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Speaker 2: three of our series Redefined, they were going to.
Speaker 1: Be talking about law and righteousness. I love law. I
Speaker 1: love law. I thought I was going to be a lawyer, okay,
Speaker 1: except I found out that you have to memory so
Speaker 1: many stuff and read so many stuff when growing When
Speaker 1: I was growing up, I love reading and and following
Speaker 1: Perry Mason. I don't know if you know him. That's
Speaker 1: way back Perry Mason. And then I have tons and
Speaker 1: tons of books on John Grisham, okay, all about the law.
Speaker 1: And then I follow a Law, he Law Magaga Age Style,
Speaker 1: then a Law and Order, and then now Suits My
Speaker 1: Famousness and a series now Suits talk about lawyers. But
Speaker 1: I love law. But then I know that it's so
Speaker 1: hard to comply with all the loss. Even though you
Speaker 1: have a big library of all the laws, you cannot
Speaker 1: fully comply it. You cannot fully comply one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: You cannot be perfect. When we talk about righteousness, righteousness
Speaker 1: is not actually based on complying to the laws, but
Speaker 1: it talks to about our heart. Yes, we have to
Speaker 1: comply with the law as much as we can, all
Speaker 1: the civil laws, all the loss, we have to comply.
Speaker 1: But then it's different if we are after God's righteous
Speaker 1: I love how Chill said it earlier, that the righteousness
Speaker 1: was given to us is not ours. It was given
Speaker 1: to us. It was imputed to us by Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: It's his righteousness. Let's read Matthew five seventeen to eighteen.
Speaker 1: These are texts. If you have your Bible, check your
Speaker 1: Bible with me. If not, you can read from the screen.
Speaker 1: Do not think that I have come to abolish the
Speaker 1: law or the prophets. I have not come to abolish them,
Speaker 1: but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you,
Speaker 1: until heaven and earth passed away, not an iota that
Speaker 1: a dot will pass from the law until all is accomplished. Therefore,
Speaker 1: whoever relaxes of this one of the leavests of these
Speaker 1: commandments and teaches others to do the same will be
Speaker 1: called the least in the Kingdom of heaven. But whoever
Speaker 1: does them and teaches them will be great in the
Speaker 1: Kingdom of heaven. For I tell you, unless your righteousness
Speaker 1: exceeds that of the scribes and the Pharisees, you will
Speaker 1: never enter the Kingdom of Heaven. The question when when
Speaker 1: I was doing this peaching, question that always pops up
Speaker 1: in my mind is this, can we actually meet God's
Speaker 1: standard of righteousness? Can we the rules mak ayatai in righteousness,
Speaker 1: rules and regulations? And then oftentime, oftentimes I don't know.
Speaker 1: In our case, I would I would always hear my
Speaker 1: mom or my dad said, expect hindi hind papantai and
Speaker 1: mulang pantailang. My famous line that kulan expectation. But what
Speaker 1: is God's expectation towards us? Is it compliance? Is it
Speaker 1: simply adherence to the law? Adherence to the law means
Speaker 1: para check list by what law check by? What law
Speaker 1: check by? What law check? Is it? That way? I
Speaker 1: found this article interestingly online when it said why intelligent
Speaker 1: people are less likely to be religious thin context that
Speaker 1: religious data is best in the church. Okay, I'm not
Speaker 1: sure if it's Christianity or really relate or real or
Speaker 1: genuine relationship with God. Okay, so think that so indigas smart?
Speaker 1: Is that? Do you think that's true? I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's based on a survey, based on a study. But
Speaker 1: what it actually is implying is this that people people
Speaker 1: people nowadays, they would you pour pass some nila is
Speaker 1: to Bible word God. Most of the time, it's it's
Speaker 1: those puzzling questions, is it true? Is it not true?
Speaker 1: How true it is is if historical evidence doesn't talk
Speaker 1: about faith, doesn't talk about faith, talks about intellect, doesn't
Speaker 1: even talk about heart. It's all pure in the mind.
