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1 Year Lectionary – Thirteenth Sunday After Trinity – Sunday, September 11, 2022 | Pr. Chris Rosebrough

Welcome to the Teaching Ministry of Kongsvinger Lutheran Church. Kongsvinger is a beacon for the Gospel of Jesus Christ and is located on the plains of Northwestern Minnesota. We proclaim Christ and Him crucified for our sins and salvation by grace through faith alone, and now, here’s a message from Pastor Chris Rosebrough:

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0:28	the holy gospel according to saint luke
0:30	the 10th chapter
0:32	[Music]
0:34	[Applause]
0:35	[Music]
0:39	turning to the disciples jesus said
0:41	privately
0:42	blessed are the eyes that see what you
0:44	see for i tell you many prophets and
0:47	kings desire to see what you see and did
0:49	not see it and to hear what you hear and
0:51	did not hear it and behold a lawyer
0:54	stood up to put jesus to the test saying
0:55	teacher what shall i do to inherit
0:57	eternal life and he said to him well
0:59	what’s written in the law how do you
1:00	read it he answered well you shall love
1:02	the lord your god with all your heart
1:04	with all your soul with all your
1:05	strength with all your mind and and your
1:07	neighbor as yourself and he said to him
1:09	well you’ve answered correctly do this
1:11	and you’ll live
1:12	but he desiring to justify himself said
1:14	to jesus and who is my neighbor and
1:17	jesus replied a man was going down from
1:19	jerusalem to jericho and he fell among
1:21	robbers who stripped him beat him and
1:24	departed leaving him half dead
1:26	now by chance a priest was going down
1:28	that road and when he saw him he passed
1:30	by on the other side so likewise a
1:32	levite when he came to the place and saw
1:33	him he passed by on the other side but a
1:36	samaritan as he journeyed came to where
1:38	he was and when he saw him he had
1:40	compassion he went to him bound up his
1:43	wounds pouring on oil and wine then he
1:45	set him on his own animal and brought
1:47	him to an inn and took care of him and
1:49	the next day he took out two daenerye
1:51	and gave them to the innkeeper saying
1:52	you take care of him and whatever more
1:54	you spend i will repay you when i come
1:56	back
1:57	now which of these three do you think
1:59	proved to be a neighbor to the man who
2:00	fell among the robbers he said the one
2:03	who showed him mercy and jesus said to
2:06	him you go and do likewise this is the
2:09	gospel of the lord in the name of jesus
2:13	here again the words of the apostle paul
2:15	from our epistle text if a law had been
2:18	given that could give life then
2:20	righteousness would indeed be by the law
2:23	but that’s the point
2:25	it’s not if you think that you can save
2:28	yourself by doing good or trying harder
2:30	and really being intentional and this
2:32	time really meaning it
2:34	you’ve got another thing coming you do
2:37	not even recognize just how deep your
2:40	sin is and so keep that in mind as we
2:42	work our way through our gospel text
2:44	because in our gospel text jesus is
2:47	really going to be working in the
2:49	categories of law and gospel but what i
2:51	find really interesting about the
2:53	one-year lectionary this is what we’ve
2:55	been working our way through this year i
2:57	have never preached on the one-year
2:58	lectionary before is that this
3:00	particular gospel text seems to start
3:03	with a
3:05	a little bit of a hold over from the
3:06	previous capricorpy it begins with jesus
3:09	turning to his disciples and saying to
3:12	them blessed are the eyes that see what
3:15	you see for i tell you that many
3:16	prophets and kings desired to see what
3:18	you see and they did not see it and to
3:20	hear what you hear and they did not hear
3:23	it and so when we think about what’s
3:25	going on here is that christ is
3:27	legitimately pointing to the fact that
3:29	the prophets of old moses and others
3:32	they prophesied about christ we learned
3:35	from the apostle peter that in
3:36	prophesying about jesus they were in
3:39	fact serving us but jesus revealed
3:41	something of their heart that they
