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I am confident in the Lord that you will take no other view. The one who is throwing you into confusion will pay the penalty whoever he may be.

Brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case, the offense of the cross has been abolished.

As for those agitators I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves, you, my brothers, are called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge this sinful nature, rather serve one another in love.

May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ through which the world has been crucified to me and I to the world.

Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything. What counts as a new creation? Peace and mercy to all who follow this rule, even to the Israel of God. This is God's Word.

In the King James Version, the old King James Version, verse 14, which is printed here as saying, may I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. In the old King James Version, it goes, Paul says, it is translated, God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And you're going to find today, because I remember since I learned that verse in the old King James that you'll find me at certain points going back and coding it that way, may I never boast except in the cross. God forbid that I should glory except in the cross. Same thing.

From now until the end of the until until Easter from now all the way through Lent which begins a little while, we're going to be talking each week about the cross and how the cross deals with all the important dimensions of our lives this week.

I'm going to talk about the cross and freedom next week, the cross and forgiveness and so on. I was listening to I got out my old Jesus Christ superstar record very old record.

And in the theme song, there's a place where Judas sings, did you mean to die like that? Was that a mistake or did you know your messy death would be a record breaker?

And we're talking about the messy death, the record breaking messy death of Jesus for the next few weeks.

I like to talk about freedom and how the cross gives us the most nuanced and sophisticated answer to the problem, the modern problem of freedom.

And take notes or or I know that when I get through here, I'm not going to deal with everything that I should. I'm not going to answer all the questions.

I'm not going to handle all the passage that you have written in front of you. And the advantage you have over the other services, though you are the least of the services, you are the greatest of the services because you have, you can do questions and answers now.

There's afterwards in the East lounge and you can go down and say, what is this verse mean? Why didn't you talk about that and so on?

Now, the modern problem of freedom, the way modern people define freedom is self-determination without limits.

Freedom is never having always doing what you want and never having to sacrifice what you want because someone on the outside is forcing you to.

Freedom is doing whatever you want. And the problem with that, modern definition of freedom, is that it doesn't really work out very well.

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