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Cross to Penetecost - Part 3 - The Potter’s House of Dallas. · THE WORLD'S BEST PREACHER

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  Speaker 1: It is an odd inference. In the Book of Acts,
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  Speaker 1: when Christ speaks, the word is translated passion to indicate
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  Speaker 1: that when he looks at the cross, he sees love
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  Speaker 1: and passion where we see only pain. Most of us
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  Speaker 1: who have lived very long know that the two are interchangeable,
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  Speaker 1: that passion always has its pain. But we don't think
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  Speaker 1: in such graphic dimensions as blood streaming down our side
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  Speaker 1: or from the oozing parts of our body, as we
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  Speaker 1: have been desecrated and beaten and ostracized by men. But
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  Speaker 1: it just speaks to what a level of love God
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  Speaker 1: operates on, that he is the lover of our soul,
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  Speaker 1: that he loves us on such an intense level that
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  Speaker 1: when God thought to give his life to his bride,
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  Speaker 1: he gave his life on the cross. It was his
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  Speaker 1: way of giving himself to us that we might consummate
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  Speaker 1: the covenant and enter into a relationship with Him that
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  Speaker 1: we have never had before. I look at the cross
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  Speaker 1: and I see pain. What God wanted to say to us,
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  Speaker 1: is not God so endured pain, God so endured horror. No,
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  Speaker 1: God so loved the world that he gave so he
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  Speaker 1: wants us to see the cross and see love. He
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  Speaker 1: calls it passion, but in the passion it's horrific. Pastern