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Speaker 5: thanks so much for two it in and thank you

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Speaker 5: again for coming out. I like to start with something funny,

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Speaker 5: and I heard about this man. He was in a

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Speaker 5: dark restaurant. He said that the lady's sitting next to him.

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Speaker 5: Would you like to hear a blonde joke? She said, Well,

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Speaker 5: before you tell me you should know. I'm blonde, six

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Speaker 5: foot tall and a professional bodybuilder, and the lady next

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Speaker 5: And the lady next to her is blonde, six foot

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Speaker 5: five and the kickboxing champion of the world.

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Speaker 4: Now do you still want to tell me?

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Speaker 5: He thought about it a moment, said no, not if

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna have to explain it three times. Help me, Jesus,

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Speaker 5: give me a ride home today. This is my Bible.

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Speaker 5: I am what it says I am. I have what

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Speaker 5: it says I have. I can do what it says

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Speaker 5: I can do. Today I will be taught the word

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Speaker 5: of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my

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Speaker 5: heart is receptive. I will never be the same in Jesus.

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Speaker 4: Now, God bless you.

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Speaker 5: I want to talk to you today about how Grace

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Speaker 5: is looking for you. So often we think that God

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Speaker 5: is only interested in the quote good people, the people

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Speaker 4: Mistakes, never give into temptation.

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Speaker 5: If your performance is good enough, then you can expect

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Speaker 5: God's goodness. But if you ever get off course, if

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Speaker 5: The truth is, it's just the opposite. When you blow it,

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Speaker 5: God doesn't turn away from you. He turns to you.

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Speaker 5: His grace comes looking for you. When you have doubts.

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Speaker 4: God doesn't say what's wrong with you? You need to

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Speaker 5: No God will even pass over people with faith and

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Speaker 4: What was that? Grace came looking. But we tend to

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Speaker 5: Wouldn't have anything to do with them, Joel, they make

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Speaker 5: Don't ever write anybody off your family members. Your friends

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Speaker 5: This same man, Paul wrote in the Book of Romans

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Speaker 5: God's grace will go to anybody. If someone is promiscuous,

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Speaker 5: That's the way God's grace is. You can be high

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Speaker 5: You can be cheating people, dishonest, no integrity, and God

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Speaker 5: You may have made mistakes, You're not where you want

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Speaker 5: That's why he's coming after you. That's why he won't

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Speaker 5: You can't do too much wrong to keep it away.

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Speaker 5: And if you will shake off the guilt the condemnation,

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Speaker 5: start making choices that honor God. God will do for

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Speaker 5: Jesus was about to leave Judea and travel home to Galilee,

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Speaker 4: It's promiscuous.

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Speaker 5: it goes to people like this lady that have made mistakes,

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Speaker 5: Grace is looking for them. Well, Joel, he's out selling drugs.

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Speaker 5: God doesn't have anything to do with him, Sure he does.

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Speaker 4: Well, I don't worship like me, Joel.

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Speaker 5: They come from a different faith that doesn't stop God.

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Speaker 5: Pharisees theology. They thought that Jesus would rebuke Zachius, or

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Speaker 5: Grace comes to the least likely to those that don't

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Speaker 5: deserve it, to those that have made a mess. Religion

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Speaker 5: says stay away, man, you're bad. God says, I'm coming

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Speaker 5: to see you. I'm gonna make you better.

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Speaker 4: Jesus didn't preach to Zachius. He didn't beraate him, say

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Speaker 4: you lousy sinner, that kis what do you mean? Cheating people?

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Speaker 4: You ought to be ashamed of yourself. He simply loved him.

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Speaker 5: He showed him mercy, he became his friend, and zach Keius,

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Speaker 5: of his own free will said, from this day forward,

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna give half my income to the poor, and

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna make things right.

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Speaker 5: He changed his ways not because he was shamed into it,

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Speaker 5: but because he was loved into it.

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Speaker 4: The scripture says, it's the goodness of God that leads

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Speaker 4: to repentance.

