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Hi, this is Rick Warren, Bible teacher of the Daily
Hope Broadcast. Did you know that because of Easter, your
past can be forgiven, you get a purpose for living,
and you can have a home in heaven. That's good news.
Where else can you get that kind of news? Nowhere else?
And did you know that at Easter, studies have shown
people are more open to an invitation to go to
church than at any other time of the year. Don't
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go to church by yourself, but bring somebody who doesn't
know Jesus Christ, a family member, a friend, a coworker,
a neighbor, a relative. And if you bring them to
that church service and they come to know Christ, You're
going to be making a friend for eternity. It'll be
the most important investment you can ever make in their lives.
And by the way, if they come to Christ, would
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you let me know about it. I'd love to hear
that story that you brought somebody to Easter and they
found Jesus. You can write to me Rick at Pastorrick
dot com. That's rickat Pastorrick dot com. I would love
to hear from you. God bless you and Happy Easter.
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Thanks for joining us here today. On Pastor Rick's Daily Hope,
the audio broadcast Ministry of Pastor Rick Warren.
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Today we continue in.
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A series called the Seven Greatest Words of Love.
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There are seven.
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Words in particular that Jesus spoke during his final hours
on the cross that hold the keys for finding fulfillment
in your life, relationships, and even your career. Right now,
here's Pastor Rick with part two of a message called
the Word of Victory.
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Luke, chapter twenty four.
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Jesus said, this, by the way, this story that I'm
reading happens after the cross. He's resurrected, and he's actually
walking down the street a few days later, the week
after he's died on the cross. So Jesus said, this
is on the road to a MIAs. Jesus said, this
is what I told you while I was still with you,
in other words, before I died on the cross. Now
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he's back to life, and he's telling us this people,
everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in
the Law of Moses, that's the first five books of
the Bible, in the Prophets, and in the Psalms. Then
he opened their minds so they could understand the scriptures,
and he told them this is what was written, that
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Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the
third day, and repentance and forgiveness of sins will be
preached in his name to all nations. Jesus and this
this was predicted, and this was promised, and I just
fulfilled it. A few days ago, he said, I'm fulfilling.
Now You're never going to find Jesus' name in the
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Old Testament. But all of the predictions and all the
prophecies of what he would do, what he would say,
where we'd be born, how he would die, and all
of those things, we looked back a couple weeks ago.
Are there he fulfilled the promises that God had given
to us. Look at the next verse there, Second Corinthians
one twenty. All of God's promises, all of God's promises
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have been fulfilled in him who that's Jesus. And he says,
that's why we say amen when we give glory to
God through Christ. When Jesus died on the cross, and
he said these three words, it is finished. He was
announcing five benefits to you. The first one he fulfilled
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what God had promised us. He fulfilled all the scripture,
all the prophecies, all of the promises. Number two, this
is a big one. He's satisfied what God's justice required.
He satisfied what God's justice required. Now, let me explain
this to you. God is a God of justice. He
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is imminently fair. God cannot be unfair. God is a
God of justice and truth and righteousness and wines and
always does what's right and can never do what's wrong.
So God is a God of justice, and God is
a God of order, and God is a god of laws,
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and God is a God of fairness. Now, the only
reason the universe works is because that's God's nature. God
wired the universe to run on certain laws. There are
laws of physics. God designed them all. There are laws
in astronomy, there are laws in chemistry. There are laws
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in the environment. There are physical laws. There's the law
of gravity. How about if the law of gravity just
worked every other day.
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And it was totally unreliable.
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God's laws always work all the time, and so God
designed the entire universe so that rotations work, and gravity's work,
and the laws of thermodynamics work. All of God's laws
are immutable. Now there are physical laws. Laws of physics.
Has said they are physical laws, there are spiritual laws.
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There are moral laws, and there are relational laws. God
is a god of justice and law. Now God gave
the moral laws to Moses and to the nation of Israel,
to the Jews, and the Jews were to take the
moral laws and share them with everybody else. You've heard
the phrase that the Jews are God's chosen people.
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It's true. What were they chosen to do?
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They were chosen to be the purveyors or the ambassadors
of God's moral law to everybody else, those of us
who are not Jews. That's what they were chosen to do.
To take the word of God and to take the
truth of God, and to pass on the laws of
God to everybody else. Now, human beings, we you and I,
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we have two problems with the laws of God. Number one,
we are completely unable to keep them all.
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We just can't keep them all.
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In fact, here's what the Bible says Romans chapter eight.
The law of Moses could not save us because our
sinful nature. But God put into effect a different plan.
