WEBVTT 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:04.559 This morning we're continuing our study of the ancient book of Leviticus. 00:00:04.719 --> 00:00:07.280 Leviticus is the third book of the Old Testament. 00:00:07.360 --> 00:00:14.160 And what we have been saying is that the Old Testament gives us picture after picture of God's grace to come in Jesus. 00:00:14.240 --> 00:00:21.280 And then the New Testament gives us teaching after teaching or story after story of that grace. 00:00:21.440 --> 00:00:28.640 And so we come into Leviticus 5 this morning, the guilt offering, the fifth offering that we've been learning about these different offerings. 00:00:28.800 --> 00:00:33.759 The fifth offering is the guilt offering, which it can sound like a real Debbie Downer, right? 00:00:34.479 --> 00:00:35.840 Guilt offer, oh great. 00:00:36.159 --> 00:00:39.200 Unless you've ever felt guilty. 00:00:39.439 --> 00:00:44.240 And then the idea that you could be relieved is amazing. 00:00:44.560 --> 00:00:58.479 Because we've all felt like, oh, I can't believe, like, I should not have, I can't believe, I can't believe I said it, did it, looked at it, said it again, did it again, thought it again. 00:00:59.280 --> 00:01:03.039 And you can't quite like shake, shake it off, right? 00:01:03.280 --> 00:01:05.599 Or shower it off or run it off. 00:01:06.719 --> 00:01:09.439 And so we have Leviticus 5, the guilt offering. 00:01:09.680 --> 00:01:12.079 I'll reread what Ali read for us. 00:01:12.239 --> 00:01:14.000 Leviticus 5, 14 through 16. 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:32.000 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, If anyone commits a breach of faith and sins unintentionally in any of the holy things of the Lord, he shall bring to the Lord as his compensation a ram without blemish out of the flock, valued in silver shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary for a guilt offering. 00:01:32.239 --> 00:01:39.920 He shall also make restitution for what he has done amiss in the holy thing, and shall add a fifth to it and give it to the priest. 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:47.040 And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering, and he shall be forgiven. 00:01:47.359 --> 00:01:56.159 Point number one is this is living in refusal of God's grace is an attempt to outrun our own guilt. 00:01:56.640 --> 00:01:59.200 It's a very tiring attempt. 00:01:59.359 --> 00:02:04.000 Whether we do it in the world or whether we do it in religion, guilt is a part of our life. 00:02:04.079 --> 00:02:06.799 The Holman Bible Dictionary says this about guilt. 00:02:06.959 --> 00:02:10.800 Guilt is a sense of shame at personal wrongdoing. 00:02:11.039 --> 00:02:15.919 Guilt implies being responsible for an offense or a wrongdoing. 00:02:16.080 --> 00:02:23.599 It is a situation that exists because one has done something forbidden or failed to do something that was required. 00:02:23.919 --> 00:02:26.400 Guilt's part of our lives, an important part. 00:02:26.560 --> 00:02:30.800 Guilt actually connects us to what is right and wrong. 00:02:31.199 --> 00:02:35.840 We actually have a psychological term for people who feel no guilt. 00:02:36.639 --> 00:02:38.159 Psychopath, right? 00:02:38.479 --> 00:02:40.639 Ted Bundy, Bernie Madoff. 00:02:40.800 --> 00:02:46.159 Last week in Colorado, there was a pastor who was charged for fraud. 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:52.319 He said that God told him to start a cryptocurrency exchange. 00:02:52.719 --> 00:02:53.919 Can't make it up. 00:02:54.159 --> 00:02:57.520 I mean, sermon illustrations just that they just like come at you. 00:02:57.919 --> 00:03:07.280 God told him to start a cryptocurrency exchange, and he raised$3.2 million out of his church and out of his influence. 00:03:07.759 --> 00:03:08.639 All a sham. 00:03:08.960 --> 00:03:13.520 He stole$13 million to renovate his house. 00:03:15.039 --> 00:03:20.560 And when he was caught, he said God told him to renovate his house. 