male announcer: This
presentation is brought to you
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by the friends of the
Amazing Facts Ministry.
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Doug Batchelor: Can you
imagine stepping into the line
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of fire on a
battlefield to save your enemy?
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On November 12, 1944, German
Lieutenant Friedrich Lengfeld
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heard the desperate cries of a
wounded American soldier who had
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been shot down in the
midst of a German minefield.
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He ordered his men not
to fire upon any rescuers,
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but as time slipped
by, no Allied medics
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came to the aid
of the injured man.
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That's when Lengfeld decided to
help the enemy soldier himself.
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After organizing a rescue squad,
he stepped out into the danger
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to assist his enemy,
but he never got very far.
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He was injured
by an exploding mine
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and died several hours later.
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In 1994, a group of
American veterans erected
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a memorial to honor
his act of self-sacrifice.
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It's always moving when
we hear about people who
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risked their lives to
help a stranger in need.
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But, you know, Jesus risked much
more to save his enemies when he
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came to this world, even knowing
that he'd be hated, rejected,
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and persecuted, and ultimately
killed, did not hinder him.
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Why? What was the motivation?
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Join me now as we
take a deeper look
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at this
transformational subject.
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Doug: Tonight's presentation
is among the most important, and
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it's dealing with the subject
of The Supreme Sacrifice.
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You know, this is
what we're going to do
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tonight is we're going
to spend some time beholding
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the Lamb, and it
is a prophetic theme.
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Now, some people come to
a seminar like this and say,
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"Pastor Doug, I didn't come to
talk about Jesus and salvation.
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I want to understand prophecy.
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I want to know
about the beast and the
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Antichrist and
Armageddon and 666.
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Let's study those things."
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Well, you know, this
is the theme of prophecy.
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If you look in Revelation
chapter 5, it talks about a Lamb
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that had been slain that's
in the midst of the throne.
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And throughout the book of
Revelation, Jesus is referred to
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the Lamb and unless
we know who that Lamb is,
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you know, we are going
to miss out on everything.
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The purpose of all
Bible prophecy is redemptive.
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The purpose of all
Bible prophecy is redemptive.
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God's prophecies are
not just to entertain
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us that He can
foretell the future.
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The reason He
has these prophecies
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is so that we can be saved.
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What good is it to you if you
understand what the beast is and
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666 and the Antichrist and mark
of the beast, and you even know
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the date and the
hour of Christ's coming,
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if you're not saved,
what good does that do you?
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What good is it if you gain the
whole world and lose your soul?
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You might think,
"Well, I just, you know,
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I want this knowledge."
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Well, the devil
knows more than anybody
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here, it's not
going to save him.
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What you ultimately need to know
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is Jesus, a
relationship with Him.
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All the prophecies
are pointing towards that.
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So, we're not really being
honest or fair with you if we're
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just teaching Bible trivia and
prophecy trivia, and we're not
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talking about the central theme
of prophecy, which is Christ.
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Now, when you open the
book of Revelation, who knows
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what the first
line in Revelation says?
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The revelation
of the Antichrist?
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The revelation of the beast?
The revelation of Armageddon?
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Millennium? Secret
rapture to witnesses?
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They're all in the book, but
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that's not what
it's talking about.
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It's the
revelation of Jesus Christ.
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And in the first
chapter, Jesus appears,
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and He's being
revealed in these prophecies.
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So tonight, we're going
to be talking about what the
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prophecies have
to say about Jesus.
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Is Jesus the
only way to be saved
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and importance of eternal life?
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And what is
salvation? First question.
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"Why was it
necessary for Jesus to die?"
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You read in Romans
chapter 3, verse 23,
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"For all have
sinned," everybody's sinned.
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See, sin is deadly
and it's contagious.
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In fact, this planet has
been pretty much quarantined
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from the rest of the
cosmos, the universe,
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because we've
got a deadly disease.
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You can just see that sin hurts.
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Sin hurts you, sin hurts your
neighbor, sin hurts God, and sin
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is selfishness, and it
just basically self-destructs.
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And the end
result of sin is death.
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The penalty for sin is death.
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You might be thinking,
"Well, then why aren't we
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dead yet, since
we've all sinned?"
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Because through the sacrifice
of Jesus, He not only bought the
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opportunity for people to
find everlasting life, but every
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person has been
provided with probationary time.
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The Lord has
bought us an extension
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to make a different choice.
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He's bought us
probationary time to say,
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"I don't want
to live for myself.
