You don't have to wait until you feel perfect to experience God's grace, because the end of the story is already written in your favor. Take a moment today to surrender your guilt and step into the freedom and righteousness that Jesus has already secured for you. Embrace the truth that you are washed free from sin and ready to receive His restoration.
Oh, it's good to be in the house of the Lord. I was thinking about that song, You Keep On Getting Better. And you know the word says that he "stays the same" yesterday, today, and forever. The lord, he stays the same. He's not changing, but he's revealing more and more of his goodness to us.
He's revealing and anytime that we put our place put ourselves in a in a place, in a position where we can seek him out, more and more and more of him is being revealed to us, and then our eyes are open to more and more and more of his goodness, which is why we're here. Right? Amen. My name is Mariah Mullins. My husband and I have been a part of Real Church for almost 2 years now, and we have a 1 and a half year old boy, Isaiah, And we have boy number 2 on the way, if you can't tell.
He's due the end of this month. I know what you're thinking already, isn't this the end of this month? Yes. Yes, it is. That's that's how I feel about it.
So the next time you have the opportunity to share Jesus with somebody or the goodness of God, I want you to think of me and know that you have no excuse. You have no excuse. Jesus is in me. Jesus is in you. If you've accepted Jesus into your heart, he's in you, so he should come out of you.
And that is why I'm gonna bring the word today. Pastor David and family, the Phillips family in West Virginia right now, and, we love our our pastor family. We love the Phillips. We love who they are as ministers of the gospel. We also love their family unit.
So very excited that they get to spend some time together, and I feel honored that I get to take this place and give them a vacation, but also bring you the good word. So, we're in the series, "God is good all the time". Come on. Let me hear it. God is good All the time.
And all the time. God is good. You know it. That's right. That's right.
So I'm I'm gonna bring I'm gonna bring a word, and and I I felt like the the Lord was guiding me to start us off a certain way. So when we sit down to read the Bible, I think typically, for me and for most Christians, you sit down with the Bible and you you pray first. You say, holy spirit, reveal something to me. Speak to me. And there's gonna be some words in here that I'm gonna bring up that the the Holy Spirit's gonna whisper to you.
Okay? So I want you to be really attuned, not just to me. I don't I don't want that. I want you to be really attuned to what the Holy Spirit is saying to you, just like you would be if you were reading the word. So I want you to have a heart posture that's open as we pray.
So maybe you put your hands out like this. I want you to do some sort of physical action. Put your hands out or put your hand on your heart, something that that is a physical, I'm gonna step forward, and I'm gonna listen to the Holy Spirit, and I'm gonna receive. So, father God, we open our hearts to you, to what you are going to say today. We receive your goodness Reveal to us.
Open our eyes where we are blind. Open our hands where they are shut. Open our hearts where they are hard. Soften our hearts, Lord, that we would be ready to receive what you're going to say. Let us be good listeners, that your still small voice that whispers throughout a story or through a scripture or through whatever's being said, let us be so attuned to what you're saying in this time.
We came here today to be changed. We came here to know you more. Just say that with your heart if you can. Just as as purely as you possibly can, father God, give us grace to to surrender into you more and more. In Jesus' name, amen.
Alright. We're gonna go for a walk. A little pet peeve of mine is spoilers. So if you tell me the end of a movie or the end of a book or something that I was gonna read or see, I get super bummed. I'm like, you know what?
I might as well not even watch the movie anymore. I'm not gonna read the book. This is a waste of my time, and I just get really upset. I don't know. I I think I've met a couple people who will "skip to the end" of the book and read the end before they read the whole thing.
I think that's crazy. And by your laughs, yeah, I hear somebody say, I agree. Yeah. It's crazy. Because there's something about a good story that requires a question or it requires suspense, and you and you read the whole story to get to that ending, that suspense.
And I was thinking about this with Batman. Right? So Batman, he's got a lot of suspense in his story because of the city of Gotham. So he's if you don't know, Batman, he's from the city of Gotham, and it's just full of darkness. There's no light.
There's no sunshine. There's no happiness. Just sketchy people doing sketchy things all the time. There's crime everywhere. Now imagine if Batman was placed in Clear Lake, Iowa.
My grandma's here today, and she's from Clear Lake, Iowa. It is the cutest little town. Like, there's not a flower out of place. Everyone's really polite and greets you. It's just it's super charming.
