Steve Hyndman – Class 5: Exhortation – Forgiveness – The Result

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I’m very pleased to invite
Brother Steve forward to speak

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to us this morning.
Brother Steve.

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Thank you, Brother Robert.
What a delightful him that is.

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Now to him that is able to keep
us from falling, we have our,

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I’m sure, brothers and sisters.
If you’re anything like like me,

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your your heart is full of
praise at some of the things

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that we’ve learnt this weekend.
But now we come to the end of

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the matter.
And the end of the matter is

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nothing short of delightful.
This is the joy that comes from

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reconciliation.
Let’s let’s have a look at

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Paul’s summary, shall we, of
this matter in Colossians one

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and verse verse 20.
This peace that we have with God

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is the desired end.
So Paul says of this and talking

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of Jesus Christ in Colossians
one and verse verse 20 and now

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having made peace through the
blood of his cross by him to

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reconcile all things unto
himself.

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By him I say, whether they be
things on earth or in things in

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heaven, and you that were in
times past alienated, and

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enemies in your mind by wicked
works.

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Yet now hath he reconciled, now
hath he’s forgiven us in the

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body of his flesh through death,
to present you wholly.

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And unblamable and unreprovable
in his sight, that’s exactly the

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sentiments of our last hymn.
And here’s the condition.

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Verse 23.
If ye continue in the faith

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struggle on, brothers and
sisters, don’t give up.

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And here’s the key idea that we
are grounded and we are settled.

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And be not moved away from the
hope of the gospel which ye have

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heard.
What an incredible position to

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be in, to be reconciled not with
not only with Almighty God

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himself, but that Almighty God
wants to be known as our Father.

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Our Father loves, and children
love their Father.

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Through the work of his Son, our
Lord Jesus Christ, a wonderful

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high priest who can be touched
with the feelings of our

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infirmities.
What a tremendous gift that is.

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And this is exactly what John is
trying to explain to us in the

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first of John, which we’ve been
looking at this weekend.

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It’s an enormous privilege as we
understand this process to be

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reconciled.
Really brothers and sisters it

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only means one single thing.
So these what we we’ve been

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looking at at stepping stone as
it were stepping stones from

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conversion, repentance and all.
As we sweep through this then we

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be then we’re forgiven and then
we have peace.

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These are stepping stones to to
an end.

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We want to look at that end this
morning by way of excitation.

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So first John two and verse 26
don’t turn it up because we’ve

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looked at it.
A lot this weekend, I’m sure you

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know it all off by heart.
Now now, little children, abide

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in him.
There is this.

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That’s the same as saying if you
continue in the faith, abide in

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him that when he shall appear.
And we know that to be very soon

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when he shall appear, we may
have confidence and not be

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ashamed before him at his
coming.

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What an incredible state of mind
that is to be to be confident.

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At the coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ and and again in John 4

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verse 17, herein is our love
made perfect that we might have

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boldness.
It’s exactly the same word in

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the in the in the Greek, in the
day of judgment.

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Because John says as he is, so
are we in this world and he

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means this.
We are trying to be like him in

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the days of our mortality.
There is No Fear in love, but

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perfect love.
Cast out fear because fear,

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well, that’s all to do with
torment, says John here.

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That fear, earth is not made
perfect in love.

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That that word, confidence or
boldness that John John talks

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about is the Greek word parasia.
It means to be.

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It’s it’s a bit like you are if
you have a special friend and

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you’re very open with them, you
know if you’re struggling with

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something, you think of your
friend and think they will

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understand.
It’s because they know you.

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And you’re confident that they
will understand you.

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They will believe you.
To be believed is what we are

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looking for.
And it means to be open or

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frank, to have a sense of free
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So when we get to the judgment
seat, we’ll be so used to

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talking to Jesus Christ, to
talking to God, maybe even to

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discussing things with our own
Angel.

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All we’re merely doing is
putting a face onto the

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discussion.
That’s all we’re doing.

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We have a close, binding
relationship with them, and John

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is saying that we can be
supremely confident in God’s

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ability to change us from
mortality to immortality based

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on the same friendship that
Abraham had by faith.

