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 Psalm 103. I was super excited when I saw that this is the psalm. That's Psalm 103.

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 It's one of my faves.

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 Alright, Psalm 103, verse 1.

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 Praise the Lord, my soul.

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 Hey, Jan. I'll switch to ESV. Sorry, that's going to be.

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 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me.

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 Bless His holy name.

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 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits,

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 who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases,

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 who redeems your life from the pit,

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 who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy,

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 who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagles.

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 The Lord works righteousness and justice for all who are oppressed.

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 He made known His ways to Moses, His acts to the people of Israel.

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 Psalm 103.

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 The Lord is merciful and gracious,

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 slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

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 He will not always chide, nor will He keep His anger forever.

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 He does not deal with us according to our sins,

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 nor repay us according to our iniquities.

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 For as high as the heavens are above the earth,

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 so great is His steadfast love toward those who fear Him.

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 As far as the east is from the west,

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 so far does He remove our transgressions from us.

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 As a father shows compassion to his children,

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 so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear Him.

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 For He knows our frame,

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 He remembers that we are dust.

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 As for man, his days are like grass,

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 He flourishes like a flower at the field,

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 for the wind passes over it and it is gone,

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 and its place knows it no more.

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 But the steadfast love of the Lord

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 is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him,

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 and His righteousness to children's children,

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 to those who keep His covenant and remember to do His commandments.

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 The Lord has established His throne in the heavens,

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 and His kingdom rules over all.

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 Bless the Lord, O you angels,

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 His angels,

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 you mighty ones who do His word,

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 obeying the voice of His word.

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 Bless the Lord, all His hosts,

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 His ministers who do His will.

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 Bless the Lord, all His works,

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 in all places of His dominion.

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 Bless the Lord, O my soul.

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 So I think Psalm 103 is an amazing psalm.

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 It covers wide breadth and lots of depth

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 in just a few verses.

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 It talks about faith and forgiveness,

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 it talks about sickness, health,

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 human mortality, and God's immortality.

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 And the key theme of the psalm

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 is God's steadfast love experience

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 through His benefits toward us.

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 First to ourselves as the individual,

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 and then to the community around us,

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 and then to finally to all of creation.

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 So let's look at the first five verses first.

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 First, it starts off saying in verse one,

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 Bless the Lord, O my soul.

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 So thanks for choosing that song, Brian.

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 That's a good one.

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 Yeah.

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 The English word bless carries the sense of giving a gift

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 or giving something of benefit to someone.

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 But the Hebrew word doesn't have that sense.

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 So I made the mistake of reading from NIV

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 because we usually go from ESV,

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 and they translate it praise.

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 So it's more this idea of praising or worshiping.

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 So it's not like we're giving something to God,

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 but we're saying let's praise or worship God.

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 Soul refers to one's total being.

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 We're made of multiple parts,

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 so it's praising God with our physical part,

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 our hands, our feet, our mouths,

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 our minds, our mental part,

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 our reason and our thoughts.

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 And then third, our emotions,

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 our loves, our desires,

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 our passions and pursuits.

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 So this is a self-exhortation.

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 The psalmist, it's listed as David is speaking to himself,

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 and he's saying forget not all his benefits to me,

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 for he who forgives my iniquities and my diseases.

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 And of course, praise doesn't come out of anywhere,

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 but as David says,

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 we need to not forget what God has done for us.

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 That's the negative way of saying remember,

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 remember what God has done for us.

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 So yeah, David talks about forgiveness,

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 healing, redemption, being satisfied,

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 and there are all kinds of ways that God blesses us.

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 So I think a good thing for us to remember is

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 how has God blessed us, right?

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 It could be some very small ways,

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 like being healed of an illness.

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 We had a cold or a flu recently.

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 I know we've had something go through our house

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 in the past couple weeks.

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 Maybe there's some financial need that God has provided, right?

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 You can thank him for that.

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 The forgiveness that God has given.

