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We are now in a series of heart-to-heart talks regarding the Ten Commandments, God's Ten

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Rules for Living.

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And just before we go into the study of the Eleventh Commandment, because may I remind

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you again, there are not only ten commandments, there are eleven.

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God gave the first ten rules for living.

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When Jesus came, He gave the eleventh commandment.

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And before we begin our heart-to-heart talks regarding the eleventh commandment, I want

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to just pause and that's right, just sit down, honey.

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We're going to have a wonderful time of fellowship today.

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Just relax a bit.

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You need that rest anyway.

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You've been so busy all day.

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Just sit down, just as though I had come into your home and you and I were talking about

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the things of God.

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And you wouldn't keep on working if you were washing dishes.

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You'd be gracious enough to just dry your hands and sit down with me for a while.

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And we're going to chat for a few minutes because I feel that what we're going to talk

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about today is most important.

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I have been very aware of the fact, as we have been talking about the Ten Commandments,

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that there are those who have been under the impression that we are no longer under the

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rule of the law, the Ten Commandments, as God gave them to Moses and the children of

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Israel.

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And I want you to know, and I can prove it today from the Word of God, that the Ten Commandments

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are as much in effect today as they were the hour that God gave them to Moses.

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They have never been canceled out.

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They will never be canceled out or voided.

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Jesus himself made that very clear.

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And you are very wrong in your thinking if you have just mentally canceled out these

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Ten Rules for Living.

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Jesus himself told us that they were in effect, will continue to be in effect until such a

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time, and he even told us the time when they would still not be voided, but would pass,

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literally pass from word, from law, to spirit, from cold letter, into warm life.

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He leaves absolutely nothing to the imagination regarding the law.

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Turn, if you will please, to the fifth chapter of Matthew, and I give you the Word of Jesus

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himself, and that's the highest authority in heaven and earth.

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Read that 17th verse in the fifth chapter of Matthew.

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Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets.

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I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.

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There's nothing as plain as this.

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It was an official proclamation.

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And it's just like that.

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He goes on to say, for I say unto you, till heaven and earth shall pass away, one jot

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or one tickle shall in no wise pass away from the law, till all things be accomplished.

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Here again one is tempted to ask, what did our Lord mean, till heaven and earth pass

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away?

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The answer which comes most easily is that this was a figure of speech, that it was an

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indefinite way of saying that the law can never pass away.

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That's not true.

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It was not so.

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It is a most matter of fact utterance on the part of Jesus.

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He was saying the law cannot fail in the tiniest accent.

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It cannot be set aside.

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It cannot be trifled with as non-important while these things last as they are.

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The law, the Ten Commandments, cannot be destroyed.

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They cannot be voided.

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There is coming a day, and he tells us exactly when that time will be, when heaven and earth

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will pass away.

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And that time, my friend, will be the time when the surface of this earth will be renovated

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by fire, when God again will restore this planet to its original beauty.

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It's all so far beyond our comprehension.

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There was a time when the natural eye, even today, hath not seen, nor the mind comprehend

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the beauty of what this earth was in its original state before Lucifer fell.

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God has given us just glimpses of the beauty of what this planet was originally before

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the fall of Lucifer.

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It must have been beyond description.

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And remember, this planet will again be restored to its original beauty.

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It will again be populated with free moral agency by those who have chosen to accept

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the Son of the Living God as their savior, as their ruler, as their king.

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There is coming a day when this planet will be our permanent heaven.

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That which we call heaven today is something that's only temporary.

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When the soul of the Christian leaves the body, it does go into the presence of Jesus.

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It goes to what we know as heaven, but that place is only temporary.

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John had a vision of that great moving day.

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Oh, that will be a day of days.

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When the city of the New Jerusalem came down out of the heavens, John saw it.

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He got a preview of it.

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What a moving day that's going to be for the children of God.

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After the surface of this earth has been restored to its original beauty, the city of the New

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Jerusalem that is being prepared now will come down out of the heaven and will rest here on this planet.

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And Jesus is referring to exactly that time, that moving day, that glorious day of absolute perfection

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when absolute righteousness for the first time will rule and reign up on this earth as we know it.

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That's what he meant when he said, think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets.

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I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.

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The law is important today, as important as it was when it was given to the term Israel.

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Verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise

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pass from the law till all be fulfilled.

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And at that time, that which we know as the cold letter, the letter of the law, will pass

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from word to spirit, from letter into warm life.

