Lawson Perdue - The Compassion of Jesus (Part 3)

May 2, 2025 | 27:29

Join Pastor Lawson on an enlightening broadcast where he delves into the transformative power of grace, exploring key moments in biblical history where God's compassion and grace intersect with human lives. Through teachings on the revelation of grace, the character of God, and the importance of understanding the relationship between grace and truth, listeners are guided on a journey toward a deeper understanding of their identity in Christ. With personal anecdotes, impactful scriptures, and practical insights, Pastor Lawson illuminates the path to spiritual growth, emphasizing the life-changing impact of embracing God's grace in every aspect of life.

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Grace for Today with Lawson Perdue | Lawson Perdue - The Compassion of Jesus (Part 3) | May 2, 2025

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- praise the lord, friends, and welcome to the broadcast.
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I'm gonna be talking today about the fact
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That it takes the spirit of god to give you a revelation
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Of the grace of god.
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You know, i pastored for many years
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Without having a revelation of the grace of god,
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But when i got a revelation of grace,
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It revolutionized my life.
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And i believe if you get a revelation of grace,
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It's gonna revolutionize your life.
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So stay tuned and receive god's word.
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(bright music)
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Today, i want to talk about the compassion of god in us.
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The bible says in romans five, verse five, that the love
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Of god is shed abroad in our heart by the holy ghost
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That's given to us.
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And every one of us as born again believers have the love
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Of god on the inside of us.
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A love that's not based on performance, but a love,
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You know, god loved us while we were still sinners.
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We have that kind of love, that agape love,
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That nature of god on the inside of us.
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Before i do that, i want to talk
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To you a little bit about the compassion of the father.
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You see, you can see the grace of god.
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You can see the love of god clear throughout
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The old testament.
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In fact, if you go to genesis, in genesis chapter three,
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When adam and eve sinned, the first thing
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That god did was he made a promise to them of redemption.
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But not only did he make a promise to them of redemption,
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Then he clothed them with coats of skin.
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And i have a question for you.
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Did adam and eve's transgression cause god
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To move away from them?
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It didn't, god came to them, spoke to them
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In the cool of the day.
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They were hiding themselves from god
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Because it's a knowledge of sin
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That defiles your conscience
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And causes you to move away from god.
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And notice they clothed themselves with fig leaves
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More than likely.
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I'm not saying this is absolute gospel,
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But more than likely what adam
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And eve sold out for was a rotten old fig.
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It wasn't an apple.
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You know, the bible calls you the apple
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Of god's eye and jesus cursed the fig tree.
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And they were covering themselves with fig leaves.
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Amen.
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Do you know that's how the devil is.
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He promises you something
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And it's not what he says it's gonna be.
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He's a liar.
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But then after he did that,
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God clothed them with coats of skins.
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And what he did, he covered their exposure.
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Did you know what that is?
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What the blood of jesus does for us?
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The bible talks about he is the atonement
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Or he is the propitiation for our sins.
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And when you study that out in the greek,
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It means he is the covering for our sins.
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How many of you glad that your sins have been covered?
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And if you really understand what hebrews is talking about,
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The sacrifice that jesus made,
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Jesus' blood was a payment.
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It was a covering for all sins
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Of all people at all times.
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So he made the promise of redemption, right?
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Then he covered them, covered their exposure.
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God's not into exposing people
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Regardless whether you think he is, that's not his heart.
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He says he who confesses his sins will find mercy.
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But if you're trying to hide your sin,
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He says they'll find you out.
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Right?
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You'll not prosper.
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But god covers our exposure
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And then he put them out of the garden
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And he put an angel with a flaming sword
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To guard the way of the tree of life.
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And really it's an act of god's grace.
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It's an act of god's mercy
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Because he did not want them to eat
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Of that tree of life and live forever in a fallen state.
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It's really an act of the grace of god.
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You go a little bit farther, right?
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So that's in genesis three.
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In genesis chapter three
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Or genesis chapter six, god came down
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Because man was living by his knowledge of good and evil.
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And god saw that the thoughts
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Of man were only continually evil.
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Do you know what, our knowledge of good and evil,
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Our consciousness of sin defiles us.
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Many times, what we're preaching in the church
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Is more a knowledge of sin than a knowledge of jesus.
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The bible actually says by the law
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Is the knowledge of sin, right?
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And then you go a little bit farther in the life of abraham
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And you find in genesis chapter 12, when god made a promise
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To abraham and said in you, it's genesis 12, verse three,
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I believe, all families of the earth will be blessed.
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Galatians chapter three, if i'm correct, it's verse eight.
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He said, god preached,
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The grace of god preached the gospel to abraham.
