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It's great to be here with all 
of you. 

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Today, we have a wonderful crowd
as has been mentioned. 

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It is Mother's Day, we're very 
thankful for recognizing mothers

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and we recognize them everyday 
there, that special in our life.

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I'm honored to be your speaker 
and I hope that what we have to 

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consider for a little while this
morning would be encouraging to 

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you and edifying to you in some 
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This morning, we're continuing 
our series on the great Sermon 

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on the Mount. 
And as I've said, many times, it

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was the greatest sermon ever 
preached. 

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We talked about the reasons why 
I believe it was the greatest 

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sermon ever. 
Preached will not go into that 

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this morning, but in particular,
the part of The Sermon on the 

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Mount, that we're going to 
continue to study, is the 

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Beatitudes in the Beatitudes 
cover, the first 12 verses of 

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The Gospel, according to Matthew
chapter 5, And today, our sermon

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is to be attitudes part 3. 
Let's just noticed very briefly 

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what we've noticed in the first 
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I'm going to very brief about 
this in review but they all flow

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together so we have to bring 
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This is what Jesus said when he 
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He first said, blessed are the 
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Kingdom of Heaven. 
If you want to go to heaven, you

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have to be poor in spirit. 
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means to be poor in spirit being
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Literally means I am destitute 
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I am nothing without God from a 
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I'm nothing without Jesus. 
I need Jesus. 

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In my life, I have a sin 
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I don't know what in the world's
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thing. 
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saying that I am some weakling 
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You're saying this, I have no 
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God, that is the source of my 
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perspective, I am spiritually 
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I need the Savior got a sin 
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two, Then Jesus said, blessed 
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what mourn over those since the 
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have against God? 
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guilt, I know we live in a 
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don't want us to be guilty about
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But guilt is good. 
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God does not want us to live in 
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He gave us a plan. 
Notice how it works, I'm poor in

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spirit. 
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something about it. 
There's a plan. 

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I obey the gospel I'm baptized 
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I Rise to walk in newness of 
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I'm forgiven and therefore I am 
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but there's more What about 
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You know what you're going to 
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You're going to mess up. 
You're going to send in your 

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verse 9, if you confess your 
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And just to forgive you of your 
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unrighteousness, even the 
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be removed, great stuff. 
I'm forgiven again when with 

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Godly sorrow and repentance. 
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comforted because I'm forgiven, 
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What about the things that we 
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everyday? 
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same things that we fall back to
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weaknesses. 
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There's a plan for that too. 
Love this James 5:16 confess 

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your faults, one to another and 
pray one for another that you 

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may be healed. 
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a righteous man avails much 
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one more The context of the 
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fractions against God morning. 
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But what about the things that 
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What about the Christian morning
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That's just really not fair. 
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The child of God is also 
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ultimately in control. 
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Are you seeing the picture? 
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relationship with God, and now 
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we have to have. 
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that every child of God, must 
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And that is the spirit of 
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Meekness you remember is not 
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It is the epitome, it is the 
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Jesus says, come unto me all ye 
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and I will give you rest, take 
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for, I am what I am meek and 
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find rest unto your souls. 
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burden is light. 
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the way, is the idea of being 
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It is a making a choice to put 
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others first in your life. 
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not weakness, its strength, it 
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staying power and courage to 
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That's all part of meekness. 
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yourself of all your 
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brother prayed in our prayer. 
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I got a gigantic void in my 
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God blesses those that fill that
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in order to fill that void with 
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hunger and thirst after it. 
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that, you will be filled, 
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And that's through the word of 
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Remember we talked about that 
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It's a word that actually is a 
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fattening of animals in the 
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You got the word of God, you 
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That's how you find out about 
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it yourself with the word of 
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That's the first four Beatitudes
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Matthew, Chapter 5 and now we 
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All these are building on one 
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All these are intermingling with
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Jesus says in Matthew 5 and 
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Here, it is. 
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I got to tell you something. 
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importance of having Mercy to 
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Do not become unmerciful to 
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Do not think that you kind of 
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maybe if somebody else is a 
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struggling or babe in Christ, 
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just don't get it, be very 
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Have mercy. 
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I'm going to make a couple bold 
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Number one. 
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in the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, 
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show Mercy to others. 
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you can't show Mercy to other 
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spirit. 
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go to heaven, you got to be poor
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If you're not, merciful, you're 
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what I mean. 
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those who in poverty of spirit 
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and are led to show Mercy to 
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Citizenship in the kingdom comes
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works. 
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beginning in verse 4. 
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because of his great love with 
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were dead in trespasses made us 
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Grace, you have been saved. 
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Mercy, love, kindness, 
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And Grace all go together. 
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That's what God has done for us 
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Jesus Christ's Mercy. 
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Grace all, go hand-in-hand. 
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of our appreciation for that, 
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We have to be the same way to 
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Beginning, in verse 14, for, if 
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trespasses, your heavenly father
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you do not forgive men, their 
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father, forgive your trespasses.
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blessings from God, don't you 
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little memory jogger? 
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appreciate that so much, that 
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somebody else too. 
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forgiveness in just a minute. 
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you know, the amazing thing is 
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Mercy, he is speaking to people 
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the people that lived in a Roman
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New very, very little about 
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In fact, the Roman world was 
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domination and human and Justice
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unmanned leanest. 
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this, Mercy is the disease of 
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I can't even imagine living in 
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One scholar. 
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this to despise Mercy is to 
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It's the flip side of that. 
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Luke chapter 23. 
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Gethsemane. 
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sorrowful even unto death. 
He prays to his father, three 

