Sermon
Covered - Kingdom Blood
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So again, you know, it's a big day for the church.
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It's a big day for people to come back to the church.
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And, you know, typically the the message that is centered around
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today is the death, burial, resurrection of Jesus.
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In past times, I have foregone that message and preached a
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different one because, you know, sometimes I'm like, well,
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they've heard that message. They're here.
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We won't see them again till next year.
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So let me preach something different.
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You know, I was talking to someone at a restaurant recently
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and I told them I did. And they're like, wow, Pastor
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Earl, that's kind of smart because they probably have heard
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that one message every time they come on Easter.
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Now, I'm going to stay in the vein of the death, burial,
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resurrection today, though, All right.
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And but we're going to see some things today.
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Number one, to remind us, say, remind me because you
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understand, my wife has made a ham today so that we can go eat
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this deal after service. So please excuse us.
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We have to dart out because I'm not sure it's at the right
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temperature yet and we need to get some fire on it.
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With that being said, I've had ham before, but I'm looking
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forward to it again. I mean, I've had fried chicken
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before. I've had blackened salmon
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before. I always look forward to it
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again, especially if they know how to prepare it.
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Amen. And man, when you first heard
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some of the things we're going to talk today, you need to say,
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man, I remember how good that tasted.
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Hallelujah. That way you'll just ingest.
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Oh, I do think we may go on some things that will open up our
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minds and renew ourselves and remind ourselves of some things.
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Because the blood still speaks. I said the blood still speaks.
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Do you know what the blood says? Because the Bible tells us what
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the blood says. The blood says forgive them.
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The blood says forgive them, Father.
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That's what the blood says, Forgive them, Father.
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That's what the blood says, 'cause this blood that's been
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poured out on the mercy seat in heaven, not in a Tabernacle made
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by hands, not by the blood of bulls and goats, but with the
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blood of Jesus Christ, the Son of God himself.
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When it was poured out on the mercy seat in heaven, it's
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eternally speaks to the Father. Father, forgive them.
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In essence, the blood has covered every sin imaginable and
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the amount of that sin. If you've lied once, you could
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lie 1000 times the world, from Adam all the way to the last
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person that's ever born. There may be number.
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We can't even count the more than trillions of times that a
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lie has been perpetrated, perpetrated by a human, or
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delivered by the mouth of a human being, that the blood has
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covered it. It's covered it.
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It has paid the price for the lie, is paid the price for
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murder is paid the price for slander is paid the price for
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adultery, for fornication. We could go on and give all
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kinds of lists of things that are against the Kingdom of God,
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are in disobedience to God. And guess what?
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The blood has it covered. I mean, it's like, you know, you
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have an insurance plan and they're like, well, what if this
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event happens? You're covered.
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Well, what about this? You're covered.
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How about this? You know what?
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You're covered. How about what if I you're
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covered? Are you hearing me?
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You're covered. Now.
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Can I step over here a second? There's one issue that's not
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covered. It's called blasphemy of the
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Holy Spirit. That's a big deal and we'll
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preach on that later, not today. But if you hear saying, oh, did
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I do that, you haven't done it. Because when you do it, you'll
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never darken the door or think about God ever again.
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Period, Period. Hallelujah.
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You know what? The blood's got you covered.
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Are you hearing me? Look at this in John 316 For God
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so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that
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whoever believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal
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life. Now there is scholars that
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believe in fact, it's. Thank you, Holy Spirit.
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Help that man's name come to my remembrance.
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He's Foursquare guy. Oh, man, thank you, Jesus.
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Anyway, he, he was part of a particular Word and Spirit Bible
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that had different, you know, people of faith that were
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eloquent in certain subjects. Huh.
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No, no, thank you. I know it'll come if it needs
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to. Anyway.
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Jack Hayford. Thank you, Jesus.
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Jack Hayford, he was part of writing this particular Bible
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and in his con commentary concerning John, he said John
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was during when he wrote his letter was during the
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persecution of the church in great persecution.
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How much so John is arrested. They tried to kill the man could
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not kill him, bold him and old couldn't kill him.
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So they like we'll just put him on an island.
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You know what I'm saying? They're trying to get rid of the
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man, and when he's on the island, he gets the revelation
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of stuff that we are still yet to see, that's still in our
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future. Are you hearing me?
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But during this time, Jack Hayford, through his study of
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John, he said that John replaced the 'cause if you look at all
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the other Gospels, it's heavy with the Kingdom of God or the
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Kingdom of heaven. He said that John replaced the
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Kingdom with eternal life, and that's in this particular Bible
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that he has that he wrote or had a commentary.
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So if that is accurate, which is not not accurate because when
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you leave this planet and you're present before the Lord, are you
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going to be in a Kingdom? When Jesus comes back, is he
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going to bring a Kingdom? Is he going to be on a throne
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during the millennial reign? Will there only be a Kingdom
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that exist? So it's not too far to stretch
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to say that's probably accurate because when you said Kingdom or
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government in John's time, that's all that was on the
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planet were kingdoms. And when, when we know in the
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book of Acts that Paul had been accused of, of bringing
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challenges to communities that one of them stood up, I believe
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was a blacksmith that says this guy preaches that there's
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another king besides Caesar. Well, that's pretty bold that
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that Paul's walking around preaching the same message Jesus
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is preaching, that the government gets concerned that
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they are to stir up a whole community that says we're under
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the rule of a king in Rome named Caesar.
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But this guy says there's a different one.
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I mean, that's like you walking around saying there's another
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president. Are you hearing me?
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I mean, not exactly because our government's a little bit
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different than a Kingdom, but you understand these are
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challenges. So John obviously is during this
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particular time, it would read like this.
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For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son,
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that whoever believes in him should not perish but have the
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Kingdom. Aren't you glad you have the
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Kingdom? Amen.
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But God loved the world that he gave his only begotten son.
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What is he giving? Romans chapter 3 verses 323 says
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this. For all have and fall of the
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glory of God. Glory is the full weight.
