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 Good morning.

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 What was your greatest fear when you were younger?

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 Up until high school, which was a long time ago now,

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 I was so afraid of the dark.

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 I could not sleep in a peach black room.

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 I would insist my parents to leave the bedroom door ajar

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 so some light would come through the gap.

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 I was not so privileged as current generation

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 where some would have their own bed and a night night by the bed.

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 I shared a bun bag with my brother,

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 and I don't think night light was invented back then.

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 My nitrophobia provided my siblings with a lot of fun.

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 All they have to do is close the bedroom door completely,

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 and I will go crazy.

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 And I have done a lot of other unreasonable things

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 due to all sorts of fears too.

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 If you are joining us today for the first time,

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 we are finishing our summer series on looking into heroes of the faith

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 in terms of their joy in Jesus through the ages.

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 We have looked into the life of Polycarp, Augustine, and Huston Taylor,

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 which is from my right to my left.

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 And if you have missed any of this sermon,

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 let me encourage you to go to our website to listen to them

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 because it's our aim to encourage us at St. Paul's

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 through the struggles, challenges, and hardship

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 which lead to these men trusting in God and growing in joy

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 so that we as a community can grow in our joy

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 in living for Jesus, treasuring Jesus,

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 depending upon Jesus, and being justified by Jesus.

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 We'll be looking at Martin Luther, which is the second left,

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 the one with the funny haircut.

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 To finish the sermon series,

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 a man that was very familiar with fear,

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 we will see how he went from fear to being freed

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 and his joy in justification by faith.

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 Martin Luther was born 537 years ago in 1483

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 in northeastern Germany.

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 His father was a manager of a copper mine

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 and had the money and resources to send him to be educated

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 and to pursue a career in the law.

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 He earned his master's degree when he was only 22,

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 but he did not follow the plan of his father.

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 He went off to become a Roman Catholic monk.

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 The reason for his change of career was well known.

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 It had to do with his fear of death.

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 Not long before he finished his master's degree,

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 he was caught in the middle of a thunderstorm while traveling.

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 With one bolt of lightning strike terrifyingly close to him,

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 Luther cried out in distress to the patron saint of miners and travelers,

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 Help me, St. Anne, I will become a monk.

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 This knee-death experience changed his life.

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 His desperate cry to St. Anne

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 revealed the general beliefs and value of his time,

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 which is also very similar to today.

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 In the mid-1500s, the gospel, the true gospel,

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 was hidden or even twisted for hundreds of years.

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 People were reading a Bible in a language that was hard to understand.

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 The authority of the scripture, the Bible,

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 was second to church tradition.

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 Importance of the centrality of Jesus Christ was not there.

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 Today, a lot of people also approach religion as a tradition,

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 as a form of spiritual protection,

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 or a lifesaver in the middle of trouble.

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 Like what we are facing in Australia right now,

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 a man shared on national television that,

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 after being an atheist for 25 years,

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 the fire causes him to pray to God

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 as he hears a siren started going.

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 People were praying for protection and delivery

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 at times of crisis

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 from a God that they have ignored or rejected.

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 But what often happens when danger passes?

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 People might later dismiss whatever files

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 they make at their desperate time.

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 But Luther's conscience could not.

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 He had a bigger fear.

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 He feared God's disapproval and wrath.

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 And if you fear God's disapproval,

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 you will not approach God with joy.

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 Luther once said,

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 if I could believe that God was not angry with me,

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 I would stand on my head for joy.

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 Martin Luther hoping to reduce his fear towards God

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 and earning God's favor by being a monk,

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 following all the strict rules and practices,

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 and by isolating himself from the world

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 so that he will not do anything that will upset God.

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 And he once said,

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 you may not be able to keep the birds

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 from flying over your head,

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 but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair.

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 I wonder, would that be the reason

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 they keep such a unique hairstyle?

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 Luther salously followed his new calling as monk,

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 believing he could only receive absolution

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 for sins he confessed to a priest.

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 So he became obsessed with visiting the confessional.

