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 Okay, so if you have a Bible, why don't you turn to the letter of Galatians?

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 And if you don't have a Bible, grab one in the pews round about.

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 Or you can scroll in your phone and get the book of Galatians.

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 Feel absolutely no embarrassment, absolutely no embarrassment

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 when you're using the contents page of your Bible if you need to do that.

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 It's absolutely fine.

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 It's in there, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians.

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 The way I remember it in the order is God eats popcorn.

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 Okay, you can have that for free.

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 Let's pray, though, as we come to this letter.

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 Heavenly Father, we just thank you so much for this morning.

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 And we thank you for this opportunity to hear from you

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 and encounter you, the living God, as we come to your living and active word.

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 So, Father, I pray this morning that you would do that which I am incapable of doing.

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 And that, Lord, that you would transform hearts today.

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 Lord, wherever we're at, perhaps we've been a Christian for many, many years.

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 Father, perhaps we've just walked into church this morning

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 without really understanding why or what's going on here.

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 Lord, may today be a day when we look back and say you were at work.

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 So, Father, we come expectantly to your word.

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 We thank you for who you are.

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 We lift our eyes to you.

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 Thank you, Lord, for your love for us.

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 In Jesus' name we pray.

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 Amen.

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 Amen.

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 Amen.

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 Well, folks, here's what we're going to do this morning.

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 We're going to marvel at the difference between Christianity

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 and every other religious and moral impulse that exists inside of us.

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 You see, as we step into the letter of Galatians this morning,

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 so much of this might feel like we've stepped into a completely different world.

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 Like if you've ever had that experience of going to a supermarket in a foreign country,

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 you know the one?

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 And the aisles are full of brands that you don't recognize.

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 The layout of the shop floor is completely different.

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 Where's my middle aisle in Aldi?

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 The signs are in a different language.

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 The person at the checkout is asking for money in a different currency.

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 And the whole experience leaves you feeling like this isn't the world I'm used to.

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 Listen, Galatians might well give you those kind of vibes.

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 Right?

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 It's full of words that we don't use much in our lives today.

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 Words like circumcision and kingdom.

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 And it's full of people that their names, their likes, we might not recognize.

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 Like Abraham and Hagar.

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 But listen, don't let that put you off.

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 And here's two reasons why you need to stay in the game.

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 Number one is the promise that this letter holds out to every single one of us today.

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 If we embrace the message at its heart,

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 the promise is true freedom and lasting peace.

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 That sound good in our world today?

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 True freedom, lasting peace.

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 That's what this message holds out to us in this letter.

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 Number two is that the bullseye truth at the heart of this letter

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 is something that people in our world today are so deeply concerned about.

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 And Galatians is going to say, see that thing that you're chasing?

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 See that thing that you think you can achieve?

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 I'm going to tell you the only place that you can find it.

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 Here's what I mean by that.

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 Here's what one fan said after the Oasis concert the other night.

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 In which they expressed the reason that they loved the concert so much.

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 Now try this one on for size, okay?

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 They said this,

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 When I go to a gig, I don't want to feel bad about myself.

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 I don't want to see Palestine flags or get preached at about the climate.

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 I just want music and a good time.

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 Do you hear it in their voice?

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 Why was it so good?

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 It was so good because it was a concert with no causes.

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 For three hours, they put literally on mute

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 the noises that we are surrounded with every day in our world.

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 It doesn't matter who you are.

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 If you're a massive global brand,

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 it doesn't matter whether you're a corporate firm

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 or on the high street shop,

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 university organizations,

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 sports teams, neighborhoods,

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 WhatsApp groups, Facebook profiles,

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 music festivals.

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 What does everyone in our world today

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 want to be seen as being publicly?

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 We want to be known as people,

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 if I could put it in the language of our culture,

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 people who are on the right side of history.

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 People that the rest of the world looks at,

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 weighs us up, looks at our lives,

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 and declares us to be good.

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 Or if I could put it in the language of Galatians,

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 we want to be known as people who are righteous,

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 people who the world looks on at,

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 weighs us up, looks at our lives,

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 and declares us to be justified.

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 Or to quote 90s rapper Tupac Shakur,

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 I believe that everything that you do bad

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 comes back to you.

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 So everything that I do that's bad,

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 I'm going to suffer from it.

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 But in my mind,

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 I believe what I'm doing is right.

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 So I feel like

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 I'm going to heaven.

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 Of course, it's not just the logic of the world,

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 it's the logic of so much of the other religions out there.

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 If I could take one for example,

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 it's why the Buddhist concept of karma

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 gets so much traction in our world.

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 We don't call it karma,

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 we just call it what goes around comes around.

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 Why does that get so much traction?

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 I think it's because it makes logical sense to us.

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 And yet, friends,

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 that's not how the God of the gospel works.

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 You want some good news this morning?

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 He is so much far above the things of this world.

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 His logic is not our logic.

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 See what Tupac is saying?

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 Can I suggest, friends,

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 his logic has more holes in it

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 than a big bit of Swiss cheese.

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 Here's the biggest one.

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 How do you know that you're good enough?

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 Sit on that for a wee bit.

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 How do you know you're good enough?

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 And more importantly,

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 who gets to decide?

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 See, when I was at school,

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 I remember once playing

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 and I dislocated my shoulder.

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 I was expecting a little bit of sympathy,

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 but we'll run with it, okay?

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 These are all I remember.

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 I dislocated my shoulder.

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 I'd love to tell you that the guy

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 came off worse than I did,

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 but honestly, I can't remember.

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 I dislocated my shoulder.

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 Here's all I remember.

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 The doc came up to me in hospital.

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 Before he got there,

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 it felt like my lungs were working double time.

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 Couldn't breathe, fighting for breath.

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 The doc came along

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 and he puts over me the oxygen mask.

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 And he says, breathe.

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 And honestly, it felt like someone

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 from the outside

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 had just poured life into me.

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 The testimony of so many Christians

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 over the years

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 is that breathing in the truth of this letter

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 did exactly the same.

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 For some of us, friends,

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 this message will be humbling

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 at the heart of this book.

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 It will be humbling.

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 What do you mean

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 I can't be good enough for God?

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 God's going to say to you in this letter,

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 think again.

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 You think you're good enough?

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 Think again.

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 But some of us,

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 what this letter will offer us

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 is healing.

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 Because just like a match of the day sequence,

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 you're replaying the highlights

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 reel of your life

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 and the word that's just there is guilt.

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 And God's not disagreeing with that verdict.

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 But what God is saying is,

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 you think you can't be right with me?

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 Think again.

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 Friends, this book is not about our performance.

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 This letter is all about

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 the wonder of his promise.

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 This letter is all about

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 how you and I can be made righteous.

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 we can be made and declared to be justified.

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 Not in the eyes of our fellow human beings,

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 but way more importantly,

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 in the eyes of the God

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 who made us and loves us.

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 And the reason that this letter

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 is so explosive and counterintuitive

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 is that is 0% due to us.

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 And it's 100% to do with Jesus.

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 You see, here is this man called Paul.

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 Get into the letter here.

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 See the third word that he uses there.

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 We're going to hear more about his story

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 of coming to know Jesus next week.

