Series C – Fifth Sunday in Easter – Sunday, April 24, 2016 | 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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| 0:29 | the holy Gospel According to Saint John chapter 13 verses 31-35 |
| 0:36 | when he had gone out Jesus said now is the son of man glorified and God is |
| 0:41 | glorified in him if God is glorified in him God will also glorify him in himself and glorify him |
| 0:49 | at once little children yet a little while I am with you you will seek me and |
| 0:55 | just as I said to the Jews so now I also say to you where I am going you cannot come a new commandment I give to you |
| 1:03 | that you love one another just as I have loved you you also are to love one |
| 1:09 | another by this all people will know that you are my disciples if you have love for one another |
| 1:17 | in the name of Jesus now this morning if you want to look on in your Pew Bible you can we’re going to |
| 1:23 | be looking at our first reading from Acts chapter 11. this is a misunderstood text there are a lot of people who think |
| 1:29 | that this is the text the one where Jesus blessed bacon |
| 1:34 | now I want everybody to know I think bacon is its own animal I’m pretty sure of that there’s bacon running around out |
| 1:41 | there somewhere someone’s farming bacon now I assure you as Christians we are not forbidden from eating bacon but this |
| 1:47 | text isn’t about God making bacon clean or Lobster or shrimp |
| 1:53 | okay sorry my apologies my digress I enjoy such wonderful Foods |
| 1:59 | anyway but our text today is a little bit complicated also and so we’re gonna |
| 2:05 | have to get a few things settled before we dive in proper and I thought to kind |
| 2:10 | of help us sort some of the categories out that are in this text that we would play the opposite game all right now |
| 2:17 | here’s how we play the opposite game I’m going to say a word and you need to tell me it’s opposite okay pretty |
| 2:24 | straightforward are you ready here it is his first word light you guys are great all right up |
| 2:31 | left man you guys are smart all right now that was the warm-up here’s the |
| 2:39 | tough one in our text in Acts 11 we see the word common |
| 2:46 | what’s its opposite in that text what’d you say |
| 2:51 | unique good guess the answer is no by the way by the way by by kind of a bunny |
| 2:58 | trail here literally how do you catch a unique rabbit unique up on it there you go all right |
| 3:04 | so that so unique is not the opposite of common in this text |
| 3:09 | so all right let’s take a look at the text itself there in the passage it says |
| 3:15 | what God has made clean do not call common now do you want to take a stab at |
| 3:22 | it what’s the opposite of common there clean now I think it’s interesting that our our ESV Bibles there translate the |
| 3:30 | word Kano as well common there’s a couple of ways you can translate the |
| 3:36 | word it could be common it could be defiled it could be Unholy you’re kind |
| 3:43 | of seeing how the synonyms are kind of helping you flesh this out if you think of it this way in the Old Testament if |
| 3:48 | you ever read through the Book of Leviticus in fact if you’re reading along this you know in in the uh this |
| 3:54 | week in the word that you find in your uh in your uh bulletin right we’re in the Book of |
| 4:00 | Leviticus and there’s some dry Gravelly Parts in there where you’re learning about skin diseases and things like that |
| 4:06 | right well if you have a skin disease in the Old Testament you were considered |
| 4:12 | uncleaning you had to go and present yourself to the priest it’s like hey uh you know priest I’ve got a I got a rash |
| 4:17 | here and it’s like oh this is the worst part of my job ever all right come on show me your ass she’s like |
| 4:23 | all right you’re unclean you know and so that you you can’t come to church for a while and then once it looks like it’s |
| 4:29 | getting healed you go show the priest hey remember that rash I had yeah all right can I show it to you again yeah |
| 4:35 | all right here take a look okay and he says to you clean |
| 4:41 | clean unclean think in the categories of holy and Unholy these are your kind of categories that we’re dealing with here |
| 4:47 | all of this is foundation and with that now it’s kind of like a framework for |
| 4:52 | your for how to attack this text we’re going to understand that |
| 4:58 | who or what is being made clean In this passage is really vitally important in |
| 5:04 | fact understanding the truth of who or what is being made clean is kind of it’s going to change everything all right so |
| 5:11 | we’re going to return to our text verse 1 acts 11. now the apostles and brothers |