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 He was so rattle and fearful of eternity in hell

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 that he would confess his sins for hours and hours,

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 confessing sins that he committed just the day before.

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 It was sins that were about him,

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 not completely and totally,

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 dedicating to the Lord with all his mind

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 and with all his strength.

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 Even though they were just thoughts,

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 his thinking,

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 he worries that he has somehow slipped far away from God.

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 Martin Luther was taught

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 that a holy and righteous God

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 could not be in the presence of sin.

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 The God's word that he was reading at the time

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 speaks over and over again

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 of God being completely just

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 and punishing wrongdoers.

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 He understood from what he was reading

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 that he would fall into that category

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 and would be punished in hell.

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 If all we know about God

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 is judgment and punishment,

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 we would all have anxiety

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 about our sin and ourselves.

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 Being a monk did not bring him any joy.

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 In fact, it made him even more anxious

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 because he got more time to study God's words.

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 He knew the Ten Commandments.

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 He knew the Sermon on the Mount.

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 He knew that a holy and just God

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 could not allow sin in his presence.

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 So, when he would measure his life

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 up against God's standard,

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 he would become rattle with anxiety.

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 He knows the Bible far better

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 than any one of us.

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 But knowledge should not set him free.

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 In fact, the more the knowledge,

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 the more fearful he becomes.

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 It was after becoming a monk

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 for about a year

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 in studying Augustine

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 to prepare to lecture in biblical study

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 and look at a correct version of the Bible

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 that eventually brought joy

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 to Luther's heart.

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 Luther discovered a righteousness

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 that freed him

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 and unlocked the joy

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 that would serve generations to come.

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 In German as well in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin,

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 justice and righteousness

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 are the same word.

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 When Paul claimed in Romans 1.17

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 that the justice or righteousness of God

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 is gospel or good news,

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 Luther could not make sense of it.

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 For Luther, the justice of God

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 had meant one thing only,

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 the standard by which God found us guilty.

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 Luther said,

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 I hate that word justice of God,

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 which by the use and custom

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 of all my teachers,

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 I have been taught to understand

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 philosophically as

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 that justice by which God is just

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 and by which he punishes

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 sinners and the unjust.

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 I did not love,

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 no, rather I hated

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 that just God

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 who punishes sinners.

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 If you look back at

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 Romans 1.16-17,

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 it's saying there,

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 for I am not ashamed

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 of the gospel

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 because it is the power of God

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 that brings salvation

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 to everyone who believes,

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 first to the Jews,

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 then to the Gentiles.

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 For in the gospel,

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 the righteousness of God

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 is revealed.

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 A righteousness that is by faith

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 from first to last.

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 just as it is written,

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 the righteous will live by faith.

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 Luther had been taught

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 by the church

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 that this verse means

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 we are to be made righteous

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 through the church of Rome

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 by doing what the church

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 tell him to do.

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 But he also knows

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 deep down that he could

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 never measure up

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 to God's standard.

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 Somewhere there

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 was always a piece of his heart

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 that he did not offer fully to God.

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 Even living in a monastery,

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 following strict rules,

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 and allowing himself

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 to have any pleasure,

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 he knew he was still guilty.

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 No matter what he did,

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 he could not,

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 he cannot change the fact

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 that crime had been committed.

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 Today we do our own things

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 to justify ourselves

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 so that we do not fall

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 in the trap of Martin Luther.

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 We mix up being righteous

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 to being good and kind.

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 So we say,

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 I'm a good person,

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 I do not deliberately harm anyone,

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 and in fact,

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 I fight for those

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 who cannot defend themselves.

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 I protest to protect

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 the environment,

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 human rights,

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 and animals.

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 God should be happy with me.

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 Some might set themselves

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 a list of things

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 that they should do.

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 Work hard,

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 be a good model citizen,

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 be a good parent,

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 give money to charity,

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 keep a religion

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 or being spiritual

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 or go to church.

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 We all have a list

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 that we check

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 to assure ourselves

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 that we are okay.

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 but at the same time

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 become very unsettled

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 if we sense

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 a kind of a disagreement.

