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Jesus says that every sin will be
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forgiven or can be forgiven except
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one blasphemy of the holy spirit that is
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the sin which will never be
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forgiven now Jesus says this I mean our
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earlier Source will be Mark chapter
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3 speaking to the Pharisees and the
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Pharisees accuse Jesus of being demonic
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they say that the reason he's able to
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cast out demons of people is because he
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is is a demon himself he is Satan
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whatever it is and Jesus says how can
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this be the case A House Divided cannot
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stand you know if if I'm a demon I can't
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be casting out demons but then then he
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goes on to say that all sins can be
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forgiven but blasphemy of the holy
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spirit will not and cannot be forgiven I
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provide the context there because I'm
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told that it's quite important this is
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enough to send a shiver down your spine
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Jesus saying if you do this thing you
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will not be forgiven I've heard stories
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of Christians who sort of are up at
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night in cold sweat thinking have I
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blasphemed the Holy Spirit when I made
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that joke at Christmas about bringing in
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The Holy Spirits was that oh my God you
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know what is blaspheming the Holy Spirit
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and why is it
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unforgivable blaspheming the Holy Spirit
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I would relate to Romans chapter 1 when
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Paul talks about how eventually God gave
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them over to their own desires so
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blasphemy of the holy spirit is not I'm
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driving
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down the Merit and all of a sudden I get
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into this incredible road rage and I
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curse at somebody or I curse at God and
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that those the last words on my lips and
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I die in this road rage so it's a sin
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I'm committing at the end of my life so
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obviously it's going to send me to hell
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no has nothing to do with that blasphemy
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of the holy spirit is deciding on my own
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my own valion it's like pharaoh to be
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honest that's another example of
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hardening my own heart and then
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eventually God hardens my heart so it's
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I'm going to live any old way I want to
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Romans chapter 1 and then God gives me
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over to my own
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desires and so it's it's not a specific
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act it's instead it's grieving the Holy
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Spirit living in line with the flesh not
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the spirit because if you're living in
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line with the genuine Spirit you're
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growing out the fruits of the spirit
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Galatians 5:22 love joy peace patience
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kindness goodness faithfulness gentl
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self-control and T anical kind of way
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it's always shown as fruit so you're
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supposed to be growing in these areas so
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blaspheming against the holy spirit is
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the only unforgivable sin is back to
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your original question can I just ask
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for forgiveness at the end of my life
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and God you'll just grant me my wish to
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go into heaven Kira nightly live any old
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way you want it's so easy for Christians
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because then at the end of their lives
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they can just say God forgive me no Kira
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I love Pirates of the Caribbean but no
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Kira that's completely wrong blasphemy
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of the holy spirit is God I'm playing a
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dirty trick with you I I think you'll
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forgive me no matter what so I'm going
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to live any old kind of way that I want
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and then eventually God gives you over
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to those
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desires now the the thing that really
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strikes me about this is
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unforgivable like forgiveness is
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something that is done retrospectively
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for something that's already been done
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and now regretted and apologized for so
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I understand the idea that like there
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are people who become so consumed with
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their own desires that their hearts are
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hardened mhm that maybe for some reason
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God then like reinforces that by extra
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hardening their heart or whatever but
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like locking it in somehow as if to say
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that I mean what does it mean for it to
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be unforgivable it means that if that
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person does that they live that way I
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mean suppose I've been thinking to
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myself like well I'm not sure if I
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should really be living this way but I'm
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sure that one day I'll have a religious
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experience and I can know I'm sure God
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will forgive me and it'll be okay I'm
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starting to live like that right I'm
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starting to do that and then one day I
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what was I thinking this is this is this
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is terrible I I I should never have done
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that I'm really sorry about it well
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tough luck you can't be forgiven you
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don't have to worry about that blasphemy
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against the holy spirit means I have
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played so many games with God that I've
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reached the point where my heart is so
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hard I never hear the voice of God I am
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not sorry for the wrong that I've
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done therefore the only people who
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blasphemed the Holy Spirit are those who
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could give a rip they're totally
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unconcerned because they're totally dead
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towards God in their Spirit Pharaoh six
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times hardened his heart then we read
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the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart well
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you take the first six times out and
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you're thinking what the Lord hardened
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Pharaoh's heart what does that mean no
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Pharaoh hardened his heart and I can do
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that we all can do that but if a person
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has any desire at all to say Lord
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forgive me of course the Lord forgives
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them it's only those who have no desire
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to ask for forgiveness who have possibly
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committed that sin so so why does God
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then Harden the ph's heart right his
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heart he's already hardening his heart
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why is it that God does this extra thing
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I'm now going to harden your heart as if
