250: Steve Hyndman – The Process of Forgiveness

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Hi.
I’m Jamie from the Wellington,

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Ecclesia in New Zealand and I’m
going to be hosting a podcast

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for the next few weeks.
I’ve picked out a few talks,

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which have had a big impact on
my life and my perspective or

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God in his word.
And on the lives of people

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around me, this week’s talk is
the first to work in a series on

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forgiveness given by Brother
Steve Hyman, at the Auckland

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fraternal weekend in 2022, What
particular stood out to me is

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the love that God has for us and
his mercy and extending

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forgiveness and the process of
forgiveness which we go through

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resulting in a genuine and
permanent change in US.

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The entire series will be
uploaded soon to the extended

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podcast and this is class,
number 250.

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So this is Brother, Steve, Hyman
forgiveness, Class. 250, hello,

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everybody.
Nice to be here.

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Nice to be amongst you all and
at last or our brother, Dave has

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been trying to organize this for
the last couple of years and

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it’s an absolute pleasure to be
amongst you and feel that

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warmth.
And, and it’s a delightful

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thing, isn’t it?
Doesn’t matter where you go in

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the world, to feel that, that
lovely, welcome, the bonds of

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Fellowship.
So we’ve thought, I’d also pass

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on some love too.
I was talking to my sister

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recently, Sarah, Sarah Lyons.
And some of you and I see Erin

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Tony lines from years ago.
And she said, say hello to

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everybody for me.
I thought, however, that we’re

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going to do that.
I thought rolled I know what I’m

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doing.
I’m doing the first session.

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Hello everybody.
From Sarah.

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And and this is us.
This is our clan very normal

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run-of-the-mill.
Folk might say, so we have four

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girls and very blessed to have
four girls.

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I was just thrilled to have all
girls.

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That was a lovely thing.
Three, you’re married.

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And one is studying in
Melbourne, at the moment.

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So, from the oldest is, is
Melissa.

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Just this got 44 children and
then we’ve got next one down.

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But Laura, Laura lives in well,
Anton married, Luke Crouch, and

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little Okie over there and He’s
just turned two and decided to

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give them a run for their money,
isn’t that good?

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And then there’s Emma Emma as
far left and then tally and

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married a local brother in
Brisbane.

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So yeah.
That’s us, it’s very sort of

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lovely to have them on their way
so to speak.

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Well forgiveness, what if I
press B, nothing happens.

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Can I press?
Let’s go back to the anyway.

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There we are.
Let’s just stay there for the

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minute.
I think that forgiveness and I’m

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sure a lot of you would agree as
well.

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That forgiveness is probably one
of the most fundamental subjects

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of the Bible to think about, it
really is important because it’s

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really an understanding of God
as our chairman has really.

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It sort of indicated, its to
understand to get a bit of a

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handle on forgiveness.
It’s really understand.

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It’s character.
And it’s a journey for all of us

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and I’m well and truly on that
journey and nowhere near the end

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of it can tell you.
Because every time I do this,

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this is about the sixth time
that we’ve done this.

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I’m just learning something new
and I’m just changing this or

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changing that as we grow in our
faith and I guess maturity.

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And in terms of our standing
with God, But it is a core

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element of God’s character.
I would say go as far as to say

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it is the most core element of
his character.

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It’s about having a relationship
with God and it comes brothers

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and sisters from.
I think the single most central

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part of God’s thinking and that
is that God is love It’s the one

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of the first things that we see
as a result of that love that he

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wants to forgive.
He doesn’t doesn’t do it

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grudgingly.
He actually wants to forgive and

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when we let God, forgive its
total total forgiveness.

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No grudges, no thoughts.
He even forgets it.

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He has the power to forget your
sin.

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So, when you get to the Judgment
seat and you might talk to the

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angel and saying not to be
worried about this thing, he

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might say to you, what seems
that?

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No recollection.
It’s gone.

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You discuss that years ago with
God?

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It’s gone from you.
I think God does have the power

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to forgive properly and to
forget sin he remembers them no

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more.
And old, forgive you despite

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what we have done against him.
You know why?

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Actually God forgives Psalm 79
in verse 9 says that he forgives

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us for his name’s sake.
It’s not interesting.

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You think wonder why wonder why
that, what does that mean to

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forgive for my namesake?
Well, what’s God’s name, we know

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that from from the early
chapters of Exodus.

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His name is Yahweh.
I will be who I will be 0.

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I will be manifested into a
multitude of people.

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So in order for God to be
manifested in a multitude of

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people, or Seen in a large group
of people, he must forgive.

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So old, forgive for the sake of
my purpose, for the sake of my

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name, my name is my purpose.
Here’s a little insight into the

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god that we serve you ever
listen to this.

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This is Lux, Lux, 6 and verse
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Don’t turn it up because of Tom,
but he says this but love ye

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your enemies.
And sale of your brother’s

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assistant, love your enemies do,
good and lend hoping for nothing

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again, and your reward shall be
great and ye shall be the

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children of the highest for is
he is kind to the unthankful and

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to the evil God is kind to the
evil. remarkable being Be there

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for merciful as your father.
Also is merciful judge, not and

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ye shall not be judged, condemn,
not.

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And ye shall not be condemned
forgive, and you shall be

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forgiven That’s the God who we
serve.

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Since the rain upon the just and
the unjust.

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Loves his enemies.
There was a point in all of our

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lives that we were enemies with
God when I reconciled to him.

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So as we progressed through
these studies, We hope to answer

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brothers and sisters.
A lot of those questions that do

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come up from time to time
questions, questions, like this.

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How do I know I’m forgiven?
Where did, where in the Bible?

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Do I find that?
How do I know I’m forgiven does?

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God forgive immediately or do I
need to repeat the confession

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for a while?
Is God looking for some repair

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repetitious request?
I have nagging feelings of

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guilt, actually, let me go
there.

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Next one, I’ll have you.
Here we are.

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Here we are.
Let’s cut some.

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Have some nagging feelings of
guilt.

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Why?
Why do I have those?

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Should I ever forgive myself,
even though I know God has If I

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repeat the sin over and over and
over again, does God still

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forgive?
if someone has sinned against me

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or a loved one, should I wait
for them to repent before I

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forgive Are the conditions to
God’s forgiveness.

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If so, what are they going to?
Look at all this.

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So don’t worry if you think,
we’ll what’s the answer to that

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one?
Under the law.

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Why did God want blood?
Is he bloodthirsty?

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Where are we?
We go to the next one.

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Is he bloodthirsty?
Why was God pleased to bruise

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his son?
What did that make God happy?

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What does it mean?
Well, he was pleased to bruise.

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His only son.
What did Christ have to die?

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Such a cruel way and not an old
man.

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Are there big and little sins?
What does God really?

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And actually Forget sin.
And will all sin be reviewed at

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the Judgment seat.
So searching some searching

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questions, aren’t they?
So God willing, we’re going to

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be covering all those questions
and giving you, hopefully some

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biblical answers of these things
as we move through.

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Now, brothers and sisters.
It’s an interesting thing.

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When you, when we do a subject
on forgiveness, it can have the

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tendency to stir up.
Things in our minds.

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And I readily acknowledge that
subjects like this touches very,

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very deeply.
And you may have other thoughts

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or questions arising from this
matter which I’m also very

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always very receptive to hear
your thoughts on them as well.

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So I think that that feedback
and those other ideas are often

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very, very stimulating and
helpful for me I certainly

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didn’t hook don’t have all the
answers to the these things and

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very much learning as we go
along with you together.

