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Power Point with Jack Graham | Jack Graham - Jesus Paid It All | May 18, 2025
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- There is no person that god cannot save!
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- There is no promise that god will not keep!
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- There is nothing that our god cannot do!
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- Take your bibles and turn with me to the book of 1 peter. and
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- The title of this message is "jesus paid it all... jesus
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- Paid it all". the last time we were together in 1 peter, we
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- Read the scripture which says, "be holy..." god says, "be
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- Holy, for i am holy." now, how is that possible? how can a
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- Sinful man have a relationship with a holy god? there is a
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- Great chasm caused by our sin, a separation between sinful men
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- And women and holy, holy god. so how can we possibly be holy?
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- Well, god has given us his word to promise us that if we turn
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- To him and trust in him and what he has done for us, then
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- He will redeem us and save us from this terrible situation
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- That separates us from him.
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- I want to talk to you today about... from this passage...
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- About what are my favorite words in all the bible. put it
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- Up in big, bold letters. redemption... redemption. the
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- Word redemption is at the core of everything we believe as
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- Christians. the redemption that we have in jesus is at the very
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- Heart of the gospel. the redeeming love of our lord
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- Jesus christ.
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- Of all the names of our lord... we call him savior; we call him
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- Master; we call him friend, but he is redeemer. it's a word
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- That in some ways i think has been lost a little bit in our
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- Vocabularies. even in the church. redemption. it's such a
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- Great word. so look at verse 18 of chapter 1 of 1 peter:
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- 18) knowing that you were (redeemed or) ransomed (same
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- Word) from the futile ways inherited from your
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- Forefathers, not with perishable things such as
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- Silver or gold, 19) but with the precious blood of christ,
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- Like that of a lamb without blemish or spot. 20) he was
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- Foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made
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- Manifest in the last times...
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- These are the last times. it started at the birth of christ
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- And from christ's first coming to his second coming... these
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- Are the last days, the last times, the last epoch in
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- History as we know it. so "in these last days..." (i love
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- These words. mark them in your bibles)
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- 20) ... for the sake of you ... (for you... for your sake) 21)
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- Who through him are believers in god, who raised him from the
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- Dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in
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- God.
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- Redemption! what is that big word... important word mean?
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- Simply put in the language of the new testament lytroo... it
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- Means to be set free by paying the price, to be ransomed, to
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- Be redeemed. slaves were redeemed and bought back by
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- Their masters. when you are redeemed, you recover something
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- That is lost. that's what it means to be redeemed.
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- But in redemption it is not something that we can do for
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- Ourselves. you can't redeem yourself. “oh, he totally
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- Redeemed himself.” no, in a human sense there may be
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- Validation in coming back after a loss.
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- But in terms of our salvation, there is no redemption apart
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- From what christ has done for us. it is his gift for us on
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- The cross and by his blood. it means to pay a debt.
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- That's why i'm calling this message “jesus paid it
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- All.” i've said it so many times: he paid a debt that he
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- Did not owe because we owed a debt that we could not pay.
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- Never in a billion years. jesus paid it all!
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- Peter, no doubt, was thinking back in his own spiritual
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- History as a jew, a practicing jew, and this past week...
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- Yesterday, in fact, was the day of atonement. on the seventh
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- Month of the hebrew calendar, the tenth day which was
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- Yesterday, beginning on friday at sunset, ending at sunset
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- Yesterday, the sabbath- the day of atonement. set aside in the
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- Bible in the old testament as the high and holiest day in all
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- Of the year, in all of the life of the hebrew - the day of
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- Atonement. it was on that day atonement was made for the sins
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- Of the people. you say, what does that mean, atonement?
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- Well, you can see in the english word at-one...
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- At-one-ment... atonement. it means that because of the
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- Forgiveness that god provides through the blood. "for without
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- The shedding of blood there is no remission of sin." but
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- Because of the blood, the high priest would go into the holy
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- Place on the day of atonement. they would even put a rope
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- Around his ankle, lest in the presence of a holy god, he were
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- To die, so that they could at least drag him out.
