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Thank you for listening to this message from

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Lifehouse Church. Sounds to the resurrection

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of Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen. So many times when

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we experience something, we hear sounds. I was

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just talking with someone this morning who had

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went through what I would call kind of a traumatic

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event, and they were recalling the sounds and

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what they saw. And we hear, and there were sounds

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that took place in the death, the burial, and

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the resurrection of Jesus Christ, right? Today,

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Christians around the world are celebrating Jesus

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coming out of that tomb, stepping out of that

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grave. 2 .38 billion, say billion. Billion. Billion

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Christians worldwide. Today, we're celebrating

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that Jesus came out of that tomb that he raised

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from the dead. Billions who have experienced

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salvation, new life in Jesus Christ, went from

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an old creature to a new creature, a new creation

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in Christ. And in one selfless act, one sacrifice,

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Jesus going to the cross, and one supernatural

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event, Jesus rising from the dead, Jesus provided

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everything that we need. to take us from death

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to life. How many believe that's something we're

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celebrating? Amen. If you believe that, I want

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you to jump up. Come on, jump up real quick.

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I want you to give him applause. How many know

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he's worthy? Give him an applause. We thank you,

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Jesus. We give you glory. We give you honor today.

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He's worthy. He's worthy. Amen. Amen. Amen. Listen,

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before you turn around, sit down, give somebody

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a high five and say, he's alive. He's alive.

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He's alive. He's alive. Amen. Come on. There

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were sounds with the man. And listen, some of

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us in this house this morning. We've had a lifetime,

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some of us got saved early in life, and we've

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had a lifetime of Easter Sundays where we've

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come together and we've celebrated the resurrection

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of Jesus Christ. And there are others in this

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house who this is the first time that they've

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come and they've really found out the real meaning

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of Easter. They got saved sometime in the last

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year, and they find out this year that it's not

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about chocolate bunnies, amen? Easter eggs, right?

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Not even about getting all dressed up, but it

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is about the resurrection of Jesus Christ. And

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the funny thing is that one of the questions

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that comes from those who have maybe yet not

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experienced Jesus as Lord and Savior, one of

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the questions that you hear is why? Why? Why

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the crucifixion? Why the resurrection of Jesus

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Christ? Why did Jesus have to suffer this brutal

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death and be beaten? Why was he crucified on

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a Roman cross? Why was it so important that he

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came back to life? And more importantly, why

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should this be so important to me? What's so

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significant about Jesus stepping out of the grave

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several thousand years ago? Why should I celebrate

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that? How many know that's a good question, right?

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If you don't know Jesus, Lord and Savior, that's

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a good question. And while they acknowledge the

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amazing idea of Jesus coming to life and stepping

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out of the grave, they want to know why Jesus'

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story is so important and intersects their story.

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Why should his story intersect mine, and what

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does that mean? And it's a good question, and

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it has a loaded, layered answer. There's level

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after level we could talk about this Easter morning.

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But this resurrection story, this resurrection

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Sunday, I want to talk about one of the benefits

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of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. And it's

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this, that he has covered you. He's covered you.

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One of the messages of the cross and the resurrection

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of Jesus Christ is that he got you covered. You're

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covered. You're covered. Amen? Say, I'm covered.

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Go ahead and just say it to yourself. You might

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not know what it means yet, but just say it out

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loud. You're covered, right? Tell somebody, he's

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got you. Turn to somebody right now, point to

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him and say, he's got you covered. He's got you

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covered right now, right? He's got you covered.

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He does. When Jesus was about to breathe his

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last, Few breaths on the cross when he was suspended

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between heaven and earth and was ready to go

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to a borrowed tomb. How many know he only needed

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to borrow it for about three days, right? He

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was about to go to a borrowed tomb. He spoke

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something. He said something. And in that, we

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are covered. John 19, 30 says this. So when Jesus

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had received the sour wine, now I want you to

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picture Jesus suspended between heaven and earth.

