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 We'll do turn to Matthew 5.

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 I was driving this week and I heard the advert for Vitality Insurance. I don't know if you've seen it.

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! It's not what do you want for your children? It's a really interesting question.

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 What do you want for your children?

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 And there were different responses, but it boiled down to health, happiness and security.

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 Three things that you can't guarantee, nobody can guarantee that they can give to your children apart from Vitality Insurance.

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 But it's really interesting, isn't it, that that is happiness still, the pursuit of happiness.

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 It's still such a big thing.

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 You want to be happy.

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 And our world is searching for happiness. It shows itself in different ways, doesn't it?

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 But happiness, according to the Lord Jesus, as we saw a couple of weeks ago, is found in the kingdom of God.

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 And that's not escapism.

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 You know the thought at the moment is that, look, holidays, people thinking holidays is what will make me happy.

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 Two weeks in the sun, that's what will make me happy.

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 According to Jesus, happiness is found in the kingdom of God.

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 I just need to get away from it all.

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 Christianity is not getting away from it.

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 By Christianity, one of the things I love about it is utterly realistic.

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 So look at verse 10.

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 Jesus says, blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake.

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 They're not people who are escaping reality, they.

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 These are people who are facing up to the pressures of life and suffering as a result of it.

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 Look at verse 4.

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 Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

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 What I'm trying to do in these series of sermons on the Beatitudes is really try and unpack the Christian life

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 in the way that Jesus speaks about what true happiness is and what true blessedness is.

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 That's where we are tonight.

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 Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

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 Tears are a part of life.

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 Tears are a part of life.

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 Tears are a part of life.

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 It's an Arab proverb and it says this.

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 All sunshine makes a desert.

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 All sunshine makes a desert.

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 To live means there has to be tears and sorrow.

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 And no one can live going through life without tears.

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 You can exist, but you can't live without tears.

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 And I'm not suggesting for one moment that if you come to Jesus Christ, all your troubles go away.

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 I hope you don't think that.

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 We don't believe it.

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 The Bible doesn't teach it.

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 Jesus does not promise you immunity or exemption in this life from any of life's disappointments

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 or frustrations or sorrows that are common to everyone.

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 And yet having said that, even at the natural level, I'm going to argue it pays to be a Christian.

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 Paul in 1 Thessalonians is dealing with the problem of bereavement in church.

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 People who are mourning the loss of loved ones.

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 And in verse 13 of chapter 4, he says,

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 I don't want you to be uninformed.

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 I don't want you to be ignorant about those who are asleep.

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 That you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.

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 And so there are people out there in that church in Thessalonica

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 who are going through probably the most life-shattering experiences.

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 The loss of a loved one.

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 Bereavement.

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 And Paul doesn't say to them, oh, you mustn't sorrow.

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 He doesn't say, oh, you're letting the side down as a Christian by mourning.

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 He doesn't say, put a smile on your face.

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 No, he says to them this, you are going to sorrow,

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 but you are not going to sorrow as others do who have no hope.

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 And so even at the natural level, it pays to be a Christian.

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 We who are Christians are not immune to bereavement

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 or other life-shattering experiences that people go through.

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 We mourn, yes.

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 But not as those who have no hope.

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 And so these words, they make sense for the Christian,

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 even on the natural level.

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 They don't make sense for the non-Christian.

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 I've taken a number of funerals quite recently,

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 and over all the years I've been taking funerals,

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 it is very, very difficult to speak to those

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 who've lost a loved one who is evidently not a Christian.

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 I've met people who are inconsolable,

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 and it's been impossible to comfort them.

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 And so these words are not true generally,

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 but they are true.

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 Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted,

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 even on the natural level for the Christian.

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 Now it seems to me that Jesus is not primarily

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 or even remotely talking about this kind of thing,

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 but I thought I needed to deal with it.

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 That's not his intention.

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 We need to understand the logic in these verses.

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 There's a logic in these Beatitudes.

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 I hope you can see it.

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 Look at verse 3.

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 That's where we start.

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 That's the soil out of which all the other Beatitudes grow.

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 That's where you begin,

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 and to be a Christian.

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 Blessed are the poor in spirit,

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 for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

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 That's where we start.

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 We start there,

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 with an awareness and an acknowledgement

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 that we are spiritually bankrupt.

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 And unless you've been brought there,

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 you haven't begun as a Christian.

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 That's where you begin,

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 and then it will lead on to a mourning

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 and to a sorrow,

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 a bewailing of your spiritual poverty.

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 It's not enough just to be aware of it.

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 It's not enough to acknowledge it,

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 as it were theoretically.

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 If the Spirit of God is at work in your life,

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 you'll be prepared to admit it

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 and acknowledge it before God,

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 and it will shatter you.

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 It will disturb you.

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 Literally, the word that Jesus uses here

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 is the word shatter.

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 See, if I picked up this glass

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 and I threw it against this wall,

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 it would shatter, wouldn't it?

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 It would splinter everywhere.

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 And that's exactly what Jesus uses here.

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 He says,

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 Blessed are those who are shattered to pieces,

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 for they shall be comforted.

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 Blessed is that person who is shattered

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 because of spiritual poverty.

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 That's the logic.

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 That's the progression here.

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 Blessed are those who are deeply,

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 inwardly concerned

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 about their spiritual poverty before God.

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 Robbie Burns, you know the Scotsman.

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 He has a poem.

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 I can't read it in Scotch.

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 But let me read it to you.

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 It says this.

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 Oh, would some power,

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 the gift to give us,

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 to see ourselves as others see us.

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 It would from many a blunder free us

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 and foolish notion.

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 Would some power,

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 the gift to give us,

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 to see ourselves as others see us.

