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Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver
Episode: Life after death
Publishing Date: 2026-04-12T03:04:44-07:00
Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca
Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/life-after-death/

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All right, so we're going to talk about life after death. I think there will be two parts.

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Life after death. The first part is life after death here on earth, and the second part will

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hopefully be life after death when there's a new heaven on earth. Today we will be talking

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about life after death here on earth, meaning the Bible actually says, I have been crucified

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with Christ, I no longer live. So there is eternal life that we get to taste here, and

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then there is a life after we physically die. What does heaven and what does the rest of

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eternity look like? We'll probably touch on that next week. But today we're going

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to first start with what has been put to death. What has been put to death. And then

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we'll talk about what has been brought to life. And today though, we'll be looking

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at it more in terms of, have you been to your funeral yet? Have you been to your funeral

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yet? So if this was an altar, there are certain things that have been put to death that we

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can't continue raising back to life. It's just wrong. I want to put an end to the things

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that I give life back to and Jesus actually put them to death. And I'm praying that we'll

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all be able to settle some things that's dead. You know, in India, I read this story long

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ago, there was a man who in the India Pakistan war was taken as a prisoner of war. And so

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for years he was in prison in Pakistan and then Pakistan released him and he came back

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to India. When he came back to India, his older brother had taken all his property and

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he had bribed the city officials and had bribed them and rendered the younger brother dead.

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So now the younger brother comes back and he wants his property back. But he can't take

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his property back because he is dead. So he goes to the city council and he says, but

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I'm alive. And they say, but I record show you're dead. And they refuse to give him the land.

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But he said, I'm alive. But they said, no, you're dead. Because they had been bribed and they

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wouldn't accept it. So when the premier of the province came to the city one day, he called

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four of his friends and he told his friends to carry him on their shoulders like a dead body.

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So it was like a funeral, like a coffin. And he was in the coffin and the premier's preaching.

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And these four would keep taking him up and down when the premier's preaching. And every time the

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cameras were on him, he would sit up from the coffin and said, I'm not dead. I'm alive. I'm not

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dead. I'm alive. And he kept doing this about five, six times to the point where the television

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people got interested, the media got interested. Finally, the city began to take note of the

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premier stopped his preaching. They called him, they asked him what was wrong. He explained it to

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them. And then he finally got his land back. Why this story? It has absolutely no connection with

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what we're going to talk about. It was just something that occurred to me. So there is no

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moral there. So Tony was waiting for the punch line. Yeah, there's no punch line. So here's the

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thing. There are certain things that sit up from the coffin and keep saying, I'm alive. And we've

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got to make sure it's dead forever. We can't give life to it. So what is the first, one of the things

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that has been put to death is strangely you. Your old self has been put to death. If you have received

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Christ, your old self has been put to death. I know you know this from Christ's life, so I won't

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label the point too much, but it says that if you have received Christ who died on the cross in your

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place, then it is like you dying. Your old self, your old man, the sinful self dying. Galatians 2 20.

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I have been crucified with Christ. I no longer live. Vivek, I'm going to use you as an example

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because you're wearing a bright red hoodie. Oh yeah, yeah.

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Vivek will spend most of this teaching here dead. Yeah. Don't try this at home.

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Oh no, dead. Oh dead. I've also done this before.

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Don't snore and stuff like that. Yeah. So one of the things is that you have been put to death.

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When you say your old self has been put to death, what you're saying is every desire you have to live

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a life contrary to the life of Christ is actually dead. It does not exist. This is not

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some kind of positional thing that will happen in the future. It is our present reality. Galatians

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2 20. He has been crucified with Christ. He no longer lives.

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He no longer lives. If you want to find the old Vivek, you'll have to go

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start scrounging at the garbage heap in Jerusalem

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called Gehenna where the bodies of people that were crucified were thrown.

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And you will find him there. You will find him there. You will find the old self, the Vivek that

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his mum gave birth to. That old man, you will find him in Gehenna, in Jerusalem if you go and look

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for the garbage heap there. That's where you'll find him. He does not exist. This Vivek

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only has one life in him and that is the life of Christ. No other life.

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It is not normal for him, natural for him to get angry, to feel jealousy, to feel bitterness,

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to feel envy. It is not natural. It is abnormal for him.

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We must receive this as our present reality. These are things that you have to decide. You're

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going to lay on the altar and you will not have him come up and suddenly say, I'm alive. I'm alive.

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No, he's dead. At some point today, please decide that you're not going to fuel this.

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You can read as many books as you want that tell you otherwise, but Christ said otherwise.

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Do you have any questions about that?

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Any questions about that? Is the old man really dead?

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If you want to question that, this is a good time to question this.

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Is the old man really dead? Is the old Jacob really dead? Does he exist?

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Because here's the crazy thing. If he exists, then Christ's death does not have the power

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that he says it does. That's impossible. I have been, I was crucified with Christ.

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She's been baptized before, so why is she getting baptized again? Because when she got baptized the

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first time, it was just for the sake of baptism. She did not believe as such. She's getting into

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that place of belief where this is exactly what she will portray in baptism, where she's saying

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the old Yesuri is dead. Christ lives in Yesuri. Therefore, as I go into the water, the old Yesuri

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is buried. The one that comes out is new and that new Yesuri only has the life of Christ.

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The old Yesuri is done.

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So if you have no questions, can I pray that this is settled once and for all,

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somewhere deep inside our psyche? Let's pray that. Jesus, we right now believe

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that the old Don, the old Iris, the old Jacob, the old Jillian, the old Yesuri, the old Sheldon

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no longer exist because the moment we received Jesus Christ as the one who died to save us,

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the Bible says when he died on the cross as a payment for our sins, we also died with him.

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And when he rose again from the grave, we also rose up.

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So, I believe this. I am not going to say that I'm just human. No.

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We all sin. None of us are perfect. No. Those kind of words are going to end.

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All of it may be true, but the real truth is this. Christ alone lives in me and I have the

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ability to live out his life, which is how we change. People here are changed because they are

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living the life of Christ more and more. So we give you thanks, Abba, in Jesus' name. Amen.

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Vivek, you can sit up here front in case I need you to die again.

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The next thing that was destroyed, the first one was you. The second one is the power of death.

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We touched on it last week, so I'll just read you the scripture. Hebrews chapter 2, verse 14 and 15.

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Hebrews chapter 2, verse 14 and 15. So many things went into Jesus Christ coming down to the earth

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in flesh. Here's one of the things he did in coming down to the earth in flesh. Hebrews chapter 2,

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verse 14 and 15. Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity

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so that by his death he might destroy him who holds the power of death, that is the devil,

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and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by the fear of death. What is he trying

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to say there? Listen, guys, do not be afraid of dying. Do not be afraid of dying. Do not be

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afraid of death. Do not be afraid of Satan who used to use the power of death upon people and

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still does. And do not be afraid of death anymore. The story that I often share at funerals is about

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this boy who is driving with his dad and a bee comes into the car and the boy panics and says,

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the bee is going to sting me. And the dad goes, grabs the bee and the bee stings his hand. And

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then the dad releases the bee and says to the boy, don't worry, it won't harm you anymore. But

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the boy says, you let the bee go, you should have killed it. And the dad says, once it stings,

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it cannot sting again because the sting now is embedded in the dad's hand and it doesn't have

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the power to do you any harm. And so death might be around on the earth. Of course it is. But it has

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absolutely no sting for us. The message puts it this way.

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Who are you anymore? Death? Why be afraid of you? Because you have been swallowed up in triumphant

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life. If you are afraid of dying in this room, if the fear of death occasionally comes,

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and we'll pray for it right now,

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that we'll never be afraid of dying. Death is an enemy. Do not look at death as a friend.

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Do not say stuff like, oh, we all have to die because if we didn't die, we would not be able

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to go to heaven. That's costuming death. There's nothing about death that is friendly. It was not

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supposed to be part of the equation of the earth and it will not be part of the new heaven and new

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earth. It's an enemy. It's one of the worst enemies which will be dealt with in the end. In the end,

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death and Hades were dealt with. It is prevalent right till the end. It is evil.

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So don't dress it up. That's like playing Halloween with Bible verses.

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So let's pray. Jesus, I don't know if there are people here who are afraid of dying.

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I don't know if there are people here that are born again, that have Jesus living in them,

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but are afraid of the event of death. Today, by the power of the Spirit of God present here,

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I pray that death be dealt a death blow so that the fear of death in this congregation will be

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broken. And we will not fear death. And many nightmares of death will be broken.

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And we will not fear death. And many nightmares will end. Many nightmares in this room will end.

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Many dreams about people dying will end today. I thank you, Holy Spirit, for the connections

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you are making. And I thank you and give you praise of God. We thank you that we are not

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afraid of death. One of the reasons we are not afraid of death is because Jesus Christ has a

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book and the book is called the Lamb's Book of Life, Revelation 13 verse 8. And my name,

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your name is written there. We are not afraid of death. And today, both nightmares and dreams of

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other people dying, of things happening in our families, death dreams are going to end.

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They will not continue in Jesus' name. Amen. The third thing that was put to death was

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appeasement. Appeasement. Christianity is the only religion where we don't have to appease God.

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Appeasing is to pacify someone's anger. Most religions have methods of appeasing God, pacifying

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God. Christianity is not an appeasement religion. We think it's appeasement. Atonement is not

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appeasement. Many times when people come from other religions into Christianity, one of the

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things that happens is they think that this God also has to be appeased. You might say,

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but didn't Jesus have to be sacrificed to appease God? Really? Hebrew says that he loved me and

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decided that he would lay down my life for me while I was still an enemy of his.

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That is atonement. It is not appeasement.

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Appeasement goes back a long way. Jacob is sending his herds and his cattle ahead of him,

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sending treasures. Why? Because he is scared that Esau is going to do him harm. What does Esau do?

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A man who was in a sense wicked according to Hebrews. Esau grabs him, kisses him, embraces him.

