{"id":1445,"date":"2026-02-15T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/387-aaron-mckee-the-god-of-all-grace-and-justice\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T04:54:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T04:54:44","slug":"387-aaron-mckee-the-god-of-all-grace-and-justice","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/387-aaron-mckee-the-god-of-all-grace-and-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"387: Aaron McKee – The God of All Grace and Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week’s talk is a combination of two classes by Brother Aaron McKee on the subject of The Relenting and Unrelenting God. This series was given earlier this year at the 2026 San Diego Ecclesia Study Day, with these 2 classes: Class 2, “The God of All Grace,” and Class 3, “The God of Justice.” If you are interested, the readings for these classes were Daniel 9:1-18 and Deuteronomy 32:1-47, respectively.<\/p>\n

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\nWelcome to good Christophian
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\nThank you for joining us this
\nweek on this podcast. <\/p>\n

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\nbeforehand as a personalized
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\nthis week’s talk.
\nHello and welcome back. <\/p>\n

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\nThis is brother Chris with
\nanother talk to share with you <\/p>\n

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\nthis week.
\nFor this week, we’re listening <\/p>\n

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\nto actually a pair of classes
\nthat were given by brother Aaron<\/p>\n

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\nMcKee at the San Diego Study Day
\nat the end of January 2026. <\/p>\n

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\nThe overall subject of this
\nentire series was the relenting <\/p>\n

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\nand unrelenting God.
\nAnd I found Brother Aaron’s <\/p>\n

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\napproach in the way that he was
\naddressing the sort of the <\/p>\n

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\nparadox of the duality of God in
\nthe grace and mercy and the <\/p>\n

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\njudgement and justice that God
\npresents in his character in <\/p>\n

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\nScriptures and did a fabulous
\njob of presenting them. <\/p>\n

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\nIn addition, bringing out some
\nideas about how we perceive <\/p>\n

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\nGod’s character from our own
\nperspective. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd I just thought it was a
\nreally fascinating class because<\/p>\n

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\nof some of the nature of what he
\nwas talking about. <\/p>\n

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\nI’ve made the decision to take
\nclasses two and three and <\/p>\n

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\ncombine them together.
\nIt still is about an hour long <\/p>\n

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\nwith it all together, but it
\nsort of presents the two sides <\/p>\n

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\nof the coin of God’s character
\nin a way that I think is really <\/p>\n

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\nwell put together.
\nBrother Aaron does a spectacular<\/p>\n

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\njob of speaking it through,
\ntalking through what he is <\/p>\n

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\npresenting in a way that I found
\nto be a really concise and <\/p>\n

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\nstructured way to look at the
\ntopic. <\/p>\n

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\nObviously, we’ll have the other
\nclasses of the entire five <\/p>\n

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\nclasses that were in this series
\non good Christadelphian Talks <\/p>\n

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\nextended, and I would encourage
\nyou to listen to them all. <\/p>\n

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\nThey’re a very easy read.
\nBrother Aaron is a very easy <\/p>\n

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\nspeaker to listen to and the
\nthere’s some foundation he lays <\/p>\n

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\nin the first class, but he does
\na very good job at connecting to<\/p>\n

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\nthe key points, so you’re not
\nmissing anything if you don’t <\/p>\n

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\nhear Class 1 before listening to
\nclasses 2 and 3. <\/p>\n

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\nI will also have just a short
\nlittle comment from me right in <\/p>\n

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\nbetween classes 2 and 3 so you
\nknow when they are transitioning<\/p>\n

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\nfrom the first second class to
\nthe third class. <\/p>\n

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\nBut I hope that you enjoy both
\nof them and find them to be <\/p>\n

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\nencouraging and uplifting in
\nyour walk. <\/p>\n

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\nThe titles for classes two and
\nthree are the God of All Grace <\/p>\n

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\nand then the God of All Justice.
\nAnd for the sake of the podcast,<\/p>\n

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\nI’ve combined those for the
\nsubject for this podcast to be <\/p>\n

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\nthe God of all grace and
\njustice. <\/p>\n

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\nSo with that, I will turn it
\nover to our brother, Aaron <\/p>\n

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\nMcKee.
\nIn 1751 a boat was being <\/p>\n

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\ndestroyed off the coast of
\nEngland and on this vessel lived<\/p>\n

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\na a man who to this point in his
\nlife lived quite a an unsavory <\/p>\n

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\nexistence.
\nIn fact, he’s the owner of this <\/p>\n

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\nvessel and the vessel was a
\nslave ship. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd he’s so convicted in the
\nfury of this raging storm and in<\/p>\n

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\nconscience and in heart to
\nchange his ways, to mend his <\/p>\n

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\ndeeds to, to, to that that by
\nmiracle the storm begins to, to <\/p>\n

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\nclear.
\nHe makes his way to land. <\/p>\n

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\nWell, he makes landfall, he
\nsells the ships, he enters a <\/p>\n

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\nministry and he dedicates his
\nlife to God. 25 years later, now<\/p>\n

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\na minister, now reflecting on
\nGod’s ability to to restore him <\/p>\n

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\nfrom that situation, to esteem
\nhim better than his works. <\/p>\n

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\nHe writes a sermon on New Year’s
\nDay, this poem for his <\/p>\n

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\ncongregation, writing words we
\nknow well, penning words that <\/p>\n

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\nthat stretch to this very day
\ntowards grace. <\/p>\n

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\nThat taught my heart to fear and
\ngrace my fears relieved. <\/p>\n

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\nHow precious did that grace
\ngrace appear the hour I first <\/p>\n

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\nbelieved?
\nBrothers and sisters, many in <\/p>\n

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\nthe ages of history have
\nmarvelled in the glories of <\/p>\n

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\nGod’s character of grace.
\nFrom David, who would write in <\/p>\n

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\nFirst Chronicles.
\nWho am I Lord and and what is my<\/p>\n

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\nhouse?
\nYou bring me this far to to <\/p>\n

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\nJacob, who would say I’m not
\nworthy the least of your <\/p>\n

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\nmercies.
\nTo the centurion who proclaimed <\/p>\n

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\nof Christ, I’m not worthy, You
\ncome to my house. <\/p>\n

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\nMany marveled God could esteem
\nthem better than their works. <\/p>\n

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\nThis afternoon, brothers and
\nsisters, we will do the same. <\/p>\n

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\nWe will explore this character
\nof God dedicated to grace. <\/p>\n

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\nPrince sisters, but we will do
\nso by moving beyond the fact <\/p>\n

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\nthat our God is merciful, beyond
\nthe fact he is a loving and <\/p>\n

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\ncaring God, which he
\ndemonstrates time and again <\/p>\n

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\nthroughout his word.
\nAnd instead we will ask why? <\/p>\n

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\nWhy does our God well let you
\nknow what? <\/p>\n

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\nWhat prompts, what moves the
\ngrace of God throughout <\/p>\n

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\nScripture?
\nAnd in asking that question, <\/p>\n

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\nBron sisters, we will move
\nbeyond what God does towards who<\/p>\n

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\nGod is, the essence of what
\ngrace means to God, How how this<\/p>\n

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\ncharacter expresses itself.
\nHere we’ll consider a grace that<\/p>\n

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\nis loyal and faithful, secured
\nin his promise word. <\/p>\n

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\nHere we’ll consider a grace that
\nbears the cost of mercy that <\/p>\n

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\nthat self sacrificing that
\nreaches to the broken. <\/p>\n

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\nHere we’ll consider grace
\nresponding to truth, reaching to<\/p>\n

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\nthe humble, granting to the
\nsincere, and ultimately, <\/p>\n

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\nbrothers, sisters, we are going
\nto bring our thoughts to the <\/p>\n

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\ncharge given to Moses by the
\nLord, to be gracious as I am <\/p>\n

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\ngracious as God.
\nWe are going to end on what <\/p>\n

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\ngrace works in us, the
\ntransformation it seeks and the <\/p>\n

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\nteaching qualities it possesses
\nto all who receive it. <\/p>\n

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\nBut we’ll start our
\nconsideration by thinking back <\/p>\n

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\non Exodus 32.
\nLet’s go there for a moment. <\/p>\n

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\nRun sisters.
\nAnd we start here because while <\/p>\n

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\nthere are many places our minds
\nmight take us run sisters and <\/p>\n

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\nand considering why grace is
\ngranted and the record of <\/p>\n

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\nScripture I I put to you there
\nare a few moments so <\/p>\n

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\ncomprehensive, few so concise as
\nwhat we see in the record of <\/p>\n

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\nthis chapter.
\nIn this chapter, a number of <\/p>\n

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\nthings prompt the grace of God.
\nWe see verse 13 of chapter 32. <\/p>\n

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\nRemember Abraham says Moses
\nremember Isaac in Israel. <\/p>\n

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\nHe’s saying in the face of their
\nsin, who you swore by your name <\/p>\n

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\nhere Moses petitioned God’s
\ncovenants that grace may come. <\/p>\n

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\nWe see verse 32.
\nYeah. <\/p>\n

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\nNow forgive their sins as Moses,
\nif not, take me. <\/p>\n

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\nAlso we see Moses’s intercessor
\npetition God’s grace that that <\/p>\n

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\ngrace may come.
\nWe see chapter 33, verse 6. <\/p>\n

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\nThe people mourn.
\nThey they strip themselves of <\/p>\n

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\ntheir ornaments, they burn them
\nin fire. <\/p>\n

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\nThey show humility of heart,
\nthat grace may come. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd finally, verse 19, what does
\nGod say? <\/p>\n

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\nI am gracious to who I am
\ngracious Moses underscoring he <\/p>\n

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\nis a God of grace and that’s why
\ngrace came in total brother and <\/p>\n

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\nsisters 4 points emerge four
\npoints that all throughout <\/p>\n

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\nScripture are this this
\nframework a pattern for how the <\/p>\n

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\ngrace of God is often reaching
\nout as an outstretched hand to <\/p>\n

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\nman.
\nAnd when we see these brother <\/p>\n

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\nand sisters all throughout the
\nrecords of Scripture. <\/p>\n

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\nYeah, we we see them in the the
\naccount of Nehemiah 9 Nehemiah <\/p>\n

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\n9’s another moment of of
\nnational repentance very similar<\/p>\n

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\nto what’s happening in in the
\naccounts of Exodus. <\/p>\n

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\nWhat do we see in Nehemiah 9
\nverse one, they assemble as <\/p>\n

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\nIsrael and fasting and sackcloth
\nand dust. <\/p>\n

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\nThey show humility of heart.
\nVerse 7 Nehemiah says you are a <\/p>\n

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\nGod who chose Abraham and made
\ncovenants with us. <\/p>\n

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\nWe see covenant mercies.
\nVerse 28, the leaders and <\/p>\n

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\nLevites act as intercessors.
\nVerse 17 Nehemiah says you are a<\/p>\n

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\nGod, gracious and merciful to
\nthe thousandth. <\/p>\n

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\nHe petitions a character of
\ngrace, and while not every <\/p>\n

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\nexample of relenting, it is as
\ncomprehensive. <\/p>\n

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\nBrothers, sisters, as what we
\nsee in Nehemiah and Exodus. <\/p>\n

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\nI put to you every moment of
\nGod’s mercy is expressed for one<\/p>\n

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\nof these reasons.
\nAnd when we ask ourselves why, <\/p>\n

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\nwhy is God relenting for these
\nthings, will we come to better <\/p>\n

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\nunderstand what grace and this
\ncharacter looks like to God? <\/p>\n

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\nSo let’s start with his covenant
\nmercies. <\/p>\n

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\nBrothers and sisters, you know,
\nthere are many times in the <\/p>\n

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\nrecord of Scripture that we hear
\nthis common refrain. <\/p>\n

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\nWe see it in Deuteronomy 7 verse
\n9. <\/p>\n

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\nKnow the Lord your God is
\nfaithful keeping covenants and <\/p>\n

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\nlove, says Moses.
\nCurious, isn’t it? <\/p>\n

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\nHe says covenants and love.
\nHe, he links these two things <\/p>\n

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\nsomehow together and he’s not
\nalone in that run, sisters. <\/p>\n

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\nIn fact, we see covenants in
\nlove either implicitly or <\/p>\n

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\nexplicitly linked together many
\ntimes throughout the record of <\/p>\n

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\nhis word.
\nWe see it in Exodus. <\/p>\n

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\nI heard their groanings as God
\nand remembered my covenant with <\/p>\n

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\nAbraham.
\nWe see it in Daniel 9. <\/p>\n

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\nO awesome God, who keeps
\ncovenants and steadfast love. <\/p>\n

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\nWe read.
\nWe see it in Genesis 90. <\/p>\n

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\nEstablish my covenant with you,
\nnever to destroy all life by <\/p>\n

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\nwater.
\nAn act of covenant secures an <\/p>\n

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\nact of grace.
\nWe see it in Isaiah 37. <\/p>\n

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\nBrothers and sisters, for the
\nsake of David, my covenant, I <\/p>\n

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\nwill defend the city.
\nWe see it in the words of <\/p>\n

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\nSolomon.
\nO awesome God of Israel, there <\/p>\n

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\nis no God like you keeping
\ncovenants and love. <\/p>\n

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\nAll throughout our Bibles, Brun
\nsisters, grace is extended <\/p>\n

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\nthrough the words of God’s
\npromise. <\/p>\n

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\nAll throughout Scripture, the
\ngrace of God is secured in his <\/p>\n

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\ncovenant.
\nAnd Brun sisters, we should note<\/p>\n

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\nthe extent to which it’s
\nsecured. <\/p>\n

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\nMaybe we think to the kings of
\nIsrael. <\/p>\n

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\nYou think to Abijah, the
\nidolatry of his day. <\/p>\n

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\nWhat did God say to him in First
\nKings 15? <\/p>\n

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\nFor David’s sake, Abijah, I will
\ngive you a son for my covenant. <\/p>\n

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\nI will show you grace.
\nWe see it in Jahoram. <\/p>\n

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\nDespite the evilest day, for
\nDavid’s sake, I will not destroy<\/p>\n

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\nJudah.
\nWe see it in Solomon, despite <\/p>\n

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\nthe idolatry of his day, For
\nDavid’s sake, he says, I will <\/p>\n

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\nnot take your Kingdom.
\nAnd this underscores a simple, <\/p>\n

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\ncrucial, essential avenue of
\nwhat grace means to Godbrun <\/p>\n

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\nsisters.
\nAnd that’s that it is deeply and<\/p>\n

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\nunwaveringly committed.
\nYou know, brothers and sisters, <\/p>\n

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\nI, I, I don’t know about you,
\nbut, but sometimes I, I think we<\/p>\n

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\ncan perceive grace as something
\nMoody or whimsical, as God’s <\/p>\n

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\nemotion or, or exception to his
\nrules, where he’s relenting in <\/p>\n

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\nspite of his faithfulness.
\nThat can’t be farther from <\/p>\n

