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We're glad you've joined us for today's program. Pastor Jeff
Ministries is the Bible teaching ministry of doctor Jeff Swarzentrap,
Senior Pastor of Brave Church in Denver, Colorado. Today, Pastor
Jeff continues his message Believe your Blessings from the series
The Greatest and shows you that faith is essential to
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experiencing God's promises because belief unlocks every blessing. Pastor Jeff
will get started in just a moment, but first want
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here's today's program.
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John seventeen three says, this is eternal life, that they
may know you the only true God in Jesus Christ,
whom you have sent. It's not just about talking to God,
it's about experiencing God presently in this age.
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That's part of the New Covenant.
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Oh, by the way, there's forgiveness, he says, I'll be
merciful to their iniquities and I will remember their sins
no more. Isn't it good to know today that the
sins that you've thought about from your past, God's not
thinking about them anymore. If you've trusted in Christ, they
were buried with Christ in the grave.
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They're done with.
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Why do you keep thinking about them? Why do you
keep living in shame and guilt? And why do you
keep saying to yourself, I need to get right with God,
I need to get The only way to get right
with God is by believing Jesus Christ died for you
and rose from the dead. And if you believe that,
you've already been made right with God. And if you've
been made right with God, you can't be made more
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right than made right perfectly.
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He's made you perfect through the blood. He sees you
as perfect. Talk about divine sunglasses, so n glasses that
God the Father sees you through.
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He sees you like he sees his son, because he
sees the Jesus in you. And while you may not
feel it, it's a blessing that you need to believe.
And then, finally, how about this one. It's present, It's
now we can experience God's presence. Think about the Old
Covenant for a minute.
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The presence was in.
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The Holy of Holies, it was past the Holy place,
it was in the most holy place, and the only
one that could enter the most holy place, the only
one that could experience the presence of God was the
high priest. And the only time the high priest could
experience the presence of God was once the year, just for.
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A few minutes.
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And the only way he could experience the presence of
God was if he brought the right sacrifices of blood
for himself and for his people, and he could walk
in there, and he had to do it with a
great reverence and had to go through all the right
routine or he would die in the presence of the Lord.
And that's the only one in the entire nation that
could experience some of the presence of God. But not
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in the New Covenant, because when that veil was rent
or torn from top to bottom through Jesus Christ shed
blood on the cross, he invited all people everywhere, at
any time that wanted to experience his presence presently, that
they could experience God's presence. Now, so why do I
need that, Because I don't know what you're going through,
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But I promise you this a touch of God's presence
in your life would make all the difference in the world.
Some of you are going through difficult times right now.
Some of you have wayward kids right now. Some of
you struggle with your finances right now. Somebody having a
hard time in your job right now, Somebody having a
hard time in your marriage, somebody you having a hard
time in your singleness right now.
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You know what you need more than anything else.
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You need a touch from the Lord Jesus Christ, knowing
that He's presently with you.
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At all times.
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And some of you that are celebrating all these wonderful
that you're celebrating your marriage, you're celebrating your kids, you're
celebrating your new job, you're you want to know that
the God of the universe is celebrating that with you.
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See the question we ask all the time, Where's God?
Where's God? Where's God?
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Well, we know that Jesus is in heaven ministering on
our behalf. And oh, by the way, even if you
forgot to pray this week, that's what he was.
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Doing for you all week long.
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Even while you were sleeping last night, he was interceding
for you. He prays for you, He's ministering on your behalf.
He loves you with an unconditional love, but even more
than that, through the Holy Spirit, he indwells us, which
means this as a believer, everywhere you go there God is.
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How good news is that? How much good news is
that you're walking into that job interview and you feel
all alone? Where's God? Oh, He's right with you.
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You're going to have that hard conversation with somebody who
don't want to have Where's God right now?
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Oh, He's with you.
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You're troubled about things going on in our world right
now and you don't know how they're gonna work out,
And God's like, hey, I'm not sweating this, and I'm
white with you.
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That's the presence of God. That's the new Covenant.
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It means you don't need to go through a pastor
or a priest to get to God. You can go
directly through the Lord Jesus Christ and have access to.
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His presence anytime you want.
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That's the new Covenant. You're completely forgiven, You're seen as perfect.
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Do you believe that?
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Most Christians, even if they're here today, say I believe
that In their heart, They're like, I don't know that
I'd believe it totally doesn't feel right. It feels a
little bit arrogant for me to say that I've been
declared perfect before God. It's not arrogant, it's humble, because
what you're really saying is I believe that I'm not,
but I believe in Christ that I am. He says
it about me, Therefore I believe it. And I'm telling you,
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if you see yourself as perfected in Christ, you will
live every relationship in your life differently. You will make
every decision in your life differently because you know you've
been set apart.
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You know you've been crowned with glory and honor. You
know you have a new identity.
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Friends, believe your blessings in the New Covenant because of
Christ's life.
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Study all the religions of the world.
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I talk to people sometimes like, well, how do I
know that Jesus is the only way? And I would say, well,
the Bible says that John fourteen six, I'm the way
the truth in life. And they say, well, that's your Bible,
what about the rest of the study.
