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 I'll please turn up Hebrews chapter 10.

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 And we're just continuing our series, our evening series in the book of Hebrews.

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! And we come to chapter 10 this evening, which means that we are less in question 45 of the Heidelberg Catechism

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 and more in questions 40 to 44 that we affirmed earlier in our service.

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 And of course the issue is sacrifice.

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 Sacrifice.

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 A religion based around sacrifices, we might think, well, no thanks.

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 It sounds a bit barbaric.

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 People say it's harsh.

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 And a bit like we said when we talked a few weeks ago about the idea of priests,

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 the idea of sacrifice feels a bit irrelevant to modern people like us.

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 We think sacrifice doesn't really fit with the way we think about the world today.

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 Except we see sacrifice everywhere.

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 It's maybe not animals in a religious context, but people sacrifice their health, their marriages, their children, their integrity,

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 all on the altar of success or pleasure.

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 When Rory McIlroy put on his green jacket last week, he talked about the sacrifices of his parents in order to get him to where he is.

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 Judy Murray, mother of Andy, famously said that she used to dry tennis balls in the tumble dryer because they didn't have enough money to buy new ones when she trained Andy when he was a boy.

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 And of course, we tell those stories and we think those are good things.

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 And it's not just these better known examples, is it?

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 But whatever we devote ourselves to, whether it's our career, our children, our image, our health, it all requires us to sacrifice.

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 So the idea of sacrifice and basing your life around sacrifice may not be that irrelevant to us after all.

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 Sacrifice in general is relevant to us, but I want to suggest this evening that the sacrifice of Jesus Christ,

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 Hebrews chapter 10, verse 12, offered for all time, Jesus offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins.

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 That sacrifice is more relevant to your life than anything else, whoever you are and whatever you believe here this evening.

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 The sacrifice of Jesus Christ is more relevant to your life than anything else.

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 At a university convocation a few years ago, the erstwhile Jordan Peterson said this,

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 It's never been a mystery to me why people are anxious and unsettled.

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 I think the mystery is how it is that we can conduct ourselves so that that can remain under control.

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 I mean, people deal with very heavy burdens in their life, you know.

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 You don't have to talk to someone for very long, someone you might be thinking is doing quite well in the world.

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 But you don't have to scratch very deep beneath the surface before you find out that they have at least one serious problem that they're dealing with.

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 And so it's no mystery that people find it difficult to orient themselves in the world.

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 The mystery is, well, what can we do about it?

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 End quote.

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 Questions of guilt and anxiety and failure and insecurity.

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 Those questions are relevant to all of us because they are part of the human condition.

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 And a version of this question, the mystery is, well, what can we do about it?

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 What can we do about those things?

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 A version of that question drives so much of what we do in life.

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 The things that we pour ourselves into don't deliver.

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 What then?

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 It can be disorientating for us.

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 The success didn't fix the brokenness or the need to keep achieving.

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 And so we're on that treadmill and we go and we go and we go and we achieve the things that we set out to do.

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 And still there is that sense, guilt, anxiety, failure, insecurity, whatever it might be.

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 And that nagging sense that we just can't manage to be the people that we want to be in the world.

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 It remains.

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 So how do we deal with this?

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 That's the mystery.

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 Jordan Peterson describes it as a mystery.

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 Hebrews 10 clears up the mystery.

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 What we need for all of those things is the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

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 And this is a solution that actually works because it goes deeper than the surface issues themselves.

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 It goes to the very root of the problem.

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 You see, in some ways, it's very reductionistic to say this, but it is true that we find this world unsettling.

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 We find it disorientating because we have cut ourselves off from the God who made us and who made the world that we live in.

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 And as I say, it is at the risk of sounding overly simplistic.

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 But all of our problems, every single problem that you have can be traced back to that point.

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 Estrangement from God.

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 Now, there will be presenting issues on the surface.

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 It will look different.

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 But you can trace every problem back to that root.

