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Andrew Farley - Gospel Zero (Part 3)

April 5, 2025 | S25:E15

Andrew Farley - Gospel Zero (Part 3)
Pastor Andrew Farley brings Biblical clarity and illuminates God’s grace.
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The Grace Message with Dr. Andrew Farley | Andrew Farley - Gospel Zero (Part 3) | April 5, 2025
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  • Dr. andrew farley: do you feel like you're constantly asking
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  • God for forgiveness over and over every day, every hour,
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  • Every sin?
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  • Is christianity really supposed to work that way or is it better
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  • Than all of that?
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  • Let's talk about it today on "the grace message."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Dr. farley: all right, we are continuing our series called
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  • "gospel zero."
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  • We're now in part three called "the art of eternal amnesty."
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  • It's all about your forgiveness, total forgiveness once for all.
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  • Not little by little, not again and
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  • Again, and not in installments,
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  • Not like you're paying off a loan, but once for all.
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  • Now, in order to understand our total forgiveness, first i want
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  • You to imagine the worst thing you've ever done.
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  • For some of us that's easy.
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  • You just come up with that one.
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  • For others it's a repeat offense, right?
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  • It's something you're embarrassed about, you're
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  • Humiliated about.
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  • If other people knew, what would they think of you?
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  • Their whole opinion would change, you might think.
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  • So just hold that in your mind for just a moment.
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  • I know it's not any fun, but i want you to think about the
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  • Worst thing or things you've ever done in your life.
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  • Now, i've got a question for you.
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  • What have you done with that?
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  • Where do you compartmentalize?
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  • How do you cope with that?
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  • What do you do with that?
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  • What have you done?
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  • Are you trying to make up for that?
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  • Are you trying to pay for that?
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  • Are you trying to get clean from that?
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  • Are you trying to confess it enough times to make sure that
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  • Maybe for sure then you're forgiven 'cause you apologized
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  • 28 times or 2,800 times?
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  • You know, we get that thing in our mind, and the enemy is happy
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  • To put it there.
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  • The enemy is happy for you to dwell on it.
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  • Now i'm going to ask you, what if god saw that?
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  • What if he saw it before you ever did it?
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  • What if he saw it thousands of years before you ever did it?
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  • What if you're not shocking him?
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  • What if you couldn't even surprise him if you tried?
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  • What if he saw it from miles away and he took care of it and
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  • It's a non-issue for him, a non-issue?
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  • He took it away as far as the east is from the west.
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  • He keeps no record of your wrongs.
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  • Hello, we're wearing crosses around our necks.
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  • What do they mean?
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  • We've got crosses on the walls of our churches.
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  • What are we celebrating?
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  • How heartbreaking it is when christians don't know
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  • They're forgiven.
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  • Are you kidding me?
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  • Christianity 101, the whole reason jesus died and we're
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  • Floundering around for 40 years in a spiritual desert wondering
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  • If we're forgiven when we are spotless and blameless.
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  • And god doesn't just love you, he likes you, and he delights in
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  • You and, get this, he treats you as if you've never done
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  • That thing.
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  • No record, no scorecard, no clipboard, no judgment for your
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  • Sins, your sins obliterated.
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  • If that's not the gospel, i don't know what is.
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  • If that's not the gospel, i don't know what we're
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  • Doing here.
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  • If that's not the gospel, we need to be returning a whole lot
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  • Of jewelry.
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  • You know what i'm saying?
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  • Because we got it wrong.
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  • Well, let's dive in.
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  • The exciting news is we got it right, and yet we need to
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  • Understand what the israelites, what the old testament people
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  • Had to cope with.
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  • They had something inferior.
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  • We got something superior.
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  • I remind you in the old testament, look at this, hebrews
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  • Chapter 10, the law never made anything perfect.
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  • "for the law, since it was only a shadow--" not the reality, it
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  • Was the shadow of the good things to come and not the very
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  • Form of things.
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  • The law can never by the same sacrifices which they offer,
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  • Look at this verbiage, continually year by year--i'm
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  • Exhausted reading that.
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  • I mean, they were offered year by year continually, again and
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  • Again and they could never make perfect those who draw near.
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  • A whole lot of effort, not a whole lot of success.
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  • A whole lot of blood, a whole lot of sacrifice, and yet not a
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  • Whole lot of forgiveness.
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  • It was year by year by year.
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  • And in fact we're going to see really it was just a symbol, a
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  • Shadow of the real solution that was coming later.
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  • And if you don't know this, even the old testament folks, they
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  • Were forgiven by the cross.
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  • The cross works backwards, and the cross works forward.
