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 So we've been working our way through the book of Romans, which has been truly a pleasure.

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 And we have really seen this developing case for justification by faith alone.

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! Paul is hammering this point, because if you miss this point, you miss Christianity really in its entirety.

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 Justification by faith alone, we can't be seen as right before God, as righteous before Him, apart from faith.

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 It's not from the law. It's not from morality. It's not from showing up on Sunday morning to church.

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 All those things we think are good, it's from faith that we are justified.

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 And he begins to make this argument for us here in chapter 7 that we've actually been released from the law.

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 And he uses a fairly simple analogy, simply just to say, as far as this analogy goes, we shouldn't try to pull out of it, divorce doctrine.

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 And he's simply saying, if a woman is married to a man and he dies, she's not married to him anymore.

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 That's the simplicity of the analogy that he gives us.

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 And he goes on in verse 4 to say, likewise, my brothers.

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 We're going to talk about verse 4, 5, and 6 today.

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 And I want to point out that he says, likewise, my brothers.

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 Those who have placed their faith in Christ is who he's referring to.

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 Those who have placed their faith in Christ.

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 We see in verse 5 who we once were if we have not.

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 Excuse me, let me correct myself.

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 Who we once were if we have.

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 Who you may be if you have not.

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 Verse 5, for while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.

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 Our sinful passions, that very nature that we inherited from Adam, was at work within us.

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 And when the law came into place, we knew those things that were wrong.

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 It aroused in us all kinds of fruit for death.

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 It's who we were if we placed our faith in Christ.

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 It's who you may be if you have not.

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 And then verse 4 and verse 6 are fairly reflexive.

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 And I want you to see that.

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 In verse 4, you have died to the law.

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 Verse 6, we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive.

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 So in Christ, in his death, we have also died to the law.

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 To what end?

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 Notice the similarities again.

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 Verse 4, to belong to another.

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 That is Jesus Christ.

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 To bear fruit for God.

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 This is the end of verse 4.

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 To belong to another in order to bear fruit for God.

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 And in verse 6, to serve in the new way of the Spirit.

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 So we have died to the law in order that we might live in the Spirit.

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 I want you to turn with me to 2 Corinthians chapter 3.

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 We're going to give the binding of your Bible a workout today.

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 2 Corinthians chapter 3.

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 We're going to read together verses 4 through 6.

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 Paul writes to the Corinthians,

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 You're seeing our connection there.

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 Back to Romans 7, 6.

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 The letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

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 And because of the work of Jesus Christ, we have been made competent or sufficient to be ministers of what?

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 A new covenant.

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 He says a new covenant.

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 There must have been an old covenant.

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 Right?

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 If there is a new one, there must have been an old.

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 And the old covenant that he's referring to is the covenant of the law.

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 The Mosaic covenant.

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 We're not talking about the Abrahamic covenant.

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 We're talking about the Mosaic covenant.

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 That covenant that came by the law and God said to his people,

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 If you live by these rules, we're okay.

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 Everything's going to be okay between us.

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 That's the old covenant.

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 But we've been now set free from that.

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 Right?

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 We've died to that old covenant to live to a new covenant.

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 A new covenant that's not of the law.

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 It's of the Spirit.

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 This is so important that we wrap our minds around what this means for our living.

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 I am a sinful person.

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 And in my flesh, I so want a new law.

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 I so want just another set of rules.

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 Just give it to me plainly.

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 Tell me exactly what a Christian should look like.

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 And let me just march along following those little rules.

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 I will not be justified before God.

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 Because of anything that I do.

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 But simply because of my faith.

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 And we must understand this together.

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 Turn with me to Jeremiah chapter 31.

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 We're going to work out that binding all over the place.

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 Jeremiah the prophet brings to us the words of God speaking of this new covenant.

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 So we see already here in Jeremiah speaking to what would be accomplished in Christ.

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 Jeremiah 31, 31.

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 Chapter 31, verse 31.

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 Jeremiah wrote the words of God.

