Steve Hyndman – Class 2: Forgiveness – The Need

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Thank you very much.
Well, the Chairman, here we are

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again.
There’s a few more faces in the

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audience.
Today so that’s it’s very nice

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and I hope that.
You can see the.

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The wonderful love and and power
in in this subject, brothers and

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sisters.
So you might remember yesterday

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for those that weren’t here,
just a.

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A quick recap.
We looked at how forgiveness

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works.
We looked at the the the

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conditions.
That are a.

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Part of this process God’s
righteous.

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Requirements, and they are.
Those three steps the.

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Confession of sin.
We then looked at.

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Repentance.
That is to have.

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A change of heart and then
conversion to turn away.

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And walk.
In the opposite direction, so.

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It really is a 180 degree turn.
It’s it’s an acknowledgement

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that we need to put something
else in our lives.

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Apart from our previous.
Lifestyle or.

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Our previous behaviors and of
course God ordained this process

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and because.
This is a divine.

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Process it also.
Has some very, very.

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Deep psychological reasoning
behind it, which we probably to

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large.
Extent don’t understand.

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But God and his.
Wisdom has asked.

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Us to go through that process
that we might learn.

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Within that process to turn from
sin, not just to.

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To to repeat the offence over
and over again, even though God

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will forgive He, of course.
Wants us to turn from sin in the

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end.
So the need of forgiveness and

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how all this?
Works in the lives of a.

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Few biblical characters which
we’re we’re going to.

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Look at this session now.
You might remember also from our

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last class.
It’s really, really important.

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For us to know what it is that.
Disconnects us from God.

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Well, let me tell you what it’s
not.

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It’s not our nature.
It’s God is at.

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Pains in the Bible to stress to
us that it’s not our mortality.

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He has a.
Problem with even though it is a

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problem.
It’s that’s not what the problem

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is.
It’s the sin.

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That he’s aggrieved with that
our nature produces, if you

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like.
It’s it’s.

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It’s not the state.
We’ve born into.

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So as I 59 and verse one says
this, it says behold.

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Yahweh’s hand is not.
Shortened that it cannot.

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Save neither his ear heavy.
Then it cannot hear.

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But your iniquities.
Have separated between.

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You and.
Your God and your sin, your

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sins.
Have hid his face.

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From you that he will not.
Hear.

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Of course, as we mentioned
before, don’t don’t be fooled

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about this.
Of course our nature is a

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problem.
It’s a big problem.

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But the so the.
Carnal mind or the nature?

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That we’re we’re born with it is
terrible.

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Biases and tendencies.
Or disabilities, if you like.

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So in a very real sense, we are
all.

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Born with this disability.
We mentioned David last night

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that he said he has a loathsome.
Disease in his in his loins, and

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that he’s passing on.
To his children, he can can do

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anything about it.
So of course this is all going

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to change, says Paul’s.
Our our chairman mentioned in

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his prayer in In the twinkling
of an eye.

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Our nature will be changed.
God’s real problem Problem is

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when we.
What the Bible calls allow sin

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to.
Reign in our members.

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Reign like a despot, A ruler, a
king.

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That’s what God’s problem.
Is and we become.

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We come.
Under the bondage of.

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Habitual sin.
Lawlessness and we all.

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Sin, we all sin.
Repeatedly the problem.

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Is is when we give in.
To our nature.

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We give in, we.
Stop trying to replace that

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inherent bias that we have.
With God’s remedy.

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That we find ourselves.
In an unforgivable state, so

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lawlessness and habitual sin.
God really wants us to work hard

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at overcoming those things and
turn away from those.

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Things.
That doesn’t mean, of course,

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that we’re going to stop
sitting.

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Of course we will.
But lawlessness implies.

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That we don’t really.
Care and that we’ve completely

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given in.
We will never overcome brothers

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and sisters, with sheer
willpower.

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But the golden.
Key is to replace.

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Replace the natural.
With the spiritual.

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So it’s going to be a
combination of prayer and the

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word, in other words.
A relationship with God.

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That’s what this is about.
It’s what our nature produces.

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That God finds abhorrent and
repulsive.

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In fact, so much so that he
cannot look.

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Upon sin himself.
The question is, do we see?

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Sin in that same.
Light the answer if we’re

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honest.
We’re going to say.

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No, we don’t, because it’s a
part.

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Of our thinking processes.
But what the Bible does is

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highlight to us.
Our inherent biases.

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And then we can start to see it,
which is exactly the purpose of

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the law to highlight sin for.
What it really is.

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So in a natural fact, it’s an
act of mercy.

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On God’s part to.
Highlight this to us because

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he’s trying to save us.
From our own selves.

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Just have a think about it for a
minute some of the.

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Some of the wonderful.
Products, if you like, of our

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nature, you know.
You don’t have to turn the the

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news on.
Very much to hear.

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Hear these things.
Murder.

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You know, obviously.
Spring’s out, it could be

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envious and you might say.
To yourself.

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Well, that’s that’s I’ve never,
never murdered.

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Anybody.
Well, actually.

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That’s not I had not.
Heard.

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John says it.
John says.

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If you hate your brother, God
considers that as murder.

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Can God forgive that?
Of course he can.

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Envious we’ve become.
Envious We’ve covetous.

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What about adultery?
That’s a.

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Big problem in the world in
which we live.

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Unfaithfulness and I.
Don’t necessarily mean a

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literal.
Adultery, adultery of the mind.

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Just ask the question for
yourself.

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Brethren.
And sisters, particularly

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brethren, because.
I’m a man.

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I understand the wretchedness of
of a male brain, so to speak.

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And you think about.
This when one was brought.

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In taken with adultery.
To Jesus Christ.

