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#10232 - God Has Done So Much For Us - Exodus 25:8-30 · Calvary Church with Ed Taylor Podcast

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  Welcome to the study of God's Word with pastor and author Ed
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  Taylor, recorded live at Calvary Church in Aurora, Co.
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  To learn more about the many resources available through
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  visit us online at Calvary Co dot Church or download our free
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  Calvary Church app. Now here's Pastor Ed to take us
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  into our study. Amen.
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  Open your Bibles Exodus chapter. 25 Exodus chapter 25 we're going
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  to pick up where we left off last time in verse 8 and I've
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  been. Taught at our Bible study God.
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  Has done so much for us. God has done so much.
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  For us, we're. Slowing down.
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  Our study a bit. In Exodus, as we learn about the
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  Tabernacle, it's significance as a place of.
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  Worship what God has prescribed. On how?
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  It's to be built the. Contents.
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  They're in. It is the place of worship, the
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  place where the people of God will gather.
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  Around it is the point of contact for worship for this new
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  nation, and God instructs them to build a temporary movable
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  tent that will serve as their gathering place.
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  Of worship their whole lives we're to be.
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  Surrounding this place of worship isn't that cool.
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  You were built and. Created to worship to worship.
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  The one true God, the. The idea of worship.
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  Not just in music, not just in song, but in life.
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  Worship is the very highest activity.
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  That we could ever attain. To that place of.
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  Adoration and appreciation of God.
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  You can jot it down in Revelation chapter 4 in verse
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  11. I'm going to read to you from
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  the old King James, because it does, really.
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  Well, with the with the. In the translation here.
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  Revelation 411. Thou art worthy, old Lord, to
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  receive. Glory and honor and.
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  Power for thou has. Created all things and listen.
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  For thy pleasure. They are and were created.
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  You and I were created to bring pleasure to God.
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  That, that is our. Existence that our lives might
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  please the one who. Created us.
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  When a person. Follows God, he or she.
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  Comes to admire him and know him in a deeper way and love him
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  more. And that love continues.
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  To grow with each day. And it's through that growing
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  love relationship. That worship flows actually
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  everything that we do the Bible. Says in work, in play.
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  Throughout the. Day should be done in.
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  Worship to the Lord. How many?
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  Would see just a little bit. Of an edge taken off at work.
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  If you would approach work as a place of worship.
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  Unto the Lord. Where your life would.
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  Honor God in that little. Cubicle with that stack of
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  papers or with every. Single phone call that you
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  received For many years I worked in a call center and I had just
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  had a headset and a computer just shooting calls at me all
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  day. Truly I could.
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  I had no and if I tried to to cut some calls off to improve my
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  time. My supervisor would always.
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  Find out and I would just get. Call after call after call.
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  And it would be very. Hard to see a. 1000 calls a day
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  is worship to God, but when I was born again I saw that those
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  thousand calls put food on the table for my family.
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  It put me in position where I could be kind to them and help
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  them with what they were calling to find out and everything in
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  life. How many?
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  You don't need to answer this, but how many of you need a
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  attitude adjustment about your? Work there.
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  Is an Amen in there. There was a lot of them.
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  Not me, not me, not me. That's exactly you.
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  The Bible says this in Colossians chapter 3.
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  Whatever you do in. Word or deed do all.
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  In the name of the. Lord Jesus.
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  Giving thanks to God the. Father through.
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  Him, the nation of Israel. Then with this Tabernacle they
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  were being trained, or the word we may use today they were
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  being. Discipled.
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  The nation of Israel then and the Church of God in the New
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  Covenant today are being trained A disciple to.
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  Base your. Lives upon the relational
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  worship of God, putting God first in your life.
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  Jesus would say. He made it.
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  Very clear of all the. Desperation to find balance in
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  this world and all the desperation and decisions we
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  need to make and. What are the Bible says that our
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  priority is to. Seek first God's Kingdom and all
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  His righteousness. These other things will be added
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  unto you. That Tabernacle would be the
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  center. The nation of Israel would camp
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  around the Tabernacle, as they were reminded.
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  Of the worship of God. Now turn over, hold your place
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  in Exodus and turn over with me to John chapter 1 and verse 14.
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  I want you to cross reference. This verse with our study.
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  Over the next many weeks in the Tabernacle, which just means
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  tent Tabernacle. And notice with me in verse 14
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  of John's Gospel chapter 1. The Bible declares the word.