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 Now behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.

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 And let's pause there for a second.

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 I don't have time to explain it to you today.

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 But those who are found in Christ is who he's talking about.

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 The house of Israel and the house of Judah is the church.

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 But the house of Israel and the house of Judah, verse 32.

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 Not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt.

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 My covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the Lord.

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 But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord.

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 I will put my law within them and I will write it on their hearts.

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 And I will be their God and they shall be my people.

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 And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, Know the Lord, for they shall all know me.

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 From the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord.

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 For I will forgive their iniquity and I will remember their sin no more.

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 So here we see God speaking through Jeremiah, talking already of the covenant, the new covenant that is to come,

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 the covenant of the spirit that comes by faith.

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 I will put my law within them and I will write it.

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 On their hearts.

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 How is it that we live the Christian life?

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 By the spirit, by our hearts that have been changed from hearts of stone to hearts of flesh that can worship our God.

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 This is a treasure.

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 This is something that ought to be immensely awesome to us.

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 But it isn't always, is it?

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 I'm not even sure we totally comprehend what it means.

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 I think that for us to live that Christian life, we must have further unfolding revelations of Christ.

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 We must see him fresh and new every day.

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 I must remember that in my greatest effort, I fall so short.

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 But because of what Christ has accomplished, I have been set free to live and to worship him.

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 As such, I hope to give you a fresh revelation of Christ this morning from the book of Hebrews.

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 You ready?

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 One more time.

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 Hebrews chapter 7.

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 And I promise we'll get back to Romans.

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 I did not anticipate how much time it would take to flip.

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 I bookmarked mine.

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 It's not very fair.

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 I'm sorry.

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 Hebrews chapter 7.

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 We're going to go to verse 18.

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 Hebrews chapter 7.

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 Hebrews chapter 7.

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 Hebrews chapter 7.

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 Hebrews chapter 7.

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 Hebrews chapter 7.

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 Hebrews chapter 7.

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 Hebrews 7.

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 Hebrews 7.

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 For on the one hand, a former commandment is set aside because of its weakness and uselessness.

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 For the law made nothing perfect.

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 But on the other hand, a better hope is introduced through which we draw near to God.

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 We've died to the law.

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 It's the same language the writer of Hebrews is using.

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 We have died to the law that we might belong to another.

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 Verse 20.

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 And it was not without an oath.

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 For those who formerly became priests were made such without an oath.

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 But this one, being Christ, was made a priest with an oath by the one who said to him,

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 The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind.

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 You are a priest forever.

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 And the rest of that, which you can see up in verse 17, after the order of Melchizedek.

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 Verse 22.

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 This makes Jesus the guarantor of a better covenant.

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 Now, this is key.

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 It's not just that we have a new promise that has come to us that was like the old,

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 that depended on this Levitical line of priests that failed in their offering as they were charged to make atonement

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 and to make intercession for the people of God.

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 And they failed in this.

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 It wasn't the same.

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 It came with an oath.

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 An oath from who?

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 From God.

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 This is a quote from Psalm 110.

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 Psalm 110.

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 It's a psalm of David.

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 And it's an exploration, if you will, of some oracles of God.

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 There are two oracles given to us in Psalm 110.

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 You're welcome to look there if you want, but I'll just explain it to you.

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 Okay?

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 Psalm 110, verse 1.

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 He's speaking to Christ.

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 The Lord says to my Lord, God says to Jesus, sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.

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 Speaks to the kingly attributes of Jesus Christ.

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 And then in verse 4, he says this,

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 The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, you are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

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 And that's all we get in 110 about verse 4.

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 There's an explanation.

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 Following verse 1, there's two verses of explanation.

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 Some expansion on what David is being inspired to write there.

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 And then there's verse 4.

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 And he goes right into verse 5 to speak more about Christ's kingly attributes.

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 He doesn't speak about him as priest in that case.

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 David and all the kings of Jerusalem were commanded upon becoming king to write down a fresh copy of the word of God.