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Any religion you want in the world.
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There is no religion that makes a promise that God
will come into a you. There's no religion in the
world that says you can't be made right with God,
but God will make himself right with you.
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There's none of them.
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Christianity is so distinct that God the Father sent his son.
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To be the savior of the world, that.
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The New Covenant is not a promise of routines in
religious rituals. The New Covenant is a promise of God
himself in the form of Jesus Christ, dying on the
cross for all of our sins and rising from the dead.
There's no way in the world there's any other religion
that even comes close. And if you understand the Gospel,
and you understand that you've been perfected in Christ, and
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you understand that God's going to present.
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You perfect in Christ, You'll live your life different.
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And not only will you be excited about who you are,
but you'll be excited to tell other people about who
you are because you want them to experience that same
thing you are. Friends, believe your blessings in the New Covenant,
through Christ's life, through Christ's life. Second is this, Believe
your blessings in the New confidence.
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You have because of Christ's provision. Believe your blessings in
the new.
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Com finish you have because of christ provision. We have
the New Covenant, but we also have this new confidence.
Notice what he says in verse nineteen. He says, therefore, brethren,
that means listen up, brothers and sisters. We're gonna sum
some things up here. Since we have what confidence to
enter the Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by
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a new and living way, which he inaugurated for us
through the veil that is his flesh, he says, we
have confidence. There was nobody that even messed around with
entering the Holy of Holies in the old Covenant. I mean,
Aaron had two sons that tried to mess around, playing
with strange fire, and they died.
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People knew you.
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Don't just go into the presence of God in a
cavalier way.
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Here's what happened. Now there's a new and living way.
You know what that we're new means. It doesn't mean
like brand new, like this is the new style.
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It means like fresh sacrifice, the newest sacrifice, then the
newest slaughter.
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The new and living way was well, how.
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Is it slaughtered and alive? Because Jesus died, Andy rose
The new and living way He's the veil, He's the curtain.
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That's how we were separated from God.
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But God sending his son opened up the veil, opened
up the presence, so that through Christ shed blood and
death on the cross and his resurrection from the dead,
guess what we have. We have twenty four to seven
all access to God. We can experience God's presence anywhere
at any time, and if we're walking in fellowship with Him.
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That's what he wants us to have. Now.
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In the weeks prior, we've been talking about the confidence
we have to enter his presence. Hebrews four sixteen says
that let us draw near with confidence to the throne
of grace, so that we may receive mercy.
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And find grace in our time of need.
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Ephesians three twelve says in whom we have boldness and
confident access through.
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Faith in Him.
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It means, no matter what you're experiencing, you can storm
the gates of heaven and Jesus is inviting you to come,
and He's not gonna turn you away. See, for most
of us, because we believe in religion rather than a relationship,
when we sin and when we do things wrong, or
when we don't feel like we're good enough. Then we
feel like there's some things we must do before we
bombard the throne of heaven, such as, well, I need
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to go to church a few more times. I better
go to my small group first. I need to repent
for about seven to fourteen days.
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I need to get all right. And then once I'm right,
then I'll know we're a little closer.
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And then I can go into the presence of God
and tell.
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Him Lord, I'm really sorry for that.
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And no, the times we need to bombard the throne
are sometimes the times that we're in our darkest, desperate times,
the times that we've screwed up the most, where the
Lord's like, hey, come, I got grace for that. And
that's where we hear the enemy allowed to say, nay,
I doesn't love you anymore.
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He's disappointed in you.
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Man, you should have known better if you could hit
rewind got to be okay, But you kind of blew
that one. And man, how are you gonna tell people
in your small group about that? Here, I keep that
one to yourself, and then we try to figure out
how to work it out. No, no, no, no, we have
a new confidence because Christ's died and also rose. He
invites come to me, all of you who are weary
and heavy, lay and I'll give you rest.
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from the series The Greatest, showing you that faith is
essential to experiencing God's promises because belief unlocks every blessing.
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No matter what predicament you're in, I've already perfected you,
I've already made you right.
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Just come to me, experience me, enjoy me.
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We have an all access pass to him, and our
all access pass is it's not a badge, it's a person.
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It's Jesus himself. It's kind of like this.
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I have a friend a few years ago and the
Broncos went to the Super Bowl. He got tickets to go,
spent thousands of dollars on tickets, airlines, hotel, all this
was so excited to go. Was going with a group
of his business partners, and it was all well and
good until he got to the gate and gave him
his tickets and learned at that moment they were counterfeit.
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What do you do? Who you going to talk to?
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I mean, unless you know the owner of the stadium,
unless you know the owner of the Broncos, unless you
know the owners of the other team, unless you know
the starting quarterback who and vouch for you like I
got some extras. Come on, you're out. You can show
them your ticket all day long. You can tell them
how much money you paid. You can tell them what
hotel you stayed, and you can tell them how much
you paid for your uber And here's what they're gonna say, Sorry,
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you don't have a ticket. Now that's tragic, but you
know it's worse is when the God of the universe
has provided away for anybody anywhere to have access to
the presence of God, and there's some people that still
want to bring their own badge to the kingdom.