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  Became flesh and dwelt among us, and we.
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  Beheld His glory, The glory is of.
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  The only begotten of the Father, full of grace and.
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  Truth circle, that word dwelt. Next to that.
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  Word you could write. A verb tabernacled.
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  You could say that Jesus. Came in the form of a human
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  being and dwelt or tabernacled before us and among us.
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  When we study the Tabernacle, I want you to remember.
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  Each of the pieces. Will point in some way to
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  Messiah now. I don't.
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  Believe that God was. Expecting the nation of Israel
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  to sit around and take notes and figure it out.
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  But rather, he was. Giving insight in their
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  understanding of worship. That as that was being
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  deposited. In them God would then continue
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  to open their hearts in the expectation for God to keep his
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  promises so that by the time we come to John one we learn that
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  Jesus. Christ He.
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  Took on a human Tabernacle, and he dwelt among us.
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  For you that are no. Takers, we looked at.
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  This last time, but let me. Repeat it for you.
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  So you can capture. It as we go forward, but there
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  are. Similarities between the
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  Tabernacle and Jesus #1 the Tabernacle was.
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  Temporary. It served a very specific
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  purpose for a specific. Time later on, the temple would
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  come as a more permanent form of worship.
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  Jesus He. Dwelt among us also for a short
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  time in his human body on. Earth 33 years.
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  Tabernacle temporary #2 The Tabernacle was in the
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  wilderness, and Even so, Jesus. With our Lord he dwelt.
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  In the wilderness, not having a. Place to lay his head, Thirdly.
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  The Tabernacle was humble in appearance and we'll.
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  See that as we study it. There was nothing about it
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  outwardly when you looked at the Tabernacle, especially as it was
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  picked up and moved and taken along and taken out and picked
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  back together over and over again.
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  When you looked at the Tabernacle, it looked like a big
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  tent, one that was used over and over again.
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  It was covered with. Animal skins and looked similar
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  to many of the tents of the day. Much like Jesus, the Bible says
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  that he was. Humble in appearance, taking the
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  form of a. Servant Isaiah 53 verse.
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  Two, says this of Messiah. For he shall grow up before.
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  Us as a tender plant and as a root out of dry ground.
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  He has no form or comeliness and when we see him there is no.
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  Beauty that we should. Desire him #4 The Tabernacle was
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  God's dwelling place among men. The Tabernacle was God's
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  dwelling place among men. We see today.
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  Notice in chapter 25 in verse 8 of.
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  Exodus, it says let. Them make me a sanctuary that I
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  may dwell among them. It was.
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  The Tabernacle where God would meet.
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  His people, Jesus. Emmanuel, we know that means.
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  God is. With us, among us Jesus came and
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  dwelt, among us, Jesus our only mediator between God and man.
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  The touchable, the huggable, the.
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  Lovable God wrapped in human flesh as we were on our tour on
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  the footsteps of. Paul.
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  Some of the. Stops.
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  Were these very elaborate? Church buildings in Rome.
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  Very elaborate. Catholic.
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  Church buildings and one of them, we were walking out and
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  there were these big confessionals here and the team
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  was in there looking and taking their pictures and I stayed
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  back. At the door, as people.
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  Were walking out and I was just standing there reminding them I
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  said you don't need a box. You have one mediator between
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  God and man, the man Christ Jesus.
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  You don't confess to a man, you don't sit in a box.
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  You can go directly to the throne room of grace to find
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  help and time of need. Isn't that great?
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  Jesus is our only mediator, and He is the dwelling place of God
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  among men. You come to Him and you have it
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  all. You don't need to go through
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  man. Don't ever go through man.
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  You can go. Directly to the Father.
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  Through the Son in the. Power of the Holy Spirit.
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  Very important. Tabernacle was God's dwelling
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  place #5. The Tabernacle provided the
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  sacrifice place for. Sin.
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  It was in the Tabernacle where the daily offerings for the sin
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  of the nation were offered. Jesus on the cross, as we will
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  learn this weekend, was the sacrifice place for the sins of
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  all mankind as Jesus was nailed on the cross and died for us in
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  Hebrews Chapter 7, verse 20. 6 for such a high.
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  Priest was fitting for us. Who's holy, harmless, undefiled,
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  separate from sinners? Who has become higher than the
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  heavens? Who does not need?
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  Daily as those high priests to OfferUp sacrifices.
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  First for his own sins and then for the peoples.
