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 You are listening to a message from Southwood Presbyterian Church in Huntsville, Alabama.

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 Our passion is to experience and express grace. Join us.

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 Thank y'all so much. I love the words of that song.

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 What a great confession of the desperation of sin that cries out for Jesus to rescue.

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 Hosanna! Oh, save us!

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 That's really the whole story that we're talking about for these three weeks in terms of confessions.

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 The nature of sin, the heart of repentance, and finding then a God of forgiveness.

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 We're learning together from David's confession in Psalm 51 what true repentance looks like.

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 Because that's to be a regular part of all of our lives.

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 Seeing our sin and turning to God.

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 Sin deserves death.

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 And we see it and realize what we deserve.

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 And then we turn to Jesus who has beaten death at death's own game.

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 And we praise Him and rejoice in that.

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 If you weren't here with us last week, part of the context of this series is the session of Southwood making corporate confession of our sin.

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 Particularly in light of a season of church conflict here several years ago.

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 We were telling you that God has shown us several things.

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 Shown us our failure to love well.

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 Shown us how our offense is against His glory.

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 And also shown us at least some of the hurt that our sin has caused to many others.

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 For more of that context and the particulars of that confession, you can go back and listen to last week's sermon and the comments made by some elders afterwards.

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 And that's all online.

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 So as branches, our magazine which addresses that further.

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 But I'm thankful for people who have already reached out to talk with me and other elders even this week.

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 Let me say again that you or someone you know may have questions or concerns or hurts that need healing.

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 Please, please let us know that.

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 We would love to talk with you.

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 That's our heart.

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 That's our great desire in this.

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 The elders will be down front again at the end of the service this morning to make them a little bit easier for you to find if you're looking for them.

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 But as we talk more about what God teaches all of us about repentance, let's look back to Psalm 51 and read a couple more verses.

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 This morning, verses 16 and 17.

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 And then we'll pray.

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 This is God's holy word.

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 For you will not delight in sacrifice or I would give it.

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 You will not be pleased with a burnt offering.

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 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit.

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 A broken and contrite heart.

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 Oh God, you will not despise.

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 Pray with me.

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 Father, we ask this morning that you would open our eyes.

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 That we might behold wonderful things in your word.

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 All of us are sinners.

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 The one who speaks is a great sinner.

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 We all have a greater Savior.

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 Show him to us.

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 We pray in your word, by your spirit.

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 For your glory and for our good.

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 We ask it in his name.

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 Amen.

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 Amen.

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 Last week, as we discussed the nature of sin, we saw that sin involves both our hearts and our actions.

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 That God created us for relationship with himself.

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 To be in this wonderful relationship where we trust him.

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 Where we rest in him.

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 Where we find our enjoyment and our fulfillment in him and in this relationship.

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 That's God's design.

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 But by nature, we are bent away from God.

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 And by our actions, we walk away from God towards sin.

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 We look for our own methods of fulfillment.

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 We spurn the relationship with God that he created us for.

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 And we turn our backs to him and walk away.

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 That's what sin is.

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 Kids, this is the picture that you should draw this morning if you're working on one of those bulletins.

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 And you want to draw a picture of what it means for us to sin.

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 It's for us to walk away from a relationship with God and look for what we're supposed to find in him somewhere else.

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 Chasing after maybe we'll find trust or rest or joy in another place.

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 David says that to God, right?

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 Against you and you only have I sinned.

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 You're the one over here and I've walked away from you.

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 Walked away from my relationship with you to pursue my own agenda.

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 Our hearts wander in search of fulfillment in someone else or something else.

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 And that's sin.

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 We see it pictured here in David's adultery with Bathsheba.

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 The context of this particular psalm.

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 The prophet Hosea uses that same picture of God's relationship with his people.

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 That they go looking for things they need in another lover and leave God behind.

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 Distancing themselves from the beautiful intimate relationship with God that he created them for.

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 We can also see it certainly in terms of a human marriage.

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 Where one spouse walks away from relationship looking for fulfillment elsewhere.

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 And sin like that devastates relationship, right?

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 It distances us from the God we were meant to be in close fellowship with.

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 Finding deep satisfaction and delight in.

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 So this morning we're talking about repentance.

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 In other words, how does God recommend addressing this problem?

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 What is he looking for when we find ourselves time and again,

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 even as his people wandering away, distancing ourselves from him and going after sin?

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 Our own desires, wandering away from God.

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 And David says, you will not delight in sacrifice, in burnt offering.

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 That's not what God's looking for.

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 But instead, what?

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 Verse 17.

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 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit.

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 A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

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 The heart of repentance is an issue of the heart.

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 What's going on here?

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 A repentant heart.

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 We'll see this morning as one that is both sorrowful and joyful.

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 But first sorrowful.

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 A broken and contrite heart, God says.

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 That's where it begins.

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 Repentance begins with our hearts breaking.

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 The sorrow of the repentant heart is mourning relational distance.

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 That's what's breaking our hearts.

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 In other words, godly sorrow over our sin grieves the damage that is done to our relationship with God.

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 The broken and contrite heart is one that is heartbroken over walking away from rather than toward God.

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 It's easy to be saddened by the consequences of sin, right?

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 By getting caught by the ways this is going to impact me and the difficulty this is going to bring into my life that I've been caught in sin.

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 It can be painful.

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 It can be inconvenient.

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 Godly sorrow, the sorrow in a repentant heart is focused not on the consequences but rather on the relationship.

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 Puritan Thomas Watson calls this sorrow a holy agony.

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 It's a deep sense of the wrongness of my actions, the wrongness of the attitudes of my heart,

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 before the righteousness of God.

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 How wrong I am.

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 It sounds like our hearts crying out,

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 look how I've defaced the image of God.

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 Look how I've mocked the law of God.

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 Look how I've neglected the things that God loves.

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 How I've longed for other things more than I've longed for God.

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 And what an affront that is to my Father who loves me.

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 It is to be something we feel deeply.

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 And David even describes earlier in this psalm his bones being crushed and broken in his sin.

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 Have you felt that holy agony?

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 How could I have done this to my God?

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 To the one who loves me?

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 To the holy and perfect one?

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 How could I have treated him who wanted that relationship with me?

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 How could I have run away from that?

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 Typically to feel that requires meaningful contemplation of our sin on our part, right?

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 We're not really good at that, most of us.

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 We've been willing to slow down and take the time to consider my own sin

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 and contemplate the offense against God.

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 I've needed recently to sit and listen to others tell me how my sin impacted them.

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 Those are not easy conversations.

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 Those are often difficult things to hear.

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 But an important part of true repentance is hearing and understanding the ways I've offended someone.

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 So that I can grieve that with them.

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 I can confess my sin against you much more thoughtfully and much more meaningfully

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 if I've actually genuinely tried to understand how I hurt you.

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 That's part, y'all, of why our session is inviting those difficult conversations, particularly right now.

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 Genuine sorrow over our sin and over how we've harmed the image of God and others

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 is a significant part of genuine repentance,

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 particularly when we're thinking of our relationship with God.

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 Our hearts must mourn the relational distance.

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 Because we said repentance is a heart issue.

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 And here's the heart of true repentance.

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 What's at the essence of it?

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 It's seeking that relationship.

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 From the heart.

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 From everything I am.

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 All that we are.

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 Let's go back to the example in the human relationship first.

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 I think it will help us understand this in our relationship with God.

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 Imagine again that husband who walks away from his wife

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 and seeks fulfillment and joy and rest in the arms of another.

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 Then imagine he comes to his senses.

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 Caught in his sin, he offers his wife this proposal.

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 I'll stop being with her.