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  • And so in the old testament, they were waiting with shadows
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  • And symbols and pictures.
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  • They were cleaning out their cabinets to represent purity.
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  • They were trying to symbolize this perfection that would one
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  • Day come through messiah.
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  • Now, you talk about a big waste.
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  • I mean, was god just being wasteful?
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  • "god, you're going to have thousands of years of people
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  • Cleaning out their cabinets?"
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  • He's sending a message.
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  • "you're still not pure.
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  • You're still not pure.
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  • It is not finished until my son comes to make it
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  • Finished forever."
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  • So you look forward, but now, folks, today you look backwards.
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  • You look backwards at the finished work of jesus christ.
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  • And so the law could never make you perfect.
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  • Oh, there was a whole lot of effort, a whole lot of blood, a
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  • Whole lot of sacrifice, but isn't that the point?
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  • The point is it had to be again and again and again.
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  • Now, i'm going to say something and i want you to grab it.
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  • If you're doing anything today, i don't care what it is--if
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  • You're doing anything today again and again and again in
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  • Order to be forgiven, that is not the gospel.
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  • Christians are never forgiven again and again.
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  • You are not forgiven little by little.
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  • You are not forgiven progressively.
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  • You can call it catholic and go to a confession booth, a guy
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  • Sitting in a pine box and you can pour your heart out to him.
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  • You are not being forgiven progressively.
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  • You can call it protestant and fire up 1,000 apologies to god.
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  • "will you forgive me?
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  • Will you forgive me?
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  • Will you forgive me?"
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  • You are still not being forgiven progressively by god.
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  • That is old testament, and what jesus has brought you is a
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  • Finished work.
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  • So it doesn't matter if you got a catholic flavor, a protestant
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  • Flavor, or any religious flavor.
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  • If you're saying that forgiveness is progressive,
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  • You've missed it.
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  • Your next sin is already forgiven.
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  • That's how radical the gospel is.
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  • And if you don't know that yet, then you're scared of that maybe
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  • And you're saying, "my next sin, my next sin is already forgiven.
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  • Well then i'm just going to go out and set a world record
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  • For sins.
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  • Yay."
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  • You'll be miserable.
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  • You'll be forgiven but miserable.
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  • Now, continuing in hebrews 10, look at what the writer says.
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  • "in those sacrifices there's a reminder of sins--" old
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  • Testament sacrifice, "a reminder of sins year by year.
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  • For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take
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  • Away sins."
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  • Now, i'll remind you why john the baptist was so thrilled.
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  • You remember john the baptist?
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  • He lays eyes on jesus from a distance and he points at him,
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  • I'm sure, and he says, "look, the lamb of god who takes away
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  • The sin of the world."
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  • Not covers the sin.
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  • Not covers it for a year, not covers it till the next day of
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  • Atonement, but the lamb of god who takes away the sin of
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  • The world.
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  • So we're starting to see a difference between covering
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  • And takeaway.
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  • Now, when i was growing up, i heard something like this:
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  • "don't worry.
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  • Your sins are under the blood."
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  • See, that implies covering.
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  • "your sins are under the blood."
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  • And i kind of used to think, "well, what if one of my sins
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  • Creeps out the side?"
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  • You know what i'm saying?
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  • "i mean, what if one creeps out the side, then i'm--i've really
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  • Got a problem."
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  • But that's not the gospel.
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  • The gospel is not that your sins are covered.
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  • Your sins are taken away once for all never to be seen again.
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  • Jesus does not die again and again.
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  • Hebrews, one of our favorite books of the bible around here,
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  • You know--i mean, it's awesome.
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  • It's powerful.
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  • Look at what hebrews 9 says.
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  • "nor was it that jesus would offer himself often, as the high
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  • Priest enters the holy place year by year with blood that is
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  • Not his own.
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  • Otherwise, jesus would have needed to suffer often since the
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  • Foundation of the world."
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  • Now, i know that that's a lengthy verse.
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  • It may be a little bit confusing to you, but let me put it in
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  • Good old texas english.
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  • He ain't up there dying, so you're not down here
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  • Being forgiven.
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  • He ain't up there dying over and over, so you're not down here
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  • Receiving more and more and more and more forgiveness.
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  • No, no.
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  • He died once, and you're forgiven once.
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  • That's what this is saying.
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  • Jesus does not die often.
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  • He died once.
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  • It worked the first time, no repeat needed.
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  • Isn't that awesome?
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  • So jesus doesn't die again and again.
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  • Here's another verse that says that same thing.
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  • Hebrews chapter 9, verse 28, one of my favorites.