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  For Speaking of Jesus, He did once for all when He offered up
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  himself. Let's pick up in verse 8 again,
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  and let's study now the Ark of the Covenant, verse 8.
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  Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.
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  According to all that I show you, that is the pattern.
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  Of the Tabernacle and the pattern of all its furnishings.
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  Just so you shall make it now, verse 9.
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  We're not going to get into this in depth, but it is good to
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  comment here and remind you. That God requires.
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  Obedience according to His way and will, not yours.
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  So when he says something, he wants it done his way.
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  That was a very quick. I want you to do it and and it
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  would. Be very easy.
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  To come to something that. Is.
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  Being asked to by being asked from you and go I.
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  Could do it better I. Already know how to do this and
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  it's just a tent. I mean how hard is it as a tent
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  just so I can make it faster and I can make it cheaper and you
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  know God, I could do 3 tents for you but that's not what.
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  God said. God said.
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  I want you to make this. This is where I'm going to
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  dwell, and I want you to do it. Exactly as I tell you, I believe
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  that's a word. For someone here, someone
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  listening in, watching online. It is God's desire.
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  For you to do things his way, not your way.
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  It's a very. Frustrating thing for you to.
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  Offer God. Compromise instead of obedience.
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  And they were not to compromise on these things when he gave
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  instructions the expectation. Was that they do exactly what he
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  said. Verse 10.
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  They shall make an arc of Acacia.
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  Wood. 2 1/2 cubits shall be its length a cubit and a half, its
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  width A cubit and 1/2. Its height and you shall overlay
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  it with pure gold. Inside and out you shall overlay
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  it and shall make on it a molding of gold all around.
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  You shall cast four rings of gold for it and put them in its
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  four corners. Two rings shall be on one side,
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  2 rings on the other side, and you shall make.
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  Poles of Acacia wood overlay. Them with Gold.
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  Verse 14 You shall put the poles into the rings on the side of
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  the ark, and the ark may be carried by them.
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  The pole shall be in the rings of the ark, they shall not be
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  taken from it, And you shall put into the ark the testimony which
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  I. Give you.
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  You shall make a mercy. Seat of pure gold. 2 1/2 cubits
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  shall be its length, a cubit and 1/2.
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  Its width. And you shall make 2 cherubim of
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  gold hammered work. You shall make them at the 2
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  ends of the mercy seat. Make one cherub at one end and
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  the other cherub at the other end.
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  You should make the cherubim at the 2 ends of it one piece with
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  the mercy seat the cherubim. Shall stretch out their.
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  Wings above, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and they
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  shall face one another. The faces of the.
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  Cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat.
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  You shall, verse 21, put the mercy seat on top of the ark,
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  and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I will give you.
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  And there I will meet. With you and I will.
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  Speak with. You from above the mercy seat,
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  from between the two cherubim which were on the Ark of the
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  Covenant, or the Ark of the testimony, of all the things
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  which I give you in the commandment of the children of
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  Israel. Essentially the ark of the.
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  Covenant, The Ark of Testimony was a small box.
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  Four by two by two. Feet in dimension overlaid in
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  pure gold inside and out with a molding.
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  The rings were on either side of the four corners.
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  Poles were set through. To carry the ark, the priest
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  would put the poles through the. Rings and inside we learn.
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  Later will be 3. Items A copy of the 10
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  commandments, Aaron's rod, and a jar of manna.
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  Now here's where the typology. Gets interesting right here in
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  the beginning. Acacia would throughout the
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  scriptures would is used to describe a type or a picture of.
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  Humanity. Or flesh.
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  Sometimes in a negative way, but many times humanity.
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  This wood, Acacia wood is overlaid.
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  In gold, which speaks of. Gold deity.
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  And royalty. So here you have a.
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  Box made of wood. Humanity.
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  But overlaid with gold. Deity and royalty speaking again
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  of who? Messiah 100% God.
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  Fully man, fully God. Acacia wood was a harder, darker
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  wood that would. Last long and take a beating.
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  Jesus, He himself, being eternal one in his humanity, took a
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  beating for us. Acacia Wood was able.
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  To draw grow in dry arid climates in Isaiah. 53 verse.
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  Two. Speaking of.
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  Messiah, the Bible says, for he shall.
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  Grow up before him as a tender plant and as a root out of dry
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  ground. He has no form or comeliness and
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  when we see him, there's no beauty.