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It's the manifest presence of God.
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We've all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.
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In essence, we do not house the glory when we sin, When sin
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entered into our life, when we sinned, then the glory departs.
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The glory's not there. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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And how many have sinned? Sin is simply just disobeying
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what God says. Are you hearing me?
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Don't let me be so elementary that you check out.
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But it's very good for us to know why?
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Because we don't treat sin like we should.
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Because God treats sin like it is.
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Hallelujah, all right, Sin is serious and God did something
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serious about it. Are you hearing me?
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Look at Romans chapter 623. For the wages of sin is death,
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but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our
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Lord. Aren't you glad that there's a
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gift? I said, aren't you glad that
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there's a gift? Hallelujah, that the wages of
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sin is death. So when sin is committed, it
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must pay in death, it pays in death.
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I said it pays in death. Now death is not physically
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disappearing because a lot of times we in the natural someone
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died. That means they're not no longer
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with us. We understand they exist
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somewhere, they're just not in their body.
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So really death is just separation.
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So the wages of sin is being separated from God and it brings
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separation there. It pays that out.
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It's the penalty or the payment due and it is not ignored.
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I said it is not ignored. Do you understand?
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I can go on vacation, not even be in my house, but I still get
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electric bill. I still get a water bill and I'm
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not even running water. That's right.
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There's still utilities and it's due on a particular time.
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And if you forget to pay that, they'll shut it off.
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Say Amen. They'll shut it off.
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You can own your house, have title deed.
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You do not pay your taxes. They'll come and take your
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property. You're like, but the house is
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mine, OK, Amen. Well, there's something due when
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it comes to sin and it requires payment.
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I said it requires payment. Look at Hebrews Chapter 9 verse
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22. The Amplified Classic says it
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this way. In fact, under the law, almost
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everything is terrified by means of blood, and without the
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shedding of blood there is neither release from sin and its
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guilt, nor the remission of the due and merited punishments for
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sin. So what can make the payment for
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sin? Blood.
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Blood does this. Come on, Blood does this.
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Blood is a payment. Now the remedy translation is
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powerful. Look at this, it says.
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In fact, the Script requires that nearly everything be
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symbolically cleansed with blood, because without the
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shedding of blood there could be no restoration to God's original
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ideal. Without the death of Christ, we
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would not know the true loving character of God and could not
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be restored to God's original ideal for mankind.
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Can I get an Amen? Well, where do we find God's
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original ideal for man? Sure, Genesis chapter one, verse
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26, In this world, this earth, same planet we're on today, God
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says let there be light. And he goes through these
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different days of creating the heavens and the earth.
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And then on this day in the 26th verse of Genesis 1, he said, let
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us make man in our image according to our likeness and
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let them have dominion. So man is created in the
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likeness of God. Is there sin in God?
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Has God ever sinned? No, so God has never sinned and
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does not no sin. So death is not associated with
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God and He makes man in his image, which means man has life
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and the nature and character of God.
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Hallelujah. And so in our original ideal for
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man is God wanted us to look like him, walk like him, act
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like him, talk like him, respond like him.
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Amen. And we had dominion or rule over
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the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, over all the cattle,
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over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps
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on the earth. In essence, man was the God of
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the world, as God is God in heaven.
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Now God is God of all creation, of which He allowed us to be a
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little God because we are sons of God.
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And if we would yield and listen to our Father in heaven and
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function like Him on the earth, then the environments of heaven
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and earth would be the same. So much so that God would come
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down in the cool of the day and converse.
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So in order for man to demonstrate love to God,
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although he's made in his image well as God love, God is love
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and he made man in his image. So man obviously knows how to
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function and operate with love because it's part of his nature.
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However, he must demonstrate it how?
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Through obedience. So he tells the man, You're of
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my nature, then you would only do as I say, because I only do
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my word. So he says, you can eat from any
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tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good
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and evil, you shall not eat. For the day you eat you will
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surely, surely what? Because when you eat the fruit
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that you're not supposed to eat, you're in disobedience.
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Because God says do not eat it. Didn't say it wouldn't taste
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good, didn't say it wouldn't be awesome.
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He just said don't eat it. So we understand that Adam and
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Eve were in the garden for a time period that somewhere along
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the way a serpent came in. He already had the command to
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keep the garden and to not eat the fruit.
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He has enough from God to remain obedient and demonstrate his
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love. But the serpent said to the
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woman, has God said that you can't eat from any tree of the
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garden? She said that's not the word of
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the king. The king has said we can eat
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from any tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of
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good and evil, we shall not eat. For the day we eat we will die.
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And he says you're not going to die because God knows the day
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you eat it you'll be like him, knowing good and evil.
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And she was deceived and ate and gave it to her husband who went
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into full blown rebellion mode and ate the fruit.
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And the Bible says through one man's transgression, sin entered
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the world. Are you hearing me now?
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Adam has lost his glory 'cause when he sinned, the glory left.
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I said the glory left, but God has given a word.
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Aren't you glad God keeps His word?
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God has given His word. His word is let us make man in
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our image according to our likeness.
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But the problem is Adam now is not in the image of God in
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nature. And so because he has fallen, he
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needs to be. He needs the opportunity to be
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restored, but he can't do it. He's not going to be able.
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He he he cannot live righteous now.
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All he can do is put on things. But he has selfish desires.
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He is now corrupt. It does not matter.
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Everything he does will not be enough.
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And Adam passes this seed on into all of us.
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It was forced rebellion. Now you can say, well, that's
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not right. I mean, it is what it is, and it
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wouldn't be right if there wasn't a way out.
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I mean, if you didn't have a way out, sure, you should be able to
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die, stand before holy God. And you know what?
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It would probably do really well in the courts of heaven.