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 Even Luther,

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 even though Luther knows

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 the Bible far better than us,

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 there is something

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 that did not add up.

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 So he went back

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 to the scripture

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 and looked into

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 the original Greek.

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 And what the church said,

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 being made righteous,

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 Paul actually used

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 a Greek word

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 that means

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 to be declared righteous,

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 not made righteous.

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 When Luther discovered

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 that this changed

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 everything for him,

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 when Paul claimed

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 in Romans 117

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 that the justice

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 or righteousness of God

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 is gospel of good news,

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 he was saying that

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 in the gospel,

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 which is by the suffering,

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 death,

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 and resurrection

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 of Jesus Christ,

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 the righteousness of God

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 is revealed to us.

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 we are declared righteous,

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 not with the righteousness

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 of our own,

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 but with the righteousness

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 from Jesus Christ

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 by faith.

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 At this discovery,

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 the light come on

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 for Luther.

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 The darkness

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 and fear were lifted.

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 He began to understand

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 that when Paul was speaking

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 of what Paul

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 was speaking of here,

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 it was a righteousness

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 that God,

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 in his grace,

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 was making available

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 to those

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 who receive it

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 passively,

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 not those

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 who achieve it

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 actively.

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 The grace of God

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 received by faith

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 is by which

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 a person

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 could be reconciled

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 to a holy

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 and righteous God.

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 We receive it

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 from God,

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 not achieve it

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 by our own effort.

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 At this was a moment

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 of reckoning.

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 Luther said,

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 when I discovered

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 that I was born again

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 of the Holy Spirit

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 and that the doors

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 of paradise

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 run open

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 and I walk through.

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 Luther finally

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 understood that

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 the righteousness

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 of God

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 that is in the gospel

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 is a righteousness

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 that belongs

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 properly

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 to someone else.

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 It is a righteousness

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 that is outside of us.

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 It is a righteousness

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 of Jesus Christ.

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 And we receive it

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 from Jesus.

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 We do not

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 and cannot earn it.

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 He finally

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 has the assurance

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 that he was looking

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 for all his life.

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 And the same assurance

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 is presented

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 to us

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 because

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 here

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 was a confidence

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 in front of God

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 which was based

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 not on our merits

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 but on Christ.

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 The righteousness

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 of Christ

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 credited

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 to us

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 through faith

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 promise to God's

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 children of heaven

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 without fear

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 of help.

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 This gospel

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 moved Luther

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 from fear

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 to faith

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 from despair

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 to joy.

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 When Luther

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 went back

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 to the scripture

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 to the words

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 of God

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 he realized

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 that the way

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 to be saved

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 is just as

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 Jesus said

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 in the beginning

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 of Mark.

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 The time

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 has come

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 the kingdom

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 of God

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 has come

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 near.

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 Repent

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 and believe

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 the good news.

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 Repent

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 and believe.

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 Repent

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 means turn

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 and go

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 the other way.

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 You are going

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 your own way

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 trying to fix

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 up

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 our problems

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 and earn

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 God's forgiveness.

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 We turn

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 and believe

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 and have faith

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 in Jesus.

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 Let me give you

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 an example

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 of this

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 turning faith

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 that I'm talking

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 about.

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 If I was

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 to say to you

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 I would pick

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 you up

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 half an hour

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 before church

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 and take you

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 to church.

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 You might

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 hear me say it

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 but that

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 isn't enough.

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 You might

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 choose not

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 to do anything

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 about it

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 or you say

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 okay great

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 then you went

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 and organized

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 the Uber

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 to come here

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 yourself.

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 People do

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 that all the

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 time with the

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 gospel.

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 They hear

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 that Jesus

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 died on the

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 cross for

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 their sin

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 and rose

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 three days

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 later

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 and they

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 say fine

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 and then they

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 go about

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 their life

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 in their

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 own way

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 or find

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 some way

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 to make

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 themselves

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 less sinful

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 or more

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 likable

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 or acceptable.