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Jacob wanted to appease. Esau showed love and grace. The same thing happens in Luke 15 verse 9

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where you have a father who sees his son coming at a distance and the son has plans of appeasement.

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I don't even want to be a son. I just want to be a servant. What does the father do? He does exactly

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what Esau does. Goes running to him, grabs him, kisses him seven times, embraces him.

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You must not appease this God. Put appeasement to death.

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Even when you make mistakes and sin, appeasement reeks of legalism.

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Do not appease this God. You can please him, but do not appease him.

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That is why this idea of penance, of doing things to

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show God how serious we are about him. Any child that has to do that to appease his father is a child that is not loved.

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At the end of the day, things that were put to death were things that were put to death so that we would no longer be devotees,

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worshipers, believers, disciples, but that we would first be sons. A lot of things that are put to death is because of that.

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Because God does not want anything but sonship first. Everything else is after.

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Sons don't appease their fathers. Sons please their fathers.

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Fathers don't demand appeasement. Fathers atone or cover their children.

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So can we pray that?

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Jesus once again,

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we bring to the altar this sense somewhere deep inside that you are angry and now we need to do something

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to blunt or pacify or promise you something that will mitigate your anger. We are very sorry.

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Very sorry.

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I am sorry every time I've thought that I need to do something.

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I am sorry every time I've thought that I need to do something

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to spare myself.

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I am so sorry he who did not spare his son.

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Romans chapter 8. I am so sorry father.

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Across this room, would you please see a repentant mumbling, we don't even know how to phrase it,

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but would you accept it as an offering and set us free from appeasement forever.

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In Jesus' mighty name. Amen.

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The next thing that he put to death is enmity.

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He destroyed enmity between us and him.

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We were rebellious, independent orphans

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that he now makes sons and highly favored.

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It's a huge transfer from rebellious, independent orphan Jacob

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to highly favored Jacob and my son Jacob.

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He destroys enmity.

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And therefore make sure that today we put to an end

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condemnation or a sense of abandonment in our lives.

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It's one of the most powerful instruments used in Christianity.

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It is used by our own guilt, it is used by Satan,

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it is used by pastors with the church,

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it is used by authors, it is used by parents.

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Condemnation has become such a part of who we are

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that it worms its way into everything

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and Christ goes so far to remove it.

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Condemnation is the work of the accuser of the brethren.

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Today we've got to decide that condemnation and abandonment

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is something that we will not cause to rise again saying,

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I'm alive, I'm alive.

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It must end today.

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Because I've moved from being independent, rebellious and an orphan

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to highly favored Jacob and my son Jacob

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and what I have with God is a face-to-face relationship

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with a face that does not condemn.

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The truth is till today the face of God has not been creased

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with condemnation towards me

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regardless of the 40 or 42 years of sin and righteousness

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that I have weaved my way into.

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It has never been the case.

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Any person here that has the ability not to be condemned

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is a person that has finally absolutely received

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the benefits of his death.

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Do you realize that almost everybody in this room

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has not received the full benefits of Christ's death?

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We know the scriptures, therefore there is no condemnation

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for those who are in Christ.

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For the spirit of life in Christ has set us free.

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And yet there's not a single person in this room right now

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who today probably did not feel condemned about.

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Get back on the altar.

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We've got to put condemnation to death man.

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We've got to put this to death.

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This part of Vivek that condemns him,

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this part of Vivek that makes him feel condemned

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is a part of condemnation.

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This is a part of condemnation.

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This part of condemnation condemns him.

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This part of Vivek that makes him feel like

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he's an orphan again who's scared to go to his father.

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This part of Vivek that makes Vivek run from the face of God

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instead of running towards the face of God,

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that Vivek should not exist.

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It's wrong.

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It is one of the most wicked,

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most successful plots of the devil.

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As a pastor, I must stop doing it to you.

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As a parent, you must stop doing it to your children.

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As a teacher, the same thing.

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Please, displease, discipline.

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Can we even imagine discipline without condemnation?

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We don't know how to.

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We get a chance to do that, right?

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Eliakim doesn't have to go through it.

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Joey doesn't have to go through it.

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Timothy doesn't have to go through it.

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Thea doesn't have to go through it.

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They get a brand new start if you can get this right.

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So, Father, as much as this seems a little funny to put Vivek here,

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it is important that we have a visual, O God,

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of what we are putting to death.

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By the power of the Spirit, you said that you would accomplish this

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in the life of this church.

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And so right now, O God, I ask you to do this.

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So right now, O God, I come, as I pray,

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I pray on behalf of everybody because we share the same situations, Father.

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Father, there are so many times in a week

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where I struggle with condemnation.

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I've talked about you, I've told everybody you're a father,

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I tell everybody how loving you are,

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and then when I mess up, when I sin,

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more often than not, it's condemnation that comes in first

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before I run to you.

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I don't want it anymore.

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And so I pray on behalf of everybody here.

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I put to death this weapon.

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It has been used successfully against me.

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I remove the warhead.

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It will not affect me anymore.

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I am not a condemned one.

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I am a forgiven, restored one.

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Right, Church?

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We are forgiven and restored.

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We are not condemned ones.

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Spirit of God, would you help us seal this forever

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so that this Church will suddenly begin to change?

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I don't know what else to pray.

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So as I look at Vivek, I look at my condemnation

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lying dead.

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And I bury it, and I will not let it come back to life

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and be used against me anymore.

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In Jesus' name, Amen.

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Thanks Vivek.

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The power of sin.

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Scriptures for this, the power, animity is Colossians,

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animity, Colossians 1,

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21 to 22.

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Let's just read it.

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Colossians 1, 21 to 22.

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And you who were once alienated and hostile in mind

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doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body

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of flesh by his death in order to present you

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holy and blameless and above reproached in him.

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Look at the words he is using, eh?

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That, hey, you Vivek, Vivek, you, you, you,

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you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you,

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Vivek, you have been

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reconciled as in like an accountant who does the debit

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and credit columns and sees that the ledger balances.

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Everything within, between you and God is balanced.

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You are ready to be presented to God.

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You are holy.

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You are blameless.

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And you are above reproach.

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And all this is achieved by Jesus' death.

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Look at all that happens, guys.

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We've got to put it to rest.

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We can't keep going back here.

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Next thing that was broken.

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Was the power of sin.

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Power of sin.

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You see that in Romans 6,

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16,

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14,

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11.

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Go back that way.

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Romans 6,

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16.

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Do you not know that if you present yourself to anyone as

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obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey,

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either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience,

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which leads to righteousness?

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Verse 14, for sin will have no dominion over you,

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since you are not under the law, but under grace.

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And then verse 11, so you must consider yourself dead to sin

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and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

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For the sake of the recording, I'm going to repeat the stories

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because others will be listening to this in the future.

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Two examples.

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Last week we talked about how John was my slave.

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And as a slave, one day he doesn't turn up in time to serve me.

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I take a whip and I go to whip him.

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I find him on the ground.

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I whip him.

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He does not respond.

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I grab him by the throat and I recognize suddenly that he does not have a pulse.

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Last night John died.

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In his death, it doesn't matter how much I whip him now,

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he will not respond.

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In his death, he has escaped my mastery.

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In my dying with Christ, in Christ dying for me,

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I have escaped the mastery or the power of sin.

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It no longer has a hold over me.

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Another example.

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John has been drinking a lot of water.

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He goes to the doctor and says,

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Doctor, I've been drinking 10 liters of water.

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The doctor puts him on an x-ray machine and finds out

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that John has been eating the sponge in his mattress every night.

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And so every time he drinks water, the sponge absorbs the water.

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So the doctor comes out and he looks at John

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and John says, there's something wrong with me, right?

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And the doctor says, there's nothing wrong with you

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but there's something wrong in you.

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And so he opens John up, takes out the sponge, sews him up,

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John is back to normal, he now drinks two glasses of water a day.

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Or maybe that's not the right bit.

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Whatever is the right standard.

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He begins to drink the right amount of water a day.

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What happened?

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Someone took something out from within you.

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Christ did not die just for our sin actions.

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Christ died for our sin being.

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He crucified the old man.

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There is nothing in me.

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I do not have an engine of sin anymore.

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Every child knows how to do evil.

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No parent teaches.

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But for me, that engine of sin has been taken out forever.

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It has been laid to rest.

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It cannot be revived again.

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No more does any sin have power over me.

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It cannot.

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You feel my pulse?

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Sin cannot get me.

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It doesn't have mastery over me.

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I can choose to submit to it, but it can never subdue me.

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Sin can never subdue me.

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There is no temptation on earth that can take me.

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And should there be temptations that come my way,

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Jesus Christ will provide a way for me through that temptation.

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And one of the ways he provides a way for me through the temptation

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is by reminding me that it has no mastery over you.

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This is not some kind of mountain splitting path that he creates.

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What he does is brings the word to remembrance saying,

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Remember, you are no longer a slave to sin.

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The next thing that was put to death

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is the law.

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The law.

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This one is very prevalent in our lives, guys.

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How, you ask?

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Think of it like this.

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So you've got three stages that have happened on the earth.

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There was a time when there were no laws.

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So let's call it lawless,

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and then we call the next stage lawful,

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and then we call the next stage grace.

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The Bible talks about this.

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In Romans 5, 14, the Bible says,

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In Romans 5, 14, the Bible says,

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between Adam and Moses, there was no law.

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Adam had a law, do not eat of the tree.

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But between Adam and Moses, there was no law.

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But was sin prevalent?

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Yes, Romans 5, 14.

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So during the time when there was no law, there was still sin.

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But because there was no law, it was not counted against you.

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Just like you can drive in Germany,

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and you can drive at 120 yards, not counted against you.

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Why? Because there's no speed limit on the Autobahn.

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But were people still separated from God?

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Yes.

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Were they aware of God?

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No, they were quite unaware of God,

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because there was no law that showed a holy, righteous God.

