Sunday Service - 2025-08-03

Sunday Service - 2025-08-03

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Receiving Mercy And Finding Grace Through Our High Priest Jesus Christ
Hebrews 4:14-15:11

Pastor Chris Bonner

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Welcome to the Lansdale Life Church podcast.

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If you're seeking a closer relationship with Jesus Christ, this podcast is for you.

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Thank you for joining us today.

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So, you're ready to dig into the Word? Let's look at Hebrews chapter 4.

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Yeah, the more I study this book, the more enamored I am by it, the more overwhelmed

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that I realize how special it is because, yeah, I've read it probably like you many times through,

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but each time it just impresses more and more of my heart how unique it is from any other book of

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the Bible. So, let's pray and thank the Lord for being here. Father God, we thank You, Lord,

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that Your Word is here, Your Spirit is here. Lord, we have everything we need to walk out of here

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transformed. And so, Lord, we ask You to do that to us today, Lord. We want to surrender any barrier

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to You, Lord. We ask You to knock down those barriers, scrape off the hardness of our heart,

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Lord God, and the scales from our eyes and whatever's on our mind, Lord God. We ask You

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to just cleanse us so that we can actually absorb everything that Your Word says to us.

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And we ask this in Jesus' name, amen. So, today's message, receiving mercy and finding grace

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through our high priest Jesus Christ. You know, as I was just saying, what makes Hebrews so unique

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and special is that, you know, only in Hebrews do we actually see that Jesus Christ is our high

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priest. This is the only book that really spells it out, that delineates the high priest of the

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Old Testament to Jesus Christ. It makes it really clear because the Word says it several times that

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Jesus Christ is the ultimate high priest. And there's other parts of Scripture that hint to this.

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In fact, if you have that first slide, we have Romans 834 where Paul says Christ makes intercession

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for us. And that's actually the job of the high priest is to intercede between God and the people.

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In 1 John 2.1, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous one.

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And so, He is our advocate, again, that mediator, that go-between. And also, in Revelation,

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John sees Christ in a very unique and special way. I covered a little bit of it last week,

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how He is shown with a double-edged sword coming out of His mouth, which is very symbolic of

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many things we talked about last week, but also fire in His eyes, white hair. And there He is,

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and He's dressed in a robe with a gold sash around His chest. And in the Old Testament,

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the high priest wore sashes of purple, of scarlet and blue, all symbolic of things,

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royalty, the heaven and blood of the sacrifice. And so, but woven in those fabrics was gold wire

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to keep it together. But Christ is seen with having a solid gold sash, so He is the high priest.

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You know, human high priests always had flaws because they're humans, which we're going to

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talk about in a minute. And when you think about it, the first high priest, Aaron, right?

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He's chosen to be high priest, okay? And we can read in numbers. By the way, a little plug for

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Wednesday night's sermons, come on out, because that Bible study is phenomenal. And we're in

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numbers now. And the stories in numbers, we're really getting rolling now, and you can read in

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numbers about this incident where Aaron, Miriam and Aaron come against Moses of all people,

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family members of his, and they come against him. And Aaron, actually, they both say, you know,

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who is this Moses? Is God only speaking through him? First, they said it was because he was

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married to an Ethiopian woman. That's another story. But then they right away came to the

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fact that, you know, who is this man? Is he special? Well, yeah. Yeah, Moses was special,

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right? Well, they were challenging his authority. And you recall how the glory came down at the

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doorway of the tent of meeting, the tabernacle. And it was there that the Lord thunderously spoke

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to them and rebuked them. And Miriam became leprous for seven days, and then he cleansed her and so

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forth. But here's the first high priest, and he's already acting treasonous towards Moses and God,

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right? And then his sons, if you can recall, they came into the tabernacle with a strange fire that

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doesn't the word doesn't spell that out. But it was something that God did not command. And it

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was against him in some sense. And it could be because they went in drunk, because the next

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passage talks about never go into the tent of meeting or the tabernacle intoxicated. So it

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could be that but in any sense, they they lit, they burned a strange fire and the Lord just took

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them just torch them. You can read that as well. Many amazing stories in the word. And from there,

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we see that Eli was another high priest. And if you know his story, you know, he was he loved God,

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but it seemed that he loved his sons more. And his sons were serving in the the house of God,

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the tabernacle. And here they're actually committing adultery with the women who were

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the greeters at the front door of the tabernacle. They were sexually abusing them. And they're also

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going in with a three pronged hook and stealing sacrifices offered to God, right out of people who

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came to worship God and to make offerings to him, they would come and literally steal the offerings

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right out of their hands. So Eli was warned about this again and again. So we see these priests

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always had significant flaws, and always will because they're human, right? Samuel had his

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flaws with overlooking his sons who were judges, and they were not walking with God either. They

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were taking bribes and they were they were, in a sense, corrupt, you know, Samuel's son. So

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we see this again and again. But Jesus Christ came down from above and he is the high priest.

