Sunday Service - 2025-08-03

Receiving Mercy And Finding Grace Through Our High Priest Jesus Christ
Hebrews 4:14-15:11

Pastor Chris Bonner

Episode Transcript

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Welcome to the Lansdale Life Church podcast.
If you're seeking a closer relationship with Jesus Christ, this podcast is for you.
Thank you for joining us today.

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So, you're ready to dig into the Word? Let's look at Hebrews chapter 4.
Yeah, the more I study this book, the more enamored I am by it, the more overwhelmed
that I realize how special it is because, yeah, I've read it probably like you many times through,
but each time it just impresses more and more of my heart how unique it is from any other book of

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the Bible. So, let's pray and thank the Lord for being here. Father God, we thank You, Lord,
that Your Word is here, Your Spirit is here. Lord, we have everything we need to walk out of here
transformed. And so, Lord, we ask You to do that to us today, Lord. We want to surrender any barrier
to You, Lord. We ask You to knock down those barriers, scrape off the hardness of our heart,

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Lord God, and the scales from our eyes and whatever's on our mind, Lord God. We ask You
to just cleanse us so that we can actually absorb everything that Your Word says to us.
And we ask this in Jesus' name, amen. So, today's message, receiving mercy and finding grace

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through our high priest Jesus Christ. You know, as I was just saying, what makes Hebrews so unique
and special is that, you know, only in Hebrews do we actually see that Jesus Christ is our high
priest. This is the only book that really spells it out, that delineates the high priest of the

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Old Testament to Jesus Christ. It makes it really clear because the Word says it several times that
Jesus Christ is the ultimate high priest. And there's other parts of Scripture that hint to this.
In fact, if you have that first slide, we have Romans 834 where Paul says Christ makes intercession

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for us. And that's actually the job of the high priest is to intercede between God and the people.
In 1 John 2.1, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous one.
And so, He is our advocate, again, that mediator, that go-between. And also, in Revelation,

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John sees Christ in a very unique and special way. I covered a little bit of it last week,
how He is shown with a double-edged sword coming out of His mouth, which is very symbolic of
many things we talked about last week, but also fire in His eyes, white hair. And there He is,

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and He's dressed in a robe with a gold sash around His chest. And in the Old Testament,
the high priest wore sashes of purple, of scarlet and blue, all symbolic of things,
royalty, the heaven and blood of the sacrifice. And so, but woven in those fabrics was gold wire

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to keep it together. But Christ is seen with having a solid gold sash, so He is the high priest.
You know, human high priests always had flaws because they're humans, which we're going to
talk about in a minute. And when you think about it, the first high priest, Aaron, right?

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He's chosen to be high priest, okay? And we can read in numbers. By the way, a little plug for
Wednesday night's sermons, come on out, because that Bible study is phenomenal. And we're in
numbers now. And the stories in numbers, we're really getting rolling now, and you can read in
numbers about this incident where Aaron, Miriam and Aaron come against Moses of all people,

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family members of his, and they come against him. And Aaron, actually, they both say, you know,
who is this Moses? Is God only speaking through him? First, they said it was because he was
married to an Ethiopian woman. That's another story. But then they right away came to the
fact that, you know, who is this man? Is he special? Well, yeah. Yeah, Moses was special,

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right? Well, they were challenging his authority. And you recall how the glory came down at the
doorway of the tent of meeting, the tabernacle. And it was there that the Lord thunderously spoke
to them and rebuked them. And Miriam became leprous for seven days, and then he cleansed her and so
forth. But here's the first high priest, and he's already acting treasonous towards Moses and God,

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right? And then his sons, if you can recall, they came into the tabernacle with a strange fire that
doesn't the word doesn't spell that out. But it was something that God did not command. And it
was against him in some sense. And it could be because they went in drunk, because the next
passage talks about never go into the tent of meeting or the tabernacle intoxicated. So it

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could be that but in any sense, they they lit, they burned a strange fire and the Lord just took
them just torch them. You can read that as well. Many amazing stories in the word. And from there,
we see that Eli was another high priest. And if you know his story, you know, he was he loved God,

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but it seemed that he loved his sons more. And his sons were serving in the the house of God,
the tabernacle. And here they're actually committing adultery with the women who were
the greeters at the front door of the tabernacle. They were sexually abusing them. And they're also
going in with a three pronged hook and stealing sacrifices offered to God, right out of people who