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  Acacia wood, The Bush. Also had thorns what would be
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  twisted in the head of in the. Skull of our Savior A.
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  Crown of Thorns. The Acacia wood also had a
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  unique. Property that the Bedouins
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  would. Pierce the Bush for the.
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  Gum resin that resided in its trunk.
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  They would take that. Resin and use it as a healing
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  balm for their cuts and their bruises and their pains.
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  Isaiah 53 verse. Five.
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  He was wounded for our transgression.
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  He was bruised. For our iniquities, the
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  chastisement of our peace was upon him, and.
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  By his stripes we. Are healed now, you'll recall in
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  the New Testament there will be an occasion, even on one
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  occasion. Particularly where Jesus rebukes
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  the religious leaders. Telling them they should have
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  known the day of his coming. They should have known he was
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  Messiah, not only in his revelation, but beginning very
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  early on in the. Scriptures.
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  The Bible is. Pointing it is the story of the
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  coming. Rescuer of God.
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  Something as simple as the Ark of the Testimony with notice on
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  verse 17 now has a. Lid the box does.
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  The lid is known as the Mercy seat on it.
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  To have two cherubs. Or you'll notice in your Bible
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  it says cherubim because I am is the plural.
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  For cherub, but cherub. Is an Angel.
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  It was to have two cherubs. A form of an Angel on either.
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  Side their wings are to be outstretched.
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  Put it on top. Put the mercy seat on top, but
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  inside put the testimony. So this glorious piece of.
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  Furniture is the first to be built.
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  The first instruction, the first thing I want you to make for
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  this place where I'm going to meet you is not the walls, not
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  the poles, not the side. The first thing God says I want
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  you to do is I want you to create and make.
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  The place where I. Will meet you and speak to you
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  at the mercy. Seat, that's what it.
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  Says notice in verse 22 I will meet you.
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  That's. There.
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  Is where I will meet you and speak to you from above the
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  mercy seat. This is the only time we read of
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  God meeting at a specific location and promising to meet
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  there regularly is on this particular box.
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  This box was God's. Solution to the gulf between man
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  and. Himself.
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  This was the place where their failures were covered by.
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  Reference you can read through Leviticus chapter 16.
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  For all the details, the blood was.
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  Sprinkled on the mercy. Seat so that the law.
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  Inside the testimony, the law inside that once condemned the.
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  People was covered by the blood. It's amazing.
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  God is saying I will meet you and I will speak with you and I
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  will. Give to you.
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  And I will. Be there with you.
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  And I will honor my word with you, which reminds us, as we
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  think of the ark, of the testimony, we think of Jesus.
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  God is the initiator. As men and women, we take far
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  too much. Credit for all that, God.
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  Has done for us and all God continues to do for.
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  Us, we take far. Too much credit, anything that
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  we. Have to offer to God is what He
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  has first. Given us anything that we have
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  learned. He's taught us.
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  Any good gift we receive has come from our Father, from our
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  Father in heaven, our. Father of Lights, the Bible
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  says. God is the initiator, and He
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  will do for man what man cannot do for himself.
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  This is the essence of. Pride, by the way.
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  The essence of pride is thinking that you can do what only God
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  can do and beginning to. Offer that as if.
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  You're God or greater than. God, but God is gracious.
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  With us. And he does.
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  For us, what we cannot do for. Ourselves and we Fast forward
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  today it's a. Perfect.
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  I love how God weaves together our Bible studies.
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  Both on the weekends as well as and our midweek, he just weaves
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  them together. His perfect timing travels when
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  I'm away. The guest teachers all the words
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  that God has for us. And then he puts it.
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  Together because as we Fast forward today.
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  Christianity is not based on what man can do.
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  It is not a man's works centered relationship or religion.
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  At although. Men have made it that and large
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  religious systems are based. Their authority or their?
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  Teachings on the efforts and energies of men.
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  The best that we can offer to God.
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  Is stumbling around in the darkness and perhaps, you know,
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  here or there we might end up doing something.
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  Right. But truly all.
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  Man can do is stumble around. The gospel is not a message of
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  working hard, and the gospel is not a message of reading much or
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  singing. Louder or.
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  Making. Sure the that.
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  I am attending church and somebody sees me.
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  No, no, no. Remember, we read in Psalm 9 the
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  blessing. Goes to those that are.
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  Seeking him, not seeking something from him, but just
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  seeking him, not trying to. OfferUp, look what I've.