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 And Christ's sacrifice reconciles that breach.

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 We can't reconcile that relationship in our own strength, even if we wanted to, which we don't want to by nature.

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 Because a holy God and sinful human beings cannot coexist.

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 However, God has stepped into human history.

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 It's what we've been thinking about this weekend.

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 God has stepped into history in the person of his son, the Lord Jesus, and he has done this in order to reconcile the relationship that we have broken.

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 We've said it week after week.

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 The issue for the first hearers of the letter to the Hebrews is that they know this.

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 They know that this is the situation that they are in.

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 They need the sacrifice of Christ in order to be reconciled to the God who made them.

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 But they're tempted to walk away from that reality.

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 They're tempted to go back to their old religious system.

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 And the plea of this letter is that they don't do this.

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 Don't go there because Jesus is better.

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 Way better.

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 And here the author is making the point again.

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 Jesus is better.

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 Way better.

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 In regard to sacrifices.

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 And again, he's contrasting the old and the new.

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 And he starts by pointing out, first of all, how the old is limited.

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 Point number one, when it comes to the old sacrificial system, the old is limited.

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 It's limited in two ways.

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 First of all, it's limited in its effect.

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 Verses 1 to 4.

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 For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities,

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 it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near.

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 Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshippers have, once been cleansed,

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 would no longer have any consciousness of sins.

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 But in these sacrifices, there is a reminder of sins every year,

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 for it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

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 We heard in chapter 9 how the old covenant priests entered the tabernacle day after day

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 in order to make sacrifices, first for their own sins, then for the sins of the people.

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 And then once a year, the high point of the sacrificial system was the day of atonement,

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 when the perfect lamb was sacrificed, recalling God's rescue of his people at the Passover.

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 We think about that.

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 The whole thing feels very exhausting.

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 Verse 11, have a look.

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 Every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices,

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 which can never take away sins.

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 Day after day, sacrifice after sacrifice.

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 Day after day, sacrifice after sacrifice.

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 And all of this repetition, it sounds exhausting,

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 but the need for the repetition reveals the central problem with it.

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 These sacrifices were only a shame.

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 10 verse 1, make perfect those who drew near.

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 With being cleansed, verse 2, and take away sins, verse 3.

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 The old covenant sacrifices did what a shadow does.

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 What does a shadow do?

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 It presupposes the existence of a reality that creates the shadow.

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 So it's pointing to the reality beyond themselves.

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 But those shadows didn't do what only the reality could do.

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 They reminded the worshiper of their sinfulness, but they couldn't do anything to deal with that sin.

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 There was no cleansing of the conscience.

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 There was no removal of sin.

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 There was no deep transformative change.

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 Now that doesn't mean that the system failed in some way.

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 Not at all.

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 This was the purpose that it was designed to serve all along.

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 So it was limited.

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 Secondly, then, if it was limited, first of all, in its effect,

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 it was limited, secondly, in its intent.

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 In its intent, verses 5 to 10.

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 Verse 5, consequently, when Christ came into the world,

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 he said,

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 Here, the author depicts Christ quoting Psalm 40, speaking to the Father,

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 referring to the intent of the old covenant sacrifices.

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 He uses four different expressions.

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 Four sacrifices.

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 Do you see that?

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 Sacrifices, offerings, burnt offerings, and sin offerings.

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 And he uses each one of those to cover the whole gamut of Old Testament sacrifices

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 and to highlight what was required by the law of God.

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 And he's saying,

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 Even though they were offered according to the law, verse 8,

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 and therefore according to God's will,

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 these sacrifices were never intended as a way to please God or gain access to him.

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 The limited nature of the old covenant isn't something that we can only see

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 from the perspective of the New Testament.

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 Even back in the Old Testament, that is obvious.

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 In the Psalms, in the Prophets, Jeremiah 31, which we saw back in chapter 8,

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 and is referred to here in verse 16,

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 shows how the old covenant always anticipated the coming of the new.

