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Robert Jeffress - Moving From Guilt To Repentance (Part 2)

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Moving From Guilt To Repentance (Part 2) | July 15, 2025

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[narrator] from the pulpit
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Of the first baptist church of dallas, texas,
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This is pathway to victory with dr. robert jeffress.
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Hi, i'm robert jeffress
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And welcome again to pathway to victory.
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A famous christian psychiatrist once said,
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"the reason most people feel guilty
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Is because they are guilty."
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Well, most people don't see it that way, do they?
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As long as you and i try to be a good person,
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Well that must be good enough, right?
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No, the bible teaches
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That guilt is a very real, daunting mountain
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That separates us from fellowship with god
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And from receiving god's choices and blessings
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And today, i'm going to show you
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How to move from guilt to repentance
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As we continue our series "invincible"
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On pathway to victory.
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[narrator] sometimes our emotions are like mountains
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That stand in our way.
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Keep us from enjoying a peaceful life of courage.
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First of all today, if you are feeling guilty,
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If you feel separated from god and others
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Because of your sin, first of all,
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Acknowledge your sin as sinful.
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Notice what he says in verses one and three,
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"be gracious to me, o god,
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According to your loving kindness,
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According to the greatness of your compassion,
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Blot out my transgressions
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For i know my transgressions and my sin is ever before me."
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David doesn't say, "oh, i've got a slight flaw.
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I've got an addiction.
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I've got a little problem i need to take care of."
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He acknowledged his behavior as truly sinful.
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In fact, i wish we had time to look at this,
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There are five words in psalm 51,
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Five different words he uses to describe his sin.
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He calls them transgressions in verses one and three,
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That talks about the moral gravity of sin.
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Secondly, iniquity,
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It's a word that refers to the perversity of sin.
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The third word is sin itself,
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That comes from a word that means to miss the mark.
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Fourth, he calls it evil.
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What he did, he said was evil.
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That shows how god views his transgression
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And finally, he used the word "blood guiltiness."
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He was confessing to murder by using that term.
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Acknowledge your sin as truly sinful behavior.
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Secondly, david illustrates the importance
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Of accepting responsibility for your sin.
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Notice in verse two,
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The use of the personal pronoun,
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"wash me thoroughly from my iniquity
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And cleanse me from my sin.
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For i know my transgressions and my sin is ever before me."
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Notice it's me, me, me, my, my, my.
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He doesn't blame bathsheba for bathing naked on the rooftop.
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That wasn't the cause of his sin.
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He doesn't blame his parents.
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He doesn't blame the pressures of being the king of israel.
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He doesn't blame anything or anyone except himself,
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And you'll never find the pathway to repentance
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Until you're willing to acknowledge your sin
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As your responsibility.
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Now, you may be saying,
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"well pastor, i'm happy to acknowledge my sin
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If i could just think of a sin i committed.
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If i'm ever guilty, i, i, i'll remember that tip.
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Thank you very much."
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Well, not so fast, bozo.
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If you're having trouble thinking about any
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Shortcomings you have in your life right now,
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I want to encourage you to pray the same prayer that david did
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In psalm 1:39, verses 23 and 24.
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It's the one prayer god promises to answer every time.
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David prayed, "search me, o god, and know my heart.
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Try me and know my anxious thoughts
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And see if there be any hurtful way in me
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And lead me in the everlasting way."
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You know what he was praying?
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He was saying, "lord, take the spotlight of your holy spirit
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And shine it every place in my heart
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To see if there is anything that is displeasing to you."
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Are you willing to pray that prayer?
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You say, "god, show me anything that displeases you."
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Let, let me give you a quick inventory you might consider
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When you ask god to point out any sin in your life.
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What about your relationship with god himself?
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Do you have any un-confessed sins
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Or unkept promises you've made to god?
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Secondly, your relationship with your family.
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Do you need to reconcile with parents,
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Siblings,
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Perhaps children or grandchildren?
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Anything there that needs to be reconciled?
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What about your relationship with your mate?