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 You know that?

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 No printing presses.

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 They were commanded to write down a fresh copy, a copy that was theirs to study through and meditate on.

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 And they were told to do so every day.

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 So it can be assumed, and I will say that, certainly I'm making an assumption,

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 but it can be assumed that David was studying the Old Testament.

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 And as he was studying through it, he came to this character Melchizedek.

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 And he was moved by the Spirit to pen this oracle from God that Jesus would be a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

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 So who is this guy?

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 He's not mentioned often in the Bible.

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 Twice in the Old Testament.

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 Once in Psalm 110.

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 The other place in Genesis chapter 14 for three verses.

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 In Genesis chapter 14, Abram is now sojourning in the land that God was to give to him.

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 And he has gone to war.

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 Five kings, which were essentially kings of towns, kind of mayors, five kings, had risen up against the city of Sodom and had taken captive his nephew Lot.

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 So Abram gets with three other kings.

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 Four of them go after.

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 They pursue this army, which was led by a guy named, if I can remember his name properly.

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 I always call him Cheddar.

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 His name's Keterlororum or something like that.

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 I might have written it down.

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 Let me see.

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 I'll flip my notes over here.

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 Oh, I did.

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 Good for me.

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 Keterleomer.

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 Keterleomer is his name.

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 But I call him Cheddar.

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 But they pursue him and they're victorious.

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 They're victorious.

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 And Abram goes back then to the king of Sodom.

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 And as was the custom in those days, to return all the captives.

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 He was bringing back the people of Sodom to give them back to the king of Sodom.

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 And he would have been able then to keep the spoils of war.

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 So we see in Genesis chapter 14 this story going on.

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 But then there's this insertion.

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 There's three verses that are inserted in the middle of the story and don't seem to have much bearing on the rest of it.

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 And that's the story of Melchizedek.

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 Melchizedek was the king of Salem.

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 The king of the city of peace.

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 And it's proposed and probably true that he was actually the king of Jerusalem.

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 Here in this area, there are many cities called Salem in the region.

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 But because of where they were, he probably was the king of Jerusalem.

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 And his name means king of righteousness.

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 So here we see this man who's both a king and a priest.

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 And he comes to Abram in the valley.

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 He brings all of his men bread and wine to nourish them.

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 And he blesses Abram for what he's done.

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 And Abram gives to him a tithe.

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 Ten percent of the spoils of his war.

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 And here it is kind of inserted in there.

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 Now, in this case, the silence about Melchizedek is deafening.

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 And the reason for that is if we're careful readers as we read through the book of Genesis,

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 we will see that everyone in the book of Genesis with significance has a lineage given to us.

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 We understand who they were, where they came from, who they begot, so to speak.

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 There are characters in there that that doesn't happen with, but they're pretty insignificant.

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 Here we see Melchizedek doesn't seem to have a lineage.

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 Not saying that he didn't.

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 It's not reported for us.

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 It's incredibly significant to our understanding of who he was and who Jesus is in the book of Hebrews.

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 So we have then, quite some time later, David writes,

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 You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

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 Why is that substantial to us?

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 Jesus Christ is our prophet, priest, and king.

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 You know what the Levitical law?

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 Forbid a king from also being a priest.

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 Did you know that?

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 It's pretty significant.

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 Forbid a king from also being a priest.

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 How then can Christ come and be that type of priest?

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 Because he can't be our king if he's that type of priest.

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 If he serves under that covenant, it's not possible for that to happen.

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 He's not after the Levitical line.

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 I've got a great example of God's seriousness about such a law.

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 Remember when Saul was ousted as king and David took his place?

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 Do you remember why that was?

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 He was a king who tried to do the duties of the priest.

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 That was the sin that God turned him out for.

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 We're trying to be a king priest.

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 So it's very significant that Jesus is after the order of Melchizedek.

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 Not after the Levitical line.

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 Not after Aaron.

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 And that helps us understand that we serve in a new covenant.

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 Alright?

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 Back to Hebrews.