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  Done for you, God. Look how important I am.
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  Look how much I've done for you. Somehow obligating God.
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  No, no, no, no, no, God says. Build it this box, this way out
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  of this wood, with this gold. Make sure you got the rings and
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  the poles make. Sure, the lid is built.
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  Built a certain way. It's got to be this
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  specification. Put the testimony and I'll tell
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  you what to put in. It's going to be the law.
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  Put that in, cover it, and that's where I'm going to speak
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  to you right on top. Of the law I supersede.
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  Even. The law, God would say.
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  And we come to. God because of what?
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  He has done not because what we have done it's that.
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  Way every day of the week. How can I come to God, though?
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  I haven't kept his commandments. Nobody comes here today that
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  would have clean hands, and here we are.
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  I've kept all your commandments, Lord.
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  No, you haven't. We've all sinned and fallen
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  short. Of the glory of God.
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  How do we come to him? Is it because we've kept?
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  The commandments no the. For the Ark of the.
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  Covenant when they would come to the Tabernacle and come to the
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  Ark, they don't come because. Of the law, because the law is.
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  Hidden in the box, they don't even see it.
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  They know it's there, but it's not be to be seen or to be read.
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  It's to be. It's to.
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  Sit there under the lid. But that was no ordinary.
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  Lid. It was the place where God.
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  Would meet them the mercy. Seat covered.
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  By the blood, only Jesus kept the law.
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  Only Jesus has a. Perfect pedigree.
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  The Bible. Says in Psalm 40 verse. 8I
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  delight to do your will. Oh my God, and your?
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  Law is. Within my heart in John chapter
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  8 verse 29, Jesus said, And he who sent me is with me.
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  The Father has not left me alone.
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  For I always do. Those things that please him.
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  The Ark of the Covenant is a stark reminder.
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  Of all that Jesus. Has done for me.
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  All that he has. Accomplished on my behalf all
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  that he is currently doing in my stead, interceding for me,
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  pleading for me, standing against the.
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  Accuser of the. Brethren, on my behalf, and I
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  come to the Father in Christ, not in my works.
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  I come to the Father in the under the mercy that God has
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  shown me that I did not, and by. The way as I say.
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  I did not. The same is true for you.
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  I did not receive. What I deserved?
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  Instead, I received the mercy. Of God.
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  And the patience of God, I think of every single person here
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  that's represented in the room that has been.
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  Invited to our services by you because you.
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  Love them and you care about them and you care not only about
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  who they are now, but for their eternity.
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  You want them to. Hear about God's love.
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  For them, and whether they say yes or no to your invite, that's
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  not really what's so significant in your role at least.
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  Because for you, hey, what do we do?
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  We plant. We.
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  Water, but whose gives the? Increase God every time God.
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  So we just, we're faithful. Let God do.
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  What he needs to do with however those invites?
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  Go but why do? We invite them because we know
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  that when they. Hear the gospel.
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  It has the power of God. The gospel is the.
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  Power of God to change their lives.
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  And why is it that God? Gives them a chance right now, a
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  few days. Let's just say that he.
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  Doesn't return and we have services.
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  Well, why does he? Give them the time because he's
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  being merciful with them. They every moment of every day.
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  They're not receiving what they deserve.
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  They're receiving the mercy of God even outside of
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  relationship. Now how much more?
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  As we approach God. We come to the mercy seat, not
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  the judgement seat. We come to the mercy seat you
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  see most. Believers have it backwards.
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  Once you get this straight, it's going to open up a channel in
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  your life that will blow your mind and your relationship with
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  God. You can ask some that live under
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  the authority and the. Beauty of the grace of.
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  God and they'll tell you what freedom there is in following
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  Christ. And you don't want to have this
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  backwards, but most. Do they live like this?
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  I'll meet God in the ark. That's what.
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  That's where. I need to be in the ark.
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  I'll keep the commandments. I'll be a good little.
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  Boy and a good little girl and I'll make people proud of me and
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  I'll get noticed and people will see me.
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  It's in all of us. You know, we did some training
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  recently. I just, my heart can be so dark
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  sometimes and it's not even a big deal.
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  But the Lord just showing me we did some training here.
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  We we went on the trip. I did it when I got back and and
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  you have to take a test at the end. 25 questions.
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  I think they were. Why do I know they're 25
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  questions? Because I paid attention to them
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  25 And so I'm answering the questions after the little video
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  training. Click, click, click and I'm
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  waiting because it doesn't tell you.