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pass from me. 
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done. 
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if there's no other way except I
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Your will be done. 
We know the story. 

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He's beaten and scourged a 
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He's taking a got this brow, 
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You remember what Jesus said? 
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said anything but this is what 
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He said, father, forgive them. 
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You know what? 
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cross. 
Because of Mercy. 

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He forgave them. 
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folks, my whole life, I've heard
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life. 
I'm not going to forgive until 

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they beg my forgiveness. 
I've heard that Number two, I'm 

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not allowed to forgive until 
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Do you know that none of those 
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Book chapter verse, let me have 
it and it in there. 

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What's in there is God doesn't 
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we're not talking about God, 
weird about you. 

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Did you know that you could 
forgive someone of anything? 

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You want to forgive them up for 
any reason you want to do it, it

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is never ever wrong to forgive. 
And by the way, there's a 

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wonderful blessing or a positive
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In forgiving someone that has 
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have not asked what you're 
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I'm not going to be negatively 
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to me anymore. 
I'm going to let it go. 

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And people that say, I'm not 
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that easy. 
No, you're not letting them off 

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the hook, you're letting you off
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Let It Go. 
What a better way to live in it.

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What about Steven? 
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death. 
He looks up into the heavens in 

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the Bible, says the heavens were
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And he saw Jesus standing on the
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And Stephen said Lord lay not 
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Now they still had to answer to 
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Don't misunderstand me. 
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forgave why? 
He was merciful. 

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He showed Mercy. 
All right, I'm gonna get very 

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specific and very practical. 
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practical. 
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What is the Practical benefit of
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Jesus says, blessed are the 
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Mercy. 
All right. 

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Those who show Mercy or promised
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witnessed by the way, into 
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those who show Mercy are 
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other people at least within 
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merciful person in the world, it
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to treat you that way. 
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are going to see the Promise 
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There is a promise that you're 
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measure of it. 
You know what I'm talking about.

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If you're an unmerciful person, 
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Mercy. 
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although when it comes from God,
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within measure. 
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measure? 
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Look at this for judgment is 
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in the Old King James, and it 
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against to exalt over or boast 
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Judgment two things, though, 
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encapsulated in that we don't 
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Judgment, it's only when a 
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threat of judgment because it 
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to condemn. 
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demonstrate itself in action. 
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James 1:27, a very familiar 
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religion before God and the 
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orphans and widows in their 
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unspotted, from the world. 
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The point is this, we have to be
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We just said that, we get it. 
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How do you do that with your 

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attitude? 
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to make a point about attitude. 
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You may say, I don't do bad 
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true. 
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I'm talking to all of us now 
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We can all fall into that Trap, 
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Let's all of us, me too. 
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It could never happen to me. be 
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heed, lest you also be tempted 
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never happen to us, and we have 
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We just messed up. 
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condescending attitude. 
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attitudes and actions as well. 
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merciful for they shall obtain 
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verse 8, he said Blessed are the
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God? 
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Christianity. 
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I'm going to a little bit of a 
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different spin today, may be a 
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maybe I'm not spoke about. 
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actually how this is to because 
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heart, right? 
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her. 
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about how you get it. 
How do you get a pure heart? 