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 It can be quite a shattering experience,

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 can't it?

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 To see yourself as others see us.

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 It's like that when I have to listen

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 to my own sermons.

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 Occasionally I do that.

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 It's so painful, isn't it?

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 You think, do I really sound like that?

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 You know, you watch a video of yourself

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 and you're talking in the background

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 and immediately,

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 on the video,

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 as you hear your voice,

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 you think,

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 do I really sound like that?

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 When we see ourselves as others see us,

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 we're shocked, don't we?

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 Some of us are at that stage of life,

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 isn't it,

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 where we look in the mirror,

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 we see our father.

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 So I really look like that.

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 I showed you when I,

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 at the time when I was 19,

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 I was in university,

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 and we thought we'd play a prank

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 on this girl,

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 Sarah Street,

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 and my friend said,

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 leave you hide behind the sofa

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 and when she comes in,

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 I'll ask you what she thinks of you.

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 And I hid behind the sofa,

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 no one knew,

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 and he asked her

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 and literally for 20 minutes,

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 she just let rip about me.

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 I didn't have the heart to jump up.

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 It was so,

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 I didn't,

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 I let her go out

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 and then I kind of crawled out.

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 It was awful.

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 What she said was true.

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 What must it be like

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 to see ourselves

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 as God sees us?

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 It's a shattering experience.

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 It happened to Isaiah.

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 The preacher Isaiah,

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 chapter 6,

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 he sees the Lord

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 high and mighty

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 and he says,

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 woe is me,

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 I'm undone,

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 I'm taken apart,

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 I'm in pieces.

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 I'm shattered,

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 literally,

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 my eyes have seen the King,

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 the Lord of hosts,

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 and I'm a man of unclean lips

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 and I dwell in the midst

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 of a people of unclean lips.

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 Why does he talk like that?

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 Well,

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 he's seen himself.

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 He's seen himself,

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 not as others see him,

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 others thought that actually

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 Isaiah was a very good preacher,

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 it's very acceptable.

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 He'd been preaching for many years,

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 he'd been used by God,

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 but for the first time

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 in Isaiah 6,

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 it seems,

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 he's in the presence of God

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 and he sees him

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 as God sees him

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 and he says,

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 I'm a man of unclean lips.

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 Why does he use that phrase?

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 He uses that phrase

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 because he's a preacher,

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 his lips are the tools

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 of his trade.

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 And the lips of Isaiah

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 represented the very best

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 of what Isaiah had to offer.

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 His most consecrated

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 and devoted service to God

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 and he thought he was doing

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 really well as a prophet,

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 as God's spokesman,

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 and suddenly he comes

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 into the very presence of God

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 and he sees himself

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 as God sees him

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 and he realises

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 the very best part of him

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 is filthy.

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 And the best that he's got

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 to offer

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 is shot through

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 with pride

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 and self-righteousness

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 and he says,

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 I'm a man of unclean lips

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 and I've been found out.

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 I'm undone,

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 I'm shattered.

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 It was Peter's experience.

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 Do you remember,

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 Peter really thought

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 he was quite someone,

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 didn't he?

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 He compared himself

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 with all the other disciples,

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 we're really prone

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 to do that,

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 and he says to Jesus,

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 even if they all forsake you,

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 I will never forsake you.

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 I'll die for you

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 if necessary.

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 And you have that passage,

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 don't you,

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 where Jesus is arrested

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 and Peter is confronted

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 by the servant girl

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 and by another girl

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 and then somebody else

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 and he denies the Lord Jesus

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 with oaths,

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 with swear words.

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 I don't know that,

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 I don't know the so-and-so.

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 And with foul oaths,

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 he curses and he swears

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 and he denies

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 he knew anything at all

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 about Jesus Christ

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 and he denied his Lord.

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 Do you know what Luke tells us?

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 In Luke 22, verse 60,

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 Peter said,

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 man,

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 I do not know

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 what you're talking about

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 and immediately

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 while he was still speaking,

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 the rooster crowed

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 and the Lord turned

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 and looked at Peter.

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 Matthew doesn't tell us that.

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 But Luke tells us

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 that as the rooster crowed,

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 the Lord turned

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 and looked at Peter

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 and Peter remembered

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 the saying of the Lord

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 how he'd said to him

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 before the rooster crows,

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 today you will deny me

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 three times

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 and Peter went out

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 and wept bitterly.

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 See, what happened there?

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 It wasn't that Peter

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 had just been caught

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 in the act.

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 That makes us blush,

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 doesn't it?

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 That makes us kind of bluster

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 when we're caught

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 in the act of something

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 but it's more than that.

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 He caught sight of himself

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 in the eyes of Jesus Christ.

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 He saw himself reflected

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 in the look of Jesus Christ.

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 He saw himself

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 through the eyes of Christ

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 and he goes out

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 and he weeps bitterly.

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 And Jesus says to us tonight,

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 he says,

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 blessed are those who do that.

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 Blessed are those

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 who realize the truth

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 about themselves.

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 Blessed are those

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 who've seen themselves

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 as God sees them.

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 Not as they'd like

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 to think of themselves.

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 Not as they'd like

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 others to think of them.

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 Blessed are those

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 who are poor in spirit

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 and shattered as a result

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 who are deeply concerned

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 about their spiritual poverty

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 and bankruptcy.

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 Blessed are those

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 who mourn.

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 And I imagine

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 that there may be

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 some here tonight

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 and you think,

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 Paul, you're overstating this.

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 I'm not perfect.

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 I know that

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 but I can't say

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 that I'm shattered

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 about that.

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 I'm irritated

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 by my shortcomings.