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There's no flaw in him. There's nothing that anyone can find against him, though the enemy

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might try. He is pure and he is perfect. So let's dive in to Hebrews chapter four. We're just going

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to read about 14 verses, and we're actually going straight through. So follow along if you would.

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Verse 14. Seeing then that we have a high, a great high priest who has passed through the heavens,

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Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a high priest

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who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are

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yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace. I love that we were just

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helped in the time of need. Chapter five. For every high priest taken from among men

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is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for

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sins. He can have, we can, he can have compassion on those who are ignorant and going astray since

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he himself is also subject to weakness. Because of this, he is required as for the people,

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so also for himself to offer sacrifices for sins. And no man takes this honor to himself,

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but he who is called by God, just as Aaron was. And verse five. So also Christ did not glorify

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himself to become high priest, but it was he who said to him, he meaning Jesus, I mean, I'm sorry,

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God, who said to him, meaning Jesus, you are my son. Today I have begotten you, as he also says

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in another place, you are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek. And verse seven.

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So who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications

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with vehement cries and tears to him. Now this is obviously pointing to the garden of Gethsemane

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when he was crying out to the father, who was able to save him from death and was heard

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because of his Godly fear, though he was a son, yet he learned obedience by the things

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which he suffered. And verse nine, and having been perfected, he became the author of eternal

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salvation to all who obey him, called by God as a high priest, according to the order of Melchizedek,

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of whom we have much to say and hard to explain since you have become dull of hearing. Ouch.

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That's a kind of slight error. So first of all, so Melchizedek, we're not going to talk about him today,

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because in this chapter, he was just mentioned twice, chapter six, he's mentioned once, but

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chapter seven, he's mentioned five times. So that's when we'll talk more about Melchizedek

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and how he's a type of Christ in the Old Testament. And we're also not going to talk about the dull

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of hearing comment that, you know, the Lord just spoke to the readers, because that's going to be

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talked about in two weeks from now, about hearing, but not doing, about hearing and hearing,

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but also being teachers. Because next week we have a special guest speaker,

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a missionary to Pakistan, his name is Philemon. And he'll be speaking here, and I'm really looking

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forward to that. And so, and so should you. And so he'll be speaking and teaching about,

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I'm not sure what, but I know he'll be bringing in what's going on with Pakistan. But the week

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after, we'll talk more about this. By now you should be teachers, but you're still, in a sense,

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spiritually dumb. You know, I'm just, he's just speaking frankly. So anyway, so let's focus more

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on, first of all, Jesus being this high priest. He's a high priest. You know, Jesus isn't only

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the offeror, because that's what priests did. They offered the sacrifice for the people,

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right? Well, Jesus is not only the offeror, he's the offering, because he is the sacrifice.

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He's like a one man God show, okay? Because he comes in as the perfect man, which Adam was not.

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He comes in as a perfect sacrifice, being human, which those animals were not. They were innocent

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of sin, but they were not God and not man. And he became that perfect sacrifice. And he's also

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the perfect high priest. It's all about Jesus. So he did it all, right? And so that's why he is

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our high priest, because he himself is also the sacrifice himself. And because of him, we can

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actually enter the Holy of Holies. Do you remember when that, that veil tore when he was crucified?

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He said it was finished and that the veil was torn in the temple. And that was symbolic of

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now we can come to him and we don't have to go through a mediate, a human mediator any longer,

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because we enter through Jesus Christ. Like when you receive Jesus Christ, he enters you and you

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also enter him. You know, I know it's a spiritual reality, but he is in here and we are in him,

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right? And we enter through him and that new, the new veil is actually his flesh. It says it in

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Hebrews 10 20. We're going to look at that in several weeks from now. So we enter through Jesus

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Christ. He is the high priest. We can now enter the Holy of Holies in him. Isn't that awesome?