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 The shadow always pointed to the reality.

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 And it is clear that God takes no pleasure in the sacrifices for their own sake

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 because a better sacrifice is required.

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 The real sacrifice that the shadow is always pushing us to see.

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 Christ's sacrifice always took priority over the bulls and goats.

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 And this is why when Christ says in verse 9,

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 you see verse 9,

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 And behold, I have come to do your will.

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 God does away with the first, animal sacrifices,

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 in order to establish the second, the once for all sacrifice of Christ.

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 Now, the limits of the old covenant highlight a number of important things.

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 The first is this.

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 They remind us that sin is always, ultimately, a heart issue.

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 Sin isn't simply the bad things that we do.

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 But sin flows from who we are.

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 It is a moral issue rather than simply a behavioral issue.

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 That is why no amount of blood, sacrifice, or ceremony, or religion could resolve the problem.

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 Those things existed at a surface level.

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 We needed to get to the heart.

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 Secondly, if it was impossible for the old covenant system,

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 ordained as it was by God to deal with our deepest problems of sin and guilt,

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 then nothing else that we try will resolve the problem either.

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 However hard we try,

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 if this system that was ordained by God was limited in its effect and its intent,

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 if that was not able to deal with the heart issue,

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 well then nothing we try will resolve the problem either.

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 And we are trying very hard in our culture.

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 Here are the episode titles of two of the biggest podcasts at the moment.

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 This is just a selection from over the last few months.

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 Unpacking the mystery of consciousness.

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 How to find the love of your life.

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 How to take control of your own destiny.

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 Why modern women feel more lost than ever.

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 The art of unlocking your inner peace.

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 Millions of downloads.

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 Or try this.

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 The secret of living without fear and anxiety forever.

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 The psychology of why people don't like you.

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 I may have listened to that one.

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 We think to ourselves,

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 why are millions of people downloading this?

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 They're doing it because maybe these people have the answers.

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 Maybe these answers,

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 these talks,

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 these podcasts,

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 these experts,

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 will be able to give me the answer to these problems.

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 And the ones I listened to were fascinating.

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 They were full of common sense.

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 But the solutions that they prescribe

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 can't ultimately achieve what they're striving for.

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 Because they don't deal with the problem of the heart.

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 They don't get under the skin.

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 They don't get beyond behavior modification.

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 And of course,

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 in any of these podcasts where spirituality is introduced,

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 it's talked about as a personal discipline.

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 Something that you can do.

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 That you add on to your life

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 in order to keep control of things.

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 Or create calm in some way.

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 Or give order to our lives.

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 It's all about what we do to fix ourselves.

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 That's why,

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 that's another reason why Jordan Peterson comes up short as well.

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 Jordan Peterson's really popular

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 because he puts his finger

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 on many of the cultural problems we face.

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 But his solutions will only work up to a point.

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 Because like all these other ones,

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 they don't go deep enough

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 to reach to the heart.

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 That is why we need Christ.

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 That's why we need Christ.

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 And the author of the Hebrews here

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 makes that abundantly clear

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 with the contrast.

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 And here's the contrast.

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 If the first point is

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 that the old system is limited,

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 the second point here is

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 Christ is perfect.

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 Point number one,

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 the old is limited.

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 Point number two,

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 Christ is perfect.

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 Christ is the agent of the good things

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 we're told about in verse one.

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 Which are the things that we heard about last time

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 in chapter nine.

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 If you remember,

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 atonement,

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 redemption from sin,

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 cleansing.

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 He can actually,

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 and does actually,

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 verse one,

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 make perfect those who draw near.

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 He makes us perfect.

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 How does he do it?

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 Well, first of all,

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 through his perfect obedience.

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 That's verses five to ten.

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 Consequently,

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 when Christ came into the world,

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 he said,

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 sacrifices and offerings

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 you have not desired,

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 but a body you have prepared for me.

