Steve Hyndman – Class 3: Forgiveness – The Gift

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Thanks Brother Ronald.
And what a glorious chapter that

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was Romans 5.
It really is something that we

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worth, that’s that’s worth
looking at, that’s for sure.

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So in our last session then I
think we can probably flip over

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to that we can we looked at the,
you know, the the enormity of of

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of seeing irrespective of if you
like the size of it.

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And that we we had a look at the
prodigal son and our great need

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for forgiveness, and that our
sins are the one factor that

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separate us from God.
And we had a look also at the

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first half of the parable of the
unforgiving creditor.

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So we’re going to finish off one
or two of those parables.

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But right now, brothers and
sisters, what we’d want to do is

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focus on the gift itself, the
marvel of that gift of

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forgiveness and God’s incredible
kindness.

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In extending to us, based, of
course in the right process,

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extending forgiveness.
But first of all, I think it’s

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probably worth making a few
comments and separating in our

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minds the consequences of sin as
opposed to forgiveness.

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It’s probably a good exercise.
You see, brothers and sisters,

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as a part of God’s corrective
measures to us and a part of his

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love.
He will always leave us with the

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consequences.
It’s actually an act of mercy on

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his part.
If there were no consequences to

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sin, if you’re anything like me,
you’ll say that didn’t take

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much.
I can do it again, that there

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was no consequences to that.
And just think of your own.

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For those who have had children,
don’t we give them a consequence

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to what they’ve done so that
they learn you might continue to

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love them and forgive the child.
Nevertheless, there’s still

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those consequences there.
So that you instill in the child

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an understanding that what
they’ve done cannot go any

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further, and so you try and
change their behaviour.

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And exactly the same thing is of
course with our God.

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So in God’s grace the sin is
erased.

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However, the cost of that sin is
the means by which we can all

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learn the the the effect of sin.
Just have a look at this little

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thing.
I’ll just show you how we, how

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we sort of look at things.
You know, if we’ve got a little

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toddler, isn’t it true that we,
we say to the toddler, look,

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don’t touch the heater and we
sort of make all sorts of

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noises, you know, it’s very,
very hot and everything And and

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we say to that, we say that
don’t touch the heater because

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you’ll get burnt and the toddler
looks at us, looks at the

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heater, looks at us, grins.
And toddles toward the heater.

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And what we do is we run toward
the heater or we run toward the

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Trotter and lift it out the way
that’s what we’re doing.

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But God actually doesn’t work
like that.

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That’s not the way God works.
God says to us, well, there’s

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the heater, there’s the tree.
Don’t touch the fruit because

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you’re going to get burnt really
badly.

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And then what God does.
He stands back and he watches

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and we go to the heater.
We take hold of the hot element.

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We burn and we cry and kick and
scream and we say, why me?

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So God doesn’t take the problem
away from us necessarily.

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He wants us to learn something
from it so that we again and you

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see this idea of turning from
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This get this repetitious nature
of our sin away so that God can

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do something with us.
So God said to David, he said, I

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forgive you, David, totally and
fully and completely and

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utterly.
I will forgive you in the

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instant moment of time.
But the hurt and the damage and

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the harm I’m going to leave here
and this is going to tear your

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family apart.
Is one of the biggest lessons

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David ever, ever learnt.
Suffering, brothers and sisters,

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is the tool God uses to turn us
away from sin.

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Because we’re silly creatures.
We have really, really bad

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memories and he needs sometimes
to lead.

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In other words, there’s fruit.
What we do bears fruit.

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God will leave that fruit there.
So God is more focused, you see,

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on our eternal well-being.
That’s what God is focused on.

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Not the here and now, not the
not the three score years and 10

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of it, of mortality, but just a
drop in the bucket.

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And God looks at the big picture
and he says eternity is where

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we’re going.
There may be then some need for

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some short term, short term
suffering, and that short term

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suffering may indeed be a whole
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It’s still short term.
None of us here, I think, will

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truly appreciate the value of
our suffering when we are

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changed from mortality until we
are changed from mortality to

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immortality.
When at that time we really,

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really see the value of
suffering and how in actual

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fact, the suffering that we
undergo might really and

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actually be one of the greatest
blessings that God ever gave us.

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It’s all about trying to see it
from God’s point of view.

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And God is forming with that
within us a new creature, And

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the suffering is the process in
which that is occurring.

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He’s forming all of us via the
tool of suffering, A vessel fit

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for his Kingdom.
And who knows, brothers and

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sisters, we could also be
suffering for somebody else.

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Job did.
Jesus Christ did.

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You could actually be saving
someone else.

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To be in the Kingdom of God
under you, under you know that

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when you get in the Kingdom of
God and you look back, and all

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will be revealed, so to speak.
And so we should always separate

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forgiveness with the
consequences of sin that remain

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in our lives.
You may forgive somebody, but

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the consequences remain.
But don’t don’t misunderstand me

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at all, brother and sister.
I’m not saying that if we’re if

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we’re suffering a lot, that
means we must be really sinful,

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because that theory doesn’t work
either.

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Again, Job and our Lord Jesus
Christ suffered incredibly, but

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they weren’t guilty of.
At least our Lord Jesus Christ

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wasn’t guilty of anything at
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But there are consequences to
our sin.

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We are not forgiven, and then
everything is rosy again in

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terms of.
What is our due?

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And often the scars and effects
of sin remain.

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Sometimes for the rest of our
lives there could be physical

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ailments, mental ailments,
emotional ailments, whatever,

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whatever that is.
Often we generate our own pain,

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do we not?
And due to our own foolishness,

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and sometimes even our our pain
is caused by the foolishness of

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others.
God will work with us on that

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basis as well.
Other other people might cause

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some cause us pain and anguish.
That’s not a new concept as far

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as God is concerned, because
he’s working with a whole range

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of people all in that one one
motion.

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But we should never, ever doubt
God’s wisdom in allowing certain

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things to happen in our lives
for far, far greater reasons

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than we can sort of immediately
see.

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And I think the purpose of
suffering is to form and mold

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us.
That’s what it is all about it’s

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God is is wanting us to to
develop to it to be a a certain

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creature and and it’s probably
it’s it’s easy to say if you

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when you haven’t you’re not
suffering anything but it’s it’s

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it’s easy not to get try not to
get too carried away with the

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suffering per se.
The whys and the wherefores, the

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nature and the causes of
suffering.

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We all have suffering of 1 sort
or another.

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When people loved ones let us
down.

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Some people put us through
horrendous things.

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Parents suffer, grandparents,
wives, husbands, children,

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siblings, the list goes on.
Some may be self-inflicted and

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some may be brought upon us by
others.

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God is is teaching us.
A whole lot of us is teaching

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brothers and sisters is is
trying to teach us that in

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actual fact there is something
beyond the suffering and I’m

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doing something with you with
that suffering.

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So it’s not so much that
suffering that we should be

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focusing on, but what the
suffering is developing in us.

