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Well, it's a great privilege
for me to be with you
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and to have these
opportunities to speak to you,
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and have happy conversations
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with so many of you.
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I've enjoyed my five
weeks now in the U.S.A.
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I have written faithfully
back to my family
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and told them all about every day.
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And tonight you will be on record
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and read about in London and in Wales.
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I want to speak to you at this hour
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about the work of Jesus Christ,
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and I want to draw your attention
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to Hebrews 1:3.
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"When He had by Himself purged our sins,
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He sat down at the right hand
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of the Majesty on high."
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Hebrews 1:3
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That's the King James Version.
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"When He had by Himself purged our sins,
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He sat down at the right hand
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of the Majesty on high."
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Well, you realize who this is then.
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I've spoken to you about that.
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He's the One through
whom God speaks to us.
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"God has spoken through the prophets,
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but now in these last days,
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He speaks to us by His Son."
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He speaks to you by creation.
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The heavens declare His glory.
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The firmament shows His handiwork.
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Day and night there's speech coming,
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and it's saying,
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what a great and mighty
God made this world.
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It didn't come about
by chance or accident.
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It isn't just by luck -
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atoms join together and spontaneously
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out of nothing, something came.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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But God made it.
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And God speaks to us in it.
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And God speaks to us through conscience -
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the great monitor that God has put
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in our hearts and minds
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that rebukes us when we do what's wrong
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and commend us when we do what's right.
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That's the voice of God.
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It has said to you:
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"You know you can't go
on in unbelief like this.
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You ought to go and find a place
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which worships Me, the living God."
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And God has now spoken by His Son.
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Wonderful words.
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"When He was set, His
disciples came unto Him,
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and He opened His mouth and He taught them
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saying, 'Blessed are the poor in spirit.
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Theirs is the kingdom of Heaven.
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Blessed are they that mourn;
they shall be comforted.
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Blessed are the meek;
they shall inhabit the earth.
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Blessed are they that hunger
and thirst after righteousness,
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they shall be filled.
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Blessed are the pure in heart,
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for they shall see God.
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Blessed are the peacemakers;
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they shall be called the children of God.
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Blessed are you when men revile you
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and persecute you and
say all manner of evil
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against you for my sake.
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Rejoice, be exceeingly glad.
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They treated the prophets
like this before you.'"
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William Shakespeare never said anything
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as wonderful as those words.
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But He did.
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He spoke and He prayed
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and we have a record of His prayers.
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And He taught us how to pray like Him.
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He's the God who made the universe then.
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We are fascinated with origins.
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We say that this One who was once tired
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and sat on the edge of a well in Sychar
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in Samaria,
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and asked a woman for a drink of water,
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He made the Gulf of Mexico.
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He made Texas.
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He made North and South America.
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He made the world.
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He was crucified.
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He made the forests whence
there sprung the tree
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on which He hung.
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He died upon a cross of wood,
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yet made the hill on which it stood.
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The vastness of space.
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There's nothing in it that's contrary to
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the power and glory of Christ.
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He's relevant to the outdoors.
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God put the first Adam in a garden,
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and He put the last Adam in the indoors
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in a carpenter shop.
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He's the brightness of God's glory.
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The most Godlike thing that God ever did
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was to send His Son to the cross.
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And when He hung there, He prayed,
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"Father, forgive them.
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They know not what they do."
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There's the glory of God.
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This is the one, then,
this verse is talking about.
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Then it tells us what He did.
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"He purged our sins."
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He came into the closest contact
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with these people whose forefathers
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God had chosen and set apart.
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He lived among them.
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He came and pitched His tent
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in the valley of the shadow of darkness.
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He came where men crucify other men.
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He came where they throw
a young woman at His feet
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and are going to throw jagged boulders
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into her face and ribs.
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And He was there.
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He came where the blasphemy,
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where the gambling is
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as they gamble for
condemned men's clothes.
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He came. He came there.