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Do you need to ask forgiveness for wrongs done
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Or words said to your husband or wife?
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What about your relationship to other people?
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Is there any immoral relationship that needs to stop?
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Do you need to seek forgiveness
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From somebody you've offended?
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What about your relationship with yourself?
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Any sinful habits that you need to stop?
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Any godly habits you need to begin?
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What about your relationship to your possessions?
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Is it time for you to transfer your trust
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In your bank account or possessions
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To trust in god instead?
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If we're going to remove the mountain of guilt,
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We've got to accept responsibility for our sins.
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Thirdly, receive forgiveness for your sins.
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This is the heart of the matter.
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When we feel guilt,
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There has to be a time that we ask for god's forgiveness.
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You know it's interesting, there are many people
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David could have sought forgiveness for.
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I mean, he had sinned against bathsheba.
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He had sinned against her husband, uriah.
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He had sinned against the nation of israel,
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But interestingly in verse four, he said,
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"lord, against you and only you, i have sinned."
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What he was saying was
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Ultimately all sin, god, is sin against you
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And you are the first person i need to go to
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To receive forgiveness
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And notice how he pleads for that forgiveness.
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He says in verse two, "wash me thoroughly for my iniquity.
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Cleanse me from my sin."
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What he was saying is, "god,
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I need you to do for me what i cannot do for myself.
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I need you to forgive me, i can't forgive myself."
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Have you ever heard people talk about,
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"oh, you need to learn to forgive yourself?"
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That's one of the dumbest things i've ever heard.
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You can't forgive yourself!
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Trying to forgive yourself
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Is like trying to pay, play tennis with yourself.
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You can't be on both sides of the net at the same time.
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You can't serve the ball
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And then come over to catch and retrieve the ball
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And go over that way.
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You can't be on the giving and receiving end of sin either.
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You can't commit sins and then move across the net
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To forgive yourself of your sins.
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It's impossible.
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Only god is capable of forgiving you and me for our sins.
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We need him to do what we can't do for ourselves
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And when we pray to god to forgive us,
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The only way we can be forgiven is to say,
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"god, i believe that when you sent jesus
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To die on that cross 2000 years ago,
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He paid the price for my sins.
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I am trusting in him and him alone
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To save me from my sins."
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That's why jesus came not to be a good example to us.
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This friday, we're talking about good friday,
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The day that jesus hung on the cross for our sins
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And remember some of his final words,
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John 10:30, final words.
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"it is finished."
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Literally, tetelestai.
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Paid in full is what the word means.
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Jesus was saying, "i've paid the price for your sins.
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You can spend all eternity trying to pay for it
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And end up in hell forever,
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Or you can let me pay your sin debt for you."
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We have to receive god's forgiveness in your, for your sins.
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Is there a time in your life
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When you've knelt before a holy god
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And you've said to that holy god,
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"god, i am a sinner, i deserve your punishment,
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But with all of my heart, i believe that jesus died for me
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And today, this moment,
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I'm trusting in him for my forgiveness."
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The moment you do that,
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The bible says, in the throne room of heaven,
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God declares you as not guilty, not guilty.
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You have to accept god's forgiveness,
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But that's not all.
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David says, when you have received god's forgiveness,
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If you have received god's forgiveness,
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Fourthly, you will repent of your sin.
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You will repent of your sin.
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In verse 10, he said, "create in me a clean heart, o god,
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And renew a steadfast spirit within me."
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What it mean, what does it mean to repent?
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That word repent, metanoia, means a change of mind
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That leads to a change of direction.
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We have to turn away from our sin
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If we've really been forgiven.
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David was saying when he said,
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"create in me a clean heart and a steadfast spirit,"
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He said,
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"lord, i want to do better and i'm going to do better,
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But first, i need a new way of thinking.
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I need a new heart before that can happen."
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And that new heart is what god gives you
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When you trust in christ for your salvation,
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And if you really have that new heart,
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You will turn away from that sin in your life.