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Now, Lord, you know that I'm not the one who done that animate
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the fruit. You would have been able to
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argue a case. Now if I had been there, I'm my
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own person, I'm who I am. I would not have eaten that
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fruit at all. You could have argued, I mean,
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his sins are now your sins. Your nature now is his nature
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because it says through one man's transgression, sin and all
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sinned. But then he said this.
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But through one man's obedience, through his righteousness, all
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now have the right. Doesn't mean it's automatic.
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It's by choice. I said it's by choice.
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And why is it by choice? Because I'm going to be really
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honest with you. If you were Adam, you would have
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been a problem too. You would have been a problem.
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As much as you want to believe you would not have done it.
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You would have done it, Hallelujah, as much as you want
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to believe that you would have. But now you have choice to come
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out. I said to come out.
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So what does the Lord do? He comes down.
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He says, Adam, where are you? That doesn't mean he doesn't
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know where he is. He just says, Adam, what
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position are you in now? Because you're not in the ideal.
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You're not in the original ideal for mankind.
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Have you eaten the fruit? I told you not to.
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He blames God. Well, it's the woman you gave
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me. That's not blaming his wife.
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He's blaming God. It's the woman you gave me.
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In essence, he's saying you didn't do a good job with giving
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me the right person. A lot of men want to blame their
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wives when you're really blaming God.
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OK, take personal responsibility.
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I understand your wife is her own free will.
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She can go crazy on her own, she can act like a Jezebel, she can
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be contentious. And you know a contentious wife
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is a horrible thing to be around.
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I get it. However you be the man and don't
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be blaming God for the woman because most likely maybe you
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just married someone that he didn't ask you to marry in the
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1st place and now that you're there just go on with it.
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Believe God for call those things that be not as though
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they get in faith. Hallelujah say Amen anyway
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Hallelujah. So God comes down and says he
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what he does. She tells the truth.
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I was deceived. So the Lord says to the serpent
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doesn't even ask questions just gets to the chase because he
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knows who this guy is. He said I will bring my seed
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through the woman. In essence, I keep my word.
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I said let man, let's make man in our image according to our
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likeness and I will be a keeper of that word.
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I cannot guarantee you that anyone will come back to me,
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will want what I'm going to do for them, but they'll never
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stand before me that day and say that I didn't do it all for them
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because what's impossible for them will be possible with me.
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Oh, praise God, aren't you glad that listen, people say this all
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the time? Well, you know, if you were the
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only one who get born again, he would have sent Jesus.
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If nobody gets born again, Jesus is still coming.
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He's still coming because you're not going to stand before the
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great White Throne Judgment and tell God I couldn't get back in
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and the Lord say, well, I knew you weren't wow, I was going to
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you know you can't tell me that I couldn't.
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No, he's going to provide the way and give you your choice and
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they show you every time you rejected him.
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If it is that you reject him, but for all of us who accept it,
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who recognize our own shortcomings, realize that we
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came out of the lineage of Adam. We came out of a fallen state,
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but we have a heavenly Father, said Man, I want to restore you.
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I want to put you back in the original ideal.
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And it's really simple. My blood's got you covered.
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I got you covered. Everything you've done wrong,
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guess what? It's covered.
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The blood still speaking today, Forgive.
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Forgive them Father, forgive them.
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How often do we get the forgiveness?
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What, 7 times in our lifetime We blow it.
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Jesus said no man, that's 70 * 7 a day.
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I mean, you can't exhaust my blood.
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My blood will forgive. All you have to do is ask.
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That's all you have to do is ask.
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It's not that it's not already done.
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I just need you to ask because forgiveness comes with Lordship.
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Hallelujah, my Lord, my Lord. When Adam sinned, it's like
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there was this whole line of life that God created for man.
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It was just, if you could imagine a lie coming across the
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top here, right? And it was God original intent
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for Adam. And if Adam had only stayed
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faithful, then it would have just been a generation of people
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that would have been sons of the king and we'd have ruled and
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reigned in this earth and this earth would have been perfect.
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No sin in it. It'd have been amazing.
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It's what we all want when we talk look about heaven.
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But man fell. Then it created another line of
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disobedience that now has to be paid.
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It cannot be ignored. It's not like God.
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I mean, if it was possible to forgive without payment, then
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the Father would have came down in the garden.
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His Son has never blown it before.
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It's his first act of disobedience, his first one.
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I mean, Adam could have said, dad, I've never messed up
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before. See, this is how we act today
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when I, you know, I mean, I hadn't messed up that bad.
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Now, granted we're in grace. There's mercy and compassion.
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No problem, I understand the reason why God's so merciful.
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I'm going to show you here in a minute.
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But here's the point is that Adam's never blown it.
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And why did the Father not just come down and say, you know what
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Son, I forgive you. Let this sink in for a moment
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because we use this word all the time.
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Well honey, I'll forgive you. Well, how can you do that?
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Because you can't. Forgive unless blood is
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speaking. For us to be able.
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To again, it's it's in the United States we hear this word
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freedom. And again, as a veteran, you
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know, and some more than others, because some have been in active
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duty and has seen one of theirs fallen, of which we use that
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term every Veteran's Day, you know, and every Memorial Day.
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You know, no greater love has one have been this.
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The one who lay down his life for his friend, spilled their
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blood so that we could have these liberties, these freedoms
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that we throw around at no cost. And yet.
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We do the same with this term called forgiveness, that we do
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not say the reason I can say I forgive you is because the
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blood's talking. Because this is not.
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Just some open forgiveness of my own personal merit.
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Forgiveness. Requires blood to show up.
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Blood has to be a part of the equation.
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I said blood has. To be a part of the equation,
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because here's the thing, God sacrifice an animal to cover
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Adam and Eve. But it doesn't.
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Cause them to come when they pass away to be present with the
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Lord. They go to the grave and
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depending on how they functioned in life during that, whatever
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dispensation will determine when Jesus came and went to the
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grave. Who was in?
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Paradise and who was beyond the great chasm or a gulf fix are
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the the place of torment. Because.
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Those did not come out that day, but those in paradise whoo they
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went with Jesus when he was resurrected on the third day.