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  • It says this: "so christ also, having been offered," how
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  • Many times?
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  • "once to bear the sins of many, he'll appear a second time
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  • For salvation."
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  • Look at it.
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  • Read it slowly.
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  • It's incredible.
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  • Read it carefully.
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  • "without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await him."
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  • Is jesus coming back?
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  • Yes, he is.
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  • When he comes back, is he going to hang on a cross again?
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  • No.
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  • When he comes back, is he going to refer to your sins again?
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  • Without reference to sin.
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  • That's why all these christians who are afraid--we get afraid of
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  • Christ's return, right?
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  • I mean, we get afraid we start thinking, "what about that
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  • Movie, you know, that big movie in the sky?"
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  • You know what i'm talking about, right?
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  • Why do you know what i'm talking about?
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  • It's not in the bible.
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  • We all made it up together, didn't we?
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  • The big movie screen in the sky, you're holding your
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  • Popcorn, right?
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  • Somebody come, "how are you doing, brother?"
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  • "oh, i'm blessed."
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  • Yeah, but you're scared out of your wits.
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  • You say you're blessed, but you're freaking out about your
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  • Blockbuster film coming up.
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  • And so we imagine the movie of our sins, and yet what's
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  • The truth?
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  • God destroyed the movie reel.
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  • There is no movie.
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  • He destroyed the movie reel once for all.
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  • He's returning, and we can be jazzed about it.
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  • He's returning, and we can be excited about it because it's
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  • Without reference to sin.
  • 00:11:25.022 --> 00:11:26.557
  • In fact, if you want to know what to feel, look at that
  • 00:11:26.557 --> 00:11:28.726
  • Word eagerly.
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  • I can eagerly await him.
  • 00:11:30.094 --> 00:11:32.463
  • Now, if he had a clipboard and a scorecard and a movie reel i
  • 00:11:32.463 --> 00:11:35.800
  • Couldn't eagerly await him, but all of that's been destroyed and
  • 00:11:35.800 --> 00:11:40.905
  • He remembers our sins no more.
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  • Remember that thing i asked you to think about for a moment?
  • 00:11:44.442 --> 00:11:47.378
  • You don't have to think about that.
  • 00:11:47.378 --> 00:11:49.413
  • If god doesn't remember your sins anymore, then why do you?
  • 00:11:49.413 --> 00:11:55.586
  • If god has forgotten your sins, are you forgetting your sins?
  • 00:11:55.586 --> 00:12:01.292
  • I mean, we keep talking about imitating christ.
  • 00:12:01.292 --> 00:12:04.996
  • We keep talking about how we want to be more like god.
  • 00:12:04.996 --> 00:12:08.232
  • Are you like god with regard to your sins?
  • 00:12:08.232 --> 00:12:10.868
  • Because to him your sins are gone.
  • 00:12:10.868 --> 00:12:13.337
  • Are you agreeing with him that you're a totally
  • 00:12:13.337 --> 00:12:15.640
  • Forgiven person?
  • 00:12:15.640 --> 00:12:17.308
  • How beautiful this message of jesus christ.
  • 00:12:17.308 --> 00:12:20.311
  • There is no other message.
  • 00:12:20.311 --> 00:12:21.946
  • There's no making up for your sins.
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  • There's no purifying yourself.
  • 00:12:24.015 --> 00:12:26.083
  • There's no paying for your sins.
  • 00:12:26.083 --> 00:12:28.119
  • There's no ledger compensating for your sins.
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  • It's jesus or nothing, and he took them away forever.
  • 00:12:31.722 --> 00:12:37.528
  • Jesus, the satisfying sacrifice.
  • 00:12:37.528 --> 00:12:39.797
  • Here's a fancy word in the bible.
  • 00:12:39.797 --> 00:12:42.266
  • In the new testament we see this word propitiation.
  • 00:12:42.266 --> 00:12:45.503
  • In 1 john 2:2, "jesus himself is the propitiation for our
  • 00:12:45.503 --> 00:12:50.942
  • Sins; and not only ours, but also those of the whole world."
  • 00:12:50.942 --> 00:12:56.013
  • You know, even uncle chet, the chain smoker.
  • 00:12:56.013 --> 00:12:59.984
  • The sins of the whole world.
  • 00:12:59.984 --> 00:13:01.519
  • So those who are teaching limited atonement maybe need to
  • 00:13:01.519 --> 00:13:07.825
  • Slow down and look at 1 john 2:2 again.
  • 00:13:07.825 --> 00:13:10.695
  • There's nothing limited about jesus's sacrifice.
