Sermon
The Benefits of the Blood
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Transcript
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I am what it says I am. I can do what it says I can. I'm a believer not a doubter. I'm a doer
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and not just a hearer. I am humble before the Lord. I'm obedient to the Lord. I am mature in the
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Lord. I'm enthusiastic about the Lord. I know that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of
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God. Amen. In the book of Matthew chapter 26 verse 27 and 28 you'll find these words. It says
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then he took the cup and gave thanks and gave it to them saying drink from it all of you.
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For this is my blood. Somebody said my blood. It says this is my blood of the new covenant.
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Every covenant had to be ratified with blood. In the old system all sins had to be forgiven with.
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So he's saying I'm putting something new in place. Amen. So he said for this is my blood for the new
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covenant which is shared for many for the remissions of. See God just knew. He couldn't put just sin
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there without F something. Took a lot of blood for something. Sin. Plural. Amen. Don't y'all see
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him try to play me every low Sunday morning. The Bible put an F on that because God know each one of
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us and he know that we came to him with multiple. I know some of y'all think y'all are there in
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a community but one little sin but I got news for you. We ought to be glad that the blood was shared
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for our sins. Amen. Y'all sit down. Y'all sit down. I'm done there.
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Let me begin by saying a very special thanks to Mr. Marvel here who stepped in last week
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to fill in the gap on the short notice. As many of you know I went out of town to show support
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for a dear friend who lost his wife and she was a dear friend of Lady Jeanette. Sister Brenna Palmer
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most of y'all some of y'all know her. In fact she was the inspiration behind Lady Jeanette
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beginning what we call out the women the black breasted social. She got that from sister Brenna
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and they were friends and so I just wanted to be there to support them during that time. So I want
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to thank sister Marvel for stepping in on short notice but you know how the spirit works is that
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while I was preparing to preach last week I was already preparing to talk about you know the benefits
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of the blood. Had the outline already written I was going to do two weeks on it and I didn't even
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ask sister ma what you're going to preach about but you know when I was listening in on I said oh
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that's a good segue to this week. She just took the first part of it because last week she was
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talking about I've been written and one of the values of the blood and the benefits of the blood
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is your redemption and so therefore what I'm going to do today is I'm going to kind of start from
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where she began with her text. Stay there for a few minutes because I don't want to preach what she
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preached last week but I do want to make the connection to some other benefits that the blood
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provides for us amen. You know benefit is anything that you can get as you have been earned it for
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retirement whatever the system you're in but sometimes you can have benefits and not even know
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it and when you have a benefit and don't know it you can end up living below your privileges
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because you don't know the benefits that you that you have and so what I want you to know is that
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I've got to get it in your heart and mind that I don't want you to live below your privileges
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because you don't know what benefit the blood serves in your life and I hope it would change your
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attitude and I hope the message counter is evocative to you today because at certain
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points I want to just get right in your face to make a point because if you can receive this I
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believe a lot of things in your life would change because you understand the benefits
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of the blood. Now in Ephesians chapter 1 verse 7 that's where Sister Marvel was at last week when
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she talked about redemption so the first thing I want you to know is that the blood of Jesus
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because of his blood we have redemption. Redemption just means that we've been bought back. God bought
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us back because we had sin in our lives and because we had a debt that we couldn't pay so he used the
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blood of Jesus to pay our debt and with that blood comes our freedom from that debt and forgiveness
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of the sin. So knowing that you shouldn't walk around bound up to what you've been set free from
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and what I want you to see also is that when we came to God because that word had sins on it
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and if we were then law enforcement we had a jacket that was pretty thick you know we had a
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wrap sheet that was pretty long and so because of that when you get free you now no longer have to
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feel guilty about your wrap sheet. Amen. All of you came to God with a wrap sheet because we violated
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his laws. Amen. And so this is what he says here he says now look in verse 7 of Ephesians 1 he says
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in him we have redemption somebody say redemption. Redemption through his blood the forgiveness of
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sin according to the riches of his grace. God's extended grace toward us bountifully when he
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sacrificed Jesus for our sin. So you ought to always feel like you're living under God's grace.
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God's favors on your life because of the grace of God. So whatever you do wherever you go you
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ought to feel like hey I operate in grace and because I operate in grace and I have favor my life
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then if I do things God way and recognize what the blood has done then God was going to find favor
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with me before me and and y'all are going to hit me today. Some of y'all want to say you need to
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start pleading the blood for some favor in your life because that's a benefit that you have amen.
