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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - What Every Christian Should Know About Sin (Part 2) | February 17, 2026
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- ♪ music ♪
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- From the pulpit of the first baptist church of dallas,
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- Texas, this is "pathway to victory"
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- With dr. robert jeffress.
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- Hi, am robert jeffress.
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- Welcome again to "pathway to victory".
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- The world as we know it today is a far cry
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- From the garden of eden.
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- Corruption and greed run rampant on a global scale
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- As each individual battles hardship and tragedy.
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- How did it come to be this?
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- Well, today i'm going to share how sin entered the world
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- And took residence in every human heart.
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- My message is titled
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- "what every christian should know" about sin
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- On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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- ♪ music ♪
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- ♪ i can see jesus ♪
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- ♪ high and exalted ♪
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- ♪ my eyes are fixed upon his face ♪
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- ♪ it shines like the sun ♪
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- ♪ music ♪
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- ♪ i can see jesus ♪
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- ♪ clothed in glory ♪
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- ♪ he is high and lifted up ♪
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- ♪ and his train fills the temple ♪
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- ♪ and all of the angels cry holy ♪
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- ♪ all the saints cry holy ♪
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- ♪ all creation cries holy holy ♪
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- ♪ holy is the lamb ♪
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- ♪ all praise unto the lamb who sits on the throne ♪
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- ♪ honor and power ♪
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- ♪ dominion and praise ♪
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- ♪ unto the lamb who sits on the throne ♪
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- ♪ honor and power ♪
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- ♪ dominion and praise ♪
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- ♪ unto the lamb who sits on the throne ♪
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- ♪ honor and power ♪
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- ♪ dominion and praise ♪
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- ♪ unto the lamb who sits on the throne ♪
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- ♪ honor and power ♪
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- ♪ dominion and praise ♪
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- ♪ hallelujah hallelujah ♪
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- ♪ hallelujah hallelujah ♪
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- ♪ hallelujah hallelujah ♪
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- ♪ all praise unto the lamb who sits on the throne ♪
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- ♪ honor and power ♪
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- ♪ dominion and praise ♪
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- ♪ unto the lamb who was and is ♪
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- ♪ and is to come ♪
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- ♪ all praise unto the lamb who sits on the throne ♪
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- ♪ honor and power ♪
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- ♪ dominion and praise ♪
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- ♪ unto the lamb who was and is ♪
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- ♪ and is to come ♪
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- ♪ hallelujah ♪
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- ♪ music ♪
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- ♪ he is the lamb ♪
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- ♪ hallelujah ♪
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- (applause)
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- Do you ever feel uncertain about what you believe
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- Or struggle to put your faith into words?
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- In a world where truth shifts with every cultural trend,
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- In "what every christian should know".
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- Dr. robert jeffress equips you
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- To understand 10 core doctrines of christianity.
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- Build your faith and your family's on biblical truth
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- Well, you know there's a great difference in human beings.
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- Yes, on page six of the newspaper, we read about a man
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- Who murdered his three small children and his wife.
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- But then we turn to page seven,
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- And here's a fireman who heroically
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- Saved a group of children from a burning building.
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- There's a great difference between human beings.
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- That difference between human beings is considerable,
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- But in god's eyes it's negligible.
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- Let me illustrate that for you.
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- If you go to new york city
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- And walk the streets of manhattan,
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- You'll notice different sizes of buildings.
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- Some one story structures, some multi-story structures,
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- Skyscrapers over a hundred stories high.
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- When we used to go to new york every christmas,
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- We'd get in on christmas night late
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- And we'd make a beeline to times square
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- To the mcdonald's there
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- Because it was the only restaurant open on christmas night,
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- And it was a massive two story mcdonald's,
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- Biggest i've ever seen.
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- But looking down from outer space,
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- If you were to look down on manhattan,
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- You wouldn't be able to tell the difference
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- Between that two story mcdonald's
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- And a hundred story empire state building,
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- Because from space looking down,
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- They all look the very same.
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- That's how god views us.
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- The difference between human beings
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- From our limited perspective is considerable.
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- From god's perspective, it's negligible, not one righteous.
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- Secondly, there's nobody who understands.
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- There's no one who understands the things of god.
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- Paul said in 1 corinthians 2:14,
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- "a natural man doesn't accept
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- The things of the spirit of god
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- For they are foolishness to him."