00:03:21.439 --> 00:03:22.479 Which is so convenient. 00:03:22.560 --> 00:03:29.520 Isn't it convenient when God is telling you just things that keep so no guilty conscience? 00:03:31.039 --> 00:03:33.680 No sense of shame at the wrongdoing. 00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:35.680 No sense of responsibility. 00:03:36.240 --> 00:03:37.680 This is a big problem. 00:03:38.560 --> 00:03:44.639 See, there's bad guilt that keeps us in condemnation, but there is good guilt. 00:03:44.960 --> 00:03:53.840 Because good guilt reminds us what is good and that something wrong has happened that we need to deal with, and it leads us to a life under grace. 00:03:54.800 --> 00:03:58.719 See, what we do with our guilt is vital. 00:03:59.520 --> 00:04:04.400 Just to remember where we've been, these five chapters of Leviticus to catch you back up. 00:04:04.560 --> 00:04:12.080 Chapter one, the burnt offering, these five different offerings we've been learning of, the burnt offering, and we learned about God's grace to us through substitutionary atonement. 00:04:12.240 --> 00:04:14.080 Chapter two, the grain offering. 00:04:14.159 --> 00:04:17.680 This was about our devotion and our worship given to God. 00:04:17.920 --> 00:04:19.759 Chapter three, the peace offering. 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:27.199 This is about our thanksgiving for the peace that we have with God because of the substitutionary atonement, because of Christ. 00:04:27.279 --> 00:04:28.160 It's all pointing. 00:04:28.240 --> 00:04:30.959 Leviticus is pointing us to Jesus. 00:04:31.199 --> 00:04:33.439 Chapter 4, last week, sin offering. 00:04:33.519 --> 00:04:37.279 There's provision for our unintentional sins. 00:04:37.439 --> 00:04:41.279 I mean, there's even God's grace to you for sins you're committing and you're not even aware. 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:42.079 Isn't that amazing? 00:04:42.240 --> 00:04:42.720 It's amazing. 00:04:43.040 --> 00:04:45.199 So you are forgiven of unintentional sins. 00:04:45.279 --> 00:04:53.040 And then chapter 5 bridges us from unintentional sins over into intentional sins, the guilt offering, that there's provision for that. 00:04:53.360 --> 00:04:55.040 Over and over again. 00:04:55.360 --> 00:04:58.879 There is provision for our mistakes and our sin. 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:01.040 Here's how the chapter breaks down. 00:05:01.199 --> 00:05:03.040 First is the sin of sacrilege. 00:05:03.199 --> 00:05:05.920 This is Leviticus 5, 14 through 16, which we read. 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:10.480 This is a misuse of something sacred, probably something in the tabernacle, some holy thing. 00:05:10.560 --> 00:05:14.319 It was meant for one thing and you used it for another, maybe you took it home, maybe you sold it, who knows? 00:05:14.399 --> 00:05:27.279 And the sinner would pay full restitution plus a surcharge, a fifth or 20%, back to pay this back, and then bring a guilt offering, and from the guilt offering there is atonement of their sins and forgiveness. 00:05:27.600 --> 00:05:31.600 Second, verses 17 through 19, we have the sin of disobedience. 00:05:31.920 --> 00:05:36.079 People who did what was forbidden by the Lord's commands. 00:05:36.399 --> 00:05:38.800 God asked you to do one thing, do another. 00:05:39.120 --> 00:05:48.959 And the sinner would pay full restitution if it was needed, plus the surcharge, and bring a guilt offering for the atonement for the forgiveness of their sins. 00:05:49.199 --> 00:05:55.040 And then lastly, Leviticus 6, 1 through 7, we see the sin toward our neighbor. 00:05:55.600 --> 00:05:59.360 So Johnny tricks and steals something from Bobby. 00:05:59.680 --> 00:06:00.000 Right? 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:05.040 I went hiking and I left my green Patagonia vest on a rock. 00:06:05.600 --> 00:06:08.720 And one of you or somebody stole it. 00:06:09.360 --> 00:06:10.639 It's still missing. 