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And he said to them, he that is
without sin cast the first

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stone, and they went out from.
The.

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Oldest to the youngest, so the
oldest man said well.

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I can’t.
Certainly can’t.

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Throw a stone.
As far as this is concerned.

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The Bible was.
Very, very.

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Succinct and what it?
Says, tells us next.

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It says and there.
Was no man.

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Left in the midst.
That’s honesty No man left

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there.
Such is the nature.

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That we have fornication, anger,
jealousy, backbiters.

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Haters of God.
And for man says I love God.

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But hates his brother.
Says John.

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He’s a liar.
So we’re guilty of all these?

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Things spiteful, proud.
Etcetera, etcetera.

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We could, we’re not here to talk
about a list of how bad we are.

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We already know.
So then how great is our need?

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For forgiveness.
What about Jesus Christ?

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Did he?
What did he do about this?

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Well?
Effectively, he never allowed.

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Himself.
To be in that bondage, that’s

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what he’d never.
Allowed king sin.

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To give him one whiplash,
mentally speaking, spiritually

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speaking, never did.
Thus it is written you.

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Remember, the occasion was.
Jesus out was He was out with

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his disciples one day and.
They came across a.

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Man who had a problem from
birth, so he’s born with this

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issue.
He was blind.

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Here’s how it reads in.
Fact Let me put it up on the

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screen there.
It reads like this.

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And as Jesus passed by, he saw
a.

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Man.
Who was blind from his from his

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birth, and his disciples asked
him, saying Master, who did?

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Sin this man or his parents,
that he was born?

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Blind you see the understanding
that the disciples had.

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Very, very deeply.
Ingrained in in that particular

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culture at that time.
So the question is this.

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Is this man disabled from birth
because his parents did

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something wrong?
And this is God’s answer to them

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or?
Is this man disabled from birth

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because God knew he was going
to?

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Do something wrong so.
He was disabled.

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From birth.
And the answer to the both of

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those things is neither hath
this.

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Man sinned or his parents?
He doesn’t mean that they’ve

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never sinned.
He says there was no.

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Particular thing.
This issue was not brought upon

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him because of.
Sin.

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But that the works of God this
is the answer should be made.

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Manifest in him that.
Is exactly the same for you and

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I remember we said that this is.
All about God manifestation.

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God working within us, creating
within us a good.

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Work and our eyes are opened.
So this is what?

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Brother John Thomas said about
our nature.

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He said human nature or sinful
flesh.

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Has three.
Principal channels through which

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it displays its waywardness
against the law.

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Of God.
These are expressed by the lust

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of the flesh, the lust of the
eyes, and the pride of life.

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All that is in the world stands
related to these points of our

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nature.
There is no.

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Temptation that can be devised.
But what a sales in one or more?

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Of these three particulars,
meaning everything we do will

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fall into.
One of those. 3 categories this

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sinful.
Nature we inherit.

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It is our.
Misfortune not.

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Our crime, that we possess it,
we’re only blameworthy.

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When being supplied.
With the power of subduing it.

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We permit it to reign over us,
this power.

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This power resides in.
The testimony of God, so that we

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are kept by the power.
Of God through.

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Faith unto salvation our job,
brothers and sisters.

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Is not to fix.
Ourselves.

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Is to suppress and the only
thing in the world that will

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suppress.
It honestly.

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And truthfully, is not you, not
your willpower.

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It’s this book.
That’s the answer.

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So through no fault of our own.
Are we born with this

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affliction?
It’s neither our crime or our

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parents.
But we are all in this state,

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whether we’d like it or we or
we.

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Don’t like it?
So so.

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Here’s in Here’s our nature, the
carnal mind.

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Our nature.
Is basically untamable,

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untamable.
You can’t work with it.

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It’s probably true to say a dog
is more trainable.

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Than our.
Basic core nature.

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We cannot make it good, we.
Can’t clean it ourselves.

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It’s born selfish.
It dies selfish.

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It can only be subdued or
restrained.

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By God’s word.
But it still even then remains.

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Very, very.
Selfish even then.

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And that’s why Paul says about
himself.

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He says.
I’m a Wretch.

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I’m a thorough.
Wretch because everything I want

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to do right I don’t seem to do
and everything I I.

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I don’t want to do.
I seem to do that’s Paul the

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apostle.
Seeing himself or.

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What he really was.
So Paul the Apostle puts it

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this.
Way in terms of the carnal mind,

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he says.
For to be.

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Carnally minded.
Is death but to be spiritually?

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Minded is life and.
Peace.

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What a contrast that is, because
the carnal mind.

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Is enmity against God, for it is
not.

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Subject to the law.
Of God neither.

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Indeed can be.
It will never be subject.

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To the law of God, as I said
before.

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Our job is suppression.
That’s what the work of God is.

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And to and to.
See that you have.

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Biases in certain areas and not
to put yourself in a bad

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position where your nature is
incredibly strong and will just.

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Fling out at any given moment,
so then they that that are in

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the flesh.
Cannot.

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Please God.
They’re serving themselves.

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In other words, but you are not
in the flesh.

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He says to it, you are.
Not in the flesh, but in the

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Spirit.
So be.

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That the Spirit of God dwell in
you.

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Now if any man have not the
Spirit of Christ, he’s none of

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his.
In the words of.

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John, are we abiding in Christ?
So the Spirit of Christ then,

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brothers.
And sisters is the only way

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forward.
It’s the only way.

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Forward as far as our.
Eternal.

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Well-being is concerned.
It really is.

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So Humanism, Postmodernism.
Milk of human kindness, human

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rights, whatever they.
Are they stand?

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Totally.
Unrelated to the spirit.

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Of Christ.
So now that we know that.

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Sin.
Separates us from God.