  • 00:13:10.695 --> 00:13:14.031
  • He didn't die for a limited group, he died for anyone
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  • And everyone.
  • 00:13:18.202 --> 00:13:19.737
  • And here the author john, a jewish man, is pretty jazzed.
  • 00:13:19.737 --> 00:13:23.474
  • He's saying, "wait a minute.
  • 00:13:23.474 --> 00:13:25.276
  • This message is bigger than i thought.
  • 00:13:25.276 --> 00:13:27.111
  • I mean, i thought this was israel's messiah, which is
  • 00:13:27.111 --> 00:13:29.814
  • Pretty cool.
  • 00:13:29.814 --> 00:13:31.182
  • Israel's messiah, that's a message, but this message is
  • 00:13:31.182 --> 00:13:34.385
  • Bigger than i thought because it is actually that jesus is the
  • 00:13:34.385 --> 00:13:40.224
  • Messiah for the whole world.
  • 00:13:40.224 --> 00:13:42.593
  • It's bigger than israel.
  • 00:13:42.593 --> 00:13:43.928
  • It's bigger than the jews."
  • 00:13:43.928 --> 00:13:45.496
  • And it's like a light bulb goes on for john this apostle and he
  • 00:13:45.496 --> 00:13:49.533
  • Realizes this gospel is for the planet.
  • 00:13:49.533 --> 00:13:54.238
  • And so we see in hebrews chapter 10 a bit about sitting down.
  • 00:13:54.238 --> 00:13:59.510
  • You know this passage.
  • 00:13:59.510 --> 00:14:00.845
  • Look, every priest in the old testament, what did they do?
  • 00:14:00.845 --> 00:14:04.582
  • They were standing up.
  • 00:14:04.582 --> 00:14:06.083
  • They didn't have a piece of furniture to relax on.
  • 00:14:06.083 --> 00:14:08.953
  • They were standing daily ministering and offering time
  • 00:14:08.953 --> 00:14:12.723
  • And time again the same sacrifices, which can never
  • 00:14:12.723 --> 00:14:16.661
  • Do what?
  • 00:14:16.661 --> 00:14:18.029
  • Never take away sins.
  • 00:14:18.029 --> 00:14:21.098
  • But he--but jesus, having offered one sacrifice for sins
  • 00:14:21.098 --> 00:14:25.603
  • For all time, what did jesus do?
  • 00:14:25.603 --> 00:14:28.873
  • He did the unthinkable.
  • 00:14:28.873 --> 00:14:30.875
  • He did the illegal.
  • 00:14:30.875 --> 00:14:32.543
  • He did what no other old testament priest could do.
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  • He sat down on the job because the job was finished.
  • 00:14:36.580 --> 00:14:41.419
  • Now, think about that.
  • 00:14:41.419 --> 00:14:42.753
  • In the old testament no priest could sit down on the job.
  • 00:14:42.753 --> 00:14:45.823
  • You walk into the temple or the tabernacle on the day
  • 00:14:45.823 --> 00:14:49.694
  • Of atonement.
  • 00:14:49.694 --> 00:14:51.028
  • You walk in there and your high priest is kicked back in a lazy
  • 00:14:51.028 --> 00:14:56.067
  • Boy chair and he looks at you and he says, "what's up?"
  • 00:14:56.067 --> 00:14:59.804
  • "dude, do you not have any work left?
  • 00:14:59.804 --> 00:15:03.607
  • What are you doing sitting down on the job?"
  • 00:15:03.607 --> 00:15:06.610
  • God would never let that image happen for israel because there
  • 00:15:06.610 --> 00:15:11.248
  • Was always more work to be done.
  • 00:15:11.248 --> 00:15:14.085
  • They were standing.
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  • Another bull, another goat, another sacrifice.
  • 00:15:15.553 --> 00:15:19.523
  • Always on their feet.
  • 00:15:19.523 --> 00:15:20.858
  • The job is not finished.
  • 00:15:20.858 --> 00:15:23.961
  • But when jesus had offered one sacrifice for all time, what did
  • 00:15:23.961 --> 00:15:31.635
  • He do?
  • 00:15:31.635 --> 00:15:33.070
  • He sat down at the right hand of god and he said, "it
  • 00:15:33.070 --> 00:15:38.609
  • Is finished.
  • 00:15:38.609 --> 00:15:40.277
  • All gone."
  • 00:15:40.277 --> 00:15:41.645
  • Just like little kids say after a good meal, all gone, right?
  • 00:15:41.645 --> 00:15:45.750
  • The gospel, folks, is that simple.