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 But for now, notice what he calls himself.

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 He's an apostle.

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 That word apostle tells you

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 Paul is someone who received his message

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 about Jesus, not secondhand.

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 He received it, not hearsay,

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 but he received it from Jesus himself.

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 That's what that word means there.

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 He's how he's using it.

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 Can I suggest, friends,

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 that that really matters?

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 Really, really matters.

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 In our world of AI deep fakes,

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 in our world of fact checking,

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 reliability of your source

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 is absolutely everything.

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 When Paul uses that term,

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 what he's saying is that his message,

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 he's got it, if you like,

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 straight from the horse's mouth.

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 That's what he's saying.

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 He's an apostle.

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 And in this letter,

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 he's writing to a group of churches

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 in what today is central Turkey.

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 Just on the map,

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 they're trying to locate

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 where this is going.

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 Galatia is a region

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 that Paul traveled to

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 on his first missionary journey.

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 You can think of those things like

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 the Jesus preaching,

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 church starting roadshow.

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 That's what a missionary journey is.

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 Paul does three of these

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 in his lifetime.

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 You can read about the first one,

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 Acts 13.

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 And during it,

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 he speaks about Jesus

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 to people in the cities.

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 Just clock them there.

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 Poseidon, Antioch,

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 Iconium, Lystra,

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 and Derby.

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 Not in the Midlands, okay?

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 What's happened as he does this

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 is that God,

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 through this message

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 of the Jesus who came,

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 the Jesus who lived,

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 the Jesus who died,

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 the Jesus who rose,

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 the Jesus who has ascended,

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 is that message has gone out.

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 People have come to faith

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 and churches have started

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 because God,

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 through his Holy Spirit,

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 is at work.

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 Churches start in these places.

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 So what's interesting

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 is that this letter

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 is dated probably AD 50.

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 But why that's important

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 is that because these Christians,

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 Paul left them

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 probably only about a year

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 after first visiting them.

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 Right?

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 Significant.

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 And that's usually surprising

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 as well as significant.

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 You've got to ask ourselves,

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 why?

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 Because you'll imagine

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 some 2,000 odd years ago

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 before the iPhone.

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 Paul's not set

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 a yearly reminder

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 in his calendar

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 that I better check in

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 on these guys

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 after a year.

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 This letter

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 isn't the equivalent

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 of the

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 I wish you were here

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 postcard.

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 There's a reason

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 that Paul is writing

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 after such a short time

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 ago having been with them.

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 And here's what I want to do

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 as we take in the first

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 10 verses here

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 and we're going to read it

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 in a second.

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 I want you to think

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 about why.

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 Here's the question

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 I want you to ask yourself

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 as we get into

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 the first 10 verses together.

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 How would you describe

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 his tone?

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 Are you going to come with me?

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 Let's read it together.

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 The first 10 verses.

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 Paul,

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 an apostle

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 sent not from men

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 nor by a man

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 but by Jesus Christ

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 and God the Father

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 who raised him

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 from the dead

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 and all the brothers

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 and sisters with me.

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 Grace and peace

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 to you

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 from God our Father

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 and the Lord Jesus Christ

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 who gave himself

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 for our sins

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 to rescue us

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 from the present evil age

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 according to the will

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 of our God

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 and Father

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 to whom be glory

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 forever and ever.

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 Amen.

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 I'm astonished

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 that you are so quickly

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 deserting

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 the one

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 who called you

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 to live in the grace

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 of Christ

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 and are turning

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 to a different gospel

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 which is really

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 no gospel at all.

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 Evidently,

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 some people

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 are throwing you

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 into confusion

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 and are trying

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 to pervert

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 the gospel of Christ

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 but even if we

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 or an angel

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 from heaven

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 should preach a gospel

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 other than the one

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 that we preach to you

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 let them be

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 under God's curse.

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 As we've already said

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 so now I say again

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 if anybody

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 is preaching to you

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 a gospel

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 other than what

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 you accepted

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 let them be

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 under God's curse.

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 Am I now

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 trying to win

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 the approval

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 of human beings

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 or of God?

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 Or am I

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 trying to please

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 people?

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 If I were trying

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 to please people

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 I would not be

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 a servant of Christ.

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 Now friends

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 rhetorical question

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 what word would you

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 use?

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 I've written down

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 here concerned

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 probably understating

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 it a bit

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 I've written down

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 here concerned

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 and anxious

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 right?

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 I've got three words

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 but I can go with it.

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 He's anxious

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 isn't he

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 and we've got

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 to ask ourselves

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 why?

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 What has he heard

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 has happened

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 in Galatia

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 that is making him

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 so concerned

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 about these Christians?

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 Well as we make

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 a beeline

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 towards answering

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 that question

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 over the next

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 20 minutes or so

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 here's what I want

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 to do

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 I want us to see him

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 say to them

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 two things

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 in this text

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 in these opening verses

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 you ready for this?

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 If headings help

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 note these down

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 here's the first thing

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 he wants them to see

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 how costly

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 their rescue was

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 you know it was

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 the late John Stott

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 who called Christianity

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 a religion of rescue

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 a religion of rescue

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 and this is where

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 he got it from

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 you see that word

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 in the text?

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 That word rescue

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 maybe some of your

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 translations might have

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 delivered

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 do you see it?

