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Perfected For All Time | Good Friday Service | Pastor Daniel Batarseh · Bible Study with Pr. Daniel Batarseh | Verse by Verse Series | Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago

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  Thank God for his inexpressible gift.
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  Tonight, I want to draw your attention to one of the most
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  profound declarations. And promises regarding the death
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  of the Lord, Jesus Christ. And if properly understood, if
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  truly believed on, it has the power to exterminate every and
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  any hindrance in the believing heart.
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  From experiencing all that God has to offer concerning the
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  Blessed Fellowship that Jesus Christ has purchased for us.
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  Yes, this one statement that I'm going to quote to you that can
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  be shared in one. Breath has such immeasurable
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  force a force that explosively exalts, the person of Jesus
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  Christ silences, every lie and fear regarding your standing
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  before. God And motivates the believer
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  to live a holy Life all at the same time.
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  How is it that one single verse can unleash such blessings?
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  What is it that these 16 words that the Holy Spirit has
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  recorded for us in our own language?
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  What is it about? Those words that can provide
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  such power Hebrews 10:14. For by a single offering. he has
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  perfected for all time those who are being sanctified For by a
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  single offering, he has perfected for all time.
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  Those who are being Sanctified allow me this evening to present
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  you at least two glorious thoughts from this one, single
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  statement. And the first thought that I
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  want to bring to your mind and hopefully will reach your heart.
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  Is the sufficiency of Christ's sacrifice.
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  For by a single offering this offering is not referring to the
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  thousands upon thousands of sacrifices of beasts that were
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  performed by the hands of a pointed priest.
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  During the Covenant that God is established with the nation of
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  Israel. Know this author who is
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  obviously a scholar in the law in the Hebrew scriptures.
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  He is speaking about a unique kind of sacrifice.
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  He is speaking here about something that is inaugurated a
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  New Covenant. A covenant that you and I are
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  remembering today. I hope that every person in here
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  is enjoying today and even beyond that, perhaps someone
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  will enter into today. When you look at this sacrifice,
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  this author is speaking about something that the great
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  prophets have foretold the Jeremiah's, the ezekiel's and
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  many others have pointed to this one offering.
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  And although, this offering is speaking about a physical
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  sacrifice. The world has never known an act
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  of worship concerning the object of this sacrifice.
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  The best of bulls and goats have been slain and they have been
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  placed on many altars and sadly, the blood of men and even
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  children have been shed by misguided and deceived
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  worshippers of false gods. But this single offering that we
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  are speaking of tonight deals with a sinless, man.
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  Not that a son of Adam has been able to attain and maintain
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  internal and external moral perfection.
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  No, that is not the case at all because this man that we are
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  speaking of who was sinless, was, in fact, God, incarnate,
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  God, who became man, God, who took on flesh and this God who
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  became, Man, became an offering. He became a sacrifice.
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  How can it be? How can it be that God would
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  become Men One? How can it be that God would
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  become men with the intent of dying and to Die For What?
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  And to shed his blood, for what? Well, this is precisely what we
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  are going to look at. Can I give you the simple answer
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  tonight? The simple answer to that grand
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  question and series of questions connected to it?
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  Is this because the justice of God required it and there was
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  only one person who can satisfy it.
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  Let me prove that to you and the very same chapter that I quoted
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  that glorious statement from we are told in Hebrews 10 and verse
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  5 consequently when Christ came into the world, he said Look,
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  what Jesus said when Christ came into the world, he said
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  sacrifices and offerings, you have not desired.
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  But a body. Have you prepared for me and
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  burnt offerings and sin offerings?
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  You have taken no pleasure. The Holy Spirit.
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  Informs us that Jesus quoted a psalm.
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  And he used these words in direct communication with the
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  father. Oh, I pray that your heart would
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  be open and hungry to understand what this reveals.
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  God has indeed decreed and commanded to a nation to uphold
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  an honor specific and elaborate rules concerning sacrifices.