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 In burnt offerings and sin offerings

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 you have taken no pleasure.

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 Then I said,

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 behold,

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 I have come to do your will,

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 O God,

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 as it is written of me

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 in the scroll of the book.

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 As I said earlier,

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 these verses depict the Son

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 addressing the Father

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 when he comes into the world.

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 All of God,

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 Father,

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 Son,

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 and Holy Spirit

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 is involved in the redemption plan.

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 The Father prepares a body

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 for the Son.

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 The Spirit creates that body

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 in Mary's womb,

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 and the Son assumes that body.

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 And all of that happens

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 in order

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 for the Son

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 to do the will of God.

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 The author here

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 is giving us a window

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 into the hidden things of God,

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 and when Christ comes into the world,

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 the eternal plan

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 is carried out perfectly.

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 Jesus embraces

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 the will of God

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 in order to be

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 a suitable sacrifice

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 for men and women,

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 a fitting sacrifice

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 for those who could

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 never be made perfect

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 by the blood

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 of bulls and goats.

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 In the face of the agony

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 of the cross,

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 as he prayed in Gethsemane

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 the night before his death,

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 Jesus cried out to God,

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 if there was any other way

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 to perfect sinful men and women,

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 if there was any other way

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 that a guilty conscience

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 could be cleansed,

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 if there was any other way

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 that sin could be decisively dealt with,

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 to show it to him,

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 but then he said,

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 yet not my will,

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 but yours be done.

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 Behold,

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 I have come

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 to do your will,

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 O God.

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 So, verse 10,

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 by that will

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 we have been sanctified

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 through the offering

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 of the body

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 of Jesus Christ

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 once for all.

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 Sanctified here

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 means set apart

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 for God.

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 That was the goal

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 of the old covenant

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 sacrificial system.

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 It marked God's people

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 out as belonging to him.

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 So they were told,

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 Leviticus 20,

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 verse 7,

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 to sanctify themselves.

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 That is to observe

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 the external actions

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 that set them apart

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 from others.

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 Mark them out

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 as a distinctive people.

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 But because Hebrews

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 is concerned

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 with heart sanctification

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 being made perfect,

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 drawn into the presence

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 of God,

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 and because we know

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 that the religious system

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 can't do that,

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 it's limited.

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 The language here

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 is different.

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 You see that?

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 Through Christ's obedience

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 to the will of God,

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 we have been sanctified.

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 He has done it for us.

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 It's not something

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 that we've got to go

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 and do for ourselves.

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 We can't.

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 He has done it for us.

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 He was faithful

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 where we were unfaithful.

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 He was obedient

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 where we were disobedient.

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 And his faithful obedience

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 culminated.

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 Then in the second aspect

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 of his perfection,

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 and it's this,

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 it's his perfect offering.

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 First of all,

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 we see his perfect obedience,

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 but then also

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 his perfect offering.

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 Look at verse 11.

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 And every priest

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 stands daily

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 at his service,

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 offering repeatedly

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 the same sacrifices

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 which can never

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 take away sins.

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 But when Christ

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 had offered for all time

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 a single sacrifice

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 for sins,

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 he sat down

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 at the right hand of God,

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 waiting for that time

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 until his enemy

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 should be made

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 a footstool

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 for his feet.

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 For by a single offering,

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 he has perfected

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 for all time

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 those who are

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 being sanctified.

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 The old covenant

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 priests are described

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 as standing

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 because their work

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 was never done.

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 Making sacrifice

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 for their sins,

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 for the sins of the people,

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 for their sins,

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 the sins of the people.

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 Their work was never done.

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 Their sacrifices

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 were never sufficient.

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 By contrast,

00:19:05.559 --> 00:19:05.920
 Christ,

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 see his posture?

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 He's seated.

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 And that shows us

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 actually a number of things,

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 three things in particular.

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 First of all,

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 because of the perfection

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 of his offering,

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 his work of dealing

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 with sin is finished.