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\ntruth.
\nBrothers and sisters, all <\/p>\n

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\nthroughout Scripture, the grace
\nof God is an expression of <\/p>\n

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\nfaithfulness.
\nIt is the preeminent aspect of <\/p>\n

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\ncharacter revealed to Moses on
\nthe top of Sinai. <\/p>\n

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\nIt it is legal and deeply
\nrational where even in failures <\/p>\n

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\nit is reaching or even in
\ndarkness it’s presenting. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd we see this type of grace,
\none sisters manifest all <\/p>\n

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\nthroughout Scripture.
\nWe we see it in the accounts of <\/p>\n

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\nSecond Samuel, the accounts of
\nof Chapter 9. <\/p>\n

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\nWe recall Brun sisters in the
\ncontext of Jonathan and David’s <\/p>\n

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\nrelationship.
\nThey make a covenant and First <\/p>\n

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\nSamuel 20.
\nAnd what did David say? <\/p>\n

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\nI will never cut off love from
\nthe House of Jonathan forever, <\/p>\n

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\nno matter the unknowable, no
\nmatter the hardships, the ups <\/p>\n

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\nand downs, the betrayals, no
\nmatter what may come. <\/p>\n

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\nHe makes that pledge.
\nAnd in Second Samuel, David acts<\/p>\n

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\non this covenant.
\nHe takes Mephibosheth, then he <\/p>\n

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\ncares for him, brings him to his
\nhouse. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd what does he say in verse 9,
\nBronze sisters? <\/p>\n

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\nI do this that I might show the
\nkindness of God to Him. <\/p>\n

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\nDavid relates covenant mercies
\nto how God works in our lives. <\/p>\n

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\nWhen, sisters, and how did he
\nshow it? <\/p>\n

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\nHow did he reveal it?
\nNot because of merit, not <\/p>\n

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\nbecause it’s earned, not because
\nof worth, but because like God, <\/p>\n

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\nhe is faithful to His Word.
\nLike David, brothers and <\/p>\n

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\nsisters, we are convicted to
\nshow the same. <\/p>\n

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\nLike David, we are bound in
\ncovenant to each other through <\/p>\n

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\nthe waters of baptism.
\nWe enter as a body of Christ <\/p>\n

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\nthis commitment, and it requires
\nwe reflect the same durable <\/p>\n

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\ngrace.
\nYou know so often that the <\/p>\n

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\nimpulse draws us to treat grace
\nas temporary, as withdrawn in <\/p>\n

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\nthe face of failure.
\nIn our Lord we are challenged <\/p>\n

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\nwith grace that loves through
\nstruggle, as a spouse in a <\/p>\n

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\nmarriage that doesn’t look away
\nfrom wrong, but is is present in<\/p>\n

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\nconsequence.
\nNot because it’s merited, not <\/p>\n

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\nbecause it’s earned, but because
\nwe are committed. <\/p>\n

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\nCovenant Mercy, brother and
\nsisters, reframes grace not as <\/p>\n

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\nsomething that you give to the
\nrepentant in your life, but as <\/p>\n

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\nreaching to the broken people
\nthat are around you. <\/p>\n

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\nWe consider the second avenue of
\ngrace and we know Brun sisters <\/p>\n

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\nthat all throughout Scripture,
\nthe the grace of God, he, he <\/p>\n

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\nbuilds his relationship with man
\naround intercession, doesn’t he?<\/p>\n

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\nAnd there’s so many ways we see
\nthis Brun sisters. <\/p>\n

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\nWe see it and and Levites and
\nkings and prophets. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd it’s so common, in fact,
\nthat I think if if you’re <\/p>\n

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\nanything like me, it’s something
\nwe take for granted, It’s a <\/p>\n

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\nrole.
\nIt’s a structure of scripture <\/p>\n

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\nthat that, that that we just
\nintake or it’s something that <\/p>\n

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\nbecause it’s so common, we we
\nsee as perhaps trivial or limit <\/p>\n

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\nto a select few.
\nWe see brothers, sisters, it is <\/p>\n

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\nanything but trivial and
\nanything but limited. <\/p>\n

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\nWe see this in Ezekiel 22, verse
\n30, where in the face of <\/p>\n

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\nIsrael’s sins, what does God
\nsay? <\/p>\n

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\nHe says I looked for an
\nintercessor and asked for <\/p>\n

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\nanyone, anyone among you Israel
\nto stand in the breach and <\/p>\n

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\nmarvel.
\nThere was none anyone says God <\/p>\n

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\nin this verse.
\nBron sisters. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s the clear expectation that
\nall of us emulate this behavior <\/p>\n

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\nplay this role for the people in
\nour lives and there is much we <\/p>\n

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\ncould say, Bron sisters about
\nwhy God’s grace values an <\/p>\n

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\nintercessor.
\nYou know, we might think to the <\/p>\n

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\nto the cries of Abraham for
\nSodom. <\/p>\n

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\nYour mind might go to the tears
\nof Abigail. <\/p>\n

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\nIt might think to the prayers of
\nDaniel who didn’t pull away from<\/p>\n

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\nIsrael, but he what did he say
\nin his prayer that our brother <\/p>\n

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\nread forgive our sins, or
\nNehemiah, who said of Israel’s <\/p>\n

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\nsins, forgive our faults.
\nAnd we can know that while it <\/p>\n

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\ntakes many forms, articulates
\ndifferent ways. <\/p>\n

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\nTrue intercession, brothers and
\nsisters, is never separating <\/p>\n

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\nfrom others failures.
\nIt walks with people through <\/p>\n

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\ntrial, it draws near them and
\nfailure not, not not speaking <\/p>\n

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\nfrom afar.
\nYou know, we could note that in <\/p>\n

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\nthe prayers of Elijah, petitions
\nof Jeremiah, cries of prophets <\/p>\n

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\nwho will for years intercede
\nwith no turning or sign of hope <\/p>\n

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\nor any indication that what they
\ndo is of any benefit. <\/p>\n

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\nThat true intercession, it is
\nnever one and done. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s never just declaring a
\nwrong and then pulling ourselves<\/p>\n

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\naway.
\nIt’s a constant, persistent <\/p>\n

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\neffort to be in people’s lives.
\nBut if there’s one analogy, one <\/p>\n

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\npoint that hits to the center, I
\nthink of why, of why grace <\/p>\n

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\nresponds to intercession.
\nBrund sisters. <\/p>\n

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\nWe see it in the words of David,
\nwords spoken of Moses, words <\/p>\n

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\nthat speak to what we’ve been
\nreading on Sinai. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s the words of Psalm 106.
\nHe says God would have destroyed<\/p>\n

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\nus had not Moses, his chosen 1,
\nstood in the breach. <\/p>\n

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\nWhat David draws us to
\nunderstand. <\/p>\n

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\nBrund sisters and the symbolism
\nof a breach of a city, walls <\/p>\n

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\nthat have been ripped open and
\nan enemy is rushing to the point<\/p>\n

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\nof vulnerability and an
\nindividual puts themselves there<\/p>\n

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\nin the midst of that.
\nThat rushing dangerous way for <\/p>\n

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\neverything and everyone inside,
\nwhatever that is to the person <\/p>\n

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\nis that at the heart of
\nintercession is self sacrifice. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s suffering for one another.
\nIt’s standing exposed between <\/p>\n

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\nGod and sin and saying as Moses
\ndid, if you will not forgive <\/p>\n

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\nthem, take me God.
\nIt’s saying as Paul did to an <\/p>\n

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\nestimates, let his debt be on my
\naccount. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s saying as David prayed, let
\ntheir sin be on my account. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s saying as Abigail spoke to
\nDavid, hold me responsible for <\/p>\n

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\nmy husband.
\nTrue intercession. <\/p>\n

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\nBrunsisters bears the cost of
\ngrace. <\/p>\n

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\nIt is sensitive to the quality
\nof our God who lives by a moral <\/p>\n

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\norder.
\nIt bears the burdens of others <\/p>\n

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\non our soldiers.
\nSo grace may come and if there’s<\/p>\n

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\nany question why it’s
\nsignificant run sisters, why God<\/p>\n

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\nmoves towards it, why he puts
\nman in this position <\/p>\n

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\nartificially throughout
\nScripture to try to get us to <\/p>\n

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\nthink this way.
\nWe see it in the words of Psalm <\/p>\n

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\n59.
\nWhat does it say I look said the<\/p>\n

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\nLord for an intercessor.
\nThere was no one, so my own hand<\/p>\n

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\nbrought salvation.
\nWhat you see in this verse from <\/p>\n

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\nthe sisters is a fundamental
\ntruth about the character of who<\/p>\n

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\nour God is, and that’s simply
\nthat He is an intercessor. <\/p>\n

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\nRomans 8 speaks in this way.
\nThe Spirit of God intercedes for<\/p>\n

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\nthe weakness of man from the
\nmoment in the garden, as God <\/p>\n

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\nsteps forward, calling out to us
\nto start this process of <\/p>\n

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\nrestoring what was broken, at a
\nloss to Himself, He shows us <\/p>\n

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\nthis is who He is.
\nHe relents because it emulates <\/p>\n

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\nHis sacrificial grace.
\nBron sisters. <\/p>\n

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\nHe relents because He recognizes
\nHimself in this action. <\/p>\n

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\nWe consider the 3rd Ave. of
\nGrace and in so doing reflect <\/p>\n

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\non, you know what is perhaps the
\nmost prevalent, the most power, <\/p>\n

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\nthe most beautiful and the most
\nchallenging aspect of grace. <\/p>\n

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\nFriend, sisters, and that’s
\nhumility. <\/p>\n

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\nDon’t we see grace and humility
\nlinked all throughout our <\/p>\n

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\nBibles?
\nWe we think to the words of <\/p>\n

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\nJoel, Ren your hearts and not
\nyour garments that God may <\/p>\n

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\nrelent.
\nWe we think to Hezekiah, Lord, <\/p>\n

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\nhe prays.
\nRemember how I walk before you <\/p>\n

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\nwith my whole heart.
\nAnd God relents to Manasseh. <\/p>\n

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\nWhen captured of the Assyrians
\nsought favour with God humbling <\/p>\n

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\nself and God relented to Ahab.
\nWho in tears after Naboth’s <\/p>\n

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\ndeath, after he he convicted
\nthat man to death, put on <\/p>\n

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\nsackcloth weeps and what does
\nGod say? <\/p>\n

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\nSee how he humbled himself
\nbefore me. <\/p>\n

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\nI will not bring disaster in his
\nday. <\/p>\n

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\nAll throughout scripture, Brun
\nsisters, the grace of God moves <\/p>\n

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\ntowards humility.
\nAll throughout Scripture, he <\/p>\n

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\nrelents for this quality in the
\nheart of man. <\/p>\n

324
\n00:20:23,160 –> 00:20:25,480
\nAnd there is much we could say,
\nBrun sisters, much we could <\/p>\n

325
\n00:20:25,480 –> 00:20:28,040
\ndiscuss this morning about this
\nquality of our God. <\/p>\n

326
\n00:20:31,200 –> 00:20:35,680
\nWe can know the extent of it.
\nWe’re in Ahab, despite the sin <\/p>\n

327
\n00:20:35,680 –> 00:20:38,040
\nhe had done this, the sin he
\nwould continue to do, By no <\/p>\n

328
\n00:20:38,040 –> 00:20:41,040
\nmeans was he a reformed man
\nafter after God gave him that <\/p>\n

329
\n00:20:41,040 –> 00:20:43,480
\ngrace.
\nHumility in his heart in that <\/p>\n

330
\n00:20:43,480 –> 00:20:45,840
\nmoment was sufficient for his
\ngrace. <\/p>\n

331
\n00:20:48,320 –> 00:20:50,640
\nWhat a powerful lesson.
\nBron sisters, we can note that <\/p>\n

332
\n00:20:50,720 –> 00:20:53,560
\nthat in that example we are
\nchallenged to do the same, to <\/p>\n

333
\n00:20:53,560 –> 00:20:57,480
\nremove conditions that that man
\nso often imposes on grace. <\/p>\n

334
\n00:20:57,560 –> 00:21:06,520
\nYou know, we might think to
\nPeter and James, who both <\/p>\n

335
\n00:21:06,520 –> 00:21:10,040
\nindependently state that God
\nopposes the proud and gives <\/p>\n

336
\n00:21:10,040 –> 00:21:12,080
\ngrace to the humble.
\nAnd we can reflect, brothers, <\/p>\n

337
\n00:21:12,080 –> 00:21:15,960
\nsisters, that that where pride
\nis, grace cannot be. <\/p>\n

338
\n00:21:19,080 –> 00:21:22,080
\nAnd not because it isn’t there,
\nnot because the hand of God <\/p>\n

339
\n00:21:22,080 –> 00:21:25,520
\ndoesn’t extend it, but because
\npride lies to us. <\/p>\n

340
\n00:21:27,720 –> 00:21:29,520
\nPride blinds us to seeing we’ve
\nneeded. <\/p>\n

341
\n00:21:29,520 –> 00:21:31,840
\nPride makes us the latest IANS
\nwho said in their heart, I am <\/p>\n

342
\n00:21:31,840 –> 00:21:34,320
\nrich, lacking in nothing, not
\nrealizing, says Christ, you are <\/p>\n

343
\n00:21:34,320 –> 00:21:36,640
\nwretched, pitiable, poor, blind
\nand naked. <\/p>\n

344
\n00:21:36,760 –> 00:21:41,400
\nPride makes you the Pharisee in
\nChrist’s parable who said in <\/p>\n

345
\n00:21:41,400 –> 00:21:44,320
\ntheir hearts, thank God I am not
\nas that Sinner we think to the <\/p>\n

346
\n00:21:44,320 –> 00:21:46,160
\nwords of Christ to Nicodemus
\nBruns sisters. <\/p>\n

347
\n00:21:46,160 –> 00:21:48,920
\nGod so love to the world he gave
\nhis son. <\/p>\n

348
\n00:21:48,920 –> 00:21:52,440
\nThat is the unmeasurable depth
\nof grace quality of his <\/p>\n

349
\n00:21:52,440 –> 00:21:55,400
\ncharacter he extends to man.
\nThe only thing that can keep you<\/p>\n

350
\n00:21:55,400 –> 00:22:02,440
\nfrom that, Bruns sisters, is
\nourselves. <\/p>\n

351
\n00:22:02,640 –> 00:22:08,880
\nBut if there’s one thing, one
\nsingular reason, grace draws to <\/p>\n

352
\n00:22:08,880 –> 00:22:11,240
\nhumility, Bronze sisters, I
\nsuggest we see it in the words <\/p>\n

353
\n00:22:11,240 –> 00:22:12,680
\non our screen.
\nThese are the words of David, <\/p>\n

354
\n00:22:12,680 –> 00:22:15,360
\nthe words of Psalm 51.
\nWhat does he say of his God? <\/p>\n