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 here's what that word is

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 Paul's using it

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 like a hyperlink

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 you know when you

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 get an email

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 or you're reading

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 an article

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 on BBC News

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 and there's certain

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 words that are maybe

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 bold and underlined

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 and if you click them

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 it takes you to

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 another page

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 that's what Paul's

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 doing with this word

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 Paul's wanting

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 to take them

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 and us

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 back

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 in the Bible

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 to the Exodus

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 right

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 Genesis

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 Exodus

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 the events

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 that happened

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 there

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 that's the hyperlink

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 okay

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 the Exodus

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 this mighty

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 work of God

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 whereby he rescued

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 his people

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 from their biggest

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 enemy

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 he took them

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 out of slavery

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 in Egypt

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 triumphing over

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 their enemies

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 so that they

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 could live for

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 delight in

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 and worship

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 this God

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 forever

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 ever

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 so that the

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 world will know

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 that there is no

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 one like Yahweh

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 there is no one

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 like the Lord

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 it's not a

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 a message that's

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 constrained to the

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 nation of Israel

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 the nation of Israel

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 always supposed to be

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 a people that

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 declare the mighty

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 works of God

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 to the world

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 there is no one

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 like God

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 no one

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 compares with him

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 he has no rival

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 he has no equal

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 this God

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 specializes

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 in saving

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 he takes

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 slaves

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 he rescues

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 them

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 he saves

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 them

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 and he

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 transforms

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 them

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 into sons

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 and daughters

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 now hold that

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 thought for where

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 this letter ends

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 in a few chapters

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 time

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 this God

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 specializes

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 in taking

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 slaves

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 and turning

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 them into

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 sons

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 and just

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 when we're

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 thinking to

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 ourselves

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 can anything

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 top the

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 exodus story

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 it's as if

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 in Galatians

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 Paul says

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 hold my glass

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 and let me

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 tell you about

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 how that was

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 but the

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 warm-up act

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 for the

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 greater

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 exodus

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 that God

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 would achieve

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 in the gospel

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 see friends

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 here's the deal

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 right

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 humanity

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 we

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 out with

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 Christ

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 out with

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 faith in

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 him

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 we've

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 got a

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 double

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 problem

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 we are

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 sinners

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 and we're

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 slaves

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 we are

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 utterly

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 powerless

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 to save

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 ourselves

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 and we

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 are utterly

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 powerless

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 to reform

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 ourselves

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 that whole

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 word

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 rescue

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 what does

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 it imply

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 that we

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 need help

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 from

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 the outside

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 we are

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 powerless

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 to do

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 these things

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 what Paul

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 is saying

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 here is

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 that the

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 gospel

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 is the

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 double

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 solution

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 to our

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 double

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 problem

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 do you

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 see that

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 in verse

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 four

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 just track

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 the logic

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 he said

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 Christ

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 what's

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 the words

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 and he's

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 going to

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 return to

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 this word

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 later

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 what did

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 Christ

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 do

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 he gave

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 himself

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 do you

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 see that

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 he gave

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 himself

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 his body

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 nailed to

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 a Roman

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 cross

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 that's what

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 Paul is

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 saying

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 he gave

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 himself

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 why

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 try the

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 logic

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 for our

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 sins

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 for

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 for our

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 sins

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 for the

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 rhythm

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 of

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 that

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 yeah

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 logic

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 remember

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 it

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 recall

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 it

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 for our

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 sins

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 Christ

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 gave

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 himself

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 for

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 our

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 sins

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 that word

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 for there

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 tells you

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 that there's a

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 purpose in

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 Christ dying

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 and it is

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 the language

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 there of

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 substitution

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 he died

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 in our

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 place

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 and took

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 the penalty

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 on himself

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 that our

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 sin

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 our cosmic

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 treason

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 against a

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 holy God

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 deserved

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 and he

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 took it

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 on himself

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 that is

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 known as

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 the doctrine

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 if you want

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 to be

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 stretched a

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 little bit

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 the doctrine

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 of

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 substitutionary

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 atonement

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 right

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 that sounds

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 a long

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 phrase

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 but here's

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 what I want

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 you to

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 know

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 that is

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 foundational

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 to the

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 Christian

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 faith

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 Christ

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 gave

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 himself

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 for

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 our

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 sins

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 for

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 our

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 sins

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 one of

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 those

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 things

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 it's

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 like a

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 game

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 of

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 Jenga

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 friends

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 if you

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 take

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 out

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 that

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 truth

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 of

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 the

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 Christian

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 faith

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 the

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 whole

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 thing

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 crumbles

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 but we're

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 not just

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 the doctrine

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 police

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 we fight

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 for that

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 for our

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 joy

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 Christ

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 deals

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 with

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 our

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 sin

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 problem

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!