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 I'm depressed sometimes

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 when I can't live up

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 to my own ideals

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 but shattered.

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 I wouldn't say

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 I'm shattered.

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 I wouldn't say

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 that I'm broken

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 hearted

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 about it.

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 Life has to go on,

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 doesn't it?

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 And I need to say

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 to you tonight,

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 if you've seen your sin

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 for what it is,

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 you would be shattered.

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 If you knew

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 what sin really was,

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 you'd be broken hearted.

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 And the reason

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 that you've not mourned

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 for your sin

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 is because you've not

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 realised what it is.

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 If I am tonight

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 on YouTube,

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 live on the internet,

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 called you out

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 as a criminal,

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 called your name

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 and called you a criminal,

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 you could go to Solicitor

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 tomorrow,

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 can you?

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 You could take out

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 a writ against me.

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 You could sue me

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 for libel.

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 But if I call you

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 a sinner,

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 it's no big deal,

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 is it?

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 After all,

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 we're all sinners,

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 aren't we?

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 No one's perfect.

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 Crime

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 is against society.

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 Sin

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 is against God.

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 sin

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 is infinitely

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 more serious

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 than crime.

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 Sin,

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 somebody has written,

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 sin can take

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 the loveliest life

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 and smash it

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 on a cross.

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 That's what sin

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 did, of course,

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 isn't it?

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 Sin took the life

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 of the Lord Jesus Christ

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 and mocked it

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 and nailed it

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 to a cross.

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 And that is what

00:14:31.340 --> 00:14:31.800
 sin has done.

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 My sin

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 and your sin,

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 it has crucified

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 the Lord of glory.

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 And Jesus

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 went to the cross

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 for the sins

00:14:41.860 --> 00:14:42.500
 of his people.

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 Christ Jesus

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 came into this world

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 to save sinners.

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 There's a great deal

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 of truth,

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 isn't there,

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 in the Negro spiritual.

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 Were you there

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 when they crucified

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 my Lord?

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 There's a real sense

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 in which you were there

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 and I was there.

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 It was my sin

00:15:04.360 --> 00:15:08.440
 that brought Jesus

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 to that cross.

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 He died for our sins.

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 It's the whole gospel

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 in that phrase.

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 He died for our sins.

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 What does that mean?

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 I might say to you,

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 if you're sitting here

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 with a streaming cold,

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 do you remember

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 before COVID

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 people got colds?

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 I saw a sign

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 on a protest

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 the other day

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 saying,

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 make influenza great again.

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 Let's say

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 you can remember

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 what a cold is,

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 all right?

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 Pre-COVID.

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 And you say to me

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 after the service,

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 I keep my distance,

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 but I say to you,

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 are you taking something

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 for that cold of yours?

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 You'd understand

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 what I mean,

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 wouldn't you?

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 What do I mean

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 when I say,

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 I hope you're taking

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 something for that cold?

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 That is,

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 I hope you're taking

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 some kind of medicine

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 or you're taking

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 something that will

00:16:02.720 --> 00:16:03.840
 take the cold away.

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 I'm asking,

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 are you taking

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 something against

00:16:07.580 --> 00:16:08.280
 that cold?

00:16:09.700 --> 00:16:10.380
 Are you taking

00:16:10.380 --> 00:16:11.420
 something for yourself

00:16:11.420 --> 00:16:12.360
 against the cold?

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 I see you next week,

00:16:14.460 --> 00:16:14.620
 I say,

00:16:14.639 --> 00:16:14.919
 how are you?

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 You say,

00:16:15.580 --> 00:16:16.659
 oh my cold is better now.

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 We don't mean that,

00:16:19.899 --> 00:16:20.039
 do we?

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 We mean the opposite.

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 We mean,

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 I'm better,

00:16:25.840 --> 00:16:26.680
 my cold is gone.

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 And when the Bible

00:16:29.300 --> 00:16:30.080
 tells us that Jesus

00:16:30.080 --> 00:16:30.919
 died for our sins,

00:16:31.060 --> 00:16:31.860
 that is the way

00:16:31.860 --> 00:16:33.000
 that we're to understand it.

00:16:33.539 --> 00:16:34.500
 He died for us

00:16:34.500 --> 00:16:35.600
 against our sins.

00:16:35.600 --> 00:16:38.659
 You and I are down,

00:16:38.740 --> 00:16:39.500
 not with a cold,

00:16:39.779 --> 00:16:40.560
 but according to the Bible,

00:16:40.659 --> 00:16:41.399
 down with sin.

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 From the moment

00:16:42.040 --> 00:16:42.800
 we come from our

00:16:42.800 --> 00:16:43.360
 mother's womb,

00:16:43.460 --> 00:16:44.200
 we're down with sin.

00:16:44.259 --> 00:16:44.620
 From the moment

00:16:44.620 --> 00:16:45.519
 we begin to exist,

00:16:46.480 --> 00:16:47.620
 from the point of conception,

00:16:47.759 --> 00:16:48.680
 where sin is by nature,

00:16:48.960 --> 00:16:50.060
 and we come into this world

00:16:50.060 --> 00:16:51.000
 down with sin.

00:16:52.860 --> 00:16:54.200
 And Jesus died on the cross

00:16:54.200 --> 00:16:55.100
 for our sins.

00:16:56.560 --> 00:16:58.240
 He died to make our sin better,

00:16:59.639 --> 00:17:00.820
 to make it go away.

00:17:02.160 --> 00:17:03.480
 He died as the remedy,

00:17:03.660 --> 00:17:05.160
 God's remedy for sin.

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 You've heard the story,

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 I'm sure,

00:17:09.759 --> 00:17:11.059
 but the firemen

00:17:11.059 --> 00:17:12.159
 arrive on a farm.

