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Hi. Good evening. Yeah, you know, I listened to that Dan Moller, and he is good. Fire.

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Thank you so much for that hint. Yeah, he's amazing. Yes.

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And, and that's kind of also where I wanted to start like you know here we went through talking about righteousness I mean we could spend like a month on each of these verses, Karen.

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And the important thing to like really know about righteousness is that it is given unto us his righteousness is given unto us in the way that we have become the righteousness of God we were separated we were of the nature of sin we were of our

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father the devil.

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Right. And so, we have been.

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We have been crucified in from on righteousness out from under that dominion of darkness that ruled us into the kingdom of the Son of God's love we are born again as the offspring of God that has to be righteousness.

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And so, so that you know blessed are those that hunger and thirst for righteousness we have to understand like, that's who we are kind of like you are what you eat.

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So, since we are that we are always in pursuit of that, and our righteous kingdom, and our righteous father it's our nature it's it's who we are.

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And so understanding that, um, is, is like why he can say something to the adulterous like go and sin no more. And we don't think wow that's so cruel like you know she says how is she gonna make it down the street without Sammy I used to think like

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how is she even gonna do that. I didn't I don't know how to do that. So how she, but he imparted to her, not guilty, righteous, neither do I condemn you means you're not condemnable you're innocent, you're righteous.

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As long as you're righteous.

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Go and do righteousness.

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You're not a sinner, you're not guilty. So sin no more.

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Right out of it.

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Right out from under like beamed or right up. I tell.

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Let me just tag the friends that are not here.

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Betsy that's a nice picture of you and your husband that we see is that you and your husband.

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Wedding Day.

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Oh, 911.

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Yes, 911. Oh, really. What well 1962.

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Thank you little young parents. Oh, that was 22. Wow. Some people have come in and seen this and said, Were you a teenager.

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Well, close, just doubt.

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Sure.

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Oh, five.

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All right.

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So, all I think is on our message messages isn't it. No, no, just Google.

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Just, just Google or YouTube.

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You would say you sent it. I did somewhere. Yeah, I, I checked it on YouTube. He has a lot of stuff on YouTube.

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There's always other people putting that on there by the way he does not ever put anything.

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And there's a lot.

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Yes, yes. Who is this.

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This is Dan molar mo HR.

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And I was sharing that when I first heard of him, we were like who is this Dan molar.

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And, and, and then

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we got home from this conference and Michael looked him up played a video, and I was like, I need to be saved.

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I'm not even saved. I am so full of.

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self like i'm not even close to christ like you know and so that boy i mean a lot of times that's

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what michael puts on he'll put on like going to bed he'll put on like either graham cook or dan molar or

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so amazing okay let me go here

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here so how is everybody doing let's like check in a little bit

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we're finishing up our our second week we are still in the beatitudes but this is kind of

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how he does this like really digging deep into the into this this interaction

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this this expression of his nature in humility in purity and righteousness and mercy and

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in in uh his sentiment towards sin and and um and that it's all really

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it's all really on the foundation of love yeah and and um we're we're being taught to act like

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our father and when we act like our father we live as our father we anticipate we are

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we're free from guilt we're free from fear we're free from hiding anything we're free

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from needing to perform we're we're free from um you know thinking we're gonna we have anything to

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lose we have like nothing to lose when we live in the in the bounty of his holy spirit and um

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so everything is founded upon these in fact you know at the end of chapter six when he

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he comes said hello i know at the end of chapter six uh he says of course like you know your

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heavenly father knows everything about you knows everything that you need therefore

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seek his kingdom seek seek his righteousness and isn't that the first of the of the beatitudes

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and the beginning of the whole chapter is blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom

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he freely gives it like so how do we how do we seek it hey you know just rewind to what i started

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telling you and um he gives it to you he gives it to you when you come understanding it's your

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it's your deepest need he's your deepest need you need his kingdom you need not the the culture of

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the world the kingdom of the world the ways of the world you need not the uh the accolades of

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the world the rewards of the world you don't you don't need any of that so don't pursue it

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he gives you but the blessings of the lord maketh rich and he adds no sorrow to it he is good and

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his wealth so transcends it doesn't mean we aren't abounding but really it's like paul said

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whether i abound or whether i'm abased no matter i i am abounding

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i just am abounding it is well with me because none of this determines

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you know my my well-being you think about um

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um the the composer of that song it is well well my soul

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right when peace like a river attendeth my way so if if all is well shalom maha shalom

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it is well or sorrows like sea billows that mark the grave of of all my daughters

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you've taught me to say this is this does not determine my portion or my lot or my condition

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or my position you have taught me to say it is well and it's gonna make satan so mad hey

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you know that's what he's trying to do just pull us out of that feeling of it is well he just

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always trying to pull us away.

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It is well, shalom, shalom. Hey, Devin. So, um, so just

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starting with even though that was yesterday's, I thought that

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was good. Really good. Just, you know, going just in the other

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thing is, is how each of these Beatitudes builds one upon the

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next. And understanding that without first, like, without

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first acknowledging, recognizing and acknowledging our deep need

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for him, our total absence, our total depravity in ourselves,

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that that has to be the first step. You can't, you know, you

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can't. Well, like he says, I can only heal those who are sick. I

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can only give sight to those who are blind. And so it's only I

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can only teach someone something who's come hungry to learn. I

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can only feed a meal to someone who's come hungry to eat. If

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someone says I'm good, what can I give them? If someone says,

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No, I can't take that from you. I got it. What can I do for

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them? So we have to come like little children. Boy, they are

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receiving experts. I've never heard that before. Children are

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receiving experts. Mine. Give me. Okay. And, and so unless we

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come as a child with nothing to, nothing to show for, you know,

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nothing to prove, nothing, nothing to perform, nothing to

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fear. Just what do you got for me? I'm hungry. Really? What

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have you purchased? What work have you done? Right? I need

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this. I need this for school. Oh, gosh, what, how are you

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going to get that? Like they know they they completely

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expect that they make the requests known. And, and these

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things, these provisions, these things, these services shall

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appear for them. They have no problem with that. And, and

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then we mature. We go from that, we go gorge over at the tree of

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good and evil. But isn't that how we just keep raising each

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other generation after generation, because that's came

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from the garden. That's the nature into which we're born. So

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until we're translated out from under that on righteousness,

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into righteousness, you know, it's, it's kind of like, you

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know, you, you, you don't tell your kids to get cleaned up so

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they can get in the shower. Right? You better eat something

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before you come to dinner. No, the opposite. They're like, Oh,

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I'm hungry. Perfect. We are approaching dinnertime. It's

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time for you to be hungry. But I'm hungry now. Perfect. You are

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getting all ready for dinner, to receive dinner, all ready to

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receive dinner. You smell, you're ready to receive a

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shower. So there's nothing we accomplish to come to God. It's

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the opposite. We cannot come to God having accomplished anything.

