387: Aaron McKee – The God of All Grace and Justice

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Welcome to good Christophian
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this week’s talk.
Hello and welcome back.

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This is brother Chris with
another talk to share with you

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this week.
For this week, we’re listening

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to actually a pair of classes
that were given by brother Aaron

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McKee at the San Diego Study Day
at the end of January 2026.

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The overall subject of this
entire series was the relenting

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and unrelenting God.
And I found Brother Aaron’s

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approach in the way that he was
addressing the sort of the

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paradox of the duality of God in
the grace and mercy and the

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judgement and justice that God
presents in his character in

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Scriptures and did a fabulous
job of presenting them.

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In addition, bringing out some
ideas about how we perceive

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God’s character from our own
perspective.

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And I just thought it was a
really fascinating class because

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of some of the nature of what he
was talking about.

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I’ve made the decision to take
classes two and three and

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combine them together.
It still is about an hour long

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with it all together, but it
sort of presents the two sides

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of the coin of God’s character
in a way that I think is really

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well put together.
Brother Aaron does a spectacular

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job of speaking it through,
talking through what he is

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presenting in a way that I found
to be a really concise and

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structured way to look at the
topic.

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Obviously, we’ll have the other
classes of the entire five

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classes that were in this series
on good Christadelphian Talks

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extended, and I would encourage
you to listen to them all.

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They’re a very easy read.
Brother Aaron is a very easy

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speaker to listen to and the
there’s some foundation he lays

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in the first class, but he does
a very good job at connecting to

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the key points, so you’re not
missing anything if you don’t

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hear Class 1 before listening to
classes 2 and 3.

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I will also have just a short
little comment from me right in

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between classes 2 and 3 so you
know when they are transitioning

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from the first second class to
the third class.

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But I hope that you enjoy both
of them and find them to be

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encouraging and uplifting in
your walk.

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The titles for classes two and
three are the God of All Grace

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and then the God of All Justice.
And for the sake of the podcast,

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I’ve combined those for the
subject for this podcast to be

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the God of all grace and
justice.

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So with that, I will turn it
over to our brother, Aaron

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McKee.
In 1751 a boat was being

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destroyed off the coast of
England and on this vessel lived

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a a man who to this point in his
life lived quite a an unsavory

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existence.
In fact, he’s the owner of this

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vessel and the vessel was a
slave ship.

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And he’s so convicted in the
fury of this raging storm and in

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conscience and in heart to
change his ways, to mend his

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deeds to, to, to that that by
miracle the storm begins to, to

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clear.
He makes his way to land.

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Well, he makes landfall, he
sells the ships, he enters a

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ministry and he dedicates his
life to God. 25 years later, now

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a minister, now reflecting on
God’s ability to to restore him

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from that situation, to esteem
him better than his works.

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He writes a sermon on New Year’s
Day, this poem for his

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congregation, writing words we
know well, penning words that

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that stretch to this very day
towards grace.

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That taught my heart to fear and
grace my fears relieved.

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How precious did that grace
grace appear the hour I first

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believed?
Brothers and sisters, many in

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the ages of history have
marvelled in the glories of

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God’s character of grace.
From David, who would write in

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First Chronicles.
Who am I Lord and and what is my

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house?
You bring me this far to to

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Jacob, who would say I’m not
worthy the least of your

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mercies.
To the centurion who proclaimed

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of Christ, I’m not worthy, You
come to my house.

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Many marveled God could esteem
them better than their works.

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This afternoon, brothers and
sisters, we will do the same.

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We will explore this character
of God dedicated to grace.

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Prince sisters, but we will do
so by moving beyond the fact

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that our God is merciful, beyond
the fact he is a loving and

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caring God, which he
demonstrates time and again

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throughout his word.
And instead we will ask why?

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Why does our God well let you
know what?

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What prompts, what moves the
grace of God throughout

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Scripture?
And in asking that question,

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Bron sisters, we will move
beyond what God does towards who

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God is, the essence of what
grace means to God, How how this

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character expresses itself.
Here we’ll consider a grace that

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is loyal and faithful, secured
in his promise word.

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Here we’ll consider a grace that
bears the cost of mercy that

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that self sacrificing that
reaches to the broken.

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Here we’ll consider grace
responding to truth, reaching to

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the humble, granting to the
sincere, and ultimately,

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brothers, sisters, we are going
to bring our thoughts to the

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charge given to Moses by the
Lord, to be gracious as I am

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gracious as God.
We are going to end on what

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grace works in us, the
transformation it seeks and the

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teaching qualities it possesses
to all who receive it.

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But we’ll start our
consideration by thinking back

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on Exodus 32.
Let’s go there for a moment.

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Run sisters.
And we start here because while

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there are many places our minds
might take us run sisters and

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and considering why grace is
granted and the record of

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Scripture I I put to you there
are a few moments so

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comprehensive, few so concise as
what we see in the record of

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this chapter.
In this chapter, a number of

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things prompt the grace of God.
We see verse 13 of chapter 32.

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Remember Abraham says Moses
remember Isaac in Israel.

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He’s saying in the face of their
sin, who you swore by your name

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here Moses petitioned God’s
covenants that grace may come.

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We see verse 32.
Yeah.

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Now forgive their sins as Moses,
if not, take me.

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Also we see Moses’s intercessor
petition God’s grace that that

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grace may come.
We see chapter 33, verse 6.

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The people mourn.
They they strip themselves of

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their ornaments, they burn them
in fire.

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They show humility of heart,
that grace may come.

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And finally, verse 19, what does
God say?

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I am gracious to who I am
gracious Moses underscoring he

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is a God of grace and that’s why
grace came in total brother and

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sisters 4 points emerge four
points that all throughout

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Scripture are this this
framework a pattern for how the

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grace of God is often reaching
out as an outstretched hand to

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man.
And when we see these brother

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and sisters all throughout the
records of Scripture.

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Yeah, we we see them in the the
account of Nehemiah 9 Nehemiah

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9’s another moment of of
national repentance very similar

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to what’s happening in in the
accounts of Exodus.

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What do we see in Nehemiah 9
verse one, they assemble as

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Israel and fasting and sackcloth
and dust.

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They show humility of heart.
Verse 7 Nehemiah says you are a

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God who chose Abraham and made
covenants with us.

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We see covenant mercies.
Verse 28, the leaders and

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Levites act as intercessors.
Verse 17 Nehemiah says you are a

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God, gracious and merciful to
the thousandth.

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He petitions a character of
grace, and while not every

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example of relenting, it is as
comprehensive.

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Brothers, sisters, as what we
see in Nehemiah and Exodus.

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I put to you every moment of
God’s mercy is expressed for one

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of these reasons.
And when we ask ourselves why,

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why is God relenting for these
things, will we come to better

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understand what grace and this
character looks like to God?

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So let’s start with his covenant
mercies.

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Brothers and sisters, you know,
there are many times in the

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record of Scripture that we hear
this common refrain.

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We see it in Deuteronomy 7 verse
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Know the Lord your God is
faithful keeping covenants and

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love, says Moses.
Curious, isn’t it?

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He says covenants and love.
He, he links these two things

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somehow together and he’s not
alone in that run, sisters.

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In fact, we see covenants in
love either implicitly or

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explicitly linked together many
times throughout the record of

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his word.
We see it in Exodus.

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I heard their groanings as God
and remembered my covenant with

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Abraham.
We see it in Daniel 9.

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O awesome God, who keeps
covenants and steadfast love.

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We read.
We see it in Genesis 90.

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Establish my covenant with you,
never to destroy all life by

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water.
An act of covenant secures an

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act of grace.
We see it in Isaiah 37.

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Brothers and sisters, for the
sake of David, my covenant, I

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will defend the city.
We see it in the words of

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Solomon.
O awesome God of Israel, there

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is no God like you keeping
covenants and love.

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All throughout our Bibles, Brun
sisters, grace is extended

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through the words of God’s
promise.

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All throughout Scripture, the
grace of God is secured in his

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covenant.
And Brun sisters, we should note

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the extent to which it’s
secured.

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Maybe we think to the kings of
Israel.

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You think to Abijah, the
idolatry of his day.

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What did God say to him in First
Kings 15?

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For David’s sake, Abijah, I will
give you a son for my covenant.

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I will show you grace.
We see it in Jahoram.

