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Have'}, {'start': '19.600', 'end': '24.439', 'text': 'any of'}, {'start': '21.720', 'end': '26.720', 'text': 'you ever'}, {'start': '26.720', 'end': '33.759', 'text': 'seen or had the need to'}, {'start': '30.160', 'end': '33.759', 'text': 'go to a pawn shop'}, {'start': '34.200', 'end': '39.640', 'text': 'because you had some'}, {'start': '37.640', 'end': '45.000', 'text': 'financial need and had a watch that'}, {'start': '39.640', 'end': '45.000', 'text': 'my grandfather left me or something valuable?'}, {'start': '46.239', 'end': '51.399', 'text': 'and they went to a pawn shop and'}, {'start': '48.399', 'end': '56.039', 'text': 'waited a certain amount of time to be able to make'}, {'start': '51.399', 'end': '56.039', 'text': 'the money to go to the pawn shop'}, {'start': '57.320', 'end': '62.920', 'text': 'and'}, {'start': '59.239', 'end': '65.960', 'text': 'redeem what they had left or'}, {'start': '62.920', 'end': '65.960', 'text': 'what someone might have'}, {'start': '67.240', 'end': '73.520', 'text': "left.  That's the idea"}, {'start': '69.840', 'end': '77.040', 'text': 'we have for this'}, {'start': '73.520', 'end': '80.799', 'text': 'afternoon.  We were'}, {'start': '77.040', 'end': '84.159', 'text': 'slaves.  The Lord'}, {'start': '80.799', 'end': '87.280', 'text': 'came and redeemed us.  Chapter 1,'}, {'start': '84.159', 'end': '87.280', 'text': 'verses 7 to'}, {'start': '90.720', 'end': '94.720', 'text': '12. Ephesians.'}, {'start': '113.000', 'end': '117.119', 'text': 'Thus says'}, {'start': '114.799', 'end': '120.399', 'text': 'God in his'}, {'start': '117.119', 'end': '122.640', 'text': 'word, in whom we have redemption through'}, {'start': '120.399', 'end': '122.640', 'text': 'his'}, {'start': '122.840', 'end': '126.759', 'text': 'blood, the forgiveness of sin.'}, {'start': '127.079', 'end': '132.280', 'text': 'according to the riches of his grace.  That is, there'}, {'start': '129.679', 'end': '136.080', 'text': 'are many, they are'}, {'start': '132.280', 'end': '137.959', 'text': 'abundant.  That redemption, that forgiveness of'}, {'start': '136.080', 'end': '141.400', 'text': 'sins,'}, {'start': '137.959', 'end': '145.519', 'text': 'abounds.  Verse 8. Who has'}, {'start': '141.400', 'end': '148.560', 'text': 'abounded toward us in all'}, {'start': '145.519', 'end': '151.319', 'text': 'wisdom and'}, {'start': '148.560', 'end': '155.120', 'text': 'understanding, having made known to us the'}, {'start': '151.319', 'end': '158.000', 'text': 'mystery of his will'}, {'start': '155.120', 'end': '160.800', 'text': 'according to his good pleasure.  It is also something'}, {'start': '158.000', 'end': '163.280', 'text': 'that is not born in you and me.  It is according to'}, {'start': '160.800', 'end': '165.760', 'text': 'his good pleasure,'}, {'start': '163.280', 'end': '169.000', 'text': 'which he had'}, {'start': '165.760', 'end': '170.840', 'text': 'purposed in himself, that is, in him, it'}, {'start': '169.000', 'end': '173.760', 'text': 'was born in'}, {'start': '170.840', 'end': '175.159', 'text': 'him.  About what?  Verse 10. Of gathering'}, {'start': '173.760', 'end': '177.599', 'text': 'all'}, {'start': '175.159', 'end': '180.680', 'text': 'things together in the dispensation of the'}, {'start': '177.599', 'end': '182.920', 'text': 'fulness of times.'}, {'start': '180.680', 'end': '185.120', 'text': 'So those who are in heaven and those who'}, {'start': '182.920', 'end': '188.120', 'text': 'are on'}, {'start': '185.120', 'end': '189.920', 'text': 'earth, in'}, {'start': '188.120', 'end': '195.200', 'text': 'him.   We have'}, {'start': '189.920', 'end': '199.040', 'text': 'also obtained an inheritance, having'}, {'start': '195.200', 'end': '202.760', 'text': 'been predestined according to the purpose'}, {'start': '199.040', 'end': '207.280', 'text': 'of him who works all'}, {'start': '202.760', 'end': '210.720', 'text': 'things according to the counsel of'}, {'start': '207.280', 'end': '213.200', 'text': 'his will.'}, {'start': '210.720', 'end': '216.840', 'text': 'To what end?'}, {'start': '213.200', 'end': '218.720', 'text': 'so that'}, {'start': '218.720', 'end': '223.439', 'text': 'we who first'}, {'start': '221.239', 'end': '227.159', 'text': 'hoped in'}, {'start': '223.439', 'end': '227.159', 'text': 'Christ might be to the praise of his glory.  Once again,'}, {'start': '227.280', 'end': '230.280', 'text': 'Lord, we'}, {'start': '231.159', 'end': '235.640', 'text': 'ask for your'}, {'start': '236.239', 'end': '243.040', 'text': 'help as well, Lord.  We pray for the'}, {'start': '238.920', 'end': '243.040', 'text': 'class that the children are going to be'}, {'start': '244.079', 'end': '250.560', 'text': 'receiving, that you speak to them, Lord,'}, {'start': '247.599', 'end': '254.840', 'text': 'and that at an age when it is already'}, {'start': '250.560', 'end': '258.000', 'text': 'required, that in fact they already'}, {'start': '254.840', 'end': '259.479', 'text': 'need, Lord, your'}, {'start': '258.000', 'end': '261.160', 'text': 'mercy, but that'}, {'start': '259.479', 'end': '263.960', 'text': 'consciously, Lord, they can'}, {'start': '261.160', 'end': '265.720', 'text': 'take advantage of the teachings, the'}, {'start': '263.960', 'end': '269.199', 'text': 'teachings they'}, {'start': '265.720', 'end': '271.680', 'text': 'receive in their class.'}, {'start': '269.199', 'end': '274.759', 'text': 'Lord,'}, {'start': '271.680', 'end': '279.960', 'text': 'save them, draw them to you with cords of'}, {'start': '274.759', 'end': '284.440', 'text': 'love, with bonds of mercy.'}, {'start': '279.960', 'end': '284.440', 'text': 'draw them and us, Lord, help us also'}, {'start': '288.360', 'end': '292.919', 'text': 'in our weakness,'}, {'start': '290.720', 'end': '295.320', 'text': 'Lord, that we may'}, {'start': '292.919', 'end': '298.120', 'text': 'receive'}, {'start': '295.320', 'end': '299.000', 'text': 'this portion of your word, Lord,'}, {'start': '298.120', 'end': '301.680', 'text': 'with'}, {'start': '299.000', 'end': '303.479', 'text': 'joy and that we may'}, {'start': '301.680', 'end': '305.440', 'text': 'enjoy, Lord, each one of the'}, {'start': '303.479', 'end': '308.199', 'text': 'blessings that come from your hand, which'}, {'start': '305.440', 'end': '308.199', 'text': 'are heavenly.'}, {'start': '310.160', 'end': '315.759', 'text': 'and especially, Lord, in'}, {'start': '312.919', 'end': '319.520', 'text': 'this time may it'}, {'start': '315.759', 'end': '321.800', 'text': 'be one of mutual'}, {'start': '319.520', 'end': '323.880', 'text': 'edification.  Bless my brothers and'}, {'start': '321.800', 'end': '326.919', 'text': 'bless me too so'}, {'start': '323.880', 'end': '329.039', 'text': 'that together, Lord,'}, {'start': '326.919', 'end': '331.960', 'text': 'we may learn, so that together, Lord, we may'}, {'start': '329.039', 'end': '334.479', 'text': 'live these'}, {'start': '331.960', 'end': '337.840', 'text': 'things.  For your name and for your glory'}, {'start': '334.479', 'end': '337.840', 'text': 'we pray.  Amen.   We'}, {'start': '346.520', 'end': '351.720', 'text': 'have already said'}, {'start': '348.600', 'end': '355.000', 'text': 'that these words, which extend from'}, {'start': '351.720', 'end': '358.120', 'text': 'verse 3 to verse 14 in the'}, {'start': '355.000', 'end': '360.360', 'text': 'original language, are a single prayer, a'}, {'start': '358.120', 'end': '363.319', 'text': 'single'}, {'start': '360.360', 'end': '366.039', 'text': 'song of praise for the'}, {'start': '363.319', 'end': '369.840', 'text': 'saving work that Christ has done.'}, {'start': '366.039', 'end': '373.360', 'text': 'that God from eternity'}, {'start': '369.840', 'end': '373.360', 'text': 'past arranged to'}, {'start': '373.759', 'end': '379.039', 'text': 'do.  And this salvific work contains'}, {'start': '377.520', 'end': '382.120', 'text': 'three'}, {'start': '379.039', 'end': '385.440', 'text': 'active actors,'}, {'start': '382.120', 'end': '388.319', 'text': 'excuse the'}, {'start': '385.440', 'end': '389.759', 'text': 'pun.  We see the Trinity carrying'}, {'start': '388.319', 'end': '392.960', 'text': 'out its'}, {'start': '389.759', 'end': '395.639', 'text': 'work, its plan.'}, {'start': '392.960', 'end': '397.759', 'text': 'Last week we were'}, {'start': '395.639', 'end': '400.520', 'text': 'looking at the work of the Father and as we said,'}, {'start': '397.759', 'end': '404.280', 'text': 'we are going to uh or this section'}, {'start': '400.520', 'end': '406.599', 'text': 'from 3 to 14 has been divided into three parts.  From 3 to 6'}, {'start': '404.280', 'end': '409.400', 'text': 'the work of the Father, from 7 to 12 the work'}, {'start': '406.599', 'end': '410.800', 'text': 'of the Son and from 13 to 14 the work of the'}, {'start': '409.400', 'end': '413.960', 'text': 'Holy Spirit.  So'}, {'start': '410.800', 'end': '416.759', 'text': 'last week we were looking at'}, {'start': '413.960', 'end': '418.879', 'text': 'section three through six, the work of the'}, {'start': '416.759', 'end': '422.400', 'text': 'Father.  So,'}, {'start': '440.680', 'end': '448.160', 'text': 'for this afternoon I want us to look together at the work of the Son, which spans from verse 7 to verse 12, which we have read, but more than these five verses, more than anything that may be merely theology or pure information in our'}, {'start': '442.680', 'end': '448.160', 'text': 'heads, let us see the transcendental golden treasure'}, {'start': '448.440', 'end': '455.440', 'text': 'of the work of our'}, {'start': '452.680', 'end': '457.879', 'text': 'Christ.  And speaking about these things should'}, {'start': '455.440', 'end': '460.919', 'text': 'be, as it was for the apostle Paul, a'}, {'start': '457.879', 'end': '463.520', 'text': 'reason for us to'}, {'start': '460.919', 'end': '466.159', 'text': 'speak words of praise.'}, {'start': '463.520', 'end': '468.199', 'text': 'Also blessed be the God and Father'}, {'start': '466.159', 'end': '470.360', 'text': 'of our Lord Jesus Christ who has'}, {'start': '468.199', 'end': '473.360', 'text': 'blessed us with every spiritual blessing.'