00:17:13.500 --> 00:17:14.699
 It's a country farm,

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 and everything is burnt out.

00:17:17.519 --> 00:17:18.859
 The barn is burnt to a cinder.

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 They finish putting out

00:17:21.119 --> 00:17:21.919
 the blaze,

00:17:22.539 --> 00:17:23.179
 and the firemen

00:17:23.179 --> 00:17:23.859
 wander around

00:17:23.859 --> 00:17:25.000
 inspecting the damage

00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:25.779
 on the kind of

00:17:25.779 --> 00:17:26.559
 charred ground.

00:17:27.859 --> 00:17:28.819
 And one of the firemen

00:17:28.819 --> 00:17:29.179
 comes,

00:17:29.599 --> 00:17:30.480
 and a hen

00:17:30.480 --> 00:17:32.139
 has been burnt to death

00:17:32.139 --> 00:17:32.719
 on the floor

00:17:32.719 --> 00:17:33.459
 of one of the buildings.

00:17:33.460 --> 00:17:35.600
 The firemen

00:17:35.600 --> 00:17:36.920
 pokes it with a stick

00:17:36.920 --> 00:17:38.860
 and moves it.

00:17:40.380 --> 00:17:41.000
 And underneath

00:17:41.000 --> 00:17:42.620
 that burnt hen,

00:17:44.059 --> 00:17:45.720
 they find little chicks.

00:17:48.120 --> 00:17:49.100
 Little chicks,

00:17:50.200 --> 00:17:50.819
 alive,

00:17:52.400 --> 00:17:53.220
 clucking around,

00:17:54.400 --> 00:17:55.019
 chirping around.

00:17:56.960 --> 00:17:57.579
 Jesus said,

00:17:57.920 --> 00:17:58.400
 he was coming down

00:17:58.400 --> 00:17:59.120
 from the Mount of Olives,

00:17:59.519 --> 00:18:00.340
 and he saw the

00:18:00.340 --> 00:18:01.740
 city of Jerusalem

00:18:01.740 --> 00:18:02.819
 spread out before him.

00:18:04.259 --> 00:18:04.779
 And he says,

00:18:04.839 --> 00:18:05.339
 O Jerusalem,

00:18:05.500 --> 00:18:05.839
 Jerusalem,

00:18:06.480 --> 00:18:07.660
 how often would I

00:18:07.660 --> 00:18:08.559
 have gathered you

00:18:08.559 --> 00:18:09.339
 as a hen

00:18:09.339 --> 00:18:10.880
 gathers her chicks

00:18:10.880 --> 00:18:11.720
 under her wings,

00:18:11.799 --> 00:18:12.519
 but you would not.

00:18:14.460 --> 00:18:15.400
 And Jesus wept

00:18:15.400 --> 00:18:15.960
 of Jerusalem.

00:18:18.539 --> 00:18:19.319
 Jerusalem was destroyed

00:18:19.319 --> 00:18:20.220
 in the most terrible way.

00:18:22.299 --> 00:18:22.700
 Why?

00:18:22.839 --> 00:18:23.799
 Because they did not know

00:18:23.799 --> 00:18:24.519
 the things that belonged

00:18:24.519 --> 00:18:25.059
 to their peace

00:18:25.059 --> 00:18:25.720
 according to Jesus.

00:18:28.779 --> 00:18:29.839
 Jerusalem didn't realize

00:18:29.839 --> 00:18:30.539
 that God had come

00:18:30.539 --> 00:18:31.099
 into their midst.

00:18:32.819 --> 00:18:33.440
 They didn't know

00:18:33.440 --> 00:18:33.940
 that the Savior

00:18:33.940 --> 00:18:34.819
 walked their streets.

00:18:36.039 --> 00:18:37.339
 And even as he carried

00:18:37.339 --> 00:18:38.519
 his cross

00:18:38.519 --> 00:18:39.599
 to the place of execution

00:18:39.599 --> 00:18:40.139
 to Calvary,

00:18:40.200 --> 00:18:41.299
 the crowds line the route,

00:18:41.379 --> 00:18:41.659
 don't they?

00:18:43.960 --> 00:18:44.899
 The people of Jerusalem,

00:18:45.059 --> 00:18:46.019
 and Jesus sees

00:18:46.019 --> 00:18:46.539
 some women

00:18:46.539 --> 00:18:47.319
 who are weeping,

00:18:47.740 --> 00:18:48.839
 and he says to them,

00:18:49.159 --> 00:18:50.000
 don't weep for me,

00:18:50.200 --> 00:18:50.799
 weep for yourself.

00:18:53.799 --> 00:18:54.420
 They were saying,

00:18:54.480 --> 00:18:54.879
 such a waste,

00:18:54.960 --> 00:18:55.579
 such a tragedy,

00:18:55.680 --> 00:18:56.359
 a young man

00:18:56.359 --> 00:18:57.299
 in the prime of life,

00:18:57.339 --> 00:18:57.819
 so kind,

00:18:57.920 --> 00:18:58.920
 going to the gallows.

00:18:58.920 --> 00:19:00.779
 And they were weeping.

00:19:02.500 --> 00:19:03.060
 But they weren't

00:19:03.060 --> 00:19:03.820
 weeping for themselves.

00:19:05.259 --> 00:19:06.240
 And they didn't understand

00:19:06.240 --> 00:19:06.700
 what was happening,

00:19:06.840 --> 00:19:07.019
 you see.