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He's on the cross. He's getting close to death.

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And if you read in the word of God, he got thirsty

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and wanted a drink. And instead of giving him

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a drink of water, they took a pole and they put

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a sponge on it and they put it in sour wine.

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They called it gall and they put it up to him.

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And when he was about ready to breathe his last,

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he said this word. He said, it is. finished.

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And bowing down his head, he gave up his spirit.

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One of the things that Jesus finished at the

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cross and three days later, stepping out of the

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tomb was the work of covering us, covering us.

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You and I need coverage. The person sitting beside

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you. Needs coverage. The person that's down the

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street needs coverage. The person you like and

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the person you don't like needs coverage, right?

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We need coverage today. And Jesus' coverage is

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a sweet thing. And I don't know if you've ever

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been covered by somebody or with something, but

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it's a great thing to experience. How many know

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getting covered with a warm blanket on a cold

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day is an awesome thing? Amen. How many of you

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ever put it in the dryer right on a cold day

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and just pull it out and wrap it up in you? If

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you're covered with good car insurance and you

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get into a car accident, how many know that's

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a whole lot of awesome right there? Right? Yeah,

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a couple of you just had accidents. Like, amen,

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amen. All right? Someone covers you in prayer.

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Best thing ever. You got a need in your life

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and someone's covering you in prayer. Someone

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covers your bill at the restaurant. You go and

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have a meal and somebody across the restaurant

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covers your bill for you. How many know that's

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a happy day, right? You are blessed and highly

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favored, right? Covered up by another person

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when a bomb is about to ready to explode. The

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ultimate sacrifice, sheltered by a hero. That's

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incredible. There's something incredible about

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being covered. And Jesus covered something. on

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the cross and coming out of that tomb that no

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one else before him or after him could ever cover.

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And it is our sin that he covered. He covered

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our sin. No one else could do it. Nobody else

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was qualified. And to really fully understand

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God's plan for the covering of sin, we got to

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go back. Say, got to go back. Got to go back.

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We got to go back. Say, we got to go back. We

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got to go back to the Old Testament. Say, OT.

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OT. I'm going to get you involved or I'm just

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going to keep preaching all morning. All right.

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OT. We got to go back to the Old Testament because

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the Old Testament is this. The Old Testament

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is a reflection. It is a mirror of what happens

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in the New Testament. The Old Covenant with God

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is a reflection of what the New Covenant is in

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Jesus. And if you want to understand this covering

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completely, you got to go back to the Old. The

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Old is kind of like a prototype. How many know

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what a prototype is, right? A prototype is a

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preliminary model of something. And it's an initial

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design set out to accomplish a task. It's a preliminary

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design. And in the world of computers, if you

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work in computers, they call it either alpha

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or a beta model, right? That's a preliminary

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design. It's a prototype. And they send it out

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to thousands of people, and they try it out,

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and they find out all the glitches. Well, there's

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a prototype. The Old Testament is a prototype.

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It is the shadow of God's finished work that

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takes place in Jesus at the crucifixion and at

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the resurrection. And it's a shadow, it's a rough

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draft of the perfect work of God in Jesus. Now,

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some of you may or may not know this, but I'm

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a fraternal twin. My sister was born 10 minutes

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before I was. So technically I'm a middle child

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because I got a younger sister and I got a twin

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sister who's 10 minutes older than me. And more

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than once when I was younger, I used to tell

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her, listen, you were the rough draft and I was

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the masterpiece. All right. I wasn't born first.

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I had to come up with something, all right? You

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were the rough draft. You were the prototype,

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right? And I was the finished product, right?

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And it actually turned out the other way around,

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but that's another conversation. But in the Bible,

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right, the Old Testament was a prototype. of

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the covenant of God to cover our sin. It was

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a preliminary model. It wasn't complete. And

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if we're going to understand the finished work

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of Jesus covering us at the resurrection, we

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got to go back to this prototype. So if you got

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your Bibles this morning and you got your notebooks

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ready, I want you to turn to Leviticus chapter

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four. We're going to start in verse one, Leviticus

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chapter four, verse one. And as you turn, I'm

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going to pray, Lord. We thank you for this day.

