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Restoration Through God's Forgiveness | Episode #422 | Encore Episode #093 · Reflections On The Word With Richard Kay

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  Speaker 1: Great is Thy faithfulness. Great is Thy faithfulness. Morning by
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  Speaker 1: morning new mercies I see. Great is Thy faithfulness. All
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  Speaker 1: I have needed thy hand hath provided. Great is thy faithfulness, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: unto me.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to today's edition of Reflection on the Word with
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  Speaker 2: Richard Kay. I'm Chuck Christie, and today we are asking
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  Speaker 2: you to spend a few moments of your time with
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  Speaker 2: us each day as Richard shares from God's Word notes, quotes,
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  Speaker 2: and stories, along with some of his own personal experiences,
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  Speaker 2: to confirm for you God's great love for us, that
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  Speaker 2: his compassion for us never fails, and that he has
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  Speaker 2: a great faithfulness toward us in every regard. Now, if
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  Speaker 2: you miss a portion of today's broadcast or would like
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  Speaker 2: to recommend it to a friend, you can hear this
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  Speaker 2: program anytime online at TalkNetworkRadio.com. Well now, here's Richard with
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  Speaker 2: today's reflection.
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  Speaker 3: If your brother sins against you, go and rebuke him
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  Speaker 3: in private. If he listens to you, you have won
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  Speaker 3: your brother. But if he won't listen, take one or
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  Speaker 3: two more with you, so that by the testimony of
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  Speaker 3: two or three witnesses, every fact may be established. If
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  Speaker 3: he pays no attention to them, tell the church. But
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  Speaker 3: if he doesn't pay attention even to the church... Let
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  Speaker 3: him be like an unbeliever and a tax collector to you.
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  Speaker 3: I assure you, whatever you bind on earth is already
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  Speaker 3: bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth is
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  Speaker 3: already loosed in heaven. Again, I assure you, if two
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  Speaker 3: of you on earth agree about any matter that you
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  Speaker 3: pray for, it will be done for you by my
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  Speaker 3: Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered
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  Speaker 3: together in my name, I am there among them. Matthew
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  Speaker 3: chapter 18, beginning with verse 15 and closing with verse 20.
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  Speaker 3: In our last segment, we talked about the fruit of
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  Speaker 3: the Spirit being the result of the overflowing submitted life
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  Speaker 3: to the Holy Spirit. And believer, these things are demonstrated
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  Speaker 3: in many ways in our life. But the greatest demonstration
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  Speaker 3: of the love of God is what he already did
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  Speaker 3: for you and I. He forgave us of our sin.
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  Speaker 3: He forgave us of our sin. And because he demonstrated
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  Speaker 3: that he forgave our sin, then we must forgive the
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  Speaker 3: sins of others. Remember what we just read in the
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  Speaker 3: 18th chapter. This part of the teaching in the scripture
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  Speaker 3: is used in many cases for the way that we
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  Speaker 3: demonstrate the power of God. But the power of God
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  Speaker 3: is demonstrated in a manner in which he chooses, not
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  Speaker 3: the way we choose. But he gives us opportunities to
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  Speaker 3: be used in that particular demonstration. And this particular passage follows.
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  Speaker 3: There is a lesson that is taught, and the teaching
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  Speaker 3: of that lesson is, again, to the one who becomes
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  Speaker 3: the apostle Peter. Peter listened to Jesus' words that were
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  Speaker 3: written earlier as we read in Matthew 18 and verses
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  Speaker 3: 15 through 20. And then in beginning verse 21, he
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  Speaker 3: came to Jesus and he said, Lord, how many times
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  Speaker 3: could My brother sinned against me, and I forgive him.
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  Speaker 3: As many as seven times? I tell you, not as
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  Speaker 3: many as seven, Jesus said to him, but seventy times seven.