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came to worship God and to make offerings to him, they would come and literally steal the offerings
right out of their hands. So Eli was warned about this again and again. So we see these priests
always had significant flaws, and always will because they're human, right? Samuel had his
flaws with overlooking his sons who were judges, and they were not walking with God either. They

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were taking bribes and they were they were, in a sense, corrupt, you know, Samuel's son. So
we see this again and again. But Jesus Christ came down from above and he is the high priest.
There's no flaw in him. There's nothing that anyone can find against him, though the enemy
might try. He is pure and he is perfect. So let's dive in to Hebrews chapter four. We're just going

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to read about 14 verses, and we're actually going straight through. So follow along if you would.
Verse 14. Seeing then that we have a high, a great high priest who has passed through the heavens,
Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a high priest

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who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are
yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace. I love that we were just

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helped in the time of need. Chapter five. For every high priest taken from among men
is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for
sins. He can have, we can, he can have compassion on those who are ignorant and going astray since

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he himself is also subject to weakness. Because of this, he is required as for the people,
so also for himself to offer sacrifices for sins. And no man takes this honor to himself,
but he who is called by God, just as Aaron was. And verse five. So also Christ did not glorify

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himself to become high priest, but it was he who said to him, he meaning Jesus, I mean, I'm sorry,
God, who said to him, meaning Jesus, you are my son. Today I have begotten you, as he also says
in another place, you are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek. And verse seven.

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So who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications
with vehement cries and tears to him. Now this is obviously pointing to the garden of Gethsemane
when he was crying out to the father, who was able to save him from death and was heard

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because of his Godly fear, though he was a son, yet he learned obedience by the things
which he suffered. And verse nine, and having been perfected, he became the author of eternal
salvation to all who obey him, called by God as a high priest, according to the order of Melchizedek,

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of whom we have much to say and hard to explain since you have become dull of hearing. Ouch.
That's a kind of slight error. So first of all, so Melchizedek, we're not going to talk about him today,
because in this chapter, he was just mentioned twice, chapter six, he's mentioned once, but

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chapter seven, he's mentioned five times. So that's when we'll talk more about Melchizedek
and how he's a type of Christ in the Old Testament. And we're also not going to talk about the dull
of hearing comment that, you know, the Lord just spoke to the readers, because that's going to be
talked about in two weeks from now, about hearing, but not doing, about hearing and hearing,

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but also being teachers. Because next week we have a special guest speaker,
a missionary to Pakistan, his name is Philemon. And he'll be speaking here, and I'm really looking
forward to that. And so, and so should you. And so he'll be speaking and teaching about,
I'm not sure what, but I know he'll be bringing in what's going on with Pakistan. But the week

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after, we'll talk more about this. By now you should be teachers, but you're still, in a sense,
spiritually dumb. You know, I'm just, he's just speaking frankly. So anyway, so let's focus more
on, first of all, Jesus being this high priest. He's a high priest. You know, Jesus isn't only

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the offeror, because that's what priests did. They offered the sacrifice for the people,
right? Well, Jesus is not only the offeror, he's the offering, because he is the sacrifice.
He's like a one man God show, okay? Because he comes in as the perfect man, which Adam was not.

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He comes in as a perfect sacrifice, being human, which those animals were not. They were innocent
of sin, but they were not God and not man. And he became that perfect sacrifice. And he's also
the perfect high priest. It's all about Jesus. So he did it all, right? And so that's why he is

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our high priest, because he himself is also the sacrifice himself. And because of him, we can
actually enter the Holy of Holies. Do you remember when that, that veil tore when he was crucified?
He said it was finished and that the veil was torn in the temple. And that was symbolic of

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now we can come to him and we don't have to go through a mediate, a human mediator any longer,
because we enter through Jesus Christ. Like when you receive Jesus Christ, he enters you and you
also enter him. You know, I know it's a spiritual reality, but he is in here and we are in him,

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right? And we enter through him and that new, the new veil is actually his flesh. It says it in
Hebrews 10 20. We're going to look at that in several weeks from now. So we enter through Jesus
Christ. He is the high priest. We can now enter the Holy of Holies in him. Isn't that awesome?
Praise the Lord. Let's give the Lord a round of applause. I know this is kind of, you know,