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 Chapter...

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 Or, excuse me.

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 We're in chapter 7.

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 Verse 22.

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 This makes Jesus the guarantor of a better covenant.

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 Verse 23.

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 The former priests were many in number because they were prevented by death from continuing in office.

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 They were finite, right?

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 They died.

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 At some point, they no longer could carry out their duties.

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 But he holds his priesthood permanently because he continues forever.

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 Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him,

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 since he always lives to make intercession for them.

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 You're catching the significance now?

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 Why he's a priest at the order of Melchizedek and not of the Levitical line?

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 He always lives to make intercession for us.

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 For us.

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 For it was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest,

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 holy, innocent, unstained, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.

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 He has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily,

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 first for his own sins and then for those of the people,

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 since he did this once for all when he offered up himself.

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 For the law appoints men in their weakness as high priests,

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 but the word of the oath, which came later than the law,

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 appoints a son who has been made perfect forever.

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 I hope that your mind is lifting toward the person of Jesus Christ.

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 He was unlike the Levitical priests in varying ways.

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 He was a priest forever.

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 He's a priest king, which none of them could be.

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 But he's like them in some ways as well.

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 There are many of typologies throughout the Old Testament

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 that are meant to help us understand who Jesus was coming to be on our behalf.

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 The Levitical priests were given very careful instruction about everything that they did.

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 There was nothing left to guessing.

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 Even what they wore, the high priest wore, was very carefully explained to him.

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 And when we see that in Exodus chapter 28,

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 the high priest wore two garments that were of significance to our conversation this morning.

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 One was called an ephod,

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 and it was fabric that hung on the front and the back of his body,

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 and it was connected at the shoulders by stones.

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 The second that I'm discussing this morning was a breastplate that he wore.

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 And on it were twelve stones.

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 And these stones are really significant because the stones on his shoulders

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 had six of the tribes of Israel on one shoulder

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 and six of the tribes of Israel written on the other,

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 on these stones on his shoulders.

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 And the breastplate had twelve stones, all of different type,

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 each with the name of a tribe of Israel written on his chest.

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 He was meant to go into the presence of God

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 with his strength,

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 bearing those names on his shoulders,

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 and with the names of Israel close to his heart,

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 and make atonement for them and intercede for them.

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 That was the job of the priest, the high priest,

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 was to make atonement and to intercede for the people of God.

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 It's a particular group of people, wasn't it?

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 He had a group of people that he was charged to do this for.

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 The Israelites.

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 Their names were written here and here.

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 A particular group written for him.

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 In the same way,

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 Jesus Christ intercedes on our behalf

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 and makes atonement for our sin.

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 Who is us, the church.

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 Those who place their faith in him.

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 Look back at the end of Hebrews chapter 7.

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 I want you to see the two things there.

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 The very end of verse 25.

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 He always lives to make intercession for them.

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 If that word is new to you,

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 Jesus Christ stands between us and God.

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 He allows us interaction with God.

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 He is praying on our behalf,

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 even now as we sit here,

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 sitting at the right hand of the Father,

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 interceding, that's what that word means, for us.

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 And in verse 27, he's made atonement.

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 Doesn't have to do it continually, does he?

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 Very end of the verse.

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 Since he did this once for all,

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 when he offered up himself.

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 Jesus Christ,

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 the perfect, spotless sacrifice,

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 has made atonement for the sins of the church forever.

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 The things that you have done,

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 the things maybe even that you're doing now,

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 and anything that you will do

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 has been atoned for,

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 blows my mind.

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 That is incredible.

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 So why did I tell you all this?

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 Why did I tell you all this?

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 How does that connect back

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 into Romans chapter 7?

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 I'm not Mark now,

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 so I've got to turn it back with you.

00:23:24.519 --> 00:23:24.900
 Here we go.

00:23:29.460 --> 00:23:30.420
 What's the point

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 of all of this?

00:23:34.759 --> 00:23:37.000
 What is Paul trying to communicate to us

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 in these three verses?