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Despite the evilest day, for
David’s sake, I will not destroy

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Judah.
We see it in Solomon, despite

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the idolatry of his day, For
David’s sake, he says, I will

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not take your Kingdom.
And this underscores a simple,

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crucial, essential avenue of
what grace means to Godbrun

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sisters.
And that’s that it is deeply and

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unwaveringly committed.
You know, brothers and sisters,

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I, I, I don’t know about you,
but, but sometimes I, I think we

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can perceive grace as something
Moody or whimsical, as God’s

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emotion or, or exception to his
rules, where he’s relenting in

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spite of his faithfulness.
That can’t be farther from

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truth.
Brothers and sisters, all

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throughout Scripture, the grace
of God is an expression of

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faithfulness.
It is the preeminent aspect of

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character revealed to Moses on
the top of Sinai.

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It it is legal and deeply
rational where even in failures

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it is reaching or even in
darkness it’s presenting.

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And we see this type of grace,
one sisters manifest all

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throughout Scripture.
We we see it in the accounts of

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Second Samuel, the accounts of
of Chapter 9.

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We recall Brun sisters in the
context of Jonathan and David’s

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relationship.
They make a covenant and First

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Samuel 20.
And what did David say?

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I will never cut off love from
the House of Jonathan forever,

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no matter the unknowable, no
matter the hardships, the ups

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and downs, the betrayals, no
matter what may come.

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He makes that pledge.
And in Second Samuel, David acts

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on this covenant.
He takes Mephibosheth, then he

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cares for him, brings him to his
house.

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And what does he say in verse 9,
Bronze sisters?

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I do this that I might show the
kindness of God to Him.

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David relates covenant mercies
to how God works in our lives.

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When, sisters, and how did he
show it?

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How did he reveal it?
Not because of merit, not

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because it’s earned, not because
of worth, but because like God,

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he is faithful to His Word.
Like David, brothers and

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sisters, we are convicted to
show the same.

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Like David, we are bound in
covenant to each other through

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the waters of baptism.
We enter as a body of Christ

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this commitment, and it requires
we reflect the same durable

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grace.
You know so often that the

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impulse draws us to treat grace
as temporary, as withdrawn in

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the face of failure.
In our Lord we are challenged

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with grace that loves through
struggle, as a spouse in a

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marriage that doesn’t look away
from wrong, but is is present in

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consequence.
Not because it’s merited, not

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because it’s earned, but because
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Covenant Mercy, brother and
sisters, reframes grace not as

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something that you give to the
repentant in your life, but as

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reaching to the broken people
that are around you.

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We consider the second avenue of
grace and we know Brun sisters

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that all throughout Scripture,
the the grace of God, he, he

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builds his relationship with man
around intercession, doesn’t he?

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And there’s so many ways we see
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We see it and and Levites and
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And it’s so common, in fact,
that I think if if you’re

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anything like me, it’s something
we take for granted, It’s a

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role.
It’s a structure of scripture

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that that, that that we just
intake or it’s something that

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because it’s so common, we we
see as perhaps trivial or limit

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to a select few.
We see brothers, sisters, it is

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anything but trivial and
anything but limited.

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We see this in Ezekiel 22, verse
30, where in the face of

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Israel’s sins, what does God
say?

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He says I looked for an
intercessor and asked for

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anyone, anyone among you Israel
to stand in the breach and

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marvel.
There was none anyone says God

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in this verse.
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It’s the clear expectation that
all of us emulate this behavior

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play this role for the people in
our lives and there is much we

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could say, Bron sisters about
why God’s grace values an

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intercessor.
You know, we might think to the

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to the cries of Abraham for
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Your mind might go to the tears
of Abigail.

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It might think to the prayers of
Daniel who didn’t pull away from

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Israel, but he what did he say
in his prayer that our brother

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read forgive our sins, or
Nehemiah, who said of Israel’s

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sins, forgive our faults.
And we can know that while it

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takes many forms, articulates
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True intercession, brothers and
sisters, is never separating

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from others failures.
It walks with people through

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trial, it draws near them and
failure not, not not speaking

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from afar.
You know, we could note that in

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the prayers of Elijah, petitions
of Jeremiah, cries of prophets

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who will for years intercede
with no turning or sign of hope

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or any indication that what they
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That true intercession, it is
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It’s never just declaring a
wrong and then pulling ourselves

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away.
It’s a constant, persistent

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effort to be in people’s lives.
But if there’s one analogy, one

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point that hits to the center, I
think of why, of why grace

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responds to intercession.
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We see it in the words of David,
words spoken of Moses, words

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that speak to what we’ve been
reading on Sinai.

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It’s the words of Psalm 106.
He says God would have destroyed

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us had not Moses, his chosen 1,
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What David draws us to
understand.

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Brund sisters and the symbolism
of a breach of a city, walls

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that have been ripped open and
an enemy is rushing to the point

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of vulnerability and an
individual puts themselves there

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in the midst of that.
That rushing dangerous way for

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everything and everyone inside,
whatever that is to the person

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is that at the heart of
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It’s suffering for one another.
It’s standing exposed between

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God and sin and saying as Moses
did, if you will not forgive

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them, take me God.
It’s saying as Paul did to an

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estimates, let his debt be on my
account.

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It’s saying as David prayed, let
their sin be on my account.

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It’s saying as Abigail spoke to
David, hold me responsible for

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my husband.
True intercession.

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Brunsisters bears the cost of
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It is sensitive to the quality
of our God who lives by a moral

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order.
It bears the burdens of others

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on our soldiers.
So grace may come and if there’s

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any question why it’s
significant run sisters, why God

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moves towards it, why he puts
man in this position

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artificially throughout
Scripture to try to get us to

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think this way.
We see it in the words of Psalm

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59.
What does it say I look said the

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Lord for an intercessor.
There was no one, so my own hand

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brought salvation.
What you see in this verse from

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the sisters is a fundamental
truth about the character of who

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our God is, and that’s simply
that He is an intercessor.

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Romans 8 speaks in this way.
The Spirit of God intercedes for

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the weakness of man from the
moment in the garden, as God

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steps forward, calling out to us
to start this process of

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restoring what was broken, at a
loss to Himself, He shows us

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this is who He is.
He relents because it emulates

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His sacrificial grace.
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He relents because He recognizes
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We consider the 3rd Ave. of
Grace and in so doing reflect

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on, you know what is perhaps the
most prevalent, the most power,

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the most beautiful and the most
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Friend, sisters, and that’s
humility.

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Don’t we see grace and humility
linked all throughout our

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Bibles?
We we think to the words of

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Joel, Ren your hearts and not
your garments that God may

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relent.
We we think to Hezekiah, Lord,

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he prays.
Remember how I walk before you

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with my whole heart.
And God relents to Manasseh.

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When captured of the Assyrians
sought favour with God humbling

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self and God relented to Ahab.
Who in tears after Naboth’s

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death, after he he convicted
that man to death, put on

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sackcloth weeps and what does
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See how he humbled himself
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I will not bring disaster in his
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All throughout scripture, Brun
sisters, the grace of God moves

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towards humility.
All throughout Scripture, he

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relents for this quality in the
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And there is much we could say,
Brun sisters, much we could

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discuss this morning about this
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We can know the extent of it.
We’re in Ahab, despite the sin

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he had done this, the sin he
would continue to do, By no

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means was he a reformed man
after after God gave him that

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grace.
Humility in his heart in that

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moment was sufficient for his
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What a powerful lesson.
Bron sisters, we can note that

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that in that example we are
challenged to do the same, to

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remove conditions that that man
so often imposes on grace.

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You know, we might think to
Peter and James, who both

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independently state that God
opposes the proud and gives

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grace to the humble.
And we can reflect, brothers,

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sisters, that that where pride
is, grace cannot be.

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And not because it isn’t there,
not because the hand of God

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doesn’t extend it, but because
pride lies to us.

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Pride blinds us to seeing we’ve
needed.

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Pride makes us the latest IANS
who said in their heart, I am

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rich, lacking in nothing, not
realizing, says Christ, you are

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wretched, pitiable, poor, blind
and naked.

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Pride makes you the Pharisee in
Christ’s parable who said in

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their hearts, thank God I am not
as that Sinner we think to the

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words of Christ to Nicodemus
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God so love to the world he gave
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That is the unmeasurable depth
of grace quality of his

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character he extends to man.
The only thing that can keep you

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from that, Bruns sisters, is
ourselves.

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But if there’s one thing, one
singular reason, grace draws to

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humility, Bronze sisters, I
suggest we see it in the words

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on our screen.
These are the words of David,

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the words of Psalm 51.
What does he say of his God?

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This is a quality he came to
know intricately of God.

