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On a cold night in April of 
1912, the Titanic sailed into 

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history. 
It was the largest ship in the 

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world, called Unsinkable by many
who believed nothing could 

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destroy it. 
Built with both luxury and 

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pride, the Titanic carried rich 
and poor dreamers and workers 

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across the Atlantic Ocean. 
Music played, lights glowed, and

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passengers slept peacefully as 
the ship cut through the dark 

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sea. 
But at 11:40 PM on the 14th of 

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April, the massive ship hit an 
iceberg hidden in the black 

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water. 
At first it seemed like a small 

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problem, but deep below the 
surface, the ship was badly 

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wounded. 
Waters rushed in. 

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Panic spread. 
Lifeboats were lowered as the 

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ship began to tilt. 
Table decorations fell to the 

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floor. 
Chairs crashed into each other 

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and then crashed into the walls.
Rumor has it that the band kept 

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playing, trying to keep people 
calm. 

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Families clung to each other as 
the freezing Atlantic Ocean 

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opened wide and swallowed the 
lives of over 1500 souls. 

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And on this weekend, in December
of 1997, James Cameron released 

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the movie based on the tale 
titled the same as the sunken 

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ship, The Titanic. 
It was. 

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And this is an interesting genre
of movie. 

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It was called a romantic drama 
disaster. 

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Some of you like I married that.
I married a romantic drama 

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disaster. 
Yeah. 

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Your love story's that of the 
Titanic. 

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The this romantic disaster drama
followed Jack Dawson, played by 

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Leonardo DiCaprio, and Rose, 
played by Kate Winslet. 

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It went on to become the highest
grossing film of its day and 

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today it sits on in fourth 
place, bringing in $2.2 billion.

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When it showed up at the Oscars,
it had 14 nominations and walked

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away with eleven wins, tying the
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by a single film. 
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Golden Globes, it had eight 
nominations, walked away with 

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four Golden Globes, which was 
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And the soundtrack. 
Oh, the soundtrack skyrocketed 

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to #1 on the Billboard 200. 
And it stayed there for 16 

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consecutive weeks, eventually 
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How did it do it, you might ask?
Well, with the star-studded help

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of lead vocalist Céline Dion 
singing the title track, My 

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Heart Will Go on the opening 
lines, I am making all the 

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middle-aged women all across 
this region so happy today. 

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Every night in my dreams, I see 
you. 

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I feel you. 
That is how I know you go on far

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across the distance and spaces 
between us. 

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You have come to show you go on 
near, far where? 

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Yeah, you know exactly what's 
happening. 

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I want to welcome all of our 
campuses, joining at all of our 

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different locations, those of 
you watching online and inside. 

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And for those of you who are 
here for the first time or the 

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first time in a long time, yeah,
we're that crazy. 

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That's just what this is. 
Hear me before I get all the way

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into the message. 
We will be starting our 

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Christmas Eve services next 
week. 

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Two things for you to do 1. 
Make sure you have found your 

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service and make sure you have 
found the person that you are 

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going to invite and bring it 
with you. 

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But today we are in a series 
called Behold. 

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What Happens when You Claim the 
Promises of God? 

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The word Behold shows up because
there is something that God, His

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Spirit, and the Scriptures want 
us to look at because there is 

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something there that they do not
want us to miss. 

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I grew up going to church. 
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to church, I mean, we went to 
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Sunday school, and then we stuck
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And then on Sunday night, 
because this church was crazy, 

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we went to Sunday night 
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And then on Wednesday we went to
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My parents made financial 
sacrifices and they sent me and 

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my siblings to a private 
Christian Academy 30 miles away 

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from where we grew up. 
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drive us there, drop us off for 
school, and then she'd pick us 

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up and drive us the 30 minutes 
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And this private Christian 
School dedicated an hour. 

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One of our classes every single 
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Wednesdays we had to wear a 
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because we would go to Chapel 
and do you know what you they 

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did in Chapel? 
They would teach us the Bible. 

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And then my parents, when I got 
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financially prioritize spiritual
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And so every year they would 
spend me for a week to summer 

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camp and they would send me for 
a week to a Christian 

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conference. 
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times a day at church camp and 
two times a day at the Christian

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conferences. 
They would teach us the Bible. 

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And in between my junior and my 
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that I was going to go into full
time ministry, that God had put 

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a calling on my life to tell 
people about Jesus. 

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And so I enrolled in a Christian
college that trained men for 

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ministry, leadership, and 
Christian service. 

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And when I showed up at this 
school, their classes started at

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7:00 AM. 
Do you know what you learn at 

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7:00 AM? 
Not much. 

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But you know what they were 
teaching us at 7:00 AM? 

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The Bible and I had a class at 
8:00 AM and you know what they 

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taught us at 8:00 AM? 
The Bible. 