This is like a plan b. God put into effect
a different plan to save us. He sent his own
son in a human body like ours, except that ours
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are sinful, and God destroyed sins control over us by
giving his son as a sacrifice for our sins.
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That's what he was doing on the cross. He did this.
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So that the requirement of the law would be fully accomplished, finished, satisfied,
completed for us, who no longer follow our own sinful nature.
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But instead follow the spirits.
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What the rest of that verse says, Now, Jesus is
the only person in human history who ever kept all
of God's law perfectly.
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Because he was the son of God.
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Now, the first problem we have is that we're completely
unable to keep all of God's laws. The second problem
with God is this, justice demands that law breakers pay
the consequences. You don't have laws, and then if you
break it them, nothing happens. There are certain laws. There
are laws of sleep. If you don't get enough sleep,
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your body pays for it.
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There are laws.
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If you don't exercise, your body pays for it. If
you eat the wrong foods, your body pays for it.
You are free on this planet to do anything you
want to. God gives you that freedom, but you are
not free from the consequences. I'm free to go out
get drunk cause accidents, blow up buildings, steal things, live
a totally licentious, self centered life.
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And I'm free to do that. God gives me.
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That freedom, it does not give me the freedom from
the consequences of it. And every kick has a kick back,
and there is a payoff, and justice demands that law
breakers pay a penalty. So God is a just god,
but he's also a loving god. And Jesus did for
us what God's justice and God's law required. Look at
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the next verses. Look at this verse on the screen.
After Jesus had finished his work. What's the work he's
talking about, That work on the cross, dying for our sins.
After Jesus had finished his work on the cross, he
became the source of eternal salvation for who for everybody,
everybody who obeys him. It doesn't matter what your background is,
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doesn't matter, what your culture is, doesn't matter, what your
religion is, doesn't matter, what your personality is, your sex is,
doesn't matter, he says, it's for salvations for everybody who
obeys him, who accepts what he did for him.
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Look at the next verse in your outline.
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Romans tend for Christ ended the law law so that
everyone who believes in him, may be right with God.
Now circle that phrase ended the law. Did you know
that's what God did when he let Jesus down the cross?
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He ended the law. Now minute, he said, Wait a minute, Does.
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That mean I don't to keep the thak commandments anymore?
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No, that's not what that means. Let me explain now.
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I want you to listen really closely, because the world
gets this wrong all the time. There are three kinds
of law in the Bible. There's legal law for the
nation of Israel, there's ceremonial law for the worship of Israel,
and there's moral law for everybody in the whole world. Okay,
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there are legal laws in the book, in the Old
Testament books that are for the nation of Israel. You're
not obligated to fulfill those laws. You're not a Jew,
you don't live in Israel, and you weren't living in
the time where there's the theocracy of God being the
King of Israel. You're not obligated. And then they're ceremonial
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roles in the Book of Leviticus. Anybody ever read that book. Okay,
there's some strange rules in there. Okay, rules of hygiene,
rules of health, rules of the kind of clothes you're
supposed to wear, rules the way you're supposed to do
worship in the temple, and all that. That was the
ceremonial law for the nation of Israel. You're not obligated
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to keep those. You're not at Israeli and you're not
under that system. God ended that system, endo that system. Now,
the moral laws are still in effect. You can't murder,
you can't lie, you can't commit adultery. Those are the
big ones, and those are always an effect. And what
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happens is is people will come up to you and say,
what about the law that says da da da da
da da, And you say, well, that's.
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A ceremonial law. Well that's a national law.
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It's not a moral law, and it doesn't have the
same effect as the laws that are to keep on.
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Jesus ended the old system. He just says it right there.
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He ended the law, so everyone who believes in him
may be right with God. Here it is in the nutshell.
Look at the next verse Romans five eighteen. Here it
is in a nutshell, just as one person did it
wrong and got us into all this trouble, the sin
and death that guy was called Adam. By the way,
paradise was lost. Another person did it right and got.
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Us out of it. By the way, his name is Jesus.
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But more than just getting out of us out of trouble,
he got us into life.
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What did Jesus finish on the cross?
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He fulfilled all the promises and he satisfied God's justice
that was required. Number three, This is an even bigger one.
He paid off the debt that I owed God. When
Jesus finished dying for me on the cross, he paid
off the debt that I owe God. Now, you have
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a lot of debt in your life, and I'm not
just talking about your fifth financial debts. You owe something
to everybody you've ever hurt, you've ever offended, you've ever
sinned against. You owe them something because you've taken away
something from Him by offending him, hurting them, sinning against them.
