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383 | Because of His Great Love, We Can All be Saved · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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  Music.
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  Hello, friends, and welcome back to another podcast of Woman at the Well Ministries,
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  where we believe that all of us have to come to Jesus like the woman at the well in John chapter 4.
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  Our highest priority is making God real in your life.
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  Whether you are listening in our app, in your favorite podcasting app,
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  or on our website at watwm.org, we invite you to sit down with us as we look
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  to the scriptures to learn more about God and to strengthen your daily walk with Jesus Christ.
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  Living a life for Christ. She's a happy girl.
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  Music.
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  She's a happy girl.
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  We all need Jesus. It doesn't matter whether you believe it or not.
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  Without Him, we are all lost. We have all fallen short of His glory,
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  and there is nothing we can do to pay the sin debt we owe.
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  But God, in His infinite love, sent His Son, who willingly laid down His life for our sins.
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  Because of his great love, we can be saved from God's wrath and make heaven our eternal home.
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  Join Kim in this podcast of Woman at the Well Ministries as she takes us on
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  a journey through the scriptures, revealing God's incredible love for each of us.
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  Hello and welcome to this podcast of Woman at the Well Ministries.
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  I wonder those of you who listen to me and have given your life to the Lord,
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  have you ever just thought about what it means to be saved?
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  I believe that sometimes we just have to go back in our heart and in our mind
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  and really reflect on what God did for us.
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  I think it instills in us a greater motivation
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  and an inspiration to tell those who
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  don't know him because you see having a
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  personal relationship with jesus christ is the result of giving your life to
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  him and being saved is so much more than just fire insurance it's so much more
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  than on the end of life we have the opportunity to go to heaven as opposed to spend eternity in hell.
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  Being saved is such an incredible phrase.
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  We say it in a vernacular of church and religion as saved, salvation.
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  We've been saved from our sins because of Jesus Christ.
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  But I want you to know that knowing Jesus Christ in a personal way,
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  having him as your best friend,
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  having him as your king, having him as your Lord, having a personal relationship
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  with the Holy Spirit that dwells inside of you is what makes this life tolerable,
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  bearable, and worth living.
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  The hymn writer had it right when they said, I could face tomorrow because he lives.
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  I want you to know that I can face tomorrow, not only because he lives,
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  but because he lives in me.
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  Jesus loves me. This I know, for the Bible tells me so.
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  Friends, having a personal relationship is so incredible when we have it with Jesus Christ.
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  Now, I know I have people in my
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  circle that don't believe that there's a
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  need for salvation but whether or
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  not you believe it doesn't change it because john
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  3 7 says marvel not that i say unto
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  thee ye must be born again
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  isaiah 64 6
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  says but we are all as an unclean thing and all
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  our righteousness are as filthy rags and we all do
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  fade as a leaf and our iniquities like the wind have
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  taken us away left to our own self
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  we would wreck our
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  lives and ruin it the lust of
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  our flesh the greed of our eyes the narcissistic behaviors of human flesh would
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  cause us to be isolated if you don't believe me look at the lives of those that
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  we know who have totally ignored who Christ is.
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  And they don't allow people around them who know who Christ is.
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  And so they live in this total isolation of the darkness of the devil.
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  These people who need Jesus desperately have been duped by the devil to the
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  point that they simply don't believe he exists.
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  They simply don't believe they need him. But that is a lie.
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  Because it says marvel not that I say unto thee you must be born again.
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  See, greater love hath no man than this, that a man would lay down his life for his friend.
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  Because of his great love, because God loved us so much that he sent his son, we can all be saved.
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  Not just from hell, which is the greatest of all benefits of salvation,
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  but be saved from the wrath of God.
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  Many of the traps and temptations, and problems and issues and troubles of the world.
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  I never once in my lifetime heard a saved individual say they wish they had
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  gotten saved later in life.
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  But I've heard many people say they wish they had been saved earlier.
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  Walking with Jesus Christ as your Savior,
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  living a life in full fellowship with Him, knowing him as your friend and your
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  father knowing his character in his ways following his commands.
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  Delighting in him it leads you in a different direction than one who follows
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  darkness see the bible tells us in john chapter 1 and verse 14 that the word
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  was made flesh and dwelt among us.
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  So when we look at the Holy Scriptures from Genesis to Revelations,
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  we are watching Jesus unfold.
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  And though none of us within the hearing of my voice have the opportunity to
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  walk on this earth with Jesus Christ, we can know him in pardon and forgiveness of sin.
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  We can know him in a personal relationship. We can walk with him and talk with him.
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  We can know his character. we can know his
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  ways we can understand his expectations we
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  can live in the blessing of his promises because
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  his word was made flesh it gives
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  us the greatest love letter ever written from genesis to revelations the bible
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  tells us in john chapter 3 verse 16 for god so loved the world that he gave
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  his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish,
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  but have everlasting life.
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  See, 1 John 2, 2 says, and he is the propitiation for our sins,
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  and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
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  1 John 4, 10 clearly tells us of his great love.