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  Animal, sacrifices blood sacrifices grain, offerings
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  different sorts. But based on what Jesus is
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  saying here is that such Acts were never God's ultimate will
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  or conclusive plan in dealing with the fall of humanity.
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  God has always had in mind. God is always from eternity,
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  past had a more complete and a more effective execution against
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  sin and death and it is found in one thing.
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  The Blessed body of the son of God The second person of the
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  Triune godhead becoming a man, this is what God always had in
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  mind and everything that he instituted before that was just
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  pointing to this. And they also testified of their
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  inadequacy to actually satisfy this whole sin issue that you
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  and I are very familiar with, in our own lives and are seeing
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  destroy our world, even our own Nation day by day.
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  God, desired a specific body. And that body would come from
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  his son who lived with him, coexisted and has all the same.
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  God like attributes, but would one day enter into our world
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  because God has prepared a body for him to take on and we can be
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  satisfied with that alone. If God desired and he willed
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  that, then we can just praise God for it.
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  But oh, he has given us glimpses of wisdom into why?
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  That is the case. Why a body, why become man, why
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  Escape glory and enter into a world that would hate him and
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  despised him and reject them. Why?
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  One of my favorite titles concerning the person of Jesus
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  Christ is not a very familiar one, but it is packed with
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  implication packed with power packed, with Glory.
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  The last Adam, First Corinthians 15:45, Jesus is referred to, by
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  Paul as the last Adam, what does Jesus have in common with Adam?
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  Why give him such an identity. Why would the Holy Spirit?
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  Bring us to that place of meditating on the aspect of
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  Jesus, that is connected with our first parent.
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  And the only thing that you can say about the strongest
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  characteristic that these two shared Adam, and Jesus Christ,
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  is this that they both operated as Representatives here on Earth
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  for Humanity. Adam being created.
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  First was appointed by God to be the federal head of mankind.
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  This is a system that God has created and what that
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  essentially means is that, in great measure, what Adam has
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  done would have effect on those, who would come from Adam, who
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  would descend from him. And because, Adam, as the
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  representative mankind before God did not represent us.
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  Well, we now share in the consequences of his failure.
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  And because of that, we have been borned and we have been
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  birthed into a sin nature inclined to rebel.
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  And disobey the same God that he turned his back on in the
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  garden. That is why we all have that
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  disposition. That is why we have we have that
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  sense of being drawn towards that which God tells us not to
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  do. It's because we are born.
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  We are wired this way due to Adam.
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  And if you want to know more about that just read Romans
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  chapter 5, Paul explains that in great detail.
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  How by one man, many have been made transgressors And so we
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  look at this and we think to ourselves.
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  Okay well I understand that about Adam but what does that
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  have to do with Jesus Christ while in honoring his own system
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  and god-honoring the very thing that he's established from the
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  beginning. He institute's a plan a plan
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  that he is, of course, always known a plan in creating a new
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  line of people. A new breed, a new family.
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  And in this family, what would happen was a door, would be open
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  for people to escape the line of Adam, which is a line Preparing
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  People for condemnation. And to now be connected to a new
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  family that carries Redemptive qualities and Promises.
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  And as amazing as that news is such a thing will require
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  something very important, very crucial impossible without may I
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  add and that is a new federal head.
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  That is a new representation for mankind.
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  And what Paul does and what many of the authors do in the New
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  Testament, with the prophets promise and pointed to is that
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  Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Is that man, he is that man who
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  came into this world with a much bigger project in mind than what
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  even some Believers fail to understand.
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  He came to now be the firstborn among many brothers.
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  He came Now to create a way out and for us to come into a new
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  place, a new nature, a new standing before the same.
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  Holy God. The same.
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  Holy God, that was sinned against him.
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  The garden. Can now be satisfied through
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  this one person. Jesus Christ.
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  What does that mean practically? What does it mean for Christ to
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  enter in as the last Adam Well means many things.
