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Today, Jessica, you snuck in, 
snuck in on me. 

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I didn't see you here before 
church. 

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So it's good to see you. 
Amen. 

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This morning with us as well. 
I'm going to be turning to 

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Ezekiel chapter 33. 
Thankful for the Lord. 

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You know, John the revelator, he
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revelation of Jesus Christ and 
he makes a mention at one place 

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in Scripture and revelation. 
He said, I turned and I seen 

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amid the candlesticks the seven 
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Son of Man. 
He goes on to describe what 

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Jesus does later, says the seven
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were the seven angels at the 
seven churches. 

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And he said in the seven 
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churches. 
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that there was one like the Son 
of Man or Christ among the seven

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candlesticks, he saw the Lord 
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And it's always good to have the
Lord among the church, Amen. 

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Always good to have him among 
the church. 

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And I, I feel him, Amen, even 
today here, Ezekiel chapter 33. 

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And I'm going to just read one 
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to get started. 
Ezekiel 33. 

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And I want to read verse number 
verse #12 this morning before 

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you're allowed to be seated. 
Ezekiel 33 and verse #12 The 

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Bible says, Therefore, thou Son 
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thy people, The righteousness of
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him in the day of his 
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As for the wickedness of the 
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thereby in the day that he 
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neither shall the righteous be 
able to live for his 

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righteousness in the day that he
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We'll talk about that a little 
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could understand what the writer
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But if not, hopefully we'll 
bring some enlightenment to 

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that. 
Amen. 

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Let's pray this morning. 
God, I love you today, God, I'm 

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thankful, Lord, for opportunity 
to be in your house. 

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I pray, O Lord, you would touch 
our hearts and minds today. 

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Your word is already anointed, 
but Lord Jesus, let it not 

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become contaminated. 
Lord, by passing Lord through 

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the voice in the hands of Lord 
Jesus and man. 

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God, help us to hear what the 
Spirit is saying today, God, and

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be inclined to it in the lovely 
name of Jesus Christ, Amen and 

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Amen. 
Everyone say Amen. 

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You may be seated this morning. 
I want to talk to us today about

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about turning points, about 
turning points often, and this 

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seems to be a theme here, it 
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or it seems like where we've 
been headed concerning ministry.

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But often people feel 
overwhelmed by the weight of of 

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their mistakes or their 
failures, believing sometimes 

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that they have failed too far or
stray too far from redemption. 

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Sometimes we have been bombarded
by what I would call the 

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church's once unyielding message
of perfectionism. 

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I would say in years gone by 
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wrote a concept or idea of 
perfectionism concerning being a

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part of the body of of Christ. 
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that we're just a bunch of 
imperfect people that have 

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gathered here on this Sunday 
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I don't go to church because I'm
perfect. 

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I go to church because I'm not 
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Amen. 
I pray because I'm not perfect. 

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And so I think in years gone by,
we have been bombarded that with

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a message of perfectionism. 
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trapped by past sins, convinced 
that maybe they were beyond, 

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beyond the grace of God, beyond 
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And, and of course, with those 
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shame and, and the guilt. 
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can become a modern day prison 
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You may have never been 
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this life incarcerated without 
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You can be incarcerated by shame
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and reasoning, leading sometimes
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something that is unredeemable, 
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Unredeemable that it's kind of 
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put over the lentil and the 
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You know, the spear of the Lord 
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We're just unredeemable beyond 
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Sometimes some even think Sister
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forgiveness and, and, and today,
probably worse than any other 

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generation, we have the rise of 
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media and all these type of 
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of feelings. 
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today can be publicly documented
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over as it comes up in memories.
Whatever it may be, it's it's 

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accessible to people at all over
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We, if we wanted to, for 
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nowadays, if we wanted to, we 
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that they have on their little 
garment, go back to our room, 

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look up their name and start 
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the dirt on that individual, why
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network of the world today that 
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live beyond where you once were,
it's hard because there's, 

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there's memories and there's 
other people's voices that all 

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these things are documented and 
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past. 
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what's known as the cancel 
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And what that is, it's not 3 
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and you're done, right? 
Businesses are boycotted over a 

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air. 
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like, forget it, it's over. 
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chance. 
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seems somewhat foreign and 
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People feel shunned. 
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happens, and it's probably 
happened here a time or two that

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people feel shunned even by the 
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church sometimes. 
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judgmental voice, sometimes the 
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people's struggles or where they
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And so here as individuals, we 
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the burden of our past choices. 
We, we feel defined by our 