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We thank you for Resurrection Sunday. We thank

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you for your son, Jesus. And Lord, today as we

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celebrate Jesus coming out of that grave, God,

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help us to see the covering that you provided

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in our lives. Leviticus chapter 4 verse 1 says

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this, Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak

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to the children of Israel, saying, If a person

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sins unintentionally against any of the commandments

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of the Lord in anything which ought not to be

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done, And does any of them, if the anointed priest

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sins, bringing guilt upon the people, then let

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him offer to the Lord for his sin, which he has

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sinned a young bull without blemish as a sin

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offering. He shall bring the bull to the door

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of the tabernacle of meeting before the Lord,

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lay his hand on the bull's head and kill the

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bull before the Lord. Then the anointed priest

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shall take some of the bull's blood and bring

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it into the tabernacle of meeting. The priest

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shall... Which is in the tabernacle of meeting.

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And he shall report. Pour the remaining blood

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of the bull at the base of the altar of burnt

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offering. Which is at the door of the tabernacle

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of meeting. He shall take from it all the fat

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of the bull as the sin offering. The fat that

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covers the entrails and all the fat which is

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on the entrails. The two kidneys and the fat

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that is on them by the flanks. And the fatty

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lobe attached to the liver above the kidneys.

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He shall remove. As he is taken from the bull

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of the sacrifice of peace offering. And the priest

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shall burn them on the altar of the burnt offering.

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But the bulls hide in its flesh and its head

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and its legs and its entrails and offal. The

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whole bull shall be carried outside the camp

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to a clean place where the ashes are poured out

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and burned on wood with fire where the ashes

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are poured out and it shall be burned. The priest

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shall make atonement. Say atonement. Atonement

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for him. For his sin that he had committed in

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any of these matters and it shall be forgiven

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him. The prototype, the Old Testament, the temple

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before Jesus, the covering for our sin. If someone

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sinned in their lives, this was the process.

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This was the procedure. You would bring a bull.

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You would bring a goat or a lamb. You can find

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that in other places in Scripture. And verse

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13 tells us that it would become the atonement

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for our sin. The atonement. The word atonement

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in the Hebrew is kafar. And it means to cover

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over. It means to cover over. The only way to

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cover over our sin is with a sacrifice. It's

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the only way. There has to be a sacrifice. In

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the Old Testament, the prototype was a sacrifice,

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was an animal sacrifice that was brought to the

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temple. And the procedure for this, you know,

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I don't think you would soon forget if you were

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actually experiencing this. If we actually had

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to do what they did back in those days and come

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to the temple and experience this. Because if

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you sinned and you had to come before the temple

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and come before the priest, this is what it looked

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like. You would have to bring a bull. And for

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some of you that are farm challenged, some of

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you suburbanites and city folks, that means a

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male cow. Some of you are like, yeah, I know,

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I know. But you would have to bring a bull, and

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you would find one in your flock, or you would

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have to purchase one, and you would come to the

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door of the temple. And at the door of the temple,

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the priest would come out to meet you. And when

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you got there, the priest would have you do something

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symbolically. Symbolically, you would take your

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hands and you would lay your hands on the head

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of that bull. And that was symbolic of your sin

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being transferred onto that innocent animal.

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And I think the next thing that would take place

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would probably stick in the minds and the hearts

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of everybody in here. And even if you're listening

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online. Because then the priest would hand you

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a knife. And your job was to cut that animal's

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throat. and watch it expire. Once that animal

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expired, the priest would take the blood from

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that animal, and he would go to various places

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inside the temple and sprinkle the blood that

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God had signed for that covering to take place.