3:42	actually yearned a thing that they were
3:44	prophesying about to give you a good
3:46	example of this if you remember all the
3:48	way back in the garden of eden there
3:50	were adam and eve they had just eaten
3:52	the fruit that god told them not to eat
3:54	plunged us into the misery that we find
3:56	ourselves in and when god was handing
3:58	out his punishment to the devil who was
4:01	in the form of the serpent there he told
4:03	the devil that
4:05	the seed of the woman would crush the
4:07	head of the serpent seat of the woman
4:09	would crush the head of the serpent and
4:10	in the process he would have his heel
4:12	bruised this is the very first gospel
4:15	the proto-uan galleon and then in the
4:17	next chapter eve when she gives birth to
4:20	cain uh she legitimately says in the
4:22	hebrew i’ve i’ve brought forth a man the
4:25	lord that’s what the hebrew says and the
4:27	ancient church has always understood
4:29	that when in saying that she thought and
4:32	quite tragically so that she had given
4:34	birth to the messiah she kind of shows
4:36	the anticipation of what was going on
4:39	there and if you’ve ever kind of thought
4:41	about it i mean many people in our day
4:43	kind of feel well
4:45	like they’ve gotten the short end of the
4:47	stick from god because well have you
4:50	seen jesus have you seen him walk on the
4:52	water have you seen him you see what i’m
4:55	saying the signs and wonders of the of
4:57	the bible don’t seem to be running
4:59	around in our time in our day and age
5:02	and so there’s a tendency to want to
5:04	feel like somehow
5:06	we’ve been short changed and this is
5:08	really a tragic way to look at it but
5:10	it’s also important in this regard to
5:12	note that what christ is talking about
5:15	is not merely the kind of blessings that
5:17	we have in this life when we are
5:19	fortunate to witness something that’s
5:21	kind of
5:22	unbelievable or something really good
5:24	and you can say wow i can’t believe i
5:26	got to see this in my lifetime you know
5:28	i think right now
5:30	about what’s happening in the uk with
5:31	the death of elizabeth ii of course who
5:34	knew that isla was going to go first
5:36	right right isla goes first the next day
5:39	elizabeth goes second so isla was able
5:41	to show her around as look at the way i
5:43	like to think about it but if you the
5:45	people i’ve been we serve in the united
5:47	kingdom to a person they talk about the
5:49	fact that their entire lives elizabeth
5:52	has been the queen of england they do
5:53	not know a time when she hasn’t been the
5:56	monarch i like to think of elizabeth as
5:58	kind of being like the last of the world
6:00	war ii generation uh you know she’s she
6:02	has a lot more in common with my
6:04	grandparents than than than she does
6:06	with myself but all that being said a
6:09	lot of people feel like they are
6:10	fortunate that somehow they were blessed
6:14	because they were under the reign of
6:16	elizabeth ii but i would note this that
6:19	as blessed as they may have been under
6:20	the reign of elizabeth ii that’s not the
6:22	kind of thing that jesus is talking
6:24	about here in fact we will note that
6:26	elizabeth ii by virtue of the fact that
6:29	she died has given undeniable proof that
6:31	she was a sinner just like you and i in
6:34	need of a savior in fact it’s been
6:37	really fascinating to kind of pay
6:38	attention to the church men who live in
6:41	the uk who readily recognize that
6:45	elizabeth had a faith in jesus she
6:48	trusted in christ as her savior and back
6:51	all the way one of her christmas
6:52	addresses that she gives every year but
6:54	i think it was in 2011 she talked about
6:56	the fact that god gave us something that
6:59	we all needed he didn’t send a man who
7:02	was a philosopher or somebody who was a
7:04	politician and she said as good as those
7:07	things are when we need them from time
7:08	to time instead he sent us the very
7:10	thing that we actually need and that is
7:13	he sent us a savior
7:15	and so she even confesses faith in
7:18	christ and so i look forward to having
7:20	tea with her someday in the future right
