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Welcome to From the Pulpit in Classic Sermons.

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Each week, we bring you a different message

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from some of history's greatest speakers in the

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Christian faith, and powerful sermons from modern preachers,

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This week, we have John Piper, with his

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message, At the Price of His Own Blood.

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You will see in the text, Peter attached

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to Jesus Christ, and the awesome privilege of

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belonging to him by faith.

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And so I invite you to turn first

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to the book of 1 Peter, 1 Peter

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chapter 1.

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And when you have found that place in

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your Bibles, put a finger there and flip

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back to Acts chapter 20.

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And I'll begin reading at Acts 20, verse

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And now behold, I know that all you

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among whom I have gone about preaching the

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kingdom will see my face no more.

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Therefore, I testify to you this day that

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I am innocent of the blood of you

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all.

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For I did not shrink from declaring to

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you the whole counsel of God.

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Take heed to yourselves and to all the

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flock in which the Holy Spirit has made

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you guardians to feed the church of the

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Lord which he obtained with his own blood.

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And now to 1 Peter chapter 1, verse

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You know that you were ransomed from the

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feudal ways inherited from your fathers not with

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perishable things such as silver and gold, but

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with the precious blood of Christ like that

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of a lamb without blemish or spot.

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He was destined before the foundation of the

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world, but he was made manifest at the

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end of the times for your sake.

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Through him you have confidence in God who

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raised him from the dead and gave him

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glory so that your faith and hope are

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in God.

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Amen.

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I've been moved very deeply in recent days

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by reading about the life of Nicholas Ludwig

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von Zinzendorf.

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Some of you know who Zinzendorf is and

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others of you may not.

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He was a German and was born in

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1700 and is perhaps best known as the

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founder of a community in Germany called Herrnhut

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of about 300 people in the early days

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around 1727 when it got going.

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And it became famous as part of the

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Moravian Church for its unparalleled missionary zeal this

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Herrnhut community.

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In 1727 it started a round-the-clock

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prayer watch they called it.

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And of those 300 people people signed up

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to make commitments to pray one hour in

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the 24-hour period.

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And that round-the-clock prayer watch lasted

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100 years unbroken.

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In 1792, 65 years after it began they

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had sent out to the unreached peoples of

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the West Indies and Lapland and Greenland and

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Turkey and North America 300 of their own

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people as missionaries.

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These people were utterly, radically sold to Jesus

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Christ.

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Given away.

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They were not their own.

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They belonged to Jesus.

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And the reason I mention this is not

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only because I dream that Bethlehem might be

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a church that saturated with prayer not only

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because I would love us to have that

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kind of heart for world evangelization especially among

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those who have not had any witness in

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their culture at all but mainly I mention

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this because behind this movement, behind this community

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there was an experience of the blood of

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Jesus that Zinzendorf had.

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and I want us to focus on the

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blood and the purchase of the blood of

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Jesus this morning as we prepare to take

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the Lord's table and drink this sacred cup

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this morning.

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Zinzendorf was a count.

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He was royalty.

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He was rich.

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One article that I read entitled it The

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Rich Young Ruler Who Said Yes.

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And he did.

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He ultimately gave it all away and renounced

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his title as count.

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But he was rich when he was 22

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years old and he took a trip through

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all the high spots of Europe looking at

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the cultural excellencies of his day and he

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came to Dusseldorf and he went to the

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art museum there and as he was walking

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through he saw a painting by Domenico Fetti

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entitled Ecce Homo, Behold the Man a portrait

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of Jesus with a crown on his head

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and the blood running down his face.

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Beneath it were the words I have done

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this for you, what have you done for

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me?

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And all of his life after that Zinzendorf

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said that experience standing there watching that painting

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and as it were beholding the sufferings of

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Jesus for me changed my life.

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Never again could I view myself as my

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Never again could I walk through the day

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without asking the question whose am I and

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what did it cost to get me and

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for what was I purchased?

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And it revolutionized his own life and it

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became the foundation of the missionary zeal of

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that little Herrnhut community so that the blood

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and wounds of Jesus Christ enslaved them to

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a kind of dedication that is rare today.

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In fact, it's illustrated in a story I

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don't know whether this story is true or

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not but it could easily be true, I

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like to think it's true it ought to

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be true if it isn't of two of

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the first missionaries that went out their names

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were Leonard Dober and David Nichman they left

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Herrnhut and went up to Copenhagen where they

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were to catch a ship and go to

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the West Indies and they had no idea

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how they would make a living there none

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of their missionaries were ever supported at home

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they always supported themselves on the field they

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were ready to become slaves to minister to

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the slaves if necessary the people thought they

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were crazy in Copenhagen but a few gathered

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around them to support them and they kept

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the faith and got on the boat and

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as the boat was ready to disengage and

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pull out to harbor their few friends standing

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there saying goodbye perhaps to never see them

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again 20 out of the first 29 who

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went to the West Indies died they lifted

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their hands as in sacred gesture and said

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very loudly across the waters may the land

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that was slain receive the reward of his

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suffering they were referring of course to Revelation