  • 00:15:45.750 --> 00:15:48.886
  • Your sins are all gone.
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  • The barrier between you and god all gone.
  • 00:15:50.521 --> 00:15:54.225
  • Who you were in adam, all gone.
  • 00:15:54.225 --> 00:15:57.695
  • You're a new creature in christ.
  • 00:15:57.695 --> 00:15:59.964
  • Here's another passage, hebrews 1, this is the way the letter
  • 00:15:59.964 --> 00:16:03.434
  • Opens basically.
  • 00:16:03.434 --> 00:16:04.769
  • It says, "when jesus had made purification of sins, he sat
  • 00:16:04.769 --> 00:16:08.572
  • Down at the right hand of the majesty on high."
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  • I guess i'd like to ask you--you remember that thing you were
  • 00:16:13.144 --> 00:16:17.415
  • Thinking about?
  • 00:16:17.415 --> 00:16:18.749
  • You remember from the beginning that thing?
  • 00:16:18.749 --> 00:16:20.518
  • Or how about all your sins, your whole life of sins, your--what
  • 00:16:20.518 --> 00:16:23.687
  • Position are you in about all that?
  • 00:16:23.687 --> 00:16:27.158
  • Are you standing up running around texas, running around
  • 00:16:27.158 --> 00:16:31.062
  • Planet earth trying to make up for it and get right and get
  • 00:16:31.062 --> 00:16:34.265
  • Clean and get forgiven and get cla--are you standing up like
  • 00:16:34.265 --> 00:16:37.601
  • Those old testament priests or will you sit down with jesus?
  • 00:16:37.601 --> 00:16:42.807
  • Will you kick back in a lazy boy chair and agree with him, "i am
  • 00:16:42.807 --> 00:16:49.213
  • A totally forgiven person?"
  • 00:16:49.213 --> 00:16:53.617
  • Do you see that?
  • 00:16:53.617 --> 00:16:54.952
  • Only one of these positions is faith.
  • 00:16:54.952 --> 00:16:59.557
  • Faith is not running around, "martha, martha, martha," trying
  • 00:16:59.557 --> 00:17:02.760
  • To get right, get cleaned for jesus.
  • 00:17:02.760 --> 00:17:04.495
  • That's not faith.
  • 00:17:04.495 --> 00:17:05.830
  • Faith is, "he did it all, and i'm totally forgiven because
  • 00:17:05.830 --> 00:17:10.601
  • Of him."
  • 00:17:10.601 --> 00:17:13.904
  • Here's one from "gospel zero."
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  • Yeah, you heard it right.
  • 00:17:16.540 --> 00:17:18.943
  • Total forgiveness.
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  • Past mess-ups, scrubbed.
  • 00:17:20.444 --> 00:17:23.114
  • Present fumbles, erased.
  • 00:17:23.114 --> 00:17:26.183
  • Future faux pas, pre-canceled.
  • 00:17:26.183 --> 00:17:29.954
  • This isn't your grandma's, "say three hail marys and try to sin
  • 00:17:29.954 --> 00:17:34.058
  • A little less" kind of deal.
  • 00:17:34.058 --> 00:17:35.926
  • No.
  • 00:17:35.926 --> 00:17:37.261
  • We're talking about a one-stop, sin-removal shop that leaves us
  • 00:17:37.261 --> 00:17:40.764
  • Whiter than a bleach commercial courtesy of jesus's crucifixion.
  • 00:17:40.764 --> 00:17:47.271
  • Now, you want to see that?
  • 00:17:47.271 --> 00:17:49.373
  • In scripture here it is.
  • 00:17:49.373 --> 00:17:50.941
  • John 1, "the next day he saw jesus coming to him and said,
  • 00:17:50.941 --> 00:17:56.614
  • 'behold the lamb of god,'" whiter than a bleach commercial,
  • 00:17:56.614 --> 00:18:02.286
  • "takes away the sin of the world."
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  • Gone.
  • 00:18:06.857 --> 00:18:08.592
  • Wow.
  • 00:18:08.592 --> 00:18:10.594
  • You are perfectly forgiven forever.
  • 00:18:10.594 --> 00:18:12.830
  • There's no better verse in the bible than hebrews 10:14.
  • 00:18:12.830 --> 00:18:16.000
  • Here it is.
  • 00:18:16.000 --> 00:18:17.368
  • Wow.
  • 00:18:17.368 --> 00:18:18.702
  • "by one offering he has perfected for all time those who
  • 00:18:18.702 --> 00:18:23.574
  • Are sanctified."
