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

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 Our passion is to experience and express grace.

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 Join us.

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 Amen.

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 What a great song.

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 We love those songs from the Behold the Lamb Christmas program.

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 Y'all like those songs?

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 We should sing them here more often, shouldn't we?

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 You want to sing those more often, James?

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 How about Thursday, December 14th at 7 p.m., we could sing these songs together here?

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 Here.

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 In this sanctuary?

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 With the gentleman and scholar who wrote them, composed them on his own, Mr. Andrew Peterson.

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 Yeah.

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 So.

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 Can we bring our friends and the rest of Huntsville?

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 Yes.

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 Yeah, yeah.

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 Most of them will fit in here.

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 I'll say this and then I'll leave.

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 He's gotten really popular.

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 And so we're telling you this now so that you all can get tickets.

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 Before everybody else does and then there's not any left for us.

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 So.

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 There you go.

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 I think you have the rest of it.

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 They will sell out quickly.

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 Southwood.org slash Behold the Lamb.

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 You can buy them today.

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 I encourage you to buy them today and buy some for friends you're inviting with you or whatever.

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 We do anticipate them going quickly and we're really excited.

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 It's been six years since they've been here to celebrate Christmas with us.

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 Thursday, December 14th.

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 They'll be back.

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 We have been talking about prayer as we make our way through the Gospel of Luke and have made it to the Lord's Prayer.

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 As we get back into that this morning, I just wanted to remind you in our guest center, there are a couple of really good books about prayer.

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 This one is Paul Miller's prayer.

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 Really good theologically, but especially good practically.

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 If you're looking for something like that.

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 This one is Tim Keller's book called Prayer.

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 When you're Tim Keller, all you have to do is title it Prayer.

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 Experiencing awe and intimacy with God.

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 It is really good practically.

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 It's especially good theologically.

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 If you're more bent in that direction.

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 Both of these are available in the guest center.

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 I just, I tell you that to encourage you that as we study this together, one thing you might want to do is take advantage of where God has us corporately.

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 As he's teaching us to pray and to study further on your own.

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 If you've ever wanted to do that, these books would be good tools for you to follow up more with that.

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 That said, let me read Luke chapter 11.

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 The first four verses for us.

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 And then we'll study God's Word together.

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 This is God's holy, inerrant, infallible Word given to us.

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 Luke 11 at verse 1.

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 Now Jesus was praying in a certain place.

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 And when he finished, one of his disciples said to him,

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 Lord, teach us to pray as John taught his disciples.

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 And he said to them, when you pray, say,

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 Father, hallowed be your name.

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 Your kingdom come.

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 Give us each day our daily bread.

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 And forgive us our sins.

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 For we ourselves forgive everyone who is indebted to us.

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 And lead us not into temptation.

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 This is God's Word.

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 Let's pray and ask him to teach us as we look at it together.

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 Father, we do give you thanks for your Word.

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 Jesus, we thank you for teaching us to pray.

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 For showing us how we can relate to our Father.

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 And so we ask you again this morning that you would teach us to pray.

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 Teach us to trust our Father.

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 Might we see you as great and glorious as we've come into your presence,

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 worshiping you this morning.

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 And might it drive us to bring all of our needs before you.

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 Teach us as we look at your Word.

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 We ask in Jesus' name.

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 Amen.

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 How many of you have eaten at G's Country Kitchen on Oakwood?

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 Yeah, ooh, that was some excited hands going up.

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 Yeah, if you've eaten there, you've probably eaten fried chicken,

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 mac and cheese, black-eyed peas, collard greens,

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 things commonly referred to as soul food.

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 And for many of us, comfort food.

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 And I'm going to stop talking about it because if the sermon goes too long now,

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 you're all going to start leaving for lunch.

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 So we love those things.

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 We enjoy eating them.

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 But Jesus is teaching us today about a different kind of soul food.

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 And that's forgiveness.

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 Father, forgive us our sins, Jesus tells us to pray.

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 And it strikes me that Jesus in this model prayer is telling us things we can always pray for.

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 That there's no reason ever to say,

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 I just don't have anything that I could pray for.

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 He starts with God-centered priorities about God's name and God's kingdom.

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 And then he turns to praying for things that I need.

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 And he says, pray for your daily bread.

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 For the things you need today, you always need to eat, right?

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 Is there anything else you always know you need?

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 Forgiveness.

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 I always need to eat.

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 I always need to be forgiven.

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 It's soul food for us.

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 Absolutely essential for me spiritually.

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 Without it, I die.

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 Why?

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 Andrew Murray said it this way.

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 As bread is the first need of the body,

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 so forgiveness for the soul.

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 And the provision for the one is as sure as for the other.

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 That's good stuff, isn't it?

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 The provision for one is as sure as for the other.

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 We talked last week about God's fatherly care and provision for us.

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 That he meets all of our needs.

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 That we can trust him in everything.

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 The same is true with the forgiveness that we need.

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 Jesus says, pray for daily bread and ask your father for forgiveness.

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 I want us simply to look first at the focus of the petition that we need to be forgiven.

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 And then we'll notice briefly the comment attached to it that we also need to be forgiving.

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 First, let me ask you, are any of y'all friends with Mavis Wanzik?

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 Anybody?

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 Nobody?

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 That's too bad.

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 Mavis lives in Massachusetts and this week she bought the winning Powerball lottery ticket for $758 million.

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 And it just struck me, I was thinking about this, that maybe if you're friends of hers and you didn't mind getting lottery money,

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 which of course the Bible would have a few things to say about,

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 but theoretically she could probably wipe out your student loan debt.

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 Probably handle your credit card debt.

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 Probably handle most of our mortgage debts.

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 And it would cost her something, but I think she could handle it now.

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 When the Bible speaks of forgiveness, it uses a number of different images.

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 We've celebrated some of them this morning.

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 Cleansing, covering in the sacrifices, releasing.

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 But in particular in this passage, it's the idea of being set free from debt that is featured.

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 The words used for forgive and indebted in the second line of this petition bring those legal monetary pictures into play.

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 So we're asking God to release us from the debt that we owe to Him.

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 What are we really asking when we pray that?

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 And maybe you gloss over this petition in the Lord's Prayer sometime as though it were no big deal.

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 Yes, God, forgive me my sins.

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 I know I'm not perfect.

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 I always ask for forgiveness.

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 Yes.

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 But let me tell you, it's a bigger deal than we often stop to calculate.

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 Even Mavis and her $758 million can't touch this debt for you.

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 Stop and think, what do we owe God?

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 God created us to live in relationship with Him.

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 A relationship where we desire His glory all the time.

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 Where we trust Him, obey Him, enjoy Him, and therefore perfectly reflect His image in all His creation all the time.

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 In other words, we owe Him lives of consistent, unfailing perfection for the sake of His glory all the time.

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 He has told us we're to love Him with all our heart and soul and mind and strength.

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 So we owe Him our emotions and our affections too, not just our actions.

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 He's told us to love our neighbors as ourselves.

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 So we are to take advantage of every opportunity to demonstrate His kingdom and His grace to everyone we could possibly tell and show it to.

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 Now sometimes we rack up debt by specific violations of God's law.

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 Those are probably the easy ones to think of.

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 We lie.

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 We covet.

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 We worship idols.

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 We harbor bitterness towards our kids.

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 We lust.

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 We lose our tempers with our spouse.

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 And we could keep going on and on and naming things you know are our sins.

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 If we had calculators and memories good enough, we could add up a big debt.

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 But when we think of all that we owe God, much of our debt is actually what I was talking about a moment ago.

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 We often overlook it, but it's those sins of omission.

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 It's our failures to speak when we should have spoken, to act when we had the opportunity,

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 to reflect God's perfect image to everyone around us all the time.

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 We start adding those in and our tab is ridiculously high, isn't it?

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 We can never pay it, which is the point of a parable that Jesus tells where God ends up forgiving a debt

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 that is absolutely unpayable.

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 No one ever could live long enough to work hard enough to pay it off.

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 Have you stopped to reckon your account before God?

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 To consider what you owe Him?

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 Have you considered not merely the sinful actions and attitudes you have,

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 but just as certainly the times you failed to act?

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 Neglected to pray?

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 Failed to trust?

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 Neglected to speak?

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 And you might have thought this petition was smaller than,

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 hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come.

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 Those were the big things.

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 No way.

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 This is a huge request.

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 Every time we ask it, every single one of those sins has earned us eternal death.

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 We have a debt we can never repay.

