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Real quick, an announcement. It's come to my attention that there's a bunch of folks

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who are letting these messages go to their voicemails and then forwarding the voicemail

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via text to friends and family so that they can hear the encouragement calls. That's wonderful.

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I am not upset about that at all. You feel free to do that if that's something that you

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can be a blessing to others. This is a free service, free encouragement calls, and we're

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glad to serve you. I'm thinking today of Hosea 1 6. Then she conceived again and gave birth

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to a daughter and the Lord said to him, name her Lo Ruha Ma, for I will no longer have

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compassion on the house of Israel that I would ever forgive them. Ouch. That the God of heaven,

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who is love essentially, would ever come to that point. The forgiveness of God is not

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limitless because the justice of God must be satisfied. That's exactly what God was

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doing through Jesus on the cross. The price of sin, the penalty of sin is death and there

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is no remission of sin without the shedding of blood. And God crushed his own son, Jesus,

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that we might be able to be saved, that our sins might be able to be forgiven. The wages

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of that sin, which everyone has, is death. And the gift of God is eternal life through

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Jesus Christ, his son. Praise you, Lord. Praise you, Lord Jesus, for your sacrifice. Praise

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you, Father in heaven for finding a way to forgive us when there was no way. He is the

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one mediator between man and God. We are forgiven in Jesus Christ our Lord.