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We cannot come praying our way, Lord, you saw how I did this.

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And, and, you know, thank you that I, that I haven't done

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that. And it's good that I practice this. Jesus said of the

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Pharisee that prayed that way he prays to himself. So

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righteousness is something we cannot come with. We can cut we

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can only come absent. Hello, Carrie McFadden. And, and so

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understanding that we are the righteousness of God is in and

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apart from him, we're not the right we were the sinners, he

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knew no sin became sin for us. So that we who knew no

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righteousness could become the righteousness of God in him. So

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that's an important distinction. So now, once we really

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understand that and where it comes from, it's imputed unto us

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because of our faith in Christ Jesus and the price that he

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paid. And that being accomplished, now, we study

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that we meditate upon, we receive that we renew our minds

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in that, and it becomes our nature, we become the nature of

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our God perfect, as our Heavenly Father is perfect. So now

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knowing that we come into, we come into verse seven, but, but

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let me who who would like to open us in prayer.

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I can pray. Thank you.

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Lord, we just thank you for the time that we've already had

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together. And we asked that you will just guide Hillary into

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just exactly what we would all of us need and and help us to

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hear from you and get your guidance, your wisdom, so we

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can live our life and receive your favor and live out our

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calling. So we just thank you for this time together. And we

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ask for your wisdom and your guidance and your favor. Amen.

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Amen. Amen. So cool. So yes, we come with God's favor. We come

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in God's favor to approach Jesus and say we're ready. We're

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ready. I've made an exchange. I've prepared my, my my

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sacrifice. And I've given it because I'm like, I don't want

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to keep it for anything else. I'm coming here for you. So oh,

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let me share my screen.

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She's

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okay. Yeah.

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Okay. Okay. Okay. So what is two days? B? B attitude? What is

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the attitude of our being today? Who would like to read Matthew

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5.7? Happy to be envied and spiritually prosperous with

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life, joy, satisfaction in God's favor and salvation, regardless

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of outward conditions are merciful, for they shall obtain

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mercy.

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You know, you just think of a child. Thank you, Karen, you

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think of a child again, the younger they are, the less

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aware they are of their surroundings. And so, you know,

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as soon as they crawl into your lap, all is well. I mean, you

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know, the, the world may be falling apart the there might be

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bad news financially, there might somebody might be sick,

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but, but they don't know it. They're just so satisfied.

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They're so filled with joy in in just being engulfed in the

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salvation of and security of their parents, that they're

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they're prosperous. They're just, you couldn't tell them

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that they don't have. Right? So that's like us, we just they

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leave all that to us. They don't even concern themselves

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with it. So that's, that's the state of our being. When we're

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not holding on to what we have, we're not concerned with what's

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what concerns us, but we're actually concerned with God's

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heart, for those who are suffering, who are in distress,

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who are poor, who need and that actually becomes this is a

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major need for an area of growth for me. He has

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me studying what does it look like to serve the poor? What does it look like

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in wisdom to serve the poor? In the book of Proverbs, in the book of Psalms,

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how does God regard those who serve the poor? When you're merciful,

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when you give to someone who doesn't deserve because you are in possession of it,

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in possession of the ability to release them, to feed them, to whatever, accommodate them in some

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way, he says, you're just opening the door for me to do that for you. That's actually the Father's

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nature. He's longing to do that for us. When we allow him to do that to others through us,

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he just loves. It was Pastor Billy Joe Dougherty, when I lived in Oklahoma, he said,

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if God can get it through you, God will get it to you. That's this principle right here.

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Because also our heart understands mercy. I'm going to read this part because it'll

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be jumbled. There's several different verses here in Daniel chapter four.

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King Nebuchadnezzar is relating the story of the second dream recorded in the book of Daniel

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that he had. He's saying, at last Daniel came to me named Belteshazzar after my God,

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in whom is the spirit of the holy God. He understood I have a God, but Daniel has a

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different God. I told him my dream saying, because I know the spirit of the holy God is in you,

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and no secret mystery is a burden or troubles you, tell me the visions of my dream that I have

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had and the interpretation of it. He is seeking out Daniel because how he represents the spirit

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of the holy God. This dream I, King Nebuchadnezzar, have seen. He relates the dream. Then he says,

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this I've seen, and you, O Belteshazzar, declare now its interpretation, since all the wise men

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of my kingdom are not able to make known to me the interpretation, but you are able, for the spirit

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of the holy God is in you. If the spirit of the holy God is in him, and this is his,

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this is the pagan king who has taken possession of these people that, you know, he didn't make

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them, but he took them as his own possession to do what he would with them, right?

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And obviously he has received from Daniel what he has not deserved,

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and he recognizes him as holy. He's seen the way he separates himself. He doesn't do what,

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but he's obviously obedient. He obviously honors the king and, okay.

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All right. Daniel answered, my Lord, may this dream be for those who hate you and its message

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for your enemies. And then he tells the description of the dream, how, I mean, most everybody here

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would know it, that who Dan, who he is, is this great big tree, Nebuchadnezzar. He's the greatest

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in all the earth, but it shall come all the way down as a voice from heaven declares it.

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But the root system, the stump in the root system shall remain so that he may be replenished. And

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it was commanded to leave the stump of the roots of the tree. Your kingdom shall be sure to you

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after you have learned and know that the God of heaven rules. Therefore, O king, let my counsel

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be acceptable to you. So this is a big warning for you. This is a judgment against you.

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So listen, here's my advice. Break off your sins and show the reality of your repentance from sin

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by being righteous, being in right standing with God,

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moral, spiritual rectitude, and rightness in every area and relationship.

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So we see the evidence of walking away from sin is righteousness and liberate yourself from that life of sin by and being righteous by showing mercy and loving kindness to the poor and the oppressed.

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A sinful life doesn't show mercy, does not consider the poor and the oppressed.

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A righteous life is demonstrated a sin free life is demonstrated, because it is merciful to others. It shows loving kindness there's a generosity to those in need.

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When we have it in our power to do something for them, that if the king will repent, there may possibly be a continuance and lengthening of your peace and tranquility and a healing of your error.

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But Daniel better be full of the, you know, spirit of the Most High God. He's declaring this to the to the king of the greatest empire in the face of the earth.

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All this was fulfilled.

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And at the end, and then it describes what what all he went through, and, you know, lost his mind, how he said how he exalted himself and and how the voice came down.

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And within the hour, bam, he, he was as an animal for seven years, and at the end of seven years, I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up my eyes to heaven, poverty of spirit.

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And my understanding, and the right to use my mind returned to me. I, I no longer was puffed up in myself it was no longer me who did anything. I lifted up my eyes from whence cometh my help.

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And, and up to God.

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And my mind was returned to me, and I blessed the Most High God, and I praise, and I honored here's humility, and I glorified him who lives forever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom endures for from generation to generation,

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all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, he's understanding the mercy of God.