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 Four, five, and six.

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 You do not have to sin.

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 If you have placed your faith in Christ,

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 you have been delivered

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 from it and the consequences of it.

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 You do not have to continue in sin.

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 You've been liberated from it.

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 You've been set free from it.

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 We still do, though, don't we?

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 Paul goes on to say

00:24:05.380 --> 00:24:06.400
 in the rest of chapter 7

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 that it's not an easy task.

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 There's a war waging within him.

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 But you don't have to sin anymore.

00:24:17.680 --> 00:24:19.019
 How do we do that?

00:24:21.480 --> 00:24:25.360
 We make God big in our lives.

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 We see Jesus Christ as immense.

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 And if we do that,

00:24:33.440 --> 00:24:35.740
 sin seems really small

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 and really trivial.

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 I'll give you a,

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 I hope it's a good example.

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 I started a new diet

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 last Sunday.

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 And,

00:24:47.279 --> 00:24:49.099
 not really like a fad diet.

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 I'm not

00:24:49.619 --> 00:24:52.559
 doing anything crazy.

00:24:52.639 --> 00:24:53.299
 I'm not like drinking

00:24:53.299 --> 00:24:54.659
 cucumber juice and that's it

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 or anything like that.

00:24:55.339 --> 00:24:57.859
 I have had some health issues

00:24:57.859 --> 00:24:59.639
 for a decade

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 and I've felt fairly convicted

00:25:02.980 --> 00:25:04.480
 that I need to eat a

00:25:04.480 --> 00:25:06.679
 plant-based whole foods diet.

00:25:07.439 --> 00:25:08.339
 I won't get to all the particulars,

00:25:08.399 --> 00:25:09.319
 but it means I'm limiting

00:25:09.319 --> 00:25:10.839
 animal protein in my diet.

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 I'm not drinking anything

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 or eating anything

00:25:13.639 --> 00:25:14.919
 with high fructose corn syrup

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 or stuff.

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 I'll kill you.

00:25:15.680 --> 00:25:18.720
 I'm eating very,

00:25:18.860 --> 00:25:19.799
 very little sugar.

00:25:20.180 --> 00:25:20.400
 Like,

00:25:20.460 --> 00:25:21.220
 I had some peanut butter

00:25:21.220 --> 00:25:22.240
 that's got some sugar in it,

00:25:22.340 --> 00:25:23.440
 but that type of thing.

00:25:23.500 --> 00:25:23.580
 So,

00:25:23.620 --> 00:25:24.340
 I'm trying to eat much healthier.

00:25:24.420 --> 00:25:25.120
 And I've been doing that

00:25:25.120 --> 00:25:25.820
 for the past week.

00:25:26.120 --> 00:25:26.740
 So far,

00:25:26.840 --> 00:25:28.680
 I'm still fighting that good fight.

00:25:28.840 --> 00:25:28.940
 But,

00:25:29.039 --> 00:25:30.400
 it is so hard.

00:25:30.840 --> 00:25:33.380
 It is so hard to do.

00:25:34.019 --> 00:25:34.380
 Because,

00:25:35.080 --> 00:25:36.039
 I'm not the kind of guy

00:25:36.039 --> 00:25:36.720
 that eats that way.

00:25:37.240 --> 00:25:38.539
 And I know I'm twiggy.

00:25:38.820 --> 00:25:39.460
 That's genetics.

00:25:40.220 --> 00:25:42.039
 I love sugar.

00:25:42.380 --> 00:25:43.900
 I absolutely love sweets.

00:25:44.060 --> 00:25:45.060
 I'm a type 1 diabetic

00:25:45.059 --> 00:25:45.879
 and at some point

00:25:45.879 --> 00:25:46.759
 I had a doctor say,

00:25:46.960 --> 00:25:48.460
 don't worry about the sugar,

00:25:48.579 --> 00:25:49.559
 just take insulin for it.

00:25:50.099 --> 00:25:50.559
 And I said,

00:25:50.639 --> 00:25:50.980
 okay.