Speaker 1: The tension there is the authority and relevancy of God's
Speaker 1: word to our human opinion and reason. And guess what,
Speaker 1: our mind is so finite, masqu you cannot comprehend God
Speaker 1: because he's so big, it's so vast. That's why it
Speaker 1: has to take lots of faith. The Bible even said
Speaker 1: that we are faith. We don't actually see it, but
Speaker 1: do we complain, No, we don't complaind we follow. We
Speaker 1: follow because we know in our heart that He is
Speaker 1: our Lord and our shavior. That's the problem. With the Pharisees.
Speaker 1: As we go through the book of the whole Bible,
Speaker 1: you see pharisees. Pharisees are those coten quote religious people
Speaker 1: Selenahan twenty four to seven, Selena salles a sacrifice, but
Speaker 1: they don't have a relationship with God. First verse Matthew
Speaker 1: five seventeen. Do not think that I have come to
Speaker 1: abolish the law or the prophets. I have not come
Speaker 1: to abolish them. Why abolish? They said, abolish? Do what
Speaker 1: do they want to abolish the law because they believe
Speaker 1: in Jesus. I hope that was the case, but it's not.
Speaker 1: They want to abolish the law. Why because they cannot
Speaker 1: comply too much? Sobrang damming law? Sobran damming? Can you
Speaker 1: can you imagine? Okay? Ten commandments? Alang? But after ten
Speaker 1: the ten commments, the law is six hundred and thirteen laws.
Speaker 1: How would you comply each one? Ten commandments memorized by
Speaker 1: six hundred and thirteen the lass. It's so hard for
Speaker 1: them to comply. That's why they said abolish the law.
Speaker 1: Since you said that you are the son of God,
Speaker 1: You're coming here to save us, Why do you just
Speaker 1: abolish the law? They want an easy way out. They
Speaker 1: they needed an escape goat and see Jesus Lord save
Speaker 1: it called an escape My prayer, my prayer is that
Speaker 1: what we won't be like those Pharisees, that we don't
Speaker 1: come to church because we want an escape coat. Tell
Speaker 1: you loud, it's between you and God. My prayer is
Speaker 1: that you're doing victory group, hypership, victory weekend, that you're
Speaker 1: serving not to try to find an escape coat, but
Speaker 1: rather it is an overflow of your heart because you understand,
Speaker 1: because you love, because Jesus is in you, and it's
Speaker 1: there's an outworking in us. So how about the law
Speaker 1: and Malona the mini mentioned DeTao the law in Matthew
Speaker 1: talking about three kinds of law ceremonial law, civil law
Speaker 1: and moral in ceremonial if you're you have your Bible
Speaker 1: Leviticus in Leviticus or or when I was starting up.
Speaker 1: But they think on the Leviticus Deuteronomy numbers numbers, no,
Speaker 1: but it's important. Here are the ceremonial loss example a
Speaker 1: few example laws for burnt offering. There's even loss for
Speaker 1: grain offerings. Their loss for peace offerings example peace offering.
Speaker 1: My law law for sin offering and different sin, offering
Speaker 1: law for guilt offerings, even law for offerings, offerings, offerings,
Speaker 1: offerings law, ceremonial laws. Hey, we do we we We
Speaker 1: don't imply with them anymore. We don't do it. Why
Speaker 1: because Jesus died and rose for all of those. Can
Speaker 1: you imagine if we're still adhering to the ceremonial loss
Speaker 1: every time and madadatupa aloya? Can you imagine that's gonna
Speaker 1: Happeno comes, bone floor, nothing to go on. Second kind
Speaker 1: of law is the civil law, civil law that applies
Speaker 1: to daily living, Okay, daily living. Example Dito Deuteronomy twenty
Speaker 1: four loss concerning divorce, miscellaneous laws. When a man is
Speaker 1: newly married, he shall not go out with the army
Speaker 1: or be liable for any other public duty. He shall
Speaker 1: be free at home one year to be happy with
Speaker 1: his wife, whom he has taken mammagnum loss. Because of
Speaker 1: our modern society, it doesn't it doesn't makes sense anymore
Speaker 1: to us. The last kind of law is the moral law,
Speaker 1: such as the Ten Commandments. Moral law is the direct
Speaker 1: command of God, and it requires strict obedience. And even
Speaker 1: Jesus was very strict with this that he complies that
Speaker 1: he does all the laws. Problemen of Pharisees Paris is
Speaker 1: that baas baas even to today, one of the ten commandments,
Speaker 1: keep your sabbath holy. Okay, alumn you bah you might
Speaker 1: juice because if it's their sabbath, they cannot put on
Speaker 1: their false teeth. Pushtiso because it's like you're working when
Speaker 1: you go when you go to the Israel. Now, if
Speaker 1: it's sabbath, nobody would push the the the the elevator
Speaker 1: to go up. Why because it's lifting their hand and
Speaker 1: its work in its work. So what they do is
Speaker 1: they wait for tourists or gentiles like us, but they know,
Speaker 1: what do you Florila, let's have it didn't work, peninsula.