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And none can stay his hand or say to him, what are you doing.

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I mean how many times have we ever. What's up gone.

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Okay, so he came to his senses, nobody can say that to God.

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At the same time my reason and understanding returned to me so you see like step by step first poverty of spirit. And then he had the use of his mind and then increasing in those be attitudes and.

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And my reason and understanding were returned to me. And for the glory of my kingdom. My majesty and splendor returned to me it all came from the hand of God, and he could see there was none of this.

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That came from any other person, it definitely didn't come from him. It all was given to him, piece by piece by God, and my counselors and my Lord's sought me out again the favor that came from God, I was reestablished in my kingdom, and still more

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greatness than before was added to me. Now I never kid Nazar praise and extol and honor the king of heaven he has received God's mercy, whose works are faithful and right, whose ways are just, and those who walk in pride, he is able to a base and humble.

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Right. He turned from his wicked ways looked unto God in total need and and sought him out and praised him humbled himself turned from his wicked ways, and God healed his whole kingdom and restored him.

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So, um, all right, what is mercy.

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So does anyone want to, like, just start considering these, these definitions of mercy on the left here.

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Oh mama, you're muted I didn't realize you were talking.

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I can't remember muting myself.

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felt them before. Compassion. I have no people on the screen so

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I have no idea. Compassion, sympathetic consciousness of

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others, distress, together with a desire to alleviate it, a

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caring response to someone else's distress.

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A beautiful just for yes. Like yes, being sympathetic of

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others, not just what I'm going through, but considering, well,

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what would it be like to be in their shoes?

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What can I do to fix it?

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Yes. Isn't that something? Actually caring what happens to

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them. Boy, that's, that's, that's, that's upper level.

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That's, yeah, I mean, that's where we should be. That's,

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that's God. Okay.

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But you know, I have a question about that, Hilary. Like, you

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are an inner healing. How in the world do you do that? How can

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you have so much compassion? I mean, you know full well, some

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people are in trouble because of their very own actions. Most of

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the time, really.

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Most of the time. Yeah.

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So Ingrid, that's the point. And here's the thing. Don't eat

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from the fruit of the tree determining what's good, what's

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evil, who's good, who's bad, who's right. It's death. It is

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the it is the law of sin and death. It's the dominion of

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darkness. But that's not God's way. The tree of life is that

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they may know the one true God and Jesus Christ whom he sent.

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And what's he like? He's good. He's merciful. He's kind. He's

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generous. He pours out his rain and as good as he gives life, no

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matter what he went to the cross. For all who would believe

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he does not count our sins against us. How can we look to

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another and say, your poor decisions got you here. My good

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decisions have not gotten me saved.

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He didn't say that to the adulterous. He said, neither do

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I condemn you.

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I condemn you. Your sins are forgiven to the paraplegic,

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rise and walk. They're not attached to you. They're not

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credited to you, right? The script written against us has

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been cancelled. Totally cancelled. This is mercy. He has

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a sea of forgetfulness for all that, Ingrid. So whatever got us

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here, like we know if we feel like that, that's because we

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feel like that for us. And honestly, in heart healing,

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co-laboring with Jesus has totally changed me concerning

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his nature. He said to me one time, you'll notice, Hillary, I

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never put anyone on the defensive. It's true. He's

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never accused anyone, never been harsh to anyone, all the

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opposite. And I was like, wow, I thought that's how you get

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stuff done. Even today, I had a message from someone and I

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realized that how I had engaged in this conversation, if you

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will, had nothing to do with meekness. And so I actually

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confessed that to them.

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But Jesus died for our sins and forgave us on the cross for

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every sin. So that's hard for us in our flesh to get our head

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around because people do terrible things. But that's

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between God and them.

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Yeah, he told me, I want you to study Isaiah 53 and see all the

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ways I accomplished your ability to hear not guilty. And one of

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the scriptures in Isaiah 53 is and he was numbered among the

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transgressors, that he may make intercession for the

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transgressors, every criminal lineup, every trafficker, every

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abortion performer, every adulterer, every thief, every

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drug dealer. Jesus Christ is in that lineup, telling them, I

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bear a stripe.

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for you. I have a scar for you, and I'm not ashamed of that.

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But he also says to some people in the Bible, go and sin no more so no thing, no worse thing

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happens to you. But what I really feel about Jesus is when people sin or whatever, you

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know, sin, it makes him weep, not because of the sin, but because it keeps us from him.

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It's like the barrier to his love. He shows in his word, you know, that he loves us, but

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that the transgressions, there's not one person, unless you're a psychopath, that can do something

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that you know is against God and not have guilt or shame or whatever. But that is exactly

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what blocks the relationship with him. And so if I was, I feel like God sometimes just

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cries because of the sin, not because he hasn't died for that. But it's, it keeps us from

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him.

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Oh, for sure. I mean, we're in agreement with, with, with some pride. Remember, you know,

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when we sin, our, our, you know, our minds are kind of sealed in deception. Like when

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we decide just, and, and, and aren't heart wounds, blind spots, right? So as long as

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I have some sort of entitlement, some sort of victimhood, some sort of excuse to sin,

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I'm justified. So, and, and that's why we are continuously renewed, transformed by the

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renewing of our minds. I mean, I wish I could say now, well, the truth was I was made righteous,

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but unfortunately, I mean, for me and for all God could do, I, I took the long path.

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Don't we all? Hello.

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Gosh.

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Hello.

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It's like, you know, and he's so patient and, and if he's so patient and he has accomplished

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everything, that's why there is a one John one nine, you know, first of all, like, you know,

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if we say we, if we, if we say we have no sin, we, well, then we lie. The truth isn't in us.

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We know not God, but if we confess our sins, then he is faithful and just we we've come to say,

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I, I'm, I'm so sorry. I, I recognize it's, it's against you. I said, just like you said,

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we're separated from him. Really all sin is against him. He's the one that has suffered

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the separation between him and his children. It's really the father who has suffered all things.

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And, and Jesus is restoring to the father. What's his, what's so precious and dear to them,

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what belongs to him. And, and he pays the price for it. And so God, when we bring us, when we

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bring sin to him, when we open our hands for him, just like Nebuchadnezzar, then we're, we're,

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we're able to receive what he has and he doesn't have unforgiveness. He only has forgiveness.

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He only has righteousness to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. And he just, that's his joy

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and pleasure. It's his pleasure to bring that. So, okay. All right.

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Ingrid, do you have any more to add to that? I'm curious.

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Say that again.

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I'm curious, you know, I'm curious when we've talked like this, what do you think Ingrid? I'm

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really curious.