But you're even in deeper debt to God because everything
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you have is a gift from God. And many times
you've been ungrateful, you've been unthankful, you've been rebellious, you've
done your own thing. You've basically, you know, said forget
you God, and did whatever you wanted to do. You've
gone with your plan instead of God's plan. You've done
the when God said do this, you've done the exact opposite.
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You're in deep, deep, deep debt to God.
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Here's what the Bible says Colossians chapter two. We owed
a debt because we've broken God's laws, and that debt
lists all the rules that we failed to follow.
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But here's the good news.
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God forgave our debt, and he canceled our debt by
nailing it to the cross circle.
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The word canceled. This is the third thing Jesus did.
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When he says it is finished, he's saying, I've paid
off your debt. It's paid in full. You don't have
to pay it anymore yourself.
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You don't have to.
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Nail yourself to cross. I took that punishment for you.
I've canceled your debt. Now. Can you imagine waking up
on Monday and getting a call from a Visa credit
Cards or American Express or Mass Cards. They called and said,
you know what, we just decided to wipe your slate clean.
We're gonna eliminate all your debt on all your credit cards.
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We're just gonna wipe it out and we're just gonna
start over with anybody like that. Yeah, well, that's exactly
what Jesus Christ did for you when he cried on
the cross.
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It is finished.
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I've paid all your debt to tell us die, paid
in full, like that stamp, paid in full. The bill's
been paid off, the sentence has been served, and I've
paid your debt financially, physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually.
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I did it all for you.
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Colossians won Verse fourteen says God's son paid the price
to free us, which means and it's like bail, no,
maybe morning bail, because you don't have to go to court.
God's pay the price to free us, which meant that
our sins are forgiven? And which of your sins were given?
Every one of them, every single blasted one of them, even.
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The ones you haven't committed yet.
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I remember years ago, Can I went on vacation and
we stayed in the hotel somewhere, I don't remember it wasn't.
Somebody recognized me, and I remember when we went down
to check out. I went up to the clerk to
check out, and the attendant said, oh, your bill's been
paid off? What? And the guy said, oh, I said, oh,
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I've taken care of that. I looked at this guy,
I didn't know him from Adams that you are my
new best friend and who are you and why did
you do this? And we got to know each other.
He said, I've taken care of your bill and I
just paid it off. That's exactly what Jesus Christ did
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for you. Look at this verse on the screen. Now
that our sins have been forgiven, there is no need
to offer any more sacrifices.
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Now leave that verse up there on the screen for
a minute. Let me explain this.
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In the Old Testament, the sacrificial system was the way
that people said they were sorry for their sins, and
there were sacrifices made. And the Bible says, now that
Jesus Christ has died on the cross, there is no
need to offer any more sacrifices because Jesus was the
ultimate sacrifice for everything you've ever done wrong. Now let
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me explain this in implication of it. Some of our friends,
some of you right here in our church, are Christians
who believe about the second coming, that for before Jesus
Christ can come back, that a temple has to be
built in Jerusalem, and the sacrificial system restarted before Jesus
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can come back. But the Bible just said there's no
need for any more sacrifice, so that's irrelevant. There is
no need for the temple to be built because the
sacrifice has already been made. There will never again be
a need for sacrifices in the Temple in Jerusalem, never.
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Never never never never never never never never again. It
doesn't have to happen.
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Why because the Bible says Jesus was the sacrifice and
there will never ever again be any need for any
other sacrifice. Now, some of you have felt guilty over
something you've done wrong, and you believe God has forgiven you,
but you haven't really felt God has forgiven you, and
you keep trying to pay off your Maybe if I
go on a piece trip, that'll pay off my sin.
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Maybe if I go to church, that'll pay a foe
off my sin. Maybe if I tie, then I can
get rid of this gill. And you're trying to pay
off your sin when it's already been paid for. That's
good news. That is good news. The sacrifice was final,
it was complete, and it is finished. To tell usty,
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there will never be anything else you could ever ever
do to pay for your sins, because it's already all
been paid for. No need to try to keep repaying
for your mistakes. I remember one time reading about a
lady who was an elderly woman and she went to
her insurance company and she walked in and said, how
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can we help you, ma'am?
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She said, well, my husband died five.
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Years ago and I can't afford to keep paying his
insurance life insurance premiums. I just can't afford to do
it anymore. And I said, ma'am, you don't need to.