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a lot of this stuff is pretty heady, but at the same time, I hope it's very practical too,
because we need to really get this to realize who we have as our advocate, as our intercessor,
as our mediator, we are, we are righteous in Christ. Amen. Okay. So, so we're talking about
mercy and grace. And if you could just turn back, because we're just going to focus on one verse

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here, which is Hebrews 4 16. Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace that we may obtain
mercy and find grace to help in time of need. This idea of, of receiving mercy and finding

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grace. You know, when you consider like you ever hear the comparisons of justice to mercy,
to grace and how they're connected, you know, justice. And if you can put that slide up,
that justice is really getting what we deserve. Now, it's easy to watch the news

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and say, they deserve justice. I hope justice will be served, right? And whether you think it is
or isn't, you know, some justice is, but we always want justice for the other guy. Don't we?
But we don't typically want justice for us, you know, especially when it comes to God,

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because we've all fallen short of the glory of God. We've all sinned and the wages of sin is death.
So really all of us deserve eternal death in hell. We just do. Can I get an amen? That's a weird
thing to say. Amen. But we do, right? You know, without Christ, that's where we belong, right?
So that's true justice, right? And justice is getting what you deserve. When you think about

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justice and this throne, you know, everyone will be judged someday. Even we will be for our works in
Christ. But we see in Revelation 20 verses 12 and 15, and I saw the dead great and small standing
before the throne and books were open. Another book was open, which is the book of life.

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The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. Anyone whose name
was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire. You know, your name
is written in the book of life. Isn't that awesome? When you receive Jesus Christ, there

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was someone who said, okay, let's write his name in here. And actually I believe your name was
already written in there because you are foreknown. In fact, David, there's some theological
discussion about whether every name is written in there and some are blotted out based on not
receiving. I don't really go that way. I really believe that Christ knew in advance who would,

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but our names are written in the book of life and we will not be blotted out. Amen. Praise the
Lord for that. All mankind will be judged, but we will be judged for the distribution of rewards
that we've done in the name of Christ. So justice is getting what you deserve. Since we're talking

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about high priests, there's something called in the high priest had a method designed by God
on how to determine what proper justice was for discernment, to get revelation from God,
what to do on matters of sin, of sacrifices, of judgment. What does God want us to do?

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And there was these, and it says, let's read in Exodus chapter 28, 30.
He spoke to the high priest, Aaron, and he said, what you're supposed to do is you're supposed to
wear this, which we're going to show in a minute, this breastplate of judgment. Okay. And when you

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enter the tabernacle, you're to put in this pocket in the breastplate of righteousness,
the Urim and the Thummim. Have you ever heard of that? Some of you who have been studying the
Bible for years, I'm sure you have, but it's this, it's two stones that we don't, don't know
exactly what they looked like. And we're going to talk about that in a second, but he goes in,

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he puts these stones before entering and they're in his breastplate and then, and they shall be
over Aaron's heart and he goes in before the Lord. So Aaron shall bear the judgment
of the children of Israel over his heart before the Lord continuously. So imagine Aaron,

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he like has all this sin of the whole nation to reconcile with God. You know, I mean,
that's a heavyweight, isn't it? And he's carrying the sins of the whole nation into the tabernacle
and say, Lord, what am I supposed to do with this? You know, I mean, it's a heavy load,
but it was really pointing to the one who can carry the load, which is Jesus Christ.

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And this Urim and Thummim, I think we have a picture of it next, or we might have a picture of
the priest. So the priest would go in, a short portly fella. No, I don't know what he had,
really. But this, this one apparently, but he goes, he goes in with the breastplate,
which has 12 stones, all representing a tribe of Israel. Okay. And in this breastplate are tuck,

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these two stones, the Urim and the Thummim, okay, which actually means lights and perfection. Thank
you. And in this pouch, now some have come into the conclusion that one would be a light stone,
almost maybe bright, like translucent. You know, a lot of times when they say white in the Bible,
they actually mean light. Okay. Like it was a stone that lit maybe a diamond or something that

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when light passed through it, it was brilliant. And another stone that would be darker. And,
and when they would go in, depending, they would pray and whatever stone they pulled out
was the answer. Now to you, you might say, that sounds like gambling or luck to me. Right.
But with God, it was his design to say you can trust the outcome because I'm in the outcome.