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Let’s just do a.
Bit of math this is probably

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worth looking at.
And I’ll use myself as an

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example here.
So how many sins?

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So Peter asks a question.
I think it’s a it’s a valid

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question.
How many times?

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Should I forgive my brother?
And he’s he sort of volunteer

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volunteers.
This number seven times, That’s

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a.
A good nice.

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Wear around.
Complete number.

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Seven times.
What do you think of that?

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And Christ.
Responded Peter No 70 * 7 so 4.

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190 times is Christ actually
saying that God’s?

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Threshold the ceiling.
For where he forgives is 4. 190

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times.
So let me let’s put it this way.

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Now I’ve been baptized.
For 35 years I.

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Was baptized on the 1st of July.
1987 so. 35 Yesterday.

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There we are.
Now let’s.

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Say for example.
For my small mind in terms of

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mathematics, I know there’s some
a lot of very intelligent people

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out there.
So let’s just say.

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I have sinned 10 times per day.
All right so. 70 times a week?

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That’s 280.
Times a month.

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So within two months.
Of me being.

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Baptized I’ve used up.
The 490 Wow, that didn’t take

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long.
That’s only on 10 times a day.

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I suggest to you it’s.
Way more.

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That’s 3600 and. 50 * a.
Year and to date 127,000.

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Since the 490.
Has long gone.

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I think.
Brothers and sisters.

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That to a certain extent, your
life is similar to mine.

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I think.
We are sinning, and when I say

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sin, I mean falling short of
God’s glory.

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Not only every month.
Or every week, Every day, every.

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Hour and possibly possibly
minute by minute.

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At least every.
Hour.

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We are actually falling short of
God’s glory.

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All the time.
And you might say, really, every

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hour?
Brothers and sisters.

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I’m not just talking about sins
of Commission, things that we

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commit.
What about sins of omission, the

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things that we have omitted to
do, which we should have done

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for God that?
To me is a.

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Whole.
Nother mountain of sins.

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If I really wanted, I could
probably start to count the

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stuff I do wrong.
If I was that.

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Crazy, I’d go.
Crazy straight away, but then

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I’ve got this mound of omission.
Can you see how we’re constantly

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falling short of God’s glory?
All the time one sin separates

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us from God.
Just one.

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So what was the 490 about then?
Did Christ just sort of pluck

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that out?
Of the air and say no, no it

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should be much bigger #490.
He actually had a very, very

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good reason for.
Quoting that number.

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Is there a point?
Then he he says.

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But it’s.
The question obviously Peter’s

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mine.
Is there a point where enough is

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enough and God says now?
I’m done with it.

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Everybody gets 490 and that’s
it.

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I think Jesus Christ.
Is telling Peter don’t count,

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Peter don’t count at all.
Because God doesn’t.

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Count.
God doesn’t think.

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Like a man, my ways are not your
ways.

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They are higher.
Much higher than your ways.

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I think the four. 190 Though
brothers and sisters is almost

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another subject, but.
Suffice it to say this.

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I think it comes straight from
Daniel Let.

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Me let me just.
Remind you of this?

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Daniel’s 70 week prophecy.
In Daniel 9.

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Says this so Daniel’s Daniel’s
been praying to his God.

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He’s asking for forgiveness.
Because we have done wickedly

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and he’s on his knees and he’s
pleading with God on.

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Behalf of the nation.
And an.

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Angel comes to him and says this
70 weeks Daniel.

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Now that’s 70.
Most commentators should read

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like this. 70 weeks of years
should be. 70 * 7.

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Is the correct rendering 70 * 7?
490 years.

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So this is how Daniel 9 verse
24490 years.

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Are.
Determined upon Thy people and

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upon the holy.
City.

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Now listen to this.
What’s happening at the end of?

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The 490 to finish transgression,
to make an end of end of sins.

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To make reconciliation for
iniquity or this is definitely.

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Sounding like Christ’s
existence, and to bring an

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everlasting righteousness, and
to seal up the vision and

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prophecy and anoint the most
Holy.

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And lo and behold.
You had the 490 from where

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Daniel?
Was at the time.

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Under UT exerts his or to rise
the king.

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And it comes to the month Nysan
AD 7030.

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Three, where, they say was the
very.

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Month.
Where Jesus.

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Christ was crucified and he
made.

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Reconciliation for iniquity at.
That time to finish the

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transgression, to make an end of
sins.

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Because you see Peter after 400.
And 90 years.

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There’s going to be forgiveness
without end, and then there

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will.
Be no counting sin.

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So, Peter?
Suggests 7 times and and that’s

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in in verse 23 of of.
Of Matthew I Dean.

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Christ explains the real
situation to Him by a parable.

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It’s a parable which is full of
Daniel 9 actually, the more you

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look.
Into it.

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The parable was all about how.
God forgave national Israel, But

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tragically, what happened?
Was when they were released from

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Babylon they went.
Back to their land.

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And they threw profit after
profit.

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Into prison and in the end.
After all, throwing these

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profits into.
Dungeons and sewers and all.

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Sorts of rotten.
Places ending up with.

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John the.
Baptist and look.

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Where they took his life from
his throat, they grabbed him by

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the.
Throat and said.

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Pay that you owe.
And I think that is exactly what

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Christ is.
Referring to in the 490, the

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verse 24 says one was brought
unto him.

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Now.
This Bris brother had been

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caught.
Squandering an awesome amount of

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money.
Money which was not his.

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To spend and he’s been stealing
this money and and.

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Living that for a long long time
and.

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That the sort of.
Money we’re talking about in

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today’s value.
There’s a few numbers.

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Sort of bandied.
Around but one common.

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One was about. $10 million now
they.