  • 00:18:23.574 --> 00:18:24.909
  • Now, in the original language, in the original language for all
  • 00:18:24.909 --> 00:18:31.015
  • Time means for all time.
  • 00:18:31.015 --> 00:18:34.251
  • In the original language, forever, which is another
  • 00:18:34.251 --> 00:18:37.121
  • Translation--forever means forever.
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  • There's no funny business.
  • 00:18:40.558 --> 00:18:42.426
  • There's no fine print.
  • 00:18:42.426 --> 00:18:45.095
  • There's no fly in the ointment.
  • 00:18:45.095 --> 00:18:47.631
  • There's no worm in the apple.
  • 00:18:47.631 --> 00:18:49.867
  • There's no got you.
  • 00:18:49.867 --> 00:18:51.669
  • There's no front-loading it with good news and then ruining it at
  • 00:18:51.669 --> 00:18:54.772
  • The last minute when you get the guilt trip.
  • 00:18:54.772 --> 00:18:58.309
  • By one sacrifice, by one offering he's made you perfect
  • 00:18:58.309 --> 00:19:02.713
  • For all time.
  • 00:19:02.713 --> 00:19:04.048
  • You're not perfectly behaved, but you're perfectly forgiven
  • 00:19:04.048 --> 00:19:07.618
  • And perfectly cleansed.
  • 00:19:07.618 --> 00:19:09.386
  • Amen?
  • 00:19:09.386 --> 00:19:10.821
  • That's jesus.
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  • When he does it, he does it perfectly.
  • 00:19:12.189 --> 00:19:15.559
  • Hebrews 10:14 couldn't be clearer.
  • 00:19:15.559 --> 00:19:19.797
  • Jesus's one-time offering left us perfectly forgiven and
  • 00:19:19.797 --> 00:19:24.101
  • Perpetually cleansed, not stuck in some twisted game of red
  • 00:19:24.101 --> 00:19:29.073
  • Light green light with our sins.
  • 00:19:29.073 --> 00:19:31.542
  • You know what i'm saying.
  • 00:19:31.542 --> 00:19:32.876
  • "oh yeah, yeah, yeah, he forgave you, but you still need to ask."
  • 00:19:32.876 --> 00:19:36.113
  • "well, why do i need to ask if he forgave me?"
  • 00:19:36.113 --> 00:19:38.382
  • "i don't know."
  • 00:19:38.382 --> 00:19:40.584
  • Or some other guy he's been to school so he says, "yeah, you
  • 00:19:40.584 --> 00:19:44.788
  • Need to make real in your experience what's already true
  • 00:19:44.788 --> 00:19:47.124
  • Of you."
  • 00:19:47.124 --> 00:19:48.459
  • "what?
  • 00:19:48.459 --> 00:19:49.827
  • Where you see that?"
  • 00:19:49.827 --> 00:19:51.161
  • "i don't know.
  • 00:19:51.161 --> 00:19:52.529
  • I mean, i got it in my blue notebook."
  • 00:19:52.529 --> 00:19:54.064
  • "where's your blue notebook?"
  • 00:19:54.064 --> 00:19:55.432
  • "well, that's what they told me in school."
  • 00:19:55.432 --> 00:19:56.900
  • "well, why are you just repeating what they told you
  • 00:19:56.900 --> 00:19:58.535
  • In school?"
  • 00:19:58.535 --> 00:19:59.903
  • "i don't know."
  • 00:19:59.903 --> 00:20:01.805
  • Easy prep.
  • 00:20:01.805 --> 00:20:04.742
  • We'll just repeat it until it sounds true and hope for
  • 00:20:03.374 --> 00:20:08.445
  • The best.
  • 00:20:08.445 --> 00:20:10.347
  • You don't have to make the sacrifice of jesus real.
  • 00:20:10.347 --> 00:20:13.951
  • It's real.
  • 00:20:13.951 --> 00:20:15.519
  • You don't have to make it more true.
  • 00:20:15.519 --> 00:20:17.688
  • It's true.
  • 00:20:17.688 --> 00:20:19.023
  • If you are in christ, you have redemption, the forgiveness
  • 00:20:19.023 --> 00:20:22.993
  • Of sins.
  • 00:20:22.993 --> 00:20:24.361
  • Forgiveness is something you've got, not something
  • 00:20:24.361 --> 00:20:27.331
  • You're getting.
  • 00:20:27.331 --> 00:20:29.967
  • And so there is no red light green light.
  • 00:20:29.967 --> 00:20:32.403
  • Look at hebrews 10.
  • 00:20:32.403 --> 00:20:34.271
  • "their sins and their lawless deeds i will remember no more.