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But let’s have a little think
about Sin, then for a start.

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So in order to appreciate the
Wonder and the beauty of

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forgiveness Surely, we need to
know really an act to get a

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handle on sin itself.
Have a think about it, because

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we tend to negate a lot in our
lives.

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We tend to diminish it a lot.
So let’s have a little think

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about seeing what does Sin do in
terms of our relationship with

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God.
With our father, what does it

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do?
Well, sin breaks, the

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connection, It breaks the
connection that we have with

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God, it separates us.
But forgiveness reconnects us

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with God.
That’s what God is trying to do.

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He’s trying to unify you with
him again.

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He does not like this, this
disconnection and he will do

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everything he can to be United
with you again.

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It’s about reconciliation with
God, you might remember this

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quote.
This is quite a famous One.

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That John Carter said he said
this in his book, Delight in

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God’s law, he said, sin ruptures
the good relationship between

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God and man.
It’s a relationship which is

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illustrated by the change from
living in the Garden of Eden to

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the exclusion from.
It’s Paradise, it life.

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So he is basically saying a
really good example of the

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disruptive nature of sin is what
occurred in the Garden of Eden.

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At first God, Walked In the
Garden, in the cool of the day

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and he often spoke to Adam and
Eve, there’s a lovely

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relationship.
Afterwards, a flaming sword Bard

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entrance to it in.
This was exhibited, the altered

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relationship that sin had caused
and sin affected man’s world as

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well as man himself, accursed
ground and life of toil and

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sorrow, thorns and thistles
remained as continue reminders,

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that sin leaves.
It’s after-effects and its

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consequences.
So this subject then is really

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really Central to our walk in
our relationship with God, but

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also it has a huge bearing
brothers and sisters on our walk

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in relationship with each other.
It really does.

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Show you that.
In fact, our relationships, we

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have with each other is one in
one of the conditions on which

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God will forgive us.
True untainted forgiveness,

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between each other is nothing
short of God, manifestation to

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each other.
It’s absolutely God to each

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other.
That’s what it is.

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It’s one of the best
demonstrations of who God really

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is.
So what do we know about God?

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Well, we know this, we know that
God is merciful and he is

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gracious, his long-suffering and
His abundant in goodness and

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Truth.
Now you think of all those

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qualities just think of them he
is merciful Now, if someone’s

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merciful, they’re full of Mercy.
Doesn’t make them forgiving.

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without gracious, Uhn deserve
Divine favor, unmerited Divine

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favor, Precious, you have to be
forgiving.

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It’s undeserved favor, if not
deserved such forgiving.

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What about someone who’s
long-suffering to suffer for a

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long time?
Means to be patient or slow to

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anger and if you’re very, very
patient person, very patient and

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you can you can put up with
certain things for thousands of

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years certain behaviors.
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No doubt about it whatsoever.
What about goodness, KES head,

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kindness, That means you are
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You are happy to forgive, he’s
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His kind to the unthankful we
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So he’s very, very happy to
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He’s just God is just this is
what John says.

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God is just and faithful to
forgive his his his

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trustworthiness is something
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He will forgive and then and
then verse 7 says, keeping Mercy

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for thousands, forgiving
iniquity, and transgression and

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sin.
So all of those qualities equal,

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keeping Mercy for thousands, And
forgiving iniquity

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transgression.
And it’s all part of his

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purpose.
It’s a part of God’s Court of

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God’s glory.
His character is to forgive

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sins.
He’s doing it all the time as

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we’re going to see.
But what about the next verse?

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What about that next version?
Hear you say the bit that says

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by no means clearing the guilty.
What about that?

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We’re here that reads like this
that by no means clear.

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The guilty visiting the iniquity
of the father’s upon the

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children and upon the children’s
children unto the third and

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fourth generation.
Now there’s a few schools of

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thought on this and I want to
tell you the one I believe

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having looked at just had a bit
of a, look at the subject.

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Let’s divide the verse up to two
sections very briefly because of

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our time.
That will by no means, clear the

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guilty.
Now the Hebrew, let me tell you

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what the he beat one.
Understand, no the door, here’s

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the Hebrew.
Nikita, La única.

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That’s the Hebrew.
For that little section.

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By no means clearing the guilty.
Here’s how it should be

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rendered.
A tweeting him who is Not

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Innocent.
In other words, a quitting, the

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guilty.
One commentator on the really

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good commentator on the Hebrew
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little bit of section of that
verse has been misunderstood and

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misinterpreted misinterpreted by
all a translators, the whole and

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you actually know that they AV
my my barber here, I’ve got the

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Oxford version of the Bible.
Is having trouble with as well,

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because the words the guilty
they’re in italics, they’re not

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even there.
No, they should be.

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I quitting him who is Not
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The translators have really
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of the verse visiting, the
iniquity of the father’s upon

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the children and upon the
children’s children unto the

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third and fourth generation.
Now, that sounds like face

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value.
That sounds like if Dad does

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something wrong, all the kids
are going to Copper.

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If Grandpa great-great-great,
Grandpa did something else.

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Something wrong.
I’m going to get Doesn’t mean

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that at all.
It’s not how God works.

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Deuteronomy 5 verse 9, I think
puts a property says listen to

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this.
For I Yahweh thy God am a

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jealous God, visiting the
iniquity of the father’s upon

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the children, unto the third,
and fourth generation of them.

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That hate me. so, this is all
about, Prolonging the hatred

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down through the generations.
So the truth of that statement,

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of course, is borne out in the
story of Korah dathan and abiram

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remembered that sons of Korah
separated themselves from their

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father.
Before he went down into the

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pit.
And of course the their families

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went on to write many of the
other songs that’s arms many of

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them.
So here’s how that verse I think

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should read keeping Mercy for
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transgression and sin acquitting
him who is Not Innocent a

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quitting.
The the guilty visiting, the

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iniquity of the father’s upon
the children and upon the

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children’s children, unto the
third and fourth generation of

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them, that hate me.
So God reacts, then to every

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generation and persons,
according to their personal

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response to him, right?
So not according to who, your

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parents were, who your granddad
was Lets you make your own

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choice in relationship in
relation to your relationship to

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God.
That’s your choice. if however,

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we perpetuate that hatred, as we
can actually see it amongst the

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Arabs and the Jews will see this
Perpetual hatred are going on on

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on the god of Israel has a
problem with that then because

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that’s a choice that each
generation is making for

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themselves.
And of course, that’s what

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really God is unable to work
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He cannot work with people who
utterly hate him or anything he

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stands for Do you know just a
just a mere consideration of

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that, you know, you sit back and
you wonder you really do Wonder

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at the god that we serve.
You think what a remarkable

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being this is to consider that
he should consider such small.

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Specks of dust as us human
beings upon this Speck of dust.

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We call Earth, What a God this
is it remarkable.

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Remarkable characteristics,
merciful, and kind and patient.

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And then we suddenly remember
That is looking for people.

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We think and act like him.
Doesn’t that make you stop and

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think?
Because you and I both know that

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we are in need of so much
forgiveness in our lives that we

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can’t come anywhere near a true
reflection of God’s character.

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What a challenge that is.
So, in order for us to really

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appreciate the power of
forgiveness, we’ve got to look

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at the terrible and appreciate
the terrible features of sin, we

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do need to know that we’ve got
to get down to that that Valley,

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as it were to appreciate the
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We’ve got to, we’ve got to
appreciate the depths of which

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our nature will go.
Yet the absolute Wonder of God’s

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forgiveness.
We need to own sin brothers and

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sisters.
Without minimizing the magnitude

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of our failings own it.
Be honest with God.