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like the imagery I'm getting there if
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this is indeed what something like
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blaspheming the holy spirit is and
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becomes the unforgivable sin it's almost
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like God himself is like locking that in
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it's like well Pharaoh's been hardening
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his heart he's been you know rejecting
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God's advances and so God says okay I'm
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going to grab you by a hold of the heart
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and I'm going to sort of switch off this
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possibility for you you as if God is
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like doing that to Pharaoh right no he's
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not doing that to Pharaoh it's it's more
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a statement that Pharaoh you have
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hardened your heart so much that you are
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now shutting yourself off from me no the
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offer of Christ the offer of God for
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forgiveness is always open to every
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single human being and there are
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countless illustrations of the grace of
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God working with some of the biggest
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wretches on Earth so we don't have to
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worry about that but is it impossible in
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principle for somebody to have once
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blasphemed the Holy Spirit and then
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regret it yeah that's that's not going
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to happen because when you blashe the
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Holy Spirit you don't have the ability
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to repent you don't have the ability to
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be sensitive towards God because you are
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so hardened so separated from
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God there's no hope for you that that
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sort of seems to make it worse to me
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it's like oh whatever I may have done
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because this the thing is that that you
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might say well well look you're you
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hardened your heart you did this you
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turned yourself away from CH and so so
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now you're in a state where you can't
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even possibly come to repentance and I
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would say but that seems a little unfair
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you know so well it's your fault you did
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it but the whole point of Christianity
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is that like well yeah you did this yeah
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you did that you did that for years but
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I'm still going to forgive you as long
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as you regret it but you're telling me
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that there's something a person can do
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that makes it such that it is literally
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impossible for them even to want to
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repent you know let alone being forgiven
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for it that that seems like really
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difficult to square with the with the
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sort of eternally forgiving God you know
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like we're talking about something
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that's unforgivable when you say well if
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somebody dies in a state where their
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where their heart is hardened to God
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that's true of any sin if you die in in
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sin without repentance you know you're
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not going to be entered into the you're
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not going to enter into the Kingdom of
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Heaven to say that this is
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unforgivable and you're you're telling
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me now something like well they've done
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something to the extent that now it does
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not matter what they do they will never
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be able to repent it's a full LIF style
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though just like in Matthew 25 when
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Jesus is talking about the sheep and the
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goats he's saying I never knew you
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depart from me uhh I never knew you
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depart from me the Pharisees shiny on
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the outside with the cup y but
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completely rotten on the inside their
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father's the devil okay that's blasphemy
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as the Holy Spirit where it's a
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hypocritical hypocritical lifestyle all
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life long but there's no way that those
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Pharisees could ever have snapped out of
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it and been like I don't know what I was
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thinking I was wrong I regret it I'm
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sorry Lord no Jesus wouldn't forgive
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them we may disagree on this point but
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Pharaoh I think God judges Pharaoh I
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think it was Pharaoh's Free Will at
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first but then I think judgment came and
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thank heaven it came Pharaoh is a nasty
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brutish guy was he not so so Judgment
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Day I'm looking forward to because I
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think I think judgment needs to happen
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um at the same time I'm not looking
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forward to it because I realize I've
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done wrong but so so for me it's yes God
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eventually judges but I I think you keep
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taking blaspheming as the holy spirit is
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like a one-time thing because you you
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started off this way you started off
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making it sound like you're at a
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Christmas party and all of a sudden you
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said the wrong thing against the Holy
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Spirit you're going to hell well that's
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radically different from what we're
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talking about we know it's not that
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right but but I think there are things
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that you can do I mean all kinds of you
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could be in a in an adulterous Affair
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for 10 years it's something you do over
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10 years and then on you know the very
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next day you could suddenly realize it
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was wrong suddenly repent of it and if
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as long as you're genuine you're
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forgiven mhm you're telling me that
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there's something people can
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do not asking for
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forgiveness but like that's I mean yeah
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you don't if if I steal your wallet and
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you say Cliff I offer to forgive you and
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I say forgive me for what I haven't done
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anything wrong oh no Cliff you stole my
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wallet well so what yeah so so then I
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say that what you're doing there is
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unforgivable right I I'm not going to
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forgive you for what you're doing right
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now and so then tomorrow when you come
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to me and say you know yesterday when I
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was sort of like refusing to even
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acknowledge I I I I was wrong I'm sorry
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about that and I say hey man I already
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told you I'm not forgiving you for that
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Christ will always forgive the person
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who is repentant blasphemy against the
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holy spirit is an unrepentant hardened
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heart there's no need there there's no