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failures and rather than our 
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result of that and, and a sense 
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this is not something anything 
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This is something this, this 
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We read in Acts chapter 27, the 
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They are headed, they are 
selling, he's with some other 

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prisoners. 
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reach a point in their journey 
upon the water that the ship's 

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crew, they realize that they had
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They had made a mistake whenever
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it wasn't commodious, the Bible 
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regret. 
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isn't new because the Bible says
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hope that we should be saved was
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It's like we we got into this 
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We made some wrong turns and 
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all hope has been extinguished. 
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on the ship he had warned them 
that the direction that they 

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were headed and the voyage that 
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attempting. 
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be with, with hurt and this is 
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not only just to the ship, but 
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This, this isn't good. 
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South wind blew softly, they, 
they supposed they had obtained 

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their purpose and they set sail 
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despite the better judgement. 
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there's this fierce wind that's 
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everything that they had deemed 
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significant to their life. 
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over the edge to the ship. 
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everything that was important 
when they started, now doesn't 

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have the importance because of 
this this, this storm that 

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they're in as a result of some 
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toward a unadvised trip and a 
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Survival was an option to them. 
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saving. 
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same sentiments that we have in 
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Ezekiel 33, Ezekiel is a captive
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He is an exile in Babylon away 
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group of people that are exiles 
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And their voices are saying in 
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in our sins be upon us and we 
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should we then live? 
Israel's in a place we, we, we'd

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They did not keep the Sabbaths 
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The land didn't have his wrath. 
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They started inviting everything
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them. 
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them have exactly what they 
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I'll turn you over to another 
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You can have their gods all you 
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You can do all of these things 
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came to a place of regret. 
They came to a place of shame 

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and said if we have these sins 
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we're pining away in them, then 
how in the world are we going to

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live? 
Because this has impacted our 

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lives too severely. 
We we've been at the mercy of 

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this and it has done some 
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We have suffered, if you will, 
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a grieve from our sin, can there
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we can get out from under this, 
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somehow, you know, the damage to
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that we've lost be restored? 
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captives, and they're dealing 
with this struggle because they 

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didn't heed the words of 
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You read the whole book of 
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Jeremiah is known as the weeping
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the weeping prophet because he 
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wanted to listen to. 
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Jeremiah, Amen. 
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because he gave the warning. 
He gave all these things and no 

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one listened. 
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with their despair. 
They're struggling with the loss

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of identity. 
They have a sense of 

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hopelessness upon them. 
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Babylon that they were living 
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Some of them focused on living 
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land and just adapting, but 
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others that were longing for a 
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for restoration, longing for 
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And they grappled with the 
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Can we still be God's people 
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Can we? 
We, we were called the people of

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God. 
We were his precious treasure 

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according to Scripture. 
But all of this now has 

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happened. 
Can we still be God's people? 

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They didn't see how in their 
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could ever reach them in their 
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How can God's promises reach me 
in my despair, reach me, if you 

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will, in my weakness? 
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wonder, has God abandoned me 
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Is there any recourse for us 
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And perhaps thinking we've just 
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But the trailing question in 
verse #10 reflects really their 

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sense of decay. 
Look at their question. 

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How should we then live? 
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We admit we've done wrong. 
We realize our sins have 

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consumed us. 
We realize that they have 

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corrupted us. 
We're pining away in them, that 

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we're pining away. 
It comes from an old Hebrew 

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pictograph of water in the sun 
on the horizon, which basically 

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means water condensed. 
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like a little pond or something 
would begin to, the water would 

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evaporate out of it, and the 
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was organic matter in there that
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If you ever know what I'm 
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He says that that's where we 
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Our lives stink, our lives have 
rotted, our substance has 

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dwindled away. 
We're left with just the matters

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of our faults and our wrongs and
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How then should we live? 
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answer, response from the Lord. 
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live, sayeth the Lord God, I 
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the wicked. 
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night in closing, but that the 
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live turn ye turn ye from your 
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O House of Israel? 
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live? 
God responds as I live. 

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How should we then live? 
He says as I live. 

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And that's a powerful, powerful 
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And that's a statement that is 
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matter the extent of one's 
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me. 
I said it Wednesday. 