  • 00:20:34.271 --> 00:20:40.377
  • Where there is forgiveness of these things, there's no longer
  • 00:20:40.377 --> 00:20:44.481
  • Any offering for sin."
  • 00:20:44.481 --> 00:20:46.650
  • Now, that verse might sound strange to you.
  • 00:20:46.650 --> 00:20:49.353
  • Why does the author of hebrews say there's no offering for sin?
  • 00:20:49.353 --> 00:20:52.456
  • What he's saying is there's no need for anything else because
  • 00:20:52.456 --> 00:20:56.794
  • It worked.
  • 00:20:56.794 --> 00:20:58.128
  • If he remembers your sins no more, why do you need another
  • 00:20:58.128 --> 00:21:02.066
  • Sacrifice on an altar?
  • 00:21:02.066 --> 00:21:04.001
  • If he remembers your sins no more, why are you killing
  • 00:21:04.001 --> 00:21:06.437
  • Another bull or goat?
  • 00:21:06.437 --> 00:21:08.205
  • If he remembers your sins no more, why are you going back to
  • 00:21:08.205 --> 00:21:10.808
  • The dead works of the temple?
  • 00:21:10.808 --> 00:21:12.843
  • If you're forgiven, why are you trying to get forgiven?
  • 00:21:12.843 --> 00:21:16.413
  • And wouldn't he say the same thing today?
  • 00:21:16.413 --> 00:21:18.916
  • "hey, if you're forgiven, why are you going to the
  • 00:21:18.916 --> 00:21:20.984
  • Confession booth?"
  • 00:21:20.984 --> 00:21:22.353
  • "well, to get forgiven."
  • 00:21:22.353 --> 00:21:23.721
  • "but i thought you said you were forgiven?"
  • 00:21:23.721 --> 00:21:25.923
  • Sounds like a who's-on-first routine.
  • 00:21:25.923 --> 00:21:28.258
  • We just go round and round in idiotic fashion.
  • 00:21:28.258 --> 00:21:32.696
  • Are you forgiven or not?
  • 00:21:32.696 --> 00:21:36.133
  • Make up your mind about the cross of christ and don't let
  • 00:21:36.133 --> 00:21:42.072
  • These thoughts come in of, "oh, but what if i sin?
  • 00:21:42.072 --> 00:21:45.409
  • But what if this makes me sin--" you've been sinning just fine
  • 00:21:45.409 --> 00:21:50.114
  • Not believing in the grace of god.
  • 00:21:50.114 --> 00:21:53.150
  • You've been sinning just fine thinking you had to get
  • 00:21:53.150 --> 00:21:56.720
  • More forgiven.
  • 00:21:56.720 --> 00:21:58.489
  • What if you believed you're pure and holy and blameless?
  • 00:21:58.489 --> 00:22:03.193
  • Would you sin more?
  • 00:22:03.193 --> 00:22:05.195
  • I don't think so.
  • 00:22:05.195 --> 00:22:06.530
  • Jesus said whoever is forgiven much loves much.
  • 00:22:06.530 --> 00:22:12.469
  • Are you scared of that kind of grace, or should you embrace
  • 00:22:12.469 --> 00:22:17.341
  • God's grace?
  • 00:22:17.341 --> 00:22:20.544
  • And yet this cornerstone of christianity 101 seems to be
  • 00:22:20.544 --> 00:22:27.484
  • Collecting dust in the doctrinal attic right next to your
  • 00:22:27.484 --> 00:22:32.256
  • Enthusiasm for evangelism and that casserole dish you swiped
  • 00:22:32.256 --> 00:22:36.560
  • From the church potluck; but yes, you're forgiven for
  • 00:22:36.560 --> 00:22:39.530
  • That, too.
  • 00:22:39.530 --> 00:22:41.698
  • We kind of take this forgiveness thing and we say, "oh, yeah,
  • 00:22:41.698 --> 00:22:44.568
  • Yeah, yeah.
  • 00:22:44.568 --> 00:22:45.903
  • I heard about that.
  • 00:22:45.903 --> 00:22:47.271
  • Oh yeah, i heard about that when they pitched me salvation.
  • 00:22:47.271 --> 00:22:49.206
  • Yeah, they said all my sins would be forgiven if i prayed
  • 00:22:49.206 --> 00:22:51.775
  • The prayer."
  • 00:22:51.775 --> 00:22:53.110
  • "well, did you pray the prayer?"
  • 00:22:53.110 --> 00:22:54.678
  • "yeah."
  • 00:22:54.678 --> 00:22:56.046
  • "well then why are you praying the prayer?"