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How do you know if you have one 
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For they shall see God, it has 
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It has to debt, has to manifest 
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inside. 
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to be merciful. 
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motivation behind the act. 
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motivation behind the ACT. 
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were notorious for outward. 
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Outward shows of piety, look at 
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your motive is wrong and it 
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it comes from being patted on 
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recognition of men, Jesus says, 
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reward meaning you're not 
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whatever pat on the back man, 
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going to get when the motive is 
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don't have time to go into that,
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very briefly, The scribes and 
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about keeping the Traditions. 
Keeping the law for the wrong 

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reason to be seen of men. and 
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you are, you are like 
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now briefly briefly, After the 
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would come with the lime powder.
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they would paint the grapes in 
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touching a grave before the 
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So people would come in I read 
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into Jerusalem and all of these 
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countryside and on the outside 
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and shining in the sun right? 
We know that what did Jesus say?

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Oh but inside your Dead Man's 
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It wasn't the right motive. 
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sepulchers. 
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your desires to be seen of men. 
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heart and ironically, by looking
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missing God, one scholar said it
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There's is the fragile reward of
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Eternal reward. 
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I got a taste of this 
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people that do a lot of 
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people acts of service. 
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And I know for a fact because I 
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the praise, the glory, or the 
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I know that of you. 
So now, I'm going to make this 

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next Point, show you the 
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I'm not talking to you. 
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brothers and sisters in Christ. 
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But this is what Jesus threw out
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This is what happens when you do
things to be seen of men is what

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Jesus says. 
So when you're going to do great

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things, great do it. 
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verse 1, take heed that you do 
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before men to be seen by them. 
Otherwise you have no reward 

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from your father in Heaven. 
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charitable deed do not stand, do
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Before you as the Hypocrites, do
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streets that they may have Glory
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you, they have their a reward. 
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The blasting of the trumpet, you
remember this, there was those 

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13 trumpet shape coffers that 
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treasury. 
They rich people put the money 

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in, right? 
They would bring a trumpet ear 

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and blast the trumpet, look what
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The Lord was so practical. 
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doing you giving, don't sound 
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just do the deed. 
That's pure in heart for the 

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right motive, for the right 
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Okay. 
Jesus says, those that are truly

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pure in heart, this is 
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If you want to see God, you got 
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Jesus says, blessed are the pure
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Now you're the picture here is 
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office, or the extremely 
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King and spiritually. 
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who come into God's presence are
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meticulously perform, but those 
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Now, I got to tell you this. 
If you are personally pure, it 

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will manifest itself in 
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I'm not saying we need to not 
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I'm not saying we that the 
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come into God's presence and 
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And those that are going to see 
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those. 
That necessarily just check the 

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boxes and meticulously perform 
one thing after another guy, got

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it. 
I'm in. 

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It's those that are pure inside.
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Where Christ is formed in them. 
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How do you have a pure heart? 
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How do you have it? 
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He will draw near to you. 
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going to get to what that 
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So I'm going to tell you what it
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Not mean. 
Drawing Near to God is not just 

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somebody that says I love God 
and talks about God and says 

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words of Praise about God, but 
lives their life, any way they 

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want to live but they feel as 
though they have a relationship 

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with God. 
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God and they feel like I'm 
drawing near to him because of 

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that. 
That's not what it means to draw

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near to God. 
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If I want God to be near me, I 
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How do I do that? 
To have a pure heart. 

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I have to draw near to God the 
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It conveys the thought of 
entering into communion with God

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as acceptable worshippers if I 
want to have a relationship with

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God and I want to draw near to 
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So he draws near to me. 
I have to be an acceptable 

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worshipper of his. 
That's number one. and, you 

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know, in the church, We are a 
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That's what we are. 
You know, that means practically

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speaking. 
That means every Christian has 

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not only the ability but the 
responsibility of bringing 

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spiritual sacrifices before God,
and that's through our life. 

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That's through our life that's 
through worship. 

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Every Christian is a priest. 
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verse 5. 
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Worship, it's going to Aid Us in
overcoming the world number one,

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but number two, it's going to 
help us with a pure heart. 

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If somebody says, well, I'm 
struggling with my Pure Heart. 

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Well, maybe it's because they're
not Drawing Near to God. 

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How do you draw near to God as 
an acceptable worshipper of him?

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But there's more. 
Then he says this. 