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Behold, you delight in inward
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What David touches on brothers,
sisters, and that statement is a

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repeated, fundamental, central
understanding and knowing what

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grace means to God.
And that’s simply that all

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throughout Scripture it is
granted on substance and not

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image.
All throughout Scripture.

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Bruns sisters, we see that
lesson, don’t we?

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God emphasizes this meshes of
grace given not from from

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partiality, not for appearance,
not for external merit, but to

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those who’ve recognized in
themselves a need for it, those

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who desire.
We see it in the task collector

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of Luke 7 who goes justify
before God rather than the

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Pharisee.
We see it in that that woman

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before Simon who when no one in
that room thought her deserving

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of grace.
Christ says your heart has made

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you worthy, your desire makes
you worthy of this character of

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God.
Your sins are forgiven and she

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goes justified before God rather
than the the seemingly righteous

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Pharisee.
Grace is given, brothers and

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sisters, to those who ask and
what we see in this aspect of

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grace.
Is the greatest challenge to

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man’s concept of grace Brains,
sisters.

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Because you see, even at our
best, we attach conditions to

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grace, don’t we?
I give grace when I feel safe or

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appreciated.
You know, I, I, I, I give grace

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when, when somebody apologized
for their wrong, I showed grace

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because I thought that that
brother or sister was of good

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repute.
So, so they warrant it because

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surely the righteous merit and
the unrighteous don’t.

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What’s implied in that thinking,
brothers, sisters, is that grace

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is something to be earned.
Many in our Bibles wrestled and

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struggled in that perception to
reserving grace for the for the

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deserving.
The Pharisees resented Christ

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for this, for showing grace to
the to the undeserving.

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The elder brother of the
prodigal son resented grace

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shown his brother considering it
undeserving.

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What did he say all these years?
I’ve slaved for you, he said to

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his father, and you didn’t give
me anything.

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I earned it.
He didn’t.

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Laborers in the vineyard
resented grace given those who

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came later, because surely they
they didn’t earn it as I did.

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It’s all too often brother,
sisters, we think the same.

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Why grace shouldn’t go to that
neighbor down the street?

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Why?
Why shouldn’t go to this, this

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brother or sister in the
ecclesia?

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Because I acted right.
I made the right calls in life.

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They didn’t they, they didn’t,
they didn’t live as as pious, as

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as righteous as I did.
They didn’t take the Scriptures

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as seriously as me.
So often we see grace like

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Jonah.
Who could accept it for those he

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deemed worthy himself, his
people, the the things he loved?

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Surely they were certainly they
were deserving in the mercy of

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God.
Surely not the wicked Gentile.

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Surely they don’t deserve God’s
grace.

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That is why I made haste to
flee.

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He says he indicts himself as
this being his problem.

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In their examples, Brothers
Sisters is a warning that grace

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can be something we grow to
resent.

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It’s a warning that this life
can mean that that grace can be

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an enigma to those who don’t
show it.

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It can be offensive when we
don’t understand it.

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And it’s this very concept of
undeserved grace from sisters

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that that will bring us to the
final point that the last avenue

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of of why grace is is granted in
the records of Scripture.

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And we see it in the words of
Daniel, the words our our

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brother read of Chapter 9, where
in a moment of intercession, in

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a moment where the scriptures
proclaimed to Daniel that that

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the return of the Exiles was
imminent.

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What does he say?
How does he petition God?

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He says do this, Lord, not
because we are righteous, not

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because it has been earned, but
because you are merciful.

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What Daniel forces us to
reconcile Bron sisters is that

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while God might relent in
Scripture because of covenants,

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while he inclined his ear for
intercessors, and he will

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comfort the humble in the
honesty of their hearts, the

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Amazing Grace of God is that
none of these actions, Bron

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sisters, ever earn you His
grace.

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None of these things that we’ve
considered does anything to make

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you deserving of it.
He is gracious because this is

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who He is.
I knew you were gracious, says

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Moses.
I am God and not man, so I

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relent, he said to Hosea, who is
like you, pardoning iniquity and

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passing transgression, writes
Micah.

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I am merciful and gracious to
the thousandth, he said of

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Moses.
This, brothers and sisters, is

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the wellspring from which all
grace flows.

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When God says to Moses and
Exodus, I am gracious to who I

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will be gracious, what he’s not
saying is is my grace is

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arbitrary.
Moses.

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He’s saying in every case it is
free, unmerited, unearned.

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Grace is the prerogative of
goblin sisters.

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This is the aspect of grace that
challenges us to forgive as He

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has forgiven us.
This is the end of Class 2, the

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God of all grace.
Now this is the start of class

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3, the God of all justice.
Now we’ve talked this morning on

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many things about this, this
merciful quality of God.

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Brothers and sisters, we, we
noted the, the loyalty and

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steadfastness of it.
We talked about grace through,

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through intercessors, how how he
responds because it mirrors his

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character and his selflessness
and his compassion.

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We, we spoke of humility, how it
allows for grace and and

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reflects God’s desire for
sincerity over partiality.

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But Bronn sisters, we’ll, we’ll,
we’ll close our thoughts on two

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points 2 fundamental things when
it comes to understanding this

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relenting character of our God.
The 1st is that learning to

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accept grace is crucial.
Yeah, that that that might sound

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like the easy part.
Brothers and sisters, it is far

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from easy.
It is so easy to impart

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punishment on ourselves.
So it’s so easy to when we have,

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we have done wrong, condemn
ourselves, do it and, and let

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the, the, the weight of those
wrongs, those sins weigh us down

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in like keep us inactive from,
from showing the character of

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God or whatever pit of sin we’re
in.

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Think this is surely too far
from God’s standard and, and,

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and retribution will come and,
and that this was too great a

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mistake and, and surely God
won’t let it slide.

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What does Christ say to the
Pharisee of Luke 18?

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Brother and sisters Who loved me
more?

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Simon?
The one forgiven much or little?

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Our capacity to accept the
depths of God’s grace between

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sisters?
It is directly related to our

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relationship with God.
Directly related to how much you

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will be willing to give others.
In His words, we are reminded if

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you only accept a little little,
you will only give a little.

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In his words, we are reminded
that to to be accepting of grace

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is to learn how to give it.
We’re reminded that we only love

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because he first showed us how
to love.

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But the final point we’ll note
are in the words of Paul.

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Do you presume?
Oh, man, you who practice evil,

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that you will escape the justice
of God.

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Or do you presume on the riches
of his forbearance, not

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understanding, he says, that
grace was meant to lead you to

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repentance.
You know, I find it interesting,

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brothers and sisters, that often
when somebody might talk a

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little bit too much about grace,
there’s a common response.

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And I’m guilty of this.
It’s it’s well, what about truth

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as if you can have one without
the other.

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You know, I’m not trying to be
dismissive of that.

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Bron sisters Again, I’m a person
who said that myself.

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But in that is a misperception
because that’s coming from a

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mischaracterization of grace as
tolerance or a blank check you

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received in moments of wrong
That that that must be balanced

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with this other part of of truth
of God’s character.

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What Paul highlights in that
statement, Bron sisters, in that

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verse is the fundamental
challenge to that premise that

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grace is never the end of truth,
nor is that the absence of of

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responsibility, nor does it
begin when the law of God ends.

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Grace is not tolerance, it is
mercy leading us to

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righteousness.
Bron sisters, all throughout

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Scripture, God implores us to
see this message.

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We see it in Peter spoken to of
Christ God.

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Christ gives him grace to build
him to something better.

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Paul giving grace to build him
to an instrument of God.

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Samson giving grace to do with
it what he could never hope to

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do without it.
Grace is not God overlooking

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sin, Brun sisters, it is his
tool of instruction.

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It’s overcoming sin by showing
us a better way, and then he

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expects us to walk in it.
And that means, Brun sisters,

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once it’s given, it is never
something you leave behind, not

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a doormat where you walk over
and you you wipe your feet clean

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and you walk inside and and
leave its effects in the past.

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It is something we live with.
Paul speaks this way in Romans,

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where one’s sin reign to death.
Even so, grace must reign in us

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to eternal life.
It rains in me, says Paul.

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It is like a king over me.
It, it, it rules everything

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about who I am, how I think, how
I treat others, how I speak

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about truth.
It is not something passive.

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It is active always.
He writes the same in Romans 6.

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I am not under law, I am under
grace.

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He writes the same in Romans 5,
verse 20.

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Grace reigns in me through
righteousness.

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If we can do that, run the
sisters.

