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Living Waters of Grace 10.28.25 · Living Waters of Grace / Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland Sunday Services

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  This is Living Waters of Grace, the teaching ministry of Clark
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  Wofford, senior pastor of Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland,
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  County of Greensburg, PA. Now here's Pastor Clark as he
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  continues teaching through God's Word.
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  What can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood.
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  Of Jesus and. If we're not proclaiming this
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  message as Paul and Peter and Steven.
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  And every other. Person has been called,
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  commissioned by God to proclaim the gospel.
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  Might as well shut the church down and no longer show up,
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  because there is no good news apart from this message of
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  Christ. Oh that lovely old hymn, Nothing
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  but the blood of Jesus. These words are rich with
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  doctrine and theology. Truly, there is nothing that has
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  provided our cleansing and our guarantee and the payment for
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  our sins. Save the shed blood of Jesus
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  Christ on the cross of Calvary and we would be hopeless without
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  it. Today you'll learn from Pastor
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  Clark that the blood of Jesus is the lifeline of the church.
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  Once you've accepted the free gift of salvation, you can now
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  begin to step into the calling that God has placed on your
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  life. Now here's Pastor Clark in the
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  book of Acts chapter 13 with today's edition of Living Waters
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  of Grace verse 25. And as John was finishing his
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  course, he said, who do you think I am?
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  I am not he. Well, everybody thought John,
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  man, he's something else. He's out there in the
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  wilderness. He's not connected.
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  To this world, really, he's like a hermit.
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  He's just like, very, very different and very.
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  Godly and very fiery. In his eyes and just.
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  The passion he had for God and nothing else, they might have
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  thought. He was the one.
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  Well, this guy, he's, he's different.
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  I mean, he's really challenging me and my heart's convicted
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  because of what he's saying, he says.
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  I am not he, but behold, there comes one after me, the sandals
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  of whose feet I am not worthy to loose.
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  So you see humility in John. He didn't think he was anything.
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  He was just a voice in the wilderness, as the Bible says,
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  just like I'm a voice here today in the wilderness that we live
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  in today in this world. Men and Brethren, Verse 26.
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  Paul says Sons of the family of Abraham.
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  Abraham. Isaac, Jacob, The Lineage.
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  Of the nation of. Israel through the Patriarchs.
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  He's speaking to them and those among you who fear God.
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  The gentiles who are sitting in the synagogue.
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  Seeking the truth to you. The word of salvation has been
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  sent, so the word of salvation is why this is all happening.
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  The word of. Salvation is why.
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  We have a church and a radio. Station and we're.
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  All witnesses, wherever we. Are and we pray and we intercede
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  for people who need Jesus Christ, and our hearts are
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  burdened for lost people every day.
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  It should be if we belong to the Lord.
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  We're seeking ways that we can reach people for those.
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  Who dwell in Jerusalem? And their rulers, because they
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  did not know Him, and they're referring to Messiah.
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  There are even the voices of the prophets, which are read every
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  Sabbath, having fulfilled them and condemning Him.
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  So every Saturday they're going through this process.
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  Of reading the. Torah and the Law and the
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  prophets, and it's like the blind leading the blind, because
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  everything's pointing to what? Jesus Christ did it.
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  Pointed to John the Baptist being the forerunner, the
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  prophet who is preparing the way of the Lord.
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  Right? All this stuff is should be
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  self. Evident to these people, right?
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  And yet they did. Exactly what the scripture said
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  they would do. They would reject him and they
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  would have him martyred and crucified, and they would try to
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  keep this message under wraps so no one would.
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  Believe it. And though they found no cause
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  for death, verse 28 in him, they asked Pilate that he should put,
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  he should be put to death. Now when they had fulfilled all
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  that was written concerning him, they took him down from the tree
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  and laid him in a tomb. So everything's fulfilled.
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  He's reviewing the history. We all know it.
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  We've studied it, we're aware of it, we believe it, but God verse
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  30 raised him from the dead. So if God didn't raise Christ
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  from the dead like the prophecies?
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  In the Old Testament, you know referred to, and if you look at
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  your cross references, if you have a cross reference Bible, a
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  lot of things I'm talking about, all the Old Testament quotes are
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  tied into Isaiah 55, three or Psalm 1610 or Psalm 2 verse 7.