| 5:17 | who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of |
| 5:24 | God do you get the feeling like we’re jumping into the middle of a story here well we are now if you’ve ever read |
| 5:31 | through the book of Acts you’ll notice that acts 10 and acts 11 . they sound a lot alike in fact it’s |
| 5:38 | almost as if the Holy Spirit has a department of redundancy Department that put the two verses next to the two |
| 5:43 | passages next to each other well in chapter 10 you have the account itself the historical Narrative of the very |
| 5:50 | very first Gentiles to believe in Jesus up to this point Christianity was the |
| 5:56 | thorough going Jewish thing all of the Believers were in some way |
| 6:02 | related to Abraham and we find out in our text that we’re going to look at |
| 6:07 | today that there was a man-made rule a man-made law that was contradicting the |
| 6:15 | gospel and bottlenecking the gospel so that the gospel wasn’t getting out to the world |
| 6:21 | the man-made law was in the way and God had to intervene so in chapter 10 we |
| 6:28 | have the story of the very first Gentile believer that’s Roman the Roman Centurion whose name is Cornelius |
| 6:35 | and he and his family are brought to penance in faith in Christ filled with the Holy Spirit baptized |
| 6:42 | and now Peter gets to go and Report what’s happening I guess what happened guys Gentiles are now believing in Jesus |
| 6:51 | but we we read here so when Peter went up to Jerusalem |
| 6:57 | the circumcision party criticized him saying you went to uncircumcised men and |
| 7:04 | you ate with them do you get the feeling that the circumcision party like totally missed |
| 7:10 | the point here it’s hello Gentiles are believing in Jesus you wait with gentiles |
| 7:17 | you see the problem here right so notice their charge you |
| 7:22 | went to uncircumcised men and you ate with them |
| 7:28 | by the way Jesus received almost exact this exact same kind of criticism in |
| 7:33 | Mark chapter 2 verses 15 through 17 we read as Jesus reclined at the table I |
| 7:38 | think this is Levi the tax collector’s house many tax collectors and sinners were reclining with Jesus and his |
| 7:44 | disciples for there were many who followed him and the scribes and the Pharisees when they saw that he was |
| 7:50 | eating with Sinners and tax collectors note to self here Pharisees and scribes |
| 7:57 | are sinners too right here but when they saw that Jesus was eating with Sinners and tax collectors they said to his |
| 8:03 | disciples why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners and when Jesus heard this he said to |
| 8:09 | them those who are well have no need of a physician but those who are sick I |
| 8:15 | came not to call the righteous but sinners |
| 8:21 | in other words if you ain’t one of them Jesus ain’t got nothing for you if you ain’t a sinner you don’t need |
| 8:26 | Jesus he didn’t come for those who are healthy he came for those who are sick in other words Jesus didn’t come to call |
| 8:34 | the clean he came to call the common or the defiled for the Unholy right |
| 8:41 | now another note here this in our reading of Acts 11 this is the first |
| 8:46 | appearance after Jesus’s resurrection of the circumcision party |
| 8:52 | in the scripture and this is their first appearance and this won’t be their last again here’s their charge you went you |
| 8:59 | went to uncircumcised men and you ate with them so here’s the question you already know the answer to this where in |
| 9:05 | the Old Testament does it say that Jews cannot eat with someone who is uncircumcised |
| 9:11 | it doesn’t say that anywhere in the Old Testament in Acts chapter 10 the previous chapter |
| 9:17 | when Peter shows up at cornelius’s house he says this you yourselves know how unlawful it is |
| 9:24 | for a Jew to associate with or to visit anyone of another Nation |
| 9:30 | Peter recognizes that it’s unlawful but unlawful according to whom |
| 9:36 | God no this is not a Biblical law this law is from the scribes and the |
| 9:43 | Pharisees remember in Mark chapter 7 the scribes and Pharisees had that little |
| 9:48 | law about washing your hands when you come into the house after you’ve been among the Gentiles right and they |
| 9:56 | criticized Jesus’s disciples and Jesus himself because they didn’t observe that law that law was part of the Corpus or |
| 10:03 | the body called the tradition of the elders and Jesus roundly criticized them |
| 10:08 | saying you are teaching as doctrines the Commandments of men |
| 10:14 | and now we got a problem because we’re seeing here in our text that there are |
| 10:20 | Christians who are doing the same thing right so this man made scribal law let |