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And we need often to have an
honest appraisal of ourselves

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and that’s why we are encouraged
to examine ourselves every

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Sunday morning, examine
yourself, take a long hard look

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in the mirror.
What do you see?

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When I look in the mirror, I
don’t like it.

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And I’m not talking about what I
actually see in the mirror.

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That’s bad enough.
But when I really consider my

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own proclivities and my own
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It’s a very, very uncomfortable
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So personal acknowledgement of
sin will bring us to Christ

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that’s that’s the design of it.
It brings us to Christ you see

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because we are all sick.
Remember what Jesus Christ said.

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It’s only those that acknowledge
that sickness will go to a

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physician.
You’re not going to go to a

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doctor unless you can you can
fill that sickness in yourself.

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Otherwise, you nothing wrong
with me.

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That’s the, that’s the mind of
the Pharisee.

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The Pharisees said that.
Nothing wrong with me.

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I’m actually quite a good person
at heart and I intend showing

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how good I am to everybody else.
we will not go to the doctor

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unless we know actually, How
that disease is at work in our

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mind.
What David said, David said

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there is a loathsome disease in
my loins.

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Meaning, I’m all my children and
all my my forebears and

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everybody else is going to have
the same rotten bias that I’ve

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got to sin.
We’re just passing it on.

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He saw it for what it was.
You know, sometimes our

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diagnosis of other people’s
illnesses, comes easier than

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diagnosing our own problems.
That’s another element of human

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nature as well.
And that’s what of Christ

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excitation when he said look up.
Just be very careful.

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He said about trying to take out
the Splinter in your brother’s

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eye, because there could be an
awful big log, just hanging out

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your own eye and you, it’s so
big.

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You catch, you can’t see it.
You can’t see it for what it is.

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We’ve we can pretend to be
blinded by our own affliction.

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So we’re all in the same
Dreadful State without

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forgiveness and we have by
Nature the same problem as the

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Pharisee.
And think the Pharisee was

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something extraordinary, he
wasn’t.

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He was very, very normal, a very
normal person.

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He was full of pride is
motivated by the Flesh and the

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lust of the flesh.
The lust of the eyes that seem

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familiar to you, I can relate to
the Pharisee.

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Horrible.
It’s a really horrible state

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that we are born into.
And I not only have that inbred

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bias to sin at same as everybody
else, we all have a bias to to

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justify those sins as well.
We justify them to ourselves so

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that we feel better about life
or would justify them to other

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people as well.
The reason I did this.

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Yes, the reason I did that see
we you there at that?

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Will you need to know the
backstory?

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Story.
Will you see my parents when I

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was younger?
We like to Russia laws.

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Whenever there’s a an
opportunity to blame something

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else to blame someone else.
Give plausible excuses.

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We generally will disown sin if
we can, because it makes us feel

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shameful, but the whole that’s
part of the fact.

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That’s part of the, that feeling
of Shame.

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God says you’re actually, on the
way you’ve started on need that

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shame to be there.
You, I need you to feel that.

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It’s not a very nice thing.
Is it?

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This tendency is nothing new.
Of course member, what Adam

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said, Adam said to God.
Adam said The woman who you gave

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to be with me. since and now
he’s blaming God first up, the

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woman who you gave she gave me
of the tree.

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There’s a lot of other things
going on here since Adam and I

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was just an innocent party.
I came along here and I was just

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offered a piece of fruit and you
know what, I would probably be

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actually be.
All right, if I was my own self

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and was here on my own, I
wouldn’t have gone that

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direction.
It’s a good change to the woman

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and said what happened that
woman says, well serpent.

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The serpent beguiled me and I
did now, it’s a funny thing,

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isn’t it?
Those statements are both sort

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of true think there’s elements
of truths in those things.

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Well, it was true.
Adam, Adam did to the fruit.

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His wife did give that was
actually true.

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It’s a we can actually color.
We’re going to actually justify

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with these parent truths, but
they’re not honest.

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We’re not owning up and God
wants us to be honest with

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ourselves.
We have an instinct to buy asked

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her to blame, something else for
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The end of the day, they are
always going to be against God.

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Always remember what David said,
in relation to Bathsheba, he

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said against V.
And the only have I sinned The

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end of the day that God said,
look, putting aside my family

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and all my children and
Bathsheba and Uriah putting

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aside all that.
In the end, it’s against God.

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I’ve sinned.
God wants us to be honest.

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We have to be truthful.
Open to him and Adam and Eve

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when they were blaming each
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They were unable to be
forgiving.

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God says, until I can get you to
talk openly.

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And honestly, to me, we cannot
move.

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God cannot forgive the
unacknowledged unacknowledged

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sin.
He wants to.

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He really does want to but he
can’t do it until we acknowledge

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it to him in humility.
If we cannot own our sin,

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neither can God, forgive us,
brothers and sisters.

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And what we are, then we are
specialists at sin management.

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so, when we walk down the
corridor of life, we We come to

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sign on the door that says sin
manager.

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We swing open the door and
they’re inside.

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Is you or me?
Sitting back there, nice.

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Chair feet up on the desk.
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Pretty smug.
We’re brilliant.

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Adam sin management.
It makes us feel so good.

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So much better.
It’s actually fig Leaf syndrome.

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That’s what it is.
We’re trying to cover something

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based on our own strengths.
It’s all fig Leaf, we’d lie week

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on WE trick ourselves into
believing that we are in fact,

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our okay, that things will be
just forgotten about and

435
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disappear over time.
Dinnerwire know, that didn’t

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00:29:47,500 –> 00:29:49,400
want?
I’m saying that because when I

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00:29:49,400 –> 00:29:51,800
sat down to write this, I
thought this is me.

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So, a lot of the thoughts you’re
getting through this weekend.

439
00:29:58,100 –> 00:30:02,700
Is my thoughts because of my own
experience with myself.

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00:30:02,900 –> 00:30:06,200
The fact that I’ve lied to
myself trick myself, tried to

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00:30:06,500 –> 00:30:13,500
trick, God, lie and con myself.
We can’t do it.

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00:30:13,500 –> 00:30:16,800
We have to be honest.
And the reason we do this

443
00:30:16,800 –> 00:30:20,100
because we want to settle with
this shame there, we want to

444
00:30:20,108 –> 00:30:23,800
settle in our own minds that
which sin produces.

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00:30:24,300 –> 00:30:26,100
We want to feel better about
ourselves.

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00:30:26,200 –> 00:30:29,200
It’s an attempt to deal with sin
without God, that’s what it is.

447
00:30:32,300 –> 00:30:34,600
And we make our own covering
effectively.

448
00:30:37,100 –> 00:30:41,300
So the need to see sin as God
does is crucial to understanding

449
00:30:41,700 –> 00:30:47,400
the process of forgiveness.
See it for what it really is.

450
00:30:52,200 –> 00:30:54,200
Has everybody going feeling
pretty flat?

451
00:30:54,200 –> 00:30:56,800
Pretty low think?
Well, gee, this is taught to

452
00:30:56,800 –> 00:31:01,800
good.
It’s it really does flatten.

