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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>"It’s just not right" is a sermon for September 17, 2017, the first one at <span style='color:black'><a href="http://sjnj.com/media_view.php"><span style='color:#0563C1'>http://sjnj.com/media_view.php</span></a> and is based on Matthew 1</span><span style='color:#1F497D'>8</span><span style='color:black'>:21-3</span><span style='color:#1F497D'>5</span><span style='color:black'>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Today’s society does not forgive debts easily, and in some towns there still exist de facto debtor prisons where people who are unable to pay a debt are incarcerated based on some technicality that permits imprisoning debtors. Ferguson, Missouri, is one of these communities which will likely never see peace until the debtor jail there is emptied. The death penalty is another instance where there is no forgiveness in about half of the states in the US who still carry out executions. Until we can find a way to end these non-Christian ways, we as a society shall be unable to find the peace that passes understanding. </span><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1F497D;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white'>Peace and blessings,</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white'>Joe<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white'>(Preaching at the Episcopal Church of </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:white'>Divine Love, Montrose<span style='color:black'>, New York)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>