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 And I'll wash the dishes for the next 100 days.

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 I'll do the next 100 loads of laundry.

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 I'll buy you some really nice jewelry.

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 I'm going to quit doing the bad things

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 and do some really good things.

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 I'll start sacrificing more around here.

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 I'll do my part.

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 Now those are nice things, right?

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 But what would you say may be missing in that?

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 Where has he missed the point?

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 He seems to have forgotten what?

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 The heart.

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 The damaged relationship.

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 The broken trust and the joy that's been lost

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 between the two that was promised to be there.

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 And that needs to be restored with his wife, doesn't it?

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 If you're the wife, you're thinking,

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 if there's ever any hope for us here,

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 don't just turn from bad deeds to good deeds.

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 You need to turn from her back to me

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 in our relationship, right?

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 Right?

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 That's absolutely essential.

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 Listen, jewelry and laundry are nice things, right?

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 Those are great ideas.

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 Don't get me wrong.

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 The changed actions,

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 the sacrifices that he would make

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 could come

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 and likely should come.

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 But they are the fruit of repentance.

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 Not the root.

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 Repentance is to have fruit.

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 We're to bear fruit in keeping with repentance.

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 But at the root of repentance,

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 at the heart of what it is,

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 is the relationship.

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 It's the relationship that's the heart of repentance

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 that we're turning back to God.

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 So listen, this is where it really matters.

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 Where does that make a big difference for us?

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 In much the same way,

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 God says to us,

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 I'm not primarily seeking the things you can do.

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 Remember, he says,

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 I'm not just seeking the sacrifices

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 that you might make,

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 but rather a broken and contrite heart

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 that mourns the distant sin

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 has created in our relationship

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 and wants to turn back to me.

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 Wants restoration there.

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 This is the way the Bible pictures repentance.

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 It's turning back to God.

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 Just one example, Acts chapter 26.

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 Paul's talking about repentance,

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 that they should repent and turn where?

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 To God.

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 Performing deeds in keeping with repentance.

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 The relationship priority first,

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 and then the deeds follow.

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 Our catechism says the same thing about repentance.

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 Question 87, what is repentance unto life?

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 Repentance unto life is a saving grace,

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 whereby a sinner out of a true sense of his sin

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 and apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ

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 doth with grief and hatred of his sin

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 turn from it where?

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 Unto God.

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 With full purpose of and endeavor after new obedience.

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 The deeds still there,

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 but the relationship priority first.

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 When we turn from our sin in repentance,

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 we turn back to God himself.

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 Not from bad will over here,

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 to good will over here,

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 but rather to our gracious God,

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 who forgives will,

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 and then remakes will in his image.

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 And that may seem like a small distinction to you.

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 Really?

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 Yeah, you're just splitting hairs.

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 What's the whole point of that?

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 It's actually the essence of Christianity.

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 We are so used to penance in practice,

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 which is very different from true biblical repentance.

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 Penance and repentance sound a little bit the same.

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 I'll say them a few times so you hear the difference.

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 They're very different things

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 for some very important reasons.

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 Penance says we turn from bad deeds

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 to good deeds.

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 We often live this way.

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 This is often what Christianity looks like,

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 as though it's stopping bad things

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 and doing more good things.

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 You've thought it before.

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 God, if you just get me out of this jam that I'm in,

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 I'll always, what?

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 Go to church.

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 I'll never go there again

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 or click on that again.

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 Just keep me from getting caught in this.

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 Get me out of this just this one time.

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 Those things we promise God in the face of our sin,

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 when we're afraid we might get caught

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 and we wanna escape that happening

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 or maybe just we're facing some other difficulty in life,

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 we promise God things we will do or not do, right?

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 And what does that show us

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 about what we think God values?

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 What do we think he's looking for?

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 We think he values what we do or don't do most.

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 I'll sacrifice this or that,

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 God, if you'll come through for me.

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 That's penance.

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 We've messed up, right?

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 So we pile our arms full of sacrifices

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 and march back over to take them to God

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 and say, see all the things I've done to make up for it?

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 See what I'm willing to do?

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 I'll do better.

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 I'll be different.

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 I won't let you down again.

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 That's penance.

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 I've sinned, but I'll make it up to you.

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 And God says, you're missing the point.

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 I want your heart broken and contrite.

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 I love you.

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 I want relationship with you,

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 not performance from you.

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 That's what I value, you.

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 Penance, coming to God with your arms full of sacrifices

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 is what most Presbyterians do naturally, isn't it?

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 But you must hear me.

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 That way of relating to God fits Islam.

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 It fits Mormonism.

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 It does not fit biblical Christianity

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 because it leaves out two absolutely essential things.

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 The relationship with God

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 and the all-sufficient sacrifice of Jesus.

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 They're not at issue in that model.

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 Christianity is nothing in my hands I bring.

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 Simply to thy cross I cling.

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 As we sang earlier,

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 that's true repentance.

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 I don't need a second chance

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 to see if I can perform better for God this time.

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 I need a substitute to perform better for me.

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 That's Christianity.

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 If sin is walking away from God

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 against you and you only have I sinned,

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 then true repentance is turning back where?

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 To God.

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 To God Himself.

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 It's not from bad deeds to good deeds.

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 It's from my back is turned to God.

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 I am moving in the other direction,

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 turning back to my face is towards God.

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 In humility, in worship,

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 in desire for restoration.

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 When we turn in repentance,

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 you know repentance has turning involved.

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 It's God Himself that we're turning back to.

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 Because I've begun to mourn

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 the relational distance in my heart,

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 my desire is to seek the person Himself

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 and the healing of our relationship.

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 And hopefully you begin to see

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 where the joy in repentance comes from.

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 I said earlier,

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 a repentant heart is both sorrowful and joyful.

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 How's that possible?

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 That seems a little bit odd.

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 Sorrow maybe fits with repentance in your mind,

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 but where would joy show up?

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 And is that even appropriate?

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 Well, if we're mourning the relational distance

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 and we're seeking that relationship

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 to be restored to the trust and rest and joy

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 that it was designed for,

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 our joy comes in celebrating relational nearness

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 and being close to God, you could say.

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 We don't rejoice primarily in our reformed behavior,

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 although that will come.

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 We don't rejoice primarily even in the forgiveness of sin,

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 as big a deal as that is,

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 and that's something certainly to be celebrated,

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 but it's not primarily where our joy comes from.

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 We rejoice in the God we trust

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 and the fulfillment that we find in Him,

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 in God Himself.

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 As we repent of our sin

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 and turn brokenhearted back toward God,

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 we find in Him,

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 how does God respond?

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 He doesn't kick us while we're down,

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 does He?

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 He doesn't turn up His nose at our sorrowful state

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 and just say,

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 stay there, cry a bit longer,

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 you deserve it.

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 Pathetic.

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 You've turned away from me.

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 What happens when we turn broken

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 and brokenhearted to God?

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 Verse 17.

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 A broken and contrite heart,

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 O God,

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 You will not despise.

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 You will never despise it.

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 In fact,

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 in context,

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 You will delight in it.

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 I love the picture of the prodigal son's father,

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 don't you?

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 What's He like?

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 He doesn't despise the lowly condition

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 of His unclean,

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 pig-feeding son

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 who's come running back to Him

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 and doesn't deserve anything from Him.

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 What does He do?

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 He runs to Him

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 and throws His arms around Him

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 and celebrates the relational restoration

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 that has happened,

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 that His Son is home.

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 That's the joy of the Father,

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 isn't it?

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 It may feel odd to you

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 to seek joy

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 as a part of repentance.

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 You may feel you don't deserve

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 to be joyful

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 after what you've done.

