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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Crosswat devotional. We're glad to have you

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Speaker 2: listening with us. Today's topic is about the reason why

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Speaker 2: we don't need to pay for our sins. We'll we

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Speaker 2: turn with the devotional after a message from our sponsors.

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Speaker 2: Jesus paid for our sins, written and read by Alexis

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Speaker 2: a goring. He does not treat us as our sins deserve.

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Speaker 2: He does not repay us according to our guilty deeds.

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Speaker 2: Psalm chapter one hundred and three, verse ten e HV.

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Speaker 2: When someone was having a bad day, he said, I'm

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Speaker 2: paying for my sins. This statement and belief many people hold,

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Speaker 2: is not true because the Bible says Jesus Christ paid

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Speaker 2: it all first Peter Time two, verse twenty four. Romans

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Speaker 2: Chapter six, verse twenty three. And God doesn't deal with

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Speaker 2: us as our sins deserve, as it says in Psalm

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Speaker 2: chapter one hundred and three, verse son. I know that

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Speaker 2: I have struggled with this when shame, guilt, and despair

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Speaker 2: hit me as my mind recalls everything I said or

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Speaker 2: did wrong. While God doesn't keep record of verse sins,

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Speaker 2: after we ask him to forgive us, we sure can

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Speaker 2: tally up everything in our minds. When we do that,

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Speaker 2: it feels like we must pay for our sins. We

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Speaker 2: may feel remorse and want to fix things, but the

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Speaker 2: truth is we cannot fix the past, nor the present,

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Speaker 2: nor our future. This is one of the reasons why

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Speaker 2: we need Jesus Christ in our life. He is our savior.

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Speaker 2: God is full of grace and mercy. While he will

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Speaker 2: discipline us like a loving parent would we Chapter twelve

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Speaker 2: uses five and six. And while there are always there

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Speaker 2: is consequences to our sins that we might experience, never

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Speaker 2: do we have to feel the need to pay for

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Speaker 2: our sins because Christ Sebrary did that on the cross

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Speaker 2: at Calvary. The Bible says he who knew no sin

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Speaker 2: became sin for us, saying for our things at for

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Speaker 2: twenty one, so that we may be reconciled to God.

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Speaker 2: Isn't that wonderful to know?

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Speaker 1: Why?

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Speaker 2: Don't believe that our Savior has already done the heavy lifting.

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Speaker 2: We only need to repent of our sins, turn away

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Speaker 2: from our sins, believe in God, obey the Holy Spirit,

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Speaker 2: and follow Jesus Christ all the way to heaven. Would

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Speaker 2: I share with a Christian friend my struggle of feeling

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Speaker 2: burdened by my past mistakes and sins, she may finded

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Speaker 2: me a Roman chapter eight, verses one and two n IV.

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Speaker 2: It says, therefore, there is now no combination for those

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Speaker 2: who were in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus, the

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Speaker 2: law of the Spirit who gives life, has set you

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Speaker 2: free from the law of sin and death. The first

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Speaker 2: time my Christian friend told me this, I struggled to

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Speaker 2: believe it because I felt guilty as charged concerning my

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Speaker 2: son's and mistakes. I wanted to make things right with God.

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Speaker 2: I felt like I had to work my way back

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Speaker 2: into his grace and mercy. For the Bible doesn't say

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Speaker 2: that if Aacon chapter two, verses eight and nine NIV says,

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Speaker 2: for it is by grace you have been saved through faith,

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Speaker 2: and this is not from yourselves. It is a gift

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Speaker 2: of God, not by words, so that no one can boast.

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Speaker 2: God knows we're not perfect, because we're only human. Even

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Speaker 2: our best efforts to be perfect, it may eventually fail.

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Speaker 2: No matter how hard we try. We cannot work our

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Speaker 2: way into Heaven by our righteous acts and desire to

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Speaker 2: please God. The Bible says that Isaiah chapter sixty four,

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Speaker 2: verse six and IV. All of us have to come

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Speaker 2: like one who is unclean, and all our riches acts

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Speaker 2: are like filthy rags. We all shrivel up like a leaf,

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Speaker 2: and like the wind are set and feed us away.

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Speaker 2: But thank God, by his grace and mercy, he knows

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Speaker 2: we need it. The Bible says that Christ is our

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Speaker 2: advocate when we sin and are guilty as charged first

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Speaker 2: John two, verse one. He knows we're not perfect and

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Speaker 2: he wants to help us. The Bible says that Jesus

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Speaker 2: is at the right hand of God interceding for us

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Speaker 2: Roman chapter eight, verse thirty four. Jesus reminds God about

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Speaker 2: his sacrifice for us. John chapter three, verses sixteen and seventeen.

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Speaker 2: We are covered by the blood of Jesus if eating

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Speaker 2: chapter one, verse seven, so that God sees his perfect

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Speaker 2: son Jesus when he looks at us, not our own perfections,

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Speaker 2: and says this is not an excuse to keep sinning

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Speaker 2: and take advantage of God's grace, because eventually time bill

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Speaker 2: went out, and when we see Jesus Christ returning to

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Speaker 2: earth to take his faithful children home to Heaven, it

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Speaker 2: will be too late to repent and ask for forgiveness

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Speaker 2: for our sons my relationship to twenty two Verses eleven

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Speaker 2: through fifteen, Liz circle back to my original point mentioned

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Speaker 2: at the start of this devotional about feeling like we

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Speaker 2: suffer because we are paying the penalty for our sins. Oftentimes,

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Speaker 2: we and humans believe that if we are suffering, then

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Speaker 2: it is because God is punishing us for our sins.

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Speaker 2: I invite you to dig deeper into this common misconception

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Speaker 2: and receive an accurate Biblical perspective by listening to this

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Speaker 2: Dare to Be True podcast episode hosted by Madison Perrit Trout,

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Speaker 2: where Anne Graham Lass explains the truth about suffering and

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Speaker 2: helps you realize that God is not making you pay

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Speaker 2: for your sons by subjecting you to pain. In closing,

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Speaker 2: I like for you to listen to and reflect on

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Speaker 2: these four songs. Song of reflection number one Jesus Messiah

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Speaker 2: by Chris Tomlin. Song of Reflection number two Jesus Paid

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Speaker 2: It All by Fernando Otega. Song of Reflection number three

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Speaker 2: East to West by Casting Crowns. Song of reflection number

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Speaker 2: four Mercy treat by Lacy Stern, intersecting faith in life,

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Speaker 2: How has it all to know? That we don't have

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Speaker 2: to pay it for our sins because we have a

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Speaker 2: savior to pay it for all of it. Further reading

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Speaker 2: Psalm chapter on hudriand Fade, verses eleven through fourteen. Stuck

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Speaker 2: in Corenthians Chapter five, verses eighteen through nineteen. Second Corenthian

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Speaker 2: Chapter five, verses twenty through twenty one, Romans Chapter five,

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Speaker 2: Verse ten, Colossians Chapter one, verses twenty one through twenty two.

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