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We are going to be taking a closer look at Matthew 5:4" Blessed Are Those Who Mourn, For They Shall be Comforted"
Scripture References"
Matthew 5:4
Romans 7:14-25
Isaiah 6:1-7
Isiah 53
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hey this is tayyip at times.com and
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today we are going to talk about matthew
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chapter 5
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verse 4. a lot of you guys know the
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verse
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of chapter 5 using the beat attitude and
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uh the verse 3 is this way
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blessed are those who mourn for they
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will be comforted
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so um the title of our messages the
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mourners are the blessed ones
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and they will receive comfort now i want
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to tell you why this is important to me
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and i'm going to do that in just a
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second i'm gonna go to my next
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uh screen now the question that we have
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and i have for you
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and myself is mourning over what
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what are those blessed people mourn over
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mourning over what that's the question
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and jesus said like i said in matthew 5
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verse 4
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blessed are those who mourn for they
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shall be
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comforted now many have undertaken to
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interpret this particular verse are
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recorded in chapter 5 of
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the book of matthew and then the other
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day about a week and a half ago i was
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praying and walking
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and the lord brought this verse to my
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mind so i feel compelled to share its
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meaning with you guys today
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now the first thing that we need to
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understand is this like
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what are they confident once morning
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over what do you mourn over
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this is something that we need to think
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about and jesus
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knew exactly what he was doing when he
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say this thing so when his audience was
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listening they understood exactly what
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he was trying to communicate
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and the answer is pretty simple the
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mourn
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over sin and god has granted
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them the ability to acknowledge their
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sins and their depravity
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in light of his holy character so this
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is why
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jesus refers to them as being blessed
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because
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no one can truly be broken and mourn
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over sin
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unless god grants them repentance
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it is the work of the holy spirit again
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i repeat that
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it is the work of the holy spirit
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because no one
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can be broken and mourn over sin unless
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god
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grants it now god has basically opened
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their eyes
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and the mourner's eyes to the reality of
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their worthless and hopeless condition
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and they see the deadness of their
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colors hearts and they see and recognize
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their sinful nature
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that deserves the wrath of gods so they
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don't gloat over their sins
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but they are utterly disgusted over
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their sins
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and long for deliverance they see how
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they are seen as offended god and they
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are broken
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over it and they are desperate to find
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hope
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now to fully understand what it means to
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mourn over sin i'm gonna show you how
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this activity of mourning looks like in
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the life of a genuine believer
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and the chapter of my focus will be
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roman seven and this is paul that's
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gonna be talking so
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we're gonna go up to uh roman seven and
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i'm gonna start from verse 14 to 25 and
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we're going to
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to see how and what morning over sin
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looks like because i believe in our
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churches today
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we've completely obliterated what it
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means to mourn over sin
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we are so caught up in the love of god
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that we forget that
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sin is very serious in his sight we
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don't talk about mourning over sin we
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don't talk about being broken and
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grieving
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we are quickly uh so drawn to just
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moving to the forgiveness aspect of
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god's character and and we don't want to
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talk about mourning it's almost like
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we kind of mention it quick but we want
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to talk about the love of god the
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forgiveness of god
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the blessedness of being forgiven the
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comfort of god the love of god
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and we want to talk about the holy
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spirit being the comforter
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and we want we don't want to talk about
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how he's grieved
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over sin and how that grieving over sin
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leads us to mourn so i'm going to talk
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about
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romans 7 and we'll see the picture of
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what it means to be
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a true believer and what he means to
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truly mourn over sin so we are going to
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do that in just a second
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so we are going to look at roman 7 and
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my little title for this portion is
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the mourner's prayer so i'm going to
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read from verse 14 to verse 24
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and we are going to talk about what it
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means for we know that the law is
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spiritual
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but i am of the flesh sold under sin
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for i don't understand my own actions
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for i do not do what i want but i do the
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very thing that i hate
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now if i do what i do not want i agree
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with the law
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that it is good so now it is no longer i
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would do it but seeing that dwells
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within me for i know that nothing good
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dwells in me that is in my flesh for i
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have the desire to do what is right
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but not the ability to carry it out for
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i do not do the good that i want but the
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evil i do not want is what i keep on
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doing now
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if i do what i do not want it is no
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longer i will do it but seeing that
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dwells within me
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so i find it to be a law that when i
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want to do right
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evil lies close at hand for a delight in
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the law of god
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in my inner being but i've seen my
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members another law
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waging war against the law of my mind
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and making me captive to the law of sin
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that dwells in my members
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oh wretched man that i am who will
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deliver me from this body of death
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thanks be to god through jesus christ
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our lord so then
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i myself serve the law of god with my
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mind but with my flesh
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i serve the law of sin now this is from
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the
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pain of the apostle paul we are not
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talking about anybody else but the pain
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of the apostle paul so you see his
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struggle
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you see how he's completely broken over
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sin and the sinful nature of his body
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he's not just gloating over he's
