"The Blood" Rescue Radio with Marjorie Cole

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Music.

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Rescue Radio, because there's a war for your soul.

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Yes, Father God, we know. We know about

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the war, and we have a little understanding of the depth of that war.

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But you're showing us through your word and through your spirit how to be wise

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and how to walk in the fullness of your finished work on Calvary.

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So, Lord Jesus, I thank you for dying, shedding your blood, your life blood,

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to pay for our lives, that you exchanged your life for our lives so that we

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would not be caught in the devil's argument and snare and demand that we die,

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and be separated from God forever.

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I thank you, Lord God, for your faithfulness. I thank you that you know all these things.

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I thank you, Lord, you've given us power over all the power of the enemy,

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if we're willing to use it and to believe you.

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And so, Father, give us the courage and the grace and the strength to follow and believe you.

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We bind the powers of darkness that have twisted everything you've said and

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twisted our perception of everything you've said, the spirits of witchcraft,

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divination, offense, religion, all of them.

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We just bind them and command that they be exposed now and in our hearts by

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the light of the love and the revelation of Jesus Christ.

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And we also thank you, Father, for the divine promise and protection that no

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weapon formed against us will prosper, that no word said, deed done, or action taken,

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will be able to be used by the enemy to justify his destruction of us,

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Father God, because you know the truth and we're inscribed upon the palms of

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your hands through the nail prints of Jesus Christ.

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So, Lord, we thank you for this day and help us go forward. Amen.

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So we're going to be talking today about something that's very relevant for this time in the season.

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Why did Jesus have to die on the cross? Why?

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I mean, people, you know, they accept Jesus, you know, into their hearts.

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What does that really mean when people say, yeah, I accept Jesus come into my

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heart, ask Jesus into their hearts.

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What does that mean? And it works. Yeah, we accept Jesus and his death,

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but do we understand why he had to die on the cross, why it had to be bloodshed,

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why we couldn't just be good to get to heaven?

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Well, yeah, all through the Bible, we're seeing that, you know,

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the blood was shed, you know, as, well, let's go back here to Cain and Abel, right?

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That's where it starts. When Cain killed Abel, blood was shed.

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The blood of Abel was crying out. Well, even before that, the blood of the lamb

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was shed when Abel offered his sacrifice.

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And that's where the problem began. You had two different methods of approaching God.

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One was by the sacrifice by the blood of the lamb, which Abel brought,

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or the sacrifice of the fruit of our efforts.

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Our labors. Our labors. Our good deeds, our behavior.

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You know, that Cain offered. And God rejected Cain's offering and he accepted Abel's.

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Because the provision of the blood, life is given, the Bible says,

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in Leviticus 17, 11, he says.

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For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the

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altar to make atonement for your souls.

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There you go. For it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.

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Atonement means a reconciliation.

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Right, right. And that people that aren't getting along are reconciled.

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All of a sudden, they apologize, they get things settled, and there's a reconciliation,

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and they're back together again.

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So the only way for us to get back together in communication with God is through

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the blood of Jesus Christ. Right.

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That relationship was broken when Adam and Eve ate of the forbidden tree.

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And in doing that, God said whoever would eat from that tree would die. So death came.

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God gave that as a warning, not as a curse.

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They had a free will. They did not have to eat of that tree.

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There were plenty of other trees to eat from.

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So it was a deliberate act of, you know, I would say being deceived,

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disobedience, but the disobedience came through the spirit of the serpent who deceived Eve.

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So now we have death in the middle of the garden, in the middle of the relationship,

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and the soul that sin shall die, and you just said in Leviticus,

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the only thing that can atone for the death is another death,

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a life for life, a death for death.

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So this is the atonement for the soul is in the blood.

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So now we have this whole problem is set up in the garden in Genesis where.

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Cain and Abel fight then because Cain doesn't, it's the same,

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it's exactly what happened.

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There's still this huge, bitter war between people who offer God works,

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being good, keeping commandments to get to heaven versus people who believe

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in the simple gift of salvation through the shed blood of Jesus Christ.

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So there's kind of a universal principle throughout all the world religions

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that there has to be some sort of sacrifice, something given to appease their idea of who God is.