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God does not take pleasure in 
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What that means is this, that he
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his ability. 
He's going to reach to the the 

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furthest that he can. 
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those that are living upon this 
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It's not God's will that any 
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would come unto repentance. 
I want you to know today God is 

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willing to meet whoever it is 
that is fail whoever it is 

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that's made a mistake, Whoever 
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that's contemplating how shall I
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He's not wanting your demise, 
He's not wanting your 

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destruction. 
He's not wanting you to be 

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separated from him. 
God takes no pleasure in the 

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death of the wicked. 
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Word, is for them, and he says 
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turn and live. 
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provision of life even open for 
these exiles in Babylon, if 

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they'll just turn, if they'll 
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Ezekiel begins to illustrate all
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that I want to read in Ezekiel 
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He gives one example of turning 
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turns to sin, and another 
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Scripture as a wicked person 
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Look at verse #13 and just 
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He says, when I say, when I 
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he shall surely live, if he 
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and commit iniquity, all his 
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remembered. 
But for his iniquity that he 

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have committed, he shall die for
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Again, when I say unto the 
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he turn from his sin, and do 
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the wind could restore the 
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Give again that he had robbed, 
walk in the statutes of life 

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without committing iniquity. 
He shall surely live. 

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He shall not die. 
None of his sins. 

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Verse 16 says that He committed 
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He have done that which is 
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He shall surely live. 
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standpoint of today. 
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the righteous may be destined to
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if somewhere between today, at 
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All right. 
And the word iniquity there is 

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from a word that means stains, 
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You, you ever rubbed up against 
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And it's not just dirt, but it's
a stain that you got on your 

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hands. 
Brother Reese's Yes, I got to 

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get out that washing machine to 
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degreasers and stuff. 
It's like that. 

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That's my, that's my play world 
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Come on, stain. 
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stain that really happens, there
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that takes place. 
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Chemistry World, there is some 
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And so in order for the stain to
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broken. 
It's got to be broken. 

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Amen. 
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talk about commit, we're not 
talking about just getting dirty

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over here. 
We're not talking about little 

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blackness on your nose. 
We're talking about something 

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that's created a bond with you. 
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then the their righteousness, 
all their past righteousness 

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from that day or from that 
moment of consistent staining 

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backward, He said that 
righteousness isn't remembered, 

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that righteousness is forgotten.
But he says likewise because 

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we're good sometimes about point
now. 

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Well, they did XYZ. 
It's all oh God, they'll never 

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be able to. 
We're good about casting off as 

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Scripture even says it would be 
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over the the deed or whatever it
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staining, if you will, the 
bonding of the life. 

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But Ezekiel said likewise, a 
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standpoint of today is destined 
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But if somewhere along the 
journey they turn, which is code

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word for repentance, somewhere 
along the journey they turn from

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their sin and begin to live 
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says they will live, and all 
their past wickedness and all 

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their past lawlessness will not 
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Folks, there is power in a 
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your good or for your bad. 
There is power in a moment of 

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turning. 
You know what Ezekiel was trying

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to tell Israel? 
You've not went too far. 

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You're not beyond the reach. 
You can't go far in any 

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direction of righteousness or 
lawlessness. 

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That one moment cannot change 
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It cannot change the dynamics of
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Amen. 
But we as humanity are more apt 

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to accept what a moment of sin 
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repentance can do. 
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quickly access things and say 
again how a moment is ruined 

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someone's life, but we fail to 
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repentance can just as equally 
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In a nutshell, the verse that I 
read to you this morning in our 

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text can be deluded. 
Not deluded, but make simple 

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into this phrase that our past 
righteousness cannot save us 

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when we sin any more than our 
past wickedness can damn us when

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we repent. 
Hear me right now, I said. 

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Our past righteousness cannot 
save us when we sin any more 

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than our past wickedness can 
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What is it? 
It's this. 

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It's saying that our past does 
not have the final word. 

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It's our current choices that 
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It's not yesterday. 
It's not last month. 

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It's not last year. 
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Amen. 
Hallelujah. 

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Solomon started his reign 
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for the Lord. 
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Kingdom of peace. 
The temple could be built during

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the time of peace. 
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maintaining the peace that his 
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But the Bible says that he 
turned from his righteousness by

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marrying and making alliances 
with several foreign wives who 

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the Bible says turned the heart 
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toward adultery. 
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His past righteousness could not
compensate for him turning to 

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sin. 
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among the 12. 
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one of the other disciples even 
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What's that mean? 
He walked alongside the Lord as 

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the others did. 
He saw the bread multiplied in 

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the Lord's hand as others did. 
He was there as some of the dead

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was raised to life and healings 
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He followed Jesus. 
He witnessed all these things, 

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witnessed his teaching first 
hand. 

