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

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truth equip the saints and impact our culture. There are preachers, there are

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they're goers and they're senders and because you and I are living in the

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last days you don't have to get a passport and fly to some foreign country and

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hack through the jungles to preach the gospel of the sun. We are such in the

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last days that all you need to do is to shout as it were from the rooftop.

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

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

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

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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. Here is Jack Hibs.

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The Christian today would say I know exactly who I am and I I lift this by the

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way because I don't I I lack the authority I think of convincing you so I'm

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going to borrow from a heavy lifter. I'm going to borrow from Dr. H. A. Ironside.

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Dr. Ironside said regarding who we are when we get to heaven we're going to

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stand there and there's going to be this big beautiful gate and entryway and

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we're going to look over the top and it's going to say all ye who will enter in

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come and we're going to walk through there and we're high five in each other go

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man this is amazing and then we get in it's a huge table where we're going to

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sit down with Abraham and all of those with faith and we're going to maybe

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sit down and Ironside says then we're going to look back to the doorway that we

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pass through and on the backside it's going to say sinners saved by the grace of

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God. That's who's going to be at the table. Who do you think you are? I know

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exactly who I am. I am a sinner saved by the grace of God. Who what about

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Romans chapter one? I'm a sinner saved by the grace of God but now we're in

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Romans chapter two and Paul I'm telling you he's going to dig down because he

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now looks into the religiosity of religion and if you can handle it I mean

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look I preached my guts out the last four weeks trying to empty out this

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church. No but I was honest. I was honest I gave you the truth I gave you

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exactly what the Bible said I'll let the Bible stand on its own and it didn't

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work. I met someone yesterday that came up to me and said I came the first day

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before you started Romans I came that first Sunday and I loved it and then I

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came back the second week and I hated you I'm not kidding I hated you I said I

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would never go to that church again and I found myself coming back the next

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week and then the next week and then then you know why that happens? Truth. Jesus

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said my sheep know my voice and they follow me it's his truth and so it's quite

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amazing and it should be no surprise to us that when we as a clean-up

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people by the blood of Jesus I pray and trust or we could be a people that we

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think we are cleaned up by our own self-righteous deeds and if you can stay

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for the next few weeks it's possible that for some of you who view yourselves

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acceptable to God but you have a qualifier I'm acceptable to God because my dad

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was a pastor my mom played the trumpet in the band and my brother's a missionary

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what does that matter oh I'm a Christian and I'm gonna go go to heaven because I

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because you what we have a tendency to look at two extremes you know there's

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those that are horribly condemned and and then you can see the fumes as it

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were of their sin rising and then there's those over there that glow in the

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dark in righteousness but the problem is they it's just a bunch of

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flesh lights it's not any righteousness they just they're so impressed with

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themselves their legends in their own mind and so listen a little bit of

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background of course in fact this is very powerful stuff this background that

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we need to know and you ought to write in your note-taking that first of all

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remembering that the book of Romans and you're gonna see why in chapter two and

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through the book of Romans is the Magna Carta of the Bible it's the declaration

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it's the Charter of Freedom it's remember this everybody as we get into this

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we need to put our our armament on Habakkuk chapter two verse four remember says

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behold the proud his soul is not upright within him but the just shall live by

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what is a church that was horrible let me ask you again the just shall live by by

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faith and from that the Jew Paul the Apostle converted to Christ now born

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again echoes that in Romans 117 when it says for in the righteousness of God is

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revealed from faith to faith for it is written and he quotes Habakkuk the just

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shall live by faith faith Romans chapter 10 verse 14 Romans 10 14 background to

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this how then shall they call on him whom they have not believed how do people

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hear the good news how does this sinner become a saint how does the lost become

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found someone's got to reach them someone's got to go to them and how shall they

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believe in him whom they've not heard and how shall they hear without a preacher

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and I'm gonna say all of us don't point your finger at me I'm pointing back at you

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we're all in this together church right we are the preachers okay verse 15

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how shall they preach unless they are sent and as it is written how beautiful are

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the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace who bring glad tidings of good

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things but they have not all obeyed the gospel for Isaiah says Lord who has

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believed our report verse 17 so then faith comes by hearing and hearing by the

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word of God let me interrupt myself on this this is precious to me and it should

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be to you I believe Jesus Christ is coming back soon and the tempo or the

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nearness of his coming has stepped up it's stepping up faster and faster and

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faster and one of those things is this that we together are making an impact by

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fulfilling the scripture that you may well I was gonna say you may or may not be aware of

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I'm not even aware of because I'm shocked with the things that I'm hearing but together so I

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preach and teach the word but through your support of getting this stuff out onto programs

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all around the world now be it either internet or television or radio people are given their

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hearts to Christ and that's awesome don't get me wrong I love it but the biggest

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impact that this church is having around the world is making disciples there are people who

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were saying I thought I was saved but I didn't even know this before or I've been saved I've

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been saved for 50 years but I've had like one year experience just repeated every 50 years

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but since I've been hearing the word of God the Bible is exploded in my life you know

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it happens listen there are preachers there are there are goers and their senders and because you

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and I are living in the last days you don't have to get a passport and fly to some foreign country

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and hack through the jungles to preach the gospel to somebody we are such in the last days that

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all you need to do is to shout as it were from the rooftop the gospel is coming out of radios

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and rental cars the gospel is being dropped into enemy occupied territory so to speak in