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 We say we're spiritually bankrupt.

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 That's the truth of who we are.

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 And that's where the good news, the glory of Jesus, meets us.

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 We've already been celebrating that this morning, what He's done.

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 And we've seen it through the Gospel of Luke.

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 Remember, as we've gone through Luke,

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 Jesus is promised as the one who is coming to forgive sins.

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 He's going to bring forgiveness and freedom.

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 He's forgiven the sins of a paralyzed man in one encounter.

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 He's forgiven the sins of a sinful woman in another story.

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 He has told us recently that He has set intensely on going to the cross

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 where He will purchase the forgiveness of sins,

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 and that's a priority for Him.

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 That's where He's headed.

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 So the one who teaches us to pray this way

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 is the one who Himself provides the forgiveness

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 that our souls so desperately need.

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 He says, ask for it, and I'm going to purchase it for you.

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 It's why we sing, Jesus paid it all, right?

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 All to Him I owe.

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 He paid for the whole debt.

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 All the things we just talked about.

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 Specifically, first, He paid for the penalty

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 of all those sins we committed when we violated God's holy law.

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 Colossians 2 talks about Jesus' death on the cross in these terms.

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 You were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh,

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 but God made you alive together with Christ,

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 having forgiven us all our trespasses.

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 How did He forgive us all of those?

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 By canceling the record of debt

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 that stood against us with its legal demands,

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 this He set aside,

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 nailing it to the cross.

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 That record of debt would have been a legal document,

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 a piece of paper that you would have had

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 that showed what you owed to someone in this day.

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 And Jesus takes that record of our debt

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 and it is nailed to the cross.

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 Jesus on the cross is famous for saying many things.

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 One of the ones that is sweetest

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 is that Jesus on the cross says,

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 it is finished.

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 Tetelestai, He cries out.

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 That's actually a legal accounting term.

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 It is finished.

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 Paid in full.

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 Stamped on your document,

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 the record of your debt to God.

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 What's the sin that you think you could never pay for?

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 What's the sin that you think about it

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 and you feel guilty

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 and you think this keeps me at a distance from God.

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 He couldn't possibly love me because of this.

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 Jesus says,

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 paid in full.

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 It is finished.

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 God no longer demands payment from you

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 for that sin that Jesus pays for fully.

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 The debt is forgiven by the death of Jesus.

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 That's why we're saying,

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 what mighty sum paid all my debt

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 when I a bondman stood

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 and has my soul at freedom set

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 to His Jesus' precious blood?

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 But what else do I owe God?

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 We've said it's actually more than those violations of His law, right?

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 I need a perfect record of righteousness,

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 perfect obedience,

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 perfect reflecting of God's image

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 for all the times I've failed.

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 I can't go back and redo them all.

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 I can't go back and redo them all.

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 I can't make my record perfect

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 and I'm required to have that.

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 I owe it to God.

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 And 2 Corinthians 5 says,

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 God made Him who knew no sin

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 to be sin for our sake

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 so that in Him, in Jesus,

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 we might become what?

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 The righteousness of God.

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 Romans 4 talks about God crediting to our account

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 righteousness that is not ours originally.

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 The righteousness of Jesus credited into our account.

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 Jesus pays this part of my debt too, right?

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 The need for righteousness.

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 Every year I go online

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 and I transfer some funds

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 from my savings account

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 into my daughter's college accounts.

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 And we've been doing that for a few years.

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 Hope to continue to do that.

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 I haven't started the wedding fund

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 for three girls

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 because that's a little scary

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 and intimidating to me.

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 But here's how this college fund

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 is supposed to work.

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 Many of you are living in this right now.

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 You understand this.

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 You make the payments in

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 and then if Caitlin goes to college,

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 she'll rack up a tuition debt

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 and that debt that she owes,

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 this money will come out of this fund

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 and pay that tuition debt, right?

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 Let me keep dreaming for a minute.

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 Then there's gonna be some left.

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 And that just brings her up to zero.

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 She just doesn't owe them for tuition

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 but she's gotta live, right?

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 While she's in college.

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 And so in this dream world that I'm in

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 where all this money has accumulated,

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 she says, dad, I need books

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 and I need to eat

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 and I need something to wear

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 and I go in and I click transfer

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 and a thousand dollars shows up

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 in Caitlin's account

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 and she can live.

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 And she didn't contribute a dime

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 to this account.

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 It's only hers

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 because she's connected to me, right?

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 Because she's my daughter,

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 she gets these benefits coming to her.

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 Debts forgiven.

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 Even.

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 Active righteousness,

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 what she needs to live provided for.

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 That's what Jesus does

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 when we're connected to him.

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 He pays the penalty

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 for losing my temper,

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 for lusting over someone else's family

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 or home or body,

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 for lying about my homework.

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 Jesus pays that penalty

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 and at great cost to himself

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 brings my account to zero.

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 I'm back even.

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 Then he makes the righteousness transfer.

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 Speaking God's truth to my neighbors

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 as I'm called to.

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 Quoting scripture to resist

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 the temptation of the devil.

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 Humbly trusting God in pain.

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 And those things start showing up

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 in my account.

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 Who did those?

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 Jesus.

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 They start showing up in my account.

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 Things that I need.

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 And that's the full picture

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 of what my soul needs.

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 The forgiveness for the debt

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 and the righteousness credited.

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 I need both

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 and Jesus has provided them for me.

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 So why does he tell me

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 to keep praying about it?

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 This is not just Jesus talking about forgiveness.

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 This is Jesus teaching us to pray

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 and he says,

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 when you pray,

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 pray,

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 Father,

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 forgive us our sins.

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 It's another thing

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 that Jesus has already accomplished.

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 It's already secure

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 that he tells us to pray for

00:19:06.780 --> 00:19:07.480
 in this prayer.

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 You know by now why,

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 don't you?

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 Why does Jesus keep telling us

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 to pray for things

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 that are secure already?

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 What's prayer about?

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 It's about the relationship,

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 isn't it?

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 The relationship

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 with the one we're praying to.

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 We've said it over and over.

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 Our Father wants relationship with us

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 and forgiveness

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 is the very basis

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 of that relationship.

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 As we come to pray to him,

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 when I come to talk with my Father,

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 I'm remembering that I do so

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 only through the blood of Christ

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 that pays my debts

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 and brings me into relationship

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 with God.

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 It's absolutely essential

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 or otherwise I can't pray to him.

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 I can't talk and have relationship

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 with him.

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 Forgiveness is needed

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 for my every sin

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 and my every failure.

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 See, this is an ongoing prayer

00:20:04.279 --> 00:20:05.019
 for Christians,

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 isn't it?

00:20:07.119 --> 00:20:08.740
 Not just some of y'all

00:20:08.740 --> 00:20:10.379
 need to pray this once.

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 This is how Jesus teaches

00:20:12.779 --> 00:20:14.059
 his followers to pray.

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 Always praying for forgiveness.

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 Always remembering our need

00:20:18.799 --> 00:20:19.480
 for forgiveness

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 and laying hold

00:20:20.480 --> 00:20:22.160
 of what Jesus has done.

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 God knows we're still sinners.

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 And the full debt for our sins

00:20:27.680 --> 00:20:29.740
 has been fully paid by Jesus.

00:20:30.900 --> 00:20:31.799
 So what's this?

00:20:32.940 --> 00:20:34.860
 This prayer is another chance

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 for us to experience

00:20:36.799 --> 00:20:39.079
 his grace personally.

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 Every day.

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 To experience in our lives

00:20:42.799 --> 00:20:43.940
 that account transfer.

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 Transfer.

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 The funds are there

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 from an account

00:20:47.220 --> 00:20:48.039
 that will last

00:20:48.039 --> 00:20:49.380
 well beyond any account

00:20:49.380 --> 00:20:50.539
 Mavis ever has.

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 It will never run out.

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 They've been credited to me

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 by faith.

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 But when I pray this,

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 I'm laying hold

00:21:01.299 --> 00:21:02.259
 of that reality

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 practically for me.

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 For my specific debts.

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 debts.

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 I'm opening my account page

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 and recognizing again

00:21:12.220 --> 00:21:14.680
 where my righteousness

00:21:14.680 --> 00:21:16.039
 comes from.

00:21:16.420 --> 00:21:19.680
 That's experiencing grace.

00:21:20.120 --> 00:21:21.720
 It's for me personally.

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 It's why someone once said

00:21:24.000 --> 00:21:26.039
 that Jesus died on the cross

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 is history.