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  Let me say this one important thing in the same way that we
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  all inherited the effects that we all now are experiencing the
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  consequences of atoms failure at the tree of the knowledge of
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  good and evil evil. Now who comes on the scene, a
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  new representation, a new mediator, Who doesn't fail like
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  Adam did but who triumphs at another tree?
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  Not the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil know, the tree
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  that was on the hill called Golgotha.
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  The tree that you and I sang about just a few moments ago
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  that tree on Calvary. Everything started at a tree,
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  the fall began at a tree and everything turned around at
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  another Tree by another Federal head. in other words because
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  Jesus Christ took on a body that was prepared and appointed by
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  the father The same way that we have to experience what Adam did
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  in his body. Now we can enjoy what Jesus did
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  in his body and what happened to his body.
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  For those who are in Christ, there's a transfer that occurs.
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  An amazing transfer. This is what happens that
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  through the currency of faith. Through belief through humbling
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  yourself and realizing that you do need to be saved.
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  There is this exchange that takes place?
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  And in that exchange Adams headship is canceled and Christ
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  Perfection is imputed unto you instead.
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  What happens is now in that exchange, as Christ represents
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  us. We now give him our sin.
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  And then he who knew no sin became sin, so that in him, we
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  might become the righteousness of God.
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  That's the gospel. That's the centrality of what we
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  believe. This is the significance of
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  Jesus taking on a body. It wasn't a random stunt, it was
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  required in order for God to be consistent with his own system,
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  his own Justice And that is a fascinating thought, God,
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  becoming a man but be careful. Be careful that in being so
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  overwhelmed. By that amazing Act of humility
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  that you dismiss. The reality of the Divinity of
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  Christ, when Christ became a man, he did not dismiss.
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  His divine nature know. His divine nature was equally
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  required as he stepped in as the last Adam.
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  And why is that? Because no mere man can even
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  come close to performing the Perfection that Jesus performed.
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  No mere man can obey God and fulfill the greatest commandment
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  to love him with all of your heart, with all of your mind,
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  with all of your strength with all of your soul.
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  I want you to think about that for a moment, Jesus.
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  Obeyed that commandment perfectly with every waking
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  moment, he obeyed that commandment.
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  And no mere man. No mere man can even fathom what
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  it means to Bear the sin of the world.
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  Every failure, every error, every perversion every internal
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  crime external violation from the beginning Until the End
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  Christ took upon his shoulders and because of that he was able
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  to drink all of the wrath of God for yesterday today and
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  tomorrow. No mere man can do that.
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  So, the nature of God not just in his Humanity to be the last
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  Adam, but also remaining as God is the perfect is the perfect
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  combination. That would satisfy exactly what
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  we all need. And that is why.
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  When people ask this question, how can a man who is crucified
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  for about a few hours apparently satisfy?
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  What is demanded? Of all of us and that is eternal
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  punishment for our sin. How does that correlate?
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  How does the math work? And if you think that, that man
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  was just a good man, A man who seemed to be, maybe a little bit
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  better than others than you might have a valid objection.
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  But if that man is the sinless Spotless.
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  Eternal. Without blemish without error,
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  without wrong. Then you have a different story
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  altogether. Then you can understand how it
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  is that such a man could be on the cross for a few hours to
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  satisfy the wrath of God forever and ever.
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  You understand, right? The identity of Christ helps us
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  understand the very first statement of that verse that I
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  quoted to you earlier for by a single offering who Jesus is
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  makes this offering single and all satisfying.
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  It's not just merely the act of dying.
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  Its who died? It's who died?
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  And there is no more need because of who died for repeated
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  incarnations. There is now no more need for
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  repeated bloodshed. Because of who Jesus Christ is
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  what he has done is enough. One time for all time.
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  And that is why he is the last Adam.
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  We don't have to wait for another.
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  We don't have to wait another representative to enter into our
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  world to clean up this mess. He put a period mark.
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  Through his Redemptive work, it's over.
