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I want you to think with me a moment about the motherhood of God.

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The motherhood of God. In this era of gender studies and moreover in this climate of gender

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confusion, gender confusion in the culture writ large, gender confusion in our body politic,

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among our young people and now sadly in the church. It becomes me from the outset of this

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message to must need strike this disclaimer. I start this message with this disclaimer.

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There is no androgyny in God's person, in God's character, in God's nature, nor in God's attributes,

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to make the claim that we may infer or confer the assignation that God may be referred to as

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He or She. God the Father must never be referred to as Mother. That is an affront, born of ignorance

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that is perilously close to blasphemy. However, the closest thing we have on earth to the love of

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God is the love of a mother. And even that in its best and rarest form is only a mirror,

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a faint reflection. Mother's Day holds a special place in our hearts as it provides us with a

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designated time to express our love and gratitude to the incredible women who have nurtured and cared

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for us as those sent to us to give us birth from God. For most of us, it is a day of gifts and

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flowers and brunch and family while many others of us long for the touch of a vanished hand. Many

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of us listen for the sound of a voice that is now still. Nevertheless, all of us pause and recognize

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the selflessness, sacrifices, and unwavering love that mothers have consistently bestowed upon us

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whether they are alive or sleeping in their grave. Throughout the Bible, we witness countless

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examples of mothers displaying unwavering faith, resilience, and tenderness mirroring the qualities

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of our Heavenly Father. Women like Yosha Baird, who was the mother of Moses. Women like Hannah,

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the mother of Samuel. Or a woman like Elizabeth who in her old age gave birth to John the Baptist.

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Or Mary, the mother of Jesus. Brothers and sisters, these remarkable women are examples,

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each of them are examples. And that of our own mother who sleeps or is alive with us today.

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We celebrate and honor the remarkable gift of mothers recognizing that these vessels through

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which God's love has been made manifest points us to a larger love that a mother,

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our father, earthly could never have. In our text, Israel has been severely punished by God

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for their sins of idolatry. Her cities have been ransacked. The temple has been ruined. And the

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people have been led away as captives. In chapter 49 of Isaiah, God promises to turn the captivity

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of his people, to bring them home and to nurture them and to call them again to be his children.

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When God makes this announcement, he says that all nature, all creation are the rejoice. Heavens

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are the rejoice. The mountains are the rejoice. Everything that God creates in verse 13,

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God says everything ought to clap your hands. Everything ought to open your mouth. Everything

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ought to raise hands and give thanks to God because God is about to turn it around. Then in

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chapter, in verse 14 of that same chapter, the people of Israel can't believe it. They said,

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Zion says, the Lord has forsaken us. The Lord has forgotten us. In Israel's mind,

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they had been abandoned and ignored by the Lord. Their notion had been that God had turned

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his back on them. Their nation had been destroyed. Their capital, Jerusalem, lays in ruins. The

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temple has been utterly demolished and they themselves were a laughing stock. They were a

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proverb. They were a byword in history. They were a broken people because the God who brought them

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seems to be the God who has abandoned them. But God speaks to them in these verses and lets them

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know that he has not forsaken them. He has not abandoned them. Brothers and sisters, even the

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strongest faithful in this church this morning, even the strongest faithful listening to us online

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this morning may not ever verbalize it. You may not ever acknowledge it because it is large,

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deep in your spirit. But there have been times in your life and in mine when we feel abandoned

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and forgotten by God. Old slave ancestors had this angst when they said, I am a poor pilgrim of

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sorrow cast out in this world to roam. No hope have I for tomorrow. I'm trying to make heaven my

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home. Sometimes I'm tossed and driven and sometimes I don't know which way to roam but I've heard

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of a city called heaven and I've decided to make it my home. These verses are designed to teach us

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that in God's heart we are unforgettable. There are some people you were raised with that you got to

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scratch your head to remember their names when you see them again because time has passed and their

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memory has been erased and when you see them you are hoping that you just say hi and keep walking.