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If you can conceive of grace in
this way, it will do some

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powerful things.
Titus 2 verse 11 reads For the

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grace of God that bringeth
salvation to all man hath

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appeared to man, teaching us to
deny ungodliness, that you might

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live godly lives.
Grace, brothers and sisters,

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teaches you.
It’ll teach you to be Paul, who

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could say by grace I am the
person that I am and not in

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vain.
It wasn’t given as something

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transient in passing, but it
made me labour more abundantly.

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It’ll teach you that that
despite your mistakes, the

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things you’ve done, the things
you’ve struggled to forgive

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00:33:57,200 –> 00:34:02,720
yourself for, you are worthy in
the eyes of God and you can have

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endurance and grace that you
could not give yourself.

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It’ll teach you to be Isaiah,
who in seeing the awesome

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righteous truth of God and his
might and power, realizing his

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sins before him, but in the
words of God, your sins are

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forgiven, stands up and goes
into Israel.

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It’ll teach you to be the same,
to be strong in grace.

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It’ll teach you peace and your
relationship with God.

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Bren sisters, that you can draw
boldly to the throne of grace,

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00:34:31,960 –> 00:34:35,239
knowing it is always present and
it will always settle you in

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moments of failure.
It’ll make you as all those

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throughout Scripture who quoted
the words of Exodus 34 brothers.

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Sisters who recognized that
turning point of Scripture and

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lived and hoped because no
matter the uncertainties of

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life, no matter whatever chaos
would be around them, they knew

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that God was always merciful.
It’ll make you David, who in

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despairing at the world that
Santas destruction, took hope.

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And what does he say in Psalm
86?

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You, Lord, are merciful, slow to
anger, and abounding and

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steadfast love and faithfulness.
It’ll make you Joel, who hoped

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in hopeless days that his people
would turn to God and was

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00:35:17,840 –> 00:35:21,240
convicted every day in their
failure to do that yet and still

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implored them with the reminders
of God’s character.

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He is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger and abounding in

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love.
It’ll make you the authors of

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Lamentation.
Brothers, Sisters who’s standing

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in the rubbles of Jerusalem
would say, even here, Lord, I

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know you are merciful and
abounding in love.

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We and brothers and sisters, on
the words of Peter, words that

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encompass the power, the care
and the transformation of God’s

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Amazing Grace that has changed
the lives of countless others

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and is being presented to you.
You have suffered a little

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while, says Peter.
And indeed we do, brothers and

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sisters, we live in a flawed
world as flawed people.

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But the God of all grace is
calling you to his eternal glory

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in Christ.
And he will himself, through

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that grace restore, establish,
strengthen and settle you.

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To him be dominion forever and
ever, says Peter.

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Amen.
Our world cries for justice,

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doesn’t it?
We?

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We see this outcry practically
everywhere we look.

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We see it in protests over world
events decrying destruction of

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nature and and deaths of
innocence.

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We we see it in depravity of the
impoverished.

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We see it in cases of corruption
and and abuses of power, Brun

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sisters.
We see it in in out cries

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against lawlessness, oppression
of power imbalances, governments

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to citizens, countries to other
countries.

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You have husbands to wives, you
have civil and social injustice.

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And Brun sisters and seeing
these things and witnessing this

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world around us, well, maybe not
personal to us.

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It, it certainly feels personal.
There are certainly moments

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where you see, we, we see
injustice and it sits in our

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stomach.
It, it weighs in our heart.

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In fact, huge portions of
society are built around

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alleviating that feeling.
You, you have unions, you have

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law firms, you have you have
political parties, rightly or

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wrongly, all capitalizing on
man’s desire for justice.

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And this fixation, this drive in
the heart of man to enforce

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right in the face of wrong
justice and face of injustice,

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that is nothing new.
Brothers and sisters, I thought

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you could go to the earliest
records of humanity, to the

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earliest societies of humanity
and see man aspiring for

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justice.
In fact, one of the oldest

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samples of writing ever found, a
stone pulled from the deserts of

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Iran in 1901, is 500 lines
etched in stone dedicated

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exclusively to the enforcement
of justice.

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It declares justice to the poor,
justice to the impoverished,

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retribution for the wrong.
And it is thousands of years

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old.
And in seeing these things, Bren

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sisters and every form of
society and witnessing in

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ourselves, we have to reconcile
one thing.

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And that’s that justice is
biological.

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You know, as many of you have
come to find Rose and I have a

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little 7 month girl who’s been
floating around the hall today.

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And right about this stage of
her development, she’s, she’s

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starting to form a, a, a sense
of right and wrong.

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You know, developmental
psychologists, they, they know

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this, that children as young as
six months of age, they begin to

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show signs of moral intuition.
They respond to helpful puppets

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over harmful ones, that they
show distress in the face of

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unfair treatment.
Children ages three to five act

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on this sense of fairness.
I’m still waiting for that for

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my 3 year old.
But so I’ve been told they,

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they, they begin practicing
equal sharing.

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They begin enforcing rules and
games, even to their detriment.

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And all this for all this Brun
sisters to a very simple, very

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purposeful, powerful
understanding and an important

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one.
And that’s that God is placed in

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the heart of man, a quality
central to who he who he is.

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And it is this unwavering
character of our God, Brun

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sisters, His commitment to
justice, what it means to him,

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how he will use it, how it
relates to his grace.

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That we’re going to be
considering this afternoon.

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Come with me to Deuteronomy 32.
You see, our God is a God of

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justice, Brunt sisters, and we
can note this in many different

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ways throughout our Bibles.
We can see it in the the holding

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of Israel to an account.
He gives them this law, cast

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them out into the nations
because they transgress it.

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Well, there’s perhaps no better
place to get a sense of just how

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how intimately justice relates
to the heart of God than than

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the words of Exodus 32.
And we think of that for a

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moment, Brunt sisters, because
we identified that that that is

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really a turning point in our
Bibles.

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We reflected that that when
Moses this morning was given

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there, it’s not just a a
proclamation of God’s name.

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What’s given wasn’t just a a
passing description of our God.

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It was the character of God that
would always guide his hand with

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man.
And that’s what we have there,

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Bruin sisters.
It is a blueprint for how God

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will work in our lives.
And what did we see in verse 6?

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He will be a God gracious to the
thousands, he said.

651
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But Moses, by no means will I
clear the guilty.

652
00:41:39,120 –> 00:41:43,440
Our God, brothers and sisters,
is unequivocably a God of

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00:41:43,440 –> 00:41:48,440
justice, one who holds a moral
order, one to whom

654
00:41:48,440 –> 00:41:51,920
accountability matters, one who
will never ignore our turn from

655
00:41:51,920 –> 00:41:53,760
injustice.
And not only do we witness that

656
00:41:53,760 –> 00:41:56,080
there, brothers, sisters, but
that resonates all throughout

657
00:41:56,080 –> 00:42:00,680
Scripture.
That’s a basic tenant of all our

658
00:42:00,680 –> 00:42:01,880
Bibles.
We see it in Isaiah.

659
00:42:01,880 –> 00:42:05,160
I, the Lord, love justice and
hate robbery.

660
00:42:07,080 –> 00:42:09,800
We see it in the words of David.
You Lord, maintain the cause of

661
00:42:09,800 –> 00:42:12,200
afflicted and execute justice.
We see it in the Psalms.

662
00:42:12,200 –> 00:42:15,440
Righteousness and justice are
the foundation of your throne.

663
00:42:15,440 –> 00:42:17,680
And we see it, brothers and
sisters, and the words of

664
00:42:17,680 –> 00:42:20,000
Deuteronomy 32, the words of
verse 4.

665
00:42:20,000 –> 00:42:28,800
What does Moses say?
All your ways are perfect, and

666
00:42:28,800 –> 00:42:31,680
all your ways just all your
ways.

667
00:42:34,160 –> 00:42:37,320
In other words, there is nothing
he says in the character of our

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00:42:37,320 –> 00:42:40,960
God that will ever compromise
his pursuit of justice.

669
00:42:40,960 –> 00:42:49,600
Now, now I don’t know about you
brothers sisters, but that makes

670
00:42:49,600 –> 00:42:51,080
me start to feel a bit
uncomfortable.

671
00:42:53,400 –> 00:42:55,960
God won’t compromise his pursuit
of justice.