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 I'm just going to stay

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 in the sorrowful part.

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 That's all I ever deserve.

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 Look at how clear David is

00:23:16.680 --> 00:23:17.900
 about this part of repentance

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 as he confesses to God.

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 Verse 12,

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 one you may be familiar with.

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 Restore to me what

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 the joy of your salvation

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 and uphold me

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 with a willing spirit.

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 Make me joyful again

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 in your salvation.

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 What is the joy

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 of His salvation

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 in this context?

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 Look back up one verse

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 to verse 11.

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 What's the joy

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 of His salvation?

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 Cast me not away

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 from your presence.

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 Parallel there,

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 not being cast away

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 from God's presence

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 is having joy

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 in His salvation

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 in the relationship

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 with Him.

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 Restore me to joy

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 near you,

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 relationship with you.

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 It means that

00:24:00.480 --> 00:24:01.960
 the sorrowful heart

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 of repentance

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 is actually the pathway

00:24:04.539 --> 00:24:05.619
 to the joy

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 of our salvation,

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 isn't it?

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 David prays again

00:24:10.099 --> 00:24:10.859
 in verse 8.

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 Let me hear joy

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 and gladness.

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 Let the bones

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 that you have broken

00:24:17.279 --> 00:24:18.099
 rejoice.

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 Charles Spurgeon says

00:24:20.839 --> 00:24:22.240
 this verse right here

00:24:22.240 --> 00:24:23.799
 is a preposterous prayer.

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 What a great word,

00:24:25.359 --> 00:24:26.019
 preposterous.

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 It's a preposterous prayer

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 that a sinner

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 should request joy.

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 Spurgeon says

00:24:34.420 --> 00:24:35.599
 it's preposterous

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 except

00:24:36.259 --> 00:24:38.879
 that the Father of Heaven

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 is throwing a party.

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 Spurgeon writes this,

00:24:42.539 --> 00:24:44.399
 if when prodigals return

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 the Father is glad

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 and the neighbors

00:24:46.960 --> 00:24:48.220
 and friends rejoice

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 and are merry

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 with music and dancing,

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 what need can there be

00:24:52.619 --> 00:24:54.119
 that the restored one

00:24:54.119 --> 00:24:54.940
 himself

00:24:54.940 --> 00:24:56.000
 should be wretched?

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 Do you hear

00:24:58.259 --> 00:24:59.079
 what Spurgeon's saying?

00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:00.740
 Who is it

00:25:00.740 --> 00:25:01.740
 that gets to define

00:25:01.740 --> 00:25:02.759
 this relationship?

00:25:03.940 --> 00:25:04.619
 It's the Father,

00:25:04.740 --> 00:25:05.119
 isn't it?

00:25:05.299 --> 00:25:06.039
 He's the one

00:25:06.039 --> 00:25:06.779
 who could have said

00:25:06.779 --> 00:25:07.379
 get away,

00:25:07.839 --> 00:25:08.700
 don't come back

00:25:08.700 --> 00:25:09.720
 and the Father says

00:25:09.720 --> 00:25:10.539
 I tell you what

00:25:10.539 --> 00:25:11.559
 this relationship is,

00:25:11.559 --> 00:25:13.319
 you're not an outcast,

00:25:13.480 --> 00:25:14.799
 you're not a slave to me,

00:25:15.019 --> 00:25:16.139
 you're my son.

00:25:16.599 --> 00:25:17.619
 Come into the party

00:25:17.619 --> 00:25:18.559
 and rejoice

00:25:18.559 --> 00:25:20.099
 in our relationship.

00:25:21.139 --> 00:25:22.319
 The Father defines

00:25:22.319 --> 00:25:23.019
 the relationship

00:25:23.019 --> 00:25:24.159
 and what does he not

00:25:24.159 --> 00:25:25.220
 delight in?

00:25:26.099 --> 00:25:27.399
 He does not delight

00:25:27.399 --> 00:25:29.039
 in your sacrifices.

00:25:30.159 --> 00:25:30.899
 He's not looking

00:25:30.899 --> 00:25:32.200
 to see how full

00:25:32.200 --> 00:25:33.419
 your arms are

00:25:33.419 --> 00:25:34.559
 of all the things

00:25:34.559 --> 00:25:35.039
 you can do

00:25:35.039 --> 00:25:35.759
 and how hard

00:25:35.759 --> 00:25:36.980
 you promise to work

00:25:36.980 --> 00:25:38.500
 to pay off the debt

00:25:38.500 --> 00:25:39.700
 that you've incurred.

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 No, listen.

00:25:43.019 --> 00:25:44.200
 Listen to what he did

00:25:44.200 --> 00:25:45.539
 to define

00:25:45.539 --> 00:25:46.559
 your relationship

00:25:46.559 --> 00:25:47.240
 with him

00:25:47.240 --> 00:25:48.700
 because every priest

00:25:48.700 --> 00:25:49.640
 stands daily

00:25:49.640 --> 00:25:50.380
 at his service

00:25:50.380 --> 00:25:51.860
 offering repeatedly

00:25:51.860 --> 00:25:53.360
 the same sacrifices

00:25:53.360 --> 00:25:54.120
 which can never

00:25:54.120 --> 00:25:55.279
 take away sins.

00:25:55.740 --> 00:25:56.799
 But when Christ

00:25:56.799 --> 00:25:57.360
 had offered

00:25:57.360 --> 00:25:58.340
 for all time

00:25:58.340 --> 00:25:59.880
 a single sacrifice

00:25:59.880 --> 00:26:00.759
 for sins,

00:26:01.259 --> 00:26:02.000
 he sat down

00:26:02.000 --> 00:26:02.700
 at the right hand

00:26:02.700 --> 00:26:03.200
 of God

00:26:03.200 --> 00:26:05.039
 for by a single offering

00:26:05.039 --> 00:26:06.539
 he has perfected

00:26:06.539 --> 00:26:07.799
 for all time

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 those who are

00:26:09.119 --> 00:26:10.599
 being sanctified.

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 Y'all, that's why

00:26:11.779 --> 00:26:12.399
 God's looking

00:26:12.399 --> 00:26:14.119
 for empty-handed sinners.

00:26:14.539 --> 00:26:15.159
 Not the ones

00:26:15.159 --> 00:26:16.339
 with all their sacrifices

00:26:16.339 --> 00:26:16.799
 with them

00:26:16.799 --> 00:26:18.419
 because he has made

00:26:18.419 --> 00:26:19.539
 the one

00:26:19.539 --> 00:26:20.480
 all-sufficient

00:26:20.480 --> 00:26:21.319
 sacrifice

00:26:21.319 --> 00:26:22.279
 for you

00:26:22.279 --> 00:26:23.200
 and he wants

00:26:23.200 --> 00:26:23.839
 those who come

00:26:23.839 --> 00:26:24.599
 empty-handed

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 clinging only

00:26:25.919 --> 00:26:26.839
 to the cross

00:26:26.839 --> 00:26:27.519
 of Christ.

00:26:27.839 --> 00:26:29.019
 That's how you turn

00:26:29.019 --> 00:26:30.000
 back to God

00:26:30.000 --> 00:26:30.740
 in repentance.

00:26:31.379 --> 00:26:31.980
 He has made

00:26:31.980 --> 00:26:33.099
 the one sacrifice

00:26:33.099 --> 00:26:34.379
 that already

00:26:34.379 --> 00:26:35.879
 makes you perfect.

00:26:35.880 --> 00:26:38.000
 Hebrews 10, 14.

00:26:38.780 --> 00:26:39.400
 I love that.

00:26:39.440 --> 00:26:40.220
 Don't you love that?