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It’s exactly the same type of
friendship.

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It’s a rapport that we have with
our God.

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He knows us back to front
anyway.

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He merely wants us to open
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But this confidence that we we
spoke about the apostle Paul had

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it.
Remember in Timothy he said.

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For I’m now ready to be offered
and the time of my departure is

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at hand, he said.
I’ve fought a good fight.

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I’ve finished the course.
I’ve kept the faith.

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Henceforth there is is late.
Didn’t say God willing or

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perhaps or hopefully.
He said there is laid up for me

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a crown of righteousness, and
not to me only, but to all those

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that love his appearing.
So he didn’t say to all those

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that have got forgiveness of
sins and forgiveness down pat.

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He didn’t say that.
He said those that love His

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appearing because they
understand the weaknesses and

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the frailness of this nature.
That’s a stipulation as well,

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isn’t it?
We need to love his beer and

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we’re going to be looking
forward to it.

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It’s an acknowledgement of our
weaknesses in us that we’re

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going to produce that faith.
I can’t do this.

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Only God can.
Therefore, I have confidence in

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God’s ability and boldness, in
God’s willingness to save and

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not my own.
We have no confidence in our own

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selves.
So Romans 4, Let’s just turn

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there for a moment.
How does all this really work?

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Romans 4 and verse 3 love the
way Paul explains things for

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what size the scriptures.
The scripture says Abraham

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believed God and it was counted
unto him for righteousness.

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Even as David also describes the
blessedness of the man, the

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happiness of the man, and to
whom God imputes righteousness

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without works, put works aside.
Works come about through

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appreciation, not obligation.
And saying in verse 7 blessed

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are they whose iniquities are
forgiven and whose sins are

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covered.
Happy is the man to whom the

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Lord will not impute sin, and
that can apply to every single

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one of us.
Verse 17 Have a look at this.

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This is this is the key to
understanding our position.

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Look at it from God’s
perspective.

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Now look at this verse 17 as it
is written, he said to Abraham,

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He said, I have made you a
father of many nations.

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I’ve already done that.
And he calls those things, He

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quickens the dead, and he calls
those things which be not as if

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they have already happened.
That’s God’s perspective.

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He could see things long before
that actually happen.

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Keep that in mind.
That is a very powerful

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principle which we’re going to
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God sees things.
Long before that happened.

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And he understands.
He calls those things which be

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not as though they were.
Do you know when Abraham was

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told that Isaac wasn’t even born
yet?

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And God said I have it’s already
done as far as I’m concerned.

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God says it’s already happened.
I can see your seed and I can

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see the unfolding of the future.
It’s already done.

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See how God makes these
statements long before they they

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exist And Paul picks up this,
this.

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Same thought in in in Hebrews,
Hebrews 10 and verse nine we

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read this having therefore
brethren boldness to enter into

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the holiest by the blood of
Jesus, by new and living way,

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which he had consecrated for us
through the veil, that is to

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say, his flesh.
There’s that concept again.

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We are now bold, not on our own
strength, but on God’s ability.

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And having a high priest over
the House of God, why do we need

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a high priest?
For the purposes of forgiveness.

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Let us draw near with a true
heart, full of the assurance of

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faith, having our hearts
sprinkled from an evil

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conscience, all gone, the evil
conscience and our bodies washed

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with pure water.
So, brothers and sisters, we

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need to appreciate that God
considers us already justified.

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We are already righteous.
God, you and I know that that is

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a such an incredible thought
because we know that we are by

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nature not righteous.
But God says based on the

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sacrifice of His Son, we are now
in Christ.

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Abide in Him.
If you continue in the faith on

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that basis, God considers us
righteous already.

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So let’s go and have a look at
our our reading which we read

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this morning.
The words of the Apostle Paul

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and Romans.
These are the most powerful

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words, the most encouraging
words.

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I think some of the most
beautiful words that Paul has

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ever written.
And he says this in verse 31.

