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Pastor Chuck Swindoll | Insight for Living – Guilt vs. Grace, Part 2 · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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  Speaker 1: What if you could wake up tomorrow morning completely free
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  Speaker 1: from the crushing weight of guilt. Imagine living without that
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  Speaker 1: nagging voice that whispers you're not good enough or you've
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  Speaker 1: blown it again.
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  Speaker 2: Today.
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  Speaker 1: On Insight for Living, Chucks Windaul reveals the beautiful outcome
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  Speaker 1: when we stop groveling in guilt and start resting in
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  Speaker 1: God's magnificent grace. It's not Chuck's idea. The doctrine of
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  Speaker 1: grace is clearly spelled out for us in Paul's Letter
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  Speaker 1: to the Romans Chapter five. You see, grace doesn't merely forgive.
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  Speaker 1: It transforms, liberates, and charms us into righteousness in ways
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  Speaker 1: legalism never could.
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  Speaker 2: Romans five twelve takes us far back in time to
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  Speaker 2: the police called the Garden of Eden. That's where God
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  Speaker 2: placed the first man he created, and shortly thereafter placed
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  Speaker 2: the woman alongside him. And he made it clear to
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  Speaker 2: Adam and the Eve that everything in the garden they
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  Speaker 2: were to enjoy. How gracious is that?
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  Speaker 1: But but.
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  Speaker 2: The tree of the knowledge of good and evil, don't
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  Speaker 2: eat of it. The day you eat of it dying,
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  Speaker 2: you will die, literally, dying physically that will kick in,
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  Speaker 2: you will die instantly spiritually. There will be a gap
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  Speaker 2: between your relationship with me. As soon as you eat,
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  Speaker 2: to make matters worse, you will open a sewage pipe
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  Speaker 2: that will pollute the stream of humanity the rest of time.
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  Speaker 2: Don't eat, don't take of the tree. You and I
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  Speaker 2: know that Adam ate and as a result, theologians tell
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  Speaker 2: us he acted as our federal head. And because he
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  Speaker 2: ate and sinned, so we have the same pollution in
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  Speaker 2: our system. It's impossible to bring a child into this
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  Speaker 2: world free of sin, because there's never been a parent
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  Speaker 2: free of sin who came from parents who were sinful.
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  Speaker 2: All of this takes us to Robins five and verse twelve. Therefore,
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  Speaker 2: as through one man, sin entered into the world, and
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  Speaker 2: death through sin stop. There with the sin of Adam
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  Speaker 2: there was introduced into the world. And from then on
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  Speaker 2: the problem of sin. Sin became king and the queen
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  Speaker 2: Death reigned alongside the king. Where you see death, you
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  Speaker 2: find sin. Where you find sin, you locate death. Sin
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  Speaker 2: and death came from Adam when he sinned. We all
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  Speaker 2: have sinned. Read on and death through sin, and so
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  Speaker 2: death spread to all men and women, boys and girls,
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  Speaker 2: because all sinned. Until the law sin was in the
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  Speaker 2: world but sin is not charged to our account where
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  Speaker 2: there is no law. Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam until Moses,
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  Speaker 2: even over those who had not sinned in the likeness
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  Speaker 2: of the offense of Adam. What does that mean? Now
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  Speaker 2: look again at the verses. Until the law, sin was
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  Speaker 2: in the world. How do we know that? Because people died,
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  Speaker 2: so it spread to all humanity, and guilt from sin
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  Speaker 2: by the law came along. When the law came, how
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  Speaker 2: there came along guilt. I know now that this is wrong,
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  Speaker 2: because God has written it, and I know by reading
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  Speaker 2: it that it's wrong. Verse fourteen. Nevertheless, death reigned from
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  Speaker 2: Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned
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  Speaker 2: in the likeness of the offense of Adam. Even though
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  Speaker 2: we didn't eat of the tree of the knowledge of
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  Speaker 2: good and evil, still we sin, and therefore there is
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  Speaker 2: still the presence of sin. Now we get to verse fifteen.