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People come up to me all the time and said what's my name and I said honey I'm trying to remember

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what I had for breakfast this morning. You'll understand it better by and by. Memories fade.

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There are people you used to date and you went to the prom within high school and you signed that

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year book yours forever. Ten years later you said thank you Jesus. I've been delivered.

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Memories fade. People come in our lives and go out of our lives. Circumstances and situations

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happen in our lives and sometimes it looks like God is not listening to us pray. I need somebody

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here who can help me testify that you've had some dry spells some some arid dark seasons in your

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prayer life when you look for God to the right and God was not there. You look for God in your

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situation and God seemed not to even care about what was going on in your life but you may not see

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him. But the testimony this morning is he sees you. Where can I go from your spirit? I wish I had

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a Bible reader. Where can I flee from your presence if I sinned in the heaven? You're there. If I make

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my bed in hell you're there. If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the utmost parts of

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the earth even there shall your hand hold me. God has not forgotten you. You might be in the house

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by yourself but you're not alone. I ought to have eight or nine witnesses in here

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who just start shouting by yourself. Nobody in the room but you. Nobody in the car but you

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and you start thinking about how good God has been and then you thought about the times when

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it seemed that God was far off and there were days when you couldn't see him but but but let me give

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you a hint to shout here. Look at your side passenger mirror and on the bottom of that side

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passenger mirror is a writing that says objects are larger than they appear.

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God may look like he's far away but he's larger than he appears because the wreck you could have had

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God let you go around another way. The devil that could have destroyed you it was God that got

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in the way and blocked that weapon that was formed against you. Is there anybody here that

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can help me testify? No weapon. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I want to I want to help somebody.

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I want to help somebody before I get to the meat of this little message. I'm gonna be through it

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in a minute. It's about to rain and you want to take your mama out to brunch and and all of that.

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My mama not here. We're gonna be here till 3 30. Let me let me let me help somebody here

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who's kind of timid about shout you you too cool to shout you too reserved to give God glory.

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In second Kings Elisha died and they buried his body in a tomb

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and while they were burying him another young man died watch this and they were going to the tomb

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to bury him and since Elijah's Elisha's tomb was already open they put the dead young man

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in Elisha's tomb read it in second Kings chapter 12 and when they put that dead young man in the

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old man Elisha's tomb he came back to life again. If you dead this morning you need to sit by somebody

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who's on fire for the Lord you need to sit by somebody who know God is a deliverer and God

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is a keeper and God is a provider and if you can't shout just touch them and they will get you hot

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and excited and you will recognize that the same God who brought them.

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I don't I don't know how you can think about God's goodness and not open your mouth.

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I don't know how you can think about God's grace you got a job tomorrow tomorrow not because you're

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so smart these people smarter than you that's unemployed God provided for you.

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Let me hurry.

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Like a mother a mirror a mother is a mirror a reflection a faint reflection of what God's love

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is what what a mother is God is infinitely but the closest thing we have on earth to it is the love

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of a mother. My father prayed for us he would call everyone of our names and tell God where we lived

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as if God did not know our address but he called everyone of our names and tell God where we live

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and then my mother when she got too old to get on her knees would sit on the side of the bed

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and rub her knees praying God if I'm not around let somebody's heart be tender towards my children

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if I'm not here let somebody be kind towards my children and and every time somebody shows me a

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kindness my mother's face comes in my mind because she prayed for me I'm a Christian today because

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somebody prayed for me I'm in the house of God this morning because somebody prayed for me

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I'm glad my mama didn't abort me

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I'm glad she didn't get rid of me I'm glad she didn't leave me out there by myself I'm glad she

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taught me how to say yes ma'am I'm glad she taught me manners and respect for my elders I'm glad she

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made me go to church I'm glad she made me read the Bible I'm preaching the Bible today

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because somebody prayed for me

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if I could hear my mother pray again