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And it won't look anything like it does this

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morning, right? It wouldn't be getting all dressed

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up for Easter and coming into the house and heading

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over to the photo booth and getting an Easter

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photo with your family and grabbing a coffee

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or a latte, right? And coming over to your seat

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and get ready to celebrate. This would stick

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in your mind. This was a picture. This was serious

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business. Probably almost even a little traumatic,

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some of us would say, right? But it helped them

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remember the true nature of sin. The deep cost

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of sin. The sacrifice that is necessary to cover

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our sin. How the innocent pay when we sin. There's

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got to be a sacrifice for the covering. There's

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got to be a sacrifice. And it doesn't matter

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if your sin is large or little. I don't even

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actually know if that's a thing, right? It doesn't

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matter if it's black or white lie. It doesn't

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matter if your sin is intentional or unintentional.

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There's got to be a covering or a sacrifice for

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that sin. And that is saying something, that

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our sin has to be covered. Intentional, unintentional,

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doing something that we should not do, or maybe

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leaving out something that we should do, right?

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Different kinds of sin. Sins of commission. Those

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are sins that we actually commit, right? Then

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there are sins of omission. Those are the things

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that we omit. Those are things we don't really

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want to do, so we just kind of leave it out,

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right? We know we're supposed to do it. We know

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God said to do it. We can sin in all kinds of

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ways. There's sins of commission where we're

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willingly and purposely diving into something

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that we know is contrary to God, right? If you

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steal something, That's a sin of commission.

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You know you stole it. How many know you don't

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accidentally steal something? Come on. You do

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not accidentally steal a cookie out of the cookie

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jar. You know what you're doing. I'm speaking

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from experience. Okay? You know if you shoplifted

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or something, right? You know that. If you cheat

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on your time card at work, you know that. That's

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a sin of commission. You cheat on your taxes.

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I had to say that because my wife's a tax preparer,

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all right, this morning. If you steal answers

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for the test that you're going to take on Monday,

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Tuesday, Wednesday, whatever, it's a sin of commission

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if it's sexual behavior, right, that goes against

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God's word. If I hate my brother or sister, if

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I'm envious of what someone has and I covet what

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they've got, if I get jealous, Because someone

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else is getting the attention. Somebody else

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is getting the accolades. We know what's wrong.

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And I need coverage. I need coverage. It's purposely

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sinning in my head and in my heart and in my

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actions. And I know I'm doing it, right? Now,

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I need to clarify something right here. Because

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sometimes when I get talking about sin, people

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get all jammed up. Because sometimes somebody

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thinks if a thought comes in your head. That

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that's sin. That's not necessarily sin. That's

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temptation. All right. You could get a thought

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in your head that I hate that person. I was going

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to have you raise your hand, but please don't,

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all right? And certainly don't look beside you,

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okay? All right? But I hate that person. That

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could be a thought that comes in your brain.

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That is not sin. That is temptation. That's a

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thought that flew in your head, and you got a

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choice at that moment, right? One of two things

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are happening. You're either going to slide into

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sin, or you're going to kick out the thought.

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You're going to be like, nope, that's a wrong

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thought. I'm going to shut that down. That's

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wrong. I'm not doing that. God says I'm not supposed

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to hate anybody. Done, right? Or you're going

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to be like, you know. How many know you can encourage

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yourself in sin? Come on. Like, you know, I do

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kind of hate it. You can talk with yourself.

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You do it all the time. Right? You know, I kind

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of agree with my thought that just came into

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my head. Right? I kind of relish that thought.

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You start repeating the thought over and over

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in your head. And then you start to practice

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on the thought. But a lot of people beat themselves

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up because they get the thought at the beginning

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and they think that's a sin. No, that's temptation.