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Okay. Now we believers don't discern what God's will is this way anymore. Thank God. Right. It's not
like, if I hit a seven, you know, it means I should do it. If I get a one, it means go home.
You know, we don't do things that way because we have the Holy Spirit in us and the Lord thinks

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through us, speaks through us, feels through us. Right. We are, we have the discernment of the
Holy Spirit. So we make decisions with the wisdom of God, but God had ordained these methods
so that they can know for sure. When you see that it's the right decision. That's what he
did with them back then, but he doesn't do that with us. And so if they would pull out one stone,

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it would say, yes. Another stone would say, no, when they pulled it out of this breastplate
of righteousness. So why do I talk about this so much right now? It's because really one would say,
yes. And it was used with determining even guilt. Are they guilty or are they not? Should they be

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shown mercy or should they not? Now the Lord was always giving mercy, but it was also used and
adopted in courts and so forth that they would choose and say, all right, you know what? You've
been acquitted because you've received the white stone today. You've been acquitted. But I love in
revelation, we see chapter two, verse 17, that the Lord says to a very compromising church,

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the church of Pergamos, he says, I will give you a white stone. He who overcomes a white stone with
a new name written on it, which no one knows except the person who receives it. And of course,
the one who gives it. But we see this idea of if you over, if you trust in me, you will receive

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the stone of mercy, the stone of acquittal. You know, I also love the fact that, you know,
these stones said yes or no. Okay. And these stones said mercy or judgment, but we're told
in second Corinthians, chapter one, verses 19 to 20,

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that for the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, by me, Sylvanus,
and Timothy was not yes and no, but in him was yes. For all the promises of God in him are yes,
and in him are amen to the glory of God through us. So the reason I put this all together is when

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Christ enters the tabernacle in heaven, because that was all a shadow of things which are in heaven,
which are the substance, you know, they're the shadow crisis, the substance. When he enters on
behalf of us, he always pulls out the Urim, the S and amen, the mercy stone, because he always

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extends mercy to us because he's a merciful God. In fact, the word says that he's merciful to
generation after generation. He's long suffering, just wanting everyone to come to him. But someday
there will be a reckoning for those who don't. And we can't fathom how can a merciful God

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just release people to who they've sworn to, which is Satan and the lake of fire. But he has to,
to be a just God, because, you know, a just God has to perform justice, right? And we have been
acquitted because we find our justice in Christ. I love this. Like when you come to Christ,

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how can a just judge overlook sins? And I've had these discussions with Muslims many times,
they have a big problem with this because they think they have to work their way all the way
till death and be righteous before God based on their earthly actions. And I'm like,
it's never going to happen because you can't earn salvation. It's a gift. You know,

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Ephesians two eight is by grace you've been saved through faith, this not of your own,
but as a gift from God, not by works. You can't work your way into heaven. It's a gift.
It's only him. I found this very unique graphic, which I've kind of tweaked a bit. Okay.

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But I found, cause you know, that you ever hear of the scales of justice, you know,
right? That woman is holding these things up. And, and it's like, you know, you don't want to,
a weighted scale. Okay. Meaning like you're not really getting what you're,
what you're paying for that kind of thing. Well, the scales of justice is that everyone should be

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treated equally, which is true. But with salvation, we'd all be down here and Christ would be up
here. Like the scale would be like, sorry, there's nothing you can do to bridge the gap between this
side of the scale and that side of the scale. But through Christ, his righteousness has reconciled

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or offset our sins, our unrighteousness, because the balance is right in the middle. And Jesus
Christ, he is the center of it all. Remember that song? Jesus be the center of it all.
I don't know many words to it, but Jesus be the center of it all. Let's stop there unless you

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know someone, but he is, he is the balance beam because really in Christ, we are reconciled by
his righteousness. Isn't that awesome? Amen. And I just picture that, that scale and him on the
cross. Now he's not there any longer because it goes past that he has left the cross. Okay.