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I know we’ve just read it, but I
I really want to press it upon

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us.
How?

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What shall we say to these
things?

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Think about the whole of their
weekend together.

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What shall we say then?
What is there to say about this,

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if God before us, who can be
against us, brothers and

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sisters?
He that spared not his own Son,

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but delivered him up for us all,
surely, How shall he not with

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him also freely give us all
things?

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There’s that idea again, free.
Freely give us all things.

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Paul’s saying, if God is
prepared to do that with his

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Son, how easy is it for God to
give us all things?

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Who shall lay anything to the
charge of God’s elect?

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Can anyone do that?
It’s God that justifies.

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Who is he that condemns?
It’s Christ that died.

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Yay, rather that he’s risen
again, who is even at the right

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hand of God, and also makes
intercession for us all the

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time.
Who shall separate us from the

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love of Christ?
Shall tribulation, distress,

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persecution, famine, nakedness,
peril, sword?

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As it is written, for thy sakes,
we are a living sacrifice,

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killed all the day long.
We are offering our lives.

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We are continual bird offering.
We are accounted as sheep for

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the slaughter.
We are undergoing trial and

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suffering, which we’ve touched
on this weekend.

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No, he says Paul, in all these
things we are more than

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conquerors.
We are sharing in someone else’s

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victory through him that loved
us.

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That’s how we’re more we are
more than conquerors through the

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work of our Lord Jesus Christ.
For I’m persuaded.

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I’m convinced says well, utterly
convinced that now the death.

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And you would think surely the
biggest hurdle for us today to

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get past is death.
Paul doesn’t think so.

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He says death, life, angels.
Principalities, powers, things

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present, things to come, nor
height, nor depth, nor any other

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creature shall be able to
separate us from the love of God

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which is in Christ Jesus our
Lord.

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There is nothing stopping us,
brothers and sisters, from being

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in the Kingdom of God except to
say this, that my sin is greater

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than maybe forgiven.
It’s the only thing you know

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that should produce in us.
But others and sisters are very,

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very, very deep sense of peace.
Knowing that, yes, God is well

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able to get us into the Kingdom
of God.

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What more can he do?
He’s done everything.

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He cannot do anything else.
If there was something else to

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do, I’m sure he would have done
it.

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So how is this peace now?
That is produced.

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Knowing all these things, how is
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Therefore, being justified by
faith, we have peace with God.

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It’s through faith through our
Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we

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have access by faith into His
grace, wherein we stand and

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rejoice in hope of the glory of
God.

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You turn to Ephesians too.
This theme just is absolutely

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bubbling up everywhere, this
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God doesn’t want us to stand in
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than sister.
That’s not what he wants.

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He’s a father.
Fathers out there, mothers.

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Do you want your children to
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Of course you don’t.
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heaven, Ephesians 2 For He is
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For He is our piece who have
made both one and have broken

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down the middle wall of petition
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Between who?
Between you and God, between me

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and my God.
It’s all been done.

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The veil rent from top to
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We now have full access now into
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abolished in His flesh the
enmity, even the law of

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commandments.
See how the law of God rises

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above commandments?
You don’t need them anymore.

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You don’t need to be told.
Thou shalt not do this.

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Thou shalt not.
You don’t need it anymore.

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As far as God is concerned, we
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do the wrong thing.
This is the state in which God

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has brought us into even the law
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Law of commandments contained in
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of twain 1 Newman so making
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So no longer is it, if you like,
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The Pauly apostle puts it this
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He says he says he feels in his
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people arguing in his body.
Jesus Christ is now put the two,

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and there’s only one creature
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new creation which is now in
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That he might reconcile both
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by the cross, having slain the
enmity thereby, and came and

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preached peace to you which were
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That’s the Gentiles, that’s
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Gentiles, and to them that were
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And this is the my peace I give
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This is it.
It’s real, it’s tangible.

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It is attainable.
We are now reconciled to the God

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of all the earth through the
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Be of good cheer.
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So the peace then, brothers and
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far, doesn’t necessarily take
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It gives us the tools.
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that’s what the piece is
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God leaves the suffering there
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so that we are in the Kingdom of
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Instead we are given the tools
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You know, we’ve got to arrive
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to think about the implications
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Why?
Is that why can we have peace?