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 That Jesus died for sin

00:21:29.960 --> 00:21:30.900
 is theology.

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 That Jesus died for my sin

00:21:34.340 --> 00:21:36.320
 is Christianity.

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 I need to remember

00:21:39.100 --> 00:21:40.840
 and revel in Jesus

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 paying for my debt

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 over and over.

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 Just as surely as I see

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 God provide my daily needs

00:21:49.320 --> 00:21:51.059
 one day after another.

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 Remember the provision

00:21:52.340 --> 00:21:53.559
 for this need

00:21:53.559 --> 00:21:54.920
 in my relationship with God

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 is just as certain.

00:21:58.000 --> 00:21:58.700
 This forgiveness

00:21:58.700 --> 00:22:00.700
 is soul food for me

00:22:00.700 --> 00:22:02.519
 in my relationship with God.

00:22:02.580 --> 00:22:04.880
 I'm at peace with him.

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 And forgiveness works

00:22:07.620 --> 00:22:08.420
 the same way

00:22:08.420 --> 00:22:10.240
 in other relationships too.

00:22:11.020 --> 00:22:12.980
 It's soul food for others

00:22:12.980 --> 00:22:16.020
 in my relationship with them.

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 This is the second part

00:22:17.600 --> 00:22:18.280
 of the petition.

00:22:19.720 --> 00:22:20.820
 Not only do we pray

00:22:20.820 --> 00:22:22.380
 about being forgiven,

00:22:22.600 --> 00:22:23.800
 but also we pray

00:22:23.800 --> 00:22:25.480
 about being forgiving.

00:22:26.640 --> 00:22:27.900
 See, the kingdom of God

00:22:27.900 --> 00:22:29.040
 is one characterized

00:22:29.040 --> 00:22:31.060
 by this lavish grace.

00:22:31.059 --> 00:22:33.139
 forgiveness full and free

00:22:33.139 --> 00:22:34.119
 where Jesus pays

00:22:34.119 --> 00:22:35.179
 a high price

00:22:35.179 --> 00:22:36.299
 and I am released

00:22:36.299 --> 00:22:37.279
 from my debts.

00:22:38.799 --> 00:22:39.519
 And if the kingdom

00:22:39.519 --> 00:22:40.279
 is going to come

00:22:40.279 --> 00:22:41.119
 in my life,

00:22:41.460 --> 00:22:42.419
 it also,

00:22:42.720 --> 00:22:43.879
 my life also,

00:22:44.419 --> 00:22:45.399
 must be characterized

00:22:45.399 --> 00:22:47.099
 by lavish grace.

00:22:48.039 --> 00:22:49.460
 Forgiveness full and free

00:22:49.460 --> 00:22:50.679
 where I in turn

00:22:50.679 --> 00:22:51.879
 pay a high price

00:22:51.879 --> 00:22:54.019
 and release others

00:22:54.019 --> 00:22:56.079
 from their debts

00:22:56.079 --> 00:22:56.940
 to me.

00:22:57.019 --> 00:22:57.980
 That's why we talk

00:22:57.980 --> 00:22:58.640
 at Southwood

00:22:58.640 --> 00:22:59.380
 about our mission

00:22:59.380 --> 00:23:00.759
 being to experience

00:23:00.759 --> 00:23:04.559
 and express grace.

00:23:04.980 --> 00:23:06.279
 We can't forgive

00:23:06.279 --> 00:23:07.620
 others' debts

00:23:07.620 --> 00:23:09.099
 unless our account

00:23:09.099 --> 00:23:10.079
 is paid up

00:23:10.079 --> 00:23:11.319
 and full of credit.

00:23:12.700 --> 00:23:13.960
 But once it is,

00:23:14.539 --> 00:23:16.079
 and as it is continually

00:23:16.079 --> 00:23:18.259
 in our experience of it,

00:23:18.420 --> 00:23:19.319
 we're to be passing

00:23:19.319 --> 00:23:20.620
 that blessing along

00:23:20.620 --> 00:23:22.960
 with the same lavish generosity,

00:23:23.860 --> 00:23:24.640
 I might add.

00:23:24.640 --> 00:23:27.160
 Over and over,

00:23:27.520 --> 00:23:28.880
 the money transfers in.

00:23:29.280 --> 00:23:30.600
 We experience grace

00:23:30.600 --> 00:23:31.580
 and over and over

00:23:31.580 --> 00:23:32.759
 we're told to express

00:23:32.759 --> 00:23:34.620
 that grace to others.

00:23:34.700 --> 00:23:35.580
 In this case,

00:23:36.540 --> 00:23:37.560
 the grace of forgiveness.

00:23:40.300 --> 00:23:41.640
 For we ourselves

00:23:41.640 --> 00:23:42.640
 forgive everyone

00:23:43.440 --> 00:23:46.360
 who is indebted to us.

00:23:48.780 --> 00:23:49.460
 Wonderful.

00:23:50.640 --> 00:23:52.180
 God, I've got a great idea.

00:23:52.180 --> 00:23:53.500
 You forgive me

00:23:53.500 --> 00:23:54.700
 at the same rate

00:23:54.700 --> 00:23:56.860
 I forgive everybody else

00:23:56.860 --> 00:23:58.019
 in my life.

00:23:58.480 --> 00:23:59.320
 Be as generous

00:23:59.320 --> 00:24:00.400
 in my account

00:24:00.400 --> 00:24:01.900
 as I am in theirs.

00:24:02.440 --> 00:24:03.000
 You good with that?

00:24:03.900 --> 00:24:04.779
 That cool?

00:24:05.000 --> 00:24:05.519
 You comfortable?

00:24:05.940 --> 00:24:06.799
 Feeling good

00:24:06.799 --> 00:24:07.640
 about the forgiveness

00:24:07.640 --> 00:24:08.480
 you need for this?

00:24:10.500 --> 00:24:12.279
 You know how we are.

00:24:12.620 --> 00:24:12.840
 I mean,

00:24:13.340 --> 00:24:14.360
 really gracious

00:24:14.360 --> 00:24:15.440
 if you like them

00:24:15.440 --> 00:24:17.360
 and a bit stingy

00:24:17.360 --> 00:24:17.960
 on the days

00:24:17.960 --> 00:24:18.600
 they're really getting

00:24:18.600 --> 00:24:19.279
 under your skin.

00:24:19.279 --> 00:24:21.599
 full pardon

00:24:21.599 --> 00:24:22.740
 for the little things

00:24:22.740 --> 00:24:24.619
 but breaking off

00:24:24.619 --> 00:24:25.299
 the relationship

00:24:25.299 --> 00:24:25.960
 altogether

00:24:25.960 --> 00:24:27.079
 when they really hurt you.

00:24:29.440 --> 00:24:30.339
 Immediate release

00:24:30.339 --> 00:24:31.000
 from the debt

00:24:31.000 --> 00:24:31.740
 sometimes

00:24:31.740 --> 00:24:33.519
 if they're really sorry

00:24:33.519 --> 00:24:35.579
 but probation

00:24:35.579 --> 00:24:36.259
 for a while

00:24:36.259 --> 00:24:37.059
 if you're not sure

00:24:37.059 --> 00:24:37.519
 they're really

00:24:37.519 --> 00:24:38.440
 going to change.

00:24:38.839 --> 00:24:38.940
 Right?

00:24:41.079 --> 00:24:42.079
 Sounds like forgiveness

00:24:42.079 --> 00:24:42.859
 to me.

00:24:43.099 --> 00:24:44.319
 Just doesn't

00:24:44.319 --> 00:24:45.220
 sound like

00:24:45.220 --> 00:24:46.639
 Jesus' forgiveness.

00:24:46.640 --> 00:24:46.840
 forgiveness.

00:24:49.160 --> 00:24:50.120
 Forgiving others

00:24:50.120 --> 00:24:50.820
 is hard

00:24:50.820 --> 00:24:52.120
 isn't it?

00:24:53.759 --> 00:24:55.480
 The reason for that

00:24:55.480 --> 00:24:56.620
 is that forgiveness

00:24:56.620 --> 00:24:57.740
 is costly.

00:24:59.460 --> 00:25:00.259
 Someone has to

00:25:00.259 --> 00:25:01.900
 absorb the cost

00:25:01.900 --> 00:25:02.980
 when a debt

00:25:02.980 --> 00:25:03.900
 is forgiven.