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Glory to God, holla. Why 'cause the blood was the
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payment of release. It's the power of pardon.
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It's not an. Open forgiveness, It is paid in
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full. I said it's paid in full.
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Isaiah 5312 says this. Therefore I will allot him a
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portion with the great, and he will divide the booty, and all
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my little kids will laugh with the strong, because he poured
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out himself to death. He was numbered with the
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transgressors, yet He himself bore the sins of many and
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interceded for the transgressor. Here he is on the cross.
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The Bible. Says that he was so deformed and
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it wasn't from the physical beating he took.
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It was the. Spiritual Receiving of every
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person's sin ever committed that it distorted him.
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I mean, we never see what Jesus actually looked like when he
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hung on the tree. Hollywood.
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Has never gotten it right. It says his.
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Appearance was so marred that he didn't even look human.
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He took on deformity. Because of the.
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Sin of the whole world waited on him.
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He becomes the lamb that's slain.
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He's the scapegoat. He's the one who bears every
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time you blew it. And the sins.
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You're going to commit three years from now.
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He's got you covered. He's got you covered.
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I mean, think about it. In the moment of time, he is not
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just pulling sin that has already happened.
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He pulls sin that hasn't even occurred.
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He pulled your. Because once he went, he died
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once and for all. He's not dying again.
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He's not sacrificing again for all this new sin after his
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death, burial, resurrection. No, he did it once and for all.
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That means he pulled everything you would ever commit in your
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lifetime. And he put it on.
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Him, I mean, if we just went through this room and say,
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Rufino, tell me every sin you've ever committed, right?
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I mean, nobody wants to have that happen, right?
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But yet there's not one done that he doesn't know.
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I'm glad he knows. He.
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Knows, and he's bore it. Matthew 20. 628 says it this way
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for this is my blood of the covenant which is poured out for
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many for the forgiveness of sin. Kenneth E Hagan said this leave
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that up for a moment said now when we minister on and he was
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talking about particular subject this particular day was
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ministering on the subjects of the gifts of the Spirit.
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He say we separate the gifts of the Spirit for the sake of
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teaching. Meaning there's 9 gifts of which
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they're broken into three different categories.
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And that from the teaching gift, we give this analogy.
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But he says which gift is the most important?
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Because when you start breaking it up for the sake of teaching
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and you put three in a category we call the power gifts, which
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is the working of miracles, the gifts of healing and the gift of
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faith. And that's where all of a sudden
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these supernatural things occur of raising the dead and
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deformities coming out and, and being healed at, you know, limbs
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growing back on all these things.
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People like I want the power gifts.
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He said you're supposed to desire all the gifts.
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He says which one's the most powerful?
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He said the one needed at the time and this morning the Holy
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Ghost needed the gift of prophecy that we all understood,
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not through tongues and interpretation of tongues, but
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just through the language we already know.
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But it impacts us when it was by the Spirit of God, Amen.
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It was needed at the time and again what we would do if we
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don't watch out. We separate so much through the
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teaching that we do not keep things together.
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And one thing that we've done in teaching is that we have
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separated my blood of the covenant because covenant.
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God is love, but he's also legal.
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And I'm not talking legalism, I'm talking legal.
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Blood. Is a legal form of payment.
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That created. A legal decree that gives you
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the legal right to make Jesus Lord and be released of all of
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your transgression in the Kingdom.
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Love did that. I.
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Said Love did that. Love made sure every T was
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crossed, every I was dotted. He did not want anybody sin to
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get mistaken. And.
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When the accuser of the brethren.
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Tries to talk to. You about your past, you can say
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legally I have been pardoned, I am free.
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I have no more guilt or shame associated with my past.
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There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ.
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This is legal and binding with the King of Heaven.
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Hallelujah. Glory to.
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God, instead of us running from these terms just because there's
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been abuses, these terms are actually powerful because it's
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by grace through faith we've received these legal actions of
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our king so that we are assured without a doubt.
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It is for sure my King upholds his word and if he says I'm
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forgiven, then man, I am forgiven.
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He has removed. My transgression as far as the
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East is from the West, man, when you see me, if you see me like
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Christ, you can't see me in sin. You can't see me as one that is
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dejected, or you have to see me in Christ.
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You see one cleansed, forgiven as if it never occurred.
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Wow, 'cause the blood. Says forgive em Father, and when
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we enact it through prayer we always receive forgiveness.
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With a repented heart. Look at first, Peter 118 and 19
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says, knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things
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like silver and gold. From your futile.
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Way of life inherited from your forefathers, but with the
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precious blood as of the Lamb, unblemished and spotless.
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The blood of Christ, honestly, and it's just a reality that the
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blood of Jesus is a, in a spiritual sense, a financial
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transaction of a debt owed. Redeemed.
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Means to pay for is you've been redeemed.
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So again, what if we don't watch out?
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This free gift that we have is only free to us.
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It was not free to him. Right.
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Oh, come on again. Some of you would struggle if
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somebody walked up to you with a Porsche 9/11 GT3 to give you
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this car, plus a house on the beach, plus an account with a
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billion dollars in it. We would be like.
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Man I man, I don't deserve that. Now some of y'all like Nah.
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Man, I know this ain't about deserving.
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I just like, but you understand you didn't work for it.
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Do. You start.
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Categorizing with what people going to think.
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What are people? Going to think that you're
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redeemed. Who cares what they think that
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they know about your path? Who cares?
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You've been redeemed, you've been washed clean, you've been
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made whole. Hallelujah.
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I mean the. Value of the blood is more than
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the things I just listed. It has more value because.
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Somebody paid for the Porsche 11GT3, someone paid for the
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house on the beach, somebody put the money in the account that
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you didn't work for. But it's saying here you do it
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and all of a sudden like, man, that seems so much.
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I don't. Jesus did way more than that.
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You're right, you didn't. Deserve it, but and when you
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recognize the price he paid, then you value the gift.