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Oh, well, it's, I have to admit, it's hard for me to, um, you know, I, I, I am compassionate

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and all, but, but when I see that people don't work on it and when they, you know, and, and then

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they want so much prayer and then they want so much pity when they got themselves into that

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situation and then they need even more attention. And I just struggle with it. And I'm, I'm too

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judgmental is my problem. That's the biggest problem I need to work on and I got to get rid

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of it. And I don't quite know how, you know, um, and I have to shake it.

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Yeah. He's, he's going to deal with that root system. That's why you're here.

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Right. You know, and, you know, because, you know, if you went to him and he pulled out,

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you know, the list of Ingrid's, you know, accomplishments, there'd be no way he could

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justify, you know, even though we want to say, well, we'll never mind that. Look at,

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look at how good I was over there. Like, that's how we want, it's kind of like Joyce Meyer said.

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We look at ourselves with rose-colored glasses,

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but we look at everyone else through a magnifying glass.

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We're like, you got blackheads in your skin.

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And not, I mean, like we put ourselves on Zoom

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and we mute the light so that we can look a little better.

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And, you know, we're like trying to do whatever we can to,

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oh no, no, mom, no, no.

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It's like, like, I mean, there's a,

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I'll show you, there's a function on Zoom, but like-

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You'll show me too.

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Yes, yes.

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And yeah, I had to learn it.

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I had to learn it from others too.

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You can even put lipstick and eyebrows on you.

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I just learned that from a 75 year old.

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Oh, wow.

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What the heck?

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I wonder what it would look like with eyebrows again.

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You could try them, it's fun.

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So anyway, see, we're always trying to present ourselves

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in the best light, but we shine a search light

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on everybody else.

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We don't, we don't mute everyone else's appearance.

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We don't look for, you know, I mean,

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we're headed to the pure in heart.

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We don't look for God in them and his ability.

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Like, you know, he said to me one day

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when I was always like impatient

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and he said, Hillary, it's kind of, well,

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it's actually Devin brought this up earlier last week.

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He said, love their neediness for my grace

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and love my grace to meet their neediness.

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If he loves that he's got grace to meet their need,

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just like if our children come to us and like,

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I threw a baseball through the neighbor's window.

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We don't cross our arms and go, sorry for you.

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I guess you better get over there

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and become an indentured servant till it's paid for.

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No, we're like, I'll deal with you later.

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Right now, like, you know what I'm saying?

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Well, right now we're going to go

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and make it right to the neighbor

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and you take care of it for them.

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If we know how to do good things for our children,

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we who are evil, Jesus said, how much more?

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So that's compassion.

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We spent a little time having compassion.

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It's very, I mean, all of this,

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you're just going to see love in all of this.

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You're just going to see his nature in everything.

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We know compassion because it's him.

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Like he's sympathetic.

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He, you know, he's so kind.

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He's so inviting.

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He's already been to all of our suffering.

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So like forbearance, refraining.

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Here it is.

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Ingrid, you want to read that one?

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Yeah, let me change this.

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Which one?

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Forbearance.

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Forbearance.

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Refraining from the enforcement of something due

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like a debt, right, or obligation.

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Should I keep going?

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Patience.

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Mrs. Vorden entreated her to remember

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that marriage was a state requiring great fortitude

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and forbearance.

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That's a quote by Charles Dickens.

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Or shown especially to an offender

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or to one subject, to one's power.

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So in other words, being compassionate,

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being forbearing and being patient to someone

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who we have the power to be anything to them,

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like a parent or an, we have the power to be forbearing.

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Like they've done something against us.

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They owe us something.

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They're a subject in our kingdom.

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They're an employee in our business.

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They're a, you know what I'm saying?

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So we have the power to enact something

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and we choose to be, to give them mercy.

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But what if people keep repeating the offense?

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I guess that's why he said to-

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Peter.

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To Peter, right?

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Peter's like, gosh, God,

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like how many times do you expect me to forgive?

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Like seven times, like what?

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You can forgive, but it doesn't mean you-

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allow it in your life? Do you know what I mean?

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So, yeah, so you just like, my all my questions like that,

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come see, that's like an out, that's like a, an outside in

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question, you know, where, where we're picking behaviors, where

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when the nature of righteousness and the life of the Word is

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growing in you, and you see like, who was God in the

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beginning? What did he say? What was his original intent before

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the corruption of sin? And then how did he respond to that? And

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then in the Gospels, when Jesus came, in the abundance of

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depravity on every level, there was spiritual oppression,

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political oppression, economic oppression. I mean, you name

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it, there's not one area of life that wasn't totally oppressed.

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And what was the manifestation of original intent in that

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world? And so to see him to study also the Gospels, it's

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just like, it's just like the nature of God, where you're not

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trying to, okay, categorizing each thing. There's this, it's

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sort of like, when you study authentic currency, you don't

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need to know the counterfeit. So you don't need to know the

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ways of the dominion of darkness, you don't need to know

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the way you're not ignorant of them, and the ways of the law of

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sin and death, when you are a student of his righteousness, of

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his kingdom, of the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus,

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when you're not tasting and seeing of judgment, of eating

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from the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,

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discerning when it's right, when it's wrong. I mean, it's utter

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chaos. And when that's not what you're busy with, but you're

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pursuing his kingdom and his righteousness, and his nature,

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learning of him, attached to him, you just live and breathe

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that. That's what comes. You don't have to worry about it.

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It's not like, you know, it's, it's, it's not a court of law.

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No, no, I don't. I agree with that. But what I'm saying is,

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for example, say you have a child, I'm not saying I have a

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child, but say you have a child who's addicted, and they're

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stealing, and they're stealing from you, and they're going on

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and on, they're going on. It's not like you don't love your

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child. It's not like you don't forgive your child. But, but

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they continue on and sort of that behavior, they could

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change five years, 10 years, 15. It's not that you don't pray for

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them. It's not that you don't love them. It's not that you

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don't come from a place of love. But there's still again, there's

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boundaries. There's love.

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Yeah, I love. Oh, I'm so sorry, Karen.

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I don't know. No, that's, I mean, so I'm, I agree with you

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100%. Like, we should always come from a place of love and

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forgiveness. But at the same time, even Jesus challenged the

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Pharisees and, and called them

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white sepulchers.

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Yeah, whitewashed tombs. He used that with me. Oh, you know what?

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That was like, I think was it yesterday when we were with him

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some one of the times I was talking to him in one of our

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encounters. I was like, how do you see that whitewashed tomb?

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Thanks for clarifying that. So I mean, that's perfect. Because

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again, there's the story of the prodigal. Right? Exactly. Yes.

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So like, off he goes, the father in his love is interceding. He's

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not controlling. He's not trying to save. He's not trying to he

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he is he's praying for his son. He's watching and waiting for

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his son. But yes, with with everyone. I mean, like, you

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know, God was merciful and kind to the sinners. I mean, yeah, to

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the sinners, because they already knew they were sinners.

