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Welcome to the Cross Power 
Church podcast. 

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You're listening to a service 
from our church in Campbell, TX.

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We pray this message strengthens
your faith and points you to the

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cross. 
Now let's join the service. 

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We're going to be taking 
communion tonight, man, What all

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what awesome week, you know, 
this week. 

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It it, it floods. 
It just floods my mind. 

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What to preach, man, because 
it's so it's such a week. 

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You know, I, we, sometimes I 
think that, that we forget what 

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this week we, we get in the 
story of Easter, the 

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Resurrection Sunday, Easter, 
whatever you choose to call it, 

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I like Resurrection Sunday. 
But but sometimes we, you know, 

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even as preachers, we preach the
story so much that we, I think 

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we forget what it really 
accomplished, what this week 

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really accomplished man, had it 
not been for Calvary, had it not

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been for that old rugged cross, 
had it not been for a man named 

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Jesus, like the old song says, 
forever my soul would be lost. 

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Think about that. 
Isn't that powerful. 

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But I got kind of different take
on it tonight. 

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We're I usually just do 
communion and but the Lord give 

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me a word today. 
So we're going to do a little 

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reading tonight. 
I, I begin to think, you know, 

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sometimes when we, when we read 
scripture, I know when I read a 

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lot of Scripture up here, the 
devil attacks me. 

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You ever notice that when you 
read your Bible, your mind gets 

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confused when you, when you 
begin to really dive into the 

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things of God and, and I've 
noticed it in a church setting 

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so much if, if, if I'd stopped 
preaching and go to reading that

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it just, I think, you know, the 
enemy comes in. 

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Well, they think you're reading,
they think you don't know what 

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you're talking about. 
They think on and on and on. 

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But you know, it's the Word of 
God that sets us free and, and 

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the word of God, if we realize 
what's in this and we realize 

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that that sin dies where the 
blood is applied. 

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It's been that way even before 
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that we are now under the 
covenant of grace, even back in 

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First Samuel. 
I'm going to read to you a 

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little story in First Samuel 
chapter 5. 

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You can stay seated because I'm 
going to do a little reading 

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tonight. 
I want to know what the word 

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says. 
How about you? 

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But in first Samuel chapter 5 
and verse one it says then the 

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Philistines took the ark of God.
You'll hear the Ark of God or 

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the ark of the covenant. 
They are the same thing and they

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brought it from Ebenezer to 
Ashdod verse 2 When the 

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Philistines took the ark of God,
they brought it into the House 

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of Dagon and said it by Dagon. 
Dagon was, was a, was a idol. 

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It was a, it was a mermaid per 
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It was 1/2 man from here up from
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behind it and it was a fish, 
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It was many worshipped at the as
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and different things. 
Many believed it was a Pagan God

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of fertility. 
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was the nature and the things 
that grew and it was just they, 

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it was just an idol. 
That's what Dagon was. 

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But I want you to get this story
tonight because there's 

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something that happened here. 
Because they were toting the the

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Ark of the Covenant and it 
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that David would ultimately put 
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I preached about the House of 
old Bad Edom, a man that that 

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hid it out at his place for a 
while and people didn't want 

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anything to do with the Ark of 
the Covenant because when they 

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touched it, they didn't handle 
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They didn't do it like God said 
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They would drop dead and there 
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on them. 
There was all kinds of things 

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that would happen. 
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today, it was the Ark of God and
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an idol to to Dagon. 
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Sampson had ultimately he would 
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And that was the same place that
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walls down and the things that 
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But they set this, that the Ark 
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And when the people of Ashtod 
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this Daggone had fallen on its 
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Ark. 
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The word of God, idols fall, sin
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You know, we, we battle through 
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times and we struggle with 
things and I really don't think 

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we get the story of Calvary. 
I really don't think we get the 

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power of the cross of Calvary. 
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I wanted this happened. 
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because see, sin can't stand 
when the word of God is present 

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and active in the life of a 
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Satan cannot win. 
We need to get that in our 

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mentality. 
He cannot win. 

