"Grace vs. Law" RESCUE RADIO with Marjorie Cole

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I have an emergency, what is your location?

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Rescue radio, cause there's a war for your soul.

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Yes, Father God, thank you, Jesus, that you, the battle belongs to you.

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And we declare that your kingdom come, your will be done in this war,

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that you have given us also power and authority to bind and to loosen,

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to work with you, to see your kingdom come.

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So we're rejoicing in that great opportunity to work with you,

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to be your hands and feet, to share the gospel.

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Thank you, Jesus, for dying for us.

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You did what we could not do.

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You brought grace and truth to us through your sacrifice.

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And I thank you, Lord God, that the confusion that's come through,

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the mixing of law and grace, the misunderstandings,

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the religious attempts of the enemy to bring judgment, confusion and division,

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Lord, that those things are being exposed by the power of your Holy Spirit.

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And I thank you for giving us eyes to see, ears to hear,

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and a heart to receive the revelation of your love and truth,

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that we will walk in the fullness of that freedom that comes through joy and peace

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and righteousness and justice, Father God.

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And I thank you, Lord, that you will give us, Lord, direction,

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even cause this to flow, because many times these complicated things

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need to be straightened out, Father.

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So give us the ability to straighten it out and we will speak

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as you direct us by your Holy Spirit.

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And we thank you, Father, for the promise that no weapon formed against us

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will prosper, that the prince of the power of the air,

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the spirits of religion, witchcraft are being bound in the name of Jesus Christ,

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and that people, your people, are being set free from these constrictions

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and judgments and demonic activities, Father.

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In the name of Jesus, cover our people, our conversations,

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our relationships, our communications, our thoughts,

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that we cannot be divided, Lord God.

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And that the enemy cannot bite and divide and destroy us

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through confusion and division, Father.

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We ask these things in Jesus' name. Amen.

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So we're talking about a very powerful subject today, the grace of God.

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The grace of God. It's like for us to describe the grace of God,

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it's like a minnow trying to describe the ocean.

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But we have to go back.

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We have to go back to look at the foundation of the grace of God

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because it goes right into God's character.

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It's God's character and God's nature.

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And I just think of, remember Moses in Exodus 33?

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He said, Lord, show me your glory.

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I mean, he'd seen the mountain shake and he'd seen the Ten Commandments

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and the mountain, Mount Sinai on fire and everything like that.

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And God says, OK, I'm going to show you my glory.

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But you can't see the whole thing

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because you I have to kind of cover you,

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because if you if you see all my glory, you're just going to be toast.

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You know what I'm saying?

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But let me just share this.

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So here's what happened.

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And the Lord's descended in the cloud, Exodus 34, five,

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and stood with him there with Moses and proclaimed the name of the Lord.

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The name of the Lord speaks of the character of the Lord

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and the power of the nature of the Lord.

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And the Lord passed before him and proclaimed the Lord,

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the Lord God, merciful and gracious,

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long suffering and abounding in goodness and truth,

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keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin.

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And so a pause right there.

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This is the very the grace of God is the essence of God is the very nature of God.

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And then when we look at John chapter one,

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the Gospel of John, chapter one, verses 16 and 17,

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and of his fullness, we have all received and grace for grace.

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In other words, grace upon grace.

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Grace just keeps coming.

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When one form of grace comes,

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there's another one that follows it like a like cars on a freight train.

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For the law was given through Moses,

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but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

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But the thing is, God has always been gracious.

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He's always gracious in the old covenant and the new covenant.

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And I just want to just jump into this here, Marjorie,

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and then about the law, the law of Moses, Galatians chapter three, 19.

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What purpose done does the law serve?

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It was added because of transgressions to the seed that speaks of Jesus.

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Capital SED in the New King James here should come to whom the promise was made.

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And it was appointed through angels by the hand of a mediator.

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Now, a mediator does not mediate for one only.

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What God is one is the law against the promises of God.

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Certainly not for their head.