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That's right. You didn't have to convince them of their sin, he

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would invite them into righteousness. The Pharisees,

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they needed to be convinced they were sinners. That's right. His

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mercy, he, he kept trying to unveil to reveal to confront

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their sins, to open their eyes to their sin. So they could also

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realize we are sinners, and come in like fashion to receive him.

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So mercy looks like mercy, mercy looks like, you know, how what's

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what's the pathway, God, you're merciful. What do I say? That's

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even Jesus, I have much

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to say to judge you now, but he who sent me is faithful and true. So only what he tells me,

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waiting on him, right? That's what I say to the world. So again, leniency, clemency, an attitude

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toward an offender, an adversary in one's power or care, there it is again, like, you know, like,

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like in the, you know, rather than killing someone who committed murder, but instead putting them

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into incarceration. And even more so like, you know, bringing them through healing would be,

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but that's, that's just a word for mercy. So showing goodness and kindness, understanding

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the blessings of divine favor, which Nebuchadnezzar had to recognize that doesn't come from me. I

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didn't earn any of this. Wow. It's by the hand of God. And that he was filled with praise and had

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and could open his eyes to the poor and meet the needs of his people. He could have compassion.

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So it's a ransom. Mercy is to ransom the person that sold unto sin, that sold unto slavery.

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It's to give of oneself. No greater love has any man than this, than that he lay his own life down

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for the one who sold himself or was right, was, was taken into sin.

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And having pity and compassionate treatment for those in distress, ultimately it's love.

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So, so, okay, here is the ending part of Ephesians four into those first two verses

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of Ephesians five. Someone would like to read that.

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Oh, you know what, mom, can you see that? Okay. Yes. I, I took care of it.

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Uh, what, what I have is, uh, I have mercy on the left and be like, be it done unto me according

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to thy word is on the right. Yeah. So this is good. I like that you took us to the right, to the,

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to, to that, that top, you know, being, I don't even have the reference for the scripture. This

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is Ephesians four. Oh, I was going to say, I, there's a thing that won't, I can't get it off

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my screen. It says upgrade to Mac OS Monterey, and I can't, and it's always there. So something

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is blocked out and I wasn't sure whether it was the, I'm sorry, I'll see if my verses, but not

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the, not the, um, okay. I'm unable to come tomorrow. Cause I have appointments, but, um,

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Michael is running down there. So I'll have him go and, and remove that, you know, just take care

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either install or get more detail. Okay. Sorry about that. So we're going into Ephesians on

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the right. And so being like Jesus who reflected his father, where, where this is what it looks

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like to be a child of God. And, and we just want to say, you know, we want to come like children.

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Okay. All right. If you say so just be a done unto me according to this word. Okay. So does

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anybody, would anybody like to read this Ephesians and just consider like, you know, this, this nature

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of God and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, having a fresh mental and spiritual attitude

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and put on a new nature, the regenerate self created in God's image,

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a God-like in true righteousness and holiness, therefore rejecting all falsity and being done

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now with it, that everyone expressed the truth with his neighbor, for we are all parts of one

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body and members of one another. When angry, do not sin. Do not let your wrath, your exasperation,

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your fury, or indignation last until the sun goes down. And then whoever else wants to start,

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I'm not going to hog the whole thing. Oh, that's okay. Jill Cook, you want to keep going from 27?

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Leave no such room or foothold for the devil. Give no opportunity to him. Let the thief steal

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no more, but rather let him be industrious, making an honest living with his own hands,

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so that he may be able to give to those in need. Let no foul or polluting language, no evil word,

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or unwholesome or worthless talk ever come out of your mouth, but only speech as is good and

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beneficial to the spiritual progress of others, as is fitting to the need and the occasion,

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that it may be a blessing and give grace, God's favor to those who hear it. And do not grieve

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the Holy Spirit of God. Do not offend or vex or sadden him by whom you were sealed, marked,

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branded as God's

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own secured for the day of redemption, a final deliverance through Christ from evil and the

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consequences of sin. Let all bitterness and indignation and wrath, passion, rage, bad temper

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and resentment, anger, animosity and quarreling, brawling, clamor and contention, and slander,

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evil speaking, abuse of a blasphemous language, be banished from you with all malice, spite,

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ill will or baseness of any kind, and become useful and helpful and kind to one another.

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Tender-hearted, compassionate, understanding, loving-hearted, forgiving one another,

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readily and freely as God and Christ forgave you. Therefore be imitators of God. Copy Him

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and follow His example as well-beloved children imitate their Father and walk in love, esteeming

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and delighting in one another as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us. A slain offering and

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sacrifice to God for you so that it became a sweet fragrance. Look at that. There's not one place

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in this verse where somebody deserves anything God is telling us to give. First of all that we

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receive these things from God and this is how we act toward others. In fact, if you're accustomed

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to taking, like now, engage in the pleasure of work as your Father does so that other people

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may benefit from your work, so that you can now give to the poor. Let none of your language,

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none of your attitudes, none of your actions be about what anyone else deserves, but instead

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of the nature of your Father. You're abiding in Christ. You're bearing that fruit. The fruit

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of the Holy Spirit is manifold. He shows up in His nature. Love, joy, peace, kindness, goodness,

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gentleness, faithfulness, humility, self-control. Against these things there's no law.

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You're not engaging ever in good and evil here. You're not discerning if someone deserves

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something. We're not assessing if someone's worthy. God is worthy and so we bear the fruit of God.

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We reflect the nature of God. We engage in the dialogue, the mannerisms, the ways that God brings

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His kingdom to earth. This is what it looks like. We don't make any room for the devil. We don't

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speak his language. He's the accuser. We don't live in a place of wrath or unforgiveness.

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We don't scorn. We don't resent. Instead, we're always blessing. We're always giving grace.

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We're only speaking what's worthy. We're only doing what's good. We're only allowing ourselves

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to meditate on what's wholesome, compassionate, understanding, loving-hearted, forgiving.

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We're not allowing any bitterness, no indignation, or wrath, or passion, or rage, or bad temper,

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resentment, or anger, or animosity. Don't you just wish you were born this way?

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We've been born again this way. This is who we are, born again. It is literally who we are.

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That's why I have, be it done unto me according to thy word. We don't carry judgments. We don't

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walk around with report cards. We don't have pointed fingers because who follows us? Does

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goodness and mercy follow us all the days of our lives? Now, we get to leave that as an aroma

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everywhere we go. What's more satisfying, when we were generous to someone who didn't

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deserve it, or when we put someone in their place?

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Matthew 6, 14, and 15, for if you forgive others their trespasses, you're saying,

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Lord, I believe that your blood was shed for all sin, and you have paid the price.

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Your way is forgiveness. If I am receiving forgiveness, then I'm receiving it for all.