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But we understand in Scripture, 
he's the one that betrayed him. 

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He meant for 30 pieces of 
silver. 

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He betrayed the Lord and it led 
to his tragic end. 

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And so listen to me, all of his 
involved involvement of rubbing 

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shoulders with Jesus and Jesus's
ministry could not prevent him 

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from the effects of his sin. 
Someone say man, so good deeds, 

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righteous deeds, right living is
not stockpiled up to offer a 

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moment to offset your time of 
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David's lion, David's bear 
scenario, David's Goliath that 

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he fought in the valley of Elon.
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David had were not for the 
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When he sinned against Uriah and
with Bathsheba, he couldn't have

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enough past victories or 
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scales of that episode. 
Someone's Amen. 

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So whereas past righteousness 
will not insulate you, and past 

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righteousness will not deliver 
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Amen. 
Past righteousness may be 

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powerless to change anything, 
but what past righteousness is 

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powerful to change? 
Repentance can. 

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Hallelujah. 
That's right. 

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What happens in David's story? 
Even Prophet Nathan comes to me 

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fabricate the story. 
A parable really of sorts. 

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And he's speaking in parallels 
with what David had done, but he

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used in this story just walking 
along parallel on really David's

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life. 
David is listening to it all. 

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When he understands what had 
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He says in Second Samuel 12 and 
five, he says the men that have 

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done this thing shall surely 
die. 

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That's that's David's own 
verdict. 

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That's David's hand of justice 
coming down on a parallel story 

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that's likened unto his own. 
If I could say it like this, 

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David essentially brothers act 
sentence death to himself. 

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Unrighteous person, Ezekiel said
shall die. 

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But verse 13 of second Samuel 
says these words, Whenever 

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Nathan said, Thou art the man. 
And David said to Nathan, I have

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sinned against the Lord. 
And Nathan said unto David, The 

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Lord also have put away thy sin,
and thou shalt not. 

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You know what's Nathan saying? 
I know you've had, I know you've

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made some mistakes. 
I know you got some wickedness 

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and lawlessness. 
I know. 

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I realize you called Uriah from 
the home to try to get him to go

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home and he wouldn't. 
You set him back out in the 

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battle to be slaughtered. 
I realized you stayed home 

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whenever you should have been 
going to war. 

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I know that's a mistake, a 
mistake, a mistake, he says. 

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But that's the past. 
We're looking at what you've 

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done today. 
And today you said I did that 

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today you own that. 
Today you asked for forgiveness.

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Today, you who is contrite and 
so all of your own wickedness, 

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cannot bear on this moment. 
Repentance wins. 

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A change of venue wins. 
Hey man, repentance turned the 

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prodigal's life of sin, 
recklessness, wastefulness, 

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right? 
Wasted all he had on righteous 

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living to what? 
Being fully restored, having 

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access once again to all that 
his dad had, how could that take

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place? 
Look at everything he's has 

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done. 
That's not, that's not, that's 

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not the mindset. 
It's not look at everything he's

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done. 
It's look what he's doing. 

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Someone say man. 
So Ezekiel's message is clear 

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that it's neither righteousness 
nor wickedness that has the 

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final say. 
Repentance has the final say. 

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Many times we look how 11 moment
of sin can change a life, but we

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also must acknowledge that one 
moment of repentance can alter a

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person's trajectory as well. 
My past righteousness can't save

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me when I sin. 
What? 

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My past wickedness cannot 
condemn me when I repent three 

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times again Ezekiel says turn, 
turn ye, turn ye. 

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It's the language of repentance.
You know what God is saying in 

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that moment to Israel that's 
remorseful about where they've 

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been and where they are. 
You know what God's saying and 

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he's saying still yet today 
God's saying it doesn't have to 

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be this way. 
You hear me child of God, you 

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hear me Sir, you hear me ma'am, 
hear me whoever you are, 

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whatever's going through your 
mind, it doesn't have to be it 

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doesn't have to be this way. 
There's let me state it in 

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different terms. 
There's no reason for you to 

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die. 
Maybe like your past said, you 

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should die. 
Hey man, it doesn't have to end 

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that way. 
It echoes, if you will, even in 

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the New Testament Scripture, 
it's stated and I've already 

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quoted the this verse in second 
Peter 39, God said I'm not 

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willing that any should perish, 
but that all should come to 

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repentance. 
Repentance can cancel a pass of 

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wickedness. 
It can, as scripture says, bring

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joy in heaven over one Sinner 
who repents Hey man, someone say

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Amen in part because what 
happens at repentance? 