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 That's

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 what that

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 phrase

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 for our

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 sin

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 means

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 he deals

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 with

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 our

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 sin

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 problem

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 and as

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 wonderful

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 as that

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 is

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 see if

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 our

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 gospel

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 as it

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 were

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 ends

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 there

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 it's

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 half

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 baked

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 we can't

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 stop there

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 because Paul

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 doesn't stop

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 there

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 again see the

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 logic

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 why did he

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 do this

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 to deliver

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 us

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 again see the

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 Exodus word

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 from the

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 present

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 evil

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 age

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 now Paul's

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 point

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 now Paul's

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 point

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 is that

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 believers

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 with their

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 sins

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 forgiven

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 and

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 identified

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 with

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 Christ

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 verse 1

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 in his

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 triumphant

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 resurrection

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 friends we

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 belong to a

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 whole new

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 state

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 of affairs

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 to be a

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 Christian

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 isn't just

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 to be like

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 everyone else

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 in the

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 world but

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 you make a

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 few ethical

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 and moral

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 decisions which

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 are questionably

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 different from

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 everyone else

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 take the

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 language from the

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 text to be a

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 Christian is to

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 be somebody

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 who has been

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 delivered from

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 this present

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 evil age

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 and called

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 into God's

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 kingdom of

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 marvelous light

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 how often we

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 just underestimate

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 it how

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 wonderful it

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 is we've got

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 a friend called

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 Trevor in London

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 always says

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 that it's a

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 wonderful thing

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 to be a

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 Christian

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 and this is

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 why

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 and who

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 has this

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 planned you

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 see it was

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 according to

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 not our

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 efforts

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 it's according

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 to the will

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 of God

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 friends here's

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 the thing

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 right

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 say it's a

00:22:01.679 --> 00:22:02.339
 control freak

00:22:02.339 --> 00:22:03.019
 like myself

00:22:03.019 --> 00:22:03.639
 who wants to

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 control everything

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 that happens in

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 this world

00:22:05.659 --> 00:22:06.259
 are you like me

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 here's what this

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 does wonderful

00:22:08.099 --> 00:22:08.799
 freedom to be

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 found here

00:22:09.339 --> 00:22:10.519
 it's always good

00:22:10.519 --> 00:22:11.259
 to remember

00:22:11.259 --> 00:22:12.460
 and be reminded

00:22:12.460 --> 00:22:13.659
 that God

00:22:13.659 --> 00:22:15.599
 has been here

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 a lot longer

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 than we have

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 and that God

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 will be here

00:22:23.380 --> 00:22:24.759
 a lot longer

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 than we will

00:22:25.319 --> 00:22:25.759
 be here

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 and it's good

00:22:27.900 --> 00:22:28.700
 to be reminded

00:22:28.700 --> 00:22:29.519
 that this

00:22:29.519 --> 00:22:30.759
 holy God

00:22:30.759 --> 00:22:31.099
 that we've been

00:22:31.099 --> 00:22:31.519
 singing about

00:22:31.519 --> 00:22:32.160
 is so far

00:22:32.160 --> 00:22:33.279
 above the

00:22:33.279 --> 00:22:33.799
 things of

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 this earth

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 and it's good

00:22:38.200 --> 00:22:39.039
 to be reminded

00:22:39.039 --> 00:22:40.220
 that his plans

00:22:40.220 --> 00:22:41.119
 his promises

00:22:41.119 --> 00:22:41.819
 are so much

00:22:41.819 --> 00:22:43.200
 deeper than

00:22:43.200 --> 00:22:43.859
 my wisdom

00:22:43.859 --> 00:22:44.579
 and my finite

00:22:44.579 --> 00:22:45.119
 minds can

00:22:45.119 --> 00:22:45.579
 comprehend

00:22:45.579 --> 00:22:49.079
 and all of

00:22:49.079 --> 00:22:49.779
 that is tied

00:22:49.779 --> 00:22:50.400
 up in that

00:22:50.400 --> 00:22:50.920
 phrase

00:22:50.920 --> 00:22:53.340
 according to

00:22:53.340 --> 00:22:54.820
 his will

00:22:54.820 --> 00:22:55.259
 do you see

00:22:55.259 --> 00:22:56.660
 how comprehensive