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You got to cleanse your hands. 
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from the defilement of sin and 
false to purify from wickedness,

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according to Thayer. 
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You know what this means, folks.
This just means this if I really

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want to draw near to God and I 
want to have a pure heart, I 

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want all that stuff, I got to 
remove the simple stuff in my 

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life and any time, the word 
hands is used and that's the 

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reason it's used here. 
By the way, hands is a figure of

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Deeds. 
So if I'm doing Deeds that are 

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sinful, I need to stop doing 
those deeds and that's called 

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cleansing. 
My hands. 

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You know, at some point in time,
forgiveness is about is endless.

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If we repent every time and ask 
God to forgive us, that is true.

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But at some time, at some point,
we need to make the determined 

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resolve. 
I'm not going to do that 

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anymore. 
That's called cleansing your 

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hands, removing the sinful deed 
in your life. 

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Take it away. 
Stop doing it. 

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You've heard me say this before?
My dad got sick and tired of me 

451
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doing the same stuff over and 
over by me. 

452
00:25:17,608 --> 00:25:19,300
He says, why don't you be sorry 
before you do it? 

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Ouch. 
He was right. 

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Be sorry before you do it. 
Cleanse your hands. 

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Remove the evil Deeds. 
That's number two. 

456
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That's what's required. 
Now, the idea here, by the way, 

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the illusion goes back to the 
practice of the priests in 

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approaching God, in Exodus 
chapter 30, washing their hands 

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carefully in the Tabernacle, but
the cleansing from dirt was a 

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ritual foreshadowing of 
figurative cleansing that 

461
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Christians must do to approach 
God and that is get the sins out

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of our life. 
Hands are symbolic of Deeds. 

463
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Okay, then us. 
What else do we got to do? 

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Then you got to purify your 
heart. 

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Under the Old Law, they were 
concerned about ceremonially 

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being ceremonially clean around 
the time of the Passover, as 

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we've already noticed. 
But here we're not talking about

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being ceremonially clean. 
We're talking about being 

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morally clean from sin 
purifying, our hearts. 

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That's the inner man. 
So how does it all work? 

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I want to have a pure heart, I 
want to see God, that's what 

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Jesus said. 
Here's how you do, it cleanse 

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your hands and your Deeds, 
change your life, remove the 

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evil deeds and the sinful things
in your life. 

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Remove those things purify, your
hearts, your inner life and 

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approach. 
God, acceptably and acceptable 

477
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worship and you will have a pure
heart. but then, in James 4, and

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8, this last phrase here and I 
think sometimes this is a 

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struggle. 
You double-minded. 

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The double minded individual. 
Is the person who is constantly 

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bouncing back and forth. 
Between right and wrong. 

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If you're struggling in your 
life and I don't know if that's 

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you or not. 
I have no idea. but if you're 

484
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struggling with life, And you're
struggling with your spiritual 

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life. 
And you're bouncing back between

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right and wrong all the time. 
The problem is James says, 

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that's double-minded. 
The Bible talks about having 

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your mind, or your eye, be 
single in James 1 and verse 8. 

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He is a double-minded man, 
unstable in all his ways. 

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What is unstable in all his ways
means the word, unstable refers 

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to an individual, who is 
unsteady uncertain or fickle. 

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00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:55,900
It brings to mind a drunken man,
staggering or weaving. 

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So, I'm just saying this folks, 
that kind of Lifestyle will not 

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work, you're destined for 
failure. 

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00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:10,500
But there's an easy fix draw 
near to God, He will draw near 

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00:28:10,500 --> 00:28:13,000
to. 
You cleanse your hands, you 

497
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:16,700
sinners. 
Cleanse your hands and purify 

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00:28:16,700 --> 00:28:21,100
your hearts, you double-minded. 
That's what James says, and the 

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beauty of it is is Jesus says, 
blessed are the pure in heart 

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because guess what You're going 
to get to serve. 

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00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:30,300
You're going to get to see God. 
Remember Jesus says you can't 

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00:28:30,300 --> 00:28:34,600
serve two masters, okay? 
Got to have a pure heart. 

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00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:39,900
Then Jesus says this finally our
final verse in verse 9 Then he 

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says, this blessed are the 
peacemakers for they shall be 

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called the sons of God. 
The Lord here is describing the 

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rudimentary disposition of his 
subjects. 

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Jesus Christ. 
Is the Prince of Peace. 

508
00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:58,100
And do you know what he wants 
from us? 

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He wants us to be people of 
peace to. 