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  Speaker 3: And then Jesus goes into a very clear explanation of
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  Speaker 3: his meaning. He talks about This reason, he says, the
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  Speaker 3: kingdom of heaven can be compared to a king who
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  Speaker 3: wanted to settle accounts with his slaves. When he began
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  Speaker 3: to settle accounts, one who owed 10,000 talents was brought
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  Speaker 3: before him. Since he had no way to pay it back,
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  Speaker 3: his master commanded that he his wife, his children, and
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  Speaker 3: everything he had be sold to pay the debt. At this,
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  Speaker 3: the slave fell face down before him and said, Be
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  Speaker 3: patient with me, and I will pay you everything. Then
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  Speaker 3: the master of that slave had compassion, released him, and
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  Speaker 3: forgave him the lump. But that slave went out and
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  Speaker 3: found one of his fellow slaves who owed him a
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  Speaker 3: hundred denarii. He grabbed him, started choking him, and said,
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  Speaker 3: Pay what you owe. At this his fellow slave fell
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  Speaker 3: down and began begging him, Be patient with me, and
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  Speaker 3: I will pay you back. But he wasn't willing. On
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  Speaker 3: the contrary, he went and threw him into prison. until
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  Speaker 3: he could pay what was owed. When the other slaves
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  Speaker 3: saw what had taken place, they were deeply distressed and
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  Speaker 3: went and reported to their master everything that had happened. Then,
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  Speaker 3: after he had summoned him, his master said to him,
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  Speaker 3: You wicked slave, I forgave you all that debt because
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  Speaker 3: you begged me. Shouldn't you also have had mercy on
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  Speaker 3: your fellow slave as I had mercy on you? And
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  Speaker 3: his master got angry and handed him over to the
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  Speaker 3: jailers until he could pay everything that was owed. Listen
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  Speaker 3: to the 35th verse. Earlier, that was a parable of
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  Speaker 3: an explanation. But now this is not a parable. Jesus
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  Speaker 3: then says, so my heavenly father will also do to
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  Speaker 3: you if each of you does not forgive his brother
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  Speaker 3: from his heart. You know, this is a very difficult thing.
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  Speaker 3: It is difficult because man does not have the capacity
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  Speaker 3: to forgive. in the same manner without the love of
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  Speaker 3: God living in him. We have heard testimonies of people
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  Speaker 3: who early in their life had been abused by a
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  Speaker 3: father that perhaps was inebriated or just in a bad way.
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  Speaker 3: And many times this has been unfortunate. But many of
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  Speaker 3: those children have suffered throughout their lives because the father
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  Speaker 3: was so abusive. And this is so unfair. And yet
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  Speaker 3: it happens. And because it happens, then there has to
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  Speaker 3: be something that can free the one who was abused.
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  Speaker 3: And the only thing that can Free those that have
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  Speaker 3: been abused is the love of God that will heal
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  Speaker 3: their wounds and will also give them the capacity to
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  Speaker 3: forgive those who abuse them. It is difficult, but it
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  Speaker 3: is possible through the love of God. You see, believer.
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  Speaker 3: There are so many things. When we read earlier in
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  Speaker 3: another segment about the fruit of the Spirit, remember that
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  Speaker 3: the fruit of the Spirit was love with joy. Those
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  Speaker 3: things that were out of the love of God that
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  Speaker 3: were implanted in us by His Spirit, one of which
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  Speaker 3: was patience. Do see, in this example, it is exemplified
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  Speaker 3: because what is it that is desired by the one
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  Speaker 3: who owes such a debt? Be patient with me. And
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  Speaker 3: his master was patient. patient. And because he was patient,
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  Speaker 3: he was merciful and he forgave his debt totally. Now,
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  Speaker 3: the reason that this is so important is that here
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  Speaker 3: we see an example of the love of God where
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  Speaker 3: he forgives us all of our sin, all of the
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  Speaker 3: debt that we owe. And we have no Right. No
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  Speaker 3: purpose to go to a fellow servant, to one who
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  Speaker 3: is a household of faith, to one who is a brother.
