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Speaker 1: truths will definitely set you up for an intimate and

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Speaker 1: successful relationship with the Lord. Now let's head back into

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Speaker 1: our regularly scheduled program. All right, Hebrews nine, y'all still

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Speaker 1: doing good? Okay? Under the old system. The old system,

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Speaker 1: the blood of goats and bulls, the ashes of a

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Speaker 1: heifer could cleanse people's bodies from ceremonial impurity. Just think

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Speaker 1: how much more, the blood of Christ will purify our

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Speaker 1: consciences from the sinful deeds, so we can worship the

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Speaker 1: Living God. For by the power of the eternal Spirit,

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Speaker 1: Christ offered himself to God is the perfect sacrifice for

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Speaker 1: our sins. That is why he is the one who

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Speaker 1: mediates a new covenant between God and people, so that

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Speaker 1: all who are called can receive the eternal inheritance God

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Speaker 1: has promised them. For Christ died to set them free

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Speaker 1: from the penalty of sins they had committed under the

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Speaker 1: first Covenant. It was Jesus and his blood. We sing

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Speaker 1: about it all the time, but it was the blood

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Speaker 1: that was shed that confirmed the new covenant. Next week,

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Speaker 1: we're going to share communion together. But Jesus said this

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Speaker 1: about that in Mark fourteen. Here's what he said, And

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Speaker 1: we'll do this together as a church. Next Sunday, as

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Speaker 1: they were eating Mark fourteen, Jesus took some bread and

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Speaker 1: blessed it. Then he broke it in pieces gave it

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Speaker 1: to the disciples, saying, take it, eat, this is my body.

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Speaker 1: Then he took a cup of wine and gave thanks

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Speaker 1: to God for it. He gave it to them and

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Speaker 1: they all drank and then here's the key. Jesus said

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Speaker 1: these words verse twenty four. And he said to them,

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Speaker 1: this is my blood, which confirms the covenant between God

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Speaker 1: and his people. It is poured out as a sacrifice

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Speaker 1: for many. I tell you the truth. I will not

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Speaker 1: drink wine again, and tell the day I drink it

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Speaker 1: new in the Kingdom of God. Then they sang a

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Speaker 1: hymn and went out to the Mount of Olives. And

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Speaker 1: shortly thereafter Jesus went to the cross. He was foreshadowing

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Speaker 1: his blood being shed would confirm the new covenant, making

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Speaker 1: the old one obsolete. All right, Hebrews ten. Let me

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Speaker 1: read these verses, and then we'll tie some things in

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Speaker 1: a bowt Hebrews ten, Verse ten. For God's will was

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Speaker 1: for us to be made holy by the sacrifice of

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Speaker 1: the body of Jesus Christ, once for all time. This

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Speaker 1: is God's will that we would be made holy through

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Speaker 1: jesus sacrifice Verse eleven. Under the old covenant, the priest

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Speaker 1: stands and ministers before the altar day after day, offering

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Speaker 1: the same sacrifices again and again, which can never take

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Speaker 1: away sins. But our high Priest offered himself to God

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Speaker 1: is a single sacrifice for sins good for all time.

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Speaker 1: Then he sat down in the place of honor at

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Speaker 1: God's right hand. There he waits until his enemies are humbled,

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Speaker 1: and made a footstool under his feet. Verse fourteen. You

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Speaker 1: gotta underline it, you gotta circle it, you gotta get

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Speaker 1: this in your spirit. Andy and I were just talking

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Speaker 1: about this verse the other day and how the revelation

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Speaker 1: of this verse changes your life. She was telling this

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Speaker 1: story how she was in the middle of preaching. This

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Speaker 1: is many years ago, preaching to the students in high school,

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Speaker 1: and got to this verse and it was like the

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Speaker 1: Holy Spirit pulled the veil off on verse fourteen, and

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Speaker 1: she stopped, like in the middle of her preaching, and

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Speaker 1: it was like, oh my gosh, Oh my gosh. Verse fourteen.

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Speaker 1: For by that one offering Jesus, his one offering he

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Speaker 1: forever made perfect. Though who are being made holy? For

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Speaker 1: by that one offering he forever made perfect? How perfect

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Speaker 1: do I have to be? He forever made perfect? Those

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Speaker 1: who are being made holy. You gotta let that soak

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Speaker 1: in because what happens to us, we all of us,

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Speaker 1: is then we start heaven that yeah, but what about Yeah?

