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You've heard of the glorious achievements
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of the Son of God
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that He's purged our sins.
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I've told you that God
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is absolutely satisfied with that.
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Are you satisfied with what
Jesus Christ has done?
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Are you absolutely satisfied
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with what Jesus Christ has done?
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Are you completely satisfied
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with what Jesus Christ has done?
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Are you sitting?
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And looking at Him?
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And when you feel your sin and your guilt
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you look to Him and you say:
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He took it away.
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All my past sins are forgiven sins
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because of what Jesus Christ has done.
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And when Satan comes and reminds you
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of how you hurt people you love,
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people who love you,
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who were dependent on you,
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and how terrible you treated them,
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you say, "but Christ dealt with that sin,
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that guilt, that shame."
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When you fall for the thousandth time
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into sins of imagination and thought
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and omission,
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He dealt with that sin.
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He took it in His own body on the cross.
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Christ by Himself purged our sins.
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Do you believe that?
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Does everyone in this
congregation believe that?
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Everyone who believes
in it is a Christian.
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Not great Christians.
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I'm not interested in great Christians.
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I'm interested in mere believers.
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Mere lookers at this Jesus.
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It is settled once and for all.
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You've left it all with Jesus long ago.
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When a man is drowning,
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and the life guard swims out to him,
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the life guard doesn't speak to him
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and say to him,
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"Now there's the shore.
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That's the direction.
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That's where you've got to swim to."
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He doesn't tell him that, does he?
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He says, "Don't move now.
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Don't move.
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Don't stop me from saving you."
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And he puts his arm around him
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and he holds him
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and he powerfully swims
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and he saves the man.
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Please don't stop the Lord Jesus Christ
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from saving you this morning
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by thinking you've got to do something;
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you've got to add to what He's done.
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You just look at Him. Look at Him.
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I want you to sit.
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I don't want you to bat an eyelid.
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I don't want you to breathe.
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I want you to purge the word "do"
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from your mind.
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I never want you to think about doing.
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This has to be settled first.
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Till to Jesus' work you cling,
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by a simple faith,
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doing is a deadly thing,
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doing ends in death.
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Sit.
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And consider what Christ did
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and where He is now.
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Be absolutely satisfied with that.
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Let your conscience be satisfied with it.
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Let your intellect be satisfied with it.
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Let your mind, let your past be satisfied
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with what Jesus Christ has done.
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If God is satisfied with it,
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then Texas sinners can
be satisfied with it.
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Don't move a muscle.
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Settle on this.
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I the chief of sinners am,
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but Jesus died for me.
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This except was taken
from the full sermon:
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"The Greatness of Jesus Christ:
His Work (Part 2)"