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See, this is dictating thinking to a whole

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culture of young people.

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Is our robe unspotted today?

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He preached another time on this, without holiness

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no man shall see the Lord, and then

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he spent his entire sermon telling the people

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and showing them that they had no holiness

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at all.

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That was his object in the sermon.

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He would get people who thought they'd been

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Christians for 30 years suddenly crying out with

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a loud voice and saying, Oh my God,

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I'm undone.

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I've never been saved.

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Elders in the church would confess of sins.

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You're sitting in a classroom and cheating.

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Why do you break out in a sweat?

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Why does your heart beat faster?

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And when the teacher moves, you know you're

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caught and your face gets what?

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Red.

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And your ears tingle.

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What's doing that?

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Conscience.

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Conscience is saying, This is wrong.

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This is wrong.

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This is wrong.

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And you're reacting to it.

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What's he going to do to you?

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He finds you in the state of your

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heart that you're in now.

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He doesn't care about outward appearances at all.

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I'm talking about the state of your heart.

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What is that sin that you've been clinging

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to?

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What is it, people?

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What is that thing that you once had

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a white robe and it's spotted?

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There's something on it.

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God can see it.

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The devil can see it.

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Humans around you can't.

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It's a secret sin.

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Nobody even knows, or hardly anybody, maybe a

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couple of family members know about it.

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You don't show it to anybody.

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You walk in these doors and you're faking

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it all day.

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Are you a Christian?

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You're going to survive judgment day in front

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of a judge like that?

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Really?

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You think you are?

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You think you are.

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What would your sin do to you in

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that day?

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This is how much God hates sin.

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He sent Jesus to go through the passion

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to get rid of it.

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That's how much he cannot stand sin.

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He allowed his precious lamb to be slaughtered,

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to be whipped to an inch of his

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life, to have the flesh torn off his

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back, to have crown of thorns stuffed on

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his head.

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Pain unbearable.

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That's how much God hates sin.

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If he finds it in you, he will

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put you as far from himself as he

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can.

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Are you hearing his voice calling you, young

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man, to cut off the right hand of

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lust, indulged in the chambers of your mind

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with magazines and books that you've hid from

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mom and dad and perhaps wife?

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You women, mental fantasies, nurtured by your television

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set and your daytime soaps with their sordid,

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cauldry bile and filthy, adulterous lace block.

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Are you taking every step necessary to stop

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feeding your lust or you just occasionally have

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a little whimper in the closet when your

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conscience gets so active you can't live with

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it and you whimper and cry and ask

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God for a little help and then you

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go right back with your hand and your

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eyeball firmly attached.

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Oh yes, once in a while you take

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a dull paring knife and scratch your hand

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and occasionally you scratch around your eyeball that

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you haven't begun to cut off and pluck

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out.

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You better listen to the words of Jesus.

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Not everyone who says Lord, Lord shall enter,

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but he that does the will of my

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father in heaven.

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If ye by the spirit do mortify the

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deeds of the flesh, ye shall live.

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The culture we live in is really not

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helping us, folks.

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This culture is not increasing the sensitivity of

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our conscience, is it?

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Oh no, no.

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Watch TV, it'll desensitize you.

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Go to the movies, listen to the music,

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read the books.

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It's just bashing your conscience.

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Nobody's perfect.

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This is the hypocrite's couch.

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This is the believer's bed of thorns.

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Nobody's perfect.

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That's the hypocrite's couch.

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He lies back, no serious determination to do

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the will of God.

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Who says nobody's perfect?

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The true child of God.

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No one is perfect.

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It's my bed of thorns.

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Wretched man that I am.

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I find that when I would do good,

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evil is present with me.

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To will is present, but to perform I

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know not.

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That's the bed of thorns.

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Is the imperfection of your obedience your couch

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or your bed of thorns?

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Now my friend, it can't be both.

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It's one or the other.

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And I'm asking you not knowing if I'll

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ever stand in this pulpit again, you better

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answer with as much honesty sitting where you

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sit tonight as Christ will make you answer

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in the day of judgment.

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Many people who wouldn't be boldly evil in

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their conversation and they wouldn't be boldly evil

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in their behavior are boldly evil in their

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mind.