Speaker 1: We add, we try to water it down. We add
Speaker 1: things to feel like that makes sense, but or it
Speaker 1: doesn't make sense. Today. Three things I want to explain
Speaker 1: with the our texts is the pop of the law, purpose, observance,
Speaker 1: and perfectory. The purpose of the law, observance of the law,
Speaker 1: and the perfector of the law. Talk about purpose, What
Speaker 1: is the purpose? All about? Purpose is important. If we
Speaker 1: don't know the purpose, it's hard to obey. If we
Speaker 1: don't know what the law is there, for he is
Speaker 1: example in our house. Okay, every time we would make
Speaker 1: a new rule or new regulations in the house, we
Speaker 1: have to talk on it on our dinner table. I
Speaker 1: already have two grown son fifteen and seventeen years old. Said,
Speaker 1: it's a conversation. Lara's there, but Lara's just listening and
Speaker 1: she doesn't know anything in the hand. But we have
Speaker 1: to set them down and tell them this is the
Speaker 1: new rule, and then we have to go through it.
Speaker 1: Why why is this important now? Because this is our
Speaker 1: season if we need to do built tightening, why because
Speaker 1: we're saving up for this purpose. We need to look
Speaker 1: at the purpose of the law in order to understand
Speaker 1: what Jesus means in his declaration. And his purpose is
Speaker 1: not to harm us. His purpose is not to limit
Speaker 1: us un a problem. Sometimes when we see law, what
Speaker 1: comes into our mind? ISLI have you heard a lot
Speaker 1: of people They don't want to give their lives to
Speaker 1: Jesus because they would always say, hey, Bible, bawl dito
Speaker 1: bowelram promises cal Roman seven verse seven said, what then
Speaker 1: shall we say that the law is sin by no means?
Speaker 1: Yet if he had if it had not been for
Speaker 1: the law, I would not have known sin, for I
Speaker 1: would not have known what it is to covet if
Speaker 1: the law had not said you shall not covet. Paul
Speaker 1: here in this passage explains that the law is not bad,
Speaker 1: it is not sin, but it points people their sin,
Speaker 1: our sin. If you look at it, the law is
Speaker 1: like a mirror. Okay, it's it's like a mirror. And
Speaker 1: every time we consult the law, it shows us how
Speaker 1: sinful we are and how we are so much in
Speaker 1: need of a savior. That's the purpose of the law. Sindarica,
Speaker 1: guess what, because you're a sinner, I'm gonna give you
Speaker 1: a savior. For those who don't treat their Bible, for
Speaker 1: those who who don't like to surrender their lives, they
Speaker 1: miss a big part. That's not all about us being sinful,
Speaker 1: but God given God has given us a savior. The
Speaker 1: Lord therefore tells us that we are sinners and the
Speaker 1: need of savior. It actually shows us the impossibility of
Speaker 1: acquiring our own righteousness by simply obeying to the laws
Speaker 1: that we cannot do for our own. In Romans three,
Speaker 1: verse twenty, it said, therefore, by the deeds of the law,
Speaker 1: there shall be no flesh be justified in his side.