00:26:40.420 --> 00:26:41.160
 Those who are still

00:26:41.160 --> 00:26:41.660
 struggling,

00:26:42.060 --> 00:26:42.720
 those who are not

00:26:42.720 --> 00:26:43.700
 yet sanctified

00:26:43.700 --> 00:26:45.520
 already made perfect.

00:26:45.620 --> 00:26:45.920
 How?

00:26:46.320 --> 00:26:46.980
 By their arms

00:26:46.980 --> 00:26:48.000
 full of sacrifices?

00:26:48.800 --> 00:26:49.520
 By the ones

00:26:49.520 --> 00:26:50.200
 the priests did

00:26:50.200 --> 00:26:50.920
 over and over

00:26:50.920 --> 00:26:51.280
 and over

00:26:51.280 --> 00:26:51.980
 for generations?

00:26:54.260 --> 00:26:54.740
 No.

00:26:56.240 --> 00:26:57.480
 By one sacrifice.

00:26:58.320 --> 00:26:59.780
 By the one sacrifice

00:26:59.780 --> 00:27:00.700
 of his son,

00:27:00.700 --> 00:27:02.360
 those still struggling

00:27:02.360 --> 00:27:03.900
 are made perfect

00:27:03.900 --> 00:27:05.720
 in their relationship

00:27:05.720 --> 00:27:08.120
 restored to the Father.

00:27:08.360 --> 00:27:09.360
 That only happens

00:27:09.360 --> 00:27:10.140
 through the cross

00:27:10.140 --> 00:27:10.700
 of Jesus.

00:27:11.100 --> 00:27:11.920
 The sacrifice

00:27:11.920 --> 00:27:13.340
 of the son

00:27:13.340 --> 00:27:14.640
 in our place.

00:27:17.640 --> 00:27:18.560
 Let me tell you

00:27:18.560 --> 00:27:19.420
 one thing this means

00:27:19.420 --> 00:27:19.980
 for us

00:27:19.980 --> 00:27:21.480
 both corporately

00:27:21.480 --> 00:27:23.340
 and individually

00:27:23.340 --> 00:27:24.180
 as we prepare

00:27:24.180 --> 00:27:25.180
 to come to this table

00:27:25.180 --> 00:27:26.720
 where we're going

00:27:26.720 --> 00:27:27.340
 to celebrate

00:27:27.340 --> 00:27:28.240
 that sacrifice

00:27:28.240 --> 00:27:29.440
 made for us.

00:27:30.560 --> 00:27:31.680
 First, corporately.

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 Southwood,

00:27:35.220 --> 00:27:36.400
 we've talked

00:27:36.400 --> 00:27:37.539
 in the last couple

00:27:37.539 --> 00:27:37.940
 of weeks

00:27:37.940 --> 00:27:38.900
 about a particular

00:27:38.900 --> 00:27:40.880
 chapter in our story.

00:27:42.140 --> 00:27:43.480
 It's a significant

00:27:43.480 --> 00:27:45.299
 chapter marked

00:27:45.299 --> 00:27:46.380
 by our sin

00:27:46.380 --> 00:27:48.480
 and our failures

00:27:48.480 --> 00:27:51.320
 and in many respects

00:27:51.320 --> 00:27:52.660
 well deserving

00:27:52.660 --> 00:27:54.880
 of sorrowful hearts.

00:27:55.660 --> 00:27:57.039
 That's very appropriate.

00:27:57.039 --> 00:28:00.200
 But it is not

00:28:00.200 --> 00:28:02.119
 and cannot be

00:28:02.119 --> 00:28:03.980
 the defining chapter

00:28:03.980 --> 00:28:05.359
 of our story.

00:28:06.319 --> 00:28:07.379
 This morning

00:28:07.379 --> 00:28:08.500
 we're also talking

00:28:08.500 --> 00:28:09.759
 about another chapter

00:28:09.759 --> 00:28:11.079
 in our story

00:28:11.079 --> 00:28:12.480
 where our Savior

00:28:12.480 --> 00:28:13.220
 came

00:28:13.220 --> 00:28:14.460
 and lived

00:28:14.460 --> 00:28:15.859
 and died

00:28:15.859 --> 00:28:17.559
 for us.

00:28:17.680 --> 00:28:18.680
 Where he pursued

00:28:18.680 --> 00:28:20.139
 relationship with us

00:28:20.139 --> 00:28:21.079
 at the cost

00:28:21.079 --> 00:28:22.339
 of his own life.

00:28:22.779 --> 00:28:24.440
 Where he called us,

00:28:24.960 --> 00:28:25.539
 Southwood,

00:28:25.539 --> 00:28:26.960
 to be his people,

00:28:27.399 --> 00:28:28.259
 a part of his

00:28:28.259 --> 00:28:30.039
 universal church.

00:28:31.960 --> 00:28:32.559
 One

00:28:32.559 --> 00:28:33.680
 where our sin

00:28:33.680 --> 00:28:35.960
 and the gates

00:28:35.960 --> 00:28:36.480
 of hell

00:28:36.480 --> 00:28:37.240
 themselves

00:28:37.240 --> 00:28:38.639
 cannot prevail

00:28:38.639 --> 00:28:39.940
 against

00:28:39.940 --> 00:28:40.659
 her,

00:28:41.480 --> 00:28:42.359
 his church.

00:28:44.539 --> 00:28:45.559
 And our Heavenly Father

00:28:45.559 --> 00:28:46.559
 says this morning,

00:28:47.019 --> 00:28:48.539
 I get to tell you

00:28:48.539 --> 00:28:49.659
 which chapter

00:28:49.659 --> 00:28:50.839
 defines your story

00:28:50.839 --> 00:28:52.220
 in our relationship.

00:28:53.039 --> 00:28:53.940
 It's that one.

00:28:53.940 --> 00:28:56.180
 Do it often,

00:28:56.380 --> 00:28:56.920
 he says.

00:28:57.559 --> 00:28:58.539
 And remember

00:28:58.539 --> 00:29:00.240
 with great joy

00:29:00.240 --> 00:29:01.960
 my love for you

00:29:01.960 --> 00:29:02.799
 in the midst

00:29:02.799 --> 00:29:03.860
 of your sin.

00:29:05.740 --> 00:29:07.380
 I hope we always

00:29:07.380 --> 00:29:08.279
 learn

00:29:08.279 --> 00:29:09.440
 from our past.

00:29:10.220 --> 00:29:11.380
 I hope we always

00:29:11.380 --> 00:29:12.140
 take time

00:29:12.140 --> 00:29:13.080
 to listen to

00:29:13.080 --> 00:29:14.779
 and to pursue

00:29:14.779 --> 00:29:15.700
 healing with

00:29:15.700 --> 00:29:16.799
 people impacted

00:29:16.799 --> 00:29:18.240
 by our sin.

00:29:18.240 --> 00:29:19.920
 but I'll be

00:29:19.920 --> 00:29:20.599
 honest with you,

00:29:20.660 --> 00:29:21.640
 you're not likely

00:29:21.640 --> 00:29:22.779
 to hear a lot

00:29:22.779 --> 00:29:23.720
 of corporate

00:29:23.720 --> 00:29:24.859
 public talk

00:29:24.859 --> 00:29:26.220
 about that

00:29:26.220 --> 00:29:27.339
 difficult chapter

00:29:27.339 --> 00:29:28.720
 beyond next week

00:29:28.720 --> 00:29:30.920
 because it's not

00:29:30.920 --> 00:29:31.480
 the one that

00:29:31.480 --> 00:29:32.380
 defines us.

