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Episode 177 - Exclusive Forgiveness · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: Blessed be the name of the Lord, the Lord, our God,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, our Savior, the Lord, our Redeemer, of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: who is the soon coming King, the judge of all
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  Speaker 1: the earth, the one who saves his people from their sins.
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  Speaker 1: We welcome you once again to this another edition of
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  Speaker 1: In Time Revival Ministries USAY Podcast. I am your host,
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  Speaker 1: Pastor al Zachary, and two day we are continuing talking
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  Speaker 1: all about Jesus, Amen, all about Jesus, and our focus
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  Speaker 1: today is gonna be on forgiveness by Jesus, forgiveness by
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  Speaker 1: Jesus the Christ. And again before we begin, of course,
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  Speaker 1: the man want to also thank each and every one
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  Speaker 1: of you who pray for and support the work of
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  Speaker 1: this ministry. A man s as I've said so many times,
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  Speaker 1: we are here by the grace of God, called by God,
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  Speaker 1: appointed by God for such a time as this, to
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  Speaker 1: proclaim the liberty that is to be found in Christ,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus our Lord. And so by the grace of God
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  Speaker 1: and the help of the Lord and the power of
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  Speaker 1: His Holy Spirit, we will continue a man to faithfully,
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  Speaker 1: a man speak the truth of God in love, with
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  Speaker 1: the prayer, with the hope, with the desire a man
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  Speaker 1: that someone will come to know that Jesus Christ is Lord,
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  Speaker 1: is the Redeemer, is the Savior, is the only way,
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  Speaker 1: truth and life. Amen. And so that is our a
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  Speaker 1: man endeavor, as we uh uh want to be found
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  Speaker 1: faithful in this ministry. That God has appointed man again
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  Speaker 1: to us for such a time as this forgiveness by Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Forgiveness by Jesus. And of course, if you have your bibles,
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  Speaker 1: go with us to the Gospel of Luke, chapter of
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  Speaker 1: A five, and we're gonna be reading there from a
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  Speaker 1: few verses in just a moment. But first of again,
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  Speaker 1: and foremost, let's take a moment to invote the presence
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord as we pray God's blessings, Amen, for
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  Speaker 1: this day and every day, and certainly for those who
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  Speaker 1: would hear a man what the Spirit is saying to
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  Speaker 1: the Church. Father. Again, we are grateful to you, and
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  Speaker 1: we honor you as King and Lord as a man,
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  Speaker 1: the God of all creation, the God who has spoken,
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  Speaker 1: the God who has decreed, the God who has declared,
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  Speaker 1: the God who has commanded that man should not live
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  Speaker 1: by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out
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  Speaker 1: of your mouth. So now Lord, we pray that your
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  Speaker 1: word will penetrate within our hearts and minds, and that
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  Speaker 1: it will work in us so that we can become
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  Speaker 1: more like You. And Lord, those that are outside of
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  Speaker 1: the ark of safety, Lord, speak to their hearts as
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  Speaker 1: only you can do by your spirit. Draw them. Draw them, o, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: and let them come to know that you are the
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  Speaker 1: truly living God, the Way of salvation, the hope of glory. God,
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  Speaker 1: be glorified to your people everywhere. It's in the name
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus the Christ we pray and give thanks for
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  Speaker 1: all things. Amen and Amen. All right again, we are
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  Speaker 1: a man. In the past few sessions past, through podcasts,
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  Speaker 1: we have been focusing on Jesus the Christ Amen, his ministry, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and what he is all about, what he was doing
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  Speaker 1: when he was here bodily in the incarnation through the
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  Speaker 1: virgin birth. And a man. We are a man examining
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  Speaker 1: Jesus because the Gospel is all about him, a man
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  Speaker 1: the Word of God from Genesis to Revelation prior to
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  Speaker 1: his coming, a man even in the Old Testament, the
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  Speaker 1: scriptures all testified of him. And of course we know
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  Speaker 1: a man. The end of all things is at hand
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  Speaker 1: as we approach, the fulfillment of things in both the
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  Speaker 1: Book of Daniel and Revelation, all again concerning Jesus, surrounding
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  Speaker 1: Jesus again, He is the Savior, He is the Redeemer,
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  Speaker 1: He is the promised Messiah, and we are to learn
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  Speaker 1: of him, know about him, be intimately acquainted with him,
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  Speaker 1: a man, and come to a man, fellowship with him,
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  Speaker 1: a man, and know that a man we have, a man,
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  Speaker 1: a sure salvation, a sure foundation, a sure and blessed hope,
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  Speaker 1: a man again that is only to be found in him.