00:19:08.600 --> 00:19:09.440
 They didn't realize

00:19:09.440 --> 00:19:10.320
 that Jesus going to the cross

00:19:10.320 --> 00:19:11.160
 wasn't some tragic

00:19:11.160 --> 00:19:12.100
 accident of history,

00:19:12.200 --> 00:19:12.880
 but that this was

00:19:12.880 --> 00:19:13.580
 the Son of God

00:19:13.580 --> 00:19:14.880
 who came to die

00:19:14.880 --> 00:19:15.480
 for their sins.

00:19:15.539 --> 00:19:16.539
 They didn't understand that.

00:19:19.120 --> 00:19:19.940
 They didn't understand

00:19:19.940 --> 00:19:20.980
 that it was their sins

00:19:20.980 --> 00:19:21.600
 that had brought them

00:19:21.600 --> 00:19:22.980
 to this point in history.

00:19:23.060 --> 00:19:24.140
 They didn't understand that.

00:19:24.140 --> 00:19:27.440
 And so Jesus says to them,

00:19:27.540 --> 00:19:28.560
 weep for yourselves

00:19:28.560 --> 00:19:29.460
 and your children.

00:19:32.759 --> 00:19:33.600
 Because unless you're

00:19:33.600 --> 00:19:34.360
 brought to that point

00:19:34.360 --> 00:19:35.300
 where you are desperately

00:19:35.300 --> 00:19:36.420
 concerned about the problem

00:19:36.420 --> 00:19:37.040
 of your sin,

00:19:38.320 --> 00:19:41.120
 the judgment of God

00:19:41.120 --> 00:19:42.160
 will hem down upon you.

00:19:45.259 --> 00:19:46.460
 And so Jesus says to you

00:19:46.460 --> 00:19:46.700
 tonight,

00:19:46.780 --> 00:19:47.140
 he says,

00:19:47.200 --> 00:19:47.780
 how often

00:19:47.780 --> 00:19:49.240
 would I have gathered you?

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 how often

00:19:51.819 --> 00:19:53.200
 would I have gathered you

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 but you wouldn't?

00:19:58.160 --> 00:19:59.079
 You wouldn't acknowledge

00:19:59.079 --> 00:19:59.519
 your need.

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 You were too proud.

00:20:04.599 --> 00:20:05.500
 You wouldn't acknowledge

00:20:05.500 --> 00:20:06.279
 your need of me.

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 So I want to tell you tonight,

00:20:09.940 --> 00:20:10.759
 you too will die

00:20:10.759 --> 00:20:12.380
 in your sin

00:20:12.380 --> 00:20:13.519
 under the judgment of God

00:20:13.519 --> 00:20:14.579
 unless you come to Jesus

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 and unless you shelter

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 beneath his

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 atoning sacrifice

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 underneath his propitiation

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 like we looked at this morning

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 for your sins.

00:20:26.460 --> 00:20:27.440
 That's what Jesus means.

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 What he's talking about here

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 in this little phrase.

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 He says,

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 blessed are those who mourn

00:20:30.880 --> 00:20:32.039
 for they shall be comforted.

00:20:34.440 --> 00:20:35.200
 Spurgeon put it

00:20:35.200 --> 00:20:35.660
 like this.

00:20:35.700 --> 00:20:35.900
 He says,

00:20:35.960 --> 00:20:36.319
 repentance.

00:20:36.480 --> 00:20:36.980
 That's what Jesus

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 is talking about here.

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 When Paul talks

00:20:39.559 --> 00:20:40.539
 about repentance

00:20:40.539 --> 00:20:41.539
 in 2 Corinthians 7

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 he calls it godly sorrow.

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 Spurgeon says

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 repentance is the tear

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 in the eye of faith.

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 That's what it is.

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 Repentance is the tear

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 in the eye of faith.

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 You cannot look

00:20:56.319 --> 00:20:57.599
 at a crucified saviour

00:20:57.599 --> 00:20:58.400
 dry eyed.

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 Blessed are they

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 that mourn

00:21:02.519 --> 00:21:02.960
 because

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 they are concerned

00:21:05.519 --> 00:21:06.980
 that the fact

00:21:06.980 --> 00:21:07.720
 of their sin

00:21:07.720 --> 00:21:08.980
 that is against God

00:21:08.980 --> 00:21:10.220
 and their sin

00:21:10.220 --> 00:21:10.720
 has crucified

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 the Lord of glory.

00:21:13.839 --> 00:21:14.519
 Blessed are they

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 that are disturbed

00:21:15.240 --> 00:21:17.960
 who care about that.

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 They will be comforted.

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 They shall be comforted.

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 Somebody has said

00:21:26.140 --> 00:21:27.599
 if you want to know

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 someone's character

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 you find out

00:21:29.940 --> 00:21:30.940
 what makes them laugh

00:21:30.940 --> 00:21:33.059
 and you find out

00:21:33.059 --> 00:21:33.799
 what makes them cry.

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 What makes you laugh?

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 What makes you cry?

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 There's a line in a hymn

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 Peter will remind me

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 what it is

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 but

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 the line of the hymn

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 is this

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 the pleasures lost

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 I sadly mourned

00:21:52.039 --> 00:21:52.799
!

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 But never wept

00:21:53.900 --> 00:21:54.299
 for thee!

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 Till grace

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 the sightless eyes

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 received

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 thy loveliness

00:22:00.779 --> 00:22:01.200
 to see!

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 I mourned

00:22:04.759 --> 00:22:05.579
 the pleasures lost

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 but I never mourned

00:22:06.599 --> 00:22:06.980
 for him

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 the Lord Jesus.

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 Somebody's rightly

00:22:11.500 --> 00:22:12.440
 described the Beatitudes

00:22:12.440 --> 00:22:13.380
 as the birthmarks

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 of the child of God.

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 I think that's

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 a fair description.