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Friend, let me tell you something. If you enter the Kingdom.
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Apart from the person of Jesus Christ and you try
to show your credentials for how you're gonna get in,
it is going to be the worst experience you've ever had.
Because you can bring your credentials like I was a
good husband, or I was a good wife, or I
was a good dad, or I was a good mom,
or I gave to my church. I showed up in church.
I did more than other people in church. Bring your
badge of honor, and here's what you'll hear Jesus say,
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Depart from me, you worker of iniquity, for I never
knew you. The only way in is through my blood.
That you repented and trusted in me. That's the only
way in. And you didn't do anything.
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With what I gave you.
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Why am I so passionate about this because there's people
that go to Brave that come here frequently that think
because you're religious and you're a good person, and you
read your Bible and you pray that you're going to heaven,
that doesn't get you into heaven.
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Only Jesus Christ gets you into heaven. Only through repentance
and faith. Are you going to have access to God?
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When I get to heaven and I see Jesus, The
only reason I'm getting in is because I'm saying this.
I bank my entire eternity on the fact that turning
from my sin and trusting.
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You gave me life. It's your life. I want your access.
That's it. That's the new Covenant. And isn't it good
to know? That's the confidence we have in Christ. See,
some of us don't realize the confidence we have because
we don't realize the identity we have in Christ. I mean,
here's just a few of these.
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These two you often, but they're all throughout scripture. I mean,
if it's true of Jesus and you're a believer and
He's in you, then it's true of you. I mean,
here's just a couple of them. I'm a coer with
Christ inheriting his glory. I'm a child of God and
will receive the inheritance he has promised. I am now
a citizen of Heaven, seated in heaven right now.
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I'm chosen of God, holy and dearly loved. I'm an
enemy of the devil. I love that I'm.
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Born again in Christ and the evil one, the devil,
cannot touch me. I have received God's spirit into my life.
I can recognize the blessings He's given me. I've been
blessed with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly place.
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Christ lives in me. That's my hope of glory.
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Because I'm set apart and sanctified and one with Christ.
He is not ashamed to call me his brother or sister,
his son, or his daughter. I have the right to
come boldly before the throne of God, and He will
meet my needs lovingly and kindly.
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That's who I am, not because of anything I've done.
This is all Christ has done for me.
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Do you believe the blessings? Do you believe that's who
you are? These truths change my life. About five years
into my walk with Christ. Five years into my walk
with Christ, I was still struggling, trying to be good
and trying to get it right and trying to do
all the right things. And here's the problem in churches.
I'm in churches. I'm not talking brave, I'm not talking
any other child. I'm just talking church in general. When
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we depart from the New Covenant and the confidence we
have in Christ and who we are, one of two
things happens.
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Either a we lower the bar of God's.
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Holiness and we tell people, yeah, I don't know if
God really said that, And don't worry about I love
you no matter who you are. You're such a nice person. Yeah,
I know you're treating your husband like garbage, but that's okay.
We're just glad you're here. I know you're abusing your wife,
but God loves you, and we're glad you're here. And
I know you're cheating your boss, but thank God Jesus
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loves you no matter what.
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I mean.
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We do all this stuff and we think it's spiritual
and it's not. We lower the bar and make it unspiritual,
or we do the opposite, We keep the bar high,
but then we falsely believe like we've achieved it. Like, yeah,
there's four things we do in our church, and there's
four things we don't do, and you're not doing them.
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All the way we do. You know, don't chew, don't smoke,
don't dant. Girls that chew and smoke, you know.
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Be in church because we do all those and you
broke one of those, so you're not in fellowship with
us anymore.
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We kind of set a self righteous standard.
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Or we think that we're achieving perfection apart from Christ.
But it's at the Cross and through the Resurrection that
we experience God's grace.
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Standard is perfection. You can't get there.
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I can't get there, but in Christ, through his shed blood,
anybody can get there.
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And in Christ we are there. That's the confidence we have.
Do you have that confidence? Do you believe that today?
Do you believe that blessing you have before Christ? I do.
You've been given blessings in the New Covenant, in your
new confidence. Let me give you a third one. Believe
your blessings in the new conscience you have because of
Christ's blood. It's a big one.
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We're gonna park it here for a while. You're conscience.
We talked about a clean conscience. Notice what the Word
of God says in verse twenty one. And since we
have a great priest over the House of God, who's
our great priest, you got about a fifty to fifty
chance of getting it right. Who's our great high Priest,
Jesus right, he's over the House of God, he says.
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Let us draw near with a sincere heart, that's a
pure heart, in full assurance of faith, having our hearts
sprinkled clean from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed
with pure water.
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Now, if you.
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Remember anything for my message last week, I used the
word over and over, probably one hundred times. What are
we sprinkled clean with the blood or sprinkled clean with
the blood?
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So come with.