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  All these are prophetical fulfillments of what Christ had
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  done. God the Father, God the Son, God
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  the Holy Spirit. Long before.
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  We were created long. Before creation had ever
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  developed, was the. Plan of the Ages.
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  That when this. World would be created.
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  God knew that man would fall. And turn from him.
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  And he? Already had a remedy where he
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  said in. Revelation.
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  He was a lamb slain before the foundation of the earth.
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  For God's vantage point is past. Present future he sees.
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  Everything at one time and in the fullness of time, God sent
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  Jesus for us. To be the Savior of the world.
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  So they laid him in the tomb, but that is not the end of it.
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  Verse 30 But God raised him from the dead.
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  God brought him up from the dead as the literal translation from
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  the Greek, that this was a work of the sovereign God, who had
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  planned to do this for all eternity.
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  Verse 31. He was seen after that for many
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  days by those who came up with Him from Galilee to Jerusalem,
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  who are His witnesses to the people.
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  So all these. People were connected, they
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  knew, OK, a lot of you know, they're witnesses now.
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  Paul had the encounter on the road to Damascus and Barnabas.
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  You know, all these people have become believers because of this
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  historical event in history of. Of the church and.
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  Christianity so they see him, and then they say in verse 32,
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  And we declare to you glad tidings, good news, that promise
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  which was made to the fathers. God has fulfilled this for us,
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  their children, and that He has raised up Jesus.
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  It is also written in the second Psalm, You are my son the day I
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  have begotten you, and that he raised him up from the dead, no
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  more to return to corruption. He has spoken thus.
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  I will give you the Shure mercies of David.
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  Verse 35. Therefore, he also says in
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  another Psalm, You shall not allow your Holy One to see
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  corruption when the when the body goes into the.
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  Grave we we corrupt. We decompose, you can dig.
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  Someone up, you know. So many months or years later,
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  it's it's. Bones it's there's nothing left
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  OK, Christ, when he died, there was no.
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  Corruption. Nothing affected his body.
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  When he was putting that tomb, he he didn't go into.
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  That process of corruption and when he was resurrected, his
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  body was perfect because he's he's eternal.
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  He died physically. But you can't kill God, can you?
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  He, He's eternal. And so David, verse 36, it says,
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  for David, after he had served his own generation, by the will
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  of God, he fell asleep, was buried with his Father's.
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  He saw corruption. So the prophecy was about the
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  one who wouldn't see corruption, which was our Lord and Savior
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  Jesus Christ. So verse 37 it says, but he whom
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  God raised up saw no corruption. Therefore, let it be known to
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  you, brethren, that through this man, the man Jesus Christ is
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  preached you the forgiveness of sins, and by him everyone who
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  believes is justified from all things from which you could not
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  be justified by the law of. Moses, so he's talking to these
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  Jewish. People that think by following.
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  The 10 commandments the. Law, doing the rituals, all that
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  that. Somehow God grades on a curve
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  and they may get in. That's their hope.
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  Or they're. Deceived thinking because of
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  that, they can stand before God in the judgement day and say,
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  well, I should come in because I you know, a kosher.
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  I was at the Sabbath in the synagogue.
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  Every Saturday I did this. I did.
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  I mean all that stuff and it can't save anybody.
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  So I think what happens, people come to church, they think all
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  these people are holy rollers or whatever and they're perfect.
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  I'm not. Excuse me, I'm not.
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  So I can't be like these people because.
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  I'm I'm sinful. I got this stuff in me that.
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  You know won't go away. I try and I try to beat it and
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  conquer it, but I keep falling back into it.
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  I keep being drawn into it. That is why we need salvation,
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  because God delivers us from the power of sin that controls us
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  until Christ saves us. Once Christ saves us, a big
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  change happens. I don't have to sin anymore
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  because I'm controlled by the influence of Satan and lost.
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  I have an opportunity. I'll say, Lord, help me not do
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  this. Help me to make a better
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  decision. Or if I fall, Lord, I get it, I
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  don't want to. That's my old life I don't want.
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  To live that. Way anymore.
