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It's good to see everyone that's
here this morning. 

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We appreciate your presence and 
certainly this morning is a 

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blessing it's a blessing. 
And you know, with when we talk 

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about blessings, really, we 
don't recognize a blessing till 

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there, a problem presents 
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We sometimes we don't stop 
encounter blessing because we 

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have so many blessings. 
And in other people in other 

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parts of the world may be 
recognized a blessing, because 

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they aren't as blessed as we 
are. 

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But we are blessed this morning 
but I want to concentrate for a 

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few moments this morning about 
the blessings of the Cross and 

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the crucifixion just for a few 
moments. 

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We can only recognize the 
blessings of the Cross because 

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We sometimes need to know about 
the severity of the problems 

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before the cross and one of the 
problems was with the Old Law, 

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the law of Moses was an 
imperfect law. 

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It was a law, that was 
incomplete. 

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It was a law that could not take
away sin. 

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It couldn't we couldn't meet all
the demands of the Old Law. 

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Notice in Hebrews, attend 
chapter in verses 1 through 4 

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for the law, talking about the 
Mosaic whole law, having a 

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shadow of good things. 
To come and not the very image 

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of the things can never with 
these same sacrifices, which 

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they offer continually 
year-by-year. 

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Make those who approach. 
Perfect for then would they have

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cease to be offered? 
For the worshippers. 

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Once per purified, what have had
no more conscience of sin? 

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But in those sacrifices, there 
is a reminder of sins every year

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for it is not possible that the 
blood of bulls and of goats 

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could take away sins. 
So there's a problem. 

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What's the solution? 
The solution in the blessing is 

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that the cross freed us from the
bondage of sin. 

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And from that imperfect law, 
notice they'll going on in the 

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ninth verse of the same chapter 
Hebrews 10 verses 9 through 14. 

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Then he said behold I have come 
to do your Will O God he takes 

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away the first that he may 
establish the second by that 

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will we have been Sanctified 
through the offering of the 

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body? 
Of Jesus Christ, once for all in

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every priest stands, ministering
daily and offering repeatedly, 

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the same sacrifices, which can 
never take away sins. 

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But this man after he had 
offered one sacrifice for sins 

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forever set down at the right 
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From that time waiting, till his
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for by one offering. 
He has perfected forever. 

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Those who are being Sanctified, 
there's a solution to the 

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problem the blessing of the 
Cross. 

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Well next let's notice that we 
are dead in sin, we were dead in

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sin and that is a problem, 
Ephesians 2 and verses 2 through

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3. 
And you, he made alive who were 

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dead in trespasses and sins in 
which you once walked, according

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to the course of this world, 
according to the prince of the 

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power of the air, the spirit, 
who now works in the sons of 

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Disobedience among whom. 
Also, we all once conducted 

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ourselves in the lusts of our 
flesh, fulfilling the desires of

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the Flesh, and of the mind, and 
we're by Nature children of 

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Wrath. 
Just as the others. 

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That's a problem. 
What's the solution? 

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What's the blessing? 
Listen to the solution to the 

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problem as he goes on to verses 
four through seven. 

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But God, who is rich in Mercy? 
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which he loved us, even when we 
were dead in trespasses, made us

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alive together with Christ and 
raised us up together and made 

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us sit together in the Heavenly 
places in Christ Jesus that the 

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ages to come. 
He might show the exceeding 

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Riches of his grace and his 
kindness toward us in Christ 

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Jesus. 
So there's the blessing because 

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we're dead in sin were made 
alive in Christ. 

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That's the solution. 
That's the blessing. 

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Another problem is that sin 
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We're all, we've all sinned and 
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God. 
Romans 2, 3, and verse 23, but 

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the cross Takes that separation 
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Into Christ, Ephesians 2 and 
verse 13. 

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But now in Christ Jesus who were
once were, who once were afar 

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off, have been brought near by 
the blood of Christ, again, a 

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solution of blessing in the 
cross and the crucifixion. 

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Lastly. 
There's a problem that without 

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Christ, there is no hope, 
Ephesians 2, and verse 12. 

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That at the time, ye were 
without Christ, being aliens, 

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from the Commonwealth of Israel 
and strangers from the covenants

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of problem of Promise having no 
hope. 

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And without God in the world, 
that's a big problem. 

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That's a big problem. 
No, hope we had we just gave a 

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lesson not too long ago about 
Hope and without hope means that

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there's desperation, there's 
despair. 

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There is there's no future. 
There's nothing to look forward 

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to and this hasn't wishful 
thinking, as we've said, this is

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a hope that is something that is
guaranteed to the Christian, but

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here's the blessing. 
With the Christ's death and 

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burial and Resurrection, the 
Christian has the hope of 

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inheritance First. 
Peter 1 verses 3 through 4. 

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Blessed. 
Be the god of our father and our

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Lord Jesus Christ. 
Who according to His, abundant 

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Mercy, has begotten us again to 
a Living Hope through the 

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resurrection of Jesus Christ. 
From the dead to an inheritance 

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Incorruptible and undefiled and 
that does not fade away. 

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Reserved in heaven for you 
notice also John 3 and verse 16 

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for God. 
So loved the world that he gave 

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his only begotten son, that 
whosoever believeth In him 

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should not perish but have 
everlasting life. 

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Those are the blessings that we 
have in the cross and the 

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crucifixion and the death burial
and resurrection of Jesus 

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Christ. 
What blessings? 

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What wonderful blessings. 
We have the blessing to be able 

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to gather together this morning 
to remember Jesus. 

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And what he did for us we have a
blessing being able to come 

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together as a body of Christ and
we even though we worry about 

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someone maybe stepping through 
this door, what a blessing we 

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have this morning in Christ. 
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