510
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I got to say something very 
positive about this congregation

511
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again. 
And I am thankful, and I don't 

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think we pray about this enough 
thanking God enough. 

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00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:20,200
This congregation is at peace 
and that is wonderful. 

514
00:29:22,100 --> 00:29:24,000
I know places that are not at 
peace. 

515
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:28,400
I've known places that really 
struggle over covid. 

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00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:32,900
Splits happened terrible things.
They were not at peace. 

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00:29:35,300 --> 00:29:39,500
I know what it did here for us. 
Manhattan bound us together. 

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00:29:40,700 --> 00:29:44,600
It strengthened our faith. 
It strengthened our bonds. 

519
00:29:47,300 --> 00:29:50,900
If a congregation is not at 
peace, you cannot grow. 

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00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:54,900
And congregations that are a 
turmoil. 

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All the time are not growing. 
Its destructive. 

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00:29:59,100 --> 00:30:02,200
So I'm very thankful this 
congregation is at peace and we 

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need to thank God for that and 
pray that it always will be that

524
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:09,400
So what does Jesus want? 
Jesus wants us to be proactive 

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in mending broken relationships.
Broken relationships that are in

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our life, you know, Jesus does 
not say, blessed are the peace 

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00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:22,900
lovers. 
He says blessed are the peace 

528
00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:28,200
makers. 
You may love peace. 

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You may enjoy its benefits. 
But never involve yourself in 

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the process. 
Okay. 

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How can you be a peacemaker and 
I'm going to touch on this first

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one at the very end. 
I'm going to make a little 

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00:30:40,500 --> 00:30:43,200
clarification point at the end, 
but I'm going to give the two 

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basic statements of this of how 
you become a peacemaker. 

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Number one, You must actively 
seek to restore. 

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Broken relationships between 
your fellow, man. 

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00:30:56,900 --> 00:31:01,200
I'm going to clarify that later.
But that's a fact. 

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00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:05,000
If you want to be at peace, you 
have to mend broken 

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00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:08,600
relationships. 
If there's stuff going on 

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00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:12,400
between you and somebody else 
fix it, Be at peace. 

541
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That's number one. 
Another way we could be a 

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peacemaker and we must be a 
peacemaker. 

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00:31:16,900 --> 00:31:20,400
Is this number two? 
We must seek to bring our 

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00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:23,600
neighbor to at peace with God 
through obedience to the gospel.

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00:31:24,900 --> 00:31:27,800
So Jesus is the Prince of Peace.
He wants us to be like his 

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00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:29,900
subjects. 
He wants us to be like, God in 

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00:31:29,900 --> 00:31:32,600
that regard. 
How do we do that? 

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Be at peace among each other. 
And bring people by the power of

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the Gospel, so that they could 
be at peace with God. 

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00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:44,200
Let me give you two versus acts 
10 and verse 36, the word, which

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God said to the children of 
Israel preaching, peace through 

552
00:31:48,500 --> 00:31:51,300
Jesus Christ. 
He is Lord of all another 

553
00:31:51,300 --> 00:31:55,100
passage, Ephesians chapter 6 and
verse 15 and having shod your 

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00:31:55,100 --> 00:31:58,300
feet with the preparation of the
gospel of peace. 

555
00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:02,200
So in every relationship, we 
have to seek peace. 

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00:32:04,100 --> 00:32:08,200
Husband and wife. 
Relationships in the church. 

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00:32:10,100 --> 00:32:12,300
And relationships with people 
outside of the church. 

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00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:16,800
Got to do our best. 
To be at peace. 

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00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:22,000
Jesus says, blessed are the 
peacemakers God loves peace, and

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00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,600
He blesses, those who make it. 
In fact, James says the 

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00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:26,700
following about peace and James 
3 and 18. 

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00:32:27,100 --> 00:32:30,600
Now, the fruit of righteousness 
is sown in Peace by those who 

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00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:34,400
make peace in addition. 
Paul said this in first 

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00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:36,400
Thessalonians, chapter 5 and 
verse 13. 

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00:32:36,500 --> 00:32:39,400
And to esteem them. 
Very highly in love for their 

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work sake. 
Be at peace among yourselves. 

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00:32:46,100 --> 00:32:49,700
Jesus says this. 
The benefit of being a 

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00:32:49,700 --> 00:32:52,800
peacemaker. 
You're going to be called the 

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sons of God. 
The word Sons. 

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00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:58,100
There also is used there as an 
emphasis to describe a 

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relationship with your father. 
You may be a father. 