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And He saw their sins.
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And sins defile us.
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Sins make us dirty.
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And we need more than a little washing;
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more than a little sprinkling.
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We need purging.
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I'd walk to church with my mother
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on a Sunday night.
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She'd notice I had tomato soup stains
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around my mouth.
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She'd say, "Spit on this hanky."
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And then she'd scrub my face
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so that I'd look presentable -
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worthy to sit next to her.
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We need more than a little spittle
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to wash away our stains.
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They stain our hearts.
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Our inmost being -
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the dispositional complex,
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out of which are all
the issues of our life.
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There's dirt there.
There's defilement there.
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A man knocked on the door of my house,
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and I went to answer.
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I didn't recognize him.
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He said, "I wonder, could you baptize me?"
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So, he came in and I spoke to him.
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He'd lived with a woman in Canada,
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and she got pregnant.
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And she'd had an abortion.
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And he felt defiled.
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And he thought this defilement, this dirt,
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of what I've done needs to be washed away.
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I said to him,
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"baptism is an outward sign
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of an inward change -
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that God washes our hearts.
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And you must come and
listen to the gospel now."
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And he started to attend church.
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Because sins have made
us dark and defiled -
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spotted like the leper.
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And we need to be washed.
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And He's come. God has sent His Son
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into the darkness.
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He sent Him where sinners are in need.
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And He's done something for our sins.
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He says, you see, that's the phrase
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the apostle uses
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talking to these Jewish Christians.
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"Ours..." - "Mine too" he says.
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Mine need to be washed too.
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He stands in solidarity with them.
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In acknowledgement with them
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that he too is a sinner
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and needs to be cleansed.
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He's not writing this
letter to the Sanhedrin.
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He's not writing this letter
to Caiaphas and Annas
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or to Pilate or to Herod.
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He's writing to a certain constituency
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when he says "our sins."
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He's writing to Jews who have seen
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the Man on the cross is the Messiah.
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And He died there as the Lamb of God
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that all the types and offerings
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were pointing forward to the coming
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into this world of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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The God who had spoken
through Isaiah and Elijah
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and was now speaking to them
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by His own Son.
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So this letter is written
to these people -
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a certain constituency, a definite,
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a particular constituency.
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It's not a promiscuous letter.
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It's not a letter to everybody.
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It's a letter to these people.
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To a church.
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When he writes to the Corinthians,
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he says, "Christ died for our sins."
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When he writes to the Ephesians,
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he says, "Christ loved the church
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and gave Himself for the church."
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When he writes to the Galatians,
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he's very personal: "He loved me,
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and He gave Himself for me," he says.
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It's always so definite.
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Not for those who died in Noah's flood,
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but for our sins.
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Our sins have a total answer
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and that is found in the death
of Jesus Christ on the cross.
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He purged our sins.
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He made an effective purgation of them.
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He removed every spot, every stain,
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every wrinkle, every such thing.
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It's taken away.
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You see the consequences of this then,
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that my sins as if they never were.
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It's magnificent.
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It's an incredible concept.
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They do not control
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my relationship with God this morning.
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They do not modify how it is
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between me and God.
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It is as if they weren't there.
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There is no defilement.
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It's all been removed.
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He's taken our past sin.
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He's taken our present sin.
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He's taken our future sin.
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And He's put it away.
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He's provided purification for it.
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And we are whiter than snow.
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I'm not sure that my
conscience can believe it.
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I am not sure that there isn't in me
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and in some of you an egotism
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that wants to cling in some self-pity
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to some remnants of our sin,
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of our guilt,
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so that we can feel sorry for ourselves.
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If only I can let this truth
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be the whole truth
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about the way things are
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between me and God this morning,
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there's no barrier whatsoever,
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there is no impediment whatsoever,
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it is all forgiven.
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It is all forgotten.
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It's all blotted out.
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It may even be that sometimes
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you use this very belief
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that one day I've got to go to purgatory.