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Praise the Lord. Let's give the Lord a round of applause. I know this is kind of, you know,

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a lot of this stuff is pretty heady, but at the same time, I hope it's very practical too,

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because we need to really get this to realize who we have as our advocate, as our intercessor,

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as our mediator, we are, we are righteous in Christ. Amen. Okay. So, so we're talking about

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mercy and grace. And if you could just turn back, because we're just going to focus on one verse

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here, which is Hebrews 4 16. Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace that we may obtain

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mercy and find grace to help in time of need. This idea of, of receiving mercy and finding

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grace. You know, when you consider like you ever hear the comparisons of justice to mercy,

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to grace and how they're connected, you know, justice. And if you can put that slide up,

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that justice is really getting what we deserve. Now, it's easy to watch the news

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and say, they deserve justice. I hope justice will be served, right? And whether you think it is

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or isn't, you know, some justice is, but we always want justice for the other guy. Don't we?

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But we don't typically want justice for us, you know, especially when it comes to God,

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because we've all fallen short of the glory of God. We've all sinned and the wages of sin is death.

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So really all of us deserve eternal death in hell. We just do. Can I get an amen? That's a weird

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thing to say. Amen. But we do, right? You know, without Christ, that's where we belong, right?

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So that's true justice, right? And justice is getting what you deserve. When you think about

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justice and this throne, you know, everyone will be judged someday. Even we will be for our works in

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Christ. But we see in Revelation 20 verses 12 and 15, and I saw the dead great and small standing

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before the throne and books were open. Another book was open, which is the book of life.

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The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. Anyone whose name

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was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire. You know, your name

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is written in the book of life. Isn't that awesome? When you receive Jesus Christ, there

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was someone who said, okay, let's write his name in here. And actually I believe your name was

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already written in there because you are foreknown. In fact, David, there's some theological

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discussion about whether every name is written in there and some are blotted out based on not

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receiving. I don't really go that way. I really believe that Christ knew in advance who would,

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but our names are written in the book of life and we will not be blotted out. Amen. Praise the

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Lord for that. All mankind will be judged, but we will be judged for the distribution of rewards

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that we've done in the name of Christ. So justice is getting what you deserve. Since we're talking

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about high priests, there's something called in the high priest had a method designed by God

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on how to determine what proper justice was for discernment, to get revelation from God,

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what to do on matters of sin, of sacrifices, of judgment. What does God want us to do?

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And there was these, and it says, let's read in Exodus chapter 28, 30.

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He spoke to the high priest, Aaron, and he said, what you're supposed to do is you're supposed to

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wear this, which we're going to show in a minute, this breastplate of judgment. Okay. And when you

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enter the tabernacle, you're to put in this pocket in the breastplate of righteousness,

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the Urim and the Thummim. Have you ever heard of that? Some of you who have been studying the

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Bible for years, I'm sure you have, but it's this, it's two stones that we don't, don't know

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exactly what they looked like. And we're going to talk about that in a second, but he goes in,

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he puts these stones before entering and they're in his breastplate and then, and they shall be

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over Aaron's heart and he goes in before the Lord. So Aaron shall bear the judgment

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of the children of Israel over his heart before the Lord continuously. So imagine Aaron,

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he like has all this sin of the whole nation to reconcile with God. You know, I mean,

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that's a heavyweight, isn't it? And he's carrying the sins of the whole nation into the tabernacle

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and say, Lord, what am I supposed to do with this? You know, I mean, it's a heavy load,

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but it was really pointing to the one who can carry the load, which is Jesus Christ.

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And this Urim and Thummim, I think we have a picture of it next, or we might have a picture of

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the priest. So the priest would go in, a short portly fella. No, I don't know what he had,

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really. But this, this one apparently, but he goes, he goes in with the breastplate,

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which has 12 stones, all representing a tribe of Israel. Okay. And in this breastplate are tuck,

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these two stones, the Urim and the Thummim, okay, which actually means lights and perfection. Thank

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you. And in this pouch, now some have come into the conclusion that one would be a light stone,

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almost maybe bright, like translucent. You know, a lot of times when they say white in the Bible,

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they actually mean light. Okay. Like it was a stone that lit maybe a diamond or something that

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when light passed through it, it was brilliant. And another stone that would be darker. And,

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and when they would go in, depending, they would pray and whatever stone they pulled out

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was the answer. Now to you, you might say, that sounds like gambling or luck to me. Right.

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But with God, it was his design to say you can trust the outcome because I'm in the outcome.