355
\n00:22:15,360 –> 00:22:18,000
\nThis is a quality he came to
\nknow intricately of God. <\/p>\n

356
\n00:22:18,160 –> 00:22:26,160
\nBehold, you delight in inward
\ntruth. <\/p>\n

357
\n00:22:31,760 –> 00:22:36,960
\nWhat David touches on brothers,
\nsisters, and that statement is a<\/p>\n

358
\n00:22:36,960 –> 00:22:41,000
\nrepeated, fundamental, central
\nunderstanding and knowing what <\/p>\n

359
\n00:22:41,000 –> 00:22:43,240
\ngrace means to God.
\nAnd that’s simply that all <\/p>\n

360
\n00:22:43,240 –> 00:22:51,840
\nthroughout Scripture it is
\ngranted on substance and not <\/p>\n

361
\n00:22:51,840 –> 00:22:56,480
\nimage.
\nAll throughout Scripture. <\/p>\n

362
\n00:22:56,480 –> 00:22:58,680
\nBruns sisters, we see that
\nlesson, don’t we? <\/p>\n

363
\n00:22:58,680 –> 00:23:01,640
\nGod emphasizes this meshes of
\ngrace given not from from <\/p>\n

364
\n00:23:01,640 –> 00:23:04,600
\npartiality, not for appearance,
\nnot for external merit, but to <\/p>\n

365
\n00:23:04,600 –> 00:23:10,880
\nthose who’ve recognized in
\nthemselves a need for it, those <\/p>\n

366
\n00:23:10,880 –> 00:23:12,440
\nwho desire.
\nWe see it in the task collector <\/p>\n

367
\n00:23:12,440 –> 00:23:15,080
\nof Luke 7 who goes justify
\nbefore God rather than the <\/p>\n

368
\n00:23:15,080 –> 00:23:16,800
\nPharisee.
\nWe see it in that that woman <\/p>\n

369
\n00:23:16,800 –> 00:23:19,960
\nbefore Simon who when no one in
\nthat room thought her deserving <\/p>\n

370
\n00:23:19,960 –> 00:23:22,360
\nof grace.
\nChrist says your heart has made <\/p>\n

371
\n00:23:22,360 –> 00:23:28,480
\nyou worthy, your desire makes
\nyou worthy of this character of <\/p>\n

372
\n00:23:28,480 –> 00:23:30,040
\nGod.
\nYour sins are forgiven and she <\/p>\n

373
\n00:23:30,040 –> 00:23:33,440
\ngoes justified before God rather
\nthan the the seemingly righteous<\/p>\n

374
\n00:23:33,440 –> 00:23:35,400
\nPharisee.
\nGrace is given, brothers and <\/p>\n

375
\n00:23:35,400 –> 00:23:40,040
\nsisters, to those who ask and
\nwhat we see in this aspect of <\/p>\n

376
\n00:23:40,040 –> 00:23:50,160
\ngrace.
\nIs the greatest challenge to <\/p>\n

377
\n00:23:50,160 –> 00:23:52,120
\nman’s concept of grace Brains,
\nsisters. <\/p>\n

378
\n00:23:52,120 –> 00:23:58,640
\nBecause you see, even at our
\nbest, we attach conditions to <\/p>\n

379
\n00:23:58,640 –> 00:24:03,440
\ngrace, don’t we?
\nI give grace when I feel safe or<\/p>\n

380
\n00:24:03,440 –> 00:24:06,640
\nappreciated.
\nYou know, I, I, I, I give grace <\/p>\n

381
\n00:24:06,640 –> 00:24:09,160
\nwhen, when somebody apologized
\nfor their wrong, I showed grace <\/p>\n

382
\n00:24:09,160 –> 00:24:11,280
\nbecause I thought that that
\nbrother or sister was of good <\/p>\n

383
\n00:24:11,280 –> 00:24:13,040
\nrepute.
\nSo, so they warrant it because <\/p>\n

384
\n00:24:13,040 –> 00:24:15,680
\nsurely the righteous merit and
\nthe unrighteous don’t. <\/p>\n

385
\n00:24:15,680 –> 00:24:18,520
\nWhat’s implied in that thinking,
\nbrothers, sisters, is that grace<\/p>\n

386
\n00:24:18,520 –> 00:24:27,440
\nis something to be earned.
\nMany in our Bibles wrestled and <\/p>\n

387
\n00:24:27,440 –> 00:24:30,280
\nstruggled in that perception to
\nreserving grace for the for the <\/p>\n

388
\n00:24:30,280 –> 00:24:32,320
\ndeserving.
\nThe Pharisees resented Christ <\/p>\n

389
\n00:24:32,320 –> 00:24:37,040
\nfor this, for showing grace to
\nthe to the undeserving. <\/p>\n

390
\n00:24:37,040 –> 00:24:39,400
\nThe elder brother of the
\nprodigal son resented grace <\/p>\n

391
\n00:24:39,520 –> 00:24:41,680
\nshown his brother considering it
\nundeserving. <\/p>\n

392
\n00:24:41,680 –> 00:24:44,600
\nWhat did he say all these years?
\nI’ve slaved for you, he said to <\/p>\n

393
\n00:24:44,600 –> 00:24:46,600
\nhis father, and you didn’t give
\nme anything. <\/p>\n

394
\n00:24:46,640 –> 00:24:47,840
\nI earned it.
\nHe didn’t. <\/p>\n

395
\n00:24:50,560 –> 00:24:53,360
\nLaborers in the vineyard
\nresented grace given those who <\/p>\n

396
\n00:24:53,360 –> 00:24:56,160
\ncame later, because surely they
\nthey didn’t earn it as I did. <\/p>\n

397
\n00:24:56,240 –> 00:24:59,000
\nIt’s all too often brother,
\nsisters, we think the same. <\/p>\n

398
\n00:25:01,800 –> 00:25:03,960
\nWhy grace shouldn’t go to that
\nneighbor down the street? <\/p>\n

399
\n00:25:03,960 –> 00:25:05,400
\nWhy?
\nWhy shouldn’t go to this, this <\/p>\n

400
\n00:25:05,400 –> 00:25:06,480
\nbrother or sister in the
\necclesia? <\/p>\n

401
\n00:25:06,480 –> 00:25:08,800
\nBecause I acted right.
\nI made the right calls in life. <\/p>\n

402
\n00:25:08,920 –> 00:25:11,560
\nThey didn’t they, they didn’t,
\nthey didn’t live as as pious, as<\/p>\n

403
\n00:25:11,560 –> 00:25:14,200
\nas righteous as I did.
\nThey didn’t take the Scriptures <\/p>\n

404
\n00:25:14,200 –> 00:25:21,680
\nas seriously as me.
\nSo often we see grace like <\/p>\n

405
\n00:25:21,680 –> 00:25:25,880
\nJonah.
\nWho could accept it for those he<\/p>\n

406
\n00:25:25,880 –> 00:25:28,800
\ndeemed worthy himself, his
\npeople, the the things he loved?<\/p>\n

407
\n00:25:28,800 –> 00:25:31,160
\nSurely they were certainly they
\nwere deserving in the mercy of <\/p>\n

408
\n00:25:31,160 –> 00:25:33,120
\nGod.
\nSurely not the wicked Gentile. <\/p>\n

409
\n00:25:35,320 –> 00:25:37,480
\nSurely they don’t deserve God’s
\ngrace. <\/p>\n

410
\n00:25:37,480 –> 00:25:39,800
\nThat is why I made haste to
\nflee. <\/p>\n

411
\n00:25:39,800 –> 00:25:42,800
\nHe says he indicts himself as
\nthis being his problem. <\/p>\n

412
\n00:25:42,800 –> 00:25:46,080
\nIn their examples, Brothers
\nSisters is a warning that grace <\/p>\n

413
\n00:25:46,200 –> 00:25:48,600
\ncan be something we grow to
\nresent. <\/p>\n

414
\n00:25:51,160 –> 00:25:54,000
\nIt’s a warning that this life
\ncan mean that that grace can be <\/p>\n

415
\n00:25:54,000 –> 00:25:55,880
\nan enigma to those who don’t
\nshow it. <\/p>\n

416
\n00:25:55,880 –> 00:26:02,640
\nIt can be offensive when we
\ndon’t understand it. <\/p>\n

417
\n00:26:15,120 –> 00:26:20,160
\nAnd it’s this very concept of
\nundeserved grace from sisters <\/p>\n

418
\n00:26:20,160 –> 00:26:23,240
\nthat that will bring us to the
\nfinal point that the last avenue<\/p>\n

419
\n00:26:23,240 –> 00:26:26,640
\nof of why grace is is granted in
\nthe records of Scripture. <\/p>\n

420
\n00:26:26,760 –> 00:26:28,640
\nAnd we see it in the words of
\nDaniel, the words our our <\/p>\n

421
\n00:26:28,640 –> 00:26:33,360
\nbrother read of Chapter 9, where
\nin a moment of intercession, in <\/p>\n

422
\n00:26:33,360 –> 00:26:36,000
\na moment where the scriptures
\nproclaimed to Daniel that that <\/p>\n

423
\n00:26:36,000 –> 00:26:37,640
\nthe return of the Exiles was
\nimminent. <\/p>\n

424
\n00:26:37,720 –> 00:26:39,440
\nWhat does he say?
\nHow does he petition God? <\/p>\n

425
\n00:26:39,440 –> 00:26:42,680
\nHe says do this, Lord, not
\nbecause we are righteous, not <\/p>\n

426
\n00:26:42,680 –> 00:26:48,240
\nbecause it has been earned, but
\nbecause you are merciful. <\/p>\n

427
\n00:26:52,120 –> 00:26:55,600
\nWhat Daniel forces us to
\nreconcile Bron sisters is that <\/p>\n

428
\n00:26:55,600 –> 00:26:58,560
\nwhile God might relent in
\nScripture because of covenants, <\/p>\n

429
\n00:26:58,560 –> 00:27:01,040
\nwhile he inclined his ear for
\nintercessors, and he will <\/p>\n

430
\n00:27:01,040 –> 00:27:03,840
\ncomfort the humble in the
\nhonesty of their hearts, the <\/p>\n

431
\n00:27:03,840 –> 00:27:07,240
\nAmazing Grace of God is that
\nnone of these actions, Bron <\/p>\n

432
\n00:27:07,240 –> 00:27:09,520
\nsisters, ever earn you His
\ngrace. <\/p>\n

433
\n00:27:12,280 –> 00:27:14,920
\nNone of these things that we’ve
\nconsidered does anything to make<\/p>\n

434
\n00:27:14,920 –> 00:27:17,480
\nyou deserving of it.
\nHe is gracious because this is <\/p>\n

435
\n00:27:17,480 –> 00:27:19,360
\nwho He is.
\nI knew you were gracious, says <\/p>\n

436
\n00:27:19,360 –> 00:27:23,240
\nMoses.
\nI am God and not man, so I <\/p>\n

437
\n00:27:23,240 –> 00:27:26,280
\nrelent, he said to Hosea, who is
\nlike you, pardoning iniquity and<\/p>\n

438
\n00:27:26,280 –> 00:27:27,960
\npassing transgression, writes
\nMicah. <\/p>\n

439
\n00:27:27,960 –> 00:27:30,920
\nI am merciful and gracious to
\nthe thousandth, he said of <\/p>\n

440
\n00:27:30,920 –> 00:27:40,000
\nMoses.
\nThis, brothers and sisters, is <\/p>\n

441
\n00:27:40,000 –> 00:27:42,560
\nthe wellspring from which all
\ngrace flows. <\/p>\n

442
\n00:27:42,560 –> 00:27:45,560
\nWhen God says to Moses and
\nExodus, I am gracious to who I <\/p>\n

443
\n00:27:45,560 –> 00:27:47,920
\nwill be gracious, what he’s not
\nsaying is is my grace is <\/p>\n

444
\n00:27:47,920 –> 00:27:49,040
\narbitrary.
\nMoses. <\/p>\n

445
\n00:27:49,040 –> 00:27:54,600
\nHe’s saying in every case it is
\nfree, unmerited, unearned. <\/p>\n

446
\n00:27:54,600 –> 00:27:57,160
\nGrace is the prerogative of
\ngoblin sisters. <\/p>\n

447
\n00:27:57,160 –> 00:28:05,680
\nThis is the aspect of grace that
\nchallenges us to forgive as He <\/p>\n

448
\n00:28:05,680 –> 00:28:15,600
\nhas forgiven us.
\nThis is the end of Class 2, the <\/p>\n

449
\n00:28:15,600 –> 00:28:20,280
\nGod of all grace.
\nNow this is the start of class <\/p>\n

450
\n00:28:20,280 –> 00:28:29,880
\n3, the God of all justice.
\nNow we’ve talked this morning on<\/p>\n

451
\n00:28:29,880 –> 00:28:32,800
\nmany things about this, this
\nmerciful quality of God. <\/p>\n

452
\n00:28:32,800 –> 00:28:35,480
\nBrothers and sisters, we, we
\nnoted the, the loyalty and <\/p>\n

453
\n00:28:35,480 –> 00:28:39,880
\nsteadfastness of it.
\nWe talked about grace through, <\/p>\n

454
\n00:28:39,920 –> 00:28:43,440
\nthrough intercessors, how how he
\nresponds because it mirrors his <\/p>\n

455
\n00:28:43,440 –> 00:28:46,160
\ncharacter and his selflessness
\nand his compassion. <\/p>\n

456
\n00:28:46,160 –> 00:28:49,200
\nWe, we spoke of humility, how it
\nallows for grace and and <\/p>\n

457
\n00:28:49,200 –> 00:28:52,960
\nreflects God’s desire for
\nsincerity over partiality. <\/p>\n

458
\n00:28:53,080 –> 00:28:58,680
\nBut Bronn sisters, we’ll, we’ll,
\nwe’ll close our thoughts on two <\/p>\n

459
\n00:28:58,680 –> 00:29:03,200
\npoints 2 fundamental things when
\nit comes to understanding this <\/p>\n

460
\n00:29:03,200 –> 00:29:11,480
\nrelenting character of our God.
\nThe 1st is that learning to <\/p>\n

461
\n00:29:11,520 –> 00:29:22,320
\naccept grace is crucial.
\nYeah, that that that might sound<\/p>\n

462
\n00:29:22,320 –> 00:29:24,440
\nlike the easy part.
\nBrothers and sisters, it is far <\/p>\n

463
\n00:29:24,440 –> 00:29:28,720
\nfrom easy.
\nIt is so easy to impart <\/p>\n

464
\n00:29:28,720 –> 00:29:30,960
\npunishment on ourselves.
\nSo it’s so easy to when we have,<\/p>\n

465
\n00:29:31,080 –> 00:29:33,760
\nwe have done wrong, condemn
\nourselves, do it and, and let <\/p>\n