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If there had been a law which could have given life,

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truly righteousness would have been by the law.

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But the scripture has confined all under sin that the promise by faith

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in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

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But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the law,

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kept for the faith which would afterward be revealed.

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Therefore, the law was our tutor.

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You know, King James says our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ,

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that we might be justified by faith.

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But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.

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Yeah. And this is very this a schoolmaster.

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The law is a schoolmaster to bring us to Christ.

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The law is was the placeholder.

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It was like the placenta.

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And Jesus, the baby in the womb is the grace.

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But law had to be there to bring forth the grace of God.

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But let's go back for just a second to a tutor,

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a schoolmaster to bring us to Christ.

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Those four or five little words are so deceiving in a way

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because it's like this.

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Yeah. OK, what does that mean?

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What does that all mean?

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Schoolmaster, bring us to Christ.

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There's so much behind that.

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It's like if you if you look at, you know, look at your computer screen,

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you look at you see the external things,

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the monitor, the keyboard, the this that you have no idea

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how much is in that hard drive,

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how much is in that that play the connections,

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the relay switches that.

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So that's the same thing here.

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The law, the the internal workings.

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Why did it happen?

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What and what happened as a result of the law coming first

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and how Satan brought the law back in to the gospel of grace is beyond.

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I mean, it's just it takes more than five words to describe what Satan has done.

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God brought the law for a purpose and Satan is now using the law

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for another purpose to bring transgressions and condemnation.

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And people are getting confused.

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But let's go back to the beginning.

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You know, you talk to most people, most people who go to church,

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you know, oh, they think going to church, that's that's what it's all about.

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Going to church.

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They think that all churches are pretty much equal in their natural

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and neutral and unbiased presentations of the gospel.

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But that is not the truth.

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So churches actually are under a lot of attack.

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Their doctrine, their presentation, their infestation of religious spirits

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and also doctrines of demons and all kinds of things.

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But so as the church adheres to the doctrine, a doctrine, it could be a walk of works.

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It could be of grace or it could be a mixture of law and grace or works and grace.

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Some are thought many of the churches actually are founded on a foundation,

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a theological interpretation of the word of God that centers on a disposition

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or a denomination.

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And it creates, like you said, an unspoken mindset,

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a mindset about the goodness of God or that distorts the goodness of God,

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creates questions in people's minds, because if there's too much law involved,

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then God is still waiting for us to fail.

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And he's got this big baseball bat and he's going to judge us.

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And he's disappointed with us and all kinds of things that that really run around

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and haunt people in the back of their minds about who God is.

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You know, just a kind of a touch on these two things.

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There's like, for example, there's Calvinism, there's Arminianism, there's Catholicism,

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all present, you know, forms, structures, traditions that about God.

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They're all schisms.

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They're all schisms and schisms.

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Schisms.

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That wrap God up in a different package.

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So to open the package, to find God, as we would, you know, talk about it,

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to unwrap God, to find out what he really wants.

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You've got to dig through Calvinism or Arminianism or Catholicism or Lutheranism

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or whatever they all are.

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And to open this package, you know, gets tricky because the bottom line question is,

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well, what does God want?

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What does he expect?

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What's he looking for?

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What do we have to do to get saved?

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What does it look like to follow him?

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What does it look like to be abiding, to keep him happy, to stay out of trouble

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so he doesn't get mad at us?

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All these things are in our minds as we're trying to understand who God is

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and what he wants.

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And so grace versus good works becomes kind of the bottom line,

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lowest common denominator in this struggle.

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Well, grace actually results in good works.

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Right.

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But good works doesn't.

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Grace, we're saved through faith, Ephesians 2, 8 through 10,

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It is a gift.

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It is a gift of God, not of works.

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Yes.

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Blessed any man should boast.

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For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus,

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unto good works which God has before ordained that we should walk in them.

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Yes, so that's very clear, but it's not very clear

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because most people who go to church really don't probably, I'm not judging people,

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but for the most part, they don't probably know Ephesians 2.