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00:42:55,960 –> 00:42:58,160
You know, maybe that’s OK if
that’s that’s how he treats the

673
00:42:58,160 –> 00:43:00,720
the truly abhorrent things of
this world and and maybe the

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00:43:00,720 –> 00:43:03,160
other sinners down the road.
But but what if that’s how he

675
00:43:03,160 –> 00:43:07,680
treats me?
Not exactly a devotional thought

676
00:43:07,680 –> 00:43:09,920
this this afternoon, is it
Because you know, when I when I

677
00:43:10,040 –> 00:43:12,880
start to dwell on this character
of Godburn sisters, my mind goes

678
00:43:12,880 –> 00:43:18,520
to passages like Deuteronomy 32,
verse 41, some of the other

679
00:43:19,000 –> 00:43:20,760
verses we see in this chapter.
What does it say?

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00:43:20,760 –> 00:43:25,760
I, the Lord, sharpen my sword.
My hand stretches to justice.

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00:43:25,760 –> 00:43:28,240
I take vengeance on adversaries.
I repay those who hate me.

682
00:43:28,280 –> 00:43:30,000
I make my arrows drunk with
their blood.

683
00:43:30,000 –> 00:43:31,920
My sword devours and takes
vengeance.

684
00:43:31,920 –> 00:43:34,880
And in reading these things and
seeing moments of God’s justice,

685
00:43:34,960 –> 00:43:43,000
well, I walk away with a fearful
assessment of our God.

686
00:43:45,760 –> 00:43:48,080
I fear as justice, as call the
mechanical.

687
00:43:48,080 –> 00:43:49,800
I fear it in the face of my
faults.

688
00:43:49,800 –> 00:43:52,200
I fear it where if I’m making
mistakes, I will wait sometimes

689
00:43:52,200 –> 00:43:58,880
years for the day I’m made to
pay for them.

690
00:43:58,880 –> 00:44:06,240
You know, it is so easy to judge
ourselves on that concept of

691
00:44:06,240 –> 00:44:08,760
justice.
I did it, so I deserve it.

692
00:44:08,760 –> 00:44:15,480
It’s easy because that’s how man
perceives justice from sisters

693
00:44:15,480 –> 00:44:16,600
that that that’s how we practice
it.

694
00:44:16,600 –> 00:44:19,720
You see, our society practices
retribute of justice.

695
00:44:19,720 –> 00:44:22,120
Somebody does you wrong, you can
pay them in kind.

696
00:44:24,560 –> 00:44:26,760
Isn’t that the premise for which
all justice is found?

697
00:44:26,760 –> 00:44:29,280
You know, we phrase, we use
phrases in society like like

698
00:44:29,280 –> 00:44:31,880
punishment should fit the crime,
or if you do the crime, you do

699
00:44:31,880 –> 00:44:39,040
the time because surely the
moment justice is met is the

700
00:44:39,040 –> 00:44:42,040
moment we get even.
But it’s so important.

701
00:44:42,040 –> 00:44:45,040
We ask ourselves, brothers,
sisters, is that all that

702
00:44:45,040 –> 00:44:50,000
justice means to God?
Is that how he judges us?

703
00:44:50,200 –> 00:44:56,680
Is that what he expects in our
judgments of others?

704
00:45:02,640 –> 00:45:04,480
Come with me to Genesis chapter
3.

705
00:45:11,400 –> 00:45:14,040
And we refresh ourselves in this
chapter, brothers and sisters,

706
00:45:16,240 –> 00:45:21,520
because you see here in the face
of man’s first sin, the face of

707
00:45:21,520 –> 00:45:25,400
the first moment of justice that
was ever to be enforced in this

708
00:45:25,400 –> 00:45:27,280
world, we we see something
really important.

709
00:45:27,280 –> 00:45:29,360
That’s that’s worth noting
because what do we see in verse

710
00:45:29,360 –> 00:45:33,360
19?
God says to dust, you are to

711
00:45:33,360 –> 00:45:35,960
dust you’ll return.
He holds himself to be a God of

712
00:45:35,960 –> 00:45:38,000
truth.
He helds into account the wages

713
00:45:38,000 –> 00:45:39,680
of sin were death.
He delivers it.

714
00:45:39,760 –> 00:45:42,680
But before he even pronounces
that judgement, brothers and

715
00:45:42,680 –> 00:45:47,440
sisters, before justice has ever
executed, what does he say in

716
00:45:47,440 –> 00:45:50,600
verse 15?
The seed of the woman will crush

717
00:45:50,600 –> 00:45:56,080
that serpent.
In other words, the first moment

718
00:45:56,080 –> 00:45:59,040
of justice, the the first moment
of retribution, of, excuse me,

719
00:45:59,040 –> 00:46:01,360
of justice.
It’s framed in the context of

720
00:46:01,360 –> 00:46:11,040
future restoration.
Paul in Romans 8 speaks exactly

721
00:46:11,040 –> 00:46:12,960
to what we’re noting here.
In fact, he he highlights the

722
00:46:12,960 –> 00:46:14,160
same thing he writes in verse
20.

723
00:46:14,160 –> 00:46:16,040
Creation was subjected to
frustration.

724
00:46:16,160 –> 00:46:19,320
The justice of God delivered not
to anger, not to vindictiveness,

725
00:46:19,400 –> 00:46:29,840
not to get even, but in hope, He
says judgement was made that

726
00:46:29,840 –> 00:46:32,000
hope could come to man.
That’s how God, brother and

727
00:46:32,000 –> 00:46:35,640
sisters, chose to execute the
first moment of justice.

728
00:46:35,640 –> 00:46:38,600
And this dynamic that we see all
the way, the beginning of our

729
00:46:38,600 –> 00:46:41,840
Bibles, brother and sisters in
the garden of a justice that led

730
00:46:41,840 –> 00:46:49,040
man to hope.
That’s a blueprint of all the

731
00:46:49,040 –> 00:46:51,360
judgements of God throughout
Scripture.

732
00:46:51,360 –> 00:46:55,080
We see it in Hebrews when
speaking to the effects of guns.

733
00:46:55,080 –> 00:46:56,560
Chastening.
It’s written for a moment.

734
00:46:56,560 –> 00:46:59,640
All this discipline is painful.
Later it yields the fruit of

735
00:46:59,640 –> 00:47:03,360
righteousness.
We see it in Revelation, The

736
00:47:03,360 –> 00:47:05,600
words of Christ, the latest he
are those I love.

737
00:47:05,720 –> 00:47:08,560
I discipline, He says so that so
that you may be found waiting

738
00:47:08,560 –> 00:47:10,000
for me, that you might have
hope.

739
00:47:10,000 –> 00:47:12,080
We see it in the words of
Jeremiah, where in the dark

740
00:47:12,080 –> 00:47:14,400
years of Israel’s captivity.
What does God say?

741
00:47:14,400 –> 00:47:17,280
I brought you to this state.
I subject you to these things

742
00:47:17,440 –> 00:47:20,840
that you might have hope.
What a contradiction brought in,

743
00:47:20,840 –> 00:47:25,840
sisters.
What a contradiction that seems

744
00:47:25,840 –> 00:47:30,040
to us that that justice is a
means to a better end for the

745
00:47:30,040 –> 00:47:31,720
offender.
We see this in the words of

746
00:47:31,720 –> 00:47:35,720
Ezekiel 11.
This is a powerful thing for and

747
00:47:35,720 –> 00:47:41,000
sister Ezekiel 11 and Speaking
of times to come and Speaking of

748
00:47:41,000 –> 00:47:43,560
a day of judgement and justice
to come to this world.

749
00:47:43,600 –> 00:47:46,200
What does he say in verse 8?
I will bring the sword to you,

750
00:47:46,240 –> 00:47:47,760
Israel.
I will deliver you up to

751
00:47:47,760 –> 00:47:50,240
nations.
I will bring my justice to verse

752
00:47:50,240 –> 00:47:58,400
19 for the intent of putting a
new heart in you that I might

753
00:47:58,400 –> 00:48:01,240
restore you to me says God.
That’s our keyword, Brun sisters

754
00:48:01,240 –> 00:48:03,400
restoration.
You see, in contrast to this

755
00:48:03,400 –> 00:48:07,520
justice of man, a justice rooted
in retribution, the justice of

756
00:48:07,520 –> 00:48:21,080
God aims for restoration.
Come with me to Romans Chapter

757
00:48:21,080 –> 00:48:32,960
11.
You see, Paul draws us deeper

758
00:48:33,200 –> 00:48:37,080
into how closely related these
two qualities are justice and

759
00:48:37,240 –> 00:48:39,320
and restoration.
In fact, he elaborates further

760
00:48:39,320 –> 00:48:42,000
on this this pattern we
witnessed brothers and sisters

761
00:48:42,000 –> 00:48:43,800
of of writing of the judgments
of Israel.