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Speaker 1: But I mean I blow it I'm not perfect, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but what about so and song? Yeah but what about

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Speaker 1: what about my past? And yeah? But what about my

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Speaker 1: future and he forever? I just want you to think

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Speaker 1: about how freeing your life would be if we embraced

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Speaker 1: the New Covenant. What if God really isn't mad at you?

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Speaker 1: What if his faithfulness to himself has made you perfect

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Speaker 1: forever through the blood that was shed? And at that time,

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Speaker 1: the old Covenant became obsolete and we entered into a

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Speaker 1: new and better covenant keyword better based on better promises. Amen, Okay,

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Speaker 1: hold the thought, keep holding the thoughts. One more verse

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Speaker 1: and then I just want to tighten a bow here, okay,

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Speaker 1: or one more summary. Here's a summary so far of

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Speaker 1: the new Covenant. What is the new Covenant? That? What

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Speaker 1: is it? Here are the articles of the New Covenant.

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Speaker 1: I will put my laws in their minds, I will

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Speaker 1: write them on their hearts. I will be their God,

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Speaker 1: they will be my people. I will forgive their wickedness,

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Speaker 1: and I will never again remember their sins. That's the

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Speaker 1: New Covenant. That means for you and I, God wrote

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Speaker 1: right and wrong on the conscience of our mind. The

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Speaker 1: love love. We know it's wrong to hate. We know

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Speaker 1: it's right to love. God embedded his desires on our heart.

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Speaker 1: One person said, we're allergic to sin and addicted to God.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna come back to that. But God he changed

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Speaker 1: the operating system. So in a nutshell, he wrote, he

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Speaker 1: embedded his heart into our hearts. So people sometimes will say, yeah,

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Speaker 1: but what about like if people heard this message, if

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Speaker 1: people heard the New Covenant was this good, they would

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Speaker 1: just run around and do whatever they want and live

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Speaker 1: like sinners and just you know, do whatever they want. No,

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Speaker 1: they wouldn't know. They couldn't because He's downloaded and embedded

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Speaker 1: in our heart his desires. We want to do good,

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Speaker 1: we want to please God. Does it mean we do

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Speaker 1: it one hundred percent of the time. No, But when

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Speaker 1: we don't do it and we're in a trail of

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Speaker 1: not doing it internally, we're not enjoying life because there's

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Speaker 1: a magnet. There's been a magnet deposited in us that

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Speaker 1: keeps pulling us back to God. And that same magnet,

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Speaker 1: even though we may sin, we may sin for a season,

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Speaker 1: we may sin for a time, we may be living

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Speaker 1: in sin. That magnet is repelling us from the sin.

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Speaker 1: Even though we may be in it. The magnet on

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Speaker 1: the inside is repelling us from it. We can't enjoy it.

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Speaker 1: We can't have a clear conscience. We're not loving life

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Speaker 1: because the magnet is pulling us over to God, because

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Speaker 1: He's written that in our heart. Amen, God initiated it.

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Speaker 1: He's our God. We are his people. God forget of

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Speaker 1: our sins. Now will tighten a bow with us. God

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Speaker 1: forgave our sins past, present and future, never to be remembered.

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Speaker 1: I want to take a few minutes here to tie

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Speaker 1: some stuff in a bow, and then we're gonna hit

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Speaker 1: pause at the end of today and pick it up

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Speaker 1: next week. But here's the hop scotch summary of what

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Speaker 1: we've talked about so far. As we've gone through Hebrews quickly.

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Speaker 1: This is when you want to get your phone out

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Speaker 1: and take pictures of these slides. Okay, the New and

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Speaker 1: the Better Covenant, the old and the new. What's the difference?

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Speaker 1: How good is the new Covenant? Number one? The old

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Speaker 1: Covenant was from Moses to Jesus fourteen forty six BC.

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Speaker 1: The New Covenant is from Jesus death on the Cross

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Speaker 1: to the present thirty three a d till now. Number

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Speaker 1: two is for the descendants of Abraham. The new covenants

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Speaker 1: for the whole world. The old Covenant had promises. The

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Speaker 1: new Covenant has better promises. The old Covenant was about

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Speaker 1: our works, our performance, our effort. The new Covenant is

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Speaker 1: about Jesus works, rest, thanksgiving. The old covenant was if

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Speaker 1: then to get the blessings. The new Covenant is because

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Speaker 1: then who are blessed. The old way was glorious. The

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Speaker 1: new way is more glorious. We'll see that next week.