00:25:51.740 --> 00:25:52.059
 And,

00:25:52.179 --> 00:25:53.259
 I love it.

00:25:53.359 --> 00:25:55.279
 I will down a couple of sodas a day,

00:25:55.599 --> 00:25:57.059
 bring on the candy.

00:25:57.759 --> 00:25:58.859
 My wife makes fun of me.

00:25:58.919 --> 00:25:59.099
 I mean,

00:25:59.139 --> 00:26:00.119
 she can't open up something

00:26:00.119 --> 00:26:01.019
 at the house that's sweet

00:26:01.019 --> 00:26:02.279
 without it being gone that day.

00:26:03.059 --> 00:26:03.819
 I'm bad.

00:26:04.019 --> 00:26:04.779
 I'm bad about that.

00:26:05.000 --> 00:26:05.159
 So,

00:26:05.159 --> 00:26:07.200
 I now have this conviction,

00:26:07.440 --> 00:26:08.480
 this understanding in my mind,

00:26:08.519 --> 00:26:08.700
 really,

00:26:08.879 --> 00:26:10.039
 that I need to change that

00:26:10.039 --> 00:26:12.639
 and I need to live a different way

00:26:12.639 --> 00:26:14.539
 with what I ingest.

00:26:15.099 --> 00:26:18.460
 And I have a very big picture goal

00:26:18.460 --> 00:26:19.460
 in my mind,

00:26:19.519 --> 00:26:21.379
 which is to be healthier than I am

00:26:21.379 --> 00:26:24.579
 and to live to the end of my days

00:26:24.579 --> 00:26:25.480
 in a healthier state

00:26:25.480 --> 00:26:26.619
 and to be there for my family

00:26:26.619 --> 00:26:28.339
 and those types of things.

00:26:28.700 --> 00:26:30.299
 Are you catching the similarity here?

00:26:31.039 --> 00:26:33.779
 I'm trying to live not for today,

00:26:33.940 --> 00:26:36.379
 but I'm trying to live for what will come.

00:26:36.380 --> 00:26:36.780
 Right?

00:26:39.020 --> 00:26:39.820
 We have a little,

00:26:39.980 --> 00:26:41.160
 Wes and I share an office

00:26:41.160 --> 00:26:42.040
 at Troop McConnell College

00:26:42.040 --> 00:26:43.580
 and we host people.

00:26:43.700 --> 00:26:43.780
 So,

00:26:43.840 --> 00:26:44.760
 we have a little fridge

00:26:44.760 --> 00:26:45.660
 in our office

00:26:45.660 --> 00:26:46.840
 and it's glass front

00:26:46.840 --> 00:26:49.260
 and we stock it with Cokes

00:26:49.260 --> 00:26:50.220
 and things like that.

00:26:50.260 --> 00:26:50.340
 So,

00:26:50.380 --> 00:26:51.300
 when people come tour to the campus,

00:26:51.380 --> 00:26:51.520
 they say,

00:26:51.580 --> 00:26:51.700
 hey,

00:26:51.720 --> 00:26:52.520
 can we get you anything to drink?

00:26:52.900 --> 00:26:53.040
 Okay.

00:26:53.040 --> 00:26:53.140
 So,

00:26:53.160 --> 00:26:54.520
 every time I walk to my desk,

00:26:54.520 --> 00:26:56.380
 I walk right by this fridge.

00:26:57.420 --> 00:26:58.260
 It's been tough.

00:26:58.800 --> 00:26:59.460
 It's been really,

00:26:59.620 --> 00:27:00.040
 really tough.

00:27:00.360 --> 00:27:02.100
 The campus store is downstairs

00:27:02.099 --> 00:27:03.199
 so I can walk downstairs

00:27:03.199 --> 00:27:05.539
 and buy any kind of candy bar I want

00:27:05.539 --> 00:27:07.259
 anytime right there.

00:27:08.279 --> 00:27:09.579
 It's been very challenging.