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  And while other religions are waiting for their own Messiah,
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  we here today, realize he has already come We're not looking
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  forward to Redemption though. We are waiting for our
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  Redemption to be complete. It is finished.
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  For by a single offering. What a thousand bulls and goats
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  and birds as mountainous as those offerings, may have been,
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  what one man did? Overshadowed at all.
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  What one man did. Put everything into the back
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  burner and now takes all the glory and all the honor and all
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  the praise. Can I tell you something in a
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  very confused age, where people are trying to figure out
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  identity, whether that is the color of your skin and what that
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  means for you and society. And now with the people who are
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  being confused about what their orientation is and whether they
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  are biologically, this or biologically, that allow me to
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  It could very simple because God's word makes it very clear.
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  There are only two categories of people in this world only to not
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  white or black not rich, or poor Not educated, or uneducated not
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  confused or straight. You're either in Adam.
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  Or you're in Christ, that's it. Think whatever you want to
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  think. Go ahead, establish your own
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  subjective, understanding of the world, but may I suggest
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  something take a peek at our world first before you give in
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  to that. And realize that this word has
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  always been the word of God. It will always be the word of
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  God when I'm gone and Pastor Daniel is gone and every other
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  church is gone, this war will be established forever. and this
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  word declares my friend, our dear visitors, those who are
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  members of this very local church, you are, either in Adam
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  Or you are in Christ. Who is your representative?
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  Who is your federal head? Who is that represents you
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  before? God Oh, that's a statement that
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  can end this whole meeting cannot but that's not the end of
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  the verse for by a single offering.
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  He has perfected for all time those who are being Sanctified.
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  The first part of that statement tells us about the sufficiency
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  of Jesus sacrifice, but the second part of that statement,
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  informs us about the security of the believing saint.
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  For by a single offering. Here's the consequence.
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  He has perfected for all time. Those who are being sanctified.
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  Notice because of that offering there is a certain group of
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  people who have now been qualified to be in the presence
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  of God forever. There are now a people who
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  positionally speaking had had their record of debt vanquished
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  and were made. Absolutely, and totally perfect
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  in the site. Of a Thrice.
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  Holy God. This is exactly what the
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  statement is saying and most of us understand that most of us in
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  here here to remember that and to worship God for that.
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  But I believe in the bottom of my heart that those who even
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  confess that truth, many of them have trouble, believing it with
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  absolute certainty with absolute certainty.
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  You might be wondering, why is that the case for one main
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  reason? Because they examine their own
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  lives, and they realize that their own attitudes and many of
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  their actions fail to reflect that.
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  That perfect standing that they've been assured of in this
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  one verse and many other verses. I hope that if you're a
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  Christian in this place, you can recall the first few steps of
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  being born again that you can remember the sensation of having
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  fellowship with God, when you realize that he has forgiven you
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  and that he extends grace to you.
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  I hope believer that you can recall the aroma of assurance.
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  When you first were exposed to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and
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  your faith connected with that truth, I hope you have a
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  testimony and you realize the lightness and you realize the
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  freedom and you realize the enjoyment of Walking with God
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  not in heaven now because of what happened on the cross.
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  But you know what? I found to be true as an
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  observation that even people who once rejoiced in that experience
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  and that reality overtime, tend not to know it as much as they
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  should. Or at least they distance
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  themselves from that truth, that should produce a way of life
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  that should produce a tangible Joy.
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  And I think there are a couple of reasons why I think one of
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  those reasons is that once the excitement and the thrill of the
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  Gospel being believed on settles down though, it should never
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  totally be removed as we walk in this journey.
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  And we realize that it's not just about this height enjoy.
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  But now there's war and there is a spiritual battle and you're
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  dealing with the flesh. Some people are robbed of that
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  Assurance because Satan never fails to remind them of his sin
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  before they came to Christ. East or season of transgression
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  before they came to Christ. They are haunted by a perversion
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  that they have committed or serious error.
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  That that seems to be absolutely unforgivable humanly speaking.
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  And for others, it's not necessarily what they did before
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  Christ that keeps surfacing in their minds eye.