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00:33:05,300 --> 00:33:10,300
You may be a son, in general? 
We all are if you're a male. 

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Or you have been a father or 
son. 

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00:33:17,700 --> 00:33:20,800
But that's what we are 
continually because that's the 

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00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:23,200
relationship that we have. 
That is the picture here. 

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We're going to be the sons of 
God. 

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00:33:25,500 --> 00:33:27,400
We're gonna have a relationship 
with God. 

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00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:32,000
We're emulating our father just 
as God makes peace through his 

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00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:33,500
son. 
His children must live in peace 

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00:33:33,500 --> 00:33:37,600
with their fellow man. 
Now I got to say this, remember 

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00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:40,300
when I said I'm going to clarify
the point that I made about 

582
00:33:40,300 --> 00:33:42,500
mending broken relationships 
with other people because I'm 

583
00:33:42,508 --> 00:33:46,300
going to tell you something, you
may try and it may not work. 

584
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:48,900
And there's nothing you can do 
about it. 

585
00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:56,700
So, Romans 12 and 18, if it is 
possible as much as depends on, 

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00:33:56,800 --> 00:34:00,500
you live peaceably among all 
men. 

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00:34:02,300 --> 00:34:05,500
So ask yourself this. 
Am I doing my part? 

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00:34:06,500 --> 00:34:09,199
And having peace, mending broken
relationships. 

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00:34:10,300 --> 00:34:12,400
In all the relationships that I 
have in my life. 

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00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:14,199
Am I just doing my best to do 
that? 

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00:34:15,100 --> 00:34:17,900
Because you know what? 
And if you've done that don't 

592
00:34:17,900 --> 00:34:19,800
you see, it's kind of like, 
forgiveness, your ridding 

593
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:22,000
yourself of all the negative 
stuff. 

594
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:24,000
You're not going to be 
negatively influenced by that 

595
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:25,500
anymore. 
You're going to feel better and 

596
00:34:25,500 --> 00:34:27,600
live better do better. 
Everything's better. 

597
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:32,100
Let it go. 
Okay, in conclusion. 

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00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:34,600
What did Jesus say when put them
up really quickly? 

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00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:40,800
Again, I'll be very, very brief.
Blessed are the poor in spirit 

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00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:42,199
for theirs is the kingdom of 
heaven. 

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00:34:42,699 --> 00:34:45,300
I'm destitute without God, I'm 
destitute without Jesus, I gotta

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00:34:45,300 --> 00:34:46,600
send problem. 
Then what I'm going to mourn 

603
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:49,400
over those sins, I'm going to be
comforting because I'm going to 

604
00:34:49,408 --> 00:34:51,300
do something about it. 
I'm going to be forgiven when 

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00:34:51,300 --> 00:34:53,500
I'm washed in the blood of Jesus
at baptism. 

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00:34:54,199 --> 00:34:56,500
I'm going to be comforted. 
Furthermore I'm going to be 

607
00:34:56,500 --> 00:34:59,000
comforted when I repented those 
things and ask God to forgive 

608
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:01,300
me, I'm going to be forgiven. 
I'm going to be comforted moving

609
00:35:01,300 --> 00:35:04,800
forward, wonderful stuff. 
It's going to understand and 

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00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:07,000
give me the idea of being the 
spirit of meekness. 

611
00:35:07,300 --> 00:35:10,100
And Jesus says, I'll inherit the
earth and that means I'm going 

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00:35:10,100 --> 00:35:12,400
to inherit my allotted portion 
of Heaven, aren't you? 

613
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:14,700
Kind of get the point but when I
go to heaven, I gotta be poor in

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00:35:14,707 --> 00:35:16,400
spirit. 
If I don't be forgiven, I got a 

615
00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:18,600
moreover, my skin. 
I want to inherit the earth. 

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00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:21,000
Meaning I want to go to heaven. 
One day, I got to be meek. 

617
00:35:22,900 --> 00:35:24,700
Okay. 
What else I got to? 

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00:35:24,707 --> 00:35:27,400
Fill the void that I have deep 
inside of me with God's 

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00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:28,900
righteousness. 
That's through the word of God. 

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00:35:28,900 --> 00:35:30,200
I got a hunger and thirst after 
it. 