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I want to live for God."
Penalty for sin is death.
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You can see here also in Hebrews
chapter 9, verse 22, "Without
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the shedding of blood,
there is no remission."
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The word
"remission" means there is no
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forgiveness without
the shedding of blood.
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The Bible tells us
the life is in the blood,
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and all creatures need blood.
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Blood is what cleanses us.
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I remember reading a few years
ago, and it's also very relevant
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today, when they had that
Ebola outbreak there in Africa.
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And, you know, COVID is very
serious, but the survival rate
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is a whole lot
better than Ebola.
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And some of you remember that
there was this nurse William
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Pooley, he contracted Ebola and
nearly died, but he survived.
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But because he survived, in his
body, he had the antibodies that
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were very rare because
there were very few survivors.
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And the antibodies
were basically a life serum.
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And he flew to other
parts of the world to
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give transfusions
to save other people.
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Who knows what the
first miracle of Jesus was?
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He turned the water to wine.
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What's wine a
symbol of in the Bible?
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The blood, there
at the Last Supper,
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Jesus gave them
the cup of grape juice.
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He said, "Take, drink.
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This is My blood
that is shed for you
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for the remission of sin."
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Said, "Except you eat My flesh
and drink My blood--" and He
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doesn't literally
want us drinking blood.
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You all know
that, no vampires here.
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He's talking about
having His life go in us.
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What's the last thing that Jesus
did before He died on the cross?
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People offered Him
sour wine on a sponge.
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So, they're at the
wedding feast, Jesus's
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first miracle, He
provides pure grape juice.
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They said,
"You've saved the best."
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Then the last thing He does
is He takes sour wine from man.
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Jesus gave the human
race a blood transfusion.
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Basically, He took our badness
and He gives us His goodness.
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He made this
great exchange with us.
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You can read also in 1
Corinthians chapter 15, verse 3,
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Christ died for
the sins of the Jews?
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He died for the
sin of the whole world.
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Did He only die for the sins of
those who choose to believe in
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Him, or did He
die for everybody?
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Christ died for our sins because
He loved us, He took our place.
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Now, sin is
deadly. It killed him.
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Sort of something like, if
you can imagine if you will, a
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family that lives on a beautiful
island out in the Pacific where
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it's tropical paradise, and they
got an abundance of good food
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and fruits and clean water,
a family with ten children.
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you know, it's like Robinson
Crusoe with ten children.
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They're all having a wonderful
time, and the one of them,
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for some
inexplicable reason, contracts
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a deadly,
painful, fatal disease.
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And the parents have to
make a difficult decision
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because it's
extremely contagious.
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They know if that child stays
on the island, it'll infect all
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the other children,
and they love that child.
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Wouldn't they be doing
everything they could to find a
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way to isolate that child
and heal them if they could?
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Put him on a
raft, find some cure.
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This is what God is faced with.
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He had to pretty much separate
us from the rest of the universe
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because sin is
deadly and it's contagious.
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And Jesus said, "There's
only one way, I will take their
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penalty to meet
the demands of justice.
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I will take their
weakness and their sin,
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and I will give
them My strength.
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I will give them My purity.
I will give them My power.
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They will be new creatures."
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You also read in 1 Peter
3, verse 18, "For Christ also
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suffered once, the
just for the unjust."
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He is just. He never sinned.
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He did not deserve it,
but He died for you and me.
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So, what is this great
plan of salvation called?
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It says in
Revelation 14:6--I told you
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this as a prophecy subject.
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Having the everlasting gospel,
this is our study tonight.
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What is the everlasting gospel?
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The word
"gospel" means good news.
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"Having the
everlasting gospel to preach
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to those who
dwell on the earth."
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You read in Revelation chapter
14 where this passage comes
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from that in the last days just
before Christ comes in chapter
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14, Jesus is pictured coming in
the clouds to harvest the earth.
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And just before He comes,
there's pictured these angels
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flying in heaven
with these messages,
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and they're giving
them with a loud voice.
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And one of those messages is
this angel's got the everlasting
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gospel to preach unto
those who dwell upon the earth.
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You know, this is
being fulfilled tonight.
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"Why did God make such a
fantastic sacrifice for us?"
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"For God so," what?
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How many of you know
this verse in John 3:16?
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"For God so loved--"
say it with me, would you?
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"For God so loved the world,
that He gave His only begotten
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Son, that
whosoever believeth in Him
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may not perish, but
have everlasting life."