| 10:28 | me give you a little bit of background here because it’s fascinating this scribal law said that the Dwelling |
| 10:34 | Places of Gentiles were here’s this word again unclean or common this is what |
| 10:40 | they said now if you remember when Jesus is on trial in the Gospel of John we get this little tidbit when they had led |
| 10:46 | Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the governor’s headquarters it was early morning they themselves did not enter |
| 10:52 | the governor’s headquarters this is Pilot’s house right so that they would not be defiled but could eat the |
| 10:59 | Passover remember that so Jesus is on trial we had our little puppet trial over here at |
| 11:06 | caiaphas’s house so now we’re taking Jesus over to pilate’s house and they would only come to the door they |
| 11:11 | wouldn’t go any farther than the door you’d go on in Jesus we can’t go in right anything what where are they |
| 11:17 | getting this idea from because it’s not found in the Bible it’s not in the Old |
| 11:22 | Testament now according to the scribes and Pharisees this is kind of also fascinating fun little twist here |
| 11:28 | according to their man-made laws they claim that the dirt from a gentile country was also considered unclean |
| 11:36 | so if anyone happened to be track some dirt in from a gentile nation that dirt |
| 11:42 | remained defiled and it never according to them actually ever mingled with Israel’s soil it just continually |
| 11:48 | defiled the dirt of Israel consequently whenever Travelers left a gentile country like if they were up in Syria or |
| 11:55 | coming through Samaria they would always Shake the Dust off their feet so they |
| 12:01 | wouldn’t bring Gentile pollution into Israel okay interesting little note so that |
| 12:07 | gives us a little bit of what’s going on here when Jesus in Matthew chapter 10 he sends out the 72 to preach the gospel |
| 12:14 | right and he says if they don’t listen to you if they don’t repent and believe in me you know what you’re to do to |
| 12:20 | these Jewish towns Shake the Dust off your feet treat them like they’re Gentiles so Jesus takes their man-made |
| 12:27 | laws and just like flips it and throws it right back in their face you gotta love Jesus anyway |
| 12:33 | all of that’s just a little bit historical note right here so coming back to our Point as is often the case |
| 12:40 | with man-made laws they end up conflicting with the gospel |
| 12:45 | itself they do we see an example of this very clearly |
| 12:52 | in Galatians Chapter 2 where we also run into the circumcision party if you want to flip over it’s Galatians chapter two |
| 12:58 | I’ll start at verse one and take a look at two portions of this chapter here’s what it says Paul talking after his |
| 13:04 | conversion says after 14 years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas taking |
| 13:10 | Titus along with me I went up because of a revelation and set before them though privately before those who seemed |
| 13:16 | influential the gospel that I Proclaim among the Gentiles in order to make sure I was not running or had not run in vain |
| 13:23 | a little interesting note he then says this but even Titus who was with me Titus is a person who was a gentile |
| 13:31 | before becoming a Christian was not forced to be circumcised though he was a |
| 13:36 | Greek and listen to what how then Paul describes the circumcision party yet |
| 13:42 | because of false Brothers secretly brought in who slipped in to spy out our |
| 13:47 | freedom that we have in Christ Jesus so that they might bring us into slavery to them we did not yield in submission even |
| 13:54 | for a moment so that the truth of the Gospel might be preserved for you |
| 13:59 | so notice here Paul literally is modeling for us those who are inventing |
| 14:05 | man-made laws that are conflicting with the gospel we are not to yield to them |
| 14:12 | in submission even for a moment for the sake of the Gospel you don’t compromise |
| 14:17 | with those who are inventing dogmas and saying you have to obey the rule I just came up with |
| 14:22 | because often it’s going to end up conflicting with the gospel and verse 11 it actually starting from there you’ll |
| 14:28 | see it it’s it’s very explicitly stated here’s what it says starting at verse 11. so when cephas came from Antioch |
| 14:34 | that’s the Apostle Peter I opposed him to his face whoops there goes the idea of an |
| 14:40 | infallible Pope anyway um I opposed him to his face because he stood condemned |
| 14:45 | for before certain men came from James he was eating with the Gentiles but when |
| 14:51 | they came he drew back and he separated himself fearing here’s that party again |