00:25:04.880 --> 00:25:05.500
 Ken Sandy

00:25:05.500 --> 00:25:06.380
 of Peacemakers

00:25:06.380 --> 00:25:07.340
 says it this way

00:25:07.340 --> 00:25:08.780
 forgiveness can be

00:25:08.780 --> 00:25:09.980
 a costly activity.

00:25:10.640 --> 00:25:11.580
 When you cancel a debt

00:25:11.580 --> 00:25:12.180
 it does not just

00:25:12.180 --> 00:25:13.060
 simply disappear

00:25:13.060 --> 00:25:14.000
 instead

00:25:14.000 --> 00:25:14.920
 you absorb

00:25:14.920 --> 00:25:15.620
 a liability

00:25:15.619 --> 00:25:16.799
 that someone else

00:25:16.799 --> 00:25:17.899
 deserves to pay.

00:25:19.079 --> 00:25:19.639
 Similarly

00:25:19.639 --> 00:25:20.979
 forgiveness requires

00:25:20.979 --> 00:25:21.839
 that you absorb

00:25:21.839 --> 00:25:22.779
 certain effects

00:25:22.779 --> 00:25:24.219
 of another person's sins

00:25:24.219 --> 00:25:25.299
 and you release

00:25:25.299 --> 00:25:26.039
 that person

00:25:26.039 --> 00:25:26.959
 from liability

00:25:26.959 --> 00:25:28.119
 to punishment.

00:25:31.000 --> 00:25:32.039
 That's hard.

00:25:32.479 --> 00:25:33.339
 You have to choose

00:25:33.339 --> 00:25:34.099
 to absorb

00:25:34.099 --> 00:25:35.599
 the cost.

00:25:36.619 --> 00:25:37.719
 But that's the essence

00:25:37.719 --> 00:25:38.659
 of forgiveness.

00:25:38.939 --> 00:25:39.039
 Right?

00:25:39.319 --> 00:25:40.659
 Absorbing the cost

00:25:40.659 --> 00:25:41.879
 of someone else's

00:25:41.879 --> 00:25:42.619
 debt.

00:25:43.099 --> 00:25:43.619
 The payback

00:25:43.619 --> 00:25:44.859
 you could have

00:25:44.859 --> 00:25:45.319
 demanded

00:25:45.319 --> 00:25:45.979
 rightfully.

00:25:46.500 --> 00:25:47.099
 The weeks

00:25:47.099 --> 00:25:47.819
 of housework

00:25:47.819 --> 00:25:48.259
 you could have

00:25:48.259 --> 00:25:49.219
 held over your husband.

00:25:49.979 --> 00:25:50.619
 The weeks

00:25:50.619 --> 00:25:51.479
 of cold shoulder

00:25:51.479 --> 00:25:52.079
 you could have

00:25:52.079 --> 00:25:53.039
 used to make

00:25:53.039 --> 00:25:53.899
 your wife pay.

00:25:55.119 --> 00:25:55.839
 The weeks

00:25:55.839 --> 00:25:56.399
 of favors

00:25:56.399 --> 00:25:56.859
 you could have

00:25:56.859 --> 00:25:57.279
 demanded

00:25:57.279 --> 00:25:58.379
 from your friend.

00:25:58.639 --> 00:25:59.679
 Whatever it is

00:25:59.679 --> 00:26:00.639
 you're

00:26:00.639 --> 00:26:01.579
 forgiving

00:26:01.579 --> 00:26:02.259
 that

00:26:02.259 --> 00:26:03.500
 debt.

00:26:04.959 --> 00:26:05.579
 Now to be clear

00:26:05.579 --> 00:26:06.059
 forgiveness

00:26:06.059 --> 00:26:06.859
 doesn't always

00:26:06.859 --> 00:26:07.519
 remove all

00:26:07.519 --> 00:26:08.239
 consequences.

00:26:09.179 --> 00:26:09.859
 You may forgive

00:26:09.859 --> 00:26:10.959
 and still need

00:26:10.959 --> 00:26:12.099
 physical separation

00:26:12.099 --> 00:26:12.839
 for your own

00:26:12.839 --> 00:26:13.379
 protection.

00:26:14.119 --> 00:26:15.139
 You may forgive

00:26:15.139 --> 00:26:16.039
 and still take

00:26:16.039 --> 00:26:17.099
 the person to rehab

00:26:17.099 --> 00:26:17.959
 for their own

00:26:17.959 --> 00:26:18.859
 good at the same

00:26:18.859 --> 00:26:19.339
 time.

00:26:20.419 --> 00:26:21.419
 But forgiveness

00:26:21.419 --> 00:26:23.079
 means you absorb

00:26:23.079 --> 00:26:24.879
 the cost that the

00:26:24.879 --> 00:26:25.939
 offender owes

00:26:25.939 --> 00:26:27.179
 to you.

00:26:27.339 --> 00:26:28.379
 And that is so

00:26:28.379 --> 00:26:29.219
 hard to do

00:26:29.219 --> 00:26:30.339
 because it is so

00:26:30.339 --> 00:26:31.399
 much easier to be

00:26:31.399 --> 00:26:31.719
 bitter

00:26:31.719 --> 00:26:34.619
 and distant

00:26:34.619 --> 00:26:37.559
 or hateful

00:26:37.559 --> 00:26:38.839
 in your heart.

00:26:38.839 --> 00:26:39.679
 Isn't it?

00:26:39.680 --> 00:26:42.480
 Who are you

00:26:42.480 --> 00:26:43.160
 thinking of

00:26:43.160 --> 00:26:44.299
 right now

00:26:44.299 --> 00:26:45.980
 when you think

00:26:45.980 --> 00:26:46.420
 of forgiving

00:26:46.420 --> 00:26:46.860
 others?

00:26:48.420 --> 00:26:49.920
 It's so hard

00:26:49.920 --> 00:26:50.799
 to absorb

00:26:50.799 --> 00:26:51.460
 the cost

00:26:51.460 --> 00:26:51.900
 of those

00:26:51.900 --> 00:26:52.220
 debts

00:26:52.220 --> 00:26:53.200
 but it's

00:26:53.200 --> 00:26:54.539
 so Christian.

00:26:55.740 --> 00:26:56.000
 Sandy

00:26:56.000 --> 00:26:56.640
 concludes

00:26:56.640 --> 00:26:57.460
 this way

00:26:57.460 --> 00:26:58.680
 this is

00:26:58.680 --> 00:26:59.500
 precisely

00:26:59.500 --> 00:27:00.900
 what Christ

00:27:00.900 --> 00:27:01.620
 accomplished

00:27:01.620 --> 00:27:02.980
 on Calvary.

00:27:03.380 --> 00:27:04.440
 The absorbing

00:27:04.440 --> 00:27:05.820
 certain effects

00:27:05.820 --> 00:27:06.279
 of another

00:27:06.279 --> 00:27:07.279
 person's sin

00:27:07.279 --> 00:27:08.039
 to release

00:27:08.039 --> 00:27:08.519
 them

00:27:08.519 --> 00:27:09.399
 from

00:27:09.399 --> 00:27:10.440
 punishment.

00:27:10.619 --> 00:27:11.379
 It's exactly

00:27:11.379 --> 00:27:12.339
 what Jesus

00:27:12.339 --> 00:27:12.960
 did for us.

00:27:13.019 --> 00:27:13.579
 He set us

00:27:13.579 --> 00:27:13.839
 free

00:27:13.839 --> 00:27:14.599
 from our

00:27:14.599 --> 00:27:14.920
 debt

00:27:14.920 --> 00:27:15.660
 at great

00:27:15.660 --> 00:27:16.119
 cost

00:27:16.119 --> 00:27:16.819
 to himself

00:27:16.819 --> 00:27:17.220
 right?

00:27:18.059 --> 00:27:18.819
 It hurt.

00:27:20.039 --> 00:27:20.759
 It wasn't

00:27:20.759 --> 00:27:21.160
 easy.

00:27:22.660 --> 00:27:23.039
 And that's

00:27:23.039 --> 00:27:23.480
 how he has

00:27:23.480 --> 00:27:24.180
 forgiven us.

00:27:24.440 --> 00:27:24.720
 And so

00:27:24.720 --> 00:27:25.559
 Jesus is now

00:27:25.559 --> 00:27:26.079
 saying

00:27:26.079 --> 00:27:27.160
 that forgiven

00:27:27.160 --> 00:27:27.799
 people

00:27:27.799 --> 00:27:28.519
 forgive

00:27:28.519 --> 00:27:29.119
 people.