762
00:48:43,800 –> 00:48:45,520
How does he describe it?
What does he say?

763
00:48:45,520 –> 00:48:49,040
He says justice is given, verse
22, that goodness might come to

764
00:48:49,040 –> 00:48:53,840
you.
Justice is executed, says Paul.

765
00:48:53,880 –> 00:48:56,920
That greater restoration comes
in this world for Gentiles.

766
00:48:56,920 –> 00:49:01,160
Behold, he says, the goodness
and severity of God.

767
00:49:01,160 –> 00:49:09,400
You see, brothers and sisters,
Paul pairs these two qualities

768
00:49:09,400 –> 00:49:16,360
together, not something isolated
from each other, not something

769
00:49:16,440 –> 00:49:19,800
in contrast to each other, not
severity forsake of severity.

770
00:49:19,800 –> 00:49:22,600
It is severity forsake of his
grace.

771
00:49:22,600 –> 00:49:25,600
In Paul’s words, we are drawn to
the fundamental understanding

772
00:49:25,600 –> 00:49:35,080
that the justice of God and the
grace of God work together.

773
00:49:42,320 –> 00:49:47,200
And you see, well, Paul
emphasizes this aspect of of

774
00:49:47,200 –> 00:49:49,320
God’s justice in in the
judgement of Israel.

775
00:49:49,320 –> 00:49:52,560
Brothers and sisters, don’t we
see the goodness and severity of

776
00:49:52,560 –> 00:49:58,440
God all throughout our Bibles?
Don’t we see it in the

777
00:49:58,440 –> 00:50:02,120
condemnation of Egypt, which
through their judgement brought

778
00:50:02,120 –> 00:50:04,720
restoration to his people and a
witness to all nations?

779
00:50:04,720 –> 00:50:08,680
Don’t don’t we see it in Samson,
who by the grace of God’s

780
00:50:08,680 –> 00:50:12,080
justice lost his eyes that it
might restore his heart?

781
00:50:12,080 –> 00:50:14,480
Don’t we see it in Paul’s own
life, who by the grace of God’s

782
00:50:14,560 –> 00:50:17,560
justice, lost his eyes to
restore his heart?

783
00:50:17,560 –> 00:50:22,000
Don’t we see it in David, who by
the grace of God’s justice, he’s

784
00:50:22,080 –> 00:50:24,840
confronted with Nathan to
restore his heart time and

785
00:50:24,840 –> 00:50:26,200
again?
The judgement of God.

786
00:50:26,200 –> 00:50:29,280
Brothers, sisters, it is
executed never in contrast to

787
00:50:29,280 –> 00:50:36,880
His grace.
But it’s an Ave. for it.

788
00:50:36,880 –> 00:50:41,600
It is always executed with the
purpose of restoration.

789
00:50:51,080 –> 00:50:55,640
But as I say that justice aims
to restore.

790
00:50:55,640 –> 00:50:57,680
Well, brothers and sisters, if
you’re like me, you, you might

791
00:50:57,680 –> 00:51:00,160
instinctively think to, to how
that’s not the case.

792
00:51:02,480 –> 00:51:04,680
Because if you’re like me, these
traits are something, you know,

793
00:51:04,680 –> 00:51:07,560
diametrically opposed.
These are two characters of God

794
00:51:07,560 –> 00:51:10,120
that are, that are two sides of
a coin where, you know, once God

795
00:51:10,120 –> 00:51:15,080
runs out of his mercy, then
justice comes to replace it, or

796
00:51:15,080 –> 00:51:18,280
once you’ve exercised enough
mercy, now justice falls.

797
00:51:18,280 –> 00:51:21,040
In fact, it’s so abrasive what
we’re discussing by the sisters,

798
00:51:21,040 –> 00:51:23,480
the things that we’re noting
that that some theologians that

799
00:51:23,480 –> 00:51:26,240
go back to the cases of of
Exodus 34, they see the

800
00:51:26,240 –> 00:51:29,320
qualities of God’s character
revealed to man and they say

801
00:51:29,320 –> 00:51:33,960
surely it’s been altered.
That can’t be what the original

802
00:51:33,960 –> 00:51:36,880
text says because because surely
these things aren’t compatible.

803
00:51:36,880 –> 00:51:39,480
But what we see in these
examples is the fundamental

804
00:51:39,480 –> 00:51:41,200
truth.
Truth, brothers, sisters, one

805
00:51:41,200 –> 00:51:43,360
quality never forsakes the
other.

806
00:51:46,520 –> 00:51:50,200
All your ways are just, said
Moses, Psalm 25, verse 4 to 10.

807
00:51:50,200 –> 00:51:52,840
Show me thy way, says David.
Teach me thy paths.

808
00:51:52,840 –> 00:51:56,280
All the ways of the Lord are
mercy and truth.

809
00:51:56,280 –> 00:51:59,800
There is never a moment when
God’s grace is sacrificed for

810
00:51:59,800 –> 00:52:05,200
his justice or His justice
diminished by grace.

811
00:52:05,240 –> 00:52:14,320
He redeems through judgement.
He will punish sin in ways that

812
00:52:14,320 –> 00:52:21,320
make mercy possible.
And, brothers and sisters, we

813
00:52:21,320 –> 00:52:23,760
see that even in places that’s
hard to find.

814
00:52:26,760 –> 00:52:31,880
We think to the law in which we
have verses like Exodus 2124,

815
00:52:31,880 –> 00:52:35,360
which advocate an eye for an eye
or maybe Numbers 3531.

816
00:52:35,360 –> 00:52:37,720
Maybe you think to that it
advocates a life for a life.

817
00:52:37,720 –> 00:52:42,600
And you know, we might think,
isn’t this God teaching us

818
00:52:42,760 –> 00:52:45,280
retribute of justice?
But even in that law, brothers,

819
00:52:45,280 –> 00:52:50,080
sisters, that law, which was
never the sum of of what justice

820
00:52:50,080 –> 00:52:52,120
meant to God.
Paul calls it only a shadow of

821
00:52:52,120 –> 00:52:54,120
what he’s trying to accomplish
in this world.

822
00:52:54,120 –> 00:52:57,280
Even that shadow glimpses God’s
justice.

823
00:52:57,320 –> 00:53:02,520
We see it in cities of refuge.
Justice demanded life for a

824
00:53:02,520 –> 00:53:04,880
life, but given a chance that,
that if a person reached that

825
00:53:04,880 –> 00:53:06,800
they could live, that they
could, they could reform

826
00:53:06,800 –> 00:53:09,920
themselves.
We, we, we see it in laws of, of

827
00:53:09,920 –> 00:53:12,680
thievery.
The offender wasn’t just

828
00:53:12,680 –> 00:53:15,360
supposed to pay back what they
owed, they were supposed to pay

829
00:53:15,360 –> 00:53:17,600
back extra to restore
relationship.

830
00:53:17,600 –> 00:53:19,800
We see it in the days of Jubilee
and which is enshrined in the

831
00:53:19,800 –> 00:53:25,760
law every 50 years.
A moment of restoration, of

832
00:53:25,760 –> 00:53:28,760
slaves, of debts, where
relationships are restored

833
00:53:28,840 –> 00:53:30,880
between God and man.
We sit in the Ark, Brothers,

834
00:53:30,880 –> 00:53:33,120
sisters, in which contains the
law of God.

835
00:53:33,120 –> 00:53:36,920
And what’s it surrounded by?
A seat of mercy, a symbol of

836
00:53:36,920 –> 00:53:39,360
grace and truth that are
harmonized.

837
00:53:39,360 –> 00:53:48,080
These are moments that allow
people to see beyond the letter

838
00:53:50,400 –> 00:53:53,360
and glimpse Gaunts desire of man
to understand the law, not as as

839
00:53:53,360 –> 00:53:55,200
punishment forsake of
punishment, not not as

840
00:53:55,200 –> 00:53:58,920
punishment to get even or a box
to be checked, but as correction

841
00:53:59,120 –> 00:54:05,160
leading to restoration.
For that reason the prophets

842
00:54:05,160 –> 00:54:08,120
could write as Hosea.
Did you desire love and not

843
00:54:08,120 –> 00:54:12,520
sacrifice and the knowledge of
God more than burnt offerings?

