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It's so good to be here with you
all this morning. 

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I on behalf of my family. 
I'd like to say that we are so 

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happy to be able to be here with
family friends. 

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Those I haven't seen in a very 
long time, You may count it your

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constitutional right? 
To gather here to worship, which

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it is in this country. 
But it's much more than that. 

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It's much more than just a 
constitutional ride. 

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It is a privilege of ours to be 
able to be here to be able to 

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gather together as Brothers and 
Sisters in Christ and worship 

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our Lord. 
Worship. 

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Our God. 
Our God truly has given us so 

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many gifts, so many things to be
thankful for in our lives every 

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single day. 
But this morning, I'd like to 

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talk to you about one gift. 
One thing that we hear of word 

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that we're familiar with its 
simple. 

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But on the other hand, it can be
very complicated and can turn 

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into a study, that takes an 
entire lifetime and and really 

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beyond that, something that we 
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comprehend. 
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reconciliation. 
We know that reconciliation is 

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good. 
We're happy. 

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When Children are reconciled to 
their parents when husbands are 

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reconciled to their wives when 
brothers and sisters, come 

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together and reconcile with each
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years. 
Every time we hear something 

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like that, that's great. 
We're very happy to hear that 

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people reconcile with each 
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And how much better it is in 
reconciliation with God. 

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That's a big word, six 
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But as we entered as I just 
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simple idea. 
That relationship between man 

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and God is even bigger than the 
word sick. 

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Second Corinthians chapter 5 and
verse 18, and 19 tells us and 

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all things are of God, who hath 
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Jesus Christ and hath given to 
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reconciliation to wit that God 
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Reconciling the world unto 
himself, not imputing their 

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trespasses unto them. 
It has committed unto us, the 

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word of reconciliation and we'll
do our best this morning to try 

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and explain this huge topic. 
This big thing in a tiny 

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nutshell will simplify it as 
best as we possibly can, and I 

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hope the Lord willing, you can 
take something away from this or

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be strengthened by it. 
Reconciliation means to restore 

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Harmony between two parties. 
Your according to Webster's 

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Dictionary, the renewal of a 
friendship. 

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So first of all, the word 
reconciliation itself, we 

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learned that all men and women 
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Time at peace with God to be 
reconciled means that at one 

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time, there was a good 
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But that relationship at some 
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Fallen apart. 
Well, when was this, when were 

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men and women at peace with God,
when were we able to be in that 

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relationship? 
What has to be a time of 

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Innocence? 
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innocence in our lives and that 
would be perhaps in our 

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childhood and Mark chapter 10 
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It says, but when Jesus saw it, 
he was much displeased and said 

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unto them suffer, the little 
children to come unto me and 

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forbid them. 
Not for of such is the kingdom 

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of God, verily. 
I say unto you whosoever shall 

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not receive the kingdom of God 
as a little child. 

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He shall not enter Are there in 
now? 

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There are many. 
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of those who consider themselves
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They believe in something called
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we are not depraved as children.
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the Lord Jesus, I know that 
sometimes my daughter can cause 

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me some grief and some trouble, 
but I know that she's sweet. 

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And innocent. 
She doesn't mean any ill will 

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buy anything that she does yet. 
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reconciliation tells us that 
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It also tells us that there was 
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wrong while we were innocent at 
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We once also chose to do wrong 
in our wrongdoing, took away our

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innocence. 
It took away, our good standing 

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relationship with God. 
The Father, we were no longer in

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harmony with him. 
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And verse 23, says that all have
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glory of God, Isaiah chapter, 
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iniquities or sins, our sins 
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Us. 
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It was of our own choosing that 
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It's our fault. 
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It's on us. 
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being God, literally cannot have
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one who does sing, but God wants
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wants to have a relationship 
with all Sinners with us with 

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you. 
And with me, And because of 

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that, we're so thankful that 
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even though we turn our back on 
him and disobeyed his will, we 

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are thankful that God took the 
necessary step to restore our 

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relationship with him to wash 
our sins away, making it 

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possible to be reconciled to 
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And that's probably the most 
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point out this morning to you. 
Is that this Is God's gift. 