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- I see this every time we go to israel.
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- If you've ever been to israel,
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- You know you'll get assigned an israeli guide
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- Who knows all of the places and the history,
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- And he talks about the history
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- And i talk about the spiritual aspects,
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- But what you know about those jewish guides
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- Is they know the bible, including the new testament
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- Better than most christians or most pastors.
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- They can recite the scripture backwards and forwards.
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- They have an intellectual understanding,
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- But they've never received the gospel of jesus christ
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- Because to them it's foolishness.
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- The smartest people in the world stumble over the gospel
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- Because they're natural.
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- They do not understand.
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- And then thirdly, "there's no one who seeks for god,"
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- Paul said, "there's none who seeks for god."
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- Now if ever the bible is wrong, surely it's here.
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- "pastor, how can you say nobody seeks for god?
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- People everywhere are searching for god.
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- There are thousands of religions in the world
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- That is a proof of people searching for god.
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- It's proof of man's inherent righteousness, right?"
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- Now, what the bible says,
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- The fact that there are many religions,
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- Many approaches to god is not a sign of man's righteousness,
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- But a sign of his unrighteousness.
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- Romans 1 says, "every person has been given
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- An instinctive knowledge of the one true god,
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- But when they reject that knowledge,
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- They create their own gods, god's to their liking
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- That they can follow after."
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- It's like one wag said, "in the beginning,
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- God created man in his image,
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- And since that man has tried to return the favor."
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- We try to create the kind of god we want.
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- There's none who seeks for the true god.
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- You say, "well, if that's true, nobody righteous,
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- Nobody can understand the gospel.
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- Nobody's seeking for god. how does anyone ever get saved?"
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- We're going to talk about that next time,
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- But it's only by the grace of god.
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- John 6:44 says, "nobody can come to me,"
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- Jesus said, "unless the father who sent me draws him."
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- What does all this mean about our human condition?
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- Let me get it down to where it affects you and me.
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- Tip o'neill said one time, "all politics is local."
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- So is all theology.
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- What does it mean to me
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- The fact that i am utterly depraved and i am unrighteous
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- Before god leaves us with a problem?
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- First of all, on one hand we have a holy god.
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- The bible describes god, isaiah 6:3 as "holy, holy, holy."
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- That word means separate, different, a cut above.
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- God is a cut above,
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- He is different from all of his creation.
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- He has no sin in him.
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- Habakkuk 1:13 says about god,
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- "for your eyes are too pure to approve evil,
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- And you cannot look on wickedness with favor."
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- Now, let's be honest, sometimes we think,
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- "what's the big deal about sin with god?
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- Why does he get so exercised over sin?
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- Why can't he chill out a little bit?
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- Why can't he be more loving and forgiving as i can?
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- I mean, i can tolerate sinners. why can't he?"
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- Again, our tolerance for sin is no mark of righteousness.
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- It's because we're unrighteous, we're sinners.
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- We don't mind hanging around sin.
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- In fact, in some ways, we feel more
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- Comfortable around sinners.
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- God's not like we are. he can't turn the other way.
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- He cannot allow sin to go unjudged.
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- He cannot look on wickedness with favor,
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- And that means a holy god, sinful man,
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- There is a great chasm, a separation between god and us.
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- Again, isaiah talked about that in isaiah 659:2,
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- "but your iniquities have made a separation
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- Between you and your god.
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- Your sins have hidden his face from you
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- So that he does not hear."
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- There's this chasm, this separation between god and us.
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- Now again, we try to write that off.
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- We'll say, "okay, i admit i'm not perfect.
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- I'm not as close to god as the apostles peter
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- And james and john.
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- I'm not as close as jesus' mother mary,
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- Or even maybe st. theresa,
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- I'm just not that close,
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- But i'm not as bad as these other people over here."
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- Again, it's an illusion.
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- We don't recognize how vast that gulf is
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- Between god and us.
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- Have you ever been to the grand canyon before?
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- You know there's the south rim
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- And the north rim of the grand canyon
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- Separated by more than 20 miles.
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- Just imagine for a moment,
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- All of humanity is on the south rim of the grand canyon
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- And they want to get to the north rim.
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- And they see this vast gulf
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- And they say, "well, we'll try to jump over the canyon
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- To reach the north rim."
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- And so the first group to try is adolf hitler,
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- Charles manson, osama bin laden,
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- It's their turn to jump.