00:29:33.539 --> 00:29:34.319
 Next week,

00:29:34.500 --> 00:29:35.720
 we will celebrate

00:29:35.720 --> 00:29:36.839
 our risen

00:29:36.839 --> 00:29:37.539
 Savior

00:29:37.539 --> 00:29:38.720
 who lives

00:29:38.720 --> 00:29:39.839
 and reigns

00:29:39.839 --> 00:29:40.420
 and calls

00:29:40.420 --> 00:29:41.160
 Southwood

00:29:41.160 --> 00:29:42.660
 his beloved bride

00:29:42.660 --> 00:29:43.500
 and says,

00:29:43.819 --> 00:29:44.779
 you're perfect

00:29:44.779 --> 00:29:46.160
 because of my love

00:29:46.160 --> 00:29:47.040
 for you.

00:29:47.340 --> 00:29:48.200
 We will rejoice

00:29:48.200 --> 00:29:49.480
 in that relationship

00:29:49.480 --> 00:29:50.400
 and in that

00:29:50.400 --> 00:29:50.960
 great God

00:29:50.960 --> 00:29:51.860
 and I promise you,

00:29:51.900 --> 00:29:52.480
 you can expect

00:29:52.480 --> 00:29:53.220
 to hear a lot

00:29:53.220 --> 00:29:54.360
 about that chapter

00:29:54.360 --> 00:29:55.019
 of our story

00:29:55.019 --> 00:29:56.160
 that has a cross

00:29:56.160 --> 00:29:57.140
 and an empty tomb

00:29:57.140 --> 00:29:58.100
 every week

00:29:58.100 --> 00:29:59.279
 from here

00:29:59.279 --> 00:29:59.900
 forever.

00:30:00.440 --> 00:30:00.980
 You'll hear about

00:30:00.980 --> 00:30:01.360
 that one.

00:30:01.720 --> 00:30:02.420
 That's the one

00:30:02.420 --> 00:30:02.960
 that defines

00:30:02.960 --> 00:30:03.560
 who we are.

00:30:04.360 --> 00:30:05.080
 God gets to make

00:30:05.080 --> 00:30:05.660
 that choice.

00:30:05.660 --> 00:30:09.860
 Now, personally,

00:30:10.900 --> 00:30:11.960
 personally,

00:30:12.120 --> 00:30:13.160
 for each of us

00:30:13.160 --> 00:30:14.220
 as sinners,

00:30:14.640 --> 00:30:15.460
 you need to know

00:30:15.460 --> 00:30:16.440
 that same reality

00:30:16.440 --> 00:30:17.040
 is true.

00:30:18.180 --> 00:30:19.580
 God gets to define

00:30:19.580 --> 00:30:20.120
 the terms

00:30:20.120 --> 00:30:21.100
 of the relationship.

00:30:22.500 --> 00:30:23.580
 Many of us,

00:30:24.279 --> 00:30:24.700
 if you're anything

00:30:24.700 --> 00:30:25.580
 like me,

00:30:26.300 --> 00:30:27.100
 you've felt

00:30:27.100 --> 00:30:28.259
 or feel today

00:30:28.259 --> 00:30:29.300
 broken

00:30:29.300 --> 00:30:31.060
 in your sin

00:30:31.060 --> 00:30:32.580
 for whatever

00:30:32.580 --> 00:30:33.279
 it is for you.

00:30:33.380 --> 00:30:34.100
 Perhaps there's a

00:30:34.100 --> 00:30:35.600
 chapter in your story

00:30:35.599 --> 00:30:36.699
 that's marked

00:30:36.699 --> 00:30:37.500
 by sin

00:30:37.500 --> 00:30:38.379
 so strongly

00:30:38.379 --> 00:30:39.699
 that the shame

00:30:39.699 --> 00:30:40.339
 you feel

00:30:40.339 --> 00:30:40.959
 from that

00:30:40.959 --> 00:30:41.879
 many days

00:30:41.879 --> 00:30:42.639
 defines your

00:30:42.639 --> 00:30:43.219
 relationship

00:30:43.219 --> 00:30:44.000
 with God.

00:30:45.139 --> 00:30:45.980
 You're not even

00:30:45.980 --> 00:30:47.619
 willing to go

00:30:47.619 --> 00:30:48.439
 towards Him

00:30:48.439 --> 00:30:49.399
 for fear

00:30:49.399 --> 00:30:50.219
 and shame

00:30:50.219 --> 00:30:50.839
 of how He

00:30:50.839 --> 00:30:52.000
 must feel

00:30:52.000 --> 00:30:52.679
 about you.

00:30:54.219 --> 00:30:55.179
 Perhaps you've

00:30:55.179 --> 00:30:55.779
 come back

00:30:55.779 --> 00:30:56.759
 so many times

00:30:56.759 --> 00:30:57.339
 in repentance

00:30:57.339 --> 00:30:58.299
 that you're

00:30:58.299 --> 00:30:59.019
 beginning to feel

00:30:59.019 --> 00:30:59.719
 God must be

00:30:59.719 --> 00:31:00.619
 tired of you.

00:31:01.439 --> 00:31:02.419
 You're tired

00:31:02.419 --> 00:31:03.199
 of you

00:31:03.199 --> 00:31:04.299
 failing

00:31:04.299 --> 00:31:05.179
 and having

00:31:05.180 --> 00:31:05.539
 to go

00:31:05.539 --> 00:31:05.900
 back

00:31:05.900 --> 00:31:06.519
 again.

00:31:06.600 --> 00:31:06.840
 You just

00:31:06.840 --> 00:31:07.620
 feel broken

00:31:07.620 --> 00:31:09.160
 in your

00:31:09.160 --> 00:31:09.519
 sin.

00:31:11.060 --> 00:31:12.019
 Listen to me.

00:31:12.799 --> 00:31:13.140
 If you're

00:31:13.140 --> 00:31:13.500
 broken

00:31:13.500 --> 00:31:14.360
 in your

00:31:14.360 --> 00:31:14.740
 sin,

00:31:15.160 --> 00:31:15.700
 God does

00:31:15.700 --> 00:31:16.960
 not despise

00:31:16.960 --> 00:31:17.900
 that condition.

00:31:19.120 --> 00:31:20.340
 He delights

00:31:20.340 --> 00:31:21.100
 in it,

00:31:21.279 --> 00:31:21.539
 right?

00:31:22.000 --> 00:31:22.620
 In the

00:31:22.620 --> 00:31:23.160
 broken

00:31:23.160 --> 00:31:24.940
 and contrite

00:31:24.940 --> 00:31:25.460
 heart.

00:31:25.840 --> 00:31:26.400
 He wants

00:31:26.400 --> 00:31:27.340
 to restore

00:31:27.340 --> 00:31:28.500
 the joy

00:31:28.500 --> 00:31:29.259
 of your

00:31:29.259 --> 00:31:29.840
 salvation.

00:31:30.279 --> 00:31:30.740
 In fact,

00:31:30.840 --> 00:31:31.620
 when you

00:31:31.620 --> 00:31:32.200
 here in your

00:31:32.200 --> 00:31:32.600
 sin,

00:31:32.799 --> 00:31:33.440
 look back

00:31:33.440 --> 00:31:33.799
 to Him

00:31:33.799 --> 00:31:34.039
 and I

00:31:34.039 --> 00:31:34.539
 know how

00:31:34.539 --> 00:31:34.779
 you're

00:31:34.779 --> 00:31:35.240
 wondering

00:31:35.240 --> 00:31:35.680
 how He

00:31:35.680 --> 00:31:36.299
 feels.

00:31:36.700 --> 00:31:37.059
 What's

00:31:37.059 --> 00:31:37.319
 He gonna

00:31:37.319 --> 00:31:37.880
 think?