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Oh, man, right, not just for me, and not for them, like that

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rich, that servant, right, that wicked servant, who went and

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wouldn't extend the same forgiveness he'd received. So if

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you do, so then your Heavenly Father will forgive you also,

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because that's, that's how you're engaging with him, Lord,

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forgive them, forgive them, they belong to you. Lord, don't hold

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this against them. Father, forgive them. They know not what

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they do. But if you do not forgive others, their

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trespasses, neither will your Father forgive you your

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trespasses, because you're choosing the dominion of

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darkness, you're choosing the law of sin and death. But the

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law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus sets us free from

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the law of sin and death. So we can't be in the law of the

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spirit of life, and yet, impact others or affect others or hold

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others accountable to the law of sin and death. Does that make

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sense? We are either in one dominion, or the other one

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kingdom or the other one God one rule or the other. Okay, 1833

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through 35 of Matthew, and should not you have had mercy?

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Oh, here's that story. Right? I was just thinking, I think I've

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included that story, like, you know, just when when the when

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the servant was forgiven, and he now then threw his debtor into

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prison. And should not you have had mercy on your fellow

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servant, as I had mercy on you. And in anger, his master

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delivered him to the jailers until he should pay all his

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debt, because that's what he required. That was the law he

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chose. So if he chose it, he's bound to it. Who are you a man

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who judge you are habitually guilty of that for which you

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judge, you're bound yourself to to say I'm perfect in that law.

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Doesn't one of the translations say, he turned them over to the

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torturers until he is not. Yeah. So also my Heavenly Father will

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do to every one of you if you do not forgive your brother from

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your heart. And forgiveness is not saying it was right.

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Forgiveness is not saying it's okay that that happened.

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Forgiveness is not pretending anything. Forgiveness is saying,

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it's yours. This matter actually belongs to you, who paid for it.

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This person actually belongs to you, whom you created. This is

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not my business. Actually, it's yours. And Lord, I'm

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interceding. God doesn't wonder why sinners sin. He wonders why

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there's no intercessor. I know I need intercession. I need

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prayer. Okay, James 210 through 16. For whoever keeps the law,

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this is good, as a whole. So the law is itself, the law is a

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whole, and then we have items. So we like to say like, I used to

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minister in hope somebody puts anything. So I used to minister

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in in prison. And I remember they were saying, well, you

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know, at least we didn't podiddle. And I was like, what?

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Okay. First of all, what's podiddle? Well, you know,

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messing around with little boys. I was like, Oh, isn't this just

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like us? You're in prison. You're in prison. Because of

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what you did do. Trying to find some way, you're better, you're

643
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more righteous, you're, you're, you're more deserving and less

644
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evil than someone else. Like, how does that work? Like, do you

645
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go before a judge and say, you know, and they say, you're

646
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guilty, you're guilty of stealing this car, you're guilty

647
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of arsony, you're guilty of larceny, you're guilty, well,

648
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you know, whatever. And, and, and, and does the does D, can

649
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you say to the judge? Well, you know, I, I didn't, I didn't get

650
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them addicted to drugs. Like the law is the law. So we don't play

651
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accounts.

652
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with the law. Once you are in the liability column, like once you are in the debt column, you are indebted to the law.

653
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So for whoever keeps the law as whole but stumbles and offends in one single instance has become guilty of breaking all of the law. Guilt is guilt.

654
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So speak and act as people should who are to be judged under the law of liberty. He whom the Son sets free is free indeed. We just need to know we are free. They need to know they are free. They need to know the prison door has been opened.

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That's what happens in heart healing. That's what happens in revelation of righteousness. The moral instruction given by Christ, especially about love, that's his law. That's his law.

656
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For to him who has shown no mercy, judgment for them is without mercy. But mercy triumphs and exalts victoriously over judgments. This is so good, isn't it? It's like this is why we eat the word, because we wouldn't think this way.

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Hey, those thoughts of yours, Hilary, can I invite you into what I think? Because those aren't my thoughts. I actually have undergone this like just this week, as I was saying. I was so mad at the way someone was just so stinking unrighteous. It was disgusting.

658
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The wisdom descending not from above, earthly, sensual, devilish. So the wisdom of here, you have to have wisdom. Yes, his name is Jesus. I don't want your brand of wisdom. Thank you very much.

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For where envying and strife is, there is confusion in every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure. There's no corruption in it. There's no character apart from God.

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There's nothing to which someone could say, oh, yeah, well, you know, look at God. No. Wisdom from above is, first of all, totally pure in its goodness, in his holiness, in his then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated. My goodness, how approachable am I when I feel like I'm wronged? Come on.

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Full of mercy. Full of mercy. Wisdom. Wisdom. We have to have wisdom? Wisdom is full of mercy, full of good fruits. That's the wisdom of God. That's Jesus.

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There is no bitterness in wisdom, no resentment in wisdom, no victimhood in wisdom, no entitlement in wisdom, no record of wrong in wisdom, without partiality, without hypocrisy.

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Like I'm not going to be kinder to the people that I think are better, because I like them better, or I'm more pleased with where they are. And these people, they are just, I need to put them in their place. No.

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And the fruit of righteousness is sown in the peace of them that make peace. Peace. Peace. It is well. Shalom. It is well.

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Be anxious for nothing. Somebody's anxious because everything's wrong, right? Be anxious for nothing. Nothing. Come. Make your request known unto me. Rejoice. I'm right here. I can handle it.

666
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So let's talk about what's good. Let's talk about what's excellent and virtuous. I will guard your heart and your mind in my shalom when you come to me instead. Okay.

667
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But love your enemies. Who wants to read this? There are three verses. Take three of you or one of you. Luke 635.

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But love your enemies and do good and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High forever.

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He is kind to the ungrateful and to the evil.

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Okay, I just have to stop on that.

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All right, if we still had any doubt,

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the ungrateful, have I been kind to the ungrateful

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when I have been so ungrateful?

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How about to the evil?

675
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He's just kind because he is kind.

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He's not like, let me think about what you deserve.

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You know, like he's just, he's kind.

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God is so kind.

679
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He's so good.

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He's so good.

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Love your enemies, why?

682
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He's love.

683
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He's love, you're filled with God.

684
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Let me love you, you were my enemy.

685
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Let me love through you.

686
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How are they gonna know what love looks like?

687
01:10:56.760 --> 01:10:59.080
How are they gonna know what love feels like?

688
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Where are they gonna ever get it?

689
01:11:00.880 --> 01:11:02.680
How are they gonna ever choose it?

690
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How are they gonna ever learn it

691
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unless somebody comes and gives them what they don't know?

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Kindness, love, being generous,

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expecting nothing in return.

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Does God say like, hey, Ford, get over.

695
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I mean, you know how many days it's been straight?

696
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I've been good to you?

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Ever, like he can't, he's just good.

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Okay, Hebrews 4.16.

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Let us then with confidence draw near

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to the throne of grace that we may receive mercy

701
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and find grace to help in time of need.