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How did they live?

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They lived by their own righteousness.

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Or they lived by no righteousness.

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There was no standard of righteousness.

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This is still the way the world lives, guys.

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This is still the way the world lives.

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Even though they know what is right and wrong,

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they do not live by the law.

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It's called a lawless world.

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And so, are your sins...

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Yeah, next one, lawful.

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That's when the law came in.

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When the law came in, sin was still present?

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Was it counted against them?

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Yes!

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Every time they broke the law, it was counted against them.

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So what did they have to do?

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They had to make sure that their guilt

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had to be born and absolved.

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And that brought in the need for sacrifice.

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What else did they realize?

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They became aware of a very holy God.

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And what was their righteousness like?

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They had an inferior righteousness

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that was brought about by sacrifices.

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And you read about that in Philippians 3.9.

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In Philippians 3.9, it actually says,

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if I read the message, it says,

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I didn't want some petty inferior brand of righteousness

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that comes from keeping a list of rules

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that I could get the...

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I could get the robust kind that comes from trusting Christ,

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God's righteousness,

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which brings us into the place of grace.

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Grace.

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Does sin exist?

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Yes, it still exists.

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Is it counted against you?

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No!

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It's not counted against you.

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Where does that say it?

00:35:57.960 --> 00:35:59.960
1 Corinthians 5.19.

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What else happens?

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Did I have guilt? Yes.

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But what happens to my guilt?

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It was born away.

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By who? By Christ.

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So what happens now?

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There is no condemnation.

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There is no separation.

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There is oneness with God.

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And there is the righteousness of God.

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So, where do you live?

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Where are you living?

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Where do we normally live?

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We don't live in the first one,

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but we are always caught between the second and the third.

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We still think our sins are counted against us.

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And the Bible says,

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if you are a sinner,

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you are not counted against.

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You are counted against.

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And the Bible says,

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in 1 Corinthians 5.19,

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that Christ does not count your sins against you.

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If he counted your sins against you,

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then you should feel condemned.

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Guys, this is such a mind shift

00:37:10.200 --> 00:37:12.200
that some of us are struggling

00:37:12.200 --> 00:37:14.200
to wrap our intellect around it

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and we won't be able to.

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Sorry?

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Second?

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Sorry?

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Second Corinthians 5.19, sorry.

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All things have passed away, the new has come.

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There is no separation.

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There is no separation.

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Actually, this brings us into oneness with God.

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And what kind of righteousness do we have?

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The very righteousness of God.

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Come on, man, we don't even think like this.

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We don't live like this.

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I want to think and live like this.

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Do you know in Romans chapter 7 what it says?

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It says that if

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a woman is married to a man,

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she is bound by that law.

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But if

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she goes and marries another,

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she commits adultery.

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But if her husband dies,

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she is now free to marry another.

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You know what it's trying to say there?

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Jacob, you can't live in both.

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If you are married to the law,

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then you cannot marry Grace.

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That it will be an adulterous, incomplete,

00:38:30.360 --> 00:38:32.360
unsatisfying relationship.

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And I would like to say to all of us here

00:38:34.360 --> 00:38:36.360
that we get caught between these two.

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But what if Christ

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has put to death the law?

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Now you are free to marry

00:38:44.360 --> 00:38:46.360
that other woman and that other woman

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is called Grace.

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And under Grace, look what it says here.

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Guys, I'm in the same boat as you.

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I'm not trying to teach you.

00:38:54.440 --> 00:38:56.440
I'm trying to ask us to live like this.

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God wants to see a forgiven, restored

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people on earth and he hardly finds it.

00:39:04.440 --> 00:39:06.440
He finds a forgiven, restored

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people that walk in condemnation

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and sorrow

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and guilt.

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Look at what it says.

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During the time of Grace,

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is there sin? Yes.

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But is it counted against you?

00:39:22.520 --> 00:39:24.520
No. 2 Corinthians 5 19.

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Is it borne away? Yes.

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What does that do for you?

00:39:28.520 --> 00:39:30.520
There is no condemnation.

00:39:30.520 --> 00:39:32.520
And there is no separation between God and you.

00:39:32.520 --> 00:39:34.520
And you have the right to sister of God.

00:39:34.520 --> 00:39:36.520
Any questions guys?

00:39:46.520 --> 00:39:48.520
How do you relate condemnation and consequences?

00:39:54.520 --> 00:39:56.520
Yeah.

00:39:56.520 --> 00:39:58.520
How do you relate condemnation

00:39:58.520 --> 00:40:00.520
and consequences?

00:40:00.520 --> 00:40:02.520
My cousin

00:40:02.520 --> 00:40:04.520
who was here last week,

00:40:04.520 --> 00:40:06.520
she and her sister went to

00:40:06.520 --> 00:40:08.520
Victoria some years ago when they visited

00:40:08.520 --> 00:40:10.520
me. And

00:40:10.520 --> 00:40:12.520
they needed a phone.

00:40:12.520 --> 00:40:14.520
I went and borrowed a phone

00:40:14.600 --> 00:40:16.600
from a friend. It was a high end phone

00:40:16.600 --> 00:40:18.600
where you can

00:40:18.600 --> 00:40:20.600
in those days where you can type and all this stuff.

00:40:20.600 --> 00:40:22.600
I gave them the phone. They took the

00:40:22.600 --> 00:40:24.600
phone and they went to Victoria.

00:40:24.600 --> 00:40:26.600
They had a great day in Victoria.

00:40:26.600 --> 00:40:28.600
And on the way back when they boarded

00:40:28.600 --> 00:40:30.600
the ferry, they lost the phone.

00:40:32.600 --> 00:40:34.600
And the weight of losing

00:40:34.600 --> 00:40:36.600
a phone that

00:40:36.600 --> 00:40:38.600
belonged to somebody else that I would now have

00:40:38.600 --> 00:40:40.600
to compensate for was so immense

00:40:40.600 --> 00:40:42.600
that they decided they would not come back

00:40:42.680 --> 00:40:44.680
to Victoria. I'm thinking to myself when they told me

00:40:44.680 --> 00:40:46.680
where would you have gone?

00:40:46.680 --> 00:40:48.680
But they refused to take the ferry.

00:40:48.680 --> 00:40:50.680
They don't want to come home.

00:40:50.680 --> 00:40:52.680
Because that's the sense of condemnation

00:40:52.680 --> 00:40:54.680
they were feeling.

00:40:54.680 --> 00:40:56.680
And then somehow one of them

00:40:56.680 --> 00:40:58.680
gathered the ability

00:40:58.680 --> 00:41:00.680
to say

00:41:00.680 --> 00:41:02.680
after searching

00:41:02.680 --> 00:41:04.680
everywhere they finally called me from a phone

00:41:04.680 --> 00:41:06.680
booth and they said we just want

00:41:06.680 --> 00:41:08.680
you to know that we lost the phone.

00:41:08.680 --> 00:41:10.680
I said okay, what time is the ferry

00:41:10.760 --> 00:41:12.760
arriving? And they said the time

00:41:12.760 --> 00:41:14.760
and I went and picked them up

00:41:14.760 --> 00:41:16.760
and I didn't say a word about the phone.

00:41:18.760 --> 00:41:20.760
And

00:41:20.760 --> 00:41:22.760
they were surprised.

00:41:22.760 --> 00:41:24.760
They said aren't you worried? I said so you lost

00:41:24.760 --> 00:41:26.760
the phone and it's a friend's phone. I'll take care of it.

00:41:28.760 --> 00:41:30.760
So here's the thing. One

00:41:30.760 --> 00:41:32.760
there was under severe condemnation.

00:41:32.760 --> 00:41:34.760
Two, I did not condemn them.

00:41:34.760 --> 00:41:36.760
Three, I took the consequences.

00:41:36.760 --> 00:41:38.760
What we sometimes

00:41:38.840 --> 00:41:40.840
forget is that

00:41:40.840 --> 00:41:42.840
God just does not

00:41:42.840 --> 00:41:44.840
not condemn. He also

00:41:44.840 --> 00:41:46.840
took the consequences.

00:41:46.840 --> 00:41:48.840
We think that

00:41:48.840 --> 00:41:50.840
sure he has said no condemnation but

00:41:50.840 --> 00:41:52.840
surely we have to bear the consequences.

00:41:52.840 --> 00:41:54.840
Let's assume they went a second time to Victoria

00:41:54.840 --> 00:41:56.840
a third time to Victoria, fourth time to Victoria.

00:41:56.840 --> 00:41:58.840
And each time they lost the phone that

00:41:58.840 --> 00:42:00.840
belongs to Don and

00:42:00.840 --> 00:42:02.840
George and everyone else who has a Samsung.

00:42:02.840 --> 00:42:04.840
Now praise the Lord.

00:42:04.840 --> 00:42:06.840
There'll be fewer Samsungs in the world but

00:42:06.920 --> 00:42:08.920
the fact is by the fourth time

00:42:08.920 --> 00:42:10.920
when you begin

00:42:10.920 --> 00:42:12.920
you also have a Samsung?

00:42:12.920 --> 00:42:14.920
You can sit here. So by the

00:42:14.920 --> 00:42:16.920
fourth time when you start losing

00:42:16.920 --> 00:42:18.920
phones now

00:42:18.920 --> 00:42:20.920
I may not pay for it every time.

00:42:20.920 --> 00:42:22.920
But don't for a second thing that God

00:42:22.920 --> 00:42:24.920
is not continuously

00:42:24.920 --> 00:42:26.920
intervening to mitigate our consequences.

00:42:30.920 --> 00:42:32.920
If God allowed me to take

00:42:32.920 --> 00:42:34.920
on the consequences of my sin

00:42:35.000 --> 00:42:37.000
if he stuck to I won't condemn you

00:42:37.000 --> 00:42:39.000
but you got to bear the consequences

00:42:39.000 --> 00:42:41.000
guys I'd be dead by now.