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Say for this man what he had
spent was about 200 years wages

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and I think that’s the point.
The point is, we only get one.

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Lifetime.
This man had ridden.

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Up enough debt.
For two lifetimes, get the

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point.
He can’t do it.

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It’s an impossible thing to pay
back.

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And foolishly in a.
Moment he’s going to ask.

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Give me.
Time what another?

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Lifetime to pay?
Back.

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In fact, he needs two other
lifetimes on top of the.

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One, he’s just wasted.
Impossible.

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You know we have that.
We have trouble understanding,

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don’t we?
The magnitude of sin.

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I think that’s the point of the
parable we need to.

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Understand the magnitude of our
own personal sin, our need.

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For forgiveness.
And one of the reasons for.

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That, as we alluded to
yesterday, actually we live in a

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world.
That is largely.

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Desensitized to sin.
And to a.

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Greater or lesser degree, we’re
all affected by that.

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We we think it’s normal to sin.
This is sort of.

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Normal, normal behavior.
This is how we.

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Rationalize it.
We we say, well, this is who I.

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AM and.
It’s expected.

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That I’m going to sin.
I can’t really help how I think.

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Surely these little weaknesses
I’ve.

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Got They’re not affecting
anybody.

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Else so surely.
They’re not that bad.

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God would understand that I
can’t be expected to deal with.

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Everything.
In my life.

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And in any case, I haven’t done
anything particularly bad

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anyway.
I’m not in prison, am I?

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So as I said before, we we.
We try and rationalize these

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things.
We we reduce.

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Our sins almost to.
Feel like a manageable level

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because we’re good sin
management managers.

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Remember that from yesterday
and.

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Again, it’s all it is.
It’s a fig leaf, fig leaf

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mentality to make us not feel so
ashamed or so naked.

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And we can see the exact same.
Problem displayed in this

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careless servant, verse 26.
The servant therefore fell down

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and worshipped him, saying,
Lord, have patience with me and

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I’ll.
Pay thee all what a statement.

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I will pay thee.
All me hear.

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What he’s saying I don’t need
forgiveness.

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Don’t need you to forgive me
because I am capable of paying

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this.
You have patience.

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Wow.
You have patience that that is.

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Incredible.
There’s a tendency here to that

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We.
All have to underestimate the

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gravity of our sin, our
standing.

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Before God, you know, if if we
were able to.

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Pay for sins somehow.
Then automatically, there’s no

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need forgiveness because we’re
paying for it.

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Forgiveness is not accepting.
Something.

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By way of compensation from.
God.

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Let me give you sorry or
foregod, rather, we can’t come

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to God and say, let me.
I’m going to I’m.

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Going to put aside some very,
very valuable things.

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Forgiveness is a complete.
And utter free pardon.

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God is is completely and utterly
letting us off the hook.

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That’s the definition of
forgiveness.

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So and our works then, as a
result of that fact, our works

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come from appreciation, not
compensation.

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Now, if you’re anything like me,
we do try to compensate God.

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We feel bad.
We try and get our lives

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together.
I’m going to do this.

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I’m going to do that and be more
astute to get to more meetings

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00:25:36,580 –> 00:25:37,460
and more.
Classes.

451
00:25:37,740 –> 00:25:39,700
Make sure I get those leaflets
out and you.

452
00:25:39,820 –> 00:25:43,820
Actually put yourself.
Under God is saying wrong

453
00:25:43,820 –> 00:25:49,020
attitude, I understand.
Where you’re coming from, but in

454
00:25:49,020 –> 00:25:54,100
actual fact, the attitude is I.
Appreciate so much what has been

455
00:25:54,100 –> 00:25:56,020
done.
I’m going to make it.

456
00:25:56,020 –> 00:25:58,300
I’m going to make an effort.
To get to the.

457
00:25:58,300 –> 00:26:00,540
Classes and.
And do whatever I need to do to

458
00:26:00,540 –> 00:26:02,900
help brother and brothers and
sisters because I want to.

459
00:26:03,620 –> 00:26:06,580
Not because I have to.
What a different motive that is,

460
00:26:06,580 –> 00:26:11,300
brothers and sisters.
So what happens verse 27 Then

461
00:26:11,300 –> 00:26:13,940
the Lord of the servant was.
Moved with compassion and.

462
00:26:13,940 –> 00:26:16,740
Loosed him.
And forgave the debt.

463
00:26:17,420 –> 00:26:20,180
That is.
Much more than he.

464
00:26:20,180 –> 00:26:21,420
Asked.
He asked.

465
00:26:21,420 –> 00:26:26,900
Just simply to be loosed and he
also asked to pay the debt back.

466
00:26:28,180 –> 00:26:32,380
Instead, he’s loosed.
Of the bond, here we are.

467
00:26:33,000 –> 00:26:35,560
Go forward.
He’s loosed of his bond

468
00:26:36,080 –> 00:26:39,920
completely.
And you know that the, the this

469
00:26:39,920 –> 00:26:41,120
master.
Could have actually said, you

470
00:26:41,120 –> 00:26:43,080
know what, I tell you what I’ll
do.

471
00:26:43,160 –> 00:26:45,000
And this would have been
entirely fair.

472
00:26:45,000 –> 00:26:48,520
We would probably all agree.
We would say to him, look.

473
00:26:49,080 –> 00:26:51,880
I tell you what.
What about I’ll loose you.

474
00:26:52,760 –> 00:26:55,880
And.
You’ve underestimated quite

475
00:26:55,880 –> 00:26:57,680
significantly, the.
The the size of.

476
00:26:57,680 –> 00:27:00,080
This debt?
Look, I’ll loose you for the

477
00:27:00,080 –> 00:27:02,990
purposes of going out.
You know, be patient.