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And one day, I've got to pay for my sins.
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And that leads to a
little less commitment,
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a little less resistance to sin.
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A little less discipleship;
a little less purity,
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because, well, I've got to
pay for them anyway.
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Let me enjoy them,
because I'll pay for them.
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I'm prepared to pay for them.
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So, let me take that illicit weekend
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with that woman.
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Let me lace my speech with blasphemies
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and foul language.
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Let me take another drink,
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another drink, another drink.
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Because I've got to pay for
my drunkenness anyway.
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I've got to go to purgatory.
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I am saying they are all forgiven.
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I am saying He's purged them all.
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He's dealt with every molecule
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of our guilt and shame.
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Not one rogue molecule remains
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that I have to purge myself.
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Every spot imputed to Him.
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There is absolutely nothing left.
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Do you believe it?
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The single determinant
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of your relationship with God this morning
-
is what happened on that cross.
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Nothing else matters.
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Nothing else is relevant.
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There are only two factors
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in that equation:
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What Christ did
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and how God responded.
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And the way you feel,
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and the way you struggle,
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and what you achieve and how you fail -
-
that is irrelevant.
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The one thing relevant
-
is what the Lamb of God did on the cross.
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And I don't for a moment believe
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that the heart that knows that
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will take advantage of it and go from it
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to live a life without law,
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because that cross, that grace,
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won't let you.
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I believe on the contrary
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that a bad conscience
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and a feeling that, well, I've
got to pay for it anyway,
-
and God has something against me -
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that serves as an unconscious grudge
-
against God that somehow justifies me
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acting badly; being less perfect.
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Permits a relapse here
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and a shortcoming there.
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And I want you to know in the depth
-
of your own being
-
that Jesus Christ made
a good and decent job
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of the work that God gave Him to do.
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That He made a real purging for sin.
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He's the brightness of God's glory.
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He's God the Son. He's Jehovah Jesus.
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He's the infinite, eternal One
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who's taken human nature.
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And He focused at the climax of His life
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on Jerusalem and the
task that lay before Him.
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He was walking with destiny to Golgotha,
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there to deal with sin -
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the way it dirties us and defiles us
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and corrupts us.
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And God hates it.
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The way it's created a gulf,
-
an alienation between ourselves and God.
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He comes.
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He comes who raises the dead.
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He comes who speaks
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and the winds and the waves obey Him.
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He comes.
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Jehovah Jesus.
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There's one more thing He has to do
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before He can say, "It is finished."
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He must purge our sins.
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He must take the defilement that comes -
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every lapse;
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every sin of omission.
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He comes.
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The guilt of every failure -
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He must take them
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into the judgment of the lake of fire.
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He must take them
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into the bottomless pit.
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There to fall and fall and fall
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further and further from us.
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For all eternity.
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A vaster and vaster separation
of us and our sin.
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And it leaves us de-sinned.
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It leaves us guiltless.
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As sinless as God is sinless.
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As holy as the angels are holy.
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Look, there is flowing a crimson tide.
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Whiter than snow you may be today.
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So you see the consequences
-
of what He has done.
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That the dying of Jesus is purgatory.
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Golgotha is the only purgatory
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in this world or in the world to come.
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There's no need of another purging.
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There's nothing left to purge.
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And there is no force, there is no power
-
except the death of Christ
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that can deal with our sin.
-
And then when we see Him,
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we shall be like Him.
-
He will present us faultless
before Him in that day.
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No fault.
-
Because all our sin has been dealt with.
-
Christ didn't do half a job on Calvary.
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He didn't do 90% of a job on Calvary.
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Jesus paid it all.
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All to Him I owe.
-
Sin had left a fearful stain.
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He washed it white as snow.
-
He purged our sin.
-
And then you see,
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He did it by Himself we're told.
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"When He had by
Himself purged our sins..."
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What was He doing?