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You know, that is
such a wonderful verse.
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I took off tonight before
I came, I usually print out a
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couple of notes, and I
forgot, but I think I was
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able to print this
one thing on my phone
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I want to share
with you real quick.
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Just about John 3:16, it's
one of the greatest verses.
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Listen to this. Just
break it down for a second.
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This is John 3:16, "For God,
(the greatest Giver), so loved,
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(the greatest motive), the
world, (the greatest number),
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that He gave, (the greatest
act), His only Son, (the
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greatest gift), that whosoever,
(the greatest invitation),
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believes in Him, (the
greatest opportunity),
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should not perish,
(the greatest deliverance),
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but have eternal
life, (the greatest joy)."
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This verse is so
jam-packed, volcanic,
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explosive with promise.
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That's why it's many
people's favorite verse.
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He so loved us.
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"What must I do to benefit from
Jesus's sacrificial sacrifice?"
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The Bible tells us
some things that happened.
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First of all,
you got to believe.
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That almost sounds
too good to be true.
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All things are
possible to those who believe.
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Believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ, and you will be saved.
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And it starts with simple faith.
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Now, I mean, once you do
believe, you're going to see
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changes, but it
starts with belief.
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"If" is a
two-letter word, but it's
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a very dangerous word for Jesus.
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When Jesus died, He was
executed between two thieves.
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Both thieves were
asking for deliverance.
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One of them said,
"If you are the Christ,
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save Yourself and save us."
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He figured that Jesus
would put Himself first.
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The other thief
said, "Lord, remember
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me when You come
into Your paradise."
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No doubt he says,
"You are the Lord,
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and I believe
you've got a Kingdom.
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Remember me when you've
come into Your Kingdom."
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And Jesus said to him,
"Verily I say to you today,
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you will be
with Me in Paradise."
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Said, "Verily I
say to you today,
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you will be
with Me in Paradise."
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What a wonderful promise.
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Now, did that thief
do a lot of good works
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and make donations
and philanthropic work?
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And, you know, did he
cook at the church every week?
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Did he do any good deeds
that earned his salvation?
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Or did he simply reach
out, pray, and believe?
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The Bible is going
to give you a few steps
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of what you need
to do to be saved.
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We all need to
know what that is.
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One of them, believe.
Believe that Jesus loves you.
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Believe that
Jesus will save you.
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Would Jesus go through all the
trouble that He went through to
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leave heaven and come to this
world, dark world compared to
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heaven, where there's evil to be
hounded by the devil for 33 and
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a half years, to be
tortured on a cross?
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Would He go
through all of that to
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save you if you
could not be saved?
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Of course you can
be saved. Believe it.
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Once you believe it, you give
God permission to start making
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changes in your life,
but it starts with faith.
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All things are
possible to him that believes.
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Without faith, it is impossible
to please God, for he that comes
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to God must believe
that He is and He is a
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rewarder of those who
diligently seek Him, so believe.
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Doug: Don't go
anywhere, friends.
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In just a moment,
we're going to return
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with the rest of
today's presentation.
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No doubt you've often heard that
Jesus died for your sins and
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that He paid an enormous price
to save you from sin and death.
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It sounds important, but
how does that affect your
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day-to-day life
2,000 years later?
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Well, friend, your response to
Jesus's sacrifice is going to be
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in direct proportion to
how you understand its value.
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In fact, your
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Well, let's return to today's
presentation and learn some more
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amazing facts
from the Word of God.
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Doug: How does God cleanse us?
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What's this process, the
science of how this works?
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First of all, Acts
chapter 3, verse 19,
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you can also read
this in Acts chapter 2.
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The first word is, what's
it say up there on the screen?
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"Repent
therefore, be converted, that
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your sins might be blotted out."
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When you look to Jesus
in faith and you accept Him,
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then tell Him
you're sorry for your sins.
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And this is the
second part of that.
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"If we confess our
sins, He is faithful and
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just to forgive us
our sins and to cleanse us
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from," a little
bit of unrighteousness.
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I didn't know if
you were reading that
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with me, but oh, yeah, it does.
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It says, "All unrighteousness."
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"You mean after my life of sin,
I can tell the Lord I'm sorry
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for my sins and repent of my
sins and confess, and He says
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He will cleanse me
from all unrighteousness?"
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That's right, in
the Bible, you've
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got adulterers,
adulteresses, murderers,
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thieves that
are forgiven by God.
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Paul said, "And such were some
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of you, but
you've been cleansed.