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Jesus was tempted. The Word of God tells us that

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when he went into the desert, he was tempted

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to do the wrong thing. You can get the thought,

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but it's what you do with the thought after that,

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right? Where you start to head into the sin of

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commission or omission of some kind. Because

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there's sins of commission and there's sins of

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omission. Anyone ever get involved in the sin

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of omission where you leave out, right, what

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you're not supposed to do? It's when you know

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to do the good thing, the God thing, the right

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thing, and you just simply choose not to do it.

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James 4, 17 says this, therefore to him who knows

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to do good and does not do it, to him it is what?

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Sin, right? We know the right thing to do. We

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just skip. We skip over the sin. Turn to somebody

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right now, point your finger. My granddaughter

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does this. You got to do this. You got to try

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it, all right? My granddaughter, Kensley, she'll

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look at you and she'll wag her finger. She'd

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go, uh -uh, Poppy. Uh -uh. All right. Turn to

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the person beside you. Wag your finger. All right.

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Tell them don't skip over the right thing. Don't

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skip over the right thing. Wag your finger. Come

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on. We got to do the right thing. You can't omit

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it. How many know when you go up to the dishwasher

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in your house and you open that dishwasher and

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it's full of clean dishes, you got a decision

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to make. You got a conundrum on your hands, right?

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All you did, you were just coming there to get

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a clean fork because your piece of cake is sitting

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on the countertop. All you wanted to do is get

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a clean fork for a snack, and you weren't even

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opposed to a dirty one. You're just going to

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wipe it off, right? You're going to get it because

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you want to eat your snack. And you open that

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thing up, and it's full dish. And you know it's

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only going to take you 10 minutes to empty it,

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but you've got to decide, do I do that or do

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I eat the cake? Right? Do I do the right thing

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or do I grab the fork? And here's what most of

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us do. We get the fork and we quietly close the

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door. Right? And you get your cake and you go

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to your office, you go to your bedroom, you go

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to your bathroom, you go anywhere you can get

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away with it. And you eat the cake. I omit the

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part that I don't want to do. Now, is it a sin

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not to empty the dishwasher? No. Well, maybe

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at your house, but no. Right? It's not. It's

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not. This is just an illustration, but we omit,

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we let out the things that God tells us to do.

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We do. We admit loving our neighbor as myself,

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right? That's an easy one to admit. You know,

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I think I'm, Jesus, I think I'm just going to

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pass today. Have you met my neighbor? All right.

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I'm just going to pass. I hard pass Jesus. Sin,

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right? I know I should serve Jesus. I know you

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told me to serve. I know my church tells me to

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serve. I know the word of God, Matthew 10, 45,

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right? We wear it on t -shirts because we get

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to do this. We say, you know, for even the son

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of man did not come to be served, but to serve

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and to give his life as a ransom for many. I

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know this, but Jesus, I think it's time for me

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to take a serve sabbatical. I think I'm going

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to take a serve sabbatical this week. All right,

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I'm going to do it. We just omit the commands

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of God. We put them off to the side. You know,

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How many know we need coverage? Amen? We need

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coverage. Sometimes we ignorantly sin. That's

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when you're sinning and you don't even know you're

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sinning. That can happen, by the way. All right?

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Sometimes you can get caught up in pride. You

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know, somebody annoys you, and the thoughts that

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are going through your mind, you don't stop.

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Right? They annoy you, and you're thinking, they're

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such an idiot. You'll think things like that.

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How could they be so stupid? They're so stupid,

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I can't even believe they can breathe and walk

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at the same time. Right? Yeah, we think stuff

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like that, right? You know, and I can't believe,

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that's how they, and we're completely unaware

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that we're in pride, that we're sinning. We need

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coverage, right? Caught in revenge. When we get

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caught in revenge, something happened to you,

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and you're thinking, I'm going to get them, I'm

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going to show them. Matter of fact, when I come

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and get them, they're not even going to see me

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coming. They're not even going to know what hit

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them. Come on, we get caught up in this. We need

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coverage. Sins of ignorance. We need coverage.