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 No further sacrifice

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 is required

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 to deal with your sin.

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 Secondly,

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 he is now ruling

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 in heaven

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 as he waits

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 for his enemies

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 to be subdued

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 and he claims

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 his inheritance in full.

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 And thirdly,

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 he has sanctified

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 definitively

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 those who have been

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 set apart

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 as his.

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 All of us

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 who have put

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 our faith

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 in the atoning

00:19:42.859 --> 00:19:43.819
 death of Christ

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 have been

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 and will be

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 redeemed.

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 But,

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 more than that,

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 it is through

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 this offering

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 that Christ

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 establishes

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 the new covenant

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 and brings

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 those promises

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 to bear

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 in the life

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 of all who believe.

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 Look at verse 16.

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 This is the covenant

00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:00.620
 that I will make

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 with them.

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 After those days,

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 declares the Lord,

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 I will put my laws

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 on their hearts

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 and write them

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 on their minds.

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 Then he adds,

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 I will remember

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 their sins

00:20:07.359 --> 00:20:09.279
 and their lawless deeds

00:20:09.279 --> 00:20:10.380
 no more.

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 Why is our culture

00:20:13.400 --> 00:20:14.900
 anxious and unsettled?

00:20:16.519 --> 00:20:17.420
 Because we know

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 that we aren't able

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 to control our appetites

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 and our desires.

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 Whether it's food

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 or drink

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 or some more sinister

00:20:24.299 --> 00:20:24.859
 impulse,

00:20:25.019 --> 00:20:25.759
 we're not able

00:20:25.759 --> 00:20:26.920
 to control ourselves.

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 Or whether it's

00:20:29.079 --> 00:20:29.759
 the way anger

00:20:29.759 --> 00:20:30.440
 or lust

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 or the like

00:20:31.039 --> 00:20:31.640
 seem to have

00:20:31.640 --> 00:20:32.859
 this hold over us.

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 What ends up happening?

00:20:34.180 --> 00:20:34.940
 It leaves us feeling

00:20:34.940 --> 00:20:36.059
 weak and insecure

00:20:36.059 --> 00:20:38.039
 and we look around

00:20:38.039 --> 00:20:39.160
 and it seems

00:20:39.160 --> 00:20:39.900
 to just be worse

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 because when we look

00:20:40.700 --> 00:20:41.080
 around,

00:20:41.680 --> 00:20:42.320
 everybody else

00:20:42.320 --> 00:20:42.900
 seems like they're

00:20:42.900 --> 00:20:43.460
 all over it.

00:20:43.960 --> 00:20:44.720
 They've got life

00:20:44.720 --> 00:20:45.640
 tied up.

00:20:48.840 --> 00:20:49.700
 Why do we struggle

00:20:49.700 --> 00:20:50.740
 with fear and guilt?

00:20:52.320 --> 00:20:53.120
 Because we know

00:20:53.120 --> 00:20:53.980
 that we have skeletons

00:20:53.980 --> 00:20:54.800
 in our closets.

00:20:55.720 --> 00:20:57.019
 Things in our lives

00:20:57.019 --> 00:20:58.040
 that we're ashamed of.

00:20:58.720 --> 00:20:59.720
 Things that we've said,

00:20:59.860 --> 00:21:00.580
 things that we've done

00:21:00.580 --> 00:21:01.780
 that we feel guilty about.

00:21:03.440 --> 00:21:04.180
 Now as long as

00:21:04.180 --> 00:21:05.180
 we deny that guilt

00:21:05.180 --> 00:21:06.140
 and keep up appearances,

00:21:06.300 --> 00:21:07.040
 we think we're okay.

00:21:07.160 --> 00:21:07.700
 We think we can

00:21:07.700 --> 00:21:09.000
 get by in life.

00:21:09.000 --> 00:21:11.079
 But truth is

00:21:11.079 --> 00:21:11.680
 we're struggling.