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You've been forgiven.
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You've been
washed because of Jesus."
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He completely transforms you,
but it says you need to repent.
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Now, repentance means
a genuine sorrow for sin
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where you're willing
to turn away from it.
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There's a lot of
Christians that sort
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of teach a shallow
idea of repentance.
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They'll have a church service,
and they'll say, "If you'd like
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to accept Jesus and
have eternal life, you know,
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raise your
hand, say this prayer.
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Yes, Jesus, I accept
You," and go home, and they kind
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of pretty much
continue living their life.
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Repentance is where you have
a sorrow for your sin and you
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genuinely want to
be made different.
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You want to be
delivered from your sin.
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A lot of people have
different addictions.
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You don't want to
just be forgiven and
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continue with your addiction.
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You want to be saved
from your sin, right?
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What does the Bible say to Mary?
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Jesus said--or the angel said
to Mary, "You'll call His name
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Jesus because He will
save people from their sin."
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He wants to transform you
and save you from your sin.
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Sin is your
problem. So, we repent.
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Now, if--after
the program, I try to,
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you know, I take
off my microphone.
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I go back, and I try to greet
the people that are coming.
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And if on my way to the
back door, I run into you, and I
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knock you down and throw
you to the floor, and your stuff
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scattered everywhere
and I say, "Excuse me,"
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and I keep going,
that's probably not right.
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I ought to stop and,
you know, help you up
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and apologize, be a
little more thorough.
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If on the way to the door, I
bumped your elbow with my elbow,
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I just say, "Excuse
me," I go on my way.
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The degree of offense
dictates how much you apologize.
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See what I'm saying?
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So, when we say, "Thank
you for salvation, Jesus,"
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and we just walk
away, we don't have a
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concept of what He
suffered for our sin.
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Part of being a
Christian, and not just
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repentance, it's
what you call restoration.
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It teaches that in
the Bible too, but you
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don't hear too
many sermons about that.
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It's being a new
creature, righting wrongs.
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And you know what?
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You do that--if you can put that
list on the bed and kneel by it
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and say, "Lord, you
promised to cleanse me from all
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unrighteousness,
thank You for cleansing me."
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And believe and
throw that list away.
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Don't
anyone--press the delete button.
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Don't let anyone get that list.
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And you're going to
feel such relief and
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peace in your
life when you do that.
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"What is this wonderful
conversion experience called?"
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You can read about it
there in John 3, verse 7.
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"You must be--" what
did Jesus say to Nicodemus?
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"You must be born again."
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What's He talking about when He
said, "You must be born again"?
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It's talking about
you become a new person.
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You get a new beginning.
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And when you come to Jesus, you
get a new start where all of the
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sins and the mistakes of
the past are washed away.
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Like an innocent baby, you come
forth into a new world, and you
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are adopted into
the family of God.
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God now calls you
His son, His daughter,
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and He will watch over you.
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It's like, for me, one
of the greatest miracles is
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metamorphosis, how
you see this worm turn
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into this
elegant, winged creature.
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What a transformation.
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That's what
happens in conversion,
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you become a new creature.
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He changes you.
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Old things are passed
away, all things become new,
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and you get the
innocence of a little baby.
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"Who enters the
heart of a Christian,
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of each born-again Christian?"
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The Bible says, "The Spirit of
truth, but you know Him, for He
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dwells with you
and He will be in you."
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Notice again,
the emphasis on He.
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The Holy Spirit will be in you.
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And every day, I
pray for the Holy Spirit.
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All the time, many times through
the day before the program I'm
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saying, "God, I want
Your Spirit to be in me."
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Because He will lead you,
He'll guide you, He'll give you
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wisdom, He'll give you
sensitivity about what to say,
00:19:10.71\00:19:13.21
how to treat people,
how to be like Jesus.
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The Bible calls
it being Spirit led.
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And in the same way, I believe
in the last days, God wants to
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baptize His people
in the Holy Spirit.
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And I think you're going to see
the same kind of outpouring of
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the Spirit and the miracles that
you see in the book of Acts.
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I think that's
going to happen again
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before the Second
Coming, don't you?
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Well, how's
that going to happen?
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You know how the
disciples received the
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Holy Spirit in
Pentecostal power?
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Is they spent ten
days together praying,
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confessing their
faults, forgiving each other.
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And when their hearts were
empty, then God could fill them.
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God wants to fill you with His
love, His joy, His abundance.