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 Is there a time recently where you've disregarded God,

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 chosen not to follow him,

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 and you've turned away from your sin

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 and come to him and confessed it,

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 and you've experienced that forgiveness,

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 that weight being dropped,

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 and the joy of restored fellowship with God, right?

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 So lots of things to remember

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 that God has done to us personally,

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 and we can thank him for.

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 The second section, verses 6 through 14,

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 talks about God's steadfast love to his community, right?

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 So God's steadfast love to the individual

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 extends out to the people.

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 Verse 8 says,

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 The Lord is merciful and gracious,

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 slow to anger and abounding,

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 and steadfast love.

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 This repeats Exodus 34,

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 where God reveals himself to Moses.

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 Exodus 34, chapter 34, verses 5 through 6.

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 Hey guys.

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 It says,

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 The Lord descended in the cloud

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 and stood with him there

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 and proclaimed the name of the Lord.

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 The Lord passed before him and proclaimed,

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 The Lord, the Lord,

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 God merciful and gracious,

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 slow to anger and abounding,

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 and steadfast love and faithfulness.

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 We're doing that in Psalm 103.

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 So, just to repeat,

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 the key theme of Psalm 103

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 is God's steadfast love to us.

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 And so, what does that mean?

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 What is God's steadfast love?

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 It can be translated in different ways,

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 steadfast love, loving kindness,

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 mercy, things like that.

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 The Hebrew word is hesed,

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 and here's an excerpt from a Bible dictionary

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 that I have at home.

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 It is how the Lord feels and acts toward his people.

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 Hesed holds together the ideas of love and loyalty

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 with a strong emphasis on the practical

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 more than the emotional sides of these ideas.

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 It is the loyal love that is displayed

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 when there is no other motive to action

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 except love and loyalty.

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 So, in short,

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 it's God's loyal love to his people

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 simply because God is faithful and he's loving.

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 And we see that in how he deals with us.

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 We aren't loyal towards him,

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 but he is loyal towards us.

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 He has every right to end his relationship with us,

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 but he doesn't.

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 And, you know,

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 sometimes we have the opportunity

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 to be unfaithful to him,

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 to choose other things above him,

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 to say other things are more important than him,

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 and we take that opportunity.

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 But when we are unfaithful,

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 God is faithful towards us.

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 And so, you know,

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 with that question of

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 how can God be loyal in his relationship toward us

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 when we are unfaithful,

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 he has to forgive, right?

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 He has to forgive.

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 There's the image of

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 God separating us from our sins

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 as far as the east is from the west,

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 right?

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 From one side of the earth to the other

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 because his love for us

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 is as high above the earth

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 as the heavens are.

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 So it's,

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 I think practically speaking,

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 God doesn't ruminate on our sins.

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 He doesn't dwell on them, right?

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 He separates it.

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 It's on this side of the earth

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 and on that side of the earth.

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 It's over here.

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 We're over here, right?

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 So a question for us is,

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 like, what do we do, right?

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 What do we do when we say

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 we forgive people?

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 I think it's,

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 sometimes we can say,

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 I forgive you,

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 but, like, in the next argument,

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 I can think of, like,

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 oh, but you did that last time, right?

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 Or, as much as I want to forgive,

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 there's a part of me that still thinks,

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 you need to pay a little bit.

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 You need to feel, like, a little pain, right?

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 You've got to pay for this.

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 But God's amazing.

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 He makes forgiveness possible

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 through Christ.

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 2 Corinthians 5.21 says,

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 For our sake,

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 He made Him to be sin,

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 who knew no sin,

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 so that in Him

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 we might become the righteousness of God.

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 Although Jesus was righteous

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 and without sin,

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 God thought of our sins

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 as belonging to Him,

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 and God treats Him.

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 He treated Him

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 as if He were sinful.

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 And He does the opposite for us, right?

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 He thinks of Christ's righteousness

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 as belonging to us.