}, {'start': '470.360', 'end': '476.039', 'text': 'Then we come to'}, {'start': '473.360', 'end': '479.919', 'text': 'verse 6 and we begin to read'}, {'start': '476.039', 'end': '479.919', 'text': 'verse 7. But to help us'}, {'start': '480.080', 'end': '485.240', 'text': 'locate ourselves, who is being referred to in'}, {'start': '482.400', 'end': '487.199', 'text': 'verse 7?  In whom we have redemption'}, {'start': '485.240', 'end': '490.680', 'text': 'through his blood, we must go back to'}, {'start': '487.199', 'end': '493.080', 'text': 'verse 6 and it says, "To the'}, {'start': '490.680', 'end': '496.639', 'text': 'praise of the glory of his grace,'}, {'start': '493.080', 'end': '499.319', 'text': 'which he has made us accepted in the beloved."'}, {'start': '496.639', 'end': '501.199', 'text': 'So, in that beloved is the one who gives us'}, {'start': '499.319', 'end': '506.159', 'text': 'redemption through his'}, {'start': '501.199', 'end': '506.159', 'text': 'blood, the forgiveness of sins.'}, {'start': '507.720', 'end': '515.159', 'text': 'The close connection between the Father and the'}, {'start': '511.880', 'end': '515.159', 'text': 'Son in'}, {'start': '515.560', 'end': '522.240', 'text': 'speaking these'}, {'start': '518.159', 'end': '525.279', 'text': 'words is not affected or seen or'}, {'start': '522.240', 'end': '527.600', 'text': 'remains intact.  The close'}, {'start': '525.279', 'end': '531.360', 'text': 'connection that exists between the Father and the'}, {'start': '527.600', 'end': '534.959', 'text': 'Son in the work of redemption is'}, {'start': '531.360', 'end': '536.680', 'text': 'preserved intact.  Not that one, although there is a'}, {'start': '534.959', 'end': '539.519', 'text': 'change of pace. We talked about the Father,'}, {'start': '536.680', 'end': '542.360', 'text': "now we're going to talk about the Son, but the"}, {'start': '539.519', 'end': '544.880', 'text': 'idea, redemption,'}, {'start': '542.360', 'end': '547.640', 'text': 'remains unblemished, intact, and as'}, {'start': '544.880', 'end': '550.519', 'text': 'we saw a week ago, it is the Father who'}, {'start': '547.640', 'end': '552.959', 'text': 'pours out his grace upon'}, {'start': '550.519', 'end': '557.440', 'text': 'us.  And you follow me,'}, {'start': '552.959', 'end': '557.440', 'text': 'we have that in verse 8.'}, {'start': '559.600', 'end': '563.480', 'text': 'It is the Father who pours out his grace'}, {'start': '561.480', 'end': '566.560', 'text': 'upon'}, {'start': '563.480', 'end': '569.519', 'text': 'us, who made known to us'}, {'start': '566.560', 'end': '572.839', 'text': 'the mystery of his will according to his'}, {'start': '569.519', 'end': '575.200', 'text': 'good pleasure.  Verse 9.'}, {'start': '572.839', 'end': '577.240', 'text': 'Now it is necessary to return to verse'}, {'start': '575.200', 'end': '580.640', 'text': '7 and the'}, {'start': '577.240', 'end': '583.200', 'text': 'emphasis has been shifted from its focus'}, {'start': '580.640', 'end': '586.560', 'text': 'on the work of the Father and is now focused'}, {'start': '583.200', 'end': '589.120', 'text': 'on the work of the Son, in him beloved.'}, {'start': '586.560', 'end': '590.800', 'text': 'In other words, it is in the Son that we have'}, {'start': '589.120', 'end': '593.000', 'text': 'our'}, {'start': '590.800', 'end': '594.839', 'text': 'redemption.  And anyone could say,'}, {'start': '593.000', 'end': '599.200', 'text': '"But we already know all that."'}, {'start': '594.839', 'end': '601.800', 'text': 'But it is not or does not hurt for'}, {'start': '599.200', 'end': '604.360', 'text': 'us to address this issue, because'}, {'start': '601.800', 'end': '607.000', 'text': 'this also has many implications.'}, {'start': '604.360', 'end': '609.399', 'text': 'This redemption we know that the'}, {'start': '607.000', 'end': '611.800', 'text': 'Son justifies us before the Father'}, {'start': '609.399', 'end': '613.600', 'text': 'through his saving work.  But there are'}, {'start': '611.800', 'end': '615.480', 'text': "other implications, and what we're going to be"}, {'start': '613.600', 'end': '617.640', 'text': 'looking at now is what I was telling you'}, {'start': '615.480', 'end': '620.040', 'text': 'now, what I was telling you earlier:'}, {'start': '617.640', 'end': '622.200', 'text': 'redemption.  You go out of necessity or'}, {'start': '620.040', 'end': '625.000', 'text': 'someone goes out of necessity, you go to a Po'}, {'start': '622.200', 'end': '628.279', 'text': 'Shop as they call it here, you leave your thing, you'}, {'start': '625.000', 'end': '630.360', 'text': 'leave an object of value because you'}, {'start': '628.279', 'end': '632.920', 'text': "don't have money and you have to"}, {'start': '630.360', 'end': '635.160', 'text': 'wait until the end of the month to be able to'}, {'start': '632.920', 'end': '637.240', 'text': 'have a check, collect a check.  And'}, {'start': '635.160', 'end': '640.360', 'text': 'what are you going to do when you have'}, {'start': '637.240', 'end': '643.720', 'text': 'that money again to go get your'}, {'start': '640.360', 'end': '646.279', 'text': 'valuables?  He is going to'}, {'start': '643.720', 'end': '648.639', 'text': 'redeem it, he is going to pay a debt that'}, {'start': '646.279', 'end': '651.079', 'text': 'is pending, he is going to free'}, {'start': '648.639', 'end': '654.279', 'text': 'something.  And this idea that the apostle'}, {'start': '651.079', 'end': '656.480', 'text': "Paul uses here is to redeem, uh, it's"}, {'start': '654.279', 'end': '659.600', 'text': 'like the commentators say that he had'}, {'start': '656.480', 'end': '662.040', 'text': 'in mind at this time there was a lot of'}, {'start': '659.600', 'end': '665.040', 'text': 'slavery and there were'}, {'start': '662.040', 'end': '665.040', 'text': 'slave markets.'}, {'start': '665.160', 'end': '670.959', 'text': 'And the owner, the slave owner,'}, {'start': '668.399', 'end': '673.800', 'text': 'had all the authority, all the'}, {'start': '670.959', 'end': '676.320', 'text': 'power to sign a letter.  Even'}, {'start': '673.800', 'end': '679.079', 'text': 'slaves were actually sealed'}, {'start': '676.320', 'end': '681.320', 'text': 'like animals.  Now they had'}, {'start': '679.079', 'end': '684.079', 'text': 'a plate there, they heated it and there'}, {'start': '681.320', 'end': '686.639', 'text': 'was the mark on the slave.  But this'}, {'start': '684.079', 'end': '689.320', 'text': 'owner of this slave or slaves'}, {'start': '686.639', 'end': '692.120', 'text': 'had the right, had the power to'}, {'start': '689.320', 'end': '695.160', 'text': 'free someone from'}, {'start': '692.120', 'end': '697.959', 'text': 'slavery.  And the idea here is that Christ'}, {'start': '695.160', 'end': '701.680', 'text': 'came and set us free, redeemed us, and'}, {'start': '697.959', 'end': '701.680', 'text': 'forgave us all our'}, {'start': '702.720', 'end': '710.240', 'text': 'sins in the'}, {'start': '705.519', 'end': '712.240', 'text': 'beloved.  It is he who shed his blood for'}, {'start': '710.240', 'end': '713.160', 'text': 'us.   It'}, {'start': '712.240', 'end': '716.240', 'text': 'is'}, {'start': '713.160', 'end': '718.160', 'text': "he on whom the Father's gracious purpose has"}, {'start': '716.240', 'end': '721.279', 'text': 'been'}, {'start': '718.160', 'end': '723.040', 'text': 'concentrated, and it is under his authority that'}, {'start': '721.279', 'end': '724.120', 'text': 'all things are brought together.'}, {'start': '723.040', 'end': '727.920', 'text': 'Verse'}, {'start': '724.120', 'end': '730.839', 'text': '10. It is in him that we have been made'}, {'start': '727.920', 'end': '732.880', 'text': 'heirs.  Verse 11. It is in him that we'}, {'start': '730.839', 'end': '736.519', 'text': 'center our hope.'}, {'start': '732.880', 'end': '739.160', 'text': 'Verse 12. Therefore Paul continues'}, {'start': '736.519', 'end': '742.160', 'text': 'in the beloved in whom we have our'}, {'start': '739.160', 'end': '742.160', 'text': 'redemption.'}, {'start': '742.240', 'end': '746.199', 'text': 'And'}, {'start': '743.240', 'end': '749.240', 'text': 'redemption, by the'}, {'start': '746.199', 'end': '751.320', 'text': 'way, is one of the central themes of'}, {'start': '751.320', 'end': '756.560', 'text': "God's word.  It must be one of the"}, {'start': '754.320', 'end': '759.240', 'text': "central themes of God's word, because"}, {'start': '756.560', 'end': '763.399', 'text': 'we can have the whole panorama'}, {'start': '759.240', 'end': '766.680', 'text': 'of salvation, we can have all the'}, {'start': '763.399', 'end': '769.120', 'text': 'elements that guide us to salvation.  But'}, {'start': '766.680', 'end': '771.800', 'text': 'if anyone has not been acquitted, if'}, {'start': '769.120', 'end': '773.399', 'text': 'anyone has not been freed from'}, {'start': '771.800', 'end': '776.399', 'text': 'debt, if anyone has not been'}, {'start': '776.680', 'end': '782.560', 'text': "redeemed, the Father's wrath still"}, {'start': '779.519', 'end': '782.560', 'text': 'rests on'}, {'start': '783.000', 'end': '788.160', 'text': 'him.  Redemption then is one of the'}, {'start': '785.800', 'end': '790.800', 'text': 'central themes of the word of God.  And'}, {'start': '788.160', 'end': '792.800', 'text': 'this concept of redemption is used in the'}, {'start': '790.800', 'end': '795.440', 'text': 'legal field or was used in the'}, {'start': '792.800', 'end': '799.160', 'text': 'legal field and in the New Testament we'}, {'start': '795.440', 'end': '801.680', 'text': 'or it is used in relation to salvation.  You have'}, {'start': '799.160', 'end': '803.800', 'text': 'been redeemed, brother.  She has been'}, {'start': '801.680', 'end': '805.920', 'text': 'redeemed.  So, brother, sister,'}, {'start': '803.800', 'end': '808.440', 'text': 'you are saved.  And later we will'}, {'start': '805.920', 'end': '811.720', 'text': 'see that sometimes we'}, {'start': '808.440', 'end': '814.639', 'text': 'carry a sack, we carry a'}, {'start': '811.720', 'end': '817.160', 'text': 'cloak that says sinner even when we have already'}, {'start': '814.639', 'end': '820.279', 'text': 'been redeemed.'