00:27:30.559 --> 00:27:31.460
 It's not

00:27:31.460 --> 00:27:31.839
 that you're

00:27:31.839 --> 00:27:32.119
 forgiving

00:27:32.119 --> 00:27:32.579
 others

00:27:32.579 --> 00:27:33.039
 earns

00:27:33.039 --> 00:27:33.559
 your right

00:27:33.559 --> 00:27:33.980
 to be

00:27:33.980 --> 00:27:34.399
 forgiven

00:27:34.400 --> 00:27:35.860
 by God

00:27:35.860 --> 00:27:37.600
 but rather

00:27:37.600 --> 00:27:38.420
 if you

00:27:38.420 --> 00:27:38.860
 don't

00:27:38.860 --> 00:27:39.240
 forgive

00:27:39.240 --> 00:27:39.600
 others

00:27:39.600 --> 00:27:39.840
 you

00:27:39.840 --> 00:27:40.300
 evidence

00:27:40.300 --> 00:27:40.580
 the

00:27:40.580 --> 00:27:41.019
 reality

00:27:41.019 --> 00:27:41.300
 that

00:27:41.300 --> 00:27:41.480
 you

00:27:41.480 --> 00:27:41.720
 have

00:27:41.720 --> 00:27:42.019
 not

00:27:42.019 --> 00:27:42.660
 received

00:27:42.660 --> 00:27:42.920
 the

00:27:42.920 --> 00:27:43.400
 greater

00:27:43.400 --> 00:27:44.500
 gracious

00:27:44.500 --> 00:27:45.060
 forgiveness

00:27:45.060 --> 00:27:46.000
 of God.

00:27:48.180 --> 00:27:48.560
 This is

00:27:48.560 --> 00:27:48.880
 why it's

00:27:48.880 --> 00:27:49.460
 so important

00:27:49.460 --> 00:27:50.019
 regularly

00:27:50.019 --> 00:27:50.780
 to calculate

00:27:50.780 --> 00:27:51.280
 our debt

00:27:51.280 --> 00:27:51.740
 to God

00:27:51.740 --> 00:27:52.920
 the unpayable

00:27:52.920 --> 00:27:53.400
 debt

00:27:53.400 --> 00:27:54.060
 that cost

00:27:54.060 --> 00:27:54.360
 him

00:27:54.360 --> 00:27:55.320
 his only

00:27:55.320 --> 00:27:55.840
 son

00:27:55.840 --> 00:27:56.800
 because

00:27:56.800 --> 00:27:57.440
 no debt

00:27:57.440 --> 00:27:58.259
 anyone owes

00:27:58.259 --> 00:27:58.580
 us

00:27:58.580 --> 00:27:59.000
 is that

00:27:59.000 --> 00:27:59.460
 great.

00:28:01.820 --> 00:28:02.180
 And what

00:28:02.180 --> 00:28:02.380
 does the

00:28:02.380 --> 00:28:03.060
 gospel say?

00:28:03.059 --> 00:28:04.759
 that

00:28:04.759 --> 00:28:05.799
 unpayable

00:28:05.799 --> 00:28:06.279
 debt

00:28:06.279 --> 00:28:07.419
 has been

00:28:07.419 --> 00:28:08.139
 forgiven

00:28:08.139 --> 00:28:08.980
 us

00:28:08.980 --> 00:28:09.879
 by God.

00:28:10.079 --> 00:28:10.899
 No holds

00:28:10.899 --> 00:28:11.519
 barred

00:28:11.519 --> 00:28:13.000
 no strings

00:28:13.000 --> 00:28:13.720
 attached

00:28:13.720 --> 00:28:14.960
 running

00:28:14.960 --> 00:28:15.559
 off the

00:28:15.559 --> 00:28:16.159
 porch

00:28:16.159 --> 00:28:17.139
 counter

00:28:17.139 --> 00:28:17.839
 cultural

00:28:17.839 --> 00:28:18.619
 throwing

00:28:18.619 --> 00:28:19.179
 your arms

00:28:19.179 --> 00:28:19.539
 around

00:28:19.539 --> 00:28:19.819
 the

00:28:19.819 --> 00:28:20.399
 prodigal

00:28:20.399 --> 00:28:20.819
 son

00:28:20.819 --> 00:28:21.259
 kissing

00:28:21.259 --> 00:28:21.659
 him

00:28:21.659 --> 00:28:22.059
 kind

00:28:22.059 --> 00:28:22.319
 of

00:28:22.319 --> 00:28:22.919
 forgiveness

00:28:22.919 --> 00:28:24.139
 that we've

00:28:24.139 --> 00:28:24.619
 received

00:28:24.619 --> 00:28:24.919
 right?

00:28:25.139 --> 00:28:25.740
 That's how

00:28:25.740 --> 00:28:26.460
 God forgives

00:28:26.460 --> 00:28:26.799
 us.

00:28:27.240 --> 00:28:27.519
 He's not

00:28:27.519 --> 00:28:27.940
 waiting

00:28:27.940 --> 00:28:29.139
 to see

00:28:29.139 --> 00:28:29.519
 how well

00:28:29.519 --> 00:28:30.139
 we perform.

00:28:30.779 --> 00:28:31.179
 He's not

00:28:31.179 --> 00:28:31.700
 hedging his

00:28:31.700 --> 00:28:32.379
 bets on

00:28:32.380 --> 00:28:33.300
 how sincere

00:28:33.300 --> 00:28:33.820
 we are.

00:28:34.060 --> 00:28:34.460
 He's

00:28:34.460 --> 00:28:35.000
 running

00:28:35.000 --> 00:28:35.660
 to forgive

00:28:35.660 --> 00:28:36.240
 us.

00:28:38.460 --> 00:28:39.200
 And then

00:28:39.200 --> 00:28:39.600
 he tells

00:28:39.600 --> 00:28:39.960
 us

00:28:39.960 --> 00:28:41.440
 that's how

00:28:41.440 --> 00:28:41.900
 you forgive

00:28:41.900 --> 00:28:42.380
 others.

00:28:42.480 --> 00:28:42.720
 It's the

00:28:42.720 --> 00:28:43.440
 very essence

00:28:43.440 --> 00:28:44.580
 of Christianity

00:28:44.580 --> 00:28:45.220
 of our

00:28:45.220 --> 00:28:45.900
 relationship

00:28:45.900 --> 00:28:46.640
 with our

00:28:46.640 --> 00:28:46.940
 heavenly

00:28:46.940 --> 00:28:47.360
 father

00:28:47.360 --> 00:28:47.900
 that he

00:28:47.900 --> 00:28:48.280
 loves

00:28:48.280 --> 00:28:48.960
 and delights

00:28:48.960 --> 00:28:49.400
 in us

00:28:49.400 --> 00:28:49.920
 the way

00:28:49.920 --> 00:28:50.600
 that father

00:28:50.600 --> 00:28:51.120
 delights

00:28:51.120 --> 00:28:51.800
 in the

00:28:51.800 --> 00:28:52.460
 son who

00:28:52.460 --> 00:28:53.320
 has deeply

00:28:53.320 --> 00:28:54.260
 sinned

00:28:54.260 --> 00:28:54.660
 against

00:28:54.660 --> 00:28:55.100
 him.

00:28:56.960 --> 00:28:57.720
 Do those

00:28:57.720 --> 00:28:57.920
 who've

00:28:57.920 --> 00:28:58.220
 offended

00:28:58.220 --> 00:28:58.900
 you who

00:28:58.900 --> 00:28:59.500
 are indebted

00:28:59.500 --> 00:28:59.940
 to you

00:28:59.940 --> 00:29:00.519
 feel that

00:29:00.519 --> 00:29:00.839
 kind

00:29:00.839 --> 00:29:01.000
 of

00:29:01.000 --> 00:29:01.420
 love

00:29:01.420 --> 00:29:02.440
 from

00:29:02.440 --> 00:29:02.759
 you?

00:29:04.920 --> 00:29:05.539
 And if

00:29:05.539 --> 00:29:06.119
 they did

00:29:06.119 --> 00:29:07.839
 imagine

00:29:07.839 --> 00:29:08.359
 that they

00:29:08.359 --> 00:29:09.019
 begin to

00:29:09.019 --> 00:29:09.599
 feel that

00:29:09.599 --> 00:29:10.319
 from you

00:29:10.319 --> 00:29:10.680
 wouldn't it

00:29:10.680 --> 00:29:11.400
 transform

00:29:11.400 --> 00:29:12.359
 your

00:29:12.359 --> 00:29:12.839
 relationship?