702
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In time of righteousness, in time of deserving,

703
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in time of good behavior, in time of need.

704
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I need your mercy, I need your strength,

705
01:12:05.060 --> 01:12:10.060
I need your ability, I need your forgiveness,

706
01:12:10.320 --> 01:12:14.440
I need your help, I need your wisdom,

707
01:12:14.440 --> 01:12:18.820
I need your peace, I need your healing,

708
01:12:18.820 --> 01:12:22.180
I need your presence, we need everything from him.

709
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And so we come confident not in our deserving

710
01:12:28.840 --> 01:12:30.820
anything to draw from him.

711
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You can't draw grace from him unless you're weak.

712
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My strength is made perfect in your weakness.

713
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That's what grace is.

714
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Grace is the supply and the character

715
01:12:46.280 --> 01:12:50.320
and the ability of heaven to make up for your poverty,

716
01:12:50.320 --> 01:12:52.700
your inability, that's what grace is.

717
01:12:53.600 --> 01:12:56.440
Oh, Devin, the hope of others experiencing

718
01:12:56.440 --> 01:12:58.440
the glory of God Christ in us.

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01:12:58.440 --> 01:13:01.000
Well, so many things being revealed

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about where my heart needs healing

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01:13:02.800 --> 01:13:05.720
and my mind needs renewing, amen, my friend.

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So here we're invited to the one

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who doesn't wait for us to deserve anything.

724
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Hebrews 11.1, now faith is the substance

725
01:13:19.520 --> 01:13:24.440
now faith is the substance of things hoped for,

726
01:13:24.440 --> 01:13:26.800
not the substance of things deserved.

727
01:13:26.800 --> 01:13:28.840
The evidence of things we don't see,

728
01:13:28.840 --> 01:13:32.680
not the evidence of things I already possess and perform.

729
01:13:34.400 --> 01:13:38.960
Those, it's impossible to please God without faith

730
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for those that come to him must believe that he is

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and that he's a rewarder of those who diligently seek him.

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Why do I seek him?

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Because I'm desperately in need of him.

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And the reward is he gives me what I come for.

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Okay, Micah 6,8, this is so good.

736
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And then we'll go right into his presence right here.

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He has showed you, oh man, what is good

738
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and what does the Lord require of you, but to do justly,

739
01:14:13.360 --> 01:14:17.880
to love kindness and mercy and to humble yourself

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and walk humbly with your God.

741
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What does God say is good?

742
01:14:24.360 --> 01:14:26.880
For God knows, right?

743
01:14:26.880 --> 01:14:29.200
God knows it's not good for such and such

744
01:14:29.200 --> 01:14:30.600
and such and such.

745
01:14:30.600 --> 01:14:34.360
Well, he showed you what's good.

746
01:14:34.360 --> 01:14:39.160
He showed you what he requires to do justly,

747
01:14:39.160 --> 01:14:44.160
to you to do justly and to love kindness and mercy,

748
01:14:44.640 --> 01:14:49.640
to love God's goodness to meet our weakness,

749
01:14:49.640 --> 01:14:54.640
his love to meet our undeservedness

750
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and to humble yourself and walk humbly with your God.

751
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That's, that's what he requires. Lord, thank you so much. Hallelujah. Lord, thank you.

752
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for your words. Thank you for your

753
01:15:16.800 --> 01:15:26.200
washing. Thank you for your perfection. Thank you for your light. Thank you that you never

754
01:15:26.760 --> 01:15:36.280
cease to bring joy. You never cease to set free. You never cease to remove blinders and

755
01:15:37.000 --> 01:15:45.720
soften hard hearts and to show us just such a good, good father. Lord,

756
01:15:50.520 --> 01:15:53.240
help us to thank you for the cross right now.

757
01:15:56.200 --> 01:16:01.720
To, to thank you that you knew already what we would do

758
01:16:03.560 --> 01:16:09.640
before you gave birth to us generation after generation, knowing who and when and the

759
01:16:09.640 --> 01:16:17.880
beginning and the end and what would be needed and you paid. You filled your storehouses.

760
01:16:19.960 --> 01:16:21.320
You built your house.

761
01:16:22.040 --> 01:16:31.240
You, you, you accommodated the need in every way and you are the one, the only one who has never

762
01:16:31.240 --> 01:16:38.840
left, never forsaken. You don't turn your back on sin. You don't turn your eyes away because you're

763
01:16:38.840 --> 01:16:48.280
too ashamed. You've been here from the beginning. Walking with, talking with, inviting, drawing,

764
01:16:49.000 --> 01:16:59.080
drawing, imploring people unto yourself, unto the light, unto forgiveness.

765
01:17:00.440 --> 01:17:07.160
And so you made that provision beforehand so that if Jesus be lifted up from the earth,

766
01:17:07.800 --> 01:17:14.280
just as the serpent was in the wilderness, that they should look upon him and be healed and we

767
01:17:14.280 --> 01:17:23.480
should be drawn by you unto Christ to look upon him that we may be healed, to look upon him

768
01:17:24.040 --> 01:17:35.960
bearing all the sin, all the shame. And so Lord, I ask you to, to fill us right now,

769
01:17:35.960 --> 01:17:44.200
Holy Spirit, with your gratitude, just with an awareness of how grateful you are. I mean, Jesus,

770
01:17:44.200 --> 01:17:55.080
that at the last supper, you lifted up the bread and gave thanks that you could give your body

771
01:17:56.040 --> 01:18:05.480
to be broken, that you could provide wholeness for all of us who don't deserve it.

772
01:18:07.240 --> 01:18:16.360
And you lifted the cup and you gave thanks that you had the, the life blood of a human man

773
01:18:16.760 --> 01:18:28.280
that you could offer as a sacrifice for sin, cutting a covenant with the Father to invite all into forgiveness.

774
01:18:30.520 --> 01:18:40.680
And so we say thank you. Thank you. Thank you for doing this for us, for having so much mercy,

775
01:18:41.640 --> 01:18:54.600
so much compassion, so much patience, so much forbearance, being so generous, gentle,

776
01:18:57.480 --> 01:18:59.080
loving, kind.

777
01:18:59.880 --> 01:19:09.480
Thank you. Lord, would you, would you show us, please,

778
01:19:12.200 --> 01:19:21.000
where it is we need to be crucified today? Where it is we've already been crucified but we've never

779
01:19:21.000 --> 01:19:35.400
identified with that nature of the dominion of darkness, of the law of sin and death, with, with being merciless.

780
01:19:51.000 --> 01:19:51.500
Thank you.