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And maybe they do and maybe they, you know,

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a lot of times we also take our understanding from the people

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who are sharing the word with us from the pulpit.

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And a lot of times I think that is a mixed bag for sure.

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Yeah, exactly.

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If you get down to the core of grace,

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the grace of God, it's a little hard to define.

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It's so vast.

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Yeah.

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But to go before we start the grace of God, understanding that,

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let's look at what God did in the beginning.

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He set up the law.

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We observe the Old Testament that there were many rules that were given,

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some of them by God, that's like the Ten Commandments,

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and some of them by those who were assigned to help the people stay holy

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and keep their distance from the pagans.

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So there's a lot of, you know, external rules.

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That were added over time.

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Right.

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As in the case of the scribes and Pharisees in Jesus' day,

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they added all these rules.

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They added a whole bunch of rules.

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To keep people safe.

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To keep people from breaking the rules.

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And so they broke the little rules and that became a problem as well.

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So they broke, yeah.

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But it's like this.

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So God, it's like people are drawn like metal to a magnet.

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When the pagans, the heathens, they would draw the people,

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God's people, close,

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and pretty soon they'd be sucked into the idolatry of the heathens,

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and they were sacrificing their children and doing all kinds of horrible things

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that God had never commanded,

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and began to be drawn away from the midst of God into this place of idolatry.

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So the Old Testament was a constant commentary

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on people's being deceived by the devil.

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So what God was proving with the law in the Old Testament

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was that people could not keep it.

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There was no way.

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All the time in the Old Testament, if you want to sum it up,

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God was like a parent watching over his ignorant and disobedient children,

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constantly involved in their daily lives to keep them alive and safe

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through a system of laws and rituals that they were required to do

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because he knew Satan was going to try to come and steal them,

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steal the seed, steal the promise, distort, scatter,

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destroy God's plan to bring salvation and grace.

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It's a twofold thing.

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The law, it gave rules, guidelines, protections, protections to the people.

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And identity.

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It's not that, oh, you got to do it, God says,

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you got to do it my way or the highway.

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He said, please do it my way because if you don't do it my way,

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you're going to be so vulnerable to the destruction of the enemy.

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At the same time, there are things about the law of Moses that speak of Jesus,

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that speak and prepare us for the foreshadowings of who Jesus is

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and what he would do.

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So it's going back to the Old Testament, all these people following God,

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falling away from God.

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It goes on and on through the prophets, warnings, chastisements,

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this continued actually until they were set in a super timeout.

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God set them up in a super timeout when they were sent over to be confined

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in the nation of Babylon.

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A 70-year timeout.

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Yeah, there you go.

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So the law did not work to save them or keep them safe

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if they did not want to be kept safe.

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and we already know and you just read, the law could not save anybody.

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It couldn't force people to love one another.

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The law can only mark us as absent if we don't want to love.

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I mean, it can't force you to do the right thing,

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to love as God has called for.

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Well, it's like, here's the deal.

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Speed limit sign.

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Speed limit 55, right?

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It can say, well, you know, if I go over, I don't care.

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I'm going to go over 55 because I'm in a hurry.

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or sheriff or something like that.

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The law has only the power to identify the sin

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or breaking the transgression,

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but it doesn't really have the power to make you love one another,

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be good, drive safe, whatever.

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So God had another way.

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is because of the soul that sin shall die.

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and the only way you can do that is death for death.

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his death, to pay the penalty that was demanded

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by Satan and sin and death.

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that he gave his only begotten son,

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that whoever believes in him should not perish,

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but have everlasting life.

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is just the ultimate display of the grace of God.

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until the sacrifice could be made.

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because they were holding the position,

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holding the place until the Lamb of God would come.

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So, going back to Paul, he says the law cannot save us.

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The law, with its incumbent lists of demands and works,

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could not transform the heart.

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The law gets its power from fear, actually.