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Great confidence, sincere heart, knowing that you've been cleansed from
your sin. This means you're completely have a clean conscience.
It means you're totally washed. Do you believe them?
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Even for many Christians that would say I.
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Know I'm totally forgiven, and I know if I die.
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I'm going to heaven, they don't believe they've been cleansed.
Cleansed Like if you ever had a garment that needs
a little stain on it and you take it to
the cleaners and.
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It's kind of gone, but you can still see where
it was. It's clean, but it's not clean clean it's
not cleansed.
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Many many Christians live like that.
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I'll give you another example, more real life. Somebody spilled
coffee down here right by my seat a little bit ago.
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It wasn't me, and it.
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Didn't get cleansed a vacuum, but you can still see
the outline of where all the coffee is.
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Apparently, one of our worship leaders to them, don't clean
it up.
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It'll help us when we're trying to raise money for
a new carpet in this building, which I told them.
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I think they know that already, But.
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That's how we feel sometimes, like I know God forgave me,
but boy, do I still feel the sting of that
sin that's not cleansed, that's covered, that's old covenant, covenant
is not covered, New covenants cleansed. Listen to me, listen
really close to me. Most Christians never get this because
the enemy keeps his thumb on you. If you've been
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freed from sin, you're completely freed from sin. If you've
been forgiven of sin, you're completely washed of that.
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Sin from the inside out. It's gone. You're new, you're pure.
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Many Christians, I know God forgave me, but that was
such a horrible thing that I did, and I just
don't know they still likes me.
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It's cleansed. Single people. Listen to me right now.
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There's some of you in here that have lived immrally
as a single person, and you've heard this lie in
your head. Oh, because I've been a moral, I'm gonna
have to settle for second class marriage. And because I've
been a moral, here's how I see myself. Because I've
been a moral, God can't love me the same way
he did, and I kind of forfeited my future because
of my sin. That's being covered and not cleansed. Being
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cleansed means because of the cross and Jesus did and
because of his resurrection. When you confess your sins, you're washed.
It's as if you never send that ever. It means
you have every blessing and right as a person that
never even engaged in that sin.
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Understand what I'm talking about. It's really quiet in here
right now for as many people as we have. And
here's why.
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Because we don't like to talk about those things. We
have this thing that follows us around called guilt and shame.
Shame is not that I did something wrong. Shame is
I am something wrong. Shame is, I've got to work
this off. Shame is I can never be like one
of those real Christians because I did this in my past.
That's a lie from the pit of el So I
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kind of typed up a list here of sins.
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They're alphabetized.
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I had fun in the first service. And here's why.
Because there is some person listening to this message that
has sinned this sin and because of the sin, I'm
about ready to mention they feel like they're not.
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Good enough for Jesus. Jesus is good enough to make
all these things good.
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You're ready, You're ready for this, because I'm like, I'm
like totally.
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Ready listen to this.
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This is what Christ forgave abuse, adultery, abortion, anxiety, apathy, bitterness, cheating, carnality, complaining, coveting, criticism, deceitfulness, disobedience,
division causing division, divorce, drunkenness, evil desires, exaggeration, fornication.
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We could add the word failure to all sorts of things, too,
like failure to help the poor and failure to repent,
and failure to.
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Mature in Christ and failure to take care of your
elderly parents and failure to teach your children, and we
go on with all the failures, giving the devil an opportunity, gossiping, greed,
grieving the Holy Spirit, grumbling, hatred, holding grudges, h We.
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Can talk about husbands and all the way that we fail.
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Hypocrisy, idolatry, ignorance of the word, immorality, impure thoughts, lack
of faith, lack of spiritual wisdom, lack of trust, laziness,
love of money, lust, lying, murder.
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Not just physically, but.
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How you think about other people, Like if you've ever
been on I twenty five, driving, neglect of Bible reading,
neglect of prayer, outbursts of anger, pornography, presumption, pride, procrastination, profanity,
quenching the Holy Spirit, resentment, robbing God, selfishness, showing favoritism,
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sense of omission, sense of commission, slander, speaking unwholesome thoughts
and words, being spiritually asleep, stealing, stubbornness, having a temper, uncompassionate,
unconcerned for the loss, unforgiveness. Unforgiveness is the number one
sin in the church. Just so you know, if you're
playing family feud right now and they ask the top
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one hundred answers, what's the top sin in the church,
unforgiveness is number one. Unteachable spirit, unyielding spirit, using God's
name in vain, witchcraft, workaholic worry. I mean, this is
not an exhaustive list. These are just some things that
came to mind. And yet how many people as believers
have sinned in that way and then feel like, I
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know I'm forgiven. I'm just not cleansed. Friends, on the
authority of God's word. If you've repented and trusted Christ,
you are cleansed.
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She just said, if you.
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Continue in my word, you are truly my disciples. And
if the sun has set you free, you are free.