It's been paid off. It's done, and now you get
to benefit from it. He died, and because he died,
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you are now going to benefit from his death. You
don't have to pay anything anymore. And that's what Jesus
did for you. Now, there's one.
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Other use.
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Of the word to tell us stye that I didn't mention,
and that it is. It was often used as a
battle cry, and in war when armies would go to
battle and they had won the battle and they had
completely defeated the enemy, the soldiers would shout to tell
us die, it's done, We're finished, it's paid in full,
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we won. It's all ours and these are the last
two meanings of this in your life.
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Number four.
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The fourth thing that happened, and when Jesus said it
has finished, was he defeated the fear of death. He
defeated the fear of death. Now this is a universal fear.
Nobody is exempt from it. Everybody has some fear of death.
But Jesus broke that power. And this was a battle cry.
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It was a shout of a victorious conqueror when he says,
I have defeated death, and I have proved to you
you don't have to be afraid of it, because I'm
going to come back to life, and if I am.
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The resurrection, you can be resurrected.
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And believing in me, death is not the end, and
you don't need to fear it anymore. A couple verses
Romans five seventeen, the sin of one man Adam caused the.
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Death to rule over all of us. But all who.
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Received God's wonderful, gracious gift of righteousness will live in
triumph over sin and death. Through this one man, Jesus
Christ triumph over sin and death. Look at the next
verse he Brews chapter two, fourteen fifteen. Jesus became flesh
and blood, by being born in human form, for only
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as a human being could he die. And only by
dying could he break the power of the devil, who
had the power of death. And only in this way,
how Jesus died on the cross, could he deliver those
set us free, deliver those that's you and me, who
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have lived all their lives as slaves to the fear
of dying.
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I don't have to be afraid of death anymore. I'm
not afraid of death.
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I can honestly say I'm afraid of pain, but I
am not afraid of death, because death is just a transfer.
And I know where I'm going, and i know I'm
supposed to be there, not here forever, and I'm looking
forward to being there since more and more of my
friends and parents and relatives are there.
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It breaks the fear of death. He defeats the fear of.
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Death when he says it is finished. By the way,
do you know what is the symbol of this though
you don't have to fear death, it's baptism. Baptism In
the Bible, every time you see the word baptism used,
it's used to refer.
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To a burial and a resurrection.
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The Bible says by in baptism, we're buried with Christ,
and in baptism were raised with Christ. Which is why
we do it the way they did it in the Bible.
We don't sprinkle water, we don't pour on water. We
do it the way that they did it with Jesus,
because it's a picture of a death, a burial, and resurrection.
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Every time the word baptism is used in the.
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Bible, it refers. In fact, the word means to put
underwater baptizo. And so just as Jesus Christ died, was
buried in the ground three days and rose again and
broke the power of death. And we don't have to
be afraid of death anymore because we know you can
be resurrected from it. Jesus died, was buried three days,
rose again. That you know, I take you, or one
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of our pastors takes you, puts you under the water,
leaves you there, three days, raises you. I'm just seeing
if you're listening, raises you up again. And that is
a symbol that I have died to my old way
of life. All my sins are forgiven, they're washed away,
they're forgiven, they're wiped out, and I'm being raised to
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live a brand new life and I don't have to
fear death all right. Number five now the fifth one,
and I really love this one. I appreciate it so much.
Is that when Jesus Christ died for us on the Cross,
one of the things he set is free from, that
he liberates from he finished was this. He destroyed Satan's
power to control me on the cross. He destroyed Satan's
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power to control me, to control my mind, to control
my life, to control my destiny.
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Hey, thanks so much for being with us today and
listening to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. You know your prayers
and financial support are having a huge impact on millions
of people here and around the world. So thank you,
Thank you so much. And now Rick's going to share
a letter from one of our listeners who says Daily
Hope is making a real difference in their life.
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I love letting you hear some of the letters that
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from a woman named Bonnie, says, Dear Pastor Rick, my
husband Tom and I both receive your Daily Hope print
devotional in our email every morning. We take turns each
day reading the daily devotional. They must read it aloud
and it's a great way to start our day along
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with our individual daily quiet time. It's been such a
blessing and encouragement to us in each of our daily lives.
And sometimes I am able to turn on the podcast
and we listen to the broadcast as well. Know we've
both been Christians for a long time, but that daily
encouragement for you you helps us keep on track and
it helps us make our lives so much richer as
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we follow God every day. So thanks and may God
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Tom Hey, thanks for writing Bonnie. It always blesses me
when we hear that Daily Hope is helping other people
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Hi, this is Rick Warren, Bible teacher of the Daily
Hope Broadcast. Did you know that because of Easter, your
past can be forgiven, you get a purpose for living,
and you can have a home in heaven. That's good news.