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I said we're going to preach a message let me go on to the second one to Ephesians chapter 2
Ephesians 2 chapter mention
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since tomorrow I did a great job on that last week. Ephesians chapter 2 verse 11 through 13
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I want you to see that the blood of Jesus brought us somebody said Gentiles brought us Gentiles near
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to God. See we will once consider aliens outside and estranged from the family of God you know and
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some places here we're going to read and say we were without hope of eternal salvation but the
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blood of Jesus had brought us near to God and we are no longer aliens but now we're citizens
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of his kingdom. Now the picture that I want to get you to see is this is that before the blood
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if if I can use my sanctified imagination but the JP I don't think it's blasphemy because you're not
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God but I'm just going to say for my analogy you are God sitting in your seat of power.
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Before the blood I was way over here because of my condition because of my sin because how the
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Jews looked at me. Cliff represented the Jews sitting right there next to God got his ear all
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the time. I'm over here alienated don't even know how to get through to him but because of the blood
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it drew me near to God so now I'm just as close to God as Cliff is. In fact because of the blood I can get
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under the old covenant you know the temple is set up in three parts
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out of court the inter court and the holies of holies that was a veil that separated
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that only the high priests could go behind the holies of holies that'll be where I'm standing
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up here now. The outer court may be out where the lobby is you will be considered in the holy
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place the sanctuary you can come no further than this before the blood. That's the closer you can
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get to God right there before the blood but because the blood which is the veil of the temple was
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now you can come straight up here on your own don't even need don't even need boulder
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that's the benefit because before that you needed someone else to go to God for you
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to atone your sins now you can come. Good God Almighty. Look at this verse 11,
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2, 13 and chapter 2. He says don't forget somebody say don't forget. He says don't forget that you
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Gentiles oh you Gentiles you Gentiles we Gentiles that's us used to be outsiders somebody know what
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it's like to be an outsider that the difference between being an outsider and an insider and then
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everybody wanted to try to get to the inside but the Jews say look here before the blood you was a
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you were called uncircumcised heathens by the Jews who were so proud of their circumcision
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even though it affected only their bodies and not their heart in other words the physical
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circumcision of the body did not change the heart and so he said now look the blood
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that comes so that it would change your because if your heart changed your actions would change if
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your heart changed your behavior would change if your heart changed you'll hear God more than if
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your heart is still hot if your heart changed you receive the word of God and in your heart and it
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would take root if your this coming to church can be a formality because if this word ain't gonna
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change your heart you might well stay at home amen you could just zoom in or you could be at
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the be you could be somewhere else if you're not gonna let the word change your because if not you're
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gonna be still looked at as a heathen help me out clear he's gonna be looked at as a heathen
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on the outside looking in and see that's what the Jews thought they thought because they went
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through the physical act of circumcision that that was changing their lives when in reality
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they had to do that all the time they after the circumcision they had to take blood over and over
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and over again because their hearts were not changing something got to happen on the inside of you
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and when you realize that the blood of Jesus can change your heart and your content I'm gonna
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show you that it'll change the way you live amen now look at this verse 12 in those days
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you were living apart from Christ so when that is talked to you know in plural tense it don't
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have the effect so you have to personalize the scripture sometime to make it make sense to you
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because if I say in those days you were then that means who are you talking to in here
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but now what I want you to do and talking first person say in those days I was living apart from
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Christ amen have a different impact now when I say I
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I was excluded from citizenship from among the people of Israel and you did not know the covenant
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promises of God that God made to them you lived I lived in this world without God and without hope
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so before the blood of Christ came on the scene I was without God and without hope had no expectation
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of eternal life have had no expectation of the blessing that God had bestowed upon Abraham
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and the Jews I didn't even know that those same blessing was benefits toward me because of the
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blood and there are a lot of people that's walking around the day that's living hopelessly
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they don't know who they are they don't know where they belong and because they don't know
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who they are and where they belong then they live below their privileges because now they're
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living as if that is no I want you to have hope today because of the blood and then and if you
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don't have hope I hope that you leave here knowing beyond the shadow of doubt that the blood of Jesus
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has brought you near they lived in this world without God and without hope somebody say but now
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somebody shout but now he says now look but now you have been united with Christ Jesus
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once let me read this in first person once I was far away from God but now I have been brought
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near to him through the blood of
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so let me know that we all was afar from God but because of the blood now you've got the same
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level of access that the Jews got in fact your access is even better because some of them don't
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accept the blood they don't accept Jesus they don't accept the sacrifice that was made for them