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 A child comes

00:22:19.620 --> 00:22:20.120
 out of the womb

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 naked

00:22:20.620 --> 00:22:21.460
 and helpless

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 totally dependent

00:22:24.740 --> 00:22:25.440
 upon its mother.

00:22:27.839 --> 00:22:28.620
 So the Christian

00:22:28.620 --> 00:22:30.000
 is born again

00:22:30.000 --> 00:22:32.380
 poor in spirit

00:22:32.380 --> 00:22:34.440
 nothing

00:22:34.440 --> 00:22:36.920
 he has nothing

00:22:36.920 --> 00:22:37.440
 he is nothing

00:22:37.440 --> 00:22:38.259
 totally dependent

00:22:38.259 --> 00:22:38.820
 upon God

00:22:38.820 --> 00:22:40.500
 to save him.

00:22:42.380 --> 00:22:43.000
 What's one of the

00:22:43.000 --> 00:22:43.860
 first marks of life

00:22:43.860 --> 00:22:44.680
 in a newborn baby?

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 What do you

00:22:45.500 --> 00:22:46.960
 look for

00:22:46.960 --> 00:22:48.480
 when a baby is born?

00:22:50.100 --> 00:22:50.800
 It's the happiest

00:22:50.800 --> 00:22:51.440
 sound in the world

00:22:51.440 --> 00:22:51.759
 isn't it?

00:22:53.380 --> 00:22:54.140
 It's the sound

00:22:54.140 --> 00:22:54.920
 of a newborn baby

00:22:54.920 --> 00:22:55.420
 crying.

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 Although it's chosen

00:22:58.740 --> 00:22:59.060
 that

00:22:59.060 --> 00:23:00.300
 the midwife

00:23:00.300 --> 00:23:00.740
 holds him up

00:23:00.740 --> 00:23:01.279
 by the legs

00:23:01.279 --> 00:23:02.080
 and smacks him

00:23:02.080 --> 00:23:02.539
 on the bottom

00:23:02.539 --> 00:23:03.440
 and you hear

00:23:03.440 --> 00:23:04.620
 the sound

00:23:04.620 --> 00:23:05.400
 of a newborn baby

00:23:05.400 --> 00:23:05.800
 crying.

00:23:05.799 --> 00:23:07.039
 It's one of the

00:23:07.039 --> 00:23:07.579
 happiest sounds

00:23:07.579 --> 00:23:08.180
 in the world.

00:23:10.019 --> 00:23:10.559
 The sound

00:23:10.559 --> 00:23:11.159
 of a newborn baby

00:23:11.159 --> 00:23:11.539
 crying

00:23:11.539 --> 00:23:12.980
 as it comes

00:23:12.980 --> 00:23:13.480
 into the world.

00:23:15.379 --> 00:23:15.740
 Jesus

00:23:15.740 --> 00:23:16.399
 blessed are those

00:23:16.399 --> 00:23:17.039
 who mourn

00:23:17.039 --> 00:23:19.279
 blessed are those

00:23:19.279 --> 00:23:19.940
 who mourn

00:23:19.940 --> 00:23:20.440
 for they shall

00:23:20.440 --> 00:23:21.099
 be comforted.

00:23:23.259 --> 00:23:23.799
 And so can you

00:23:23.799 --> 00:23:24.519
 mourn over your

00:23:24.519 --> 00:23:25.119
 sins tonight?

00:23:25.579 --> 00:23:26.079
 Is that what makes

00:23:26.079 --> 00:23:26.519
 you cry?

00:23:27.119 --> 00:23:27.519
 Your sin?

00:23:29.680 --> 00:23:30.779
 I am not arguing

00:23:30.779 --> 00:23:31.259
 please don't

00:23:31.259 --> 00:23:32.180
 please don't think

00:23:32.180 --> 00:23:32.980
 that I'm asking you

00:23:32.980 --> 00:23:33.579
 to mourn over

00:23:33.579 --> 00:23:33.960
 your sins

00:23:33.960 --> 00:23:34.799
 helplessly

00:23:34.799 --> 00:23:36.240
 hopelessly

00:23:36.240 --> 00:23:36.860
 and desperate

00:23:36.860 --> 00:23:38.839
 but I am asking

00:23:38.839 --> 00:23:39.380
 you to mourn

00:23:39.380 --> 00:23:39.640
 over them

00:23:39.640 --> 00:23:40.000
 desperately.

00:23:44.740 --> 00:23:45.860
 We look at the

00:23:45.860 --> 00:23:46.460
 table don't we

00:23:46.460 --> 00:23:47.180
 gratefully

00:23:47.180 --> 00:23:48.559
 to Jesus Christ

00:23:48.559 --> 00:23:51.360
 because he has

00:23:51.360 --> 00:23:52.700
 borne our sin

00:23:52.700 --> 00:23:55.759
 and we look to him

00:23:55.759 --> 00:23:57.240
 the eyes of faith

00:23:57.240 --> 00:23:58.400
 with tears in our eyes

00:23:58.400 --> 00:24:05.780
 there's this paradox

00:24:05.780 --> 00:24:06.080
 isn't there

00:24:06.080 --> 00:24:06.720
 the great paradox

00:24:06.720 --> 00:24:07.300
 can you see it?