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And some people just do, you know, they fast, they flagellate themselves,

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they walk on broken glass or hot coals or whatever they do, or just try so hard to be good.

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And that does not work. That does not work.

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It's man's method of approaching God, and it certainly does not work.

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Well, in understanding the dynamics of the jurisdiction and the judicial spiritual

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principles behind all of this, the soul that sin shall die and that works don't

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work, we can look at again at Ezekiel. Works don't work. That's a good thing to remember.

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Ezekiel 18.4 says the soul that sin shall die.

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God is giving understanding to the people that they don't have to suffer for

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the sins of their fathers if they choose not to follow in the ways of their fathers.

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And then he says it again in Ezekiel 18.20, the soul that sin shall die.

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But if you choose life, then you don't have to go in the way of your father.

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You don't have to suffer from his sins and idolatry, etc.

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But Satan uses Ezekiel 18 as a way to just—he's a scripture he's using to anchor

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his claim before the court of heaven, using the words of God himself that say,

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the soul that sin shall die.

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Well, Satan got them to sin in the garden, so now Satan is demanding the right

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to kill them. And so he's presenting his case before the high court of heaven,

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bringing a scripture to validate his position.

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So he's actually trying to use God's own word against God to verify,

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validate his claim that the soul that sin shall die. So humans sin,

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now therefore humans have to die.

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So Romans 6.23, it says the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal

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life for Jesus Christ our Lord.

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So, the result of sin is something that basically because we have gone against

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the Lord, against His Word and everything like that, it brings about death.

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It brings about not only physical death, but the main thing is spiritual death.

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Death means is a separation. So we're separated in our hearts.

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Hearts and minds between, there's a separation between us and God. We don't get it.

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We don't get the relationship that is, what's required in that relationship between us and God.

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The soul that sin shall die, there's only one repair or remedy for that to atone

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that broken relationship.

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And that is the blood of, and John calls it in John 1, 20, 29,

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the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.

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Behold the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. So he is reestablishing

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in the New Testament the method that God is going to use to take away the sins of the world.

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And in the Old Testament was blood, blood, blood, blood of the sheep,

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the goats, the lambs, the cattle.

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And all that was was the same as with little Abel in the beginning,

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the sacrifice, the blood of the lamb, which God was pleased with because that

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was the way, that was the spiritually correct way that there was going to be a remedy for sin.

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And this little lamb and all those lambs, also the Old Testament, which was crazy.

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I mean, thousands and thousands of animals sacrificed to hold at bay Satan's

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demand to kill the human beings because God was saying, nope,

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nope, you can't have them.

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They're still offering the blood of this goat, this sheep, whatever,

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as an act of faith, believing that ultimately this blood will be fully redeemed

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through the blood of my son.

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And so as they were obedient in the Old Testament and kept the law,

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which was very strict on all these things.

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Satan did not have a right to call in his win, so to speak, because God was holding him off.

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There was a stay of execution rendered by the court of heaven that as long as

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they were obedient to the things

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God had given them to do, that they were safe and that they couldn't.

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And although Satan, even knowing they were safe because of their obedience to God,

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he was still harassing them in every way he could to draw them away from God

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through idolatry and adultery and fornication and sorcery and witchcraft.

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He was pummeling that little tiny band of believers, the rest of the world he

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had pretty much in his hand.

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He was pummeling them with all kinds of temptations, which got them into a lot

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of trouble in every way, got them into exile several times, got to rescue them

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out of exile several times.

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But now as we're looking at today in the New Testament after Jesus Christ died

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on the cross, and when he died, he said what? He said, It is finished.

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In other words, it is completed.

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I think it's done in 1930. It is finished. It's completed.

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In other words, the demands of the law basically were saying, you know.

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The soul of sin shall die. The soul of sin shall die. This is it.

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So the great thing about he was dying in our place for the whole world.

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Not that he was not just killed.

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He was offered up as a living and final sacrifice for sin. And all those lambs,

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Marjorie, that you mentioned, all that blood that was shed was pointing through to God.

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Jesus Christ, the final Lamb of God, who would bear the sins,

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give his life, and bear the sins.