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- And they make it about six inches
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- And they fall to the bottom of the canyon.
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- And then there's another group,
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- Every godly pastor or priest you've ever known,
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- And the saints of old, and they take a running leap
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- And they make it three feet and they fall into the chasm.
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- And then you've got the apostles and they're all together
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- And they run and jump and they make it 10 feet out
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- And they fall to the bottom.
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- Now, there's a measurable difference
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- Between how far they jumped,
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- But compared to 20 miles, it's negligible.
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- It's inconsequential.
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- That's what paul meant when he said in romans 3:23,
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- "for all have sinned
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- And all fall short of the glory of god."
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- What does this all mean?
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- It means only god is capable of spanning that chasm
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- Between a holy god and a sinful man.
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- Again, going back to alexandra pope,
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- "to air his human,
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- To forgive is divine."
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- Forgiveness is a part of the heart of god.
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- Romans 5:8 says,
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- "but god demonstrated his love toward us
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- And that while we were yet sinners,
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- He sent christ to die for us."
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- And you see that heart of forgiveness
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- In the garden of eden.
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- In genesis 3:7, after adam and eve sinned,
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- What happened?
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- "then the eyes of both of them were opened
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- And they knew that they were naked
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- And they sewed fig leaves together
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- And made themselves loin coverings."
- 00:13:51.387 --> 00:13:54.790
- They felt that guilt immediately
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- And their first instinct was to cover over it themselves.
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- They sewed together fig leaves
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- To try to hide their nakedness.
- 00:14:03.132 --> 00:14:06.535
- It didn't do the job. they still felt guilty.
- 00:14:06.535 --> 00:14:08.971
- And so they went and they hid from god.
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- There's nothing we can do to cover our guilt.
- 00:14:12.474 --> 00:14:15.778
- No matter what we do to cover over our guilt,
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- There's always a draft blowing that we feel.
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- We always feel the guilt. and so what happened?
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- God met them in the garden.
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- In verse 3:21 says,
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- "the lord god made garments of skin for adam and his wife,
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- And he clothed them."
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- Did you know this is the very first death in human history
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- When god killed an animal to take the skin
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- And to cover adam and to eve.
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- He was teaching all of us two important lessons.
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- First of all, only god can provide a covering for man's sin.
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- And secondly, that covering involves
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- Something innocent dying for something guilty.
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- It was a picture of
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- What the lord jesus christ would do for us one day.
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- After adam and eve, you had the sacrificial system
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- Under moses for there was a continual reminder of the need
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- For something innocent to die for the guilty for god,
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- To provide the sacrifice.
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- Those old testament sacrifices, they were important,
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- But they were limited.
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- They were perpetual.
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- They had to keep being offered year after year.
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- They were offered by sinful priests
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- Who had to make an atonement for their own sins
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- Before they could offer a sacrifice for other sins.
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- And they offered only temporary reconciliation with god,
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- Which would be almost immediately broken by further sin.
- 00:15:38.193 --> 00:15:42.564
- It was all pointing to that once for all sacrifice,
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- That jesus, the lamb of god, would make for us
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- And offer us eternal redemption.
- 00:15:50.305 --> 00:15:53.509
- Jesus' death on the cross removed the penalty of sin.
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- It removed the power of sin for christians,
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- We no longer have to sin.
- 00:16:02.084 --> 00:16:03.886
- We no longer have any more obligation to sin
- 00:16:03.886 --> 00:16:07.656
- Than we think we have.
- 00:16:07.656 --> 00:16:09.458
- We've been saved from the penalty of sin, the power of sin,
- 00:16:09.458 --> 00:16:12.995
- But the presence of sin is still with us.
- 00:16:12.995 --> 00:16:16.298
- It's still here.
- 00:16:16.298 --> 00:16:17.699
- Make no mistake about it, that master magician,
- 00:16:17.699 --> 00:16:21.036
- The ultimate deceiver, satan, still slithers up to us,
- 00:16:21.036 --> 00:16:26.341
- Lies to us, causes us to doubt the character of god
- 00:16:27.342 --> 00:16:31.380
- And the word of god.
- 00:16:31.380 --> 00:16:33.182
- And i see that happening in so many places.