478
00:27:03,350 –> 00:27:05,230
And you can go out and it can
get what?

479
00:27:05,230 –> 00:27:07,030
You can and just pay me back
what you can.

480
00:27:07,910 –> 00:27:09,630
We would say that’s incredible
compassion.

481
00:27:10,230 –> 00:27:12,510
That is amazing.
We say what a patient Lord, this

482
00:27:12,510 –> 00:27:17,030
person was.
But he didn’t.

483
00:27:18,390 –> 00:27:23,870
He totally and freely forgave.
The whole lot.

484
00:27:27,910 –> 00:27:30,030
Not only is God.
Losing us from the debt.

485
00:27:30,930 –> 00:27:33,570
Brothers and sisters, he’s.
Giving us the most wonderful

486
00:27:33,570 –> 00:27:38,210
gift, the most wonderful present
that you could.

487
00:27:38,330 –> 00:27:41,690
Ever wish for and we struggle to
appreciate it.

488
00:27:43,290 –> 00:27:45,690
It’s a real tragedy, but we need
to see.

489
00:27:45,690 –> 00:27:49,490
This from God’s perspective.
Here look at.

490
00:27:49,490 –> 00:27:53,610
Sam 103, come over to Sam 103,
let’s let’s.

491
00:27:53,610 –> 00:27:54,730
Actually have a look and see
what.

492
00:27:55,330 –> 00:27:57,490
How the Samus puts what God has
done for us.

493
00:28:01,870 –> 00:28:10,990
God has gone.
Over and above so I’m 103 will

494
00:28:10,990 –> 00:28:17,910
come in at verse two.
Bless Yahweh, O my soul, Forget

495
00:28:17,910 –> 00:28:20,310
not all his benefits.
Who forgives?

496
00:28:20,470 –> 00:28:24,910
All thine iniquities.
Who heals all thy diseases?

497
00:28:25,790 –> 00:28:27,630
Who redeems thy life from
destruction?

498
00:28:27,790 –> 00:28:30,630
Who crowns thee with?
Loving kindness and tender

499
00:28:30,630 –> 00:28:37,070
mercies.
Yahweh is merciful and gracious

500
00:28:38,110 –> 00:28:39,230
and slow.
To and all.

501
00:28:39,230 –> 00:28:42,030
Now there’s his.
Character coming out slow to

502
00:28:42,030 –> 00:28:47,070
anger, plenteous in mercy he
will not always chide.

503
00:28:47,390 –> 00:28:51,390
Neither will he keep his anger.
Forever he hath not dealt with

504
00:28:51,390 –> 00:28:56,490
us after our sins.
Nor rewarded us according to our

505
00:28:56,490 –> 00:29:01,170
iniquities for.
As the heaven is high above the

506
00:29:01,170 –> 00:29:02,570
earth, so.
Great.

507
00:29:02,570 –> 00:29:05,490
Is his mercy toward them that
fear him there?

508
00:29:05,690 –> 00:29:07,770
Is no measurement in terms of
God’s.

509
00:29:07,770 –> 00:29:10,850
Forgiveness, forgiveness.
Don’t even start measuring.

510
00:29:11,250 –> 00:29:13,090
There is no measurement as far
as the East.

511
00:29:13,090 –> 00:29:16,170
Is from the West.
So far has he removed our

512
00:29:16,170 –> 00:29:18,610
transgression from us?
Why?

513
00:29:18,610 –> 00:29:21,850
Why is that so?
Like as a father.

514
00:29:22,620 –> 00:29:26,380
Pity of his children.
So Yahweh pities them that fear

515
00:29:26,380 –> 00:29:29,860
him.
What a God we have.

516
00:29:32,140 –> 00:29:35,460
He remembers that we are dust.
He understands our predicament,

517
00:29:36,220 –> 00:29:39,300
the mess we are in.
And consequently he has forgiven

518
00:29:39,300 –> 00:29:45,420
the debt.
A magnificent mind of compassion

519
00:29:45,420 –> 00:29:49,460
and mercy now for the purposes
of of our.

520
00:29:50,340 –> 00:29:51,460
Of our session this afternoon.
I don’t.

521
00:29:51,460 –> 00:29:53,020
Want to take this?
Parable much further.

522
00:29:53,020 –> 00:29:56,620
Because we’re going to deal with
it in our fourth session in

523
00:29:56,620 –> 00:29:58,740
regard to personal.
Forgiveness but suffice.

524
00:29:58,740 –> 00:30:01,300
It to say this.
That that I’m sure you’ll

525
00:30:01,300 –> 00:30:04,780
understand that.
A gauge, a true gauge of our

526
00:30:04,780 –> 00:30:11,100
appreciation of God’s
forgiveness to us, would surely

527
00:30:11,100 –> 00:30:13,100
have to be the true test.
Would surely have.

528
00:30:13,100 –> 00:30:17,660
To be then is how our.
Relationship and forgiveness is

529
00:30:17,660 –> 00:30:23,730
between each other.
That’s the acid test, yeah, if

530
00:30:23,730 –> 00:30:24,770
you want.
The, the.

531
00:30:24,770 –> 00:30:26,010
The.
The true.

532
00:30:26,010 –> 00:30:29,130
Measure of how grateful you are
to God for his incredible.

533
00:30:29,130 –> 00:30:31,250
Mercy to you.
Brothers and sisters, how do

534
00:30:31,250 –> 00:30:33,650
you?
Feel toward those who have

535
00:30:33,650 –> 00:30:39,450
wronged you, because it happens.
It happens a lot in a cleasure

536
00:30:39,450 –> 00:30:43,010
life.
It might not.

537
00:30:43,010 –> 00:30:45,970
Necessarily be a cleasure life.
That someone’s wronged you.