But Batman, in that situation, would be so unnecessary. He'd be so like, you wouldn't appreciate him at all. And the character or or the audience loves the character of Batman because of the grittiness of Gotham City. They know that they're in desperate need of a savior. There's a lot of buildup.
There's suspense in the darkness. And I was thinking, there's a lot of times in life when it's actually inappropriate. Like, it's it's correct to share the end of the story first. There's a lot of times. Let me give you an example.
So when I was a young driver, I'm from Michigan, snowy roads, slick black ice, I slipped and I took my car into the ditch. And I called my parents. Mom, dad, I'm okay. It was the first thing out of my mouth. I'm okay.
I'm fine. I'm safe. Let me skip to the end of the story. I'm not hurt. I'm not stuck.
I'm not trapped. I know I sound distraught, but like my physical being, I'm okay. And then I back up the story, I say, but the car is not. I slipped on some ice. I'm so sorry about the car.
It's it's a little bit of trouble. But the end of the story is very important to them. They don't need any suspense in that situation. They need to know, oh, my daughter's fine physically. We'll we'll handle the situation as it comes now.
But they didn't need the suspense of it all. And I think that's the same principle that we use for the bible, and it's correct. It's correct to share the end of the story first. When you meet a new believer, you should skip to the good part. Spoiler alert, he's 1.
*Jesus* died for you. He loves you. It's really good that you know that he's 1 before we get to all the suspense of it. Right? In the bible, it it's written like a good story, Which is funny.
Right? I'm gonna tell a new believer, you know what? You should start with the gospels. You should read about Jesus. You should skip to the end.
You should read Hebrews or Romans. Get to know the good stuff. But the bible is still laid out how you would write a normal plot. Right? When you're learning to write a story, you learn to start with the introduction.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. That's good writing. The rising action, sin enters. The climax, *Jesus* enters. The falling action, Jesus, he dies for our sins.
*Sin* is defeated, and the resolution is Christ in us, the hope of glory. It's a well written story. And and the majority of the bible is the old testament as well. So it shows that that's when you're learning to write a a good plot, it has this curve of buildup and suspense before you reach that climax, that resolution. And that's exactly how the bible is set up.
And last week, pastor David talked about perspective and seeing the goodness of God. And the week before that, Gabe talked about righteousness. Those were both such great examples of telling the end of the story first. So I'm really glad that they preached before I did. It's good to know Christ's finished work in you.
And when you've been told the ending, and by the ending, I mean Jesus, his finished work on the cross, it's still good news. I'm not saying that this isn't good news. What I'm saying is there's a depth of suspense in the beginning that I wanna go back to. There's this "evidence of a need" of a savior, Just like Batman in Gotham City. There's an evidence for the character of Batman.
There is an evidence greatly in us and in our history that says we need Jesus so deeply. So telling the end of the story, it doesn't change the story. There's still deep darkness before there's light. There's still deception before there's truth. There's still a burning need for a savior.
So I'm gonna take this time. We're gonna reflect on our need for repentance and then on our forgiveness or how much we've been forgiven. Let's start in Luke-7. There's a story, Luke-7, starting in verse 36, and it's about a sinful woman who anoints Jesus' feet with costly perfume. In Luke-7:47, Jesus says, I tell you her sins, and they are many have been forgiven.
So she has shown me much love, but a person who is forgiven little shows only little love. *Jesus* was speaking to the pharisees there because they were shocked. The pharisees, they were shocked by the action of this woman, this sinful woman, and they were shocked even more so that Jesus would allow the action. Jesus wasn't saying to the pharisees, you know what? You guys, you just don't need to be forgiven much.
Like, you guys are pretty perfect. You've got this figured out. You're going you know? She just needs more forgiveness. That's not what he was saying.
In reality, their hearts were probably more dirty and in need of a cleaning. This verse is showing how much forgiveness has been received, not how much forgiveness has been given through her number of sins. I can get given a gift, and if I don't unwrap it and use it, I haven't received it. This is about receiving forgiveness. Alright.
We're gonna put that on a shelf. We'll come back to it. And we're gonna talk about The US justice system because I wanna talk about justice. I wanna talk about the balance and and kinda get a good deep understanding of that. I think The US justice system is gonna be the easiest thing for us to relate to as a group.
And who is the epitome of justice in The US? Judge Judy, of course. Oh, you guys, I love judge Judy. I love her. She is fire.