- 00:16:33.182 --> 00:16:36.418
- You know, one of the things
- 00:16:36.418 --> 00:16:37.686
- That is very destructive right now in our culture
- 00:16:37.686 --> 00:16:42.191
- Is what's called the deconstruction of christian faith.
- 00:16:42.191 --> 00:16:46.428
- And it sounds good.
- 00:16:46.428 --> 00:16:48.597
- The deconstructionists say,
- 00:16:48.597 --> 00:16:50.265
- "those of you who are christians, you need to understand
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- That christianity has been weighed down
- 00:16:53.602 --> 00:16:55.737
- By certain barnacles, by certain parasites,
- 00:16:55.737 --> 00:17:01.009
- Certain prejudices and cultural beliefs
- 00:17:01.844 --> 00:17:04.379
- That have distorted the true christian message.
- 00:17:04.379 --> 00:17:06.949
- And you need to slice all of that away
- 00:17:06.949 --> 00:17:09.918
- And get back to the original christianity.
- 00:17:09.918 --> 00:17:12.588
- Now that sounds good.
- 00:17:12.588 --> 00:17:14.156
- The only problem with that
- 00:17:14.156 --> 00:17:15.390
- Is it's kind of like peeling an onion.
- 00:17:15.390 --> 00:17:17.092
- You can keep peeling and peeling and peeling
- 00:17:17.092 --> 00:17:19.461
- Till you end up with nothing.
- 00:17:19.461 --> 00:17:21.663
- Deconstructionism takes many different forms.
- 00:17:21.663 --> 00:17:25.467
- It will say to some young adult christians,
- 00:17:25.467 --> 00:17:27.870
- "well, you know,
- 00:17:27.870 --> 00:17:29.238
- Jesus never actually claimed to be the messiah.
- 00:17:29.238 --> 00:17:31.874
- Those claims were added by power hungry leaders
- 00:17:31.874 --> 00:17:34.776
- Hundreds of years after his death."
- 00:17:34.776 --> 00:17:37.579
- Others say, "we can't know the original words of scripture
- 00:17:37.579 --> 00:17:40.382
- Because they've been corrupted by church leaders
- 00:17:40.382 --> 00:17:43.118
- To reflect their own cultural prejudices."
- 00:17:43.118 --> 00:17:46.321
- Or any belief system
- 00:17:46.321 --> 00:17:49.158
- That marginalizes certain groups of people
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- Like the lgbtq community,
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- That can't be from the heart of a loving god
- 00:17:54.963 --> 00:17:57.099
- Who doesn't judge anybody.
- 00:17:57.099 --> 00:17:59.034
- Or god loves you and wants you
- 00:17:59.034 --> 00:18:01.403
- More than anything to be happy.
- 00:18:01.403 --> 00:18:03.438
- He doesn't want you to be a prisoner
- 00:18:03.438 --> 00:18:05.307
- To some antiquated systems of rules
- 00:18:05.307 --> 00:18:08.443
- That have no relationship to our culture.
- 00:18:08.443 --> 00:18:11.847
- The devil's goal is the same as it was
- 00:18:11.847 --> 00:18:14.183
- In the garden of eden, to cause static in the transmission
- 00:18:14.183 --> 00:18:18.387
- Of god's word to us so that we're deceived
- 00:18:18.387 --> 00:18:22.224
- Into following the lies of satan.
- 00:18:22.224 --> 00:18:25.093
- You know, outside of the bible,
- 00:18:25.727 --> 00:18:27.529
- I think the most vivid description in the literature
- 00:18:27.529 --> 00:18:31.733
- Of the power and reality of sin
- 00:18:31.733 --> 00:18:34.636
- Is found in edgar allen po's short story,
- 00:18:34.636 --> 00:18:37.339
- "the telltale heart."
- 00:18:37.339 --> 00:18:39.241
- Do you remember studying that in school?
- 00:18:39.241 --> 00:18:41.743
- It was a short story about a man
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- Who thought he had committed the perfect murder.
- 00:18:43.345 --> 00:18:46.048
- He took the corpse of the old man he had murdered
- 00:18:46.048 --> 00:18:48.684
- And hid it under the floorboards of his house
- 00:18:48.684 --> 00:18:50.919
- And thought he had gotten away with murder.
- 00:18:50.919 --> 00:18:54.189
- One small problem.
- 00:18:54.623 --> 00:18:56.291
- He kept hearing the faint beating of a human heart.