466
\n00:29:33,760 –> 00:29:36,800
\nthe, the, the weight of those
\nwrongs, those sins weigh us down<\/p>\n

467
\n00:29:36,800 –> 00:29:39,480
\nin like keep us inactive from,
\nfrom showing the character of <\/p>\n

468
\n00:29:39,480 –> 00:29:43,120
\nGod or whatever pit of sin we’re
\nin. <\/p>\n

469
\n00:29:43,120 –> 00:29:46,240
\nThink this is surely too far
\nfrom God’s standard and, and, <\/p>\n

470
\n00:29:46,440 –> 00:29:49,160
\nand retribution will come and,
\nand that this was too great a <\/p>\n

471
\n00:29:49,160 –> 00:29:51,280
\nmistake and, and surely God
\nwon’t let it slide. <\/p>\n

472
\n00:29:51,400 –> 00:29:53,360
\nWhat does Christ say to the
\nPharisee of Luke 18? <\/p>\n

473
\n00:29:53,360 –> 00:29:58,120
\nBrother and sisters Who loved me
\nmore? <\/p>\n

474
\n00:29:58,120 –> 00:30:01,560
\nSimon?
\nThe one forgiven much or little?<\/p>\n

475
\n00:30:01,560 –> 00:30:04,920
\nOur capacity to accept the
\ndepths of God’s grace between <\/p>\n

476
\n00:30:04,920 –> 00:30:07,080
\nsisters?
\nIt is directly related to our <\/p>\n

477
\n00:30:07,080 –> 00:30:11,920
\nrelationship with God.
\nDirectly related to how much you<\/p>\n

478
\n00:30:11,920 –> 00:30:14,720
\nwill be willing to give others.
\nIn His words, we are reminded if<\/p>\n

479
\n00:30:14,720 –> 00:30:17,560
\nyou only accept a little little,
\nyou will only give a little. <\/p>\n

480
\n00:30:19,520 –> 00:30:22,280
\nIn his words, we are reminded
\nthat to to be accepting of grace<\/p>\n

481
\n00:30:22,280 –> 00:30:25,480
\nis to learn how to give it.
\nWe’re reminded that we only love<\/p>\n

482
\n00:30:25,600 –> 00:30:29,000
\nbecause he first showed us how
\nto love. <\/p>\n

483
\n00:30:41,040 –> 00:30:46,040
\nBut the final point we’ll note
\nare in the words of Paul. <\/p>\n

484
\n00:30:46,040 –> 00:30:51,160
\nDo you presume?
\nOh, man, you who practice evil, <\/p>\n

485
\n00:30:51,160 –> 00:30:53,600
\nthat you will escape the justice
\nof God. <\/p>\n

486
\n00:30:53,640 –> 00:30:56,400
\nOr do you presume on the riches
\nof his forbearance, not <\/p>\n

487
\n00:30:56,400 –> 00:31:00,640
\nunderstanding, he says, that
\ngrace was meant to lead you to <\/p>\n

488
\n00:31:00,640 –> 00:31:02,680
\nrepentance.
\nYou know, I find it interesting,<\/p>\n

489
\n00:31:02,680 –> 00:31:07,320
\nbrothers and sisters, that often
\nwhen somebody might talk a <\/p>\n

490
\n00:31:07,320 –> 00:31:09,920
\nlittle bit too much about grace,
\nthere’s a common response. <\/p>\n

491
\n00:31:09,920 –> 00:31:12,520
\nAnd I’m guilty of this.
\nIt’s it’s well, what about truth<\/p>\n

492
\n00:31:15,640 –> 00:31:17,960
\nas if you can have one without
\nthe other. <\/p>\n

493
\n00:31:18,000 –> 00:31:19,520
\nYou know, I’m not trying to be
\ndismissive of that. <\/p>\n

494
\n00:31:19,520 –> 00:31:22,040
\nBron sisters Again, I’m a person
\nwho said that myself. <\/p>\n

495
\n00:31:22,160 –> 00:31:25,280
\nBut in that is a misperception
\nbecause that’s coming from a <\/p>\n

496
\n00:31:25,280 –> 00:31:31,360
\nmischaracterization of grace as
\ntolerance or a blank check you <\/p>\n

497
\n00:31:31,360 –> 00:31:34,400
\nreceived in moments of wrong
\nThat that that must be balanced <\/p>\n

498
\n00:31:34,440 –> 00:31:36,960
\nwith this other part of of truth
\nof God’s character. <\/p>\n

499
\n00:31:37,000 –> 00:31:39,360
\nWhat Paul highlights in that
\nstatement, Bron sisters, in that<\/p>\n

500
\n00:31:39,360 –> 00:31:44,720
\nverse is the fundamental
\nchallenge to that premise that <\/p>\n

501
\n00:31:44,720 –> 00:31:48,200
\ngrace is never the end of truth,
\nnor is that the absence of of <\/p>\n

502
\n00:31:48,200 –> 00:31:51,240
\nresponsibility, nor does it
\nbegin when the law of God ends. <\/p>\n

503
\n00:31:51,320 –> 00:31:54,800
\nGrace is not tolerance, it is
\nmercy leading us to <\/p>\n

504
\n00:31:54,800 –> 00:31:59,960
\nrighteousness.
\nBron sisters, all throughout <\/p>\n

505
\n00:31:59,960 –> 00:32:02,400
\nScripture, God implores us to
\nsee this message. <\/p>\n

506
\n00:32:02,400 –> 00:32:04,600
\nWe see it in Peter spoken to of
\nChrist God. <\/p>\n

507
\n00:32:04,600 –> 00:32:07,280
\nChrist gives him grace to build
\nhim to something better. <\/p>\n

508
\n00:32:09,360 –> 00:32:12,080
\nPaul giving grace to build him
\nto an instrument of God. <\/p>\n

509
\n00:32:12,080 –> 00:32:15,160
\nSamson giving grace to do with
\nit what he could never hope to <\/p>\n

510
\n00:32:15,160 –> 00:32:17,440
\ndo without it.
\nGrace is not God overlooking <\/p>\n

511
\n00:32:17,440 –> 00:32:20,280
\nsin, Brun sisters, it is his
\ntool of instruction. <\/p>\n

512
\n00:32:22,760 –> 00:32:25,640
\nIt’s overcoming sin by showing
\nus a better way, and then he <\/p>\n

513
\n00:32:25,640 –> 00:32:28,240
\nexpects us to walk in it.
\nAnd that means, Brun sisters, <\/p>\n

514
\n00:32:28,240 –> 00:32:32,760
\nonce it’s given, it is never
\nsomething you leave behind, not <\/p>\n

515
\n00:32:32,760 –> 00:32:35,440
\na doormat where you walk over
\nand you you wipe your feet clean<\/p>\n

516
\n00:32:35,440 –> 00:32:38,040
\nand you walk inside and and
\nleave its effects in the past. <\/p>\n

517
\n00:32:38,040 –> 00:32:41,680
\nIt is something we live with.
\nPaul speaks this way in Romans, <\/p>\n

518
\n00:32:44,480 –> 00:32:49,320
\nwhere one’s sin reign to death.
\nEven so, grace must reign in us <\/p>\n

519
\n00:32:49,320 –> 00:32:51,960
\nto eternal life.
\nIt rains in me, says Paul. <\/p>\n

520
\n00:32:54,240 –> 00:32:57,000
\nIt is like a king over me.
\nIt, it, it rules everything <\/p>\n

521
\n00:32:57,000 –> 00:33:00,240
\nabout who I am, how I think, how
\nI treat others, how I speak <\/p>\n

522
\n00:33:00,240 –> 00:33:01,840
\nabout truth.
\nIt is not something passive. <\/p>\n

523
\n00:33:01,840 –> 00:33:04,760
\nIt is active always.
\nHe writes the same in Romans 6. <\/p>\n

524
\n00:33:04,800 –> 00:33:07,360
\nI am not under law, I am under
\ngrace. <\/p>\n

525
\n00:33:09,240 –> 00:33:10,840
\nHe writes the same in Romans 5,
\nverse 20. <\/p>\n

526
\n00:33:10,840 –> 00:33:13,640
\nGrace reigns in me through
\nrighteousness. <\/p>\n

527
\n00:33:13,640 –> 00:33:15,280
\nIf we can do that, run the
\nsisters. <\/p>\n

528
\n00:33:15,360 –> 00:33:18,320
\nIf you can conceive of grace in
\nthis way, it will do some <\/p>\n

529
\n00:33:18,320 –> 00:33:24,600
\npowerful things.
\nTitus 2 verse 11 reads For the <\/p>\n

530
\n00:33:24,600 –> 00:33:28,200
\ngrace of God that bringeth
\nsalvation to all man hath <\/p>\n

531
\n00:33:28,200 –> 00:33:34,920
\nappeared to man, teaching us to
\ndeny ungodliness, that you might<\/p>\n

532
\n00:33:34,920 –> 00:33:37,280
\nlive godly lives.
\nGrace, brothers and sisters, <\/p>\n

533
\n00:33:37,560 –> 00:33:45,040
\nteaches you.
\nIt’ll teach you to be Paul, who <\/p>\n

534
\n00:33:45,040 –> 00:33:48,320
\ncould say by grace I am the
\nperson that I am and not in <\/p>\n

535
\n00:33:48,320 –> 00:33:49,920
\nvain.
\nIt wasn’t given as something <\/p>\n

536
\n00:33:49,920 –> 00:33:52,960
\ntransient in passing, but it
\nmade me labour more abundantly. <\/p>\n

537
\n00:33:52,960 –> 00:33:55,200
\nIt’ll teach you that that
\ndespite your mistakes, the <\/p>\n

538
\n00:33:55,200 –> 00:33:57,200
\nthings you’ve done, the things
\nyou’ve struggled to forgive <\/p>\n

539
\n00:33:57,200 –> 00:34:02,720
\nyourself for, you are worthy in
\nthe eyes of God and you can have<\/p>\n

540
\n00:34:02,720 –> 00:34:05,400
\nendurance and grace that you
\ncould not give yourself. <\/p>\n

541
\n00:34:05,400 –> 00:34:10,280
\nIt’ll teach you to be Isaiah,
\nwho in seeing the awesome <\/p>\n

542
\n00:34:10,480 –> 00:34:13,719
\nrighteous truth of God and his
\nmight and power, realizing his <\/p>\n

543
\n00:34:13,719 –> 00:34:15,639
\nsins before him, but in the
\nwords of God, your sins are <\/p>\n

544
\n00:34:15,639 –> 00:34:18,239
\nforgiven, stands up and goes
\ninto Israel. <\/p>\n

545
\n00:34:18,280 –> 00:34:21,239
\nIt’ll teach you to be the same,
\nto be strong in grace. <\/p>\n

546
\n00:34:21,400 –> 00:34:26,480
\nIt’ll teach you peace and your
\nrelationship with God. <\/p>\n

547
\n00:34:26,480 –> 00:34:31,920
\nBren sisters, that you can draw
\nboldly to the throne of grace, <\/p>\n

548
\n00:34:31,960 –> 00:34:35,239
\nknowing it is always present and
\nit will always settle you in <\/p>\n

549
\n00:34:35,239 –> 00:34:37,600
\nmoments of failure.
\nIt’ll make you as all those <\/p>\n

550
\n00:34:37,600 –> 00:34:41,040
\nthroughout Scripture who quoted
\nthe words of Exodus 34 brothers.<\/p>\n

551
\n00:34:41,040 –> 00:34:44,239
\nSisters who recognized that
\nturning point of Scripture and <\/p>\n

552
\n00:34:44,239 –> 00:34:47,360
\nlived and hoped because no
\nmatter the uncertainties of <\/p>\n

553
\n00:34:47,360 –> 00:34:52,760
\nlife, no matter whatever chaos
\nwould be around them, they knew <\/p>\n

554
\n00:34:52,800 –> 00:34:58,720
\nthat God was always merciful.
\nIt’ll make you David, who in <\/p>\n

555
\n00:34:58,720 –> 00:35:01,640
\ndespairing at the world that
\nSantas destruction, took hope. <\/p>\n

556
\n00:35:01,640 –> 00:35:03,120
\nAnd what does he say in Psalm
\n86? <\/p>\n

557
\n00:35:03,120 –> 00:35:06,800
\nYou, Lord, are merciful, slow to
\nanger, and abounding and <\/p>\n

558
\n00:35:06,800 –> 00:35:12,160
\nsteadfast love and faithfulness.
\nIt’ll make you Joel, who hoped <\/p>\n

559
\n00:35:12,160 –> 00:35:17,400
\nin hopeless days that his people
\nwould turn to God and was <\/p>\n

560
\n00:35:17,840 –> 00:35:21,240
\nconvicted every day in their
\nfailure to do that yet and still<\/p>\n

561
\n00:35:21,240 –> 00:35:23,160
\nimplored them with the reminders
\nof God’s character. <\/p>\n

562
\n00:35:23,160 –> 00:35:26,760
\nHe is gracious and merciful,
\nslow to anger and abounding in <\/p>\n

563
\n00:35:26,760 –> 00:35:28,240
\nlove.
\nIt’ll make you the authors of <\/p>\n

564
\n00:35:28,240 –> 00:35:33,400
\nLamentation.
\nBrothers, Sisters who’s standing<\/p>\n

565
\n00:35:33,400 –> 00:35:41,480
\nin the rubbles of Jerusalem
\nwould say, even here, Lord, I <\/p>\n

566
\n00:35:41,480 –> 00:35:44,280
\nknow you are merciful and
\nabounding in love. <\/p>\n

567
\n00:35:44,520 –> 00:35:53,240
\nWe and brothers and sisters, on
\nthe words of Peter, words that <\/p>\n

568
\n00:35:53,240 –> 00:35:57,840
\nencompass the power, the care
\nand the transformation of God’s <\/p>\n

569
\n00:35:57,840 –> 00:36:01,800
\nAmazing Grace that has changed
\nthe lives of countless others <\/p>\n

570
\n00:36:01,960 –> 00:36:04,840
\nand is being presented to you.
\nYou have suffered a little <\/p>\n

571
\n00:36:04,840 –> 00:36:09,880
\nwhile, says Peter.
\nAnd indeed we do, brothers and <\/p>\n

572
\n00:36:09,880 –> 00:36:12,960
\nsisters, we live in a flawed
\nworld as flawed people. <\/p>\n

573
\n00:36:13,200 –> 00:36:21,240
\nBut the God of all grace is
\ncalling you to his eternal glory<\/p>\n

574
\n00:36:21,400 –> 00:36:23,800
\nin Christ.
\nAnd he will himself, through <\/p>\n

575
\n00:36:23,800 –> 00:36:28,600
\nthat grace restore, establish,
\nstrengthen and settle you. <\/p>\n

576
\n00:36:28,920 –> 00:36:31,560
\nTo him be dominion forever and
\never, says Peter. <\/p>\n