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00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:29,360
Here's the thing, there's been 
so many discussions over the 

453
00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:32,920
years, people argued and there's
been controversy sometimes about

454
00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:35,120
we're in the process of the plan
of salvation. 

455
00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:39,000
Is the blood applied all right? 
Something a lot of people talk 

456
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:40,400
about. 
When is the blood applied? 

457
00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:44,200
If I use the Old Testament 
Tabernacle paralleling our plan 

458
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:50,280
of salvation of the altar, 
repentance, the labor baptism, 

459
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:54,440
the ark of the covenant, where 
the presence or Spirit of God 

460
00:29:54,840 --> 00:30:00,560
abode, it's then that I 
understand that at the altar 

461
00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:05,640
blood was present. 
It's where that animal was tied 

462
00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:08,720
many times to one of the horns 
of the altar and the blood 

463
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:12,520
letting took place. 
Blood was there, but that priest

464
00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:13,720
didn't leave the blood at the 
altar. 

465
00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:17,320
He carried it also with him to 
the Laver, and the blood in the 

466
00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:21,680
water was the washing for the 
individual, but the blood didn't

467
00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:24,000
even stay there. 
The Bible says there was a 

468
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:26,880
portion of that blood that was 
taken into the holiest of holies

469
00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:29,520
where the presence of God was, 
and it was sprinkled upon the 

470
00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:31,520
mercy seat. 
And so there was blood there. 

471
00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:34,640
So in my estimation, well, the 
blood only happens when you 

472
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:37,040
receive the no, no, no, no, 
we're, we're covered in blood 

473
00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:40,080
from the beginning to the end. 
From the beginning to end 

474
00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:41,760
there's blood. 
As a matter of fact, Hebrews and

475
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:44,320
both of the Leviticus say, and 
you know this, that without the 

476
00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:49,680
shedding of there is no 
remission of sin. 

477
00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:55,960
In essence, it is the blood that
puts the power in our 

478
00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:58,440
repentance. 
I know what this means. 

479
00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:01,160
You know what this means and I 
need a nerd out just for a 

480
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:01,800
moment. 
OK? 

481
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:04,320
I'm presently reading a book on 
parasites. 

482
00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:08,400
I know it's probably a lot of 
not a lot of people's Forte, but

483
00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:11,680
it's quite intriguing to me. 
And that is all it's about. 

484
00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:14,040
Brothers act is parasites, How 
they get in the body, how they 

485
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:16,240
control, how they get another 
host. 

486
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:18,440
All the scientific name. 
The whole thing is about 

487
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:20,480
parasites. 
Sometimes I go to bed, my skin's

488
00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:27,840
crawling just a little bit. 
I've been reading about these 

489
00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:29,640
parasites. 
I'll probably get a message out 

490
00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:36,440
of it, but whenever I was 
reading about certain parasites 

491
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:39,680
and different ones, it gave me 
another perspective. 

492
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:43,080
Of course, many of you know 
parasites, just an Organism that

493
00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:45,280
lives on another Organism, 
right? 

494
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:48,800
Uses it as its host, right? 
It derives its nutrients and the

495
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:51,240
benefits for itself from 
something else. 

496
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:53,920
Many times it's causing harm to 
whatever it's on. 

497
00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:59,360
In order to get that in my 
reading again, just allow me to 

498
00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:04,320
nerd out here for a moment. 
Some parasites invade red blood 

499
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:06,680
cells. 
So the parasite is the bad 

500
00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:10,600
thing, right? 
It invades red blood cells 

501
00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:15,160
because scientists say red blood
cells is a good place for a 

502
00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:20,960
parasite to hide. 
The book tells me that red blood

503
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:24,520
cells don't have genes and so 
they can't make what's called 

504
00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:28,080
MHC molecules. 
It is MHC molecules in your body

505
00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:32,680
that cells will make to identify
a virus or a bacteria and that 

506
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:35,080
signals off the immune system to
go and attack. 

507
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:40,360
But red blood cells won't show 
that identity. 

508
00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:45,480
It just conceals it. 
They have no way. 

509
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:48,440
Red blood cells have no way of 
showing what's inside them. 

510
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:52,320
Now I know for that whole 
purpose that's very negative, 

511
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:59,800
but it brings a lot of sense to 
me why the blood is used in the 

512
00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:03,120
covering of something negative 
of your life. 