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He's no longer on the crucible. He has left. He is seated at the right hand of the father.
And now we are, we are the righteousness of Christ. And now we've received grace. Amen.
I have a slide there that shows the difference. You know, mercy we said is not getting what you

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deserve. We didn't say it yet, but really if, if justice is getting what you deserve,
don't we all really want mercy and mercy is not getting what we deserve, but grace goes far beyond
that. Grace is getting what you don't deserve. Now that sounds like something bad's coming. No,

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it's a good thing because when we get what God wants to give us, we don't deserve it at all.
You know, we don't deserve, first of all, we don't deserve mercy, but once we've received mercy,
God doesn't want to stop there. He wants to continue. In fact, in the word it says,

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you know, he has led captivity captive and he has given gifts to men. His whole purpose is to load
you down with spiritual gifts that just leak right out of you all over the place. Like he just
continues to pour on you his grace, his gifts, so that you could be a demonstration of what a good,

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father looks like, right? The father of lights that give her every perfect gift that has no shadows
of turning, no darkness in his gifts. They are brilliant. They are bright. They are wonderful,
right? And that's what we receive. We not only receive, you know, don't receive justice.
Thank God for that because none of us want justice for us. We don't receive justice,

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but justice is served because all came upon him. He can be a just God because he already paid for it.
We just saw that balancing beam of the justice scales. He took it all on because all of our
unrighteousness fell upon his righteousness and he has reconciled. He has mitigated all of that.

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And now we are seen as the righteousness of God. He who knew no sin became sin for us
so that we would become the righteousness of God, right? And so now we are reconciled
through him. And so this idea of now we receive the grace of God. You know what grace,

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I love this acronym. You know what grace stands for? You've heard of this one.
God's riches at Christ's expense. They love that. You know, Christ, you know, how much wealth
does God have? I mean, and we're not talking about money, but maybe we are. Because he told
his disciples, you think you're giving up a lot to follow me? You will be paid 100 fold.

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Anything you've surrendered in life to follow me, you will be paid 100 fold. Now some of us
mean, so what if I put a dollar in the blue box, I should come back and expect $100 on
handed to me by Ron. Well, that's up to Ron. That's between you and Ron. I can't, Ron,
are you up for that? He's not listening. See that he, I think he just ran out the door,

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but you know, when he comes in, if you want to hand a dollar in there and you think he's
going to give you a hundred, I don't think it's really supposed to be a literal exchange like that.
It's the value you get out of it because we all know money doesn't bring joy.
It might bring temporary happiness and yet, you know, why aren't all the lottery winners

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joy filled, right? It's because the Lord has so much greater things than any tangible asset.
In fact, the Lord says, you know, don't work to lay up treasures on earth where the moth eats it
away, right? Where the rust decays it and thieves come in and steal it, but lay up for

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yourselves treasures in heaven where none of that happens and it is eternal and it pays
eternal dividends, eternal. Anything you pay for the, do for the Lord will continue to repay
for years to come. And not only that, but it spills off onto earth because you receive so

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many rewards here on earth too. He blesses you be a lot beyond what you can comprehend.
You know, when you serve him, all of a sudden, when you go down the city hall and you go to
Honduras, when you go anywhere and just when you come out on first Friday, by the way, a young
boy named Gio got saved on Friday night. So be praying for him, you know, I mean, but

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so many received the gospel from us. But you know, when you serve the Lord in any way,
handing a bottle of water to somebody with a kind, loving smile, which is saying, yeah, you know,
we just are here to represent Christ. It's dividends that are paying out into heaven.
And I don't know about you. I don't work for rewards in heaven. I can't even really get my

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mind around that. You know, I mean, I don't like, what am I going to get when I get there? Yeah.
It's I feel, and it's not about feelings either. But I feel so fulfilled in the spirit, serving God,
don't you? When you serve him, you're like, that's why I'm here. Like you get so tangled up in

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stuff on earth that just irritate you, bother you. And then all of a sudden, when you do something
simple for God, you're like, yeah, it's simple. It's real simple. God's not making it very
difficult for me. He's making it simple. He's making it easy. My burden is easy. My, my yoke is
easy. My burden is easy. My, you know what I'm talking about. Come to me all you weary and late

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and heavy laden. I will give you rest for your soul because my burden is light and my yoke is
easy. And my burden is light. There it is. Right. But it is right. I mean, he doesn't like, oh here,
you look like you're struggling there. Here, try this, throw that on for size and see how
you can carry that one. You know, he's not like some kind of boot camp. He's just saying, look,

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I'm easy to serve because you know what you, your countenance just lifts. You know, that yoke
becomes like, man, this thing I'm floating in this thing. This thing is lifting me up.
It's not weighing me down because it's Christ's yoke. He lifts you up. Amen. It's him. We're