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A man who abstains from sexual sin because

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he's afraid of getting caught can well be

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indulging in a thousand fantasies because he thinks

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nobody's going to discover the private sin.

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I'll tell you who will discover it.

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Your conscience and your conscience will produce shame

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and guilt and fear and doubt and worry

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and steal your joy.

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To indulge in sins of thought is to

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molest the conscience directly and nothing will damage

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your conscience more than the habit of evil

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thinking.

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Thought sins work directly on the conscience.

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He got baptized straight away.

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Why?

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Because you've got to deal with sin fully

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and you don't muck around with things like

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that because it'll kill you.

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It'll kill you.

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And if you don't have the full experience,

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man, if you aren't repenting and getting baptized

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and receiving the Holy Spirit, the whole nine

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yards filled to here to overflowing with the

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Spirit of God, I don't believe you'll last.

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In those days, I would say they would

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not even consider you to be part of

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them yet.

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They would say these people are inadequate under

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God.

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We've got to get them, you know, you

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see it all the way through the book

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of Acts.

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From beginning to end, repent and be baptized.

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You shall receive the gift of the Holy

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Spirit.

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Why do we cut people short today?

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Why do we shortchange people?

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Why do people go to our crusades and

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not truly end up?

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Defeating sin.

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Why do 95% of people who go

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forward at crusades fall away within a few

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weeks?

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How many Christians do you think love the

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Bible more than they watch their favorite television

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shows?

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How many Christians do you think love the

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Bible and God's Word more than they love

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the TV?

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We act

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like Jesus.

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Jesus is a friend of mine.

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We act like the gospel is a kind

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of Colgate commercial.

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And if you, you know, we used to

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have this ad in New Zealand.

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And if you, if you brush your teeth

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with Colgate, you get this little ring of

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confidence.

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And of course, you can smile forever after

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that, because you've got it.

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And of course, it's a fake load of

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garbage.

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But sadly, a lot of people walking into

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our congregations are getting the same opinion of

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Christianity.

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That it's kind of like this fake little

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commercial and everybody gets the little ding of

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confidence and looks around smiling.

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And it ain't really there.

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It never was in half the cases.

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And in a lot of cases, sadly, it

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once was truly there and it's been lost.

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And all that remains is the shell of

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Christianity that walks into church buildings and stands

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and claps and does all the routine little

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parade and the little dance that we do.

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In Colorado, a man out in the western

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part of Mississippi, in a little rural town,

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way back up the river, that had a

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large plantation and many, many slaves.

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Somebody came around to the slaves and said,

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the Emancipation Proclamation's been signed.

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They went to the owner and said, now

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what does that mean?

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He says, that means I can't sell you

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to anybody else.

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I mean that from now on, you just,

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I just can't sell you.

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It's utterly impossible for me to sell you.

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The government said, I can't sell you.

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And so, well, what does that mean?

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That means you just go right ahead and

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work here and you don't need to be

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the least bit afraid.

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You just work for me and go right

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on working for me and I'll never sell

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you.

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I'll never sell you.

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You can stay right here.

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So one year went on, two years went

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on.

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They kept living in the slave quarters.

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They kept going to the field, eating the

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food, and taking the lash of the overseers.

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It's going right on.

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And they said, isn't this wonderful to be

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emancipated?

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We don't have to be so fear about

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being sold.

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Our families won't be broken up until you

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can live right here with your daddy and

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your mommy all your life.

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We go right on working for the emancipated.

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And so they go right out into the

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fields and grovel and serve.

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And they were talking about being emancipated because

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they couldn't be sold to anybody else.

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Then someone came along and said, what are

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you doing here?

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Well, we're emancipated.

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We don't need to be afraid about being

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sold anymore.

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You don't understand what emancipation is.

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You don't need to serve that man anymore.

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He doesn't own you.

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He not only can't sell you, but he

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can't work you.

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You don't have to do his dirty bidding

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anymore.

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You can leave here, pack your things, and

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go down the road and go anywhere you

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want to go.

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Well, he never told us exactly what it

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meant to be emancipated.

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And so we've spent four years working here

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when we didn't have to.

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Oh, listen, I know children of God that

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have been four years doing the bidding of

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the world and longer than that doing the

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bidding of the flesh and longer than that

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being hounded and whipped by the devil.