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The suffering is just a bit like
the tool, the spanner if you

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like that God’s using.
You know even Jesus Christ had

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to learn the same thing himself.
Look at Hebrews 5.

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Jesus Christ wasn’t He did what
he was as a young man.

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He wasn’t naturally obedient.
Did you know that?

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You have a look at Hebrews 5 and
verse 7.

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Hebrews 5 and verse 7 says about
Jesus Christ and his suffering.

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Says this Who?
In the days of his flesh, when

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he had offered up prayers and
supplications, with strong

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crying and tears unto him, that
was able to save him from death,

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and was heard in that he feared
though he were a son, yet

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learned he obedience by the
things which he suffered.

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So even our Lord Jesus Christ
had to go through exactly the

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same process.
It’s not new to God.

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I think really the the, the best
in terms of suffering and the

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consequences of this and even
Jesus Christ had to bear with

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the consequences of this is the
is the example of suffering is

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to think about the consequence
of sin.

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The greatest example of all of
course is to think about why we

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die.
Death is a consequence that God

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left there so that we learn
something.

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Why do we die?
We don’t die because we sin.

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We die, brothers and sisters,
because of sin.

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We die because Adam sinned.
As a result of that we are all

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mortal.
So, so Paul in Corinthian says

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this.
For since by one man came death,

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by man came also the
resurrection of the dead.

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For as in Adam all die, Even so
in Christ shall all be made

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alive.
So we die, brothers and sisters,

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because of what Adam did.
It’s part of that process.

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But our own personal sin is what
holds us in the grave.

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So Jesus Christ died because he
was rightly related to death,

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but he did no sin, so God pulled
him from the grave.

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So, and he says this further in
that chapter, First Corinthians

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15.
He says, for if the dead rise

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not, then is not Christ raised.
And if Christ is not raised,

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well, then your faith is vain.
And you’re yet in your sins,

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then they also, which are fallen
asleep in Christ, are perished.

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So in God’s good time we know
that the resurrection will take

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place.
And so Christ died because he

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was related to us.
He also himself likewise, But he

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was raised because he did no
sin.

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OK, having to, sort of.
Find that out a little bit, We

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come to this incredible gift of
of Why have I got that?

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Then let’s go.
Let’s have a look at that one.

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Let’s pick this up from last
time.

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The prodigal son and the
prodigal son.

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This is verse 20 of Luke 15, the
prodigal son of Rose and came to

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his father and we touched on
this, but when he was a great

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way off.
His father saw him and had

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compassion and ran and fell on
his neck and he kissed him.

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And there’s so many aspects to
this power where there’s Jew and

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Gentile and there’s a whole
range of things that we just

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want to pick out just a couple
of points from from this.

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But this verse is telling us
this, that when we are still or

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when we were still a long way
off, we weren’t even in

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fellowship with with God.
A long way off.

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God was looking and again due to
sin, we when we merely turned to

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him and confess then he’s
running to us, you know he He

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ran to us with brothers and
sisters.

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He ran to us with a gift, with
the death of his very own Son

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saw us a great way of while we
were yet sinners, God has

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presented us.
With the sacrifice of his son.

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And in our reading we just read.
Then we we verse 8:00, we we see

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the Paul where Paul says but God
commended his love toward us in

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that while we were yet sinners,
Christ died for us.

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And as a Father, our God has
offered all of us brothers and

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sisters as individuals.
He’s offered us a gift.

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It’s a gift which has been given
because of one single motivating

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concept.
Characteristic that God is, and

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that is a God of love.
It’s a gift which cause has has,

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has given God incredible grief
and cost to his own, to his own

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self.
And of course that doesn’t make

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him just a God that makes him
our Father.

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And it’s a gift which is at the
same time he’s very, very

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pleased to give us it.
Please God to bruise him, I says

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I was I.
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Because, again, God was able to
stand back and look at the whole

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scheme, the whole picture.
He saw it, and he saw the life

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that was going to come from that
act.

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And it’s a gift which is
completely and utterly

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undeserved.
It’s the gift of forgiveness.

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And this gift, brothers and
sisters, was was prepared at

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least 4000 years before it was
offered.

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So God had a good long time to
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In fact, it was even prepared.
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the world was that lamb slain.
So.

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So what is then the gift of
forgiveness?

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Well, we can we actually know
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It it’s a covering and it’s
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So that’s what he was given.
The boy was given a covering.

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So the first one, a covering.
Here we have the the covering

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from Psalm 32, verse one.
Bless it is he whose

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transgressions are forgiven,
whose sin is covered.

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There has forgiven the iniquity
of thy people.

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There has covered all their sin,
and above all things have

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fervent love.
Agape.

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The word is among yourselves,
For love shall cover a multitude

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of sins.
He’s given a covering.

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He was also given something to
eat.

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Here are what are we eating?
That’s going to save us, except

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ye eat.
The flesh of the Son of Man, and

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drink his blood.
You have no life in you.

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Whoso eats my flesh and drinks
my blood hath eternal life, and

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I will raise him up at the last
day.

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For my flesh is meat indeed, and
my blood is drink indeed.

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He that eats my flesh and drinks
my blood dwells in me and I in

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him.
In him.

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Of course, he’s talking about
the bread from heaven, and

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obviously He’s not talking
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He’s merely talking about
partaking in a way of life.

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That’s what he’s He’s given
himself to us and he’s saying to

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us, I would like you to mimic
the way I think, the way I act,

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based on, of course, the
concepts that spring from the

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word of God.
So what really is the gift then?

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We’re sort of moving along a bit
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We’re trying to workout
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The gift is what a result of The
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The enmity has been broken down.
We are reconciled to God again.

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And what that produces, brothers
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It is the peace that passes all
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It’s a new peace.
My peace I give unto you, said

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Christ, not as the world giveth.
So Paul says this in in the

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chapter we’ve we’ve read today.
He says therefore being

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justified by faith, we now have
peace with God, verse one

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through the work of our Lord
Jesus Christ, so we have peace.

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I’m sure many of us here
understand that peace.

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We have a sure hope and and
while the world is incredibly

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anxious at the time of COVID,
the time of people are looking

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at the rush, the Russians coming
into Ukraine, there’s a certain,

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isn’t there not a certain peace
that we have.

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We know that God has got all
things under control.

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We don’t experience those same.
We might have a small level of

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anxiety, but the the anxiety
that the world have on a mass

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scale, we don’t have that.
Because of this piece we know

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exactly that God knows what he’s
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And one more and 1st John
foreign verse 10 says here in

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his love not that we love God,
but that he loved us and sent

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his Son to be their propitiation
for our sins.

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Incredible foresight that God
had and full knowledge.

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What more can God do, brothers
and sisters?

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What what more can He do for us
than to take His son as a gift

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and present it to us, so to, so
to speak?

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He’s running to us with the
sacrifice of his own boy.

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It’s just astonishing.
What parent would do that.

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Think of the love that you had
for your child or children.