00:06:10.879 --> 00:06:13.439 I'm looking for restitution plus 20%. 00:06:15.360 --> 00:06:16.879 I'm waiting for it. 00:06:17.120 --> 00:06:19.839 Or maybe you borrowed a casserole dish. 00:06:20.240 --> 00:06:20.800 Right? 00:06:21.040 --> 00:06:25.279 And when you are borrowing it from your neighbor, you notice she had three really nice pyrexes. 00:06:25.439 --> 00:06:28.720 I mean, she's just not, she's not going to notice if you don't bring this one back. 00:06:28.800 --> 00:06:31.920 And so it has conveniently stayed in your cupboard for three years. 00:06:32.079 --> 00:06:35.759 And you are fully aware when you use it that it is not yours. 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:37.199 It is hers. 00:06:37.759 --> 00:06:39.519 We do this kind of thing. 00:06:40.160 --> 00:06:51.839 And again, the same ritual when we sin against our neighbor in this Leviticus passage: full restitution plus a surcharge, bring the guilt offering for the atonement, for the forgiveness of our sins. 00:06:52.079 --> 00:06:57.600 And here's what we learn: we learn to minimize sin is to minimize grace. 00:06:59.040 --> 00:07:05.120 So grace is not special or lavish unless it is lavish for something. 00:07:05.759 --> 00:07:09.360 And there's something about a relational lesson here for us. 00:07:09.600 --> 00:07:14.399 That this vertical between us and God and this horizontal us and our neighbor. 00:07:15.360 --> 00:07:25.040 In this neighbor sin of Leviticus 6, the restitution between the two people was handled before the sacrifice was brought to God. 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:32.000 Because the God word and the human dimensions of our lives, people of faith, these two things are inseparable. 00:07:32.160 --> 00:07:33.839 They're fully connected. 00:07:34.639 --> 00:07:41.759 See, God's cultivating in us clarity of right and wrong, not to minimize sin. 00:07:42.879 --> 00:07:44.000 Full clarity. 00:07:44.160 --> 00:07:47.360 And then as well a tender conscience toward that. 00:07:48.079 --> 00:07:53.120 And also a free conscience because of the atonement for the forgiveness of the sin. 00:07:53.680 --> 00:07:57.439 And then as well humility toward each other and relationships. 00:07:57.759 --> 00:08:12.639 So over and over again, the ram was brought without blemish, taken to the door of the tabernacle and the offer, that sinner would place their hands on that sacrifice, that animal, and there'd be that transfer symbolically the sin over to the animal. 00:08:12.800 --> 00:08:17.120 The price that was paid to the sinner is now going to be paid upon the sacrifice. 00:08:17.279 --> 00:08:20.399 And an innocent animal would die. 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:32.399 When I was 14 years old, a bird made a nest and the ceiling of our front porch, and I was giving the chore to deal with this. 00:08:32.559 --> 00:08:36.159 Go, Russ, go, 14-year-old Russ, go deal with this. 00:08:36.240 --> 00:08:38.399 And so I dealt with it like a 14-year-old would. 00:08:38.559 --> 00:08:46.320 I went and got my pellet gun and lawn chair and sat in the front yard and waited. 00:08:46.720 --> 00:08:50.480 And so there I am, very, very Rambo, very Rambo. 00:08:51.120 --> 00:08:53.039 And it's a beautiful spring day. 00:08:53.120 --> 00:09:08.240 I remember it clearly, 30 years ago, and I'm sitting there, pellet gun ready, and this beautiful bluebird flies and lands right at the hole that goes up into the porch ceiling. 00:09:08.559 --> 00:09:09.919 That's my enemy. 00:09:10.320 --> 00:09:13.600 So I take aim, boom, take him down. 00:09:14.159 --> 00:09:17.600 I walk up, didn't kill him though, so I have to go get a shovel. 00:09:23.679 --> 00:09:24.639 Shovel him up. 00:09:24.799 --> 00:09:35.679 I walk over to the woods, chunk them into the woods, and I'm walking back to my house, you know, like I have really accomplished. 00:09:35.840 --> 00:09:37.600 I have battled and I have won. 00:09:37.759 --> 00:09:43.200 And right as I'm walking up to the front porch, I hear this little noise. 