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  What's your score? What's your?
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  Score, just want to let you know, 100 percent, 100%.
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  So I come back to the stop me today.
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  What do I say? Hey I just want to let everybody
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  know what my score. Was what was your score?
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  80 and over here and I and I remember when I sent it in the
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  person I sent it in to shot a little e-mail back.
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  Good job 100%. What was my response?
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  I wish there was some extra credit questions because I'm
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  like an A+ plus kind of person. Now where does that come from?
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  It's the same thing I'm talking here.
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  This sense of, you know, God, I'll please you.
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  I'll get an A plus. Plus.
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  I'll make you proud of me when all the while in Christ, He
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  loves me. If I scored a 0.
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  On that test, he loves me. If I had to retake it over and
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  over again, the test isn't the point.
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  It really wasn't the point. The point wasn't and I, I really
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  didn't take it for that, although it did trigger in me,
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  my flesh. I really was paying attention.
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  I really did want to learn the subject matter.
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  It's very important. For the oversight of this.
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  Church. And I did want to learn it, and
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  that's why. I took it out of.
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  Relationship. But just a little test.
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  At the end can provoke the flesh, and that's how life is
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  sometimes with the Lord. I know your motives.
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  Are to please the. Lord and honor him not to earn
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  favor, but you know there are all those little temptations to
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  try to one up someone and your neighbor got an A minus.
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  You want an A+ or your neighbor. And I, when I mean neighbor, I
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  don't mean who you live next to. I mean the person you're seeing
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  to right here. It's like, you know, they got a
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  compliment. I want 2 compliments.
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  If someone saw that, I want to be seen.
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  We approach God wanting to be seen.
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  We approach God wanting to earn. You have it all wrong.
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  You don't meet God in the ark. You meet God on the ark, on the
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  lid, in the place of mercy, not judgement.
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  Let me show. You this is very clear.
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  Turn over to Romans chapter 3. We have a few moments still and
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  you can see why we're going to slow down.
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  These are so important. I don't want to just go through
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  them quickly. Notice with me Romans chapter 3.
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  When you get there pick up in verse 21.
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  I want to meet God in the mercy seat.
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  I don't want to meet him at the place of judgement at the.
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  Law. The law.
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  Is unable to make me righteous and my keeping of the law does
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  not make me righteous. It's not in the ark I meet God,
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  it's on it. Notice verse 21 Romans chapter
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  3. But now the righteousness.
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  Of God apart. From the Law is revealed, being
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  witnessed by the law and the prophets, even the
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  righteousness. Of God is what through say with
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  me church through. Faith in Jesus Christ to all and
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  on all mark this who believe there's no difference, for all
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  have sinned and fall short of the.
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  Glory of God being justified freely how?
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  By his grace it is. All over the Bible.
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  So many have it backwards. You're trying to earn God's
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  favor. You're approaching God with such
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  a. Deep works based.
• 29:29
  It comes out in so many different ways, perfectionism,
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  pride, striving for positions or notoriety and just unable.
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  To ever be happy with what you have to offer.
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  God and wanting to one up and you got the A, You want the A+
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  instead of resting in the Lord. But it's even worse when it
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  comes. To your spiritual life you
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  either believe that the blood of Jesus.
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  Christ is all sufficient or you don't.
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  There's no middle ground. It's what?
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  God has done for us, he says. Notice, and this is important in
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  verse 25, well really in verse 24, at the end through the
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  redemption, that's in Christ Jesus whom God set forth and
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  there's a big word. There.
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  To be a propitiation propitiation.
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  Circle that word. You can write next to it atoning
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  sacrifice. Or.
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  You want to know, you know, and how this connects with our Bible
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  study. You could write next to it.
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  Mercy seat. Jesus is our mercy.
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  Seat. Our atoning sacrifice.
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  His blood, it says verse. 25 He's the propitiation, he's the
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  offering, he's the satisfaction of God's wrath.
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  He's the place where. He will meet God, meet God will
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  meet with you, God will. Forgive you.
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  God will cleanse you where? At the mercy seat at Christ.
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  It says it's through his blood, through faith.
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  Demonstrate His righteousness. Because of his.
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  Forbearance or his mercy, His patience.
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  That God. Has passed over the sins that
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  were previously committed. Righteousness of God apart from
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  the law is revealed. God rushes in to rescue and to
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  help us and deliver us from ourselves.