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And guess what they taught us at
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Another class, The Bible. 
And from 10:00 to 11:30, guess 

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what? 
They taught us the Bible. 

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And then we would have lunch 
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have an afternoon class from 
1:00 to 2:00 and guess what they

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taught us there? 
They would teach us the Bible. 

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And on Tuesdays and Thursdays 
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slot, they would have Chapel. 
So twice a week I would go to 

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Chapel and guess what they did 
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They taught us the Bible. 
I grew up being inundated with 

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the Word of God. 
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freshman year, I was going to 
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I may have missed class from 
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miss the cafeteria. 
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folding table and behind it were
seated some people in folding 

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chairs. 
And they worked at a summer camp

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and they were interviewing 
people that they were going to 

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hire to come help them with 
their summer ministry. 

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And I got hired. 
They hired me, and I don't want 

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to brag. 
They hired me to be a Wrangler. 

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Yeah. 
Eat your heart out. 

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Don't let these golf pants fool 
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I was rough and tough. 
My job was to, every morning at 

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this camp, saddle forty horses 
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the campers because I had grown 
up with horses and that was kind

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of my thing. 
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ended, I hopped in my Ford 
Ranger and I drove down the 

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winding 2 lane roads to Colcord,
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What is or where is Colcord, 
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It's as if Arkansas could get 
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That is Colcord, Oklahoma. 
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big hill into a beautiful valley
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edge of the Ozark Mountains, I 
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Life Ranch. 
We were going through the 

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orientation where they were 
teaching us all the things that 

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we would need to know about 
being on staff with this 

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particular organization over the
summer, how we were supposed to 

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interact with the students, what
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are going to be what team we are
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And I started to ask myself this
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Life Ranch? 
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you know, there's a, there's a 
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So I saw the scripture verse on 
the sign and I was like, OK, I'm

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going to look it up. 
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I could not believe what I read.
Then I ended up reading the 

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entire chapter and could not 
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existed. 
This was the first experience 

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that I can remember of these 
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I don't know if I had heard it 
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I don't know if maybe I was 
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and they taught it and I didn't 
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I don't know if I was asleep in 
the 7:00 AM Bible college class,

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but it was. 
I couldn't make sense of it. 

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I had spent so much time being 
around the Word of God that I 

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was frustrated the fact that I 
did not know that these words 

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existed, that somebody had not 
told me these words. 

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I have since made it my ambition
to make sure that the people 

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within that sound of my voice on
a regular basis hear the power 

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of these life altering, eternal 
destination changing words. 

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What are the words? 
They're found in Second 

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Corinthians chapter 5, verse 17.
Therefore, if anyone is in 

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Christ, he is a new creation. 
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Behold, the new has come. 
This is the ultimate tattoo 

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verse. 
It is easily a top five verse in

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a top five chapter in all of 
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Let me walk you through it. 
It begins with one of my 

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favorite words. 
Anyone. 

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Anyone, Because anyone means 
everyone. 

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What God wants you to know, what
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you to know. 
What I want you to remember. 

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What God is trying to speak to 
you is that this message, this 

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verse is for anyone and 
everyone. 

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This message is for those who 
pretend to have it all together.

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It's for those who think they 
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It's for those who have no idea 
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looks like. 
It's a message for the person 

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who thinks that they've never 
sinned and for the person who 

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all they seem to know is sin. 
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God, is for people who have a 
past, have made mistakes, and 

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are afraid that if the people 
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really knew them, they wouldn't 
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It's for people who hate who 
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It's for those who pretend that 
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have actually become. 
This anyone is not just for the 

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strong and the perfect few. 
It is not for the saved, for the

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clean, or the ones who belong. 
It is not earned by the right, 

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and it is not erased by the 
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This anyone includes the weary 
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the night. 
For those who can never get it 

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right. 
It's for the doubter who wonders

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if grace still applies. 
It's for the center who hides 

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with regret in their eyes. 
This anyone is welcome, from 

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every place, every story, every 
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No past too heavy, no chain too 
tight, no soul too lost to be 

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called to life. 
For anyone who is in Christ, the

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old is gone. 
The weight of the past is no 

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longer drawn. 
A new life begins, rewritten and

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free. 
Not who you were, but who you 

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were made to be. 
And this promise still stands, 

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unwavering and true. 
This anyone is me, and this 

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anyone can be you. 
But what does it mean to be new?

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Well, I think if you were to ask
God what is one of His top five 

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words, I think He would say one 
of his top five words is new. 

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Now, I don't say that 
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I'm not saying that just to fill
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I genuinely believe that God's 
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include the word new. 
Let me show you we read about 

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Jesus, God's Son in the New 
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Mark chapter one, verse 27 says 
that the people were amazed at 

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the teachings of Jesus and they 
asked what is this a new 

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teaching? 
And Jesus tells them in the New 

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Testament that His new teaching 
cannot fit in the old wineskins 

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of their life. 
It needs a new wineskin, it 

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needs a new heart. 
And when Jesus takes the Last 

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Supper with his disciples, he 
says that his blood is going to 

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be poured out and will usher in 
a new covenant. 