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because it gives him the power to control people

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through guilt and shame and the fear of consequences.

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if you go to Romans 4.15, he says,

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where there is no transgression, there is no sin.

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where there is transgression, there is sin.

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us transgressing the law, so that he can accuse us of sin,

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so that he can bring his demonic judgments upon us,

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so that he can justify before God

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why he is doing these terrible things to us.

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Because he says, well, they broke the law.

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Yeah, well, another thing, too, is sometimes we think,

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oh, the law was evil.

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No, the law was not evil.

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Paul says it's holy and just and good.

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But it's limited.

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It can't make people do anything.

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It can't, you know.

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from the old covenant into the new covenant.

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It's a better way,

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a better promises.

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That's exactly right.

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Based on better promises.

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It's a new and living way.

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how the old covenant had to go,

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had to eclipse into the new covenant.

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Because what God is looking for

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is the hearts of people devoted to him.

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to control the people.

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the fruits of love freely given.

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not twisted and contorted

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and pulled out of us because of fear.

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it is finished on the cross,

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what he was saying.

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It has the requirements,

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the demands of the law

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have been completely satisfied, fulfilled.

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Therefore, therefore that's old.

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That's done.

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That's paid off in full.

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So now let's go forward with grace.

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Let's go forward with seeing

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what you want to do with the love I have for you.

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And Satan says, oh no, no, no.

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We can't just give them grace.

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I believe, and the law had been given to create,

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he had been using the law to create

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all these transgressions,

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which he could use to accuse the people.

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When he saw that Jesus had finished

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taking away his power to condemn people,

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then Satan, I believe, he freaked out.

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we can't just give them a free pass.

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only on one thing, really,

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our accepting of God's free pass

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through the midst of the death

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and destruction that we walk.

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to go through this corridor

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of death and destruction Satan has set up for us.

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the golden ticket, the grace, the salvation of God,

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that brings justification.

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or through earning or through works

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or deserving or being given

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as a result of our own merit.

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for our accomplishments,

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but it's an expression of God's love for us.

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It's not earned, it can't be earned,

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but it is received simply by faith

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in Jesus Christ as a free gift.

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Right, so it comes down to this,

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our willingness to accept

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this very expensive gift from God,

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but a free gift to us,

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this gift of salvation,

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whosoever will is willing to do it

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can be given this gift.

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You don't have to, you can't pay for it.

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It can't work to get to heaven.

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You said earlier, as we abide in Jesus Christ,

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the fruit of that abiding

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is the love, the kindness, the goodness,

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the fruits of the spirit,

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which all can be wrapped up, I suppose,

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in good behavior, good works,

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but it comes out of an abiding.

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of his love freely given to whosoever will.

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And grace means undeserved favor,

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that it's not a reward like we've said,

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but it's favor, and favor,

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think of God's favor toward us.

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I mean, even Romans chapter 5,

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and I think verses 6 through 8

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talks about while we were yet sinners,

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Christ died for us.

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God commends his love for us

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or demonstrates his love for us.

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He could theoretically just fry us all,

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just give up on us totally,

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but because he is love,

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like we read at the beginning of our time here,

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that he's gracious, long-suffering,

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and so forth.

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Not willing that any should perish.

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So the favor or the grace of God

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means that it's God's kindness,

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it's God's support,

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it's God's partiality.

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He's partial toward us.

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It includes his protection,

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his blessing, his enablement.

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It gives us purpose

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and opens opportunities for us.

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So in this grace,

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we are able to become who God has created us to be.

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To move in the identity of goodness, holiness, purity,

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Right, our identity.

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Once we know our identity,

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then we know our purpose.

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So the grace of God was given

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because God is allowing us

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the freedom to choose to reject him

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or accept him.

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The law really said,

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you got to do this.

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This is what thou shalt, thou shalt not.

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It was pretty much cut and dried, black and white.

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with being able to do that

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because of many circumstances

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over which they had no control.