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5 and 9 that he shed his blood

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to ransom men for God from every people

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and tribe and tongue and nation and I

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want to talk this morning about the reward

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of the sufferings of Jesus and whether or

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not you are letting him have those rewards

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in your life or resisting letting those rewards

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be it's a short message so that we

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can go to the Lord's table it's intended

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just to help you do some self soul

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searching Acts 20, 28 says at the end

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that we are to care for the church

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of God which he obtained with his own

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blood literally or with the blood of his

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own son so Zinzendorf was right to stand

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there and look in the face of Jesus

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as it were and feel himself as part

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of the church of God to be blood

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bought and not his own but I want

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to move beyond the text that David read

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and look at three others and here's the

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question I'm asking and I know from the

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response I got at the end of the

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first service this is jarring to some people

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it surprised me in a sense but I

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guess now that I think about it, it

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shouldn't be we are very prone, I'm going

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to preface this so that I can sort

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of head off at the past the feedback

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that I got at the end of the

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first service we are very prone to only

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think of one dimension of the purchase of

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the cross namely our forgiveness our justification our

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reconciliation our propitiation and our cleansing in conscience

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and we stop there and we don't ask

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how shall the cross master my dedication and

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create in me a zeal for God did

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Christ in his sufferings purchase for me more

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than forgiveness and I think the reason it

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came across as jarring was because maybe I

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didn't make it clear enough that when he

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purchases something he gets it when he purchases

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something he gets it now there are three

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things that he purchased for you as part

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of his body that he will get but

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you must ask am I with him in

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the pursuing of those things or am I

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striving against him in his effort to get

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those things let me mention these three things

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and they're for you to examine your soul

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with you're welcome to look these texts up

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with me in Ephesians chapter 5 verses 25

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to 27 we have a picture of the

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purchase of the Lord Jesus so what I'm

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doing with each of these texts now is

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asking this question practically speaking in your daily

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life what is the reward of the sufferings

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of Jesus so that if you were to

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get up in the morning and lift your

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hand in sacred gesture to the king of

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kings and say may the lamb that was

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slain receive in my life today the reward

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of his sufferings what would that be let's

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read verses 25 to 27 husbands love your

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wives as Christ loved the church and gave

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himself up for her why now what is

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he purchasing he gave himself up for her

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that he might sanctify her having cleansed her

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by the washing of water in the word

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so that he might present the church to

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himself in splendor without spot or wrinkle or

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any such thing that she might be holy

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and without blemish now I ask you what

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did he bleed to purchase what was the

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reward of his suffering according to verse 26

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he gave himself up for her that he

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might sanctify her your holiness is what he

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died for he died to purchase the holiness

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of the church or the beautiful words following

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on in verse 27 he died to make

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his bride splendid glorious with her wedding garment

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ironed not a wrinkle in it no spots

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anymore and so the question to ask yourself

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is alright if he valued my holiness my

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splendor my spotlessness and my wrinkle-free attire

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of righteousness so highly as to bleed to

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get it to die to get it how

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valuable is the pursuit of holiness to me

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is there a commensurate value in your heart

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as was in God's heart he paid the

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blood of his son to make you holy

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and we're talking real holiness here not simply

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the declared righteousness through justification we're talking real

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day to day don't return evil for evil

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holiness that was one of the misunderstandings in

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the first service I believe he bought not

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only free justification he bought sanctification that's what

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verse 26 says loud and clear and he

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will have it from his people if he

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doesn't get it you're not his person he

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will have holiness Hebrews 12,14 there is

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a holiness without which we will not see

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the Lord he bought it he'll have it

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he will perform it but it was another

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misunderstanding I'm preaching two sermons you can hear

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here and we're going to go too long

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if I do this all the way through

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people draw the conclusion if he bought something

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for me I don't need to pursue it

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wrong it's written all over the New Testament

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you are dead with Christ therefore what?

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reckon yourself dead the pages of the Bible

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are replete with pursue the holiness without which

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you won't see the Lord strive to enter

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at the narrow gate and if I preach

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that people walk out and say he believes

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and works and if I don't preach it

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it's easy believism I'm trying to be holy

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biblical I believe every sentence written in the

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holy book and I must say to you

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are you with Jesus in what he died

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to achieve in your life or are you

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against him that's the first thing he died

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to achieve your holiness he bled that you

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might be splendid are you pursuing splendor in

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your life with the same zeal that God

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pursued it when he gave his son second

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this text is Titus chapter 2 verse 14

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and the answer to the question what is

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the reward of Christ's sufferings in this 14

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verse 14 is this the reward of his

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sufferings is zeal for good deeds in your

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life zeal for good deeds in your life

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let's read verse 14 he gave himself for

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us to redeem us from all iniquity and

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to pursue to purify for himself a people

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of his own who are zealous for good

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deeds now let's just break it down simply

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into the first and the last part of

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the verse he gave himself for us he

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bled he suffered he died he was wracked

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with pain picture him now stand with Zinzendorf

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before some painting of the heaving Christ and

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then finish the verse he did it all