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  Speaker 2: Here's where it gets very interesting. We've looked at Adam,
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  Speaker 2: who introduced sin and death. Think of Adam on one
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  Speaker 2: side and the column of your mind, and think of
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  Speaker 2: Christ on the other. Adam in the fall transgression, Christ
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  Speaker 2: on the cross righteousness. Now look at fifteen. But the
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  Speaker 2: free gift is not like the transgression. The cross and
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  Speaker 2: what was provided is not at all like the fall
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  Speaker 2: and what resulted. For if by the transgression of the
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  Speaker 2: one that's Adam, the many died, much more did the
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  Speaker 2: grace of God and the gift by the grace of
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  Speaker 2: the one man Jesus, abound to many the results of
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  Speaker 2: the fall. Verse fifteen tells us many died. As a
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  Speaker 2: matter of fact, it was a pollution that impacted all
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  Speaker 2: of humanity. But as a result of the Cross and
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  Speaker 2: the gift of eternal life, there are many who live
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  Speaker 2: on because of one man. So the contrast continues into
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  Speaker 2: verse sixteen. The gift. Now we're back to Christ. The
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  Speaker 2: gift is not like that which came through the one
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  Speaker 2: who sinned. So the gift brought at the Cross from
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  Speaker 2: Christ you read here, is not like the one that sinned.
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  Speaker 2: For on the one hand, the judgment arose from one
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  Speaker 2: transgression resulting in condemnation as a result of his fall,
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  Speaker 2: judgment flowed in the wake of sin and death. Condemnation
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  Speaker 2: flowed along with the pollution of humanity. Now look at
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  Speaker 2: the change. But on the other hand, the free gift
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  Speaker 2: arose from many transgressions resulting in justification. There's our word again,
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  Speaker 2: the sovereign act of God, whereby he declares righteous the
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  Speaker 2: believing sinner, while we are still in a sinning state.
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  Speaker 2: That's what the gift provides. It's by grace, and what
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  Speaker 2: a wonderful way to live, rather than under the guilt
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  Speaker 2: of condemnation or the condemnation of guilt. There's a third contrast.
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  Speaker 2: First was the contrast of results verse fifteen. Then the
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  Speaker 2: contrast of the cause verse sixteen. Now the contrast of
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  Speaker 2: choice seventeen. By the transgression of Adam, death reigned through him.
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  Speaker 2: Remember he's our federal head. Much more, though, those who
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  Speaker 2: receive the abundance of grace and that gift of righteousness
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  Speaker 2: being justified, will reign in life through the One Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 2: What a magnificent relief it is for us to see
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  Speaker 2: ourselves no longer in Adam and under the domination of
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  Speaker 2: a king and queen who ruled our lives long enough.
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  Speaker 2: We are now living under the authority of a new
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  Speaker 2: monarch whose name is Jesus the Lord, and he provides
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  Speaker 2: a way of life called grace. The freedom of the
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  Speaker 2: guilt of the old life is now ours to enjoy. Well,
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  Speaker 2: we've contrasted things. Let's compare them. Verses eighteen and nineteen
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  Speaker 2: have words of comparison. Look at eighteen So then again
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  Speaker 2: so like Paul connecting everything together. So then as the
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  Speaker 2: one man's disobedience, as through the one man disobedience, the
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  Speaker 2: many were made sinners. Again, that's Adam. Even so, through
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  Speaker 2: the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.
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  Speaker 2: Look at that comparison. The one act of each man,
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  Speaker 2: Adam and Christ, determined the destiny of many. The one
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  Speaker 2: act of Adam, the destiny of those who never trust
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  Speaker 2: in Christ is death, condemnation, and judgment. That which follows
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  Speaker 2: those who believe there is, of course, the announcement of
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  Speaker 2: righteousness and the joy of living for him free of
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  Speaker 2: the drag of those things that once held us down.