513
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:11,720
Because the blood doesn't show, 
those red blood cells won't 

514
00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:16,760
reveal what they're covering, 
what they're hiding, what 

515
00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:18,880
they've internalized. 
Hallelujah. 

516
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:22,080
I know it's not helpful for our 
immune systems on the real 

517
00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:26,600
parasite side, but the fact that
something that is destructive 

518
00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:30,480
and something that has negative 
connotations can be hidden 

519
00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:34,440
inside of a red blood cell and 
not detected has this. 

520
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:39,000
Oh boy, appreciating the blood 
of the Lord Jesus Christ at 

521
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:43,960
repentance, that hides me and 
conceals my past wickedness, 

522
00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:47,920
doesn't make it, doesn't show 
it, but gives me. 

523
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:56,920
That's not just in a spiritual 
thought, that's a physiological 

524
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:07,240
truth. 
What did the apostle say in 

525
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:14,360
Colossians 3 and three? 
He said our life is hidden with 

526
00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:19,120
Christ in God. 
Did you hear me writing down our

527
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:22,040
life, your life? 
What has been your life? 

528
00:34:22,639 --> 00:34:24,360
Well, let's bring up the past 
portfolio. 

529
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:27,840
This has been your life and that
has been your life and this has 

530
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:31,040
been your life. 
Hold on, Bo, when we intersected

531
00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:40,199
with Christ, that life was hid 
with Christ in God. 

532
00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:42,600
What's that mean? 
Oh, the past portfolio says 

533
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:44,520
Reese this, Reese that, Reese 
this, Reese that. 

534
00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:48,080
Oh, negative, negative, negative
damage, trauma, all these 

535
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:52,520
things. 
But a few weeks now ago when you

536
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:56,199
received the baptism of the Holy
Ghost and you've been down and 

537
00:34:56,199 --> 00:34:59,160
you've been buried in Jesus name
and a life of repentance. 

538
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:02,840
We go back to the portfolio and 
we don't have access to that 

539
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:05,320
because your life is head with 
Christ. 

540
00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:12,640
You're gone. 
Someone say Amen. 

541
00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:18,080
He says I'm not going to I'm not
going to take those sins that 

542
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:21,160
that you evidently committed. 
I'm not going to credit them to 

543
00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:26,240
you not going to place them on 
your account, huh. 

544
00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:31,080
He said they're not going to be 
mentioned to you. 

545
00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:32,040
That's what is it. 
You'll say. 

546
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:38,520
They're not going to be 
mentioned to you or charged to 

547
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:43,720
you, neither now or for that 
matter, even the day of 

548
00:35:43,720 --> 00:35:47,360
judgement. 
Not by way of accusation, not 

549
00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:50,640
way of complaint, not way of 
condemnation. 

550
00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:52,680
Why? 
Because it didn't happen. 

551
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:55,720
No, but there's something 
different happening now. 

552
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:07,800
No matter someone say man, no 
matter how far we've gone, your 

553
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:18,510
past sister Ray doesn't 
determine your future here. 

554
00:36:18,630 --> 00:36:25,590
This next phrase clearly God 
does not judge us by Mike Trout,

555
00:36:25,590 --> 00:36:33,310
who've we been but who we are 
becoming is am I hearing me? 

556
00:36:35,870 --> 00:36:40,000
Who are you becoming today? 
The Bible says Paul said to the 

557
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:42,080
Church of Corinth. 
This is a verse we all need to 

558
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:45,480
tuck in the back of our minds of
First Corinthians 4-5. 

559
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:47,840
He says if you got it for me, 
brother Mason, throw it up 

560
00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:49,520
there. 
Look at this first phrase. 

561
00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:59,880
Therefore, judge nothing before 
the time until the Lord comes. 

562
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:06,120
Tell you why? 
Because many of most of our 

563
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:12,560
judgments is based upon a 
snapshot of someone's life. 

564
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:19,040
A moment damned, forgiven, 
whatever. 

565
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:24,800
It's just a snapshot. 
God says don't judge too quickly

566
00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:27,600
because that life's not over 
yet. 

567
00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:32,640
Don't judge too quickly. 
They're not pushing up tulips in

568
00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:35,520
a graveyard somewhere yet. 
You know what God saying? 

569
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:39,920
I know all that you have record 
of right now is past wickedness,

570
00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:43,960
but they still got X number of 
years in their life and pre 

571
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:47,280
adventure between now and the 
day that I call them home. 