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Are you going to do that?
You.

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Well, Paul says you you might do
it for a friend, but you’re

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hardly going to give it to an
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It wouldn’t happen.
Yet the God of heaven and earth

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has seen fit to do that.
How much more, then, is he

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willing to save if God’s
prepared to do that, brothers

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and sisters?
Surely he’s enthusiastic to

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save.
It’s an astonishing thing.

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With it, the more you sit down
and just think about that act,

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it becomes more and more
astonishing.

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And God himself suffers with us.
Make no mistake, he does suffer

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with you.
Brothers and sisters.

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How do we know that we listen to
this?

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Just listen to this quote.
This is Isaiah 63, verse nine in

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relation to the children of
Israel.

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And if it’s true of them, it’s
true of us.

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He said this.
In all the our affliction, in

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all our affliction, He is
afflicted.

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In His love and in His pity, he
redeems us and bears us, and

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carries us.
He feels that He brings it upon

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us on on some occasions, but He
does.

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He very much feels that, as any
caring parent does, that when

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they know that their children
are suffering.

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An incredible gift.
And of course that gift is given

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us that boy, now king in waiting
is was totally and completely

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compliant to his father and
yielded to his father’s will

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because he understood the big
picture as well.

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What a gift.
It really is an incredible

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thing.
I don’t think there’s enough

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sort of superlatives to
articulate.

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It’s stunning.
It is, you know what it is,

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brothers and sisters?
It’s a supernatural gift.

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This is not such as some very,
very, very valuable thing that

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God’s presenting here.
This gift is supernatural.

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It’s divine.
It’s a divine gift.

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It’s imputed righteousness.
Why should he do this?

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Mankind were the ones that
wronged him.

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I’m so grateful that God doesn’t
think like us.

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If that were the case, we
wouldn’t have a chance.

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It’s been bestowed from above
upon those who by their very

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nature are unrighteous.
Totally unrighteous.

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Shall shall we have a look at
that gift, the personification

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of that gift you come to as I
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This is the way God presented
the gift to mankind.

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It didn’t come easily, and it’s
come at an enormous cost to both

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the Father and the Son.
It is our very own Lord Jesus

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Christ.
Verse verse three of AS I 53

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Just as we read through this,
just have a think about it.

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He was despised.
He was rejected by men.

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A man of sorrows, he was well
acquainted with grief, and as

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one from whom men hid their
faces, he was despised, and we

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esteemed him not.
Surely he has borne our griefs

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and carried our sorrows.
Yet we esteemed him stricken,

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smitten by God, and affected.
We thought that God was teaching

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him a jolly good lesson.
That’s what we thought.

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But he was pierced for our
transgressions.

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He was crushed for our
iniquities, in actual fact not

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his own.
Upon him was the chastisement

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that brought us the peace.
And with his wounds we are the

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ones that are healed.
We’ve all gone astray like

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sheep.
We’ve turned everyone to his own

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way.
Yahweh has laid on him the

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iniquity of us all.
He was oppressed, He was

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afflicted.
Yet he opened not his mouth.

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Like a lamb that has led to the
slaughter, and like a sheep that

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before it shearers, is silent.
So he opened not his mouth.

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He went willingly, yielded to
his father’s will.

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By oppression and judgment he
was taken away.

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And As for his generation, who
considered that he was cut off

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out of the land of the living,
he was stricken for the

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transgression of my people.
Verse 10.

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Yet it was the will of Yahweh to
crush him he had put into grief,

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when his soul makes an offering
for guilt.

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That was what God’s will was,
and 2000 years later we are

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still recipients of that
incredibly powerful gift.

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He shall see his offering, and
he shall prolong his days, and

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the will of Yahweh shall prosper
in his hand, and of the anguish

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of his soul he shall see and be
satisfied.

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You know that time hasn’t come
yet when he meets his bride.

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He’s going to be very, very
satisfied.

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What an understatement that is,
by his knowledge shall the

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righteous 1 my servant, make
make many to be accounted

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righteous, and he shall bear
their iniquities.

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Therefore I will divide him a
portion with the many, the many,

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and he shall divide the spoil
with the strong.

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All of us the Saints, because he
has poured out his soul to death

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and was numbered with the
transgressors.

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Yet he bore the sin of many
people, and makes intercession

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for the transgressors again.
If God is prepared to go through

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all that brothers and sisters,
surely, surely you can see

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yourself in the Kingdom of God.
That’s the gift personified.

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Do you remember what Jesus said
when he sat on the well?

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The woman of Samaria came out,
and I’m having a bit of a chat

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about the significance of water.
And Jesus said to her, Jesus

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said, If you knew the gift of
God and who it is, that set unto

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the Give me the drink.
Now would have asked of him, and

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he would have given thee freely
living water.

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And of course she did go on to
understand that process.

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We know that we know.
We know that she understood.

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You know why she how she
understood?

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Because it says she left her
water pot and ran to the city.

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She was now the water pot.
It was her.

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She was full to the brim.
And overflowing with living

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water.
And she explained herself to all

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the peoples of the city.
And of course they they came out

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as well to to have a drink.
A remarkable, remarkable

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circumstance that was so.
Jesus Christ, if you like, is

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our, is our conduit, is our, is
our portal into righteousness

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through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Never take for granted that

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little phrase that we make at
the end of our prayers through

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the work of our Lord Jesus
Christ.

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Do you know one of the sad
things about a free gift is

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though, brothers and sisters,
and we see the sadness

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throughout the whole enlargement
through the whole earth we that

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that when something’s given to
us, sometimes we think it’s it’s

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actually not worth too much
because it’s given it can’t have

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been worth, you know, a lot of
money, a lot of cost, but in

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this case the very.
Opposite is true.

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And the reason it’s free is
because we could never, ever

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afford it. 2 lifetimes. 3
lifetimes.

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We can’t do it.
Impossible.

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God’s designed it that way.
He’s designed it to be

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impossible.
So the only way to come to God

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is through the medium of faith.
Lord, I believe, help them one

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unbelief.
So it’s not this is not just out

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of our price range, brothers and
sisters.

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The the the cost is utterly
unattainable and far beyond

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human reach.
And the only thing that we can

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we can earn really is death.
We know that.

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That’s our earnings.
Our rightful earnings are death.

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I said the Apostle Paul, he said
thanks me to God for this

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unspeakable gift.
Even Paul said that the great

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that great man said.
I, I, I haven’t.

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It’s unspeakable.
I haven’t got what it takes to

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describe to you the beauty of
this gift when we ultimately,

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when we ultimately get it.
But do you know there’s actually

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something more, brothers and
sisters, As if there could be,

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if there possibly, possibly
could be anything more at all.

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There is actually something more
that God wants us to know.

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Not only is God wanting to
forgive us.

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And and not only has He provided
everything needed for

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forgiveness, not only is He
waiting for us to return to Him,

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and not only has He already ran
to us with a gift, it’s not to

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us to take that.
Do you know He also creates

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circumstances that we turn to
him in the 1st place?