453
00:31:01,800 –> 00:31:05,800
You doesn’t it mentally and you
sort of think We’re not, we’re

454
00:31:05,800 –> 00:31:09,100
by Nature, we’re not the most,
if not the most attractive

455
00:31:09,100 –> 00:31:14,900
creatures, really human beings
will do what they can to get out

456
00:31:14,900 –> 00:31:19,400
of their own problems.
But then God says, now now that

457
00:31:19,400 –> 00:31:21,900
we’re down there now that we’re
down in that horrible Valley,

458
00:31:23,500 –> 00:31:24,900
God says, I want you to do
something.

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00:31:28,000 –> 00:31:32,100
Whoops, we going forward.
We’re here we are.

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00:31:32,400 –> 00:31:35,500
Look at that.
This is what God wants us to do.

461
00:31:37,800 –> 00:31:43,000
He says it is part and parcel of
Us coming to groups and being

462
00:31:43,000 –> 00:31:46,100
honest with ourselves.
He says now now that you’re

463
00:31:46,108 –> 00:31:48,800
there.
Wash U.

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00:31:50,600 –> 00:31:55,000
Make you clean.
Put away the evil of your doings

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00:31:55,500 –> 00:31:59,900
from before mine eyes.
Stop doing the evil.

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00:32:01,700 –> 00:32:04,500
And then he says this and I
think these words are so so

467
00:32:04,500 –> 00:32:07,200
beautiful.
He says now now come now he

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00:32:07,200 –> 00:32:10,500
said, let’s have a chat.
Come on, let’s talk.

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00:32:11,800 –> 00:32:14,600
Let’s reason together.
Saith Yahweh, though.

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00:32:14,600 –> 00:32:19,700
Your sins be as Scarlet.
They shall be as white as snow.

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00:32:21,700 –> 00:32:26,700
and though, they be red, like
crimson They shall be as wool.

472
00:32:27,800 –> 00:32:31,600
I want to wash you.
Can you can you give me a chance

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00:32:31,700 –> 00:32:35,800
to wash you clean effectively.
That’s what that quote says me

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00:32:36,200 –> 00:32:42,500
says to me white as wool of all
things, we just woke up from a

475
00:32:42,508 –> 00:32:48,800
lamb.
He wants to cover us with skin

476
00:32:48,900 –> 00:32:52,900
of a lamb slain from the
foundation of the world.

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00:32:54,700 –> 00:32:56,400
I would like to cleanse you from
your.

478
00:32:56,600 –> 00:33:01,800
You are actually not capable of
self cleansing but I can and I

479
00:33:01,800 –> 00:33:07,800
want to and I will if you let me
So the need to see our sin as

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00:33:07,800 –> 00:33:10,700
God sees them.
So this is, we’ve just opened a

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00:33:10,708 –> 00:33:16,500
bit of a key here.
Then, and the key is To see our

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00:33:16,500 –> 00:33:19,700
sin from God’s perspective.
Ah, now, that’s interesting.

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00:33:20,400 –> 00:33:23,900
Not from our own perspective.
How does God see this?

484
00:33:25,400 –> 00:33:27,400
He’s given that he’s the one
that’s doing forgiving.

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00:33:27,500 –> 00:33:31,000
What’s he seeing with his own
eyes?

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00:33:31,700 –> 00:33:35,700
See the sin from God’s
perspective, a see the sin as

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00:33:35,700 –> 00:33:41,900
also a part of this restorative
process It’s a part of the

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00:33:41,900 –> 00:33:45,400
process that God requires us to
undergo in order to have our

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00:33:45,400 –> 00:33:47,900
sins.
Forgiven, we have to go through

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00:33:47,900 –> 00:33:50,500
this horrible, dark Valley to
get there.

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00:33:51,400 –> 00:33:55,300
This progression is the same
wherever you go in the Bible.

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00:33:55,300 –> 00:33:59,100
It’s always the same.
It’s never circumvented God’s

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00:33:59,100 –> 00:34:02,800
process to forgiveness.
The way through, there are no

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00:34:02,800 –> 00:34:06,900
shortcuts when it comes to God’s
method of forgiveness, the

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00:34:06,900 –> 00:34:10,400
recipe.
Is exactly the same.

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00:34:10,500 –> 00:34:15,400
It’s the recipe for forgiveness
and this method, this process is

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00:34:15,400 –> 00:34:21,300
100% fruit. 100% free.
No Works.

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00:34:22,000 –> 00:34:24,699
God doesn’t want anything from
us whatsoever?

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00:34:25,100 –> 00:34:28,800
He wants you to sit down and
just listen to him.

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00:34:29,699 –> 00:34:33,000
Don’t want to do anything, but
stay still just stand still and

501
00:34:33,000 –> 00:34:36,100
see the salvation of Yahweh.
That’s what he wants.

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00:34:38,100 –> 00:34:42,100
No, you, how Mary’s?
Is that the church would have us

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00:34:42,100 –> 00:34:43,900
believe?
No Kim.

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00:34:43,900 –> 00:34:48,300
No community service.
No Penance, no money.

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00:34:48,600 –> 00:34:52,199
I want any of that?
It needs to be.

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00:34:52,199 –> 00:34:58,200
You need to know says God that
this is free 100% free.

507
00:34:59,900 –> 00:35:01,900
For some very, very good
reasons.

508
00:35:02,400 –> 00:35:06,200
The first reason is, we could
never ever buy forgiveness.

509
00:35:06,400 –> 00:35:09,200
You could never afford it in
your wildest dreams.

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00:35:09,600 –> 00:35:12,500
You can’t do it.
Do you know if there was

511
00:35:12,500 –> 00:35:15,300
something that we could do to
earn forgiveness?

512
00:35:15,800 –> 00:35:19,700
Well, then by definition, it’s
not forgiveness because you

513
00:35:19,700 –> 00:35:24,500
burnt it.
God wants to wipe the Slate

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00:35:24,500 –> 00:35:27,500
clean without you doing
anything.

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00:35:27,500 –> 00:35:30,500
That’s what he’s looking for.
He wants you to understand this.

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00:35:31,500 –> 00:35:33,500
Remember what he said to Abraham
once?

517
00:35:33,900 –> 00:35:35,600
And this is the whole point of
this.

518
00:35:35,800 –> 00:35:38,500
Remember, he said to Abraham,
when he was offering up, Abraham

519
00:35:38,500 –> 00:35:41,000
was about to offer up, I say he
said, Isaac, stop.

520
00:35:41,400 –> 00:35:47,500
So he said Abraham stop.
I need you to know something, I

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00:35:48,500 –> 00:35:53,100
Will provide.
You just watch.

522
00:35:55,000 –> 00:35:59,700
I don’t want to do anything.
I just want you to have.

523
00:36:01,000 –> 00:36:05,100
A process going on in your mind,
called Faith.

524
00:36:05,600 –> 00:36:07,400
That’s what I need you to have
a.

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00:36:07,400 –> 00:36:15,000
Let me do this for you.
And another reason it’s free is

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00:36:15,000 –> 00:36:18,600
because God is love brothers and
sisters.

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00:36:19,500 –> 00:36:22,600
That’s why it’s free and he
wants to forgive.

528
00:36:23,500 –> 00:36:28,800
He’s if you like to use a
colloquialism, our, he’s busting

529
00:36:28,800 –> 00:36:32,900
to forgive, he yearns to forgive
that’s what he does.

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00:36:34,000 –> 00:36:37,100
We’re going to see that the
story of The Prodigal Son later

531
00:36:37,100 –> 00:36:41,000
on.
In our, in our studies he yearns

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00:36:41,000 –> 00:36:45,300
to forgive us.
That the love that God feels for

533
00:36:45,300 –> 00:36:51,000
us is extremely intense.
And he’s very grieved.