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  And and the Christian life after we get saved is a process of
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  being perfected. We're not perfected yet.
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  We're in the process of being conformed to the image of.
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  Christ, right, as it tells us in Romans 829.
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  So everything that happens, adversities, trials, difficulty,
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  heartache, whatever disasters, crises, disease, sickness,
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  financial ruin, whatever happens to us in this life as Christians
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  is designed to make us press deeper into the Lord, which it
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  does. That's the problem, right?
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  The power of sin destroys us and that's that's why we need to
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  tell people the good news. And then people talk.
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  To me and say, well this is what I did and this is what happened
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  to me and. And I can't, you know, and we
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  have to keep telling them it's not about what you've.
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  Done. It's about what he's done for
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  you and that's. The beauty of the gospel.
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  And so as we think about this now, it's really important
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  because whenever. You get saved.
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  Christ declares you righteous now what's that mean?
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  He. Declares you righteous.
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  He says that Jesus takes your sin.
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  Your unrighteousness. And puts it on.
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  Him on the cross. He's not unrighteous, but he.
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  Chooses to take. All of our sin, the whole earth.
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  Everybody in the world upon himself, and then what he does
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  he imputes or credits. To your account He gives you his
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  righteousness. So we sit here.
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  Well, what does all that mean? This means this is what it
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  means. God chooses to look at you as
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  being perfect. Now.
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  Now how can that happen? Because we know we're not
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  perfect. But that's the beauty of this
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  message of the gospel. It's that's what's exciting
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  about it that only he can declare someone as being just
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  and righteous and perfect. Even though we still are
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  sinners, our position in God's eyes and eternity is that he
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  forgives us as though. We've never, ever sinned.
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  Our past sins are forgiven. The present sins are forgiven,
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  and the future sins that will still commit are forgiven.
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  That's incredible, isn't it? There's no one else that could
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  do something like this for us. And, and we don't get into this
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  this deep every week because we're going through the whole
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  Bible. But when it touches on these
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  important things, we have to understand.
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  Romans 5 says therefore having been justified by faith.
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  We believe these things. By faith it says.
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  Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God
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  through our Lord Jesus Christ. So we have this peace now
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  because what God? Has done for us.
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  Through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in
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  which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of.
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  God, so we have this salvation now and we have this peace.
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  No matter what's happening, we have this peace that if this is
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  my last day on earth and I go to be with the Lord, I'm not going
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  to be gilded by God, am I? And you won't be either.
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  He's going to embrace us and welcome.
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  Us home because he's forgiven us and justified us.
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  And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing
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  that tribulation produces perseverance and perseverance,
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  character and character. Hope.
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  Now hope does not disappoint because the love of God has been
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  poured in, out into our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given
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  to us. This, this is all the the
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  benefit, you know. You go through tough times, you
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  go through whatever and you have.
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  This peace and you have this assurance that no matter what.
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  Anybody says about you or thinks about you or slanders you or
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  criticizes you in life. It really doesn't matter.
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  Because what God says. To you.
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  Is that you're perfect in Christ.
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  Now try telling an enemy that how would.
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  That go well you did this you did that hey yeah, I know please
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  forgive me but I'm perfect in. Christ, man, are you crazy?
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  You are far from. Perfect, I agree, but in Christ.
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  I'm declared. Perfect, we all are.
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  I mean, that should make you want to dance, right?
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  And some. People do dance when they hear
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  this. David understood it and he did
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  some dancing. And then Romans 3, chapter 3,
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  verse 21, well it says in verse 19.
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  Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who
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  are under the law that every mouth may be stopped.
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  So in other words, you want to get saved by following the law.
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  You got to do it perfectly. And if you say you can't, then
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  obviously your mouth is stopped and all the world may become
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  guilty before God. Understanding we can't be saved
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  apart from the finished work of Jesus Christ.
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  Therefore verse 20 by the deeds of the law, trying your flesh or
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  your human effort, no deeds. Therefore by the deeds of the
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  law, no flesh will be justified in his sight.
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  Even if you got to 99% of perfection, you couldn't get
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  saved without Christ for by the laws and knowledge of sin.
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  So the commandments and everything that the that guilts
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  us is showing us. That we can't.