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But i wanna take you a little farther.
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I wanna take you to the next major turn, right?
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All of those were major turns in humanity from innocence
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To conscience, from conscience to human government, right?
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From human government to the human family,
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To promise, from promise to law.
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And i want to go to exodus chapter 33
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And look a little bit here in the life of moses.
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In exodus chapter 33, verse 11,
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It says, the lord spoke to moses face-to-face
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As a man speaks to his friend.
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Did you know what?
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That is the grace of god.
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God spoke to moses as his friend
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And he turned again into the camp.
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But his servant joshua, the son of nun, a young man,
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Departed not outta the tabernacle, verse 12.
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And moses said to the lord, see you say unto me,
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Bring up this people
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And you have not let me know who you will send with me.
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Yet you have said, i know you by name
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And you have also found grace.
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This is god speaking to moses.
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You have found grace in my sight.
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Verse 13, and now therefore, i pray you,
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If i have found, this is moses speaking back,
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If i have found grace in your sight, show me your way
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That i may know you.
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Did you know the ultimate goal of the gospel
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Is to know god, is to know christ?
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Paul talked about that
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In philippians chapter three, verse 10.
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Jesus talked about it in john 17 verse three,
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That i may find grace in your sight
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And consider this nation is your people.
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And god said, my presence will go with you
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And i will give you rest.
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And he said unto him, if your presence
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Does not go with me, carry us not up from this place
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For wherein shall it be known here
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That i and your people have found grace in your sight.
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Is it not that you go with us so we will be separated,
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I and your people from all the people
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That are on the face of the earth.
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And the lord said, i will do this thing
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That you have spoken, for you have found grace in my sight
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And i know you by name.
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Praise god.
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So you can just go through and you can see grace, right?
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In genesis three, you can see grace.
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In genesis chapter six, it says,
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Noah found grace in the eyes of the lord.
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You can see grace in genesis 12 when god made a promise
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To abraham, because that's what paul calls it
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In galatians chapter three.
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And here you can see grace, amen.
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In the life of moses.
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And notice what it goes on to say in verse 18.
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He said, i beseech you show me your glory.
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And he said, i will make all my goodness pass before you
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And proclaim the name of the lord before you
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And will be gracious to whom i will be gracious.
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God is a god of grace
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And he has always been a god of grace.
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And i will show mercy on whom i will show mercy.
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And he said, you cannot see my face
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For there will be no man who see me and live.
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Now, i'm gonna talk about that a little bit later,
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But i want you to remember this scripture.
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And the lord said, behold, there's a place by me
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And you shall stand upon a rock.
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Who is the rock?
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Jesus is the rock.
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So jesus ultimately is the grace of god.
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He's the embodiment of grace.
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And it will come to pass while my glory passes by you,
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I will put you in a cliff of the rock
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And cover you with my hand while i pass by
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And i will take away my hand and you will see my back parts,
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But my face shall not be seen.
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Now go on down to chapter 34, verse five through seven.
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And the lord descended in the cloud and stood with moses
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And proclaimed the name of the lord.
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So this is what god is declaring himself to be.
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And the lord passed before him
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And proclaimed the lord, the lord god, merciful
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And gracious, long suffering
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And abundant in goodness and truth.
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How many of you glad that god is a merciful god?
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He's a gracious god.
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He's a god who's abundant in goodness
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And truth, keeping mercy for thousands,
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Forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin.
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He goes on to say that will
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By no means clear the guilty visiting the inequity
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Of fathers upon children, upon children, children
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To the third and fourth generation.
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What he's saying essentially is sin.
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Even though god is a gracious god,
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Sin still has to be reckoned with.
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Sin still has to be paid for.
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Amen.
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Now, if anyone in here believes in generational curses,
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I want to tell you pastor lawson does not believe
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In generational curses.
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And there's absolutely no scripture in the new testament
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That supports that teaching whatsoever.
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1 john five, verse one says, whoever believes
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That jesus is the son of god is born of god.
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And if you are born of god, i have a question for you.
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What generational curse can you inherit
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From god your father?
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You can't.
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And this is the problem with a lot
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Of people in the church.
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They believe what they believe
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No matter what the bible says.
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And you need to start.
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See, the new testament was written about 90%
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About who you are in the spirit.
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And if you begin to see that, it will change
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How you relate to god.
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But the reason i don't teach generational curses,
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Number one, i don't believe it,
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But number two is people use it.
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It's a sorry excuse
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To just let the devil take advantage of you.
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And it is a lie from the devil, amen.
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But god is a god of grace.
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He always has been.
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He always will be.
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He is a good, gracious, loving,
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Merciful father, period.