Speaker 1: For the law is the knowledge of sin. It opens
Speaker 1: our mind, it makes us aware next verse eighteen. For verified,
Speaker 1: I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass one
Speaker 1: job and one title. Shall is no wise pass from
Speaker 1: the law till all be fulfilled. King James version. I
Speaker 1: love how he said there even a jot even or
Speaker 1: one title. When they translated the Bible into English. You
Speaker 1: Hebrewsma annotations Marsileama, my apostrophe, my one line inverted V.
Speaker 1: It's simply saying that what even the smallest detail of
Speaker 1: God's law, we have to comply, even the smallest detail.
Speaker 1: No if no, But look in Deuteronomy six twenty five,
Speaker 1: and he said, and it will be righteousness for us
Speaker 1: if we are careful to do what to do, all,
Speaker 1: to do all this commandment before the Lord, our God,
Speaker 1: and he commanded us. It's all. We cannot make an excuse.
Speaker 1: We cannot just say, okay, it doesn't comply to me
Speaker 1: if you do that. If we do that, we are
Speaker 1: no exception, no difference with the Pharisees verse nineteen. Therefore,
Speaker 1: anyone who sets aside one of the least of these
Speaker 1: commands and teaches others accordingly will be called least in
Speaker 1: the kingdom of heaven. But whoever practices and teaches these
Speaker 1: commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Speaker 1: How many of you when you go to heaven you
Speaker 1: want to be great? Of course, all of us wants
Speaker 1: to be great. It gave us already afford days. Do
Speaker 1: not set it aside. It means comply everything. It means
Speaker 1: give up your heart and obey obedience. You know, there
Speaker 1: are several several what they called there several responses of
Speaker 1: people with the law about being righteous. Some would actually
Speaker 1: reject it, reject it as obsolete. Hey, by Bollyan by
Speaker 1: Billyan Totoya, I understand it's true, but absolute Niana Babasania Canal.
Speaker 1: There's a new version. It's not about the the the interpretation,
Speaker 1: but it's what you consume in your heart. The veracity
Speaker 1: of the Bible has been verified to stand the test
Speaker 1: of time, and it would always remain. The question now
Speaker 1: is if it's irrelevant to you. Why is it irrelevant?
Speaker 1: Maybe it's because you don't want to comply. Next, is
Speaker 1: we we Actually some people would try to modify it,
Speaker 1: like the pharisees adjust, adjust to it. Can imagine the
Speaker 1: Ten Commandments, obeying parent history, in success history, in sabad,
Speaker 1: I'll keep it holy murder murders or murder parent, honor God,
Speaker 1: young young people. Yeah, because malas we we try to modify.
Speaker 1: We we sometimes we look at Christianity as like a
Speaker 1: buffet depending bucket paras diva. Guys, don't don't don't drink
Speaker 1: why you get full, but I'm thirsty. Soup soup soup love.
Speaker 1: Don't don't eat rice, Why it's carb is gonna make
Speaker 1: you bloated, But but that there's there, there's sauce. There's
Speaker 1: need to go on. Sometimes we do that. Sometimes we
Speaker 1: do that even in our Christian walk, we try to
Speaker 1: modify it. Some people are just oblivious, they don't care,
Speaker 1: they don't care with what's happening all around. And some
Speaker 1: are very legalistic. Legalistic means okay, I adhere to the law.
Speaker 1: I do not set it aside. But it's too much.
Speaker 1: It's like the law is my God. That's bad also
Speaker 1: because nobody and nothing should take the place of God
Speaker 1: in our lives and teaches others accordingly. My prayer is
Speaker 1: this that we teach, we tell people. We show people
Speaker 1: that they see it in us. You know, what's the
Speaker 1: purpose of the law? Is it to be great? Not
Speaker 1: here on earth, but in the kingdom of Him. We
Speaker 1: really fine thinking say that what matters most is our obedience,
Speaker 1: our heart for God. In Matthew six thirty three, it said,
Speaker 1: seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness. Not
Speaker 1: all the success, all your success, not all your good grades,
Speaker 1: their good, not all your richest No, but said seek
Speaker 1: first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all
Speaker 1: this shall be added unto you. Everything else is a bonus.
Speaker 1: I always say this after Christianity. Everything else is a bonus.