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Mark chapter 14 verse 24. 
And that he will not drink it 

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again until he drinks it new in 
his Father's Kingdom. 

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To those who would follow Jesus,
he gives them a new command. 

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John chapter 13 records what 
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This is Jesus talking. 
As I have loved you, so you must

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love one another. 
By this all men will know that 

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you are my disciples. 
If you love one another, that 

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because of Jesus's death and 
resurrection, you and I are able

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to, as Ephesians 424 says, put 
on the new self created in God 

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or created to be like God in 
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We get to put on the new self in
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Jesus Christ in the New 
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And then God tells us that one 
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and a new earth. 
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where there will be a new temple
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city. 
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And what does he say in verse 5 
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new? 
God has promised that one day He

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will make all things new. 
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thing that He starts to do? 
He starts to make His people 

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ready for the new by making them
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Therefore, if anyone is in 
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Who are the people who will see 
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creating? 
It is the people who have been 

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made new. 
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Jesus that shows up in the New 
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That is not because of what we 
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He has done. 
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covenant in His blood. 
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what happens? 
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a sudden you're starting to 
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Your ears pick up what the Bible
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But before that happens, to 
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cling to the promises of God, to
the people who hang on to faith 

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in Him and never let go, to the 
overcomers, God says that He 

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will give them a new name. 
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your new name in the new heaven 
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making everything else brand 
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new song, a song that has not 
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It is a brand new song sung in 
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Jerusalem, in the new heaven and
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what it is. 
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This is what they say. 
You are worthy to take the 

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scroll and open its seals, 
because you were slain, and with

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your blood you purchased for God
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language and people and nation. 
Remind me in January to tell you

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something cool that God's been 
doing in my life about that 

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verse, verse 10. 
You have made them to be a 

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Kingdom and priests to serve our
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earth. 
Then I looked, and I heard the 

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voice of many angels, numbering 
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10,000 * 10,000 they encircled 
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creatures and the elders, and in
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Worthy is the Lamb who was slain
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wisdom and strength, and honor 
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And then I heard every creature 
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under the earth, and on the sea,
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Saying to him, they're talking 
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throne, and to the Lamb be 
praise and honor and glory and 

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power forever and ever. 
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all of this will be yours when 
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7 times. 
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Titanic got a message that there
were icebergs in the waters that

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got them from other ships. 
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s s America sent information to 
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to pass along the message. 
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message saying that there were 
icebergs in the waters, and they

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sent the message that there were
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office in Washington DC, but 
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captain. 
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went on to say this and their 
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It is a lamentable fact and a 
remarkable coincidence that the 

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sinking of the Titanic was 
caused by an iceberg, the report

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of which she had transmitted. 
Had she but heeded the one 

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warning that she transmitted, 
she would probably have saved 

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herself. 
There are some of you gathered 

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across this region, sitting in 
one of our locations or watching

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online who you need to take 
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Maybe you have heard the gospel.
Some of you have even shared the

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gospel. 
Some of you have served the 

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gospel. 
Others of you have contributed 

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to the spread of the gospel. 
However, for some reason or 

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another, you have not received 
the gospel. 

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You have transmitted the 
message, but you have not 

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followed the message. 
You've shared the. 

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Message. 
But you have not submitted your 

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life to the message. 
You've passed on the message, 

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but you have not come under the 
power of the message. 

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And if you are not careful, your
story could just be as tragic as

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that of the Titanic that if you 
had heeded the one warning that 

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you transmitted, you could have 
saved yourself. 

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One of the. 
Biggest lies that Satan weaves 

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into the heart of a believer is 
that the good news of the gospel

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is for everybody else, but it 
could not possibly be for you. 

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And because you believe. 
That message you will invite 

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other people, you will talk to 
other people about the love of 

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God, but you will not allow the 
love of God to be received in 

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your heart, and so you never 
fully allow yourself to be made 

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new in Him. 
We're moving to a. 

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Time of decision. 
Some of you at. 

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This point might be asking 
yourself, so how does he make us

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new? 
And you can go. 

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Home and back me up on this. 
If you were to go home and read 

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second Corinthians chapter 5. 
I mean it one of the top five 

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chapters in all of Scripture 
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Therefore, if anyone is in 
Christ, he's a new creation, the

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oldest God and the newest come. 
You'll read 18 which is good, 19

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which is good, 20 also good, and
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21, and verse 21 describes how 
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How it happens? 
This is what it. 

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Says God made him, That's Jesus 
who knew no sin to be sin for us

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so that we might become the 
righteousness of God. 