00:21:12.380 --> 00:21:13.720
 That nagging reality

00:21:13.720 --> 00:21:14.720
 of guilt

00:21:14.720 --> 00:21:15.720
 is wearing us down.

00:21:15.819 --> 00:21:16.559
 But also we live

00:21:16.559 --> 00:21:17.440
 in fear of people

00:21:17.440 --> 00:21:18.200
 finding out

00:21:18.200 --> 00:21:18.839
 that the front

00:21:18.839 --> 00:21:19.480
 that we put up

00:21:19.480 --> 00:21:20.000
 isn't real.

00:21:20.299 --> 00:21:21.299
 We worry that people

00:21:21.299 --> 00:21:21.880
 will discover

00:21:21.880 --> 00:21:22.579
 we're a fraud.

00:21:22.859 --> 00:21:23.500
 What if they see

00:21:23.500 --> 00:21:24.660
 the person that I present

00:21:24.660 --> 00:21:25.160
 to the world

00:21:25.160 --> 00:21:25.819
 isn't actually

00:21:25.819 --> 00:21:26.539
 the real me?

00:21:27.140 --> 00:21:27.920
 The social media

00:21:27.920 --> 00:21:28.960
 is a performance.

00:21:29.420 --> 00:21:30.380
 It's not reality.

00:21:30.859 --> 00:21:31.660
 What if they find out

00:21:31.660 --> 00:21:32.519
 that I don't have it

00:21:32.519 --> 00:21:33.079
 all together

00:21:33.079 --> 00:21:34.400
 and I'm actually a mess?

00:21:35.859 --> 00:21:36.920
 That makes us anxious.

00:21:38.180 --> 00:21:38.619
 Fearful.

00:21:39.000 --> 00:21:42.259
 There is only one answer

00:21:42.259 --> 00:21:45.680
 and the answer

00:21:45.680 --> 00:21:46.920
 is the new covenant promise

00:21:46.920 --> 00:21:47.640
 that comes to us

00:21:47.640 --> 00:21:48.119
 on the basis

00:21:48.119 --> 00:21:48.880
 of Christ's

00:21:48.880 --> 00:21:50.559
 perfect sacrifice.

00:21:51.599 --> 00:21:53.059
 To that guilt

00:21:53.059 --> 00:21:54.240
 Christ says,

00:21:55.079 --> 00:21:55.940
 I will remember

00:21:55.940 --> 00:21:57.180
 their sins no more.

00:21:59.279 --> 00:22:00.539
 I will remember

00:22:00.539 --> 00:22:01.099
 their sins

00:22:01.099 --> 00:22:02.140
 and their lawless deeds

00:22:02.140 --> 00:22:03.039
 no more.

00:22:03.039 --> 00:22:05.079
 whatever you have done

00:22:05.079 --> 00:22:07.720
 whatever it is

00:22:07.720 --> 00:22:10.440
 Christ's sacrifice

00:22:10.440 --> 00:22:11.099
 deals with it.

00:22:11.960 --> 00:22:13.159
 You are forgiven.

00:22:14.440 --> 00:22:16.019
 You are reconciled

00:22:16.019 --> 00:22:16.879
 to God.

00:22:17.420 --> 00:22:18.279
 As we saw

00:22:18.279 --> 00:22:18.980
 in chapter 8

00:22:18.980 --> 00:22:20.299
 it's not that God

00:22:20.299 --> 00:22:21.059
 has amnesia

00:22:21.059 --> 00:22:22.920
 but that he decides

00:22:22.920 --> 00:22:23.859
 not to recall

00:22:23.859 --> 00:22:24.899
 your sin against you.

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 And that's every sin.

00:22:28.519 --> 00:22:29.880
 Not just the small ones.

00:22:31.019 --> 00:22:31.840
 Every sin.