She's so good. She's so pure and honest and gritty. She gets to the point. I've been watching these judge Judy episodes, and the Lord has just been speaking to me, like, revelation. I'm like, oh my goodness.
This is some great time with the Lord watching some judge Judy, and it's making me wanna be bold and gritty and honest with the truth. Alright. Enough about judge Judy. She's wonderful, but I'm gonna give you an interpretation of a judge Judy episode. So someone this is if you don't know, I should start over.
If you don't know judge Judy, it's small claims court, and it's just filmed these real cases that she goes through. Okay. So here's an interpretation of an episode of judge Judy. Someone comes in, they're suing somebody else for something. Let's say it's for unpaid rent.
And they're like, suing them. And the other person that's getting sued, they have this *justification* for their actions. Like they have some reason why they think they shouldn't pay. And usually, it goes something like this. They say, I didn't pay rent that month because we used to be friends and then we stopped being friends, so I'm not gonna pay rent.
And Judge Judy goes, it doesn't matter. If they stop calling, it doesn't matter. You have to pay rent because it's in the contract. It's beautiful. Like, she gets really aggressive.
Like, you need to understand how justice works because they obviously don't understand how justice works. Like, you have a contract? You gotta pay rent. That's how it works. And the person that ends up paying the rent or paying the fine, the fee, they think they're being wronged.
They're just sure of it. They say because it it's just because they don't have a great understanding of justice. And in the court setting, it's clear that a lot of people don't always agree on what is justice and what is not. And you can see that emotions and background, they really get in the way of that. I think sometimes we do that ourselves.
We justify things for ourselves. Maybe sometimes we justify things for ourselves that we don't justify for others. I think we all have our own personal individual scales of justice. What is bad and what's really, really bad? And it seems that the worse the action gets, the easier it is for all of us to agree on a punishment.
So let's kind of go on this like really bad end of the scale and say, if someone were to intentionally harm a child, we can all very easily agree that that requires punishment. And the more severe the harm, the more severe the punishment. And we can agree on that. And you know it would be injustice to not want that. It would be injustice on defending the child that was harmed, and it would be injustice on on allowing something like that to to happen.
**Love requires judgment**. It requires judgment if it's to be real love. Can you imagine if we all just went around and said, you're forgiven and you're forgiven, and all these evil people started doing more and more evil things and they never paid for them. They never they never had any judgment. They never had any discipline.
They never had that's not love. So, love requires judgment. If you've ever heard the saying, "love is blind", that's not how it works. If you think love is blind, you gotta find some new love. Love is really aggressive.
It's aggressively kind and it's aggressively true. So let's look at the other side of the scale, kind of a lighter perspective. Who here has been pulled over by the cops for maybe speeding or not coming to a complete stop or whatever? Mama Wanda over here is like, never in my life. Little angel lady.
Alright. Alright, Wanda. This is for everyone else. Who here has been given a warning instead of a ticket? Yeah.
Alright. So, who here that has been given a warning has thought to themselves, this is an injustice. This is an injustice. I need to receive punishment for this. I should have paid that fine.
No, man. You're you're thrilled. You're like, oh, goodness. I'm really relieved. Because for 1, we personalized it.
I said, you know, if you were given a warning. And also, you're you can justify it. You can say, you know, I wasn't speeding that much. They pulled me over, but they let me go because it was a rolling stop, but, you know, nobody was coming. It's fine.
Only clip that guy a little bit. And you start to justify more and more of the scale. It becomes really easy. And we do that with sin. Instead of seeing our sin for what it is, sometimes we see it and we justify it just a little bit.
But that's not what justice is. So let's jump to a heavenly justice. What does the heavenly justice system look like? In the broadest sense, justice is the principle that people receive that which they deserve. So what does sin deserve according to the heavenly justice system?
For the wages of sin is death, Romans-3:23. We all fall short of God's glorious standard for everyone has sinned. Oh, I jumped. *Romans-6:23*, that's why. For the wages of sin is death.
It doesn't say for some sins. And the end of that is the ending of the story. It's the good part. But the "free gift of God" is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord. That is good news.
But the wages of sin were still death before. That suspense, that buildup that we're seeing, the need for for that savior. I'm gonna say this twice. So I you to listen closely twice. It's important that we don't justify what we've been given mercy for.