621
00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:32,900
Then what I'm going to 
understand that God has been 

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00:35:32,900 --> 00:35:35,000
merciful to me. 
So I'm going to be merciful to 

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00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:37,900
others, and I'm going to obtain 
that Mercy in measure from other

624
00:35:37,900 --> 00:35:43,700
people, and without measure from
God, It all stems from being 

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00:35:43,700 --> 00:35:47,200
pure in heart. 
And if I'm pure at heart, guess 

626
00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:50,800
what? 
Here's that theme again I get to

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00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:56,000
see God one day. 
And then it's going to cause me 

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00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:59,700
to be a peacemaker. 
And I'm going to be called a son

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00:35:59,700 --> 00:36:02,800
of God. 
Or the sons of God. 

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00:36:04,100 --> 00:36:07,300
Because I'm emulating my Father 
in heaven. 

631
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:10,700
I'm through this morning. 
Thank you so much for your kind 

632
00:36:10,700 --> 00:36:14,000
listening and I hope these 
things were helpful and 

633
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:18,200
encouraging to you in some way, 
we never close a time when we 

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00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:20,900
teach them the word of God 
without extending an invitation,

635
00:36:21,100 --> 00:36:23,900
and we'll do that. 
Now, here's the invitation. 

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00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:27,700
If a person wants to become a 
child of God, the steps are very

637
00:36:27,700 --> 00:36:32,900
simple and Romans 10:17, we need
to hear the word of God. 

638
00:36:32,900 --> 00:36:36,100
The Bible says, so then faith 
comes by hearing and hearing by 

639
00:36:36,100 --> 00:36:38,800
the word of God. 
But then there's more there's a 

640
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:42,000
choice to be made in Hebrews 11 
and verse 6. 

641
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,300
We have to believe with all your
heart without faith. 

642
00:36:44,300 --> 00:36:46,000
It's impossible to please him 
for. 

643
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:48,800
He who comes to God, must 
believe that he is, and that he 

644
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:51,700
is a rewarder of those who 
diligently seek him. 

645
00:36:52,300 --> 00:36:56,400
And then this, we must repent of
our Sins acts 17 and 30. 

646
00:36:56,500 --> 00:36:58,900
Truly these times of ignorance, 
God, overlooked. 

647
00:36:58,900 --> 00:37:01,100
But now commands all men 
everywhere to repent. 

648
00:37:01,100 --> 00:37:06,300
All that means is this I'm 
changing today, right here, I'm 

649
00:37:06,300 --> 00:37:10,500
changing and it's going to lead 
to a change of my life. 

650
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:14,300
And the best part is, it's going
to change my relationship with 

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00:37:14,300 --> 00:37:17,200
the Lord great stuff. 
If you're willing to do that, 

652
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:20,100
you're willing to do this. 
Say the greatest words you will 

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00:37:20,100 --> 00:37:23,400
ever. 
Say in all of your life acts 

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00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:27,400
8:37 to confess, Jesus Christ, 
as the Son of God, then Philip 

655
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:29,300
said, if you believe with all 
your heart, you may. 

656
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:33,700
And he answered and said, I 
believe that Jesus Christ is the

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00:37:33,700 --> 00:37:36,700
son of God. 
Upon taking those steps. 

658
00:37:36,700 --> 00:37:39,700
You're now a fit candidate to go
down to the point of Salvation 

659
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:42,500
and that's it. 
Baptism to have your sins washed

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00:37:42,500 --> 00:37:45,800
away. 
Mark 16:16, he who believes and 

661
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:49,300
is baptized, will be saved. 
But he, who does not believe 

662
00:37:49,700 --> 00:37:51,800
will be condemned. 
If you've never taken those 

663
00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:54,200
steps of obedience, and you've 
never become a child of God, 

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00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:55,700
we'd love to assist you in that 
today. 

665
00:37:55,700 --> 00:37:58,800
If you will, we'd love to do 
that for you and with you maybe 

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00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:01,100
a half, maybe you've straight 
away. 

667
00:38:01,100 --> 00:38:03,600
Maybe there are things in your 
life that you need to correct, 

668
00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:06,900
maybe haven't been living like 
you should Good, great thing. 

669
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Second law. 
Pardon just repent of those sins

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confess them and we'll pray with
you and for you, and God will 

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forgive and restore. 
We thank you for listening to 

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correspondence, course by mail. 
Please email us at info at her 

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Church of Christ Bakersfield 
Calm our service times are on 

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Sundays at 10:30 a.m. and 5 p.m.
and Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. 

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please, make plans to join us. 
We would love for you to be our 

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honored guest