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  Speaker 2: He isn't. Through one more comparison, verse nineteen, as through
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  Speaker 2: the one man's disobedience, the many were made sinners. Even so,
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  Speaker 2: through the obedience of the one, the many will be
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  Speaker 2: made righteous. Now let me just cut its rate and
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  Speaker 2: just make no bones about it. Every person in this
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  Speaker 2: room today, every person who hears my voice, who will
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  Speaker 2: ever hear my voice, is in one category or the
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  Speaker 2: other the condemned or the righteous, those who have trusted
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  Speaker 2: in the Lord Jesus, and those who have resisted the
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  Speaker 2: Lord Jesus, those who know only life in Adam, which
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  Speaker 2: is a life marked by depravity and all of the
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  Speaker 2: drag of a sinful life style. And those of us
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  Speaker 2: who still those sinners, can know forgiveness, acceptance and an
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  Speaker 2: eternal home with God Jesus. Is the difference. Not church attendants,
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  Speaker 2: not some religious act or series of acts, not inheriting
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  Speaker 2: a righteousness from your grandparents or your parents. Each generation
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  Speaker 2: must know and come to know the Savior personally, and
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  Speaker 2: it's through Christ. Stallone last summer, Cynthia and I and
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  Speaker 2: our travels found ourselves in Turkey. We were at a
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  Speaker 2: rug shop where they weave the rugs, and they were
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  Speaker 2: showing us those rugs, and I got tired of looking
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  Speaker 2: at them, so I walked outside and I sat on
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  Speaker 2: with the merchant who ran the place, and found out
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  Speaker 2: soon that he was a Muslim and had very good English.
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  Speaker 2: And we talked, And as the further we talked, the
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  Speaker 2: more it became obvious that he wanted to talk about religion.
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  Speaker 2: He had no clue who I am, and I have
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  Speaker 2: no clue who he was or his background, but it
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  Speaker 2: was obvious we have two different gods. However, he wanted
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  Speaker 2: them to be the same. And he so wanted me
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  Speaker 2: to know how great it was that we could be
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  Speaker 2: sincerely followers of the same God, even though one is
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  Speaker 2: a Muslim faith and the other is a Christian faith.
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  Speaker 2: And I said, but you know, there is that statement
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  Speaker 2: Jesus made. Oh. He leaned forward to listen. He said,
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  Speaker 2: what is that. I said, it is his statement that
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  Speaker 2: he said to his disciples, I am the Way, the Truth,
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  Speaker 2: the Life. No one comes to the Father but through me.
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  Speaker 2: He blinked. I gave him a moment just to think
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  Speaker 2: it through. He's never heard in his life, He said,
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  Speaker 2: I never heard that. I said, I know most people haven't.
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  Speaker 2: And I said, we have a word in English. It's
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  Speaker 2: called the definite article, and it identifies the one and
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  Speaker 2: only Jesus says, I am the one and only way
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  Speaker 2: truth in life. I quoted Merrill Tenney's line without the Way,
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  Speaker 2: there is no going without the truth, there is no knowing.
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  Speaker 2: Without the life, there is no living. And I said,
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  Speaker 2: you could come to know Jesus Christ, who is not
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  Speaker 2: the same as Allah. Get that stray, and he said,
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  Speaker 2: would you like to see more rugs? And you know what,
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  Speaker 2: I went and looked at more rugs. Why I had
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  Speaker 2: given him the Gospel, it is now the work of
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit to drive it home. Should I have
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  Speaker 2: pushed him against the wall and tell him if he
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  Speaker 2: doesn't believe, I'm not buying anything. I should have thought
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  Speaker 2: of that, by the way, didn't dawn on me. I
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  Speaker 2: didn't do that, you know why, because people aren't drawn
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  Speaker 2: to Christ by a push, but by a pull. In
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  Speaker 2: that brief period of time on the porch near Kushatsy, Turkey,
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  Speaker 2: I did everything I could to charm him into righteousness.
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  Speaker 2: And I pray for him because I know when he
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  Speaker 2: goes to bed at night, he now has another message
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  Speaker 2: that comes into his mind, just as some of you do,
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  Speaker 2: as lost as that Muslim. So your God isn't Allah.
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  Speaker 2: Yours is money or yourself or your reputation or your status,
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  Speaker 2: your possessions, your name, And how dare you tell me
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  Speaker 2: I'm a sinner. I'm just reading from the book. And
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  Speaker 2: if you want to know God and spend eternity with
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  Speaker 2: Him when you die, you must come through Christ. It's
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  Speaker 2: that narrow now it's that narrow. We live in an
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  Speaker 2: age of plurality, and all of this is all muddled
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  Speaker 2: and muddy. Don't let this get muddy. Paul will help
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  Speaker 2: you cut a clear swath. Be sure you know Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Now he's contrasted, he's compared. He comes now to the
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  Speaker 2: source of grace. Look at this. This is so exciting.