00:42:41.000 --> 00:42:43.000
Like physically dead.

00:42:43.000 --> 00:42:45.000
I'd be there

00:42:45.000 --> 00:42:47.000
and Vivek would be preaching.

00:42:49.000 --> 00:42:51.000
So I'm saying to you

00:42:51.000 --> 00:42:53.000
that he takes away condemnation

00:42:53.000 --> 00:42:55.000
and he takes the consequences.

00:42:55.000 --> 00:42:57.000
He took it on the cross and he still does.

00:42:59.000 --> 00:43:01.000
If I reaped

00:43:01.000 --> 00:43:03.000
all the fruit of the

00:43:03.080 --> 00:43:05.080
bad seed I have sown

00:43:05.080 --> 00:43:07.080
in the last one year

00:43:07.080 --> 00:43:09.080
I'd be dismantled.

00:43:11.080 --> 00:43:13.080
And then a point comes

00:43:13.080 --> 00:43:15.080
where he begins to see that these

00:43:15.080 --> 00:43:17.080
consequences that he's taking

00:43:17.080 --> 00:43:19.080
on is making me lawless

00:43:19.080 --> 00:43:21.080
and cold and

00:43:21.080 --> 00:43:23.080
callous. And what does he do?

00:43:23.080 --> 00:43:25.080
It's still no condemnation.

00:43:25.080 --> 00:43:27.080
He still mitigates the bad seed

00:43:27.080 --> 00:43:29.080
but he begins the process

00:43:29.080 --> 00:43:31.080
of anger free

00:43:31.160 --> 00:43:33.160
discipline. Anger free discipline

00:43:33.160 --> 00:43:35.160
which we cannot even imagine.

00:43:37.160 --> 00:43:39.160
You know when you can imagine

00:43:39.160 --> 00:43:41.160
anger free discipline? Only with babies.

00:43:43.160 --> 00:43:45.160
Only with babies.

00:43:45.160 --> 00:43:47.160
That child

00:43:47.160 --> 00:43:49.160
ruins your day

00:43:49.160 --> 00:43:51.160
and then decides to ruin your night.

00:43:53.160 --> 00:43:55.160
And yet look at her

00:43:55.160 --> 00:43:57.160
she looks like an

00:43:57.160 --> 00:43:59.160
angel holding a lycan.

00:44:01.160 --> 00:44:03.160
Point being once a lycan

00:44:03.160 --> 00:44:05.160
grows up then we'll see. But right

00:44:05.160 --> 00:44:07.160
now anger free

00:44:07.160 --> 00:44:09.160
discipline.

00:44:11.160 --> 00:44:13.160
It's crazy how ridiculously different

00:44:13.160 --> 00:44:15.160
the god I'm talking about is from

00:44:15.160 --> 00:44:17.160
the god we believe.

00:44:19.160 --> 00:44:21.160
But you're not saying that we have to have

00:44:21.160 --> 00:44:23.160
violent benefits of

00:44:23.160 --> 00:44:25.160
our relationship with God

00:44:25.160 --> 00:44:27.160
with people all the time.

00:44:27.160 --> 00:44:29.160
That's still our choice.

00:44:29.240 --> 00:44:31.240
Because if you did not say

00:44:31.240 --> 00:44:33.240
I would mean

00:44:33.240 --> 00:44:35.240
Christians would say

00:44:35.240 --> 00:44:37.240
we don't need judges

00:44:37.240 --> 00:44:39.240
anymore.

00:44:39.240 --> 00:44:41.240
We could just let them

00:44:41.240 --> 00:44:43.240
go on the street

00:44:43.240 --> 00:44:45.240
because they're not condemned.

00:44:45.240 --> 00:44:47.240
Yeah.

00:44:47.240 --> 00:44:49.240
So Mr.

00:44:49.240 --> 00:44:51.240
Butler's

00:44:51.240 --> 00:44:53.240
statement was we can't

00:44:53.240 --> 00:44:55.240
then begin to live

00:44:55.240 --> 00:44:57.240
like that in civil society today

00:44:57.320 --> 00:44:59.320
because there are judges and there are

00:44:59.320 --> 00:45:01.320
yeah it's an imperfect

00:45:01.320 --> 00:45:03.320
system but it might still

00:45:03.320 --> 00:45:05.320
be the best system based

00:45:05.320 --> 00:45:07.320
on some of the Judeo-Christian values

00:45:07.320 --> 00:45:09.320
that exist. But a time is

00:45:09.320 --> 00:45:11.320
coming when the thief

00:45:11.320 --> 00:45:13.320
who steals from you

00:45:13.320 --> 00:45:15.320
will be judged on the basis not just

00:45:15.320 --> 00:45:17.320
of stealing but whether he was

00:45:17.320 --> 00:45:19.320
someone who was hungry

00:45:19.320 --> 00:45:21.320
whether he wanted to feed his child

00:45:21.320 --> 00:45:23.320
whether it's a disease that he has that he

00:45:23.320 --> 00:45:25.320
cannot stop stealing or whether he was nasty

00:45:25.400 --> 00:45:27.400
and malicious and wanted to do you

00:45:27.400 --> 00:45:29.400
harm. And every time we see

00:45:29.400 --> 00:45:31.400
the justice of God in heaven we

00:45:31.400 --> 00:45:33.400
will fall on the floor and worship

00:45:33.400 --> 00:45:35.400
him saying oh my God how

00:45:35.400 --> 00:45:37.400
can you be so faithful and just.

00:45:37.400 --> 00:45:39.400
The motives of the

00:45:39.400 --> 00:45:41.400
heart can never be measured by any

00:45:41.400 --> 00:45:43.400
system of the earth even if it is

00:45:43.400 --> 00:45:45.400
based on Judeo-Christian values.

00:45:45.400 --> 00:45:47.400
That only Christ

00:45:47.400 --> 00:45:49.400
can.

00:45:55.400 --> 00:45:57.400
Yeah.

00:45:57.400 --> 00:45:59.400
When Christ says I've not come to abolish

00:45:59.400 --> 00:46:01.400
the law but to fulfill it

00:46:01.400 --> 00:46:03.400
how does this work?

00:46:03.400 --> 00:46:05.400
He does something so

00:46:05.400 --> 00:46:07.400
not helpful for us

00:46:07.400 --> 00:46:09.400
before he does something helpful.

00:46:09.400 --> 00:46:11.400
He says

00:46:11.400 --> 00:46:13.400
you have heard it say

00:46:13.400 --> 00:46:15.400
do not murder but I say to you

00:46:15.400 --> 00:46:17.400
any man who

00:46:17.400 --> 00:46:19.400
even thinks

00:46:19.400 --> 00:46:21.400
angrily of someone else

00:46:21.400 --> 00:46:23.400
has already committed murder.

00:46:23.480 --> 00:46:25.480
Instead of not only

00:46:25.480 --> 00:46:27.480
is he not abolishing the law he's raising

00:46:27.480 --> 00:46:29.480
the standards. Then he says

00:46:29.480 --> 00:46:31.480
you have heard it said

00:46:31.480 --> 00:46:33.480
that do not commit adultery but I say to

00:46:33.480 --> 00:46:35.480
you that if you as much as look

00:46:35.480 --> 00:46:37.480
at a woman with lust you have already committed

00:46:37.480 --> 00:46:39.480
adultery. And what is he doing?

00:46:39.480 --> 00:46:41.480
He's saying this was the standard I

00:46:41.480 --> 00:46:43.480
set you but my real standards

00:46:43.480 --> 00:46:45.480
are here.

00:46:45.480 --> 00:46:47.480
And I've not come to abolish the law. I've

00:46:47.480 --> 00:46:49.480
come to show you that these

00:46:49.480 --> 00:46:51.480
are my real standards and I can help you live

00:46:51.560 --> 00:46:53.560
it. He lives like that

00:46:53.560 --> 00:46:55.560
and then he comes and lives in me

00:46:55.560 --> 00:46:57.560
and in living in me he has completed

00:46:57.560 --> 00:46:59.560
every requirement of the law

00:46:59.560 --> 00:47:01.560
without abolishing anything but increasing the

00:47:01.560 --> 00:47:03.560
standard.

00:47:03.560 --> 00:47:05.560
It's crazy what he's done.

00:47:05.560 --> 00:47:07.560
It was not

00:47:07.560 --> 00:47:09.560
enough that you don't commit murder. I mean

00:47:11.560 --> 00:47:13.560
yeah I can't see any

00:47:13.560 --> 00:47:15.560
murderers in this room.

00:47:15.560 --> 00:47:17.560
That's not enough but

00:47:17.560 --> 00:47:19.560
my god if I would have

00:47:19.640 --> 00:47:21.640
used New Testament Jesus standards

00:47:21.640 --> 00:47:23.640
I only see murderers in this room

00:47:25.640 --> 00:47:27.640
because if you have been angry with your brother or sister

00:47:27.640 --> 00:47:29.640
you have already committed murder.

00:47:29.640 --> 00:47:31.640
And then after

00:47:31.640 --> 00:47:33.640
doing that he then says

00:47:33.640 --> 00:47:35.640
I will fulfill this law

00:47:35.640 --> 00:47:37.640
and then he comes and lives you and

00:47:37.640 --> 00:47:39.640
now he says Nidhi

00:47:39.640 --> 00:47:41.640
I live in you

00:47:41.640 --> 00:47:43.640
and by living in you I have fulfilled

00:47:43.640 --> 00:47:45.640
the law. I have not abolished

00:47:45.640 --> 00:47:47.640
it. Go ahead Emily.

00:47:49.640 --> 00:47:51.640
I have a question with the righteousness.

00:47:51.640 --> 00:47:53.640
Pardon?

00:47:53.640 --> 00:47:55.640
I have a question with the righteousness.