How much indeed you're free? I mean you think about
all the ways and all the ways the enemy can
lie to us. If you don't believe this and get
this down in your gut, you'll always feel like you
can never be the fullness of what God wants you
to be. You'll feel like, because of my past, my
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future has been compromised. And then the devil will lie
to you and say it's because God didn't love you enough,
and then you'll be mad at God that your futures compromise.
God never said your futures compromise read through the Bible,
there's only one character in the Bible that lived perfectly.
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John seventeen three says, this is eternal life, that they
may know you the only true God in Jesus Christ,
whom you have sent. It's not just about talking to God,
it's about experiencing God presently in this age.
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That's part of the New Covenant.
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Oh, by the way, there's forgiveness, he says, I'll be
merciful to their iniquities and I will remember their sins
no more. Isn't it good to know today that the
sins that you've thought about from your past, God's not
thinking about them anymore. If you've trusted in Christ, they
were buried with Christ in the grave.
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They're done with.
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Why do you keep thinking about them? Why do you
keep living in shame and guilt? And why do you
keep saying to yourself, I need to get right with God,
I need to get The only way to get right
with God is by believing Jesus Christ died for you
and rose from the dead. And if you believe that,
you've already been made right with God. And if you've
been made right with God, you can't be made more
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right than made right perfectly.
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He's made you perfect through the blood. He sees you
as perfect. Talk about divine sunglasses, so n glasses that
God the Father sees you through.
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He sees you like he sees his son, because he
sees the Jesus in you. And while you may not
feel it, it's a blessing that you need to believe.
And then, finally, how about this one. It's present, It's
now we can experience God's presence. Think about the Old
Covenant for a minute.
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The presence was in.
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The Holy of Holies, it was past the Holy place,
it was in the most holy place, and the only
one that could enter the most holy place, the only
one that could experience the presence of God was the
high priest. And the only time the high priest could
experience the presence of God was once the year, just for.
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A few minutes.
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And the only way he could experience the presence of
God was if he brought the right sacrifices of blood
for himself and for his people, and he could walk
in there, and he had to do it with a
great reverence and had to go through all the right
routine or he would die in the presence of the Lord.
And that's the only one in the entire nation that
could experience some of the presence of God. But not
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in the New Covenant, because when that veil was rent
or torn from top to bottom through Jesus Christ shed
blood on the cross, he invited all people everywhere, at
any time that wanted to experience his presence presently, that
they could experience God's presence. Now, so why do I
need that, Because I don't know what you're going through,
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But I promise you this a touch of God's presence
in your life would make all the difference in the world.
Some of you are going through difficult times right now.
Some of you have wayward kids right now. Some of
you struggle with your finances right now. Somebody having a
hard time in your job right now, Somebody having a
hard time in your marriage, somebody you having a hard
time in your singleness right now.
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You know what you need more than anything else.
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You need a touch from the Lord Jesus Christ, knowing
that He's presently with you.
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At all times.
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And some of you that are celebrating all these wonderful
that you're celebrating your marriage, you're celebrating your kids, you're
celebrating your new job, you're you want to know that
the God of the universe is celebrating that with you.
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See the question we ask all the time, Where's God?
Where's God? Where's God?
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Well, we know that Jesus is in heaven ministering on
our behalf. And oh, by the way, even if you
forgot to pray this week, that's what he was.
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Doing for you all week long.
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Even while you were sleeping last night, he was interceding
for you. He prays for you, He's ministering on your behalf.
He loves you with an unconditional love, but even more
than that, through the Holy Spirit, he indwells us, which
means this as a believer, everywhere you go there God is.
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How good news is that? How much good news is
that you're walking into that job interview and you feel
all alone? Where's God? Oh, He's right with you.
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You're going to have that hard conversation with somebody who
don't want to have Where's God right now?
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Oh, He's with you.
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You're troubled about things going on in our world right
now and you don't know how they're gonna work out,
And God's like, hey, I'm not sweating this, and I'm
white with you.
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That's the presence of God. That's the new Covenant.
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It means you don't need to go through a pastor
or a priest to get to God. You can go
directly through the Lord Jesus Christ and have access to.
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His presence anytime you want.
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That's the new Covenant. You're completely forgiven, You're seen as perfect.
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Do you believe that?
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Most Christians, even if they're here today, say I believe
that In their heart, They're like, I don't know that
I'd believe it totally doesn't feel right. It feels a
little bit arrogant for me to say that I've been
declared perfect before God. It's not arrogant, it's humble, because
what you're really saying is I believe that I'm not,
but I believe in Christ that I am. He says
it about me, Therefore I believe it. And I'm telling you,
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if you see yourself as perfected in Christ, you will
live every relationship in your life differently. You will make
every decision in your life differently because you know you've
been set apart.
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You know you've been crowned with glory and honor. You
know you have a new identity.
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Friends, believe your blessings in the New Covenant because of
Christ's life.
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Study all the religions of the world.
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I talk to people sometimes like, well, how do I
know that Jesus is the only way? And I would say, well,
the Bible says that John fourteen six, I'm the way
the truth in life. And they say, well, that's your Bible,
what about the rest of the study.
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Any religion you want in the world.