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  Speaker 1: And again today our focus is on forgiveness. Forgiveness by Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: The Gospel of Luke, chapter number five. Before we begin
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  Speaker 1: reading there at verse seventeen, please understand, of course, that
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  Speaker 1: the power of forgiveness is eclusively to be found in
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. Those who practice any other faith, any other religion,
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  Speaker 1: a man, any other approach that does not honor Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: of course, a man as Lord, as Savior, as redeemer,
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  Speaker 1: and as the one and only mediator between God and man.
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  Speaker 1: They are yet in their sins. That's what Jesus said. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this is not me. Jesus said. If you don't believe
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  Speaker 1: that I am He, you will die in your sins.
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  Speaker 1: So these who practice any other faith, any other way,
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  Speaker 1: any other religion, even as sincere as they may be, amen,
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  Speaker 1: forgiveness is only is exclusively to be found in Jesus
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  Speaker 1: the Christ a man, And they are truly again still
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  Speaker 1: in their sins because they don't have Jesus within, who
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  Speaker 1: is the one who forgives a man. And certainly also
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  Speaker 1: they are also unable to forgive truly from the heart
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  Speaker 1: because of the absence of the spirit of the Lord
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, being in their hearts only his presence only.
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  Speaker 1: This is why it's so important a man that forgiveness
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  Speaker 1: be practiced as God has forgiven us. And again, the
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  Speaker 1: only way that can happen is through the power of
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit, the power of His Spirit, the spirit
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  Speaker 1: of a living God, whom Jesus, by the way says
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  Speaker 1: he the comforter, I will send him. So Jesus is
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  Speaker 1: the one who sends the Holy Spirit. Jesus is the
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  Speaker 1: one who baptizes us with the Holy Spirit. That was
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  Speaker 1: the testimony of John the Baptists, who said, I baptized
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  Speaker 1: with water. But there's one coming after me who is
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  Speaker 1: mightier than I. He said, he will baptize you with
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Ghost and fire. You cannot receive the Holy Ghost,
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  Speaker 1: the spirit of a living God apart from repentance and
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  Speaker 1: faith in Jesus Christ. So only his presence can empower us.
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  Speaker 1: Only his spirit. Only Jesus can forgive a man. Forgiveness
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  Speaker 1: and remission of sins is in his name exclusively. Neither
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  Speaker 1: is there salvation. We talked about this already in any
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  Speaker 1: other there's none of the name given them my men,
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  Speaker 1: whereby we must be saved. But I want you to
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  Speaker 1: see this narrative in the Gospel of Luke, chapter number five.
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  Speaker 1: If you have your Bibles, you can follow along with us.
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  Speaker 1: I'm reading from the King James twenty first century version.
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  Speaker 1: And it came to pass on a certain date as
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  Speaker 1: he was teaching that, of course is Jesus, that there
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  Speaker 1: were pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, who
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  Speaker 1: had come from every town of Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem,
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  Speaker 1: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them.
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  Speaker 1: Don't miss that. Now, the power of the Lord was
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  Speaker 1: present to heal them. And behold, something happens. The Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: men brought in on a bed a man who was
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  Speaker 1: taken with the palsy, and they sought means to bring
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  Speaker 1: him in and to lay him before Jesus, that is,
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  Speaker 1: And when they could not find a way to bring
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  Speaker 1: him in because of the multitude, they went upon the
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  Speaker 1: housetop and let him down on his couch. Threw the
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  Speaker 1: tiling into the midst before Jesus. And when he saw
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  Speaker 1: their faith, he said, unto him, that is said, unto
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  Speaker 1: the man who was on the bed, man, thy sins
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  Speaker 1: are forgiven. Thee described, and the Pharisees began to reason, saying,
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  Speaker 1: who is this who speaketh blasphemy? Who can forgive sins?