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Okay. Now we believers don't discern what God's will is this way anymore. Thank God. Right. It's not

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like, if I hit a seven, you know, it means I should do it. If I get a one, it means go home.

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You know, we don't do things that way because we have the Holy Spirit in us and the Lord thinks

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through us, speaks through us, feels through us. Right. We are, we have the discernment of the

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Holy Spirit. So we make decisions with the wisdom of God, but God had ordained these methods

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so that they can know for sure. When you see that it's the right decision. That's what he

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did with them back then, but he doesn't do that with us. And so if they would pull out one stone,

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it would say, yes. Another stone would say, no, when they pulled it out of this breastplate

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of righteousness. So why do I talk about this so much right now? It's because really one would say,

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yes. And it was used with determining even guilt. Are they guilty or are they not? Should they be

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shown mercy or should they not? Now the Lord was always giving mercy, but it was also used and

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adopted in courts and so forth that they would choose and say, all right, you know what? You've

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been acquitted because you've received the white stone today. You've been acquitted. But I love in

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revelation, we see chapter two, verse 17, that the Lord says to a very compromising church,

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the church of Pergamos, he says, I will give you a white stone. He who overcomes a white stone with

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a new name written on it, which no one knows except the person who receives it. And of course,

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the one who gives it. But we see this idea of if you over, if you trust in me, you will receive

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the stone of mercy, the stone of acquittal. You know, I also love the fact that, you know,

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these stones said yes or no. Okay. And these stones said mercy or judgment, but we're told

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in second Corinthians, chapter one, verses 19 to 20,

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that for the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, by me, Sylvanus,

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and Timothy was not yes and no, but in him was yes. For all the promises of God in him are yes,

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and in him are amen to the glory of God through us. So the reason I put this all together is when

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Christ enters the tabernacle in heaven, because that was all a shadow of things which are in heaven,

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which are the substance, you know, they're the shadow crisis, the substance. When he enters on

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behalf of us, he always pulls out the Urim, the S and amen, the mercy stone, because he always

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extends mercy to us because he's a merciful God. In fact, the word says that he's merciful to

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generation after generation. He's long suffering, just wanting everyone to come to him. But someday

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there will be a reckoning for those who don't. And we can't fathom how can a merciful God

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just release people to who they've sworn to, which is Satan and the lake of fire. But he has to,

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to be a just God, because, you know, a just God has to perform justice, right? And we have been

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acquitted because we find our justice in Christ. I love this. Like when you come to Christ,

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how can a just judge overlook sins? And I've had these discussions with Muslims many times,

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they have a big problem with this because they think they have to work their way all the way

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till death and be righteous before God based on their earthly actions. And I'm like,

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it's never going to happen because you can't earn salvation. It's a gift. You know,

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Ephesians two eight is by grace you've been saved through faith, this not of your own,

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but as a gift from God, not by works. You can't work your way into heaven. It's a gift.

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It's only him. I found this very unique graphic, which I've kind of tweaked a bit. Okay.

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But I found, cause you know, that you ever hear of the scales of justice, you know,

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right? That woman is holding these things up. And, and it's like, you know, you don't want to,

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a weighted scale. Okay. Meaning like you're not really getting what you're,

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what you're paying for that kind of thing. Well, the scales of justice is that everyone should be

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treated equally, which is true. But with salvation, we'd all be down here and Christ would be up

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here. Like the scale would be like, sorry, there's nothing you can do to bridge the gap between this

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side of the scale and that side of the scale. But through Christ, his righteousness has reconciled

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or offset our sins, our unrighteousness, because the balance is right in the middle. And Jesus

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Christ, he is the center of it all. Remember that song? Jesus be the center of it all.

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I don't know many words to it, but Jesus be the center of it all. Let's stop there unless you

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know someone, but he is, he is the balance beam because really in Christ, we are reconciled by

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his righteousness. Isn't that awesome? Amen. And I just picture that, that scale and him on the

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cross. Now he's not there any longer because it goes past that he has left the cross. Okay.

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He's no longer on the crucible. He has left. He is seated at the right hand of the father.

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And now we are, we are the righteousness of Christ. And now we've received grace. Amen.

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I have a slide there that shows the difference. You know, mercy we said is not getting what you

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deserve. We didn't say it yet, but really if, if justice is getting what you deserve,

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don't we all really want mercy and mercy is not getting what we deserve, but grace goes far beyond

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that. Grace is getting what you don't deserve. Now that sounds like something bad's coming. No,

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it's a good thing because when we get what God wants to give us, we don't deserve it at all.