00:24:08.320 --> 00:24:10.160
 The person who mourns

00:24:10.160 --> 00:24:12.400
 and yet at the same

00:24:12.400 --> 00:24:13.019
 time is happy

00:24:13.019 --> 00:24:15.080
 I think it's so helpful

00:24:15.080 --> 00:24:18.460
 and so tonight

00:24:18.460 --> 00:24:18.940
 for those of us

00:24:18.940 --> 00:24:19.740
 who are in Christ

00:24:19.740 --> 00:24:21.200
 we're alive

00:24:21.200 --> 00:24:24.060
 we're not

00:24:24.060 --> 00:24:24.680
 we're not going

00:24:24.680 --> 00:24:25.280
 around as a

00:24:25.280 --> 00:24:26.000
 miserable sinner

00:24:26.000 --> 00:24:26.500
 going around

00:24:26.500 --> 00:24:27.080
 bewailing

00:24:27.080 --> 00:24:27.740
 and bemoaning

00:24:27.740 --> 00:24:28.279
 the fact

00:24:28.279 --> 00:24:30.279
 that you are

00:24:30.279 --> 00:24:30.940
 a miserable sinner

00:24:30.940 --> 00:24:31.299
 all the time

00:24:31.299 --> 00:24:31.579
 no no

00:24:31.579 --> 00:24:32.019
 that's not

00:24:32.019 --> 00:24:32.480
 that's not

00:24:32.480 --> 00:24:33.039
 what we want

00:24:33.039 --> 00:24:33.819
 God wants you

00:24:33.819 --> 00:24:34.500
 to mourn

00:24:34.500 --> 00:24:35.000
 he wants you

00:24:35.000 --> 00:24:35.640
 to be sorry

00:24:35.640 --> 00:24:36.680
 about your sin

00:24:36.680 --> 00:24:37.500
 all your

00:24:37.500 --> 00:24:38.019
 Christian life

00:24:38.019 --> 00:24:38.539
 but at the same

00:24:38.539 --> 00:24:38.960
 time

00:24:38.960 --> 00:24:40.000
 he wants you

00:24:40.000 --> 00:24:40.319
 to have this

00:24:40.319 --> 00:24:41.319
 deep profound

00:24:41.319 --> 00:24:42.480
 inward joy

00:24:42.480 --> 00:24:44.160
 of knowing

00:24:44.160 --> 00:24:44.779
 that those sins

00:24:44.779 --> 00:24:45.299
 are forgiven

00:24:45.299 --> 00:24:48.099
 knowing that those

00:24:48.099 --> 00:24:48.720
 sins are

00:24:48.720 --> 00:24:49.579
 cleansed

00:24:49.579 --> 00:24:49.940
 and put away

00:24:49.940 --> 00:24:50.900
 it's not either

00:24:50.900 --> 00:24:51.220
 or

00:24:51.220 --> 00:24:51.880
 don't fall

00:24:51.880 --> 00:24:52.400
 for that

00:24:52.400 --> 00:24:52.920
 the Christian

00:24:52.920 --> 00:24:53.759
 life is both

00:24:53.759 --> 00:24:54.259
 and it's

00:24:54.259 --> 00:24:55.440
 always repenting

00:24:55.440 --> 00:24:56.559
 always forgiven

00:24:56.559 --> 00:24:59.539
 and so

00:24:59.539 --> 00:25:00.139
 Jesus says

00:25:00.139 --> 00:25:00.539
 the Christian

00:25:00.539 --> 00:25:01.000
 life is a

00:25:01.000 --> 00:25:01.319
 life of

00:25:01.319 --> 00:25:01.659
 the happy

00:25:01.659 --> 00:25:02.059
 mourner

00:25:02.059 --> 00:25:04.240
 the happy

00:25:04.240 --> 00:25:04.659
 weeper

00:25:04.659 --> 00:25:04.879
 do you

00:25:04.879 --> 00:25:05.159
 recognise

00:25:05.159 --> 00:25:05.639
 yourself

00:25:05.639 --> 00:25:15.619
 a child

00:25:15.619 --> 00:25:16.099
 is overdue

00:25:16.099 --> 00:25:16.740
 Noah is

00:25:16.740 --> 00:25:17.099
 overdue

00:25:17.099 --> 00:25:17.339
 I think

00:25:17.339 --> 00:25:17.700
 for about

00:25:17.700 --> 00:25:18.279
 two weeks

00:25:18.279 --> 00:25:18.839
 and

00:25:18.839 --> 00:25:21.200
 when you're

00:25:21.200 --> 00:25:21.599
 overdue

00:25:21.599 --> 00:25:23.220
 time drags

00:25:23.220 --> 00:25:27.000
 it drags

00:25:27.000 --> 00:25:27.220
 doesn't it

00:25:27.220 --> 00:25:27.839
 a week

00:25:27.839 --> 00:25:28.880
 a week

00:25:28.880 --> 00:25:29.140
 overdue

00:25:29.140 --> 00:25:29.559
 is nothing

00:25:29.559 --> 00:25:30.200
 some babies

00:25:30.200 --> 00:25:30.559
 have three

00:25:30.559 --> 00:25:31.140
 weeks overdue

00:25:31.140 --> 00:25:33.279
 and they say

00:25:33.279 --> 00:25:33.539
 well we'll

00:25:33.539 --> 00:25:34.039
 induce you

00:25:34.039 --> 00:25:34.420
 because if it

00:25:34.420 --> 00:25:34.860
 goes on longer

00:25:34.860 --> 00:25:35.100
 than that

00:25:35.100 --> 00:25:35.400
 it can get

00:25:35.400 --> 00:25:35.819
 dangerous

00:25:35.819 --> 00:25:38.299
 there are

00:25:38.299 --> 00:25:38.600
 people that

00:25:38.600 --> 00:25:39.120
 sit in churches

00:25:39.120 --> 00:25:39.539
 that are not

00:25:39.539 --> 00:25:40.779
 a week overdue

00:25:40.779 --> 00:25:41.380
 or three weeks

00:25:41.380 --> 00:25:41.740
 overdue

00:25:41.740 --> 00:25:42.880
 they're years

00:25:42.880 --> 00:25:43.559
 and decades

00:25:43.559 --> 00:25:44.120
 overdue

00:25:44.120 --> 00:25:45.960
 and if it

00:25:45.960 --> 00:25:46.420
 goes on any

00:25:46.420 --> 00:25:46.680
 longer

00:25:46.680 --> 00:25:47.120
 it'll be

00:25:47.120 --> 00:25:47.579
 dangerous

00:25:47.579 --> 00:25:49.980
 because you

00:25:49.980 --> 00:25:50.299
 must be

00:25:50.299 --> 00:25:50.799