00:31:37.920 --> 00:31:38.160
 How's

00:31:38.160 --> 00:31:38.380
 He gonna

00:31:38.380 --> 00:31:38.960
 respond

00:31:38.960 --> 00:31:40.000
 to me?

00:31:40.319 --> 00:31:40.840
 I want

00:31:40.840 --> 00:31:41.120
 you to

00:31:41.120 --> 00:31:41.420
 know,

00:31:41.559 --> 00:31:42.160
 you need

00:31:42.160 --> 00:31:42.620
 to know

00:31:42.620 --> 00:31:43.259
 that the

00:31:43.259 --> 00:31:43.620
 Father

00:31:43.620 --> 00:31:44.759
 runs off

00:31:44.759 --> 00:31:45.200
 the front

00:31:45.200 --> 00:31:45.620
 porch

00:31:45.620 --> 00:31:45.920
 where He

00:31:45.920 --> 00:31:46.259
 was out

00:31:46.259 --> 00:31:46.860
 looking for

00:31:46.860 --> 00:31:47.160
 you,

00:31:47.740 --> 00:31:48.299
 throws His

00:31:48.299 --> 00:31:49.019
 arms around

00:31:49.019 --> 00:31:49.420
 you,

00:31:49.960 --> 00:31:50.700
 and throws

00:31:50.700 --> 00:31:51.539
 a party

00:31:51.539 --> 00:31:52.160
 in His

00:31:52.160 --> 00:31:53.080
 great joy

00:31:53.080 --> 00:31:53.779
 that His

00:31:53.779 --> 00:31:54.680
 Son has

00:31:54.680 --> 00:31:55.580
 come home.

00:31:56.380 --> 00:31:57.019
 He calls

00:31:57.019 --> 00:31:57.380
 you His

00:31:57.380 --> 00:31:58.200
 beloved Son.

00:31:58.560 --> 00:31:59.620
 He celebrates

00:31:59.620 --> 00:32:00.640
 the restored

00:32:00.640 --> 00:32:01.780
 relationship

00:32:01.780 --> 00:32:02.660
 that you

00:32:02.660 --> 00:32:03.140
 have with

00:32:03.140 --> 00:32:03.340
 Him.

00:32:03.640 --> 00:32:04.140
 This is

00:32:04.140 --> 00:32:04.840
 that party,

00:32:05.740 --> 00:32:06.700
 that feast

00:32:06.700 --> 00:32:08.040
 that He

00:32:08.040 --> 00:32:08.600
 throws for

00:32:08.600 --> 00:32:09.100
 you this

00:32:09.100 --> 00:32:09.400
 morning.

00:32:10.460 --> 00:32:10.980
 He spread

00:32:10.980 --> 00:32:11.380
 it before

00:32:11.380 --> 00:32:11.740
 you at

00:32:11.740 --> 00:32:12.380
 the cost

00:32:12.380 --> 00:32:13.160
 of His

00:32:13.160 --> 00:32:13.540
 body

00:32:13.540 --> 00:32:15.180
 and blood

00:32:15.180 --> 00:32:16.100
 and God

00:32:16.100 --> 00:32:16.520
 says,

00:32:17.080 --> 00:32:18.100
 He defines

00:32:18.100 --> 00:32:19.280
 the relationship.

00:32:20.080 --> 00:32:20.840
 This is the

00:32:20.840 --> 00:32:21.900
 defining chapter

00:32:21.900 --> 00:32:23.200
 in your story,

00:32:23.500 --> 00:32:23.820
 in your

00:32:23.820 --> 00:32:24.540
 relationship

00:32:24.540 --> 00:32:25.560
 with Him.

00:32:25.820 --> 00:32:26.340
 You're His

00:32:26.340 --> 00:32:26.880
 child.

00:32:27.380 --> 00:32:27.940
 Always

00:32:27.940 --> 00:32:28.700
 seated

00:32:28.700 --> 00:32:29.400
 at His

00:32:29.400 --> 00:32:29.860
 table

00:32:29.860 --> 00:32:30.700
 because

00:32:30.700 --> 00:32:31.740
 He

00:32:31.740 --> 00:32:32.720
 has made

00:32:32.720 --> 00:32:33.480
 you clean.

00:32:33.980 --> 00:32:34.140
 Oh,

00:32:34.160 --> 00:32:34.380
 listen,

00:32:34.580 --> 00:32:35.000
 come,

00:32:35.180 --> 00:32:36.660
 come weeping

00:32:36.660 --> 00:32:37.420
 over your

00:32:37.420 --> 00:32:37.720
 sin.

00:32:37.800 --> 00:32:38.020
 That's

00:32:38.020 --> 00:32:38.660
 appropriate.

00:32:39.340 --> 00:32:39.940
 But come

00:32:39.940 --> 00:32:40.780
 weeping

00:32:40.780 --> 00:32:41.780
 over your

00:32:41.780 --> 00:32:42.040
 sin.

00:32:42.180 --> 00:32:42.780
 Run back

00:32:42.780 --> 00:32:43.700
 in repentance

00:32:43.700 --> 00:32:44.480
 to the

00:32:44.480 --> 00:32:44.940
 forgiving

00:32:44.940 --> 00:32:45.680
 arms

00:32:45.680 --> 00:32:46.360
 of your

00:32:46.360 --> 00:32:46.780
 Father

00:32:46.780 --> 00:32:47.620
 and find

00:32:47.620 --> 00:32:48.060
 that those

00:32:48.060 --> 00:32:48.640
 tears

00:32:48.640 --> 00:32:49.420
 that were

00:32:49.420 --> 00:32:49.840
 full of

00:32:49.840 --> 00:32:50.640
 sorrow for

00:32:50.640 --> 00:32:50.940
 you

00:32:50.940 --> 00:32:51.780
 become

00:32:51.780 --> 00:32:52.520
 in His

00:32:52.520 --> 00:32:52.900
 arms

00:32:52.900 --> 00:32:53.420
 tears

00:32:53.420 --> 00:32:54.180
 of joy

00:32:54.180 --> 00:32:56.440
 because

00:32:56.440 --> 00:32:56.760
 you're

00:32:56.760 --> 00:32:57.100
 near

00:32:57.099 --> 00:32:58.339
 to your

00:32:58.339 --> 00:32:58.799
 God

00:32:58.799 --> 00:32:59.480
 again.

00:33:00.119 --> 00:33:00.439
 May that

00:33:00.439 --> 00:33:00.740
 be the

00:33:00.740 --> 00:33:01.599
 joy of

00:33:01.599 --> 00:33:01.759
 your

00:33:01.759 --> 00:33:02.179
 salvation

00:33:02.179 --> 00:33:02.559
 and the

00:33:02.559 --> 00:33:02.980
 joy of

00:33:02.980 --> 00:33:03.119
 your

00:33:03.119 --> 00:33:03.399
 heart

00:33:03.399 --> 00:33:03.959
 this

00:33:03.959 --> 00:33:04.259
 morning

00:33:04.259 --> 00:33:04.559
 as you

00:33:04.559 --> 00:33:04.919
 come

00:33:04.919 --> 00:33:05.679
 to this

00:33:05.679 --> 00:33:06.019
 table.

00:33:07.219 --> 00:33:07.639
 Remember

00:33:07.639 --> 00:33:08.379
 what Paul

00:33:08.379 --> 00:33:08.959
 tells us

00:33:08.959 --> 00:33:09.419
 about how

00:33:09.419 --> 00:33:09.759
 Jesus

00:33:09.759 --> 00:33:10.539
 instituted

00:33:10.539 --> 00:33:10.819
 this

00:33:10.819 --> 00:33:11.099
 supper

00:33:11.099 --> 00:33:12.399
 for us.