844
00:54:12,520 –> 00:54:14,760
Or reflect as David wrote,
sacrifice and burnt offerings

845
00:54:14,880 –> 00:54:18,160
you do not desire, but a broken
and contrite heart or right is

846
00:54:18,160 –> 00:54:20,920
in the Proverbs.
To show mercy and justice

847
00:54:26,320 –> 00:54:37,840
pleases God more than sacrifice.
And there’s so many other things

848
00:54:39,840 –> 00:54:42,640
that we could note about the
justice of our Auburn sisters.

849
00:54:42,640 –> 00:54:45,200
You know, we, we, we might
relate it to his faithfulness.

850
00:54:45,200 –> 00:54:47,720
You know, we read in Deuteronomy
32 that what does it say?

851
00:54:47,720 –> 00:54:49,600
All his ways are perfect and
just.

852
00:54:49,800 –> 00:54:54,840
A God of faithfulness.
And we can mention that his

853
00:54:54,840 –> 00:54:58,040
justice is a reflection of
faithfulness and commitment to

854
00:54:58,040 –> 00:54:59,840
truth.
Hath he spoken and shall not he

855
00:54:59,840 –> 00:55:01,400
make good reads?
Numbers 23.

856
00:55:01,400 –> 00:55:09,400
This is a God who remembers his
promises, who defends those he

857
00:55:09,400 –> 00:55:11,800
loves, who holds guilt to
account, those who persecuted

858
00:55:11,800 –> 00:55:14,480
and harmed and use the ways of
this cursed world for selfish

859
00:55:14,480 –> 00:55:16,560
gains.
God says, I will not let that

860
00:55:16,560 –> 00:55:18,680
go.
I will hold it to account.

861
00:55:18,680 –> 00:55:24,760
And I don’t know about you Brun
sisters, but I don’t think we’d

862
00:55:24,760 –> 00:55:34,320
have it any other way.
We could mention that there are

863
00:55:34,320 –> 00:55:37,360
times when justice falls in
different ways for the same

864
00:55:37,360 –> 00:55:38,440
offense.
You know, we we see this

865
00:55:38,440 –> 00:55:40,840
particularly in in Nineveh
versus the account of Second

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00:55:40,840 –> 00:55:44,840
Chronicles 28 verse 6.
Both cases, there’s a city of

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120,000 people.
Both commit the the the fault

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00:55:48,040 –> 00:55:51,040
before God of idolatry 1 spared
the other put to the sword.

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00:55:53,640 –> 00:55:55,440
And we might look at that
brother and sisters and say, you

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00:55:55,440 –> 00:55:58,400
know, isn’t that isn’t that
inconsistency in it is another

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00:55:58,400 –> 00:56:02,280
powerful truth of the justice of
God, and that’s that it is never

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00:56:02,360 –> 00:56:08,560
one-size-fits-all the just the
justice of God fits the

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00:56:08,560 –> 00:56:10,360
individual.
I the Lord search the heart and

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00:56:10,360 –> 00:56:13,240
test the mind, he says, and give
each according to their ways.

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00:56:13,320 –> 00:56:18,040
No2 hearts are the same,
brothers and sisters, No2

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00:56:18,040 –> 00:56:20,360
judgements are the same.
And because of this we can have

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00:56:20,360 –> 00:56:26,360
confidence that in our God’s
wisdom he will not break us, nor

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00:56:26,360 –> 00:56:28,120
injustice give us more than we
can bear.

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00:56:28,120 –> 00:56:30,920
A bruised Reed he will not
break, writes Isaiah.

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00:56:30,920 –> 00:56:34,480
A burning Wick he will not
quench, yet he will faithfully

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00:56:38,400 –> 00:56:51,760
bring forth justice.
We could also note that at times

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00:56:51,760 –> 00:56:54,120
justice certainly looks
retributive.

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00:56:54,120 –> 00:56:56,680
And I think of this brother and
sisters, my mind went to the

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words of the author, CS Lewis
and he won’t wrote once wrote

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00:57:02,240 –> 00:57:03,640
this curious thing.
It stuck in my mind.

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00:57:03,640 –> 00:57:06,160
He he said that there’s
essentially two types of people

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00:57:06,160 –> 00:57:08,440
in this world.
Those who say to God, thy will

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00:57:08,440 –> 00:57:18,640
be, thy will be done.
And those to whom God says thy

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00:57:18,640 –> 00:57:24,480
will be done.
What CS Lewis is observing,

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brothers, sisters, is that while
the justice of God seeks

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00:57:29,440 –> 00:57:33,360
restoration far past the
patience and endurance of man

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00:57:33,480 –> 00:57:39,920
will, it will always honor human
choice.

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00:57:43,160 –> 00:57:45,440
Hasn’t God framed service to him
in this way?

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00:57:45,440 –> 00:57:47,080
I’ve set before you life and
death, he says.

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00:57:47,080 –> 00:57:49,840
When, when giving the law,
choose life and live.

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00:57:49,840 –> 00:57:55,160
Our God desires relationships,
brothers and sisters, not

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00:57:55,160 –> 00:57:57,800
something forced, not something
coerced or mechanical.

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00:57:57,800 –> 00:58:00,080
If somebody knowingly,
persistently, and purposely

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00:58:00,160 –> 00:58:03,000
rejects God’s love, light and
truth and judgement, falls.

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Brunch sisters, and not out of
cruelty.

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00:58:07,160 –> 00:58:09,760
Ezekiel writes, I take no
pleasure in deaths of the

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wicked, says the Lord, but it
falls because that person

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00:58:12,760 –> 00:58:16,320
becomes incompatible with a
greater restoration being

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accomplished in our world.
And when that happens, brothers

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00:58:18,640 –> 00:58:24,400
and sisters, the judgments of
God take two effects and we see

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00:58:24,400 –> 00:58:27,000
it in the words of Malachi, the
words of chapter 4, words of

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00:58:27,000 –> 00:58:29,600
justice to come to this world.
What does he say in verse one?

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00:58:29,600 –> 00:58:35,840
Behold, the day of fire comes of
judgement, which will burn the

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00:58:35,840 –> 00:58:38,200
arrogant and evil doers as
stubble, and I will leave them

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00:58:38,200 –> 00:58:41,360
neither root nor branch.
Yet for those who fear my name,

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00:58:47,480 –> 00:58:53,240
that same fire will be as the
Sun of Righteousness that rises

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00:58:53,240 –> 00:58:56,360
with healing in its wings.
The justice of God can either

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00:58:56,360 –> 00:59:04,600
restore us in grace for the
sisters or by the hardening of

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00:59:04,600 –> 00:59:07,880
our hearts, we break ourselves
on it.

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00:59:20,440 –> 00:59:25,360
In our time this afternoon,
we’ve considered a few things,

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brothers and sisters, on this
character of God.

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00:59:27,720 –> 00:59:32,720
We, we, we considered that he is
rooted in justice, not

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00:59:32,720 –> 00:59:35,160
neglecting wrong.
We considered that that despite

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00:59:35,160 –> 00:59:38,200
this desire, his justice, it’s
never in spite of Grace Bran

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00:59:38,200 –> 00:59:41,720
sisters, but working with it
when aimed for our restoration,

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00:59:41,720 –> 00:59:45,400
when working good to those who
love him, when, when relational

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00:59:45,400 –> 00:59:48,560
and adaptive to our needs.
And now, brothers and sisters,

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00:59:53,040 –> 00:59:55,960
we’ll consider what this means
for us.

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00:59:56,120 –> 00:59:58,120
And there is much we could say
on that, couldn’t we?

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01:00:00,720 –> 01:00:03,480
We could reflect that as
mentioned in the beginning, God,

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01:00:03,560 –> 01:00:06,720
God put justice in our hearts
and and he does that because as

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01:00:06,720 –> 01:00:12,120
said in the beginning, he made
man in his image He desired.

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01:00:12,120 –> 01:00:14,680
We reflect this character we
think to his words I’ve chosen

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01:00:14,680 –> 01:00:18,840
you Abraham and your children
that they may do justice.

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01:00:20,880 –> 01:00:24,280
We think of the words of Micah 6
verse 8 do justice, love mercy

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01:00:24,280 –> 01:00:27,240
and walk before God and in these
words, Bran sisters is a simple

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01:00:27,240 –> 01:00:29,120
essential lesson that God’s
character.

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01:00:29,120 –> 01:00:30,840
This is where the things
considered this morning.

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01:00:30,880 –> 01:00:32,800
It’s never something we just
understand.

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01:00:35,480 –> 01:00:37,200
It’s something that we live
knowing.

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01:00:37,200 –> 01:00:44,400
God is a call to action, to live
these qualities and who we are.