- 00:18:57.359 --> 00:19:01.163
- At first, it didn't bother him.
- 00:19:01.797 --> 00:19:03.565
- The police came.
- 00:19:03.565 --> 00:19:05.367
- The beating heart didn't bother him at first.
- 00:19:05.367 --> 00:19:08.604
- He was able to ignore him,
- 00:19:08.604 --> 00:19:10.239
- But that beating got louder and louder and louder
- 00:19:10.239 --> 00:19:15.577
- Until that heartbeat drove him to madness
- 00:19:16.445 --> 00:19:18.480
- And to confession.
- 00:19:18.480 --> 00:19:21.149
- Every one of us, whether we're christians
- 00:19:21.950 --> 00:19:24.286
- Or non-christians, we have that realization of our guilt,
- 00:19:24.286 --> 00:19:29.524
- Our sin.
- 00:19:29.758 --> 00:19:30.692
- It's not through a beating human heart.
- 00:19:31.526 --> 00:19:33.996
- It's the beating of god's holy spirit.
- 00:19:33.996 --> 00:19:37.599
- He keeps reminding us, we have sinned, we have sinned,
- 00:19:37.599 --> 00:19:42.070
- We have sinned.
- 00:19:42.070 --> 00:19:43.872
- And the purpose of god's holy spirit,
- 00:19:43.872 --> 00:19:46.475
- His relentless beating is not to drive us to madness.
- 00:19:46.475 --> 00:19:51.713
- It's to drive us to confession.
- 00:19:52.347 --> 00:19:54.983
- And god's forgiveness.
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- That's the truth about sin.
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- ♪ music ♪
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- Sin is not a popular topic in today's climate,
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- But i never shy away from teaching difficult truths
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- Because the most painful topics
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- Are often the most important ones.
- 00:20:14.102 --> 00:20:16.672
- Now, in the time remaining today,
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- I want to share a note from a woman
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- Who listens to "pathway to victory" over the internet.
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- She wrote, "pastor jeffress,
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- My husband and i live in a very remote area of the country
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- With no direct access to cellular service,
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- Also, the churches in our area are very scarce,
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- And the ones that are here do not teach god's word
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- The way we believe, but you do.
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- Please keep doing what you are doing
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- Well, thank you for those encouraging words.
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- And for those of you who are watching today,
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- This is what "pathway to victory" is all about.
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- Together we are lifting up the name of jesus
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- And proclaiming his gospel across our nation
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- And around our world.
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- Thank you for being part of the mission to deliver
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- The hope of jesus christ to a world
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- That desperately needs him.
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- That doesn't sound right,
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- But don't know what to say, you need confidence
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- Carmela, that is a great question
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- And one of the most basic questions we can ever ask.
- 00:22:49.825 --> 00:22:53.528
- I have found that as a pastor for more than 40 years,
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- The two most important issues in life deal with forgiveness,
- 00:22:56.198 --> 00:22:59.868
- Receiving god's forgiveness for our salvation,
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- And then secondly, granting forgiveness to other people
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- Who have wronged us.
- 00:23:07.142 --> 00:23:08.610
- And they are both inseparably linked together.
- 00:23:08.610 --> 00:23:11.746
- You know, c.s. lewis said one time,
- 00:23:11.746 --> 00:23:13.582
- "forgiveness is a beautiful word
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- Until you have somebody to forgive."
- 00:23:16.084 --> 00:23:18.787
- It's tough to forgive, to let go of offenses.
- 00:23:18.787 --> 00:23:22.591
- But the bible says we can't control
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- What other people do to us,
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- We can't keep people from hurting us and wronging us,
- 00:23:26.294 --> 00:23:29.531
- But we can choose how to respond to that hurt.
- 00:23:29.531 --> 00:23:32.501
- We can hold on to it until it metastasizes
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- Into a tumor of bitterness
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- And destroys us and everything around us,
- 00:23:37.806 --> 00:23:40.675
- Or we can make the decision to let go of that offense.
- 00:23:40.675 --> 00:23:44.746
- You see, that's what forgiveness is.
- 00:23:44.746 --> 00:23:46.581
- It's letting go of our right to hurt somebody else
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- For hurting us.
- 00:23:50.252 --> 00:23:51.686
- When we forgive people, we're not denying
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- That they wronged us.
- 00:23:54.089 --> 00:23:55.290
- We're not trying to rationalize it.