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Korea and China North Korea where the where the gospel is forbidden there's the way now through

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the internet and through other ways to drop the teaching of God's word every single one of us now

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the hour is so late every one of us are missionaries to some degree now I can take my dollar bill

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and send it to a part of the world where I can't go how do you do that by supporting for example

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J. Vernon McGee or this ministry or Dr. David Jeremiah you got to be careful pray about I mean those

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guys are great but there's a lot of goofballs out there a little side note anybody who says if you

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don't send it if you don't send in your money if you don't send in your money people are going

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to go to hell because they didn't hear the gospel they just all because you didn't support let me

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tell listen don't send them a penny if they're pressuring you like that forget it if God's broke we

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got the wrong God okay we've got to be willing to go we got to be willing to send but how shall

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they hear unless the word goes out we have to remember that question how did you hear the word of

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God when you got saved how did you hear it where were you think about that for a moment

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what's not God pursuing you and you didn't even know it and then when that veil was lifted from

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your face you realized oh my goodness now things make sense if you've never heard of the Romans

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road I'm going to give it to you right now it's you got to memorize it when I was younger I had it

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memorized as I as I age I barely can make it home sometimes but if you're going to get a tattoo

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get a tattoo of the Roman road and here's here it comes in fact that's pretty good actually if

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you have a problem with your memory go ahead and get a tattooed on your arm and you can just never

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mind number one Romans road check it out listen up everybody Romans road number one Romans 3

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verse 10 as it is written there is none righteous no not one can somebody say man so listen if you

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are that hooker from Hollywood and Vine or if you are the incredibly well groomed businessman whose

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office is in the corner and everybody thinks you're just perfect the Roman road to salvation

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begins by saying there is none righteous no not one and we in our human thinking think like this

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and I don't know if it's from the school we went to or if it's just flat out our human condition

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but we have a tendency to grade on a curve right man I hope everybody gets a D in this class

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if everybody gets a D then everybody passes well life's not like that God's not like that

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well pastor I'm the guy I brought here today is my neighbor he I mean I brought him today he is a

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major loser my neighbor is such a sinner Jack you don't know excuse me if if you brought that

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neighbor that neighbor I'd turn to you right now and say to Romans 3 10 there is none righteous no

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not one now you may be sitting there today you may watch right now and you're thinking I don't like

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you you just said I'm not righteous that's right join the club none of us are righteous the word

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righteous here is the righteousness that God must accept it's the righteousness that only God

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could accept it's the righteousness listen that only Jesus can provide there's no man made

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righteousness that's acceptable think about it my friend the moment we wake up to even the gospel

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Jesus died for me what what do I need to do do you need to follow in your face before him and say

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God I can't do anything nuts it's not do it's I'm done because the moment you try to be good

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enough to get into heaven the moment you try to establish your little holiness group you have

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forgotten that we've all sinned and we're tainted with that sin and so Paul is speaking to the

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religionist but he's speaking to the believers at Rome just remember this there's none righteous

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no not one here's number two Romans Road chapter 3 verse 23 for all have sinned and falls

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short of the glory of God see there's no escaping this see Jack is this good news I came here

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this morning for some good news this is the best news this is the best news if you like this

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if you want to go from here to where do you want to go from here Norway not Texas Texas okay

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Texas depends on the weather so if we're going to go to Texas hypothetically so we're going to head

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to Dallas we're going to drive if there's if there are numerous highways that we can start out

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from here hello we're in southern California we have more freeway numbers mean to calculate it

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to figure out the freeways around this place and which one which one do I go with you listen

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there's so many but eventually one will get you to Dallas are you with me you can start where

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there is just a spaghetti noodle bundle of decisions to make but eventually there's only one that

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gets you there and that one that gets you there is a route it's a road that starts out with

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sane there's none righteous instead of been offended by that you should say okay that's okay

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really I thought all you Christians were like super holy rotors no we're not

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you got that from the religious person the Christian who knows Jesus knows exactly who they are

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and they know what they are and listen when we know who we are and what we are

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we have a tendency to walk closer to Jesus than others why because we know who we are

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and we know what we are okay another words Jesus hang on to me and if I try to wiggle out don't you

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let me go you just glue me to you number three Romans 6 23 says for the wages of sin is death

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but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord but you know that's true right

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so I don't believe that well you know what the Bible says the wages of sin is death

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sin is to miss the mark that's what the word sin means miss the mark it's it's an it's an archery

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term it means that the archer takes out his arrow the judges are there watching and he releases and

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instead of hitting red he hits yellow and I'm not joking in ancient days the judges would look

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back at the archer because it's so far away but just to confirm and the judges would say sinner

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I missed let me try again

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sinner I think I can shoot everything and he misses the mark every time and with every time

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the judge shouts back sinner he doesn't get offended he doesn't cause attorney he's not

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whole woke out he's oh man no he's I gotta really work on my target and the whole point is this

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according to God before we wake up to the fact that we even have it bow in an arrow in our hands

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and that there's a target God says you've sinned so you haven't even shot yet

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to you you haven't shot yet but you remember when you were 13 and remember when you're 17 and I'll

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remember when you're 21 out there behind you miss the mark and you went hmm yes I guess I did

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but that shouldn't bum you out it should cause you to understand something wait a minute

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God's available to everyone his love grace and forgiveness is available to all

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and yes it is

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