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  We don't use that word. Propitiation.
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  I'm glad they kept it in the old King and the new King James.
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  It's an old King James word. They kept it in the new King
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  James. And I want you.
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  I want you to remember. It because it's so odd.
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  We don't use it anywhere else except in the church.
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  It speaks of atoning victim. Or as I said.
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  Already the mercy seat, Jesus is our propitiation.
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  You and I should have died, but instead he died and hung on the
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  cross. He suffered for me, He hung in
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  agony for me. He gave his life.
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  For me, Confucius didn't hang on a.
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  Cross Buddha. Didn't hang on a cross.
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  Muhammad didn't hang on a. Cross Jesus.
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  Hung on a cross for you and me. That's why he can say he's the
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  way. And the truth and the life, and
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  no one comes to the Father except through him.
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  That's the whole heart, the whole idea.
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  It's not a narrow minded statement at times, you know.
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  Jesus will be accused. Of being narrow minded.
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  You and I will be accused of being narrow minded, but when it
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  comes to matters of your own soul, you're going to want to
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  know the truth. And there is only one way God is
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  giving us the picture. Come back with me now to Exodus.
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  This is the only place that the children of Israel would meet
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  with God during this season. This is it.
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  This is the only place where their sins would be dealt with
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  on the mercy seat. The mercy seat that.
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  Covers the law that covers the law God will provide his
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  perfect. Son, and the question is, will
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  you receive or reject him for the children of Israel coming
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  out of Egypt coming out of. All this idolatry, all these.
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  Foreign gods. It was.
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  All of them you know that you're going to see in our study even
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  later they they came out of Egypt but it.
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  Was hard to get. Egypt out of them, you and I,
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  we've come out of the. World, but there's this work.
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  Of God, of getting the world out of us, purifying us, changing
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  us, transforming our minds, renewing our minds, washing our
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  lives. We can leave.
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  The world, but we're still. In the world, and much of the
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  world is still in US and God. Says this is the way.
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  I want you to make. It this way.
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  Well, why God? Which is an interesting
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  question. I'm very grateful.
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  That God allows us to ask it, but it's.
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  Really not a question he's obligated to answer.
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  Well, let me explain it to you, son.
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  Everything. No, I told you what to.
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  Just do it. Make the box.
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  Get the right wood, get the gold, put the.
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  Rings there's a right way and a wrong way and you want to do it
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  the right way. It's a very simple lessons here
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  because it matters. It matters that the testimony
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  was inside not Well, you know, I want to rearrange the.
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  Box a little bit, let's take the.
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  Testimony out and we'll put it up on the angels.
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  It'll look really nice and no. There's a.
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  Reason why it's in the box because the law can't save you.
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  The law is unable to save you. The law has only been.
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  Kept by. The mercy seat.
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  It's sealed in the box by the mercy seat.
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  The mercy seat pointing to the propitiation to come, the one
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  way of salvation, the precise fulfillment.
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  Of God's prophetic. Promises of coming Messiah one
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  way, one man, the eternal Son of.
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  God, the cross of Jesus Christ is the place where you.
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  Will find forgiveness and love and help with the sin that is so
• 35:11
  completely devastated. Your life.
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  As we leave here today and we enter into the beauty of this
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  coming weekend and we just think about his death and burial and
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  resurrection, I want you to leave here just thinking God has
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  done so much for you. He's done so much.
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  He's so faithful to us. Even when we are faithless, He
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  remains faithful. And you can come to Him at any
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  time and any moment. And you can cast your lives upon
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  the mercy of that's not, that's not how I was taught or that's
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  not how my home was. And we were taught this and we
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  were taught that. And I understand we all have
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  received inaccurate teachings. Throughout our lives.
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  But God has put me in your life. To declare to you to the truth.
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  To undo all those false teachings, introduce.
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  You to the God who loves you, that Jesus Christ fulfills all
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  that the Bible. Says and even in the.
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  Early stages as God is. Forming the nation, delivering
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  them out of Egypt from their slavery, from their bondage,
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  parting the Red Sea, bringing them in, taking care of their
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  every need, even in their faithlessness.
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  He continues to take care of everything because he has a plan
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  and a purpose and even today, if you have why God know this God
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  is not obligated to answer that question, although he may, but I
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  can say this I'm so. Grateful that you're so close to
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  God. That you would ask?
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  Him why he's the. Right one to ask, he's the right
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  one to come. To he's the right.