572
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:54,960
Somebody turns, turns, turns. 
Your judgment today will be not 

573
00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:58,160
sound at all because of a 
turning point. 

574
00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:00,800
That's so. 
Don't you judge too quickly. 

575
00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:05,320
Don't you judge prematurely. 
Don't you judge too soon because

576
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:08,480
their life's not over. 
There's still possibility, 

577
00:38:08,720 --> 00:38:12,200
there's still opportunity, 
there's still Providence for 

578
00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:15,920
change. 
Can I tell you today? 

579
00:38:16,720 --> 00:38:19,640
Let's just be real for a moment.
That works both ways. 

580
00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:23,600
What do you mean? 
Don't judge too quickly over the

581
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:30,120
one that you think is all 
righteous right now, the emblem 

582
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:36,480
of the godly, because their 
life's not over either. 

583
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:42,440
You're judging a snapshot right 
now, but God's going to take the

584
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:49,440
whole compendium of their life. 
He he's going to say, what were 

585
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:53,360
they doing? 
What was what was the last, what

586
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:55,560
were some of the last events of 
their life? 

587
00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:59,320
Where, where? 
That's right, sister, where did 

588
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:02,840
they end up at? 
Not not where they started, but 

589
00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:09,920
where did they finish at someone
say man and just as much as my 

590
00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:13,840
sin could snap through something
from me that looks like a model 

591
00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:17,040
Christian today. 
If I give in to my repentance 

592
00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:22,120
can change a life of sin, a life
of heartache, a wrong decision, 

593
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:26,040
a bad mistake. 
Don't judge me too quickly. 

594
00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:33,560
Scripture goes on to say I don't
have time to work all of this, 

595
00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:41,320
but as as as God even towed 
Samuel when he's going through 

596
00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:44,720
the boys of Jesse who should be 
king. 

597
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:47,960
He said God looks not on the 
outward appearance that looks on

598
00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:50,160
the heart. 
That doesn't mean that the 

599
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:51,520
outward appearance is null and 
void. 

600
00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:52,720
We shouldn't pay attention to 
it. 

601
00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:55,920
All that means is that's all man
can see. 

602
00:39:57,960 --> 00:40:03,840
But God sees deeper than that. 
And when we talk about either 

603
00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:05,360
sides of this fence, 
righteousness or 

604
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:08,600
unrighteousness? 
God peers beyond what the 

605
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:13,560
exterior is showing. 
AM I OK? 

606
00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:22,320
I fear a day of judgement where 
I had all the external facade of

607
00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:25,560
Christianity. 
But I have a heart of iniquity. 

608
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:29,040
Brother Fred don't know about 
that. 

609
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:36,600
I'm the model Christian him, but
God does don't judge too quickly

610
00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:43,160
because there's some things 
you're not aware of, but equally

611
00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:47,440
as so when you think someone so 
far from God, you don't know the

612
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:49,080
ponderings that's going on in 
their heart. 

613
00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:56,280
It sometimes it might take a 
little bit for the exterior to 

614
00:40:56,280 --> 00:41:01,480
catch up with what's going on on
the inside, but God is seeing. 

615
00:41:01,720 --> 00:41:04,520
God is blowing the breath of air
into those cells. 

616
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:08,240
God is flaying, fanning the 
ember of that fire. 

617
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:18,240
Don't judge a matter too quick 
as our judgments can be 

618
00:41:18,240 --> 00:41:23,520
deceptive. 
God sees the potential for 

619
00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:27,160
change. 
He sees the hidden turning 

620
00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:28,720
points that we may not be aware 
of. 

621
00:41:30,720 --> 00:41:33,840
So Ezekiel's message is 
basically really clear to me is 

622
00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:36,440
that there's always a chance to 
reverse the course. 

623
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:38,840
There's always a chance to 
recover. 

624
00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:41,520
There's always a chance to start
anew. 

625
00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:45,600
Our sins at once, Amen, covered 
by the blood of the Lord Jesus 

626
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:48,840
Christ, are never mentioned 
again. 

627
00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:53,560
He said In Christ we find that 
refuge that covers our past and 

628
00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:58,160
it transforms our future. 
You'll stand with me this 

629
00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:08,730
morning. 
We bow our heads on the echo in 

630
00:42:08,730 --> 00:42:15,530
your ear one more time that your
destiny is not determined by the

631
00:42:15,530 --> 00:42:20,930
past, but by the choices you 
make today. 

