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real life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim

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truth, equip the saints and impact our culture.

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Hell says justice on you, hell says justice on Jack, I cry out in mercy and

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and based upon the expense of Jesus Christ at the cross, his death in my place,

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he purchased my salvation.

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You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast.

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Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life

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in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings.

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To us, that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen.

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Now, open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you.

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Here is Jack Hibbs.

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We begin this with an awakening that we have sinned and the Bible says that sin

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pays dividends at the end of the quarter.

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You'll either have a prophet, you'll either break even or you'll go broke.

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And the Bible says the sin that wages pay is death.

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You get a statement in the mail and it's death.

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We all know this is true.

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But thank God, the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus.

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Wow, see, this is beginning to build the road.

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It was pretty foggy there at the beginning, but now I'm starting to see a little bit of clarity.

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Step four, Romans, chapter five, verse eight says, but God demonstrated His own love toward us

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in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

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Can we have a, can we thank God for that?

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Wow.

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If you are arguing, if this is an argumentation or a debate class, this is a

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toughy because I love the fact that I believe that this verse proves the

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existence of God regarding our salvation.

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When it says that God demonstrated His own love toward us, that while some of

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your Bibles say, while we were yet or still, yes, sinners Christ died for us.

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Let's be honest, why in the world would you and I pay anything

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for somebody who is the antithesis of who we are or what we like or want?

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Think of it. Think about somebody in this world that you can encounter in life that is the

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opposite of everything you believe in and God says die for them.

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So imagine Charlie Manson condemned to death

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and you step in and take Charlie Manson's place.

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That's what God did for us. Who does this?

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God did this. This is the good news.

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That God would step in and say, listen, Jack, are you guilty?

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And see, here's the thing. Can you understand this?

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Can you imagine if you say, man, I love that person so much.

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Oh, do you know them? I don't know them.

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But I've watched them on the TV show and then the court TV thing.

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And I just love that person. My heart goes out to them.

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Oh, that's cool, I guess, yeah, right on.

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Well, do you know where this courtroom is?

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Where's the store studio? Where's this going on?

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And you go there and you do whatever you need to do to get there.

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And then you come into the room and the judges, who are you?

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I'm so-and-so. Well, who cares?

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Well, I'm here to pay for his judgment.

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His judgment's death, dude.

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Okay, that's fine. Where do you want to kill me?

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Can you imagine if the guy that's condemned says,

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what are you nuts?

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Get out of here.

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What drove you to the courthouse, what caused you to intervene was what you said earlier, love.

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People think you're crazy. How could that possibly be?

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The love is offered.

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Judgment can be relieved. The guilty can go free.

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But the guilty turns to the innocent and says, are you nuts?

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Get out of here.

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Every day in life that you say to God, I don't need you, I don't need your salvation.

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You are a guilty, lost, condemned sinner.

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And he barged into your life with an announcement and it's happening right now.

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It's been happening since you walked into this building.

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Jesus died in the cross fear of sins.

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Jesus rose again from the dead.

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You can't go to heaven by being good.

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Don't judge other people.

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We can't do it because we're judging other people from a tainted position.

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You say, well, I don't do what you do.

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And God goes over here and says, I don't do what you're doing.

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And who's the real judge? He is.

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So we all throw our hands up and say, oh, God have mercy.

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And God will have mercy on any soul that will turn and ask Him.

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You know the story, right?

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I'm sure I'll flood it up, but it goes something to this effect.

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There was one particular battle.

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I forget the village.

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I forget the scenario.

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But once Napoleon's troops had captured that area,

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you know, they would parade the soldiers right back into prison or off to death.

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They often put them in shackles.

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The Babylonians would put fish hooks made out of fishbone in the jaws.

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And they would link the hook to the back of this guy's neck that's in front of you.

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And so you're hooked together.

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And that's how you display the triumphant entry, by the way.

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Remember Jesus and the triumphant entry?

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The triumphant entry in the Roman Empire was the conquering general.

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For example, Russell Crowe comes into Rome with all those that he captured.

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And he's on a white horse.

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And behind him are all is all the gold and all the booty and all the stuff that they captured.

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And the people and their chained or their hooked, okay?

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And so you just keep that in mind.

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They're bound, they're hooked together.

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They are tied together condemned.

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It's an absolutely horrific scene.

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But for one to step in, so this was going on with Napoleon.

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And a woman comes from the crowd.

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Your majesty, your majesty.

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And she falls on her face before Napoleon.

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And she says, have mercy on my son, Napoleon, have mercy.

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And he said, man, your son was found,

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worrying against me.

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He deserves justice.

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Napoleon said, stop right there.

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Wasn't Napoleon correct?

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100%.

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He's the, this man's the enemy.

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He was warring against us.

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He deserves judgment.

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On what grounds?

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I'm the victor.

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Taliban now rules Afghanistan.

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We call the shots now.

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On what grounds?

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We won.

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So, the woman says, oh, your emperor,

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I didn't ask for you to show judgment and justice.

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I asked for you to show mercy.

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And I don't know if this next part's true.

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It's debated that Napoleon was so touched by that,

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that mercy was passed along.

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I don't know if that's true or false.

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But do you get the point?

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Hell says, justice on you.

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Hell says, justice on Jack.

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I cry out in mercy.

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And based upon the expense of Jesus Christ at the cross,

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his death in my place, he purchased my salvation.

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According to God, the righteousness of Jesus Christ

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has been imparted to you.