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What peace?
That just our sins are forgiven.

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Just that we reconciled to God.
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But where?
Where’s the next step?

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Where’s it taking us?
We’ll hear the end of the

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matter.
Just think for a moment.

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Let’s step through this.
So through Christ, we are

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justified by faith.
We now have access, by faith

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into God’s grace.
Forgiveness.

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We’re abiding in him.
We’ve been reconciled to God

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through Christ’s work.
If we maintain the same course

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with all its ups and downs, and
we all have ups and downs, we

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all ebb and flow in terms of our
enthusiasm, in terms of our the

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way we feel toward God, we ebb
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That’s the very nature of our
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We have all that in place.
Well, then we have something

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which is almost too wonderful to
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It passes almost our
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And this is the final step.
It’s where God wants us to be.

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In fact, I’ll let John deal with
it because he talks about it the

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best.
Better than me.

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You come to.
You come to 1st John 5.

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Where does God want us to be
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Not in the Kingdom.
What’s?

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What’s the mindset that he wants
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partaking in that reconciliation
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So first John 5 and and verse
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Remember the basis.
Fear not, little flock.

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I have overcome the world I have
overcome.

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I’m not asking you to do that,
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I’m merely asking you to have
faith in the fact that I have

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overcome the world.
The verse four of first John 5.

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For whatsoever is born of God
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We are born of God.
This is the victory that

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overcomes the world, even our
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Your faith is the mindset that
overcomes the you can’t overcome

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the world by yourself.
It’s your faith in God’s ability

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to do a good work in you.
Who is he that overcometh the

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world but he that believeth that
Jesus Christ is the Son of God?

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We say yes, believe that, keep
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And now here’s the result.
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This is the this is the mindset
that God wants us to know.

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And this is the record, says
John, that God hath already

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given us eternal life.
Now can you see what the

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confidence is all about?
That’s boldness.

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That’s a bold statement to say
that God has already given us

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eternal life.
On what basis?

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How can John say that?
Because God sees those things as

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though they’ve already existed.
God wants us to believe,

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brothers and sisters, that we
are going to be in the Kingdom

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of God.
Look at those twelve He that

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hath the Son hath life.
If you’re abiding in Christ,

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Christ is immortal.
He’s going to live forever.

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Well, guess what?
It only follows John said with

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with that metaphor that you as
well are going to live for

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forever because you are also in
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The Son hath life, either hath
not The Son of God hath not

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life.
If we’re not abiding in Him,

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there is no life.
These things verse that again he

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he states it again.
These things have all written

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unto you that believe on the
name of the Son of God, that ye

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may know that ye have eternal
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This is astonishing, that you
may believe on the name of the

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Son of God.
God sees those things which

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don’t yet exist.
Do you know what God is actually

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saying to us?
He’s saying, I want you to as it

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were in your mind.
Be in the Kingdom of God and

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almost look back to where you
were.

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Don’t look forward.
Maybe, God willing, Possibly

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depends.
God is saying, I want you to

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know in your minds that as far
as I’m concerned, with all those

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things in place, I’ve already
given it to you in the same way

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I gave it to Abraham long before
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That’s peace.
That produces peace.

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And by the way, we should never
say something like this.

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Well, do you think you’re gonna
be in the Kingdom of Kingdom of

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God?
Will God willing?

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It’s actually not a true
statement to make.

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God is willing that none should
perish.

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That’s what he’s willing.
I think the question should be,

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am I willing?
That’s really what it’s about.

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Am I willing to work with God in
suppressing this wretched nature

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which I have?
God’s will is that none would

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perish, but that all should come
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That’s a very big commitment on
God’s part to us.