Where else can you get that kind of news? Nowhere else?
And did you know that at Easter, studies have shown
people are more open to an invitation to go to
church than at any other time of the year. Don't
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go to church by yourself, but bring somebody who doesn't
know Jesus Christ, a family member, a friend, a coworker,
a neighbor, a relative. And if you bring them to
that church service and they come to know Christ, You're
going to be making a friend for eternity. It'll be
the most important investment you can ever make in their lives.
And by the way, if they come to Christ, would
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you let me know about it. I'd love to hear
that story that you brought somebody to Easter and they
found Jesus. You can write to me Rick at Pastorrick
dot com. That's rickat Pastorrick dot com. I would love
to hear from you. God bless you and Happy Easter.
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Thanks for joining us here today. On Pastor Rick's Daily Hope,
the audio broadcast Ministry of Pastor Rick Warren.
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Today we continue in.
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A series called the Seven Greatest Words of Love.
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There are seven.
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Words in particular that Jesus spoke during his final hours
on the cross that hold the keys for finding fulfillment
in your life, relationships, and even your career. Right now,
here's Pastor Rick with part two of a message called
the Word of Victory.
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Luke, chapter twenty four.
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Jesus said, this, by the way, this story that I'm
reading happens after the cross. He's resurrected, and he's actually
walking down the street a few days later, the week
after he's died on the cross. So Jesus said, this
is on the road to a MIAs. Jesus said, this
is what I told you while I was still with you,
in other words, before I died on the cross. Now
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he's back to life, and he's telling us this people,
everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in
the Law of Moses, that's the first five books of
the Bible, in the Prophets, and in the Psalms. Then
he opened their minds so they could understand the scriptures,
and he told them this is what was written, that
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Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the
third day, and repentance and forgiveness of sins will be
preached in his name to all nations. Jesus and this
this was predicted, and this was promised, and I just
fulfilled it. A few days ago, he said, I'm fulfilling.
Now You're never going to find Jesus' name in the
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Old Testament. But all of the predictions and all the
prophecies of what he would do, what he would say,
where we'd be born, how he would die, and all
of those things, we looked back a couple weeks ago.
Are there he fulfilled the promises that God had given
to us. Look at the next verse there, Second Corinthians
one twenty. All of God's promises, all of God's promises
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have been fulfilled in him who that's Jesus. And he says,
that's why we say amen when we give glory to
God through Christ. When Jesus died on the cross, and
he said these three words, it is finished. He was
announcing five benefits to you. The first one he fulfilled
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what God had promised us. He fulfilled all the scripture,
all the prophecies, all of the promises. Number two, this
is a big one. He's satisfied what God's justice required.
He satisfied what God's justice required. Now, let me explain
this to you. God is a God of justice. He
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is imminently fair. God cannot be unfair. God is a
God of justice and truth and righteousness and wines and
always does what's right and can never do what's wrong.
So God is a God of justice, and God is
a God of order, and God is a god of laws,
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and God is a God of fairness. Now, the only
reason the universe works is because that's God's nature. God
wired the universe to run on certain laws. There are
laws of physics. God designed them all. There are laws
in astronomy, there are laws in chemistry. There are laws
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in the environment. There are physical laws. There's the law
of gravity. How about if the law of gravity just
worked every other day.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
And it was totally unreliable.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
God's laws always work all the time, and so God
designed the entire universe so that rotations work, and gravity's work,
and the laws of thermodynamics work. All of God's laws
are immutable. Now there are physical laws. Laws of physics.
Has said they are physical laws, there are spiritual laws.
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There are moral laws, and there are relational laws. God
is a god of justice and law. Now God gave
the moral laws to Moses and to the nation of Israel,
to the Jews, and the Jews were to take the
moral laws and share them with everybody else. You've heard
the phrase that the Jews are God's chosen people.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
It's true. What were they chosen to do?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
They were chosen to be the purveyors or the ambassadors
of God's moral law to everybody else, those of us
who are not Jews. That's what they were chosen to do.
To take the word of God and to take the
truth of God, and to pass on the laws of
God to everybody else. Now, human beings, we you and I,
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we have two problems with the laws of God. Number one,
we are completely unable to keep them all.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
We just can't keep them all.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
In fact, here's what the Bible says Romans chapter eight.
The law of Moses could not save us because our
sinful nature. But God put into effect a different plan.