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You value it. Hallelujah.
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So we've been redeemed, paid for.
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Ephesians 17 says in him we have redemption through his blood and
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the forgiveness of our trespasses according to the
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riches of His grace. Isn't that amazing that his
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blood has forgiven us of our trespasses?
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How many? Come on, how many?
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How many of yours? How many of your neighbors, How
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many of your other neighbor, how many of your family members that
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have not yet made a withdrawal yet?
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How many for the? 8 point something billion people
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that's existing on the planet today.
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How many of the ones who have already died and are in the
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grave? How many of the ones who are
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down in what we call the place of torment or hell?
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How many of them was the has the blood paid for their sin?
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This is why the. Great White Throne judgement is
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going to be so something to wash because they'll all see that the
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blood already had you covered, you just never accepted it.
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Because you. Didn't.
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You got to pay for it. Now.
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Come on. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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And they have to pay for something that they'll never be
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able to pay for. That's why it's eternal
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damnation. Yet the blood.
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Is eternal, would have paid and covered it eternally.
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It satisfies the debt. Psalms 32 one look at this.
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David said How? Blessed is he whose
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transgression is whose sin. Aren't you glad your sin is
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covered? I said.
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Aren't you glad your sin is covered?
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Aren't you glad your sin is covered?
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I mean, he said. Blessed is he whose
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transgression is forgiven. Now.
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When is it forgiven? It's forgiven before you even
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receive it. I mean, we're not talking about
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being forgiven only when you ask.
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It just means you get access to what has been forgiven.
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Now again, you have to access it.
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If you do not, if you die without making Jesus the Lord of
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your life and the payment he paid for you, well then you're
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going to pay it. But as far as?
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God's concerned if He was looking at you, He would see you
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and is seeing you like He ordained you before you were
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ever in your mother's womb. And all the while He's talking
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to you about trying to get you on the original ideal path for
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mankind while you're in the earth.
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And it's not letting you have an excuse why you cannot get there.
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Why? Because your sin is covered.
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It is not a. Hindrance to your ability that
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when you keep it under the blood, it's as if you've never
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done it ever. I heard one minister say one
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time in Romans 81. Therefore now there's no
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condemnation for those who are in Christ, she said.
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How would you act if you never blew it?
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How would you? Act If you never blew it, you've
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never blown it. Unfortunately, in the.
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Church. The church is more sin conscious
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than it is Christ conscious. So we always, you know,
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basically say, forgive me Father, for I have sinned all
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the time. Now, Lord, you know, you know,
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basically it's like when you go to Alcoholics Anonymous, he
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goes, my name is so and so I'm an alcoholic.
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I've been free from we are still claiming alcoholism while
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they're saying I've been dry and that's what the church.
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I'm just a Sinner saved by grace.
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I'm a Sinner, but I'm saved by grace and I'm not free from sin.
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No, you've been freed, and if you'll get your mine on Christ,
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then you can go through life. With rarity.
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I'm not going to say you'll do it without, but with rarity that
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you would walk in disobedience to God.
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Because when you know that I've been forgiven, then you can have
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confidence. And many, many.
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Saints lack confidence because they keep seeing themselves in a
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way that God doesn't see them. Marriages fail because.
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They see each other not as God sees them.
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Once forgiveness is there, it's as if it's never happened.
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Well, if we can get that revelation by.
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Itself. Romans 4/8 through 6 through 8
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says this, just as David also speaks of the blessing on the
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man to whom God credits righteousness.
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Apart from works. Blessed are those whose lawless
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deeds have been forgiven and whose sins have been what
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covered. Blessed is the man who sins, sin
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the Lord will not take into account.
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Amen, Hallelujah, Amen. Right now, if I let everyone in
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a prayer of forgiveness, whether you are lost and you've never
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made Jesus the Lord of your life, or whether you're a
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believer and you know you've done something wrong in the last
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24 hours, whatever, and you haven't actually talked to the
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Lord and you ask him to forgive you, then technically at that
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moment none of us would be able to come up to each other and
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say, yeah, but I know what you did.
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Because God would not say. Yeah, but last week, 'cause it's
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covered. Are you hearing me?
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It's paid for in full. It's not for me to pull it up
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to. Remind you.
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Hallelujah. Psalms 85 Two, look at this, he
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says. You forgave the iniquity of your
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people. You covered all their sins.
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Now listen. I'm not saying.
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Covered the Bible is because that's.
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What the Bible? Does and this word covered means
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to hide? It literally means.
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To hide from the knowledge of. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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It means to hinder the knowledge of a thing.
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Do you understand? Jesus, boy, your sin, so he
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doesn't have to tell your sin that's.
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Good. Here's the next thing we.
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Had the lifeline but then man fell.
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We had the deaf line that has to be paid.
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Jesus knows the. Day Adam 8.
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God came down and said I'll send my son.
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In essence, everything committed on this line is not is not
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anything that God is not going to pay for.
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He there's, there is, there is not anything on this line.
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That Jesus Christ. Will not pay in full, so this.
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Is not him. Saying doesn't matter what you
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do. What he's saying is whatever you
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do, I'm going to cover it, but. What you need to do in order?
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To get off the deaf line is to receive my forgiveness.
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Because I'm going to be merciful.
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Why can't I be merciful? Because everything you're doing,
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I'm going to pay for it, you understand?
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You could go 5. Years and seem like nothing's
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happening because God's what Merciful.
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What does he want you to repent? What's his purpose?
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I need restoration. I just want you back in original
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intent and he'll show goodness and kindness to you.
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Not because he's saying what you do.
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I'm accepting what he's saying is I've covered that and even.
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Before he covered. It he knew he would cover it.
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So any acts of compassion and mercy are not because we are
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turning away from sin. No, he knows the seriousness of
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sin. He's saying I will pay it.
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But now, in order for you to be back in your original intent
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you're you will have to accept my sacrifice and my payment.