Speaker 1: Seeing life life, Hey on, bonus, nlan yan, because you're
Speaker 1: already complete in christ indecana promote. Oh hey long ya,
Speaker 1: God has something better for you. Seek him first, and
Speaker 1: everything else will be added unto you. Next is observance.
Speaker 1: Remember pop, what's the first one purpose? And then now
Speaker 1: we observe? How do we observe? In verse twenty said,
Speaker 1: for I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that
Speaker 1: of the Pharisees, like we make, we make a search
Speaker 1: onto the pharies a while ago. We tell them how
Speaker 1: they define themselves We'll tell them how they how they
Speaker 1: try to comply, but they adjust things. Jesus saying, here,
Speaker 1: do not be like them, direct naon in the Sermon
Speaker 1: of the Mouth, some of the Pharisees were actually there.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine scenario. My people don't be like them.
Speaker 1: I sort my people do not be like them, because
Speaker 1: they know, they see, they see, they see, they know,
Speaker 1: they they saw how the Pharisees live. And He's saying,
Speaker 1: do not be like them, and the teachers of the
Speaker 1: you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven. This
Speaker 1: shows the impossibility of making one's righteousness before God. Pharisees,
Speaker 1: they have a work salvation mentality. You know that work, work, work,
Speaker 1: work righte work your way out here, work your way
Speaker 1: to heaven. Work with your way. It works salvation. But
Speaker 1: in Asaiah sixty four, verse six, it said all of
Speaker 1: us have become like one who is unclean, and all
Speaker 1: our righteous acts are like filthy rags. We all shrivel
Speaker 1: up like a leaf, and like the wind, our sins
Speaker 1: sweep us away where it's like filthy rags. Even though
Speaker 1: we do good works, it still feel and it still smell,
Speaker 1: and it still looks like filthy rags. It's saying that
Speaker 1: it's impossible to please God apart from Jesus Christ, apart
Speaker 1: from our faith, apart from our journey and walk with
Speaker 1: the Lord. Everything else is like filthy rct. The scripture
Speaker 1: teaches us repeatedly that sinners are capable of nothing but
Speaker 1: flawed and imperfect righteousness. But thanks be to God that
Speaker 1: he gave Jesus to us. Therefore, the only righteousness by
Speaker 1: which sinners may be justified is the perfect righteousness of God,
Speaker 1: imputed in us through Jesus. Romance four. And to the
Speaker 1: one who does not work but believes in Him who
Speaker 1: justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as what as righteousness,
Speaker 1: just as David also speaks of the blessing of the
Speaker 1: one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works importante
Speaker 1: deader see David. Why did Paul use David? Because we
Speaker 1: know that David is after God's heart, But we also
Speaker 1: know that David did so many sin Remember but Sheba,
Speaker 1: remember Rayah, he did all of those. But he's making
Speaker 1: a point here. I am not after how clean or
Speaker 1: perfect we are. You are the Lord, say I take
Speaker 1: you as it is, as you are if David still,
Speaker 1: I look at somebody who is after my heart, So
Speaker 1: are you, Church. Do not be also too hard on yourself.
Speaker 1: That is not from the Lord. When the Lord says
Speaker 1: that I will not count any sin, he says, I
Speaker 1: will not count and record any of our sins. Do
Speaker 1: not be too hard on us. We have to understand
Speaker 1: how loving, how faithful, how Yes, there's justice, but there's
Speaker 1: mercy in the Lord. And then Paul continued, Blessed are
Speaker 1: those whose lawless deeds are forgiven and whose sins are covered.
Speaker 1: Blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not
Speaker 1: count his sin. It has to penetrate our heart. Jesus
Speaker 1: was saying that his listens that to his listeners that
Speaker 1: you need to have a different approach, different thing on
Speaker 1: on on love and obedience. Love and obedience is one
Speaker 1: and the same. It's it cannot just be love and
Speaker 1: then obey. It cannot just be you're obeying, but you
Speaker 1: don't love it. Our righteousness must first and foremost draw
Speaker 1: from what God did not on our us. If there's
Speaker 1: love and obedience, it has to be God centered, not
Speaker 1: self centered. Your righteousness not intel centered than God. Lord.