00:27:10.779 --> 00:27:11.279
 So,

00:27:11.399 --> 00:27:13.159
 how do I not do those things?

00:27:13.219 --> 00:27:14.939
 How do I not eat the things

00:27:14.939 --> 00:27:16.319
 that I'm trying not to eat?

00:27:17.759 --> 00:27:19.679
 I remember what I'm trying to accomplish.

00:27:22.339 --> 00:27:23.299
 The other day,

00:27:23.379 --> 00:27:25.799
 I was having a particular crummy afternoon

00:27:25.799 --> 00:27:29.019
 and Wes was out

00:27:29.019 --> 00:27:30.819
 and so I got up

00:27:30.819 --> 00:27:32.259
 and later realized

00:27:32.259 --> 00:27:33.019
 that this was great

00:27:33.019 --> 00:27:34.359
 for this analogy

00:27:34.359 --> 00:27:35.240
 but I got up

00:27:35.240 --> 00:27:36.059
 and I walked down the hall

00:27:36.059 --> 00:27:36.799
 to a co-worker

00:27:36.799 --> 00:27:38.019
 and I began to tell her

00:27:38.019 --> 00:27:38.779
 all about my diet.

00:27:39.419 --> 00:27:39.519
 So,

00:27:39.639 --> 00:27:40.059
 literally,

00:27:40.179 --> 00:27:40.740
 I walked in her office

00:27:40.740 --> 00:27:40.960
 and said,

00:27:41.099 --> 00:27:41.220
 hey,

00:27:41.279 --> 00:27:41.419
 Hannah,

00:27:41.480 --> 00:27:41.819
 how's it going?

00:27:41.899 --> 00:27:42.159
 She said,

00:27:42.179 --> 00:27:42.319
 good.

00:27:42.559 --> 00:27:42.779
 I said,

00:27:42.799 --> 00:27:43.519
 I'm having a really hard time

00:27:43.519 --> 00:27:44.399
 not eating sugar right now.

00:27:44.919 --> 00:27:45.399
 She said,

00:27:46.019 --> 00:27:46.639
 okay.

00:27:46.919 --> 00:27:47.159
 I said,

00:27:47.200 --> 00:27:47.359
 you see,

00:27:47.399 --> 00:27:48.039
 I'm doing this diet

00:27:48.039 --> 00:27:48.980
 and I told her all about it

00:27:48.980 --> 00:27:51.099
 and before I knew it,

00:27:51.159 --> 00:27:51.819
 I was telling her

00:27:51.819 --> 00:27:53.259
 all the reasons I was doing it,

00:27:53.960 --> 00:27:55.519
 why I cared so much

00:27:55.519 --> 00:27:56.939
 to do what I'm doing

00:27:56.939 --> 00:27:58.299
 and you know what?

00:27:59.159 --> 00:28:00.399
 I didn't want sugar anymore.

00:28:00.819 --> 00:28:03.500
 The coat could stay in the fridge.

00:28:03.639 --> 00:28:04.439
 No big deal anymore

00:28:04.439 --> 00:28:05.480
 because I remembered

00:28:05.480 --> 00:28:08.279
 why I'm doing what I'm doing.

00:28:09.799 --> 00:28:11.439
 And the same is true for us here.

00:28:11.559 --> 00:28:12.419
 This is what Paul

00:28:12.419 --> 00:28:14.639
 is trying to show us.

00:28:15.299 --> 00:28:16.819
 That because of Jesus Christ,

00:28:16.899 --> 00:28:17.919
 because of what He has done,

00:28:17.980 --> 00:28:18.980
 because of His death,

00:28:19.819 --> 00:28:21.259
 His perfect sacrifice

00:28:21.259 --> 00:28:22.200
 on our behalf,

00:28:22.700 --> 00:28:24.019
 we've been set free.

00:28:25.639 --> 00:28:27.319
 We can now live

00:28:27.319 --> 00:28:28.980
 in Him.