 born again

00:25:50.799 --> 00:25:54.319
 and Jesus

00:25:54.319 --> 00:25:54.599
 said you

00:25:54.599 --> 00:25:54.980
 can't see

00:25:54.980 --> 00:25:55.319
 the kingdom

00:25:55.319 --> 00:25:55.639
 let alone

00:25:55.639 --> 00:25:56.079
 get into

00:25:56.079 --> 00:25:56.359
 it unless

00:25:56.359 --> 00:25:56.740
 you're born

00:25:56.740 --> 00:25:57.299
 from above

00:25:57.299 --> 00:25:57.980
 so don't

00:25:57.980 --> 00:25:58.319
 go on

00:25:58.319 --> 00:25:58.819
 any longer

00:25:58.819 --> 00:26:01.799
 and you

00:26:01.799 --> 00:26:02.440
 look tonight

00:26:02.440 --> 00:26:03.680
 to Jesus

00:26:03.680 --> 00:26:04.240
 with the eye

00:26:04.240 --> 00:26:04.639
 of faith

00:26:04.639 --> 00:26:05.200
 not dry

00:26:05.200 --> 00:26:05.659
 eyed

00:26:05.659 --> 00:26:09.879
 what I mean

00:26:09.879 --> 00:26:10.259
 by that is

00:26:10.259 --> 00:26:10.599
 you don't

00:26:10.599 --> 00:26:11.000
 think well I

00:26:11.000 --> 00:26:11.399
 am a sinner

00:26:11.399 --> 00:26:11.879
 Jesus died

00:26:11.879 --> 00:26:12.240
 for sinners

00:26:12.240 --> 00:26:12.720
 hey presto

00:26:12.720 --> 00:26:13.619
 that's okay

00:26:13.619 --> 00:26:13.980
 isn't it

00:26:13.980 --> 00:26:17.119
 we look to

00:26:17.119 --> 00:26:17.680
 him not dry

00:26:17.680 --> 00:26:17.879
 eyed

00:26:17.879 --> 00:26:18.240
 we look to

00:26:18.240 --> 00:26:18.460
 him with

00:26:18.460 --> 00:26:18.720
 tears

00:26:18.720 --> 00:26:19.159
 moaning

00:26:19.159 --> 00:26:19.619
 over our

00:26:19.619 --> 00:26:19.759
 sin

00:26:19.759 --> 00:26:19.960
 with a

00:26:19.960 --> 00:26:20.139
 broken

00:26:20.139 --> 00:26:20.460
 heart

00:26:20.460 --> 00:26:23.559
 and maybe

00:26:23.559 --> 00:26:23.920
 tonight

00:26:23.920 --> 00:26:24.819
 it's a stage

00:26:24.819 --> 00:26:25.240
 before that

00:26:25.240 --> 00:26:25.480
 isn't it

00:26:25.480 --> 00:26:25.759
 you need

00:26:25.759 --> 00:26:26.000
 to look

00:26:26.000 --> 00:26:26.259
 to him

00:26:26.259 --> 00:26:26.640
 for a

00:26:26.640 --> 00:26:26.840
 broken

00:26:26.840 --> 00:26:27.120
 heart

00:26:27.120 --> 00:26:27.340
 maybe

00:26:27.340 --> 00:26:27.519
 your

00:26:27.519 --> 00:26:27.740
 heart

00:26:27.740 --> 00:26:28.059
 is too

00:26:28.059 --> 00:26:28.340
 heavy

00:26:28.340 --> 00:26:28.600
 and it's

00:26:28.600 --> 00:26:29.100
 too hard

00:26:29.100 --> 00:26:32.000
 and you

00:26:32.000 --> 00:26:32.380
 look to

00:26:32.380 --> 00:26:32.880
 him because

00:26:32.880 --> 00:26:33.220
 he will

00:26:33.220 --> 00:26:33.640
 break it

00:26:33.640 --> 00:26:33.960
 and he

00:26:33.960 --> 00:26:34.420
 will melt

00:26:34.420 --> 00:26:34.600
 it

00:26:34.600 --> 00:26:35.019
 and here

00:26:35.019 --> 00:26:35.299
 is the

00:26:35.299 --> 00:26:35.620
 wonderful

00:26:35.620 --> 00:26:36.059
 thing

00:26:36.059 --> 00:26:36.799
 that the

00:26:36.799 --> 00:26:36.980
 Lord

00:26:36.980 --> 00:26:37.259
 Jesus

00:26:37.259 --> 00:26:38.039
 he breaks

00:26:38.039 --> 00:26:38.720
 your heart

00:26:38.720 --> 00:26:39.140
 but at the

00:26:39.140 --> 00:26:39.500
 same time

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 he heals

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 it

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 it's the

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 same look

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 the same

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 sight

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 the same

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 sight of a

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 crucified

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 saviour

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 breaks your

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 heart

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 and comforts

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 it

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 and heals

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 it

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 blessed

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 are those

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 who mourn

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 for they

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 shall be

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 comforted

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 let's pray

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 let's pray

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 let's pray