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- But this was how special it is. this is why in jerusalem
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- Today... the western wall, the retraction wall of the ancient
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- World is closest to the holy of holies, where the temple was.
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- And inside the temple and the inner courts of the temple was
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- This holy, holy place in the very presence of god. the
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- Shekinah glory of god was present in this holy place. so
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- On the day of atonement... that one day, the high priest would
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- Go in with the sacrifice to sprinkle the blood on the mercy
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- Seat and all the sins of the people of that day were
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- Forgiven.
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- But now we know because of what christ has done, he is our high
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- Priest according to the book of hebrews. and no longer the
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- Sacrifices of doves and bulls. because he's the lamb of god.
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- As john the baptist said, "he takes away the sin of the
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- World." and now our high priest has forever entered into the
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- Presence of god. and with one hand jesus took holy god and
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- With the other hand sinful man, and at one with god. we are
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- Totally and completely reconciled to god. how? because
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- We are blood-bought, we are now heaven bound. that would be a
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- Good place for an amen. we are blood-bought and now heaven
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- Bound. jesus is the pure and perfect and eternal sacrifice
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- For our sins. and so yom kippur, the day of atonement
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- Points to the messiah who is jesus our lord, who is the
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- Connector. he is the bridge between holy god and you and
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- Me... sinful man.
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- ♪♪♪
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- Thanks again for tuning in to powerpoint today. and we just
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- Want to take a little break because, we want you to have
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- Something very important at powerpoint. we like to put
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- Resources in people's hands that, encourage you to know
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- Christ and to know him more and more in your life. and, of
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- Course, that's always god's word, the scripture.
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- And my friend o.s. hawkins, doctor o.s. hawkins has
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- Written, a devotional book that we are offering. in fact, this
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- Is one of many devotional books that doctor hawkins has written
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- There. over 2 million in print and sold and more to come. but
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- This one is called the jesus code, and it is a companion to
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- Your personal bible study and for your gift of any amount, we
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- Want you to have it.
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- But o.s. is here with me in the studio today. tell us, o.s.
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- What the jesus code is all about.
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- [o.s. hawkins] well, it's just a devotional book, jack, that,
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- You know, reading devotional through the new testament some
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- Years ago, i was astounded at how many times jesus asked
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- Questions in the bible. he was always asking questions. 150 of
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- Them escaped his lips that are recorded in john. and we know
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- The bible says at the end of the book of john that if
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- Everything jesus said and did had been recorded, all the
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- Books couldn't contain him. but we have 150.
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- So i picked 52 questions, one for a week of devotional
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- Throughout the year, 52 questions that i think every
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- Believer ought to be able to answer before they get to
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- Heaven. for example, job ask, if a man dies, will he live
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- Again? in the book, in the gospel of matthew, who do you
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- Say that i am?
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- There just 52 questions that all of us should be able to
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- Answer before we get to heaven.
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- [jack graham] yeah. questions like, what are you doing here
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- To elijah? and in the beginning, in genesis, has god
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- Said and on and on. so, so many questions that people have are
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- Answered in the bible. in fact, all of our questions are
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- Answered in god's word. that's what this book is about. right
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- Out of scripture is full of god's word.
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- It's not just nice thoughts or, good ideas. this is god's word,
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- The questions of the bible for your gift of any amount. we
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- Will send you right away that jesus code - 52 scripture
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- Questions every believer should answer.
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- ♪♪♪
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- So what is the purpose of this redemption? let's talk about
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- That first. the purpose of redemption. look again at verse
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- 18. it says: "knowing that you were redeemed from the futile
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- Ways inherited from your forefathers." futile ways.
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- We've been redeemed from empty lives... empty lives. that word
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- Futile there. it's obvious what that means. it means we were
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- Living vain lives. some people live vile lives for sure, but
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- Most people live vain lives, lives that are going nowhere.
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- God made you on purpose for a purpose. god has a plan for
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- Your life. and yet so many have never discovered god's plan and
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- God's purpose for their lives, therefore, they live life going
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- Nowhere.