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  No no no it's not that. It's their failures.
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  After they came to know Christ. It's their shortcomings that
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  trouble them after they confess after they'd gone to the baptism
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  Booth after that they have shared after that, they have
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  come to be part of a certain Ministry.
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  And at some point maybe even for a season.
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  Have not been as faithful as they once professed to be.
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  That is who I want to speak to tonight, as we are about to
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  close in a moment. This is who I want to address.
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  The one who is absolutely drained by doubt.
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  The one who cannot find the strength to sing at least with a
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  melody in your heart. The one who lives in fear at the
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  thought of the return of Christ, instead of the anticipation that
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  a bride would have concerning her wedding day.
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  I want to address this truth to you and this is what I want to
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  address to you for by a single offering.
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  He has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified
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  Consider that. Consider that promise is being
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  told to Christians who have not arrived at complete.
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  Christlikeness, but who are on their way there.
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  Who have not achieved sinless perfectionism.
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  But who are being made holy day by day even though they may not
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  perceive the progress day by day.
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  The whole point here of what the author of Hebrews is saying is
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  that you have been perfected, not those who are perfect but
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  those who are being sanctified those who are submitting to God
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  and allowing him to Chisel them and warn them and chastise them.
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  And that Perfection is not based on your sanctification.
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  How holy you are, how consecrated are how good you did
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  in 2023 so far? It's by that single offering.
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  It's the single offering that makes you perfect not how often
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  you are growing in your sanctification.
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  So that is a great Mark that you have been saved.
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  And I think about that truth and I realized, okay, this is the
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  only question I have to ask this is the thing that hopefully will
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  crush the doubts in my heart that will give me the ability to
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  sing with Outburst of joy and that will that will truly
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  generate and motivate absolute consecration to the Lord at
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  least as a desire. Here's the question that I asked
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  and this is a question that I believe you need to ask.
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  All you have to do is answer this.
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  Was his sacrifice sufficient? Yeah.
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  But but no but you don't know but you do understand what it
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  was. No I'm not no no answer this
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  question for me was his sacrifice sufficient?
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  And if you can be honest, enough based on what you see in this
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  word to say, yes. Then why are you afraid?
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  And why do you doubt? And why do you concern yourself
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  in night? Wondering, if your name is, in
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  fact written in the Lamb's Book of Life?
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  It's not about your performance. It's about his It's not about
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  what you can do, it's what he's already done.
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  It's not what lengths you go to or how long you pray or how much
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  scripture you memorize know it's by a single offering.
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  It's not by the blood that you can shed.
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  It's not about the bruises that you have on your knees.
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  It's not about the lashes on your back.
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  It's not about how hungry you can make yourself.
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  As you fast, it's not about how much you distance yourself from
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  people because you don't want to be contaminated by worldliness
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  per se. It's about that single offering.
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  Was it sufficient? Did it complete, what it needed
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  to complete that? It satisfy?
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  Who it needed to satisfy? and if you can say, yes, Then I
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  can say, behold your strength. And I can say, behold your
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  security, then I can say, behold your song. then I can say,
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  behold your joy and your reason and motivation to be holy To be
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  set apart. To be sanctified.
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  You know, there's a lot of debate about the Sabbath.
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  Do we keep it is a relevant. Is that applying the New
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  Covenant? Okay.
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  If it is what day of the week, do we do it?
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  Friday, Sundown to sundown to Saturday Sundown, Sunday
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  morning, all these different things.
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  And I don't want to undermine the importance of that kind of a
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  conversation. But people who get caught up in
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  that debate can miss the point. Just like the sacrifices were a
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  shadow pointing to something that ultimately found its
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  substance substance. In Jesus Christ.
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  It is no different with the Sabbath.
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  See the Sabbath? Yes.
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  Was a actual command that people needed to keep but the Sabbath
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  was a prophetic statement as well.
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  One that would point to a future rest.