This is like a plan b. God put into effect
a different plan to save us. He sent his own
son in a human body like ours, except that ours
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are sinful, and God destroyed sins control over us by
giving his son as a sacrifice for our sins.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
That's what he was doing on the cross. He did this.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
So that the requirement of the law would be fully accomplished, finished, satisfied,
completed for us, who no longer follow our own sinful nature.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
But instead follow the spirits.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
What the rest of that verse says, Now, Jesus is
the only person in human history who ever kept all
of God's law perfectly.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Because he was the son of God.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Now, the first problem we have is that we're completely
unable to keep all of God's laws. The second problem
with God is this, justice demands that law breakers pay
the consequences. You don't have laws, and then if you
break it them, nothing happens. There are certain laws. There
are laws of sleep. If you don't get enough sleep,
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your body pays for it.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
There are laws.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
If you don't exercise, your body pays for it. If
you eat the wrong foods, your body pays for it.
You are free on this planet to do anything you
want to. God gives you that freedom, but you are
not free from the consequences. I'm free to go out
get drunk cause accidents, blow up buildings, steal things, live
a totally licentious, self centered life.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
And I'm free to do that. God gives me.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
That freedom, it does not give me the freedom from
the consequences of it. And every kick has a kick back,
and there is a payoff, and justice demands that law
breakers pay a penalty. So God is a just god,
but he's also a loving god. And Jesus did for
us what God's justice and God's law required. Look at
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the next verses. Look at this verse on the screen.
After Jesus had finished his work. What's the work he's
talking about, That work on the cross, dying for our sins.
After Jesus had finished his work on the cross, he
became the source of eternal salvation for who for everybody,
everybody who obeys him. It doesn't matter what your background is,
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doesn't matter, what your culture is, doesn't matter, what your
religion is, doesn't matter, what your personality is, your sex is,
doesn't matter, he says, it's for salvations for everybody who
obeys him, who accepts what he did for him.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Look at the next verse in your outline.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Romans tend for Christ ended the law law so that
everyone who believes in him, may be right with God.
Now circle that phrase ended the law. Did you know
that's what God did when he let Jesus down the cross?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
He ended the law. Now minute, he said, Wait a minute, Does.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
That mean I don't to keep the thak commandments anymore?
Speaker 3 (09:18):
No, that's not what that means. Let me explain now.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
I want you to listen really closely, because the world
gets this wrong all the time. There are three kinds
of law in the Bible. There's legal law for the
nation of Israel, there's ceremonial law for the worship of Israel,
and there's moral law for everybody in the whole world. Okay,
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there are legal laws in the book, in the Old
Testament books that are for the nation of Israel. You're
not obligated to fulfill those laws. You're not a Jew,
you don't live in Israel, and you weren't living in
the time where there's the theocracy of God being the
King of Israel. You're not obligated. And then they're ceremonial
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roles in the Book of Leviticus. Anybody ever read that book. Okay,
there's some strange rules in there. Okay, rules of hygiene,
rules of health, rules of the kind of clothes you're
supposed to wear, rules the way you're supposed to do
worship in the temple, and all that. That was the
ceremonial law for the nation of Israel. You're not obligated
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to keep those. You're not at Israeli and you're not
under that system. God ended that system, endo that system. Now,
the moral laws are still in effect. You can't murder,
you can't lie, you can't commit adultery. Those are the
big ones, and those are always an effect. And what
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happens is is people will come up to you and say,
what about the law that says da da da da
da da, And you say, well, that's.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
A ceremonial law. Well that's a national law.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
It's not a moral law, and it doesn't have the
same effect as the laws that are to keep on.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Jesus ended the old system. He just says it right there.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
He ended the law, so everyone who believes in him
may be right with God. Here it is in the nutshell.
Look at the next verse Romans five eighteen. Here it
is in a nutshell, just as one person did it
wrong and got us into all this trouble, the sin
and death that guy was called Adam. By the way,
paradise was lost. Another person did it right and got.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Us out of it. By the way, his name is Jesus.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
But more than just getting out of us out of trouble,
he got us into life.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
What did Jesus finish on the cross?
Speaker 1 (11:45):
He fulfilled all the promises and he satisfied God's justice
that was required. Number three, This is an even bigger one.
He paid off the debt that I owed God. When
Jesus finished dying for me on the cross, he paid
off the debt that I owe God. Now, you have
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a lot of debt in your life, and I'm not
just talking about your fifth financial debts. You owe something
to everybody you've ever hurt, you've ever offended, you've ever
sinned against. You owe them something because you've taken away
something from Him by offending him, hurting them, sinning against them.