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There is no religion that makes a promise that God
will come into a you. There's no religion in the
world that says you can't be made right with God,
but God will make himself right with you.
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There's none of them.
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Christianity is so distinct that God the Father sent his son.
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To be the savior of the world, that.
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The New Covenant is not a promise of routines in
religious rituals. The New Covenant is a promise of God
himself in the form of Jesus Christ, dying on the
cross for all of our sins and rising from the dead.
There's no way in the world there's any other religion
that even comes close. And if you understand the Gospel,
and you understand that you've been perfected in Christ, and
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you understand that God's going to present.
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You perfect in Christ, You'll live your life different.
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And not only will you be excited about who you are,
but you'll be excited to tell other people about who
you are because you want them to experience that same
thing you are. Friends, believe your blessings in the New Covenant,
through Christ's life, through Christ's life. Second is this, Believe
your blessings in the New confidence.
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You have because of Christ's provision. Believe your blessings in
the new.
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Com finish you have because of christ provision. We have
the New Covenant, but we also have this new confidence.
Notice what he says in verse nineteen. He says, therefore, brethren,
that means listen up, brothers and sisters. We're gonna sum
some things up here. Since we have what confidence to
enter the Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by
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a new and living way, which he inaugurated for us
through the veil that is his flesh, he says, we
have confidence. There was nobody that even messed around with
entering the Holy of Holies in the old Covenant. I mean,
Aaron had two sons that tried to mess around, playing
with strange fire, and they died.
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People knew you.
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Don't just go into the presence of God in a
cavalier way.
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Here's what happened. Now there's a new and living way.
You know what that we're new means. It doesn't mean
like brand new, like this is the new style.
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It means like fresh sacrifice, the newest sacrifice, then the
newest slaughter.
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The new and living way was well, how.
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Is it slaughtered and alive? Because Jesus died, Andy rose
The new and living way He's the veil, He's the curtain.
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That's how we were separated from God.
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But God sending his son opened up the veil, opened
up the presence, so that through Christ shed blood and
death on the cross and his resurrection from the dead,
guess what we have. We have twenty four to seven
all access to God. We can experience God's presence anywhere
at any time, and if we're walking in fellowship with Him.
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That's what he wants us to have. Now.
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In the weeks prior, we've been talking about the confidence
we have to enter his presence. Hebrews four sixteen says
that let us draw near with confidence to the throne
of grace, so that we may receive mercy.
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And find grace in our time of need.
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Ephesians three twelve says in whom we have boldness and
confident access through.
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Faith in Him.
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It means, no matter what you're experiencing, you can storm
the gates of heaven and Jesus is inviting you to come,
and He's not gonna turn you away. See, for most
of us, because we believe in religion rather than a relationship,
when we sin and when we do things wrong, or
when we don't feel like we're good enough. Then we
feel like there's some things we must do before we
bombard the throne of heaven, such as, well, I need
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to go to church a few more times. I better
go to my small group first. I need to repent
for about seven to fourteen days.
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I need to get all right. And then once I'm right,
then I'll know we're a little closer.
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And then I can go into the presence of God
and tell.
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Him Lord, I'm really sorry for that.
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And no, the times we need to bombard the throne
are sometimes the times that we're in our darkest, desperate times,
the times that we've screwed up the most, where the
Lord's like, hey, come, I got grace for that. And
that's where we hear the enemy allowed to say, nay,
I doesn't love you anymore.
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He's disappointed in you.
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Man, you should have known better if you could hit
rewind got to be okay, But you kind of blew
that one. And man, how are you gonna tell people
in your small group about that? Here, I keep that
one to yourself, and then we try to figure out
how to work it out. No, no, no, no, we have
a new confidence because Christ's died and also rose. He
invites come to me, all of you who are weary
and heavy, lay and I'll give you rest.
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No matter what predicament you're in, I've already perfected you,
I've already made you right.
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Just come to me, experience me, enjoy me.
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We have an all access pass to him, and our
all access pass is it's not a badge, it's a person.
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It's Jesus himself. It's kind of like this.
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I have a friend a few years ago and the
Broncos went to the Super Bowl. He got tickets to go,
spent thousands of dollars on tickets, airlines, hotel, all this
was so excited to go. Was going with a group
of his business partners, and it was all well and
good until he got to the gate and gave him
his tickets and learned at that moment they were counterfeit.
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What do you do? Who you going to talk to?
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I mean, unless you know the owner of the stadium,
unless you know the owner of the Broncos, unless you
know the owners of the other team, unless you know
the starting quarterback who and vouch for you like I
got some extras. Come on, you're out. You can show
them your ticket all day long. You can tell them
how much money you paid. You can tell them what
hotel you stayed, and you can tell them how much
you paid for your uber And here's what they're gonna say, Sorry,
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you don't have a ticket. Now that's tragic, but you
know it's worse is when the God of the universe
has provided away for anybody anywhere to have access to
the presence of God, and there's some people that still
want to bring their own badge to the kingdom.
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Friend, let me tell you something. If you enter the Kingdom.