}, {'start': '817.160', 'end': '824.959', 'text': 'The wrath of God no longer rests on'}, {'start': '820.279', 'end': '827.160', 'text': 'us and we have come to'}, {'start': '824.959', 'end': '829.560', 'text': 'Christ.  This'}, {'start': '827.160', 'end': '832.440', 'text': 'word referred to'}, {'start': '829.560', 'end': '835.800', 'text': 'exculpation, that is, the legal release from'}, {'start': '832.440', 'end': '839.160', 'text': 'guilt of an accusation, and is now'}, {'start': '835.800', 'end': '840.160', 'text': 'used in the theological sense to speak'}, {'start': '839.160', 'end': '843.600', 'text': 'of'}, {'start': '840.160', 'end': '846.680', 'text': 'vindication, justification, and the'}, {'start': '843.600', 'end': '849.040', 'text': 'declaration of a sinner as righteous'}, {'start': '846.680', 'end': '851.279', 'text': "before God.  That's it, and that's what"}, {'start': '849.040', 'end': '853.800', 'text': 'we have this afternoon as this'}, {'start': '851.279', 'end': '855.720', 'text': 'spiritual blessing, and we take it from the'}, {'start': '853.800', 'end': '859.720', 'text': "chest of all the blessings that we're going to be"}, {'start': '855.720', 'end': '859.720', 'text': 'seeing throughout the'}, {'start': '860.240', 'end': '866.399', 'text': 'letter, also used to'}, {'start': '863.000', 'end': '868.839', 'text': 'refer to the payment of a ransom for the'}, {'start': '866.399', 'end': '872.600', 'text': 'release of a person from'}, {'start': '868.839', 'end': '875.920', 'text': "slavery.  That's what it's all"}, {'start': '872.600', 'end': '878.399', 'text': "about, and it's used to indicate the payment of"}, {'start': '875.920', 'end': '879.839', 'text': 'a debt cancellation or the act'}, {'start': '878.399', 'end': '882.079', 'text': 'of granting a'}, {'start': '879.839', 'end': '883.839', 'text': 'pardon.  I know you know what'}, {'start': '882.079', 'end': '886.399', 'text': 'a'}, {'start': '883.839', 'end': '889.920', 'text': 'pardon is.  And in this case it is used in the'}, {'start': '886.399', 'end': '892.199', 'text': 'scriptures to refer to the forgiveness of'}, {'start': '889.920', 'end': '894.079', 'text': "sins.  If I'm just going to"}, {'start': '892.199', 'end': '895.639', 'text': "give you the quotes, we won't have the"}, {'start': '894.079', 'end': '897.880', 'text': 'time to'}, {'start': '895.639', 'end': '900.199', 'text': 'write them down if you want.'}, {'start': '897.880', 'end': '902.800', 'text': 'Matthew 9:2.'}, {'start': '900.199', 'end': '904.720', 'text': "Matthew 9:2, but I think it's necessary to"}, {'start': '902.800', 'end': '906.959', 'text': 'go there so we know what we'}, {'start': '904.720', 'end': '911.680', 'text': "'re talking about.  It is used to indicate"}, {'start': '906.959', 'end': '911.680', 'text': 'payment for a cancellation.  Matthew'}, {'start': '915.839', 'end': '920.120', 'text': "9:2.  And I think it's also a good"}, {'start': '918.399', 'end': '923.639', 'text': 'time for us to'}, {'start': '920.120', 'end': '926.079', 'text': 'exercise, uh, to look for the texts.'}, {'start': '923.639', 'end': '928.160', 'text': "Sometimes we get comfortable, don't we?  that"}, {'start': '926.079', 'end': '930.680', 'text': 'everything has been said, but I have not'}, {'start': '928.160', 'end': '934.519', 'text': 'sought anything.  So Matthew 9:2 says, and'}, {'start': '930.680', 'end': '937.319', 'text': "we're going to do it uh a little uh quickly for the"}, {'start': '934.519', 'end': '939.839', 'text': 'sake of time.  Matthew'}, {'start': '937.319', 'end': '942.199', 'text': '9:2.  And it happened that they brought a'}, {'start': '939.839', 'end': '944.880', 'text': 'paralytic lying on a bed, and when'}, {'start': '942.199', 'end': '947.680', 'text': 'Jesus saw their faith, he said to the'}, {'start': '944.880', 'end': '950.680', 'text': 'paralytic, "Take heart, son; your'}, {'start': '947.680', 'end': '953.720', 'text': 'sins are forgiven. Here is your'}, {'start': '950.680', 'end': '955.959', 'text': 'deliverance."  It\'s as if you are'}, {'start': '953.720', 'end': '958.240', 'text': 'sick, but the greatest need you'}, {'start': '955.959', 'end': '959.480', 'text': "have is not the sickness, it's"}, {'start': '958.240', 'end': '963.959', 'text': 'your'}, {'start': '959.480', 'end': '963.959', 'text': 'sins.  Romans 4:7.'}, {'start': '967.759', 'end': '971.160', 'text': 'Romans 4:7'}, {'start': '973.720', 'end': '977.759', 'text': 'says, "Blessed are'}, {'start': '979.040', 'end': '983.959', 'text': 'those whose iniquities are'}, {'start': '981.880', 'end': '987.839', 'text': 'forgiven and whose'}, {'start': '983.959', 'end': '990.160', 'text': 'sins are covered."  Ephesians 1:7,'}, {'start': '987.839', 'end': '992.759', 'text': 'we have it right there at hand.  What does'}, {'start': '990.160', 'end': '995.240', 'text': 'Ephesians 1:7 say?  In whom we have'}, {'start': '992.759', 'end': '997.560', 'text': 'redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of'}, {'start': '995.240', 'end': '1001.440', 'text': 'sins, according to the'}, {'start': '997.560', 'end': '1006.759', 'text': 'riches of his grace.  Ephesians'}, {'start': '1001.440', 'end': '1006.759', 'text': '4:32.  What does Ephesians 4:32 say?   Be'}, {'start': '1007.680', 'end': '1013.839', 'text': 'kind to one another,'}, {'start': '1010.880', 'end': '1016.959', 'text': 'tenderhearted, forgiving one'}, {'start': '1013.839', 'end': '1019.720', 'text': 'another, just as God'}, {'start': '1016.959', 'end': '1022.800', 'text': 'in'}, {'start': '1019.720', 'end': '1025.919', 'text': "Christ forgave you.  There's the idea, the need we"}, {'start': '1022.800', 'end': '1028.520', 'text': 'all have for absolute forgiveness,'}, {'start': '1025.919', 'end': '1030.640', 'text': 'total forgiveness, and we have it in'}, {'start': '1028.520', 'end': '1033.720', 'text': 'Christ.  So in this section, this is'}, {'start': '1030.640', 'end': '1037.160', 'text': 'just like an introduction,'}, {'start': '1033.720', 'end': '1040.240', 'text': 'but in this section from verse 4 to verse'}, {'start': '1037.160', 'end': '1042.240', 'text': "7 to verse 12 we have five verses.  I don't"}, {'start': '1040.240', 'end': '1044.640', 'text': "think we're going to cover what"}, {'start': '1042.240', 'end': '1046.799', 'text': 'we have in these four'}, {'start': '1044.640', 'end': '1048.440', 'text': 'verses, forgiveness, the forgiveness of'}, {'start': '1046.799', 'end': '1051.799', 'text': 'our'}, {'start': '1048.440', 'end': '1056.080', 'text': 'sins, the knowledge of the'}, {'start': '1051.799', 'end': '1059.320', 'text': 'mystery, and that we have obtained an'}, {'start': '1056.080', 'end': '1061.200', 'text': 'inheritance, forgiveness of sins.'}, {'start': '1059.320', 'end': '1063.720', 'text': 'knowledge of the'}, {'start': '1061.200', 'end': '1067.120', 'text': 'mystery and that'}, {'start': '1063.720', 'end': '1070.000', 'text': "we have obtained an inheritance.  And so we're going to"}, {'start': '1067.120', 'end': '1073.640', 'text': 'focus on forgiveness this afternoon'}, {'start': '1070.000', 'end': '1073.640', 'text': '.  Why'}, {'start': '1075.400', 'end': '1081.480', 'text': 'forgiveness?  Which is related to'}, {'start': '1078.039', 'end': '1083.360', 'text': 'redemption.  It means liberation, the payment'}, {'start': '1081.480', 'end': '1085.919', 'text': 'of a price.  It applied especially'}, {'start': '1083.360', 'end': '1088.120', 'text': 'to the rescue of slaves.  And here it is'}, {'start': '1085.919', 'end': '1090.919', 'text': 'compared to forgiveness, because this'}, {'start': '1088.120', 'end': '1093.679', 'text': 'liberation is a rescue from the judgment of'}, {'start': '1090.919', 'end': '1096.640', 'text': 'God.  There was a slavery there that was'}, {'start': '1093.679', 'end': '1100.799', 'text': 'going to die, it only had to'}, {'start': '1096.640', 'end': '1103.000', 'text': 'work day and night.  At the time'}, {'start': '1100.799', 'end': '1105.600', 'text': 'the master got up he had to'}, {'start': '1103.000', 'end': '1107.880', 'text': 'get up.  So we have been'}, {'start': '1105.600', 'end': '1110.880', 'text': 'freed from sin, we have been'}, {'start': '1107.880', 'end': '1110.880', 'text': 'forgiven.'}, {'start': '1112.080', 'end': '1118.720', 'text': 'And this deliverance is a rescue from'}, {'start': '1114.720', 'end': '1122.039', 'text': "God's just judgment on our"}, {'start': '1118.720', 'end': '1124.679', 'text': 'sins.  And the price paid was not a'}, {'start': '1122.039', 'end': '1127.200', 'text': 'price of coins, it was not a price of'}, {'start': '1124.679', 'end': '1130.080', 'text': 'a mark that they put on, no, it was not a'}, {'start': '1127.200', 'end': '1132.559', 'text': 'price of that, it was the shedding of'}, {'start': '1130.080', 'end': '1136.080', 'text': "Christ's blood when he died for"}, {'start': '1132.559', 'end': '1139.480', 'text': 'us.  Mark 10:45.'}, {'start': '1136.080', 'end': '1143.280', 'text': 'Although it does not contain the word'}, {'start': '1139.480', 'end': '1146.520', 'text': 'redeem, this text is helpful and extremely'}, {'start': '1143.280', 'end': '1149.840', 'text': 'important in this regard because it reveals to'}, {'start': '1146.520', 'end': '1152.360', 'text': "us Christ's purpose in"}, {'start': '1149.840', 'end': '1155.840', 'text': 'fulfilling his mission.  Matthew,'}, {'start': '1152.360', 'end': '1158.240', 'text': 'sorry, Mark 10:45.  What does Mark'}, {'start': '1155.840', 'end': '1160.360', 'text': '10:45 say?'}, {'start': '1158.240', 'end': '1162.600', 'text': 'For the Son of Man did not come to be'}, {'start': '1163.799', 'end': '1170.280', 'text': 'served.  We have it.  Mark 10:45.'}, {'start': '1167.320', 'end': '1172.360', 'text': "Although it's a text that doesn't include the"}, {'start': '1170.280', 'end': '1175.080', 'text': 'word "redemption," we see it'}, {'start': '1172.360', 'end': '1177.679', 'text': 'implicitly, and it opens our eyes, broadens our'}, {'start': '1175.080', 'end': '1180.760', 'text': 'horizons so we can understand'}, {'start': '1177.679', 'end': '1183.120', 'text': "what we're talking about.  