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 The kind

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 of faith

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 that is

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 repentance

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 is that

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 you hear

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 that I'm

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 going to

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 pick you

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 up half

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 an hour

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 before church

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 to take

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 you to

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 church.

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 You cancel

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 that Uber

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 that you

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 have

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 prearranged.

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 You stand

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 outside

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 of your

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 house

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 early

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 and wait

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 for me

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 knowing

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 and trusting

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 that I'm

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 going to be

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 there.

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 And then

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 when I do

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 arrive

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 you gain

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 the car

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 and come

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 to church

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 with me

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 here.

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 The faith

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 that brings

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 you into

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 a righteous

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 standing

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 with God

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 is a faith

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 that turns

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 you from

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 going about

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 your life

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 in your own

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 way

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 and turns

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 you towards

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 Jesus

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 to believe

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 and follow

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 his way.

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 Your turning

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 and following

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 is an

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 action

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 that

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 is

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 used

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 by

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 your

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 faith

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 because

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 you

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 are

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 declared

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 righteous

00:16:46.439 --> 00:16:47.360
 in God's sight

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 by your

00:16:48.299 --> 00:16:48.959
 faith in

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 God's words.

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 Like in my

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 example,

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 the moment

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 you decide

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 to go

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 and meet

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 me

00:16:55.059 --> 00:16:56.360
 and cancel

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 that Uber

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 you are

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 committed

00:16:58.399 --> 00:16:59.379
 to ride

00:16:59.379 --> 00:17:00.799
 with me

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 because you

00:17:01.500 --> 00:17:02.039
 have faith

00:17:02.039 --> 00:17:02.720
 that I'm

00:17:02.720 --> 00:17:03.159
 going to

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 do what

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 I said

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 and pick

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 you up.

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 If you

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 don't have

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 faith

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 that I was

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 going to

00:17:09.019 --> 00:17:09.539
 pick you up

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 you will

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 not have

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 canceled

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 your ride.

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 The moment

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 you place

00:17:13.480 --> 00:17:14.059
 your faith

00:17:14.059 --> 00:17:14.539
 in Jesus

00:17:14.539 --> 00:17:14.960
 Christ

00:17:14.960 --> 00:17:15.899
 for forgiveness

00:17:15.899 --> 00:17:16.460
 of your

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 sins

00:17:17.000 --> 00:17:17.720
 you are

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 declared

00:17:18.079 --> 00:17:18.639
 righteous

00:17:18.639 --> 00:17:19.220
 in God's

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 sight.

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 When God

00:17:20.799 --> 00:17:21.279
 look at

00:17:21.279 --> 00:17:21.539
 you

00:17:21.539 --> 00:17:22.500
 he sees

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 the righteousness

00:17:23.299 --> 00:17:23.980
 of Jesus

00:17:23.980 --> 00:17:24.399
 Christ

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 not yours.

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 However,

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 the things

00:17:27.379 --> 00:17:28.000
 around you

00:17:28.000 --> 00:17:28.559
 have not

00:17:28.559 --> 00:17:29.220
 yet changed.

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 If you are

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 involved in

00:17:31.759 --> 00:17:32.240
 complicated

00:17:32.240 --> 00:17:32.680
 sin

00:17:32.680 --> 00:17:34.059
 that just

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 doesn't

00:17:34.500 --> 00:17:35.139
 go away

00:17:35.139 --> 00:17:36.399
 it has

00:17:36.399 --> 00:17:36.700
 to be

00:17:36.700 --> 00:17:37.000
 dealt

00:17:37.000 --> 00:17:37.319
 with.