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But yeah, we give him so much 
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he attacks us. 
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think we forget what this 
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But the Ark of God, what was 
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It had, it was a box. 
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I'm not going to get into all 
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Linda taught on a while back, so
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tablets of the 10 commandments 
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So it had, it had a list of do's
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10 commandments. 
It had mana in a gold pot. 

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I often thought why would they 
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But see, the first thing the art
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commandments that had obedience 
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I preach message that when you 
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is still all you need. 
It had obedience, but it had 

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mana also in the ark of the 
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And I believe that it was to 
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Jireh. 
He was the great provider. 

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So we had the 10 the tablets of 
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We had mana and there was also 
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remind him that he was Elohim 
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creative power, as the Hebrews 
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So we had these three things, 
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forget that he's Jehovah Sid 
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He's the great promise keeper. 
God keeps his promises. 

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He's a source of righteous. 
That's what that Sid canoe means

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is he's the he's a source of 
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us if we believe. 
But see, when the people back to

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verse 3 of Ashdod arose early in
the morning, there was Dagon 

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falling on its face to the earth
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So they take they took Dagon and
they set it back up in its place

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overnight and they went back the
next morning and they arose 

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early and there was daggone 
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It was falling upon his face 
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ark of the Lord. 
Isn't that powerful? 

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The power of God just makes 
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It still works today. 
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and both Inverse and and the 
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off at the threshold. 
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it. 
Therefore, neither the priest of

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Dagon nor any who come into 
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threshold of Dagon and Ashdod 
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But the hand of the Lord was 
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and he ravaged them, and he 
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Ashdod and its territory. 
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Can I tell you he's still 
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And when the men of Ashdod saw 
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the God of Israel must not 
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hand is harsh toward us, and dag
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Therefore they sit and they 
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Lords of the Philistines, and 
they said, what shall we do with

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the ark of the God of Israel? 
I ask you tonight, what are you 

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doing with the ark of the God of
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What are you doing with the 
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See, just as the Philistine God 
Daggone had wilted, had broken 

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to pieces, had fell over on the 
ground, I come by to tell you 

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that sin today, when it comes in
contact with the blood, it still

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has to fall. 
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Resurrection Sunday and it's a 
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It's a fulfillment. 
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think about what happened, but 
really we have to go to Hebrews 

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chapter 8 to find out what this 
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It's about a new covenant. 
Somebody say new covenant with 

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me. 
Thank God when we don't 

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disobeyed it, when we disobey 
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these tumors and and these 
things which God can, but thank 

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God we have grace that we sing 
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But in Hebrews chapter 1, it 
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of the things we are saying. 
We have such a high priest who 

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is seated at the right hand of 
the throne of the majesty in the

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heavens talking about Jesus. 
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At the right hand of God, a 
minister of the sanctuary and of

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the true Tabernacle which the 
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For every high priest is 
appointed to offer both gifts 

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and sacrifices. 
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this one also have something to 
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I'm in verse 4. 
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would not be a priest, since we 
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according to the law, who served
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heavenly things, as Moses was 
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about to make the Tabernacle. 
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all these things according to 
the pattern shown to you on the 

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mountain. 
Thank God for grace. 

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You know, if it wasn't for grace
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There wouldn't be any such thing
as a Christian if we had a law 

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or something we had to do. 
You know, all these religions of

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the world, you know, the, the 
Catholics, they go to Mass, they

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go to, they go to confession, 
they, they go to church a lot 

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more than we do. 
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they pray more than most 
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They pray up to five times a 
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a God that's not a God at all, 
to something that's not even 

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alive. 
But yet we as Christians, we 

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have trouble giving God an hour 
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Thank God there's a covenant 
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we wouldn't make it. 
Don't say man right there for he

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said, see that you make all the 
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shown to you on the mountain. 
But now he has attained verse 

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6A, more excellent ministry in 
as much as he is also mediator 

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of a better covenant, mediator 
of a better covenant, which was 

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established on better promises. 
Isn't that good to know that 

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you're in a better covenant 
that's established on better 

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promises? 
You don't begin to think about 

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that. 
They had a promise that that the

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fire would lead them by night, 
and there was a shade in the 

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daytime and there was manna that
fell from heaven like dew and 

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fed the children of Israel. 
But it says that we are 

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partakers of a better covenant, 
right? 