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Secondly, to repent
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Means to make restitution when necessary for your sins.
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If there's something you owe somebody else
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Because of your sin,
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You'll make things right with that person.
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Sometimes that's monetary restitution.
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Luke 19, remember the story of the tax gatherer, zacchaeus.
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After he met the lord, he said,
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"i'm going to repay everything i've stolen four times."
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It's because he had a new heart inside of him.
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Sometimes, now get this,
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The restitution you need to make
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Is a relationship reconciliation.
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In matthew chapter five, verses 23:24, jesus said,
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"if you're making your offering at the altar
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And you remember
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Your brother has something against you,
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Leave your offering, go be reconciled to your brother."
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Now notice jesus didn't say
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If you're in church making your sacrifice
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And you remember you've got something against your brother.
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No.
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If you remember you've got something against your brother,
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Just forgive him right there on the spot,
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But this is remembering
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That somebody has something against you.
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You're to take that first step toward reconciliation.
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Well, pastor, he's to blame too!
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Doesn't matter if he or she is 99% to blame
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And you only have 1% of blame.
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You're to take care of your 1%.
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You're to go be reconciled to that other person.
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Now, they may or may not allow you to be reconciled to them.
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That's their problem,
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But god wants you and me to have a clear conscience.
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The best definition i ever heard of a clear conscience
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Was the assurance
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That neither god nor anyone else can blame us for a wrong
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We haven't attempted to make right.
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A clear conscience is the assurance
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That neither god nor anyone else can ever blame us
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For a wrong we haven't attempted to make right.
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Can you say that about everybody
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In your sphere of relationships?
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Is there somebody you need to go to
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And make that first step to reconcile that relationship?
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That's the guarantee, that's the sign of true repentance.
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Now, notice what happens when we receive god's forgiveness,
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We repent from sin, notice what god does for us.
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Three marvelous things.
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First of all, god removes our sin.
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He removes our sin.
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Look at verses two and seven and nine.
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"wash me."
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Underline that word.
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"wash me thoroughly for my iniquity,
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Cleanse me for my sin.
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Purify me with hyssop."
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Underline that word, "purify in hyssop."
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"and i shall be clean.
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Wash me and i will be whiter than snow.
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Hide your face from my sins and blot out."
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Underline that, "blotting out."
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"of all my iniquities."
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There are three images david used
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To describe what happens when god removes our sin.
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Water, hyssop, and blotting.
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You know what water represents?
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It represents cleansing from the defilement,
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The dirtiness of our sin.
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You remember what it's like to be out mowing the lawn
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On a hot day in august in dallas, texas?
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The sweat, the perspiration, the dirt, filth, and grime.
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Aren't you glad to get into the shower after that
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And just feel it wash off your body?
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Have you ever felt dirty inside
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Because of something you did?
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A sin you committed?
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A word you spoke?
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A fit of anger you got into?
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You just felt bad
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And you wish there were some way to wash that away.
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That's what god's forgiveness does.
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He said that washing
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Washes me thoroughly of the defilement of my sin.
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Secondly, the hyssop, that hyssop in verse seven,
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That represents the cleansing from the guilt of sin.
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The hyssop is a bush in israel
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And the priest would take a branch of that bushy bush
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And they would use it to sprinkle the blood
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Of an innocent animal on the altar.
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It was a picture of removing the guilt of god.
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Whenever we receive god's forgiveness,
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He sprinkles us,
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He atones for our sin with the blood of his son.
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We are never having to worry again
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About a guilty status before god,
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And then thirdly, "blot out all of my iniquities."
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What is that about?
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That represents separating us from our sin.
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When we receive god's forgiveness,
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He separates us from our sin.
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When he looks at us and thinks about us,
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He doesn't think about us in terms of our sin any longer.
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We have been separated from our sin
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Because our record has been expunged.
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It's been blotted out by the blood of christ.
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David used another image to describe that
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In psalm 103, verse 12.
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This is worth the price of the sermon.
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Remember what david said,
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"as far as the east is from the west,
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So far has he removed your transgressions from you."
