacrifice.
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  He is the only one that can atone for our sins.
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  It is the perfect life of Jesus Christ that gets us there when
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  we place our faith, our complete faith in him and in Him alone,
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  Friends. 13 and not as Moses, which put a veil over his face
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  that the children of Israel could not steadfastly look to
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  the end of that which is abolished.
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  And we know that Christ said he did not come to abolish the law,
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  but to fulfill it. And here it is showing the
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  fulfillment of the law is what is referenced here. 14 But their
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  minds were blinded, for until this day remains the same veil
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  untaken away in the reading of the Old Testament, which veil is
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  done away in Christ. And that is the sad reality of
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  the blindness, the spiritual blindness of the nation of
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  Israel today. And there are some who have come
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  into the saving knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ as their
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  Messiah. But by and large, their
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  blindness is so that we can come, the Gentiles can come in,
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  and then it will be the jealousy.
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  When the Jews see the Gentiles coming into the Kingdom, the
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  jealousy will be provoked that will get them to acknowledge
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  that Jesus is Lord, that Jesus is the Messiah.
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  But as it stands today, there is this veil that is put over them,
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  this spiritual blindness that still is in effect today, that
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  God has placed their friends for our benefit. 15 But even unto
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  this day, when Moses is red, the veil is upon their heart, so you
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  can see this spiritual blindness. 16 Nevertheless, when
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  it shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away.
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  There's coming a time, there's coming a day, friends, and it'll
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  by and large be within the tribulation, the seven-year
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  tribulation of hell on earth that the nation of Israel will
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  see that Jesus Christ is their long-awaited Messiah and they
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  need not wait on another 17. Now the Lord is that spirit and
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  where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty.
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  That is what you need to understand.
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  When the Holy Spirit breaks out, there is great freedom and
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  people start getting set free friends.
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  And we know that God is a spirit and he is an all consuming fire
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  and He dwells in unapproachable light friends, in just a little
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  bit of his glory is enough to flip the entire world right side
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  up friends. And that is what we desperately
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  crave and push for. We want God to come and get His
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  glory in and through our lives friends.
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  And whenever we see this freedom break out, the captives get set
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  free, the chains fall off, and they live lives that are holy
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  and pleasing unto God. 18 But we all with open face, beholding as
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  in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same
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  image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
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  So right now we can only see in part, friends, right now we can
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  only see glimpses and catch glimpses of all of the glory of
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  God. And He satisfies us and leaves
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  us longing for more. And what you need to understand
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  is that we're going from glory to glory, friends, and we're
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  going to be ushered into His presence, and it'll be far more
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  exceedingly great than we could ever ask or imagine anything we
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  could ever even try to come up with.
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  Words fail us this glory, friends, and when you come unto
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  the Lord wholeheartedly, friends, and He gives you the
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  Holy Spirit as a down payment, you understand this glory that
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  is spoken of here. It is only in part now, but one
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  day we will see Him fully and be known friends.
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  Be known by Him as we are known friends, as He is known.
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  I pray that you have been blessed this amazing chapter
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  here in God's Word. I know I sure have.
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  I'm praying for every single one of you.
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  I love you. We'll see you back here
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  tomorrow. God bless you.