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so I want to challenge you today look here why are you living afar from God when the blood has
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given you the opportunity to be brought near so my belief is you live apart from God not because
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of the blood not doing this work but because you make the choice to stay at a distance
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the choice is yours I got a choice I can come right down and sit next to mr jp right now and
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don't care what cliff think how he looked at me as an uncircumcised even it don't make no
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difference because now I know who I am and I know my relationship with my position has changed
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I'm no longer over there I'm right here in his
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man when you can get in the presence of God your whole attitude changed and I think a lot of people
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come to church and think that's because you walk in here you're in his presence look here you can
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get in his presence in your car before you you are to bring him here with you so that the worship
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experience will be pleasing to everybody because we all come with the same spirit on the inside of
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us knowing that we no longer are far from God but we have been brought you know children the closer
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they are to their parents the better they are you know the closer you got them to you you know
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they act different but when they grow up and get out on they
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they
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they have a tendency to do some things it is no different than you and your relationship with
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God when you go without studying when you go without prayer when you go without meditation when
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you go without doing the things in this world and you get a distance from God you start living
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y'all ain't gotta feel in the blank don't be afraid because I know what I'm talking about today
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you know and I believe that somebody needs to know you don't have to live apart from God
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because the blood has drawn you and what I need to help some of you with don't let other folk
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keep you from getting closer if you want to get closer there's gonna be some people out there who
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want to try to clot the blood that wasn't in my nose I just started that right y'all know that wasn't in my nose but it's sort of fear you know having
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the blood clotting out a good thing having someone hindering you from getting closer to God
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so now that we know that we have been brought near to God then it's important for us to realize
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that we have been justified so my my third point is because Jesus blood has been shared
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then now this being justified go back to what I was telling you about your rap sheet
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see Romans 5 chapter chapter 5 verse 6 through 11 this passage let us know that we have been
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justified by the blood we have been declared and made righteous in the sight of God because of Jesus
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blood she God declared you and me righteous in spite of our rap sheet in spite of you know
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the jacket was already full cliff but in spite of what was in that rap sheet God looked at the blood
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and decided to expunge everything out my record amen now look what I want you all to do right
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now just for the sake of your own life not mine I want you to just close your eyes just for a moment
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and visualize your rap sheet before the blood if you was honest with yourself I mean if you were
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just honest with yourself I mean if you were just truly honest with your spirit ain't gonna lie to
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you we said in the Bible said all night the spirit already know what your rap sheet looked like so
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you ain't revealing it to me you're just taking a look back and say oh man when I see and understand
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where God brought me from and what the blood did for me boy I got something to praise it for
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I you know like the song say I just want to praise it I just want to give it faith because
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I don't look back and even if I was a good kid I was still stuck up in some ways some of your
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rap sheets is not that long you didn't fornicate you didn't commit a dirty you was you know you
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was a virgin when you got married wasn't in your rap sheet but boy you had attitude couldn't nobody
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get along with you you were just all that and then some it was in your rap scene now I'm not
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trying to read in about his book but it's a good possibility some line was in your rap sheet
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some fornication was in your rap sheet some drunkenness was in your
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don't have don't don't don't have an effect over there I mean but but but it was in your rap sheet
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and see if you're still dealing with what's in your rap sheet then you don't understand the benefit
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of the she cuz I ought to be able to talk about your rap city you all be saying hey pass go ahead
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read it all that that is no longer me that's that you know I'm no longer that person because the
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better that charge still pending
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yeah you you gotta be quiet right now you you can't get up and do your little hole at the head
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yeah you cuz you gotta charge you may be found guilty cuz you don't know the blood
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but if you've been set
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let me read this now look at this in verse six roman chapter five because we've been justified
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we need to know that it says for now I want to make this first person again so I want you to
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read the first person as you read for yourself for when I was still without strength in other
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ways we were all at a point in our life we were just weak we were helpless man there was some
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stuff that had us so hooked up man we just couldn't every time it came around just helpless everybody
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told me you're gonna be alright when I was still in that state God was thinking about me when you
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were still in that state of helpless God was so he says when we were still without strength in
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do time at the right time cliff whenever God move on your life it is the right time he says
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christ died for the somebody said me you the ungodly I know some y'all think he was you the
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bible you the ungodly and christ died for you while you were still weak and undone
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that rap see let me know you rap see talking to you right now weak
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I ain't gonna never have another drink weak