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You think of the whole concentration of all the sins of mankind,

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past, present, and future, were laid on him. Yeah.

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He became the guilt offering, too. He says he took all the curses in Galatians 3.

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He took on himself all the curses. He became a curse for us, it says.

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And in Peter, it's interesting, and he says this in chapter 1 of 1 Peter.

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He says, verse 17, And if you call on the Father who, without partiality,

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judges according to each man's work, now that's interesting,

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conduct yourselves throughout the time of your sojourning here in fear,

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knowing that you were not redeemed with the corruptible things like silver or

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gold from your aimless conduct received by the traditions of your fathers,

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but with the precious blood of Jesus Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.

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He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world,

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but was manifest in these last times for you.

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He who through him believe in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him

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glory so that your faith and hope are in God or in the blood of Jesus, not in the good works.

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Although he says we can't be

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bought back, we can't pay this debt through silver or gold or good works.

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We do good works, but the good works are to come out of our abiding in Jesus

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Christ and as a response to his love and grace.

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But this was a problem because Satan knew that if we caught on to this rescue,

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this grace, this redemption, this free gift of salvation,

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that we were no longer obligated under the laws of

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Now, this doesn't mean we can run our life crazy and be evil,

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but we were no longer, and none of our works were working anyway because no

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one is justified by the works of the law.

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So if we got this, we understood we are saved by grace through faith in Jesus

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Christ, Satan would have completely lost his grip upon the human race because

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we would have all known, oh, this is a golden ticket.

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This is all I have to do is ask. All I have to do is agree. All I have to do

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is whosoever will call upon the name of the Lord. So whosoever will is anybody who wants to.

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And so if you call upon the Lord and agree that it is his blood shed in your

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place as a substitution, his life for yours, then you are saved.

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That is the final payment.

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And Satan couldn't live with that because what would he do? What would he do

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with the rest of his eternal existence on the planet?

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Because no one would need him or believe his lie or be afraid of him.

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And so what he had to do and what he did do, and he did it very well,

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and he did it actually through the vehicle of our own desire to know God more.

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So that was Eve again, oh, will this make me wise to know God more?

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So the vehicle that Satan set up for us to know God more, get closer to God, is the church.

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Now, the church that most people go to is a counterfeit at worst and a mixture

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at best of what's going on in the true heart of God for salvation.

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And what did Jesus say? He says, go preach the good news. Go preach the gospel of salvation.

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Go preach that you're saved if you accept my blood. That's the good news.

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But what did Satan say? No, no, no.

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We got to have leverage here. We got to keep them afraid. We got to keep them guilty.

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We got to make them not sure if they're doing it right. So he kept bringing

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the law closer and closer.

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Old traditions, the legalism, the letter of the law, the religious spirits,

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the religious spirit of the Pharisees, which were actually demonstrating again

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the dichotomy between religion and grace back in Jesus's day,

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started with Cain and Abel, still here in the New Testament.

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But so Satan was bringing that closer and closer so that he could mingle and

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reestablish in our hearts the credibility of works, good works,

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keeping the law, being religious,

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looking pious, and Satan loves that.

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He is absolutely tormenting people with anxiety, fear, worry,

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concern about God. Does God really love me? Am I being good enough? Da-da-da.

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And so all of your life then becomes consumed, reconsumed by how it's all about

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me being good rather than it's all about the goodness of God and I follow Him.

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The flip side of that in our day is that, you know, because Jesus died on the

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cross and He shed His blood, you know, if that's brought into the teaching.

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Because of what he has done, we just receive him, and then we can live any way we want to.

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There's legalism, and then there's licentiousness. But this kind of acceptance of,

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you know, I can live whatever way I want now that Jesus paid all the price for

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me, that is not living in true— Exactly.

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It's not living in the true revelation of your identity. Your identity is made

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by God to love God and love God's Son, love God's work, love God's way of doing things.

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And so when you're in this place of flippant, irresponsible,

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flamboyant ingratitude, you may not even have understood your predicament in the first place.

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So what has happened, though, going back to what I'm talking about,

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is that the enemy has established all kinds of institutions.