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When God looks at you, he sees the righteousness of his son.

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This is hard for me to say, but it's theologically accurate,

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but it's tough to identify that's much faith.

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When God looks at his son, Jesus, he goes, I'm well pleased.

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When God looks at you who are in Christ,

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a Christian God says, I'm well pleased.

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Oh, how did that happen?

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Jesus.

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It's not like, I'm so well pleased in my son.

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And so you know my son, do you?

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You're so ashamed of him.

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All right, you can come in.

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Oh no, the Bible says a grand full entrance

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will be provided to you on that day that you see his glory.

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Is that going to happen to you?

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Will that be you?

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I hope that will be you.

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And the fifth and final step to the Romans' road

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is chapter 10 verse 13, for whoever calls on the name of the Lord,

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shall be saved.

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And no, there's no end.

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How much?

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Know how much?

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But what's the hook?

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No hook.

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It's just tough.

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This is hard.

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And I can tell you why it's hard.

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God's salvation is free and you're supposed to accept it or else it's hell for you.

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That's pretty clear, right?

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Is that clear?

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Did I did I fudge it up anywhere along there?

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So I don't like that.

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Well, there's one more thing you're not going to like.

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God says accept my salvation.

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Just receive it.

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People, listen, I'm one of them.

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And it's pure pride.

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It's absolute arrogance.

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I'm telling you right now, I am confessing to you.

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It's pride and arrogance.

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And here's what it, here's the deal.

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It happened to, in fact,

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it happened in two different ways this last week for me.

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Number one, we went out to dinner with some friends.

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Normally, I have a system.

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Because I have to pay.

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I want to be a blessing.

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But then I found out, you know, I like it.

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And then it becomes something like, oh, no, you can't pay for me.

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So I usually, if I have to call ahead or if I speak to the person first,

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or I just go like this, I just, hey, before the bills,

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before the foods even ordered, it's covered.

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Are you with me?

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Because I want to be a blessing to the person or people.

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I was distracted something happened and I didn't get a chance to do it.

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So the bill comes and it comes right to our friend.

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it's amazing because I went, what are you doing?

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And he goes, I just want to be a blessing.

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And no, don't do it.

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Come on, excuse me, ma'am, can you bring that back over here?

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And the whole time, God's going, knock it off.

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Not just stuff it.

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So I'm hearing God, it's me and God now.

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Right jab, left hook.

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I'm not landing any, he's landing everyone.

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I'm like, so I'm like, and so he paid and God spoke to my heart.

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In your good deed, Jack, is corruption.

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There's so much pride wrapped up in what you just did.

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It's like, oh, man.

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So just the other day, there were a couple of gentlemen that

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I wanted a bless.

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And so I went to give them a blessing.

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Oh, no, no, it's okay.

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No, no, I want, and you should have seen this.

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These were three grown men in a parking lot.

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It looked like, I don't know if it looked like a drug, it probably looked like a drug heal.

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Because they're envelopes and here take it.

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I'm not taking it.

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No, I'm serious.

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You have to take it.

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No, I don't have to take it.

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Take it.

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And drop it, floor pick it up.

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And people probably watching from, that's a major deal going down there.

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Hey, listen, a major deal went down in the cross.

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Jesus died for you.

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Listen, we're going to do this.

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We're going to give you an opportunity to choose Christ today.

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Let me tell you how this is going to play out.

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You have to ask yourself, by the way, this is going to cool now.

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At all, it's over now.

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It's just for you and God.

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I'm going to ask no one to leave.

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Your car is not going to be able to leave before anybody else.

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I'm going to ask you to listen.

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It's a holy moment.

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Raise your hand if you're a Christian already, raise your hand.

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I need all of you to be praying because Satan would not want this next thing to happen.

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Number one, if you have never publicly acknowledged Jesus Christ as Lord,

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the Bible says that we have to do this.

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And that makes sense in a relationship.

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If you don't want to announce your husband or your wife, something's wrong,

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Jesus said, if you acknowledge me before people, I will acknowledge you

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before my father, which is in heaven.

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That means right now, some of you are already starting to get in a knot in your stomach.

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I remember that knot 44 years ago.

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I remember that knot.

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That's the Holy Spirit has now begun to speak to you right now.

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That's why you feel what you feel right now.

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You're the only one, oh, I can't believe he's doing this today.

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I should do this, but I'm not going to do it.

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You're thinking right now.

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You've never acknowledged him.

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You raised your hand a moment ago, but nobody knows you're a believer.

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And then listen, there are some of you who you need to become a follower of Jesus today.

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You need to have your sins washed away.

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You might even be impressed with your morality.

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But your morality is broken just like mine.

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And you need the transformative power of God, the Holy Spirit in your life,

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but he can't come in because he has to have a place to stand.

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And the Holy Spirit stands upon the blood of Christ.

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And the blood of Christ can only be applied to you if you invite Jesus Christ to take your life.

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I want you to bow your head and prepare your hearts.

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And for those of you who are going to have the biggest tornado going on inside of you,

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I mean, I'm serious.

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The greater the intensity, the louder the call of God upon your life.

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If you're tempted to think, what will my neighbor think?

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I wonder if my wife's thinking the same thing.

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Maybe if she moves first, if she moves her foot,

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what if she, if she gets up, Lord show me a sign, show me a sign.

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No, he's not going to talk to anybody else, but you.

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You need to obey him.

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Right? You thought you're going to come here and get out of life, huh?

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Not a chance.

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You need his life.

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