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I ain't gonna never fornicate again I ain't gonna even touch you I ain't gonna look at weak
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man I'm gonna stop lying weak
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and ungodly
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over eating
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it's all right long without talking about the fornicators no let's let me talk about those
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that don't know how to push away weak and ungodly that's what the bible say weak
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so when God saw us in that state he knew that that wasn't the best place for us
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so while we were still weak and ungodly he was thinking about us because in due time
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he said christ died for the so y'all to be happy man he died because when I was weak
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yeah he died when I was you know fornicating he died when I was lying
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it would have been nice if he said get it right first Jesse but he said why are you still doing it
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in due time christ died for the ungodly
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yeah benefit now look at this he lets us know that you know they're seldom will somebody die for
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you clear even if you're okay they may even consider it they think you're a good dude
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but it's so rare you don't see it often so that's why he says for scaffolding for a righteous man
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for someone you know who's somewhere good will one die yet perhaps for a good man somebody who's
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especially good first jp i'm gonna consider you it's especially good somebody may even dare
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to die for you but if they have some second thought they may say jp you on your own man
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i thought i could do it for you but but bro why ain't you on your own man i thought i was gonna be
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able to take the bullet for you but you you're on your own man i know we'd rather die like that but
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i didn't know the bullet was gonna come so so scarcely would i die for you why i ain't gonna
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jump in front of and say i will be your hero now you ain't got but one hero that will end up you
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his name ain't boulder amen so so so don't make me your hero don't make the person who stand up here
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and teach you your hero because most people that stand up here ain't gonna sometimes we won't even
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pray for you so how in the world
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if i ain't praying for your diner's not the question
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verse they say but somebody say but well i was told the but you know
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you're gonna change the direction of the thought here he says now scarcely would cliff die for me
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but god somebody say god but god demonstrated his own love toward me toward you toward us
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and that while we were and while i was still sinning christ died for us christ died for me
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that's how you got to read that you know so so god didn't just talk about big game
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he showed up at the game and he put some skin in the game and then he allowed his son to die for us
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and i died for me while i was still while i was still
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yeah still chasing
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and you know just still lying still eating too much still he didn't say look you know boulder
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you ought to stop eating two pieces of pie before i let jesus die i was still eating too many calories
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but jesus now i'm just using myself for that but you got to still too
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yeah don't sit here and try to play me y'all i know you you got to you got to wrap she too
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why you were still i don't know poor one say still
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still not told y'all some of y'all don't got real quiet all right look here
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some of y'all still it's not as bad as others but it don't make no difference
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huh you were still
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and we ought to shout because we ought to be glad he let jesus die while we were still
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because it would have been worth it for jesus benefit if we had to get it right because he'll still be living
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right so he says now look in that while we were still sinners christ died for us then he says
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much more than having now been justified by his blood made right we shall be saved from
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wrath through him in other words i don't have to worry about condemnation i don't care how mad
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god get up in heaven he ain't gonna get mad at me because he see the blood he he may say a little
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something to me every now and then but he ain't gonna never talk to me about hell
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i ain't that guy that conversation ain't for me because the blood has sealed that conversation
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off forever and so therefore when i error i just tell him i'm sorry but i don't have to worry about
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saying okay i've made a mistake now he's gonna send me there now the blood
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keeps me from all wrath amen that ought to be something to shout about man you know
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you don't want to fall into the hands of an angry god and so therefore because we have the blood
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protecting us and we have Jesus blood that had been shared for look here that's a sense of freedom
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that you ought to enjoy that's a benefit that you ought to walk in and live in it so that when you
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walk and talk about the Lord you talk about it with confidence because you know hey that is
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there for no condemnation for those who are in
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so whether you believe in hell or not it don't make me no different if it is one i ain't gone
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amen so i don't even have to be preached to about no hell i just say that for folks who
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you know don't believe in it just let them know but for me that's a lesson i already got clear
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that's elementary that deal has been sealed and that deal ought to be sealed for each and every
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one of you you shouldn't have to wake up every morning being condemned because you're not sure
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what your relationship is like with god the blood
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saved us from wrath through him look at verse 10 he says for if somebody say if if we were
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enemies if when we were enemies we were reconciled to god through the death of his son much more
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haven't been reconciled we shall be saved by his life man if god did that for me cliff when i was
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an enemy and now that jesus have justified me and reconciled me back to god and i'm god's friend
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why would god kill his why would god why would you kill your
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he didn't kill me went out of the enemy so why in the world when he killed me now that i'm his