432
00:29:47,140 –> 00:29:51,660
He taps the conscience.
God could easily sit back and

433
00:29:51,660 –> 00:29:55,500
say I’ve done everything.
I can’t do anymore.

434
00:29:55,740 –> 00:29:59,340
Yes, I will stand at my the gate
of my garden, as it were, and

435
00:29:59,340 –> 00:30:02,460
look out for my son and
daughters and the lost ones.

436
00:30:02,460 –> 00:30:07,380
I’ll do everything I can, but he
initiates forgiveness.

437
00:30:07,380 –> 00:30:11,180
Let me give an example.
Think about David and Bathsheba.

438
00:30:11,180 –> 00:30:13,060
It’s a classic example of where
it happens.

439
00:30:13,300 –> 00:30:16,260
David and Bathsheba.
So David’s a murderer.

440
00:30:16,900 –> 00:30:21,620
He’s treacherous and he’s just
committed adultery and it’s

441
00:30:21,860 –> 00:30:24,930
caused the the death of the the.
Poor Uriah.

442
00:30:26,650 –> 00:30:28,770
And David knows full well what
he’s done.

443
00:30:29,730 –> 00:30:32,010
He can’t bring himself to talk
to God about it.

444
00:30:32,010 –> 00:30:34,090
He’s probably still giving
thanks for breakfast and lunch

445
00:30:34,090 –> 00:30:40,170
and and dinner, but he cannot
bring himself to talk about

446
00:30:40,170 –> 00:30:42,930
that.
And it’s almost like if you’re

447
00:30:42,930 –> 00:30:44,330
like because he’s a man after
God’s own heart.

448
00:30:44,330 –> 00:30:49,010
So it’s almost like 2 friends
and they there’s something that

449
00:30:49,010 –> 00:30:51,050
they need to talk about and they
can’t bring themselves to talk

450
00:30:51,050 –> 00:30:52,850
about.
And it’s almost like this.

451
00:30:53,550 –> 00:30:58,790
It’s almost like one of them has
to break and God does.

452
00:31:00,910 –> 00:31:03,510
God can’t stand it.
He can’t stand it anymore.

453
00:31:03,510 –> 00:31:05,830
And this is what the record
says, says.

454
00:31:06,630 –> 00:31:14,670
And Yahweh sent Nathan to David.
Shouldn’t have been the other

455
00:31:14,670 –> 00:31:17,630
way around, Shouldn’t have read
something like this.

456
00:31:17,750 –> 00:31:22,750
And finally David went to Yahweh
in prayer, no.

457
00:31:23,770 –> 00:31:28,730
That’s not what happened.
What an incredible father, he

458
00:31:28,730 –> 00:31:31,890
said to Nathan.
It’s almost, God says to Nathan,

459
00:31:31,890 –> 00:31:34,650
I can’t stand it any longer.
I can’t stand it.

460
00:31:34,970 –> 00:31:38,770
Go and talk to him.
Yahweh sent Nathan to that.

461
00:31:38,770 –> 00:31:41,370
What a, what a father we have.
Here’s another one.

462
00:31:41,370 –> 00:31:43,330
Adam and Eve.
Adam and Eve, they’re hiding.

463
00:31:44,250 –> 00:31:47,170
They feel dreadful.
They feel very, very strange

464
00:31:47,330 –> 00:31:49,890
that they’ve felt in a way that
they’ve never felt before.

465
00:31:49,970 –> 00:31:52,290
This is a very odd feeling.
They’re frightened.

466
00:31:54,000 –> 00:31:57,720
And normally they walk in the
cool of the day and speak freely

467
00:31:57,720 –> 00:32:00,560
with with the angelic presence
at that time.

468
00:32:02,200 –> 00:32:04,440
And they’re hiding.
So what does God do?

469
00:32:04,440 –> 00:32:08,120
What does the Elehim do?
Nowhere Elehim called to Adam

470
00:32:08,120 –> 00:32:14,280
and said to him, Adam, where are
you?

471
00:32:15,240 –> 00:32:18,680
Come on, come on, let’s talk.
We need to chat.

472
00:32:20,990 –> 00:32:23,030
And Adam said, I heard their
voice in the garden and I was

473
00:32:23,030 –> 00:32:25,590
afraid because I was naked.
And I I hid myself.

474
00:32:26,390 –> 00:32:27,990
And he said, who?
Who told you that you were

475
00:32:27,990 –> 00:32:30,110
naked?
Have you eaten of the tree?

476
00:32:30,310 –> 00:32:33,070
See how God, God knows the
answers?

477
00:32:33,110 –> 00:32:35,790
Did he not know where Adam was?
Or did he not know that they’d.

478
00:32:35,790 –> 00:32:37,270
Of course he knew that they’d
eaten of the tree.

479
00:32:37,270 –> 00:32:40,190
But what he does, he tries to
elicit a response.

480
00:32:40,310 –> 00:32:43,150
He tries to come on, let’s talk
about this.

481
00:32:43,310 –> 00:32:48,470
Let’s get this poison out.
Let’s start the healing process.

482
00:32:50,300 –> 00:32:53,820
Confess.
Let’s start this off.

483
00:32:54,340 –> 00:32:56,860
What about Kane?
First murder in history.

484
00:32:57,700 –> 00:33:00,140
How do you think Kane feels?
Probably pretty bad.

485
00:33:01,580 –> 00:33:03,300
And Yahweh called under Kane.
He says.

486
00:33:03,980 –> 00:33:07,460
Kane, where’s where’s Abel, your
brother?

487
00:33:07,460 –> 00:33:12,220
And Kane said, Oh no, not am I
my brother’s keeper?

488
00:33:13,580 –> 00:33:15,140
Isn’t that lovely?
The way God does that?

489
00:33:15,140 –> 00:33:17,500
He will.
He will try and it’s very, very

490
00:33:17,500 –> 00:33:22,000
proactive.
It tries to and do we not do

491
00:33:22,000 –> 00:33:23,880
this again?
As parents we know if we know

492
00:33:23,880 –> 00:33:27,320
the child is done wrong.
We know the child’s hiding

493
00:33:27,320 –> 00:33:30,560
something and often sometimes
wise to sit the child down and

494
00:33:30,560 –> 00:33:38,760
say, so how do things go today
or where did where did you get

495
00:33:38,760 –> 00:33:44,480
that little thing you’re holding
on to And they oh, well, no.

496
00:33:44,600 –> 00:33:49,000
So I found it.
Oh, and you knew full well that

497
00:33:49,000 –> 00:33:50,910
they’ve taken it from.
I don’t have the other kids,

498
00:33:50,910 –> 00:33:53,630
bedrooms or something.
Oh, I’m sure I’ll put that in

499
00:33:53,670 –> 00:33:56,110
the other bedroom.
Oh, oh, I took it.