| 14:56 | the circumcision party now I don’t know about you but a circumcision party doesn’t sound like a party I’d ever want |
| 15:01 | to go to okay but when they show up they show up |
| 15:08 | Peter who had been eating with the Gentiles all of a sudden kind of backs up and he takes a breath mint puts in |
| 15:14 | his mouth hoping they’ll never taste the bacon on his breath or smell it right |
| 15:19 | so Paul says this and the rest of the Jews they acted hypocritically along with him so that even Barnabas was led |
| 15:26 | astray by their hypocrisy but when I saw that their conduct was |
| 15:32 | not in step with the truth of the Gospel notice this behavior is absolutely |
| 15:39 | antithetical and the opposite of how we are to behave and treat each other according to the gospel when I saw that |
| 15:46 | their conduct was not in step with the gospel I said to Peter before them all if you are the even if you though a Jew |
| 15:53 | live like a gentile and not like a Jew how can you force Gentiles to live like Jews |
| 15:59 | he goes on but you kind of get the point right so Paul explicitly states there that |
| 16:06 | their conduct was contrary to the gospel and it’s because of this law that we’re |
| 16:12 | looking at in Acts 11. you can’t eat with gentiles |
| 16:18 | well as is often the case God has a way of weighing in if you would it’s as if |
| 16:26 | Jesus Christ is actually the head of the church and when people try to usurp their Authority and by doing so subvert |
| 16:34 | what he’s commanded us to do so clearly he enters he intervenes he intercedes |
| 16:39 | all right because remember this remember the Great Commission go |
| 16:44 | therefore and Make Disciples of All Nations |
| 16:50 | Jesus was pretty clear right if Jesus were like one of those Stern firm |
| 16:57 | Southern dads he might say something to the effect of what part of old are you |
| 17:03 | guys not getting right but Jesus isn’t like that but anyway you kind of get the point right |
| 17:09 | so this rule is contrary to the gospel and it’s causing Jesus’s clear command |
| 17:16 | to preach the gospel to All Nations to not be happening |
| 17:21 | so we return now back to Acts 11. so Peter’s called on the carpet |
| 17:28 | good news guys Gentiles are believing in Jesus rather than praise the Lord |
| 17:35 | you wait with gentiles all right so Peter began and explained it to them in order all right guys I was |
| 17:43 | in the city of Joppa I was praying and in a trance I saw a vision something like a great sheet descending being let |
| 17:50 | down from heaven by its four corners and it came down to me looking at it closely |
| 17:56 | I observed animals and beasts of prey reptiles bacon Lobster shrimp birds of |
| 18:03 | the air I put that in there by the way and then I Heard a Voice saying to me rise Peter kill and eat but I said by no |
| 18:10 | means Lord For Nothing common or unclean has ever entered my mouth |
| 18:18 | but the voice answered a second time from Heaven what God has made clean do not call Common |
| 18:25 | this happened three times and all was drawn up again to heaven |
| 18:33 | three times well let’s see what that sounds like what God has made clean do not call |
| 18:38 | Common well God has made clean do not call Common what God has made clean do not call |
| 18:46 | Common it’s as if the father has spoken the son has spoken and the Holy Spirit has all |
| 18:54 | now spoken the Trinity himself is United |
| 19:00 | this man-made law must go keep in mind Jesus did not come to call |
| 19:07 | the righteous but sinners which then is really cool |
| 19:15 | because we then understand this the one the ones who have been made clean |
| 19:21 | are not the shrimp the lobster and the bacons the ones who have been made clean are |
| 19:27 | you and me and that makes the difference of the whole world |
| 19:33 | and when we lose sight of this fact as Christians and begin thinking like the circumcision party in false ways |
| 19:41 | regarding false dichotomies between clean and unclean holy and Unholy then |
| 19:47 | we like them end up subverting the gospel and impeding the Great Commission |
| 19:52 | now dear Abby was not exactly known as an astute Theologian just want to make sure you understand this I’m not saying |
| 19:59 | you should read her theological works but Dear Abby actually said something one time and here was a quote that she |
| 20:05 | gave the church is a hospital for Sinners it is not a museum for Saints |
| 20:11 | that’s a good quote now I would tweak it just a little bit I |
| 20:17 | would tweak it to say the church is a hospice for sinners |
| 20:22 | not a museum for Saints right |