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friend so now i walk around with a benefit that hey i am a friend of i don't have to worry about
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him just slapping me around and condemning me why because i'm his friend but with that friendship
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come responsibility i try to live in a way that please him but at the same time i don't live
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in fear of being backhand by god because i'm his
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like your children they don't have to live in fear of being backhand by you when they are your
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no i know some y'all don't backhand your friend you're not you're not you that example
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but they don't have to you don't get your little ruler or whatever you don't time out of them
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you know you don't take the toys they got to walk in that fear when they know that they are no longer
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condemned by you because they're your friend
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now i know that go against popular teaching your children they're supposed to be your friend
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because sometimes friends don't respect you like this year but i would much rather have your children
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be your friend than to be your friend
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he said now now that we no longer his enemies and that we've been brought there and reconciled
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to make friend look at verse 11 says now and not only that but we also somebody to rejoice
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we rejoice in god through our lord jesus christ through whom we have now received
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reconciliation so so the writer is telling us that when you realize that your god's friend
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that's a shouting revelation
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i think in my mind that i'm thoughts
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i'm supposed to
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see it looks like he ain't got no friends right here
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because his friend is scared to read so can i just take a pause right here because i don't have
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one more text and just let y'all have a pause moment of praise moment with your friend because
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you got a friend who has forgiven you of your sin he has reconciled you because of the blood
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and therefore he is worthy of your praise he's worthy of your adoration it is not too much to
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praise your friend it's not too much to ask of you to clap your hands for your friend it's not too
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much to ask you to say hallelujah for your friend to say thank you for saving me to your friend
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hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah see those of you who see sometimes i have to make things like this
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out in the social media world everybody is fighting for friends
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they brag about how many likes i got i got i'm in a friend i got a little dog about red
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a friend you don't even really know and can't really do nothing for you and you come to church
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your son i ain't trying to guilt you right here because your conscious i'll be speaking to you
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and you come to church your son and got a friend that sacrificed his life
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and we tell ourselves it don't take all that and we know that our friend loved to be praised
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he loved to be magnified he loved to be glorified he didn't have his to praise up his people
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so it shouldn't be nothing wrong with saying thank you when i was a little boy man my grandmom and
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i'm proud of man if you can't say nothing else to somebody that has done something for you that
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leaf just say thank you that's enough sometimes you just gotta say and every now and then you
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ought to say with some emphasis like you really are thank you because you know the benefit of the
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blood that was shared for you don't live below your privileges all because you're too proud to say
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thank you god i thank you when i with my imagination look back at that rap sheet
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that you had on me i say
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all i have to do is just look at all them charges oh man he had that on me had that on
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me first degree on that one second degree on that mr. meaner right there but look here
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that's murder right there that that's that was a capital when you did that that was a capital
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see somebody ought to got some hold and i let y'all don't forget what y'all rap
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see look the lez least look like but look at i'm trying to tell you you gotta tell him thank you
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that you have been freed up from all those charges that was held against you
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and when i understand that they're not good look here the beauty of that is now
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nobody can bring those charges up in a way that's gonna make me feel guilty because i know
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i know i know i know i know i know that he has exonerated me of all those charges because of the
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cause of the blood that's a benefit so therefore i live in this freedom major i don't have to
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walk around bound up i hope major don't go and look at my past and see some of my old posts out there
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of finding what i did when i was in high school baby dig all you want whatever you see you ain't
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gonna see a lot because look here i've been freed up the god then just took it out the other record
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and therefore it don't make me no different if you sniff it out you wasted your time because
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it's not gonna hold me the blood them freed me up from people people don't get next to me like that
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no more i could care less what people think because i know what the blood has oh lord let me get back
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to my lessons i went forward to get that day because some people need and some of you all need to be
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freed up people are holding too much against you and you come to church every Sunday you pray you
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draw that but you still walk around like you guilty man you better you better find out who you are
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and the lord is start living like you free start acting like you free start talking like
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all i'm doing is saying i'm gonna agree with what god say about me and not what somebody else say
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people will always say something but whatever they say don't mean nothing because they have no
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condemning power the power to condemn has been covered by the blood oh let me move on let me
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move on because i wasn't supposed to get excited right there so this last part i guess i got excited
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the right play because that was the time we could enjoy but let me just go over here to Hebrews to