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  A rest that would not be known once a week but arrest that
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  would be known perpetually day by day.
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  And not from work from your 925 per se.
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  Not from your personal projects which you had to put on pause as
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  you honor the Sabbath. No.
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  But by different kind of work. I work that you and I are
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  tempted to do more than to work an extra shift on a day in which
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  you should consecrate it to worship God, more than that.
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  Let me prove that to you in a final text in Hebrews and
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  Hebrews 4 verse 9. So then and Hebrews 49.
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  So then there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God. for
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  whoever has entered God's rest has also rested from his works
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  as God did from his Hebrews 4. Is teaching with the Sabbath
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  really is all about and yes, Paul gives Specific Instructions
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  about how some consider one day holding others, don't and not to
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  judge each other based on that conviction.
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  But here we see the Hebrews who something.
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  So masterful, so beautiful, so awesome.
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  The Sabbath speaks of God's rest and there is a rest that is
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  available for the people of God today.
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  And that rest is greater than physical.
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  Repose greater than giving the land.
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  Rake know. It is a spiritual rest is an
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  internal solemn piece. In that rest here, speaks of
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  Jesus. And here's what Hebrews is
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  saying in the same way that God exemplified what rest looks like
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  by working, six days and seven on the 7th Day.
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  Stepping back to enjoy and to rejoice in his work, you and I
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  are called You and I are called not based on what you have done,
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  but what I'm Christ has done to step back.
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  Rest and to rejoice and what he has done.
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  And you don't do that once a week.
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  This rest. Touches every moment of your
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  life. You walk in that rest, you sleep
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  in that rest you travel in that rest you minister in that rest.
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  Somebody ancient said it better than I would.
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  Then the same way God. Rested from his work in
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  creation. And in the same way Jesus
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  entered into glory and sat at the right hand of God,
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  physically demonstrating his rest from his Redemptive work.
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  You and I are called to rest from The Works of the law to
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  attain righteousness. Because we have now believed on
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  the works that have completed it for us.
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  That's what it means to know. True Sabbath rest.
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  And when you and I are about to come to this, holy table.
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  What you are about to do, if you are a born again, Christian in
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  this place who could say in your heart, and this past 30 minutes,
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  amen, amen, amen, amen. You are coming to this table and
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  what you are also saying in your heart, is his sacrifice was
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  sufficient, his sacrifice was sufficient, his sacrifice was
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  sufficient. Nothing in my hands.
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  I bring simply to the cross. I cling, that is what you are
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  saying here. You're coming to the symbols of
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  Jesus, but body and his blood. And you were saying this was
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  sufficient, what he did 2000 years ago has made me?
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  Perfect. For all time, though.
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  I am still being sanctified. Do I have not yet arrived?
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  And though sometimes it is a very very turbulent Journey.
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  He has perfected me, he has made me whole, my record of sin is
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  gone for by single sacrifice. There is a rest of a label for
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  the people of God today. Do you have rest?
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  Are you Restless? Do you have the assurance?
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  That when you do meet God and you will meet God.
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  You will meet him. Are you sure that you will be
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  met with a smile? Or at the awful announcement.
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  Depart from me. I never knew you.
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  I want to tell you today that on this Good Friday, this God that
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  I speak of this God in whom I bear Witness.
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  Extends the cup of Fellowship to you and he desires you to be
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  saved. He wants you to know this rest.
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  He wants you to know the freedom of realizing that what he is
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  done by single offering will make me perfect and keep me
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  perfect. And he will hold on, to me until
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  the end. This is what this is all about.
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  And this is why we preach, we preach.
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  The good news Christianity is about good news. the news is
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  this salvation has come Jesus has come. a way out of
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  condemnation, a way out of hell away, out of the power of sin
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  has has come And he is still the last Adam.
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  And the door is still open. You can enter in, and it's real,
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  it's real, it's really real. You can actually no freedom and
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  you can actually know what it's like for the burden of sin to
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  roll off your back. And you can know the spirit of
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  God will bear witness with your spirit.
