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 Bibles, I want you to turn to Colossians chapter 1, Colossians

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 chapter 1.

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 We spent this year so far looking at Genesis 1 through 11, the

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 very start of the creation of the world, following up with the

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 inhabitants that came upon the earth.

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 And I believe that we have not only explored significant

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 events, but I really believe that Genesis 1 through 11 is a

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 blueprint of what makes us who we are, what we are.

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 To put it simply, we're a fallen people.

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 As Scripture puts it, we are a spiritually fallen people.

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 We were born into sin.

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 We have sinned.

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 We live in a world of sin.

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 It didn't start that way.

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 God made it right and pure, but it got that way quickly.

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 It only took two of us to mess it up.

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 And they got in a mess, and now we're all in a mess, and we've

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 made it bigger.

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 And that's the message of this series that we've been in,

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 Genesis 1 through 11, from the start.

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 We've been messed up a long time, in other words.

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 However, that, thank God, is just the beginning of a story.

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 That's not it.

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 There is hope as well.

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 And there actually has been since the beginning.

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 And the hope is even since the beginning.

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 The hope is found in Christ.

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 It's found in Christ.

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 It's found in the virgin birth of Christ.

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 It's found in the sinless life of Christ.

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 It's found in the crucified death of Christ.

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 It's found in the Sunday morning resurrection of Christ.

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 It's found in the ascension of Christ.

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 And it's found in the promises of Christ that are twofold.

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 One is the Holy Spirit's faithfulness to empower us and to guide us until we see the Lord face to face.

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 And number two, the imminent promised return of the Lord.

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 That's our hope.

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 Our hope is that Christ died for our salvation.

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 And when we surrender our lives to him, he'll save us, his Holy Spirit will empower us, and thank God he'll come back to receive us.

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 That where he is, we may be also.

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 It was seen from the beginning.

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 And it is clarified much later.

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 And I want to focus this morning, just for a moment, on the clarification.

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 When we understand the clarification of what was happening with all of that,

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 then you can see how it happened from the beginning.

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 And then we're going to celebrate that around the table of the Lord.

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 Colossians chapter 1, beginning in verse 15, says this.

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 He, speaking of Christ, is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

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 For by him all things were created in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible.

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 Whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities, all things were created through him.

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 And for him, and he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

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 And he is the head of the body, the church.

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 He is the beginning, the firstborn of the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.

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 For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell.

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 And through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven,

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 making peace by the blood of his cross.

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 And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds,

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 he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him.

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 It didn't take long for the creation of Adam and Eve to see things go sideways.

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 Satan, in the form of a snake, slithered his way into the garden of bliss and spoiled the matter when they listened to him.

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 And my friend, that's what happens when you listen to a snake like Satan.

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 All of life grows harder due to sin.

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 Roses have thorns and thistles.

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 Weeds grow in a garden and in a lawn, apparently.

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 And pain is increased, even with blessings.

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 As a matter of fact, especially with blessings sometimes.

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 And sin will leave you legless and crawling around in the dust.

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 That's what the curses tell us.

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 For the first time in their lives, there was a strain and a shame that came in Adam and Eve's marriage.

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 For the first time, they covered their nakedness from each other with their hand-sewn efforts.

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 But it was not enough.

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 In the turmoil of their woes from their fall of sin, God in his grace, God in his mercy, provided a covering for their shame.

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 There had to be a sacrifice for that covering.

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 Blood had to be shed for there to be an adequate covering.

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 And God provided that.

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 Genesis chapter 3 verse 21 says,

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 Even with the graciousness of God, the ramifications of a sin-stained society continued on.

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 Their son Cain killed their other son Abel over an envy of Abel's right relationship with God.

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 Abel was right with God, not because he was perfect.

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 But because he acknowledged his sin with his offering.

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 It was a blood sacrifice that paid the price for his sin.

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 That pattern had been carved out and shown through the loincloths that God had made for his parents.

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 Sin continued to grow, however.

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 Until the Lord carried out the great reset, the flood.

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 The earth was cleansed of their wrong ways.