| 20:28 | oftentimes and this is sad unbelievers will cite as their reason for not coming |
| 20:34 | to church their belief that are you ready the church is full of hypocrites |
| 20:40 | have you ever heard that one yeah and so have I sadly this can become |
| 20:46 | the case especially when the good news of the Forgiveness of sins is put on the shelf and then the church becomes a |
| 20:53 | country club or some kind of a spiritual gymnasium or a place where we end up singing our own praises and Pat each |
| 20:59 | other on the back for how holy and Sanctified we are and while we thank God that we’re not like the other people you |
| 21:06 | know those unclean Sinners out there while we fail to see just how sinful and |
| 21:13 | in need of the Forgiveness of sins we are I know I am |
| 21:18 | self-righteousness is the root of all of this hypocrisy and the only way that someone can deceive themselves into |
| 21:24 | believing that they are somehow righteous in and of themselves is because uh and because of their own holy |
| 21:31 | life and thoughts is by actually abandoning God’s law and its killing work and then substituting it |
| 21:38 | with their own man-made rules and regulations right |
| 21:44 | keep in mind in Our Gospel text Jesus did not say they will know that we are his disciples if we don’t dance |
| 21:53 | that’s a man-made law by the way now it may be that the reason why someone doesn’t dance is because they’re |
| 21:58 | Norwegian right |
| 22:04 | Jesus did not say they will know that you are my disciples if you don’t drink alcohol this again is a man-made law |
| 22:10 | maybe the reason why someone isn’t drinking alcohol is because they’re recovering alcoholic |
| 22:15 | or a Mormon or maybe they just don’t like the taste of beer |
| 22:20 | there’s a million different reasons why not to drink alcohol and that is not a sign that you are a Christian or if you |
| 22:27 | don’t use tobacco products or if you vote for a particular political party I think this year’s political season will |
| 22:34 | prove that one to be completely bunk or they’ll know that you’re Christians |
| 22:40 | if you keep those people out of your church I don’t know who those people are but it kind of changes from place to |
| 22:47 | place think of yourself living in the South before the end of segregation |
| 22:52 | those people would be God’s bled for and died for African Americans |
| 23:01 | right and how evil and wicked is that instead we hear from Jesus |
| 23:07 | a new commandment I give you that you love one another just as I have |
| 23:12 | loved you and notice this is love grounded in the gospel how are we to love each other the way |
| 23:20 | Christ has loved us how has Christ loved us sacrificially |
| 23:26 | by bleeding and dying for us on the cross |
| 23:32 | the way the world will know that we are his disciples is if we have that love |
| 23:38 | for each other |
| 23:43 | it’s a lot easier to not drink alcohol isn’t it or to not dance or to Never Smoke |
| 23:49 | that’s easy having this kind of love for each other |
| 23:56 | how do we say it ufta right |
| 24:01 | yeah let me remind you how Christ has loved |
| 24:08 | us Romans 5 says this for while we were still weak |
| 24:15 | why why we were still Sinners at the right time Christ died for the ungodly |
| 24:21 | that’s me that’s you one will scarcely die for a righteous person though perhaps for a good person |
| 24:27 | one would dare to die but God demonstrates his love for us |
| 24:32 | in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us |
| 24:38 | and it’s through Christ’s blood shed for us on the cross that we who were born |
| 24:44 | common born defiled born Unholy born sinful |
| 24:51 | sinfully unclean it is through Christ’s shed Blood on the cross that we are made clean by God |
| 24:57 | and as forgiven Sinners we can now take the good news of the Forgiveness of sins |
| 25:02 | to everyone everyone because we understand rightly |
| 25:09 | that there is no one as sinful as we are and that other people’s sins do not |
| 25:16 | defile the righteousness of Christ give us given to us as a gift self-righteousness teaches us to see |
| 25:22 | ourselves as the ones who have cleaned themselves up gotten themselves right with God while the gospel teaches us to |
| 25:29 | rightly understand that there is no way for ourselves to clean ourselves up and that God had to clean us and because we |
| 25:37 | have been cleaned by God we cannot be defiled by someone else |
| 25:42 | and where has Christ cleaned you right there right there in the waters of your |
| 25:48 | baptism Christ’s blood and the water and the word mixed together to wash all of your |
| 25:54 | sins away though your sins be a Scarlet they’re made white as wool |