577
\n00:36:34,240 –> 00:36:43,960
\nAmen.
\nOur world cries for justice, <\/p>\n

578
\n00:36:47,520 –> 00:36:48,280
\ndoesn’t it?
\nWe? <\/p>\n

579
\n00:36:48,280 –> 00:36:52,400
\nWe see this outcry practically
\neverywhere we look. <\/p>\n

580
\n00:36:52,400 –> 00:36:58,360
\nWe see it in protests over world
\nevents decrying destruction of <\/p>\n

581
\n00:36:58,360 –> 00:37:00,440
\nnature and and deaths of
\ninnocence. <\/p>\n

582
\n00:37:00,440 –> 00:37:03,040
\nWe we see it in depravity of the
\nimpoverished. <\/p>\n

583
\n00:37:04,680 –> 00:37:07,640
\nWe see it in cases of corruption
\nand and abuses of power, Brun <\/p>\n

584
\n00:37:07,640 –> 00:37:09,240
\nsisters.
\nWe see it in in out cries <\/p>\n

585
\n00:37:09,240 –> 00:37:16,440
\nagainst lawlessness, oppression
\nof power imbalances, governments<\/p>\n

586
\n00:37:16,440 –> 00:37:19,840
\nto citizens, countries to other
\ncountries. <\/p>\n

587
\n00:37:19,840 –> 00:37:22,680
\nYou have husbands to wives, you
\nhave civil and social injustice.<\/p>\n

588
\n00:37:22,680 –> 00:37:24,800
\nAnd Brun sisters and seeing
\nthese things and witnessing this<\/p>\n

589
\n00:37:24,800 –> 00:37:27,440
\nworld around us, well, maybe not
\npersonal to us. <\/p>\n

590
\n00:37:27,560 –> 00:37:33,000
\nIt, it certainly feels personal.
\nThere are certainly moments <\/p>\n

591
\n00:37:33,000 –> 00:37:36,000
\nwhere you see, we, we see
\ninjustice and it sits in our <\/p>\n

592
\n00:37:36,000 –> 00:37:38,120
\nstomach.
\nIt, it weighs in our heart. <\/p>\n

593
\n00:37:38,120 –> 00:37:43,960
\nIn fact, huge portions of
\nsociety are built around <\/p>\n

594
\n00:37:43,960 –> 00:37:49,560
\nalleviating that feeling.
\nYou, you have unions, you have <\/p>\n

595
\n00:37:49,560 –> 00:37:51,840
\nlaw firms, you have you have
\npolitical parties, rightly or <\/p>\n

596
\n00:37:51,840 –> 00:37:55,920
\nwrongly, all capitalizing on
\nman’s desire for justice. <\/p>\n

597
\n00:37:55,920 –> 00:38:01,760
\nAnd this fixation, this drive in
\nthe heart of man to enforce <\/p>\n

598
\n00:38:01,760 –> 00:38:04,440
\nright in the face of wrong
\njustice and face of injustice, <\/p>\n

599
\n00:38:04,520 –> 00:38:09,400
\nthat is nothing new.
\nBrothers and sisters, I thought <\/p>\n

600
\n00:38:09,400 –> 00:38:12,280
\nyou could go to the earliest
\nrecords of humanity, to the <\/p>\n

601
\n00:38:12,280 –> 00:38:16,760
\nearliest societies of humanity
\nand see man aspiring for <\/p>\n

602
\n00:38:16,760 –> 00:38:20,640
\njustice.
\nIn fact, one of the oldest <\/p>\n

603
\n00:38:20,640 –> 00:38:25,120
\nsamples of writing ever found, a
\nstone pulled from the deserts of<\/p>\n

604
\n00:38:25,120 –> 00:38:31,440
\nIran in 1901, is 500 lines
\netched in stone dedicated <\/p>\n

605
\n00:38:31,440 –> 00:38:34,400
\nexclusively to the enforcement
\nof justice. <\/p>\n

606
\n00:38:34,400 –> 00:38:37,440
\nIt declares justice to the poor,
\njustice to the impoverished, <\/p>\n

607
\n00:38:37,440 –> 00:38:39,840
\nretribution for the wrong.
\nAnd it is thousands of years <\/p>\n

608
\n00:38:39,840 –> 00:38:41,400
\nold.
\nAnd in seeing these things, Bren<\/p>\n

609
\n00:38:41,400 –> 00:38:44,640
\nsisters and every form of
\nsociety and witnessing in <\/p>\n

610
\n00:38:44,640 –> 00:38:47,880
\nourselves, we have to reconcile
\none thing. <\/p>\n

611
\n00:38:54,360 –> 00:38:57,960
\nAnd that’s that justice is
\nbiological. <\/p>\n

612
\n00:39:02,520 –> 00:39:05,000
\nYou know, as many of you have
\ncome to find Rose and I have a <\/p>\n

613
\n00:39:05,200 –> 00:39:09,040
\nlittle 7 month girl who’s been
\nfloating around the hall today. <\/p>\n

614
\n00:39:11,160 –> 00:39:13,160
\nAnd right about this stage of
\nher development, she’s, she’s <\/p>\n

615
\n00:39:13,160 –> 00:39:16,600
\nstarting to form a, a, a sense
\nof right and wrong. <\/p>\n

616
\n00:39:18,240 –> 00:39:20,200
\nYou know, developmental
\npsychologists, they, they know <\/p>\n

617
\n00:39:20,200 –> 00:39:22,800
\nthis, that children as young as
\nsix months of age, they begin to<\/p>\n

618
\n00:39:22,800 –> 00:39:27,960
\nshow signs of moral intuition.
\nThey respond to helpful puppets <\/p>\n

619
\n00:39:27,960 –> 00:39:30,680
\nover harmful ones, that they
\nshow distress in the face of <\/p>\n

620
\n00:39:30,840 –> 00:39:33,640
\nunfair treatment.
\nChildren ages three to five act <\/p>\n

621
\n00:39:33,640 –> 00:39:37,640
\non this sense of fairness.
\nI’m still waiting for that for <\/p>\n

622
\n00:39:37,640 –> 00:39:40,960
\nmy 3 year old.
\nBut so I’ve been told they, <\/p>\n

623
\n00:39:41,000 –> 00:39:43,520
\nthey, they begin practicing
\nequal sharing. <\/p>\n

624
\n00:39:45,200 –> 00:39:48,160
\nThey begin enforcing rules and
\ngames, even to their detriment. <\/p>\n

625
\n00:39:48,160 –> 00:39:51,000
\nAnd all this for all this Brun
\nsisters to a very simple, very <\/p>\n

626
\n00:39:51,000 –> 00:39:53,880
\npurposeful, powerful
\nunderstanding and an important <\/p>\n

627
\n00:39:53,880 –> 00:39:55,720
\none.
\nAnd that’s that God is placed in<\/p>\n

628
\n00:39:55,720 –> 00:40:04,160
\nthe heart of man, a quality
\ncentral to who he who he is. <\/p>\n

629
\n00:40:04,160 –> 00:40:07,440
\nAnd it is this unwavering
\ncharacter of our God, Brun <\/p>\n

630
\n00:40:07,440 –> 00:40:10,600
\nsisters, His commitment to
\njustice, what it means to him, <\/p>\n

631
\n00:40:10,720 –> 00:40:14,280
\nhow he will use it, how it
\nrelates to his grace. <\/p>\n

632
\n00:40:18,560 –> 00:40:20,680
\nThat we’re going to be
\nconsidering this afternoon. <\/p>\n

633
\n00:40:20,680 –> 00:40:38,680
\nCome with me to Deuteronomy 32.
\nYou see, our God is a God of <\/p>\n

634
\n00:40:38,680 –> 00:40:41,400
\njustice, Brunt sisters, and we
\ncan note this in many different <\/p>\n

635
\n00:40:41,400 –> 00:40:44,280
\nways throughout our Bibles.
\nWe can see it in the the holding<\/p>\n

636
\n00:40:44,280 –> 00:40:47,040
\nof Israel to an account.
\nHe gives them this law, cast <\/p>\n

637
\n00:40:47,040 –> 00:40:49,560
\nthem out into the nations
\nbecause they transgress it. <\/p>\n

638
\n00:40:49,680 –> 00:40:54,720
\nWell, there’s perhaps no better
\nplace to get a sense of just how<\/p>\n

639
\n00:40:54,840 –> 00:40:58,320
\nhow intimately justice relates
\nto the heart of God than than <\/p>\n

640
\n00:40:58,320 –> 00:41:00,920
\nthe words of Exodus 32.
\nAnd we think of that for a <\/p>\n

641
\n00:41:00,920 –> 00:41:05,440
\nmoment, Brunt sisters, because
\nwe identified that that that is <\/p>\n

642
\n00:41:05,440 –> 00:41:07,000
\nreally a turning point in our
\nBibles. <\/p>\n

643
\n00:41:07,000 –> 00:41:09,520
\nWe reflected that that when
\nMoses this morning was given <\/p>\n

644
\n00:41:09,520 –> 00:41:12,360
\nthere, it’s not just a a
\nproclamation of God’s name. <\/p>\n

645
\n00:41:13,920 –> 00:41:17,000
\nWhat’s given wasn’t just a a
\npassing description of our God. <\/p>\n

646
\n00:41:17,000 –> 00:41:21,520
\nIt was the character of God that
\nwould always guide his hand with<\/p>\n

647
\n00:41:21,520 –> 00:41:22,600
\nman.
\nAnd that’s what we have there, <\/p>\n

648
\n00:41:22,600 –> 00:41:27,080
\nBruin sisters.
\nIt is a blueprint for how God <\/p>\n

649
\n00:41:27,160 –> 00:41:29,240
\nwill work in our lives.
\nAnd what did we see in verse 6? <\/p>\n

650
\n00:41:29,280 –> 00:41:31,840
\nHe will be a God gracious to the
\nthousands, he said. <\/p>\n

651
\n00:41:31,920 –> 00:41:39,000
\nBut Moses, by no means will I
\nclear the guilty. <\/p>\n

652
\n00:41:39,120 –> 00:41:43,440
\nOur God, brothers and sisters,
\nis unequivocably a God of <\/p>\n

653
\n00:41:43,440 –> 00:41:48,440
\njustice, one who holds a moral
\norder, one to whom <\/p>\n

654
\n00:41:48,440 –> 00:41:51,920
\naccountability matters, one who
\nwill never ignore our turn from <\/p>\n

655
\n00:41:51,920 –> 00:41:53,760
\ninjustice.
\nAnd not only do we witness that <\/p>\n

656
\n00:41:53,760 –> 00:41:56,080
\nthere, brothers, sisters, but
\nthat resonates all throughout <\/p>\n

657
\n00:41:56,080 –> 00:42:00,680
\nScripture.
\nThat’s a basic tenant of all our<\/p>\n

658
\n00:42:00,680 –> 00:42:01,880
\nBibles.
\nWe see it in Isaiah. <\/p>\n

659
\n00:42:01,880 –> 00:42:05,160
\nI, the Lord, love justice and
\nhate robbery. <\/p>\n

660
\n00:42:07,080 –> 00:42:09,800
\nWe see it in the words of David.
\nYou Lord, maintain the cause of <\/p>\n

661
\n00:42:09,800 –> 00:42:12,200
\nafflicted and execute justice.
\nWe see it in the Psalms. <\/p>\n

662
\n00:42:12,200 –> 00:42:15,440
\nRighteousness and justice are
\nthe foundation of your throne. <\/p>\n

663
\n00:42:15,440 –> 00:42:17,680
\nAnd we see it, brothers and
\nsisters, and the words of <\/p>\n

664
\n00:42:17,680 –> 00:42:20,000
\nDeuteronomy 32, the words of
\nverse 4. <\/p>\n

665
\n00:42:20,000 –> 00:42:28,800
\nWhat does Moses say?
\nAll your ways are perfect, and <\/p>\n

666
\n00:42:28,800 –> 00:42:31,680
\nall your ways just all your
\nways. <\/p>\n

667
\n00:42:34,160 –> 00:42:37,320
\nIn other words, there is nothing
\nhe says in the character of our <\/p>\n

668
\n00:42:37,320 –> 00:42:40,960
\nGod that will ever compromise
\nhis pursuit of justice. <\/p>\n

669
\n00:42:40,960 –> 00:42:49,600
\nNow, now I don’t know about you
\nbrothers sisters, but that makes<\/p>\n

670
\n00:42:49,600 –> 00:42:51,080
\nme start to feel a bit
\nuncomfortable. <\/p>\n

671
\n00:42:53,400 –> 00:42:55,960
\nGod won’t compromise his pursuit
\nof justice. <\/p>\n

672
\n00:42:55,960 –> 00:42:58,160
\nYou know, maybe that’s OK if
\nthat’s that’s how he treats the <\/p>\n

673
\n00:42:58,160 –> 00:43:00,720
\nthe truly abhorrent things of
\nthis world and and maybe the <\/p>\n

674
\n00:43:00,720 –> 00:43:03,160
\nother sinners down the road.
\nBut but what if that’s how he <\/p>\n

675
\n00:43:03,160 –> 00:43:07,680
\ntreats me?
\nNot exactly a devotional thought<\/p>\n

676
\n00:43:07,680 –> 00:43:09,920
\nthis this afternoon, is it
\nBecause you know, when I when I <\/p>\n

677
\n00:43:10,040 –> 00:43:12,880
\nstart to dwell on this character
\nof Godburn sisters, my mind goes<\/p>\n

678
\n00:43:12,880 –> 00:43:18,520
\nto passages like Deuteronomy 32,
\nverse 41, some of the other <\/p>\n

679
\n00:43:19,000 –> 00:43:20,760
\nverses we see in this chapter.
\nWhat does it say? <\/p>\n

680
\n00:43:20,760 –> 00:43:25,760
\nI, the Lord, sharpen my sword.
\nMy hand stretches to justice. <\/p>\n

681
\n00:43:25,760 –> 00:43:28,240
\nI take vengeance on adversaries.
\nI repay those who hate me. <\/p>\n

682
\n00:43:28,280 –> 00:43:30,000
\nI make my arrows drunk with
\ntheir blood. <\/p>\n

683
\n00:43:30,000 –> 00:43:31,920
\nMy sword devours and takes
\nvengeance. <\/p>\n

684
\n00:43:31,920 –> 00:43:34,880
\nAnd in reading these things and
\nseeing moments of God’s justice,<\/p>\n

685
\n00:43:34,960 –> 00:43:43,000
\nwell, I walk away with a fearful
\nassessment of our God. <\/p>\n

686
\n00:43:45,760 –> 00:43:48,080
\nI fear as justice, as call the
\nmechanical. <\/p>\n

687
\n00:43:48,080 –> 00:43:49,800
\nI fear it in the face of my
\nfaults. <\/p>\n

688
\n00:43:49,800 –> 00:43:52,200
\nI fear it where if I’m making
\nmistakes, I will wait sometimes <\/p>\n