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good. And the men get the elements, if you want to call them. But you know, I was thinking,
I'll just tell a little story while they're getting it. I didn't give them much warning here,
but one, one really good picture in the Bible of this, like mercy. Do you notice how the word says
you need to receive mercy? Then you will find grace. You know, think about that. You receive

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and the word actually, lumbano actually means to take like mercy is being offered to everyone on
earth. The question is, so many people aren't willing to take it. In fact, I came up to so
many people on Friday night and started talking to them and said, Hey, you know, can I tell you

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about, you know, no, thanks. No, no, no. Like how are you? I asked one person, like what,
what happens to you when you die? Do you know? No, I don't really know. And I'm not really
into this conversation. I'm like, okay, well, you know, you're going to want to know someday.
I hope it's not too late, right? But a lot of people don't want mercy. So you think,
who wouldn't want mercy? They'll take mercy, but not from God because they don't believe

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in him. They don't believe that he can provide mercy and they don't want to give him the
satisfaction of humbling themselves to come to him for mercy. You know, because you really do
have to be humble to receive mercy, don't you? Because most people want to do it on their own

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strength. They think they got it figured out on their own, but to come to the Lord for mercy,
it means like I am a desperate, wicked sinner and I need to be saved. But even beyond that,
that's for the unbeliever. If you're an unbeliever today, stop being an unbeliever,
right? Today just say, Lord, I need a savior. I want to take that on out of what I am right now.

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There's no more on in me. I'm not an unbeliever. I am a believer today. Become a believer. You need
to get saved. I mean, this is no joke. You need to get saved. There's only one name
that you can call upon and be saved and it's Jesus Christ. And I just implore you right now,
be reconciled in Jesus Christ. And it's so easy. It's just like Gio prayed this prayer

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and he just repeated after me and he said, you know, and this is what I'm asking you to say
right now, father, God, I am a sinner and I know I need a savior. I believe you are the
son of God. I believe you died on the cross for my sins and I believe you are offering me

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salvation right here today. So today I want to give you my life to receive yours. Today,
I surrender my life to you. I ask you to forgive all of my sins and fill me with your Holy Spirit.
If you prayed that prayer right now, the word says you're saved. I might not feel different.

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You will. Trust what you just did, that confession. Trust the confession of faith that you just said
and come up afterwards and please talk to me because I want to share more what you've just done
because it is eternity shifting. It's an eternal decision. Like, think about that.
What decisions do you make that have eternal consequences? There's none. There's none on

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earth that have eternal consequences. Like saying, Lord Jesus, save me. I need a savior.
And I just beg you do that today, please, and come on up and share that you did because we're not
going to hound you or anything. You know, we're just going to love you, offer you a Bible

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and offer you discipleship, like to know more about it. I love that. I love, if I wasn't
a disciple, I don't know where I would be right now in life, but I had so many wonderful men of God
that mentored me and I'm so appreciative of it. But you know, we need more than mercy just for
salvation because we all fall away. We all fall short. We all drift away and we all sin.

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Nobody becomes perfect, but he wants to say, look, I paid for that. Come on, man.
Like, you know who I am. I want to give you mercy today and not only mercy, but grace.
I don't want to give you what you really deserve. And I won't because I'm in you and you're in me.

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But more than that, I want to pour on the grace because I live in you and you live in me.
I want to give you grace. My riches at my expense. That's what he wants to do for you today.
He says, just boldly approach the throne of grace. Are you in need?
The word says, come to him, boldly approach the throne of grace in your time of need.

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I'm always needy. Aren't you always needy? I am always in need for more grace.
And he says, my grace abounds. Where sin abounds, grace abounds even more.
I will pour it on. Just ask and receive. So maybe that's you today that you know

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you just need to receive more mercy and even more grace.
And let's just take a moment to give this to God right now, this moment.

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Lord, we come to you so, so needy.
So desperate, Lord.
Every day we're just in need of your mercies. Thank God your mercies are new every morning.

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They refresh. Lord God, we ask you to just
step forward and receive even more mercy from you.
And Lord, we want to discover more and more of your grace. What are we,
what are we not experiencing? What are we not tapping into? What are we not laying hold of?

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What are we not receiving from you that you want us to receive? Lord, we want more grace today.
We want more, Lord. In Jesus' name, amen.

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