781
01:20:00.000 --> 01:20:09.380
Thank you, Lord, for searching our hearts and knowing us so well and identifying those

782
01:20:09.380 --> 01:20:19.240
ways that are apart from yours, that are wicked in your eyes, that don't reflect the nature

783
01:20:19.240 --> 01:20:27.720
of your righteousness, of your humility, of your mercy, of your grace, that don't help

784
01:20:27.720 --> 01:20:39.040
introduce people to you, that you are good and you're kind, even to the unrighteous,

785
01:20:39.040 --> 01:20:56.520
even to the evil one, you're kind. Lord, we bring this all to you. Reveal it all, God.

786
01:20:56.520 --> 01:21:07.720
We just invite it all to you. Invite all this nature, all this history, all this self-righteousness,

787
01:21:07.720 --> 01:21:16.240
all this feeling we've got this demonic right to judge others as if that was ever given

788
01:21:16.240 --> 01:21:26.560
to us, and all of the lack of mercy that we've had to be generous on those you've put in

789
01:21:26.560 --> 01:21:40.080
our midst, within our reach, to love, to be kind, to help. Lord, I thank you for bringing

790
01:21:40.080 --> 01:21:56.540
us to this funeral at the cross that you literally became all this sin. You became what you are

791
01:21:56.540 --> 01:22:10.980
not. You took it upon us. Abba, you put it all on your son, removing it from us so that

792
01:22:10.980 --> 01:22:22.780
you could condemn sin in the flesh. You could condemn mercilessness, lack of generosity,

793
01:22:22.780 --> 01:22:36.860
judgmentalism, and self-centeredness, self-righteousness. God, thank you for showing it all, just going

794
01:22:36.860 --> 01:22:48.300
to you. We're at the cross, identifying with what you did for us. You took it all because

795
01:22:48.380 --> 01:22:56.700
you so loved me. You so loved me, and you so loved the whole world, the whole sinful world,

796
01:22:57.980 --> 01:23:07.660
that you put it all in your son so that whosoever should believe should possess,

797
01:23:07.660 --> 01:23:13.260
instead of the condemnation for our sin, or them the condemnation for theirs,

798
01:23:14.140 --> 01:23:21.980
we should instead possess everlasting life in the law of the spirit of life given to us

799
01:23:22.940 --> 01:23:33.580
in Christ Jesus. So, we acknowledge that this knowledge of good and evil, Lord, it goes from us.

800
01:23:33.580 --> 01:23:42.860
We just see it flowing right to you, that we are crucified with you. We're dead to this name.

801
01:23:43.260 --> 01:23:53.340
We're dead to nature. As you take us into yourself and hide us from all that wrath, all that pain,

802
01:23:53.340 --> 01:23:59.980
all that suffering, all that judgment that would be due to us, you take us into yourself,

803
01:24:01.580 --> 01:24:05.260
into death, into being buried,

804
01:24:08.380 --> 01:24:10.780
that all that might be condemned

805
01:24:13.660 --> 01:24:17.420
so that you could raise us up. We're baptized in Christ.

806
01:24:19.660 --> 01:24:27.420
Baptize us in the Holy Spirit and with fire, purifying us of all of this entitlement,

807
01:24:28.460 --> 01:24:41.180
all of this demonic entitlement to be anything but like you, to be ungrateful, just gone,

808
01:24:43.660 --> 01:24:52.060
we just see it gone. We thank you, Lord. Help us to receive the love that you've given us

809
01:24:54.380 --> 01:25:03.180
as a born-again child of God, a new creation.

810
01:25:00.000 --> 01:25:10.960
Created, born from above, a new creature, now the offspring of God, the child of God,

811
01:25:10.960 --> 01:25:15.200
Jesus being the firstborn among many.

812
01:25:15.200 --> 01:25:23.240
And so now I am in Him, made like Him, in the purity that comes full of gratitude, full

813
01:25:23.240 --> 01:25:33.840
of grace, full of mercy, to partake of your healing, of your provision, not because I

814
01:25:33.840 --> 01:25:38.120
deserve it, but because Christ does.

815
01:25:38.120 --> 01:25:41.120
He alone is righteous.

816
01:25:41.120 --> 01:25:51.920
And Lord, I thank you that as I partake of this place, Lord, I become an invitation to

817
01:25:51.920 --> 01:25:56.920
others too.

818
01:25:56.920 --> 01:26:09.720
Abba, thank you for Jesus.

819
01:26:09.720 --> 01:26:18.760
Thank you for your flawless mercy, your flawless wisdom, your flawless grace, your flawless

820
01:26:18.760 --> 01:26:37.480
love, so pure, so pure in heart, are you, that you see yourself, you see God in us.

821
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Thank you.

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01:26:41.840 --> 01:26:49.920
Thank you for transforming us into the image of your Son, Jesus, the perfect image of our

823
01:26:49.920 --> 01:26:52.800
perfect Father.

824
01:26:52.800 --> 01:27:06.240
Is there anything that you'd like to say to us here, as we are so positioned in you, with

825
01:27:37.240 --> 01:27:58.560
Lord, thank you that you did not come to condemn that which was lost, that I would have no

826
01:27:58.560 --> 01:28:18.560
hope, that sinners would have no hope, but you came to save, to seek and to save.

827
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I bless your feet.

828
01:28:22.080 --> 01:28:23.960
Thank you.

829
01:28:23.960 --> 01:28:27.920
Thank you for your feet.

830
01:28:28.280 --> 01:28:41.280
Thank you for your goodness, for your grace, your forgiveness, your glory, your Holy Spirit.

831
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In Jesus' name.

832
01:28:43.680 --> 01:28:53.600
Thank you also for healing us, healing us of all the effects of the sin, of the judgment,

833
01:28:53.600 --> 01:28:56.280
all that we would have deserved.

834
01:28:56.280 --> 01:29:02.440
Thank you for healing us of all that we would have deserved, all that we really deserve,

835
01:29:02.440 --> 01:29:08.640
the sickness, the death, the separation, poverty.

836
01:29:08.640 --> 01:29:18.160
Thank you for healing us from all of that in our body, in our mind, in our relationships.

837
01:29:18.160 --> 01:29:31.160
Thank you for healing us, and thank you for giving us the desire to see the same for everyone.

838
01:29:31.160 --> 01:29:39.960
Thank you for being the good news to me unto salvation I could never have deserved.

839
01:29:39.960 --> 01:29:49.200
Now, Lord, bring your word to life in me, that you may be so birthed and so brought

840
01:29:49.200 --> 01:29:50.200
forth in me.

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In Jesus' name, amen.

842
01:30:30.000 --> 01:30:38.960
Thank you, Lord.

843
01:30:38.960 --> 01:30:43.960
I just want to thank you.

844
01:30:43.960 --> 01:30:53.040
We just want to thank you.

845
01:30:53.040 --> 01:31:00.680
Thank you for your goodness and mercy.

846
01:31:00.680 --> 01:31:11.360
We just want to thank you, Lord.

847
01:31:53.040 --> 01:32:19.520
We just want to thank you, Lord.