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  Speaker 2: Verse twenty. The law came in so that the transgression
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  Speaker 2: would increase. That always surprises people to read that. They
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  Speaker 2: think the law is this wonderful thing that just somehow
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  Speaker 2: frees me. Nor the law condemns me. The law puts
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  Speaker 2: me under the fom of specific don't do this, and
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  Speaker 2: don't do that, and I just do one after another,
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  Speaker 2: proving that I'm a sinner. It increases my awareness of sin,
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  Speaker 2: and I realize how far I am from God without
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  Speaker 2: Christ and my loss forever.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: Verse twenty says where sin increased, grace abound it all
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  Speaker 2: the more. Here we see in verse twenty, grace abounding,
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  Speaker 2: grace bounding. Some have rendered this super abounds where sin abounds,
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  Speaker 2: Grace super abounds where sin increases, Grace super increases. Where
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  Speaker 2: sin brings an awareness, Grace eclipses and overwhelms sin. Where
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  Speaker 2: sin and death reigned as king and queen, Grace came
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  Speaker 2: as the monarch to overthrow both. Grace has come abounding
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  Speaker 2: all the more. You never will get to the end
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  Speaker 2: of his grace. So that as sin reigned in death,
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  Speaker 2: look at the reigning. So as sin reigned in death,
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  Speaker 2: now with the cross, even so Grace would reign through
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  Speaker 2: righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ, our Lord. How
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  Speaker 2: wonderful a message. No more living under the demands of law,
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  Speaker 2: no more exacting requirements of perfection and holiness. Now God
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  Speaker 2: sees me as a sinner in need of hope, and
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  Speaker 2: I trust in His son. And some of you think,
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  Speaker 2: like Mildred, you're gonna go a little wild. You're gonna
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  Speaker 2: get a little wild if you start thinking like that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, after all, where sin abounds, you're liable to
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  Speaker 2: go to the extreme. Watch it. Look at chapter six,
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  Speaker 2: verse one. I'm not gonna go there, but I'm just
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  Speaker 2: gonna introduce it to what's coming. It's a little preview
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  Speaker 2: of coming attract Some of you are thinking, oh no,
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  Speaker 2: we're going into chapter saying look at verse one, just
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  Speaker 2: verse one. What shall we say, then, we who are
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  Speaker 2: under Grace are we to continue in sin that grace
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  Speaker 2: may increase. That's the very thing some of you are
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  Speaker 2: afraid of. And Paul knew it back in the first century.
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  Speaker 2: He says, may it never be perish the thought I
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  Speaker 2: love the way. JB. Phillips said, what a ghastly thought. No, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: no no, it's not that. Grace allows me now to
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  Speaker 2: live under Christ for his glory. I was never able
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  Speaker 2: to do that before. Now I no longer live like
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  Speaker 2: I want to live. That's what I did in Adam.
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  Speaker 2: Now I live as Christ would have me live, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm empowered to do so through the Holy Spirit who
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  Speaker 2: comes to be introduced to us in chapter eight. This
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  Speaker 2: is so good, I think I'm looking at the faces
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  Speaker 2: that are still going. Why now, let me reado you
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  Speaker 2: from the message again. Here it is in a nutshell.
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  Speaker 2: Just as one person did wrong and got us into
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  Speaker 2: all this trouble with sin and death, another person did
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  Speaker 2: right and got us out of it. But more than
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  Speaker 2: just getting us out of trouble, he got us into life.