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  Speaker 1: But God alone? But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answered, said,
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  Speaker 1: unto them, what reason ye in your hearts? Whether it
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  Speaker 1: is easier to say thy sins be forgiven thee, or
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  Speaker 1: to say rise up and walk, But that you may
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  Speaker 1: know that the son of Man have power up on
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  Speaker 1: earth to forgive sins. He said, unto one sick with
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  Speaker 1: the palsy, I say, unto thee, arise and take up
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  Speaker 1: thy couch, and go into Thine house. And immediately he
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  Speaker 1: rose up before them took up what that whereon he
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  Speaker 1: lay and departed to his own house, glorifying God. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: The scribes and the Pharisees truly did, of course understand
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  Speaker 1: rightly that God alone could forgive sins. What they misunderstood, however,
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  Speaker 1: what they failed to grasp was the God who forgives
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  Speaker 1: was manifest that in the flesh, in the person of
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  Speaker 1: the one who was right there in their midst What
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  Speaker 1: they missed, what they misunderstood as they sat right there
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  Speaker 1: in the presence of Jesus. What they missed was the
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  Speaker 1: power of God that was present there to heal every
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  Speaker 1: one of them. See, the problem for them was they
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  Speaker 1: believed in their hearts that they were already whole and
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  Speaker 1: were in no need of this great physician healing them
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  Speaker 1: of their blindness and eradicating the sin virus from their
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  Speaker 1: hearts by his power of forgiveness. Now, Jesus could have easily,
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  Speaker 1: and let me focus on this with just a moment,
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  Speaker 1: because Jesus could have easily simply because he saw the
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  Speaker 1: faith of the friends of this man who went to
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  Speaker 1: the extreme as it were, to go up on the
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  Speaker 1: rooftop of the house. They had to labor to get
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  Speaker 1: the man up there, carrying him up there and then
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  Speaker 1: opening up the roof of that housetop which was accessible
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  Speaker 1: to be opened. But they had to work by their faith.
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  Speaker 1: They had to put their faith to work. And so Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: the Bible says, saw their faith. He saw the faith
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  Speaker 1: of these men, these friends who wanted their friend to
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  Speaker 1: be healed, and had the faith to believe that Jesus
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  Speaker 1: could indeed heal this man of his condition. Now instead
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus again, knowing what they wanted, knowing what they desired,
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  Speaker 1: knowing the effort they went through, knowing a man that
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  Speaker 1: this man was in need of, and what he was
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  Speaker 1: in need of, Jesus did not immediately heal the man. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: he took the time first and foremost to say to
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  Speaker 1: this man, son, man, mister, your sins are forgiven. Now again,
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  Speaker 1: let me just very quickly, let me just quickly say this,
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  Speaker 1: because the Jews believed, and many believed, and people still
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  Speaker 1: believed to this day. And of course, sin, of course
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  Speaker 1: is the root cause of all of our maladies. And
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  Speaker 1: perhaps this man was in this condition because of his sins,
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  Speaker 1: but even if he wasn't, he still needed to be
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  Speaker 1: forgiven of sins because all have sin and fall in
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  Speaker 1: charge of the glory of God, for whether he was
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  Speaker 1: in that condition because of his sins or not in
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  Speaker 1: that condition because of his sins. Jesus decided, before pronouncing
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  Speaker 1: healing upon this man, to make this statement in the
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  Speaker 1: midst of these people. Again, there were things that Jesus did,
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  Speaker 1: knowing that he would provoke a response from listeners, from
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  Speaker 1: those within earshot, from the rulers, from the leaders, from
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  Speaker 1: those who again would not did not accept his ministry,
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  Speaker 1: his messiahship. Jesus deliberately says to this man, thy sins
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  Speaker 1: are forgiven thee And then, of course he went on
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  Speaker 1: to heal the man by simply telling him, commanding him
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  Speaker 1: to get up, walk, go to your house, take up
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  Speaker 1: your bed. You don't need the friends anymore. You can
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  Speaker 1: do it now because I have spoken the word, remember
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  Speaker 1: very important phrase. The power of the Lord was there
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  Speaker 1: to heal them now. Jesus did not come just to
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  Speaker 1: heal people of their diseases, blindness, you know, afflictions. No, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: He came to heal us of our sin, disease, sin virus,
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  Speaker 1: to save us from our sins. And the only way
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  Speaker 1: that could happen. Ladies and gentlemen, is forgiveness. Our sins
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  Speaker 1: have to be remitted. There has to be remission of sins,
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  Speaker 1: They have to be taken away. Forgiveness of our transgressions
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  Speaker 1: is the act of a loving and merciful God who
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  Speaker 1: determined in eternity past by the way that a he
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  Speaker 1: would forgive us and be it is exclusively to be
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  Speaker 1: found in Jesus the Christ. This act of forgiveness by
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  Speaker 1: God through Jesus Christ only is an act of clemency.