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This is why he's merciful. A lot of times we say, wow, man,
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the Lord that you know, grace was.
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A lot of times people use the word grace when it's really
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mercy, and mercy is what giving you more opportunity to repent.
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Repent because God will do what he says.
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And God's like I can. Wait another year.
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Because it's not like the sin. Is not going to be paid for.
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I'm going to do that. I'm going to give them more time
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to repent. And the minute you repent, it's
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like an off. Ramp to the line of death
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through his mercy. It puts you back on the line of
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life. Hallelujah.
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I said Hallelujah. And aren't you glad he's
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merciful? He's merciful because he's
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footing the bill. I said he's footing the bill.
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So. James. 519 and 20 says this, My
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brethren, if any of you stray from the truth, and one turns
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him back, let him know that he who turns a Sinner from the air
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of his ways will save his soul from death.
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And will what cover a multitude of sin?
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Cover a multitude of sin. You understand Jesus knew that
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man, when he fell, man would not be able to accomplish this.
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So at the end of the day, I'm going to bear it all.
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Well, if he's paying for it, you understand I when I go to a
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restaurant. And if I choose to.
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Pay for someone's meal unless. You did the.
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Calculations prior to all that you've purchased.
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You may not know how much it cost.
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Cause some of you like well if I.
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Two ways. Some of you are like, well, if I
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knew you were paying for it, I wouldn't have spent so much, Or
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if I knew you were paying for it, I'd have bought the. $100
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steak. Either way, doesn't matter, is
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paid for. Are you hearing me now when I
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pay that bill and put on the tip?
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I do not go and say, Pastor Alyssa, I paid for your check
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yesterday. You know, it was this much.
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And the tip. I don't let her know what I
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covered. Oh, y'all want to hear that nor.
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If Andrew came and. Said, hey, I saw you paid for
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Pastor Alyssa's bill. How much?
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How much that set you back? I don't need to know, you tell
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you how. Much it covered.
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Yeah, Hallelujah the. Blood is amazing because the
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blood is all about covering what the infraction is by him now.
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He knows. I know when I.
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Sin. He knows.
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And then when I repent covered because it's already covered.
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I just thank you, Lord, that your payment.
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Yes, the blood is always speaking.
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Forgive them, Father, forgive them.
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Why? Because the blood's always
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saying forgive so we can restore.
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Blood was given so that man could get back in his original
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ideal. First, Peter. 48 Above all, keep
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fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a
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multitude of sin. For God so loved the world he
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gave, because the blood covered sin, because love covers sin.
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Now the Lord says this, y'all with me again.
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This particular Greek word means to hinder the knowledge of a
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thing in. Essence God is.
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Not here to inform the world of your infraction?
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In fact, he is. Clearly saying that when an
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infraction takes place, that number 1, he wants to handle it
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privately. This is why you have the Holy
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Ghost, because the Holy Ghost. In.
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You will begin to say, ho, wait a minute, that's not the word
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and not one person that's born again.
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You know when you're done, when you've done it, you know you're
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like now at that point you've got to you're either going to be
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like David and be quick to repent or you can not do that
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now. If you don't, don't take care
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of. Let God have this thing covered
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then. Things can happen.
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Because the Bible says your sin will surely see.
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As a. Believer, you shouldn't be
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trying to find people's sin. That's not your assignment.
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Let me go find out what's going on with them.
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What kind of sin are they in? I mean, that just sounds
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ludicrous. But it's amazing how many people
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are looking for somebody else's sin.
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It's amazing. The Bible's very clear that your
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sin gets out beyond you, meaning God's dealt with you and I mean
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minute you do it, he'll talk to you.
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Now you could have an infraction in front of somebody as a
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believer, you know, you could be in the flesh, you're in the line
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and all of a sudden you cuss them out and you're like, man
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shouldn't do that. So now that.
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Person knows you. Cussed and they may not know
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you're a believer at that point they may like they like me, but
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you're like man, I got to come clean here the Lord's talking to
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you you don't talk like this this is not your mouth you know
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the. Blood's got that covered.
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So you say, Lord, forgive me, I was in the flesh.
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I should not have said that to this person that they don't even
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know because they're going so slow through the express lane.
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It's all right, Lord. I have the fruit of patience and
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I can be patient. So you know, you ask them,
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listen, forgive me, I shouldn't have said that.
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Now you're acknowledging. Now this person may have been
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believer like well, praise the Lord, That's awesome.
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They may have been someone and say, you know a cuss word to you
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because they don't want to hear it, because now you're asking
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them forgive convicts them of their own separation from God,
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but you still have that response.
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But again the Bible says if he gets out you see your brother
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and sing go to them where private Why?
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Do you do this? What's the purpose of the blood?
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Not just to forgive, but to restore.
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So you go to your brother in. Private.
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Why? So that if they repent?
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Because then they can receive the blood that's paid that
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action in full. Right now.
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They are restored and you're in restoration with your brother.
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That's the point. Nowhere is it that the brother
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goes. And says over here, oh man, I
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had to go talk to so and so and tell them about themselves, you
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know, they were wrong and they did this, that and the other,
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you know, and I went and pointed it out to him and they got it.
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What are you doing right now? Because the minute that person
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repented, God doesn't even know the conversation you're taking
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to your friends now. 'Cause it's covered.
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You immediately have to view your brother as they never did
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it. Because if you go to someone,
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say yeah. You know, so and so was in sin
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and I had to bring it to their attention.
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Well, there's. Only one that brings up.
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Your past. That spirit's not of God.
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The only time you're bringing up passage.
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If someone is not really repenting.
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But again, that takes time to. Determine Hallelujah.
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Proverbs 10/12 Why is this important?
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Look what it says here. Hatred stirs up strife, but love
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covers. All transgression.
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I mean, if anyone could have been, had hate towards us, could
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have been the Lord. In fact, the Bible says the Lord
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hates love, can't hate, He said. There's some things he hates
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again. You got to read the Bible.