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close out Hebrews chapter nine this is another one of those things that you're going to have to
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kind of get a good picture of what was going on under the old system see this passage let us know
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that Jesus was the perfect sacrifice to be offered for our sin not over and over but once and for all
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and he did that with his blood so the blood of christ purify or cleanse our conscience
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from sinful deeds in other words the blood of jesus can transform our minds so that we can distinguish
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what is morally good and bad the blood cleans up up on the inside by the power of the Holy Spirit
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making us aware of our thoughts that come into our mind that will try to get us to go back to where
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God has delivered us from so every now and then when i want to think about what i used to be
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revisit that rap sheet the blood the blood say hey you ain't got no business going back there
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you've been set free so don't take your mind back somewhere where you have been set
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because most of the things that cause us problems in life starting out
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if you can let the blood cleanse your mind cleanse the way you think it'll change the way you live
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you're conducting your character to resolve so what's in your head amen so look at this and i'm
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in hebrus chapter 9 verse 11 through 14 and i'm done he says now look so christ has become
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the high priest over all good things that have come in other words hebrus is a comparative study
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everything that the writer was right he was comparing the old to the new and he's saying now
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this old priesthood christ is better than that the priesthood the errand and the levites ran
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where they had to go out and sacrifice animals over and over and over and then offer up a sin
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offering for themselves that day is he's the priest over all good things that have come not
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not this coming but have come now he has entered the greater and more perfect tapernacle in heaven
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which was not made by human hand or and is not part of the creative world in other words
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the high priest had to come behind the veil once a year in an earthly temple like this house this
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church and offer up animals blood he said now there's a better tabernacle than this earthly
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tabernacle and jesus didn't come to this earthly tabernacle to give his blood he went back to the
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half tabernacle in heaven and laid his blood on the altar there for you that sacrifices much better
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than the blood of a goat or a ram or a bull or a dove that sacrifice you got to realize you're
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living under a better covenant a better sacrifice you got to act like you know that because the blood
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gave you a better deal our deal is better than the old deal so every time we go out there and live
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beneath our privileges it's almost like we sacrifice in Jesus over again and he said that he was
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sacrificed once so now you ought to think about man why am I putting Jesus back on the cross
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why am I going to let this extra piece of power put Jesus back on the cross why am I going to
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let this movie that got all this pornography in it put Jesus why am I going to let this extra
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drink of alcohol that I know going to call me to go out my mind put Jesus
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back on the cross I'm just trying to make you think right now because if you won't think about
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your life you ain't gonna change because you're gonna settle for what you're comfortable with
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but every now and then you need to be reminded that the blood was shed for you for a reason
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you got a better deal now and because we got a better deal we got to live
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we still live in under the influence of this created world
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and it takes the blood of Jesus to help you navigate your way through this created world
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that is changing culturally every day and if you don't understand your position in this created
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world you will get caught up with some of the change
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not knowing that the blood has cleansed you
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I know it's gonna get quiet right there man I know that's why I ain't yelling I know
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because you're thinking now I'm glad you're thinking right now you're thinking right now
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I hope that was an evocative moment for you that you look deeper that rap sheet look deeper
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this world that we live in and say God let me take advantage of the blood that was shed for me
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he says with his own blood verse 12 not the blood of goats and calves he entered to the
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most holy place what I told you earlier once for all time and secured our redemption that that word
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is again for that's why I told you I ain't worry about hell and you know condemnation
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forever means forever forever is always
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forever I'm forever redeemed that wasn't no job that Jesus didn't do perfectly the
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Bible said he did it perfectly so therefore I'm perfectly redeemed I ain't going to hell
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amen whether you believe in that I ain't going there I've been redeemed for
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let me finish this up verse 13 he says under the old system I say old system the old system
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the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a young cow could cleanse people bodies
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from ceremonial impurity in other words all you was working on was the outer man
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you was cleaning up the outer man so we take blood sacrifice the animal sprinkle it all over
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the altar over you or whatever put some ashes on you and now you will consider ceremonially clean
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but that didn't last till you took a shower once you go wash it off there's no lasting power in
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it just like there's no lasting power in baptism water we do that as a ceremony but if your heart
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don't change in the water before you get in the water you're going to come up out the water and
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once you draw off that little same demon that was in you before you went in
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he there because you thought that the ceremony just going to take that desire from you the
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ceremony going to know the ceremony just initiate you into the body but after you come out the water
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now you got to let the spirit work on that because until he started working on the inside the water
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is just a four he says it cleanses people's bodies from ceremonial impurity look at verse 14 last