7:22	yeah that this is this is the hope that
7:24	we have in christ and i would note that
7:27	what is it that makes it possible since
7:29	everybody’s kind of talking about right
7:31	now monarchy and and the coronation
7:34	service that we should be expecting in
7:35	the next few months with the the now new
7:38	king charles iii when i heard the news
7:41	that elizabeth had died i kind of said
7:43	that old-fashioned saying the queen is
7:45	dead long live the king right this is
7:47	how this works and so we have this all
7:49	in our mind but i would remind you all
7:52	that we have a sovereign we have a king
7:55	and his name is jesus he’s king of kings
7:58	and he’s lord of lords and he chose the
8:01	most
8:02	interesting the most stand out
8:04	coronation for himself if you’ve ever
8:07	thought about it a good way to think
8:08	about jesus’s suffering and death is
8:11	that right before they nailed him to the
8:12	cross there was the roman soldiers and
8:15	they put a crown of thorns on our savior
8:18	right
8:19	that’s the crown that christ chose for
8:21	himself he didn’t choose a tiara he
8:23	didn’t choose a a crown that had big
8:26	jewels and and things like that that
8:28	were flashy and showy and said he chose
8:30	a crown that had thorns
8:33	it harkens all the way back to the
8:34	garden of eden and the fact that god
8:36	cursed the ground with thorns and
8:38	thistles and weeds and i know all about
8:41	that as a result of our fall into sin
8:45	and so that’s what jesus did and unlike
8:47	any other monarch in the history of
8:49	humanity the first thing that jesus said
8:52	about doing after his coronation was he
8:54	set about bleeding suffering and dying
8:58	for his enemies
8:59	who does that right that’s what jesus
9:02	has done for us and so you’ll note that
9:04	even the people blessed in the uk with
9:07	the long and glorious reign of elizabeth
9:10	ii that’s nothing compared to the
9:13	glorious things that we have in christ
9:15	but we come back to jesus telling his
9:17	disciples that many prophets and kings
9:19	desired to see what you see and didn’t
9:21	see it to hear what you hear and they
9:23	did not hear it but we ought not to
9:25	think in these terms and the reason why
9:27	i say that is i think about the late dr
9:29	norman nagle who taught at the concordia
9:32	seminary in st louis missouri and he
9:34	influenced some of my mentors and and
9:36	some of my seminary profs and it’s
9:39	really interesting and norman nagle will
9:41	talk about the importance of
9:43	of christians to take their eyeballs out
9:45	of their eyes their eye sockets and
9:47	stick them in their ears i know it
9:49	sounds kind of weird right but this is
9:51	what we do because we we see with the
9:54	eyes of faith and faith comes by hearing
9:57	and so i would ask you this question
10:00	is it really true
10:02	that you haven’t seen jesus raise people
10:05	from the dead
10:07	in the truest sense is it really true
10:08	you haven’t seen that is it true that
10:11	you haven’t
10:12	heard jesus preach to you is it true
10:15	that you haven’t seen him raised from
10:18	the dead the answer to that is you may
10:20	not have seen it with your eyes but
10:23	you’ve heard it with your ears and
10:25	you’ll note that the bible is the living
10:27	active word of god and so every time
10:31	god’s word is rightly preached and
10:34	taught and every time we hear the gospel
10:37	rightly preached and taught and pointed
10:39	to christ jesus is ultimately the one
10:42	who is preaching to us and we are
10:44	hearing his voice in fact jesus said of
10:47	the apostles the one who hears you
10:49	hears me
10:51	right and so we can say that we have
10:53	heard jesus and i like to think of the
10:55	fact that because the war the bible is
10:57	living and active and sharper than any
10:59	double-edged sword it’s uh
11:02	i hate to use the phrase more miraculous
11:05	more magical than any book out there
11:08	i’ve seen jesus walk on the water in the
11:11	words of scripture so have you
11:14	and so note then that despite the fact
11:17	that the prophets of old didn’t see
11:19	christ and they yearn to see him do they