00:09:44.080 --> 00:09:49.759 And I look up and the nastiest, ugliest blackbird crawls out of that hole. 00:09:52.080 --> 00:09:57.039 I just killed a beautiful bluebird for no reason, is what it comes down to, right? 00:09:57.200 --> 00:09:58.080 Like, no reason. 00:09:58.240 --> 00:09:59.440 Just killed it. 00:09:59.600 --> 00:10:03.360 The blackbird was the thing that had the problem I was with, right? 00:10:03.600 --> 00:10:06.000 So I it's been 30 years. 00:10:06.240 --> 00:10:07.840 Like I still remember this. 00:10:08.080 --> 00:10:10.559 Like that animal didn't have to die, right? 00:10:10.639 --> 00:10:12.799 It only died because of me. 00:10:14.240 --> 00:10:17.200 So this ram didn't have to die. 00:10:17.519 --> 00:10:19.759 Innocent, without blemish. 00:10:20.639 --> 00:10:22.159 Did nothing wrong. 00:10:22.480 --> 00:10:26.720 It's only dying because the offerer messed up. 00:10:27.440 --> 00:10:30.639 Something else paid the price. 00:10:31.919 --> 00:10:37.200 Point number two is this our sin is destructive and weighty. 00:10:38.240 --> 00:10:40.639 Yet God's grace is lavish and costly. 00:10:40.720 --> 00:10:41.840 Listen to this from Hebrews. 00:10:41.919 --> 00:10:46.480 Remember, Hebrews is almost like a commentary on Leviticus, the book in the New Testament, Hebrews. 00:10:46.639 --> 00:10:48.159 Hebrews 10, 4, 5, and 9. 00:10:48.320 --> 00:10:51.600 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sin. 00:10:51.840 --> 00:10:55.360 See, all this Leviticus is pointing us, it's taking us to the need of Jesus. 00:10:55.519 --> 00:10:56.080 Verse 5. 00:10:56.240 --> 00:11:03.759 Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he does away with the first in order to establish the second. 00:11:04.320 --> 00:11:09.440 The second covenant, the covenant of grace, a new way to live, not by religious rules. 00:11:09.759 --> 00:11:14.480 Verse 10, and by that will we have been sanctified. 00:11:14.720 --> 00:11:24.399 So through him we're sanctified, through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all, not sacrifice after sacrifice after sacrifice after sacrifice. 00:11:24.559 --> 00:11:26.320 Today our sacrifices look real different. 00:11:26.480 --> 00:11:28.639 Often it's just like us sacrificing ourselves. 00:11:28.799 --> 00:11:36.000 Like if we're good enough or we punish ourselves or belittle ourselves enough, like then maybe we'll be right or good or holy or pure. 00:11:36.559 --> 00:11:39.600 Diedrich Bonhoeffer says this about God's grace. 00:11:39.840 --> 00:11:48.080 Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock. 00:11:48.240 --> 00:11:54.559 Such grace is costly because it calls us to follow, and it is grace because it calls us to follow Jesus Christ. 00:11:54.720 --> 00:12:02.480 It is costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life. 00:12:02.639 --> 00:12:08.320 It is costly because it condemns sin, and grace because it justifies the sinner. 00:12:08.480 --> 00:12:12.159 Above all, it's costly because it costs God the life of his son. 00:12:12.639 --> 00:12:18.960 Ye were bought with a price, and what has cost God much cannot be cheap for us. 00:12:19.360 --> 00:12:28.240 Above all, it is grace, because God did not reckon his son too dear a price to pay for our life, but delivered him up for us. 00:12:28.799 --> 00:12:34.080 Because God's grace is so sufficient and so costly, it is not cheap to us. 00:12:36.159 --> 00:12:43.440 It's paradoxical and amazing that it's free, and yet in that freedom, it is empowering. 00:12:45.759 --> 00:13:00.639 This is what this transfer, when we transfer our sin is put upon the cross and his righteousness given to us, free, but costly for God, lavish to us, and empowers a response. 00:13:02.000 --> 00:13:15.039 Jesus brings us a life of not forever guilt and condemnation, but a life under grace, healed and healing, relieved and safe and righteous, but also growing in that. 00:13:15.279 --> 00:13:23.039 Point number three is this the cross of Jesus gives us a pure conscience, redeeming us from the guilt trip. 00:13:23.759 --> 00:13:25.759 Hebrews 9, 11 through 14. 