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Well, He was offering Himself
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without spot to God.
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He wasn't offering His body;
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He wasn't offering His obedience only;
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He wasn't offering His sufferings only;
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He wasn't offering His blood only;
-
He wasn't offering His human nature only.
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He was offering Himself.
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The God-man was offering to God
-
the sacrificial obedience of
the holy Lamb of God.
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He was offering Himself to God.
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He was the ransom price paid.
-
And we are free.
-
He was the propitiation.
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The appeasement of the holy wrath of God
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against all that contradicts what God is.
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All that is cruel and tawdry
-
and mean and nasty.
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And He dealt with that
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and God's anger towards it.
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He's the great satisfaction
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rendered to God.
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He's the price of our liberation.
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There is nothing left undone
-
that any of you or me have to do.
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He made a purging for us.
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And He did it not by enabling you
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to do something.
-
He did it not by inspiring you to choose.
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He did it not by encouraging
you to repentance.
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He did it not by challenging you
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to discipleship.
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Not by exhorting you to faith.
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Not by commanding you to live a holy life;
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by pleading with you to have compassion
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on your fellow men.
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Because if my standing before God
-
depends on any of those things,
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then I'm a lost man;
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if it depends on my repentance
-
and my faith and my obedience
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and my holy living.
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I have no hope.
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He did something absolutely by Himself.
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And it was absolutely sufficient
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for all that the Father had given to Him.
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He purged away every speck
-
of their sin and guilt.
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And He did it alone.
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After His temptations,
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angels came and ministered to Him.
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After His baptism, the voice of God came
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and spoke to Him.
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After His transfiguration,
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Moses and Elijah came and talked with Him.
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But on the cross, He was there by Himself.
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He was there alone.
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No friend there.
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Nobody catching His eye and saying,
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in a glance,
-
"I love You and I know
why You're doing this."
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No disciples.
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No family.
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They all forsook Him and fled.
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You were no good, were you?
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You weren't there.
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What contribution did you
make on Golgotha to Jesus?
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Your guilt and shame.
-
Nothing more than that.
-
He by Himself purged that guilt and shame.
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So what could be more glorious?
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What could be more liberating than that?
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That there was a real and a total;
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a comprehensive,
-
an infinite purging of sin?
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Which He accomplished.
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He did it by Himself.
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And then we are told that He sat down
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at the right hand
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of the Majesty on high.
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We know where Jesus is today.
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He is at the right hand of God
-
and He is present here.
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He's sitting next to you.
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He's nudging you.
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He is bearing testimony
that what I say is true.
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He's giving you this opportunity
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to start having dealings with God the Son.
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He is here and He's there.
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And there He sits at
the right hand of God.
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He's a sitting Savior.
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It means that He's finished the work.
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Your husband comes home from work
-
and you say, "Supper's almost ready."
-
And he sits down. He picks up the paper.
-
He's sitting after the work
is over for the day.
-
Jesus is sitting at the right hand of God.
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Like God in Genesis 1 looked at creation.
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The firmament and the seas,
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and the light and the darkness,
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and the sun and the moon and the stars,
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and the birds and the animals and man
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and God said, "It's good."
-
He looked at all creation.
-
He said, "It's very good."
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So, today, God is looking
-
at what Jesus Christ did -
-
the work of redemption -
-
"Very good," He says.
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"Sit at My right hand."
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"Very good," God says.
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So, I'm saying at this moment
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God the Father and God the Son
-
and God the Holy Spirit look back
-
at the whole travail of redeeming grace
-
and the death of Christ -
its great climax.
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All the pain and the blood
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the obedience,
-
and they are completely satisfied.
-
There's nothing more glorious
-
in heaven or earth today than that.
-
That Jesus Christ is completely pleased
-
with His own work.
-
He looks at it and He says,
-
"Very good."
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And He sits down.
-
And He rests.
-
He sees the travail of His soul
-
and He is satisfied.