00:29:13.000 --> 00:29:13.180
 Wouldn't

00:29:13.180 --> 00:29:13.819
 forgiveness

00:29:13.819 --> 00:29:14.720
 like that

00:29:14.720 --> 00:29:15.400
 make your

00:29:15.400 --> 00:29:15.940
 relationship

00:29:15.940 --> 00:29:16.440
 with them

00:29:16.440 --> 00:29:16.880
 entirely

00:29:16.880 --> 00:29:17.299
 different?

00:29:17.880 --> 00:29:18.119
 Couldn't

00:29:18.119 --> 00:29:18.839
 it transform

00:29:18.839 --> 00:29:19.759
 even a

00:29:19.759 --> 00:29:20.380
 seemingly

00:29:20.380 --> 00:29:20.980
 hopeless

00:29:20.980 --> 00:29:21.839
 marriage?

00:29:23.339 --> 00:29:23.680
 Couldn't

00:29:23.680 --> 00:29:24.460
 it transform

00:29:24.460 --> 00:29:25.420
 even a

00:29:25.420 --> 00:29:25.960
 community

00:29:25.960 --> 00:29:27.079
 with diverse

00:29:27.079 --> 00:29:27.660
 people

00:29:27.660 --> 00:29:28.440
 and a

00:29:28.440 --> 00:29:28.799
 lot of

00:29:28.799 --> 00:29:29.400
 wounds?

00:29:31.759 --> 00:29:31.980
 Couldn't

00:29:31.980 --> 00:29:32.680
 it transform

00:29:32.680 --> 00:29:34.019
 our fractured

00:29:34.019 --> 00:29:34.519
 world

00:29:34.519 --> 00:29:36.000
 these days?

00:29:37.880 --> 00:29:39.019
 Ten years

00:29:39.019 --> 00:29:39.660
 ago in

00:29:39.660 --> 00:29:40.660
 Lancaster,

00:29:40.920 --> 00:29:41.460
 Pennsylvania

00:29:41.460 --> 00:29:43.220
 Charles Carl

00:29:43.220 --> 00:29:43.799
 Roberts

00:29:43.799 --> 00:29:44.860
 broke into

00:29:44.860 --> 00:29:45.779
 an Amish

00:29:45.779 --> 00:29:46.640
 schoolhouse

00:29:46.640 --> 00:29:48.740
 and out

00:29:48.740 --> 00:29:49.660
 of anger

00:29:49.660 --> 00:29:50.900
 at God

00:29:50.900 --> 00:29:52.680
 took hostage

00:29:52.680 --> 00:29:53.279
 several

00:29:53.279 --> 00:29:53.680
 elementary

00:29:53.680 --> 00:29:54.319
 aged

00:29:54.319 --> 00:29:55.319
 schoolgirls

00:29:55.319 --> 00:29:56.399
 and shot

00:29:56.399 --> 00:29:57.039
 and killed

00:29:57.039 --> 00:29:57.939
 five of

00:29:57.939 --> 00:29:58.519
 them before

00:29:58.519 --> 00:29:58.899
 killing

00:29:58.899 --> 00:29:59.439
 himself.

00:30:00.460 --> 00:30:00.960
 It was a

00:30:00.960 --> 00:30:01.399
 horrific

00:30:01.399 --> 00:30:02.019
 event,

00:30:02.159 --> 00:30:02.519
 you may

00:30:02.519 --> 00:30:03.359
 remember it

00:30:03.359 --> 00:30:03.720
 from the

00:30:03.720 --> 00:30:04.079
 news.

00:30:04.759 --> 00:30:05.379
 For that

00:30:05.379 --> 00:30:06.179
 Amish

00:30:06.179 --> 00:30:06.839
 community

00:30:06.839 --> 00:30:07.579
 the grief

00:30:07.579 --> 00:30:10.480
 was intense.

00:30:11.839 --> 00:30:12.819
 A quiet

00:30:12.819 --> 00:30:13.599
 old fashioned

00:30:13.599 --> 00:30:14.240
 Christian

00:30:14.240 --> 00:30:15.200
 community

00:30:15.200 --> 00:30:16.099
 broken

00:30:16.099 --> 00:30:17.119
 into

00:30:17.119 --> 00:30:18.279
 by the

00:30:18.279 --> 00:30:18.740
 evil

00:30:18.740 --> 00:30:20.379
 of murder.

00:30:21.960 --> 00:30:22.259
 But as

00:30:22.259 --> 00:30:22.859
 intense as

00:30:22.859 --> 00:30:23.659
 their grief

00:30:23.659 --> 00:30:24.460
 was,

00:30:24.460 --> 00:30:25.900
 their grace

00:30:25.900 --> 00:30:26.819
 was equally

00:30:26.819 --> 00:30:28.019
 intense.

00:30:29.200 --> 00:30:29.779
 By the

00:30:29.779 --> 00:30:30.460
 afternoon of

00:30:30.460 --> 00:30:30.920
 the shooting

00:30:30.920 --> 00:30:31.799
 members of

00:30:31.799 --> 00:30:32.920
 that community

00:30:32.920 --> 00:30:33.860
 were praying

00:30:33.860 --> 00:30:34.940
 and crying

00:30:34.940 --> 00:30:35.819
 with the

00:30:35.819 --> 00:30:36.440
 widow of

00:30:36.440 --> 00:30:37.019
 the shooter

00:30:37.019 --> 00:30:37.860
 and her

00:30:37.860 --> 00:30:38.240
 family.

00:30:39.240 --> 00:30:40.120
 They began

00:30:40.120 --> 00:30:40.539
 to make

00:30:40.539 --> 00:30:41.079
 public

00:30:41.079 --> 00:30:42.059
 pronouncements

00:30:42.059 --> 00:30:43.299
 of their

00:30:43.299 --> 00:30:43.779
 forgiveness

00:30:43.779 --> 00:30:44.980
 of the

00:30:44.980 --> 00:30:45.240
 shooter.

00:30:46.039 --> 00:30:46.559
 And they

00:30:46.559 --> 00:30:47.240
 demonstrated

00:30:47.240 --> 00:30:48.059
 tangible

00:30:48.059 --> 00:30:49.299
 reality of

00:30:49.299 --> 00:30:49.940
 that forgiveness

00:30:49.940 --> 00:30:51.100
 by inviting

00:30:51.100 --> 00:30:51.600
 the widow

00:30:51.600 --> 00:30:52.360
 as one of

00:30:52.360 --> 00:30:52.680
 the few

00:30:52.680 --> 00:30:53.500
 outsiders to

00:30:53.500 --> 00:30:54.000
 the funeral

00:30:54.000 --> 00:30:54.779
 of these

00:30:54.779 --> 00:30:55.400
 girls.

00:30:55.960 --> 00:30:56.400
 And by

00:30:56.400 --> 00:30:56.840
 setting up

00:30:56.840 --> 00:30:57.380
 a fund

00:30:57.380 --> 00:30:58.140
 to provide

00:30:58.140 --> 00:30:58.940
 for her

00:30:58.940 --> 00:30:59.560
 children,

00:30:59.900 --> 00:31:00.720
 not just

00:31:00.720 --> 00:31:02.140
 their own.

00:31:04.000 --> 00:31:04.620
 This

00:31:04.620 --> 00:31:04.980
 widow,

00:31:05.120 --> 00:31:05.360
 her name

00:31:05.360 --> 00:31:05.920
 is Marie

00:31:05.920 --> 00:31:06.660
 Monville

00:31:06.660 --> 00:31:07.120
 now,

00:31:08.720 --> 00:31:09.299
 thought for

00:31:09.299 --> 00:31:09.799
 sure she'd

00:31:09.799 --> 00:31:10.820
 be leaving

00:31:10.820 --> 00:31:11.640
 this area,

00:31:12.120 --> 00:31:12.680
 needing to

00:31:12.680 --> 00:31:13.600
 move to a

00:31:13.600 --> 00:31:14.360
 different community.

00:31:14.519 --> 00:31:15.000
 She stayed

00:31:15.000 --> 00:31:16.680
 there and

00:31:16.680 --> 00:31:17.299
 lived,

00:31:18.640 --> 00:31:20.039
 never had to

00:31:20.039 --> 00:31:20.299
 leave.