538
00:30:48,580 –> 00:30:50,940
It’s very, very challenging.
Brothers and sisters a very.

539
00:30:50,940 –> 00:30:53,020
Challenging for for many of us
here.

540
00:30:53,380 –> 00:30:56,340
But I I can’t sugarcoat this any
any other way, because that’s

541
00:30:56,340 –> 00:31:00,740
God’s.
Challenge to US show.

542
00:31:00,740 –> 00:31:04,900
Me how much you appreciate?
What I have done for you by

543
00:31:04,900 –> 00:31:07,460
showing.
Me God to your.

544
00:31:07,460 –> 00:31:09,260
Brother.
That’s how we do.

545
00:31:09,260 –> 00:31:14,100
It manifest God to.
Your brothers and sisters.

546
00:31:19,400 –> 00:31:21,040
And here again, I think we have
a process.

547
00:31:21,040 –> 00:31:22,760
It may not be A-frame of mind
that.

548
00:31:23,200 –> 00:31:27,720
Miraculously occurs overnight.
God’s not suggesting that.

549
00:31:28,080 –> 00:31:32,440
Either, but God in his
compassion because of our.

550
00:31:32,440 –> 00:31:35,560
Weaknesses in this area
particularly.

551
00:31:35,880 –> 00:31:39,600
Will continue to work.
With us and help us along that

552
00:31:39,600 –> 00:31:41,520
road.
With individual.

553
00:31:41,520 –> 00:31:44,520
Traumas and trials that come
upon us.

554
00:31:45,360 –> 00:31:48,680
Remember that quote from First?
John says, beloved if God so

555
00:31:48,800 –> 00:31:53,240
loved us.
If God has so forgiven us, we

556
00:31:53,240 –> 00:31:55,880
ought also to forgive one
another.

557
00:31:56,960 –> 00:32:02,160
And there are no.
Conditions attached we can’t say

558
00:32:02,160 –> 00:32:04,120
I’ll forgive you on the
condition that.

559
00:32:05,480 –> 00:32:11,360
It’s a complete slight clean,
and it should.

560
00:32:11,360 –> 00:32:12,640
Be a desire.
To do it as.

561
00:32:12,640 –> 00:32:15,810
Well.
Saying to God, that’s the least.

562
00:32:15,850 –> 00:32:18,410
I can do.
Because I appreciate what you

563
00:32:18,410 –> 00:32:25,730
have.
Done for me now, unlike the the

564
00:32:25,730 –> 00:32:29,210
man that the servant that owed.
200 years wages.

565
00:32:29,490 –> 00:32:31,410
There was another man.
That did appreciate.

566
00:32:31,410 –> 00:32:35,210
What was done for him?
You turned to Luke 15 and verse

567
00:32:37,890 –> 00:32:39,610
verse.
Let’s come in at verse 17.

568
00:32:43,200 –> 00:32:48,440
Luke 15 This is the prodigal son
15 and verse verse 17.

569
00:32:51,360 –> 00:32:55,680
We read this and when.
He came to himself.

570
00:32:58,800 –> 00:33:01,760
So some background first of.
Course, it’s probably a good.

571
00:33:01,760 –> 00:33:04,400
Thing to do.
He’s taken off from his father,

572
00:33:04,600 –> 00:33:06,040
he said.
Give me what’s rightfully.

573
00:33:06,040 –> 00:33:07,750
Mine.
And nothing’s rightfully ours.

574
00:33:07,750 –> 00:33:09,550
But this is what he’s demanded
from his father.

575
00:33:09,830 –> 00:33:12,030
And off he goes, he lives a
totally, totally.

576
00:33:12,710 –> 00:33:15,230
Uncontrolled and uncontained way
of life.

577
00:33:16,270 –> 00:33:17,710
And there comes a time we got
the fun.

578
00:33:17,710 –> 00:33:19,750
Dries up.
All his friends are gone, his

579
00:33:19,750 –> 00:33:22,830
cash is gone, and he’s feeling
pretty, pretty wretched and

580
00:33:22,830 –> 00:33:23,470
pretty.
Empty.

581
00:33:24,110 –> 00:33:26,390
And he tries to take control
himself.

582
00:33:26,710 –> 00:33:28,710
So see the.
His mind’s going through.

583
00:33:28,710 –> 00:33:30,190
This process.
Which is very.

584
00:33:30,230 –> 00:33:32,950
Very similar to all of us, he
tries tries to take control by

585
00:33:32,950 –> 00:33:35,910
getting a good, well paid job
with the pigs.

586
00:33:38,250 –> 00:33:39,410
But along with his.
Stomach.

587
00:33:39,410 –> 00:33:44,730
He becomes very, very empty.
And he came to realize that life

588
00:33:44,730 –> 00:33:47,290
without.
God is not much life.

589
00:33:47,370 –> 00:33:48,730
At all.
It’s vain.

590
00:33:49,210 –> 00:33:51,810
It’s empty.
And it’s depressing, depressing.

591
00:33:53,050 –> 00:33:54,650
And he he starts.
To look at himself.

592
00:33:54,970 –> 00:33:56,930
He takes a long.
Hard look at himself and says.

593
00:33:56,930 –> 00:34:01,770
What a fool, what a fool I’ve
been so verse 17 and when he

594
00:34:01,770 –> 00:34:07,100
came to himself, he said.
Just think about it, he says.

595
00:34:07,100 –> 00:34:13,060
How many hired servants of my
father’s have bred enough to

596
00:34:13,060 –> 00:34:14,540
spare?
And I perish with.

597
00:34:14,540 –> 00:34:15,860
Hunger.
Now here’s the first step.

598
00:34:16,860 –> 00:34:20,820
Confession verse 18.
So he.