00:22:56.660 --> 00:22:57.500
 that phrase

00:22:57.500 --> 00:22:57.940
 is

00:22:57.940 --> 00:23:00.240
 friends the

00:23:00.240 --> 00:23:01.039
 salvation that

00:23:01.039 --> 00:23:01.519
 God offers

00:23:01.519 --> 00:23:02.019
 here is no

00:23:02.019 --> 00:23:02.820
 New Testament

00:23:02.820 --> 00:23:03.800
 novel idea

00:23:03.800 --> 00:23:06.840
 our salvation

00:23:06.840 --> 00:23:07.740
 rests entirely

00:23:07.740 --> 00:23:08.340
 on God's

00:23:08.340 --> 00:23:09.240
 sovereign initiative

00:23:09.240 --> 00:23:10.060
 Genesis 3

00:23:10.060 --> 00:23:10.580
 15

00:23:10.580 --> 00:23:12.160
 God says

00:23:12.160 --> 00:23:13.120
 he's going to

00:23:13.120 --> 00:23:13.580
 deal with our

00:23:13.580 --> 00:23:14.220
 sin problem

00:23:14.220 --> 00:23:15.920
 he makes a

00:23:15.920 --> 00:23:16.380
 promise that

00:23:16.380 --> 00:23:16.900
 he is going to

00:23:16.900 --> 00:23:17.300
 do it

00:23:17.299 --> 00:23:18.440
 he's going to

00:23:18.440 --> 00:23:19.159
 send the

00:23:19.159 --> 00:23:19.559
 serpent

00:23:19.559 --> 00:23:20.079
 crusher

00:23:20.079 --> 00:23:21.899
 all we are

00:23:21.899 --> 00:23:23.539
 is people

00:23:23.539 --> 00:23:24.339
 needing rescued

00:23:24.339 --> 00:23:27.759
 God's plan

00:23:27.759 --> 00:23:28.079
 from the

00:23:28.079 --> 00:23:28.539
 fullness of

00:23:28.539 --> 00:23:29.079
 time is to

00:23:29.079 --> 00:23:29.759
 call out a

00:23:29.759 --> 00:23:30.279
 people of

00:23:30.279 --> 00:23:30.720
 faith

00:23:30.720 --> 00:23:32.720
 saved by

00:23:32.720 --> 00:23:33.159
 Jesus

00:23:33.159 --> 00:23:33.940
 animated

00:23:33.940 --> 00:23:34.720
 and indwelt

00:23:34.720 --> 00:23:35.299
 by his

00:23:35.299 --> 00:23:35.659
 spirit

00:23:35.659 --> 00:23:36.379
 whose very

00:23:36.379 --> 00:23:37.099
 reason of

00:23:37.099 --> 00:23:37.599
 existence

00:23:37.599 --> 00:23:38.339
 is now the

00:23:38.339 --> 00:23:39.399
 praise of

00:23:39.399 --> 00:23:40.039
 his glorious

00:23:40.039 --> 00:23:40.720
 grace

00:23:40.720 --> 00:23:42.640
 and if

00:23:42.640 --> 00:23:43.180
 that doesn't

00:23:43.180 --> 00:23:43.680
 give purpose

00:23:43.680 --> 00:23:44.059
 to our

00:23:44.059 --> 00:23:44.319
 lives

00:23:44.319 --> 00:23:44.640
 I don't

00:23:44.640 --> 00:23:45.000
 know what

00:23:45.000 --> 00:23:45.240
 will

00:23:45.240 --> 00:23:48.500
 what's

00:23:48.500 --> 00:23:48.920
 interesting

00:23:48.920 --> 00:23:50.100
 is that

00:23:50.100 --> 00:23:50.740
 this is the

00:23:50.740 --> 00:23:51.420
 only place

00:23:51.420 --> 00:23:51.640
 in the

00:23:51.640 --> 00:23:52.240
 New Testament

00:23:52.240 --> 00:23:52.880
 where Paul

00:23:52.880 --> 00:23:53.420
 talks about

00:23:53.420 --> 00:23:53.940
 the gospel

00:23:53.940 --> 00:23:54.720
 as being a

00:23:54.720 --> 00:23:55.180
 message

00:23:55.180 --> 00:23:56.339
 of rescue

00:23:56.339 --> 00:23:58.059
 that interesting

00:23:58.059 --> 00:23:59.620
 remember that

00:23:59.620 --> 00:24:00.140
 comes up in a

00:24:00.140 --> 00:24:00.559
 pub quiz

00:24:00.559 --> 00:24:01.279
 you can play

00:24:01.279 --> 00:24:01.640
 that one

00:24:01.640 --> 00:24:02.059
 right there

00:24:02.059 --> 00:24:02.440
 okay

00:24:02.440 --> 00:24:03.799
 but that's

00:24:03.799 --> 00:24:04.660
 really interesting

00:24:04.660 --> 00:24:05.039
 we've got to

00:24:05.039 --> 00:24:05.539
 ask ourselves

00:24:05.539 --> 00:24:05.960
 why

00:24:05.960 --> 00:24:07.000
 I imagine

00:24:07.000 --> 00:24:07.339
 it's to

00:24:07.339 --> 00:24:07.799
 underscore

00:24:07.799 --> 00:24:08.539
 the central

00:24:08.539 --> 00:24:09.160
 message of

00:24:09.160 --> 00:24:09.700
 his letter

00:24:09.700 --> 00:24:10.400
 right up

00:24:10.400 --> 00:24:10.700
 top

00:24:10.700 --> 00:24:13.100
 that our

00:24:13.100 --> 00:24:13.900
 salvation was

00:24:13.900 --> 00:24:14.360
 a hundred

00:24:14.360 --> 00:24:15.100
 percent

00:24:15.100 --> 00:24:16.059
 Jesus

00:24:16.059 --> 00:24:18.880
 friends here's

00:24:18.880 --> 00:24:19.400
 the salvation

00:24:19.400 --> 00:24:20.120
 equation you ready

00:24:20.120 --> 00:24:20.660
 for this if you're

00:24:20.660 --> 00:24:21.180
 taking notes

00:24:21.180 --> 00:24:21.799
 here it is

00:24:21.799 --> 00:24:23.600
 how are we

00:24:23.600 --> 00:24:24.059
 saved

00:24:24.059 --> 00:24:24.779
 it's going to

00:24:24.779 --> 00:24:25.319
 be the message

00:24:25.319 --> 00:24:26.160
 of this letter

00:24:26.160 --> 00:24:29.279
 salvation is

00:24:29.279 --> 00:24:29.980
 by grace

00:24:29.980 --> 00:24:30.380
 alone

00:24:30.380 --> 00:24:32.259
 through faith

00:24:32.259 --> 00:24:32.680
 alone

00:24:32.680 --> 00:24:34.640
 in Christ

00:24:34.640 --> 00:24:34.980
 alone

00:24:34.980 --> 00:24:38.180
 it's not

00:24:38.180 --> 00:24:38.880
 my idea

00:24:38.880 --> 00:24:41.880
 the anthem

00:24:41.880 --> 00:24:42.160
 of the

00:24:42.160 --> 00:24:42.760
 reformation

00:24:42.760 --> 00:24:43.260
 way back

00:24:43.260 --> 00:24:43.480
 in the

00:24:43.480 --> 00:24:43.700
 day

00:24:43.700 --> 00:24:44.560
 salvation

00:24:44.560 --> 00:24:44.900
 is by

00:24:44.900 --> 00:24:45.280
 grace

00:24:45.280 --> 00:24:45.580
 alone

00:24:45.580 --> 00:24:45.820
 through

00:24:45.820 --> 00:24:46.240
 faith

00:24:46.240 --> 00:24:46.600
 alone

00:24:46.600 --> 00:24:46.960
 in

00:24:46.960 --> 00:24:47.380
 Jesus

00:24:47.380 --> 00:24:47.780
 alone

00:24:47.780 --> 00:24:48.420
 he wants

00:24:48.420 --> 00:24:48.700
 them to

00:24:48.700 --> 00:24:49.060
 see how

00:24:49.060 --> 00:24:49.560
 costly

00:24:49.560 --> 00:24:49.860
 their

00:24:49.860 --> 00:24:50.280
 rescue

00:24:50.280 --> 00:24:50.800
 was

00:24:50.800 --> 00:24:51.620
 and because

00:24:51.620 --> 00:24:52.040
 that's

00:24:52.040 --> 00:24:52.320
 true

00:24:52.320 --> 00:24:53.120
 he wants

00:24:53.120 --> 00:24:53.280
 them

00:24:53.280 --> 00:24:53.780
 secondly

00:24:53.780 --> 00:24:54.360
 to see

00:24:54.360 --> 00:24:55.160
 how deadly

00:24:55.160 --> 00:24:55.420
 their

00:24:55.420 --> 00:24:55.860
 deserting

00:24:55.860 --> 00:24:56.360
 is

00:24:56.360 --> 00:24:58.780
 can I just

00:24:58.780 --> 00:24:59.080
 pick out

00:24:59.080 --> 00:24:59.240
 in the

00:24:59.240 --> 00:24:59.480
 time that

00:24:59.480 --> 00:24:59.780
 we've got

00:24:59.780 --> 00:25:00.400
 two d's

00:25:00.400 --> 00:25:00.720
 in these

00:25:00.720 --> 00:25:01.040
 verses

00:25:01.040 --> 00:25:02.880
 the first

00:25:02.880 --> 00:25:03.180
 one of

00:25:03.180 --> 00:25:03.640
 which comes

00:25:03.640 --> 00:25:04.120
 at verse

00:25:04.120 --> 00:25:04.660
 six

00:25:04.660 --> 00:25:06.340
 and it's

00:25:06.340 --> 00:25:06.940
 the word

00:25:06.940 --> 00:25:08.560
 deserting

00:25:08.560 --> 00:25:11.000
 it's the

00:25:11.000 --> 00:25:11.279
 kind of

00:25:11.279 --> 00:25:11.640
 word that

00:25:11.640 --> 00:25:12.160
 you'd use

00:25:12.160 --> 00:25:12.820
 when somebody

00:25:12.820 --> 00:25:14.860
 runs away

00:25:14.860 --> 00:25:15.200
 from the

00:25:15.200 --> 00:25:15.540
 army

00:25:15.540 --> 00:25:16.200
 right

00:25:16.200 --> 00:25:16.560
 they're

00:25:16.560 --> 00:25:18.080
 run away

00:25:18.080 --> 00:25:18.460
 from the

00:25:18.460 --> 00:25:19.040
 rest of

00:25:19.040 --> 00:25:19.640
 their troops

00:25:19.640 --> 00:25:20.019
 they kind

00:25:20.019 --> 00:25:20.300
 of run

00:25:20.300 --> 00:25:20.560
 away

00:25:20.560 --> 00:25:21.019
 desert

00:25:21.019 --> 00:25:21.380
 them at

00:25:21.380 --> 00:25:21.820
 the post

00:25:21.820 --> 00:25:22.320
 abandon

00:25:22.320 --> 00:25:22.700
 them

00:25:22.700 --> 00:25:24.540
 it's the

00:25:24.540 --> 00:25:24.860
 kind of

00:25:24.860 --> 00:25:25.320
 word that

00:25:25.320 --> 00:25:25.840
 Paul's using

00:25:25.840 --> 00:25:26.100
 here and

00:25:26.100 --> 00:25:26.480
 it's really

00:25:26.480 --> 00:25:26.960
 strong

00:25:26.960 --> 00:25:29.259
 and notice

00:25:29.259 --> 00:25:29.680
 if we

00:25:29.680 --> 00:25:30.540
 pay real

00:25:30.540 --> 00:25:31.700
 close attention

00:25:31.700 --> 00:25:32.400
 to the text

00:25:32.400 --> 00:25:33.740
 notice that

00:25:33.740 --> 00:25:34.300
 it is not

00:25:34.300 --> 00:25:34.960
 a what

00:25:34.960 --> 00:25:35.700
 they are

00:25:35.700 --> 00:25:36.180
 deserting

00:25:36.180 --> 00:25:36.700
 do you see

00:25:36.700 --> 00:25:36.980
 it

00:25:36.980 --> 00:25:38.900
 verse six

00:25:38.900 --> 00:25:39.420
 it's not a

00:25:39.420 --> 00:25:39.900
 what they

00:25:39.900 --> 00:25:40.440
 are deserting

00:25:40.440 --> 00:25:41.060
 so much

00:25:41.060 --> 00:25:41.660
 as it's a

00:25:41.660 --> 00:25:43.040
 who they

00:25:43.040 --> 00:25:43.720
 are deserting

00:25:43.720 --> 00:25:46.019
 to turn away

00:25:46.019 --> 00:25:46.400
 from this

00:25:46.400 --> 00:25:47.000
 message they

00:25:47.000 --> 00:25:47.380
 are walking

00:25:47.380 --> 00:25:47.920
 away says

00:25:47.920 --> 00:25:48.380
 Paul from

00:25:48.380 --> 00:25:49.480
 Jesus himself

00:25:49.480 --> 00:25:50.380
 how are they

00:25:50.380 --> 00:25:50.900
 doing that

00:25:50.900 --> 00:25:51.280
 well here's

00:25:51.280 --> 00:25:51.820
 the second

00:25:51.820 --> 00:25:52.259
 d and it's

00:25:52.259 --> 00:25:52.519
 the word

00:25:52.519 --> 00:25:53.040
 different

00:25:53.040 --> 00:25:55.100
 and this

00:25:55.100 --> 00:25:55.560
 takes us

00:25:55.560 --> 00:25:55.940
 to what's

00:25:55.940 --> 00:25:56.400
 happening

00:25:56.400 --> 00:25:57.200
 in Galatia

00:25:57.200 --> 00:25:57.800
 that Paul's

00:25:57.800 --> 00:25:58.560
 so concerned

00:25:58.560 --> 00:25:58.920
 about

00:25:58.920 --> 00:26:00.740
 a group of

00:26:00.740 --> 00:26:01.320
 teachers have

00:26:01.320 --> 00:26:01.759
 turned up

00:26:01.759 --> 00:26:02.480
 in Galatia

00:26:02.480 --> 00:26:03.240
 after Paul

00:26:03.240 --> 00:26:03.799
 has gone

00:26:03.799 --> 00:26:04.440
 and they're

00:26:04.440 --> 00:26:05.460
 teaching these

00:26:05.460 --> 00:26:06.220
 new believers

00:26:06.220 --> 00:26:07.240