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  Speaker 1: It is an act of pardoning. This is setting aside
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  Speaker 1: judgment that is due to us. The wages of sin
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  Speaker 1: is death. We are all under condemnation. We are all
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  Speaker 1: under the sentence of death. And that's why Jesus said,
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  Speaker 1: for God so loved that he gave me, that whoever
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  Speaker 1: believes in me should not perish. You will not die.
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  Speaker 1: The death sentence is removed words. And it's much deeper
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  Speaker 1: than that, by the way, because Jesus clearly demonstrated that
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  Speaker 1: he was indeed guard incarnate by his power to forgive sins.
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  Speaker 1: But we should ponder deeply that the act of forgiveness
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  Speaker 1: of our sins is not merely a good gesture on
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  Speaker 1: the behalf of Jesus showing kindness towards sinners. But it
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  Speaker 1: is a far more profound pursuit in that he is
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  Speaker 1: the one who is offended. He is the offended party,
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  Speaker 1: and as the offended party, has every right. He's not
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  Speaker 1: obligated in any way to have mercy, to be gracious,
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  Speaker 1: to show clemency, to pardon, to set aside the sentence
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  Speaker 1: that is due to us as the offended party. As
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  Speaker 1: the judge, he had every right to pass sentence upon us.
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  Speaker 1: All have sinned, all are guilty, None are righteous. No,
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  Speaker 1: not one, but I love what Paul writes in Defhedians,
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  Speaker 1: But God, who is rich in mercy. But God, the
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  Speaker 1: offended one, is the same one who atones for our
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  Speaker 1: offenses in order to establish, as it were, the pardoning,
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  Speaker 1: the forgiveness, the remission, the removal, the blotting out of
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  Speaker 1: our sins through the blood of Jesus Christ. Do you
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  Speaker 1: see there was action, ladies and gentlemen on the part
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus in dying, this death of atonement willingly, ladies
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  Speaker 1: and gentlemen, shedding his blood that was again a prerequisite
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  Speaker 1: for the forgiveness of sins. The remember of the Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: it makes clear without the shedding the blood, there is
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  Speaker 1: no remission of sins. However, it was also clearly made
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  Speaker 1: known to us, revealed to us written to us in
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  Speaker 1: the Scriptures a man that the blood of animals could
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  Speaker 1: not purify hearts, could not wash away the guiltiness of
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  Speaker 1: the conscience. Because if it could, then long ago with
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  Speaker 1: Adam and Eve, even when God killed that An, all
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  Speaker 1: the way up into the flood, those who were following
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  Speaker 1: as Abel did, as those who followed in the footstep
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  Speaker 1: of Abel, calling on the name of the Lord. If
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  Speaker 1: the blood of animals could wash away their sins, if
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  Speaker 1: the blood of the animals, through the law given to Moses,
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  Speaker 1: if the blood of these animals could wash away sins
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  Speaker 1: and clear and clean and clear the conscience of man,
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  Speaker 1: then first and foremost, it would not have been necessary
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  Speaker 1: for Jesus to come. It would not have been necessary
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  Speaker 1: for him to die the death that he did. The
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  Speaker 1: act of Jesus forgiven sins prior to ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: that is important. Think about this. Jesus forgave sins prior
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  Speaker 1: to his death on the cross, therein clearly demonstrating that
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  Speaker 1: he is indeed the agent of forgiveness. The source of forgiveness.