00:22:31.940 --> 00:22:32.820
 Not just the ones

00:22:32.820 --> 00:22:33.560
 that we don't mind

00:22:33.560 --> 00:22:34.259
 talking about.

00:22:36.120 --> 00:22:37.100
 Every sin.

00:22:37.660 --> 00:22:38.280
 And the matter

00:22:38.280 --> 00:22:39.200
 is closed.

00:22:39.580 --> 00:22:40.140
 He doesn't bring

00:22:40.140 --> 00:22:40.700
 them up again.

00:22:42.080 --> 00:22:43.080
 So what does that mean?

00:22:43.120 --> 00:22:43.840
 It means we can be

00:22:43.840 --> 00:22:44.600
 done with guilt.

00:22:45.259 --> 00:22:46.120
 We can refuse

00:22:46.120 --> 00:22:47.040
 its hold on us

00:22:47.039 --> 00:22:48.200
 and enjoy the freedom

00:22:48.200 --> 00:22:49.019
 of knowing

00:22:49.019 --> 00:22:49.579
 that the God

00:22:49.579 --> 00:22:50.240
 who made us

00:22:50.240 --> 00:22:50.899
 for himself

00:22:50.899 --> 00:22:52.359
 delights in us.

00:22:54.779 --> 00:22:55.639
 How does God

00:22:55.639 --> 00:22:56.579
 feel about you

00:22:56.579 --> 00:22:57.039
 today?

00:22:57.599 --> 00:22:58.079
 How would you

00:22:58.079 --> 00:22:58.960
 answer that question?

00:22:59.680 --> 00:23:00.799
 He delights in you.

00:23:02.819 --> 00:23:04.019
 I know that some of you

00:23:04.019 --> 00:23:04.799
 need to hear that

00:23:04.799 --> 00:23:05.339
 this evening.

00:23:06.339 --> 00:23:07.500
 Like you need oxygen

00:23:07.500 --> 00:23:09.339
 in order to stay alive.

00:23:09.659 --> 00:23:11.039
 The God of all the earth

00:23:11.039 --> 00:23:12.319
 delights in you

00:23:12.319 --> 00:23:13.399
 because of the perfect

00:23:13.399 --> 00:23:14.519
 sacrifice of Christ.

00:23:14.519 --> 00:23:17.279
 If I was less

00:23:17.279 --> 00:23:17.940
 socially aware

00:23:17.940 --> 00:23:18.519
 I'd get you to

00:23:18.519 --> 00:23:19.400
 chant it back to me.

00:23:19.519 --> 00:23:20.339
 That's how important

00:23:20.339 --> 00:23:20.799
 it is.

00:23:22.359 --> 00:23:23.220
 And we can get

00:23:23.220 --> 00:23:24.119
 beyond anxiety.

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 We can get beyond

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 insecurity because

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 we know that we're

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 accepted by the one

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 who defines reality

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 and in whose acceptance

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 we can be ourselves.

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 We can be ourselves

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 with all of our faults

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 because he is the only

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 one whose opinion

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 really matters

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 in the world.

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 It's a bit like

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 if you know the king

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 accepts you.

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 If you know

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 that King Charles

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 accepts you

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 and is delighted

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 that you're coming

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 to Buckingham Palace

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 does it matter

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 what the security guards

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 think of you?

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 Does it matter

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 what the people

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 at the gate

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 think of you?

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 Of course it doesn't.

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 The king of the universe

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 says I delight in you.

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 It should transform

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 all kinds of anxiety

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 and insecurity.

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 And then

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 to our weakness.

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 Look Christ says this

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 I will put my laws

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 on their hearts

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 and write them

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 on their minds.

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 Sometimes we think

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 well that's great

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 that he feels

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 that way about me.

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 That's great

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 that I can be done

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 with my past.

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 That's great

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 that I don't need

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 to feel insecure anymore

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 because I'm accepted

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 and loved by the king

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 of all the earth.

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 But what happens then?

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 I just keep falling back

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 into those same old sins

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 again and again.