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 So even though He sees

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 everything about us

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 and our sin,

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 our dirt,

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 our uncleanliness,

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 He treats us as if we're perfect.

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 We're clothed in our nakedness

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 with Christ's righteousness.

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 And so when God looks upon you

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 and looks upon me,

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 those who believe in Christ,

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 we're beautiful,

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 we're perfect.

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 And that's how we should forgive, too.

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 Right?

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 When we really forgive,

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 we should not hold

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 things against people,

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 bring them back.

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 This is impossible to do

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 apart from God's power.

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 But as we're studying

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 in community group,

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 when Jesus commands the man

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 with the withered hand

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 to extend his hand,

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 He's actually commanding the man

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 to do something that's impossible

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 at that moment, right?

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 But Jesus empowers him

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 to stretch out His hand

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 and be healed, right?

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 So we can trust God

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 that we can truly forgive

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 with His help,

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 with His power.

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 So, verse 15 and 16,

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 it's a bit of an interlude

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 about the brevity

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 of human life.

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 I don't listen to many podcasts.

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 I only listen to one, really.

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 But it's something called

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 Hardcore History by Dan Carlin

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 that my brother told me about.

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 And it just talks about

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 various periods of time,

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 like the World Wars

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 or Julius Caesar

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 and Genghis Khan

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 and all this stuff.

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 But all these great people,

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 like Julius Caesar, Napoleon,

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 Alexander the Great,

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 the Pharaohs,

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 presidents, CEOs, athletes,

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 all these guys,

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 like time and the grave

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 have claimed them, right?

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 They're gone.

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 The best that they have

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 are memorials, memories,

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 names and buildings

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 named after them, right?

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 I walk by all these

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 great universities

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 and they're named

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 with all these fancy names.

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 It's like,

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 I have no idea

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 who these people are.

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 Paid a lot of money for this, right?

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 But that's like the best

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 the world can give you.

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 So don't be fooled.

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 Life is fleeting.

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 It says we're like grass.

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 His days are like grass.

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 It's here today

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 and called tomorrow.

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 The ground's not even

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 going to remember the grass.

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 But the last part,

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 verses 17 through 22,

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 God's steadfast love

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 is different.

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 Life is fleeting

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 but his steadfast love

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 is everlasting.

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 And this third part,

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 it's not just to you and me

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 as individuals,

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 not just to us as Trinity,

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 God's people,

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 but it's to the world, right?

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 The steadfast love

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 of the Lord

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 is from everlasting

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 to everlasting

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 on those who fear him.

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 It's verse 17.

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 His love is for all

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 who fear him

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 and it's for,

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 it's really available

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 to all of creation

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 because verse 19,

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 God's kingdom rules

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 over all.

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 And we see that

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 the blessing

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 or the praising

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 of God

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 extends out to angels

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 all his works.

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 but it's clear

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 that this world

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 is full of people

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 who don't know God.

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 They're running

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 in the opposite direction.

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 They don't know him.

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 They don't acknowledge him.

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 They don't trust

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 or care about him.

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 But God is love

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 as we've been reading here.

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 God is steadfast love

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 and we have the mission

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 and privilege

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 of sharing Christ

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 with other people,

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 others who are

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 in desperate need

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 of their loving creator.

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 And we're just beggars,

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 telling other beggars

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 where to find bread.

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 That's who we are

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 and that's our privilege.

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 So application is

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 to whom can you speak

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 of God's benefits to you,

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 of Christ's death to them?

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 Who can you talk to

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 about God's loyal love

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 for them in Christ?

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 And so we can go forward

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 with faith and boldness.

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 It says in Joshua 1.9,

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 Be strong and courageous.

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 Do not be frightened

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 and do not be dismayed.

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 For the Lord your God

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 is with you

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 wherever you go.

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 So we can hold on to that

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 as we go forward.

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 And

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 God bless you,

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 God bless you.

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 and everybody

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 will have you

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 as an a

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 as you

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 need to do to

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 you

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 and

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 will be

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 as a

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 anna