00:31:20.299 --> 00:31:20.879
 she's since

00:31:20.879 --> 00:31:21.700
 written books

00:31:21.700 --> 00:31:22.740
 about the

00:31:22.740 --> 00:31:23.680
 Amish grace,

00:31:23.879 --> 00:31:24.960
 the incredible

00:31:24.960 --> 00:31:26.440
 forgiveness she

00:31:26.440 --> 00:31:27.180
 was shown,

00:31:27.559 --> 00:31:28.019
 that she

00:31:28.019 --> 00:31:28.359
 says,

00:31:28.440 --> 00:31:28.639
 and I

00:31:28.639 --> 00:31:28.940
 quote,

00:31:29.159 --> 00:31:29.740
 helped to

00:31:29.740 --> 00:31:30.440
 provide the

00:31:30.440 --> 00:31:31.119
 healing we

00:31:31.119 --> 00:31:32.019
 so desperately

00:31:32.019 --> 00:31:32.599
 need.

00:31:33.240 --> 00:31:33.460
 Gifts

00:31:33.460 --> 00:31:34.000
 you've given

00:31:34.000 --> 00:31:34.599
 have touched

00:31:34.599 --> 00:31:35.279
 our hearts

00:31:35.279 --> 00:31:35.759
 in a way

00:31:35.759 --> 00:31:36.500
 no words

00:31:36.500 --> 00:31:37.519
 can describe.

00:31:38.659 --> 00:31:39.460
 Your compassion

00:31:39.460 --> 00:31:40.180
 has reached

00:31:40.180 --> 00:31:40.859
 beyond our

00:31:40.859 --> 00:31:41.339
 family,

00:31:42.039 --> 00:31:42.579
 beyond our

00:31:42.579 --> 00:31:43.180
 community,

00:31:43.659 --> 00:31:44.180
 and is

00:31:44.180 --> 00:31:44.659
 changing

00:31:44.659 --> 00:31:45.819
 our world.

00:31:45.819 --> 00:31:48.859
 now you

00:31:48.859 --> 00:31:49.759
 might not

00:31:49.759 --> 00:31:50.419
 have realized

00:31:50.419 --> 00:31:51.000
 that many

00:31:51.000 --> 00:31:52.419
 criticized the

00:31:52.419 --> 00:31:53.799
 Amish for

00:31:53.799 --> 00:31:54.619
 this whole

00:31:54.619 --> 00:31:55.179
 situation.

00:31:55.899 --> 00:31:56.079
 This

00:31:56.079 --> 00:31:56.759
 forgiveness was

00:31:56.759 --> 00:31:57.240
 ridiculous,

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 they said it

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 denied the

00:31:58.439 --> 00:31:59.019
 reality of

00:31:59.019 --> 00:31:59.539
 the evil

00:31:59.539 --> 00:32:00.179
 that had

00:32:00.179 --> 00:32:00.939
 taken place,

00:32:01.200 --> 00:32:01.700
 they forgave

00:32:01.700 --> 00:32:02.279
 too quickly

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 and too

00:32:02.779 --> 00:32:03.179
 thoroughly,

00:32:03.960 --> 00:32:05.980
 but they

00:32:05.980 --> 00:32:06.259
 knew it

00:32:06.259 --> 00:32:06.720
 was quite

00:32:06.720 --> 00:32:07.339
 the opposite.

00:32:08.980 --> 00:32:09.519
 Forgiveness

00:32:09.519 --> 00:32:10.379
 like that

00:32:10.379 --> 00:32:11.619
 doesn't deny

00:32:11.619 --> 00:32:12.579
 the reality

00:32:12.579 --> 00:32:13.159
 of evil

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 or sizable

00:32:14.179 --> 00:32:14.500
 debt,

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 quite the

00:32:15.819 --> 00:32:16.220
 opposite.

00:32:17.160 --> 00:32:18.119
 It rather

00:32:18.119 --> 00:32:19.059
 acknowledges

00:32:19.059 --> 00:32:20.559
 the reality

00:32:20.559 --> 00:32:21.079
 of debt

00:32:21.079 --> 00:32:21.660
 and says

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 there is

00:32:22.019 --> 00:32:22.720
 nothing

00:32:22.720 --> 00:32:23.660
 that can

00:32:23.660 --> 00:32:24.160
 pay a

00:32:24.160 --> 00:32:24.660
 debt like

00:32:24.660 --> 00:32:25.400
 this other

00:32:25.400 --> 00:32:25.759
 than the

00:32:25.759 --> 00:32:26.200
 blood of

00:32:26.200 --> 00:32:26.559
 Jesus.

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 It requires

00:32:27.880 --> 00:32:29.059
 his payment

00:32:29.059 --> 00:32:29.839
 for this

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 to be

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 covered and

00:32:30.980 --> 00:32:31.519
 it chooses

00:32:31.519 --> 00:32:32.180
 to say

00:32:32.180 --> 00:32:33.079
 that God's

00:32:33.079 --> 00:32:33.779
 grace is

00:32:33.779 --> 00:32:34.660
 bigger than

00:32:34.660 --> 00:32:35.160
 the debt

00:32:35.160 --> 00:32:35.680
 that is

00:32:35.680 --> 00:32:36.059
 owed.

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 That even

00:32:36.980 --> 00:32:37.299
 though the

00:32:37.299 --> 00:32:37.839
 Amish had

00:32:37.839 --> 00:32:38.259
 lost their

00:32:38.259 --> 00:32:39.099
 own children,

00:32:39.500 --> 00:32:39.940
 their God

00:32:39.940 --> 00:32:40.539
 had forgiven

00:32:40.539 --> 00:32:41.279
 them a debt

00:32:41.279 --> 00:32:42.099
 at the cost

00:32:42.099 --> 00:32:42.619
 of his

00:32:42.619 --> 00:32:43.480
 very own

00:32:43.480 --> 00:32:43.960
 son.

00:32:44.500 --> 00:32:45.380
 How could

00:32:45.380 --> 00:32:45.940
 they not

00:32:45.940 --> 00:32:46.779
 also

00:32:46.779 --> 00:32:47.740
 forgive?

00:32:50.079 --> 00:32:50.779
 And forgiveness

00:32:50.779 --> 00:32:51.460
 like that

00:32:51.460 --> 00:32:52.140
 really does

00:32:52.140 --> 00:32:53.380
 change the

00:32:53.380 --> 00:32:53.660
 world.

00:32:53.819 --> 00:32:54.660
 It's soul

00:32:54.660 --> 00:32:55.299
 food for

00:32:55.299 --> 00:32:55.680
 you

00:32:55.680 --> 00:32:57.740
 and for

00:32:57.740 --> 00:32:58.079
 the one

00:32:58.079 --> 00:32:58.920
 you forgive,

00:32:59.200 --> 00:32:59.779
 healing your

00:32:59.779 --> 00:33:00.460
 relationship

00:33:00.460 --> 00:33:01.500
 in a way

00:33:01.500 --> 00:33:02.160
 nothing else

00:33:02.160 --> 00:33:02.519
 can,

00:33:03.759 --> 00:33:04.319
 giving them

00:33:04.319 --> 00:33:04.920
 something to

00:33:04.920 --> 00:33:05.720
 share with

00:33:05.720 --> 00:33:06.259
 others as

00:33:06.259 --> 00:33:06.900
 Jesus has

00:33:06.900 --> 00:33:07.400
 given to

00:33:07.400 --> 00:33:08.460
 you forgiveness

00:33:08.460 --> 00:33:09.500
 to pass

00:33:09.500 --> 00:33:09.980
 along.

00:33:11.940 --> 00:33:12.339
 And so

00:33:12.339 --> 00:33:13.019
 we pray

00:33:13.019 --> 00:33:14.099
 regularly,

00:33:14.799 --> 00:33:15.159
 Father,

00:33:15.720 --> 00:33:16.459
 forgive us

00:33:16.459 --> 00:33:17.359
 our sins

00:33:17.359 --> 00:33:17.919
 for we

00:33:17.919 --> 00:33:18.599
 ourselves

00:33:18.599 --> 00:33:19.899
 forgive all

00:33:19.899 --> 00:33:21.259
 those who

00:33:21.259 --> 00:33:21.859
 are indebted

00:33:21.859 --> 00:33:22.539
 to us.

00:33:23.599 --> 00:33:24.279
 We pray

00:33:24.279 --> 00:33:24.619
 that God

00:33:24.619 --> 00:33:25.259
 would forgive

00:33:25.259 --> 00:33:25.859
 the evil

00:33:25.859 --> 00:33:26.819
 we do,

00:33:27.980 --> 00:33:29.199
 the good

00:33:29.199 --> 00:33:30.139
 that we

00:33:30.139 --> 00:33:30.699
 neglect

00:33:30.699 --> 00:33:31.879
 to do.