689
\n00:43:52,200 –> 00:43:58,880
\nyears for the day I’m made to
\npay for them. <\/p>\n

690
\n00:43:58,880 –> 00:44:06,240
\nYou know, it is so easy to judge
\nourselves on that concept of <\/p>\n

691
\n00:44:06,240 –> 00:44:08,760
\njustice.
\nI did it, so I deserve it. <\/p>\n

692
\n00:44:08,760 –> 00:44:15,480
\nIt’s easy because that’s how man
\nperceives justice from sisters <\/p>\n

693
\n00:44:15,480 –> 00:44:16,600
\nthat that that’s how we practice
\nit. <\/p>\n

694
\n00:44:16,600 –> 00:44:19,720
\nYou see, our society practices
\nretribute of justice. <\/p>\n

695
\n00:44:19,720 –> 00:44:22,120
\nSomebody does you wrong, you can
\npay them in kind. <\/p>\n

696
\n00:44:24,560 –> 00:44:26,760
\nIsn’t that the premise for which
\nall justice is found? <\/p>\n

697
\n00:44:26,760 –> 00:44:29,280
\nYou know, we phrase, we use
\nphrases in society like like <\/p>\n

698
\n00:44:29,280 –> 00:44:31,880
\npunishment should fit the crime,
\nor if you do the crime, you do <\/p>\n

699
\n00:44:31,880 –> 00:44:39,040
\nthe time because surely the
\nmoment justice is met is the <\/p>\n

700
\n00:44:39,040 –> 00:44:42,040
\nmoment we get even.
\nBut it’s so important. <\/p>\n

701
\n00:44:42,040 –> 00:44:45,040
\nWe ask ourselves, brothers,
\nsisters, is that all that <\/p>\n

702
\n00:44:45,040 –> 00:44:50,000
\njustice means to God?
\nIs that how he judges us? <\/p>\n

703
\n00:44:50,200 –> 00:44:56,680
\nIs that what he expects in our
\njudgments of others? <\/p>\n

704
\n00:45:02,640 –> 00:45:04,480
\nCome with me to Genesis chapter
\n3. <\/p>\n

705
\n00:45:11,400 –> 00:45:14,040
\nAnd we refresh ourselves in this
\nchapter, brothers and sisters, <\/p>\n

706
\n00:45:16,240 –> 00:45:21,520
\nbecause you see here in the face
\nof man’s first sin, the face of <\/p>\n

707
\n00:45:21,520 –> 00:45:25,400
\nthe first moment of justice that
\nwas ever to be enforced in this <\/p>\n

708
\n00:45:25,400 –> 00:45:27,280
\nworld, we we see something
\nreally important. <\/p>\n

709
\n00:45:27,280 –> 00:45:29,360
\nThat’s that’s worth noting
\nbecause what do we see in verse <\/p>\n

710
\n00:45:29,360 –> 00:45:33,360
\n19?
\nGod says to dust, you are to <\/p>\n

711
\n00:45:33,360 –> 00:45:35,960
\ndust you’ll return.
\nHe holds himself to be a God of <\/p>\n

712
\n00:45:35,960 –> 00:45:38,000
\ntruth.
\nHe helds into account the wages <\/p>\n

713
\n00:45:38,000 –> 00:45:39,680
\nof sin were death.
\nHe delivers it. <\/p>\n

714
\n00:45:39,760 –> 00:45:42,680
\nBut before he even pronounces
\nthat judgement, brothers and <\/p>\n

715
\n00:45:42,680 –> 00:45:47,440
\nsisters, before justice has ever
\nexecuted, what does he say in <\/p>\n

716
\n00:45:47,440 –> 00:45:50,600
\nverse 15?
\nThe seed of the woman will crush<\/p>\n

717
\n00:45:50,600 –> 00:45:56,080
\nthat serpent.
\nIn other words, the first moment<\/p>\n

718
\n00:45:56,080 –> 00:45:59,040
\nof justice, the the first moment
\nof retribution, of, excuse me, <\/p>\n

719
\n00:45:59,040 –> 00:46:01,360
\nof justice.
\nIt’s framed in the context of <\/p>\n

720
\n00:46:01,360 –> 00:46:11,040
\nfuture restoration.
\nPaul in Romans 8 speaks exactly <\/p>\n

721
\n00:46:11,040 –> 00:46:12,960
\nto what we’re noting here.
\nIn fact, he he highlights the <\/p>\n

722
\n00:46:12,960 –> 00:46:14,160
\nsame thing he writes in verse
\n20. <\/p>\n

723
\n00:46:14,160 –> 00:46:16,040
\nCreation was subjected to
\nfrustration. <\/p>\n

724
\n00:46:16,160 –> 00:46:19,320
\nThe justice of God delivered not
\nto anger, not to vindictiveness,<\/p>\n

725
\n00:46:19,400 –> 00:46:29,840
\nnot to get even, but in hope, He
\nsays judgement was made that <\/p>\n

726
\n00:46:29,840 –> 00:46:32,000
\nhope could come to man.
\nThat’s how God, brother and <\/p>\n

727
\n00:46:32,000 –> 00:46:35,640
\nsisters, chose to execute the
\nfirst moment of justice. <\/p>\n

728
\n00:46:35,640 –> 00:46:38,600
\nAnd this dynamic that we see all
\nthe way, the beginning of our <\/p>\n

729
\n00:46:38,600 –> 00:46:41,840
\nBibles, brother and sisters in
\nthe garden of a justice that led<\/p>\n

730
\n00:46:41,840 –> 00:46:49,040
\nman to hope.
\nThat’s a blueprint of all the <\/p>\n

731
\n00:46:49,040 –> 00:46:51,360
\njudgements of God throughout
\nScripture. <\/p>\n

732
\n00:46:51,360 –> 00:46:55,080
\nWe see it in Hebrews when
\nspeaking to the effects of guns.<\/p>\n

733
\n00:46:55,080 –> 00:46:56,560
\nChastening.
\nIt’s written for a moment. <\/p>\n

734
\n00:46:56,560 –> 00:46:59,640
\nAll this discipline is painful.
\nLater it yields the fruit of <\/p>\n

735
\n00:46:59,640 –> 00:47:03,360
\nrighteousness.
\nWe see it in Revelation, The <\/p>\n

736
\n00:47:03,360 –> 00:47:05,600
\nwords of Christ, the latest he
\nare those I love. <\/p>\n

737
\n00:47:05,720 –> 00:47:08,560
\nI discipline, He says so that so
\nthat you may be found waiting <\/p>\n

738
\n00:47:08,560 –> 00:47:10,000
\nfor me, that you might have
\nhope. <\/p>\n

739
\n00:47:10,000 –> 00:47:12,080
\nWe see it in the words of
\nJeremiah, where in the dark <\/p>\n

740
\n00:47:12,080 –> 00:47:14,400
\nyears of Israel’s captivity.
\nWhat does God say? <\/p>\n

741
\n00:47:14,400 –> 00:47:17,280
\nI brought you to this state.
\nI subject you to these things <\/p>\n

742
\n00:47:17,440 –> 00:47:20,840
\nthat you might have hope.
\nWhat a contradiction brought in,<\/p>\n

743
\n00:47:20,840 –> 00:47:25,840
\nsisters.
\nWhat a contradiction that seems <\/p>\n

744
\n00:47:25,840 –> 00:47:30,040
\nto us that that justice is a
\nmeans to a better end for the <\/p>\n

745
\n00:47:30,040 –> 00:47:31,720
\noffender.
\nWe see this in the words of <\/p>\n

746
\n00:47:31,720 –> 00:47:35,720
\nEzekiel 11.
\nThis is a powerful thing for and<\/p>\n

747
\n00:47:35,720 –> 00:47:41,000
\nsister Ezekiel 11 and Speaking
\nof times to come and Speaking of<\/p>\n

748
\n00:47:41,000 –> 00:47:43,560
\na day of judgement and justice
\nto come to this world. <\/p>\n

749
\n00:47:43,600 –> 00:47:46,200
\nWhat does he say in verse 8?
\nI will bring the sword to you, <\/p>\n

750
\n00:47:46,240 –> 00:47:47,760
\nIsrael.
\nI will deliver you up to <\/p>\n

751
\n00:47:47,760 –> 00:47:50,240
\nnations.
\nI will bring my justice to verse<\/p>\n

752
\n00:47:50,240 –> 00:47:58,400
\n19 for the intent of putting a
\nnew heart in you that I might <\/p>\n

753
\n00:47:58,400 –> 00:48:01,240
\nrestore you to me says God.
\nThat’s our keyword, Brun sisters<\/p>\n

754
\n00:48:01,240 –> 00:48:03,400
\nrestoration.
\nYou see, in contrast to this <\/p>\n

755
\n00:48:03,400 –> 00:48:07,520
\njustice of man, a justice rooted
\nin retribution, the justice of <\/p>\n

756
\n00:48:07,520 –> 00:48:21,080
\nGod aims for restoration.
\nCome with me to Romans Chapter <\/p>\n

757
\n00:48:21,080 –> 00:48:32,960
\n11.
\nYou see, Paul draws us deeper <\/p>\n

758
\n00:48:33,200 –> 00:48:37,080
\ninto how closely related these
\ntwo qualities are justice and <\/p>\n

759
\n00:48:37,240 –> 00:48:39,320
\nand restoration.
\nIn fact, he elaborates further <\/p>\n

760
\n00:48:39,320 –> 00:48:42,000
\non this this pattern we
\nwitnessed brothers and sisters <\/p>\n

761
\n00:48:42,000 –> 00:48:43,800
\nof of writing of the judgments
\nof Israel. <\/p>\n

762
\n00:48:43,800 –> 00:48:45,520
\nHow does he describe it?
\nWhat does he say? <\/p>\n

763
\n00:48:45,520 –> 00:48:49,040
\nHe says justice is given, verse
\n22, that goodness might come to <\/p>\n

764
\n00:48:49,040 –> 00:48:53,840
\nyou.
\nJustice is executed, says Paul. <\/p>\n

765
\n00:48:53,880 –> 00:48:56,920
\nThat greater restoration comes
\nin this world for Gentiles. <\/p>\n

766
\n00:48:56,920 –> 00:49:01,160
\nBehold, he says, the goodness
\nand severity of God. <\/p>\n

767
\n00:49:01,160 –> 00:49:09,400
\nYou see, brothers and sisters,
\nPaul pairs these two qualities <\/p>\n

768
\n00:49:09,400 –> 00:49:16,360
\ntogether, not something isolated
\nfrom each other, not something <\/p>\n

769
\n00:49:16,440 –> 00:49:19,800
\nin contrast to each other, not
\nseverity forsake of severity. <\/p>\n

770
\n00:49:19,800 –> 00:49:22,600
\nIt is severity forsake of his
\ngrace. <\/p>\n

771
\n00:49:22,600 –> 00:49:25,600
\nIn Paul’s words, we are drawn to
\nthe fundamental understanding <\/p>\n

772
\n00:49:25,600 –> 00:49:35,080
\nthat the justice of God and the
\ngrace of God work together. <\/p>\n

773
\n00:49:42,320 –> 00:49:47,200
\nAnd you see, well, Paul
\nemphasizes this aspect of of <\/p>\n

774
\n00:49:47,200 –> 00:49:49,320
\nGod’s justice in in the
\njudgement of Israel. <\/p>\n

775
\n00:49:49,320 –> 00:49:52,560
\nBrothers and sisters, don’t we
\nsee the goodness and severity of<\/p>\n

776
\n00:49:52,560 –> 00:49:58,440
\nGod all throughout our Bibles?
\nDon’t we see it in the <\/p>\n

777
\n00:49:58,440 –> 00:50:02,120
\ncondemnation of Egypt, which
\nthrough their judgement brought <\/p>\n

778
\n00:50:02,120 –> 00:50:04,720
\nrestoration to his people and a
\nwitness to all nations? <\/p>\n

779
\n00:50:04,720 –> 00:50:08,680
\nDon’t don’t we see it in Samson,
\nwho by the grace of God’s <\/p>\n

780
\n00:50:08,680 –> 00:50:12,080
\njustice lost his eyes that it
\nmight restore his heart? <\/p>\n

781
\n00:50:12,080 –> 00:50:14,480
\nDon’t we see it in Paul’s own
\nlife, who by the grace of God’s <\/p>\n

782
\n00:50:14,560 –> 00:50:17,560
\njustice, lost his eyes to
\nrestore his heart? <\/p>\n

783
\n00:50:17,560 –> 00:50:22,000
\nDon’t we see it in David, who by
\nthe grace of God’s justice, he’s<\/p>\n

784
\n00:50:22,080 –> 00:50:24,840
\nconfronted with Nathan to
\nrestore his heart time and <\/p>\n

785
\n00:50:24,840 –> 00:50:26,200
\nagain?
\nThe judgement of God. <\/p>\n

786
\n00:50:26,200 –> 00:50:29,280
\nBrothers, sisters, it is
\nexecuted never in contrast to <\/p>\n

787
\n00:50:29,280 –> 00:50:36,880
\nHis grace.
\nBut it’s an Ave. for it. <\/p>\n

788
\n00:50:36,880 –> 00:50:41,600
\nIt is always executed with the
\npurpose of restoration. <\/p>\n

789
\n00:50:51,080 –> 00:50:55,640
\nBut as I say that justice aims
\nto restore. <\/p>\n

790
\n00:50:55,640 –> 00:50:57,680
\nWell, brothers and sisters, if
\nyou’re like me, you, you might <\/p>\n

791
\n00:50:57,680 –> 00:51:00,160
\ninstinctively think to, to how
\nthat’s not the case. <\/p>\n

792
\n00:51:02,480 –> 00:51:04,680
\nBecause if you’re like me, these
\ntraits are something, you know, <\/p>\n

793
\n00:51:04,680 –> 00:51:07,560
\ndiametrically opposed.
\nThese are two characters of God <\/p>\n

794
\n00:51:07,560 –> 00:51:10,120
\nthat are, that are two sides of
\na coin where, you know, once God<\/p>\n

795
\n00:51:10,120 –> 00:51:15,080
\nruns out of his mercy, then
\njustice comes to replace it, or <\/p>\n

796
\n00:51:15,080 –> 00:51:18,280
\nonce you’ve exercised enough
\nmercy, now justice falls. <\/p>\n

797
\n00:51:18,280 –> 00:51:21,040
\nIn fact, it’s so abrasive what
\nwe’re discussing by the sisters,<\/p>\n

798
\n00:51:21,040 –> 00:51:23,480
\nthe things that we’re noting
\nthat that some theologians that <\/p>\n

799
\n00:51:23,480 –> 00:51:26,240
\ngo back to the cases of of
\nExodus 34, they see the <\/p>\n

800
\n00:51:26,240 –> 00:51:29,320
\nqualities of God’s character
\nrevealed to man and they say <\/p>\n