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01:00:44,400 –> 01:00:47,440
To restore the hearts of people
as God seeks to restore them.

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01:00:49,280 –> 01:00:51,720
To care for those as God would
seek to care for them.

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01:00:51,720 –> 01:00:54,480
To see those who are suffering
as a result of this cursed earth

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01:00:54,480 –> 01:00:56,800
and treat man as God would treat
them.

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01:00:56,880 –> 01:01:06,520
But we have to acknowledge that
in our desire to emulate God’s

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01:01:06,520 –> 01:01:09,720
justice, there are times that we
fall far short of it.

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01:01:12,880 –> 01:01:17,600
Times were unlike God, we take
satisfaction in our in our

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01:01:17,600 –> 01:01:20,080
punishment of others.
Times we forget the the root of

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01:01:20,080 –> 01:01:23,120
justice isn’t vengeance, it’s
correction leading to

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01:01:23,120 –> 01:01:27,360
restoration.
Times where unlike God, our

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01:01:27,360 –> 01:01:30,120
justice doesn’t really account
for how we’re going to restore

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01:01:30,120 –> 01:01:32,120
the offender.
We’re unlike our God, it doesn’t

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01:01:32,200 –> 01:01:34,680
account for circumstance or or
individual.

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01:01:34,680 –> 01:01:40,680
And in our carelessness, we
break the weak and an anger

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01:01:40,680 –> 01:01:44,120
drive out the vulnerable.
The challenge for believers is

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01:01:44,120 –> 01:01:48,080
to create safe spaces and our
ecclesias for broken people

953
01:01:50,680 –> 01:01:52,800
without lowering God’s standard
of holiness.

954
01:01:54,760 –> 01:02:00,640
The challenge for believers is
to speak truth in love, to

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01:02:00,680 –> 01:02:03,440
enforce God’s Word, but always
in a spirit of mercy so that it

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01:02:03,440 –> 01:02:06,120
may never be said of us.
As was written long ago, justice

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01:02:06,120 –> 01:02:08,520
is without mercy to one who had
no mercy.

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01:02:08,520 –> 01:02:11,880
The challenge for believers is
to remember that a community

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01:02:11,880 –> 01:02:21,360
without justice is lost, and a
community without grace is

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01:02:21,360 –> 01:02:26,680
cruel.
The standard we strive for are

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01:02:26,680 –> 01:02:30,960
the words of Hosea 12.
Hold fast to justice and love

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01:02:31,240 –> 01:02:45,120
and wait for your God.
But the final thing we’ll note

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01:02:48,320 –> 01:02:50,440
is that while we might
understand this, brother and

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01:02:50,440 –> 01:02:55,960
sisters, while we might grasp
everything we’ve just discussed

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01:02:55,960 –> 01:02:58,800
that the the the judgements of
God aim to restore you.

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01:02:58,960 –> 01:03:04,880
That does not mean that it is
easy or when you are in darkness

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01:03:04,880 –> 01:03:07,400
that that you’re always going to
see that that light of

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01:03:07,400 –> 01:03:09,480
understanding.
You know, as I was thinking to

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01:03:09,480 –> 01:03:13,640
this, my thought went to a
speech I once heard.

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01:03:13,640 –> 01:03:19,360
I didn’t hear it.
I read it by Abraham Lincoln.

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01:03:23,080 –> 01:03:26,880
In fact, it was his second
inaugural address, and he wrote

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01:03:26,880 –> 01:03:29,640
this in 1865.
And the context was was quite

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01:03:29,640 –> 01:03:31,840
dark for him personally.
You see, over the course of

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01:03:31,840 –> 01:03:35,480
that, that long struggle of a
nation, he increasingly came to

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01:03:35,480 –> 01:03:42,600
see the conflict he presided
over as an act of God’s justice.

976
01:03:45,720 –> 01:03:50,280
And he was trying to articulate
why it had to happen, why so

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01:03:50,280 –> 01:03:53,360
many fathers could not come
home, why so many children would

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01:03:53,360 –> 01:03:56,240
now be orphaned.
Why, why, why the nation had to

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01:03:56,240 –> 01:03:58,760
suffer for these things.
And he was lost in the only

980
01:03:58,760 –> 01:04:00,960
thing he could comfort.
The only place he turned was

981
01:04:00,960 –> 01:04:09,750
this passage of the Psalms.
The judgments of the Lord are

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01:04:09,750 –> 01:04:17,240
righteous and true.
Sometimes you will not

983
01:04:17,240 –> 01:04:20,040
understand the justice of
Godfrey and sisters.

984
01:04:22,320 –> 01:04:25,520
Sometimes the only comfort you
will have is knowing that all

985
01:04:25,520 –> 01:04:30,960
things come from his hand and
that he works good to those who

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01:04:30,960 –> 01:04:33,520
love him.
And sometimes that is enough to

987
01:04:33,520 –> 01:04:39,200
give you the strength of David,
where after living through the

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01:04:39,200 –> 01:04:43,080
unimaginable, he could stand in
belief of God’s character that

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01:04:43,080 –> 01:04:46,120
we’ve been reflecting on and say
as he did in the Psalms in Psalm

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01:04:46,120 –> 01:04:49,840
51, I sinned.
That whatever God does to me, he

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01:04:49,840 –> 01:04:54,120
might be just.
It makes you Abraham.

992
01:04:54,120 –> 01:04:56,840
And who moments of uncertainty
could cry out in conviction.

993
01:04:56,840 –> 01:04:59,360
Will not the judge of all the
earth do what is?

994
01:04:59,360 –> 01:05:02,960
Just as I was thinking to this
from the sisters, my mind went

995
01:05:02,960 –> 01:05:08,680
to this sculpture on the screen.
Several years ago.

996
01:05:08,680 –> 01:05:12,560
I had the the privilege of
seeing a full reproduction of

997
01:05:12,560 –> 01:05:13,480
it.
In fact, it’s a work of

998
01:05:13,480 –> 01:05:17,880
Michelangelo.
And as I looked at it, I was

999
01:05:17,880 –> 01:05:19,680
immediately struck by two
things.

1000
01:05:19,680 –> 01:05:25,760
The first is that the subject
matter is immensely dark.

1001
01:05:28,240 –> 01:05:33,600
It’s the artist’s imagination of
a moment after the cross in

1002
01:05:33,600 –> 01:05:36,440
which Mary would have, for a
brief moment, held the broken

1003
01:05:36,440 –> 01:05:39,880
body of her child.
It is a depiction of a mother

1004
01:05:39,880 –> 01:05:44,200
holding her crucified son.
The second thing that struck me

1005
01:05:50,280 –> 01:05:58,240
is that it is immensely
beautiful, bruh.

1006
01:05:58,240 –> 01:06:03,880
And sisters of mortal man, in
all of our failings, can create

1007
01:06:03,880 –> 01:06:07,280
something so beautiful from
something so tragic.

1008
01:06:09,720 –> 01:06:14,240
What can God not do in the
darkest moments of our lives?

1009
01:06:14,240 –> 01:06:16,720
What what beauty can he not pull
from tragedy?

1010
01:06:16,720 –> 01:06:19,520
What peace can he not salvage
from our chaos?

1011
01:06:19,520 –> 01:06:22,080
Oh, the depths and riches and
wisdom of our God, wrote the

1012
01:06:22,080 –> 01:06:28,600
psalmist.
How unsearchable His justice and

1013
01:06:28,600 –> 01:06:31,640
inscrutable His ways.
Brothers and sisters and our

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01:06:31,640 –> 01:06:37,680
time Tomorrow we will continue
our reflections of the God that

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01:06:37,680 –> 01:06:39,640
Habakkuk writes and wrath
remembers.

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01:06:39,640 –> 01:06:44,240
Mercy, our God.
As Isaiah records in chapter 29,

1017
01:06:44,240 –> 01:06:47,080
when His justice is in the
earth, the inhabitants learn

1018
01:06:47,080 –> 01:06:49,640
righteousness.
We will consider how we live in

1019
01:06:49,640 –> 01:06:55,120
the tension of these character
traits, how we manifest this

1020
01:06:55,120 –> 01:06:58,720
quality of God and who we are,
the pitfalls of it, And we will

1021
01:06:58,720 –> 01:07:01,560
bring our minds to the
reflection of our God’s perfect

1022
01:07:01,560 –> 01:07:06,440
character, embodied in the glory
of his Son.

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01:07:21,320 –> 01:07:23,440
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01:07:23,440 –> 01:07:26,040
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01:07:26,040 –> 01:07:27,560
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