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Speaker 1: The old way you had to obey six hundred and

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Speaker 1: thirteen commands of the Law. The new way you believe

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Speaker 1: in Jesus, who fulfilled the law. The old way you

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Speaker 1: keep the Ten Commandments. The new way you live in

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Speaker 1: the new commandment of love. The old way you do

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Speaker 1: the red letters of Jesus. The new way you receive

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Speaker 1: the finished work of Jesus. The old way you are

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Speaker 1: a sinner. The new way you've been made righteous. The

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Speaker 1: old way they got once a year for the new way,

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Speaker 1: once for all time forgiveness. The old way are sins

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Speaker 1: recovered yearly through the blood of a lamb. The new

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Speaker 1: way are sins removed forever through the blood of the lamb.

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Speaker 1: The old way it's about what you do the new way.

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Speaker 1: It's about what Jesus has done the old way. Be

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Speaker 1: holy the new way. You've been made holy. This is

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Speaker 1: a big one. You get under the old Covenant real

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Speaker 1: quick when you try to be holy, of course, because

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Speaker 1: you've got the new DNA and the magnet. You want

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Speaker 1: to live a life pleasing to the Lord. But you've

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Speaker 1: been made holy in his eyes Number fifteen. In the

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Speaker 1: old way, be perfect. In the New Covenant, you've been

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Speaker 1: made perfect forever. You can't unperfect yourself. The old way,

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Speaker 1: his words were engraved in stone. The new way, his

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Speaker 1: words aren't graved on your heart. The old levitical priesthood

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Speaker 1: was temporary. The new superior priesthood is permanent. The old Covenant,

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Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit was given to specific people for specific times.

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Speaker 1: Under the New Covenant, the Holy spirit's been given to

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Speaker 1: all who receive. Under the old Covenant, they lived in

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Speaker 1: fear and shame. Under the New Covenant, we get to

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Speaker 1: live bold and free. The old Covenant that had a

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Speaker 1: guilty conscience. Under the New Covenant, we can live with

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Speaker 1: made perfect, not because you are perfect. That's where the

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Speaker 1: renewing of the mind comes in to go, God, help

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Speaker 1: me get this. You can live with a pure conscience

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Speaker 1: even though you're not perfect. You've been made perfect. And

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Speaker 1: if you'll live in who you've been made to be,

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Speaker 1: you'll live with a pure conscience. Old Testament healed by

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Speaker 1: obedience to the law. A New Testament healed by Jesus

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Speaker 1: stripes on the cross. Old Testament blessed with abundance by obeying.

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Speaker 1: New Testament blessed with abundance by faith. Old Covenant God's

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Speaker 1: presence upon them. New Covenant, God's presence within us works

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Speaker 1: and obedience to the law. Under the Old, grace and

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Speaker 1: faith under the New. The Old was based on man's

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Speaker 1: faithfulness to God. The New is based on God's faithfulness

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Speaker 1: to himself. The old people were convicted of self righteousness.

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Speaker 1: In the New Covenant, he confirms us in his righteousness

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Speaker 1: under the Old sins forgiven daily and annually. Under the

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Speaker 1: people said, now, whooo, how does this affect us practically?

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Speaker 1: This is what I want you to get, because the

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Speaker 1: biggest hiccup often a couple of hiccups here for people.

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Speaker 1: One is getting revelation on the idea that your sins

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Speaker 1: have been forgiven completely for eternity, all of your sins past, present,

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Speaker 1: and future, since you haven't even committed yet. Because the

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Speaker 1: truth is, when Jesus went to the cross, all of

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Speaker 1: our sins were future at that time. So it's not like, oh, well,

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Speaker 1: all my sins were forgiven when I accepted Jesus, all

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Speaker 1: my past sins were forgiven. But now I have to

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Speaker 1: confess my sins every day because you know, I have

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Speaker 1: to make sure those get forgiven. No, those were forgiven.

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Speaker 1: You were made perfect by the one sacrifice for all time.

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Speaker 1: And we're gonna talk next week because the other stumbling

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Speaker 1: block for people is, yeah, but what about what about sin?