- 00:23:55.290 --> 00:23:57.592
- What we're doing is we're saying,
- 00:23:57.592 --> 00:23:59.160
- "god, what this person did to me is wrong,
- 00:23:59.160 --> 00:24:02.330
- But life is too short for me to keep holding onto this.
- 00:24:02.330 --> 00:24:05.867
- I'm releasing them to you so that you can settle the score
- 00:24:05.867 --> 00:24:10.272
- And i can be free to get on with my life."
- 00:24:10.272 --> 00:24:13.475
- That's what forgiveness is.
- 00:24:13.475 --> 00:24:15.944
- You may remember,
- 00:24:15.944 --> 00:24:18.280
- Or maybe you've participated in a three-legged race
- 00:24:18.280 --> 00:24:21.917
- That they used to have at old fashioned picnics
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- Where you would bind your leg to another person
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- And you would hobble down to the finish line
- 00:24:28.023 --> 00:24:30.725
- While the audience would roar with laughter.
- 00:24:30.725 --> 00:24:33.128
- And if you've ever been in a three-legged race,
- 00:24:33.128 --> 00:24:35.697
- You know that sensation that you feel when you're trying
- 00:24:35.697 --> 00:24:38.500
- To hobble along with the person tied to you.
- 00:24:38.500 --> 00:24:41.202
- You think, "if i could just get free from this idiot,
- 00:24:41.202 --> 00:24:43.638
- I could run a lot faster and win the race."
- 00:24:43.638 --> 00:24:46.641
- Well, three legged races don't allow for solo contenders.
- 00:24:46.641 --> 00:24:51.112
- You can go no further or faster than your partner.
- 00:24:51.112 --> 00:24:55.550
- Do you know, that's exactly what happens
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- When you refuse to forgive somebody?
- 00:24:57.385 --> 00:24:59.754
- You bind yourself.
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- You tie yourself emotionally to that person.
- 00:25:01.222 --> 00:25:04.359
- You can't be any happier in life than they are.
- 00:25:04.359 --> 00:25:07.729
- You can't go any further in your life,
- 00:25:07.729 --> 00:25:10.265
- And as long as you're being tied to them,
- 00:25:10.265 --> 00:25:13.301
- Forgiveness is the process by what you say to this person,
- 00:25:13.301 --> 00:25:17.305
- "i care too much about my life
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- To allow it to be held back by you.
- 00:25:19.975 --> 00:25:22.544
- I'm letting go of that offense.
- 00:25:22.544 --> 00:25:24.479
- I'm going to let god deal with it so that i can be free
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- To get on with the life god has given me."
- 00:25:27.916 --> 00:25:30.986
- You know, the bible is very clear about this.
- 00:25:30.986 --> 00:25:33.088
- Jesus said in matthew 6, "if we forgive others,
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- We will be forgiven.
- 00:25:36.758 --> 00:25:38.393
- But if we refuse to forgive others,
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- We will not be forgiven by god."
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- I'm not saying that we lose our salvation
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- Or earn our salvation,
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- But when you realize the great debt
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- That god has forgiven you, you only find it natural to want
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- To forgive somebody else.
- 00:25:56.077 --> 00:25:58.446
- Ephesians 4:32 says, "be kind to one another,
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- Tender-hearted, forgiving one another
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- Just as god in christ has forgiven you."
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- Forgiveness is the obligation of those
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- Who have really been forgiven by god.
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- Maybe today the holy spirit is convicting you
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- Of some area in your life that needs to change right now,
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- Some area of your life that is not pleasing to god.
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- Remember, god has given you the power you need right now
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- To save no to sin, and yes to him.
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- Well, sin may have derailed the story,
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- But gratefully, it's not the end of our story.
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- And next time i'm going to share
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- What every christian should know about salvation.
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- Stay tuned for a preview
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- Of what's coming up next in our series,
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- "what every christian should know".
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- You can say, the best way to get to your own house is
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- And give the route, and somebody will argue with you.
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- They'll say, "oh, there's a better way, better way."
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- But just try saying, "the only way to get to blank
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- Is by going blank."
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- And that's when the fireworks erupt.
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- You see we recoil at the idea of exclusivity
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- That there is one way to anything.
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- Set your dvr and join us next time for the message,
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- What every christian should know about salvation
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- Here on "pathway to victory."
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