But you're even in deeper debt to God because everything
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you have is a gift from God. And many times
you've been ungrateful, you've been unthankful, you've been rebellious, you've
done your own thing. You've basically, you know, said forget
you God, and did whatever you wanted to do. You've
gone with your plan instead of God's plan. You've done
the when God said do this, you've done the exact opposite.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
You're in deep, deep, deep debt to God.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Here's what the Bible says Colossians chapter two. We owed
a debt because we've broken God's laws, and that debt
lists all the rules that we failed to follow.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
But here's the good news.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
God forgave our debt, and he canceled our debt by
nailing it to the cross circle.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
The word canceled. This is the third thing Jesus did.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
When he says it is finished, he's saying, I've paid
off your debt. It's paid in full. You don't have
to pay it anymore yourself.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
You don't have to.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Nail yourself to cross. I took that punishment for you.
I've canceled your debt. Now. Can you imagine waking up
on Monday and getting a call from a Visa credit
Cards or American Express or Mass Cards. They called and said,
you know what, we just decided to wipe your slate clean.
We're gonna eliminate all your debt on all your credit cards.
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We're just gonna wipe it out and we're just gonna
start over with anybody like that. Yeah, well, that's exactly
what Jesus Christ did for you when he cried on
the cross.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
It is finished.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
I've paid all your debt to tell us die, paid
in full, like that stamp, paid in full. The bill's
been paid off, the sentence has been served, and I've
paid your debt financially, physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
I did it all for you.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Colossians won Verse fourteen says God's son paid the price
to free us, which means and it's like bail, no,
maybe morning bail, because you don't have to go to court.
God's pay the price to free us, which meant that
our sins are forgiven? And which of your sins were given?
Every one of them, every single blasted one of them, even.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
The ones you haven't committed yet.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
I remember years ago, Can I went on vacation and
we stayed in the hotel somewhere, I don't remember it wasn't.
Somebody recognized me, and I remember when we went down
to check out. I went up to the clerk to
check out, and the attendant said, oh, your bill's been
paid off? What? And the guy said, oh, I said, oh,
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I've taken care of that. I looked at this guy,
I didn't know him from Adams that you are my
new best friend and who are you and why did
you do this? And we got to know each other.
He said, I've taken care of your bill and I
just paid it off. That's exactly what Jesus Christ did
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for you. Look at this verse on the screen. Now
that our sins have been forgiven, there is no need
to offer any more sacrifices.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Now leave that verse up there on the screen for
a minute. Let me explain this.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
In the Old Testament, the sacrificial system was the way
that people said they were sorry for their sins, and
there were sacrifices made. And the Bible says, now that
Jesus Christ has died on the cross, there is no
need to offer any more sacrifices because Jesus was the
ultimate sacrifice for everything you've ever done wrong. Now let
(15:56):
me explain this in implication of it. Some of our friends,
some of you right here in our church, are Christians
who believe about the second coming, that for before Jesus
Christ can come back, that a temple has to be
built in Jerusalem, and the sacrificial system restarted before Jesus
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can come back. But the Bible just said there's no
need for any more sacrifice, so that's irrelevant. There is
no need for the temple to be built because the
sacrifice has already been made. There will never again be
a need for sacrifices in the Temple in Jerusalem, never.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Never never never never never never never never again. It
doesn't have to happen.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Why because the Bible says Jesus was the sacrifice and
there will never ever again be any need for any
other sacrifice. Now, some of you have felt guilty over
something you've done wrong, and you believe God has forgiven you,
but you haven't really felt God has forgiven you, and
you keep trying to pay off your Maybe if I
go on a piece trip, that'll pay off my sin.
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Maybe if I go to church, that'll pay a foe
off my sin. Maybe if I tie, then I can
get rid of this gill. And you're trying to pay
off your sin when it's already been paid for. That's
good news. That is good news. The sacrifice was final,
it was complete, and it is finished. To tell usty,
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there will never be anything else you could ever ever
do to pay for your sins, because it's already all
been paid for. No need to try to keep repaying
for your mistakes. I remember one time reading about a
lady who was an elderly woman and she went to
her insurance company and she walked in and said, how
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can we help you, ma'am?
Speaker 3 (17:51):
She said, well, my husband died five.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Years ago and I can't afford to keep paying his
insurance life insurance premiums. I just can't afford to do
it anymore. And I said, ma'am, you don't need to.
