Solus Christus

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All right, it is our 4th sola
and we're getting close.

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Getting there.
Recording us a little bit ahead

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of time, so I hope the
temperatures have dropped a

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little bit and it's a little bit
cooler now.

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Now we're really getting into
fall.

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Really.
In the fall.

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Yeah, Yeah, yeah.
So our 4th Sola is actually a

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Solus film, Solus Christus.
And we're talking, you know,

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about, you know, the different
types of causes and we kind of

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talked to him a little bit, but
maybe we haven't really given

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them their due.
So we started out with Sola

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scriptura.
We said that that was the formal

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cause, like that kind of
determines the form of our

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salvation.
Then we talked about

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justification by grace and we
said that that was the material,

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material cause for our our
salvation.

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Then we talked about that.
That was through faith.

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So faith was that instrumental
'cause it's like the how the

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sculptor has a chisel.
That chisel is the instrument

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that that we're using.
And now we're going to talk

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about the sculptor himself,
Christ, the efficient cause of

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our salvation.
I like it and just hold on to

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your seats 'cause you might be
like, is there going to be a

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cause for the next Silva?
Probably.

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Probably.
I think, I think, I think

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you're, you're probably right.
So solace, Christus, Christ

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alone, that's the basis that
we're justified in God's sight

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when we mentioned it last time,
God, God looks at us, He sees,

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sees Christ and this we are in
no shortage of.

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Scripture.
If we're trying to look through

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this, this is over and over and
over again.

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I'm going to start.
So it's not some St. who built

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up a Bank of merit for me, it's
only in Christ, right?

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Right.
You're like how, how did, how

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did we get so how did people get
so off track If I, if I start

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reading in Romans 3 verse 21 and
following Paul writes, but now

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the righteousness of God has
been manifested apart from the

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law, although the law and the
prophets bear witness to it.

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The righteousness of God through
faith in Jesus Christ for all

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who believe, for there's no
distinction for all have sinned

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and fall short of the glory of
God and are justified by his

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grace as a gift through the
redemption that is in Christ

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Jesus, whom God put forward as a
propitiation by his blood to be

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received by faith.
This was to show God's

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righteousness because in his
divine forbearance, he had

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passed over former sins.
It was the show his

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righteousness at the present
time so that he might be just

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and the justifier of the one who
has faith in Jesus.

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You read that you read a lot
about Christ, wait a lot, a lot

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about righteousness.
You just see these these words

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over and over.
It's it's pretty, pretty

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unmistakable when you read
through a passage like this.

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Yeah, and I've heard it said
that either blood overcomes sin

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or sin overcomes the blood of
Christ.

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And the blood of Christ was
sufficient to overcome all of

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our sin, His life of fulfilling
the law, building up a

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superfluous merit beyond what He
needed for us, and then His

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death where He took on the
punishment for our sins, our

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salvation.
Let me say it is in Christ

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alone.
No one comes to the Father but

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through Him.
He is the way, the truth, and

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the life.
There's no other way back to

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having a true good relationship
with God.

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Everyone's going to have a
relationship with God, but if

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you're not in Christ, that
relationship is going to be one

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of a judge and a convict and
eternal punishment.

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And it, if we're trying to bring
this back to the context of the

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Reformation, you know, you, I
hear this kind of thing all the

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time, maybe not as much with
this one, but with all these

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solas.
It's not that the Catholic

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Church doesn't believe.
It's just that the alone part

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that's the important thing.
It's like they believe in faith,

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they believe in grace, they
believe in Christ, they believe

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in Scripture, but it's just not
alone.

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There's something else that has
to come alongside it.

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And so they would make much of
Christ and you can see, you

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know, Catholic Church more
famous than anything else,

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having crucifixes everywhere
where so many of the reformers

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were kind of like the opposite,
you know, destroying all the

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icons and all these pictures of,
of Christ and these things and

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wouldn't have it in their church
just to kind of go in the

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opposite direction.
But I think that's important as

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we consider all these 'cause I
think it's easy to be like God.

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Those silly Catholics, like they
don't believe in Scripture.

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It's like, no, they do.
Yeah, they, yeah, yeah.

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I think that's good to bring
out.

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And then, you know, Christ,
we're talking about him

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fulfilling the Old Testament law
and bringing that righteousness.

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You know, he shows himself as a
prophet.

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He's coming and he's telling the
truth.

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He's going to intercede for us.
He's our priest and he's

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reigning in our lives now and in
in a sense, and he's also going

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to reign fuller when he comes
back to, you know, put

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everything right.
So he's also our king as well,

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so.
We should do a podcast about

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prophet, priest of king.
Maybe Christology Part 2.