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You know, we don't deserve, first of all, we don't deserve mercy, but once we've received mercy,

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God doesn't want to stop there. He wants to continue. In fact, in the word it says,

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you know, he has led captivity captive and he has given gifts to men. His whole purpose is to load

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you down with spiritual gifts that just leak right out of you all over the place. Like he just

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continues to pour on you his grace, his gifts, so that you could be a demonstration of what a good,

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father looks like, right? The father of lights that give her every perfect gift that has no shadows

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of turning, no darkness in his gifts. They are brilliant. They are bright. They are wonderful,

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right? And that's what we receive. We not only receive, you know, don't receive justice.

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Thank God for that because none of us want justice for us. We don't receive justice,

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but justice is served because all came upon him. He can be a just God because he already paid for it.

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We just saw that balancing beam of the justice scales. He took it all on because all of our

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unrighteousness fell upon his righteousness and he has reconciled. He has mitigated all of that.

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And now we are seen as the righteousness of God. He who knew no sin became sin for us

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so that we would become the righteousness of God, right? And so now we are reconciled

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through him. And so this idea of now we receive the grace of God. You know what grace,

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I love this acronym. You know what grace stands for? You've heard of this one.

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God's riches at Christ's expense. They love that. You know, Christ, you know, how much wealth

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does God have? I mean, and we're not talking about money, but maybe we are. Because he told

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his disciples, you think you're giving up a lot to follow me? You will be paid 100 fold.

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Anything you've surrendered in life to follow me, you will be paid 100 fold. Now some of us

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mean, so what if I put a dollar in the blue box, I should come back and expect $100 on

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handed to me by Ron. Well, that's up to Ron. That's between you and Ron. I can't, Ron,

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are you up for that? He's not listening. See that he, I think he just ran out the door,

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but you know, when he comes in, if you want to hand a dollar in there and you think he's

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going to give you a hundred, I don't think it's really supposed to be a literal exchange like that.

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It's the value you get out of it because we all know money doesn't bring joy.

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It might bring temporary happiness and yet, you know, why aren't all the lottery winners

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joy filled, right? It's because the Lord has so much greater things than any tangible asset.

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In fact, the Lord says, you know, don't work to lay up treasures on earth where the moth eats it

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away, right? Where the rust decays it and thieves come in and steal it, but lay up for

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yourselves treasures in heaven where none of that happens and it is eternal and it pays

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eternal dividends, eternal. Anything you pay for the, do for the Lord will continue to repay

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for years to come. And not only that, but it spills off onto earth because you receive so

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many rewards here on earth too. He blesses you be a lot beyond what you can comprehend.

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You know, when you serve him, all of a sudden, when you go down the city hall and you go to

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Honduras, when you go anywhere and just when you come out on first Friday, by the way, a young

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boy named Gio got saved on Friday night. So be praying for him, you know, I mean, but

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so many received the gospel from us. But you know, when you serve the Lord in any way,

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handing a bottle of water to somebody with a kind, loving smile, which is saying, yeah, you know,

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we just are here to represent Christ. It's dividends that are paying out into heaven.

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And I don't know about you. I don't work for rewards in heaven. I can't even really get my

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mind around that. You know, I mean, I don't like, what am I going to get when I get there? Yeah.

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It's I feel, and it's not about feelings either. But I feel so fulfilled in the spirit, serving God,

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don't you? When you serve him, you're like, that's why I'm here. Like you get so tangled up in

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stuff on earth that just irritate you, bother you. And then all of a sudden, when you do something

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simple for God, you're like, yeah, it's simple. It's real simple. God's not making it very

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difficult for me. He's making it simple. He's making it easy. My burden is easy. My, my yoke is

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easy. My burden is easy. My, you know what I'm talking about. Come to me all you weary and late

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and heavy laden. I will give you rest for your soul because my burden is light and my yoke is

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easy. And my burden is light. There it is. Right. But it is right. I mean, he doesn't like, oh here,

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you look like you're struggling there. Here, try this, throw that on for size and see how

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you can carry that one. You know, he's not like some kind of boot camp. He's just saying, look,

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I'm easy to serve because you know what you, your countenance just lifts. You know, that yoke

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becomes like, man, this thing I'm floating in this thing. This thing is lifting me up.