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All under the counsel of being good to get to heaven, or you've got to do something

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that's given, or it's your fault, it's your problem.

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And God demands, this makes God's love conditional.

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Okay, you can't get to heaven unless you genuflect or cover yourself with holy

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water or fast or tithe or whatever it all is.

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And so all these legalistic requirements are thrown back on the cross.

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And so we're insulting.

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This is, you know, when you add your works to the cross, you're insulting the

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work of Jesus Christ by saying, hey, Jesus, what you did was great,

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but it's not quite enough.

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I'm going to add to it my works. No, no, no. The cart is before the horse.

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You come to Jesus Christ. You die to yourself.

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You're crucified with Christ. Then you come out of that death and resurrection

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desiring to be like Jesus, to follow him, to allow his fruit to live in our lives.

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So his fruit comes out of the abiding in him. In him.

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So it's not working for salvation or, you know, Paul said, work out your own

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salvation with fear and trembling.

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It's God that's working within us to will and to do of his good pleasure.

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In other words, we're fruitful.

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In other words, we have to cooperate with his will. Right. We're doing,

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but it comes out of our being.

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It comes out of our abiding. But it's still our will. You know,

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work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works

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in you both to will and to have his good pleasure.

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Philippians, I think, is 2, 12 or 13.

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The thing is, that's two sides of the same coin. God cannot force you to accept

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his salvation, his gift, his free gift of grace and love.

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He cannot force you to bring that salvation to fruition in your life unless he gets us to cooperate.

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And I believe salvation in the moment of accepting Jesus Christ is like when you're born alone.

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When you're born, there's a moment. There's a moment that you come into existence.

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Yes, you're in your mother's womb, but now you're born into the terra firma of life, whatever.

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And there's a moment, and that moment is the moment of salvation.

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Now, after salvation, which is a birth moment, which allows us to enter into

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this world and participate as human beings, and we're born into this world,

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now we get to participate.

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And so the participation is how do we participate? Do we go rogue or do we go repentant?

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You know, so we have this, that's called sanctification. That's different than salvation.

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People get them mixed up and they think, if you're saved now,

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you're going to be perfect. And if you sin again, you lost your salvation.

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You don't die when you sin. You don't die when you fall off your bike.

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You get back on your bike.

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If you're walking with God, you're going to be sanctified.

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You're going to be made holy. That means that God is going to go through your

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temple, which he now owns because you gave it to him. He owns it because he

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made it. He owns it because he redeemed it or bought it back.

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He bought your house as is, and now he's in there with you to clean it up.

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That's called sanctification.

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So he is in there to get rid of the lies, the strongholds, the rats,

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the torment, or whatever it all is, to set us free to know who we are.

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And we are his, but all this clutter with looking bad and behaving,

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misbehaving and doing drugs and being in pain and being bitter against your

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neighbor and being offended and all this stuff corrupts and it blocks the true

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intention of God and the true life that he died to give you.

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He died to give us an abundant life, not to survive, but to thrive.

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An abundant life, not to be living on a torture wreck of trying harder to be

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good, but on the way with Jesus, walking with Jesus Christ, who is our way.

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He said, I am the vine and you are the branches, John 15, 5.

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He who abides in me and I in him bears much fruit, for without me you can do nothing.

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So he's talking about fruit, more fruit, and much fruit.

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In other words, the results of his life in us. You know, Jesus wasn't just born in Bethlehem.

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He grew as a man and he ministered.

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He healed the sick, he raised the dead, he cleansed the lepers, he gave hope.

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Gave life he gave rebuke to the religious hypocrites and

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then the final the final conquest was

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he came to die he came yeah he came to heal the sick raise the dead do all that

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stuff cast out demons but he came to defeat death and he came to go to the cross

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and he knew that that was from the foundation of the world that was set up before

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we were even before the foundation of the world yeah here's the deal,

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as Margie and I were reading this morning in Matthew 27, about the crucifixion

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and events leading up to the crucifixion and how cruel and blasphemous people were.

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I mean, and especially the religious leaders, the ones who were supposedly the

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representatives of God to the people, were the worst, the worst of the worst. They were vicious.

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They were vulgar. They hated him. They were crude. They hated him.