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if I could hear her tend to voice as being how happy I would be it would mean so much to me

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if I could hear my mother pray again she used to pray that I on Jesus would rely

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and always walk the shining gospel way still trusting in the Lord and according to his word

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I'll see my loving mother some sweet day but in the meantime I've got somebody who loves me

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more than my mother ever could somebody who loves me more than my father ever could and here

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is how my mother wished she could love me the way God loved me

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God's love is unconditional

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unconditional I didn't have to do anything for God to love me

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somebody should have shouted right there I didn't have to know anything

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for God to love me I didn't have to have anything

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for God to love me I didn't have to be anything for God to love me God just loved me

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He formed me in my mother's womb

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and I am fearfully and wonderfully made

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before I was born he knew my inward part

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somebody ought to help me preach it and everybody in this church today everybody in the world

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today God let you be born to fulfill a divine purpose

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and you know what your purpose is to glorify God

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you glorify God by being a school teacher you glorify God by picking up trash you glorify God

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by cutting grass you glorify God by just being a housewife you glorify God by being a bank teller

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you glorify God by stocking groceries at HEB you glorify God by working at the post office

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you glorify God by being an accountant a doctor a lawyer whatever your chosen profession do it to

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the glory of God and then come back to church on Sunday and thank God you could do it in the first

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place

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because he loves you unconditionally

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there's no restriction thank you thank you thank you you don't have to be six three

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tall dark and handsome

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you don't have to work you don't have to have a job you don't have to be cute you don't have to be pretty

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you don't have to be intelligent you don't need a phd god just loves you for you

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unconditionally thank you thank you you don't have to be good then be safe

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because there's none righteous no not one the same Isaiah said our righteousness is as filthy

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rags everything we try to do is tainted by sin because we put our hands on it God just accepts

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it through the blood of Jesus and we don't come to God bringing anything that God accepts we come

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because we are accepted in the beloved

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God loves me unconditionally

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but not only that God loves me sacrificially

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he became sin for us who knew no sin that we might become the righteousness

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of God in him we are sinners born from our mother's womb I was born insane

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shame and iniquity in sin that my mother conceived me all I know how to do is sin

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I don't care how pretty that little baby is you having your arms right now he's a crook

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she's a liar from the beginning

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somebody ought to help me preach it this moment because before they can speak

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they can lie before they can talk they can dance

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before they know anything about any moral clarity they will steal something and put it behind their

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back nobody taught them how to do that they are just no good from the beginning because they got it

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from their mama

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no they got it from their no good daddy

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we need to hear this this morning brothers and sisters there's nothing you can bring to God

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to win his favor

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come on come on before my parents met each other God had already decided to redeem me

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and so before I accepted his finished work on the cross he had already accomplished it

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because Jesus was the lamb slain before the foundation of the work

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so before I even sinned God had already provided a remedy

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and so this morning I give God glory because the sacrifice needed to save me from my sins

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he took care of it on the cross and so that's why I get up every Sunday morning

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no I get up every Monday morning every Tuesday morning every Wednesday morning

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every Thursday morning every Friday morning every Saturday morning but especially on Sunday

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morning I get up and come to the house that God has designated to meet his people to tell God

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publicly because I've already told him privately thank you for your blood thank you for the sacrifice

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thank you for the lamb that went to the cross and died in my place and I come here on purpose

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this morning to shout and give you thanks and praise because you delivered me from the bonds of sin

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and death thank you thank you thank you now have you not glad about that you go right back to sleep

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I'm not talking to you this gospel can't reach you if the blood of Jesus cannot turn your head and

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make you realize how good God is I can pre-sale tomorrow morning it's not going to make any

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difference to you but to those of us that the blood works for and to those of us who know that the

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blood still works we know that his love was unconditional his love for us is sacrificial

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but finally brothers and sisters his love for us is everlasting

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the scripture says can a woman forget her nursing child can she forget the child that is born of her