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 Well he gives us

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 his spirit

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 to change us.

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 I will put my laws

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 not on stone

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 on the outside

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 but in their hearts.

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 I will write

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 them on their minds.

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 He transforms us

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 on the inside.

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 He transforms

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 our thoughts.

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 He gives us

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 new desires.

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 We're no longer

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 actually controlled

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 by our sinful nature

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 because we get

00:25:01.900 --> 00:25:02.580
 new hearts.

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 Hearts that love

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 what is good.

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 Hearts that are able

00:25:05.740 --> 00:25:06.700
 to resist sin.

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 We don't do it perfectly

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 of course

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 because the old man

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 remains.

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 But even though

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 that is a reality

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 I hope you know

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 that in Christ

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 you don't need

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 to sin.

00:25:20.519 --> 00:25:22.039
 You have the resources

00:25:22.039 --> 00:25:24.799
 to resist temptation.

00:25:27.160 --> 00:25:28.360
 Sin is a terrible

00:25:28.360 --> 00:25:29.220
 terrible master

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 but in Christ

00:25:30.319 --> 00:25:31.620
 its tyrannical reign

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 is broken.

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 you are no longer

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 a slave

00:25:36.460 --> 00:25:37.360
 to those desires.

00:25:37.480 --> 00:25:38.039
 You can say

00:25:38.039 --> 00:25:38.940
 when that temptation

00:25:38.940 --> 00:25:39.720
 comes your way

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 no not today.

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 And in the strength

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 that he supplies

00:25:44.420 --> 00:25:45.259
 you can stand.

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 It's not easy

00:25:48.940 --> 00:25:49.880
 but it is possible.

00:25:51.519 --> 00:25:52.680
 So what can we do

00:25:52.680 --> 00:25:53.279
 about guilt

00:25:53.279 --> 00:25:54.000
 and anxiety

00:25:54.000 --> 00:25:54.820
 and insecurity?

00:25:55.539 --> 00:25:56.279
 What can we do

00:25:56.279 --> 00:25:57.060
 about those feelings

00:25:57.060 --> 00:25:57.620
 of failure

00:25:57.620 --> 00:25:58.400
 and fear?

00:25:59.160 --> 00:26:00.039
 Take them to Christ.

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 Take them

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 to the one

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 who through

00:26:05.299 --> 00:26:06.379
 his perfect obedience

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 and his perfect offering

00:26:07.559 --> 00:26:08.819
 has dealt with them all.

00:26:11.720 --> 00:26:12.819
 There's no mystery.

00:26:14.299 --> 00:26:15.420
 Go to Christ

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 and go only

00:26:17.460 --> 00:26:18.059
 to Christ

00:26:18.059 --> 00:26:18.940
 because only he

00:26:18.940 --> 00:26:20.500
 can forgive our failure

00:26:20.500 --> 00:26:22.180
 and only he gives us

00:26:22.180 --> 00:26:22.659
 the power

00:26:22.659 --> 00:26:24.000
 to change.

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 Go to Christ.

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 Christ.

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 That's what we're

00:26:27.859 --> 00:26:28.199
 going to do

00:26:28.199 --> 00:26:28.559
 when we come

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 to the table

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 in a moment.

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 We need to do

00:26:31.419 --> 00:26:32.339
 that each one of us

00:26:32.339 --> 00:26:34.699
 in our experience.

00:26:35.139 --> 00:26:36.000
 We need to resolve

00:26:36.000 --> 00:26:36.559
 in our heads

00:26:36.559 --> 00:26:37.259
 and in our hearts

00:26:37.259 --> 00:26:38.960
 he is the one

00:26:38.960 --> 00:26:39.679
 to whom we go

00:26:39.679 --> 00:26:40.799
 nowhere else.

00:26:41.259 --> 00:26:41.480
 Go

00:26:41.480 --> 00:26:42.740
 to Christ.

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 Let's pray.

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