-
And God the Father looks at the obedience
-
of His Son. He is satisfied.
-
The Holy Spirit looks
-
at what Christ has done
-
and the Holy Spirit is satisfied.
-
The angels can't believe their eyes.
-
And all are filled with
wonder, love, and praise.
-
God is filled with love and praise.
-
And the terrible thing is that everybody
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is satisfied with it except you.
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And you won't come.
-
Just as you are to Him
-
just as He is - seated at
the right hand of God.
-
You won't come.
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Alone.
-
Naked.
-
Nothing in my hands I bring.
-
You feel, well, I've got to make
-
a little contribution myself.
-
A little bit of Christian experience.
-
I've learned a few marks of grace.
-
A little growth; a little progress;
-
a little courage in testimony;
-
a little persecution in the office;
-
a little laughter from some of your mates;
-
a little pain in providence -
-
you won't come alone.
-
You won't come exposed.
-
You won't sit down
-
and survey Christ.
-
You won't rest in the work of Jesus.
-
Now, that's what God the Son did.
-
He said, "It is finished."
-
He was buried. He rose. He ascended.
-
And He sits at the right hand of God.
-
The Father is thrilled.
-
And the Spirit is delighted.
-
And all the angels glory in it.
-
And the spirits of just men made perfect -
-
any achievements, they
take the achievements
-
and they throw them at His feet.
-
Worthy is the Lamb that was slain
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to receive power and riches
-
and wisdom and strength
-
and honor and glory
-
and blessing, they say.
-
That's all the say because they know
-
that Christ has made a complete purging.
-
There's nothing in the world
-
more glorious than this.
-
That's why the Bible
is a magnificent group.
-
That's why we all have a Bible,
-
and that's why the climax of our worship
-
is to open the book and find the place
-
and preach the Word.
-
After we've sung to God,
-
He speaks to us in His Word.
-
And that's what you want.
-
I want to find a church
-
which will tell me about Jesus
-
and what He's done.
-
That's what I want.
-
I don't want men dressed
up in religious costumes.
-
I don't want that.
-
I don't want a lot of entertainment
-
and humor and laughter.
-
I don't want that.
-
Give me Christ or else I die!
-
Do you live by the words that proceed
-
from the mouth of God?
-
If you are a Bible Christian this morning,
-
you sit before the cross of Christ;
-
before what Jesus
did in purging your sins.
-
What do I want you to do?
-
What have I come from Wales here
-
to ask you to do?
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I want you to do nothing.
-
I want you to do absolutely nothing.
-
I don't want you to get out of your seats.
-
I don't want you to come to the front.
-
Of course, if Jesus was here in the front,
-
I'd say come and meet Jesus.
-
But the word is nigh you.
-
It's in your mouth. It's in your hearing.
-
It's in your heart.
It's in your understanding.
-
It's in your conscience.
-
The word of faith that we preach to you,
-
it's there.
-
You don't need to come
to the front for that.
-
I don't want you to be baptized.
-
I don't want you to join the church.
-
I don't want you to make any resolutions
-
that from now one it's
going to be different,
-
and you're going to be religious man
-
and you're going to be in church
-
every Sunday.
-
I don't want you to think
-
of what you're going to do in your future.
-
I want you to sit.
-
I want you to be absolutely still.
-
I don't want you to move.
-
I don't want you to plan.
-
I don't want you to decide.
-
I want you to look away from all of that
-
to look -
-
the head that once was crowned with thorns
-
is crowned with glory.
-
See Him at the right hand of God.
-
The Jesus of the Bible.
-
The Jesus who's with us now alive
-
who reigns in glory.
-
When the children of Israel were sinners
-
and were whinging and complaining
-
in the wilderness,
-
and God finally, as
reluctantly as any father,
-
chastens His children.
-
He sent burning fiery serpents
-
into that wilderness and they bit them.
-
They were hiding in their tents
-
and in the piles of wood
they were gathering
-
and they were bit.