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He hates some things, but he doesn't hate unrighteously.
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He doesn't hate with the. Intent to harm.
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In fact, Joseph Benson says it concerning this passive
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scripture. He said hatred stirs up strife
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upon every slight occasion by filling men's mind with
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suspicions and surmises whereby the imagination faults where
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there are none, and aggravate every small offense.
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But love covers all sin. It does not severely observe or
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willingly or it willingly forgives, forgets the injury and
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offenses of others, and so prevents contention and mis
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mischief. In essence, hatred wants to
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expose where love wants to hide and hiding.
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Doesn't mean we're. Not acknowledging hiding is what
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can we do to get you into place of restoration?
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So the least amount, no. You would think that some
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people. Would think that you should walk
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around with all your past sins walking around with it, John.
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Gill says it this way. He said hatred stirs up.
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Strife means this. A man whose heart is full of
-
hatred and malice against his neighbor will stir up or awaken,
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as the word signifies, contentions and quarrels which
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were happily laid asleep. These he renews by tale, bearing
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and whisperings and evil surmises, by raising lies,
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spreading false reports and culminaries.
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And I didn't know what that word meant, so I had to look it up.
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Which means the act of uttering false charges or
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misrepresentations maliciously calculated to harm another's
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reputation, and by reproaches and slanders.
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That's what hate will do, but love covers not.
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It's own but. Others It imitates the pardoning
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love and grace of God, which covers all sins of His people
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with the blood and righteousness of His Son.
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Love spreads His mantle over the sins of His fellow creatures and
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Christians and forgives them, even all of them, instead of
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exposing them, hides and conceals them, and instead of
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loading and aggravating the affirmities of others, puts the
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best construction on them. Hopes and bears and believes all
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things. Proverbs 17/9. 17-9 says it this
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way. He who conceals A transgression
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seeks, but he who repeats a matter separates intimate
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friends. We're on Resurrection Sunday.
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That every one of us, or without excuse.
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Man, if we had the daunting. Task of having to recite
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everything we've done wrong in fact, brother.
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Hagin said it this. Way brother Hagin said man goes
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to hell not for the sins they've committed, but the lack of
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lordship of Jesus Because again, first John 19 is not for the the
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loss because he says you know when you confess your sins, he's
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faithful and just to forgive you ever since as a a person law
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separated from God, there's no way you know all your sin.
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Amen. No way you could recount it all,
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but the minute you acknowledge Jesus as Lord then every sin
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that you know, that you may know you've done wrong, but the ones
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you don't even know you did wrong, all of those are under
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the blood not to. Be uttered in fact, the Bible.
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Makes it clear that in this cover that God desires that
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within the body of Christ that we try to contain.
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So that sin doesn't spread. Nor people gain access to
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information unwarranted. It's very clear that it hides
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and conceals. You can do as many words studies
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as you want and you'll see that that was the intent is to
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safeguard us all. Because again.
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The enemy reminds. I would love to think that
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everyone and we know it's not true in the realm of carnality,
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that it's easy for people to remember people's past, but if
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you don't know their past, how can you remember it?
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And this is one of those moments where.
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Probably Jesus would be saying there's many more things I'd
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love to tell you, but you're not able to bear them, and there's
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some things you just don't need to know.
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That's because love does. That because.
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Once. It's fixed.
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Why do we need to talk about it? Or once it's released again, you
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go to your brother in private. If he repents, you've won your
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brother. If you've taken that and you can
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go to two others again. If you're not even going to the
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brother over what's being said and you're going to someone
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else, you're not even scriptural.
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I mean, you are stirring. Up strife.
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I mean, the minute the body of Christ matures at this level,
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Sabrina, I'm going to use you as an example.
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If somebody comes to me and talks to me about you, my first
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response will be have you spoken to don't talk to me?
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Have you spoken to Sabrina? Well, no, don't talk to.
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Me then your. Biblical.
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Obligation is to go to her I. Mean as a pastor I don't even
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need. To know about what's going on in
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your life initially, I don't need to know.
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And again, if if there's a conflict in the parking lot and
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you work it out, I don't have to know that it's under the blood,
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it's finished. I mean, what's?
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The problem. But again, what we do is.
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But you know how? So and so treating me, you know
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how such what are you doing talking about your brother to
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someone else concerning an offense, a wrong action or
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anything, and you've not even spoken to them.
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The blood doesn't do that. And and I'm not.
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Saying that sins not a big deal. It's a big deal because the
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blood's covered it. Then if you two or three
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witnesses don't help with the active restoration, if you can
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take them to the church because you understand sometimes you'll
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run into some sins with people that you don't have any
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association with them in the church they are and you'll never
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be able to take them before the church.
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The only place you can take them before the church is you go on
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before the Lord and say now Lord, you know what they did?
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I pray because again, if you are not speaking, Lord, I pray they
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repent, change. I'm praying for them.
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I'm not going to say anything. Think about what I know.
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I'm just going to be in prayer for them.
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Now, if you have a different heart, I don't know that you're
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operating in love. In fact, I can say you're not
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operating in love. Hallelujah.
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Because the blood covered. Covered it, did that and it
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forgave you of. All your sin.
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Which brings us to the last scripture today, Revelations
Revelation 10 chapter mention
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chapter 10. Thank you for the blood I said.
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Thank you for the. Blood.
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I don't want to. Blow it.
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Ever. But I'm thankful.
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That I have an advocate. With the Father, when I do that,
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I can run to him. You know, sometimes, again,
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especially in the Church, we, we get too eyesighted.
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Because we're like. You know, I never see so and so
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on the altar. You don't have to come to an
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altar if you are dealing with your at your house.
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I mean, there's plenty of times to repent and get right.
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You understand, you could walk through life to where it looks
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like you've never blown it in your life.
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But you know when you do and then you ask God to forgive you
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and you don't have to create a billboard to communicate that.
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I mean again. If you.