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  Do this without Christ. By now the righteousness of God,
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  apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the law and
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  the prophets. They're reading the law and the
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  prophets. The law and the prophets are
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  proclaiming this. They still don't get it.
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  Even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to
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  all and on all who believe, for there is no difference.
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  For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.
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  That's everyone in this room, everyone in the world being
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  justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is
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  in Christ Jesus. So we're saved by grace.
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  We're justified by grace. Justified means just as though
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  we've never sinned. God declares us that way because
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  of what Christ has done, whom God set forth as a propitiation,
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  which is a word for sacrifice. Christ sacrificed.
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  Himself for you. So that you could receive.
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  All the blessings of the God of all heaven.
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  And he just, he, he sacrificed himself, it says, by his blood,
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  through faith to demonstrate his righteousness.
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  Because of his forbearance, God has passed over the sins that
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  were previously committed because of the.
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  Blood of Jesus, he's passed over them 100%.
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  The devil will tell you and remind you and all this stuff
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  that went wrong that you didn't do right.
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  Don't listen, the blood is covered at all.
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  That's why we take the. Lord's Supper every week to be
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  reminded of the power of the blood.
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  What can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood.
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  Of Jesus and. If we're not proclaiming this
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  message as Paul. And Peter and Stephen and every
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  other. Person has been called,
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  commissioned by God to proclaim the gospel.
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  Might as well shut the church down.
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  And no. Longer show up because there is
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  no good news apart from this message of Christ.
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  We're free by His grace, the redemption.
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  It is in Christ Jesus through the blood and not right now.
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  God demonstrates this in his present time, His righteousness,
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  that He might be just in the justifier of the one who has
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  faith in Jesus. I pray as a worship team comes
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  forward today, if you're here, you've never understood this
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  gospel. You've never put your faith in
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  this Savior who can do it perfect for you and that you
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  don't. Put pressure on yourself.
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  Anymore thinking you got to be something you can't be.
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  Without God's grace, come to faith in Jesus today.
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  Believe what it is that Jesus Christ has done for you and what
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  He's done for me. And we have this privilege,
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  brothers and sisters, to be able to tell people this good news
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  that people can be reconciled to God.
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  It ends in 2nd Corinthians 5. Now we are ambassadors for
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  Christ you. Represent Jesus Christ wherever.
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  You go. You.
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  Can be assured when you go and tell someone the gospel that God
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  has sent you. As an ambassador representing
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  him to tell people, as Paul said, through God, that we're
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  pleading with people, imploring them on Christ's behalf to be
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  made right with God, to be reconciled to God.
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  For he made him, Jesus, who knew no sin, to be sin for us, that
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  we might become the righteousness.
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  Of God and him so. How do people see you and me?
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  And how does God? Choose to see us in Jesus
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  Christ. We really need to focus on that
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  There's. People that don't.
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  Like you for whatever. Reason.
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  Enemies from the past or whatever, you've gone through
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  things in life and. It can really get you upset
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  because you don't feel it's fair at.
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  Times or whatever but. We have to look beyond that
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  because we have to. Say, well, what's the big
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  picture in all this is that God sees me as perfect.
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  I I couldn't do one more thing in my life, nor could you to
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  make God love me anymore than he loves me right now.
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  That's that's incredible. I mean, people expect you to do
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  things. In order to prove that.
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  You know, whatever you've changed or whatever, but God
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  never looks at us that. Way he doesn't Guild.
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  Us and I pray as Pastor Lewis, but I never want anybody to be
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  gilded in this church. Get enough of that in the world
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  all week, right? You don't need to come here on
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  Sunday and get that all over again.
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  Why? Why go to church if that's what
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  what's happening? We want to be free in church and
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  reminded of the. Promises of God.
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  And maybe you've done something. You think, Well, God.
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  Isn't around anymore. He's mad at me.
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  He promises he will never leave you or forsake you.
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  He'll never, ever leave you. God will never leave us.
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  There's no one like that. We've all left Jesus like the
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  apostles and all the people at the cross.
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  He always loves us. No matter what, the prisoner on
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  death row, who's committed the most heinous crime that has
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  come. To face in Jesus.