| 26:02 | so the gospel that’s the thing about the gospel it tears down self-righteousness |
| 26:09 | and it totally obliterates all of these man-made distinctions |
| 26:15 | they don’t apply anymore and here’s the thing there’s a lot of people who have a lot of power in the church through these |
| 26:21 | man-made distinctions and so they will guard these distinctions |
| 26:27 | well murderously if they must coming back to Peter |
| 26:34 | Peter says that behold behold at that very moment three men arrived at the house in which we were and sent to me |
| 26:41 | from caesarea and here’s what he says and the spirit told me to go with them |
| 26:47 | making no distinction the spirit wouldn’t make any distinctions like this and it wasn’t so |
| 26:54 | know what Peter’s doing hey guys I know you’re upset that I ate with Gentiles but hey the spirit made no distinction |
| 27:00 | take it up with God that’s what he’s saying so these Six Brothers also accompanied me we entered the man’s |
| 27:07 | house he told us how he had seen the Angels standing in his house and say send to Joppa bring Simon who was called |
| 27:13 | Peter he will declare to you a message by which you will be saved you and all |
| 27:19 | of your household including your infants and as I began to speak the Holy Spirit |
| 27:25 | fell on them just as an us at the beginning and I remembered the word of the Lord how he said John baptized with |
| 27:32 | water but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit if then God gave the same gift to |
| 27:38 | them as he gave to us when we believed in the Lord Jesus who was I that I could |
| 27:44 | oppose or stand against God |
| 27:50 | and when they heard these things the circumcision party acquiesced |
| 27:57 | they were checkmated by God himself their distinction had to fall at least |
| 28:03 | on that day but don’t worry they’ll come back to fight another day right they often do |
| 28:09 | so when they heard these things they fell silent and then they glorified God saying all right well then to the Gentiles also |
| 28:16 | God has granted repentance that leads to life and that they got right |
| 28:23 | it is God who grants repentance so the reason that God makes no distinction by the way why is it the god |
| 28:30 | makes no distinction well it’s quite obvious in Romans 3 verse 9 we read the |
| 28:36 | Apostle Paul says what then are we Jews any better off no not at all for we have already |
| 28:41 | charged it all both Jews and Greeks the whole world |
| 28:46 | they’re all under sin as it is written none is righteous no not one no one |
| 28:52 | understands no one seeks for God all have turned aside together they have become worthless no one does good not |
| 28:59 | even one notice verse 22 begins with these words for there is no distinction |
| 29:07 | all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God and are justified by his grace as a gift |
| 29:14 | through the Redemption that is in Christ Jesus whom God put forward as a propitiation an atoning Sacrifice by his |
| 29:20 | blood to be received by Faith you see God makes no distinction |
| 29:27 | because what Christ did on the cross wasn’t for one group of people it wasn’t |
| 29:32 | for one group of genetically engineered people or a particular line of dissent |
| 29:37 | from one person it was for the whole world Jesus is the Lamb of God who takes |
| 29:43 | away the sin of the world your sin and mine |
| 29:49 | and he is determined to give us this gift of salvation |
| 29:55 | and he has sent his pastors and preachers and teachers out into the |
| 30:00 | world to Proclaim to all tribes All Nations all languages that God was in |
| 30:06 | Christ reconciling the world to himself not counting men’s trespasses against them |
| 30:12 | so they would be saved saved and have true eternal life saved |
| 30:19 | from the fires of Hell which we have all deserved so we are done not look at any group of |
| 30:26 | people any nation of people whether they are white or brown Muslim |
| 30:33 | or Buddhist and say no not them we’re not going to share the good news with them or alcoholics prostitutes Tax |
| 30:42 | Collectors people who work for the IRS are evil by the way all right we’re not to exclude anybody |
| 30:51 | because we all know this what God has made clean we are not to call Common |
| 30:58 | Christ is bled and died for the sins of the world therefore as penitent |
| 31:03 | believers who have received this cleaning from God |
| 31:09 | we dare not say not them because by saying not them we run the |
| 31:14 | risk of saying not us in the name of Jesus |
| 31:20 | amen [Music] |
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