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- When simon peter was preaching on the day of pentecost and he
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- Preached christ and the resurrection... what i'm
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- Preaching to you right now. and at the end when the people ran
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- To him, convicted by the holy spirit and said, "what do we
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- Need to do to be saved?" peter told them to repent and then to
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- Be baptized as a testimony of their faith. and then he says,
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- "and with many other words (sounds like a preacher,
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- Right?) [laughter] and with many other words... with many
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- Other words he said, "save yourselves from this crooked
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- And perverse and untoward generation." that word untoward
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- ... that's the authorized. that means a life that is going
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- Nowhere. save yourself by coming to faith in jesus
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- Christ, because without him your life is a zero. it's
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- Headed nowhere!
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- Solomon tried living life without god on his own terms.
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- He tells his story in the book of ecclesiastes. it's his story
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- Of seeking satisfaction in his life. and king solomon, he
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- First tried wealth, and he had a lot of wealth. he made a lot
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- Of money. elon musk kind of money. he was wealthy. but he
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- Said i had all these things but vanity of vanities... all is
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- Vanity, he said. none of this means anything. jesus said,
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- "what does it... you say "well, i've done really well in life.
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- You know, i've made a lot of money. i know where i'm going",
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- "what does it profit man, jesus said, if he gains the whole
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- World and loses his own soul?" so he tried wealth. that didn't
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- Work.
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- He tried work and he built a lot of projects. he did many
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- Mighty things, building his community, but all his work...
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- And he was successful in his work, and yet... and yet he
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- Said, "vanity of vanities, all is vanity. nothing plus nothing
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- Equals nothing." that's what he's saying. it's a big fat
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- Zero. he tried women and he had a lot of women and all the sex
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- He wanted but it didn't satisfy. gave him pleasure but
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- Not fulfillment in his life. and after he tried all these
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- Women he said, "vanity of vanities, all is vanity."
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- There is an emptiness and a need that only god can fulfill.
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- So that is what peter is saying here. he's making it plain to
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- Us that you were redeemed out of this from a life going
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- Nowhere but to hell, you have been redeemed.
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- And then redeemed from guilt, because we're all guilty
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- Because of sin and the results and the catastrophe and the
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- Wreckage that is life by sin. you were... he's telling us
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- What we were here. you were slaves to sin. you were... you
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- Were on the chopping block of slavery. you were a slave. you
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- Were in bondage to your sin because you were guilty of high
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- Treason against god almighty. and yet, you were redeemed from
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- Your guilt. every sin and every stain removed. "though your
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- Sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow." so that is
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- The purpose of redemption, to fill the emptiness of our life
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- With his own presence. to remove the guilt and the stains.
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- This redemption is not to see...(watch this) look back in
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- Verse 18. it says, "you will ransom from the futile ways
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- Inherited from your fathers." why do you do what you do? why
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- Do we live the way we live? we inherited it from our parents:
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- From our fathers, from our mothers. but not only that,
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- Sometimes we inherit religion and rituals and relics and none
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- Of these things redeem. all the religion in the world, all the
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- Relics that you may worship, all the rituals that you may
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- Practice... the traditions of your father. too many people
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- Have a hand-me-down religion rather than a personal faith in
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- The lord jesus christ.
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- This past week i went over to cleburne, texas where my
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- Sister-in-law... my sister-in-love, the widow of my
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- Older brother bob is living and has lived for forty years or
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- So... fifty years. she's moving so we're clearing out her house
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- And i went over there to help her do some things. there was a
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- Trunk that was in storage. and that trunk... the trunk itself,
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- I don't know, must have been... it looks like it's a hundred
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- Years old at least. it's been passed down in our family. my
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- Brother had it.
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- And in there were a lot of things from the past. it was...