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desperately looking for deliverance and
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he comes to climax in verse 24 when he
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goes
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oh wretched man that i am who will
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deliver me from this body of death
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now paul isn't talking about a perfect
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person but a person was broken
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mourning over his or her desperate
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condition the
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person doesn't enjoy or gloat over his
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depraved condition
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the verse is brought to his climax in
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verse 24 the wretched man seeking
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deliverance
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from this sack of sin that is the person
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that receives
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comfort from god this is what it means
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to mourn
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and this can only happen to a truly
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converted individual
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you see what i'm saying is this paul say
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i'll do the very thing that i hate
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basically you know what you're doing is
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wrong way you just say lord
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please i need help i need to be
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delivered from this body of death
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because i hate what i'm doing and i
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can't stop and i'm grieving because i
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know that he grieves
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this holy temple because my body is a
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temple of the holy spirit
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you don't enjoy your sin you may be
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enjoying while you're doing it but you
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know because of the holy spirit's
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presence in your life that
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this is completely grieving the spirit
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and you mourn and you are broken you
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grieve over it this is not what is being
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taught in our churches today
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we are so quickly we actually enjoy our
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sin
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and we enjoy we don't even want to be
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told that we are wrong because when we
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are told that we are wrong and that
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grieves the holy spirit
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you will usually say don't judge me
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for god knows my heart god knows that i
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love him you love him yet you are
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clinging on to your sin
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and you are not broken over it i'm not
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saying you have to be perfect but what
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i'm saying is this
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you know that you are in the dust and
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you are grieving because you know
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lord i want desperately to be relieved
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and to be
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completely cut away from this sin i want
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you to sanctify me
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please o lord please have mercy on me
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your mourning because you know that you
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hit that sin because that sin
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is clinging and you hate it now
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when paul was writing this he knew
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exactly what he was doing because
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now i'm not sure this is speculation but
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it was believed that
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in the roman time when a criminal
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killed somebody what they did was this
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they would throw them in jail
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and then they attached the body of the
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deceased person
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to the criminal so the body will
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literally rat next to you
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because you're the one that killed the
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person and the smell of it everything of
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it the parasites and all
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you'll be covered in that kind of stuff
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just to pray for your crime
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so basically this is the picture paul is
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trying to paint here
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we've killed the flesh and his sinful
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nature and passions
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but the thing is it's just like that
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body is hangs the smell of the flesh is
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still here and we are still struggling
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with the flesh
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we are being sanctified every day until
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god comes back in jesus
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to redeem our bodies and give us new
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bodies we are still struggling
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and as we are struggling we are mourning
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because we know that
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we are desperately seeking to be freed
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from this body of death
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and this is what paul is saying oh
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wretched man that i am
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he's not enjoying his sin even though
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for the meantime you may think this is
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fine but
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he is desperately saying to god please
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deliver me and god said i will deliver
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you
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through jesus christ now in hebrews 2 we
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it is said somewhere that because he
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himself was tempted
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yet without sin he is able to help those
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who are being tempted so when we are
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struggling with the sins
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in our flesh jesus understands because
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he also live in the flesh
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yet without sin so he is able to give us
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comfort say i'm going to deliver you
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i'm going to sanctify you and jesus said
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somewhere also in the book of hebrews
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no discipline is pleasant at a time but
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later
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it leads to a harvest of righteousness
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for those that have been trained
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by it so this is the mourner's prayer is
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morning morning saying oh i want to be
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freed from this
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i don't want to deal with this anymore i
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want to be freed from this
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and the holy spirit gives you the
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strength because god says somewhere also
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it is god who works in us through the
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holy spirit to will and to act
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according to his good purpose so he
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doesn't leave us there
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when we cry out he comes and he gives us
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that comfort
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the comforter the holy spirit comes he's
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a person and he gives us the strength
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to rise above our sins and our sinful
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nature and to defeat the flesh
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it's a daily thing now i want to also go
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to um
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isaiah 6 to give you another picture of
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what it means to mourn
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and let's do that so in isaiah 6
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scripture says now listen this is the
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great isaiah isaiah the prophet he wrote
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about a lot of
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prophecies and then one of the famous
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one is isaiah 53
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which we will read in a little bit but
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in isaiah 6 check this out
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in the year that king uzziah died i saw
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the lord
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sitting upon the throne high and lifted
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up and the train of his robe
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filled the temple above him stood the
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surfing each had six wings
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with two he covered his face with two he
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covered
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his feet and with two he flew and one
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called to another and said
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holy holy holy is the lord of hosts
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you hear that holy holy holy is the lord
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of hosts
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the whole earth is full of his glory and
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the foundations of the threshold
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shook at the voice of him who called and
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the house was
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filled with smoke and i said woe
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is me for i am lost for army men of
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unclean lips
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and i dwell in the midst of a pupil of
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unclean lips
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for my eyes i've seen the king the lord