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  He says, hearing his love, not that we love God, but that he loved us and sent
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  his son to be the propitiation for our sins.
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  Jesus paid a sin debt that we simply could not pay.
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  We owed it. We were the sinful people.
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  We were fleshly, filled with greed and lust. So that's hard for some of us to get.
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  Some of us, within the sound of my voice, myself included, was saved at a very young age.
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  Some of us were saved recently or at an older age, and I'm sure that we have
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  that gambit all in between.
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  But I want you to know something. It took just as much blood to save me at age
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  five as it does you, as it did the thief on the cross.
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  See, we like to think that maybe we're better than the next.
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  Maybe we're better than the murderer.
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  Maybe we're better than the thief.
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  But sin is sin, and we're the only ones that categorize it.
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  And the Lord said in Romans 3, verse 22, and I'm going to continue in your hearing these words,
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  even the righteousness of god which is by faith of jesus christ unto all and
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  upon all them that believe for there is no difference don't you love that the
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  righteousness of god which is by faith,
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  for by faith are you saved and that not of yourselves it is the gift of god
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  not of works lest any man should boast ephesians 2 8 9 but he says that the
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  righteousness of god is by face of Jesus Christ unto all, but this is what I love,
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  upon all that believe.
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  All them that believe, the righteousness of God showers over them.
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  It pours over them like rain.
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  And there's no difference between Jew and Greek, man and woman.
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  Nationalities, imperfections, sins.
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  Now, when we come to Jesus, we come like the woman at the well did.
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  We come with an empty pot, and he fills us up, and it's his righteousness that makes us saved.
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  Salvation is free, and it's to all who believe, but it's more than raising your
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  hand. It's more than reading a book.
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  It's more than saying this or that. Now you've got to come and empty yourself
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  of yourself to repent and turn away from your sins and ask Jesus to come into your heart,
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  knowing that he is the only one who could save you,
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  realizing that you are a sinner in need of a savior.
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  Because as we read in Romans 3 23 he says for all have sinned and come short
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  of the glory of God so 22 and 23 allow us to understand that we all need a savior
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  we're all the same and none of us gets a pass.
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  Can't be saved for someone else you don't
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  get to heaven because you came from a tremendously religious
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  home you don't get to heaven because your
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  parents were tremendously dedicated workers for
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  the lord no every one of us has
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  to give account of ourselves before god and it
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  is a personal relationship with a personal god
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  and it's an acknowledgement that you need him
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  that you are a sinner and then he says
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  in verse 22 that if you believe he showers you
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  he pours he puts his righteousness upon you
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  then verse 24 tells us what
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  that means he says being justified freely by
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  his grace through the redemption that is in christ
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  jesus this righteousness of god
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  comes through faith in jesus christ and all
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  who believe and trust him and acknowledge him
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  as god's son there isn't any distinction between.
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  Them we all come exactly the same
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  because we've all sinned and we've continually fallen short of god's glory but
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  we're declared free of the guilt of sin we're made acceptable to god because
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  when god looks at us he sees the sinless perfect blood of his son.
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  Isaiah 1.18 says, Come and let us reason together, saith the Lord.
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  Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow.
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  He loves me. Though they be red like crimson, they be white like wool.
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  It's not about works of righteousness, which we have done, but it's the finished
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  work of calvary because of his great love we can all be saved.
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  God grants us eternal life, and it's a gift. And he does this by his grace,
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  which is precious and undeserved.
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  And it says through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, through the payment
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  for our sin, which Christ Jesus provided.
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  He continues in 25 with these words,
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  whom God has set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood,
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  to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are passed through the forbearance of God.
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  God gave his son publicly for the whole world.
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  He was the only life-giving sacrifice that could pay the debt, and he didn't own it.
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  He didn't owe the debt, but he became the sacrifice.
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  He became the atonement. It was his reconciliation by his sinless,
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  perfect blood that would allow us through faith to receive the forgiveness of our sins.
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  Righteousness demands payment. And we don't have any righteousness.
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  We read it earlier in Isaiah 64, 6, that we're all unclean and our righteousness
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  is as filthy rags. We had nothing to give, to pay for the penalty of our sin.
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  But because of God's deliberate restraint, that's what forbearance means.
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  Instead of just wiping us out because we were no good for nothing's galleywags,
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  because we had rejected him, because we had ignored him, he didn't do that. No, he made a way.
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  And he passes over those sins when he sees the blood.
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  Verse 26, he says, to declare, I say at this time, his righteousness,
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  that he might be just, the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
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  Now, we have a law system in our country, and it allows us to have representation
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  when we have been found to have done something.
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  And we have great lawyers, and we have mediocre lawyers, and I'm sure we have really bad lawyers.
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  But Jesus Christ is our advocate to the Father.
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  And you'll never have an advocate or an intercessor like Jesus.
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  And it says that the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus,
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  Jesus Christ was righteous.
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  And because of his righteousness we are
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  justified you know what that means it means just as if we never sinned because
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  of his great love we can be blameless in front of an almighty sinless god when's
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  the last time you thought about that.