599
00:34:20,820 –> 00:34:23,540
Prepares a little speech.
He’s he’s rehearsing a speech

600
00:34:23,540 –> 00:34:25,860
that he’s going to say to his to
his dad when.

601
00:34:25,860 –> 00:34:26,980
He sees him again.
He says.

602
00:34:28,219 –> 00:34:32,780
I’ll arise and go to my father
and I will read, confess.

603
00:34:33,520 –> 00:34:36,600
Unto him, Father I’ve sinned
against heaven, and before.

604
00:34:36,600 –> 00:34:39,760
Thee and am no more.
Worthy to be.

605
00:34:39,760 –> 00:34:46,320
Called Thy Son, make me as one
of Thy hired servants, and his

606
00:34:46,320 –> 00:34:49,360
repentance, and when he.
Arose he came to his.

607
00:34:49,360 –> 00:34:52,280
Father but.
When he was.

608
00:34:52,280 –> 00:34:56,880
Yet now look at this a great way
off.

609
00:34:57,240 –> 00:35:02,400
His father saw him.
He had compassion.

610
00:35:03,770 –> 00:35:06,050
He ran and he.
Fell on his neck.

611
00:35:06,210 –> 00:35:09,370
And he kissed him and brothers
and sisters there.

612
00:35:09,370 –> 00:35:11,850
Is only one way.
That his father.

613
00:35:12,570 –> 00:35:15,690
Could see him coming a long way
down the track.

614
00:35:20,210 –> 00:35:22,010
Only one way.
And that is.

615
00:35:22,970 –> 00:35:26,970
If he was looking out for him,
he was looking.

616
00:35:27,010 –> 00:35:28,090
It wasn’t.
In his land room.

617
00:35:28,090 –> 00:35:30,770
Fed up with a book?
Thinking to himself.

618
00:35:32,890 –> 00:35:35,610
The boy knows.
He knows where I am.

619
00:35:36,730 –> 00:35:39,330
He knows and he knows that he’s.
Going to come home and we’re

620
00:35:39,330 –> 00:35:43,450
going to have a chat.
He’s out there looking for this

621
00:35:43,450 –> 00:35:47,530
boy.
And the son said to him, Father,

622
00:35:48,130 –> 00:35:49,410
he says.
Now remember the.

623
00:35:49,410 –> 00:35:51,370
Speech that he prepared.
He’s got this.

624
00:35:51,530 –> 00:35:54,010
Rehearsed, he says.
Father, I’ve sinned against

625
00:35:54,010 –> 00:35:56,530
heaven and in thy sight, and I’m
no more.

626
00:35:56,530 –> 00:35:59,700
Worthy to be called thy son.
His father doesn’t even let him

627
00:35:59,740 –> 00:36:01,340
get to finish the rest of the
little.

628
00:36:01,340 –> 00:36:03,980
Speech and he says.
The father said to his servants.

629
00:36:04,260 –> 00:36:05,860
Bring.
Forth the best robe.

630
00:36:07,300 –> 00:36:10,180
And put it on him, and put a
ring in his hand, and choose on

631
00:36:10,180 –> 00:36:12,060
his feet, and bring hither the
fatted calf.

632
00:36:12,220 –> 00:36:13,860
Kill it, let us.
Eat and be.

633
00:36:13,860 –> 00:36:17,820
Merry for this my son was dead
and is alive again.

634
00:36:17,940 –> 00:36:18,740
He was.
Lost.

635
00:36:18,740 –> 00:36:21,420
And is found.
And they began to be merry.

636
00:36:22,140 –> 00:36:26,820
What an occasion that was.
Well, there’s the conversion.

637
00:36:26,820 –> 00:36:30,660
The sun remained in the house.
There we are.

638
00:36:30,780 –> 00:36:33,140
He was converted.
He remained in the house.

639
00:36:33,140 –> 00:36:39,060
After that, they continued.
To be in happy fellowship with

640
00:36:39,060 –> 00:36:42,820
each other, and I want to make
there we are.

641
00:36:43,420 –> 00:36:49,500
Running to him down the track.
This is painting a picture of

642
00:36:49,500 –> 00:36:52,220
what our God is like.
Do you relate to God like this?

643
00:36:55,860 –> 00:36:58,860
Two points from this parable.
Just look at the Stark.

644
00:36:58,860 –> 00:37:00,300
Differences, brothers and
sisters.

645
00:37:00,300 –> 00:37:01,980
Between two men that we’ve
looked at.

646
00:37:02,220 –> 00:37:04,660
Look at the acknowledgement of
sin, one man said.

647
00:37:05,140 –> 00:37:07,700
Give have have patience with me
and I’ll pay you back.

648
00:37:07,700 –> 00:37:12,180
Everything.
And the other man says I have

649
00:37:12,180 –> 00:37:17,300
sinned firstly and primarily.
He says I’ve sinned against.

650
00:37:17,300 –> 00:37:21,260
Heaven, remember, David said.
Against the.

651
00:37:22,270 –> 00:37:27,390
And the only have I sinned?
Wow, What about his family?

652
00:37:27,390 –> 00:37:29,270
What about you, liar?
What about all?

653
00:37:29,270 –> 00:37:33,350
His, his wise men, the rest of
the nation, I’ve sinned against

654
00:37:33,350 –> 00:37:35,270
heaven.
In the end, it’s.

655
00:37:35,430 –> 00:37:41,070
Always against God and when he
stepped.

656
00:37:41,070 –> 00:37:43,110
Through God’s righteous
requirements.

657
00:37:43,630 –> 00:37:46,470
Look at the response he’s.
Greeted by a watching.

658
00:37:46,470 –> 00:37:50,430
And waiting father.
The forgiveness is overwhelming.