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  Speaker 1: He is and was the Lamb of God slain from
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  Speaker 1: the foundation of the world. You see, all of these
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  Speaker 1: encounters were Jesus. And this was not the only one
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  Speaker 1: where Jesus forgave the sinners for their sins. It showed
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  Speaker 1: that the sins of those It demonstrated that the sins
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  Speaker 1: of those also who were under the law, who preceded
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  Speaker 1: the law, who died in faith long before Jesus came
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  Speaker 1: down to earth in the incarnation. All of these individuals
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  Speaker 1: were all covered by the power of Jesus to forgive
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  Speaker 1: their sins again, even though his blood had not yet
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  Speaker 1: been poured out in the earth. In that moment at Calvary,
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  Speaker 1: you see Abraham, ladies and gentlemen who preceded the law Noah, Abel,
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  Speaker 1: I mean just to name a few. All of these
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  Speaker 1: people preceded the law. The Bible speaks of Abraham. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: said this. Abraham rejoiced to see my day, and he
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  Speaker 1: saw it animal was glad. Now what is Jesus? He
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  Speaker 1: rejoiced to see my day? What we know that Jesus
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  Speaker 1: came bodily pre incarnate visitation in the Book of Genesis,
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  Speaker 1: along with the two angels who were later sent to
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  Speaker 1: Sodom Agamara to the House of Lot to rescue him
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  Speaker 1: and his family. Jesus was one of those visitors that
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  Speaker 1: came to Abraham. Abraham rejoiced to see Jesus. He fell
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  Speaker 1: down and he worshiped before him. And he knew that
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  Speaker 1: he was the Lord because he had this conversation with Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: the pre incarnate Christ, about the judgment that was about
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  Speaker 1: to fall upon Sodom and Gamar. And he said, will
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  Speaker 1: not the judge of all the earth do what is right?
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  Speaker 1: Abraham was justified by faith. The blood of Jesus had
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  Speaker 1: not yet been shed. Ladies and gentlemen. David also and
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  Speaker 1: by the way, if you have your bibles, very quoll,
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  Speaker 1: I'm almost finished. Oh there's so much more I can
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  Speaker 1: say about this, but Psalm thirty two. If you have
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  Speaker 1: your bibles, David also spoke. And by the way, David
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  Speaker 1: lived under the law of Moses, as it were, under
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  Speaker 1: the ordinances of the sacrificial system, where you had to
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  Speaker 1: go to the priests, go to the tabernac, or go
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  Speaker 1: to the temple. David lived under the law. But David understood,
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  Speaker 1: and he spoke of the blessedness of forgiveness, not by
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  Speaker 1: the blood of bulls, not by the blood of goats,
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  Speaker 1: not by the blood of any animal. Psalm thirty two,
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  Speaker 1: Verse one. Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose
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  Speaker 1: sin is covered. Blessed is the man unto whom the
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  Speaker 1: Lord imputed not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is
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  Speaker 1: no guile. Look at verse five. David said, I acknowledged
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  Speaker 1: my sin unto Thee, and mine iniquity have I not heard?
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  Speaker 1: I said, I will confess my transgression unto the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: and Thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. For this
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  Speaker 1: shall every one that is godly pray unto Thee in
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  Speaker 1: a time when Thou maydst be found. Surely the floods
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  Speaker 1: of great waters shall not come nigh unto him. Everyone
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  Speaker 1: who will be forgiven must come to God in faith,
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  Speaker 1: believing that He will take away their sins. And again,
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  Speaker 1: that one to whom we must come, that one by
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  Speaker 1: whom we must come, is Jesus the Christ. Again, neither
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  Speaker 1: is there salvation in any other There's none other name
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  Speaker 1: given among men whereby we must be saying. Jesus said,
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  Speaker 1: I am the way truth, life light, I'm the door,
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  Speaker 1: I'm the show, I mean I am he and again
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  Speaker 1: before Abraham was Jesus said I am. And again Abraham
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  Speaker 1: preceded the law of Moses. David lived under the law
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  Speaker 1: of Moses, under this law of animal sacrifices. But David
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  Speaker 1: was again fully aware that the blood of bulls and goats,
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  Speaker 1: nor any other animal could atone for his sins and
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  Speaker 1: cleanse his guilty conscience. After David's multiple violations of the
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  Speaker 1: law and attempting to cover up its adultery, that was
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  Speaker 1: the first sin of coveting. First of all, knowing that
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  Speaker 1: this woman bas she would belong to another man, he
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  Speaker 1: coveted her. He lusted after her. And the Bible the
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  Speaker 1: commandments David knew them, thou shalt not covet thy neighbors, this,
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  Speaker 1: that other, nothing that belongs to their neighbor, including his wife.
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  Speaker 1: And then he proceeded further breaking the law of God
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  Speaker 1: and committing adultery with the woman. And then he attempted
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  Speaker 1: to cover up its sins. Amen, and and and this
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  Speaker 1: was a man you Riah, by the way, who was
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  Speaker 1: one of David's most loyal frontline warriors in battle at
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  Speaker 1: the time David did this. But David, who was a
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  Speaker 1: man after God's own heart, this is what God said
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  Speaker 1: of him. David would later write these words concerning this
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  Speaker 1: forgiveness Psalm number fifty one. We're gonna be closing with this,
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  Speaker 1: He says, have mercy upon me, O God, according to
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  Speaker 1: thy loving kindness, according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
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  Speaker 1: Blocked out my transgressions, Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity,
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  Speaker 1: and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions,
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  Speaker 1: and my sin is ever before me against thee. THEE.