-
And oh, they were in anguish
-
and they repented. They knew why.
-
They knew why He didn't deliver them
-
and they cried for mercy.
-
You remember what God told Moses?
-
To set up a great pole
-
and on the top, cast a brass serpent
-
that glittered in the sun.
-
And then what did He
tell the people to do?
-
Did He tell them they had to
walk on their knees up to it
-
and walk around it seven times
-
and kiss the pole?
-
No.
-
"Look," He said.
-
Set your eyes on that serpent.
-
Look. Look at it. Look and live.
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My brother, live.
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Look to Jesus Christ and live.
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As Moses lifted up the
serpent in the wilderness,
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so the Son of Man was lifted up
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that all who look, all who believe in Him,
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all whose trust is focused in Him
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should not perish,
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but have everlasting life.
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You've heard this morning
what Jesus has done.
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He's done it all by Himself.
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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 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 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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and people who love you,
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who were dependent on you,
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how terribly 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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Now, 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 lift 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. 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 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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that you've got to add to what He's done.
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You just look at Him.
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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" 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 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;
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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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And when God gives you a chance to speak,
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all you can say is,
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"I wish it wasn't me."
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And when He gives me a chance to speak,
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I will say, "Mercy. Mercy."
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Mercy, mercy...
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The world is full of religions.
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And all those religions say, "Do this."
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"Give your money."
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"Say these prayers five times a day."
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"Meditate."
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"Keep a month in which you don't eat
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during daylight hours."
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"Don't eat pork."
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"Do, do, do, do," they say.
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That's their message.
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"Do this."
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Christ says, "Sit."
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Look at what the Lord Jesus Christ,
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the Son of God has done.
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Be satisfied with that.
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That is salvation.
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That is Christianity.
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That is Life.
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That is grace.
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Look and live, my brother.
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Neither is there salvation in any other.
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There is no other name under heaven
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given amongst men
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whereby we must be saved.
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Look unto Me and be saved
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all the ends of the earth.
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For I am God and there is none else.
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Let the wicked forsake his way
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and the unrighteous man his thoughts.
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Let him look to Christ
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who will pardon all who look to Him.
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Don't move.
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Speak like the dying thief who said:
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Just don't forget me
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when You're dealing with the Milky Way
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and outer space.
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Just remember me.
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And He will abundantly pardon.
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For He has by Himself purged our sins.
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And He is seated at the right hand
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of the Majesty on high.
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There He ever lives to
make intercession for us
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and so He can save to the uttermost
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those who come to God by Him.
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By looking at Him.
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And then when that is clear,
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be steadfast and unmovable
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and always abounding
in the work of the Lord.
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It's not in vain, your work in the Lord.
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But first, you sit
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and survey the wondrous cross
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on which the Prince of Glory died.
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Let's pray.
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Lord our God, we beseech You,
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help sinners to look now.
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If there's a veil in
front of their eyes still,
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take it away.
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If there's glaucoma spiritually;
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if they can't see,
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Oh Lord, show them
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Jesus Christ the Son of God.
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Help them, Lord. Draw them.
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Draw them irresistibly.
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Help them to face up
to their sin and guilt
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and the way it's stained
them and marred them.
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Oh, may they then look;
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may they look to Jesus Christ.
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May they set their eyes on Him
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and look at Him
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and be saved, God.
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Oh, in Your mercy and in Your love
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for San Antonio sinners
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who repent and look to Jesus.
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Give them the inner
witness of the Holy Spirit
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that they ever be satisfied
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that they have a Savior
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who is seated in glory;
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who has gone to prepare a place for them
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and who will take them to Himself
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that where He is, there they will be
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forever and ever.
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Oh, happy home awaiting us.
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Oh, blessed place.
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Enable us in these last years of our lives
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to live ever, only, all for Thee,
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our God and Savior,
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we ask it in Jesus' name, Amen.