Speaker 1: And in purpose, money Wilmo. If it's not, it's not
Speaker 1: love and obedience. It has to it has to be
Speaker 1: based on the reference of God, that we are pleasing God,
Speaker 1: not men example Nacole. Every time we we we tell
Speaker 1: them to comply, we always ask, every time we we
Speaker 1: discipline them, we always ask, do you have anything to say?
Speaker 1: Is it? Is it okay with you? As in pure
Speaker 1: a heart? Discipline at all? Because if it's not, let's
Speaker 1: talk about it. We're always after the heart, not the obedience,
Speaker 1: obedience out towards parapharracies, behavioral modification, and guess what after
Speaker 1: we forget, we stumble down. If we don't correct our heart,
Speaker 1: it would recur. It would always check our heart. I
Speaker 1: love how how how Jonathan Edwards said. Pastor Jonathan and
Speaker 1: Doctor Jonathan Edwards said that the Gospel is to be
Speaker 1: preached as well as the law. We will we don't abolish,
Speaker 1: you don't put one aside. And the law is to
Speaker 1: be preached only to make the way for the what
Speaker 1: for the Gospel, Because if we know that we're so
Speaker 1: sinful and in need of a savior, we need Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: We need the Gospel, and in order that it may
Speaker 1: be each more Effectively, the Gospel without the law is
Speaker 1: that perfect both has to be there. Jesus is pointing
Speaker 1: out that he came to do what nobody else can.
Speaker 1: Last point, here is perfector. Who is the perfector Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: He's the perfector of our faith. But to fulfill them.
Speaker 1: Fulfill here means to make us complete, to make it complete.
Speaker 1: Jesus came to complete the law. Jesus was actually saying
Speaker 1: that all the laws that were written is still in
Speaker 1: It was incomplete. Why because I am the fulfillment of
Speaker 1: the law. When I say I was prophesying, he was
Speaker 1: talking about Jesus. When when When when Moses was given
Speaker 1: the law, there was a promise and a completion in
Speaker 1: Christ alone the Lord is coming. When even before Jesus
Speaker 1: was born, they knew that there was a messiah to come.
Speaker 1: He completes it. Redefined means that this speaks of fulfillment
Speaker 1: in the same sense that the prophecy is fulfilled. Christ
Speaker 1: indicates that he fulfills the law in all aspects, whether
Speaker 1: it be civil law, whether it be ceremonial law, whether
Speaker 1: it be the moral law. It talks directly to our heart,
Speaker 1: makes it perfect. I love this quote. I borrow this
Speaker 1: from pastorally. Do you remember Pastor ly, I love this,
Speaker 1: And he said, the law points to our sins, as
Speaker 1: the prophets point to our savior. The completion what makes
Speaker 1: it complete? That means when you come to church and
Speaker 1: expect you to be complete. My prayer is that you
Speaker 1: know that you have accepted the Lord as your savior,
Speaker 1: to make it complete. Because without Christ, what we're doing
Speaker 1: here is nothing. It's nothing. John one sixteen, verse seventeen said,
Speaker 1: from the fullness of his grace, we have all received
Speaker 1: one blessing after another. Fullness. It's not partial. Fullness means complete.
Speaker 1: That He gave us the installment. My parents they love
Speaker 1: me because and all so misa installments happened. Alameen, okay,
Speaker 1: But my good grade ninety percent installment. No, what God
Speaker 1: gave us, it's complete fullness in Christ. For the law
Speaker 1: was given through Moses. Grace and truth came from who
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. So there is no excuse. Now why can
Speaker 1: we be righteous because we're complete in Christ. The law
Speaker 1: was given through Moses, but grace, truth, now faith is
Speaker 1: given to us. This is our response. This is in
Speaker 1: Hebrews four fourteen to seventeen. It said, Since then we
Speaker 1: have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus,
Speaker 1: the Son of God. Let us hold fast our confession.
Speaker 1: There's a big response that we have to take hold of.