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So why aren't we partaking? 
Why aren't we receiving? 

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What is this word? 
Mediator here. 

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I look this up. 
It's a person who attempts to 

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make people involved in a 
conflict, if you're involved in 

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a conflict, to come to peace, to
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humanity. 
That's what Jesus is. 

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He's a mediator of this 
covenant. 

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You know, the the world. 
Remember when you was lost and 

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undone without God and you 
wasn't obeying the commandments 

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of God and didn't really care 
even to hear about those things 

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because conviction fell on your 
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Anybody ever been there? 
And yet when you heard about 

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that, it didn't seem like Christ
was the mediator, but it seemed 

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like that you were in conflict, 
right? 

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You were in conflict. 
But what is what is Jesus trying

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to do? 
He's trying to bring about peace

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in our life. 
He's a mediator of a better a 

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covenant established on a better
promise. 

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Isn't that good to know? 
Verse 7 let's read the rest of 

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this is good stuff. 
For if that first covenant had 

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been faultless, then no place 
would have been sought for a 

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second. 
Thank God. 

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What happened under the first 
come what? 

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God destroyed everything he made
except those that obeyed and got

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on the ark, right? 
He destroyed it because he's 

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seen that it was no good. 
God was not happy with us 

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mankind which he had created, 
but he said that's what that's 

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what Paul was saying here. 
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no place would have been sought 
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finding fault with them. 
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coming, says the Lord, when I 
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How many is that? 
Glad you found out about the new

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covenant with the House of 
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Judah. 
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Not according to the covenant 
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in the day when I took them by 
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land of Egypt. 
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covenant they were being LED. 
Can I tell you under the second 

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covenant of grace, you're still 
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place of peace and joy because 
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covenant and I disregarded them,
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For this is the covenant that I 
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Israel after those days, after 
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out of Egypt, after he had 
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He said, I will put this is 
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I will put my laws in their 
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Isn't that good to know? 
His law is in my mind and I will

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write them on their hearts, and 
I will be their God and they 

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shall be my people. 
Isn't that a great covenant 

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we're under? 
None of them shall teach his 

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neighbor, and none his brother, 
saying, know the Lord, for all 

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shall know me from the least of 
them to the greatest, for I will

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be merciful. 
Well, wait, somebody ought to 

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shout right now, for I will be 
merciful to their 

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unrighteousness. 
Aren't you glad when you was 

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living unrighteous and all the 
crazy things some of us done, 

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that he was merciful? 
He reached down. 

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That's what this week is about. 
For I will be merciful to their 

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unrighteousness and their sins 
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I will remember no more. 
Man, We have something to be 

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thankful for. 
In that he says a new covenant. 

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He has made the first one 
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Now what is becoming obsolete 
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vanish away, but we must never 
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See, Jesus said I didn't come to
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said, I'm going to put the law 
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to meditate upon it day and 
night, that you can have good 

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success. 
And I'm going to ride it in your

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hearts of my people. 
And I'm going to do something so

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great for them called the cross 
of Calvary and Grace, that 

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they're going to want to love 
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They're going to want to live 
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They're going to realize what I 
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everything. 
See, we're in a new covenant 

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tonight, and Jesus is the 
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Aren't you glad He put His laws 
in your mind and He wrote them 

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on your hearts and that He can 
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people. 
See inverted in Chapter 9. 

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I want to read some of this. 
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first covenant had ordinances of
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sanctuary for a tab Tabernacle 
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The first part, in which was the
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bread, which is called the 
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And behind the second view, the 
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the holiest of all, which had 
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There it is again, and the Ark 
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sides with gold, and which were 
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manna, Aaron's rod that butted, 
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describing what I've already 
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And above it were the Cherubim 
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Mercy seat. 
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speak. 
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these things had been thus 
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they had to do to even pray to 
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When these things had been 
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always went into the first part 
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service, but into the second 
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and only once a year, and not 
without blood, which he offered 

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for himself and for the people's
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The Holy Spirit indicating this,
that the way into the holiest of