00:47:55.640 --> 00:47:57.640
In terms of like the private side

00:47:57.640 --> 00:47:59.640
I want to learn about

00:47:59.640 --> 00:48:01.640
righteousness and I don't know how to make

00:48:01.640 --> 00:48:03.640
sense of that because I was talking

00:48:03.640 --> 00:48:05.640
in a James News interview

00:48:05.640 --> 00:48:07.640
and it says that he was righteous from what he did

00:48:07.640 --> 00:48:09.640
as a law enforcement officer.

00:48:09.640 --> 00:48:11.640
So you're talking about Abraham.

00:48:11.640 --> 00:48:13.640
Yeah. So

00:48:13.640 --> 00:48:15.640
if righteousness is defined

00:48:15.640 --> 00:48:17.640
as right standing with

00:48:17.720 --> 00:48:19.720
God then every

00:48:19.720 --> 00:48:21.720
time you trust God

00:48:21.720 --> 00:48:23.720
it is credited to you

00:48:23.720 --> 00:48:25.720
as right standing

00:48:25.720 --> 00:48:27.720
with God.

00:48:27.720 --> 00:48:29.720
The simplest

00:48:29.720 --> 00:48:31.720
definition of righteousness

00:48:31.720 --> 00:48:33.720
is right standing with God where

00:48:33.720 --> 00:48:35.720
it's like Manchester City

00:48:35.720 --> 00:48:37.720
has lost multiple times and I'm

00:48:37.720 --> 00:48:39.720
a Liverpool fan and then I say everything

00:48:39.720 --> 00:48:41.720
ok between us and

00:48:41.720 --> 00:48:43.720
it is this place where we come back into

00:48:43.720 --> 00:48:45.720
right standing.

00:48:45.800 --> 00:48:47.800
And right standing is when

00:48:47.800 --> 00:48:49.800
you and God have a oneness

00:48:49.800 --> 00:48:51.800
that is so perfect. It's

00:48:51.800 --> 00:48:53.800
the same oneness

00:48:53.800 --> 00:48:55.800
that the Father, Son and the Spirit have. Only

00:48:55.800 --> 00:48:57.800
now there's a fourth person. It's you.

00:48:57.800 --> 00:48:59.800
It's just nuts.

00:48:59.800 --> 00:49:01.800
Right standing with God

00:49:01.800 --> 00:49:03.800
is what the triune God has. The Father,

00:49:03.800 --> 00:49:05.800
Son and Holy Spirit have right standing

00:49:05.800 --> 00:49:07.800
with each other included in the

00:49:07.800 --> 00:49:09.800
triune God is a small

00:49:09.800 --> 00:49:11.800
handsome looking guy called?

00:49:11.880 --> 00:49:13.880
Huh?

00:49:23.880 --> 00:49:25.880
I want some other dead person now.

00:49:27.880 --> 00:49:29.880
So it's fascinating how

00:49:29.880 --> 00:49:31.880
God has so included

00:49:31.880 --> 00:49:33.880
us guys. The inclusion of God

00:49:33.880 --> 00:49:35.880
and it's very logical

00:49:35.880 --> 00:49:37.880
he had to. It's like math.

00:49:37.960 --> 00:49:39.960
It's like math.

00:49:41.960 --> 00:49:43.960
I mean when you realize that he took on

00:49:43.960 --> 00:49:45.960
human flesh and blood so that he could

00:49:45.960 --> 00:49:47.960
now face death.

00:49:47.960 --> 00:49:49.960
Like I said last week if God did not

00:49:49.960 --> 00:49:51.960
come down as man God could not die.

00:49:53.960 --> 00:49:55.960
And if he did not die

00:49:55.960 --> 00:49:57.960
there would be no sacrifice. That would be sufficient

00:49:57.960 --> 00:49:59.960
to remit our sins.

00:49:59.960 --> 00:50:01.960
But because without the shedding of blood there is

00:50:01.960 --> 00:50:03.960
no remission of sins. Therefore the

00:50:03.960 --> 00:50:05.960
word had to become flesh.

00:50:07.960 --> 00:50:09.960
It's very mathematical.

00:50:25.960 --> 00:50:27.960
We'll just do one more and then

00:50:27.960 --> 00:50:29.960
we'll take the rest later so we might have

00:50:29.960 --> 00:50:31.960
life after death 1, 1a and life

00:50:31.960 --> 00:50:33.960
after death 2 when we talk about heaven.

00:50:34.040 --> 00:50:36.040
So what I want to talk about

00:50:36.040 --> 00:50:38.040
is just something

00:50:38.040 --> 00:50:40.040
that we can deal with today before

00:50:40.040 --> 00:50:42.040
we go. And that is

00:50:42.040 --> 00:50:44.040
guys when it comes

00:50:44.040 --> 00:50:46.040
to the law

00:50:46.040 --> 00:50:48.040
if we don't live in the place of

00:50:48.040 --> 00:50:50.040
grace we will keep slipping

00:50:50.040 --> 00:50:52.040
in and out of legalism.

00:50:52.040 --> 00:50:54.040
Yeah we will keep slipping

00:50:54.040 --> 00:50:56.040
in and out of legalism.

00:50:56.040 --> 00:50:58.040
And legalism

00:50:58.040 --> 00:51:00.040
put Christ to death.

00:51:00.120 --> 00:51:02.120
One of the ways you find legalism

00:51:02.120 --> 00:51:04.120
in your life is to find out whether

00:51:04.120 --> 00:51:06.120
there is anything that

00:51:06.120 --> 00:51:08.120
happens

00:51:08.120 --> 00:51:10.120
in your heart with regard

00:51:10.120 --> 00:51:12.120
to Christ and his body.

00:51:12.120 --> 00:51:14.120
Yeah because you can't separate Christ

00:51:14.120 --> 00:51:16.120
and his body.

00:51:16.120 --> 00:51:18.120
The head is connected to the body.

00:51:18.120 --> 00:51:20.120
One of the ways you find that out is

00:51:20.120 --> 00:51:22.120
is there anything that I'm doing

00:51:22.120 --> 00:51:24.120
that comes from a place

00:51:24.120 --> 00:51:26.120
that banishes love and banishes

00:51:26.120 --> 00:51:28.120
love and banishes death.

00:51:28.200 --> 00:51:30.200
It banishes love and banishes

00:51:30.200 --> 00:51:32.200
joy.

00:51:32.200 --> 00:51:34.200
Legalism will always

00:51:34.200 --> 00:51:36.200
banish love as

00:51:36.200 --> 00:51:38.200
the motive or the root reason

00:51:38.200 --> 00:51:40.200
and it will always banish

00:51:40.200 --> 00:51:42.200
joy as the expression.

00:51:48.200 --> 00:51:50.200
It's a good litmus test.

00:51:54.200 --> 00:51:56.200
It's a good litmus test.

00:51:58.200 --> 00:52:00.200
Is it possible to have love

00:52:00.200 --> 00:52:02.200
and joy as part of the equation?

00:52:02.200 --> 00:52:04.200
Because if you don't have love and joy as part of the equation

00:52:04.200 --> 00:52:06.200
you will need something besides

00:52:06.200 --> 00:52:08.200
Jesus.

00:52:08.200 --> 00:52:10.200
Legalism is Jesus plus.

00:52:10.200 --> 00:52:12.200
Jesus plus don't run

00:52:12.200 --> 00:52:14.200
in the church. Jesus plus

00:52:14.200 --> 00:52:16.200
don't laugh in the church. Jesus plus

00:52:16.200 --> 00:52:18.200
don't put Vivek out there in the

00:52:18.200 --> 00:52:20.200
front like that. Jesus plus.

00:52:20.200 --> 00:52:22.200
It's always some other measure

00:52:22.200 --> 00:52:24.200
because you can't bear

00:52:24.200 --> 00:52:26.200
the thought of joy

00:52:26.280 --> 00:52:28.280
and love and you get

00:52:28.280 --> 00:52:30.280
used to it.

00:52:30.280 --> 00:52:32.280
I'm not saying

00:52:32.280 --> 00:52:34.280
ha ha ha laughter. I'm talking about joy and love.

00:52:34.280 --> 00:52:36.280
Whenever that is

00:52:36.280 --> 00:52:38.280
low always remember

00:52:38.280 --> 00:52:40.280
something about Christ is missing and

00:52:40.280 --> 00:52:42.280
you'll have to make up for it by putting in

00:52:42.280 --> 00:52:44.280
some rule.

00:52:48.280 --> 00:52:50.280
Avoid it at all costs.

00:52:50.280 --> 00:52:52.280
When I was 27

00:52:52.280 --> 00:52:54.280
I remember

00:52:54.360 --> 00:52:56.360
telling the Lord

00:52:56.360 --> 00:52:58.360
and I think I've stuck with it most of my life

00:52:58.360 --> 00:53:00.360
I said Jesus

00:53:00.360 --> 00:53:02.360
I will not do anything for you

00:53:02.360 --> 00:53:04.360
except for one reason

00:53:04.360 --> 00:53:06.360
that I like you.

00:53:06.360 --> 00:53:08.360
That I refuse

00:53:08.360 --> 00:53:10.360
to do anything for you that is Christian

00:53:10.360 --> 00:53:12.360
other than

00:53:12.360 --> 00:53:14.360
for one reason that I like you.

00:53:18.360 --> 00:53:20.360
Any other

00:53:20.360 --> 00:53:22.360
reason is

00:53:22.440 --> 00:53:24.440
Law

00:53:24.440 --> 00:53:26.440
really

00:53:26.440 --> 00:53:28.440
which means I have to learn

00:53:28.440 --> 00:53:30.440
to receive grace and

00:53:30.440 --> 00:53:32.440
live out of grace.

00:53:32.440 --> 00:53:34.440
If Vivek does anything for

00:53:34.440 --> 00:53:36.440
Vidisha that does not come

00:53:36.440 --> 00:53:38.440
from a place of I love you

00:53:38.440 --> 00:53:40.440
Vidisha therefore I will.