00:33:32.079 --> 00:33:32.480
 We pray

00:33:32.480 --> 00:33:32.839
 God would

00:33:32.839 --> 00:33:33.579
 continue to

00:33:33.579 --> 00:33:34.159
 allow that

00:33:34.159 --> 00:33:34.639
 grace to

00:33:34.639 --> 00:33:35.439
 change us

00:33:35.439 --> 00:33:36.240
 and flow

00:33:36.240 --> 00:33:37.179
 through us,

00:33:37.500 --> 00:33:38.039
 that the

00:33:38.039 --> 00:33:38.740
 very forgiveness

00:33:38.740 --> 00:33:39.839
 we experience

00:33:39.839 --> 00:33:40.199
 would be

00:33:40.199 --> 00:33:41.559
 expressed to

00:33:41.559 --> 00:33:42.139
 many others.

00:33:44.279 --> 00:33:44.960
 Let's spend

00:33:44.960 --> 00:33:45.179
 a minute

00:33:45.179 --> 00:33:45.919
 reflecting on

00:33:45.919 --> 00:33:46.240
 our own

00:33:46.240 --> 00:33:46.700
 hearts,

00:33:47.759 --> 00:33:48.399
 confessing our

00:33:48.399 --> 00:33:49.579
 personal sins

00:33:49.579 --> 00:33:50.159
 and then we'll

00:33:50.159 --> 00:33:50.960
 join together

00:33:50.960 --> 00:33:52.039
 in praying

00:33:52.039 --> 00:33:52.779
 for God's

00:33:52.779 --> 00:33:53.159
 forgiveness.

00:33:53.339 --> 00:33:53.940
 Pray silently

00:33:53.940 --> 00:33:54.460
 for a minute.

00:34:11.559 --> 00:34:13.320
 Sometimes

00:34:13.320 --> 00:34:13.579
 two

00:34:13.699 --> 00:34:14.219
 rest

00:34:14.219 --> 00:34:17.259
 ago

00:34:18.179 --> 00:34:18.619
 to

00:34:19.139 --> 00:34:19.900
 go

00:34:20.299 --> 00:34:21.279
 CH

00:34:21.279 --> 00:34:22.159
 gonna

00:34:22.159 --> 00:34:22.559
 translate

00:34:23.039 --> 00:34:23.259
 nothing

00:34:24.019 --> 00:34:24.139
 good,

00:34:24.400 --> 00:34:24.880
voc

00:34:24.880 --> 00:34:26.320
 fundamentally

00:34:26.320 --> 00:34:33.619
 over

00:34:33.679 --> 00:34:34.139
。

00:34:34.239 --> 00:34:34.659
 tomorrow

00:34:34.659 --> 00:34:35.119
 to

00:34:35.119 --> 00:34:35.960
.

00:34:36.019 --> 00:34:36.579
 fingers

00:34:36.579 --> 00:34:37.079
 or

00:34:37.079 --> 00:34:38.059
어나

00:34:38.159 --> 00:34:38.340
 Completely

00:34:38.340 --> 00:34:40.039
 apert

00:34:40.039 --> 00:34:45.800
 join me in your hearts as I pray

00:34:45.800 --> 00:34:47.159
 and then join me aloud

00:34:47.159 --> 00:34:49.900
 in the responses each time

00:34:49.900 --> 00:34:51.699
 it's the same response

00:34:51.699 --> 00:34:54.880
 forgiving father

00:34:54.880 --> 00:34:56.920
 God of grace

00:34:56.920 --> 00:34:59.039
 mercy and forgiveness

00:34:59.039 --> 00:35:01.519
 we confess our sins in thought

00:35:01.519 --> 00:35:03.219
 word and deed

00:35:03.219 --> 00:35:05.360
 the evil we have done and the duties

00:35:05.360 --> 00:35:07.139
 we have left undone

00:35:07.139 --> 00:35:10.259
 father forgive us

00:35:10.259 --> 00:35:13.179
 we have not loved you with our

00:35:13.179 --> 00:35:15.719
 whole heart mind and strength

00:35:15.719 --> 00:35:17.039
 nor our neighbors

00:35:17.039 --> 00:35:18.579
 as ourselves

00:35:18.579 --> 00:35:21.420
 father forgive us

00:35:21.420 --> 00:35:23.379
 we confess our

00:35:23.379 --> 00:35:25.279
 self-indulgent appetites

00:35:25.279 --> 00:35:27.599
 and ways and our exploitation

00:35:27.599 --> 00:35:29.619
 and neglect of other

00:35:29.619 --> 00:35:30.079
 people

00:35:30.079 --> 00:35:33.059
 father forgive us

00:35:33.059 --> 00:35:35.379
 we have been prideful

00:35:35.380 --> 00:35:37.160
 self-righteous

00:35:37.160 --> 00:35:38.740
 and hypocritical

00:35:38.740 --> 00:35:40.500
 looking down on others

00:35:40.500 --> 00:35:42.300
 while minimizing our own

00:35:42.300 --> 00:35:43.360
 wickedness

00:35:43.360 --> 00:35:44.820
 father

00:35:44.820 --> 00:35:46.220
 forgive us

00:35:46.220 --> 00:35:48.880
 we have neglected your word

00:35:48.880 --> 00:35:50.240
 your worship

00:35:50.240 --> 00:35:51.539
 and prayer

00:35:51.539 --> 00:35:53.860
 and so failed to seek first

00:35:53.860 --> 00:35:54.559
 your kingdom

00:35:54.559 --> 00:35:56.260
 and our relationship with you

00:35:56.260 --> 00:35:57.340
 above all else

00:35:57.340 --> 00:35:59.960
 father forgive us

00:35:59.960 --> 00:36:03.340
 we confess our intemperate love

00:36:03.340 --> 00:36:05.740
 of worldly goods and comforts

00:36:05.740 --> 00:36:07.019
 and our discontentment

00:36:07.019 --> 00:36:08.680
 with your fatherly provision

00:36:08.680 --> 00:36:10.360
 father

00:36:10.360 --> 00:36:11.660
 forgive us

00:36:11.660 --> 00:36:14.840
 we have been indifferent to suffering

00:36:14.840 --> 00:36:16.700
 and injustice in our world

00:36:16.700 --> 00:36:19.180
 and harbored uncharitable thoughts

00:36:19.180 --> 00:36:21.740
 towards those who are different from us

00:36:21.740 --> 00:36:23.320
 father

00:36:23.320 --> 00:36:24.640
 forgive us

00:36:24.640 --> 00:36:27.600
 we have pursued our own pleasure

00:36:27.600 --> 00:36:28.340
 and success

00:36:28.340 --> 00:36:30.519
 at the expense of those

00:36:30.519 --> 00:36:31.480
 you have called us

00:36:31.480 --> 00:36:32.380
 to love

00:36:32.380 --> 00:36:34.159
 father

00:36:34.159 --> 00:36:35.340
 forgive us

00:36:35.340 --> 00:36:38.300
 and we have failed to forgive others

00:36:38.300 --> 00:36:40.099
 and so been ungrateful

00:36:40.099 --> 00:36:43.280
 for your abundant forgiveness of us

00:36:43.280 --> 00:36:44.900
 father

00:36:44.900 --> 00:36:46.480
 forgive us

00:36:46.480 --> 00:36:49.380
 let's continue to confess

00:36:49.380 --> 00:36:50.800
 our sin

00:36:50.800 --> 00:36:53.079
 and cling to our father's

00:36:53.079 --> 00:36:54.179
 abundant forgiveness

00:36:54.179 --> 00:36:56.239
 as we stand and sing

00:36:56.239 --> 00:36:56.699
 God

00:36:56.699 --> 00:36:57.920
 be merciful

00:36:57.920 --> 00:36:58.920
 to me

00:36:58.920 --> 00:36:59.980
 David's words

00:36:59.980 --> 00:37:01.720
 from Psalm 51

00:37:01.720 --> 00:37:02.720
 stand and sing

00:37:02.720 --> 00:37:07.659
 for more information

00:37:07.659 --> 00:37:08.960
 visit us online

00:37:08.960 --> 00:37:10.260
 at southwood.org

00:37:10.260 --> 00:37:11.260
 you