00:33:12.400 --> 00:33:14.460
 He says

00:33:14.460 --> 00:33:14.540
 I

00:33:14.540 --> 00:33:14.940
 received

00:33:14.940 --> 00:33:15.340
 from the

00:33:15.340 --> 00:33:15.600
 Lord

00:33:15.600 --> 00:33:15.920
 what I

00:33:15.920 --> 00:33:16.240
 also

00:33:16.240 --> 00:33:16.680
 delivered

00:33:16.680 --> 00:33:17.259
 to you

00:33:17.259 --> 00:33:17.500
 that

00:33:17.500 --> 00:33:17.940
 the

00:33:17.940 --> 00:33:18.140
 Lord

00:33:18.140 --> 00:33:18.500
 Jesus

00:33:18.500 --> 00:33:18.920
 on the

00:33:18.920 --> 00:33:19.080
 night

00:33:19.080 --> 00:33:19.180
 he

00:33:19.180 --> 00:33:19.340
 was

00:33:19.340 --> 00:33:19.840
 betrayed

00:33:19.840 --> 00:33:20.220
 took

00:33:20.220 --> 00:33:20.680
 bread

00:33:20.680 --> 00:33:21.920
 and

00:33:21.920 --> 00:33:22.140
 when he

00:33:22.140 --> 00:33:22.259
 had

00:33:22.259 --> 00:33:22.440
 given

00:33:22.440 --> 00:33:22.900
 thanks

00:33:22.900 --> 00:33:23.100
 he

00:33:23.100 --> 00:33:23.420
 broke

00:33:23.420 --> 00:33:23.720
 it

00:33:23.720 --> 00:33:24.380
 and

00:33:24.380 --> 00:33:24.600
 said

00:33:24.600 --> 00:33:24.820
 this

00:33:24.820 --> 00:33:25.000
 is

00:33:25.000 --> 00:33:25.259
 my

00:33:25.259 --> 00:33:25.700
 body

00:33:25.700 --> 00:33:26.019
 which

00:33:26.019 --> 00:33:26.240
 is

00:33:26.240 --> 00:33:26.460
 for

00:33:26.460 --> 00:33:26.780
 you

00:33:26.780 --> 00:33:27.280
 do

00:33:27.280 --> 00:33:27.640
 this

00:33:27.640 --> 00:33:27.840
 in

00:33:27.840 --> 00:33:28.280
 remembrance

00:33:28.280 --> 00:33:28.660
 of

00:33:28.660 --> 00:33:28.940
 me

00:33:28.940 --> 00:33:30.759
 in the

00:33:30.759 --> 00:33:30.960
 same

00:33:30.960 --> 00:33:31.140
 way

00:33:31.140 --> 00:33:31.460
 also

00:33:31.460 --> 00:33:31.640
 he

00:33:31.640 --> 00:33:31.820
 took

00:33:31.820 --> 00:33:32.000
 the

00:33:32.000 --> 00:33:32.259
 cup

00:33:32.259 --> 00:33:32.539
 after

00:33:32.539 --> 00:33:32.920
 supper

00:33:32.920 --> 00:33:33.320
 saying

00:33:33.320 --> 00:33:33.860
 this

00:33:33.860 --> 00:33:34.140
 cup

00:33:34.140 --> 00:33:34.279
 is

00:33:34.279 --> 00:33:34.420
 the

00:33:34.420 --> 00:33:34.580
 new

00:33:34.580 --> 00:33:34.920
 covenant

00:33:34.920 --> 00:33:35.160
 in

00:33:35.160 --> 00:33:35.340
 my

00:33:35.340 --> 00:33:35.680
 blood

00:33:35.680 --> 00:33:36.160
 do

00:33:36.160 --> 00:33:36.400
 this

00:33:36.400 --> 00:33:36.580
 as

00:33:36.580 --> 00:33:36.900
 often

00:33:36.900 --> 00:33:37.120
 as

00:33:37.120 --> 00:33:37.240
 you

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 drink

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 it

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 in

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 remembrance

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 of

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 me

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 for

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 as

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 often

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 as

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 you

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 eat

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 this

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 bread

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 and

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 drink

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 the

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 cup

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 you

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 proclaim

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 the

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 Lord's

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 death

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 until

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 he

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 comes

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 friends

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 this

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 is

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 not

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 the

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 table

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 of

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 Southwood

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 or

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 of

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 the

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 Presbyterian

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 church

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 this

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 is

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 the

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 Lord's

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 table

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 he

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 he's

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 the

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 one

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 who

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 sets

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 it

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 and

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 he's

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 the

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 one

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 who

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 invites

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 all

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 of

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 those

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 who

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 truly

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 are

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 willing

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 to

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 turn

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 from

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 their

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 sin

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 and

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 to

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 trust

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 Jesus

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 alone

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 who

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 have

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 made

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 that

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 profession

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 and

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 joined

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 themselves

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 to

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 a

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 church

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 that

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 preaches

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 that

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 gospel

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 he

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 invites

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 all

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 those

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 to

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 come

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 we

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 would

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 love

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 to

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 celebrate

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 with

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 you

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 this

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 morning

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 if

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 you

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 know

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 this

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 morning

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 that

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 you're

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 not

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 willing

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 to

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 turn

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 from

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 your

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 sin

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 if

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 you're

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 not

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 willing

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 to

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 let

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 go