Because you have"}, {'start': '1180.760', 'end': '1184.919', 'text': 'Because the Son of'}, {'start': '1183.120', 'end': '1187.440', 'text': 'Man did not'}, {'start': '1184.919', 'end': '1191.320', 'text': 'come to be'}, {'start': '1187.440', 'end': '1192.880', 'text': 'served, but to serve and to give his life'}, {'start': '1191.320', 'end': '1197.039', 'text': 'as a'}, {'start': '1192.880', 'end': '1198.799', 'text': 'ransom.  He says, of all of them.'}, {'start': '1197.039', 'end': '1201.960', 'text': 'And this phrase has always caught my'}, {'start': '1198.799', 'end': '1204.000', 'text': "attention when one in one's time"}, {'start': '1201.960', 'end': '1206.240', 'text': 'of feeling'}, {'start': '1204.000', 'end': '1208.360', 'text': "like there isn't much to do, one"}, {'start': '1206.240', 'end': '1211.159', 'text': 'starts to think about other teachings and'}, {'start': '1208.360', 'end': '1213.799', 'text': 'well, in fact, as a'}, {'start': '1211.159', 'end': '1215.919', 'text': 'comment and a piece of advice, yes,'}, {'start': '1213.799', 'end': '1220.080', 'text': 'there is a little book called False'}, {'start': '1215.919', 'end': '1222.799', 'text': 'Teachings of the'}, {'start': '1220.080', 'end': '1225.320', 'text': "Ligonir Ministry.  That's a small book, it will"}, {'start': '1222.799', 'end': '1228.760', 'text': 'take maybe an hour to read.  a lot.   Yes, yes, it'}, {'start': '1225.320', 'end': '1231.000', 'text': 'is quite a lot, if you are going to do a'}, {'start': '1228.760', 'end': '1232.760', 'text': 'more exhaustive study and search for texts and'}, {'start': '1231.000', 'end': '1235.919', 'text': 'everything, it will take time.  But if'}, {'start': '1232.760', 'end': '1239.440', 'text': 'you read it, it says all the'}, {'start': '1235.919', 'end': '1240.480', 'text': 'doctrines that are against'}, {'start': '1240.480', 'end': '1245.840', 'text': 'biblical teaching and there is a teaching that says that'}, {'start': '1243.320', 'end': '1249.039', 'text': 'salvation will be for everyone.  Jorge'}, {'start': '1245.840', 'end': '1251.840', 'text': 'Bergolio, for example, the current pope'}, {'start': '1249.039', 'end': '1253.880', 'text': ', says that in the end everyone will be'}, {'start': '1251.840', 'end': '1256.320', 'text': "saved.  Don't judge homosexuals,"}, {'start': '1253.880', 'end': '1258.559', 'text': "don't judge the lesbian there, no.  In the"}, {'start': '1256.320', 'end': '1261.480', 'text': 'end, who am I to judge?  He says,'}, {'start': '1258.559', 'end': '1263.640', 'text': "as if he didn't have the"}, {'start': '1261.480', 'end': '1265.880', 'text': 'Bible.  For the Son of Man did not'}, {'start': '1263.640', 'end': '1268.360', 'text': 'come to be served, but to serve,'}, {'start': '1265.880', 'end': '1271.640', 'text': 'and to give his life as a ransom for'}, {'start': '1268.360', 'end': '1274.720', 'text': 'many.  For many, not for all.  There is no'}, {'start': '1271.640', 'end': '1278.559', 'text': 'universalism, it is not for everyone, it is'}, {'start': '1274.720', 'end': '1280.640', 'text': 'for many.  And for whom are those many?'}, {'start': '1278.559', 'end': '1283.520', 'text': 'whom God had'}, {'start': '1280.640', 'end': '1286.320', 'text': 'predestined beforehand, as we have'}, {'start': '1283.520', 'end': '1288.240', 'text': 'seen, just as he chose us in him before'}, {'start': '1286.320', 'end': '1291.720', 'text': 'the foundation of the world.  And that was the'}, {'start': '1288.240', 'end': '1294.960', 'text': 'prayer I was saying now, well,'}, {'start': '1291.720', 'end': '1297.279', 'text': "early on.  Lord, right now I'm going to"}, {'start': '1294.960', 'end': '1300.840', 'text': "shave and I'm going to change and I'm going to take a"}, {'start': '1297.279', 'end': '1303.039', 'text': 'bath and all these things,'}, {'start': '1300.840', 'end': '1306.400', 'text': 'but if a'}, {'start': '1303.039', 'end': '1309.200', 'text': 'human desire in us, brothers, is not'}, {'start': '1306.400', 'end': '1311.960', 'text': 'born and if we are here once'}, {'start': '1309.200', 'end': '1314.400', 'text': 'again, it is not because of us, it is because of the work'}, {'start': '1311.960', 'end': '1317.120', 'text': 'of Christ in'}, {'start': '1314.400', 'end': '1319.039', 'text': 'us.  We have been bought at'}, {'start': '1317.120', 'end': '1322.120', 'text': 'blood prices.  Look at what it says in First'}, {'start': '1319.039', 'end': '1324.520', 'text': 'Corinthians, chapter 6, verse 20.'}, {'start': '1322.120', 'end': '1328.360', 'text': 'First Corinthians, chapter 6,'}, {'start': '1324.520', 'end': '1333.159', 'text': 'verse 20. The price that has been'}, {'start': '1328.360', 'end': '1333.159', 'text': 'paid for us has been no small'}, {'start': '1335.039', 'end': '1342.960', 'text': 'thing.  It has been no small feat.  First'}, {'start': '1338.240', 'end': '1346.360', 'text': 'Corinthians 6:20 says, "For you were'}, {'start': '1342.960', 'end': '1346.360', 'text': 'bought with a'}, {'start': '1347.039', 'end': '1352.120', 'text': 'price. Glorify just as you were bought'}, {'start': '1350.039', 'end': '1353.840', 'text': 'with a price. What is your calling? What'}, {'start': '1352.120', 'end': '1357.440', 'text': 'should be your response? What should be'}, {'start': '1353.840', 'end': '1361.200', 'text': 'mine? 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In fact,'}, {'start': '1427.400', 'end': '1432.520', 'text': "sometimes we throw it away because it doesn't fit in my"}, {'start': '1430.480', 'end': '1437.080', 'text': "house, I don't have space for it."}, {'start': '1432.520', 'end': '1438.679', 'text': "Please take him out.  We don't value it."}, {'start': '1437.080', 'end': '1441.120', 'text': 'And although what they gave us was free'}, {'start': '1438.679', 'end': '1444.159', 'text': ', it came at a cost to the'}, {'start': '1441.120', 'end': '1446.559', 'text': 'person who gave us that gift.  And that'}, {'start': '1444.159', 'end': '1448.840', 'text': 'is the case of those treasures we have'}, {'start': '1446.559', 'end': '1451.279', 'text': 'been talking about.  Every'}, {'start': '1448.840', 'end': '1454.559', 'text': 'spiritual blessing in the heavenly places'}, {'start': '1451.279', 'end': '1457.600', 'text': 'came at the highest price anyone'}, {'start': '1454.559', 'end': '1460.480', 'text': 'could pay, that anyone could have'}, {'start': '1457.600', 'end': '1463.880', 'text': 'paid, and that is the blood of Christ.  First'}, {'start': '1460.480', 'end': '1464.919', 'text': 'Peter 1:18-19, I read it.  It says in'}, {'start': '1463.880', 'end': '1469.760', 'text': 'First'}, {'start': '1464.919', 'end': '1473.440', 'text': 'Peter 1:18 and 19, "Knowing that you'}, {'start': '1469.760', 'end': '1477.200', 'text': 'were redeemed from your futile conduct'}, {'start': '1473.440', 'end': '1479.840', 'text': 'received by tradition from'}, {'start': '1477.200', 'end': '1482.200', 'text': 'your fathers, all those traditions'}, {'start': '1479.840', 'end': '1482.200', 'text': 'were'}, {'start': '1482.720', 'end': '1489.799', 'text': 'futile, not with corruptible things like'}, {'start': '1485.960', 'end': '1494.000', 'text': 'silver or gold, but with the precious blood'}, {'start': '1489.799', 'end': '1497.600', 'text': 'of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish'}, {'start': '1494.000', 'end': '1501.120', 'text': 'and without spot, at the price of'}, {'start': '1497.600', 'end': '1503.720', 'text': 'blood. And sometimes, second'}, {'start': '1501.120', 'end': '1506.159', 'text': 'time, we are not aware, we take for granted'}, {'start': '1503.720', 'end': '1508.559', 'text': ', uh, sometimes they ask us,'}, {'start': '1506.159', 'end': '1510.640', 'text': '"Well, and and and you are a Christian and'}, {'start': '1508.559', 'end': '1512.760', 'text': 'we say, yeah, but why are you a'}, {'start': '1510.640', 'end': '1514.799', 'text': 'Christian?" Well, because I go from time to'}, {'start': '1512.760', 'end': '1517.240', 'text': 'time, I go to'}, {'start': '1514.799', 'end': '1520.399', 'text': 'church, uh, from time to time I go in'}, {'start': '1517.240', 'end': '1523.840', 'text': 'the car and I put on a station that they called'}, {'start': '1520.399', 'end': '1523.840', 'text': 'godl and'}, {'start': '1524.039', 'end': '1528.240', 'text': 'well we already read First Corinthians,'}, {'start': '1526.440', 'end': '1531.240', 'text': 'chapter 6, verse 20. 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The implication of'}, {'start': '1575.039', 'end': '1579.840', 'text': 'cost.  What is the implication of the cost'}, {'start': '1577.760', 'end': '1583.279', 'text': 'through your blood?  In the Old'}, {'start': '1579.840', 'end': '1586.080', 'text': 'Testament, animal sacrifices were made'}, {'start': '1583.279', 'end': '1587.960', 'text': 'and all of that pointed to Christ, it'}, {'start': '1586.080', 'end': '1591.000', 'text': 'pointed to a lamb that had to'}, {'start': '1587.960', 'end': '1594.320', 'text': 'shed its blood and there we see'}, {'start': '1591.000', 'end': '1597.279', 'text': 'all of that and Hebrews 9:12 to 14 talks about'}, {'start': '1594.320', 'end': '1599.600', 'text': 'that.  Hebrews 9:22 talks about that.  The letter'}, {'start': '1597.279', 'end': '1601.600', 'text': 'to the Hebrews or the epistle, whatever'}, {'start': '1599.600', 'end': '1603.919', 'text': 'you want to call it, because it is not yet'}, {'start': '1601.600', 'end': '1606.200', 'text': 'defined what it is.  But there'}, {'start': '1603.919', 'end': '1609.200', 'text': 'we found all this that'}, {'start': '1606.200', 'end': '1611.559', 'text': 'had happened so that'}, {'start': '1609.200', 'end': '1613.720', 'text': 'we could understand.  Therefore, the'}, {'start': '1611.559', 'end': '1616.480', 'text': 'testimony of Scripture is'}, {'start': '1613.720', 'end': '1619.000', 'text': 'clear that there had to be'}, {'start': '1616.480', 'end': '1622.399', 'text': 'bloodshed, that a blood price had to be paid'}, {'start': '1619.000', 'end': '1625.120', 'text': '.  And blood is the evidence'}, {'start': '1622.399', 'end': '1628.640', 'text': 'of the Old Testament.  It clearly'}, {'start': '1625.120', 'end': '1632.520', 'text': 'shows blood as an indicator of the'}, {'start': '1628.640', 'end': '1634.960', 'text': 'death penalty.  