00:13:25.919 --> 00:13:39.440 But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent, I mean, you can hear in Leviticus here, the tent's talking about the tabernacle, that's where this sacrifice in Leviticus would be being made. 00:13:39.679 --> 00:13:43.600 A more perfect tent, not made with hands, that is, not of this creation. 00:13:43.840 --> 00:13:54.159 He entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves, but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption. 00:13:54.399 --> 00:14:15.600 For if the blood of goats and bulls and the sprinkling of the defiled persons with the ashes of heifer sanctified the purification of the flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God? 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:18.799 Verse 14, purify our conscience. 00:14:19.039 --> 00:14:27.600 Your conscience is the innermost part of you, it distinguishes right and wrong, and it feels the weight of wrong. 00:14:27.840 --> 00:14:29.519 It feels the guilt. 00:14:30.240 --> 00:14:35.120 But this word purify in verse 14 is the image of purging. 00:14:35.840 --> 00:14:36.639 A purging. 00:14:36.720 --> 00:14:43.120 To purify means to cleanse or consecrate with powerful, sufficient force. 00:14:44.159 --> 00:14:47.039 Last summer we purged our garage. 00:14:48.720 --> 00:14:50.799 And we're not hoarders, like we can park in our garage. 00:14:50.879 --> 00:14:52.399 So we knew it wasn't going to be horrible. 00:14:52.559 --> 00:14:56.320 Like our cars fit in, so we backed the cars out and just had to work the perimeter. 00:14:56.480 --> 00:14:57.039 You done that? 00:14:57.120 --> 00:15:00.159 You work the perimeter as it slowly builds up on the edges. 00:15:00.320 --> 00:15:05.600 And so we worked the perimeter and just went through, you know, item by item, space by pace. 00:15:05.759 --> 00:15:06.480 Is this good? 00:15:06.639 --> 00:15:07.279 Is it useful? 00:15:07.360 --> 00:15:07.919 Is this good? 00:15:08.080 --> 00:15:08.799 Is it useful? 00:15:08.960 --> 00:15:10.799 If it's not good, not useful, purge it. 00:15:10.879 --> 00:15:11.600 It's out of here. 00:15:11.840 --> 00:15:13.120 To the driveway. 00:15:13.519 --> 00:15:15.440 And that pile started to grow. 00:15:15.600 --> 00:15:16.639 Two truck beds. 00:15:16.879 --> 00:15:17.840 Two truck beds. 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:19.279 This was a good garage. 00:15:19.519 --> 00:15:22.879 Like this wasn't like a nasty, it wasn't like a dump, maybe you got a dump truck garage. 00:15:22.960 --> 00:15:24.879 You're like, I need a dump truck, you just back it up. 00:15:24.960 --> 00:15:26.159 Like that's the kind of purging. 00:15:26.559 --> 00:15:29.840 This is a decent, still two truck beds. 00:15:30.159 --> 00:15:31.840 That's the word purify. 00:15:31.919 --> 00:15:33.440 It's a purging. 00:15:33.759 --> 00:15:40.000 All that is not good or useful by Christ's sufficient sacrifice for us. 00:15:40.159 --> 00:15:43.919 There is a purifying, a purging of all that is not good and useful. 00:15:44.159 --> 00:15:47.759 It's just sufficiently removed, hauled off. 00:15:48.000 --> 00:15:49.120 He takes it away. 00:15:49.279 --> 00:15:56.240 And in that way, we may still have guilt, but we don't have to live a guilt trip. 00:15:57.679 --> 00:16:01.200 You remember the 1980s classic movie Trains, Planes, and Automobiles? 00:16:01.440 --> 00:16:02.639 Anybody else old enough? 00:16:02.879 --> 00:16:03.600 You remember that? 00:16:03.759 --> 00:16:04.320 Here it is. 00:16:04.559 --> 00:16:05.919 Neil and Dell. 00:16:06.320 --> 00:16:10.320 Neil was that successful control freak on the left, obviously. 