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But unfortunately, our
hearts are so full of the
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world, there's no
room for anything else.
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When you humble yourself
before God, He will fill
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you with the Spirit
and He will lift you up.
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"When Jesus lives
in my heart through
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the Holy
Spirit, what will I do?"
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How are things different?
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"Both to will and to
do of His good pleasure."
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And that's Philippians 2:13.
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We are going to
be daily wanting to
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seek out what
God wants us to do.
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We're going to be
sensitive to God's leading.
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You're going to
start seeing the most
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amazing miracles
happen in your life.
00:20:18.88\00:20:20.98
When I was a baby Christian,
I think I needed a little extra
00:20:21.02\00:20:24.39
encouragement
because I was very cynical.
00:20:24.42\00:20:30.53
Like John, I'm from New
York City, and they got so many
00:20:30.56\00:20:32.96
schemes there and con artists
that when I started reading the
00:20:32.99\00:20:35.96
Bible, I just--I
didn't want to be taken in.
00:20:36.00\00:20:39.20
So, when I was praying, I
believed, but the Lord had to
00:20:39.23\00:20:43.94
just give me some,
some encouragement.
00:20:43.97\00:20:47.24
And I saw so many miracles
happen that proved to me that
00:20:47.28\00:20:50.58
God is real, and
He'll do this for you.
00:20:50.61\00:20:54.52
So, pray for His
leading and His will
00:20:54.55\00:20:56.72
to show you what
to do, and He will.
00:20:56.75\00:20:58.65
You know, we sing
that theme song each night,
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"Help me to know
Your will, Lord."
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The greatest battle is
not just knowing God's will,
00:21:02.89\00:21:05.19
it's to have a
willingness to do His will.
00:21:05.23\00:21:08.46
"Why should I be
confident that my new-birth
00:21:08.50\00:21:10.43
experience will be successful?"
00:21:10.47\00:21:13.00
Answer, "He who has
begun a good work in you will
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complete it until
the day of Jesus Christ."
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This is Philippians 1, verse 6.
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You know, there's so many people
that think that, you know, "I
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started out, but I'm
not seeing much progress.
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I want God to finish
what He started in my life."
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The Bible
promises God is the author
00:21:31.92\00:21:34.39
and the finisher of your faith.
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He will finish what He starts
in your life, if you ask Him.
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He who begun a good
work in you will perform it.
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Jesus is not a quitter.
Some people get discouraged.
00:21:43.43\00:21:46.53
They say, "You know, I came
to Jesus, but I had no idea that
00:21:46.57\00:21:49.87
there was going to
be problems afterward."
00:21:49.90\00:21:52.51
I think pastors do a disservice
to people when we make it sound
00:21:52.54\00:21:56.11
like you come to the altar and
you accept Jesus, and it's going
00:21:56.14\00:21:59.01
to be a bed of roses and a
bowl of cherries from there on.
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When the children
of Israel escaped the
00:22:02.65\00:22:04.49
slavery of Egypt, did
all of their problems end?
00:22:04.52\00:22:09.32
They crossed the Red Sea,
you can call that baptism.
00:22:09.36\00:22:12.39
Paul says in 1 Corinthians
10, that's like baptism.
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They're no longer in
the territory of Egypt.
00:22:14.96\00:22:17.10
They're beginning their
journey into the Promised Land.
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And they rejoiced
for a little while,
00:22:19.40\00:22:20.90
but then they were
attacked by the Amalekites.
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God gave them victory if
they went and fought with
00:22:23.61\00:22:26.88
Joshua, and Joshua
led them to victory.
00:22:26.91\00:22:29.51
They ran out of
bread. They got hungry.
00:22:29.54\00:22:32.31
They murmured and complained,
00:22:32.35\00:22:33.65
and God gave them
bread from heaven.
00:22:33.68\00:22:34.98
They ran out of
water. They got thirsty.
00:22:35.02\00:22:37.05
God gave them water.
00:22:37.09\00:22:38.39
They just had
challenge after challenge
00:22:38.42\00:22:40.29
to test their
faith along the way.
00:22:40.32\00:22:42.36
And they're
wandering, "Why don't we just go
00:22:42.39\00:22:44.03
directly from Egypt
to the Promised Land?"
00:22:44.06\00:22:45.96
They did a lot of
wandering, you know why?
00:22:45.99\00:22:47.86
They had to go through
what you call sanctification.
00:22:47.93\00:22:50.63
They went through a process
of learning to trust God.