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 Of its wrong ways.

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 Peter compares that to a baptism of cleansing.

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 And only one godly family remained.

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 And God made the first stated covenant with the promise of the rainbow.

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 As I explained just a couple of weeks ago.

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 God had hung his weapon, a bow, had hung his weapon of choice up in the sky.

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 Aimed away from a replenished earth.

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 It would not be the last covenant that God made.

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 As the earth repopulated, sin abounded more.

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 You know why?

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 Because we have a natural tendency to sin.

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 We're born into sin.

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 Our world is influenced by sin.

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 We are slaves to sin when we're outside of Christ.

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 From the foundation of the earth, it's been obvious that we need a savior.

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 And I'm here today doing what I'm doing.

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 Because we have a savior.

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 I mean, listen, I would have no message to preach if it was all loincloths and rainbows and attempts to reach the stars.

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 There'd be no message to preach.

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 But the hope that we see in Genesis is just a foreshadowing.

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 Because the sacrifice of the animals to make the skins in the garden was followed by a full-blown sacrificial system.

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 Because after God had scattered people, after the Tower of Babel, he scattered and gathered people who had gathered for the wrong reasons.

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 After that, when you turn a chapter, he chooses to raise up a people to do his work through.

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 That people was led into slavery.

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 And as Moses led God's people out of slavery, God instituted, through the leadership of Moses, laws and regulations to give them guidance in this sinful world.

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 To provide a temporary means for forgiveness.

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 And that required sacrifice.

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 And that required sacrifice would only come from a lamb without blemish.

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 We see the first sign of that at the Passover.

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 When God gave instructions for the Hebrews to escape from Egypt.

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 Only the blood of a spotless lamb would keep them from continued enslavement.

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 And provide them escape from the oppression that they suffered.

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 But once they were freed and established as a people again.

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 Such an animal became an atoning sacrifice.

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 That word atoning speaks of being at one.

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 And what that means is that sacrifice was to make them at one with God again.

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 It became a key part of the worship in the tabernacle.

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 When they moved out of temporary circumstances and moved to Jerusalem,

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 it became the standard of worship for the temple as well.

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 It's all a foreshadowing of what was to come.

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 And the one that was to come was Jesus.

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 Another covenant promised that.

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 The new covenant promised that.

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 And Jesus came born of a virgin.

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 He did not have, because he was born of a virgin,

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 did not have that inborn nature of sin within him.

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 As we're born with.

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 Scripture tells us he was tempted in every way that we are.

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 Hebrews 4.15 says that.

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 But he neither carried sin separation from birth as we do,

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 because we're born into sin,

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 nor did he have sin guilt from his own mistakes,

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 which we do outside of Christ.

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 That spotless lamb of the sacrificial system of the Old Testament

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 was simply a forerunner of the spotless sacrificial lamb of God,

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 Jesus Christ.

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 The writer of Hebrews put it this way.

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 He said in Hebrews chapter 10, verse 11,

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 and every priest stands daily at his service,

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 offering repeatedly the same sacrifices,

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 which can never take away sins.

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 But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins,

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 he sat down at the right hand of God,

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 waiting for that time until his enemy should be made a footstool for his feet.

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 For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.

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 Which brings me back to my opening passage,

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 and the key part of that passage,

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 which is Colossians chapter 1, verse 21 and 22,

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 when it says,

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 and you, he's talking about me,

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 he's talking about you,

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 and you who once were alienated

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 and hostile in mind,

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 doing evil deeds,

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 he has now reconciled you in his blood of flesh,

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 body of flesh by his death,

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 in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him.

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 And my friend,

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 that's what leads us to the Lord's supper table.

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 The same Christ that was in creation

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 is the same Christ that provided a way to new and eternal life.

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 He sacrificed his body,

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 he shed his blood,

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 and told us to proclaim his death until he comes again

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 by taking part in this celebration around this table.

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 But I want to be clear about something.

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 I know this is not for everyone.

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 It's not a blanket process

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 that we just go through in a worship service.

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 Not at all.