Your sin is not justified. You are justified. Your sin is not justified. Rather, your sin is paid for, making you clean and making you justified. I'm gonna say it 1 more time.
It's important that we don't justify what we've been given mercy for. Your sin is not justified. Your sin rather has been paid for, making you clean and making you justified. That's a really good gift. We should unwrap it and use it.
I've been reading a book called God is Good by Bill Johnson, and I wanna read this quote. I'm gonna read it exact, but I'm gonna talk about it as I go. So we'll throw it up on the screen so we can follow along. Thanks, guys. Unsanctified *mercy*.
What we're talking about is mercy that is not holy, so it's not real mercy. It doesn't come from Jesus. It's not real. It's fake. Unsanctified mercy empowers people towards sin without an awareness of consequences.
How many of you know there are consequences to sin? True mercy is shown to people in trouble by loving them when they don't deserve it, but also by telling them the truth, working to bring them into a freedom that God intended for everyone. True freedom is not just doing as we please, it's being enabled to do the right thing well. The *Lord, he set you free by removing you from your sin, not allowing the stronghold* of sin to continue to stick around. We're not there to justify that the sin is in our lives.
We're there to say, oh, your *mercy* takes away the depths of that sin from my life, and I can be made free and whole. So let's jump back to Luke-7:47, back to the sinful woman. I tell you, her sins, and they are many, have been forgiven. So she has shown me much love, but a person who is forgiven little only shows only little love. I would say that by the world's standards, I've lived a fairly tame life.
And at this, at 1 point in my young life, I remember thinking, this verse kind of bothers me because I was thinking, so if I sin more, I'm forgiven more. I'll know more of his love and be able to love more. It's very wrong. And the Lord, he began to to reveal my massive need for him while I was reading the Old Testament. And my understanding for justice was just completely off base.
I am in desperate need of a savior. So has anyone here thought, you know, the God of the New Testament seems very different from the God of the Old Testament? I've thought that before and I've thought, you know, there are there were a lot of laws for the Israelites. A lot of sacrifices and disciplines for not meeting certain requirements. And the God of the Old Testament, he required sacrifices of animals for sins that were committed.
That's very different than what we do now. How is that God of the Old Testament the same as the God of the New Testament? Or their requirements for cutting their beards or the way they wear their clothes or how they bring their fabrics together. There were a lot of different things that that were high levels of purity that were required. And these laws, they were in place all because they wanted to have a relationship with the Lord, and the Lord wanted to have a relationship with them.
This is this is the suspense of the story that I'm talking about. It's the desperate need of a savior. The sacrifices were to remind people, the sacrifices of animals were to remind people that the penalty for sin is death. So we need a savior. Now, let's look at New Testament God.
I'm gonna look at Jesus specifically because Jesus, he only did what he saw the father doing. He only said what he saw the father saying. He was the embodiment of God's love in flesh. Have you ever seen those bracelets, w w j d, what would Jesus do? Or there's new ones that say he would love first, H w l f.
I think sometimes we see those and we think to ourselves, oh, he'd be so kind and loving and gentle with his love. When really Jesus was pretty aggressive. He had some pretty aggressive love. He had some great understanding of justice. In *John-2*, they go into a temple, Jesus and his disciples, and they see people having animals for sale for the sacrifices, and he gets mad.
*Jesus*, he makes a whip with with what would Jesus do, love? He makes a whip, and he it says, he made a whip from some ropes and chased them out of the the temple. He drove out the sheep and cattle, scattered the money changers' coins over the floor, and turned over their tables. Then, going over to the people who sold doves, he told them, get these things out of here. Stop turning my father's house into a marketplace.
Oh, the love of Jesus. "What would Jesus do"? I think he he might make a whip. He might. You don't know.
You gotta ask. What would he do? *Matthew-18:6*. *Jesus* says, he's talking about children here, but if you cause 1 of these little ones who trusts in me to fall into sin, it would be better for you to have a large millstone tied around your neck and be drowned in in the depths of the sea. That's some brutal, truthful love.
Jesus, he stands for correct justice and for judgment. There's no scale for the heavenly justice system. It says the wages of sin is death, and all have fallen short of the glory of the Lord. So what that means is that we are all forgiven much, and we are all loved much because God, he chose to pour out the much needed judgment upon his son Jesus instead of us because of his great love for us. Jesus, he volunteered to take our place in bearing the penalty of death, that which we deserved.