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But Satan was always in the midst of them,

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trying to pull them away, deceive them,

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discourage them.

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But this grace of God

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is given to all whosoever will

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without prejudice.

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all he foreknew.

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There's a lot of people that think

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that he's predestined some

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to be saved and some to be lost.

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And that's kind of the theory under Calvinism.

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That God is so sovereign

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that he had to do it all.

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He had to save us,

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even against our free will.

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moved out, rescinded,

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and it's whoever God picks.

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And that makes God...

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I mean, you can't even describe him.

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What does that mean?

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God is depraved.

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He's creating people to go to hell.

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He's not giving us any solution at all.

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He's just picked favorites.

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which was way back in the day,

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still undergirds a lot of churches today.

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Good works, Calvinism,

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God's sovereign.

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You got no choice.

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It's all up to him.

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for whom he foreknew,

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he being God,

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he also predestined to be conformed

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to the image of his son.

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So who did he foreknow?

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which was everybody.

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He predestined them to be conformed

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to the image of his son,

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that he might be the firstborn

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among many brethren.

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Moreover, or in other words,

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continuing the argument,

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whom he predestined,

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these he also called.

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Who did he foreknow?

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Who did he predestine?

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He called everybody.

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whom he called,

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these he also justified.

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when you're invited,

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when you receive the invitation

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to accept the death of Jesus Christ

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in payment for your sin,

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when you're presented

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with that option,

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then you can receive the call.

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You can answer the call.

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or you can say no.

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he was able to justify,

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and those he justified,

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he also glorified.

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But here's the deal.

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So he predestined, wanted all.

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00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:10,000
He predestined them,

519
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:13,000
but he did not predetermine them

520
00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:14,000
to be eligible,

521
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,000
to be invited all

522
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,000
to the marriage supper of the Lamb,

523
00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:21,000
and to be held in his palace in heaven

524
00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:24,000
at some soon-to-be-appointed time.

525
00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:25,000
This is a real thing.

526
00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,000
And so many times,

527
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:30,000
people get all tangled up in,

528
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,000
well, I go to church.

529
00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:34,000
Well, going to church,

530
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:36,000
darkening the doors of that building

531
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:39,000
does not mean you're saved.

532
00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:42,000
It doesn't mean you've said yes.

533
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,000
It could mean that,

534
00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:45,000
but it could also mean

535
00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:50,000
that you are still hung up on doing to be.

536
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:52,000
So whatever church you're going to,

537
00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:53,000
make sure that the commitment

538
00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:54,000
between you and God

539
00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:57,000
is already established in your heart,

540
00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:58,000
and that his Holy Spirit

541
00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:02,000
will lead you into a true revelation

542
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,000
of his grace, his goodness.

543
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:07,000
Otherwise, the church can be used

544
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:08,000
by the enemy, actually,

545
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:10,000
and I believe a lot of religious spirits

546
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:11,000
and witches go to church

547
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,000
and Jezebel spirits and all kinds of things

548
00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:15,000
to confuse the people who go there.

549
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:17,000
And that's why a lot of people drop out,

550
00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:18,000
and then they think,

551
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:19,000
well, God's mad at me

552
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:21,000
because I dropped out of church.

553
00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:22,000
God might be happy with you

554
00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,000
for dropping out of some of those churches

555
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:25,000
because, you know,

556
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:27,000
they're not preaching and teaching

557
00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:28,000
about who he is,

558
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:31,000
just like Jesus was constantly confronted

559
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:33,000
by the people who ran the synagogues,

560
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,000
you know, the religious leaders,

561
00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:37,000
those who ran the temple.

562
00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:38,000
What grace means

563
00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:43,000
is really summed up very well

564
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,000
in Romans 8, verse 31.

565
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:48,000
What shall we say, then, to these things?

566
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,000
Like you just read a little bit ago.

567
00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:51,000
If God is for us,

568
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:53,000
who can be against us?