 something completely

00:26:07.240 --> 00:26:08.519
 different to

00:26:08.519 --> 00:26:09.059
 what Paul

00:26:09.059 --> 00:26:09.680
 taught them

00:26:09.680 --> 00:26:11.039
 I don't

00:26:11.039 --> 00:26:11.700
 imagine they're

00:26:11.700 --> 00:26:12.359
 denying that

00:26:12.359 --> 00:26:13.200
 Jesus existed

00:26:13.200 --> 00:26:15.460
 I don't

00:26:15.460 --> 00:26:16.039
 imagine they're

00:26:16.039 --> 00:26:16.599
 denying that

00:26:16.599 --> 00:26:17.420
 Jesus died

00:26:17.420 --> 00:26:19.000
 I imagine

00:26:19.000 --> 00:26:19.460
 they're not even

00:26:19.460 --> 00:26:20.019
 denying that

00:26:20.019 --> 00:26:20.839
 Jesus rose

00:26:20.839 --> 00:26:21.660
 but what they

00:26:21.660 --> 00:26:22.319
 are probably

00:26:22.319 --> 00:26:23.079
 saying to these

00:26:23.079 --> 00:26:23.700
 young believers

00:26:23.700 --> 00:26:24.200
 goes something

00:26:24.200 --> 00:26:24.759
 like this

00:26:24.759 --> 00:26:28.019
 listen I know

00:26:28.019 --> 00:26:28.839
 Paul said

00:26:28.839 --> 00:26:30.819
 it's 100%

00:26:30.819 --> 00:26:31.379
 Jesus

00:26:31.379 --> 00:26:32.460
 yeah guys

00:26:32.460 --> 00:26:33.220
 almost right

00:26:33.220 --> 00:26:35.179
 think of

00:26:35.179 --> 00:26:35.679
 Jesus more

00:26:35.679 --> 00:26:36.200
 like a good

00:26:36.200 --> 00:26:36.679
 start

00:26:36.679 --> 00:26:38.759
 think of him

00:26:38.759 --> 00:26:39.899
 like the

00:26:39.899 --> 00:26:40.700
 deposit that

00:26:40.700 --> 00:26:41.159
 you needed

00:26:41.159 --> 00:26:41.579
 to buy

00:26:41.579 --> 00:26:42.139
 your house

00:26:42.139 --> 00:26:44.480
 and now

00:26:44.480 --> 00:26:44.779
 that you're

00:26:44.779 --> 00:26:45.019
 in

00:26:45.019 --> 00:26:45.980
 it's kind

00:26:45.980 --> 00:26:46.399
 of up to

00:26:46.399 --> 00:26:46.819
 you to

00:26:46.819 --> 00:26:47.179
 keep up

00:26:47.179 --> 00:26:48.000
 the monthly

00:26:48.000 --> 00:26:48.720
 repayments

00:26:48.720 --> 00:26:49.119
 to keep

00:26:49.119 --> 00:26:49.740
 yourself in

00:26:49.740 --> 00:26:50.599
 oh by the

00:26:50.599 --> 00:26:51.000
 way how do

00:26:51.000 --> 00:26:51.299
 you do

00:26:51.299 --> 00:26:51.599
 that

00:26:51.599 --> 00:26:52.500
 well you

00:26:52.500 --> 00:26:52.879
 do it

00:26:52.879 --> 00:26:53.200
 by your

00:26:53.200 --> 00:26:53.980
 good works

00:26:53.980 --> 00:26:55.740
 in fact to

00:26:55.740 --> 00:26:56.359
 keep yourself

00:26:56.359 --> 00:26:56.859
 in God's

00:26:56.859 --> 00:26:57.460
 favour you

00:26:57.460 --> 00:26:58.100
 really need

00:26:58.100 --> 00:26:58.579
 to start

00:26:58.579 --> 00:26:59.759
 behaving

00:26:59.759 --> 00:27:00.380
 like a

00:27:00.380 --> 00:27:01.120
 Jew would

00:27:01.120 --> 00:27:02.680
 begin with

00:27:02.680 --> 00:27:03.380
 obeying the

00:27:03.380 --> 00:27:03.920
 ten commandments

00:27:03.920 --> 00:27:05.019
 and the law

00:27:05.019 --> 00:27:05.400
 that's a

00:27:05.400 --> 00:27:05.980
 wonderful place

00:27:05.980 --> 00:27:06.299
 to start

00:27:06.299 --> 00:27:06.740
 oh and by

00:27:06.740 --> 00:27:07.059
 the way

00:27:07.059 --> 00:27:07.700
 you really

00:27:07.700 --> 00:27:08.299
 need to be

00:27:08.299 --> 00:27:09.160
 circumcised

00:27:09.160 --> 00:27:09.960
 if you want

00:27:09.960 --> 00:27:10.360
 to be in

00:27:10.360 --> 00:27:11.039
 God's favour

00:27:11.039 --> 00:27:11.860
 that's the

00:27:11.860 --> 00:27:12.200
 pitch

00:27:12.200 --> 00:27:15.120
 for different

00:27:15.120 --> 00:27:15.660
 reasons I

00:27:15.660 --> 00:27:16.340
 imagine due

00:27:16.340 --> 00:27:16.759
 to the

00:27:16.759 --> 00:27:17.640
 probably the

00:27:17.640 --> 00:27:18.500
 long history

00:27:18.500 --> 00:27:19.100
 of Judaism

00:27:19.100 --> 00:27:21.180
 compared to

00:27:21.180 --> 00:27:21.740
 the relatively

00:27:21.740 --> 00:27:22.700
 recent events

00:27:22.700 --> 00:27:23.200
 surrounding

00:27:23.200 --> 00:27:23.680
 Jesus

00:27:23.680 --> 00:27:24.519
 all of that

00:27:24.519 --> 00:27:25.059
 sounds quite

00:27:25.059 --> 00:27:25.579
 plausible

00:27:25.579 --> 00:27:26.639
 to people

00:27:26.639 --> 00:27:28.559
 but we've

00:27:28.559 --> 00:27:29.039
 got to see

00:27:29.039 --> 00:27:29.599
 that to

00:27:29.599 --> 00:27:30.220
 that Paul

00:27:30.220 --> 00:27:31.019
 says not

00:27:31.019 --> 00:27:32.439
 interesting

00:27:32.439 --> 00:27:33.000
 theory

00:27:33.000 --> 00:27:36.659
 Paul says

00:27:36.659 --> 00:27:36.980
 different

00:27:36.980 --> 00:27:37.399
 gospel

00:27:37.399 --> 00:27:41.919
 and he

00:27:41.919 --> 00:27:42.500
 says let

00:27:42.500 --> 00:27:42.899
 them be

00:27:42.899 --> 00:27:43.619
 under God's

00:27:43.619 --> 00:27:43.879
 curse

00:27:43.879 --> 00:27:44.179
 now we'll

00:27:44.179 --> 00:27:44.619
 return to

00:27:44.619 --> 00:27:45.039
 that curse

00:27:45.039 --> 00:27:45.559
 language in

00:27:45.559 --> 00:27:45.879
 a couple

00:27:45.879 --> 00:27:46.460
 of weeks

00:27:46.460 --> 00:27:47.039
 time okay

00:27:47.039 --> 00:27:47.379
 but it's

00:27:47.379 --> 00:27:48.000
 worth seeing

00:27:48.000 --> 00:27:48.480
 it here

00:27:48.480 --> 00:27:49.859
 how strongly

00:27:49.859 --> 00:27:51.259
 strongly

00:27:51.259 --> 00:27:52.119
 Paul says

00:27:52.119 --> 00:27:54.899
 these things

00:27:54.900 --> 00:27:55.980
 you see

00:27:55.980 --> 00:27:56.360
 friends to

00:27:56.360 --> 00:27:56.840
 walk away

00:27:56.840 --> 00:27:57.440
 from Jesus

00:27:57.440 --> 00:27:57.940
 is to

00:27:57.940 --> 00:27:58.480
 walk away

00:27:58.480 --> 00:27:58.900
 from that

00:27:58.900 --> 00:27:59.180
 double

00:27:59.180 --> 00:27:59.620
 cure

00:27:59.620 --> 00:28:02.280
 and to

00:28:02.280 --> 00:28:02.700
 walk back

00:28:02.700 --> 00:28:03.140
 into the

00:28:03.140 --> 00:28:03.340
 double

00:28:03.340 --> 00:28:03.840
 problem

00:28:03.840 --> 00:28:06.100
 because you're

00:28:06.100 --> 00:28:06.580
 still on the

00:28:06.580 --> 00:28:07.040
 hook for the

00:28:07.040 --> 00:28:07.640
 penalty of

00:28:07.640 --> 00:28:08.360
 your sins

00:28:08.360 --> 00:28:09.900
 again if you

00:28:09.900 --> 00:28:10.360
 think you can

00:28:10.360 --> 00:28:10.800
 do it by

00:28:10.800 --> 00:28:11.340
 yourself you

00:28:11.340 --> 00:28:11.820
 can add to

00:28:11.820 --> 00:28:12.240
 what Jesus

00:28:12.240 --> 00:28:12.759
 has done you

00:28:12.759 --> 00:28:13.080
 may as well

00:28:13.080 --> 00:28:13.519
 go to the

00:28:13.519 --> 00:28:14.100
 cross go up

00:28:14.100 --> 00:28:14.540
 take him

00:28:14.540 --> 00:28:14.980
 down and

00:28:14.980 --> 00:28:15.400
 put yourself

00:28:15.400 --> 00:28:16.019
 back on it

00:28:16.019 --> 00:28:16.380
 that's what

00:28:16.380 --> 00:28:16.940
 he's saying

00:28:16.940 --> 00:28:18.200
 you're still

00:28:18.200 --> 00:28:18.620
 on the hook

00:28:18.620 --> 00:28:19.200
 for the penalty

00:28:19.200 --> 00:28:19.820
 of your sins

00:28:19.820 --> 00:28:20.480
 and the things

00:28:20.480 --> 00:28:21.060
 you're relying

00:28:21.060 --> 00:28:21.680
 on have no

00:28:21.680 --> 00:28:22.280
 power to

00:28:22.280 --> 00:28:22.759
 internally

00:28:22.759 --> 00:28:23.880
 transform you

00:28:23.880 --> 00:28:26.000
 these false

00:28:26.000 --> 00:28:26.500
 teachers are

00:28:26.500 --> 00:28:26.900
 telling you

00:28:26.900 --> 00:28:27.580
 to rely

00:28:27.580 --> 00:28:28.460
 on yourself

00:28:28.460 --> 00:28:28.800
 they're trying

00:28:28.800 --> 00:28:29.320
 to persuade

00:28:29.320 --> 00:28:29.900
 you that you

00:28:29.900 --> 00:28:30.380
 can somehow

00:28:30.380 --> 00:28:31.080
 top up

00:28:31.080 --> 00:28:31.580
 what Jesus

00:28:31.580 --> 00:28:32.080
 has done

00:28:32.080 --> 00:28:32.720
 like you

00:28:32.720 --> 00:28:33.060
 would the

00:28:33.060 --> 00:28:33.560
 credit on

00:28:33.560 --> 00:28:33.980
 your burner

00:28:33.980 --> 00:28:34.420
 phone

00:28:34.420 --> 00:28:36.580
 by what you

00:28:36.580 --> 00:28:37.000
 do

00:28:37.000 --> 00:28:38.140
 and if you

00:28:38.140 --> 00:28:38.600
 do that

00:28:38.600 --> 00:28:39.420
 you'll experience

00:28:39.420 --> 00:28:40.320
 God's favour

00:28:40.320 --> 00:28:40.920
 I'm writing

00:28:40.920 --> 00:28:41.560
 to tell you

00:28:41.560 --> 00:28:42.760
 that if you

00:28:42.760 --> 00:28:43.420
 swallow that

00:28:43.420 --> 00:28:43.960
 and start to

00:28:43.960 --> 00:28:44.760
 live like that

00:28:44.760 --> 00:28:45.780
 not only are you

00:28:45.780 --> 00:28:46.500
 walking away

00:28:46.500 --> 00:28:47.120
 from Jesus

00:28:47.120 --> 00:28:47.740
 but you're back

00:28:47.740 --> 00:28:48.280
 to being

00:28:48.280 --> 00:28:49.000
 the double

00:28:49.000 --> 00:28:49.420
 slave

00:28:49.420 --> 00:28:54.539
 here's what

00:28:54.539 --> 00:28:55.300
 Paul perceives

00:28:55.300 --> 00:28:58.400
 and maybe

00:28:58.400 --> 00:28:58.900
 carry this

00:28:58.900 --> 00:28:59.200
 with us

00:28:59.200 --> 00:28:59.440
 through the

00:28:59.440 --> 00:28:59.759
 rest of

00:28:59.759 --> 00:29:00.259
 this letter

00:29:00.259 --> 00:29:00.660
 friends

00:29:00.660 --> 00:29:00.820
 do you

00:29:00.820 --> 00:29:00.940
 remember

00:29:00.940 --> 00:29:01.380
 that Frank

00:29:01.380 --> 00:29:02.080
 Sinatra song

00:29:02.080 --> 00:29:02.480
 what he said

00:29:02.480 --> 00:29:02.860
 about New

00:29:02.860 --> 00:29:03.180
 York

00:29:03.180 --> 00:29:05.920
 he said

00:29:05.920 --> 00:29:06.120
 if you

00:29:06.120 --> 00:29:06.420
 make it

00:29:06.420 --> 00:29:06.640
 there

00:29:06.640 --> 00:29:06.840
 you'll

00:29:06.840 --> 00:29:07.100
 make it

00:29:07.100 --> 00:29:07.480
 anywhere

00:29:07.480 --> 00:29:07.800
 you know

00:29:07.800 --> 00:29:08.240
 that line

00:29:08.240 --> 00:29:09.820
 so almost

00:29:09.820 --> 00:29:10.140
 as if

00:29:10.140 --> 00:29:10.539
 Paul is

00:29:10.539 --> 00:29:10.740
 singing

00:29:10.740 --> 00:29:11.080
 here to

00:29:11.080 --> 00:29:11.240
 the

00:29:11.240 --> 00:29:11.620
 Christians

00:29:11.620 --> 00:29:11.840
 in

00:29:11.840 --> 00:29:12.320