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- It was an incredible adventure for me. i found some wonderful
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- Treasures in this trunk. to go through the lives of the graham
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- Family. my parents and even my grandparents. and even a lot of
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- Things, you know, we just throwing away... newspaper
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- Clippings from conway, arkansas and glasses from my
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- Grandmother, my grandfather. just a lot of things. my mother
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- Put a lot of these things in this trunk and passed it on to
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- Bob, and now i've inherited this. so we're going through
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- It. and again, so many wonderful things and treasures
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- That we enjoyed... photos, of course, and we found ... i
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- Found precious to me, some love letters that my dad had written
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- My mom. and to read those, and that was, of course,
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- Heart-touching for me.
- 00:17:45.420 --> 00:17:48.657
- But what i found so often in that... in that treasure house,
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- That trunk was church bulletins. a lot of church
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- Bulletins... worship guides we called them, that my mother and
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- Perhaps my father had just saved for some reason. maybe
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- Special occasions. but it was clear from this family as you
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- Looked through this trunk, that we were church people. that we
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- Went to church from generation to generation. not just
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- Church... baptist church. i was a good little baptist boy. in
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- Fact, my baptismal certificate from 1958 was in that trunk. my
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- Mother had saved it. i have it now. and i'm so grateful that
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- The traditions of my family were passed along to me and we
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- Had those in our trunk.
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- But you know, faith is not passed along in a trunk of
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- Memorabilia. our faith is passed along from faith to
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- Faith, from person to person. i'm so glad that i have a faith
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- Tradition in my family. but the faith tradition of our family
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- Does not save us. we're not saved by what we have done or
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- Our religion. you cannot be saved by a hand-me-down
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- Religion.
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- And unfortunately, some of you don't have faith in christ
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- Personally. somebody handed you down religion but do you know
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- Jesus? do you know christ? the price of redemption is the
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- Precious blood of jesus! that's what he says, that we are
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- Ransomed not with perishable things like silver or gold.
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- That is, we're not saved by human things. salvation is not
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- Bought; it is given. we cannot redeem ourselves.
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- One of the things that i found in this old trunk was some s&h
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- Green stamps. [laughter] how many remember green stamps? ha,
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- Ha, well from the 1940's all the way to the late 1970's it
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- Was loyalty kind of thing with grocery stores and other kinds
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- Businesses... if you bought product, you would get stamps.
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- And those stamps, you would lick them and put them in a
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- Little book, a stamp book. and when you collected enough
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- Stamps... when you bought enough groceries or anything,
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- You put your stamps in there and then you fill up your stamp
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- Book and you could go to the redemption store. [laughter]
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- The s&h green stamp... if fact, if you go to mama's restaurant
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- Where i eat often, there's a big s&h green stamp sign in
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- There. you go to the redemption store and you can use your
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- Stamps to purchase stuff in their catalog. i bought my
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- First baseball glove with s&h green stamps.
- 00:20:45.500 --> 00:20:53.075
- But you know, there's no redemption store... even a
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- Church... where you can buy your salvation. you can't
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- Collect enough, do enough, buy enough, save enough in order
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- That you would be forgiven. this is in christ and christ
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- Alone. and peter makes it plain. you cannot save
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- Yourself... you cannot save yourself! it is not with how we
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- Buy it or how we try it in order to live the christian
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- Life. rather, it is what christ has done! and it's all in the
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- Blood.
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- In leviticus it says life is in the blood, not in the flesh,
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- But in the blood. if you go to the doctor, especially if
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- You're going to do a physical, no doubt, they're going to take
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- Your blood because they can see so many things in the blood,
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- Whether trace of disease or illness or infection or health.
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- Life is in the blood.
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- It's one of the great reasons that we can believe the bible
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- Because in the ancient world and certainly right up to
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- George washington. i was reading about george washington
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- Just yesterday and when you had an infection in george
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- Washington's era, they would bleed you. they'd take the
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- Blood out! in fact, there's some evidence that george
- 00:22:17.759 --> 00:22:21.430
- Washington was bled to death, poor guy, because people
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- Thought the way to get rid of infection was to bleed you out
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- Of the infection. well, now we know that the circulatory
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- System means that life is in this blood. the bible said that
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- Way back in leviticus!