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The reconciliation we did 
nothing to deserve it. 

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God didn't have to give it to us
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It is a it is completely a gift.
From God. 

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Paul wrote in Colossians chapter
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having made peace through the 
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reconcile, all things unto 
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I say, whether they be things in
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you, that were some time, 
alienated at that were 

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sometimes, alienated and enemies
in your mind by Wicked Works yet

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now hath he reconciled. 
In the body of his flesh through

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death, to present you, holy and 
unblameable and Unruh provable 

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in his sight. 
If you continue in the faith, 

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grounded and settled, and be not
moved away from the hope of the 

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Gospel, which ye have heard and 
which was preached to every 

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creature, which is under heaven.
Where for I, Paul am made a 

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minister on. 
That is why we are here this 

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morning, that's why we we've 
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It is our blessed privilege. 
It is a gift to be able to stand

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together as the Lord's Church. 
A reconciled body to God in 

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peace and harmony with him to 
worship. 

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And to praise the one who has 
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possible. 
John chapter 3 and verse 16 is a

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well-known verse that we cling 
to and that we we love because 

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of the truth that is found there
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So loved the world. 
He gave his only begotten. 

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Son, that whosoever believes in 
Him. 

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Should not perish. 
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It was Jesus, it was Jesus 
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It was Jesus. 
Brutal death on the cross that 

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made reconciliation with God 
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We'll take our last reading this
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and verse 16 through 22, where 
the Apostle wrote and that he 

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might reconcile both unto God in
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slain the enmity, thereby and 
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Peace to you which were afar off
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were nigh or Jews for through 
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We both have access by one 
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Now therefore ye are no more 
strangers and foreigners but 

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fellow citizens with the Saints 
and of the household of God and 

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are built upon the foundation of
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Jesus Christ himself being the 
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the building fitly framed 
together, groweth unto an Holy 

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Temple in the Lord in whom ye 
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Foreign habitation of God 
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body that Paul wrote of is the 
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The body is the Church of 
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United, both Jew, and Gentile to
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As Christians. 
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body, the church, they all came 
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They were all reconciled to God 
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By the gospel Plan of Salvation,
the way taught in the holy word 

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of God. 
But perhaps you were here and 

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you are not a Christian, perhaps
you have not received that great

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gift of God, you have not been 
reconciled to him and if you 

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have not, then you are living in
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Why don't you choose to be 
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Then you have heard. 
The word is Romans chapter 10 

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and verse 17 says. 
So, then faith comes by hearing 

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and hearing by the word of God. 
Now, you must believe is Jesus 

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said in John, chapter 8, and 
verse 24. 

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I said therefore unto you that 
ye shall die in your sins. 

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If you believe not that, I am he
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Then you need to repent of your 
past sins acts, Jack chapter 17 

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and verse 30 says, and the times
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at, but now commandeth all men 
everywhere to repent. 

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Then we confess then you confess
and believe, Jesus is the son of

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God just as the Ethiopian eunuch
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And Philip said, if thou 
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thou mayest Mayest. 
And he answered and said, I 

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believe that Jesus Christ is the
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And then, according to the 
scripture, you must be immersed 

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in water. 
Baptized for the remission of 

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your sins. 
Mark chapter 16 and verse 16 

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says he that believeth and is 
baptized shall be saved, but he 

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that believeth not shall be 
damned or perhaps you were 

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already a Christian. 
Perhaps, you have been 

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reconciled to God, but you have 
sinned in some way and you want 

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to make that relationship right 
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You want to be in peace in, good
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Well, the Bible says that it, if
you come forward, confess your 

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sins will pray with you and for 
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And God is just and willing to 
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