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  One to yield your life. To.
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  It's not what we have done for him, it's not what we will do
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  for him, but man, God has done so much for us and we are
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  grateful. Amen.
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  So Lord, thank you for this little section not even covering
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  everything that I wanted to. Cover, but so be it.
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  You're enough. You have done so much for us,
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  and may we be overwhelmed with a sense of your love and mercy in
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  our lives. Let us come to the mercy seat
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  today, the One who died and rose again for us.
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  We love you, Jesus, forgive. Us for thinking that our good
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  works in any way would merit all that you've done for us.
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  Somehow we make You owe us. You don't owe.
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  US. We owe you.
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  May we live out our lives and humility and brokenness before
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  you, Lord, Enjoying you even as we have failed, Lord, and we
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  fall short. Certainly I think of just a
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  little thing with a test revealing my heart.
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  Why? Why is it such a big deal?
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  Why? Is it such a big deal?
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  And I just yield. That to you, Lord I.
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  Pray in my life, you say. I said in Psalm 139, Hey, search
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  me and know me. Reveal to me if there's any
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  unclean thing and I pray. That over us as.
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  We come on this midweek study, we press in.
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  Lord, we desire to know you, to learn from you to, to set aside,
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  to, to. Seek you together, bless your.
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  Children tonight, bless the kids, are going to wake up with
• 38:51
  a bad. Attitude because they.
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  Were up a little late tonight. But so be it, Lord, they
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  received your word. They're.
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  Learning how important it is to be in fellowship.
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  They're learning what it is to be in the.
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  House of the Lord they're. Learning what it is to seek
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  first the Kingdom of God. They're learning.
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  What it is to rely? Upon you when we're tired and
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  rely upon you when we're weak. There's so many lessons that we
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  get to learn as we yield ourselves to you.
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  So thank you God, you've done so much.
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  You do so much for us wreck our. Schedules, Lord.
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  And our agendas and our little things to keep peace when.
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  You are our peace. You.
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  Are our sufficiency and we. Follow you, Lord.
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  If you're here today, you've never given your life to Jesus.
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  I invite you to do that. Come to the propitiation.
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  What a great word to learn on the night you get.
• 39:52
  Saved that Jesus is the. Place where God meets you, your
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  Creator, where your sins are forgiven, where your life is
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  given meaning and purpose and focus.
• 40:05
  At the cross, the blood of. Jesus Christ cleanses us from
• 40:09
  all sin. And I'm going to give you an
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  opportunity today. If you'd say, pastor, I want to
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  be born again, I want to follow Jesus my life, would you just
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  stand to your feet? I want to pray with you.
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  And that includes you guys watching or listening.
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  The Lord sees and knows the privilege of your response.
• 40:27
  I was even reading in my DeVos this morning.
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  Jesus said if you come to him, I won't.
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  He says I won't cast you out. That's his word to.
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  You, you come to me. I won't cast you out.
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  I won't push you aside. I receive you.
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  Jesus inviting you to follow Him.
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  Anyone here? Today would be the day.
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  So good, so faithful, so reliable.
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  Lord, we pray that. As you move upon the hearts.
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  Of your people. As the wrestlings and the
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  fightings take. Place.
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  There would be a surrender, something that some area, some
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  issues, some we've been holding back.
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  Oh, you revealed something. Why is it so important?
• 41:39
  We can hear heaven say. Why so important?
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  And then we go, I don't know. Lord, forgive me help my own
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  belief. So I pray over our church today,
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  Lord. Help our unbelief, that we might
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  be the men and women you desire us to be.
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  And for those that respond anywhere and everywhere, you can
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  ask God to forgive you. You can say God forgive me of my
• 42:05
  sins. I believe you sent Jesus to die
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  for me, and I believe He rose again from the dead to save my
• 42:13
  soul. God will hear you and then come
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  up and talk to one of the pastors.
• 42:20
  Talk to a. Believer in your life, share
• 42:25
  your life with them. Tell them about what God's doing
• 42:29
  and what you're hearing and what you're sensing.
• 42:32
  Pastors will even be up here if you want to pray.
• 42:35
  Just really need to wrestle with an issue in your life.
• 42:44
  Leave here with appreciation. Of all that God has done for
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  you, we pray that you've been encouraged by this Bible study
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  delivered live from the sanctuary of Calvary Church for
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  prayer. Call us at 87730 Grace that's
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