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  Speaker 2: One man said no to God and put many people
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  Speaker 2: in the wrong. One mand said yes to God and
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  Speaker 2: put many in the right. All that passing laws against
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  Speaker 2: sin did us produce more lawbreakers, but sin didn't and
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  Speaker 2: doesn't have a chance in competition with the aggressive forgiveness
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  Speaker 2: we call grace. When it's sin versus grace, grace wins
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  Speaker 2: hands down. Is great. What you have in verse twenty
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  Speaker 2: one is grace raining. Grace is abounding in verse twenty
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  Speaker 2: and by the time you get to verse twenty one,
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  Speaker 2: grace is raining and calling the shots. In my life,
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  Speaker 2: I have to tell you something. You will live the
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  Speaker 2: rest of your days still trying to believe the magnificent
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  Speaker 2: truths of grace. They would just be constantly washing over
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  Speaker 2: you more and more. I'm told by those who studied
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  Speaker 2: toward the end of his life under Lewis Sperry Chaffer,
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  Speaker 2: founder and president at Dallas Theological Seminary, that he spent
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  Speaker 2: his last days as a teacher in a wheelchair, teaching
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  Speaker 2: from a chair and teaching on grace. It was his
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  Speaker 2: major message. I'm told that at that time, all those
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  Speaker 2: men sitting in the classroom there were only men attending
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  Speaker 2: back in the very early nineteen fifties. Chaffer died in
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  Speaker 2: fifty two before he was able to attend the first
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  Speaker 2: Chapel service named the Chapel named in his honor. The
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  Speaker 2: Fall of fifty two. I'm told that he finished his
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  Speaker 2: lecture and closed his Bible and rolled over to the
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  Speaker 2: light switch, and all the men sat there, raptured turned
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  Speaker 2: the lights out. He said, gentlemen, I spent all my
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  Speaker 2: life studying the grace of God, and I am just
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  Speaker 2: now beginning to understan stand a little of it. And gentlemen,
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  Speaker 2: it is magnificent. Great. You know what's interesting. Every mentor
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  Speaker 2: of mine who studied under doctor Chaefer is a model
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  Speaker 2: of grace. Everyone. It's the one characteristic When you are around,
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  Speaker 2: the charming presence of grace, it bleeds into the life
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  Speaker 2: of another who follows yet another. Tragically, the same is
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  Speaker 2: true of legalism. Some of you have been in the
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  Speaker 2: grip of legalism so long that this message seems alien
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  Speaker 2: and foreign to you. Please believe it, Please hear it,
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  Speaker 2: Let it wash over you, and you will find it
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  Speaker 2: is in fact magnificent, magnificent. Let's bow our heads together.
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  Speaker 2: I have the distinct impression that some hear this today
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  Speaker 2: in many ways for the first time. Oh you've heard
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  Speaker 2: bits and pieces here and there, but you've never really
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  Speaker 2: truly come by faith to Jesus Christ. You've never really
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  Speaker 2: said in your heart. Today, I fully and freely acknowledge
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  Speaker 2: that I've never trusted Christ for eternal life. I've never
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  Speaker 2: moved out of death and out of the realm of
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  Speaker 2: sin into a place of the victory of grace. Others
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  Speaker 2: of you would have to admit. You're more like Mildred
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  Speaker 2: than George. You've been afraid of it. You are therefore
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  Speaker 2: under the constant guilt and demand of your conscience. When
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  Speaker 2: the Lord comes with this abounding grace to free you,
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  Speaker 2: you resisted. I speak to both of you. You need help,
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  Speaker 2: you need to find the answer. The answer is the
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  Speaker 2: same for both. It's grace for you who are without Christ.
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  Speaker 2: It's grace and salvation for you who know the Lord
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  Speaker 2: but have never really walked in the freedom there is
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  Speaker 2: in Christ. It's a grace of sanctification, a grace of growth,
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  Speaker 2: grace of joy. Trust Him now, won't you? If you
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  Speaker 2: know someone who doesn't know the Savior, this might be
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  Speaker 2: the weak for you to be the charming presence of
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  Speaker 2: the Gospel. Just present it, let the Lord use. It
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  Speaker 2: comes not by a push, but by a pull. And
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  Speaker 2: what a great thing to have it said of you
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  Speaker 2: that you charm them into righteousness. It is well with
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  Speaker 2: our souls, our Father, because we have found a peace
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  Speaker 2: that we could find in no other place. And we
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  Speaker 2: love you for introducing yourself to us through someone who
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  Speaker 2: loved us enough to tell us the truth. Help us,
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  Speaker 2: our Father, somehow to find a way to overcome the
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  Speaker 2: ugliness of legalism, to reach people who have been offended
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  Speaker 2: by the Church, that we might help them understand the beauty,
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  Speaker 2: the joy, the love, the forgiveness that is ours in Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Help us to be Christ to them, find in us
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  Speaker 2: a winsome spirit and a heart willing to charm people
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  Speaker 2: to righteousness.
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  Speaker 3: Than to push them and offend them.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Father, we pray that those without the Savior will
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  Speaker 3: And peace in Christ. We leave them with you now
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  Speaker 3: the name of Jesus himself. Pray everyone said, Amen.
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