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And that spirit of religion— It's still here. You know, it's still here.

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It's really muddying the waters in people's lives because here's the thing.

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A lot of people have been caught and snared in these religious strongholds,

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whether it's a denomination, a church, a church tradition. And they're all pretty

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much corrupted and the same.

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They all give the same—because Satan is coming to every one of them.

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It doesn't matter if you're a Unitarian or a Baptist or a Pentecostal or a Catholic.

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Like, Satan has come into all of these institutions and set up rules,

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rules that you have to do to make God happy, which makes God's love,

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again, conditional, and moves us away from the goodness of God into he's mad

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and we've got to do something to make him happy.

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But every one of these allegiances, every alliance you've made,

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we're all, a lot of people, maybe 50% now, are born into a church.

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They're baptized into a church. They're baptized into membership, into a church.

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There's no church that is going to save you.

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There's no church called whatever that's the boat that's going to take you to the pearly gates.

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You have got, you know, a lot of us need to get out of those traditions.

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And live as a free moral agent for the Lord God and make it not about our behavior

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or about following church commandments or living in fear of did I do it right or not.

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It's about no, because those are spirits. those religious spirits that govern

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these churches, and then they inhale.

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Consume the anointings of precious God followers, could be pastors,

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teachers, all these things.

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They have a form of godliness. They deny the power thereof. These churches are going to be,

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The Lord God is going to go through them and bring judgment and bring revelation, bring truth.

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But the thing is, the Book of Acts church, their allegiance was to Jesus Christ, crucified and risen.

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And that's where they got their anointing. That's where they got their authority from Jesus Christ.

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And they didn't go to Bible school. They didn't write theological papers.

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They didn't have doctrinal degrees, theological degrees.

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That is nothing, nothing that God points to and says, you need to have that.

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Those who were writing in the Old Testament were called the prophets.

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They were prophets ordained by God to preach and teach and share the words that

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God wanted the people to understand.

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And we have some of that today. We have some prophets, but we have a whole lot of demonic corruption.

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And if you're in a church where you have compromised, you've messed,

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mixed, I guess is a good word,

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mixed religious behaviors and traditions and expectations and church laws with

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the finished work, the shed blood of Jesus Christ.

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If you're in that compromised position, you are in a compromised position.

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You are not free until you say, you know what?

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Jesus Christ paid for that sin, for that failure, that flaw,

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whatever it is that Satan is accusing you, that wicked behavior.

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Jesus Christ paid for it. I don't want it anymore, and keeping this rule is

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not going to make me better.

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What's going to keep me better is repenting and confessing, confessing the sin

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and turning away from it. That's very simple.

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And Jesus doesn't say you have to do four Our Fathers and three Hail Marys in order to be okay.

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I'm using that as an example, of course, but it's a heart agreement surrender

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that you make to Jesus Christ and

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recognizing the power of his love through his blood shed for us and that of

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my own self, I can do nothing.

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It's interesting. When you see the abuse Jesus took, the abuse, they lied about him.

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They spit upon him, scourged him, beat him, mocked.

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And a lot of the mocking was, most of it was from the religious leaders.

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They were just as bad as the Roman soldiers. They were.

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Probably worse. Worse, worse, worse, worse.

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Within the plan, this was the plan within the plan.

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The plan, Jesus is the Lamb slain since before the foundation of the world. Right.

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So this was in God's plan all along. It wasn't a surprise thing.

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It wasn't an emergency measure.

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He had this perfect plan to be worked out, and it was redemption for us.

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And it looked like, excuse me, the plan, the abuse, the cruelty,

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the absolute cruelty and viciousness of Satan, demonically inspired people,

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religious leaders, Roman soldiers, people too, common people that were just

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all taken up with all this evil against Jesus.

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All that was within the major plan of God, which is to bring redemption.

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It did not look like, oh, this is what's going to set the world free. No.

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When they were beating up Jesus who claimed to be the Son of God.

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He's hanging naked on a cross. A bloody mess. So a bloody mess.

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Isaiah said he did not even look like a human being anymore.

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And so, but all that sin was just put upon him, and all the blood that he shed was for us.