801
\n00:51:29,320 –> 00:51:33,960
\nsurely it’s been altered.
\nThat can’t be what the original <\/p>\n

802
\n00:51:33,960 –> 00:51:36,880
\ntext says because because surely
\nthese things aren’t compatible. <\/p>\n

803
\n00:51:36,880 –> 00:51:39,480
\nBut what we see in these
\nexamples is the fundamental <\/p>\n

804
\n00:51:39,480 –> 00:51:41,200
\ntruth.
\nTruth, brothers, sisters, one <\/p>\n

805
\n00:51:41,200 –> 00:51:43,360
\nquality never forsakes the
\nother. <\/p>\n

806
\n00:51:46,520 –> 00:51:50,200
\nAll your ways are just, said
\nMoses, Psalm 25, verse 4 to 10. <\/p>\n

807
\n00:51:50,200 –> 00:51:52,840
\nShow me thy way, says David.
\nTeach me thy paths. <\/p>\n

808
\n00:51:52,840 –> 00:51:56,280
\nAll the ways of the Lord are
\nmercy and truth. <\/p>\n

809
\n00:51:56,280 –> 00:51:59,800
\nThere is never a moment when
\nGod’s grace is sacrificed for <\/p>\n

810
\n00:51:59,800 –> 00:52:05,200
\nhis justice or His justice
\ndiminished by grace. <\/p>\n

811
\n00:52:05,240 –> 00:52:14,320
\nHe redeems through judgement.
\nHe will punish sin in ways that <\/p>\n

812
\n00:52:14,320 –> 00:52:21,320
\nmake mercy possible.
\nAnd, brothers and sisters, we <\/p>\n

813
\n00:52:21,320 –> 00:52:23,760
\nsee that even in places that’s
\nhard to find. <\/p>\n

814
\n00:52:26,760 –> 00:52:31,880
\nWe think to the law in which we
\nhave verses like Exodus 2124, <\/p>\n

815
\n00:52:31,880 –> 00:52:35,360
\nwhich advocate an eye for an eye
\nor maybe Numbers 3531. <\/p>\n

816
\n00:52:35,360 –> 00:52:37,720
\nMaybe you think to that it
\nadvocates a life for a life. <\/p>\n

817
\n00:52:37,720 –> 00:52:42,600
\nAnd you know, we might think,
\nisn’t this God teaching us <\/p>\n

818
\n00:52:42,760 –> 00:52:45,280
\nretribute of justice?
\nBut even in that law, brothers, <\/p>\n

819
\n00:52:45,280 –> 00:52:50,080
\nsisters, that law, which was
\nnever the sum of of what justice<\/p>\n

820
\n00:52:50,080 –> 00:52:52,120
\nmeant to God.
\nPaul calls it only a shadow of <\/p>\n

821
\n00:52:52,120 –> 00:52:54,120
\nwhat he’s trying to accomplish
\nin this world. <\/p>\n

822
\n00:52:54,120 –> 00:52:57,280
\nEven that shadow glimpses God’s
\njustice. <\/p>\n

823
\n00:52:57,320 –> 00:53:02,520
\nWe see it in cities of refuge.
\nJustice demanded life for a <\/p>\n

824
\n00:53:02,520 –> 00:53:04,880
\nlife, but given a chance that,
\nthat if a person reached that <\/p>\n

825
\n00:53:04,880 –> 00:53:06,800
\nthey could live, that they
\ncould, they could reform <\/p>\n

826
\n00:53:06,800 –> 00:53:09,920
\nthemselves.
\nWe, we, we see it in laws of, of<\/p>\n

827
\n00:53:09,920 –> 00:53:12,680
\nthievery.
\nThe offender wasn’t just <\/p>\n

828
\n00:53:12,680 –> 00:53:15,360
\nsupposed to pay back what they
\nowed, they were supposed to pay <\/p>\n

829
\n00:53:15,360 –> 00:53:17,600
\nback extra to restore
\nrelationship. <\/p>\n

830
\n00:53:17,600 –> 00:53:19,800
\nWe see it in the days of Jubilee
\nand which is enshrined in the <\/p>\n

831
\n00:53:19,800 –> 00:53:25,760
\nlaw every 50 years.
\nA moment of restoration, of <\/p>\n

832
\n00:53:25,760 –> 00:53:28,760
\nslaves, of debts, where
\nrelationships are restored <\/p>\n

833
\n00:53:28,840 –> 00:53:30,880
\nbetween God and man.
\nWe sit in the Ark, Brothers, <\/p>\n

834
\n00:53:30,880 –> 00:53:33,120
\nsisters, in which contains the
\nlaw of God. <\/p>\n

835
\n00:53:33,120 –> 00:53:36,920
\nAnd what’s it surrounded by?
\nA seat of mercy, a symbol of <\/p>\n

836
\n00:53:36,920 –> 00:53:39,360
\ngrace and truth that are
\nharmonized. <\/p>\n

837
\n00:53:39,360 –> 00:53:48,080
\nThese are moments that allow
\npeople to see beyond the letter <\/p>\n

838
\n00:53:50,400 –> 00:53:53,360
\nand glimpse Gaunts desire of man
\nto understand the law, not as as<\/p>\n

839
\n00:53:53,360 –> 00:53:55,200
\npunishment forsake of
\npunishment, not not as <\/p>\n

840
\n00:53:55,200 –> 00:53:58,920
\npunishment to get even or a box
\nto be checked, but as correction<\/p>\n

841
\n00:53:59,120 –> 00:54:05,160
\nleading to restoration.
\nFor that reason the prophets <\/p>\n

842
\n00:54:05,160 –> 00:54:08,120
\ncould write as Hosea.
\nDid you desire love and not <\/p>\n

843
\n00:54:08,120 –> 00:54:12,520
\nsacrifice and the knowledge of
\nGod more than burnt offerings? <\/p>\n

844
\n00:54:12,520 –> 00:54:14,760
\nOr reflect as David wrote,
\nsacrifice and burnt offerings <\/p>\n

845
\n00:54:14,880 –> 00:54:18,160
\nyou do not desire, but a broken
\nand contrite heart or right is <\/p>\n

846
\n00:54:18,160 –> 00:54:20,920
\nin the Proverbs.
\nTo show mercy and justice <\/p>\n

847
\n00:54:26,320 –> 00:54:37,840
\npleases God more than sacrifice.
\nAnd there’s so many other things<\/p>\n

848
\n00:54:39,840 –> 00:54:42,640
\nthat we could note about the
\njustice of our Auburn sisters. <\/p>\n

849
\n00:54:42,640 –> 00:54:45,200
\nYou know, we, we, we might
\nrelate it to his faithfulness. <\/p>\n

850
\n00:54:45,200 –> 00:54:47,720
\nYou know, we read in Deuteronomy
\n32 that what does it say? <\/p>\n

851
\n00:54:47,720 –> 00:54:49,600
\nAll his ways are perfect and
\njust. <\/p>\n

852
\n00:54:49,800 –> 00:54:54,840
\nA God of faithfulness.
\nAnd we can mention that his <\/p>\n

853
\n00:54:54,840 –> 00:54:58,040
\njustice is a reflection of
\nfaithfulness and commitment to <\/p>\n

854
\n00:54:58,040 –> 00:54:59,840
\ntruth.
\nHath he spoken and shall not he <\/p>\n

855
\n00:54:59,840 –> 00:55:01,400
\nmake good reads?
\nNumbers 23. <\/p>\n

856
\n00:55:01,400 –> 00:55:09,400
\nThis is a God who remembers his
\npromises, who defends those he <\/p>\n

857
\n00:55:09,400 –> 00:55:11,800
\nloves, who holds guilt to
\naccount, those who persecuted <\/p>\n

858
\n00:55:11,800 –> 00:55:14,480
\nand harmed and use the ways of
\nthis cursed world for selfish <\/p>\n

859
\n00:55:14,480 –> 00:55:16,560
\ngains.
\nGod says, I will not let that <\/p>\n

860
\n00:55:16,560 –> 00:55:18,680
\ngo.
\nI will hold it to account. <\/p>\n

861
\n00:55:18,680 –> 00:55:24,760
\nAnd I don’t know about you Brun
\nsisters, but I don’t think we’d <\/p>\n

862
\n00:55:24,760 –> 00:55:34,320
\nhave it any other way.
\nWe could mention that there are <\/p>\n

863
\n00:55:34,320 –> 00:55:37,360
\ntimes when justice falls in
\ndifferent ways for the same <\/p>\n

864
\n00:55:37,360 –> 00:55:38,440
\noffense.
\nYou know, we we see this <\/p>\n

865
\n00:55:38,440 –> 00:55:40,840
\nparticularly in in Nineveh
\nversus the account of Second <\/p>\n

866
\n00:55:40,840 –> 00:55:44,840
\nChronicles 28 verse 6.
\nBoth cases, there’s a city of <\/p>\n

867
\n00:55:44,960 –> 00:55:48,040
\n120,000 people.
\nBoth commit the the the fault <\/p>\n

868
\n00:55:48,040 –> 00:55:51,040
\nbefore God of idolatry 1 spared
\nthe other put to the sword. <\/p>\n

869
\n00:55:53,640 –> 00:55:55,440
\nAnd we might look at that
\nbrother and sisters and say, you<\/p>\n

870
\n00:55:55,440 –> 00:55:58,400
\nknow, isn’t that isn’t that
\ninconsistency in it is another <\/p>\n

871
\n00:55:58,400 –> 00:56:02,280
\npowerful truth of the justice of
\nGod, and that’s that it is never<\/p>\n

872
\n00:56:02,360 –> 00:56:08,560
\none-size-fits-all the just the
\njustice of God fits the <\/p>\n

873
\n00:56:08,560 –> 00:56:10,360
\nindividual.
\nI the Lord search the heart and <\/p>\n

874
\n00:56:10,360 –> 00:56:13,240
\ntest the mind, he says, and give
\neach according to their ways. <\/p>\n

875
\n00:56:13,320 –> 00:56:18,040
\nNo2 hearts are the same,
\nbrothers and sisters, No2 <\/p>\n

876
\n00:56:18,040 –> 00:56:20,360
\njudgements are the same.
\nAnd because of this we can have <\/p>\n

877
\n00:56:20,360 –> 00:56:26,360
\nconfidence that in our God’s
\nwisdom he will not break us, nor<\/p>\n

878
\n00:56:26,360 –> 00:56:28,120
\ninjustice give us more than we
\ncan bear. <\/p>\n

879
\n00:56:28,120 –> 00:56:30,920
\nA bruised Reed he will not
\nbreak, writes Isaiah. <\/p>\n

880
\n00:56:30,920 –> 00:56:34,480
\nA burning Wick he will not
\nquench, yet he will faithfully <\/p>\n

881
\n00:56:38,400 –> 00:56:51,760
\nbring forth justice.
\nWe could also note that at times<\/p>\n

882
\n00:56:51,760 –> 00:56:54,120
\njustice certainly looks
\nretributive. <\/p>\n

883
\n00:56:54,120 –> 00:56:56,680
\nAnd I think of this brother and
\nsisters, my mind went to the <\/p>\n

884
\n00:56:56,680 –> 00:57:02,240
\nwords of the author, CS Lewis
\nand he won’t wrote once wrote <\/p>\n

885
\n00:57:02,240 –> 00:57:03,640
\nthis curious thing.
\nIt stuck in my mind. <\/p>\n

886
\n00:57:03,640 –> 00:57:06,160
\nHe he said that there’s
\nessentially two types of people <\/p>\n

887
\n00:57:06,160 –> 00:57:08,440
\nin this world.
\nThose who say to God, thy will <\/p>\n

888
\n00:57:08,440 –> 00:57:18,640
\nbe, thy will be done.
\nAnd those to whom God says thy <\/p>\n

889
\n00:57:18,640 –> 00:57:24,480
\nwill be done.
\nWhat CS Lewis is observing, <\/p>\n

890
\n00:57:24,480 –> 00:57:29,440
\nbrothers, sisters, is that while
\nthe justice of God seeks <\/p>\n

891
\n00:57:29,440 –> 00:57:33,360
\nrestoration far past the
\npatience and endurance of man <\/p>\n

892
\n00:57:33,480 –> 00:57:39,920
\nwill, it will always honor human
\nchoice. <\/p>\n

893
\n00:57:43,160 –> 00:57:45,440
\nHasn’t God framed service to him
\nin this way? <\/p>\n

894
\n00:57:45,440 –> 00:57:47,080
\nI’ve set before you life and
\ndeath, he says. <\/p>\n

895
\n00:57:47,080 –> 00:57:49,840
\nWhen, when giving the law,
\nchoose life and live. <\/p>\n

896
\n00:57:49,840 –> 00:57:55,160
\nOur God desires relationships,
\nbrothers and sisters, not <\/p>\n

897
\n00:57:55,160 –> 00:57:57,800
\nsomething forced, not something
\ncoerced or mechanical. <\/p>\n

898
\n00:57:57,800 –> 00:58:00,080
\nIf somebody knowingly,
\npersistently, and purposely <\/p>\n

899
\n00:58:00,160 –> 00:58:03,000
\nrejects God’s love, light and
\ntruth and judgement, falls. <\/p>\n

900
\n00:58:03,000 –> 00:58:05,000
\nBrunch sisters, and not out of
\ncruelty. <\/p>\n

901
\n00:58:07,160 –> 00:58:09,760
\nEzekiel writes, I take no
\npleasure in deaths of the <\/p>\n

902
\n00:58:09,760 –> 00:58:12,640
\nwicked, says the Lord, but it
\nfalls because that person <\/p>\n

903
\n00:58:12,760 –> 00:58:16,320
\nbecomes incompatible with a
\ngreater restoration being <\/p>\n

904
\n00:58:16,320 –> 00:58:18,640
\naccomplished in our world.
\nAnd when that happens, brothers <\/p>\n

905
\n00:58:18,640 –> 00:58:24,400
\nand sisters, the judgments of
\nGod take two effects and we see <\/p>\n

906
\n00:58:24,400 –> 00:58:27,000
\nit in the words of Malachi, the
\nwords of chapter 4, words of <\/p>\n

907
\n00:58:27,000 –> 00:58:29,600
\njustice to come to this world.
\nWhat does he say in verse one? <\/p>\n

908
\n00:58:29,600 –> 00:58:35,840
\nBehold, the day of fire comes of
\njudgement, which will burn the <\/p>\n

909
\n00:58:35,840 –> 00:58:38,200
\narrogant and evil doers as
\nstubble, and I will leave them <\/p>\n

910
\n00:58:38,200 –> 00:58:41,360
\nneither root nor branch.
\nYet for those who fear my name, <\/p>\n

911
\n00:58:47,480 –> 00:58:53,240
\nthat same fire will be as the
\nSun of Righteousness that rises <\/p>\n

912
\n00:58:53,240 –> 00:58:56,360
\nwith healing in its wings.
\nThe justice of God can either <\/p>\n