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Then and then only and for the first time we will have the ultimate law, the law of righteousness.

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When Jesus himself shall rule and reign.

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Oh, that's marvelous.

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But what something.

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Now he leaves that time and comes back again to this present hour in which you and I are living.

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Accept your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and the Pharisees.

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Ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

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These words come in the lips of Jesus.

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Therefore we know without argument, there's not a loophole left there for argument.

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We know that there is a righteousness, the righteousness of those who are in the kingdom

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that is greater than the law.

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Jesus said so.

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If you do illustrate it, he used one of the commandments.

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In fact, he used two, but I shall just give you one as an illustration.

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They understood the law perfectly.

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And he took the one commandment, thou shalt not kill.

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They knew it.

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They knew the law.

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They were letter perfect when it came to the knowledge of law.

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Thou shalt not kill.

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And again, Mary, mind you, the sacredness of life.

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This is the first law of social life.

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This is absolutely fundamental.

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Life is sacred.

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I don't care what color.

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I don't care what part of the earth.

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I don't care where or what the status of that one's social life might be.

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Life, the life of any human being is sacred and not to be destroyed and not to be tampered

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with.

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So sacred that God himself gave a law to protect life.

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It is in his hands and his hands alone to take life.

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Thou shalt not kill.

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Watch it.

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When one kills, it's the outward result of what actually had its beginning with end.

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Anger in the heart creates the condition of the criminal.

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There has got to be something within that prompts the deed.

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Both thought makes a deed, a deed makes a life.

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But everything has its beginning internally.

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Therefore, when one actually commits murder, it has had to have its beginning with end.

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Jesus says in substance just this, I will arrest you before the crime is actually committed.

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I'll so transform that life of you internally that there'll be none of these outward deeds.

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And this is what he says.

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He gives the law by saying thou shalt not kill.

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But he also goes a little further and says, but I say unto you that whosoever is angry

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with his brother without cause shall be in danger of the judgment.

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If you're angry with your brother, you are in danger of my judgment.

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If you break the law, you are subject to the Jewish proceedings.

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And then he names the different courts.

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He names here the lower court, which deals with the minor matters.

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He goes on and he said, or you may be subjected to the Sanhedrin, the higher courts.

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Or he names the third, or the place where the bodies of criminals are thrown.

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But he says these courts are according to Jewish proceedings, the law of the land.

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And if you commit murder, for there is no law of the land that governs your thoughts,

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or governs you internally.

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The law of the land, all court proceedings, have to do with your outward deeds.

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And if you commit murder, then the court of the land will punish you.

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I arrest you before you're turned over to the court of the land.

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I govern the internal.

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Oh, this is great.

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Let's see it.

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No soul living in the kingdom, his kingdom, God's kingdom, is governed by anything external

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to himself.

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We are not governed by the law of carnal ordinances.

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As Christians, we are governed by the living Christ who dwells within.

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And when you are purged from all sin within, when you have a change of heart, when you

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are a new creature in Christ Jesus, the internal is taken care of, and therefore there will

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be none of these external deeds that break the law.

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It's just that simple.

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We are governed by the living Christ who dwells within.

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And then just automatically, the most natural thing in the world is to keep the outward

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law, the cold letter.

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Of course, we won't commit murder as long as we have love in our hearts.

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When there's no hate internally, our deeds will be deeds of love, of kindness.

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Don't you see?

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It's so easy to do no murder, but oh, to forgive thy brother.

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Jesus says, I come not to destroy the law, but I take you even further than the law goes.

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But your righteousness, exceed the righteousness of the Pharisees and of the scribes.

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Ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

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If you do not have a righteousness that surpasses the righteousness of a man or a woman who

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is not a professing Christian, then Jesus says, so what?

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You're no better than they are.

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And it's just like that.

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If you are trying to compare your righteousness and your professing to be a Christian with

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the righteousness of perhaps a next door neighbor who makes no profession whatsoever being a

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Christian, and your righteousness does not surpass his, then I wouldn't give you very

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much for your spiritual experience.

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I know, but that's what the word teaches.

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The law was written on stone.

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My beloved, the ethics of Jesus are written in the heart.

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The law is cold.

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It's the letter.

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It's without a heart.

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It's without feeling.

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It was written on stone, but it is in effect today and will continue to be in effect until

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the ultimate law is in effect, the perfect law of righteousness.

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My friend, the sin that curses society today is the sin of the heart.

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Amen.