500
00:33:56,550 –> 00:33:57,590
So can you see it?
God.

501
00:33:57,590 –> 00:34:01,030
That’s the way way God works.
He tries to to bring out this

502
00:34:01,030 –> 00:34:03,270
response in us.
And God does.

503
00:34:03,270 –> 00:34:04,990
God do the same for Of course he
does.

504
00:34:05,150 –> 00:34:08,389
He uses other people.
He uses circumstances and his

505
00:34:08,389 –> 00:34:12,030
word in our lives to achieve
that purpose.

506
00:34:13,110 –> 00:34:17,070
No wonder he’s called our
father, because that’s what he

507
00:34:17,070 –> 00:34:20,540
is.
Therefore say unto them Thus

508
00:34:20,620 –> 00:34:25,460
saith Yahweh of Hosts.
Turn ye to me and Yahweh of

509
00:34:25,460 –> 00:34:31,980
Hosts, and I will turn unto you,
he says, I’m just looking for

510
00:34:31,980 –> 00:34:35,620
you to come back, you know, to
refuse this, brother, brother

511
00:34:35,620 –> 00:34:37,940
and sisters.
It’s it’s just madness to refuse

512
00:34:37,940 –> 00:34:38,940
it.
Yet we do.

513
00:34:39,100 –> 00:34:41,540
We still do.
We know these things to be true,

514
00:34:43,739 –> 00:34:47,540
and sometimes when we are in the
grip of shame.

515
00:34:48,659 –> 00:34:52,900
I think I can’t, I can’t pray to
to about that to God at the

516
00:34:52,900 –> 00:34:55,900
moment.
I just feel so that’s the time

517
00:34:55,900 –> 00:34:59,780
to pray to him.
Open your heart right up and say

518
00:35:00,620 –> 00:35:01,700
there’s something I want to talk
about.

519
00:35:02,700 –> 00:35:05,140
You know, actually what it is I
want to talk about.

520
00:35:05,700 –> 00:35:07,820
God says yes.
I want you to tell you put it

521
00:35:07,820 –> 00:35:09,580
into words.
Tell me what it is.

522
00:35:09,980 –> 00:35:13,740
You see, that’s part of this,
this healing process that God

523
00:35:13,740 –> 00:35:16,260
wants us to go through.
I want you to talk to me about

524
00:35:16,260 –> 00:35:18,860
it.
Have you eaten of the tree?

525
00:35:19,900 –> 00:35:24,260
Yes, I have.
You know, it’s just like God,

526
00:35:24,260 –> 00:35:26,820
sort of.
When we don’t do this, it’s like

527
00:35:26,820 –> 00:35:32,500
God sits a man up to the table.
And this table, actually, let’s

528
00:35:32,500 –> 00:35:35,340
just go there.
That’s as I 53, as usual.

529
00:35:35,460 –> 00:35:37,620
I’m really bad at data
projection anyway.

530
00:35:39,140 –> 00:35:42,540
It’s like God sits the man up to
this meal table and he provides

531
00:35:42,740 –> 00:35:45,060
all the good food that he ever
noticed.

532
00:35:45,060 –> 00:35:46,620
By the way, there’s no Mackers
on that.

533
00:35:48,750 –> 00:35:50,870
Nothing.
No junk food.

534
00:35:51,430 –> 00:35:55,950
So God provides all good food,
very, very healthy, and it’s all

535
00:35:55,950 –> 00:36:03,030
for free, without price.
He puts, even puts the food on a

536
00:36:03,030 –> 00:36:06,030
plate.
He did that with national Israel

537
00:36:06,070 –> 00:36:08,190
and he fed them.
He even brought the spoon to

538
00:36:08,190 –> 00:36:12,270
their mouth.
And you know what happens?

539
00:36:14,280 –> 00:36:17,800
We look at the this food, this
incredibly healthy spread across

540
00:36:17,800 –> 00:36:22,680
the table and the man, the men
stand up and they say, I want

541
00:36:22,800 –> 00:36:26,440
none of this.
And they leave the creator of

542
00:36:26,440 –> 00:36:31,000
heaven and earth standing and
staring after them in great

543
00:36:31,000 –> 00:36:33,280
sadness of what all has
provided.

544
00:36:35,160 –> 00:36:37,160
Interesting picture, you might
think.

545
00:36:37,160 –> 00:36:39,080
Well, that’s interesting.
Actually, it’s not my picture.

546
00:36:39,480 –> 00:36:43,120
You listen to this Psalm 23,
they’re preparest a table.

547
00:36:43,660 –> 00:36:48,180
Before me who satisfies thy
mouth with good things, so that

548
00:36:48,180 –> 00:36:52,260
thy youth is renewed like
Eagles, he satisfies the longing

549
00:36:52,260 –> 00:36:55,740
soul, and filleth the the hungry
soul with goodness.

550
00:36:57,820 –> 00:37:02,140
And as I 55 verse one ho,
everyone that thirsts come ye to

551
00:37:02,140 –> 00:37:06,500
the waters, and he that hath no
money come ye buy and eat.

552
00:37:07,620 –> 00:37:11,180
So that’s actually what God is
doing for us.

553
00:37:11,180 –> 00:37:15,570
He wants to fill us up.
With healthy things, good

554
00:37:15,570 –> 00:37:20,090
things, which are good for us in
terms of eternity, Yeah, So

555
00:37:20,090 –> 00:37:27,250
often we just walk away from it,
you know, has anyone ever here

556
00:37:27,250 –> 00:37:30,130
given, and this is a retirement
question, You don’t have to put

557
00:37:30,130 –> 00:37:34,450
your hand up.
Have you ever given anyone a

558
00:37:34,450 –> 00:37:39,730
very, very incredible gift, a
very, very expensive gift of

559
00:37:39,730 –> 00:37:42,410
enormous value?
It doesn’t matter.

560
00:37:43,030 –> 00:37:45,150
It’s enormous value to you, that
is.

561
00:37:48,310 –> 00:37:52,310
I remember hearing that a
brother gave another family a

562
00:37:52,310 –> 00:37:58,190
house that was incredibly
generous, an amazing gift that

563
00:37:58,190 –> 00:38:03,950
was maybe, perhaps we might do
that, but you would never, ever.

564
00:38:03,950 –> 00:38:06,590
You wouldn’t even dream of
giving and something in of

565
00:38:06,590 –> 00:38:09,310
incredible value, like your own
offspring.

566
00:38:09,430 –> 00:38:10,750
You wouldn’t do that for an
enemy, would you?

567
00:38:14,200 –> 00:38:17,480
Wouldn’t do it for an enemy, but
this is exactly what God has

568
00:38:17,480 –> 00:38:21,120
done.
So before each of us were even

569
00:38:21,120 –> 00:38:23,840
born, God says to Jeremiah, I
knew you.