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Apart from the person of Jesus Christ and you try
to show your credentials for how you're gonna get in,
it is going to be the worst experience you've ever had.
Because you can bring your credentials like I was a
good husband, or I was a good wife, or I
was a good dad, or I was a good mom,
or I gave to my church. I showed up in church.
I did more than other people in church. Bring your
badge of honor, and here's what you'll hear Jesus say,
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Depart from me, you worker of iniquity, for I never
knew you. The only way in is through my blood.
That you repented and trusted in me. That's the only
way in. And you didn't do anything.
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With what I gave you.
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Why am I so passionate about this because there's people
that go to Brave that come here frequently that think
because you're religious and you're a good person, and you
read your Bible and you pray that you're going to heaven,
that doesn't get you into heaven.
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Only Jesus Christ gets you into heaven. Only through repentance
and faith. Are you going to have access to God?
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When I get to heaven and I see Jesus, The
only reason I'm getting in is because I'm saying this.
I bank my entire eternity on the fact that turning
from my sin and trusting.
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You gave me life. It's your life. I want your access.
That's it. That's the new Covenant. And isn't it good
to know? That's the confidence we have in Christ. See,
some of us don't realize the confidence we have because
we don't realize the identity we have in Christ. I mean,
here's just a few of these.
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These two you often, but they're all throughout scripture. I mean,
if it's true of Jesus and you're a believer and
He's in you, then it's true of you. I mean,
here's just a couple of them. I'm a coer with
Christ inheriting his glory. I'm a child of God and
will receive the inheritance he has promised. I am now
a citizen of Heaven, seated in heaven right now.
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I'm chosen of God, holy and dearly loved. I'm an
enemy of the devil. I love that I'm.
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Born again in Christ and the evil one, the devil,
cannot touch me. I have received God's spirit into my life.
I can recognize the blessings He's given me. I've been
blessed with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly place.
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Christ lives in me. That's my hope of glory.
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Because I'm set apart and sanctified and one with Christ.
He is not ashamed to call me his brother or sister,
his son, or his daughter. I have the right to
come boldly before the throne of God, and He will
meet my needs lovingly and kindly.
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That's who I am, not because of anything I've done.
This is all Christ has done for me.
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Do you believe the blessings? Do you believe that's who
you are? These truths change my life. About five years
into my walk with Christ. Five years into my walk
with Christ, I was still struggling, trying to be good
and trying to get it right and trying to do
all the right things. And here's the problem in churches.
I'm in churches. I'm not talking brave, I'm not talking
any other child. I'm just talking church in general. When
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we depart from the New Covenant and the confidence we
have in Christ and who we are, one of two
things happens.
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Either a we lower the bar of God's.
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Holiness and we tell people, yeah, I don't know if
God really said that, And don't worry about I love
you no matter who you are. You're such a nice person. Yeah,
I know you're treating your husband like garbage, but that's okay.
We're just glad you're here. I know you're abusing your wife,
but God loves you, and we're glad you're here. And
I know you're cheating your boss, but thank God Jesus
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loves you no matter what.
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I mean.
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We do all this stuff and we think it's spiritual
and it's not. We lower the bar and make it unspiritual,
or we do the opposite, We keep the bar high,
but then we falsely believe like we've achieved it. Like, yeah,
there's four things we do in our church, and there's
four things we don't do, and you're not doing them.
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All the way we do. You know, don't chew, don't smoke,
don't dant. Girls that chew and smoke, you know.
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Be in church because we do all those and you
broke one of those, so you're not in fellowship with
us anymore.
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We kind of set a self righteous standard.
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Or we think that we're achieving perfection apart from Christ.
But it's at the Cross and through the Resurrection that
we experience God's grace.
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Standard is perfection. You can't get there.
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I can't get there, but in Christ, through his shed blood,
anybody can get there.
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And in Christ we are there. That's the confidence we have.
Do you have that confidence? Do you believe that today?
Do you believe that blessing you have before Christ? I do.
You've been given blessings in the New Covenant, in your
new confidence. Let me give you a third one. Believe
your blessings in the new conscience you have because of
Christ's blood. It's a big one.
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We're gonna park it here for a while. You're conscience.
We talked about a clean conscience. Notice what the Word
of God says in verse twenty one. And since we
have a great priest over the House of God, who's
our great priest, you got about a fifty to fifty
chance of getting it right. Who's our great high Priest,
Jesus right, he's over the House of God, he says.
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Let us draw near with a sincere heart, that's a
pure heart, in full assurance of faith, having our hearts
sprinkled clean from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed
with pure water.
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Now, if you.
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Remember anything for my message last week, I used the
word over and over, probably one hundred times. What are
we sprinkled clean with the blood or sprinkled clean with
the blood?
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So come with.
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Great confidence, sincere heart, knowing that you've been cleansed from
your sin. This means you're completely have a clean conscience.
It means you're totally washed. Do you believe them?
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Even for many Christians that would say I.
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Know I'm totally forgiven, and I know if I die.
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I'm going to heaven, they don't believe they've been cleansed.