11:21	see him now
11:23	of course they do and there is a time
11:25	coming when you and i with our own eyes
11:28	will see jesus and that will be a
11:31	glorious thing we are truly already
11:33	blessed in him with the forgiveness of
11:35	our sins in fact i would note
11:38	talking about blessing the assigned
11:41	psalm for today although we didn’t read
11:43	it it is an option if you want but the
11:46	signed psalm today is psalm 32 listen to
11:49	the words blessed is the one whose
11:52	transgression is forgiven
11:55	whose sin is covered
11:57	is that not you is that not me we indeed
12:01	are truly blessed christ has bled for
12:04	our transgressions forgiven us of all of
12:06	our iniquity all of our sin is covered
12:09	blessed is the man against whom the lord
12:12	counts no iniquity and whose and in
12:14	whose spirit there is no deceit for when
12:17	i kept silent my bones wasted away
12:19	through my groaning all the day long for
12:22	day and night your hand was heavy upon
12:24	me my strength was dried up like the
12:25	heat of the summer
12:27	i acknowledged my sin to you and i did
12:29	not cover my iniquity i said i will
12:32	confess my transgressions to the lord
12:35	and you forgave the iniquity of my sin
12:39	you’ll note then we don’t seem to be
12:42	lacking in blessing we seem to be
12:44	abounding in it and if this doesn’t kind
12:48	of warm your heart up and make you even
12:51	desire more to see jesus with your own
12:54	eyes then maybe i would say check your
12:57	spirit and see what’s going wrong you
13:00	know this past week we lost one of our
13:02	own one of my favorites i don’t want to
13:04	get into my sermon for tomorrow at the
13:07	funeral but if y’all remember isla she
13:09	was naughty oh man she was awesome
13:13	i loved her all right
13:15	and i i’m convinced that isla
13:17	that isla thought that she can solve
13:19	every problem in the world with a hot
13:21	dish okay
13:22	[Laughter]
13:25	right
13:27	and here’s the thing
13:29	i was there and said kind of the last
13:32	rites the lutheran version of it with
13:34	the family with with joanie and with
13:37	julie
13:38	and it was hard to see her
13:40	in her last hours of life
13:43	but you know what after i left
13:46	i’m kind of jealous
13:48	i’m kind of jealous
13:50	i remember as we were discussing we were
13:53	discussing you know
13:55	what what isla is going to be
13:56	experiencing
13:58	isla was going to be reunited with arden
14:01	it was her 65th wednesday anniversary on
14:03	the day she died she’s going to be
14:05	reunited with her husband
14:06	and of course they were kind of walking
14:08	through the list of all the different
14:09	relatives and i looked at joni and i
14:11	said yeah but she’s going to see jesus
14:12	too
14:13	[Laughter]
14:15	right and that’s the point
14:18	where is isla right now
14:21	she sees jesus and she’s been reunited
14:24	with arden she’s been reunited with her
14:26	husband she’s been reunited with all who
14:29	preceded her in the faith and you know
14:30	what she’s waiting for us too
14:33	and when we arrive you need to expect a
14:35	long island iced tea i’m just saying
14:38	right
14:40	so you’ll know we are truly blessed in
14:44	christ and the same blessing that i’m
14:46	currently at the moment jealous of that
14:48	isla has in seeing jesus face to face
14:51	and being reunited with the saints and
14:53	seeing the angels for the first time ah
14:55	we all get to have that experience too
14:57	so note then we are already blessed in
15:00	christ and we aren’t missing out on
15:04	anything not a single thing
15:07	and it’s in this regard then that as we
15:09	consider how blessed we are in the
15:12	forgiveness of sins that we have and the
15:14	eternal life and inheritance that we
15:15	have all as a gift we consider one of
15:17	the most famous of all of the parables
15:20	that jesus taught the parable of the
15:22	good samaritan and over and again bad
15:25	preaching along this line in this in
15:27	this parable will tell you at the end of
15:29	it it’s all about the application you
15:30	need to go and you need to find out who