In doing so, he satisfied the appetite of the law for our judgment. *Jesus* paid the deep level of purity requirements that are in the Old Testament. He became our covenant. He became the requirement of circumcision. He died for us to have our sins paid for, to fulfill the law, to to pay for that covenant.
He was a full embodiment of that payment for our ability to be connected to God. In the Old Testament, where the Israelites were, there there was the cloud of the Lord that would rest on the mountain. They couldn't even touch that mountain because the glory of the Lord would destroy them. It would kill them. And now, *Hebrews-4:16*, so let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God.
There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most. See, this is this is the boldly the boldly is what catches my heart. I think they couldn't even touch the mountain where he was. And now I get to go boldly before the throne of grace. Not because our sin wasn't a big deal, but because it was paid for by Jesus.
In the Old Testament, they couldn't reach the level of righteousness and purity required to be in the presence of God. And now, through Jesus' payment, we are fully clean so we can come boldly. So we know the depths of our former sin, and we know the depths of our forgiveness. See how we're we're making this plot. We're finding our way through.
And now, I wanna talk about repentance as we cross this bridge. Repentance means to change our way of thinking. It is a deep sorrow for sin that enables a person to truly repent and change his or her mind or perspective on reality. So what is repentance? What does it look like?
*Luke-15:17*, we're gonna talk about the prodigal son. It's 1 of my favorite stories. There's a son that takes his inheritance and he goes and he lives wildly, just spending his money on the world and what the world has to offer and he finds himself without anything, without money, without friends, without food, and he's starving. Let's pick up on verse 17, Luke-15:17. When he finally came to his senses, he said to himself, at home, even the hired servants have food enough to spare and here I am dying of hunger.
I will go home to my father and say, father, I have sinned against both heaven and you, and I am no longer worthy of being called your son. Please take me on as a hired servant. There was his repentance moment. He hasn't even made it back to his father yet, but his heart has shifted. So he returned home to his father, and while he was still a long way off, that's my favorite part.
Because before you have time to repent, the Lord sees you and he's excited. It says, his father saw him coming and filled with love and compassion. He ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him. His son said to him, father, I have sinned against both heaven and you, and I am no longer worthy of being called your son. Now you'll notice that's just the first part of the speech he had prepared.
The son had more to say. But the father, he interrupts him. He says, but his father said to the servants, quick, bring the finest robe in the house and put it on him. Get a ring for his finger and sandals for his feet and kill the calf we've been fattening. We must celebrate with a feast, for this son of mine was dead and has now returned to life.
He was lost, but now he is found. So the party began. God is good. We don't have time to complete our sorry. That's what repentance looks like.
*Repentance* is your heart changed, and as you as you were in your chair and you thought, I need to go to the throne. I need to worship him, you step forward to say, I'm sorry, and it turns into, I'm thankful. I'm thankful. Oh, thank you. Because he puts a ring and a robe on you immediately.
Something else I wanna point out is the second half of what the prodigal son was planning on saying was works based. He was planning on being hired on as a servant. He was saying, let me work for you to earn my place in this home. And the Lord cuts him off. He's like, yeah, yeah.
I saw your heart a mile away. I've been fattening this calf for you while you've been gone. The moment that you try to repent, the transition from repentance to righteousness is immediate. How many times have we gone before the Lord to to repent, and we stay there a while? Oh, Lord, forgive me for I have and he's like, ring in the robe.
Ring in the robe. Ring it in. And you're like, oh, I just don't know how I'll ever deserve to listen. He's he's given you a ring and a robe. Your depths of forgiveness.
You understand it? He doesn't say, well, you know, let's talk about this. Are you sure you're done sinning? Are you sure you're done with that old life? You're not gonna go back?
You promise? No. The second you stepped forward, you were a mile off, and he turned you into *righteousness* immediately. *Hosea-6:6*, this is the God of the Old Testament. He says, I desire mercy, not sacrifice.
I think when we stay in repentance, we act like there's this transitionary period where we're trying to get to righteousness, but he fills you with righteousness, you just surrender your repentance. It's not works based. He requires mercy or desires mercy, sorry. And just as Gabe preached 2 Sundays ago on righteousness, repentance is from something to something. There's no in between transitionary period.