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He gave that blood, that life was poured out as the final sacrifice.

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See, sin is so serious, and God is so holy.

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The only way he can deal with it, really, is through the blood of his son,

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his only son. The life of the flesh is in the blood, so the blood was the life.

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The blood carried the life.

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And His blood, not only His life given, is the key factor for us having this new life.

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He came to give us life and life more abundantly. So going back to the blood,

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the blood was the red thread that carried from that little lamb that Abel killed

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and offered in worship to God.

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Through the Old Testament, through the many, many sacrifices that the priests

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and the Levites and the children of God made back in the Old Testament to even

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in the carryover of the Old Testament into the first part of Jesus'

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life, where they were still under the Jewish traditions and the temple.

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And then Jesus ran smack dab headlong into that because he was setting a new

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order for things. He was setting a new, the kingdom of God is now within you.

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The kingdom of God has come.

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You know, it's right here. And so we're now living in the kind of the aftermath,

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2,000 years later, of that collision.

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And we have both things going on now.

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In the Old Testament, they didn't have the cross or the resurrection or any of that.

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But now we have the options, and Satan is pushing the options.

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He's pushing people into the church and away from the church.

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And the church is not always what we think it is. The church is not a building.

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It's not a denomination.

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It's not a social gathering of good people or a good old boys club.

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It is the Church of Jesus Christ is a militant army of truth tellers who are

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going forth to preach the gospel of good news with signs and wonders following,

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using their authority as Jesus gave it to us to heal the sick,

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cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons.

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Now, here's another thought. But most of us, we want to see these miracles.

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You want to see the casting out of demons. You want to see the,

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and you're saying, why isn't this happening? Why aren't these answers coming? Why, why, why?

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And the reason is, I believe, is because when Jesus healed the sick.

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Raise the dead, cast out demons. He was able to handle it psychologically,

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emotionally, spiritually.

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And he wasn't taken up with how powerful he was and how cool this was.

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And did everybody see that?

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And, oh, wow, look at her. She can do this. Wow. Let's go see her.

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He wasn't taken up with any. He was totally walking around completely in the will of his father.

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So you could say he was walking around dead to his own will.

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He was only interested in the will of the father.

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He didn't really take anything personal, the abuse, the insults,

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the attempted assassinations on his life.

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He didn't take any of that personal because he was dead.

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He was already dead to his own will. And that's why he was able to do the miracles.

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And I believe that when we get to that place as the Holy Spirit perfects and

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that which concerns us as we are.

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Dead to ourselves, get into the true spirit of the living God and the spirit

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of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit that raised him from the dead,

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then we will also see these miracles.

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And they're not going to last for long, but they will last. And those who know

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their God, it says in Daniel, will do exploits.

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And these are, I believe, the exploits that we're talking about.

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Those people are going to have to know God and know him and not all this garbage

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that—it's like this. The law is like this. It's kind of just coming to me.

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You know, when you carry a baby in the womb, you have the infant,

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the child that's being formed in the womb, but you also have the placenta,

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the membrane that keeps that baby in its world and keeps it functioning and

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keeps it fed and da-da-da.

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But when the baby is born, you throw away the placenta.

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You don't really, it's, I know, But it's like the law.

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The law was like the placenta, the thing that carried us as a human race to

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the birth of Jesus Christ. No, now the law is...

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Served its purpose, it is done, and now we receive Jesus Christ for who He is.

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And so, I really believe that if you get this revelation of what Satan has done

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and even how he's tricked us into making agreements with traditional churches and traditional fear,

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double-mindedness, legalism, law, condemnation, guilt—by the way,

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the fruit of the gospel of Jesus Christ is peace,

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peace and good news, and goodwill.

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And so if you find yourself being tangled up with all that law stuff,

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you might need to renounce and ask God to forgive you and confess the practices

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of religion or mixing religion with the true gospel of Jesus Christ because

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you really want them separated.

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You really, you know, our allegiance is not to a church, church commandments,

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a presbytery, a membership pastor. It is to Jesus Christ.

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It's interesting. I'm just going to read a little bit of this in 1 Peter 1,

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verse 13, beginning there.