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Speaker 1: What about what do we do with that? Well, don't

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Speaker 1: do it, okay, but but what about it? So we're

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Speaker 1: gonna talk about that next week. But let me read

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Speaker 1: you some quotes. These are great quotes, just to help

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Speaker 1: paint the picture of what we've been covering. Andrew Womack

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Speaker 1: a great Bible teacher. And I see you guys from

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Speaker 1: Kariss has A. He's a Kariss Bible College founder. Here's

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Speaker 1: what he said. Most people, including Christians, see the forgiveness

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Speaker 1: of sins as something that God can do and continues

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Speaker 1: to do, but not as something he has completed. From

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Speaker 1: that comes to false concept that we must constantly confess

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Speaker 1: our sins, which makes us and keeps us sin conscious.

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Speaker 1: God doesn't want us conscious of sin. He wants us

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Speaker 1: conscious of redemption. The New Testament presents the forgiveness of

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Speaker 1: sins as something that is already accomplished. And the reason

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Speaker 1: this is so important is because once you embrace this,

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Speaker 1: it'll help you live the John ten ten life, Live

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Speaker 1: the abundant life, live the overcoming life, live the life

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Speaker 1: your heart wants to live. But because of the enemy

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Speaker 1: and fear and guilt and shame and all the stuff,

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Speaker 1: we're stuck back here, not fully free, because we're like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't think I don't think that's for me. I

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Speaker 1: think that's for the other good people. But God's wanting

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Speaker 1: us to sit notes for you, it's completed. Here's another

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Speaker 1: great quote from a Bible commentator. The freeness of this

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Speaker 1: pardon it does not result from merit in man, but

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Speaker 1: from mercy in God. He pardons for his own namesake.

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Speaker 1: The fullness of this pardon, it extends to their unrighteousness,

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Speaker 1: sins and iniquities, to all kinds of sin. The finality

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Speaker 1: of this pardon, it is so final and so fixed,

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Speaker 1: that God will remember their sins no more. He will

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Speaker 1: not even recall his pardon. He will not only forgive

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Speaker 1: their sins, but forget them, treat them as if He

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Speaker 1: had forgotten them. Unpardoned sin prevents mercy and pulls down judgment.

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Speaker 1: But the pardon of sin prevents judgment and opens a

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Speaker 1: wide door to all spiritual blessings forever. This is the

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Speaker 1: excellency of the New Covenant, and these are the articles

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Speaker 1: of it. And therefore we have great reason to rejoice

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Speaker 1: that the old Covenant is obsolete and has vanished away.

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Speaker 1: And all the people said, here's somewhere you guys, good,

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Speaker 1: let me give you a couple more. Amen. Andrew Farley,

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Speaker 1: a pastor, Bible teacher. You're allergic to sin. You're addicted

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Speaker 1: to Jesus. That's that magnet thing. So God can trust

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Speaker 1: us because he's put his nature in us. He's put

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Speaker 1: a magnet in us. We're allergic to sin, we're repelled

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Speaker 1: by it, even though we may commit it, we can't

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Speaker 1: live in it with joy. We're repelled by it, and

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Speaker 1: we're magnetized drawn back to Christ. We're addicted to God.

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Speaker 1: We're allergic to sin. You're going to prove this truth

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Speaker 1: one way or another, by sinning and being miserable, or

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Speaker 1: by trusting Jesus and being fulfilled. Either way you prove

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Speaker 1: sinna will work for you. God has empowered you to

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Speaker 1: live in a new and better way, in the same

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Speaker 1: way the Bible says, count yourselves dead, descin but alive

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Speaker 1: to God and Christ. Count yourself reckon it, accept it dead,

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Speaker 1: descent alive to God. This isn't about you naming or

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Speaker 1: claiming something to make it true. This is about you

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Speaker 1: living in the reality that you don't want to sin.

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Speaker 1: That's right. You don't really want to sin, and you

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Speaker 1: may feel you do, but you don't. You have a

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Speaker 1: new default setting. You have a new normal. You're allergic

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Speaker 1: to sin and addicted to righteousness. You may feel you

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Speaker 1: want to sin, he says it again, but you're going

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Speaker 1: to prove your new identity one way or another. You

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Speaker 1: gotta get this. This will free some of you up.

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Speaker 1: You're going to prove your new identity one way or another,

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Speaker 1: by sinning and being miserable, or by expressing Jesus and

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Speaker 1: being fulfilled. He goes on, You can't escape your destiny

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Speaker 1: of displaying Christ, your fuse to Him, bonded to Him forever,

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Speaker 1: you can't get away from your new core desires. When

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Speaker 1: we're worried about too much grace and that's what you hear.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes it's because our view of grace is puny and pitiful.