569
00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:55,000
He who did not spare his own son

570
00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:57,000
but delivered him up for us all,

571
00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:00,000
how shall he not with him also

572
00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:04,000
freely give us all things?

573
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:07,000
And so, and it goes on and on there,

574
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:10,000
of course, but the thing is,

575
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,000
God is for us.

576
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:13,000
Right.

577
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:16,000
Overall, he is not against us.

578
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:17,000
God is for us.

579
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:19,000
But the church and religion often...

580
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:20,000
If God wasn't for us,

581
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,000
he never would have sent Jesus.

582
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:23,000
Yeah, and if God wasn't for us,

583
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:25,000
you know, and made us in his image,

584
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:28,000
he wouldn't care about us to redeem us.

585
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,000
But what happens in the church

586
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,000
a lot of times, our churches,

587
00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:34,000
is that the concept of God's goodness

588
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:36,000
and his grace gets all tangled up

589
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:37,000
and muddied up.

590
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,000
Like Satan brought back the law

591
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,000
into most churches.

592
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:42,000
Nowadays, you know,

593
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:43,000
they're afraid to preach

594
00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:45,000
the gospel of grace and good news

595
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:47,000
because they're still believing,

596
00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:49,000
if I preach that alone,

597
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:52,000
without the threat of the law,

598
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:54,000
then people will misbehave.

599
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:57,000
But if people knew who they were

600
00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:59,000
made in the goodness of God

601
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:01,000
to love goodness,

602
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,000
why would they want to sin?

603
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:05,000
We wouldn't deliberately want to sin.

604
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:07,000
We might get tricked into sinning

605
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:08,000
because of fear,

606
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:09,000
because the devil's the devil,

607
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:13,000
but we wouldn't deliberately want to be bad

608
00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:15,000
or, you know, go away.

609
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:17,000
But the reason people go away from God

610
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:19,000
is because they believe

611
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:20,000
that God has gone away from them.

612
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:21,000
I've left God.

613
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:22,000
I walked away from God.

614
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:23,000
I was bad.

615
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:24,000
I gave up, you know.

616
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:25,000
All of these things,

617
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,000
Satan's convinced them

618
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:28,000
that God has left them

619
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:29,000
or God is mad at them

620
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:31,000
or they've got to come back to God.

621
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:32,000
You know, the truth is,

622
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:34,000
God has not even left you.

623
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:35,000
Even in your darkest hour,

624
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:37,000
even in the midst of your deepest pit,

625
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:40,000
in the midst of your most grievous sin,

626
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:42,000
God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit,

627
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:43,000
have not left you.

628
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:44,000
They're still with you.

629
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:45,000
Why?

630
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:46,000
Because they care.

631
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,000
Because they don't want you to perish.

632
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:49,000
And so when the devil says,

633
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:51,000
it's too late, you're too far gone,

634
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:53,000
he's a liar.

635
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:54,000
Well, you don't know.

636
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:55,000
I sold my soul to the devil

637
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:58,000
or I became the bride of Satan

638
00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:00,000
or I endorsed witchcraft.

639
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:03,000
Nothing is beyond the redemption

640
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:04,000
of the blood of Jesus Christ.

641
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:05,000
Don't even believe that lie

642
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:09,000
that you have to now settle

643
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:10,000
for being lost

644
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:13,000
because you can't be saved.

645
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:16,000
The Lord is able to do the impossible,

646
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:17,000
but the most important thing

647
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:19,000
he has to overcome

648
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,000
is the concepts, the lies,

649
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:22,000
that you believe

650
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:24,000
in your own mind and heart.

651
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:26,000
And a lot of us are distracted

652
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:28,000
or turned away from the Lord

653
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:29,000
because we think,

654
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:30,000
I'm not good enough.

655
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:32,000
I could never be good enough.

656
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:34,000
That's not the issue at all.

657
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:37,000
Jesus Christ is good enough.

658
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:39,000
It's the righteousness of Jesus

659
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:42,000
that makes us...