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 your

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 being

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 declared

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 righteous

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 does not

00:17:41.039 --> 00:17:41.539
 mean that

00:17:41.539 --> 00:17:42.079
 those things

00:17:42.079 --> 00:17:42.299
 you are

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 doing

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 wrong

00:17:42.960 --> 00:17:43.379
 are no

00:17:43.379 --> 00:17:43.659
 longer

00:17:43.659 --> 00:17:44.059
 sin

00:17:44.059 --> 00:17:44.879
 but

00:17:44.879 --> 00:17:45.339
 instead

00:17:45.339 --> 00:17:46.099
 you

00:17:46.099 --> 00:17:46.500
 begin

00:17:46.500 --> 00:17:46.759
 to

00:17:46.759 --> 00:17:47.019
 work

00:17:47.019 --> 00:17:47.179
 on

00:17:47.179 --> 00:17:47.419
 those

00:17:47.419 --> 00:17:47.700
 sins

00:17:47.700 --> 00:17:47.919
 in

00:17:47.919 --> 00:17:48.099
 your

00:17:48.099 --> 00:17:48.460
 life

00:17:48.460 --> 00:17:49.379
 not

00:17:49.379 --> 00:17:49.619
 on

00:17:49.619 --> 00:17:49.779
 your

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 own

00:17:50.039 --> 00:17:50.659
 abilities

00:17:50.659 --> 00:17:51.500
 anymore

00:17:51.500 --> 00:17:52.159
 but

00:17:52.159 --> 00:17:52.379
 with

00:17:52.379 --> 00:17:52.700
 faith

00:17:52.700 --> 00:17:52.879
 in

00:17:52.879 --> 00:17:53.119
 Jesus

00:17:53.119 --> 00:17:53.579
 Christ

00:17:53.579 --> 00:17:54.379
 for

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 we

00:17:54.619 --> 00:17:54.879
 are

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 empowered

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 by

00:17:55.839 --> 00:17:56.039
 the

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 Holy

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 Spirit

00:17:56.559 --> 00:17:56.779
 to

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 change

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 not

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 to

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 try

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 and

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 justify

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 ourselves

00:18:01.000 --> 00:18:01.339
 before

00:18:01.339 --> 00:18:01.740
 God

00:18:01.740 --> 00:18:02.439
 but

00:18:02.439 --> 00:18:02.639
 to

00:18:02.639 --> 00:18:02.939
 walk

00:18:02.939 --> 00:18:03.200
 in

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 close

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 fellowship

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 with

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 him

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 by being

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 in

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 fellowship

00:18:06.059 --> 00:18:06.419
 with

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 other

00:18:06.700 --> 00:18:07.140
 Christians

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 because

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 he

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 called

00:18:09.240 --> 00:18:09.400
 you

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 to

00:18:09.559 --> 00:18:09.860
 him

00:18:09.860 --> 00:18:10.620
 and

00:18:10.620 --> 00:18:10.759
 you

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 realize

00:18:11.220 --> 00:18:11.580
 that

00:18:11.580 --> 00:18:12.039
 he

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 was

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 willing

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 to

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 suffer

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 and

00:18:13.420 --> 00:18:13.819
 die

00:18:13.819 --> 00:18:14.240
 in

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 your

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 place

00:18:14.980 --> 00:18:15.620
 for

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 use

00:18:16.080 --> 00:18:16.980
 so

00:18:16.980 --> 00:18:17.220
 that

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 you

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 could

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 be

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 with

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 him

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 the

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 journey

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 that

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 begins

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 with

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 justification

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 may be

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 long

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 and at

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 times

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 it's

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 been

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 difficult

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 but

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 the

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 fact

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 that

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 you

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 have

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 placed

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 your

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 faith

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 in

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 Jesus

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 Christ

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 means

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 that

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 when

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 things

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 do

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 go

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 dark

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 when

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 they're

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 pleased

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 that

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 Jesus

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 is

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 not

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 near

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 you

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 can

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 turn

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 to

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 look

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 at

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 the

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 gospel

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 and

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 in

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 seeing

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 that

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 the

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 righteousness

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 of

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 God

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 is

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 refilled

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 you

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 can

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 know

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 that

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 even

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 in

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 your

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 failings

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 even

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 in

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 the

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 disappointments

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 and

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 failures

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 we

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 can

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 be

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 to

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 be

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 righteous

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 that

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 because

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 of

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 the

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 power

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 of

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 the

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 gospel

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 you

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 are

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 indeed

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 righteous

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 this

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 is a

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 message

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 we

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 need

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 to

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 keep

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 on

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 hearing

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 even

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 if

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 we

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 trust

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 Christ

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 for

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 our

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 acquittal

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 on

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 the

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 final

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 day

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 we

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 cannot

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 too

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 easily

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 seek

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 to

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 establish

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 our

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 own

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 justification

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 today

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 even

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 as

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 we

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 share

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 the

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 message

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 of

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 justification

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 by

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 faith

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 we

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 can

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 be

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 practicing

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 justification

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 by

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 doing

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 instead

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 we

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 try

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 to

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 achieve