So, he poured don't know if you remember this, but Gabe had a a wine glass, and he poured out old dirty motor oil that was, it represented turning back to sin. And because we are no longer an old dirty oil can, but we are now a wine glass, we're not only made clean, we're made to hold wine. Or being the good works and righteousness of Christ within us. When we try to live in that in between of repentance to righteousness, we're attempting to sacrifice. Well, maybe if I just live in guilt a little while.
I'm not gonna allow myself true *freedom* just yet. I don't deserve it, really. I'm gonna I'm gonna get there. I'm gonna it's I'm just transitionary. It's immediate.
He fills you with righteousness immediately. *2 Corinthians-5:21*, for he made him who knew no sin to be sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God in him. There's your proof. We give him our sin and he gives us our righteousness. That's the transaction.
It's the whole thing. In the justice system of heaven, there's 2 options for your sin. If you want to pay for your own sin, those are both consequences that you'll receive in in death, the death of of your soul. Your other option is surrendering your sin to Jesus and allowing him to "pay the price". There's no pleading our case.
We are guilty. There's no justification for sin. The wages of sin is death. There is complete and total justification for you through Christ Jesus. And in our repentance, we acknowledge what is dirt and what is light.
And while we're still a long way off, we've been given a ring and a robe, so we say thank you. And if that's not a reason to worship, I don't know what is. Amen. We are going to do communion. I'm gonna have Nate and Dolores hop up here.
We're gonna do communion as a body of believers. I know a lot of times we do it in small groups, but we're gonna do it all together, so just a little different. I'm glad to see people grabbing cups. Come on up. Grab a cup while I'm talking this totally fine.
We're gonna get a little set up for worship. There's cracker, a cracker and a juice in that cup. The cracker represents the body of Christ. As you get ready to take communion, I want you to stand. This is our transition from repentance into righteousness.
Seeing the fullness of *justification* that we've been given. Seeing the fullness of Jesus. So as we say, Lord, you've "paid it all". Yeah. Hey, Heidi.
Can you grab me a cup? Thanks. Your body was broken for us, and your blood was poured out for us. We know what dirt looks like, and we know what your light looks like. So, we step out of our dirt and into our your beautiful light, and we say thank you.
Thank you for making me righteous. Thank you for making me whole. Let's take the body. And thank you, Jesus, for the blood that you poured out for me. That not only you've washed me free from sin, you've washed me free from the bondage.
You've washed me free from ever being connected to that sin again. Father, you are so good. Thank you. Let's drink of the blood. We're gonna go into a time of worship here.
I feel like there's someone in here that has been attacked by the enemy. And the devil, he's stolen things from you, and he's made you feel like it's your fault. Like, rest in this guilt or this sin, and stay there and be stuck there, and he's stolen from you. So with a step of faith, I want you to to step forward, to have a physical reaction to say, you don't hold me anymore because I'm saying thank you. This is the breakthrough.
You've been thinking that you've been living in this in between, between repentance and righteousness. And you think, you know what? I'm still stuck to this sin or I can I could even see myself sinning tonight or tomorrow and and it feels like an attack? We're gonna break off that *stronghold* by stepping forward and saying thank you. That's our transition.
So when we sing and we worship the Lord, I want you to come up front. And and I don't think anyone's gonna pray for you, specifically. We've got leaders that can pray for you, but this is really a moment between you and the Holy Spirit. This is just an interaction that you're having where you say, I'm stepping forward and "chains are going to break" off of you. And freedom belongs to you.
And *righteousness* belongs to you. And this this is not works based. So, it's not like, oh, the muscles that I'm taking to step forward. It's my works that's gonna get me to this freedom. No.
No. No. No. That's not it at all. You get to just receive and surrender into righteousness.
So let the chains break off. Let's take back what the devil has stolen from you. There's a verse in Proverbs-6, 6 30. It says, people do do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy himself when he's starving. Yet when he's found, he must restore sevenfold.
He may have to give up all the substance of his house, so the devil is is equated to as a thief. And whatever he's stolen from you, you're gonna receive back sevenfold. So if you feel like, well all this damage I've done with my sin or all of the the things that I've done with my sin sin or the life that I've lived with my sin or the things I've allowed to stick around. There's just too much damage there. No.
He's gonna restore 7 fold and that comes from heaven. That is a gift from heaven as God just pours out and says, I've been fattening a calf for you. Come on in. I have a ring and a rope for you. So let's worship the Lord and step forward.
Give yourself the the opportunity to surrender into his righteousness. Righteousness. Let's worship.
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