00:22:50.67\00:22:53.34
Now, it says in
Isaiah, "Learn to do good."
00:22:53.37\00:22:56.91
Once you come to the Lord,
you have to, sort of, unlearn
00:22:56.94\00:23:00.84
everything you learned in the
school of the devil, and you've
00:23:00.88\00:23:03.11
got to learn now what it
means to follow the Lord.
00:23:03.14\00:23:05.35
Do not be
discouraged if you fall down a
00:23:05.38\00:23:08.28
few times in your
early walk with Christ.
00:23:08.32\00:23:11.12
"How will true conversion
change a person's life?"
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So, when you have come to
the Lord and you've experienced
00:23:14.62\00:23:16.79
genuine
conversion, what happens?
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A says, "By this all will
know that you are My disciples,
00:23:19.26\00:23:23.37
if you have love
for one another."
00:23:23.40\00:23:26.00
You know, some
people say, "Oh, you know,
00:23:26.03\00:23:27.34
I don't want to go to church.
00:23:27.37\00:23:28.67
There's some
hypocrites in church."
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Well, that's the best
environment to learn love in.
00:23:30.44\00:23:34.41
The disciples, did
they argue among themselves?
00:23:34.44\00:23:38.98
The Bible says they did.
Do families sometimes argue?
00:23:39.01\00:23:44.35
If you say, "Lord, give me
love," do you think He's just
00:23:44.39\00:23:46.45
going to give you some pink
package in the mail and love's
00:23:46.49\00:23:49.19
going to spill all
over you with little sparkle
00:23:49.22\00:23:50.99
fairy dust and you
can love everybody?
00:23:51.03\00:23:53.83
No, He's going to put
unlovable people around you,
00:23:53.86\00:23:58.03
and you're going
to learn how to love.
00:23:58.07\00:23:59.37
But once you
learn those people, the
00:23:59.40\00:24:00.77
lovable people are
really easy, right?
00:24:00.80\00:24:04.97
But He's going to
teach you to love.
00:24:05.01\00:24:07.41
And how did the
Bible say that everybody
00:24:07.44\00:24:09.81
is going to know
we're His disciples?
00:24:09.84\00:24:11.21
By our love for one another,
by our love for one another.
00:24:11.25\00:24:15.22
"If anyone is in
Christ, he's a new creation."
00:24:15.25\00:24:18.92
People should see a
transformation in your life.
00:24:18.95\00:24:22.99
My old family and the
kids that I used to go to
00:24:23.02\00:24:25.86
school with, they see
Doug Batchelor now, and
00:24:25.89\00:24:28.30
they say, "Doug
became a preacher?
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A pastor?" And I was Jewish.
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"A Christian?"
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I re-connected with some
of my friends on Facebook,
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and they just,
they see a change.
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And I say, "What God did
for me, He'll do for you.
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I was miserable
then. I'm happy now."
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You become a new
creature, a new creation.
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Answer C, "We
keep His commandments
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and do those things that
are pleasing in His sight."
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We--you know, God's law
is not that complicated.
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People like to argue
about, you know, what
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the law of God is
and what God wants.
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It's like Mark Twain
said, "It's not the mysteries
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in the Bible that
cause me sleepless nights,
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it's the good I
know I should do."
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And most of us understand
what God wants us to do.
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Be willing to obey God.
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Sometimes we're afraid of
the consequences of obeying God.
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Trust Him.
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You're going to think, "Oh, how
am I going to get through this?"
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God is in the business of
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working miracles
when you trust Him.
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Keep in mind, God will never
ever ask you to do something
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without giving you
the power to do it.
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In every command
of God is inherent the
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power to obey
what He is commanding.
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Answer D, "And do not be
conformed to the world, but be
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transformed by the renewing of
your mind, that you might prove
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what is that good and acceptable
and perfect will of God."
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You are transformed.
Your mind has changed.
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You're learning new things.
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And then the Bible says,
"You will be witnesses to Me."
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You know, you're
not going to be able
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to keep the good
news to yourself.
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Your face is going to advertise.
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People are going to see
that you've learned something.
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How many of you ladies out there
have friends, and you can tell
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that they're in love because
their expression changes?
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I remember my
grandmother one time
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she said, "Oh, she's in love."
00:26:13.17\00:26:15.14
I said, "How do you know?"
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Said, "You can just
look at her, you can tell."
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And when people
fall in love with Jesus,
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you can't keep it to yourself.
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You want to talk
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