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An incredible assurance.
Remember some time ago, and I

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think this does happen a lot.
We talk about this a lot, but

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some time ago we we flew to
Adelaide and we often do to see

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parents.
My my parents are in the the

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best Salem.
Nursing home or Greenbrier’s,

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the the retirement section of
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And I studied to my dad at the
time and he said, you know, one

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subject comes up a lot with this
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I don’t know why he didn’t think
he was part of the older

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generation.
But anyway, he said what often

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comes up is this fear about the
judgment seat.

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They’re at the end of their life
and for many of those folks

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this, we’ve got this impending
moment of reckon of reckoning.

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I don’t think God wants that as
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I don’t think he wants us to be
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One particular brother, lovely
old brother, voices genuine

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anxiety about his doubts and
fears of this day of judgment in

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that he he genuinely felt that
he wouldn’t be in the Kingdom of

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God because he was acutely aware
of his weaknesses.

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To me, that’s a sign of a good
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If the brother said I don’t
think it’s a problem, I actually

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haven’t done a lot wrong.
Well, that’s a problem.

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But because he’s acutely aware
of his own weaknesses and

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failings, to me that’s actually
a very good sign.

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The truth is, I think, that
those feelings are very common

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to all of us.
Of course they are.

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And that’s why faith is not
necessarily an easy state of

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mind to come by.
Faith in God’s ability to save,

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not our own.
We feel so, so small and

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inadequate.
So many times in our life.

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So what is the basis upon which
God can save justify.

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Make righteous.
What’s the basis?

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How do we obtain this peace And
do you know brothers and sisters

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it’s sort of it’s a bit of a
Riddle actually.

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It’s a secret.
It’s paradox.

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The confidence or boldness in
God actually comes from humility

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to where it comes out of just
here’s some, here’s some

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examples.
Think about the most brutal king

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that reigned over Israel.
Now I say was brutal because he

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didn’t end up that way.
He was the most shocking man.

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Manassa, we mentioned him,
killed so many innocent,

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innocent people, but God took
him away in chains.

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He sat down in chains for a
period of time, he humbled

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himself and God brought him back
to to kingship.

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Incredible.
Why?

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Because he learned humility.
Have you ever committed

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genocide?
Of course you haven’t see what

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God’s able to do.
Think about the most proud man,

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perhaps that one of the most
proud men that ever existed, he

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said.
This is not this great Babylon

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that I have made, and it was
probably great and probably

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beautiful, one of the ancient
wonders of the world, the

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hanging gardens of of Babylon.
And he said for my name, for my

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might, said Nebuchadnezzar.
So what does God do?

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He takes him and he humbles him.
And at the end of the matter,

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Nebuchadnezzar said, actually
God rules in the kingdoms of men

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and God taught even
Nebuchadnezzar humility.

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What about Moses?
Moses said I’m the man, I’m the

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man to leave the children of
Israel out of Egypt.

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And and I tell you how I’m going
to do it.

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And he killed a man wouldn’t
normally consider Moses to be a

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murderer, would you?
He was.

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He killed a man to prove the
fact that I’m in.

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God said we’ve got a way to go
with Moses.

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How’d you go?
40 years later?

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He brings him back.
And Moses said, I can’t do this.

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God said excellent.
Great conclusion, but I can.

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That’s what it’s all about.
God taught him humility.

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And I just said take my life.
I’m a failure.

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I’m no better than my father’s.
Very, very depressed he was.

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I’m the only one who left that
that that actually serves you

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around here.
God’s reply was, Off you go,

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Elijah.
I’ve got some.

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See how God filled this?
The space, the gap.

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I’ve got four people.
I want you to annoy it.

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Oh, and Elijah, before you go,
there’s 7000, by the way, that

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haven’t bowed the need to bail.
Just thought I’d mention that.

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See what God does with men.
He’s a wonderful God, a

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wonderful father, and that’s all
born out of humility.

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Remember the Sinner, the Winname
justified?

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He was made righteous because he
he understood his position.

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He needed God’s righteousness,
not like the Pharisee.

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The Pharisee had his own
righteousness, which was just a

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a puffed up windbag.
That’s all at once.

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But this man.
Was full to the brim of God’s

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righteousness, because God
justified him.