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of hosts
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then one of the seraphim flew to me
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having in his hand a burning cold that
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he had taken with tongues from the altar
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and he touched my mouth and said behold
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this astounds your lips your guilt is
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taken away and your sin
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atoned for now isaiah the great prophet
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realized how worthless and depraved and
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lost
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he was when he stood next to the
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holiness of god
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and he used the strongest phrase
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available to describe his worthless
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state
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he said woe is me
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i'm undone woe is me
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and then he received the comfort of god
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when his lips were
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touched with the burning cold to cleanse
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him of unrighteousness
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take his guilt away and atone for his
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sin
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now the comfort may be painful sometimes
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but it was necessary
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and isaiah didn't argue against it he
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received it with joy
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you see that isaiah the great prophet
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comes into the temple
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falls on his face and says woe
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is me you understand that this is
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serious we are not talking about just a
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regular person we are talking about the
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great isaiah
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he understands that before god he is
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depraved
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worthless and lost and then he mourn
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over his unclean lips he says woe is me
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i'm a man of unclean lips
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he understands for the first time that
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he is
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filled with filth and he realizes it
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and he says i am undone
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but god now that he has mourned and
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under he is truly aware of his sinful
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nature
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god comes and then cleanses
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his lips and bird takes the burning cold
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and says your guilt has been taken away
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and you're seen atoned for
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he received the comfort of god yes it's
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painful but then we realize
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oh i'll thank you god that you even
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allowed me
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to understand my sinful nature see most
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people don't understand that
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how much their sins is greatness out of
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god they don't understand that
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so this is why we gloat over sin so many
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times we don't understand
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the gravity of our sins we don't
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understand how ugly it is before
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a holy god therefore we don't mourn
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we just kind of think god just throws it
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under the rug and goes okay
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that's a little slap in the wrist like a
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granddad would do to his little
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child that's not how god operates he is
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a holy god
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he doesn't gloat over sin he hates sin
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because he
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is love and he because he is love he
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hates anything that defies
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his temple anything that is contrary to
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the word of god
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to his person he hates
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so mourning over sin is actually a gift
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from god being able to do that because
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you can't just muster up
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enough strength to say i'm gonna mourn
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over my sin it is god through his holy
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spirit that grants you to see your
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condition before him
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and then you fall on your knees and your
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face and you don't even want to lift
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your head up because you know
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that you have you have grieved him
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so the next thing is this
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what can we take away from this and i'm
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going to read off my screen again and
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i'm going to give you a little
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um conclusion after that now morning of
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our sins
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like i said is a gift of god and we
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should rejoice
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when we are granted repentance receiving
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comfort from god only comes
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after we've grieved and mourned over our
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offenses against them
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without mourning there can be true
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repentance our churches are filled with
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folks who have never truly mourned over
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their helpless
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state on the contrary it seems as if we
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are encouraged
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to receive the comfort of god as if we
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deserve it
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and folks actually demand the comfort of
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god forgetting that comfort only comes
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to those who have mourned
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over their sin we often hear the phrase
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it doesn't matter what you've done
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or how far you've worked you've walked
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away from god he is waiting to restore
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you
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now why that is true that you um while
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it is true
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that we are saved by grace alone through
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faith alone
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and through jesus works alone
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we shouldn't forget that if we've never
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sinned jesus wouldn't have had to pay
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the penalty
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so what you've done and what i've done
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does matter
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is sent jesus to the cross this is why
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mourning
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is important and necessary and salvation
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is a free gift i am not i'm not saying
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that
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because you mourn this is why god is not
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god allows
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his spirit to lead you to mourn and then
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shows you the beauty of christ
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because he shows you how your sin has
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separated you from god
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and then he shows you the beauty of
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christ it shows you that salvation is a
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free gift that was obtained by the
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sacrificial death
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of the lamb of god now before you say
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what you've done doesn't matter god
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loves you anyway now
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god loves you and his scripture says god
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so loved the world that he gave his only
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begotten son
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that whoever believes in him should not
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perish but have everlasting life
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that is only possible because of what
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jesus did
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it's not because my sin nailed him to
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the cross your sins
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nailed him to the cross and i want to
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read isaiah 53 because
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i want i really want to drive this point
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i want you to really understand that so
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let's read isaiah 53
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let's read isaiah 53 here
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so he reads who has believed
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what he has heard from us and to whom
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has the arm of the lord be revealed
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for he grew up before him like a young
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plant and like a root out of the dry
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ground
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he had no form or majesty that we should
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look at him
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and no beauty that we shall desire him
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he was despised and rejected by men
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a man of sorrows and acquainted with
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grief
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and as one from whom man hide their
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faces he was despised
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and we esteem him not surely