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  Speaker 1: Only have I sinned and done this evil in thy sight,
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  Speaker 1: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest and be clear,
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  Speaker 1: when thou judgest, Behold, I was shaped in iniquity and
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  Speaker 1: in sin did my mother conceive me. Behold Thou desirest
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  Speaker 1: truth in my inward parts, in the hidden part. Thou
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  Speaker 1: shalt make me to no wisdom. Purge me with hissop,
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  Speaker 1: and I shall be clean. Wash me and I shall
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  Speaker 1: be whiter than snow. Verse nine, he says, hide thy
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  Speaker 1: face from my sins, blot out all of mine iniquities,
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  Speaker 1: creating me a clean heart, O God, and renew a
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  Speaker 1: right spirit within me verse fourteen. Deliver me from blunt guiltiness.
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  Speaker 1: O God, Thou God of my salvation, and my tongue
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  Speaker 1: shall sing aloud of thy righteousness verse sixteen. For thou
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  Speaker 1: desirest this is important, very important. David understood that only God,
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  Speaker 1: not blood of animals, not bulls, not goats, not pigeons.
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  Speaker 1: He says, thou desirest not sacrifice. Else would I give it?
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  Speaker 1: Thou delightest, not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God
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  Speaker 1: are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart.
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  Speaker 1: O God, thou wilt not despise Again, ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: only God can forgive sins. The Pharisees describes the doctors
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  Speaker 1: of the law understood it well. And that's why Jesus
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  Speaker 1: when he came proclaiming boldly, clearly that he was the Messiah,
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  Speaker 1: that he was God. I am my father a one.
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  Speaker 1: If you've seen me, you've seen the Father. I am
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  Speaker 1: in the Father and the Father and me. Jesus clearly demonstrated,
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  Speaker 1: and he did. And remember, remember the woman was taken
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  Speaker 1: an adultery. What did Jesus do to that woman? This woman?
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  Speaker 1: Neither do I condemn thee Go and sin no more.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus did this. He did this with the crippled man.
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  Speaker 1: He did this with others when he said, go and
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  Speaker 1: sin no more, when he forgave them of their sins.
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  Speaker 1: He did all of this. He did it with David,
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  Speaker 1: He did it with Abraham, did it with Abel. He
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  Speaker 1: did it with all of these individuals. Prior to his
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  Speaker 1: death on the cross, and even at his death on
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  Speaker 1: the cross, and even though there was some blood that
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  Speaker 1: was already protruding from his body, the spear had not
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  Speaker 1: yet been thrust into his side. And there was one
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  Speaker 1: of the malefactors, one of the thieves, one of the
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  Speaker 1: condemned prisoners, hanging there with Jesus. And he said, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: remember me when you come into your kingdom. What did
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  Speaker 1: Jesus respond to this man this day? Today? You will
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  Speaker 1: be with me in paradise. Jesus forgave this man of
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  Speaker 1: his sins instantly, and the blood from the spear that
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  Speaker 1: would be thrust to his side was not yet poured out. Now,
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  Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, the power of forgiveness is in Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: And yes, it was necessary that his blood be shed.
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  Speaker 1: But please understand that even before the blood of Jesus
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  Speaker 1: was shed, that the power of forgiveness is in him.
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  Speaker 1: Because again, ladies and gentlemen, the Lamb, the Lamb of God,
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  Speaker 1: was slain before the foundation of the world. Your forgiveness
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  Speaker 1: is exclusively and only to be found in Jesus, the
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  Speaker 1: Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world. Father.
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  Speaker 1: We pray that someone's eyes will be open, someone's ears
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  Speaker 1: will be unstopped, someone's heart will be changed. They will
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  Speaker 1: come to note that you are the Savior of the Redeemer,
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  Speaker 1: the only true in the living God, the only one
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  Speaker 1: by whom we must be saved, the only one through
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  Speaker 1: whom there is forgiveness of our sins. Be glorified, be
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  Speaker 1: magnified in Jesus. Thing we pray and give thanks, Amen
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  Speaker 1: and Amen.