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all was not yet made manifest. 
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the first covenant was still 
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the present time in which both 
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which cannot make him prove 
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Perfect in regard to the 
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foods and drinks and various 
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imposed until the time of 
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I like what verse 11 says. 
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But Christ came. 
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me when I read all that today. 
Because think about how hard it 

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is. 
Think about how hard it is in 

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your life. 
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about how hard it is to get to 
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Think about how hard it is to 
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If I got something that's going 
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kind of scheduling, it's going 
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My wife, she'll look at me and 
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Wednesday? 
Every day I had to get 2 

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fillings this morning. 
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Wednesday they looked at me and 
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tonight. 
I got a preach that didn't need 

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all that numbness. 
They said, well, Kate, you think

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you can do it without it without
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And I said yeah, let's go for 
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So I just got it done without 
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stuff. 
Now they it's different, you 

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know, they don't have to do all 
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pretty cool really. 
No numbness. 

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I can't stand that numbness. 
But Christ came think about that

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though. 
How hard is it? 

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How hard is it? 
The enemy don't fight, y'all. 

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It's hard. 
It's a constant fight and you 

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win the fight a lot because 
you're out there in the heat and

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elements working. 
You're working. 

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All of us are. 
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But imagine under this other 
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Christians today have very 
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If it suits us, if we get along 
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in the church, we're on board. 
But if not, we're clicking it on

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down the road, right? 
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to fight to keep the church 
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Not willing. 
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Tell me. 
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And I'm not going to say 
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high priest of good things to 
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perfect Tabernacle, not made 
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That's what this week's about. 
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Isn't that powerful? 
What we're looking for is not of

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this creation, not with the 
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with his own blood. 
He entered the most holy place. 

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I love this, what this says 
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He don't ever have to die again,
but you know I by the by my 

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ignorance, I can crucify him for
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According to Hebrews 10/26, when
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of God, I put him on that cross 
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all, for all of my ignorance. 
Aren't you glad of that, having 

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obtained eternal redemption not 
just once a year, but for all 

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eternity? 
Man, we got it easy. 

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For if the blood of bulls and 
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sprinkling the uncurrent clean, 
sanctifies for the purifying of 

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the flesh, y'all reading with me
how much more shall the blood of

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Christ, who through the eternal 
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You know a lot of people today, 
they talk about how Jesus got 

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beat and how He did this. 
You know, he said that no one 

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took his life. 
He laid it down. 

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He gave it for you and I. 
He could have called 10,000 

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angels at any time and canceled 
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But He knew that what he had 
already seen in glory was not 

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worth anything. 
Risking on this earth to lose, 

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getting back to glory. 
If we can only see a glimpse of 

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what we have waiting on the 
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If we could just get a glimpse 
of how much more shall the blood

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of Christ, who through the 
eternal Spirit offered himself 

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without spot to God, Cleanse 
your conscience. 

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I like that. 
I need my conscience cleansed. 

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You ever need your conscience 
cleansed from dead works to 

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serve a living God? 
He's not in that tomb. 

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Hey, man, that's what we'll 
celebrate. 

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He walked out of that grave. 
And for this reason, here it is 

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again. 
He is the mediator. 

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What's the mediator doing? 
Trying to bring those that are 

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at conflict with God and 
humanity into peace. 

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God's not trying to wreck your 
life. 

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He's trying to fix your life. 
Amen. 

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He's the mediator of what the 
new covenant by means of death 

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for the redemption of the 
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covenant that those who are 
called may receive the promise 

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of an eternal inheritance. 
Isn't that powerful. 

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Thank God for grace Thank God 
for grace. 

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I will put my laws as you stand 
to your feet. 

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We're going to take communion 
tonight long about this time, 

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give or take they Jesus was at 
the table with his disciples and

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I don't know if they can 
understand that what he was 

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about to do was he was to about 
to put his laws in their mind. 

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He was about to write his grace 
upon their heart. 

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Do we really grasp that that he 
could be their God and they 

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shall be his people as the music
plays tonight. 

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So we're going to everybody go 
ahead and gather pass this out. 

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Somebody help us there if he'll 
just pass it out. 

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