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- But not just physically... more importantly, spiritually. here
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- Is salvation: his blood for your blood. his pure blood for
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- Your polluted blood. this is how we are redeemed. and this
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- Is not an accident. it's why he points out that our savior, our
- 00:23:00.535 --> 00:23:05.106
- Redeemer was a lamb slain from the foundation of the world. do
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- You see that there in the scripture? the cross, the blood
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- Was not an afterthought or an accident but in the infinite
- 00:23:13.348 --> 00:23:17.919
- Mind and heart of god... in fact, you see it in the bible.
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- Someone said cut the bible anywhere and it will bleed,
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- Because in all the scriptures there is this principle:
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- Without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin.
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- And therefore, there is a scarlet thread of redemption
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- That runs through the bible. the story of jesus and his
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- Blood.
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- It starts even in the garden of eden. when adam and eve sinned
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- And god took the life of an animal to cover their sins, the
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- Blood was spilled and the furs of those animals covered their
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- Bodies from their sin and their nakedness as they now realized
- 00:23:57.225 --> 00:24:00.862
- They had broken god's laws. that blended in to flow all the
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- Way to mount moriah when isaac said, "here's the wood, here's
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- The sacrifice, but where is the lamb?" god provided a lamb
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- Caught in the thicket as a substitute for isaac. it flowed
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- Into egypt and on the doorpost of the israelites on the day of
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- Passover... jesus, the passover lamb. it flowed through the
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- Levitical system and all the shedding of blood and the
- 00:24:27.622 --> 00:24:30.358
- Sacrifices of animals. it flowed right into the words of
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- The prophets: isaiah 53... "all we like sheep have gone astray
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- But the lord laid on him -jesus- the iniquity of us
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- All." the messiah came to live and die so that we can be
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- Forgiven.
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- Goes all the way... i could take you all the way through
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- The scarlet thread of redemption in the bible. this
- 00:24:50.211 --> 00:24:52.781
- Holy thread, this royal red river of redemption that is
- 00:24:52.781 --> 00:24:56.585
- Running through the bible. it goes all the way to heaven
- 00:24:56.585 --> 00:25:00.622
- Where in the presence of god we see a lamb, as though the lamb
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- Was slain on the throne, and we'll be singing with the
- 00:25:04.092 --> 00:25:07.362
- Saints and the angels, "worthy, worthy, worthy is the lamb."
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- [amen] this is how we are redeemed! it is the price that
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- He paid. he paid the penalty and the price for our sin.
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- That's why we sing, "there is a fountain filled with blood
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- Drawn emmanuels veins./ and sinners plunged beneath that
- 00:25:30.552 --> 00:25:34.889
- Flood lose all their guilty stains."
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- The proof of our redemption is in the resurrection.
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- Apart from the resurrection,
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- The cross would have been a cruel tragedy; it
- 00:25:43.965 --> 00:25:46.501
- Would have been a murder, a martyrdom. but because god
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- Raised him from the dead, god accepted the pure and perfect
- 00:25:50.505 --> 00:25:53.041
- Sacrifice of jesus, the lamb of god. and that proves that this
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- Blood is sufficient, it's supernatural to save us.
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- And then there's on final thing: that's the promise of
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- This redemption. look in verse 21 briefly with me. it says:
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- "who through him are believers in god, who raised him from the
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- Dead, gave him glory... (he's now glorified...) so that your
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- Faith and hope are in god." now we live in faith. i trust in
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- God. and we live with a daily and eternal hope. this is the
- 00:26:26.775 --> 00:26:32.514
- Promise of redemption. and it is the promise of eternal life
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- And salvation in the lord.
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- It is because he has paid the price in full. he's done what
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- Only he could do, what we can never do for ourselves. he has
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- Redeemed us. he has redeemed us. “redeemed by the blood of
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- The lamb.”
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- Yes, “jesus paid it all. all to him i owe./ sin had left a
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- Crimson stain, (but praise god, hallelujah to the lamb,) he
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- Washed them white as snow.”
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- ♪♪♪
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