 Galatia

00:29:12.320 --> 00:29:12.660
 and to

00:29:12.660 --> 00:29:12.900
 us

00:29:12.900 --> 00:29:13.120
 about

00:29:13.120 --> 00:29:13.300
 the

00:29:13.300 --> 00:29:13.720
 gospel

00:29:13.720 --> 00:29:15.720
 see if

00:29:15.720 --> 00:29:15.960
 you go

00:29:15.960 --> 00:29:16.220
 wrong

00:29:16.220 --> 00:29:16.580
 here

00:29:16.580 --> 00:29:18.400
 you'll

00:29:18.400 --> 00:29:18.740
 go wrong

00:29:18.740 --> 00:29:19.259
 everywhere

00:29:19.259 --> 00:29:22.240
 and this

00:29:22.240 --> 00:29:22.740
 is important

00:29:22.740 --> 00:29:23.259
 not just

00:29:23.259 --> 00:29:23.640
 in terms

00:29:23.640 --> 00:29:24.019
 of how

00:29:24.019 --> 00:29:24.599
 we become

00:29:24.599 --> 00:29:26.119
 a Christian

00:29:26.119 --> 00:29:27.980
 but it's

00:29:27.980 --> 00:29:28.359
 massively

00:29:28.359 --> 00:29:28.920
 important

00:29:28.920 --> 00:29:29.379
 in terms

00:29:29.379 --> 00:29:29.660
 of how

00:29:29.660 --> 00:29:30.220
 we continue

00:29:30.220 --> 00:29:30.900
 to grow

00:29:30.900 --> 00:29:32.319
 as Christians

00:29:32.319 --> 00:29:34.220
 and by way

00:29:34.220 --> 00:29:34.640
 of immediate

00:29:34.640 --> 00:29:35.140
 application

00:29:35.140 --> 00:29:35.740
 of this

00:29:35.740 --> 00:29:36.279
 it means

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 that we

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 as a

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 congregation

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 should be

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 always up

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 for

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 discerning

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 what's

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 being said

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 up here

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 not rating

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 the sermon

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 like some

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 kind of

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 strictly

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 come

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 dancing

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 judge

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 but smelling

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 the teaching

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 like some

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 trained police

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 sniffer dogs

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 with the

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 scent of

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 truth

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 in our

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 nostrils

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 and why

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 because only

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 this message

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 gives life

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 the gospel

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 is as my

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 American

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 friends would

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 say

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 it is our

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 true north

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 it's what we

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 do isn't it

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 every Sunday

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 as we gather

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 through what we

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 sing and what we

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 read and what we

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 hear and what we

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 speak to each

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 other we

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 are all

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 helping each

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 other we

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 set the

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 compass of

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 our lives

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 back to

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 Christ and

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 his gospel

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 because we

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 all default

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 into thinking

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 that it's all

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 wrapped up

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 with our

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 performance

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 so what I

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 do we

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 leak gospel

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 during the

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 week and

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 we come in

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 here having

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 drifted and

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 we're reminded

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 wonderfully that

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 it's 100%

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 Jesus

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 it's 100%

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 him

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 friends our

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 time is

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 gone that

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 brings me

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 just as we

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 close to the

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 difference between

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 Christianity and

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 every other

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 religious and

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 moral impulse

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 in us can I

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 tell you my

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 beef with

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 Bob the

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 Builder

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 as we get

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 ourselves back to

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 the centre of

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 this message

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 my beef with

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 him is not so

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 much in who

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 he is never

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 met the guy

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 sure he's

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 lovely but my

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 beef with him

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 is about what

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 he teaches us

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 about work in

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 the theme song

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 repeat after me

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 Bob the

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 Builder

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 Bob the Builder

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 friends catchy

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 lyrics wonderful

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 advertising can I

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 tell you terrible

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 theology

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 everything else

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 out there screams

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 to us yes you

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 can

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 yes you can

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 go and do it

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 can I tell you the

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 difference in

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 Christianity

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 every other

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 religious impulse

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 in us

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 the gospel

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 says Christ

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 has done it