534
00:36:51,600 –> 00:36:55,600
When we can’t bring ourselves to
that point turn with me to

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00:36:55,600 –> 00:37:00,200
Isaiah 55 and verse 1.
So this is our breathing.

536
00:37:03,900 –> 00:37:11,000
Isaiah 55.
The first word home that’s on

537
00:37:11,000 –> 00:37:16,600
Old English word for listen.
he’s basically saying, All you

538
00:37:17,700 –> 00:37:20,100
hello.
He’s trying to get your

539
00:37:20,100 –> 00:37:21,800
attention, that’s what he’s
doing.

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00:37:21,800 –> 00:37:23,900
That’s the idea of that word
everybody.

541
00:37:23,900 –> 00:37:27,700
It’s a this is a call.
He’s calling out everyone that

542
00:37:27,700 –> 00:37:33,700
first Earth come here to the
waters and he that hath, no

543
00:37:33,700 –> 00:37:36,700
money.
Big loudspeaker Happening Here,

544
00:37:37,200 –> 00:37:43,000
Come GE by eat.
Okay, come and buy wine and milk

545
00:37:43,000 –> 00:37:49,800
without money without price.
I don’t want anything from you

546
00:37:49,900 –> 00:37:52,300
at this stage.
Just come and have this.

547
00:37:52,900 –> 00:37:56,300
Why do you spend money for that?
Which is not bread and your

548
00:37:56,300 –> 00:37:57,900
labor for that?
Which satisfies?

549
00:37:57,900 –> 00:38:01,900
Not hearken diligently.
To me, listen carefully to what

550
00:38:01,900 –> 00:38:07,000
I’m saying and eat you that
which is good and let your soul

551
00:38:07,000 –> 00:38:10,500
Delight itself in fatness or
goodness.

552
00:38:13,200 –> 00:38:17,100
Incline, your ear, listen to me.
Please listen to me.

553
00:38:18,400 –> 00:38:21,900
And come to me.
Here.

554
00:38:23,100 –> 00:38:27,300
And your soul shall live.
He’s not talking about the three

555
00:38:27,300 –> 00:38:30,000
score years and ten.
Now he’s talking about

556
00:38:30,000 –> 00:38:33,500
internally.
Listen to me and I’ll give you

557
00:38:33,500 –> 00:38:38,100
eternal life and I will make an
Everlasting Covenant with you.

558
00:38:38,300 –> 00:38:43,400
Even the sure mercies of David.
That’s forgiveness.

559
00:38:43,700 –> 00:38:47,700
I’ll forgive you.
Free.

560
00:38:48,300 –> 00:38:52,300
What more do you want?
I’m not even asking a penny.

561
00:38:56,200 –> 00:38:59,600
His only request is that we
follow the process of

562
00:38:59,600 –> 00:39:05,000
forgiveness.
And the reason he wants this

563
00:39:05,400 –> 00:39:07,700
brothers and sisters is because
he made us.

564
00:39:08,900 –> 00:39:10,900
And he knows that in that
process.

565
00:39:11,200 –> 00:39:17,400
It’s a healing process.
It’s part of if you like a deep

566
00:39:17,400 –> 00:39:21,300
psychological process that God
understands we need to go

567
00:39:21,300 –> 00:39:27,500
through.
This formula this method, which

568
00:39:27,500 –> 00:39:32,300
God uses to show us is, is that,
is our true standing before him

569
00:39:33,100 –> 00:39:37,900
before, forgiveness, and after
forgiveness, so that we can see,

570
00:39:37,900 –> 00:39:39,800
we can appreciate the depths of
it.

571
00:39:41,300 –> 00:39:44,400
How we feel before and how we
feel after.

572
00:39:46,200 –> 00:39:54,900
And the contrast is huge. but
the tool that God uses, To get

573
00:39:54,900 –> 00:39:59,400
us to understand the actual tool
in this process, is the

574
00:39:59,400 –> 00:40:02,700
suffering or the consequence of
sin.

575
00:40:03,000 –> 00:40:04,800
That’s what God uses to teach
us.

576
00:40:05,800 –> 00:40:07,800
If you like the fruits of what
we’ve done.

577
00:40:10,700 –> 00:40:13,800
We are not exempt from the, from
the result of sin.

578
00:40:18,500 –> 00:40:20,600
In the end, the result of sin is
death.

579
00:40:23,200 –> 00:40:28,200
And so the outcome of our sins
are there to teach and remind us

580
00:40:28,400 –> 00:40:32,000
that God is wanting to lead us
from sin itself.

581
00:40:33,300 –> 00:40:36,000
And through this process, God is
looking for us, too.

582
00:40:37,800 –> 00:40:42,900
Turn away from sin will be some
of us turn like like that we

583
00:40:42,900 –> 00:40:46,000
might turn quickly.
Some of this sort of a bit more

584
00:40:46,000 –> 00:40:50,000
of a curve.
Some of us like that and finally

585
00:40:50,200 –> 00:40:55,200
80 years later.
But got to got to keep working

586
00:40:55,200 –> 00:40:57,300
with us for as long as there’s
breath in our bodies.

587
00:41:00,800 –> 00:41:07,600
But there’s more to this.
There’s more to this than just

588
00:41:07,600 –> 00:41:10,200
forgiveness much more busy.
God wants us to understand in

589
00:41:10,200 –> 00:41:15,400
this, this this process at the
the part of this process is US

590
00:41:15,400 –> 00:41:19,400
beginning.
To think like him.

591
00:41:22,200 –> 00:41:26,200
In this process now is this not
all about is God’s purpose with

592
00:41:26,200 –> 00:41:29,000
youth Australia’s.
Only have all the Earth will be

593
00:41:29,000 –> 00:41:33,300
filled with his glory.
In that purpose, brothers and

594
00:41:33,300 –> 00:41:35,100
sisters.
God is trying to get us to

595
00:41:35,100 –> 00:41:38,200
understand that, I need you to
go that through that process

596
00:41:38,500 –> 00:41:42,300
because at the end of it, you’re
going to be a part of that

597
00:41:42,300 –> 00:41:47,500
glorious purpose.
And that that process it within

598
00:41:47,500 –> 00:41:49,000
that process, that’s how we get
there.

599
00:41:50,800 –> 00:41:54,000
And God is Not only forgiving
because at the end of the day

600
00:41:54,000 –> 00:41:57,400
that fig state of forgiveness,
it’s only temporary.

601
00:41:57,400 –> 00:42:00,900
Is it not?
So you go to God In Prayer, it

602
00:42:00,900 –> 00:42:03,500
might be something particularly
that you want to mention to God

603
00:42:03,600 –> 00:42:06,200
that you’ve been working on for
a long time, or whatever it is.

604
00:42:06,200 –> 00:42:08,800
Or what’s been bugging you for a
long time and you’d lie, your

605
00:42:08,800 –> 00:42:13,100
heart out to God.
In the end of the day that state

606
00:42:13,100 –> 00:42:15,600
of cleanliness before, God is
only temporary.

607
00:42:20,900 –> 00:42:22,200
It’s only there for a little
while.

608
00:42:23,300 –> 00:42:26,600
Because a few days later or a
few weeks over hours, whatever

609
00:42:26,600 –> 00:42:29,900
it is, you’ve got to go to God
again and ask for forgiveness

610
00:42:29,900 –> 00:42:33,100
again.
And God will forgive you again

611
00:42:33,900 –> 00:42:37,200
and again and over and over
because that’s what he does.