570
00:38:23,840 –> 00:38:26,800
When you’re in the womb I knew I
know you, all of you, long

571
00:38:26,800 –> 00:38:29,680
before you’re born.
When we’re enmity, when we were

572
00:38:29,680 –> 00:38:33,840
self absorbed, obviously after
we’re born, self interested,

573
00:38:34,280 –> 00:38:39,440
self-serving, we’re at enmity
with God.

574
00:38:39,770 –> 00:38:42,290
We were his enemy.
We wanted to know nothing about

575
00:38:42,290 –> 00:38:46,530
him.
That’s precisely the time when

576
00:38:46,610 –> 00:38:51,410
Jesus Christ has died for us.
The act was done long, long ago,

577
00:38:51,650 –> 00:38:55,490
before we needed it.
So let’s come to that chapter we

578
00:38:55,490 –> 00:38:58,050
read, Romans 5.
Let’s have a bit of a look here.

579
00:39:02,770 –> 00:39:06,370
So, Romans 5 and verse 8.
This is a marvelous, A marvelous

580
00:39:06,370 –> 00:39:11,230
chapter, Paul.
Sets out what God has done is

581
00:39:11,230 –> 00:39:15,070
really trying to set out the
scale, if you like, of sin as

582
00:39:15,070 –> 00:39:18,550
opposed to grace.
He’s trying to get that ratio

583
00:39:18,550 –> 00:39:22,350
right so that we understand it.
But God verse eight, God

584
00:39:22,350 –> 00:39:26,270
commended his love toward us in
that while we were yet sinners,

585
00:39:26,750 –> 00:39:35,790
Christ died for us much more
than being now justified by his

586
00:39:35,790 –> 00:39:38,000
blood.
We shall be saved from Roth

587
00:39:38,000 –> 00:39:43,600
through him.
For if when we were enemies, we

588
00:39:43,600 –> 00:39:49,360
were reconciled to God, How so?
By the death of his son, Much

589
00:39:49,360 –> 00:39:53,360
more being reconciled.
We should be saved by his life.

590
00:39:54,880 –> 00:39:59,240
That that’s this term much more
actually occurs 5 times, as does

591
00:39:59,240 –> 00:40:02,440
the word gift in this chapter.
If you’ve got a pencil, I’ll

592
00:40:02,440 –> 00:40:05,520
quickly tell you so much more.
First time in verse 9.

593
00:40:07,640 –> 00:40:11,160
Next time in verse 10, much more
being reconciled.

594
00:40:12,200 –> 00:40:18,800
Next time in verse 15 and then
again in verse 17 and then

595
00:40:18,800 –> 00:40:24,200
finally in verse 20 much more
incredible concept.

596
00:40:25,040 –> 00:40:27,880
So I think the picture that got
that that Paul is sort of

597
00:40:27,880 –> 00:40:30,920
painting here of God, it’s
almost like that after the the

598
00:40:30,920 –> 00:40:34,640
the judgment process is finished
it’s he’s sort of describing a

599
00:40:34,640 –> 00:40:37,150
bit like this.
This, this is the way I see it.

600
00:40:37,310 –> 00:40:43,790
This great mound of grace has
just sitting there unused and

601
00:40:43,790 –> 00:40:48,190
not needed because we’ve we’ve
we’ve we’ve all that.

602
00:40:48,190 –> 00:40:50,910
And it’s sitting there because
either we didn’t want it, people

603
00:40:50,910 –> 00:40:55,510
didn’t want it, they saw no need
for it, or there was just too

604
00:40:55,510 –> 00:40:58,150
much.
Anyway, in other words, there’s

605
00:40:58,390 –> 00:40:59,910
you have a look at the the
wording here.

606
00:40:59,910 –> 00:41:04,370
So verse 18 says.
Therefore as the by the offence

607
00:41:04,370 –> 00:41:08,770
of 1 judgment came upon all men
to condemnation, Even so by the

608
00:41:08,770 –> 00:41:12,410
righteousness of 1 the free gift
came upon all men, and to

609
00:41:12,410 –> 00:41:17,450
justification of life.
For as by one man’s disobedience

610
00:41:17,450 –> 00:41:22,050
many were made sinners, so by
the obedience of 1 shall many be

611
00:41:22,050 –> 00:41:24,930
made righteous.
Moreover, the law entered that

612
00:41:24,930 –> 00:41:28,650
the offence might abound.
That means God gave the children

613
00:41:28,650 –> 00:41:31,490
of Israel the law, like a great
big if you’re like a great big

614
00:41:31,490 –> 00:41:35,370
fluro.
They turned the switch on and lo

615
00:41:35,370 –> 00:41:38,290
and behold, they actually
started to see how sinful they

616
00:41:38,290 –> 00:41:40,050
really were.
They before, they didn’t know

617
00:41:40,050 –> 00:41:46,090
that, but the law was to
highlight the depravity of human

618
00:41:46,090 –> 00:41:48,690
nature.
So as soon as there’s command,

619
00:41:48,930 –> 00:41:50,850
thou shalt not touch the wet
paint.

620
00:41:51,050 –> 00:41:53,450
Immediately there’s a desire to
go.

621
00:41:53,650 –> 00:41:57,810
Why?
Very, very deeply ingrained in

622
00:41:57,810 –> 00:42:01,190
our nature.
Moreover, verse 20 says,

623
00:42:01,190 –> 00:42:05,670
moreover, the law entered that
the offence might abound, but

624
00:42:05,670 –> 00:42:11,070
where sin abounded, grace did
much more abound.

625
00:42:13,790 –> 00:42:19,590
Isn’t that lovely?
So we can never ever say that

626
00:42:19,590 –> 00:42:22,070
there is so much sin in the
earth that God can never deal

627
00:42:22,070 –> 00:42:26,790
with it.
God’s grace much more, abounds

628
00:42:27,710 –> 00:42:29,550
much more.
And the word gift.

629
00:42:29,930 –> 00:42:35,930
In that chapter also occurs five
times the word gift there and

630
00:42:36,930 –> 00:42:38,810
would actually let me tell you
where where they are.

631
00:42:39,810 –> 00:42:41,410
So I heard a few pens clicking
out there.

632
00:42:41,650 –> 00:42:45,850
So we’ve got the free gift in
verse 15, and we’ve got another

633
00:42:45,850 –> 00:42:49,410
two in verse 15 actually.
And there’s another one in verse

634
00:42:49,410 –> 00:42:56,490
16, another one in verse 16, so
two in 15, two in 16, and then

635
00:42:56,490 –> 00:43:01,190
one in verse 17.
And in the AV, you’ll see

636
00:43:01,190 –> 00:43:03,630
another one in verse 18, but
that’s in italics.

637
00:43:03,630 –> 00:43:05,630
That’s not there.
So there’s actually 5 again.

638
00:43:06,390 –> 00:43:11,110
So five being generally accepted
as the number for grace, God’s

639
00:43:11,110 –> 00:43:14,950
incredible grace and kindness.
So just don’t think, brothers

640
00:43:14,950 –> 00:43:18,790
and sisters, that somehow or
other God’s grace is going to

641
00:43:18,790 –> 00:43:19,990
run out.
When it comes to you.