So there was'}, {'start': '1632.520', 'end': '1637.600', 'text': 'a sacrifice'}, {'start': '1634.960', 'end': '1642.640', 'text': 'there.  The numerous references to the'}, {'start': '1637.600', 'end': '1642.640', 'text': 'blood of Christ also suggest a'}, {'start': '1642.679', 'end': '1646.840', 'text': 'sacrifice.  We cannot think of a'}, {'start': '1644.760', 'end': '1649.720', 'text': 'sacrifice without'}, {'start': '1646.840', 'end': '1651.120', 'text': 'blood.  We cannot think of death without'}, {'start': '1649.720', 'end': '1653.240', 'text': 'blood.'}, {'start': '1651.120', 'end': '1655.000', 'text': 'And sometimes thinking about a sacrifice,'}, {'start': '1653.240', 'end': '1658.360', 'text': 'thinking about blood, we can think,'}, {'start': '1655.000', 'end': '1660.600', 'text': 'well, as I read a commentator, I'}, {'start': '1658.360', 'end': '1662.440', 'text': 'liked what he said.  Sometimes we'}, {'start': '1660.600', 'end': '1664.919', 'text': 'think that when we think about'}, {'start': '1662.440', 'end': '1668.760', 'text': 'blood it has to do with, it was the case'}, {'start': '1664.919', 'end': '1671.640', 'text': 'of Christ, it was an'}, {'start': '1668.760', 'end': '1673.519', 'text': 'exceptional case, eh, shed blood.  But'}, {'start': '1671.640', 'end': '1676.440', 'text': 'sometimes when people think, we'}, {'start': '1673.519', 'end': '1678.799', 'text': 'usually think that there has to be,'}, {'start': '1676.440', 'end': '1681.480', 'text': 'like, blood everywhere, like'}, {'start': '1678.799', 'end': '1682.880', 'text': 'the priests did when they offered'}, {'start': '1681.480', 'end': '1685.320', 'text': 'sacrifices for the people in the'}, {'start': '1682.880', 'end': '1688.039', 'text': 'Old Testament.  There we have the'}, {'start': '1685.320', 'end': '1689.480', 'text': "butcher.  And that's what we see there in"}, {'start': '1688.039', 'end': '1691.480', 'text': 'the Old Testament.  We see the'}, {'start': '1689.480', 'end': '1693.960', 'text': 'priest doing the work of a'}, {'start': '1691.480', 'end': '1696.440', 'text': 'butcher.  The butcher comes and brings the'}, {'start': '1693.960', 'end': '1700.080', 'text': 'dove, they bring the sheep, they bring all that'}, {'start': '1696.440', 'end': '1702.360', 'text': "and there it is and it doesn't stop, it doesn't"}, {'start': '1700.080', 'end': '1705.519', 'text': 'rest.  And sometimes we think, but what did'}, {'start': '1702.360', 'end': '1708.399', 'text': 'that sacrifice mean to Christ'}, {'start': '1705.519', 'end': '1711.399', 'text': '?'}, {'start': '1708.399', 'end': '1714.760', 'text': 'For all this to happen, the son had to become'}, {'start': '1711.399', 'end': '1717.039', 'text': 'human, he had to be'}, {'start': '1714.760', 'end': '1721.000', 'text': 'despised, he had to be insulted, he'}, {'start': '1717.039', 'end': '1724.159', 'text': "had to endure the Father's wrath.  He had to"}, {'start': '1721.000', 'end': '1726.720', 'text': 'endure the wrath of the'}, {'start': '1724.159', 'end': '1731.000', 'text': 'Father.  And what'}, {'start': '1726.720', 'end': '1734.440', 'text': 'happened?  Do you remember the story of'}, {'start': '1731.000', 'end': '1739.279', 'text': 'Gethsemane in Luke 22?'}, {'start': '1734.440', 'end': '1739.279', 'text': 'Luke 22, chapter'}, {'start': '1742.120', 'end': '1747.159', 'text': '44, says, "And being in an'}, {'start': '1748.120', 'end': '1752.440', 'text': 'agony, he prayed more'}, {'start': '1758.320', 'end': '1764.240', 'text': 'earnestly from the 39th, Luke 22:39. And he'}, {'start': '1761.960', 'end': '1766.080', 'text': 'came out and went as his custom was to the Mount'}, {'start': '1764.240', 'end': '1766.960', 'text': 'of Olives, and his disciples also'}, {'start': '1766.960', 'end': '1773.320', 'text': 'followed him. And when he came to the place he'}, {'start': '1769.240', 'end': '1776.000', 'text': 'said to them, "Pray that you will not enter into'}, {'start': '1773.320', 'end': '1777.840', 'text': 'temptation." And he withdrew from them'}, {'start': '1776.000', 'end': '1780.240', 'text': "about a stone's throw."}, {'start': '1777.840', 'end': '1782.720', 'text': "A stone is taken from you and about a stone's throw from here to the"}, {'start': '1780.240', 'end': '1782.720', 'text': 'street,'}, {'start': '1783.080', 'end': '1792.799', 'text': "perhaps about a stone's throw. And he knelt down and"}, {'start': '1787.159', 'end': '1796.120', 'text': 'prayed, saying, "Father, if you are'}, {'start': '1792.799', 'end': '1800.640', 'text': 'willing, take this cup from me; nevertheless, not'}, {'start': '1796.120', 'end': '1803.399', 'text': 'my will, but yours be done." And what'}, {'start': '1800.640', 'end': '1806.480', 'text': 'happened? And an angel appeared to him from'}, {'start': '1803.399', 'end': '1808.480', 'text': 'heaven strengthening him.'}, {'start': '1806.480', 'end': '1812.640', 'text': 'And being in an agony, and this is the text'}, {'start': '1808.480', 'end': '1817.559', 'text': 'that I wanted to read to you, he prayed more'}, {'start': '1812.640', 'end': '1819.880', 'text': 'earnestly and look at the the uh the agony'}, {'start': '1817.559', 'end': '1822.360', 'text': 'that was there'}, {'start': '1819.880', 'end': '1825.760', 'text': '. And his'}, {'start': '1822.360', 'end': '1828.919', 'text': 'sweat was like great drops of blood'}, {'start': '1825.760', 'end': '1832.159', 'text': 'falling down to the ground. There was an agony'}, {'start': '1828.919', 'end': '1835.559', 'text': 'there, there was an affliction.'}, {'start': '1832.159', 'end': '1835.559', 'text': 'We see there the'}, {'start': '1836.080', 'end': '1841.039', 'text': 'incarnated God who had  than to be abandoned'}, {'start': '1839.240', 'end': '1844.960', 'text': 'by the Father.'}, {'start': '1841.039', 'end': '1848.480', 'text': "Why? For love of you and me. He didn't"}, {'start': '1844.960', 'end': '1850.760', 'text': 'need us, but He wanted to'}, {'start': '1848.480', 'end': '1852.240', 'text': 'love us.  Why did the Father want to'}, {'start': '1850.760', 'end': '1855.039', 'text': 'give up the most'}, {'start': '1852.240', 'end': '1857.240', 'text': 'precious thing for his enemies?  Why did he'}, {'start': '1855.039', 'end': '1861.440', 'text': 'want to do it if we were'}, {'start': '1857.240', 'end': '1865.159', 'text': 'his enemies?  Why did you want to do it?'}, {'start': '1861.440', 'end': '1867.799', 'text': 'That cost was'}, {'start': '1865.159', 'end': '1870.000', 'text': 'incalculable.  He is the owner of all the'}, {'start': '1867.799', 'end': '1873.480', 'text': 'gold, of all the silver in the'}, {'start': '1870.000', 'end': '1877.200', 'text': 'world.  But that was not'}, {'start': '1873.480', 'end': '1877.200', 'text': 'enough, that was not'}, {'start': '1877.799', 'end': '1882.279', 'text': 'enough.  Sometimes we are amazed by'}, {'start': '1880.760', 'end': '1884.519', 'text': 'the value we see in a'}, {'start': '1882.279', 'end': '1886.720', 'text': 'property, a house.'}, {'start': '1884.519', 'end': '1890.000', 'text': 'We are sometimes amazed when we see a'}, {'start': '1886.720', 'end': '1893.039', 'text': 'Ferrari there, a'}, {'start': '1890.000', 'end': '1895.679', 'text': "luxury car, and now it's fashionable to be amazed"}, {'start': '1893.039', 'end': '1897.440', 'text': 'and amazed by the price a'}, {'start': '1895.679', 'end': '1898.679', 'text': 'football slave has.  Now they sell them as'}, {'start': '1897.440', 'end': '1901.600', 'text': 'if they were'}, {'start': '1898.679', 'end': '1903.799', 'text': 'animals and we are amazed by that,'}, {'start': '1901.600', 'end': '1905.960', 'text': 'because they cost millions and millions just'}, {'start': '1903.799', 'end': '1908.600', 'text': 'because they hit a piece of leather.   Can'}, {'start': '1905.960', 'end': '1911.159', 'text': "you imagine how far we've"}, {'start': '1908.600', 'end': '1913.880', 'text': 'come?  And we are amazed by all'}, {'start': '1911.159', 'end': '1918.480', 'text': 'these things.'}, {'start': '1913.880', 'end': '1921.679', 'text': 'We are amazed to see the riches of this'}, {'start': '1918.480', 'end': '1924.519', 'text': 'world.  We were'}, {'start': '1921.679', 'end': '1926.200', 'text': 'amazed.  But this evening, beloved'}, {'start': '1924.519', 'end': '1928.960', 'text': 'brother and'}, {'start': '1926.200', 'end': '1931.919', 'text': 'sister, I want us to be'}, {'start': '1928.960', 'end': '1933.279', 'text': 'amazed at the riches of'}, {'start': '1933.279', 'end': '1942.000', 'text': "Christ's glory.  And that glory of Christ is at your"}, {'start': '1936.639', 'end': '1942.000', 'text': 'disposal and it is at my disposal.'}, {'start': '1942.480', 'end': '1946.240', 'text': 'What did it cost the'}, {'start': '1944.000', 'end': '1948.600', 'text': 'Father to'}, {'start': '1946.240', 'end': '1953.720', 'text': 'save his'}, {'start': '1948.600', 'end': '1956.840', 'text': 'enemies?  It cost him the blood of his'}, {'start': '1953.720', 'end': '1960.639', 'text': 'son because someone'}, {'start': '1956.840', 'end': '1964.120', 'text': 'had to pay the price for our'}, {'start': '1960.639', 'end': '1966.320', 'text': 'sins.  But why such a'}, {'start': '1964.120', 'end': '1969.159', 'text': 'sacrifice?  Why such a'}, {'start': '1966.320', 'end': '1971.440', 'text': 'sacrifice?  And we have read in'}, {'start': '1969.159', 'end': '1974.159', 'text': 'Leviticus and we have read in the New'}, {'start': '1971.440', 'end': '1980.320', 'text': 'Testament that without the shedding of'}, {'start': '1974.159', 'end': '1983.320', 'text': 'blood there is no remission, there is no forgiveness of'}, {'start': '1980.320', 'end': '1985.919', 'text': "sins.  God couldn't just look"}, {'start': '1983.320', 'end': '1990.159', 'text': 'away'}, {'start': '1985.919', 'end': '1993.480', 'text': 'and leave it at that, leave all the wrath that was'}, {'start': '1990.159', 'end': '1995.799', 'text': 'weighing down on'}, {'start': '1993.480', 'end': '1998.200', 'text': "us.  And you know why I couldn't"}, {'start': '1995.799', 'end': '2001.279', 'text': "leave it like that, I couldn't just look the"}, {'start': '1998.200', 'end': '2005.000', 'text': 'other way, because then I would stop'}, {'start': '2001.279', 'end': '2007.360', 'text': 'being a just God.  