15:32	you need to be a good neighbor to that’s
15:34	really kind of not the point it may be a
15:37	sub point of it but the whole point of
15:38	this comes back to what we heard the
15:40	apostle paul tell us the apostle paul
15:42	told us that if a law had been given
15:45	that could give life then righteousness
15:48	would indeed be by the law it’s not
15:51	that’s kind of your theological frame
15:54	for our
15:55	for what comes next and so here’s how it
15:57	goes behold a lawyer stood up to put
15:59	jesus to the test what is it with
16:01	attorneys man you know
16:04	right what is it with them you know i’m
16:06	thinking that maybe one or two of them
16:07	might be saved but i’m not sure you know
16:10	beyond that all right and so here he
16:12	asks this question teacher what shall i
16:14	do to inherit eternal life
16:17	the question assumes something false
16:21	it assumes that if you obey god’s law
16:24	or if you do particular things then you
16:28	have eternal life
16:30	if a law had been given that could give
16:32	life then righteousness would be
16:34	certainly by the law right this guy
16:36	doesn’t quite get it so jesus decides
16:38	he’s going to do a little law and gospel
16:40	with him and so he decides you know
16:42	you’re an attorney you like the law
16:43	let’s talk about the law right so what’s
16:45	written in the law how do you read it
16:48	all right and with perfect catechetical
16:50	memorization he responds
16:53	you shall love the lord your god with
16:55	all your heart with all your soul with
16:58	all your strength with all your mind and
17:01	your neighbor as yourself
17:04	now let’s pause here for a second
17:06	who here
17:08	or even those joining us online can say
17:11	yep i’m doing that
17:14	or i’ve done that
17:16	i’ve loved god with all my heart soul
17:19	mind strength and i’ve perfectly loved
17:21	my neighbor as myself
17:23	not even close right and if you’re
17:26	married then you even know that you you
17:28	know this makes it worse
17:30	right
17:31	so jesus tells this guy all right sure
17:33	you’ve answered correctly do this
17:36	and you live
17:38	and he should have said there sat there
17:40	and went oh wait um
17:42	you know i i’m not but the text goes on
17:45	and says desiring to justify himself
17:50	yep there’s a problem that’s the one
17:52	right there trying desiring to justify
17:54	himself he said to jesus all right who’s
17:56	my neighbor
17:58	and note here he’s focusing on the
18:00	neighbor bit he legitimately is like not
18:02	even shaking in his boot about the other
18:04	bits about loving the lord with all of
18:07	his heart soul mind and strength he
18:09	thinks he’s doing that so we’re on to
18:10	the well who’s my neighbor because i
18:12	want to make sure i got that worked out
18:14	right and what jesus does next is just
18:16	wonderfully scandalous i love it and so
18:19	you’ll note that we human beings have
18:20	this terrible thing we do we like to
18:22	read ourselves into the biblical text
18:24	right okay so you’re you know we like to
18:27	read david and goliath like we’re david
18:29	and now we’ve got to go conquer our
18:31	goliaths you know we got to go find our
18:33	five smooth stones that’s just absurd
18:35	all right if you want to know who you
18:36	are in here you’re the guy left for dead
18:39	okay let’s just kind of work this out
18:42	but here’s the scandalous bit
18:44	jesus is in this parable
18:46	jesus is the samaritan
18:48	and you’ve got to remember the term
18:50	samaritan the concept of samaritan back
18:53	in jesus day among the jews that that’s
18:56	a racial slur
18:58	all right you have to think racism they
19:00	did not like
19:01	in fact they hated the samaritans if
19:05	jews found themselves having to find
19:07	themselves in the most unfortunate of
19:08	circumstances where they had to travel
19:10	through samaria they would usually go
19:12	around it
19:13	but if they had to travel through it
19:16	oh wow what they would end up doing once
19:18	they finished traveling through it as
19:20	soon as they got to the border of judea
19:23	they would hear it so here’s samaria
19:25	here’s judea before they step foot into