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 As a matter of fact,

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 it is only for those who publicly have confessed the Lord Jesus,

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 placed their faith in Christ Jesus,

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 and proclaim that like these two young ladies did today,

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 through baptism,

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 by biblical baptism of immersion.

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 The private part of that

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 is to be right

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 when you take it.

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 And I know you've heard this passage before,

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 probably,

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 but I want you to pay attention to it.

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 1 Corinthians 11, 28 through 30 says,

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 let a person examine himself then,

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 and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

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 For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body

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 eats and drinks judgment on himself.

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 That's why many of you are weak and ill,

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 and some have died.

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 I didn't say that.

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 That's in scripture.

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 But my friend,

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 you need to have your heart right

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 when you come before the Lord's table.

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 It's time to get right.

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 And so my question is this,

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 just sincerely,

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 do you know the Lord today?

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 I've said many times,

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 and many say,

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 we've taken a break for the summer,

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 but I meet on Tuesday mornings

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 at 6 o'clock and 9 o'clock with men.

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 We read together a scripture,

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 excuse me,

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 we read together a book

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 based on scripture,

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 chapter a week,

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 and then we discuss that together

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 and pray together.

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 I often tell them

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 one of the greatest burdens I carry as a pastor is

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 that somebody may be sitting in the congregation

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 week after week after week,

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 maybe a member of the church,

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 might even be in leadership in the church,

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 never has given his or her life

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 to the Lord Jesus.

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 So I ask you today,

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 do you know him?

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 When's your first time here?

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 Whether you're here every week,

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 do you know the Lord?

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 Have you ever surrendered your life

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 to the Lord Jesus

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 and asked him to forgive you of your sins

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 and to cleanse you

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 and to come into your life

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 and empower you

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 with the power of his Holy Spirit

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 to help you to live

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 for his cause and his kingdom?

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 Have you ever said,

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 I don't want what I want,

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 I want what you want.

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 From this day forward,

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 I want to live for you.

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 I want you to know

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 if you've never done that,

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 today's the day of salvation.

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 That if there's any inkling within you

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 to do that,

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 it's not because you came up with it

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 because you were born in sin

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 and dead in sin.

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 In fact,

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 the Spirit of God

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 has awakened you

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 to realize your need of God.

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 And you come today,

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 I'd love to show you

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 how you can give your heart and life

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 to the Lord Jesus Christ.

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 If you're here today

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 and you've done that,

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 but you've never publicly acknowledged that,

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 it's been a private matter,

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 then don't be concerned about this.

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 Let's be concerned about obedience.

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 Let's get it right,

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 in the right order.

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 Let's make sure

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 that we proudly proclaim

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 the Lord Jesus

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 through church membership,

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 through baptism,

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 as a believer.

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 Make that right.

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 Maybe you're here this morning

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 and you are a Christian

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 and you know that,

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 but if we got real about stuff,

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 you don't need to be taking part.

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 There's sin in your life

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 and you know that.

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 God's revealed that to you,

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 the Holy Spirit spoke to you about that

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 and you've not dealt with it.

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 You've ignored it.

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 And you're allowing that

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 to manifest in your life,

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 refusing to surrender

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 that portion of the Lord,

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 of your life, excuse me,

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 surrender that portion

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 of your life to the Lord.

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 I'm going to tell you,

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 if he's not Lord of all,

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 he's not Lord of any.

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 And so you need to get

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 your heart right today.

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 I purposely give an invitation

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 and a time of meditation

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 before we do this

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 to give you the opportunity

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 to privately confess your sins

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 before the Lord

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 and ask him to cleanse you.

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 Ask him to work

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 and move in your life

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 so that you can be right

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 and do this right.

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 With every head bowed

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 and every eye closed,

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 I want to pray for you.

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 Lord Jesus, I ask today

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 that you'll work

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 and you'll move in our lives.

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 Help us to simply be obedient,

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 to make things wrong,

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 make things that are wrong right,

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 dear God,

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 to do exactly what

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 you'd have us to do.

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 Lead us right now,

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 I pray in Jesus' name.

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 Amen.