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  Speaker 3: We have no right to go and demand that they
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  Speaker 3: pay us off. And what he's really talking about is forgiving,
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  Speaker 3: because that's what Peter asked. Peter had asked Jesus, how
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  Speaker 3: many times can my brother sin against me and I
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  Speaker 3: forgive him? And Peter says seven times because that is
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  Speaker 3: stretching the human capability to in any way forgive. But
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  Speaker 3: Jesus says beyond human capability, in the love of God,
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  Speaker 3: you will be able to forgive 70 times. Now, this
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  Speaker 3: signifies that God is able to help us forgive sins
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  Speaker 3: in insurmountable measure. It means that beyond any of our
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  Speaker 3: own capacity, we have his ability to forgive sin. And
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  Speaker 3: where is it that that sin is forgiven? when our
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  Speaker 3: brother sins against us. You see, believer, what he was
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  Speaker 3: teaching in the letter that he wrote, Paul's letter to
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  Speaker 3: the church at Galatia, when he was talking about the
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  Speaker 3: fruit of the Spirit, he talked about the manner in
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  Speaker 3: which that fruit of the Spirit is displayed is through love.
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  Speaker 3: And the manner that that love is displayed is by
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  Speaker 3: restoring a brother who is in a fault. And it
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  Speaker 3: states that we are to carry one another's burdens.
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  Speaker 2: Richard will be right back in a moment to wrap up.
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  Speaker 2: But if you just joined us, you've been listening to
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  Speaker 2: Reflections on the Word with Richard Kaye. You can hear
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  Speaker 2: up today's message.
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  Speaker 3: You see, there's an expression that's been used in many
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  Speaker 3: other applications, and that is that you never realize what
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  Speaker 3: another person is going through until you've walked a mile,
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  Speaker 3: as it says, in his shoes. You don't know. And
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  Speaker 3: so there's no way that we can say we're better.
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  Speaker 3: There's no way that we can be conceited or puffed
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  Speaker 3: up as if we're deserving of something. We have a
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  Speaker 3: loving heavenly master, our heavenly father, that has forgiven us,
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  Speaker 3: totally forgiven us all of our sin. We could never
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  Speaker 3: accomplish that by works. We could never be good enough.
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  Speaker 3: We would always fall short. And because of that, he
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  Speaker 3: demonstrates his love for us by dying for us to
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  Speaker 3: pay the price that we should have paid. That's why
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  Speaker 3: the crucifixion of this old nature has been such a
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  Speaker 3: vital part of our teaching, because that is where the
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  Speaker 3: forgiveness is known. Because of our old nature, what we
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  Speaker 3: would have done, what we did do, and in some
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  Speaker 3: cases still do, we need forgiveness. And Jesus forgives us. Now,
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  Speaker 3: he doesn't expect that we're going to turn right around
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  Speaker 3: and go back into our sinful position all over again.
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  Speaker 3: He expects that we're going to be counseled. and that
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  Speaker 3: we're going to be loved, and we're going to be restored.
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  Speaker 3: There is the answer to Paul's question in Galatians, and
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  Speaker 3: it's the answer to Peter's question in the book of Matthew.
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  Speaker 3: We fulfill the law of Jesus Christ, what's implanted in
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  Speaker 3: our hearts, to know to forgive. And believer, it is
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  Speaker 3: only through the love of God that forgiveness can be accomplished.
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  Speaker 3: We need to understand that it is through his love
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  Speaker 3: that forgiveness came. And it is through his love that
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  Speaker 3: we give forgiveness to others. And that is today's reflection
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  Speaker 3: on the word.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Richard. Join us again tomorrow when we continue
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  Speaker 2: with the next edition of Reflections on the Word with
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  Speaker 2: Richard Kaye. For Richard and the entire team, this is
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  Speaker 2: Chuck Christie saying thanks for listening to this edition of
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  Speaker 2: Reflections on the Word.
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  Speaker 1: Lord, unto me.