642
00:43:21,990 –> 00:43:23,670
It won’t.
There’s actually going to be

643
00:43:23,990 –> 00:43:27,590
lots and lots of grace unused
and left over.

644
00:43:28,200 –> 00:43:30,960
There’s much more grace than
there is sin around the place,

645
00:43:31,520 –> 00:43:33,640
more than you’ll ever need,
according to Paul.

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But there’s a caveat here, and
we know what that is.

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Don’t think to abuse that
privilege to think to yourself,

648
00:43:43,160 –> 00:43:46,760
Well, if there’s so much grace,
what’s the issue?

649
00:43:48,120 –> 00:43:51,400
That’s how the Jew thought that,
that.

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00:43:51,400 –> 00:43:53,480
That’s why Paul says in verse
one of chapter 6.

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What shall we say then?
Shall we?

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00:43:55,270 –> 00:43:57,750
Shall we continue in sin?
That grace may abound, given

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00:43:57,750 –> 00:43:59,390
that there’s a whole lot more
grace than sin?

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00:43:59,390 –> 00:44:04,190
Well, hey, what does it matter?
There’s no confession, no

655
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repentance, no conversion.
On that basis, he says, God

656
00:44:07,830 –> 00:44:11,470
forbid, how shall we that are
dead to sin live any longer

657
00:44:11,870 –> 00:44:16,990
therein?
So, brothers and sisters, did

658
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you come to Ephesians too?
So we begin to.

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One of our thoughts Ephesians 2
and verse 4.

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00:44:31,910 –> 00:44:34,150
This is where God has actually
placed us.

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00:44:34,150 –> 00:44:37,310
Now that we have partaken, we
understand His grace.

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00:44:38,150 –> 00:44:41,510
We’ve accepted that grace in
faith and look at look at the

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concluded verse verse four of
Ephesians 2.

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But God who is rich in mercy for
His great love wherewith he has

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loved us even when we were dead
in sins.

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00:44:57,140 –> 00:45:01,940
Hath quickened us together, made
us alive with Christ my grace

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00:45:02,540 –> 00:45:06,060
you are saved and hath raised
us, us up together.

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00:45:06,060 –> 00:45:09,460
He’s talking about now this is
all now raised us up together

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00:45:10,460 –> 00:45:15,540
and made us sit together in
heavenly places in Christ Jesus

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00:45:16,020 –> 00:45:21,540
right now because of our state
of forgiveness and the future.

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00:45:22,260 –> 00:45:26,420
Verse 7.
So that in the age to come.

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He might show the exceeding
riches of his grace in his

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00:45:31,170 –> 00:45:34,610
kindness toward us through Jesus
Christ.

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For by grace he are saved
through faith and that not of

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00:45:39,370 –> 00:45:43,930
yourselves.
It is the gift of God, the

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divine gift of forgiveness.
So it’s probably worth just

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00:45:52,130 –> 00:45:55,010
quickly now what if?
What if we refused that gift?

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00:45:56,100 –> 00:45:59,260
What about that?
What about this matter of the

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00:45:59,300 –> 00:46:07,420
unforgivable sin?
The unforgivable givable sin is

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basically brothers and sisters.
When we decide to shun the grace

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00:46:14,100 –> 00:46:16,700
that God is giving to us.
This is when we come to this

682
00:46:16,700 –> 00:46:19,380
problem.
Now I want to show you something

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00:46:19,380 –> 00:46:24,300
in Genesis 4, how Kane committed
the unforgivable sin.

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You come to Genesis 4 quickly.
Genesis 4 and verse verse 8.

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00:46:31,280 –> 00:46:35,320
There’s no confession, no
repentance and something that

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Kane says if you like nails the
coffin.

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00:46:42,000 –> 00:46:47,080
It’s a really a sad state to God
if you like to quote a a term

688
00:46:47,080 –> 00:46:50,040
bent over backwards to help Kane
after he murdered.

689
00:46:50,430 –> 00:46:52,710
God was quite prepared to
forgive Kane for that.

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00:46:52,950 –> 00:46:54,870
Look at this verse eight of
Genesis 4.

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And Kane taught with Abel his
brother.

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00:46:58,190 –> 00:47:00,990
And it came to pass when they
were in the field that Kane rose

693
00:47:00,990 –> 00:47:02,670
up against Abel’s brother and
slew him.

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So there’s your first murder.
And now he said to Kane, where

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00:47:07,190 –> 00:47:10,350
is Abel thy brother?
And he said, basically he said,

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00:47:10,550 –> 00:47:15,710
don’t know, I don’t know.
Am I my brother’s keeper?

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00:47:16,270 –> 00:47:19,670
Answer yes you are.
In fact, according to John, you

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00:47:19,710 –> 00:47:21,800
are.
We are our brother’s keeper.

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00:47:22,720 –> 00:47:25,920
Can you see how here again God
is being proactive here with

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with Kane.
And he said, What have you done?

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00:47:28,440 –> 00:47:31,400
The voice of thy brother’s blood
cries unto thee from the ground,

702
00:47:31,560 –> 00:47:34,080
and now they are cursed from the
earth, which has opened the

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00:47:34,080 –> 00:47:36,760
mouth to receive thy brother’s
blood from the thy hand.

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00:47:36,920 –> 00:47:39,800
When thou tillest the ground, it
shall not henceforth yield unto

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00:47:39,800 –> 00:47:43,360
thee her strength.
A fugitive and a Vagabond shalt

706
00:47:43,360 –> 00:47:46,800
thou be in the earth.
And look what Kane said.

707
00:47:48,320 –> 00:47:54,790
This is the unforgivable sin.
And it’s unforgivable because he

708
00:47:55,030 –> 00:47:58,790
deemed it so.
Look at verse 13 and Kane said

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00:47:58,790 –> 00:48:03,910
to Yahweh, my punishment is
greater than I can bear.

710
00:48:03,910 –> 00:48:06,190
Now that’s a very unfortunate
translation.

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00:48:06,510 –> 00:48:09,590
Now in in my if you’ve got a
wide like this, you’ve got the

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Oxford.
In in you’ll have a look at the

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00:48:11,190 –> 00:48:13,390
margin.
See that little two there next

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00:48:13,390 –> 00:48:17,830
to the that word, my punishment
is greater than I can bear you

715
00:48:17,830 –> 00:48:23,090
know the margin says.
My iniquity is greater than can

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00:48:23,090 –> 00:48:26,050
be forgiven.
It’s actually how it should

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00:48:26,050 –> 00:48:29,650
read.
My iniquity is greater than can

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00:48:29,650 –> 00:48:31,530
be forgiven.
The Septuagint says.

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00:48:31,690 –> 00:48:35,250
My crime is too great for me to
be forgiven.