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Speaker 1: Some see grace is simply mercy for when we fail,

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Speaker 1: or a ticket to heaven, or God canceling our debts.

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Speaker 1: Sure those things are a part of God's grace, but

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Speaker 1: let's not settled for anything less than the fullness of

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Speaker 1: God's grace. In his grace, God took a spiritual scalpel

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Speaker 1: and cut out your sinful heart and replaced it with

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Speaker 1: a beautiful new heart that always loves Jesus. How many

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Speaker 1: times have you heard stories seen testimonies of people The

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Speaker 1: prodigal son walked away from God for some time, often,

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Speaker 1: but all the time there was that drawing back to God,

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Speaker 1: drawing back to the Father in their heart. They could

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Speaker 1: look like they're a million miles from God, but God

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Speaker 1: always if they're truly born again. If they're truly a believer,

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Speaker 1: that magnet is on the inside, always pulling them back.

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Speaker 1: That's part of what God's grace did too. God can

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Speaker 1: afford to put us under grace with no limits because

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Speaker 1: his grace doesn't stop at forgiveness. He gives us new

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Speaker 1: spiritual passions and desires. You guys, good, I got a

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Speaker 1: couple more. I want you to see. We're getting to

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Speaker 1: the grand finale here, so hold tight, Joseph, Prince Pastor

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Speaker 1: in Singapore. Only Jesus, who lives outside of time, can

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Speaker 1: forgive you of all your sins, past, present and future.

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Speaker 1: At the Cross, Jesus paid the price of your sins

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Speaker 1: and redeemed you the law. And I'll get this. The

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Speaker 1: law of double jeopardy states that sins cannot be tried twice.

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Speaker 1: So God would be unjust if you tried the same

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Speaker 1: sin twice. Since God judged all your sins in Jesus's

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Speaker 1: body on the tree, he cannot judge them in yours.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it again. Since God judge all your sins,

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Speaker 1: all your sins past, present and future, in jesus body

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Speaker 1: on the cross, he cannot judge them in yours. God

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Speaker 1: sees everything from beginning to end. He sees all your

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Speaker 1: sins on Jesus at the Cross, all forgiven. When you

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Speaker 1: understand how deeply forgiven you are, you will about these benefits.

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Speaker 1: Bless the Lord, oh my soul, all that is within me.

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Speaker 1: Bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, oh my soul,

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Speaker 1: And forget not all of his benefits, who forgives all

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Speaker 1: your iniquities, who heals all your diseases. Hallelujah. Let me

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Speaker 1: tell you what double jeopardy is, because this is when

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Speaker 1: you got to You gotta leave with this in your spirit.

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Speaker 1: The concept of double jeopardy is well established in constitutional law.

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Speaker 1: The Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution says, nor shall

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Speaker 1: any person be subject, for the same offense to be

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Speaker 1: tried twice put in jeopardy of life or limb. According

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Speaker 1: to God justice, we are all guilty of sin and death.

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Speaker 1: But because we've received Jesus, every sin we've ever committed

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Speaker 1: or will commit, has been fully prosecuted upon Christ on

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Speaker 1: the Cross, and once is all that the law demands.

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Speaker 1: Now we are unpunishable. There are still consequences, which we're

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Speaker 1: going to get to next week. There are still consequences

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Speaker 1: when we sin, But as far as the eternal penalty

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Speaker 1: of the law is concerned, Jesus substitutionary death places us

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Speaker 1: in the wonderful position of being exempt from punishment. When

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Speaker 1: we believe in Christ, we receive God's pardon and escape

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Speaker 1: sin's penalty. Thank God for his principle of double jeopardy.

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Speaker 1: There was a story of a young man, twenty seven

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Speaker 1: year old man in Vermont who was tried for murder

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Speaker 1: killing a co worker and was found not guilty, was pardoned,

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Speaker 1: was found not guilty. Years later, he went to the

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Speaker 1: police and confessed that he was the one that did it.

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Speaker 1: They took it to the attorney general, and the attorney

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Speaker 1: attorney general said, my hands are tied. Double jeopardy. He

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Speaker 1: can't be tried for the same crime. When Jesus took

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Speaker 1: all of our sins upon himself on the cross, they

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Speaker 1: were punished on him. God will not put us in

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Speaker 1: double jeopardy. That is a liberating truth. To go God.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to send him, not planning to sin,

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Speaker 1: but thank you, thank you that for the rest of

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Speaker 1: my days forever, You've perfected us by that one sacrifice.