Speaker 1: Hold fast means do not let go. Hold fast means
Speaker 1: hold faster. Your confession as Jesus, your Lord and Savior,
Speaker 1: means whatever comes my way, I won't let go. It
Speaker 1: means whatever it is, I won't let go. Why because
Speaker 1: of that confession? Because Lord, you are true, because you're
Speaker 1: you are complete nothing, and no one would ever complete
Speaker 1: me Verse fifteen. For we do not have a high
Speaker 1: priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but
Speaker 1: one who in every respect has been tempted as we
Speaker 1: are yet without sin. Talks about Jesus, talks about him
Speaker 1: being our high priest. That means the law, the law
Speaker 1: of the sacrifice, nothing anymore white. Because Jesus became our
Speaker 1: ultimate sacrifice. He is our high priest. He's now in
Speaker 1: heaven interceding for you and I, even though we sin,
Speaker 1: Even though there are times that we just don't mind him,
Speaker 1: or either oblivious or sometimes we're so legalistic with the law,
Speaker 1: He's saying it's okay, I'm still here. I'll be your
Speaker 1: high priest. Verse sixteen. Let us, then, with confidence draw
Speaker 1: near to the throne of grace, that we may receive
Speaker 1: mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Speaker 1: All you have to do, the Father is saying, unto you,
Speaker 1: my sons and my daughters, just come back to me,
Speaker 1: approach me, Be confident, be strong and courageous. Your sins
Speaker 1: are forgiven. I don't keep even a record of it,
Speaker 1: but know that when you come, it has to be wholehearted.
Speaker 1: It cannot be I'll take this for now. Why because
Speaker 1: iona carbs. The Lord is gracious. But remember again that
Speaker 1: the Lord in the Lord, there's justice. There's justice as well,
Speaker 1: you know, direct obedience. When we talk about righteousness, godly
Speaker 1: righteousness talks about one thing, talks about lordship. Who is
Speaker 1: your Lord? Yes, I know that all of us would
Speaker 1: say if I ask you, who's your savior, Lord Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: But you see your Lord, then we put all our
Speaker 1: hands down. Lordship is not about our attitude, But lordship
Speaker 1: talks completely about our hearts. What's in our heart? When
Speaker 1: that when the Lord looks in you heart, who is there?
Speaker 1: What is there. What are the sins, the lies? Let's pray, Father,
Speaker 1: in our own way, in our own where we are
Speaker 1: right now, Father, in our own seats, where we stand, Lord,
Speaker 1: we repent whatever it is. Confess it to God right now,
Speaker 1: how small, how big that sin is, confess it to him. Say, Lord,
Speaker 1: that is not my confession. My confession is you, our
Speaker 1: Lord over our lives. Our confession is you and you alone.
Speaker 1: Our confession is there's no other one but you. So Father,
Speaker 1: I pray right now we repent of our sins. Lord.
Speaker 1: We pray Lord God, Lord, that we will hold fast,
Speaker 1: meaning we won't let go, meaning whatever comes our way,
Speaker 1: it's you and you alone. You are the Lord. You
Speaker 1: are the king over our lives. No one but you.
Speaker 1: Apart from you, Father, we are nothing. Lord. I also pray,
Speaker 1: Lord God, that you give us grace. Can I just
Speaker 1: ask everybody to just raise up our hands, Father, give
Speaker 1: us grace. Make it abound in us, make it be
Speaker 1: evident in and through us, all the works of our hands. Lord,
Speaker 1: even from our mind, Lord God, however small, our big
Speaker 1: the idea, Lord God, even even temptations, Lord, God, Lord,
Speaker 1: I pray Lord for your grace. Apart from your grace,
Speaker 1: Lord God, we cannot survive. So Lord, do this change
Speaker 1: in us. Lord. I pray Lord God that we are
Speaker 1: not anymore defined by the world, but we are redefined
Speaker 1: because all of us are new. And Lord, I pray
Speaker 1: Lord that in everything Father, our ultimate purpose is just
Speaker 1: to please you and you alone. Lord. We even pray
Speaker 1: Lord God for a relationship. You can put your hands down. Lord,
Speaker 1: I pray Lord that each one of us that is
Speaker 1: our goal to have that relationship with you. Thank you
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