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00:48:38,010 –> 00:48:41,570
Do you think that Kane
understood the principle of much

721
00:48:41,570 –> 00:48:49,030
more how limiting he is to God?
Do you know what really is at

722
00:48:49,030 –> 00:48:52,910
the core of that statement?
Really it’s it’s his lack of

723
00:48:52,950 –> 00:48:54,590
understanding of God’s
character.

724
00:48:55,030 –> 00:49:00,590
He did not know God that God was
forgiving, iniquity,

725
00:49:00,590 –> 00:49:05,110
transgression, and sin.
And God has left on record for

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00:49:05,110 –> 00:49:07,670
all of us to observe through
scripture, brothers and sisters

727
00:49:07,870 –> 00:49:12,390
some really, really extreme
characters because of of sin.

728
00:49:12,790 –> 00:49:16,630
And we all probably fit into
these characters somewhere

729
00:49:16,870 –> 00:49:18,840
sometime.
So think of this.

730
00:49:19,960 –> 00:49:23,560
Adulterers are left on record
for us and they ended up

731
00:49:23,560 –> 00:49:30,280
faithful because of forgiveness.
We know that murderers ended up

732
00:49:30,280 –> 00:49:35,400
faithful because of forgiveness.
What about kings?

733
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There was a king that committed.
I reckon this is one of the

734
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greatest examples.
Manassa, he committed mass

735
00:49:41,960 –> 00:49:44,320
genocide to his own people.
It says that the blood of

736
00:49:44,320 –> 00:49:47,020
Jerusalem.
Ran with the blood of sorry, the

737
00:49:47,020 –> 00:49:49,700
streets of Jerusalem ran with
the blood of innocents.

738
00:49:50,820 –> 00:49:54,460
Manassa got took him away in
change change, and he humbled

739
00:49:54,460 –> 00:49:59,140
him and he forgave him.
Harlots ended up faithful

740
00:49:59,140 –> 00:50:02,700
because of forgiveness.
Men who have used harlots ended

741
00:50:02,700 –> 00:50:05,140
up faithful because of
forgiveness, thieves and

742
00:50:05,140 –> 00:50:08,860
robbers.
The reason God has left that

743
00:50:08,860 –> 00:50:11,620
there.
So we can look at it and say, my

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00:50:11,620 –> 00:50:18,420
goodness, much more grace.
We should have all confidence,

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00:50:18,540 –> 00:50:23,620
be be incredibly confident and
bold that we can, that we can

746
00:50:23,620 –> 00:50:25,140
actually be in the Kingdom of
God.

747
00:50:25,820 –> 00:50:28,340
Brothers and sisters.
None of us are in any position

748
00:50:28,660 –> 00:50:32,620
to utter like Cain, that my sin
is greater than can be forgiven.

749
00:50:33,620 –> 00:50:37,540
It’s plain untrue.
But as soon as we even think

750
00:50:37,540 –> 00:50:41,140
this, we’re effectively saying
to God my badness is greater

751
00:50:41,620 –> 00:50:43,820
than your goodness.
You’re effectively saying to

752
00:50:43,820 –> 00:50:46,960
God.
Actually, I’m more powerful than

753
00:50:46,960 –> 00:50:52,520
you.
Are we greater than God?

754
00:50:53,160 –> 00:50:55,240
Is God not powerful enough to
forgive sins?

755
00:50:56,600 –> 00:51:00,120
Is there a sin that that God
does not possess the power to

756
00:51:00,120 –> 00:51:01,080
forgive?
Of course not.

757
00:51:01,960 –> 00:51:04,320
Do you believe that God can
snuff out your life in the

758
00:51:04,320 –> 00:51:06,840
moment of time?
Well, in that case, he can take

759
00:51:06,840 –> 00:51:10,480
away the sin in the moment of
time in the same way.

760
00:51:10,880 –> 00:51:12,800
For my thoughts are not your
thoughts.

761
00:51:13,140 –> 00:51:17,700
Neither are your ways.
My ways S Yahweh that Isaiah 55

762
00:51:17,700 –> 00:51:22,940
and verse 8.
So then to say that God is not

763
00:51:22,940 –> 00:51:29,100
capable of forgiving sin is to
rail or blaspheme against the

764
00:51:29,100 –> 00:51:33,860
Holy Spirit, God’s power.
You are telling God he is not

765
00:51:33,860 –> 00:51:36,460
powerful enough and it’s
blasphemy.

766
00:51:36,740 –> 00:51:41,620
It it is to shun the gift of
forgiveness or our sin remains

767
00:51:42,020 –> 00:51:43,490
then.
Unforgiven.

768
00:51:45,410 –> 00:51:48,210
And so we have the unforgivable
sin.

769
00:51:48,690 –> 00:51:51,010
So really, actually it all comes
into faith, does it not?

770
00:51:51,690 –> 00:51:54,330
It really does come down to
faith, your perspective of what

771
00:51:54,330 –> 00:51:58,850
God is able to do.
He is faithful and just to

772
00:51:58,850 –> 00:52:02,650
forgive us our sins.
If we believe God, he rewards

773
00:52:02,650 –> 00:52:05,890
that belief.
And if we don’t believe him,

774
00:52:07,090 –> 00:52:08,450
well, there is nothing to
reward.

775
00:52:09,530 –> 00:52:12,810
God is a rewarder of those.
Who are faithful?

776
00:52:13,690 –> 00:52:16,690
Who is he that overcomes?
Then what’s our our job?

777
00:52:17,330 –> 00:52:19,650
Jesus Christ said fear not,
little flock.

778
00:52:19,770 –> 00:52:22,810
I have overcome the world.
That’s what he said.

779
00:52:22,970 –> 00:52:26,530
God is not asking that of us.
He’s He’s asking this of us.

780
00:52:26,890 –> 00:52:28,810
Who is he that overcomes the
world.

781
00:52:30,850 –> 00:52:34,170
But he that believeth that Jesus
is the Son of God.

782
00:52:34,810 –> 00:52:38,530
That’s who overcomes the world.
So that we’ve all that we’ve

783
00:52:38,530 –> 00:52:40,170
considered then brothers and
sisters.

784
00:52:40,660 –> 00:52:47,700
In our third session, we have a
sense of gratitude and a sense

785
00:52:47,700 –> 00:52:52,700
of wonder and thankfulness for
this tremendous father which we

786
00:52:52,700 –> 00:52:57,060
serve.
And above all, we appreciate

787
00:52:57,540 –> 00:53:01,340
exactly what he’s done for us.
And if you feel like that that’s

788
00:53:01,340 –> 00:53:04,340
have that sense of appreciation
to him, well, just just hold

789
00:53:04,340 –> 00:53:07,260
that thought for a little while
because tomorrow morning.

790
00:53:08,170 –> 00:53:13,370
God is going to ask you if you
would kindly pass that

791
00:53:13,370 –> 00:53:17,770
forgiveness, that forgiving
spirit, onto your brothers and

792
00:53:17,770 –> 00:53:18,490
your sisters.