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And I'm here to tell you this morning, it doesn't

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matter if you're intentional, unintentional,

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if it's a sin of commission, if it's a sin of

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omission, if you don't even realize you're doing

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it, that sin needs to be covered with a sacrifice.

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It is the only way to cover up our sin. Worship

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team, if you'd come and make your way to the

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stage. And the Old Testament sacrifice, right?

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The OT, the old, there was a sin sacrifice and

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it was a guilt sacrifice, just two. And the sin

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and offering sacrifice, the sin sacrifice was

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when restitution was impossible. You couldn't

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go back and make it right. There's times you

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sin, you're never going to be able to go back

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and make it right. You could steal from somebody

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and somebody passes away. You're never going

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to get the chance to make restitution. There

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was a sin offering for that. And there was a

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second one that was mandatory. It was the guilt

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offering. And when that, that you, you, came

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and that was when restitution was possible but

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both these old testament sacrifices were a graphic

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right it was a graphic prototype of how serious

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it is and jesus became the sacrifice In the New

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Testament. With the new covenant. That was the

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old covenant. When Jesus came, God said, I'm

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going to make a new covenant with you. I'm going

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to perfect what we had a prototype of back here.

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And God will send one innocent man to be the

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final sacrifice for all of mankind's sin. Not

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just the man, but his very own son. One final

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perfected individual to pay the ultimate price

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for every sin, for every man, woman, child who

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sins against God. One blood sacrifice that would

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provide the necessary coverage for all of our

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sin. All of it. Once and for all. Jesus would

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provide the final and perfected covering for

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sin. Hebrews 10, 8 says this. When he said...

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When he said above, you have neither desired

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nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and burnt offerings

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and offerings and burnt offerings and in sin

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offerings. These were offered according to the

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law. That's OT. Then he added, behold, I have

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come to do your will. He does away with the first

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in order to establish the second. And by that,

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we will have been sanctified through the offering

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of the body of Christ Jesus. once and for all.

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He is the unblemished lamb to be sacrificed.

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He was willing to give himself up and die, shed

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his blood, shed his blood one final time, one

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final sprinkling for our sin, and his body would

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be mutilated. A Roman crucifixion almost made

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a temple sacrifice pale in comparison. Because

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in a Roman crucifixion, they would first scourge

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Jesus. And if you don't know what a Roman scourging

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is like, they would tie the individual to a post.

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They would actually tie him around the post.

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And very skilled Roman soldiers with whips, and

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they weren't just whips with just leather on

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them. They would take the whip and they would

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embed metal in the ends of those whip thongs

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at the end of them. And a skilled Roman soldier

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would be able to, they would flail that thing

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forward. And a lot of times they even had lead

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balls to make sure it would impact. And it would

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go in, it would go right into somebody's flesh.

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And when it would dug into the flesh, they would

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pull back, peeling away flesh from the back of

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the back legs and the neck. And a Roman scourging

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wasn't just one or two or three or even four

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lashes. It was 39 times that they would come

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across the back. Jesus suffered this scourging.

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And when that was completed, they would take

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him and they would make him carry a cross up

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the Delevingne Rosa up to Calvary. And they would

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place him on that cross and they would drive

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nails in his hands and they would drive nails

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in his feet and they would suspend him between

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heaven and earth. They would then thrust a spear

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into his side. And the word of God says that

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water and blood would come out. Jesus would become

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the sacrifice for all of us. He is the atonement.

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He is the covering. And Jesus sealed the deal

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when he stepped out of the grave three days later

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for you and I. Amen. I'm going to ask you to

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stand. Jesus paid a price that you and I could

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not pay. There's not one in this house, there's

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not one on the face of the earth before him or

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after him that could pay that price. There was

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no spotless lamb in any of us. As a matter of

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fact, Romans 3 tells us that we've all sinned

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and we've all fallen short of the glory of God.

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We're all short of God's standard. So he went

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ahead, God the Father went ahead and sent his

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son to die on a cross, go into grave for three

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days and rise from that grave and seal our coverage.