612
00:42:37,200 –> 00:42:40,400
I says I don’t think like, you
don’t think like a man.

613
00:42:41,300 –> 00:42:48,200
I don’t have limitations to what
I can do, what I can do. so what

614
00:42:48,200 –> 00:42:51,700
God is actually doing within
this process is creating a new

615
00:42:51,700 –> 00:42:55,200
creature Within you.
So you sort of think how is God

616
00:42:55,200 –> 00:42:59,800
creating a new creature with it?
What is doing is creating a New

617
00:42:59,800 –> 00:43:04,200
Concept in your mind?
And effectively what you said,

618
00:43:04,200 –> 00:43:06,800
you’ve been born with the bias
brothers and sisters of sin, but

619
00:43:06,800 –> 00:43:11,200
God is actually given you this,
he said that get this into you

620
00:43:11,700 –> 00:43:15,100
because that’s going to produce
a whole new way of thinking,

621
00:43:15,300 –> 00:43:17,900
which you otherwise wouldn’t
know about.

622
00:43:20,300 –> 00:43:23,800
Eat this book.
And understand the process that

623
00:43:23,800 –> 00:43:26,600
I need you to go through.
It’s a healing process.

624
00:43:28,600 –> 00:43:33,500
And if God is both cleansing us
from sin and creating himself

625
00:43:33,500 –> 00:43:37,000
within us.
So God is not so much interested

626
00:43:37,300 –> 00:43:40,200
in a temporary state, but a
permanent change.

627
00:43:43,200 –> 00:43:45,200
Is that not true?
God wants to change us

628
00:43:45,200 –> 00:43:50,200
permanently in the end?
And of course, this side of the

629
00:43:50,200 –> 00:43:53,200
Judgment seat when no one’s ever
going to get to the state where

630
00:43:53,200 –> 00:43:56,600
they can say, well, I’ve made
such huge changes on almost

631
00:43:56,800 –> 00:44:00,200
Immortal.
Anyway, never got a chance.

632
00:44:01,000 –> 00:44:04,100
God is looking for effort,
that’s what he wants.

633
00:44:04,700 –> 00:44:09,800
He wants a genuine effort.
So the real reason in brothers

634
00:44:09,800 –> 00:44:14,200
and sisters for confession,
repentance and conversion, is

635
00:44:14,200 –> 00:44:16,700
that we turn from sin?
That’s actually the real reason

636
00:44:16,700 –> 00:44:20,600
and in that process God will
forgive over and over and over

637
00:44:20,600 –> 00:44:26,700
and over again so that we can
start to learn no because if it

638
00:44:26,700 –> 00:44:28,700
was just the case that God said,
that’s okay.

639
00:44:28,800 –> 00:44:31,000
Don’t worry, I’ll forgive you.
It’s up.

640
00:44:31,000 –> 00:44:32,700
Yep.
You’ve asked for forgiveness,

641
00:44:32,800 –> 00:44:36,200
it’s all good forgiven.
Well then we’re not going to

642
00:44:36,200 –> 00:44:38,700
turn from sin.
We might be forgiven, but we

643
00:44:38,700 –> 00:44:41,700
won’t turn from.
But what the process does, it

644
00:44:41,700 –> 00:44:47,900
turns us away from God is very,
very ingenious.

645
00:44:47,900 –> 00:44:51,900
If you like in his method of
what he’s done with us, he wants

646
00:44:51,900 –> 00:44:55,700
us at some point to learn the
Folly of giving into our

647
00:44:55,700 –> 00:45:01,100
weaknesses.
The foolishness of it and how we

648
00:45:01,100 –> 00:45:05,300
feel every time when we come to
him and in tears, and here I am

649
00:45:05,300 –> 00:45:07,900
again.
God’s will say to us?

650
00:45:07,900 –> 00:45:11,800
Well, we’ve been here before.
How do you feel this time?

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and who forgive again, you know,
whether it’s a one-year process

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or an 80 year process,
Meanwhile, he’ll continue to

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00:45:22,800 –> 00:45:26,800
forgive the repentant heart,
that is genuinely trying to work

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with God and you may never ever
be truly successful.

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As I said before, God is looking
for an effort.

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So we’ve got this three-part
process, then that we must also

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undergo before forgiveness can
take place.

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So the first step is confession.
So here’s a couple of, here’s a

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couple of quotes, a couple of
quotes confession See, the

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horror of sin for what it is.
It’s a funny word to use, isn’t

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it?
Do I see sin as horrible?

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Am I horrified with my sin.
The honest answer.

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00:46:03,500 –> 00:46:06,700
It’s because we’re so many
honest answers, probably not,

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because we’re so accustomed to
doing, I guess to either doing

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or not doing what we should.
So John says, if we confess our

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sins, if we confess our sins, he
is faithful.

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And just to forgive us, our sins
member one of the questions.

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How do I know God has forgiven?
John says, what can if you

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confess, he is faithful.
And he is just to forgive our

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sins and to cleanse us from all
unrighteousness.

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Proverbs 28 verse 13.
He that covereth his sin shall

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not prosper.
But whoso confesseth and

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forsaketh them shall have mercy.
In Psalm 32 verse 5 says, I

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acknowledge my sin unto thee and
mine iniquity.

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Have I not kid?
I said, I will confess my

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transgressions unto Yahweh and
they forgave us the iniquity of

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my sin.
So confession is stage 1, the

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Second Step repentance not,
remember that.

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Paul the Apostle, when speaking
to King Agrippa, he said this

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but and he’s explaining to King
Agrippa what Paul had gone

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00:47:20,800 –> 00:47:23,300
through and he said, but but
showed first unto them of

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Damascus, this is when Paul was
first converted at Jerusalem and

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throughout all the coasts of GDP
then to the Gentiles that they

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should repent and turn to God
and do Works meet for

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00:47:34,200 –> 00:47:39,100
repentance.
The ESV says, performing deeds

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in keeping with their
repentance.

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So repentance is a really a
change of heart.

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That’s what it is.
It’s a new, it’s a new

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Viewpoint, A New Perspective,
God’s perspective.

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Not just a temporary feel bad
moment.

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We’re all familiar with that.
That, that bad moment this has,

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and you forget about it and do
it again.

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Next type, whatever its this is
a complete change and the result

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is the third step, which is
Conversion course to turn and

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walk away in the opposite
direction.

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So this is really odd that has,
that has the idea of

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replacement.
We’ve got to replace our

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Behavior, our thoughts, with
something else.

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00:48:29,900 –> 00:48:33,900
So, if the, if it’s, if it’s a
behavioral thing, we replace it.

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We recently had a school of
prophets in in Brisbane.

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And the young men, as the young
men, do they open up to each

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other?
The really talk about some

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00:48:44,800 –> 00:48:48,500
pretty heavy-duty subjects and
one of them was pornography and

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00:48:48,500 –> 00:48:51,300
they had, they had a great
discussion on that in that they

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said that the The Way Forward,
some of them felt that the way

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forward for them, for their
success.

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With that problem, they said was
to replace That behavior was

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something else.
They didn’t just say, well I’m

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not going to look at that
website anymore.

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I’m not going to do that anymore
and just set there.