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Don't understand that everybody in this room has blown it some
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way at some occasion? Well, you're already in fantasy
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thinking, but when you're out trying to expose in order to
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destroy someone, that's not love.
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Again, there's one sin that cannot be forgiven in this life
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or the next, this blasphemy of the Holy Spirit.
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Any other one can be forgiven. And restoration the minute the
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body of Christ. Decides as A and as a church
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maturing, we have to do this. We have to say we're, we're
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going to get this under the blood.
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We are not allowing this stuff to happen.
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I'm not going to let someone. Hold something against you.
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They need to forgive you, and God treats forgiveness as a big.
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Deal when he knows what it's about because we have a parable.
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The Kingdom of heaven is like this master who had this guy
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that had so much debt couldn't repay him.
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He said bring him here with his wife and kids, send him to the
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torturer so they can pay the debt.
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And he cried out. And it says the master had.
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Compassion forgave him of his debt completely.
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The man went outside. Later on found a fellow slave or
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brother who had one day he owed him just one.
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And the guy cried out. Have compassion.
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I'll repay you. He could have said OK and let
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him pay but instead he had him arrested for one day and.
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When everybody saw how he. Treated that guy knowing what he
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had been forgiven of what he did, went back to the Master.
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And says man. You know what tells me how in
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the world can I be talking about people's sin and stuff going on
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when I know what God has done for me, what he's done for me,
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right, Matt? I mean, think about that, what
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he's done for us, bro, I mean. How in the world am I having?
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A conversation. Seriously, how bad?
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Can someone mistreat you? Anyway.
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That you can't forgive. I can forgive anybody because
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he's forgiven me. I can be restored to anyone
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because he's forgiven me because I'm sure not going to have Jesus
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say, son, as much as I've forgiven you.
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You're going to treat like what? Yeah.
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Revelations 1, five and six says this.
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And from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first born
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of the dead, the ruler of the kings of the earth.
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Who are those kings? Come on, who are those kings?
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Come on, who are those kings to Him who loves us and released us
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from our sin by His blood? Come on, can I get a shot?
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Amen. He has released us from our sin.
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He's released us. He's released us from our past
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sins. He's released us from our
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present sin we committed this morning and had to ask him to
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forgive us. He has released us from future
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sins we've not even done yet, but when it occurs we can come
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to him before our throne and say, God forgive me.
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I know the blood still speaks. Father, forgive them.
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I receive your forgiveness. I am clean, I am made whole.
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I am not in condemnation. I am righteous.
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I'm a child of God. I will enjoy.
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I have been delivered. Sin no longer has dominion over
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me. Hallelujah, Hallelujah, I rule.
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Over sin and death. Because now I have a new law
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called the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus.
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Hallelujah. And He has made us to be a
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Kingdom priest of his God and Father.
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To him be the glory and dominion forever and ever.
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Amen. What have you done?
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What have you done? What have you done well?
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Everyone of us have done enough. To be eternally separated from
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God. That's true, everyone of us.
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But God being rich in his mercy not because.
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He said. Keith, let's just act like it
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didn't happen, though, he said. Keith, I saw it.
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I know it exists, but I've forgiven you.
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Receive my mercy because the blood still says forgive.
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Keith, Father and I could go. Through every person.
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Here and say that. Father.
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Forgive Marlene, my mother-in-law, please.
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I have the best mother-in-law, Sorry.
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About the rest of y'all. Are you hearing me?
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Really. You know why?
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The world. Really struggles with making
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Jesus Lord is because there's too much infighting.
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I mean, why? Why receive Jesus?
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When you can't even openly forgive a wrong and.
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I'll be honest with you most. People are struggling from
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perceptions, not even realities. Most people are struggling.
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Because they're not willing to let put down their own flesh, so
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they have to blame somebody else.
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That's the majority. I've been in ministry too long
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to not understand that that's how it occurs.
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But there are wrongs. It's true.
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But no one can stop you but. You.
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Because the minute you choose to.
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Not forgive someone. You're walking in unforgiveness.
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And unforgiveness is a. Serious thing with God.
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So what have you done? Doesn't matter, I don't.
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I don't care how you rank it, how bad you rank, that doesn't
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matter how bad you rank it because there.
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Was some God, some some. Things God says this is an
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abomination. He hates some stuff.
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Then he says this is an abomination.
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I mean, he actually. Has some.
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Classes of sin in his Kingdom, however.
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Outside of blasphemy of the Holy Ghost.
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The blood, it's got you covered and there's really no excuse for
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you to stay in it. You might.
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As well. Just go ahead and.
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Receive what God freely wants to give you.
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Because again, it's not about saying to you, man, you've blown
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it. It's about God saying I've been
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waiting for you to walk in Dominion.
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I've been waiting for you to be. Back into the position that I
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always wanted man to be a child of mine, ruling and reigning
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with me. And you don't have to wait to go
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to heaven to do that, Joy. You don't have to wait to go to
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heaven to do that. You can do that right now on the
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planet. Girl, isn't this amazing?
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The church has made it. About what you've done wrong,
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God never made it. About what you did wrong, God
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made it about. I've got to deal with the wrong
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so I can get them back in Dominion.
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Because when God. Sees you.
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He's not looking at you. He doesn't want to look at you
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through the eyes of sin. If you're wrong, he sees you.
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This person can be a child that rules and reigns with me.
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I've already paid the price. I'll treat them like they've
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never blown it, Like it's never happened in their life.
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I mean, Brian, think about it. Anything you ever did before you
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came here, it's like it doesn't. It does not even exist.
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Man, this is so amazing. That the blood.
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Has this. Power to transform our whole
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lives into something that it's not anymore and then because of
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that it doesn't matter how many times you've come and gone but
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man if. You'll stick.
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Grow and no, I'll never let anything pull me off from being
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able to forgive another person cause of the blood I'm telling
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you the church would flourish. Because who am I?
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Rachel to hold you accountable and not be able to forgive your
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life My. King.
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Does so I will.