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God took all of your sins and he removed it from you.
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How far did he take it?
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As far as the east is from the west.
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Now, here's something i never understood until this week.
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Why is it that he said as far as the east is from the west?
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Why didn't he say as far as the north is from the south?
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Here's why.
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You can get to, in your car after this service
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And you can start heading north
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And you can drive to amarillo
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Through oklahoma,
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Up through colorado, through canada.
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You can keep going north and travel north indefinitely
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Until you get to the north pole
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And the moment you get to the north pole,
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Even though you're traveling north, north now becomes south
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And you find yourself headed south.
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There's a limit to how far you can go north
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Because of the north pole,
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But if you get in your car
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And go down interstate 20 headed to tyler, texas going east,
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You can keep going east through tyler,
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Through louisiana.
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Keep going far enough, you'll end up in the atlantic ocean.
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Keep going far enough,
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You'll end up in china and the near east.
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Keep going far enough, you'll end up in hawaii
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And guess how long you can go east?
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Forever.
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East never will become west no matter how far you go east,
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Because there is no east pole and west pole.
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There's a north pole and a south pole
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And what david is saying,
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When you receive god's forgiveness,
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He removes your sin from you an infinite distance!
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As far as the east is from the west,
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That's how far your sin has been thrown
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And forgotten forever.
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Isn't that a great truth?
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That's the freedom that comes from god's forgiveness.
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(audience applauding)
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When we receive that forgiveness,
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He for forgives us our sin.
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Secondly, he re, reinstates our joy,
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Guilt saps the joy, the happiness of our life.
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When i talk to people who feel guilty,
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They say, "i miss the joy of what i once had
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In my relationship with god."
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Look at what it says in verse eight.
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"make me to hear joy and gladness.
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Let the bones which you have broken, rejoice.
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Restore to me the joy of your salvation
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And sustain me with a willing spirit."
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And finally, god restores our fellowship with him.
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Verse 11, "do not cast me away from your presence
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And don't take your holy spirit from me."
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Now, in david's day,
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It was a real possibility
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God could have removed his holy spirit from david.
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He did that with king saul.
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Today as christians after pentecost,
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We never have to worry about that.
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John 10:28 and 29 says, "he gives eternal life to them.
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They shall never perish.
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No man shall snatch out of my hands,
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Those whom the father has given me."
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God will never leave us, he will never forsake us.
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We never have to worry about god moving away from us,
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But we do move away from god
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And when we receive god's true forgiveness,
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It restores that fellowship.
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We feel confident in coming before the throne of grace
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To plead our case before god and to receive his gifts.
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That's why psalm 32, david wrote about his confession of sin
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And he said, "how blessed,
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How happy is the man whose transgression is forgiven,
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Whose sin is covered?
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How happy is the man
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In whom the lord will not take his sin into account?"
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The great pastor of yesteryear,
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Charles haddon spurgeon said,
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"if we will deal seriously with our sin,
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God will deal gently with us."
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The apostle john said it this way,
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"if we will confess our sins,
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He is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins
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And to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
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That's how to conquer the mountain of guilt.
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Every mountain you face is a mole hill
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In your life any more than doubt.
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We've got this secret fear
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That our doubts are bigger than god's answers.
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Don't worry about that.
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God is big enough to handle your questions.
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When he confessed and repented of his sin,
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God wants to extend that same forgiveness to you today.
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Don't let the mountain of guilt separate you any longer
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From god's fellowship and blessings.
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The path from guilt to repentance
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Can begin at this very moment.
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Well, as hard as we try,
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We can't control what people do to us.
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Have you discovered that?
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But we can control our response
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To those hurts that come into our lives through others
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And next time, we're going to discover
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How to conquer the mountain of bitterness
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By moving from bitterness to forgiveness.
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To those hurts that come into your life.
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You can either release them, let them go,
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Robert Jeffress - Moving From Guilt To Repentance (Part 2)

July 15, 2025 | 29:0

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