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In the name of the glorious 
Trinity, Father and Son and Holy

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Spirit forever. 
Amen. 

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Glory be to the everlasting 
mercies which sent you to us, O 

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Christ, the Light of the world 
and the life of all. 

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Give us wisdom by your law and 
enlighten our impulses by your 

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knowledge. 
Sanctify our souls by your 

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truth, and grant that we may be 
obedient to your words and may 

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fulfill your commandments at 
every hour. 

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O you who enlightens the 
rationale with the knowledge of 

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your greatness, do enlighten, my
Lord, our thoughts that we may 

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meditate upon your holy and 
divine scriptures at all times, 

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O Lord of all, Father and Son 
and Holy Spirit forever. 

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Amen. 
Just confess and God will 

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forgive you. 
Say the repentance prayer and 

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receive Jesus Christ in your 
heart and you're set for life, 

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eternal life saved as 
motivational, encouraging, or 

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somewhat magical. 
That sounds and only sounds. 

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There's a lot more to it than 
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In Luke chapter 13, verse 24, 
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strive, that is, make every 
effort to enter the narrow, 

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narrow gate. 
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Because God is holy and we need 
to continue to live in the 

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holiness we received from the 
holy mysteries of baptism. 

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Again, in Matthew Chapter 7, 
verse 24, Jesus instructs 

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everyone therefore that hears 
these words of mine. 

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So you listen to them, you hear 
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be likened unto a wise man who 
built his house upon the rock. 

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And again in Chapter 7, verse 
21, Jesus proclaims not all who 

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call me Lord Lord will enter the
Kingdom of heaven, but those who

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do the will of my Father in 
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And Saint Paul reiterates and 
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changed. 
We must be transformed, not just

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accept. 
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confessing or confess, let's 
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method and process of 
confessing, pleading, 

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supplicating the Lord, Not 
merely slouching in a chair with

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feet stretched out while being 
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out with God. 
No, beloved. 

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Let's read an example which 
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man who owed 10,000 talents. 
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And his master was holding him 
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He was holding him accountable. 
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man in Matthew chapter 18, verse
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kneeling the servant worshipped 
him and he said, my Lord, be 

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patient with me and I shall pay 
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He didn't ask for forgiveness, 
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Now this is after what he was 
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punishment, because simply he 
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In verse 25 we read and when he 
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bankrupt. 
Moufless, they say in the Arabic

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language, the Lord commanded or 
his Lord commanded that he would

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be sold. 
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Not only him, but his wife and 
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everything that he had so that 
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Now that's cruel. 
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and children. 
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glance, selling wife and 
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But when we look closely, we see
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total alienation from God when 
one is in sin, when one has a 

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debt to God. 
So right now, beloved, if you 

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are engaged in joining and 
willingly sinning and remaining 

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in sin, dear bro and sis, you 
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But don't fret. 
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God is ready to forgive, not 
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forgive. 
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God does not simply dismiss sin,
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accountability, giving us the 
gift of confession and 

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repentance, just as he didn't 
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of man for which Jesus Christ, 
his only begotten Son, was held 

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accountable, so that we are 
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him. 
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chapter 18, verse 26, and 
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worshipped him and he said, my 
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shall pay you everything. 
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Let's learn from it. 
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practice. 
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He crumbled with guilt, 
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He crumbled with grief. 
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These are the prerequisites, 
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These are the do's and the haves
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sorrow. 
Sharma Look at what Paul writes 

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to the Corinthians in his second
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his epistle. 2nd Corinthians, 78
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For although I grieved you by my
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no regret. 
I don't care. 

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I don't regret grieving you, 
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I felt sorry for you. 
For I saw that the same epistle,

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though it grieved you for an 
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gave me great joy, not because 
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because you grieve, or your 
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So for those who don't think 
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Saint Paul writes when he is 
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he stands to on society and on 
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sin, immorality and filth. 
Well, I pray that it will bring 

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you conversion from this sin. 
It will bring you conversion 

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from immoralities and lewdness. 
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comes about like that of the 
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forgiven his debts. 
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forgiveness. 
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But when you continue to read 
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he did next. 
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You want to go and kneecap 
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talents, but he owed 10,000. 
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worshipped. 
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He adored his Lord. 
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He threw himself at the mercy of
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And that's what we need to do. 
We need to bend down ease. 

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We need to go down beloved 
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We need to Revere a door, throw 
ourselves at the mercy of God in

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supplication again, not sitting 
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out, being wiggled. 
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Twiddling our thumbs and talking
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Not running around and hooraying
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praying to the Lord, not jumping
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You know, I saw. 
I saw this. 

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Most most Blasphemous video This
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This is in a church that 
preaches Jesus Christ, the only 

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Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 
Sola Scriptura. 

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Only the Bible. 
Only the Bible where they place 

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the Bible on the ground and 
someone kicks it as though 

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they're playing football. 
This is on, I think it was on 

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the Super Bowl Sunday. 
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You go to these churches? 
Get out. 

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Plot on out. 
Get out from those churches. 