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  Christ he loves as much as someone who never ever committed
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  anything like that. He doesn't focus on our feelings
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  and our stumblings. He lifts us up to keep getting
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  up every day, starting a new day with the Holy Spirit to become
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  more like Jesus. Don't look about yesterday and
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  what happened or what didn't work or what you wish you hadn't
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  gone through. Look fresh today that it's a new
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  day, a new beginning. And the Lord just says.
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  Come on, get up again. I've forgiven you.
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  Let's just keep on going. He never says that you can't be
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  forgiven anymore and he always. Says this when you ask him for
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  forgiveness. It's OK, I forgive you, doesn't
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  he? He never says you went past 70 *
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  7 four 190. That's it.
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  That meant. There's no limit to forgiveness.
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  When Peter. Asked him how often should I
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  forgive this person for the same?
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  Sin he says 70 * 7. Meaning you never.
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  Stop forgiving and so. This is the biggest issue in
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  Christianity, the lack of forgiveness.
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  And when there's lack of forgiveness, then again
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  everything falls apart because we have nothing to tell people.
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  If we're unforgiving, how can we even begin If we're unforgiving
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  towards someone who's. A believer who loves the Lord
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  and has made some mistakes. How can we as.
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  Christians and go. To some person in the street
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  who's like all over the. Place and sin.
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  And begin to tell them about. God who loves them.
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  When we can't even love. Anybody right and.
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  I got to read this as we prepare our hearts for the supper.
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  The parable. The unforgiving servant Peter
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  came to him and said, Lord, how often shall my brother sin
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  against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times.
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  Jesus said, I do not say to you up to seven times, but up to 70
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  * 7. Therefore the Kingdom of heaven
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  is like a certain king who wanted to settle accounts with
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  his servants, and when he had begun to settle the accounts,
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  one was brought to him who owed him 10,000 talents.
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  But as he was not able to pay, his master commanded that he be
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  sold with his wife and children, and all that he had, and payment
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  be made. The servant therefore fell down
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  before him, saying, Master, have patience with me, I will pay you
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  all. Then the master of that servant
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  was move with compassion, released him and forgave him the
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  debt. That's what God does to us.
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  But that servant then goes out and finds one of his fellow
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  servants who owed him 100 an hour I, which was nothing
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  compared to what the other guy owed.
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  And he laid hands on him, took him by the throat, saying, Pay
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  me what you owe. His fellow servant fell down at
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  his feet and begged him, saying, Have patience with me, and I
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  will pay you all. And he would not, but went and
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  threw him into prison till he should pay the debt.
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  So when his fellow servant saw what he had done, they were very
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  grieved, and they came, and they told the master all that had
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  been done. The master, after he had called
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  him, said to him, You wicked servant, I forgave you all that
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  debt because you begged me. Should you not also have
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  compassion on your fellow servant?
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  Just as I had pity on you, and his master was angry and
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  delivered him to the torturers until he should pay all that was
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  due him, so my heavenly Father also will do to you, if each of
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  you from his heart does not forgive his brother his
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  trespasses. Ephesians 432.
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  Be kind, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as
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  God, for Christ's sake, hath forgiven you.
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  How in the world, brothers and sisters, can we hold anything
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  against anyone when we realize that Christ has forgiven us of
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  Amen? We're so glad you joined us
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  today on this edition of Living Waters of Grace.
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  Pastor Clark is teaching through the Book of Acts, which is the
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  only book that chronicles the history of the early church
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  immediately after Jesus's ascension.
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  It gives us a front row seat to how the Gospel began to move
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  outward, starting in Jerusalem and reaching into the heart of
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  the Roman Empire. In just three decades, a small
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  group of frightened ordinary believers became a bold, spirit
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  empowered movement that transformed the known world.
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  Acts is not just a history lesson, it's a reminder of what
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  God can do when His people are surrendered, obedient, and
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  filled with the Holy Spirit. Their perseverance still
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  inspires us today. May we follow their example and
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  live faithfully for Christ in our own time.
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  We hope today's message encouraged you.
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  Living Waters of Grace is a ministry of Calvary Chapel,
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  Westmoreland. If you're in the Greensburg, PA
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  area, we'd love to have you join us in person.
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  St., Unit 6B. Be sure to visit
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