  • 00:22:56.046 --> 00:22:58.382
  • "to get more forgiven."
  • 00:22:58.382 --> 00:23:00.184
  • "but i thought they told you--you remember the sales
  • 00:23:00.184 --> 00:23:02.853
  • Pitch is jesus died once and that he was going to forgive you
  • 00:23:02.853 --> 00:23:06.657
  • Of all your sins."
  • 00:23:06.657 --> 00:23:07.991
  • "well, yeah, yeah.
  • 00:23:07.991 --> 00:23:09.359
  • That's what i accepted."
  • 00:23:09.359 --> 00:23:10.828
  • "well then why are you trying to accept what you've
  • 00:23:10.828 --> 00:23:12.763
  • Already accepted?
  • 00:23:12.763 --> 00:23:15.332
  • Are you forgiven or not?"
  • 00:23:15.332 --> 00:23:18.669
  • All right.
  • 00:23:18.669 --> 00:23:20.003
  • Well, we'll finish with this.
  • 00:23:20.003 --> 00:23:21.371
  • Your forgiveness is in past tense.
  • 00:23:21.371 --> 00:23:23.340
  • Look at this.
  • 00:23:23.340 --> 00:23:24.708
  • Colossians 2, he forgave us all our transgressions.
  • 00:23:24.708 --> 00:23:30.414
  • Past tense.
  • 00:23:30.414 --> 00:23:32.249
  • Now, there's more.
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  • Look at this, your forgiveness once again in past tense.
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  • 1 john 2, "i'm writing you, little children, because your
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  • Sins have been forgiven for his name's sake."
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  • You notice who this is for?
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  • I mean, i thought it was for me.
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  • It's kind of cool to be forgiven.
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  • Thank you, lord.
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  • But did you notice this is for his name's sake?
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  • Like, we're bragging on jesus now.
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  • See, religion says do a whole lot to get right and get clean
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  • And stay right and stay clean.
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  • Jesus says, "you want to worship me?
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  • Well, you got to let me wash your feet.
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  • You got to let me make you clean once for all.
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  • You got to let me serve you.
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  • You don't serve me.
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  • No, no.
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  • It starts with me serving you."
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  • You have to let the son of god serve you through the cross and
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  • The resurrection.
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  • You're trying to serve instead of letting him serve you.
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  • You say, "oh, that's sacrilegious."
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  • I don't care what you think of it.
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  • You got to start with him serving you because otherwise
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  • You're just like every other human on the planet: unforgiven,
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  • Uncleansed, unregenerate, no hope, no god.
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  • So it starts with letting him serve you.
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  • Wow.
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  • "be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each
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  • Other, just as god in christ has--" past tense.
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  • "has forgiven you."
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  • So we'll finish with this.
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  • Both team catholic and team protestant despite their rivalry
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  • In the theological olympics, they often fall in the same old
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  • Trap acting like christ's one-time sacrifice was just the
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  • Opening act for a never-ending spiritual circus of confession,
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  • Penance, and begging for forgiveness.
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  • What does scripture say?
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  • He rescued us.
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  • "he rescued us from the domain of darkness, transferred us to a
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  • New kingdom, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness
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  • Of sins."
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  • You're not waking up every day saying, "god, please redeem me."
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  • You know better than that.
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  • You haven't prayed, "please redeem me," in years.
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  • Why not?
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  • 'cause you know you're redeemed.
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  • You're bought back.
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  • You're bought with a price.
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  • Now, why are you waking up every day saying, "lord, would you,
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  • Could you, might you forgive me?"
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  • It's the same thing.
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  • In him you have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
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  • You're not being redeemed.
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  • You're not being forgiven.
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  • You've got both in him.
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  • Dr. farley: grace, it's a word we're all familiar with, right?
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  • But i think some of us have a puny, even pathetic view of
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  • God's grace; a partial gospel, if you will.
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  • What if grace is more than forgiveness?
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  • What if it's more than a ticket to heaven?
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  • This is why i'm so excited about our brand new resource.
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  • It's called "boundless," and it's all about the radical
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  • Nature of god's grace.
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  • Grace is more than forgiveness.
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  • It's more than a get-out-of-jail-free card.
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  • Through god's grace, your heart got ripped out and replaced.
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  • Through god's grace, god has brought himself near in the
  • 00:27:01.892 --> 00:27:06.129
  • Person of the holy spirit.
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  • Through god's grace, you're one with jesus clean and
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  • Close forever.
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  • Get to know god's grace like never before in this new series
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  • Called "boundless."
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  • Month, and thank you so much for your support.
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