632
00:42:23,210 --> 00:42:26,090
So with that, I'm telling you 
this morning, this is your 

633
00:42:26,090 --> 00:42:29,490
moment. 
This is your moment. 

634
00:42:29,850 --> 00:42:35,160
This is your turning point. 
Just as God called to Israel and

635
00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:39,000
told them to turn and live, He's
calling to us on this Sunday 

636
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:42,280
morning, even now. 
And I'm asking anybody that may 

637
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:46,560
be in that conflicted spot 
today, will you answer? 

638
00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:50,920
Will you choose to break free 
from the bonds, if you will, of 

639
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:56,280
that stain of the past and step 
into a grace that hides your 

640
00:42:56,280 --> 00:43:00,280
failures in the blood of the 
Lord Jesus Christ? 

641
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:03,040
Hey, man, the time. 
If I'd say it today, the time 

642
00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:06,400
for changes now, Paul said it in
the New Testament. 

643
00:43:06,520 --> 00:43:11,480
He said today is the day of 
salvation and now is the 

644
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:15,320
acceptable time. 
Hey man, the time for changes 

645
00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:17,640
now. 
You don't have to die, if you 

646
00:43:17,640 --> 00:43:22,360
will, in your sins. 
You can turn and let God rewrite

647
00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:26,480
your story. 
He's saying this morning I hear 

648
00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:30,120
the voice of heaven telling us 
it doesn't have to end the way 

649
00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:32,160
that you think it's going to 
end. 

650
00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:34,640
So don't stay stuck in your 
shame. 

651
00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:38,240
Don't stay stuck in your guilt 
or your regret. 

652
00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:41,640
Because I'm telling you today, 
just as much as the Lord's arms 

653
00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:46,040
were strung to east to West, 
Amen, or north to South at 

654
00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:51,600
opposites from his body, His 
redemption doors swung open just

655
00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:55,280
as wide this morning. 
And he's inviting whosoever will

656
00:43:55,760 --> 00:44:01,000
turn, step through it. 
Make this the moment that alters

657
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:06,120
everything in your life, the day
that you turn from your past and

658
00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:10,720
embrace the life that God is 
waiting Amen to give and offer 

659
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:15,840
you turn is the is is the 
constant voice of Ezekiel turn 

660
00:44:16,240 --> 00:44:20,120
and live. 
Turn and live because somebody's

661
00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:24,680
future can really start today. 
Somebody's future can really 

662
00:44:24,680 --> 00:44:31,080
start today, Sir, man, God, God 
is so long-suffering, patient 

663
00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:33,480
and kind. 
I do not even have the 

664
00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:38,680
vocabulary or the intellectual 
ability to put it into words 

665
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:42,360
about the long-suffering, 
patience and mercy of God. 

666
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:46,960
And I can tell you today, as 
much as you can think of how 

667
00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:50,960
profound it may be or what 
extent it will go, understand 

668
00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:52,600
this. 
It's always going further than 

669
00:44:52,600 --> 00:45:01,120
what you can even comprehend. 
Righteous or unrighteous, life 

670
00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:03,760
can change on the hinge of a 
solitary moment. 

671
00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:07,400
Can change on the hinge of a 
solitary moment. 

672
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:11,000
This altar is open this morning.
Whosoever will. 

673
00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:13,640
Maybe someone needs to meet a 
turning point today. 

674
00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:16,400
Just turn around a curve or turn
around the corner. 

675
00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:19,600
Hallelujah, just a corner of a 
curve. 

676
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:23,400
Maybe there's some things that 
need to be put under that blood 

677
00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:27,280
that will conceal and not reveal
what is in it, no matter how 

678
00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:30,000
negative or bad it may be. 
It's it's a concealer. 

679
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:32,600
It's a hider of those things. 
Maybe, maybe someone needs to 

680
00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:37,440
step into that bloodline today. 
Maybe your life needs hid with 

681
00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:45,760
Christian God. 
Your past righteousness cannot 

682
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:51,240
deliver you when you sin any 
more than your past wickedness 

683
00:45:51,240 --> 00:45:55,600
can. 
Damn you when you repent, 

684
00:45:56,360 --> 00:46:00,640
there's hope today. 
There's hope today for the 

685
00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:02,280
Mason. 
If you can take us to a song 

686
00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:04,720
right now, I wish you'd be 
mindful of the Lord. 

687
00:46:04,720 --> 00:46:16,040
I feel his spirit here. 
I feel his spirit here.