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Twiddling their thumbs, then I’m
just not going to do that

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anymore.
They replace the behavior with

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something else.
So that therefore their mind was

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occupied.
And they were able to turn to

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turn away.
That doesn’t mean that the

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weakness of wasn’t there
anymore?

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Of course it was, but they had
to replace the behavior with

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something else.
Big like a.

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All that the idea of
displacement.

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So when you when you put a boat
in the water what happens

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there’s a measure of disc
displaces the water.

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00:49:37,500 –> 00:49:42,000
That’s, that’s the concept here
to push away and to put

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something else in its place, or
has the idea of a whole 180

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00:49:47,300 –> 00:49:50,200
degree turn.
So you were walking that way.

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You’ve decided to walk this way
instead.

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It’s a completely different set
of behaviors, which were engaged

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00:49:58,600 –> 00:50:05,100
in before.
So the idea of God’s process

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then is to forgive sins.
But that’s not the whole story.

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00:50:13,400 –> 00:50:17,800
More importantly, brothers and
sisters is to get us to change

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our Direction now the next week.
No, that’s it.

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There you go.
So, I can say that the sky.

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I don’t know how to turn that
off.

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So that’s all we’re actually not
too far from the end.

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So Did you see acts there?
By the way, let me just read it

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for you.
That’s this in relation to being

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converted access and to you
first God.

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Having raised up his son, Jesus
sent him to bless you in turning

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away.
Every one of you from his

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00:50:51,900 –> 00:50:56,100
iniquities, that was the idea of
conversion this turning idea and

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00:50:56,100 –> 00:50:57,400
see it.
So you can you see in the

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00:50:57,400 –> 00:50:59,400
process?
It’s not just a thing that God

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00:50:59,400 –> 00:51:02,200
has set up.
He actually is trying to get us

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00:51:03,100 –> 00:51:05,400
to see sin for what it is and
not to repeat that.

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00:51:05,400 –> 00:51:08,600
Get that have this repetitious
way in which we sin.

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So, God’s mercy and forgiveness
cannot flow.

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Then until we see that exact
process is acted upon, Now,

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00:51:17,100 –> 00:51:18,600
here’s a couple.
Here’s an example of how the

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00:51:18,600 –> 00:51:21,200
process works.
Isaiah 55 again.

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00:51:21,500 –> 00:51:25,600
So look at verse 6.
So here’s the process in verse 6

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and 7.
As I have 55 sick, he Yahweh,

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00:51:29,500 –> 00:51:32,600
while he may be found call ye
upon him, while he is near.

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00:51:33,700 –> 00:51:38,000
So sick, God’s attention,
confess to God, call to him, and

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make that confession.
That’s step one.

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00:51:41,300 –> 00:51:45,100
Then step to let the wicked
forsake his way and the

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00:51:45,100 –> 00:51:52,500
unrighteous, man, his thoughts.
so forsake that previous way of

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life, Or that previous activity
or the previous Behavior.

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00:51:58,600 –> 00:52:03,600
And let him return unto Yahweh
return to Yahweh, there’s

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00:52:03,600 –> 00:52:07,000
conversion.
And look at the result, he will

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have mercy upon him and to our
God for he will abundantly.

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Pardon. abundantly, pardon For
my thoughts are not your

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00:52:17,800 –> 00:52:19,600
thoughts.
Neither are your ways.

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My ways saith Yahweh for as the
heavens are higher than the

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00:52:22,800 –> 00:52:25,300
earth.
So are my ways higher than your

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00:52:25,300 –> 00:52:27,700
ways and my thoughts than your
thoughts.

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I don’t think like you So don’t
limit God.

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Don’t ask questions.
Like surely God can’t be

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forgiven me after all these
years.

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00:52:39,200 –> 00:52:42,200
Yes, I’m working on with him but
is he still willing?

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Yes, he is he’s still willing to
forgive As long as you are

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00:52:47,300 –> 00:52:50,400
willing to keep working with him
through that process.

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00:52:51,300 –> 00:52:55,800
If we are honest with God and
ourselves and we undertake the

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00:52:55,800 –> 00:53:00,000
righteous process that God
requires, I would like to show

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00:53:00,000 –> 00:53:01,900
you.
Now the state in which we are in

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00:53:01,900 –> 00:53:05,700
from God’s point of view and
this is remarkable.

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00:53:05,800 –> 00:53:07,800
And it’s lovely.
The way, John writes, this new

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00:53:07,800 –> 00:53:11,300
you come to John first, John,
three actually.

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00:53:14,700 –> 00:53:17,700
This is where God is actually
going to spend a bit of time in

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00:53:17,700 –> 00:53:22,200
John this weekend.
John is just so remarkable the

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00:53:22,200 –> 00:53:26,200
way he he writes.
So this is First John 3 and

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00:53:26,200 –> 00:53:28,600
verse 4 where does God, where is
God?

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00:53:28,600 –> 00:53:30,500
Sort of?
Where’s the end game?

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00:53:30,500 –> 00:53:33,900
If you like here, this is not
just forgiveness.

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00:53:36,100 –> 00:53:39,500
So First, John 3, and verse 4
says, whoever commits sin

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transgresses, also the law for
sin is the transgression of the

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00:53:42,800 –> 00:53:46,300
law.
So, John States, clearly that,

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that all have sinned, we all
have laws God’s law and we’ve

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all sinned against that law
verse 5.

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And you know, that he Jesus
Christ was manifested to take

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away our sins and in him.
Is no sin, and we all agree that

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00:54:05,200 –> 00:54:08,200
in Jesus Christ.
There was no sin, he was an

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00:54:08,200 –> 00:54:13,200
innocent, man will say, yes, we
look rule agree with that.

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So now what John does, he paint
this metaphorical picture is

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00:54:19,600 –> 00:54:24,700
symbolic picture and he says,
whoever abides Network, just

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00:54:24,700 –> 00:54:26,700
agreed that there’s no sin in
Christ.

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Imagine cross here.
And John says now, whoever

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00:54:32,100 –> 00:54:43,700
abides in him Sins, Not What?
Whoever abides in Christ.

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Has no sin.
Remember the key.

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00:54:51,100 –> 00:54:54,200
The key to this is look at it
from God’s perspective.

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Whoever sins has not seen him
Northern known him.

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Remember what John said in his
in his gospel?

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He said this is life eternal?
What is That they might Know

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00:55:11,500 –> 00:55:16,300
Thee, the only true God.
And Jesus Christ, whom thou Hast

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00:55:16,300 –> 00:55:19,700
sent life.
Eternal is based on a knowledge

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00:55:19,900 –> 00:55:25,400
of God and his son Jesus Christ.
And that made that means

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00:55:25,400 –> 00:55:28,300
basically what he’s saying.
If if we don’t know Christ, we

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00:55:28,300 –> 00:55:33,500
are not in him.
Little children, let no man

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00:55:33,500 –> 00:55:39,000
deceive you.
He that doeth righteousness is

808
00:55:39,000 –> 00:55:43,800
righteous in front of God, in
terms of what God sees, even as

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00:55:44,300 –> 00:55:52,000
he, Jesus Christ is righteous.
You brothers and sisters are

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00:55:52,000 –> 00:55:54,200
basking in someone else’s
victory.

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And that is part of God’s plan.
He wants you.

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00:55:59,300 –> 00:56:01,600
Jesus Christ.
Wants you to be a part of his

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00:56:01,600 –> 00:56:04,400
victory.
That is remarkable.

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Whoever abides in him Sins, Not
what a state to be in.