Cleansed Like if you ever had a garment that needs
a little stain on it and you take it to
the cleaners and.
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It's kind of gone, but you can still see where
it was. It's clean, but it's not clean clean it's
not cleansed.
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Many many Christians live like that.
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I'll give you another example, more real life. Somebody spilled
coffee down here right by my seat a little bit ago.
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It wasn't me, and it.
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Didn't get cleansed a vacuum, but you can still see
the outline of where all the coffee is.
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Apparently, one of our worship leaders to them, don't clean
it up.
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It'll help us when we're trying to raise money for
a new carpet in this building, which I told them.
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I think they know that already, But.
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That's how we feel sometimes, like I know God forgave me,
but boy, do I still feel the sting of that
sin that's not cleansed, that's covered, that's old covenant, covenant
is not covered, New covenants cleansed. Listen to me, listen
really close to me. Most Christians never get this because
the enemy keeps his thumb on you. If you've been
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freed from sin, you're completely freed from sin. If you've
been forgiven of sin, you're completely washed of that.
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Sin from the inside out. It's gone. You're new, you're pure.
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Many Christians, I know God forgave me, but that was
such a horrible thing that I did, and I just
don't know they still likes me.
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It's cleansed. Single people. Listen to me right now.
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There's some of you in here that have lived immrally
as a single person, and you've heard this lie in
your head. Oh, because I've been a moral, I'm gonna
have to settle for second class marriage. And because I've
been a moral, here's how I see myself. Because I've
been a moral, God can't love me the same way
he did, and I kind of forfeited my future because
of my sin. That's being covered and not cleansed. Being
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cleansed means because of the cross and Jesus did and
because of his resurrection. When you confess your sins, you're washed.
It's as if you never send that ever. It means
you have every blessing and right as a person that
never even engaged in that sin.
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Understand what I'm talking about. It's really quiet in here
right now for as many people as we have. And
here's why.
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Because we don't like to talk about those things. We
have this thing that follows us around called guilt and shame.
Shame is not that I did something wrong. Shame is
I am something wrong. Shame is, I've got to work
this off. Shame is I can never be like one
of those real Christians because I did this in my past.
That's a lie from the pit of el So I
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kind of typed up a list here of sins.
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They're alphabetized.
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I had fun in the first service. And here's why.
Because there is some person listening to this message that
has sinned this sin and because of the sin, I'm
about ready to mention they feel like they're not.
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Good enough for Jesus. Jesus is good enough to make
all these things good.
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You're ready, You're ready for this, because I'm like, I'm
like totally.
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Ready listen to this.
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This is what Christ forgave abuse, adultery, abortion, anxiety, apathy, bitterness, cheating, carnality, complaining, coveting, criticism, deceitfulness, disobedience,
division causing division, divorce, drunkenness, evil desires, exaggeration, fornication.
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We could add the word failure to all sorts of things, too,
like failure to help the poor and failure to repent,
and failure to.
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Mature in Christ and failure to take care of your
elderly parents and failure to teach your children, and we
go on with all the failures, giving the devil an opportunity, gossiping, greed,
grieving the Holy Spirit, grumbling, hatred, holding grudges, h We.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Can talk about husbands and all the way that we fail.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Hypocrisy, idolatry, ignorance of the word, immorality, impure thoughts, lack
of faith, lack of spiritual wisdom, lack of trust, laziness,
love of money, lust, lying, murder.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Not just physically, but.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
How you think about other people, Like if you've ever
been on I twenty five, driving, neglect of Bible reading,
neglect of prayer, outbursts of anger, pornography, presumption, pride, procrastination, profanity,
quenching the Holy Spirit, resentment, robbing God, selfishness, showing favoritism,
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sense of omission, sense of commission, slander, speaking unwholesome thoughts
and words, being spiritually asleep, stealing, stubbornness, having a temper, uncompassionate,
unconcerned for the loss, unforgiveness. Unforgiveness is the number one
sin in the church. Just so you know, if you're
playing family feud right now and they ask the top
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one hundred answers, what's the top sin in the church,
unforgiveness is number one. Unteachable spirit, unyielding spirit, using God's
name in vain, witchcraft, workaholic worry. I mean, this is
not an exhaustive list. These are just some things that
came to mind. And yet how many people as believers
have sinned in that way and then feel like, I
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know I'm forgiven. I'm just not cleansed. Friends, on the
authority of God's word. If you've repented and trusted Christ,
you are cleansed.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
She just said, if you.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Continue in my word, you are truly my disciples. And
if the sun has set you free, you are free.
How much indeed you're free? I mean you think about
all the ways and all the ways the enemy can
lie to us. If you don't believe this and get
this down in your gut, you'll always feel like you
can never be the fullness of what God wants you
to be. You'll feel like, because of my past, my
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future has been compromised. And then the devil will lie
to you and say it's because God didn't love you enough,
and then you'll be mad at God that your futures compromise.
God never said your futures compromise read through the Bible,
there's only one character in the Bible that lived perfectly.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
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