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he has borne our griefs and carried our
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sorrows
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yet we esteemed him stricken smitten by
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god and afflicted
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but he was pierced for our strength for
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our transgression
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he was pierced for our transgressions he
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was crushed
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for our iniquities upon him was the
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chastisement our brothers peace
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and with his wounds we are healed and
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all
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we like sheep have gone astray we have
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turned
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everyone to his own way and the lord has
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laid on him the iniquity of us all
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he was oppressed and he was afflicted
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yet he opened
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not his mouth like a lamb that is led to
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the slaughter
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and like a sheep that before his shares
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is silent so he opened on his mouth
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by oppression and judgment he was taken
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away and as for his generation
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who considered that he was cut off out
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of the land of the living
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striking for the transgression of my
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people and the man is
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they made his grave with the wicked and
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with a rich man in his death
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although he had done no violence and
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there was no deceit in his mouth
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yet it was the will of the lord to crush
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him
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he has put him to grief when his souls
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makes an offering
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for guilt and he shall see his offspring
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he shall prolong his days
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the will of the lord shall prosper in
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his hand out of the anguish of his soul
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he shall see and be satisfied and by his
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knowledge shall the righteous one my
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servant
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make many to be accounted righteous
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and he shall bear their iniquities i'll
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repeat that again and he shall bear
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thy iniquities therefore i will divide
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my portion with the many
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and he shall divide the spoil with the
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strong because he poured out his soul to
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death
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and was numbered with the transgressors
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yet he bore the scene of many
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and makes intercession for the
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transgressors
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this is a beautiful um
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i don't even know what to say i'm like
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words i don't even have words but you
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understand this is a prophetic
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uh word right there god is talking about
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jesus and his work
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the child starts man our brother's peace
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was upon him and by his wounds we are
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healed he was
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peers for our transgressions he made us
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righteous by his work you see
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why i'm saying morning because when you
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begin to see
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what it cost that jesus
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had to pay the penalty for what you've
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done
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for what i've done it wasn't yes
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salvation
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is a free gift but it cost
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jesus he had to die on the cross he had
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to be separated he tasted death for
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everyone so that we could be made
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righteous the righteousness of god
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so in him we have peace with god so
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there is no other name under heaven by
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any
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by which a man shall be saved by the
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name of jesus christ
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so don't tell me
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that i don't need to mourn over my sin
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and first of all like i said you can't
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force yourself to mourn over your sin
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it's only a
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work of the spirit of god so seeing the
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width of my sin
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put up on the shoulders of jesus the
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weight of the sins of the whole world
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so when you don't mourn over your sin
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and you actually gloat over it
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that's an insult to god
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you're basically saying i don't care
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what you've done thank you why not thank
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you
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will you go do this i'm just gonna enjoy
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my sins
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the truly converted man will be broken
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over his sinful condition
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will mourn and grieve because he knows
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that
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what he has done or what she has done
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has caused this
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and we thank god that he didn't just let
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us suffer his wrath but he removed
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our sins away and i put it on jesus
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christ
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you know so i really encourage you and
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exalt you
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so ask god if you ever mourn over your
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sin to say lord
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am i even saved because when you truly
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understand it
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you have this there will be a time of
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mourning a time of
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you know because the scripture says
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somewhere um
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godly sorrow leads to repentance but
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where is sorrow leads to death
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i'm not saying you need to be so sorry
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that you become so now that's not what
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i'm saying i'm saying
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at least mourn over your sin i
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understand the weight of it
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so i don't think people understand that
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these days
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and that's because maybe the gospel is
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not preached accurately i'm not saying
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that i'm accurate in the way i'm
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preaching it i'm i'm talking to you
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but my my exhortation to use this really
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take that seriously and go to the lord
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and ask him lord have i truly been
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transformed
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do i still love my sin and hang on to it
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do i enjoy what i'm doing am i broken
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over my sinful condition
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am i constantly longing to be changed to
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be transformed
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do i hate my sin like paul did in romans
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7
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or do i enjoy it and just don't care and
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do you use grace
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cheap grace i call it do you use that as
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a way to just make excuses for the fact
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that
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god loves you anyway is that what you do
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know i really i really am really praying
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that as you hear my voice this morning
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or this evening
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that you go and then ask the lord to to
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cleanse your fallen righteousness
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and to lead you in the way that's
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everlasting because i i believe
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in in our day and age the gospel has
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been trembled
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and then us believers haven't really
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done uh a good job
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at preaching accurately we've just cut
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corners because we want to be friends
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with the world and we are yes we live in
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the world but we are not of the world
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because god through his spirit has
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changed us
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so this is my exaltation to you blessed
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are those who mourn for they shall be
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confident
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thank you and i'm looking forward to see
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you again next time
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bye