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 instead

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 to

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 receive

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 we

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 think

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 our

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 approval

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 and

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 acceptance

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 before

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 the

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 heavenly

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 father

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 depend

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 on

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 our

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 behavior

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 and

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 if

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 you

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 fear

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 God's

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 disapproval

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 you

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 will

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 not

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 approach

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 him

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 with

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 joy

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 if

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 I

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 ask

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 Martin

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 Luther

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 to

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 give

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 me

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 an

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 example

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 of

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 his

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 joy

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 I

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 believe

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 he

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 would

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 use

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 Psalm

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 30

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 which

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 talk

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 about

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 no

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 more

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 fearful

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 or

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 depressed

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 but

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 lift

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 up

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 in

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 joy

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 starting

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 by

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 talking

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 about

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 God

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 lifting

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 us

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 out

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 of

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 the

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 death

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 bringing

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 us

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 up

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 from

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 the

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 realm

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 of

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 death

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 spaying

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 us

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 from

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 going

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 down

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 to

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 the

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 pit

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 first

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 one

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 it

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 read

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 in

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 Psalm

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 30

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 I

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 I

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 will

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 exalt

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 you

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 Lord

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 for

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 you

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 lifted

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 me

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 out

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 of

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 the

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 death

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 and

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 did

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 not

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 let

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 me

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 let

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 my

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 enemy

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 go

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 over

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 me

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 Lord

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 my

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 God

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 I

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 called

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 to

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 you

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 for

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 help

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 and

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 you

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 healed

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 me

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 you

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 Lord

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 brought

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 me

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 up

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 from

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 the

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 realm

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 of

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 death

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 you

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 spared

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 me

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 from

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 going

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 down

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 to

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 the

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 pit

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 he

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 called

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 his

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 faithful

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 people

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 to

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 sing

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 praise

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 and

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 rejoice

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 for

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 God

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 is

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 angry

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 no more. He said his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime. It called to God

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 for mercy and to be our help, and it finishes in verse 11. You turned my whirling into dancing.

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 You removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy that my heart may sing your praises and not be

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 silent. Lord my God, I will praise you forever. When Luther realized the righteousness of God in

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 Romans 1, 17 means the righteousness of God, and it was a gift to all those willing to accept it,

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 Luther was standing on his head of joy. He was born again of the Holy Spirit and walked through the

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 doors of paradise to the awaiting arms of God. It was made possible because of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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 for whoever believes in what God has done for him or her have been justified by faith. We have peace

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 with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him, we have also obtained access by faith into this

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 grace in which we stand. If you do not yet know the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, like the faith

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 that I have been talking about, if you do not yet sense that joy of being accepted by our Heavenly Father,

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 our merciful God, I urge you today to stop trying to achieve but to receive the grace of God. Walk through

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 that open door of paradise into the open arms of God. Turn from following your ways, the ways of this world

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 in justifying yourself by your own effort. Turn and put your faith in following the Lord Jesus Christ,

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 who was crucified, died, and buried, who rose again three days later in fulfillment of the scripture

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 so that you may live. You may begin that step by repenting of your sins in prayer. Ask the Lord Jesus

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 Christ to forgive you and tell him you want to follow him, to live your life for him. We have printed a

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 short prayer at the back of this handout in a few different languages. You can use that as your first step

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 prayer, walking towards paradise, walking into paradise. I will ask our worship team to join me on stage

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 now to lead us in a song. Please take this as your opportunity to walk through the open doors of paradise,

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 into the open arms of God. Let's sing to our God in joyful acceptance.