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word he said just think somebody say just think now he wants you to just think about now if if
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they thought that made them clean just think just think just let your mind go for a moment and
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paint something on your brain and in your head how you see this playing out just don't turn your
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brain off and tune out and go somewhere else right now just Todd he said just think right now
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something ought to be running through your head that you're thinking about what's significance
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that Jesus blood played my life just if you don't know how to think about the blood you're not
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gonna live under the benefits just think how much more the blood of Christ will purify or cleanse
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our conscious our conscious well conscious is the part of that thinking process that
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so if I think about what Jesus has done then that blood can cleanse my conscious so when some bad
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thoughts come in I can plead the blood over that thought so that I don't try to act out what I've been
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you got to get your conscious in line with this word of God you got to get your mind in line with
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this word of God and you got to plead the blood of Jesus over your mind because your mind still
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remember your rap sheet your mind know what's in the jacket your mind know what they got on you
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they mind be your mind know how many cases you had pinned them you know me you know that was some
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detective sitting there they say I just caught a case today that Veronica and when I opened up her
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jacket your mind know what he saw but because of the blood of Jesus your conscious I don't care
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what he saw because I know that I have been redeemed from all that was in there and so therefore
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when my mind want to go back to that I have to plead the blood so that my conscious will stay
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in line with what God would have me now you are letting too much that's out there on social media
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get into your conscious mind and whatever gets in front of your conscious mind and start you to
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thinking about it you're gonna start acting on what you've been thinking so now this blood is
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supposed to say that content I cannot read because that content go contrary to what the blood represents
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so if you had that read in all kind of content and your spirit is never quick I submit to you
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that blood doesn't stop running your conscious is dead you no longer sense and feel the things of
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God moved through your spirit because you have become immune to what you're reading now and now
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that has become a part of you again I know y'all don't want to hear that today what they got this
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first Sunday this is the blood I said yeah you're saying be forgiven but the devil's still trying to
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get your mind so purify our conscious from sin for these so that I can worship the living God so it
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looked like to me he said we but I put either clip it's hard to worship God when your conscious is
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all jacked up you come in the word trying to get through to your conscious beating you down you
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ain't got no business here today you know what you did last week you were you here time out conscious
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the blood I'm here to worship now and because I know what he's done for me I'm not gonna let you
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miss this moment in his presence I'm gonna enjoy this because I came to feel something I came to
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feel some I came to experience I'm not gonna let my conscious mind keep me from feeling what God
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would help me to feel all because I'm still dealing with guilt and the pain of sin
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so those sins for these he didn't say they weren't gonna come they're gonna always come
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but now your mind has been renewed been transformed and so therefore we plead the blood of Jesus
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to help us with the things that come and attack our
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so that we can worship the living God that's the whole purpose of coming to church you come
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in at home wherever you are you're just supposed to be a worship moment you're supposed to be worshiping
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God kidding some from his word feeling like you're in his presence so this ain't just wasted time in
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your life this is a time that you set apart you ought to get something out of time because you
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can't get this time back so you got to take advantage of the moments that you have now
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because once this moment is over it is that's why the world is telling people right now and they
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bind it to but they won't buy them to you got to live in the that's the going thing when I'm looking
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out there on the Netflix and I'm gonna live in them but what are they talking about but most of
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time when you hear them say that just look what they're trying to live in and I'm just trying to
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tell you I want you to live in the base upon where you are oh god I'm done he says by the power of
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the eternal spirit Christ offered himself to God as a perfect sacrifice for our sins the blood of
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Jesus has benefits and therefore when you understand and know that he is your faithful high priest
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and his sacrifice was perfect you no longer have to bear the guilt the staying the pain and all that
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stuff that come with your past life your past life is holding you back because your past life
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is still in your head you can't get over what happened to you 10 years ago 20 years ago and
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I'm here to say that the blood is supposed to help you deal with your past and cleanse your mind so
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that I don't forget what happened to me in my past but I no longer have the pain that's associated
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with my past I remember every good and bad thing I've done for the most part but when I think about
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those things now I no longer feel guilty I no longer feel pain by those things even though they
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I may have hurt somebody when I did it but God has forgiven me don't mean that person has but the
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one who count has now if I did things right I should have went back to that person and said hey
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let's make it right and they don't accept the power that's fine but that person ain't gonna be
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the walker I said well you know he did that to me and then I was gonna gotta go oh man I'm guilty
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again feel bad I ain't feeling bad that's one area I ain't feeling bad in right there because look