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Not only is god a god of grace, jesus came
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And jesus is the embodiment of the grace of god.
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Turn with me to john chapter one,
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John chapter one beginning in verse 14.
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John says this, the word was made flesh
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And dwelt among us, and we be held his glory, the glory
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As of the only begotten of the father
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Full of grace and truth.
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Jesus is the embodiment of grace.
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He is full of grace and truth.
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John bore witness of him
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And cried saying, this is of he whom i spoke.
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He who comes after me is preferred before me.
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Jesus was in the beginning
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With the father creating all things,
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For he was before me and of his fullness,
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We have all received grace, for grace.
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Now, there's a couple of ways you can look at verse 16.
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First of all, you can talk about you've received grace
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And you've received grace
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To accomplish the grace that's on your life.
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That's one aspect of that.
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(bright music)
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Friend, i hope you've been enjoying this teaching
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We are sharing all this week on the power of thanksgiving
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And the compassion of jesus.
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And when you understand the compassion of jesus,
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You're gonna be a thankful person.
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I have a lot more teaching on this
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And many more subjects available free of charge
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On our website at charischristiancenter.com.
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(bright music)
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- god has rewards for us if you are willing
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To do a mild amount
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Of suffering on his behalf to love someone
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Who no one else wants to love.
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It might be that that person comes to know jesus.
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Maybe you don't see these things happen here,
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But you know, we're doing it for him.
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Amen?
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- then he says this, for the law was given by moses,
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But grace and truth came by jesus christ.
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Now i wanna show you a gospel equation from this scripture.
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Grace plus truth
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Equals jesus who gives us life.
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However, truth minus grace
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Equals law which produces death.
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So if you approach the truth
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Of god's word without the grace of god,
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What will happen is it will not produce life.
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It will produce death.
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Now, when we're in the world, guess what?
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The world is crazy.
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We see a lot of crazy in the world.
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Now that scripture in hebrews five, verse two says
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That he can have compassion on the ignorant
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And those who are out of the way,
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Wayward and lost.
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Amen?
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But if you approach truth
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And you have no grace, it's law
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And that ultimately produces death.
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If you approach the truth of the word of god with the grace
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Of god, grace plus truth equals jesus
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Who produces life.
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Now, i was born again when i was eight years old in 1972.
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In 1978, i was baptized in the holy spirit.
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I was 14 years old and called to preach.
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But it wasn't until 1994
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After i'd been pastoring for six years,
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That i got a revelation of grace.
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And when i got a revelation of grace,
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It completely changed my life.
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It changed how i dealt with my wife.
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It changed how i dealt with my children.
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It changed how i dealt with my church.
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It changed how i saw people, it changed me.
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In fact, barbara says that before i got
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A revelation of grace that i was very hard
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To live with, and i would say i would agree with that.
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And she also says
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That if i would not have received a revelation of grace,
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That she doesn't believe our children would be serving god
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And serving christ like they are today,
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The grace of god changed me.
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And this is how i got a revelation of grace.
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Andrew wommack came to kit carson.
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He was preaching for me.
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He was preaching from the book of romans.
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And when he was preaching about it, he used this example.
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He said, if you have a plate glass window,
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It doesn't matter whether you shoot a bb through it
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Or drive a mack truck through it, it's been broken.
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And the only way
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That you can fix it is you have to replace it.
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It has to be completely made new.
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And it's just like that.
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It's just like revelation hit me.
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See, salvation is not about being the best you can be.
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Salvation is about god doing for us
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What we could never do for ourselves in the person
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Of jesus christ when he died and rose again.
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And when you got saved, you didn't get just fixed up.
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You're not an old junker that you know,
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You grind the paint off of and put a little bondo on
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And cleaned it up and fixed you up
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And repainted you and made you look better.
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You are a brand new creation in christ.
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And when you got born again, that's exactly
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What happened, in your spirit,
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You became a brand new creation.
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2 corinthians chapter five, verse 17
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And the beginning of verse 18 says,
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Therefore, if any person be in christ,
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The same has become a new creation.
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Old things are passed away and all things have become new
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And all things are of god.
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If you have a choice of getting a car
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That has a salvaged title given to you
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And getting an old junk, you know,
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Or getting a brand new one,
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Amen, that doesn't have all these problems that are hidden
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That you can't see, guess what you want?
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You want a brand new one.
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You're not just an old clunker.
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You know what?
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I am not talking about a self-help program.
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I am not talking about being the best you can be.
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I am talking about jesus.
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I am talking about becoming
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An absolute new creation in christ.
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I'm talking about regeneration in the spirit.
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Hallelujah.
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You see, when god spoke to abraham, let's go here
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And let me show you something in romans chapter four.