It's been paid off. It's done, and now you get
to benefit from it. He died, and because he died,
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you are now going to benefit from his death. You
don't have to pay anything anymore. And that's what Jesus
did for you. Now, there's one.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Other use.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Of the word to tell us stye that I didn't mention,
and that it is. It was often used as a
battle cry, and in war when armies would go to
battle and they had won the battle and they had
completely defeated the enemy, the soldiers would shout to tell
us die, it's done, We're finished, it's paid in full,
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we won. It's all ours and these are the last
two meanings of this in your life.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Number four.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
The fourth thing that happened, and when Jesus said it
has finished, was he defeated the fear of death. He
defeated the fear of death. Now this is a universal fear.
Nobody is exempt from it. Everybody has some fear of death.
But Jesus broke that power. And this was a battle cry.
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It was a shout of a victorious conqueror when he says,
I have defeated death, and I have proved to you
you don't have to be afraid of it, because I'm
going to come back to life, and if I am.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
The resurrection, you can be resurrected.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
And believing in me, death is not the end, and
you don't need to fear it anymore. A couple verses
Romans five seventeen, the sin of one man Adam caused the.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Death to rule over all of us. But all who.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Received God's wonderful, gracious gift of righteousness will live in
triumph over sin and death. Through this one man, Jesus
Christ triumph over sin and death. Look at the next
verse he Brews chapter two, fourteen fifteen. Jesus became flesh
and blood, by being born in human form, for only
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as a human being could he die. And only by
dying could he break the power of the devil, who
had the power of death. And only in this way,
how Jesus died on the cross, could he deliver those
set us free, deliver those that's you and me, who
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have lived all their lives as slaves to the fear
of dying.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
I don't have to be afraid of death anymore. I'm
not afraid of death.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
I can honestly say I'm afraid of pain, but I
am not afraid of death, because death is just a transfer.
And I know where I'm going, and i know I'm
supposed to be there, not here forever, and I'm looking
forward to being there since more and more of my
friends and parents and relatives are there.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
It breaks the fear of death. He defeats the fear of.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Death when he says it is finished. By the way,
do you know what is the symbol of this though
you don't have to fear death, it's baptism. Baptism In
the Bible, every time you see the word baptism used,
it's used to refer.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
To a burial and a resurrection.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
The Bible says by in baptism, we're buried with Christ,
and in baptism were raised with Christ. Which is why
we do it the way they did it in the Bible.
We don't sprinkle water, we don't pour on water. We
do it the way that they did it with Jesus,
because it's a picture of a death, a burial, and resurrection.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Every time the word baptism is used in the.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Bible, it refers. In fact, the word means to put
underwater baptizo. And so just as Jesus Christ died, was
buried in the ground three days and rose again and
broke the power of death. And we don't have to
be afraid of death anymore because we know you can
be resurrected from it. Jesus died, was buried three days,
rose again. That you know, I take you, or one
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of our pastors takes you, puts you under the water,
leaves you there, three days, raises you. I'm just seeing
if you're listening, raises you up again. And that is
a symbol that I have died to my old way
of life. All my sins are forgiven, they're washed away,
they're forgiven, they're wiped out, and I'm being raised to
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live a brand new life and I don't have to
fear death all right. Number five now the fifth one,
and I really love this one. I appreciate it so much.
Is that when Jesus Christ died for us on the Cross,
one of the things he set is free from, that
he liberates from he finished was this. He destroyed Satan's
power to control me on the cross. He destroyed Satan's
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power to control me, to control my mind, to control
my life, to control my destiny.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Hey, thanks so much for being with us today and
listening to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. You know your prayers
and financial support are having a huge impact on millions
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Thank you so much. And now Rick's going to share
a letter from one of our listeners who says Daily
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Speaker 1 (23:24):
I love letting you hear some of the letters that
we receive every day here at Daily Hope. Here's one
from a woman named Bonnie, says, Dear Pastor Rick, my
husband Tom and I both receive your Daily Hope print
devotional in our email every morning. We take turns each
day reading the daily devotional. They must read it aloud
and it's a great way to start our day along
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with our individual daily quiet time. It's been such a
blessing and encouragement to us in each of our daily lives.
And sometimes I am able to turn on the podcast
and we listen to the broadcast as well. Know we've
both been Christians for a long time, but that daily
encouragement for you you helps us keep on track and
it helps us make our lives so much richer as
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we follow God every day. So thanks and may God
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Tom Hey, thanks for writing Bonnie. It always blesses me
when we hear that Daily Hope is helping other people
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Speaker 2 (24:23):
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