The anger had to'}, {'start': '2005.000', 'end': '2010.440', 'text': 'be'}, {'start': '2007.360', 'end': '2011.720', 'text': 'satisfied.  There was a wrath that had to'}, {'start': '2010.440', 'end': '2015.240', 'text': 'be'}, {'start': '2011.720', 'end': '2018.440', 'text': 'satisfied, a debt that had to be'}, {'start': '2015.240', 'end': '2022.919', 'text': 'paid, a redemption that had to be'}, {'start': '2018.440', 'end': '2024.799', 'text': 'purchased at the price of blood.'}, {'start': '2022.919', 'end': '2027.200', 'text': 'and it'}, {'start': '2024.799', 'end': '2030.880', 'text': 'would only be'}, {'start': '2027.200', 'end': '2034.039', 'text': 'satisfied through a lamb without'}, {'start': '2030.880', 'end': '2036.639', 'text': 'blemish, a paschal lamb, a'}, {'start': '2034.039', 'end': '2040.039', 'text': 'lamb without contamination, a lamb'}, {'start': '2036.639', 'end': '2042.320', 'text': 'without defect.  And the only one who could fulfill'}, {'start': '2040.039', 'end': '2048.320', 'text': 'that expectation, the only one who could'}, {'start': '2042.320', 'end': '2051.040', 'text': 'fulfill all those demands was our'}, {'start': '2048.320', 'end': '2053.359', 'text': 'Christ.  The Father punished his son in'}, {'start': '2051.040', 'end': '2053.359', 'text': 'our'}, {'start': '2053.720', 'end': '2061.079', 'text': 'place.  Let us think about the result that this'}, {'start': '2057.119', 'end': '2061.079', 'text': 'brought, the forgiveness of our'}, {'start': '2061.800', 'end': '2066.399', 'text': 'sins.  How can we define'}, {'start': '2066.399', 'end': '2070.119', 'text': 'forgiveness?  How can we define'}, {'start': '2070.119', 'end': '2076.839', 'text': 'forgiveness?  On more than one occasion we'}, {'start': '2072.599', 'end': '2076.839', 'text': 'have found ourselves in trouble.   I'}, {'start': '2078.200', 'end': '2086.359', 'text': 'remember when I was a boy,'}, {'start': '2081.040', 'end': '2089.079', 'text': 'eh, in matters of'}, {'start': '2086.359', 'end': '2091.040', 'text': 'boys, someone, a boy from my'}, {'start': '2089.079', 'end': '2095.760', 'text': 'age, eh, I had a problem with him and we'}, {'start': '2091.040', 'end': '2100.040', 'text': 'had problems and we, well, we'}, {'start': '2095.760', 'end': '2102.200', 'text': 'fought.  Hey, he lost.'}, {'start': '2100.040', 'end': '2103.599', 'text': 'But when I thought about having to'}, {'start': '2102.200', 'end': '2107.480', 'text': 'go through the place where that'}, {'start': '2103.599', 'end': '2109.160', 'text': 'boy was, I was panicking,'}, {'start': '2107.480', 'end': '2113.440', 'text': "because I knew he wasn't going to come"}, {'start': '2109.160', 'end': '2115.119', 'text': 'so easily now, he was going to come with difficulty.'}, {'start': '2113.440', 'end': '2117.480', 'text': 'And what I thought, at least this'}, {'start': '2115.119', 'end': '2119.839', 'text': 'guy would come up to me and say, "I'}, {'start': '2117.480', 'end': '2121.200', 'text': 'forgive you. If this guy wants, he could come'}, {'start': '2119.839', 'end': '2123.680', 'text': 'and say, hey, what happened? How'}, {'start': '2121.200', 'end': '2126.640', 'text': 'are we?"  No problem, do'}, {'start': '2123.680', 'end': '2130.720', 'text': "n't worry.  There was an affliction."}, {'start': '2126.640', 'end': '2132.640', 'text': 'So the result of forgiveness is'}, {'start': '2130.720', 'end': '2135.320', 'text': 'peace.  That is'}, {'start': '2132.640', 'end': '2138.839', 'text': 'beautiful, to be able to enjoy the peace that'}, {'start': '2135.320', 'end': '2142.560', 'text': 'God gives us.  Therefore there is no'}, {'start': '2138.839', 'end': '2144.640', 'text': 'condemnation.  Even Israel understood this.   On'}, {'start': '2142.560', 'end': '2147.160', 'text': 'the Day of Atonement, the blood of a'}, {'start': '2144.640', 'end': '2149.280', 'text': 'goat was sprinkled on the'}, {'start': '2147.160', 'end': '2151.920', 'text': "mercy seat.  And what we've read a"}, {'start': '2149.280', 'end': '2154.000', 'text': 'little bit of this, we know that'}, {'start': '2151.920', 'end': '2156.960', 'text': 'the high priest had to dress'}, {'start': '2154.000', 'end': '2158.440', 'text': 'differently, eh, his moral life, his'}, {'start': '2156.960', 'end': '2161.440', 'text': 'spiritual life and all things'}, {'start': '2158.440', 'end': '2164.400', 'text': 'before God had to be someone, that'}, {'start': '2161.440', 'end': '2164.400', 'text': 'is, walking'}, {'start': '2165.440', 'end': '2171.560', 'text': 'upright.  And these things happened.  the eh'}, {'start': '2169.000', 'end': '2173.920', 'text': 'people brought their pigeons.  Every year'}, {'start': '2171.560', 'end': '2175.359', 'text': 'people went up to the temple and'}, {'start': '2173.920', 'end': '2179.119', 'text': 'these sacrifices were made there.  So that?  For the'}, {'start': '2175.359', 'end': '2181.599', 'text': 'forgiveness of the sins of that year.  And so they'}, {'start': '2179.119', 'end': '2183.000', 'text': 'approached the next year and arrived'}, {'start': '2181.599', 'end': '2185.560', 'text': 'like this.'}, {'start': '2183.000', 'end': '2187.319', 'text': 'Then the blood of the goat or'}, {'start': '2185.560', 'end': '2190.680', 'text': 'animal was sprinkled on the'}, {'start': '2187.319', 'end': '2193.960', 'text': 'mercy seat.  Now, in Ephesians 1:7, the'}, {'start': '2190.680', 'end': '2197.040', 'text': 'whole idea is the removal of sin.   It'}, {'start': '2193.960', 'end': '2199.359', 'text': 'constitutes the very meaning of the'}, {'start': '2197.040', 'end': '2201.800', 'text': 'word used in the original language and'}, {'start': '2199.359', 'end': '2204.040', 'text': 'translated as forgiveness, as remission.  That'}, {'start': '2201.800', 'end': '2206.839', 'text': "'s what bloodshed means"}, {'start': '2204.040', 'end': '2210.640', 'text': '.  In other passages that bring'}, {'start': '2206.839', 'end': '2213.200', 'text': 'this meaning to light, they are Psalm 1031'}, {'start': '2210.640', 'end': '2215.880', 'text': 'which says, "As far as the east is'}, {'start': '2213.200', 'end': '2218.359', 'text': 'from the west, so far has he removed'}, {'start': '2215.880', 'end': '2220.359', 'text': 'our transgressions and our sins from us."'}, {'start': '2218.359', 'end': '2225.520', 'text': 'That is Psalm'}, {'start': '2220.359', 'end': '2228.160', 'text': '103:12.  Isaiah 44:22 says, "I will cast away'}, {'start': '2225.520', 'end': '2231.240', 'text': 'like a cloud your transgressions and like'}, {'start': '2228.160', 'end': '2233.640', 'text': 'mist your sins. Return to me, for'}, {'start': '2231.240', 'end': '2235.960', 'text': 'I have redeemed you," says Isaiah'}, {'start': '2233.640', 'end': '2239.599', 'text': '44:22. Jeremiah'}, {'start': '2235.960', 'end': '2242.119', 'text': '31:34 says, "For they will all know me,'}, {'start': '2239.599', 'end': '2244.440', 'text': 'from the least of them to the'}, {'start': '2242.119', 'end': '2247.119', 'text': 'greatest of them, says the Lord, for'}, {'start': '2244.440', 'end': '2249.680', 'text': 'I will forgive their iniquity and'}, {'start': '2247.119', 'end': '2253.480', 'text': 'remember their'}, {'start': '2249.680', 'end': '2256.200', 'text': 'sin no more." Micah 7:19 says, "And you'}, {'start': '2253.480', 'end': '2258.680', 'text': 'will cast all their sins into the'}, {'start': '2256.200', 'end': '2262.040', 'text': 'depths of the sea." And 1'}, {'start': '2258.680', 'end': '2264.400', 'text': 'John 19 says if we confess our'}, {'start': '2262.040', 'end': '2267.319', 'text': 'sins, he is faithful and just to'}, {'start': '2264.400', 'end': '2270.040', 'text': 'forgive our sins and cleanse us'}, {'start': '2267.319', 'end': '2273.760', 'text': 'from all unrighteousness. He wants to get there,'}, {'start': '2270.040', 'end': '2277.200', 'text': "brother. We're either there or we want to get"}, {'start': '2273.760', 'end': '2280.960', 'text': "there. We're going to the fountain of joy, we're going to"}, {'start': '2277.200', 'end': '2280.960', 'text': 'the fountain of forgiveness.'}, {'start': '2282.359', 'end': '2287.400', 'text': "There's a song too that we"}, {'start': '2284.960', 'end': '2289.200', 'text': "sing, that we've sung here, that"}, {'start': '2287.400', 'end': '2292.040', 'text': 'we heard in the chariot, that we'}, {'start': '2289.200', 'end': '2296.560', 'text': 'heard in the house before the'}, {'start': '2292.040', 'end': '2299.720', 'text': 'heavenly throne. He intercedes for me today, great  The'}, {'start': '2296.560', 'end': '2301.200', 'text': 'priest is Jesus, who'}, {'start': '2299.720', 'end': '2303.680', 'text': 'will live forever.'}, {'start': '2301.200', 'end': '2306.839', 'text': 'And another verse says, "When I have fallen into'}, {'start': '2303.680', 'end': '2310.079', 'text': 'temptation and feel condemnation,'}, {'start': '2306.839', 'end': '2312.319', 'text': 'looking up to heaven, I will find the innocent one'}, {'start': '2310.079', 'end': '2312.319', 'text': 'who has'}, {'start': '2312.400', 'end': '2317.880', 'text': 'died." We are no longer'}, {'start': '2315.000', 'end': '2320.599', 'text': 'punished in the position of sons.  And'}, {'start': '2317.880', 'end': '2324.200', 'text': 'this is how we are going to land'}, {'start': '2320.599', 'end': '2327.119', 'text': 'in the position of children, in the position'}, {'start': '2324.200', 'end': '2328.760', 'text': 'of adoption, in the position of that'}, {'start': '2327.119', 'end': '2330.839', 'text': 'choice that God made from the'}, {'start': '2328.760', 'end': '2332.560', 'text': 'foundation of the world, from before the'}, {'start': '2330.839', 'end': '2336.599', 'text': 'foundation of the'}, {'start': '2332.560', 'end': '2339.839', 'text': 'world, in the condition of being'}, {'start': '2336.599', 'end': '2342.079', 'text': 'forgiven, we are no longer'}, {'start': '2339.839', 'end': '2344.880', 'text': 'punished.  In the condition of being'}, {'start': '2342.079', 'end': '2347.319', 'text': 'forgiven we are no longer punished.  What'}, {'start': '2344.880', 'end': '2350.319', 'text': 'are we in the condition of being forgiven?'