00:53:40.440 --> 00:53:42.440
Then at some point

00:53:42.440 --> 00:53:44.440
it will begin to grate. Sometimes he'll do it

00:53:44.440 --> 00:53:46.440
just because he's a nice guy.

00:53:46.440 --> 00:53:48.440
Sometimes he'll do it just because

00:53:48.440 --> 00:53:50.440
she's had a rough day

00:53:50.520 --> 00:53:52.520
and he didn't have that rough a day.

00:53:52.520 --> 00:53:54.520
Those are reasons that are okay.

00:53:54.520 --> 00:53:56.520
But any time

00:53:56.520 --> 00:53:58.520
it gets to a place where Vivek does things

00:53:58.520 --> 00:54:00.520
for Vidisha that don't come from

00:54:00.520 --> 00:54:02.520
the simple root of love.

00:54:02.520 --> 00:54:04.520
And then

00:54:04.520 --> 00:54:06.520
when love begins to take over you will find

00:54:06.520 --> 00:54:08.520
a strange thing happening. Even when

00:54:08.520 --> 00:54:10.520
he has to do something difficult for Vidisha

00:54:10.520 --> 00:54:12.520
there's a certain joy that comes in

00:54:12.520 --> 00:54:14.520
because he's doing it for the one he loves.

00:54:16.520 --> 00:54:18.520
This is one of the most beautiful religions

00:54:18.600 --> 00:54:20.600
on the face of the earth.

00:54:20.600 --> 00:54:22.600
Everything is so pristine, so simple

00:54:22.600 --> 00:54:24.600
so pure, so relational

00:54:24.600 --> 00:54:26.600
so father son daughter.

00:54:28.600 --> 00:54:30.600
Cherish it.

00:54:30.600 --> 00:54:32.600
Because what I'm going to say next is about

00:54:32.600 --> 00:54:34.600
how legalism and

00:54:34.600 --> 00:54:36.600
living under anything but grace

00:54:36.600 --> 00:54:38.600
brings into our life dullness.

00:54:38.600 --> 00:54:40.600
Hebrews

00:54:40.600 --> 00:54:42.600
almost every chapter brings it up

00:54:42.600 --> 00:54:44.600
and we'll end with that.

00:54:44.600 --> 00:54:46.600
There are many other things to

00:54:46.680 --> 00:54:48.680
put to death.

00:54:48.680 --> 00:54:50.680
So Vivek do come back next Sunday.

00:55:00.680 --> 00:55:02.680
After this sermon you'll be as famous

00:55:02.680 --> 00:55:04.680
as Diana.

00:55:06.680 --> 00:55:08.680
Everybody knows Diana

00:55:08.680 --> 00:55:10.680
and Dilna.

00:55:10.760 --> 00:55:12.760
So legalism brings in

00:55:18.760 --> 00:55:20.760
not living

00:55:20.760 --> 00:55:22.760
legalism is such a big term

00:55:22.760 --> 00:55:24.760
it's hard to understand. Not living

00:55:24.760 --> 00:55:26.760
in and out

00:55:26.760 --> 00:55:28.760
of grace

00:55:32.760 --> 00:55:34.760
brings a lack

00:55:34.760 --> 00:55:36.760
of understanding

00:55:36.760 --> 00:55:38.760
and a lack

00:55:38.840 --> 00:55:40.840
of understanding

00:55:40.840 --> 00:55:42.840
of God and his word.

00:55:44.840 --> 00:55:46.840
You find that in Deuteronomy

00:55:46.840 --> 00:55:48.840
29 verse 4

00:55:50.840 --> 00:55:52.840
a spirit of heaviness

00:55:58.840 --> 00:56:00.840
you find that in Isaiah

00:56:00.840 --> 00:56:02.840
61 verse 3

00:56:02.840 --> 00:56:04.840
a spirit of

00:56:04.840 --> 00:56:06.840
slumber or

00:56:06.920 --> 00:56:08.920
stupor

00:56:10.920 --> 00:56:12.920
you find that in Isaiah

00:56:12.920 --> 00:56:14.920
29 verse 10

00:56:16.920 --> 00:56:18.920
a spirit of dullness

00:56:22.920 --> 00:56:24.920
which you find in

00:56:24.920 --> 00:56:26.920
Lamentations 3

00:56:26.920 --> 00:56:28.920
65

00:56:28.920 --> 00:56:30.920
and a spirit of

00:56:32.920 --> 00:56:34.920
confusion

00:56:36.920 --> 00:56:38.920
and lethargy

00:56:40.920 --> 00:56:42.920
which you find in Romans

00:56:42.920 --> 00:56:44.920
11 8

00:56:44.920 --> 00:56:46.920
which borrows from all the verses above

00:56:46.920 --> 00:56:48.920
and it affects

00:56:48.920 --> 00:56:50.920
pastors

00:56:52.920 --> 00:56:54.920
and in the context of these

00:56:54.920 --> 00:56:56.920
verses prophets and

00:56:56.920 --> 00:56:58.920
people all the same.

00:56:58.920 --> 00:57:00.920
So no one should think that

00:57:00.920 --> 00:57:02.920
they are

00:57:02.920 --> 00:57:04.920
some special category that doesn't

00:57:05.000 --> 00:57:07.000
go through this.

00:57:07.000 --> 00:57:09.000
We will pray before we leave

00:57:09.000 --> 00:57:11.000
that this ends

00:57:11.000 --> 00:57:13.000
that this dullness where

00:57:13.000 --> 00:57:15.000
doesn't matter how much we read

00:57:15.000 --> 00:57:17.000
doesn't seem to

00:57:17.000 --> 00:57:19.000
go in doesn't matter how

00:57:19.000 --> 00:57:21.000
intellectual we are and how many books

00:57:21.000 --> 00:57:23.000
we read still confused

00:57:25.000 --> 00:57:27.000
that joy seems so

00:57:27.000 --> 00:57:29.000
impossible

00:57:29.000 --> 00:57:31.000
that with certain topics there's a dullness

00:57:31.000 --> 00:57:33.000
that cannot be penetrated

00:57:33.080 --> 00:57:35.080
that is confusion

00:57:35.080 --> 00:57:37.080
and lethargy

00:57:37.080 --> 00:57:39.080
or sluggishness or

00:57:39.080 --> 00:57:41.080
hope glimmers on a

00:57:41.080 --> 00:57:43.080
Sunday evening and by Monday it's evaporated

00:57:43.080 --> 00:57:45.080
nothing can happen. I'm here

00:57:45.080 --> 00:57:47.080
to say to you that the spirit of God

00:57:47.080 --> 00:57:49.080
is willing to end this in my

00:57:49.080 --> 00:57:51.080
life today.

00:57:51.080 --> 00:57:53.080
Not only will he end this he will then

00:57:53.080 --> 00:57:55.080
begin to give you hope tomorrow saying

00:57:55.080 --> 00:57:57.080
I'm going to work with

00:57:57.080 --> 00:57:59.080
you and get you to a place where

00:57:59.080 --> 00:58:01.080
this won't be the case anymore.

00:58:01.160 --> 00:58:03.160
Let's look at some scriptures.

00:58:03.160 --> 00:58:05.160
Whoever wrote Hebrew

00:58:05.160 --> 00:58:07.160
I'm just going to assume it's Paul.

00:58:07.160 --> 00:58:09.160
Hebrews

00:58:09.160 --> 00:58:11.160
chapter 2

00:58:15.160 --> 00:58:17.160
he brings up this topic so often

00:58:17.160 --> 00:58:19.160
Hebrews chapter 2 verse 1

00:58:19.160 --> 00:58:21.160
Hebrews 2 verse 1

00:58:21.160 --> 00:58:23.160
he says

00:58:23.160 --> 00:58:25.160
we must pay

00:58:25.160 --> 00:58:27.160
more careful attention therefore

00:58:27.160 --> 00:58:29.160
to what we have heard so that

00:58:29.240 --> 00:58:31.240
we do not drift away.

00:58:31.240 --> 00:58:33.240
Seemed like the people that he was

00:58:33.240 --> 00:58:35.240
writing to seem to have the struggle

00:58:35.240 --> 00:58:37.240
so it's not new. You'll find

00:58:37.240 --> 00:58:39.240
it in your life. Guys it's hard

00:58:39.240 --> 00:58:41.240
for you to spot but it is easy for other

00:58:41.240 --> 00:58:43.240
people to spot.

00:58:43.240 --> 00:58:45.240
It might be difficult

00:58:45.240 --> 00:58:47.240
for me to think

00:58:47.240 --> 00:58:49.240
maybe there's an area like this in my life

00:58:49.240 --> 00:58:51.240
but for you it will be easy to

00:58:51.240 --> 00:58:53.240
spot that this is this area

00:58:53.240 --> 00:58:55.240
Jacob seems dense he doesn't

00:58:55.240 --> 00:58:57.240
seem to get it.

00:58:57.320 --> 00:58:59.320
And I'm saying to you

00:58:59.320 --> 00:59:01.320
that it is a spiritual condition

00:59:01.320 --> 00:59:03.320
and I'm saying to you that the

00:59:03.320 --> 00:59:05.320
Holy Spirit is here.

00:59:07.320 --> 00:59:09.320
For all the things we talk about today

00:59:09.320 --> 00:59:11.320
just remember this.

00:59:11.320 --> 00:59:13.320
Yeah? You know what this is right?

00:59:13.320 --> 00:59:15.320
Mustard seed.

00:59:17.320 --> 00:59:19.320
And I really believe that we have that

00:59:19.320 --> 00:59:21.320
in this room. It'll be enough

00:59:21.320 --> 00:59:23.320
to break through.

00:59:23.320 --> 00:59:25.320
Trusting the Holy Spirit to do a work

00:59:25.400 --> 00:59:27.400
that will set me free from this forever.

00:59:27.400 --> 00:59:29.400
Only he can do forever

00:59:29.400 --> 00:59:31.400
things nobody else can.