00:28:28.980 --> 00:28:33.900
 And our minds are just so,

00:28:34.000 --> 00:28:34.259
 I'm just,

00:28:34.440 --> 00:28:36.460
 I can't believe how idiotic I am.

00:28:36.519 --> 00:28:39.319
 I forget it all the time.

00:28:41.240 --> 00:28:41.940
 All the time.

00:28:42.000 --> 00:28:43.880
 I need to hear the Gospel

00:28:43.880 --> 00:28:45.019
 constantly.

00:28:46.160 --> 00:28:48.400
 I need to see grander,

00:28:48.500 --> 00:28:50.140
 more expanding views

00:28:50.140 --> 00:28:51.620
 of Jesus Christ.

00:28:52.440 --> 00:28:53.500
 I hope this morning,

00:28:53.700 --> 00:28:54.839
 the connection to Melchizedek

00:28:54.839 --> 00:28:55.900
 did that for you.

00:28:56.059 --> 00:28:56.900
 It did it for me this week.

00:28:56.900 --> 00:28:57.820
 I hope it did it for you.

00:29:00.820 --> 00:29:02.840
 Jesus Christ has made

00:29:02.840 --> 00:29:04.040
 a grand sacrifice

00:29:04.040 --> 00:29:04.840
 on our behalf.

00:29:05.519 --> 00:29:07.620
 And if we treasure that,

00:29:07.720 --> 00:29:09.660
 if we actually understand

00:29:09.660 --> 00:29:10.380
 what He's done

00:29:10.380 --> 00:29:11.060
 on our behalf,

00:29:11.160 --> 00:29:13.320
 not like the typical

00:29:13.320 --> 00:29:15.740
 Southeastern Christian

00:29:15.740 --> 00:29:18.580
 who grew up moral,

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 but we actually get

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 the weight of our sin,

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 we understand that

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 we've offended a holy God,

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 that He could actually

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 have nothing to do with us

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 apart from the atoning work

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 of Jesus Christ.

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 If we could just understand

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 that every day

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 and let that be big

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 in our lives,

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 sin,

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 it's trivial.

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 Why would I do

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 this little silly thing

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 that brings to me death

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 when I can live

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 to Christ?

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 I wonder where that

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 leaves you this morning.

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 If you're not a Christian,

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 if you've never placed

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 your faith in Jesus Christ,

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 if you have thought

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 that you can maintain

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 and get to God

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 by works,

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 you're wrong.

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 Your soul's in a desperate state.

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 Great time to deal with that.

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 No time like now

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 to repent and believe

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 that Jesus Christ

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 is the way

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 to God.

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 You might be feeling

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 this morning

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 the burden of your sin

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 as a Christian.

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 God doesn't see you

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 the way you feel

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 right now.

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 God sees you as a son

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 because Christ

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 sits eternally

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 with His right hand

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 making intercession

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 and He has made

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 atonement for you.

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 One of my favorite parts

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 of my day

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 is when I get home

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 from work,

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 Cade is always

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 very excited to see me.

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 It's usually short-lived

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 but for some moments

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 he's really excited

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 that I'm home

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 and I put down my bag

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 and I squat down

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 and he runs

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 full force.

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 It's kind of scary even

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 into me

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 and gives me a hug.

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 So,

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 I squat down,

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 Cade,

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 and he,

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 boom,

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 bolts at me

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 and I kind of have to

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 cradle him

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 so he doesn't

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 knock himself out.

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 He runs into me

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 so hard.

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 There is nothing

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 Cade could do.

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 Nothing.

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 Sam could report

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 that he did

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 the most terrible

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 things that day

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 and nothing

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 is going to stop me

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 from embracing him

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 when he runs

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 from me that way.

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 Right?

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 Come here,

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 son,

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 because he's my son.

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 Your sons and daughters

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 are the Most High God.

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 Run to His arms.

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 Enlarge in your vision

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 of who He is

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 and you'll begin

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 to see

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 the sin

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 work out

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 of your life.

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 of your soul.

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