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Think about Micah.
We know this quite very well.

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Micah said.
Micah says so.

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How shall I come before the
Lord?

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Wherewith shall I come before
the Lord and bow myself to the

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high God?
What should what can I bring

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him?
What’s God looking for?

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Shall I bring burnt offerings
with calves of a year old, the

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in their absolute prime?
Incredible.

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They’re tender, they’re fresh.
They’re skinned.

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Their furs is perfect.
A year old.

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And then he he steps up and he
says, well, if not well, will

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the Lord be pleased with
thousands of Rams or 10,000

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rivers of oil?
And then he says, shall I give

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my first born for my
transgression?

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The fruit of my body and God
says no omen.

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I’ve already done all that.
I’ve given you calves of a year

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old.
I’ve given you Rams, I’ve given

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you 10,000 rivers of oil.
And I’ve also given you my first

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born.
Here’s what I want from you.

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He has showed the omen what is
good And what does Yahweh

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require of thee to do justly?
To love mercy and to walk humbly

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with our God.
That’s all I’m asking.

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Do you know human beings find
those things very difficult

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because we’re all the opposite
to those.

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So does that poor old brother at
Bethsalem have any grounds

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whatsoever to suggest that God
can’t save him?

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Of course he doesn’t.
He’s in for a a shock of his

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life.
When you can find him, the judge

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if the judgement see he’s
accepted, If indeed that was his

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relationship with his God.
Do you?

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Do I have any grounds, brothers
and sisters, to suggest that I

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don’t know if I can be there?
I’m not sure if God can work

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with me.
Does God want us to live in

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doubt?
Is this the God that we serve?

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Does he want us to be
unconvinced?

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Skeptical.
Uncertain in his desire to save

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us.
Course he doesn’t.

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So as we conclude our thoughts,
brothers and sisters, you come

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to Philippians. 4 So we’ve seen
the process.

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We’ve seen forgiveness.
We’ve taken the stepping

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stepping stones to the desired
end.

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That frame of mind which says
that we can be supremely

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confident, Yes.
We are going to be in the

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Kingdom of God based on a
relationship now with his look

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with the Lord Jesus Christ.
This is life eternal.

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This is what is that we know,
the only true God and Jesus

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Christ whom there has sent.
So Paul concludes our thoughts

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with Philippians 4 And coming to
verse 4, rejoice in the Lord

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always brothers and sisters.
And again he says, I say

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rejoice.
Let your reasonableness be known

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to everybody.
The Lord is at hand.

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Don’t be anxious about
everything.

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Don’t be anxious about anything,
actually, but in everything by

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prayer and supplication with
Thanksgiving.

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Let your request be made known
to God and the peace of God

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which surpasses all
understanding.

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We can barely understand it.
We’ll guard your hearts and your

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minds in Christ Jesus.
It will act as a security from

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not only yourself, but the world
in which we live, the peace of

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God.
Finally, brothers, whatever is

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true, whatever’s honorable,
whatever is just, whatever is

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pure, whatever is lovely,
whatever is commendable.

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If there is any excellence, if
there is anything worthy of

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praise, think about those
things.

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So make an active decision to
pursue that line of thinking and

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what you have heard and received
verse 9 and what you have heard

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and seen this weekend.
Practice these things and the

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God of peace will be with you.
He really will.

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And through that process,
brethren and sisters, the great

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power and gift of forgiveness
that God has produced, that God

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has given us, it will produce in
us a work of righteousness, as I

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which shall be peace, and the
effect of righteousness,

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quietness, and assurance, for
eternity, forever thinking and

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acting.
Like God, which is what he

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wanted in the very first place
with Adam and Eve.

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And he’s done.
The full servant come right

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back.
And in that process has saved

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many what a wonderful God we do
have nothing to worry about with

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God at our right hand, willing
us into the Kingdom.

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So, brothers and sisters, may
Yahweh bless you and keep you

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all.
May he make his face to shine

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upon each of us, and be gracious
unto us, and may he lift up his

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countenance upon all of us, and
give us peace.