}, {'start': '2347.319', 'end': '2350.319', 'text': 'We are'}, {'start': '2351.079', 'end': '2355.800', 'text': 'disciplined,'}, {'start': '2353.400', 'end': '2360.160', 'text': 'we sin, there is'}, {'start': '2355.800', 'end': '2363.000', 'text': 'discipline, and the greatest example, the one that'}, {'start': '2360.160', 'end': '2365.200', 'text': 'goes from here to there and the one that resonates most'}, {'start': '2363.000', 'end': '2369.400', 'text': 'when it comes to correction and'}, {'start': '2365.200', 'end': '2374.319', 'text': 'discipline, is that of our children.'}, {'start': '2369.400', 'end': '2376.880', 'text': 'We want to see a crooked son,'}, {'start': '2374.319', 'end': '2379.760', 'text': "let him.  Don't say anything to him, don't scold him,"}, {'start': '2376.880', 'end': '2381.440', 'text': 'let him have his bed as if a'}, {'start': '2379.760', 'end': '2385.119', 'text': 'little animal slept'}, {'start': '2381.440', 'end': '2387.400', 'text': 'there, let the abatrastes be there'}, {'start': '2385.119', 'end': '2390.319', 'text': 'as if someone is going to arrive the'}, {'start': '2387.400', 'end': '2392.079', 'text': 'next day.'}, {'start': '2390.319', 'end': '2394.720', 'text': 'But if we discipline them, that'}, {'start': '2392.079', 'end': '2396.720', 'text': 'is the greatest demonstration of love we'}, {'start': '2394.720', 'end': '2399.280', 'text': 'can have.  The Lord does the same'}, {'start': '2396.720', 'end': '2401.200', 'text': 'with us.  My son, in me you have'}, {'start': '2399.280', 'end': '2403.280', 'text': 'forgiveness, in me you have mercy.  All'}, {'start': '2401.200', 'end': '2405.480', 'text': 'grace, the riches of grace have'}, {'start': '2403.280', 'end': '2408.079', 'text': 'been poured out upon your life, but I'}, {'start': '2405.480', 'end': '2410.119', 'text': 'cannot let you do as you see fit'}, {'start': '2408.079', 'end': '2412.680', 'text': ', as the people of Israel wandered'}, {'start': '2410.119', 'end': '2415.000', 'text': 'there in the desert for 40 years,'}, {'start': '2412.680', 'end': '2416.920', 'text': 'and they did what seemed right to them.  Hey,'}, {'start': '2415.000', 'end': '2419.640', 'text': "Moses didn't come down.  They called the"}, {'start': '2416.920', 'end': '2423.839', 'text': 'priest there and what did he do?'}, {'start': '2419.640', 'end': '2427.280', 'text': 'built a calf there.  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If I sin against God and he does'}, {'start': '2464.920', 'end': '2470.839', 'text': 'not discipline me, one, I am'}, {'start': '2467.760', 'end': '2473.520', 'text': 'storing up wrath for the day of wrath,'}, {'start': '2470.839', 'end': '2477.079', 'text': 'because perhaps I have not been justified in'}, {'start': '2473.520', 'end': '2477.079', 'text': 'his sight.'}, {'start': '2479.839', 'end': '2484.960', 'text': 'And because'}, {'start': '2481.920', 'end': '2488.960', 'text': 'discipline has to lead me, it must'}, {'start': '2484.960', 'end': '2491.400', 'text': 'lead me to see more of His character, to see'}, {'start': '2488.960', 'end': '2494.440', 'text': 'more of His holiness.  And as we are going to be in'}, {'start': '2491.400', 'end': '2498.160', 'text': 'closing, this attribute of'}, {'start': '2494.440', 'end': '2500.880', 'text': 'forgiveness, there are attributes of God that are'}, {'start': '2498.160', 'end': '2505.000', 'text': 'incommunicable.  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We'}, {'start': '2530.680', 'end': '2536.839', 'text': 'have been forgiven and there, as I said,'}, {'start': '2532.800', 'end': '2541.520', 'text': 'we are going to start'}, {'start': '2536.839', 'end': '2544.880', 'text': 'lowering the power of the'}, {'start': '2541.520', 'end': '2548.640', 'text': 'engines.  We have been'}, {'start': '2544.880', 'end': '2552.240', 'text': 'forgiven without having deserved'}, {'start': '2548.640', 'end': '2552.240', 'text': 'forgiveness.'}, {'start': '2553.040', 'end': '2556.640', 'text': 'We forgive.'}, {'start': '2557.000', 'end': '2563.720', 'text': 'We forgive this communicable attribute.  Do you'}, {'start': '2561.119', 'end': '2565.400', 'text': 'remember that part of'}, {'start': '2563.720', 'end': '2568.200', 'text': 'the scripture that says, "If your brother'}, {'start': '2565.400', 'end': '2571.760', 'text': 'sins 70 times against you, what'}, {'start': '2568.200', 'end': '2575.040', 'text': 'happens? There it is. 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There is hope in Jesus Christ.'}, {'start': '2666.040', 'end': '2671.720', 'text': 'Our debt has already been'}, {'start': '2669.200', 'end': '2674.119', 'text': 'paid.  Let us not look at our sins and'}, {'start': '2671.720', 'end': '2677.280', 'text': 'say, how?  How can this'}, {'start': '2674.119', 'end': '2679.559', 'text': 'sin be that God will not'}, {'start': '2677.280', 'end': '2682.680', 'text': 'forgive me?  We sin and say, "With'}, {'start': '2679.559', 'end': '2683.800', 'text': 'this sin I can no longer have'}, {'start': '2682.680', 'end': '2686.680', 'text': 'God\'s forgiveness."'}, {'start': '2683.800', 'end': '2689.319', 'text': 'Brothers, the doors of salvation,'}, {'start': '2686.680', 'end': '2691.920', 'text': 'of grace, of mercy are'}, {'start': '2689.319', 'end': '2695.400', 'text': 'wide open.  If we'}, {'start': '2691.920', 'end': '2696.520', 'text': 'come to Christ, we must no longer live'}, {'start': '2695.400', 'end': '2699.760', 'text': 'like'}, {'start': '2696.520', 'end': '2702.839', 'text': "condemned people.  It's not about my emotions, it's not"}, {'start': '2699.760', 'end': '2706.280', 'text': 'about my'}, {'start': '2702.839', 'end': '2708.319', 'text': "downcast emotions, it's not about how I feel, it's not about any"}, {'start': '2706.280', 'end': '2711.040', 'text': 'guilt that might be'}, {'start': '2708.319', 'end': '2714.119', 'text': 'tormenting me.  It is about the sacrifice of'}, {'start': '2711.040', 'end': '2716.440', 'text': 'Christ and that frees us from'}, {'start': '2714.119', 'end': '2720.160', 'text': 'condemnation.  Because?  For when he'}, {'start': '2716.440', 'end': '2722.280', 'text': 'said, "It is finished," he paid for it all.  He'}, {'start': '2720.160', 'end': '2725.240', 'text': 'paid for everything.  He is'}, {'start': '2722.280', 'end': '2727.960', 'text': 'our redeemer.  And there is no other'}, {'start': '2725.240', 'end': '2731.200', 'text': 'word in our Christian vocabulary'}, {'start': '2727.960', 'end': '2734.960', 'text': 'that is considered more precious than the'}, {'start': '2731.200', 'end': '2737.119', 'text': 'word redeemer or redemption.  Because?'}, {'start': '2734.960', 'end': '2742.079', 'text': 'Because that gives us the assurance that we have'}, {'start': '2737.119', 'end': '2744.760', 'text': 'been forgiven through the work of'}, {'start': '2742.079', 'end': '2748.000', 'text': 'Christ.  It has been purchased at a great'}, {'start': '2744.760', 'end': '2751.880', 'text': 'price because the Lord gave himself'}, {'start': '2748.000', 'end': '2754.480', 'text': 'for our sins.  to get rid of'}, {'start': '2751.880', 'end': '2759.000', 'text': 'them.  He is rich in'}, {'start': '2754.480', 'end': '2761.920', 'text': 'grace.  He is rich in grace.'}, {'start': '2759.000', 'end': '2763.960', 'text': 'His grace never ends.  He will never'}, {'start': '2761.920', 'end': '2767.599', 'text': 'tell anyone to come to him with a'}, {'start': '2763.960', 'end': '2771.280', 'text': "contrite and humbled heart.  Hey, he's"}, {'start': '2767.599', 'end': '2773.880', 'text': 'never going to tell us, "You\'ve sinned'}, {'start': '2771.280', 'end': '2774.960', 'text': "again. This is it for you. Now, I can't"}, {'start': '2773.880', 'end': '2779.800', 'text': 'do it anymore.'}, {'start': '2774.960', 'end': '2781.359', 'text': 'No, he is infinite in mercy,'}, {'start': '2779.800', 'end': '2784.040', 'text': 'infinite in'}, {'start': '2781.359', 'end': '2787.319', 'text': 'forgiveness. His mercies are new'}, {'start': '2784.040', 'end': '2790.000', 'text': 'every morning. 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The believer'}, {'start': '2817.240', 'end': '2822.640', 'text': ', the child of'}, {'start': '2819.880', 'end': '2825.800', 'text': 'God, the'}, {'start': '2822.640', 'end': '2827.920', 'text': 'forgiven one, is going to look'}, {'start': '2825.800', 'end': '2832.200', 'text': 'different. I want you to turn with me,'}, {'start': '2827.920', 'end': '2832.200', 'text': 'please, to close Luke 747.'}, {'start': '2836.280', 'end': '2839.440', 'text': '747 of'}, {'start': '2853.200', 'end': '2858.079', 'text': 'Luke. 36. 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One owed him 500 denarii, and'}, {'start': '2995.760', 'end': '3002.160', 'text': 'the other also owed him'}, {'start': '2998.280', 'end': '3006.359', 'text': '50. And they not having wherewith to'}, {'start': '3002.160', 'end': '3011.400', 'text': 'repay, he forgave them both.'}, {'start': '3006.359', 'end': '3017.319', 'text': 'Tell me then, which of them will love him'}, {'start': '3011.400', 'end': '3019.839', 'text': 'more?" And Simon the Pharisee answered well and'}, {'start': '3017.319', 'end': '3022.280', 'text': 'said, I suppose that he who forgave'}, {'start': '3019.839', 'end': '3023.680', 'text': 'more, to whom he forgave more. And he said to her,'}, {'start': '3022.280', 'end': '3025.400', 'text': 'The Lord'}, {'start': '3023.680', 'end': '3028.440', 'text': 'said unto her,'}, {'start': '3025.400', 'end': '3031.720', 'text': 'Justly, rightly has he'}, {'start': '3028.440', 'end': '3035.240', 'text': 'judged. And turning to the woman, he said to'}, {'start': '3031.720', 'end': '3038.079', 'text': 'Simon, Go, see this lady standing'}, {'start': '3035.240', 'end': '3038.079', 'text': 'here, whom you say is a'}, {'start': '3038.280', 'end': '3046.040', 'text': 'sinner. I came into your'}, {'start': '3041.680', 'end': '3049.480', 'text': 'house, and you gave me no water for my feet;'}, {'start': '3046.040', 'end': '3053.400', 'text': 'yet she hath bathed my feet with her tears,'}, {'start': '3049.480', 'end': '3055.960', 'text': 'and wiped them with her'}, {'start': '3053.400', 'end': '3059.200', 'text': 'hair. You gave me no kiss, yet she'}, {'start': '3055.960', 'end': '3061.440', 'text': 'hath not ceased to kiss my feet ever since I came in'}, {'start': '3061.960', 'end': '3068.720', 'text': '. You did not anoint my head with  oil,'}, {'start': '3064.839', 'end': '3071.040', 'text': 'but this lady has anointed'}, {'start': '3068.720', 'end': '3073.440', 'text': 'my feet with perfume.'