659
00:37:52,470 –> 00:37:55,390
Totally overwhelming.
It’s not just a a bit of

660
00:37:55,590 –> 00:37:57,070
forgiveness, which is.
Sort of.

661
00:37:57,070 –> 00:38:00,350
Carefully portioned out for you.
It’s.

662
00:38:00,550 –> 00:38:04,870
An abundance of forgiveness.
The love of his father is.

663
00:38:04,870 –> 00:38:07,710
Far, far greater than what he
was expecting.

664
00:38:08,750 –> 00:38:10,830
His father wouldn’t hear him
being a servant.

665
00:38:10,870 –> 00:38:13,510
He was quite prepared to get
deliver in the the servant’s

666
00:38:13,510 –> 00:38:15,390
quarters.
That’s a lot.

667
00:38:15,430 –> 00:38:16,710
Lot.
A long way in.

668
00:38:16,710 –> 00:38:19,350
Front brothers and sisters of
eating corn with pigs.

669
00:38:23,050 –> 00:38:30,290
And he’s clothed.
And restored to Sunship, there’s

670
00:38:30,290 –> 00:38:32,370
almost.
With the sun here, there’s

671
00:38:32,370 –> 00:38:35,610
almost this sense of
bewilderment, and he’s just

672
00:38:35,610 –> 00:38:39,450
swept along by this, by this
beautiful.

673
00:38:39,450 –> 00:38:42,330
Man the father.
Just sweeps him up off his feet

674
00:38:42,330 –> 00:38:45,010
and just carries him and takes
over and says no, forget put a

675
00:38:45,010 –> 00:38:48,570
robe on him and it’s just whoa.
This is exciting.

676
00:38:50,520 –> 00:38:52,960
Put a robe on, make it a nice.
One the best.

677
00:38:52,960 –> 00:38:56,520
Robe A ring on his finger, shoes
on his feet.

678
00:38:57,040 –> 00:39:00,240
Get some food into him.
Look at him skinny of a break

679
00:39:00,240 –> 00:39:03,240
of.
A man get some food and a lot of

680
00:39:03,240 –> 00:39:04,440
it.
My son is alive.

681
00:39:04,440 –> 00:39:10,240
My son, my son is alive,
brothers and sisters.

682
00:39:10,680 –> 00:39:15,640
We think that we’re happy when
we go to God in forgiveness and

683
00:39:15,640 –> 00:39:17,280
we pour our.
Hearts out to him.

684
00:39:17,870 –> 00:39:19,910
And we make a genuine attempt to
do something about it.

685
00:39:19,910 –> 00:39:23,870
We think we’re happy and.
Relieved, we can finally express

686
00:39:23,870 –> 00:39:26,630
to God our innermost thoughts
and weaknesses and ask for

687
00:39:26,630 –> 00:39:30,190
forgiveness of these things.
Well, the joy that we feel,

688
00:39:30,190 –> 00:39:33,150
brothers and sisters, is.
Nothing, obviously.

689
00:39:33,150 –> 00:39:35,190
It’s nothing compared to how
God.

690
00:39:35,190 –> 00:39:37,630
Feels when he sees.
True repentance.

691
00:39:37,710 –> 00:39:39,350
Whether.
A person is just baptized.

692
00:39:39,470 –> 00:39:40,790
Or.
They’ve been in the truth for 80

693
00:39:40,790 –> 00:39:43,470
years.
God’s reaction is exactly the

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00:39:43,470 –> 00:39:46,030
same.
Look at verse seven of of

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00:39:46,030 –> 00:39:51,070
chapter 15.
I say unto you that likewise joy

696
00:39:51,230 –> 00:39:55,230
shall be in heaven over 1 Sinner
that repents more than the the

697
00:39:55,230 –> 00:39:59,750
90 and 9 just persons that need
no repentance and that person

698
00:40:00,030 –> 00:40:04,110
doesn’t exist anyway.
We all need repentance.

699
00:40:04,710 –> 00:40:08,270
What an incredible, loving
father we have.

700
00:40:10,870 –> 00:40:14,950
So brothers and sisters then.
Our need for forgiveness.

701
00:40:16,540 –> 00:40:24,660
Is complete and total.
Without it, we cannot hope to be

702
00:40:24,660 –> 00:40:26,940
in God’s Kingdom, Without it we.
Cannot be made.

703
00:40:27,180 –> 00:40:33,940
Righteous we are not justified
by faith and the way and the the

704
00:40:34,140 –> 00:40:36,140
the process, the requirement
that God.

705
00:40:36,420 –> 00:40:39,180
Has instituted are for our
healing.

706
00:40:39,860 –> 00:40:44,180
God has even in his incredible.
Mercy done that for us.

707
00:40:46,270 –> 00:40:48,950
He’s done it for our benefit.
He’s done it.

708
00:40:48,950 –> 00:40:50,870
For our good brothers and
sisters.

709
00:40:51,030 –> 00:40:54,510
In this process, God is trying.
To change our.

710
00:40:54,510 –> 00:40:58,470
Thinking process.
He’s putting new concepts new.

711
00:40:58,470 –> 00:41:01,270
Ideas into our mind that we
might become.

712
00:41:01,270 –> 00:41:06,430
More and more sensitive, not
only to the gravity of sin, but

713
00:41:06,430 –> 00:41:08,350
to the.
Greatness of forgiveness.

714
00:41:09,910 –> 00:41:14,910
But also.
We become very, very attuned to

715
00:41:14,910 –> 00:41:18,100
the wonder.
And the love that motivates.

716
00:41:18,100 –> 00:41:22,220
God’s forgiveness toward every.
Single one of us.

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00:41:24,900 –> 00:41:25,220
Thank you.