660
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:43,000
Acceptable.

661
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:44,000
Acceptable to God.

662
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:46,000
Clean, holy, perfect.

663
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:47,000
Sets us free.

664
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:49,000
So by the grace of God, Lord God,

665
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:51,000
let your people...

666
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:53,000
Jesus Christ's grace and truth

667
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,000
came through Jesus Christ.

668
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,000
He is the author.

669
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:58,000
He's the way.

670
00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:00,000
He's the corridor of safety

671
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:02,000
to get through this life.

672
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:03,000
Let him love you.

673
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:05,000
And the unloving spirits,

674
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:06,000
the fear, the condemnation,

675
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:07,000
I don't deserve God.

676
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:10,000
Let them shut up in your minds,

677
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:12,000
in your hearts, Lord God.

678
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:14,000
Let the sorcery, the enchantments,

679
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:16,000
the media, the lies,

680
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:18,000
all just Satan's propaganda

681
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,000
bombarding your mind,

682
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:21,000
your heart, your soul,

683
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,000
your life, your body every day.

684
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:24,000
Let that be removed

685
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:26,000
by the shields of God.

686
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:27,000
Let God deliver us

687
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:29,000
from these bombarding lies

688
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:31,000
of the enemy.

689
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:32,000
And let us see clearly

690
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,000
with the eyes of his spirit

691
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:35,000
what is going on.

692
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:36,000
So Father, we pray right now

693
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:38,000
for deliverance

694
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:40,000
for the people who are shut up

695
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,000
in the grip of Satan,

696
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,000
believing that the religion

697
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:45,000
that they're practicing

698
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,000
or not practicing

699
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:48,000
is isolating them

700
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:49,000
and separating them from you.

701
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:50,000
There's nothing that can separate us

702
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:51,000
from the love of God.

703
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:54,000
Let us be set free today

704
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,000
from the wrong concepts

705
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:58,000
that have lied and built

706
00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:01,000
a foundation that we cannot live on.

707
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:03,000
We cannot build on

708
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:05,000
the rejection, the condemnation,

709
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:07,000
the hopelessness, the damnation.

710
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:08,000
Let us get rid of that foundation

711
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:11,000
and go back to allowing ourselves

712
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:14,000
to be instructed by the Lord.

713
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,000
Let him build this foundation

714
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:18,000
of love and life and truth and hope

715
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,000
in Jesus' name.

716
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:21,000
Amen.

717
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:22,000
Amen.

718
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,000
Hey, there's a...

719
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:25,000
Is it a pamphlet?

720
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,000
Is it a manual that you have

721
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,000
that's called A Case for Righteousness?

722
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:30,000
Mm-hmm.

723
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:31,000
Tell us a little bit about that.

724
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,000
A Case for Righteousness is a manual.

725
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:35,000
It's really a Bible study,

726
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:38,000
a study guide to, like,

727
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:40,000
every day is a daily devotional

728
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,000
or a daily Bible study.

729
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:44,000
And it takes you from the beginning

730
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:46,000
where we're in trouble

731
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:48,000
with ourselves and with God.

732
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:49,000
It takes us all the way

733
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:50,000
through that manual

734
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,000
to the bottom, to the back,

735
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:53,000
where we find the lies

736
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,000
that have broken our hearts

737
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:57,000
and separated us from the love of God.

738
00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:00,000
And so, A Case for Righteousness,

739
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,000
yeah, it's...

740
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:04,000
I don't think that one's on Amazon,

741
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:05,000
but you can surely get it

742
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:07,000
on our website,

743
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,000
liferecovery.com.

744
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:11,000
So, again,

745
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:14,000
be encouraged in the Lord.

746
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:15,000
Let the grace of God

747
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:17,000
transform your life.

748
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:20,000
I have an emergency.

749
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:21,000
What is your location?

750
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:22,000
What is your location?

751
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:44,000
Rescue Radio.

752
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:46,000
Because there's a war for your soul.