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understanding of my need for forgiveness
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and once you get into that state there's
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no possibility for Redemption
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correct so like I mean what are you
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imagining like how old is a person in
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this day like how long does it take what
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do they have to do you know we don't
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have the finest idea because because
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people are or what they've done we don't
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know that's between them and God I find
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that so so difficult like it it's sure
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it's difficult
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unforgivable cuz they're not asking for
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forgiveness correct you cannot be
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forgiven unless you ask for forgiveness
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you humble yourself something it's
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unforgivable to not ask for
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forgiveness the the problem is there's
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sort of two levels here right there's
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like there's not asking for forgiveness
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which of course you can't be forgiven if
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you don't ask for forgiveness but we're
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saying here now it's not you can't be
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forgiven if you don't ask for
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forgiveness it's you can't be forgiven
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for the state of not asking for
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forgiveness if not asking if blaspheming
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the holy spirit is something like not
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asking for forgiveness to say that
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blasphemy of the holy spirit is
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unforgivable is not to say that when you
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blaspheme the Holy Spirit you know you
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like you you're not going like okay
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you're not being forgiven right now
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because you're not apologizing it's one
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thing to say you're not being forgiven
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for not apologizing it's another thing
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to say that you will not be forgiven
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like full stop ever for the fact that
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right now you're Unforgiven you see what
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I'm saying the only person who's
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committed that sin could care less M God
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is irrelevant God is not part of the
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equation my sin is not part of the
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equation I'm totally shut off it's a
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lifestyle not a one-time thing right CU
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it sounds like you keep taking it back
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to a one-time thing but we're saying
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it's a full
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lifestyle sure age of accountability you
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bring in 12 years old
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so after 12 maybe but it's the sheep and
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the goats Matthew 25 I understand it's a
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terrifying passage we've had some
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students come to us crying I I get it we
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need safe spaces for them but I think
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for us it's a matter
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of what are your motives when I am
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sitting in an Uber with an Hindu going
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to a temple with a Hindu and sitting in
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an Uber with a Muslim I hear very
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similar things when it comes to I have
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to do X Y and Z to get out of this cast
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in order to get out of a certain cycle I
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have to to do X Y and Z for my heart to
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be lighter than a feather to get to
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Paradise it's all me me me I have to do
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these things versus I'm doing these
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things but what is my true motive
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motives don't matter here with these two
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it's just you have to do good things
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here it's a heart motive in the sense of
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who am I doing it for why am I doing it
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God am I genuine in my relationship with
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you am I genuinely loving you am I
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genuinely loving others or is this
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simply just a a sick game where it's a
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hypocritical lifestyle and I think we
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all know let's real I think we all know
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when we're living in a hypocritical kind
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of way and the answer is if you if you
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do that for long
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enough then you just enter into a state
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where now for the rest of your life no
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matter what you do no not no matter what
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you do if you repent you'll be forgiven
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but these people can't repent right
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because they blasphemed the holy spirit
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it's impossible for them to repent they
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have so hardened their hearts that they
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have no interest in repenting if you
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have a slight interest in repenting
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Christ will forgive
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you do you think it's possible to be in
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a state where you have no interest in
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Repentance for 10 years and then the
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11th year regain it somehow good sure
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that happens to many people yeah so they
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those people didn't blashe the holy
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spirit for 10 years
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and they were Sinners but they chose to
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repent and that's that's well that's a
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thief on the cross the thief on the
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cross just remember him yeah I mean I
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must admit it's one of the most
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theological theologically troubling
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things I mean there's there's troubling
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and then there's troubling right like I
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find the Old Testament passages M
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troubling they're kind of they're kind
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of gave it away can't be you know I'm oh
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this seems immoral this seems wrong
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right uh but maybe it fits in maybe
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maybe that was just fine maybe whatever
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you know um know the women verses I find
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those challenging yeah but maybe you
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know maybe women shouldn't speak in
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church maybe that's just true fine but
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with this the blasphemy of the holy
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spirit it's not just because I think
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it's like oh that's really immoral or
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that's kind of evil I I just firstly I
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don't really understand what it means
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and secondly it seems just like so it's
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it's the reason it sends a shiver down
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your spine is because it seems so out of
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character for Jesus you know it's like
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you know come to me child and forgive
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and go into no more you will never be
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forgiven out of and you whoa you know
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what are you talking about and so I I
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must say that of all the things we've
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spoken about so far it's been the it's
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it's it's the most theologically
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challenging to me watch the full
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