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Beloved, if that church is 
teaching you to just proclaim 

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and the Lord will forgive, get 
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see that it's totally against 
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This is a parable we're talking 
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Not Saint Paul or Saint Peter or
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No, no, Jesus gave this. 
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to us, giving us an example. 
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You need to fall on your knees 
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you come to besiege and plead 
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touching the ground. 
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footstool of God. 
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the heavens or on the ground or 
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the earth is God's footstool, in
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come, let us kneel and worship 
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And we shall bless the Lord God 
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our deeds, in our actions, 
because He made US let us kneel,

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fall down. 
Not merely a lip service, no. 

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So again during this time of the
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are fasting, Beloved, as 
Christians we need to be 

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praying, fasting, reading the 
holy Scriptures which are all 

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tentacles of faith and love we 
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You love the Lord Jesus Christ. 
Do what he did. 

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Don't be fake. 
Do what Jesus did. 

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He fasted, He prayed, He 
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what he did. 
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fast as we are being held 
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Beloved, you know, we spoke 
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Accountable because of our sins,
being held accountable by 

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Christ, His Church, and even 
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Let us kneel and worship in 
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supplication, pleading not to be
forgiven because we do not 

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deserve that. 
Beloved, we don't deserve it, 

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but pleading that He, the Lord 
has mercy upon us so that we can

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repay, so that we can begin that
process of repentance because we

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are truly not worthy. 
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of our frailty and our many sins
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the other hand, according to 
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is able by His almighty power to
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or think according to His power 
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He will forgive, He will 
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He will grant us authority. 
He will clothe us with the 

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garment of grace. 
He will place that ring of 

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authority upon our fingers, and 
He will give us those new shoes 

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to walk in the Gospels, 
according to God's perfect will.

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This we need to do during this 
time of Lent to be supplicating.

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Fall on your face, fall on your 
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That's a Christmas song. 
Nativity. 

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That's either I'm either late or
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We need to truly fall on our 
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supplicate once again. 
Beloved, keep in mind we need to

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remember this, that God does not
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No, we will be held accountable.
We are being held accountable 

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for every deed, every action, 
and Christ mentions every every 

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idol word that proceeds from our
mouths we will be held 

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accountable for. 
So we need to remember that God 

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does not simply dismiss sins, 
but rather calls for 

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accountability, giving us the 
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repentance. 
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The original sin was not merely 
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Someone was held accountable, 
and that was our Lord and our 

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Savior Jesus Christ, On our 
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On our account, he fasted. 
On our account, he prayed. 

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On our account, He emptied 
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took the likeness of a servant 
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He was obedient to the Father, 
obedient Indian to the cross, 

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the death, the most cruelest 
death on our account. 

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He humbled himself and He took 
on our infirmities. 

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And through him beloved, we are 
graced with forgiveness through 

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Jesus Christ. 
So think about your sins. 

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Think about your foolish deeds, 
acts, actions, gossip, speech. 

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We've spoken about this. 
Think about that. 

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We will be held accountable. 
Now is the time to throw 

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ourselves on our knees again 
with our heads touching the 

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ground at the mercy of God and 
asking him to have mercy, to be 

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patient, to strengthen us, to 
grant us the desire to begin the

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repentance to begin to repay. 
And what do we repay? 

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God? 
How do we repay Jesus Christ of 

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our sins? 
We don't need to go and crucify 

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ourselves. 
You see this in these South 

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American countries during the 
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People crucifying themselves on 
the cross. 

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God hasn't asked us to crucify. 
It means nothing, beloved 

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brother. 
And if you're if you're 

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listening from one of these 
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Brazil, I don't know one of 
these countries, it means 

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nothing. 
You crucifying yourself on the 

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cross means nothing. 
It's not literal. 

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Crucifying means, beloved, to 
denounce yourself, to deny 

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yourself, to take up that cross.
That's how we repay God. 

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We repay God by denouncing 
ourselves, denying ourselves our

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will, our desire. 
We repay our debts by believing 

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in the blood of Jesus Christ, 
which was shed on the cross for 

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you and I, through whom He 
purchased us through His blood. 

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We admit this is how we repay 
God with our debts. 

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We we confess and we believe, 
and we we admit that the Lord is

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only pleased by the sacrifice of
His Son. 

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I don't need to do any 
sacrifices. 

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I need to repent. 
I need to hang my head as a bow 

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as we spoke last episode. 
And I need to come to the Lord 

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with a contrite spirit and 
literally, literally now throw 

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myself at His mercy and ask for 
the Lord to have patience with 

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me and to help me and to 
strengthen me. 

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And believing that the Lord, as 
we continue to read this 

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parable, you read that his 
master, his Lord, had mercy on 

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him, and he forgave his dead. 
He was asking for patience. 

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His master, his Lord, forgave 
him his dead. 

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The Lord is ready to forgive 
those who are truly grieving 

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over their sins, their follies, 
their foolishness, praise and 

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glory be to the name of the 
Father and of the Son of the 

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Holy Spirit and forever. 
Amen. 

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