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Therefore, gird up the loins of your mind. In other words, be ready,

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be alert, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought

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to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

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As obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts,

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as in your ignorance, but as he who has called you is holy, also be holy in

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all your conduct. which means to be fully devoted to the Lord.

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Because it is written, verse 16, be holy for I am holy.

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And if you call on the Father who without partiality judges according to each

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one's works, conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay here in fear, the proper fear of God.

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Knowing the holiness of God, wanting to be restored, your identity to be restored

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to that true holiness and purity that he created us in. Verse 18,

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knowing that you are not redeemed with corruptible things.

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Redeemed means to buy out of the marketplace, to pay the price,

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to take you off the slave market.

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So we were not bought off the market by gold and silver.

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Not corruptible things like silver and gold from your aimless conduct.

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It was worthless time, poorly spent. Worthless conduct, poorly spent,

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confusing, received by tradition from your father. So, traditions— The history, yeah.

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There's a history that brings you into aimless conduct.

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Yeah. And that is what the traditions—you know, we're used to this,

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we were born into this, we were raised with that.

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All these are pretty much aimless and worthless, and that's why there's the

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redemption, the process of salvation and sanctification is to get rid of the

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worthless and to bring forth the pure gold.

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Yeah. Jesus replaces tradition with truth. but we were redeemed,

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verse 19, with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.

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He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world but was manifest

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in these last times for you,

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who through him believe in God who raised him from the dead and gave him glory

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so that your faith and hope are in God.

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Yes, so why did Jesus have to die on the cross?

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We just told you, because it had to be his blood that paid the price for our redemption.

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I want to just quote an old gospel chorus. He paid a debt he did not owe.

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I owed a debt I could not pay.

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I needed someone to wash my sins away.

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And now I sing a brand new song, Amazing Grace.

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Christ Jesus paid the price that I could never pay.

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Amen. Well, Father, we thank you for paying the price through your own son.

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Thank you, Jesus, for being obedient to the Father and coming.

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Thank you for taking all this incredible cruelty, the wickedness that you had

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to face just to come down here to save us, Lord God, a lamb in the midst of wolves.

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And so thank you, Lord, you did prevail in your plan within a plan from the

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foundation of the world has been completed.

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The resurrection came forth, Lord God, and you were justified by your Father

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in the fact that you didn't stay dead. So you defeated death,

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and those who are in you have likewise defeated death and the grave.

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And so, Father, we thank you for your gracious gift, and we ask now that you'd

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open the hearts and minds of the people,

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that you'd clear off their receptor sites so that they can receive the revelation

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with their eyes open and their ears open, receive the love of God,

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and that their hearts that have been bruised and broken and shut up and locked

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up with fear would be restored through the love of Jesus Christ.

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And we ask these things, Father, in the name of Jesus, your Son, amen. Amen.

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What's a special resource you think would help us with all this that's available

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through Life Recovery? I think the most fun resource that you could possibly

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check out would be liferecovery.com, God on Trial. And I mentioned that last week.

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Go check it out. It's an MP3.

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It's like $3.50 for 30 minutes, a powerful reenactment.

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The last couple of episodes, 24, 5, 6, are about the crucifixion,

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the death of Jesus Christ, and how the enemy, the behind the scenes of how the

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enemy was instigating that death.

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And it's interesting that there are many elements playing out in the death.

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Who killed Jesus? Was it the Romans?

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Was it the scribes and Pharisees? Was it Caiaphas and the Sanhedrin?

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Was it—who was it? What was it? Did he lay down his life willingly?

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Was he killed against his will? How did all this work? And so,

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again, it's called God on Trial.

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Check out episodes 24, 5, and 6, and check it out.

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Of course, you can go back and listen to episode 1, 2, 3, 4,

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etc. They're all really, really good.

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I mean, it's nothing like anything you've ever had or seen or listened to before.

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It is really a standalone one of its kind. I don't know of anybody else who's

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done anything like this. You maybe have the screw tape letters.

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You have Narnia and, you know, whatever all that looks like.

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But this is totally different from that. So, again, be curious enough to check it out. God bless you.

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Have a great day. Thank you.

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