19:28	into judea they would shake the dust and
19:31	get it off their feet because they
19:32	didn’t want samaritan dirt in israel
19:35	and they considered samaritans to be
19:37	dogs this is how they talked about them
19:39	right so the scandal here is really
19:42	amazing so jesus tells a story
19:45	a man was going down from jerusalem to
19:47	jericho and he fell among robbers who
19:49	stripped him beat him departed and it
19:52	departed leaving him half dead so you’ve
19:55	been attacked by the devil and left for
19:56	dead that’s how this works you’re that
19:58	guy so what are you contributing to your
20:00	salvation in this story the stupidity of
20:03	traveling down this road in the first
20:05	place without without an escort right
20:07	the foolishness of of getting
20:10	yourself in that kind of danger so now
20:12	you’re half dead
20:14	so by chance a priest was going down
20:16	that road and when he saw him he passed
20:18	by in the other side
20:19	over and again people who do not know
20:21	their torah they will sit there and go
20:23	what a completely terrible priest this
20:25	was does he not care about human beings
20:28	do you even know the torah
20:30	okay
20:31	read the torah
20:33	levites and active priests are forbidden
20:37	by god to be in the presence of a dead
20:40	body that isn’t a super close relative
20:44	and that super close relative list is
20:46	like really small like your mother
20:49	your father
20:50	your wife okay and it doesn’t go much
20:53	beyond that and so this priest is
20:56	walking down the road sees a a naked
20:59	body because he’s been stripped right
21:01	and
21:02	obviously he’s bloodied and beaten and
21:04	he doesn’t know if that’s a corpse or
21:06	not
21:06	but the torah says he’s not allowed to
21:09	make himself unclean by being in the
21:11	presence of a dead body unless it’s a
21:13	close relative and so he looks over and
21:16	goes yep that’s not dad so what is he
21:18	required to do by the law
21:21	stay away from the body
21:24	and here’s the point
21:26	the law
21:27	not only cannot save you the law will
21:30	not even give you one inch one ounce one
21:34	anything of mercy
21:36	it’s not not its job its job is to
21:40	condemn you its job is to show you just
21:43	how sinful you are and you’ll note that
21:46	the priest under the law
21:48	could not help this person
21:51	and the law will not help you when it
21:52	comes to your salvation
21:54	same then with the levite
21:57	when he came to the place he saw him
21:59	pass by on the other side requirement of
22:01	torah that he do so
22:04	so who then
22:06	can help this person
22:08	only the person who has freedom who
22:10	isn’t under the law and so along comes
22:13	jesus the samaritan
22:15	right
22:16	and you’ll note here this samaritan has
22:19	total freedom and it says as he
22:21	journeyed he came to where he was and
22:23	when he saw him his splunk needs oh my
22:26	his guts were wrenched he had compassion
22:29	for him that sounds just like jesus i
22:32	mean there are so many punctuated events
22:35	in the gospels where jesus would see
22:38	people in like misery and he’s his guts
22:41	would be absolutely wrenched same thing
22:43	here his guts are wrenched he has
22:46	compassion on him and springing into
22:48	action he went to him bound up his
22:50	wounds pouring on oil and wine i like to
22:53	think of that as like a baptismal
22:54	reference it’s kind of veiled if you
22:56	would and then he set him on his own
22:58	animal brought him to an inn took care
23:00	of him man
23:02	look how much jesus is doing and is that
23:05	not exactly how jesus found us dead in
23:08	trespasses and sins all because we’ve
23:10	been attacked by the highwaymen of
23:12	highwaymen satan himself and as a result
23:15	of it our first parents they fell into
23:17	sin we were all conceived and born dead
23:20	in trespasses and sins and when it comes
23:21	to dead we weren’t half dead we were
23:23	totally dead right totally dead and that
23:26	being the case jesus when he found us we
23:28	were in quite the state of misery and
23:31	note that jesus doesn’t scold those who