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Speaker 5: For some people, all they've heard about is how mad God.

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Speaker 4: Is at them, how they need to do better, how

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Speaker 4: they don't measure up.

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Speaker 5: But when you really understand the grace of God, the

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Speaker 5: fact that God is for you, and even if you

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Speaker 5: are a most notorious sinner, God is not holding that

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Speaker 5: against you. If Jesus were here on earth today, he

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Speaker 4: With you today. Grace is looking for you, and if

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Speaker 5: Quit beating yourself up, living guilty and condemned, then you'll

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Speaker 5: you back. When Jesus spoke to the woman that was

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Speaker 5: but Jesus said, you that are without sin, cast the

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Speaker 5: first stone, and.

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Speaker 4: Everybody walked away.

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Speaker 5: Jesus said to the lady, neither do I condemn you.

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Speaker 4: Now go and sin no more.

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Speaker 5: He didn't say, go and sin no more than I

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Speaker 5: won't condemn you.

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Speaker 4: Lady.

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Speaker 5: Get your act together, start making better choices. Then I'll

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Speaker 5: forgive you. No, he said, I.

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Speaker 4: Don't condemn you. Now go and change your ways.

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Speaker 5: See, the principle is if people feel condemned, they feel berated,

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Speaker 5: told that they don't measure up, then they don't change.

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Speaker 5: They live guilty, feeling bad about themselves, weighted down by life.

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Speaker 4: But when you know you're not condemned, you.

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Speaker 5: Know God's not holding your mistakes against you. When you

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Speaker 5: realize God is saying, I want to come to your house.

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Speaker 5: I want to be your friend. Other people may have

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Speaker 5: written you off, but I don't.

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Speaker 4: Write you off.

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Speaker 5: I know what you have to offer, I know how

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Speaker 5: amazing you are. That's when you'll have the power to

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Speaker 5: really change. You may have made mistakes, you're not where

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Speaker 5: you want to be. Those accusing voices, they'll remind you

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Speaker 5: of all your shortcomings, everything that you've done wrong.

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Speaker 4: But by faith, you've got to hear.

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Speaker 5: God saying to you. I don't condemn you. I'm not

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Speaker 5: holding anything against you. I'm not keeping a record of

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Speaker 5: your mistakes. Friends, Grace is coming to you today. I'm

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Speaker 5: asking will you receive it? Will you shake off the

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Speaker 5: guilt and condemnation. Will you put your shoulders back, hold

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Speaker 5: your head up high. Nothing you've done has canceled your destiny.

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Speaker 5: Some of you are kind of down on yourself, focused

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Speaker 5: on all the ways that you don't measure up. Just

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Speaker 5: like Jesus said, I must go through Samaria to meet

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Speaker 5: that woman that's been beaten down by life, God is

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Speaker 5: saying I must get to you and let you know

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Speaker 5: my mercy is bigger than any mistake. I'm not interested

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Speaker 5: in your past. I'm interested in your future. I must

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Speaker 5: let you know that you.

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Speaker 4: Are forgiven, you are redeemed. It's not the end. I

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Speaker 4: have a new beginning. Your best days are still out

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Speaker 4: in front of you. Now.

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Speaker 5: You may not deserve this, You may be the least likely.

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Speaker 5: That's what grace is all about.

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Speaker 4: It's from miscue us. It's unrestrained. It goes to anyone.

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Speaker 5: And if you'll receive this grace, God will do for

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Speaker 5: you what he did for Paul.

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Speaker 4: He will bless you in spite of your mistakes.

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Speaker 5: He will still make something great out of your life,

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Speaker 5: in spite of your past. Like Jonah, even when you

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Speaker 5: bring the trouble on yourself, God will be there to

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Speaker 5: help you get out, Like with a young man with addictions.

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Speaker 5: God is going to track down your loved ones. He's

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Speaker 5: set them free, cause them to fulfill their destinies. I

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Speaker 5: believe and declare grace is coming our way.

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