00:16:10.639 --> 00:16:23.440 He's trying to get home to Chicago for Thanksgiving dinner, and there's a snowstorm, he ends up in this like small town in Kansas, and he meets Dell, and Dell is uh amazingly kind and just an absolute mess. 00:16:23.679 --> 00:16:24.879 Just a mess. 00:16:25.600 --> 00:16:33.440 And so through this mess, like they end up needing to share a hotel room, a motel room, and then they end up, that's how they wake up. 00:16:33.919 --> 00:16:35.600 Do you remember those aren't pillows? 00:16:35.840 --> 00:16:36.799 Anyone else? 00:16:36.960 --> 00:16:39.440 Anyways, side story, you can watch it. 00:16:40.480 --> 00:16:51.919 Uh so they they tried to get home by train and then by a bus, and then they rent a car, and then Dell managed to burn up the car there they are trying to get home. 00:16:52.080 --> 00:16:57.759 Eventually, get home in the back of a retreat refrigerator truck is how they finally get home. 00:16:57.840 --> 00:17:03.440 And when you watch the movie, uh you laugh a lot, like especially the first half. 00:17:03.519 --> 00:17:09.680 And then there's somewhere in the middle that this thing happens in you, and you just start feeling really bad for them. 00:17:09.839 --> 00:17:11.920 You're like, this is horrible. 00:17:12.079 --> 00:17:14.240 Like you feel really bad for them. 00:17:14.400 --> 00:17:17.279 Like this just this trip won't end, right? 00:17:17.359 --> 00:17:20.400 Like you went to the beach and everybody got coronavirus. 00:17:20.640 --> 00:17:24.960 You're like, if we could just go home, like I just like all you want to do is go home. 00:17:25.119 --> 00:17:27.839 The trip, the trip just won't end. 00:17:28.720 --> 00:17:34.559 And some of you have felt like that because of something. 00:17:36.160 --> 00:17:42.480 Right, and it was a long time ago, or it was last week, but it just feels like the guilt trip won't end. 00:17:43.599 --> 00:17:46.079 And there can be just this sense of condemnation. 00:17:46.319 --> 00:17:55.440 It's not good guilt that reminds you of what's good and takes you to confession and forgiveness and freedom. 00:17:55.599 --> 00:18:03.519 It's bad guilt where it keeps you inward and you just live in a condemnation, and you're just stuck. 00:18:04.079 --> 00:18:05.519 You're stuck in it. 00:18:06.480 --> 00:18:09.920 But Hebrews tells us we don't have to live like that. 00:18:10.880 --> 00:18:15.200 That we may have guilt, but it can be good guilt, and it can just send us back to Jesus. 00:18:16.160 --> 00:18:23.200 And our consciences, our souls have been purged clean, purified, not by our word, but by his work for us. 00:18:23.440 --> 00:18:24.880 Three takeaways, and then we'll pray. 00:18:25.200 --> 00:18:26.799 I'll just read these three points. 00:18:27.119 --> 00:18:36.240 Moving from guilt, our heart's new resting place is our forever acceptance and forgiveness in Christ. 00:18:38.640 --> 00:18:46.079 Number two, moving from guilt, we discover joy, not exhaustion in our walk with Christ. 00:18:47.279 --> 00:18:48.400 Number three. 00:18:49.359 --> 00:18:55.680 Our guilt propels us more deeply into the fount of God's love for us in Christ. 00:18:56.559 --> 00:19:03.599 Pastor Jack Miller, he used to say, you will never shock God, and he will never shame you. 00:19:03.839 --> 00:19:04.880 That's pretty good. 00:19:05.200 --> 00:19:07.039 God, thank you for your grace to us. 00:19:07.200 --> 00:19:10.720 That is sufficient for our forgiveness. 00:19:10.880 --> 00:19:16.559 Forgive us for all the ways we're still trying to beat ourselves up enough. 00:19:18.640 --> 00:19:21.359 Would you rescue us from the guilt trip? 00:19:21.599 --> 00:19:28.559 Would you help us to use guilt to be reminded of what is good and holy and right and noble? 00:19:29.519 --> 00:19:34.079 And in our guilt, would we fall more deeply into the fount of your grace for us? 00:19:34.240 --> 00:19:50.160 That the blood of Jesus is sufficient to purge our consciences, to purify us as if we have never sinned, and we are fully yours and fully righteous by your gift of grace to us, the once for all sacrifice Christ Jesus. 00:19:50.720 --> 00:19:52.000 In his name we pray. 00:19:52.160 --> 00:19:52.559 Amen.