00:59:37.400 --> 00:59:39.400
So Hebrews chapter 2

00:59:39.400 --> 00:59:41.400
verse 1

00:59:41.400 --> 00:59:43.400
it says

00:59:43.400 --> 00:59:45.400
they were drifting away by not

00:59:45.400 --> 00:59:47.400
paying attention. Hebrews chapter 2 verse 3

00:59:49.400 --> 00:59:51.400
How shall we escape if we

00:59:51.400 --> 00:59:53.400
ignore such a great salvation?

00:59:53.480 --> 00:59:55.480
The salvation that was first announced

00:59:55.480 --> 00:59:57.480
by the Lord was confirmed to us by

00:59:57.480 --> 00:59:59.480
those who heard him as in ignoring

00:59:59.480 --> 01:00:01.480
this huge gift that we've been talking

01:00:01.480 --> 01:00:03.480
about. Such a precious pure simple

01:00:03.480 --> 01:00:05.480
relational gift.

01:00:05.480 --> 01:00:07.480
Not to ignore it

01:00:07.480 --> 01:00:09.480
not to be

01:00:09.480 --> 01:00:11.480
dull to it.

01:00:11.480 --> 01:00:13.480
To come alive.

01:00:13.480 --> 01:00:15.480
Hebrews chapter 3

01:00:15.480 --> 01:00:17.480
verse 6

01:00:17.480 --> 01:00:19.480
Hebrews 3

01:00:19.480 --> 01:00:21.480
verse 6

01:00:21.560 --> 01:00:23.560
It says

01:00:25.560 --> 01:00:27.560
But Christ is faithful as a

01:00:27.560 --> 01:00:29.560
son over God's house and we are his house

01:00:29.560 --> 01:00:31.560
if we hold on to our courage

01:00:31.560 --> 01:00:33.560
and hope of which we boast. And then

01:00:33.560 --> 01:00:35.560
it goes on to say so as

01:00:35.560 --> 01:00:37.560
the Holy Spirit says. Today if you

01:00:37.560 --> 01:00:39.560
hear his voice do not harden

01:00:39.560 --> 01:00:41.560
your hearts. I pray God that the

01:00:41.560 --> 01:00:43.560
sclerosis of the heart, the spiritual

01:00:43.560 --> 01:00:45.560
sclerosis of the heart

01:00:45.560 --> 01:00:47.560
really just gets cleaned up.

01:00:47.560 --> 01:00:49.560
Someone talked about surgery earlier

01:00:49.640 --> 01:00:51.640
on in Richmond.

01:00:51.640 --> 01:00:53.640
Let it begin here.

01:00:53.640 --> 01:00:55.640
The plaque that

01:00:55.640 --> 01:00:57.640
has collected. All we

01:00:57.640 --> 01:00:59.640
need is a willingness.

01:00:59.640 --> 01:01:01.640
This is a surrender. Who here

01:01:01.640 --> 01:01:03.640
has tried to help

01:01:03.640 --> 01:01:05.640
a heart surgeon during a triple

01:01:05.640 --> 01:01:07.640
bypass?

01:01:07.640 --> 01:01:09.640
You won't be here

01:01:09.640 --> 01:01:11.640
you'll be dead.

01:01:11.640 --> 01:01:13.640
You are sedated, you surrender.

01:01:13.640 --> 01:01:15.640
And he goes

01:01:15.640 --> 01:01:17.640
to work.

01:01:17.720 --> 01:01:20.720
And he accomplishes. That's what's going to happen here today.

01:01:20.720 --> 01:01:22.720
What do we hold up?

01:01:28.720 --> 01:01:30.720
Hebrews chapter

01:01:32.720 --> 01:01:34.720
3 verse 12

01:01:36.720 --> 01:01:38.720
See to it brothers that none of you

01:01:38.720 --> 01:01:40.720
has a sinful unbelieving

01:01:40.720 --> 01:01:42.720
heart that turns away from the

01:01:42.720 --> 01:01:44.720
living God.

01:01:44.720 --> 01:01:46.720
Or they

01:01:46.800 --> 01:01:48.800
believe that an unbelieving heart is a sinful heart.

01:01:51.800 --> 01:01:53.800
An unbelieving heart is a sinful heart.

01:01:53.800 --> 01:01:55.800
A sinful unbelieving heart

01:01:55.800 --> 01:01:57.800
that turns away from God.

01:01:57.800 --> 01:01:59.800
You'll repent of that and ask him to fix it.

01:01:59.800 --> 01:02:01.800
Next one. Hebrews 4 1

01:02:01.800 --> 01:02:03.800
Hebrews 4 1

01:02:03.800 --> 01:02:05.800
Therefore since the promise of entering

01:02:05.800 --> 01:02:07.800
his rest still stands

01:02:07.800 --> 01:02:09.800
let us be careful that none of you

01:02:09.800 --> 01:02:11.800
be found to having fallen

01:02:11.800 --> 01:02:13.800
short of it.

01:02:13.800 --> 01:02:15.800
That we won't try to use our intellect.

01:02:15.880 --> 01:02:17.880
Guys, one of the curses

01:02:17.880 --> 01:02:19.880
of

01:02:19.880 --> 01:02:21.880
postmodern

01:02:21.880 --> 01:02:23.880
postmodernism and enlightenment

01:02:25.880 --> 01:02:27.880
especially in the west

01:02:27.880 --> 01:02:29.880
is the curse

01:02:29.880 --> 01:02:31.880
of trying to understand

01:02:31.880 --> 01:02:33.880
the living God

01:02:33.880 --> 01:02:35.880
intellectually.

01:02:35.880 --> 01:02:37.880
It is a curse.

01:02:39.880 --> 01:02:41.880
It was offered first in the Garden of Eden.

01:02:41.960 --> 01:02:43.960
You can become as knowledgeable

01:02:43.960 --> 01:02:45.960
as God.

01:02:51.960 --> 01:02:53.960
I hate it.

01:02:55.960 --> 01:02:57.960
You know Eastern mysticism

01:02:57.960 --> 01:02:59.960
is more experiential?

01:03:05.960 --> 01:03:07.960
If you are one of those intellectual types

01:03:08.040 --> 01:03:10.040
If you are one of those intellectual types

01:03:14.040 --> 01:03:16.040
say oh God

01:03:16.040 --> 01:03:18.040
yeah

01:03:18.040 --> 01:03:20.040
My friend Roland used to say

01:03:20.040 --> 01:03:22.040
just stick a cabbage there.

01:03:24.040 --> 01:03:26.040
Yeah

01:03:26.040 --> 01:03:28.040
Instead of your head just stick a cabbage.

01:03:28.040 --> 01:03:30.040
Yeah.

01:03:30.040 --> 01:03:32.040
That'll solve it but

01:03:32.040 --> 01:03:34.040
I found that very helpful.

01:03:34.040 --> 01:03:36.040
Chapter 5 verse 11

01:03:36.120 --> 01:03:38.120
Chapter 5 verse 11

01:03:38.120 --> 01:03:40.120
We have so much to say about this

01:03:40.120 --> 01:03:42.120
but it is hard to explain

01:03:42.120 --> 01:03:44.120
because you are slow to learn.

01:03:44.120 --> 01:03:46.120
In fact though by this time

01:03:46.120 --> 01:03:48.120
you ought to be teachers

01:03:48.120 --> 01:03:50.120
you need someone to teach you elementary truths

01:03:50.120 --> 01:03:52.120
of God's word all over again.

01:03:52.120 --> 01:03:54.120
You need milk not solid food.

01:03:54.120 --> 01:03:56.120
Anyone who lives on milk

01:03:56.120 --> 01:03:58.120
being still an infant

01:03:58.120 --> 01:04:00.120
is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness

01:04:00.120 --> 01:04:02.120
but solid food is for the mature

01:04:02.120 --> 01:04:04.120
so we pray that our days of infancy

01:04:04.200 --> 01:04:06.200
and all this the Holy Spirit will do

01:04:06.200 --> 01:04:08.200
and he'll do it separately for each one of us

01:04:08.200 --> 01:04:10.200
but together as a body.

01:04:10.200 --> 01:04:12.200
Next one.

01:04:12.200 --> 01:04:14.200
Hebrews 6 1

01:04:14.200 --> 01:04:16.200
Therefore let us leave the elementary teachings

01:04:16.200 --> 01:04:18.200
about Christ and go on to maturity

01:04:18.200 --> 01:04:20.200
not laying again the foundation of repentance

01:04:20.200 --> 01:04:22.200
from acts that lead to death

01:04:22.200 --> 01:04:24.200
and of faith in God instruction about baptisms

01:04:24.200 --> 01:04:26.200
the laying on of hands the resurrection of the dead

01:04:26.200 --> 01:04:28.200
eternal judgment and God permitting we will

01:04:28.200 --> 01:04:30.200
be in the midst of the resurrection

01:04:30.200 --> 01:04:32.200
of the dead

01:04:32.280 --> 01:04:34.280
eternal judgment and God permitting we will do so

01:04:34.280 --> 01:04:36.280
what's Paul trying to say there

01:04:36.280 --> 01:04:38.280
hey don't stay at this elementary level

01:04:38.280 --> 01:04:40.280
don't stay there

01:04:40.280 --> 01:04:42.280
come awaken my people that's what the song said

01:04:42.280 --> 01:04:44.280
come come let's not stay there

01:04:46.280 --> 01:04:48.280
it's good that we learn that

01:04:48.280 --> 01:04:50.280
but come on there's so much more

01:04:52.280 --> 01:04:54.280
next one

01:04:56.280 --> 01:04:58.280
Hebrews 10 35

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Hebrews 10 35

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do not throw away your confidence

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do not throw away your confidence

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do not throw away your confidence

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many of you were confident

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and now you're beginning to flag in your confidence

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because of things that haven't happened

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because of disappointments because of set backs

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do not throw away your confidence

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verse 39 do not shrink back

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do not shrink back now is not the time to shrink back

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do not shrink back

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verse 39

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you�� used to be something

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That was nothing.