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 of

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 it

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 the

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 fulfillment

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 that

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 you're

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 seeking

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 there

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 it's

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 too

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 appealing

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 or

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 perhaps

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 if

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 you

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 feel

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 some

00:34:35.300 --> 00:34:35.820
 sorrow

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 over

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 your

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 sin

00:34:36.860 --> 00:34:37.100
 but

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 you're

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 still

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 at a

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 place

00:34:38.580 --> 00:34:38.740
 where

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 you

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 feel

00:34:39.120 --> 00:34:39.320
 like

00:34:39.320 --> 00:34:39.420
 you

00:34:39.420 --> 00:34:39.539
 have

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 to

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 balance

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 the

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 scales

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 with

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 God

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 and

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 come

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 back

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 arms

00:34:42.100 --> 00:34:42.460
 full

00:34:42.460 --> 00:34:42.660
 of

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 your

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 own

00:34:43.080 --> 00:34:43.420
 deeds

00:34:43.420 --> 00:34:44.019
 if

00:34:44.019 --> 00:34:44.280
 that's

00:34:44.280 --> 00:34:44.400
 where

00:34:44.400 --> 00:34:44.539
 your

00:34:44.539 --> 00:34:44.800
 heart

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 is

00:34:44.960 --> 00:34:45.539
 don't

00:34:45.539 --> 00:34:45.860
 come

00:34:45.860 --> 00:34:46.019
 to

00:34:46.019 --> 00:34:46.280
 this

00:34:46.280 --> 00:34:46.780
 table

00:34:46.780 --> 00:34:47.039
 this

00:34:47.039 --> 00:34:47.340
 morning

00:34:47.340 --> 00:34:47.620
 that

00:34:47.620 --> 00:34:47.920
 way

00:34:47.920 --> 00:34:49.180
 this

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 is a

00:34:49.460 --> 00:34:49.679
 table

00:34:49.679 --> 00:34:49.879
 where

00:34:49.879 --> 00:34:50.039
 we

00:34:50.039 --> 00:34:50.319
 come

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 empty

00:34:50.719 --> 00:34:51.079
 handed

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 we

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 don't

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 want

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 to

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 say

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 outwardly

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 something

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 that's

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 not

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 true

00:34:54.899 --> 00:34:55.079
 of

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 us

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 inwardly

00:34:55.980 --> 00:34:56.440
 if

00:34:56.440 --> 00:34:56.619
 you're

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 willing

00:34:56.839 --> 00:34:57.039
 to

00:34:57.039 --> 00:34:57.239
 let

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 go

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 of

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 the

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 sin

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 and

00:34:58.739 --> 00:34:59.319
 self

00:34:59.319 --> 00:34:59.879
 that

00:34:59.879 --> 00:35:00.000
 you

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 would

00:35:00.159 --> 00:35:00.440
 find

00:35:00.440 --> 00:35:00.699
 hope

00:35:00.699 --> 00:35:00.960
 in

00:35:00.960 --> 00:35:01.460
 and

00:35:01.460 --> 00:35:01.719
 come

00:35:01.719 --> 00:35:02.019
 back

00:35:02.019 --> 00:35:02.539
 empty

00:35:02.539 --> 00:35:02.899
 handed

00:35:02.899 --> 00:35:03.359
 to

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 cling

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 with

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 both

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 hands

00:35:04.639 --> 00:35:05.079
 to

00:35:05.079 --> 00:35:05.219
 the

00:35:05.219 --> 00:35:05.559
 cross

00:35:05.559 --> 00:35:05.759
 of

00:35:05.759 --> 00:35:06.039
 Jesus

00:35:06.039 --> 00:35:06.299
 and

00:35:06.299 --> 00:35:06.539
 his

00:35:06.539 --> 00:35:07.159
 sacrifice

00:35:07.159 --> 00:35:07.419
 on

00:35:07.419 --> 00:35:07.559
 your

00:35:07.559 --> 00:35:07.919
 behalf

00:35:07.919 --> 00:35:08.460
 then

00:35:08.460 --> 00:35:09.019
 come

00:35:09.019 --> 00:35:09.759
 running

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 you're

00:35:11.019 --> 00:35:11.199
 going to

00:35:11.199 --> 00:35:11.619
 find a

00:35:11.619 --> 00:35:11.980
 father

00:35:11.980 --> 00:35:12.799
 who's

00:35:12.799 --> 00:35:13.159
 running

00:35:13.159 --> 00:35:13.599
 to meet

00:35:13.599 --> 00:35:13.859
 you

00:35:13.859 --> 00:35:14.619
 and

00:35:14.619 --> 00:35:15.219
 delighted

00:35:15.219 --> 00:35:15.900
 to have

00:35:15.900 --> 00:35:16.019
 you

00:35:16.019 --> 00:35:16.139
 as

00:35:16.139 --> 00:35:16.279
 his

00:35:16.279 --> 00:35:16.519
 child

00:35:16.519 --> 00:35:16.739
 back

00:35:16.739 --> 00:35:16.859
 at

00:35:16.859 --> 00:35:17.000
 his

00:35:17.000 --> 00:35:17.299
 table

00:35:17.299 --> 00:35:18.819
 let's

00:35:18.819 --> 00:35:19.000
 pray

00:35:19.000 --> 00:35:19.139
 and

00:35:19.139 --> 00:35:19.239
 then

00:35:19.239 --> 00:35:19.359
 we'll

00:35:19.359 --> 00:35:19.480
 do

00:35:19.480 --> 00:35:19.639
 that

00:35:19.639 --> 00:35:20.059
 together

00:35:20.059 --> 00:35:22.359
 father

00:35:22.359 --> 00:35:22.579
 for

00:35:22.579 --> 00:35:22.739
 your

00:35:22.739 --> 00:35:23.019
 love

00:35:23.019 --> 00:35:23.199
 and

00:35:23.199 --> 00:35:23.579
 grace

00:35:23.579 --> 00:35:23.819
 on

00:35:23.819 --> 00:35:24.259
 display

00:35:24.259 --> 00:35:24.599
 before

00:35:24.599 --> 00:35:24.859
 us

00:35:24.859 --> 00:35:25.079
 this

00:35:25.079 --> 00:35:25.420
 morning

00:35:25.420 --> 00:35:26.199
 we

00:35:26.199 --> 00:35:26.339
 are

00:35:26.339 --> 00:35:26.639
 most

00:35:26.639 --> 00:35:27.199
 grateful

00:35:27.199 --> 00:35:29.559
 we

00:35:29.559 --> 00:35:30.299
 confess

00:35:30.299 --> 00:35:30.579
 we're

00:35:30.579 --> 00:35:30.880
 those

00:35:30.880 --> 00:35:31.039
 who

00:35:31.039 --> 00:35:31.380
 don't

00:35:31.380 --> 00:35:31.799
 deserve

00:35:31.799 --> 00:35:32.099
 it

00:35:32.099 --> 00:35:35.079
 we

00:35:35.079 --> 00:35:35.519
 deserve

00:35:35.519 --> 00:35:35.880
 the

00:35:35.880 --> 00:35:36.259
 death

00:35:36.259 --> 00:35:36.920
 that

00:35:36.920 --> 00:35:37.099
 your

00:35:37.099 --> 00:35:37.339
 son

00:35:37.339 --> 00:35:37.539
 has

00:35:37.539 --> 00:35:37.859
 taken

00:35:37.859 --> 00:35:39.000
 for

00:35:39.000 --> 00:35:39.380
 us

00:35:39.380 --> 00:35:40.699
 we

00:35:40.699 --> 00:35:40.940
 deserve

00:35:40.940 --> 00:35:41.159
 no

00:35:41.159 --> 00:35:41.719
 chance

00:35:41.719 --> 00:35:41.900
 at

00:35:41.900 --> 00:35:42.079
 being

00:35:42.079 --> 00:35:42.539
 welcomed

00:35:42.539 --> 00:35:43.339
 back

00:35:43.339 --> 00:35:43.699
 into

00:35:43.699 --> 00:35:44.339
 relationship

00:35:44.340 --> 00:35:44.700
 with

00:35:44.700 --> 00:35:44.860
 you

00:35:44.860 --> 00:35:45.000
 and

00:35:45.000 --> 00:35:45.220
 you've

00:35:45.220 --> 00:35:45.700
 insisted

00:35:45.700 --> 00:35:46.000
 on

00:35:46.000 --> 00:35:46.280
 it

00:35:46.280 --> 00:35:47.960
 and

00:35:47.960 --> 00:35:48.120
 so

00:35:48.120 --> 00:35:48.300
 we

00:35:48.300 --> 00:35:48.539
 come

00:35:48.539 --> 00:35:48.660
 at

00:35:48.660 --> 00:35:48.780
 your

00:35:48.780 --> 00:35:49.300
 invitation

00:35:49.300 --> 00:35:50.440
 to

00:35:50.440 --> 00:35:51.019
 rejoice

00:35:51.019 --> 00:35:51.720
 in

00:35:51.720 --> 00:35:51.860
 your

00:35:51.860 --> 00:35:52.120
 love

00:35:52.120 --> 00:35:52.340
 to

00:35:52.340 --> 00:35:52.700
 us

00:35:52.700 --> 00:35:54.640
 in

00:35:54.640 --> 00:35:54.880
 Jesus

00:35:54.880 --> 00:35:55.280
 name

00:35:55.280 --> 00:35:56.300
 amen

00:35:56.300 --> 00:36:00.440
 for

00:36:00.440 --> 00:36:00.640
 more

00:36:00.640 --> 00:36:01.160
 information

00:36:01.160 --> 00:36:01.960
 visit us

00:36:01.960 --> 00:36:02.460
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00:36:02.460 --> 00:36:02.860
 at

00:36:02.860 --> 00:36:03.760
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