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womb that same verse says she may forget but I will never forget you're gonna help me close this

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won't you um you remember Andrea Yates over in Frenchwood a few years ago lost her mind

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and drowned all five of her children mentally she forgot this young woman named uh Susan Smith

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wanted to have a relationship with another man and and drowned her two sons in the back seat of her

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car criminally she forgot Andrea Yates forgot insanely Susan Smith forgot criminally but your

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mother may have had dementia and she did not know you but you knew her

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you remember her sacrifice and although she forgot mentally God never forgets

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my mother is gone and the love she had for me lives in my heart but she's sleeping in her grave

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she's no longer with me physically and I cannot know her love I cannot know the touch of her hand

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I cannot hear the sound of her voice but I got somebody who loves me more than my mother ever

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could you're gonna help me close this won't you I got somebody who loves me so much that while I

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was yet in my sins he came and died for me I wish I had one or two more business he came and died

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in my place the just for the unjust the righteous for the unrighteous and so I come here this morning

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on this day that we celebrate those who gave us birth to thank God for somebody else who gave us

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birth my mother gave me physical birth but one day down in unit somebody else gave me a spiritual

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birth everybody here who's alive had to be born at least one time but if you're gonna see God's

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face you've got to be born again and the only way to be born again you've got to be born of the water

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and born of the spirit God has to live in your heart God has to take up residence in your spirit

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and if God has taken up residence in your spirit this morning don't let anybody embarrass you about

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giving God thanks don't let anybody shame you about raising your hands don't let anybody make

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you feel bad about giving God glory if God has been good to you if you know that you've been born

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again if you know that when this life is over you're gonna see God's face if you know God has

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rescued you from the depths of a burning hell if you know God has made you alive by his holy spirit

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don't act like you don't know who it was that kept you don't act like you don't know who it was

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that brought you it's nobody but Jesus who woke you up this morning gave you the activity of your

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limbs you ought to shout because nobody had to dress you nobody had to feed you nobody had to

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tell you where you were this morning God woke you in your right mind and you came up to his house

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this morning and since you're in the house this morning you might as well tell God thank you

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here are one or two things I just expect to see when I go one or two places when I go to

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French is I expect to see fried chicken when I go to McDonald's I expect to see a quarter pounder

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with cheese when I go to Ross on Neiman Marcus I expect to see clothes hanging on a rack when I

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go to Mercedes Greenway I expect to see cars on the lot when I come to church I expect to see people

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who have been energized baptized in the Holy Spirit wash in the blood of the Lamb

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know you've been redeemed no God has changed you no God has made a way for you God has been a

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mother for you God has been a doctor for you God has paid your bills for you when you were down

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God picked you up when you were sick God healed you and since God's been good to you now is the time

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this is the place to tell God thank you thank you for all you've done for me thank you you were born

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in Bethlehem thank you you were baptized in the Jordan thank you you died one Friday thank you

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that early one Sunday morning you got up from the grave thank you that you're living in me

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thank you I can wave my hands and let everybody know if it had not been

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if it had not been if it had not been

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if it had not been

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thank God thank God for a loving mother thank God for a praying father but more than that I thank

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God for loving Jesus Jesus he died for me he died for you why don't you tell him thank you

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you don't need me to tell you to do that why don't you give him glory now you don't need me to

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orchestrate your praise you don't need me to manage your hallelujah you know what God has done for you

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you know how God has kept you you know how God has never left you tell him thank you

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that you didn't forsake me thank you that you never forgot me thank you that one day you're

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coming back for me do you know him have you tried him see yeah I know he's all right

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and then God said to make sure I won't forget you read it it's in verse 16 I've engraved you

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I have tattooed your names in the palm of my hand

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that way he can't get my blessing mixed up with you

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and he can't get your situation mixed up with his because God has engraved you

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and the walls of your life the the circumscriptions of your life the lines of your life

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have fallen to you in pleasant places because God knows your name