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 not you do it

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 the gospel

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 says Christ

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 has done it

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 and here's what

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 you wouldn't have

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 learned for your

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 maths teacher at

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 school but you'll

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 learn it for Paul

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 the apostle

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 the equation

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 that's at the

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 heart of the

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 Christian faith

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 you ready for

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 this it's this

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 Jesus plus

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 nothing equals

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 everything

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 it's the

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 difference between

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 do and done

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 no one puts this

00:32:11.419 --> 00:32:12.099
 better I think

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 and we'll close

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 with this with

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 these lyrics from

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 hymn writer from

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 many years ago

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 called Augustus

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 Top Lady now

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 they don't do

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 names like that

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 anymore do they

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 but wrote this

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 wonderful hymn that

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 has been the anthem

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 of the church down

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 the generations

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 and it goes

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 like this

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 nothing in my

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 hand I bring

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 simply to the

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 cross I cling

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 make it come to

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 thee for dress

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 helpless

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 look to thee

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 for grace

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 fall I to

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 the fountain

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 fly

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 wash me

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 savior

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 or I die

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 friends the more

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 that I've got in

00:32:50.519 --> 00:32:51.180
 tune with that

00:32:51.180 --> 00:32:52.400
 song I'm convinced

00:32:52.400 --> 00:32:52.940
 he was reading

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 the book of

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 Galatians as

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 he wrote it

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 it's all or

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 nothing Jesus

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 and so friends

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 let's just

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 close by these

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 reading these

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 words from

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 Isaiah 55

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 for my thoughts

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 are not your

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 thoughts

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 neither are your

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 ways my ways

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 declares the

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 Lord

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 as the heavens

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 are higher than

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 the earth so

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 are my ways

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 higher than

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 your ways

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 and my thoughts

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 than your

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 thoughts

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 as the rain

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 and the snow

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 come down from

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 heaven and do

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 not return to

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 it without

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 watering the

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 earth and

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 making it

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 bud and

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 flourish so

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 that it yields

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 seed for the

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 sower and

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 bread for the

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 eater so is

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 my word that

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 goes out from

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 my mouth it

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 will not return

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 to me empty

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 but will

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 accomplish what

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 I desire and

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 achieve the

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 purpose for

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 which I sent

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 it and so

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 Lord we thank

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 you today for

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 what we've seen

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 and what we've

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 savoured

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 Lord I thank

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 you that your

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 Holy Spirit

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 is so much

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 better a

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 pastor than

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 I am and

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 so I pray

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 that he would

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 be at work

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 in our

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 lives as we

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 continue to

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 mull on your

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 words may your

00:34:04.859 --> 00:34:06.399
 spirit as he

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 takes the word

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 and applies it

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 deep to our

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 lives may it

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 have the

00:34:09.179 --> 00:34:10.400
 desired effect

00:34:10.400 --> 00:34:11.380
 that you want

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 to have it

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 so lift our

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 eyes to your

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 greatness and to

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 your gospel we

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 pray in Jesus

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 name amen

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 miracle

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