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And they never heard that Jesus Christ died

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to set them free.

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But oh, to think that when they turn,

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they'll go right on to the north.

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That's unthinkable.

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That's unthinkable.

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And so if I speak to you and

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you've had bondage to the world, it's been

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gripping and pulling the Lord Jesus Christ to

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set you free.

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He carried you with him to the cross

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so that as you went down in death,

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the world would have to relinquish its hold

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and couldn't follow you into death.

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He carried you with him to the cross

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so that as you went with into death,

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the flesh couldn't hold you and govern you

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anymore.

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He carried you with him so that the

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devil couldn't hold you anymore.

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And then he brought you up on the

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other side of the grave with him in

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moments of life so that you could walk

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in peace for he that is dead is

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free from sin.

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Can you go on neglecting so great salvation?

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You can't.

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You've got to admit you've bonded, admit you

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need, admit that you've been serving when you

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didn't have to serve.

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And come and throw yourself at his feet

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and gladly take from his nail to his

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hand the deliverance that he purchased for this

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world.

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Because you've served him.

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You've hurt him.

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And you know that he died to set

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you free.

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Set you free.

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Years ago an Englishman had gone out to

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California, made his fortune in the gold field.

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He wanted to go back and live with

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his own people.

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So he sent his money by check around

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back to England and he came overland on

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the Santa Fe Trail to Kansas City and

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down to Missouri.

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And then the Mississippian ended up in New

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Orleans where he was going to take ships

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to New York and from there to England.

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And as a tourist in New Orleans, he

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did as most tourists do.

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He went down to the slave market.

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Only then, in early 1850, there were still

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slaves being sold.

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And as he went into the market, he

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saw a lot of men gathered there and

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one party was put on, a young Negress,

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very beautiful for her race.

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And he heard the men as they were

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speaking about her.

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He saw two evil looking men bidding for

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her quite eagerly.

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And then he heard them say what they

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would do with her.

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And his heart just revolted against the whole

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swinish thing.

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And finally when they were bidding and the

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bidding prices were getting very high and smaller,

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he just couldn't stand it.

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And so he beckoned to the auctioneer and

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he said, a figure which was exactly twice

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the last bid.

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Utterly beyond anything that had ever been paid

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for a slave in that market before.

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He said, have you got the money?

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And he came up and he said, yeah,

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he got the money.

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And so the bill of sale was made

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out.

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He went over to the block to take

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the woman that he'd purchased.

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And as she came down one step and

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stood just about level with his eyes, he

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had made a mouth full of stipple and

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she spat right full in his face and

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hissed through her fence teeth, I hate you.

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He said nothing to the back of his

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hand.

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He went to stipple away.

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Took her by the hand, walked down the

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street across this intersection through the mud down

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that street till he came to a little

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office building.

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She couldn't breathe, didn't know what it was.

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He went to the desk, began to speak.

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The man behind the desk began to protest.

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He said, I insist it's the law.

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I insist.

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And finally he came back, paid some money

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and got a paper.

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He walked over to the woman that was

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like a beast ready to spring on you.

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He handed the paper out and he said,

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here, here are your manumission papers.

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You're free.

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She still hissed, I hate you.

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He said, didn't you understand?

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I said, here are your manumission papers.

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You are free.

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She said, I know.

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He said, no, you paid twice as much

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for me as they've ever paid for anybody

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on that block.

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And you're giving me the, I don't believe

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it.

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He said, yes, these are your manumission papers.

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And he put them in her hand and

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she said, stop, mister.

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Yes.

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Do you mean to say that you bought

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me to set me free?

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He said, yes, that's why I bought you,

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to set you free.

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Tears came up into eyes that hadn't known

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tears for a long time.

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They just spilled over.

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Her face softened and then she slipped down

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on her hands and knees and she reached

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down and put her hands around those rough

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miner's boots and then laid her cheek down

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the toe of one of them.

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And through her tears she sobbed, oh, you

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bought me to set me free.

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You bought me to set me free.

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You paid more than has ever been paid

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before just to set me free.

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And then through her tears she looked up

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and said, oh, sir, all I want in

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life is to be your slave.