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Was that what it was?
Yeah.

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Yeah, yeah, love it.
Some some more passages.

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You look to Hebrews that the
author of Hebrews does a great

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job of biblical theology,
interpreting the Old Testament

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through through the lens of
Christ.

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And in Chapter 9 verse 12, the
author writes and not through

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the blood of goats and calves,
but through his own blood, he

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entered the holy place once for
all, having obtained eternal

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redemption.
A lot of important points here

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that that the animal blood
can't, can't forgive sin.

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And not only that, but the
sacrifices were made over and

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over.
Christ's sacrifice was once for

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all.
Also a reason why there's a

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difference between the Catholic
faith and Protestant there, you

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know, re crucifying Christ in a
way every time the Mass is

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performed, like they open, like,
I don't know how they describe

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it, but it's in that vein.
They would say, oh, we're

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redoing the ceremony over and
over.

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Right.
Yeah, yeah, that's good.

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Another verse which we read in
our last podcast while I was

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trying to determine whether it
was from Roman circulations.

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I know that it's from Galatians
this time Galatians 221.

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I do not nullify the grace of
God.

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For if righteousness comes
through the law, then Christ

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died needlessly.
It does not come through the

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law.
It comes cannot come through our

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works.
It cannot come through some

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other.
You know, it's not like there's

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a bunch of different languages,
different religions, all

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pointing to the same thing.
It is through Christ alone.

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Yeah, 'cause everyone, just
everyone's like just choose your

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path.
We're all on the same path.

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It's like we're not all on the
same path.

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And if you're not on the path
through Christ, that's a bad had

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scary place to be.
I'm going to skip down to 2nd

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Corinthians 521 since you're
still in Galatians.

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Paul writes for our sake he made
him Christ to be sin, who knew

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no sin, so that in Christ we
might become the righteousness

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of God.
All right, And then this famous

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topic that's going to lead up to
my famous favorite verse.

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But you know.
The Jews.

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Were turning back to
circumcision and they were

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trying to tell the Gentiles you
had to be circumcised to and

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they were doing it because this
is what you have to do to be

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justified.
Like Paul's going to say it

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doesn't really matter like you
can be circumcised you can be

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not circumcised.
That is not what, that's not

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what's important, but if you're
putting your faith in that

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physical act, that is a no, no.
So this is what he's saying.

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Behold, I, Paul, say to you that
if you receive circumcision and

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kind of the underlying implied
thing or justification, Christ

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will be of no benefit to you.
And I testify again to every man

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who receives circumcision that
he is under obligation to keep

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the whole law.
James would say we can't do

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that.
You have been severed from

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Christ, you who are seeking to
be justified by law.

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For you have fallen from grace.
For we through the Spirit, by

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faith, are waiting for the hope
of righteousness.

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And then I guess I just got to
finish it out with my favorite

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For in Christ Jesus, neither
circumcision nor uncircumcision

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means anything but faith working
through love.

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Yeah, that that that's so
important because you can be

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someone that says Scripture
alone.

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I get that you can say faith
alone, but if it's not in Christ

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alone, man missing, missing the
bow.

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Romans 5 this great, you know,
contrasting of Adam's federal

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headship in Christ, Paul writes
forth because of one man's

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trespass.
Adams death reigned through that

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one man.
Much more, much more will those

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who receive the abundance of
grace and the free gift of

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righteousness reign in life
through the one man, Jesus

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Christ.
Therefore, as one trespass led

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to condemnation for all men, so
one act of righteousness leads

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to justification and a life for
all men.

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For as by the one man's
disobedience the many were made

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sinners, so by the one man's
obedience the many will be made

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righteous.
And we have John 1456 I quoted

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that where Jesus the only way,
the truth and the life.

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No one comes to the Father
except through him.

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Romans 81 Paul says there is now
no condemnation for those who

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are in Christ Jesus.
There's no, there's no other

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name that we can put in that
blank.

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Not Muhammad, not Buddha, not
Confucius.

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There is now no condemnation for
those who are in Christ Jesus

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Him alone.
Yeah, I'm, I'm getting excited

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for our next.
So let's go into these.

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It's to me, it's powerful just
stacking scripture upon

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scripture upon scripture upon
scripture.

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And there are more we could we
could look at, but it's not like

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you're taking this one verse out
of context.

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It's like this is the thread
line throughout throughout

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scripture here that we're we're
encountering over and over

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again.
So next week.

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Next week.
We got one more sola.

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That's right, TuneIn.
And we'll, you know, find out

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what's what's the cause.
What is it?

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That's our take.
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