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  I think we just think about salvation as fire insurance i think we forget that
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  he said be holy for i am holy and that when you are holy he will hang out with
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  you and help you i think you forgot,
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  that he said to take up your cross and follow
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  me i think we've forgotten that
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  he said i am a jealous god you won't
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  have any other gods before me now most of you listening to
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  me i am quite certain probably do not have another
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  religious god such as buddha or confucius but
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  i wonder if the boat on sunday morning in june is
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  your god because you paid for it you pay to slip it you pay to maintain it and
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  it's tough you can't work use it monday through friday because you're working
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  and saturday the kids have a game or something's going on so sunday's it so
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  this thing that's meant for your enjoyment, your pleasure,
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  now is pulling you through the nose,
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  leading you in places you shouldn't be.
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  No, I'm not saying that being on a lake isn't where you shouldn't be,
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  but I'm saying being on a lake every Sunday during church time is where you shouldn't be.
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  Peter went fishing, but he didn't go every Sunday.
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  See, we let things lead us that shouldn't.
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  We let things have a place in our life that belongs only to the lord and it was his great love,
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  that saved us he paid a sin debt he didn't owe for a people who owed a sin debt they couldn't pay,
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  and he did it because he loves us we've sung it all of our life jesus loves
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  me this i know for the bible tells me so.
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  Interesting to me how many people think that that's just a little kid's Sunday school song.
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  It's my mantra. It's my life.
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  It's my driving force. Because I know he loves me. Because of his great love, I'm saved.
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  And this is free to all. It wasn't because I was born into a certain family.
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  It wasn't because I went to a certain denomination.
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  It wasn't because I went to a certain church isn't because I knew some verses or read his word.
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  It's because he loves me, and he's no respecter of persons.
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  Romans 8, 38, and 39 says that nothing can separate you from the love of God. Are you saved today?
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  Romans 3, 23 says, for the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal
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  life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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  Actually, Romans 3, 23 says, all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
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  Romans 6.23 says, for the wages of sin is death.
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  But Romans 5.8 says, but God commendeth his love toward us and that while we
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  were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
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  Then Romans 10.9 and 10 says this, that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth
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  the Lord Jesus and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead,
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  thou shalt be saved for with
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  the heart man believeth unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is
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  made unto salvation and john 3 16 says for god so loved the world that he gave
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  his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life.
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  Salvation cost jesus everything but it's
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  free to us ephesians 2 89 as
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  i said earlier says for by grace are you saved through faith and that not of
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  yourselves it is the gift of god not of works lest any man should boast it's
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  free to us and it costs him everything but just because it's free doesn't mean it's easy.
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  It doesn't mean it's not valuable. It is the greatest gift ever given.
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  It is the most valuable treasure you'll ever possess.
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  But it requires you to repent, to turn away from the devil, and to fully believe.
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  As we close this message, I want to leave you with this illustration.
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  I believe it's safe to say that everyone listening to me understands that if
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  you're in a room with a door unlocked but shut.
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  Turn the handle of that door, the door will open.
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  I'm afraid some of us, that's as far as we've gotten with our relationship with Jesus.
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  We don't have one because we've not acted upon our faith. We've not activated our faith.
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  We've not put our faith in him. We've not believed in him or trusted in him.
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  We just have a knowledge that Jesus died on the cross for our sins,
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  that his sinless, perfect blood is what pays the payment for our sins.
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  If we have faith and believe in him, he will forgive us our sins and cleanse
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  us from all unrighteousness.
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  But we've never turned the knob of the door to get out.
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  And right now, I think it doesn't seem that important to you.
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  But let's look at this scenario slightly different. We're all in a room. The door is shut.
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  It's not locked. And there's a fire breaks out in that room.
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  Those who know and understand that if they turn the doorknob,
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  they can walk through it into safety, they
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  indeed will be safe unharmed but
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  those who sit in that chair with the exact same knowledge as those who got up
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  and acted upon that faith and opened that door and walked through those with
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  that same knowledge but yet refuse to submit to that knowledge to activate their
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  faith to get up and turn that knob,
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  will die in that room with the exact
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  same knowledge as those who had the knowledge but also had the faith.
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  You ask me what am I trying to tell you? I'm trying to tell you there's 18 inches
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  between salvation and hell.
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  The average distance between your brain and your heart. The devil knows Jesus
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  well, and he trembles, but he doesn't believe in him. He doesn't trust in him.
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  So friends, today I'm asking you, do you know him?
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  Have you placed your faith in Jesus Christ because you acknowledge you're a
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  sinner, you believe in who he is, and you're confessing him as your Lord and Savior?
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  And you've said, I forget this worldly stuff, man. It's not for me.
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  I am from this day forward going to live committed and purposeful life to following Jesus.
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  He said, deny yourself, pick up your cross and follow me.
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  He waits with nail-scarred hands, bidding you come.
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  Empty yourself like the woman at the well and allow him to fill you to overflowing with his grace,
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  his mercy, and his love and a promise of life eternal and a home not made with hands in the heavens.
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  Remember, you are loved. Jesus loves you.
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