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here my conscious mind has been cleansed with the blood of Jesus so I don't care what's the
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version of Larry Bowden you go and get Larry Bowden 15 Larry Bowden 25 35 45 55 65 whichever
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version you want to go and get I'm gonna put the blood on it I don't kill he just sound too
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yeah well I'm just telling that you ought to be sounding because I'm not gonna live the rest of
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my life when people talking about me put me on a guilt you can't help nobody if you walking around
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feeling guilty about every little thing that you done did 20 years ago how you're gonna help and
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deliver somebody from something when you have them allowed the blood of Jesus to deliver you
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so I hope you got something out of today's message there's some benefits to the blood
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give the Lord a hand cup of praise if you will hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah
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we thank God for the blood of Jesus every head body every eye closed we have several appeals for
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you my first appeal is for salvation if you're here and you never made Jesus the Lord of your life
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and you want to give your life to him on today if you're online or you're in the house I just ask
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if you're here raise your hand someone will minister to you if you're online I just asked
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you send us an instant message to let us know and we will gladly get in contact with you because we
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believe that everybody ought to know who Jesus is everybody ought to know that Jesus came to die
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for us while we were yet still sinning so if you are there thinking that you got to get some things
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right because that's a common clause the enemy say but once I get it right once you get it right
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then you can give your life to the Lord now you ain't gonna get it right not on your own not without
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his help because you're weak and helpless but if you just trust him he can help you get it right
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and that starts with accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior so if that is you again I just
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ask if you just give us a call here to church 8508 6238 999 or if you're in the house just raise
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your hand just raise your hand say yes pastor I want to give my life to the Lord my second appeal is
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for new members if you're here and you're looking for a church home and the spirit of God is speaking
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to your heart and saying striving for perfection ministry is the place for you true we love to
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have you as a part of this body but we can continue to strengthen you and so that you will walk up
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right before God to be more and more like Jesus that is our goal that is our aim is to to make sure
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that you're nurtured and brought up in the truth of God's word if this is where you think the Lord
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is leading you please raise your hand if you're in the house if you're online just give us a call
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please raise your hand please raise your hand please raise your hand
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then my third appeal is for the baptism of the Holy Spirit if you're here and you want to know
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more about the gift of the Holy Spirit with the Holy Spirit with evidence speaking other times if
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that is you and you want to know more please raise your hand we have ministers that will share
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information with you then my fourth and final appeal is for our altar time for prayer time or
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you can pray at your seats or you now you can come if you want to come to the altar around the wall
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if we have we got ministers in the house who will gladly pray with you if that's what you desire
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but pray your line of communication with a holy God and because the veil of the temple has been
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rent you can go to him any kind of anytime you want to in your own way so if you got a prayer
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concern you may want to intercede on someone else for heaven that the spirit of God is speaking to
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your heart don't don't miss this moment where you may be able to intercede for someone please be
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obedient to your spirit if you got a prayer concern you got a prayer need please come at this time
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please come at this time you want to stand at your seats you can do that also please come
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please come because we believe that the fervent prayers of the righteous avail it much
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hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah
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even if you're seated at your seat i just ask that you
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focus on things and things that you could be praying for not for yourself just lift up
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your neighbor concerns intercede for someone don't miss this moment when we're trying to communicate
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with our God hallelujah we thank you Lord Jesus we thank you for the benefits in
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the and the ability God to come back before you hallelujah hallelujah let us pray eternal
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God our Father we thank you for your word that is gone for today God we realize that that word
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has got to get into our heart and in our minds so that we will live in accordance with us that I
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thank you for reminding us just how precious the blood of Jesus is it was a perfect sacrifice
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for all of our sins one time and for all so God we thank you for counting us worthy you count us
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valuable enough to let Jesus die just for us I truly believe that if heaven rejoiced because
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one sinner gives their life to the Lord I believe Jesus would have died just for one person on this
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earth and so God I thank you for letting him die for all of us so that we could have a way back to
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you and Father we just promise that we're not going to take for granted this relationship that we
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have with you because of him we're not going to live below our privileges God so we're going to
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walk in the favor and the honor that you have bestowed upon us and God I pray that you keep our
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minds and things focused on you so that as our old nature try to re-reach up in our lives that the
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blood of Jesus will cleanse us from that thought that acts in that deep whatever it is God we
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plead the blood of Jesus that was shed for us and God when it's all said and done we give you all
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praise honor and glory in Jesus name we pray that everybody say amen say amen again amen give the
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Lord a hand cup of praise if you will thank you Jesus thank you Lord amen amen this time
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it been the first Sunday