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So we have here, the third
condition with John, just simply

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00:56:18,500 –> 00:56:23,000
calls abiding in him.
Remember When The Prodigal Son

817
00:56:23,000 –> 00:56:24,500
came home?
He abide.

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00:56:24,500 –> 00:56:29,500
He was stayed in the house with
his father that’s abiding in

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Christ.
What a wonderful thing that is.

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00:56:32,900 –> 00:56:35,200
You see what God’s saying it.
Just follow this progression.

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If we are in him, and we have no
sin from God’s perspective

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because we are baptized, we are
now in Jesus Christ.

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He’s not looking at you or me
anymore.

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See the point he’s looking at
his son.

825
00:56:55,000 –> 00:57:01,400
We are covered. by Christ,
because inside him, if you like

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00:57:01,700 –> 00:57:06,000
the progression is at work, It’s
happening.

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He’s looking at his son Jesus
Christ.

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I don’t think we think about
that enough.

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I think sometimes we get so full
of Despair and disappointment

830
00:57:16,900 –> 00:57:19,600
and sadness.
Our own selves that we forget

831
00:57:19,600 –> 00:57:24,900
that we’re actually in Christ
and we have a covering Only to

832
00:57:24,900 –> 00:57:29,000
believe that only to believe in
my life that God is covering me

833
00:57:29,000 –> 00:57:30,500
and I’m going to do something
about that.

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I’m going to show my
appreciation for the way I had,

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and what I do, and what I look
at.

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And what I see and how I treat
others, it’s the least I can do

837
00:57:40,000 –> 00:57:43,900
is show my appreciation.
John is not saying that once we

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were baptized, we don’t actually
sin or saying that at all,

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00:57:46,700 –> 00:57:50,800
because in verse verse 10 of
chapter 1, he says if we say

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00:57:50,800 –> 00:57:53,500
that we have not sinned, we make
him a liar.

841
00:57:54,800 –> 00:57:58,800
And his word is not in US.
John saying, of course we sin,

842
00:57:59,700 –> 00:58:02,100
not saying that you don’t do it,
you don’t see me, I’m saying

843
00:58:02,100 –> 00:58:06,800
that you are in Christ.
And as far as God is concerned,

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00:58:07,200 –> 00:58:11,300
you are sinless.
That is just astonishing.

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00:58:13,000 –> 00:58:15,100
That is an astonishing state to
be in.

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00:58:15,700 –> 00:58:20,700
Yeah, that is the God, we serve
Did you find that incredible?

847
00:58:25,400 –> 00:58:28,700
He’s talking about.
A way of life.

848
00:58:30,900 –> 00:58:33,400
He’s talking about in Holier
Bible talks about a holy

849
00:58:33,400 –> 00:58:35,500
conversation, a holy way of
life.

850
00:58:38,100 –> 00:58:41,100
How way of life with God at the
center?

851
00:58:42,600 –> 00:58:46,900
And all that, that entails John
says that God in his love,

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00:58:46,900 –> 00:58:52,300
considers us sinless.
Paul says, Paul puts another way

853
00:58:52,300 –> 00:58:55,200
he did.
He merely says, justified by

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00:58:55,200 –> 00:58:58,100
faith.
That’s the way.

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00:58:58,100 –> 00:59:00,900
Paul puts it.
Exactly the same thing we are

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00:59:00,900 –> 00:59:04,000
justified by faith.
The faith part is because I

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00:59:04,000 –> 00:59:07,500
believe that God is faithful and
just to his word.

858
00:59:10,300 –> 00:59:13,700
So he’s point is and you’ve got
these these stories and

859
00:59:13,700 –> 00:59:15,400
metaphors right through the
Bible.

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00:59:15,700 –> 00:59:20,600
You know, if we abide in Christ,
if we are in the arc, or if we

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00:59:20,600 –> 00:59:24,300
are in rahab’s, house on top of
the wall, or in the house, while

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00:59:24,300 –> 00:59:28,600
the angel of death passed over.
All these things.

863
00:59:29,000 –> 00:59:31,700
God is saying, your salvation is
assured.

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00:59:32,900 –> 00:59:36,000
Yes, we are rightly related to
death, but God is saying, your

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Eternal salvation is assured not
presumed upon. but in John’s

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language, we can have confidence
in the day of judgment as a

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result of this process
confidence in the day of

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judgment incredible word to use
and what that confidence

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produces all that boldness in
Christ produces, the peace that

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passes all understanding
Remember Christ said my peace, I

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give to you not as the world
giveth.

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This is what he’s talking about.
This deep sense of peace.

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Knowing that we are actually at
work with God and he’s producing

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within us.
A good a good work and isn’t

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this where God wants us?
It got just doesn’t want us to

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to keep God that doesn’t want to
keep her giving us this in this

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sort of mindless cyclic way.
It’s not what God is about.

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Yes, he will keep forgiving us.
But he wants us to eventually

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turn from sin and abide in
Christ, that’s what he wants.

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It’s an incredible state to be
in.

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Well, brothers and sisters our
time we’ve I think we’d be

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delayed start to me.
One, give me one more minute.

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I’ll just want to just want to
quickly.

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Just give you the final
condition.

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And the final condition is this.
It seemed we would for in first,

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John, four and verse have look
at verse 7 There’s one more

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condition, which we’re going to
take a whole study to look at.

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But here it is here very, very
quickly.

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Verse 7 and verse, John 4, It’s
the pits, the, the condition of

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mutual forgiveness, forgiveness
between ourselves beloved.

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Now, going to change the word
love here to forgiveness so that

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we get the sense of it.
Because forgiveness at the end

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of the day Springs out of love
beloved, let us forgive one

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another. for forgiveness is from
God and everyone That Forgives

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is born of God and knows God.
He That Forgives not knoweth,

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not God.
Because God is love.

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In this was manifested the love
of God toward us because that

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God sent his only begotten son
into the world that we might

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live.
That is have forgiveness through

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him.
Herein is love, not that we

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loved God first.
But the he’d loved us first

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before we come to him and sent
his son to be the mercy seat for

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our sins.
Yes, this is all about

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forgiveness.
No doubt.

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Beloved if God.
So freak has forgiven us, we

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ought also to forgive one
another And then John says, no

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man has seen God at any time.
Do we all agree with that?

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01:02:37,500 –> 01:02:41,600
John says or you all agree that
nobody seen God at any time.

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So yes, all agree, but then he
says, now if you forgive each

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other, God dwells in him in US.
Ah, and we can see God in each

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01:02:56,800 –> 01:03:00,000
other.
So yes, you won’t see.

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01:03:00,000 –> 01:03:04,400
We haven’t seen V God at any
time but we’ve can see God in

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each other.
And his love.

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His forgiveness is perfected
within us.

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01:03:09,500 –> 01:03:13,400
His forgiveness, bears fruit.
So what’s God’s?

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I’m in all this brothers and
sisters again without a doubt.

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To see himself in all of us.
So, brothers and sisters.

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If you can’t see, God in your
brother or your sister is only

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one thing to do.
Show God to your brother and

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sister.
And forgive them.

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That’s all there’s left to do.
And because you see Verse 18 and

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first first John four and verse
18, there is no fear in love.

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But perfect love casts out,
fear.

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01:03:50,600 –> 01:03:56,100
Herein is our love made, perfect
that we might have boldness in

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01:03:56,100 –> 01:03:59,300
the day of judgment.
How how do we have boldness?

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Because as he is, So are we in
this world?

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We are Christ.
To our brother.

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