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Speaker 1: Now I can live in freedom and be the Christian

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Speaker 1: you've called me to be. So we're gonna hit pause.

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Speaker 1: But in people's minds often you cover these kinds of things.

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Speaker 1: They're they're asking the question that was asking in Roman

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Speaker 1: sixth one. What should always say to all this? Should

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Speaker 1: we continue in sin and practice sin as a habit

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Speaker 1: so that God's gift of grace may increase and overflow?

773
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Speaker 1: Certainly not? And how can we, the very ones who

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Speaker 1: died to sin, continue to live in it any longer.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna come back to that next week. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: talk about. Okay, Now, in practical terms, how do I

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Speaker 1: live this out? And what if I sin? And what

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Speaker 1: you know, how do I stay free in the New

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Speaker 1: Covenant and access all the blessings? Because then not if

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Speaker 1: fin all right, So I'm gonna hit pause. A boom, right,

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Speaker 1: there's pause. But before we go, I do want to

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Speaker 1: say this. There is only one sin that will keep

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Speaker 1: a person out of heaven and will send a person

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Speaker 1: straight to hell. And I do want to talk about

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Speaker 1: it because it's important, it's sober, and it's necessary. Hebrews ten,

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Speaker 1: verse twenty six says this, for if we sin willfully

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Speaker 1: after having received the knowledge of the truth. There is

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Speaker 1: no longer a sacrifice remaining for sins, but a certain

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Speaker 1: fearful expectation of judgment and fiery indignation which shall devour

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Speaker 1: the adversaries. What is the willful sin? If we sin willfully?

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Speaker 1: What is that willful sin? Are you saying now? Are

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Speaker 1: you going back and saying, oh, if we sin after

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Speaker 1: we know all this? Nope, the wilful sin is the

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Speaker 1: sin of rejecting Jesus, of rejecting what he did on

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Speaker 1: the cross. That's the willful sin. Jesus called it blaspheming

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Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit, resisting rejecting the Holy Spirit's work. So

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Speaker 1: one sin. It's the only sin that will send someone

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Speaker 1: to hell and keep them out of what God has

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Speaker 1: planned for them in heaven for eternity. It's the sin

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Speaker 1: of rejecting the New Covenant, the Finnish work of the Cross.

801
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Speaker 1: But the Bible says, for God's so love the world,

802
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Speaker 1: the whole world. He gave his only begotten son, that

803
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Speaker 1: whosoever would believe on him would not perish, but would

804
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Speaker 1: have everlasting life. So we don't want anybody to leave

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Speaker 1: here today, or anybody online to leave today without the

806
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Speaker 1: opportunity to receive Christ, to receive and to rento the

807
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Speaker 1: New Covenant. The willful sin is the sin of unbelief.

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Speaker 1: It's the sin of rejecting Jesus. But that one's easily

809
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Speaker 1: fixed by simply believing. We're going to pray a prayer together.

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Speaker 1: And if you've never received Jesus as your lord, you've

811
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Speaker 1: never fully accepted Christ his finished work. All this stuff

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Speaker 1: we just talked about. Today's your day, Thanksgiving weekend, this

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Speaker 1: is your time, So let's do it together. Say it

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Speaker 1: with me. Say, Heavenly Father, I come before you, and

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Speaker 1: I am so grateful for the sacrifice of Jesus on

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Speaker 1: that cross. Lord, Thank you. And today I make a decision. Jesus.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to sin willfully by rejecting you. So

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Speaker 1: today I repent. I turn towards you, and I say, Jesus,

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Speaker 1: come into my life, be the Lord of my life.

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Speaker 1: I confess Jesus Christ is now the lord of my life.

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Speaker 1: Help me be the person you've called me to be.

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Speaker 1: Jesus name. Amen. Thank you so much for listening to

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Speaker 1: today's message. I really hope you were encouraged, and if

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Speaker 1: you were, I would love to hear from you. Please

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826
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Speaker 1: journey through the Bible's most profound stories that will strengthen

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Speaker 1: your appreciation of the Word and inspire you to keep alerting.

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Speaker 1: Listen to the Bible in a Year with Jack Graham

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Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.