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I'm all over the place today,
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But just let me show you something in romans chapter four,
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Verse 17, as it is written, i made you a father
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Of many nations
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Before whom he believed even god whom quickens the dead
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And calls those things that be not as though they were.
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That's really talking about salvation.
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And he's talking about when abraham and isaac
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Or sarah received isaac, you know what abraham
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And sarah in their own strength could not produce isaac.
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Isaac was not about abraham and sarah.
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Isaac was about god working the impossible in their life.
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It was god doing something
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That they could not do for their selves.
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Isaac was not abraham and sarah in their strength.
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Ishmael was abraham and sarah in their strength.
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Ishmael was the law.
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Ishmael was the flesh.
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Ishmael was the old life.
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But isaac is brand new.
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And i am talking about god doing an impossible thing
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For you when you believe, see,
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God speaks his word into impossible situations
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And you believe it and it changes your life.
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Judy, stand up.
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Judy's here today.
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Listen, the doctor said this spring
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That judy was impossible, that she was gonna die.
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And you know what judy said, i'm not gonna do nothing.
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I'm just gonna believe god.
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And judy stands here today healed by the grace of god.
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(congregation applauding)
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Amen?
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I'm here to tell you it's about a radical intervention
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In an impossible situation.
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That's what i'm talking to you about.
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I'm talking to you about jesus.
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I'm not talking to you about being a better you.
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I'm talking about being a brand new you in christ.
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I'm talking to you about the gospel.
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I'm talking to you about the word of god.
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I'm talking about an impartation of the spirit of god
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That comes from god, the father to you as his child
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And transforms you
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And changes you on the inside into his image.
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And when you begin to understand that,
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It'll change your life.
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So truth plus grace equals jesus,
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Which brings life.
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But truth minus grace equals law,
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That produces death.
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Now listen, before i got a revelation of grace,
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I could use the word
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And i know how to use the word like a hammer.
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Jeremiah talks about the word is like a hammer
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That breaks the rock in pieces.
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And listen, i can take the bible
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And i can beat most people into shreds,
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But it doesn't produce life.
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When you approach the truth without grace,
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Some people, you have no grace.
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I've seen people, all they can do is focus on
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What somebody does wrong.
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And listen, everybody does things wrong.
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When you approach the truth without grace, what it is is law
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And it produces death.
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And everybody say we all need grace.
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But that's kind of how i was
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Before i got a revelation of grace.
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I used the word like a hammer.
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But you can also use the word like a mirror.
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And in 2 corinthians chapter three,
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Let me show you something here, we'll start in verse
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Something, 14 to 16, somewhere in there,
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2 corinthians chapter three.
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What paul is doing in,
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In 2 corinthians chapter three, he's comparing
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The law and grace.
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How many of you know there is a glory on the law?
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In fact, i am amazed sometimes
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How people are enamored with legalistic teaching,
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Law-based, performance-based teaching
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That's not really based in the grace of god.
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But did you know what?
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If you'll study this,
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There was a glory on the law.
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When moses came off that mountain,
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His face shined so bright they couldn't look at him.
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3000 people died when the law was given,
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When the spirit was given
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And the church was born, 3000 people got saved.
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But he says here, if i get
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To 2 corinthians, that'd be better.
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I'm getting closer.
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2 corinthians chapter three, verse 15.
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Actually, let's start in verse 14.
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Their minds were blinded for until this day.
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There remains the same veil
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And taken away in reading the old testament,
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When the veil is done away with in christ.
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When people read the bible
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And don't have a revelation of the love of god,
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It's like the veil has not been removed.
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But even unto this day when moses is read,
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The veil is on their heart.
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He's talking about primarily unsafe people when they read
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The word, they have no revelation and it's a veil.
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But he says, now the lord is that spirit.
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When their heart turns to the lord,
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The veil will be taken away.
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Now the lord is that spirit
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And where the spirit of the lord is, there is liberty
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Or there is freedom.
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It takes the spirit of god to give you a revelation
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Of the grace of god.
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And if the spirit of god doesn't give you a revelation
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Of the grace of god, you're never gonna get it.
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And in verse 18, he says, we all with an open face
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Beholding as in a glass, the glory of the lord.
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Here's what happens when you get a revelation of grace,
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You look into the word
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And you see jesus in the word like looking in a mirror.
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You can also not only use the word like a hammer,
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You can use the word like a mirror
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And begin to show people jesus in the mirror of the word.
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And when they realize that saying jesus is living in them,
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It changes how they live life.
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Friend, thanks so much for staying tuned today.
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Lawson Perdue - The Compassion of Jesus (Part 3)

May 2, 2025 | 27:29

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