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And he said, the only thing you need to do as

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your part, you no longer have to get a bull and

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place your hands on it and slice its throat.

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You no longer have to do something symbolic in

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nature. He said, a couple of things are required

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of you. One, you have to believe that Jesus is

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the son of the living God and that he did come

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and die for you. One, you have to believe. Two,

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you have to confess. How many know you got to

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name your sin? Amen. Sometimes we're going to

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come, Lord, just forgive me of my sin. No, you

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got to name that thing. You got to name it. You

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name that sin. You put it before him, right?

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That's confession. And you don't do it to me.

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You don't need to do it to anyone else. You give

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it to him. You do it in prayer. And then the

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word of God says that we repent. We repent. And

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when you do those things, and repent means to

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turn from, right? I was going this way in sin.

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Now I realize I was sinning, and now I'm going

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to go this way. I'm going to follow God. And

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when you do that, the word of God says you're

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covered. He's got it covered. You don't pay the

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penalty of death. It's no longer held against

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you. You will never even have to answer for it.

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As a matter of fact, the word of God says it

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will be as far from you as the east is from the

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west. How many know that's infinity? Amen? As

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far as it gets. It's not a part of your identity.

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It's not who you are. It does not define you

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in any kind of way, shape, or form. You are free.

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He covered it. He covered it. So for some of

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you in the house that know Jesus as Lord and

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Savior, I'm just here to remind you what he covered

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in your life. Amen? I remember what he covered

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in my life. I'm covered. You're covered. But

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if you're in the house for the first time, and

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maybe this is the first Easter, you're hearing

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about something different than Easter eggs, right?

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And going out on Easter egg hunts and pastel

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colors. This is the first time you're hearing

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the real meaning that Jesus died on the cross.

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And just one of the things that he did was cover

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you and make provision for you. To be set free

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from sin and to come into relationship with him.

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If that's you here today, this is your day. This

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is your day. Because he paid all the price. All

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you have to do is say, yes, Jesus, you are Lord.

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I want you to forgive me of my sin. You can name

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those sins. And I repent. I'm going to follow

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you. I'm going to ask you to bow your heads this

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morning in the house. If you're listening online,

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you can bow your head right where you're at.

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There's somebody there online with you that will

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be glad to lead you through. But if you're in

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a house this morning and you don't know Jesus,

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Lord, Savior, and you want to, if you want this

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coverage in your life, you can raise your hand

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up, put it right back down. That's all I'm going

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to have you do this morning. If you want to raise

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your hand. Thank you. Father, we come before

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you. God, as those online to listen, those in

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the house, Lord God, this morning, as they come

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in prayer, Lord, as they come before you, they

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recognize and believe that you are Lord and Savior.

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They confess with their mouth that they are lost

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and that sin has separated them from you. And

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they want coverage this morning. Lord, they're

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going to turn from that. They're going to begin

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to follow you. They're making that commitment.

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They're going to begin to step with you. And

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Lord, you're going to bring them into new life.

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They got a new inheritance. They got a new name.

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God, Lord, they don't even know all the things,

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Lord. God, the blessings that are going to come

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in your hand. But Lord, I pray as they pray that

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heartfelt prayer this morning, God, that you

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will speak to them. And Lord, you will help them

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feel and sense your presence so that it might

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be healed. hope in Jesus' name. And amen and

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amen. For the rest of us, how many remember when

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you got saved? How many remember, some of you

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are so young, you're thinking, well, I got saved

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when I was 10. How many remember, there's sometimes

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these spots in life where you're like, man, I

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started to realize what Jesus really did for

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me. I started to really understand what He did

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for me. How many remember those places and those

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spaces? You need to celebrate that. He covered

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us. Amen? Say it with me. He covered us. He covered

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us. I'm healed, whole, and alive today because

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he covered us. personally affected by our ministry

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and you would like to partner with us as we love

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God,