}, {'start': '3071.040', 'end': '3077.680', 'text': 'Therefore I'}, {'start': '3073.440', 'end': '3080.440', 'text': 'tell you, her many sins are'}, {'start': '3077.680', 'end': '3084.119', 'text': 'forgiven, for she loved'}, {'start': '3080.440', 'end': '3086.960', 'text': 'much. But to whom'}, {'start': '3084.119', 'end': '3088.960', 'text': 'little is forgiven, who is considered righteous as'}, {'start': '3086.960', 'end': '3092.319', 'text': 'you, Simon the'}, {'start': '3088.960', 'end': '3095.240', 'text': 'Pharisee, what love will he'}, {'start': '3092.319', 'end': '3098.440', 'text': 'show?  What love will he show?  And what did'}, {'start': '3095.240', 'end': '3102.079', 'text': 'he say to the woman?  Verse 48.'}, {'start': '3098.440', 'end': '3104.640', 'text': 'And to the woman who was called a'}, {'start': '3102.079', 'end': '3106.480', 'text': 'sinner, he'}, {'start': '3104.640', 'end': '3108.319', 'text': 'said, "Your'}, {'start': '3106.480', 'end': '3111.319', 'text': 'sins'}, {'start': '3108.319', 'end': '3111.319', 'text': 'are'}, {'start': '3112.040', 'end': '3116.760', 'text': 'forgiven. What'}, {'start': '3114.720', 'end': '3120.000', 'text': 'is your'}, {'start': '3116.760', 'end': '3123.839', 'text': 'position? What is my'}, {'start': '3120.000', 'end': '3126.359', 'text': 'position before God?"'}, {'start': '3123.839', 'end': '3129.359', 'text': 'And recognizing that we must adorn'}, {'start': '3126.359', 'end': '3129.359', 'text': 'the doctrine of the'}, {'start': '3131.160', 'end': '3137.200', 'text': 'gospel, if the God who created the'}, {'start': '3133.760', 'end': '3140.319', 'text': 'universe extended love to us even though we'}, {'start': '3137.200', 'end': '3140.319', 'text': "didn't deserve it"}, {'start': '3141.280', 'end': '3146.319', 'text': ', how are our relationships'}, {'start': '3143.960', 'end': '3146.319', 'text': 'with'}, {'start': '3147.160', 'end': '3154.160', 'text': 'others?  How is my heart and yours'}, {'start': '3151.520', 'end': '3157.640', 'text': 'with others?  Did someone'}, {'start': '3154.160', 'end': '3157.640', 'text': 'fail you?  Did someone'}, {'start': '3158.000', 'end': '3164.280', 'text': 'fail me?  Or as we have said and heard'}, {'start': '3162.160', 'end': '3165.960', 'text': 'several times, how are the yucas in'}, {'start': '3164.280', 'end': '3170.760', 'text': 'your'}, {'start': '3165.960', 'end': '3170.760', 'text': 'heart?  How are the stones in my'}, {'start': '3171.000', 'end': '3177.880', 'text': 'heart?  He who is forgiven much,'}, {'start': '3174.480', 'end': '3177.880', 'text': 'loves much.'}, {'start': '3179.799', 'end': '3185.000', 'text': 'Brothers, may our condition not cease to'}, {'start': '3182.559', 'end': '3187.760', 'text': 'be that of this woman, recognizing'}, {'start': '3185.000', 'end': '3190.799', 'text': 'our sin, but that in Christ we have'}, {'start': '3187.760', 'end': '3194.799', 'text': 'been forgiven.'}, {'start': '3190.799', 'end': '3194.799', 'text': 'Amen.  We pray.'}, {'start': '3198.280', 'end': '3202.559', 'text': 'Blessed Father in'}, {'start': '3205.119', 'end': '3212.359', 'text': 'heaven, uh, our minds are'}, {'start': '3208.680', 'end': '3215.799', 'text': 'limited, Lord,'}, {'start': '3212.359', 'end': '3218.960', 'text': 'because uh, these are such strong truths, these are'}, {'start': '3215.799', 'end': '3221.400', 'text': 'such hard truths,'}, {'start': '3218.960', 'end': '3224.520', 'text': 'but we rest, Lord, in your'}, {'start': '3221.400', 'end': '3227.200', 'text': 'mercy and in your goodness that every'}, {'start': '3224.520', 'end': '3229.839', 'text': 'day, Lord, Lord, now that we have been'}, {'start': '3227.200', 'end': '3231.720', 'text': 'redeemed through your blood, that'}, {'start': '3229.839', 'end': '3235.280', 'text': 'we have received the forgiveness of our'}, {'start': '3231.720', 'end': '3239.280', 'text': 'sins, Lord, we are to walk in a'}, {'start': '3235.280', 'end': '3242.000', 'text': "holy and godly manner.  That's the"}, {'start': '3239.280', 'end': '3242.799', 'text': 'call.  Please, Lord, do not allow'}, {'start': '3242.799', 'end': '3249.960', 'text': 'us to stray from that'}, {'start': '3246.559', 'end': '3251.440', 'text': 'righteousness that you demand.   We'}, {'start': '3249.960', 'end': '3254.079', 'text': 'have been forgiven of our'}, {'start': '3251.440', 'end': '3257.640', 'text': 'sins and the condemnation that was'}, {'start': '3254.079', 'end': '3261.200', 'text': 'hanging over us, that we'}, {'start': '3257.640', 'end': '3263.640', 'text': 'were carrying, Lord, has been removed'}, {'start': '3261.200', 'end': '3265.839', 'text': 'from us and we are no longer'}, {'start': '3263.640', 'end': '3268.079', 'text': 'seen as sinners, but as'}, {'start': '3265.839', 'end': '3270.559', 'text': 'justified by the Father through the'}, {'start': '3268.079', 'end': '3273.480', 'text': 'work of the Son and that the Spirit, Lord,'}, {'start': '3270.559', 'end': '3276.359', 'text': 'is molding us and leading us to be'}, {'start': '3273.480', 'end': '3279.400', 'text': 'transformed into that'}, {'start': '3276.359', 'end': '3282.000', 'text': "character.  That's your word."}, {'start': '3279.400', 'end': '3284.280', 'text': 'Those are not my words.'}, {'start': '3282.000', 'end': '3287.640', 'text': 'Please, I pray that in the name of'}, {'start': '3284.280', 'end': '3291.599', 'text': 'your Son Jesus Christ, these words that'}, {'start': '3287.640', 'end': '3295.880', 'text': 'we have read from your word, Lord, may'}, {'start': '3291.599', 'end': '3298.000', 'text': 'be nailed and carved, Lord, as the'}, {'start': '3295.880', 'end': '3300.280', 'text': 'sculptor, Lord, does in stone or'}, {'start': '3298.000', 'end': '3302.240', 'text': 'does in wood, Lord, that they remain'}, {'start': '3300.280', 'end': '3305.440', 'text': 'in our hearts, Lord, and that they'}, {'start': '3302.240', 'end': '3307.559', 'text': 'may thus shape, bear fruit, and'}, {'start': '3305.440', 'end': '3309.559', 'text': 'show those goodnesses that we have received'}, {'start': '3307.559', 'end': '3311.200', 'text': 'in Christ through the forgiveness of'}, {'start': '3309.559', 'end': '3314.160', 'text': 'sins.  If we have been'}, {'start': '3311.200', 'end': '3315.880', 'text': 'forgiven, help us, Lord, to forgive.'}, {'start': '3314.160', 'end': '3317.839', 'text': 'Hey, allow, Lord, that next'}, {'start': '3315.880', 'end': '3320.400', 'text': 'Sunday, Lord, we only cover the'}, {'start': '3317.839', 'end': '3322.599', 'text': 'first element of these verses.'}, {'start': '3320.400', 'end': '3327.280', 'text': 'Lord, I pray that you will help us,'}, {'start': '3322.599', 'end': '3329.160', 'text': 'Lord, to always be in the fight,'}, {'start': '3327.280', 'end': '3332.599', 'text': 'against our sin, in the fight,'}, {'start': '3329.160', 'end': '3334.680', 'text': 'Lord, in exhibiting your character in'}, {'start': '3332.599', 'end': '3336.720', 'text': 'us.'}, {'start': '3334.680', 'end': '3339.720', 'text': 'I pray, Lord, for those sisters and'}, {'start': '3336.720', 'end': '3341.960', 'text': 'brothers who are suffering'}, {'start': '3339.720', 'end': '3344.640', 'text': 'from illnesses and pains in their'}, {'start': '3341.960', 'end': '3347.119', 'text': 'bodies.  I beg you, Lord,'}, {'start': '3344.640', 'end': '3350.039', 'text': 'according to your mercy, your goodness,'}, {'start': '3347.119', 'end': '3351.920', 'text': 'your sovereign will, that you work, Lord,'}, {'start': '3350.039', 'end': '3353.599', 'text': 'in our brothers and sisters.  I'}, {'start': '3351.920', 'end': '3355.839', 'text': 'pray for those who are'}, {'start': '3353.599', 'end': '3357.599', 'text': 'also preparing to return from'}, {'start': '3355.839', 'end': '3359.559', 'text': 'where they are, Lord, that you bring them'}, {'start': '3359.559', 'end': '3364.720', 'text': 'safely.  I pray, Lord, also for those'}, {'start': '3362.079', 'end': '3367.039', 'text': 'who may be discouraged, that you,'}, {'start': '3364.720', 'end': '3369.520', 'text': 'Lord, will bring to us, who have been'}, {'start': '3367.039', 'end': '3372.319', 'text': 'forgiven, and that that forgiveness, Lord,'}, {'start': '3369.520', 'end': '3376.079', 'text': 'may be a cause, Lord, for which'}, {'start': '3372.319', 'end': '3381.200', 'text': 'we, Lord, feel the'}, {'start': '3376.079', 'end': '3384.079', 'text': 'most explicit need of you.  Please,'}, {'start': '3381.200', 'end': '3386.039', 'text': 'we rest in you, in your mercy, and'}, {'start': '3384.079', 'end': '3389.119', 'text': 'thank you, Lord, for that great salvation'}, {'start': '3386.039', 'end': '3390.960', 'text': 'that was purchased, Lord, on the'}, {'start': '3389.119', 'end': '3394.200', 'text': 'cross of Calvary.  With the shedding'}, {'start': '3390.960', 'end': '3397.200', 'text': 'of blood, we have been'}, {'start': '3394.200', 'end': '3399.240', 'text': 'forgiven.  Thank you for redeeming us.'}, {'start': '3397.200', 'end': '3401.640', 'text': 'Thank you, Lord, that next week'}, {'start': '3399.240', 'end': '3404.480', 'text': 'we will be seeing that inheritance that'}, {'start': '3401.640', 'end': '3407.319', 'text': 'we have in you and that was born to you'}, {'start': '3404.480', 'end': '3410.319', 'text': ', to you by your good pleasure, Lord,'}, {'start': '3407.319', 'end': '3413.240', 'text': 'has been carried out.  Not for us,'}, {'start': '3410.319', 'end': '3415.720', 'text': 'but for you, Lord.  You are the hero,'}, {'start': '3413.240', 'end': '3417.839', 'text': 'not us.  Humble us and exalt yourself,'}, {'start': '3415.720', 'end': '3420.240', 'text': 'Lord.  In the name of Jesus we pray'}, {'start': '3417.839', 'end': '3423.720', 'text': 'these things.'}, {'start': '3420.240', 'end': '3428.920', 'text': 'Amen.  Amen.  Brothers, God'}, {'start': '3423.720', 'end': '3428.920', 'text': 'bless you next Friday, please do'}]