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It's not weighing me down because it's Christ's yoke. He lifts you up. Amen. It's him. We're

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good. And the men get the elements, if you want to call them. But you know, I was thinking,

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I'll just tell a little story while they're getting it. I didn't give them much warning here,

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but one, one really good picture in the Bible of this, like mercy. Do you notice how the word says

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you need to receive mercy? Then you will find grace. You know, think about that. You receive

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and the word actually, lumbano actually means to take like mercy is being offered to everyone on

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earth. The question is, so many people aren't willing to take it. In fact, I came up to so

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many people on Friday night and started talking to them and said, Hey, you know, can I tell you

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about, you know, no, thanks. No, no, no. Like how are you? I asked one person, like what,

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what happens to you when you die? Do you know? No, I don't really know. And I'm not really

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into this conversation. I'm like, okay, well, you know, you're going to want to know someday.

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I hope it's not too late, right? But a lot of people don't want mercy. So you think,

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who wouldn't want mercy? They'll take mercy, but not from God because they don't believe

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in him. They don't believe that he can provide mercy and they don't want to give him the

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satisfaction of humbling themselves to come to him for mercy. You know, because you really do

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have to be humble to receive mercy, don't you? Because most people want to do it on their own

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strength. They think they got it figured out on their own, but to come to the Lord for mercy,

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it means like I am a desperate, wicked sinner and I need to be saved. But even beyond that,

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that's for the unbeliever. If you're an unbeliever today, stop being an unbeliever,

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right? Today just say, Lord, I need a savior. I want to take that on out of what I am right now.

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There's no more on in me. I'm not an unbeliever. I am a believer today. Become a believer. You need

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to get saved. I mean, this is no joke. You need to get saved. There's only one name

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that you can call upon and be saved and it's Jesus Christ. And I just implore you right now,

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be reconciled in Jesus Christ. And it's so easy. It's just like Gio prayed this prayer

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and he just repeated after me and he said, you know, and this is what I'm asking you to say

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right now, father, God, I am a sinner and I know I need a savior. I believe you are the

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son of God. I believe you died on the cross for my sins and I believe you are offering me

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salvation right here today. So today I want to give you my life to receive yours. Today,

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I surrender my life to you. I ask you to forgive all of my sins and fill me with your Holy Spirit.

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If you prayed that prayer right now, the word says you're saved. I might not feel different.

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You will. Trust what you just did, that confession. Trust the confession of faith that you just said

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and come up afterwards and please talk to me because I want to share more what you've just done

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because it is eternity shifting. It's an eternal decision. Like, think about that.

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What decisions do you make that have eternal consequences? There's none. There's none on

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earth that have eternal consequences. Like saying, Lord Jesus, save me. I need a savior.

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And I just beg you do that today, please, and come on up and share that you did because we're not

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going to hound you or anything. You know, we're just going to love you, offer you a Bible

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and offer you discipleship, like to know more about it. I love that. I love, if I wasn't

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a disciple, I don't know where I would be right now in life, but I had so many wonderful men of God

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that mentored me and I'm so appreciative of it. But you know, we need more than mercy just for

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salvation because we all fall away. We all fall short. We all drift away and we all sin.

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Nobody becomes perfect, but he wants to say, look, I paid for that. Come on, man.

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Like, you know who I am. I want to give you mercy today and not only mercy, but grace.

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I don't want to give you what you really deserve. And I won't because I'm in you and you're in me.

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But more than that, I want to pour on the grace because I live in you and you live in me.

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I want to give you grace. My riches at my expense. That's what he wants to do for you today.

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He says, just boldly approach the throne of grace. Are you in need?

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The word says, come to him, boldly approach the throne of grace in your time of need.

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I'm always needy. Aren't you always needy? I am always in need for more grace.

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And he says, my grace abounds. Where sin abounds, grace abounds even more.

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I will pour it on. Just ask and receive. So maybe that's you today that you know

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you just need to receive more mercy and even more grace.

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And let's just take a moment to give this to God right now, this moment.

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Lord, we come to you so, so needy.

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So desperate, Lord.

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Every day we're just in need of your mercies. Thank God your mercies are new every morning.

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They refresh. Lord God, we ask you to just

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step forward and receive even more mercy from you.

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And Lord, we want to discover more and more of your grace. What are we,

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what are we not experiencing? What are we not tapping into? What are we not laying hold of?

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What are we not receiving from you that you want us to receive? Lord, we want more grace today.

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We want more, Lord. In Jesus' name, amen.

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