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This is how I would describe 
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You have God, the righteous, 
fair, holy Judge, wrapped in 

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perfection. 
You have his Son, Jesus. 

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Who knew? 
No. 

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Sin and then you have you and me
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says this. 
God made him, That's Jesus to be

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sin for us. 
How did he do that? 

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God came over to. 
Us to you and me, and every sin,

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every cuss word spoken or 
thought of, every lustful 

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thought, every adulterous 
encounter, every lustful moment,

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every bit of rage, every 
mistake, every failure, every 

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shortcoming. 
Not just for you, but for all. 

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People for all of time, not just
the sins that you know you did. 

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But even the sins. 
That you are not aware that you 

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did and he spooled them up. 
He got out a. 

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Broom in a dustbin and he made 
sure he left no sin behind. 

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And he put. 
It in a big bag. 

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And he took it. 
Over to the one. 

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Who was perfect and righteous 
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The one who had never sinned. 
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All the contents of sin in all 
of human history, and he poured 

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it on him who knew no sin, and 
then he took all of the 

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righteousness and holiness and 
perfection and blamelessness of 

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Christ. 
And he spooled it. 

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Up he got out of broom in a 
dustbin, and he made sure he got

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every piece of righteousness and
holiness and perfection, and he 

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put it in a bag. 
And he took the. 

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Righteousness and the holiness 
and the perfection of Jesus. 

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And he poured it. 
Out on us. 

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And after he had. 
Placed all of the sin of 

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humanity on Jesus and all of the
perfection of Jesus and put it 

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on humanity. 
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With the sin, and in doing so he
treated Christ like our sins 

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deserved. 
So you and I. 

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Could be treated like Christ 
deserved to be treated, and all 

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of His perfection and all of His
Holiness. 

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That is. 
The gospel message. 

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That is how you and I are made 
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Jesus was treated like our sins 
deserved so you and I could be 

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treated by God the way Jesus 
deserved. 

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Hear me clearly. 
You are not made new by how 

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often you go to church. 
You are not made new by whether 

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or not you wear out your knees 
in prayer. 

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You are not made new based on 
how much you give, how much you 

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serve, how many old ladies you 
help reach, tall stuff at the 

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shelf at the store. 
You are not made new by how many

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sermons you listen to, how many 
Bible verses you read. 

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I am not made new by how many 
services I write or how many 

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sermons I preach. 
We are made new because God made

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him who knew no sin to be sin 
for us, so that in him in 

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Christ. 
We could become. 

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The righteousness of God, I take
offence. 

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When people say God. 
Is not loving. 

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Because if. 
That's not love. 

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I don't know what is. 
And so if. 

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You are here today and you've 
never started an intimate 

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personal relationship with Jesus
Christ. 

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The promises that I just claimed
of how you are made new can be 

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for you if you are in Christ. 
Therefore, if anyone is in 

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Christ, he is a new creation. 
You might be asking yourself, so

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how do I become in Christ? 
The Bible is incredibly clear 

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when you are buried and raised 
with Him in the waters of 

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baptism and in. 
Just a few moments. 

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The people around you are going 
to stand and sing and some of 

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the people are going to come to 
the steps and pray. 

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And I want to encourage you to 
walk right over there underneath

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that screen next to the 
baptistry and talk to somebody 

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about you claiming the promises 
of God, of what it means to be 

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in Christ. 
Because I. 

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Got to be honest. 
With you, I don't need an 

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upgrade. 
I don't need an. 

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Update There doesn't need to be 
a Clayton 2.0. 

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I don't need to be tweaked. 
I don't need to be fixed. 

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I need to be. 
Made new. 

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And so do. 
You to the rest. 

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Of you in the. 
Room To those of you who already

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have an intimate personal 
relationship with Jesus Christ, 

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I'm just going to ask you one 
big painful question. 

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What? 
Is the proper response to that 

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kind of love. 
What should the? 

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Rest of your life look like 
because God made him who knew no

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sin to be sin for us so that in 
him we might become the 

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righteousness of God. 
What does that require out of 

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the rest of your life? 
Who is the person in your life 

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that needs to hear this would. 
You stand with me, Heavenly 

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Father. 
I just want to begin with a 

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gigantic thank you. 
Thank you for. 

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Being so good to us. 
Thank you for being. 

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So long-suffering, so patient. 
We have failed you again and 

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again and again. 
We've returned to you again and 

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again and again. 
You have every right and every 

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reason. 
To walk away from. 

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US. 
And yet your promise. 

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Still stands. 
Thank you. 

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And God in faith. 
We're coming to you right now, 

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in this moment, asking you to 
give every person in here 

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clarity on what it is that you 
want them to do. 

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And then father through. 
The power of your Holy Spirit 

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would you give us the courage 
and the strength to do it? 

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In your name, our praying. 
Amen.