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Don't keep looking back.

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Don't keep looking back.

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You know, one of the things I always

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notice about people that are not progressing,

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they always talk about their past.

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If Steve Jobs was sitting here, he

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wouldn't be talking to us about iPhone 3.

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That's why old people, have you noticed how their jokes?

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I mean, anyone over 55?

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They always tell you jokes that they've already repeated

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so many times in the past.

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I don't like your smirk, Rebecca.

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The joke was on me, guys.

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Please don't email me saying you said something about old people.

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I was talking about me.

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Hebrews 12, 12.

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Hebrews 12, 12.

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Therefore, strengthen your feeble arms and weak knees.

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Make level paths for your feet so that the lame may not

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be disabled, but rather healed.

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I pray God that that happens today.

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Therefore, it's time for us to pray.

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Let's pray.

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Let's pray.

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Let's pray.

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Let's pray.

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Let's pray.

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Let's pray.

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Let's pray.

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Let's pray.

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Let's pray.

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It's time for us to strengthen our weak knees and feeble arms

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so that we won't have our joints dislocated,

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but we'll get stronger.

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And one last scripture.

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And this one I felt was specifically for people here.

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Zephaniah 1, 12.

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It has nothing to do with Hebrews, but Zephaniah 1, 12.

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And it is for people here.

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It's like a Rhema word.

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I want you to take note of this.

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It is both describes present condition

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and it describes the warning from God.

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Zephaniah 1, 12.

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If this is our condition, we'll take some time

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to repent of these things before God begins to heal us.

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Zephaniah 1, 12.

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At that time, I will search Jerusalem with lamps.

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And I will punish the men who are complacent,

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those who say in their hearts, the Lord will not do good,

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nor will he do evil.

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That stinks before God.

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When people look at him as some kind of neutral being

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and say, eh, he won't do good.

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Matt, eh, he won't do bad either.

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That is a horrible thing to say about God.

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That's like saying he's a nice God.

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Whenever when you go out on a date and someone tells you

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you're nice, you know it's not going to work.

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Just be sure of that.

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It is very nice.

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You know you're not getting a call back.

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Just remember that.

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For all the single people, yeah?

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So just remember that.

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So let's pray.

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And then we'll ask the Spirit of God to change all this.

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When you go home, you can read the other scriptures

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that I gave you.

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All these scriptures show us that there's

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a spirit that is active, that brings about.

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Let's just go with them.

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Deuteronomy 29, 4.

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Deuteronomy 29, 4.

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When you read the Old Testament scriptures,

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they come from the understanding that they had of God,

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which attributes to God everything good and evil,

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till Jesus comes and shows us that he does not work like that.

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So read it with that understanding.

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Deuteronomy 29, verse 10.

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All you are standing today in the presence of the Lord,

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your God, your leaders.

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Sorry.

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Verse 4.

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Deuteronomy 29, verse 4.

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But to this day, the Lord has not

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given you a mind that understands, or eyes that see,

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or ears that hear.

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Next one.

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Isaiah 61, verse 3.

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That one we know.

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Verse 3.

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And God will provide for those who grieve in Zion

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and bestow on them a crown of beauty,

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instead of ashes, the oil of gladness,

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instead of mourning, a garment of praise,

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and instead of a spirit of heaviness or despair,

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he'll give you a garment of praise.

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Next one.

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Isaiah 29, 10.

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Isaiah 29, 10.

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Isaiah 29, 10.

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The Lord has brought over you a deep sleep.

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He has sealed your eyes, the prophets.

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He has covered your heads, the seers.

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Where it's a spirit of deep sleep,

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a spirit of stupor in some versions,

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depending on which version you read.

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Lamentations, 365.

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Lamentations is after Jeremiah, before Ezekiel.

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Lamentations, 365.

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This is an appeal to God.

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But it says, pay them back what they deserve a lot

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and what their hands have done.

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Put a veil over their hearts, and may your curse be on them.

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Put a veil over their hearts, where your heart suddenly

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becomes dull to things.

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And then the last one, Romans 11, 8.

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Romans 11, 8.

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Romans 11, 8.

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Romans 11, 8 borrows from all these and puts it together.

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Romans 11, 8.

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Let's start at verse seven.

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Romans 11, 7.

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What then?

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What Israel sought so earnestly it did not obtain,

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but the elect did.

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The others were hardened, as it's written.

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God gave them a spirit of stupor,

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eyes so that they could not see,

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ears so that they could not hear to this very day.

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So let's just ask the Lord to help us

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lay down some of the things we spoke,

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and then we'll pray that God ends these things

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in our lives or in this church.

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Lack of understanding, spirit of despair or heaviness,

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spirit of stupor, spirit of dullness,

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spirit of confusion and lethargy.

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Let's just ask the Lord to end this in our lives.

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It'll increase our understanding of the word.

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It'll increase our love for God.

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It'll increase the movement of our body

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and the expression that we have.

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It'll increase the joy.

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It'll increase the way we worship.

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It'll change everything as we now surrender

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to the spiritual surgeon who can change things

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in heart and mind, yeah?

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So just a minute or two quietly first.

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Father, we humble ourselves.

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I humble myself by refusing to say that I am beyond help.

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That is not humility.

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That is putrid pride.

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When a man comes before God and says I am beyond help,

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I'm useless, you can do nothing for me,

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that is not humility, it is absolute pride.

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So we come to humble ourselves.

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Father, some of us are hopeless.

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We feel like we are in a waterless pit

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and you want to quote from Zechariah 12.

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You're saying I bring you out of the waterless pit

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and I call you a prisoner of hope.

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Jesus, could you take those people

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and put handcuffs on them saying I'm taking you

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into a prison called hope, prisoners of hope.

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Prisoners of hope.

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Father, there are others here

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who came from legalistic backgrounds.

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You are saying to them that just as I set many

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who were legalistic free in Israel,

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I'll set you free today.

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Father, there are some of us who are frustrated

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that we can't understand the word freedom.

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Doesn't matter how much we read it,

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it doesn't interest us.

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It's a pain, it's a chore, it's not fun.

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And even when we do get occasionally interested,

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it doesn't bring life, it just remains like a book.

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Jesus, today will be a breakthrough.

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Father, some of us think there's nothing wrong with us.

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We have all this together.

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How we come on our knees and say,

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oh God, it is not enough.

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I apologize for being satisfied.

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I want more, I want to be hungry.

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Father, we are not alone.

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We are not alone.

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We are not alone.

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We are not alone.

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We are not alone.

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We are not alone.

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We are not alone.

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Father, some of us are just plain, sometimes lazy.

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And as it said in Hebrews 2, verse one,

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we have been neglecting this great gift of salvation

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and are drifting away.

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We just repent of it.

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I repent of it Abba, I repent of it.

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As a person's output increases, the input must increase.

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One can't survive on the diet from years ago.

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Many of us repent of it.

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Many leaders in this church, including me,

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we repent of it, I repent of it, oh God, sorry.

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Father, some of us came from traditional churches

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where things were done a certain way, and we still insist on that.

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This is how we do it.

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Father, we are very sorry, very sorry for this is how we do it.

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This is not how we do it. You do it your way, we will follow.

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Father, some of us have occupied our lives with busy things that are not important.

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Busy things that are not important.

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It's become a robber.

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It's become a robber.

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May, can you come up and pray?

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Before I ask May to pray, I just want to rebuke the spirit of stupa from over all of us.

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So in the name of Jesus Christ, we pray.

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May, come up and pray.

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May, come up and pray.

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May, come up and pray.

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May, come up and pray.

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I rebuke the spirit of stupa from over all of us.

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So in the name of Jesus Christ right now,

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I rebuke the spirit of slumber, of stupa,

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of that which makes us sleepy literally physically and spiritually

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when we begin to deal with the word.

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That which brings confusion and dullness,

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that which makes the heart unable to receive,

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mind completely unable to hear what God is saying.

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In the name of Jesus Christ, it is a spiritual condition that is not mine,

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not ours from Christ.

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And so it does not have to be received anymore.

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So in the name of Jesus Christ, this church resists it.

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You said, oh God, that if we submit to you and resist the devil,

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he will flee from us.

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So we actively resist this dullness upon our lives, hearts and minds.

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We resist it in Jesus Christ's name.

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And now that we as a church are resisting it,

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I rebuke the spirit of confusion.

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I rebuke the spirit of dullness.

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I rebuke the spirit of hard-heartedness.

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I rebuke the legalistic spirit of deafness and muteness

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that brings the dullness to the heart and mind.

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I rebuke the spirit and have the mustard seed faith to command it to leave our lives,

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to be dismissed from our lives, driven out from our lives,

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from every person sitting here.

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In the name of Jesus Christ, who is light, life, wisdom, understanding, counsel,

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and the living word, in the name of that Jesus Christ,

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I drive out the spirit.

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We submit our minds to you, oh God.

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We submit our minds to you.

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Holy Spirit, we submit our minds to you.

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Thank you for what will transpire in this church starting today.

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Go ahead, May.

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Christ, you came to give us life in the fullest.

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And so these things that hold us back, Father,

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stupor, lack of understanding, heaviness, dullness, confusion, Father,

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they stop us from living that life of fullness that you have already paid on the cross, Father.

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And so we refuse to do things half-measured because you didn't sacrifice half-measurably.

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You gave your full life for us, Father.

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And so whatever holds us back from walking that full life, Father,

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we lay it down at the cross before you now.

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We leave it there not to pick it up again,

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not to play with it, not to examine it, but we leave it there because you already took care of it.

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And so thank you for completely healing these parts,

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completely taking these things away, Father,

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and so that we can walk in the fullness that you have called us to.

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Yeah.

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Muster seed grows into a fantastic, beautiful tree, Father,

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and that is what we want to grow into with you.

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In Jesus' name I pray, Amen.

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Amen.