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  As Romans 8 says that you are indeed a child of God.
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  But you have to repent. You have to believe.
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  You have to trust that what he's done is enough and you have to
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  declare him as Lord and Savior and you have to, yes.
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  Let go of your sin. Be willing to say, I turn back
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  from the very thing that put Christ on the cross.
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  For you also have to let go of your righteousness.
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  I will not rely on what I can do to, please God.
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  I will trust that what Christ has done, he's done for me,
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  that's the gospel that's salvation, and that's what I
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  extend to you, this evening. Would you be saved?
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  Would you be born again? What do you allow the spirit of
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  God to transform? You would you allow him to heal
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  you to restore? You?
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  Would you allow him to do what psychologists can't do?
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  What those pills? Can't do.
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  What that bottle? Can't do.
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  What your boyfriend, your girlfriend, your fiance, your
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  husband, your children can't do. What your job, can't do.
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  What the promotion can offer, would you let him do it?
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  To fulfill you in to satisfy you, would you let him do it?
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  Oh, don't Suarez hand away today.
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  Time is short, time is very short, you're even having
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  unbelievers, say it's, we're near the end, you have you have
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  more unbelievers who believe in the last days than believers who
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  believe in the last days, it's unbelievable to me.
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  You talk to Believers. I think we're living in the last
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  days. I don't know about that.
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  Talk to unbelievers. Like yeah, I've never seen
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  anything like this. It looks really bad.
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  Maybe you thought that too? If you want to stay for another
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  hour, I can tell you how it all points back to the Bible.
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  We're about to break bread. And as much as Isaac's, I've
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  extended that call to Salvation, I cannot extend the invitation
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  for you to participate at this table unless you are born again.
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  Jesus is the lord of the church. He's the master of this local
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  church and he has instructed us to reserve this ordinance for
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  those who are his children and we become children by faith in
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  him and so we kindly ask not that.
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  It affects us necessarily but because he is Holy and he does.
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  He does see what happens here for your sake.
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  Would you reserve yourself from participating?
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  You have every right to observe and what you are, observing is
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  exactly what I alluded to people coming forward to say what he
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  has done is enough. And we eat these elements to
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  even engage our senses regarding that spiritual truth, and it
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  tastes good to us to symbol symbolize.
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  The goodness that we taste in our own Souls regarding our
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  Salvation. Oh, what a Salvation.
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  Oh, what is salvation? Oh, what a name?
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  There is something about that name.
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  Would you agree? Believer.
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  There's something about that name.
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  And so what's about to happen now is that the team is going to
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  come and they're going to sing over us.
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  And you are welcome to sing as you come to the table.
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  And as you return to your seat, we're going to sing about what
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  this is all about and that you would reflect on that and that
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  you would prepare your heart to do this in a solemn.
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  Holy way as an act of worship to him who died for you believer.
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  You're free. You're saved, you have been
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  perfected for all time by single offering.
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  Let's pray. Father, help us realize.
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  The awesome significance. Of that single offering.
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  So precious. So wonderful.
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  So sufficient. That you take into account what
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  took place then in your willing to apply it to this sinner
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  today. We thank you that we don't have
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  to come today. like on the day of atonement and bring another
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  goat, Thank you, Lord, that we can come today with faith in our
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  hearts to believe that what happened already is what you
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  require. And is the only thing that will
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  please you. Were overwhelmed by the love of
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  your son. Were overwhelmed by the love
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  that you show us, father. We're even overwhelmed in this
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  place as the spirit has helped exalt Christ.
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  What is we come to this table? Help us.
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  Help us think deeply about the gospel.
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  Help us think deeply about how this applies to us.
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  And Lord, May the person who doesn't know you today, may they
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  sense a holy jealousy to be part of this family, who has a
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  faithful mediator. A faithful Federal head who will
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  bring us home, who will bring us into?
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  Glory to enjoy the presence of the father.
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  Forever and ever in Jesus name we pray.
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  Amen.