913
\n00:58:56,360 –> 00:59:04,600
\nrestore us in grace for the
\nsisters or by the hardening of <\/p>\n

914
\n00:59:04,600 –> 00:59:07,880
\nour hearts, we break ourselves
\non it. <\/p>\n

915
\n00:59:20,440 –> 00:59:25,360
\nIn our time this afternoon,
\nwe’ve considered a few things, <\/p>\n

916
\n00:59:25,880 –> 00:59:27,720
\nbrothers and sisters, on this
\ncharacter of God. <\/p>\n

917
\n00:59:27,720 –> 00:59:32,720
\nWe, we, we considered that he is
\nrooted in justice, not <\/p>\n

918
\n00:59:32,720 –> 00:59:35,160
\nneglecting wrong.
\nWe considered that that despite <\/p>\n

919
\n00:59:35,160 –> 00:59:38,200
\nthis desire, his justice, it’s
\nnever in spite of Grace Bran <\/p>\n

920
\n00:59:38,200 –> 00:59:41,720
\nsisters, but working with it
\nwhen aimed for our restoration, <\/p>\n

921
\n00:59:41,720 –> 00:59:45,400
\nwhen working good to those who
\nlove him, when, when relational <\/p>\n

922
\n00:59:45,400 –> 00:59:48,560
\nand adaptive to our needs.
\nAnd now, brothers and sisters, <\/p>\n

923
\n00:59:53,040 –> 00:59:55,960
\nwe’ll consider what this means
\nfor us. <\/p>\n

924
\n00:59:56,120 –> 00:59:58,120
\nAnd there is much we could say
\non that, couldn’t we? <\/p>\n

925
\n01:00:00,720 –> 01:00:03,480
\nWe could reflect that as
\nmentioned in the beginning, God,<\/p>\n

926
\n01:00:03,560 –> 01:00:06,720
\nGod put justice in our hearts
\nand and he does that because as <\/p>\n

927
\n01:00:06,720 –> 01:00:12,120
\nsaid in the beginning, he made
\nman in his image He desired. <\/p>\n

928
\n01:00:12,120 –> 01:00:14,680
\nWe reflect this character we
\nthink to his words I’ve chosen <\/p>\n

929
\n01:00:14,680 –> 01:00:18,840
\nyou Abraham and your children
\nthat they may do justice. <\/p>\n

930
\n01:00:20,880 –> 01:00:24,280
\nWe think of the words of Micah 6
\nverse 8 do justice, love mercy <\/p>\n

931
\n01:00:24,280 –> 01:00:27,240
\nand walk before God and in these
\nwords, Bran sisters is a simple <\/p>\n

932
\n01:00:27,240 –> 01:00:29,120
\nessential lesson that God’s
\ncharacter. <\/p>\n

933
\n01:00:29,120 –> 01:00:30,840
\nThis is where the things
\nconsidered this morning. <\/p>\n

934
\n01:00:30,880 –> 01:00:32,800
\nIt’s never something we just
\nunderstand. <\/p>\n

935
\n01:00:35,480 –> 01:00:37,200
\nIt’s something that we live
\nknowing. <\/p>\n

936
\n01:00:37,200 –> 01:00:44,400
\nGod is a call to action, to live
\nthese qualities and who we are. <\/p>\n

937
\n01:00:44,400 –> 01:00:47,440
\nTo restore the hearts of people
\nas God seeks to restore them. <\/p>\n

938
\n01:00:49,280 –> 01:00:51,720
\nTo care for those as God would
\nseek to care for them. <\/p>\n

939
\n01:00:51,720 –> 01:00:54,480
\nTo see those who are suffering
\nas a result of this cursed earth<\/p>\n

940
\n01:00:54,480 –> 01:00:56,800
\nand treat man as God would treat
\nthem. <\/p>\n

941
\n01:00:56,880 –> 01:01:06,520
\nBut we have to acknowledge that
\nin our desire to emulate God’s <\/p>\n

942
\n01:01:06,520 –> 01:01:09,720
\njustice, there are times that we
\nfall far short of it. <\/p>\n

943
\n01:01:12,880 –> 01:01:17,600
\nTimes were unlike God, we take
\nsatisfaction in our in our <\/p>\n

944
\n01:01:17,600 –> 01:01:20,080
\npunishment of others.
\nTimes we forget the the root of <\/p>\n

945
\n01:01:20,080 –> 01:01:23,120
\njustice isn’t vengeance, it’s
\ncorrection leading to <\/p>\n

946
\n01:01:23,120 –> 01:01:27,360
\nrestoration.
\nTimes where unlike God, our <\/p>\n

947
\n01:01:27,360 –> 01:01:30,120
\njustice doesn’t really account
\nfor how we’re going to restore <\/p>\n

948
\n01:01:30,120 –> 01:01:32,120
\nthe offender.
\nWe’re unlike our God, it doesn’t<\/p>\n

949
\n01:01:32,200 –> 01:01:34,680
\naccount for circumstance or or
\nindividual. <\/p>\n

950
\n01:01:34,680 –> 01:01:40,680
\nAnd in our carelessness, we
\nbreak the weak and an anger <\/p>\n

951
\n01:01:40,680 –> 01:01:44,120
\ndrive out the vulnerable.
\nThe challenge for believers is <\/p>\n

952
\n01:01:44,120 –> 01:01:48,080
\nto create safe spaces and our
\necclesias for broken people <\/p>\n

953
\n01:01:50,680 –> 01:01:52,800
\nwithout lowering God’s standard
\nof holiness. <\/p>\n

954
\n01:01:54,760 –> 01:02:00,640
\nThe challenge for believers is
\nto speak truth in love, to <\/p>\n

955
\n01:02:00,680 –> 01:02:03,440
\nenforce God’s Word, but always
\nin a spirit of mercy so that it <\/p>\n

956
\n01:02:03,440 –> 01:02:06,120
\nmay never be said of us.
\nAs was written long ago, justice<\/p>\n

957
\n01:02:06,120 –> 01:02:08,520
\nis without mercy to one who had
\nno mercy. <\/p>\n

958
\n01:02:08,520 –> 01:02:11,880
\nThe challenge for believers is
\nto remember that a community <\/p>\n

959
\n01:02:11,880 –> 01:02:21,360
\nwithout justice is lost, and a
\ncommunity without grace is <\/p>\n

960
\n01:02:21,360 –> 01:02:26,680
\ncruel.
\nThe standard we strive for are <\/p>\n

961
\n01:02:26,680 –> 01:02:30,960
\nthe words of Hosea 12.
\nHold fast to justice and love <\/p>\n

962
\n01:02:31,240 –> 01:02:45,120
\nand wait for your God.
\nBut the final thing we’ll note <\/p>\n

963
\n01:02:48,320 –> 01:02:50,440
\nis that while we might
\nunderstand this, brother and <\/p>\n

964
\n01:02:50,440 –> 01:02:55,960
\nsisters, while we might grasp
\neverything we’ve just discussed <\/p>\n

965
\n01:02:55,960 –> 01:02:58,800
\nthat the the the judgements of
\nGod aim to restore you. <\/p>\n

966
\n01:02:58,960 –> 01:03:04,880
\nThat does not mean that it is
\neasy or when you are in darkness<\/p>\n

967
\n01:03:04,880 –> 01:03:07,400
\nthat that you’re always going to
\nsee that that light of <\/p>\n

968
\n01:03:07,400 –> 01:03:09,480
\nunderstanding.
\nYou know, as I was thinking to <\/p>\n

969
\n01:03:09,480 –> 01:03:13,640
\nthis, my thought went to a
\nspeech I once heard. <\/p>\n

970
\n01:03:13,640 –> 01:03:19,360
\nI didn’t hear it.
\nI read it by Abraham Lincoln. <\/p>\n

971
\n01:03:23,080 –> 01:03:26,880
\nIn fact, it was his second
\ninaugural address, and he wrote <\/p>\n

972
\n01:03:26,880 –> 01:03:29,640
\nthis in 1865.
\nAnd the context was was quite <\/p>\n

973
\n01:03:29,640 –> 01:03:31,840
\ndark for him personally.
\nYou see, over the course of <\/p>\n

974
\n01:03:31,840 –> 01:03:35,480
\nthat, that long struggle of a
\nnation, he increasingly came to <\/p>\n

975
\n01:03:35,480 –> 01:03:42,600
\nsee the conflict he presided
\nover as an act of God’s justice.<\/p>\n

976
\n01:03:45,720 –> 01:03:50,280
\nAnd he was trying to articulate
\nwhy it had to happen, why so <\/p>\n

977
\n01:03:50,280 –> 01:03:53,360
\nmany fathers could not come
\nhome, why so many children would<\/p>\n

978
\n01:03:53,360 –> 01:03:56,240
\nnow be orphaned.
\nWhy, why, why the nation had to <\/p>\n

979
\n01:03:56,240 –> 01:03:58,760
\nsuffer for these things.
\nAnd he was lost in the only <\/p>\n

980
\n01:03:58,760 –> 01:04:00,960
\nthing he could comfort.
\nThe only place he turned was <\/p>\n

981
\n01:04:00,960 –> 01:04:09,750
\nthis passage of the Psalms.
\nThe judgments of the Lord are <\/p>\n

982
\n01:04:09,750 –> 01:04:17,240
\nrighteous and true.
\nSometimes you will not <\/p>\n

983
\n01:04:17,240 –> 01:04:20,040
\nunderstand the justice of
\nGodfrey and sisters. <\/p>\n

984
\n01:04:22,320 –> 01:04:25,520
\nSometimes the only comfort you
\nwill have is knowing that all <\/p>\n

985
\n01:04:25,520 –> 01:04:30,960
\nthings come from his hand and
\nthat he works good to those who <\/p>\n

986
\n01:04:30,960 –> 01:04:33,520
\nlove him.
\nAnd sometimes that is enough to <\/p>\n

987
\n01:04:33,520 –> 01:04:39,200
\ngive you the strength of David,
\nwhere after living through the <\/p>\n

988
\n01:04:39,200 –> 01:04:43,080
\nunimaginable, he could stand in
\nbelief of God’s character that <\/p>\n

989
\n01:04:43,080 –> 01:04:46,120
\nwe’ve been reflecting on and say
\nas he did in the Psalms in Psalm<\/p>\n

990
\n01:04:46,120 –> 01:04:49,840
\n51, I sinned.
\nThat whatever God does to me, he<\/p>\n

991
\n01:04:49,840 –> 01:04:54,120
\nmight be just.
\nIt makes you Abraham. <\/p>\n

992
\n01:04:54,120 –> 01:04:56,840
\nAnd who moments of uncertainty
\ncould cry out in conviction. <\/p>\n

993
\n01:04:56,840 –> 01:04:59,360
\nWill not the judge of all the
\nearth do what is? <\/p>\n

994
\n01:04:59,360 –> 01:05:02,960
\nJust as I was thinking to this
\nfrom the sisters, my mind went <\/p>\n

995
\n01:05:02,960 –> 01:05:08,680
\nto this sculpture on the screen.
\nSeveral years ago. <\/p>\n

996
\n01:05:08,680 –> 01:05:12,560
\nI had the the privilege of
\nseeing a full reproduction of <\/p>\n

997
\n01:05:12,560 –> 01:05:13,480
\nit.
\nIn fact, it’s a work of <\/p>\n

998
\n01:05:13,480 –> 01:05:17,880
\nMichelangelo.
\nAnd as I looked at it, I was <\/p>\n

999
\n01:05:17,880 –> 01:05:19,680
\nimmediately struck by two
\nthings. <\/p>\n

1000
\n01:05:19,680 –> 01:05:25,760
\nThe first is that the subject
\nmatter is immensely dark. <\/p>\n

1001
\n01:05:28,240 –> 01:05:33,600
\nIt’s the artist’s imagination of
\na moment after the cross in <\/p>\n

1002
\n01:05:33,600 –> 01:05:36,440
\nwhich Mary would have, for a
\nbrief moment, held the broken <\/p>\n

1003
\n01:05:36,440 –> 01:05:39,880
\nbody of her child.
\nIt is a depiction of a mother <\/p>\n

1004
\n01:05:39,880 –> 01:05:44,200
\nholding her crucified son.
\nThe second thing that struck me <\/p>\n

1005
\n01:05:50,280 –> 01:05:58,240
\nis that it is immensely
\nbeautiful, bruh. <\/p>\n

1006
\n01:05:58,240 –> 01:06:03,880
\nAnd sisters of mortal man, in
\nall of our failings, can create <\/p>\n

1007
\n01:06:03,880 –> 01:06:07,280
\nsomething so beautiful from
\nsomething so tragic. <\/p>\n

1008
\n01:06:09,720 –> 01:06:14,240
\nWhat can God not do in the
\ndarkest moments of our lives? <\/p>\n

1009
\n01:06:14,240 –> 01:06:16,720
\nWhat what beauty can he not pull
\nfrom tragedy? <\/p>\n

1010
\n01:06:16,720 –> 01:06:19,520
\nWhat peace can he not salvage
\nfrom our chaos? <\/p>\n

1011
\n01:06:19,520 –> 01:06:22,080
\nOh, the depths and riches and
\nwisdom of our God, wrote the <\/p>\n

1012
\n01:06:22,080 –> 01:06:28,600
\npsalmist.
\nHow unsearchable His justice and<\/p>\n

1013
\n01:06:28,600 –> 01:06:31,640
\ninscrutable His ways.
\nBrothers and sisters and our <\/p>\n

1014
\n01:06:31,640 –> 01:06:37,680
\ntime Tomorrow we will continue
\nour reflections of the God that <\/p>\n

1015
\n01:06:37,680 –> 01:06:39,640
\nHabakkuk writes and wrath
\nremembers. <\/p>\n

1016
\n01:06:39,640 –> 01:06:44,240
\nMercy, our God.
\nAs Isaiah records in chapter 29,<\/p>\n

1017
\n01:06:44,240 –> 01:06:47,080
\nwhen His justice is in the
\nearth, the inhabitants learn <\/p>\n

1018
\n01:06:47,080 –> 01:06:49,640
\nrighteousness.
\nWe will consider how we live in <\/p>\n

1019
\n01:06:49,640 –> 01:06:55,120
\nthe tension of these character
\ntraits, how we manifest this <\/p>\n

1020
\n01:06:55,120 –> 01:06:58,720
\nquality of God and who we are,
\nthe pitfalls of it, And we will <\/p>\n

1021
\n01:06:58,720 –> 01:07:01,560
\nbring our minds to the
\nreflection of our God’s perfect <\/p>\n

1022
\n01:07:01,560 –> 01:07:06,440
\ncharacter, embodied in the glory
\nof his Son. <\/p>\n

1023
\n01:07:21,320 –> 01:07:23,440
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1025
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387: Aaron McKee – The God of All Grace and Justice<\/a><\/blockquote>