23:33	he finds dead so sit there and go well
23:36	you know it was really stupid of you to
23:37	travel on this road you knew that there
23:39	were highwaymen
23:40	well you got what you deserve
23:42	too bad for you buddy i’ll go
23:45	radio ahead and maybe they can send an
23:47	ambulance or maybe they can send a
23:48	hearse to pick you up right you got what
23:50	you deserve next time don’t be so stupid
23:54	no jesus doesn’t act like that at all
23:56	instead he truly has compassion and he
24:00	springs into action and everything he
24:02	does he does out of his own
24:04	pocket he does with his own things and
24:07	you are just merely the recipient of his
24:10	great mercy and grace and the next day
24:14	he took out two daenerye gave them to
24:16	the innkeeper saying take care of him
24:18	and whatever more you spend i will repay
24:20	you when i come back last time i
24:22	preached on this text i pointed out i
24:24	like to think of that innkeeper as like
24:25	pastors right because when you were
24:28	raised from the dead and christ washed
24:30	away all of your sin and muck and began
24:33	binding up your wounds that you’ve
24:35	experienced where did he plop you right
24:38	here at kong’s finger in right i’m the
24:41	innkeeper you know my job is to care for
24:44	you and here’s the thing i ain’t caring
24:45	for you at my expense
24:47	i’m caring for you at christ’s expense
24:50	right and so you’ll note the complete
24:53	freeness of the gospel and the complete
24:56	inability of the law to come to your
24:58	rescue
24:59	so now jesus having told this parable
25:02	and of course making the hero a
25:04	samaritan had to really just be galling
25:08	for this jewish lawyer so he now asks
25:11	the question all right so which of these
25:12	three do you think proved to be a
25:13	neighbor to the man who fell among the
25:15	robbers
25:17	and the guy can’t even say the word
25:19	samaritan
25:20	makes me wonder if the way he said it
25:22	was like with his teeth gritted you know
25:25	like the one who showed him mercy all
25:27	right
25:30	right right the one who showed him what
25:34	mercy
25:35	and jesus said to him you go
25:37	you do likewise
25:39	do likewise what
25:41	show mercy
25:43	show mercy
25:45	show mercy and love to all well how can
25:47	i do such a thing oh the one who is
25:49	forgiven in christ forgives the one who
25:52	is loved by god loves
25:54	and so you’ll note then our eyes our
25:57	ears are truly blessed blessed because
26:00	we have been freed from having to strive
26:03	to save ourselves because you’ll know
26:05	that being unconscious is no way to try
26:07	to save yourself you’re not capable of
26:09	doing it but your jesus your great
26:12	compassionate merciful lord he has bled
26:14	and died for all of your sins he’s bound
26:17	up your wounds washed away your sins in
26:19	the waters of baptism even feeds you
26:22	with his own body and blood given and
26:24	shed for the forgiveness of your sins
26:26	and he’s told me to take care of you
26:28	guys and he’ll repay anything that any
26:31	expenses that i incur what an amazing
26:33	lord you have
26:35	so i would say hearing all of this yeah
26:37	your ears are blessed
26:39	seeing all of this your eyes are blessed
26:42	and not only are they blessed today
26:44	but they will be blessed in a world
26:46	without end because there is nothing
26:48	that you can do to earn this inheritance
26:50	that this attorney desired instead you
26:54	already have it it’s been given to you
26:55	by grace because jesus has given it to
26:57	you and you’ll know inheritances require
27:00	somebody to die and that’s exactly what
27:02	jesus did he wrote you into his will
27:04	bled and died for your sins so now he’s
27:07	given you the entire estate
27:10	blessed this is like blessing upon
27:13	blessing upon blessing upon blessing
27:16	indeed the psalmist was right
27:18	blessed is the one whose transgression
27:20	is forgiven whose sin is covered
27:22	blessed is the man against whom the lord
27:24	counts no iniquity and in whose spirit
27:27	there is no deceit in the name of Jesus
27:30	amen

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