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that you might have a flame of zeal

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zeal for good deeds in your life now

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I ask you is it there is the

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reward of his sufferings there in your life

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what does it mean if you have no

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zeal for good deeds but Jesus bled for

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your good deeds to be zealous what does

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this mean examine yourselves as you come to

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the table because I'm going to say at

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the table that the only people who should

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eat are people who can say this there

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is nothing that I want more in my

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life than what Jesus bled to obtain there

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is nothing that I want more in my

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life than what Jesus bled to obtain and

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the first thing is my holiness and the

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second thing is zeal for good deeds and

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I'm not talking here about getting up in

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the morning going to work and coming home

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and saying oh I didn't lie I didn't

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steal I didn't kill and I didn't commit

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adultery so I'll watch TV and I'll go

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to bed that's not a zeal for good

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deeds that's an avoidance ethic an avoidance ethic

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that plagues the church I had lunch with

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a Jewish rabbi this week and the most

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powerful thing he said to me was you

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Christians have no right to try to convert

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us Jews the only thing you have a

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right to do is ask for our forgiveness

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that's a direct quote and what he meant

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was 1800 years of anti-semitism does not

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commend your faith very highly and he's right

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there's some of it in this church I've

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heard it slurs racial slurs Jewish slurs zeal

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for good deeds is the only way we

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will commend Christianity to the Jews today he

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said very plainly we don't listen to talk

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we look and the third answer to the

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question is the reward of Christ's sufferings is

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the ransom of a church from every people,

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tongue, tribe, and nation a global redeemed and

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ransomed people out of every cultural group every

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language group every ethnic group on the face

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of the earth now this is the one

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I referred to earlier Revelation chapter 5 verse

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9 and I want to read it again

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this is what Leonard Dober was referring to

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when he raised his hand and said may

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the lamb that was slain receive the reward

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of his sufferings he was basically referring to

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Revelation 5 9 worthy art thou talking to

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Jesus to take the scroll and to open

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its seals for thou was slain and by

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thy blood this ransom persons for God from

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every tribe and tongue and people and nation

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you know it would be not at all

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unwarranted to paraphrase it like this Jesus died

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to give you a commitment to world evangelization

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Jesus died to secure in your heart a

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commitment to world evangelization because it is impossible

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psychologically to say I love the blood of

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Jesus I cherish the purchase of the cross

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but I'm not I'm just not committed to

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gathering in the children of God from every

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people and tribe and tongue and nation even

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though he died and bled to purchase people

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from every tribe and tongue and people and

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nation that's not my interest can't say it

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can't do it I'm not saying y'all

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gotta be missionaries okay you shouldn't the Bible

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doesn't teach that I'm saying commitment, care, prayer,

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support, zeal and so we've got three answers

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now to the question we could add a

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longer list but let's just take these three

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they're enough to put us on our face

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I think before this table one Ephesians 5

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Jesus bled and died to purchase my holiness

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and yours two he bled and he died

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to purchase a zeal for good deeds that

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goes beyond the easy avoidance ethic of not

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stealing, lying, killing and committing adultery and three

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he died to fill me with a passion

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for world evangelization and so I just ask

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now how are you doing and the answer

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of course is we're not doing very well

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I told the first service that my preparation

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of this message was a kind of rending

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thing yesterday afternoon as I worked my way

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through this and I don't want to give

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the impression to anybody here that I've got

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these three things nice wrapped up in a

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package and I'm pointing my finger at you

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it's a devastating thing to read text after

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text in the New Testament and I've got

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a whole page of them I haven't chosen

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to talk about text after text that says

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what he bought to achieve in my life

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what he died to achieve in me and

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how far short I fall and so I

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want to remind you and maybe I didn't

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say this loud enough in the first service

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so as to give cause for misunderstanding beneath

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these three things holiness, zeal for good works

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and commitment to world evangelization there is the

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purchase of forgiveness Ephesians 1.7 the purchase

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of justification by faith Romans 5.9 the

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purchase of reconciliation to God for the ungodly

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Romans 5.10 the cleansing of conscience from

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dead works Hebrews 9.14 it's all there,

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that's just not been my message this morning

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because the other one we need so badly

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if we're going to be like the Moravians

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of Herrnhut we need to have the blood

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of Christ not only soothe our guilt so

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that we can just be we need to

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have the blood of Christ do that and

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then just master us so that we say

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if he bled for my holiness I will

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give anything for my holiness if he bled

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to give me a zeal for good deeds

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I'll get up in the morning and plan

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a hundred good deeds if he bled to

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make me have a passion for world evangelization

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I'll do anything, read biographies, study, pray, go

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to conferences I'll do anything to have that

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passion because his blood paid for it it

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cost that much, it was worth that much

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to the Father to have my holiness, my

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zeal, and my commitment you've been listening to

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the From the Pulpit in Classic Sermon series

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this week you heard John Piper with his

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message At the Price of His Own Blood

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Tune in next week to hear John MacArthur

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speak about abortion and the campaign for immorality

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on From the Pulpit in Classic Sermons